The New York Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1869, Page 6

an ae NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, . Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches *must be addressed New York HERALD. Volume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street.—LE8 DRAGONS DE VILLaks, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13b street. Caste. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homrry DUMPTY, with NEW FEATURES. Matinee at Lis. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 28d street.—THE TEMPEST. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—DoN C&SAR DE Ba- %AN—-BAMBOOZLING—THAT RASOAL Pat. WAVERLEY THEATRE. CRIME—Mippy AsuoRr, 40. 220 Broadway.—MIniaM’s WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—RoBINson CRUSOR AND Hs MAN Fripay, £0. BOOTHS THEATRE, 23d st., between Sth and 6th avs.— OTHELLO. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tu® BURLESQUE EX- WEAVAGANZA OF THE FORTY THIEVES. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK PHEATRE, Brooklyn. East LYNNE. _mOOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.-THE EMERALD ING. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—CoMic SKETCHES ND LIVING STATUES—PLU1O. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58th and GGth cts. POPULAR GaRDEN CONOEBT. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broad PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS—THERR STRINGS TO }.--ETHIO- NE Bow. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth street.—ETHIOPIAN MINS TRELSY, 40, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.=Comtc VooALisa, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &, Matinee at 235. NEW YORK CIRC! Fourteenth street.—RIsier’s JAPANESE TROUPE. Matinee at 2}4. HOOLEY'S OPERA HO MINeTRELS—THB BILL Pos: Brooklya.—Hoouer's DeEaM. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, ¥ Broadway.— BOIRNOE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, May 12, 1869. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. BrookLyN CARRIERS AND Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Brancn OFrFice or THE New York Hexatp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and SvsscripTions and all letters for the New Yore Herarp will be received as above. THE NSWS. Europe. The cabie telegrams are dated May 11. ‘Tbe London Standard of yesterday again criti- cised the speech of Senator Sumner on the Alabama claims, it contends that the depredations of the Fenians in Canada would more than balance the injuries inflicted by the Alabama. England can go no further than she has already gone in the matter. The York spring meeting began yesterday. The Zetland Stakes were won by Mr. Johnstone's Day filly and the Great Northern Handicap by Mr. Porter's Ploughboy. ‘The Mayor of Cork, Mr. O'Sullivan, has resigned his position. The bill introduced in the House of Commons to disqualify him from acting as @ magis- trate has in consequence been postponed, The Russian government is about to take steps to reorganize the Catholic religion in the empire. Cuba. An engagement 1s reported at Altagracia which the Spanish papers confess was stoutly contested. ‘The Spaniards lost a colonel and a captain among their killed. The village of San Miguel has been Durned. Puerto Principe is said to be plentifully supplied with provisions. Consul General Piumb has arrived in Havana. The United States government 1s still selling war material, and as no questions are asked it is not "known oMcially who are the purchasers. Instruc- tions have been issued that the Quaker City shal: be closely watched. The Spanish government has contracted tn this city for the building of fifteen gunboats. The Pacific Railroad. Our correspondent at Promontory Point telegraphs full detatis of the ceremonies attending the comple- tion of the Pacific Ratiroad. There were about 8,000 persons present, including a few ladies and a large delegation of Mormons. The last rails were adjusted by high officials in other railroad com- panies and the laurel tie was placed in position by the superintendents of coastruction. The last spike ‘was then driven in by President Stanford, of the Central, and Vice President Durant, of the Union Pacific Railroad. The first stroke of the hammer, by an electrical arrangement, fired off a batery at San Francisco and set all the belis ringing. ‘The overland malls have been already delivered to the railroad company, the Butterfield contract hav- ing expired with the junction of the two roads. The cost for transporting Is reduced by this change from $1,100 to $200 a mile per annum. Miscellaneous. The Cabinet has Onally determined that an order | shall soon be issued relative to the Virginia election, submitcing the test oath and the disfranchisement clauses to a sepirate vote. W. W. Corcoran, the Washington banker, has do- nated bis art depository to the city of Washington, together with the ground on which it is situated, the back rents due from the government and his largo collection of paintings. The property is worth about a million dollars, and has been transferred to a board of nine trustees. Mr. August Belmont has also offéred to donate twelve of the pictures in his collection to the gallery. ‘The municipal election which takes place to-day NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET, Oagaer broke off and remained in her body. The Wound is not dangerous. The City. ‘The thirty-aixth anniversary of the Anti-Slavery Society was held yesterday at Steinway Hall, hold- ing two sessions, The meetings were presided over by Wendell Phillips. In the evening speeches were delivered by Fred Douglass, Senators Wilson and Stewart, Rev. Mr. Reid, Mrs. Cora Hatch and Wen- dell Phillips, There was a large attendance and the proceedings were regarded with much interest. The steamtug Joseph Barker exploded tn the bay off Stapleton, S. L, yesterday, and the captain, en- gineer and freman were scalded, The consolidation of the two stock boards went into effect yesterday. The stock market was dull, although quite high at one*period of the day, but fell off towards the close. New York Central touched 1824 and Hudson River 159. Gold touched 13834. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General R. C. Schenck, Samuel Hooper and Wil- liam B, Allison, members of the House of Represen- tatives, are at the Brevoort House. Colonel J. Sharp, of Rome; Dr. Collins, of Great Barrington; Colonel Groesbeck, of Ohio, and George Peabody Russell, of Salem, Mass., are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut; Samuel Goold, of Boston; ex-Postmaster General A. W. Ran- dall, of Washington, and General 0. 0. Howard, of the United States Army, are at the Astor House, Major Allison, of Philadelphia; Colonel F. D. Cur- tis, of Charleston, 8. C.; Major W. F. Waters, of Call- fornia; Colonel J. 0. Snell and Colonel M. C. Reed, of Fort Plains; Commander Berrian, United States Navy, and Judge D, Chambers, of Hastings, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel 0, H. Lawrence, of Kansas, and General O. H. Denean, of the United States Army, are at the ‘St. Charles Hotel. Major W, V. Chardavayne, of Alabama, and W. H. H. Tucker, of North Carolina, are at the Mailtoy House, A. ©, Twining, formerly President of Harvard Col- lege, is at the St. Julien Hotel. Hon. E. Casserly, United States Senator from Cali- fornia, is spending a few days in this city at a pri vate residence in Madison square. Captain W. B. Palmer, of Stonington, and Captain T. Grogan, of steamer Queen, are at the New York Hotel. Major W. 0. Beardsley, of Auburn; Dr. Winslow Lewis, of Boston, and Dr. W. C. Taylor, of Rich- mond, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Prominent Departures. F. Colton, Consul to Italy, for Washington; Juage William A. C, Anderson, for Sandusky; Lord Paget and Lord terpark, for Canada; Judge Lord, for Massachusetts; Colonel Vivian, for Washington; Colonel Jellet, for Virginia; Dr. Michaels, for Phila- delphia; W. T. Higgins and William Pardeau, for California. Mr. Lester Wallack and family and W. J. Florence and wife are to sail to-day in the Scotia for a tour in Europe. Miss Viola Crocker and Captain A. P. Wilson sailed yesterday in the steamship Alaska for Aspin- wail. The Pacific Railroad=The Beginning of New Rra—The General Prospect. The completion of the Pacific Railroad marks the beginning of a new era in the march of modern civilization, It is an event which may be classed with the first printing press, the first steam engine, the first steamboat, the first locomotive, the first steamship and the first magnetic telegraph. It is the application of all these forces to commerce. It is the solution of the great original idea of Columbus of a western route tothe East Indies, With the Suez ship canal it shows how in the com- mercial exchanges between the nations of the great northern belt of the globe we may dis- pense with Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope. The outgoing trade of Eastern Asia some thirty-two hundred miles by rail between San Francisco and New York) will not pass over this costly railroad line ; but it is the be- ginning of the diversion of that trade from the Capes of the two hemispheres directly across the Pacific and this Continent. The immediate results and advantages of this Pacific road will be a new impulse to our great western current of emigration and to the currents of emigration from Europe to the United States. With the construction of the road it has been taxed to its available capa- cities ia the transportation of miners and other settlers, goods and machinery to the mining States and Territories along and within five hundred miles of the line, It is in this im- portant business of the settlement and develop- ment of those new States and Territories, Kansas, Nebraska, Dacotab, Wyoming, Mon- tana, Colorado, Utah and Nevada, that this road will find abundant employment, to say nothing of the through passenger traffic between New York and California, which will *be immense. Branch lines or another through line will be needed to tap Idaho,- Oregon and Washington in the North, and so with regard to the regions south of Kansas to Western Texas and Western Texas itself, New Mexico and Arizona, and the neighboring Mexican States (soon to come in) of Coahuila, Chihua- hua, Sonora, Sinaloa and Lower California, with its great gulf, in the South. This Central Pacific road is but the pioneer in these grand achievements. It follows the line of Fremont’s first exploring expedition in 1845 across the Continent—an expedition which was turned to practical account by the Mexican war of 1846, the peace with Mexico which gave us all those Territories to the Pacific in 1848, and the California gold discoveries of 1849. The Mormons, driven first from Missouri in 1844, and next from Mlinois in 1846-7, seized | upon Fremont’s report of the great Salt Lake tween the ship and the railway train will still divert this traffic around Capes Horn and Good Hope. An American isthmus ship canal is needed for this business, Give us this canal and the mass of the trade of Eastern Asia and the neighboring islands will find its way to New York through the Gulf of Mexico, the gulf which ‘manifest destiny” says is soon to become the great naval and commercial salt water basin of the United States. In this view Columbus was correct in his original idea of a western sailing route to Asia from Europe; for a ship from Spain direct for the ship canal suggested, at any isthmus passage, will sail the original western course of the great captain. In regard to our Southern States we had expected that with the settlement of this troublesome matter of reconstruction they would have sufficient attractions in their cheap and fertile soil, genial climate and profitable products to divert the great gulf stream of emigration from the West to the South. But this Pacific Railroad spoils this calculation; and the people of the Southern States must proceed more earnestly and systematically’ than they are now doing in presenting their superior inducements to Northern and Euro- pean men in search of fortune, or the great tide, but little broken, will still drift to the fabulous gold and silver mountains of our new States and Territories in the West. To the emigrant, with a family, Virginia, for instance, is a thousand times more desirable than those wild Western Asiatic regions; and it is to emigrants with families that the South must look for the rebuilding of her waste places. Unencumbered young men will drift to the gold and silver mines, and two-thirds of those who ‘“‘make their pile out there will return to the old States to marry, settle down and enjoy the reward of their exile to the diggings. So the whole country will share in the golden and silver harvest from the Pacific Railroad, and still greater things will be seen by the present generation. The building of this road removes mountains of doubt in regard to other enter- prises, and shows that a ship canal at Darien, Panama or Nicaragua may be commenced and finished in the short interval of two or three years. Itis simply the concentration of capi- tal and labor by millions where only thousands heretofore could be commanded. Tue Richmond papers are beginning to ex- hibit their old life and fire. The contest be-- tween Wells, radical intolerance, and Walker, conservative restoration, is being carried on with great spirit. Tuk Dramatio Funp Assocration.—The reports of the secretary and trustees of the American Dramatic Fund Association, pre- sented at the annual meeting on Monday, en- courage us to believe that after a long struggle for existence this association has fairly en- tered upon a hopeful career. Since its incor- poration in 1848 it has divided among claim- ants sixty thousand five hundred and thirty- seven dollars. The project of raising the too limited fund which it now has under invest- ment to the full sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars their charter allows it to hold might easily be accomplished by concerted action on the part of managers and actors. Our theatre-going population is too large and appreciates too gratefully the claims of a profession that ministers so directly and constantly and powerfully to their amuse- ment not to co-operate gladly in carrying out this project. A Boston paper states that Jubilee Gilmore has thoroughly scraped the country for catgut for his mammoth peace festival, and that he aspired to secure the lunar bow, but found it too “high atrung.” fn ee Sis aed Great Loss to THe Heattn OFFICER.— The steamship The Queen, of the National line, from Liverpool and Queenstown, arrived off Staten Island on Monday evening, with one thousand two hundred and eighty-seven steerage passengers, all in good health except two cases of measles. The surgeons belonging to the ship, having had charge of the cases from the first symptoms, pronounced them measles. The Health Officer's man did his level best to make the sick have the smallpox. Could he have possibly called it smallpox the entire sbip’s company, from the captain to the cook, would have had to undergo a course of sprouts similar to that inflicted on the passen- gers by the Ariel Jast week, and at the same reasonable charge ‘‘per capita.” Unfortu- nately for the quarantine fees the case was 80 clear that there was no good pretext for vacci- nating these twelve hundred and eighty-seven. Hirina Rooms.—An interesting decision to those who hire two rooms and pay by the month was given in the Marine Court on Mon- day. Plaintiff had hired the rooms in May and expected to keep them till May, but as the landlord wanted the place in March he pro- ceeded to force the tenant out. It was decided that the tenant had a right to hold on till May, and the landlord had to pay damages. A Western paper commenting upon the and its valleys, a thousand miles, over timber- \ fact that President Grant has been presented less plains and desolate mountains, from the | white man’s frontier of that day, as a safe anchorage from the Gentiles for a hundred years to come. Those industrious people thus built up a half-way house in the desert in Providence, R. I., creates great excitement, even outside of the littie State itself, as itis sypposed to be a decisive contest between the Sprague and the Brown & Ives interests. Late yesterday, however, Doyle, the Sprague candidate for Mayor, who has held the postion for the last five years, withdrew from the contest, and Nicholas Van Siyck, a demo- grat, has been nominated in his place. An order has been issued from the Headquarters of the Army detailing a large number of officers left out by consolidation to serve as Indian agents and superintendents. ‘The Indian prisoners at Fort Hayes made an at- tempt to overpower their guard on Monday, and in the affray mortally wounded a sergeant, who fired Upon them and killed two, including Big Head, A fight took place near Fort Ellis, Montana, on the 6th of April, between a party oj Indians and a detach- ment of soldiers and citizens, in which nine Indians and one soldier were killed. ‘The race between Waiter Brown, om a velocipede, and the horse Jolin Stewart, to harness, came off in the River Side park, Boston, yesterday, and was won by Brown, he making five miles while the horse made nine. Jim Gallagher, of New Haven, and Andy Hanley, of New York, had a fight on the shores of Long Island Sound, about six hours’ sail from New Haven, yesterday. Gallagher won the battle. ‘Miss H. A. Bailey, an actress, while performing the death scene in ‘‘Juilet’ at the Buffalo Academy of Music on Monday night, accidentally stabbed herself below the loft breast. and the point of the which has materially contributed to the location and construction of this pioneer Pacific Railway. What will become of those people now, with their peculiar institution of poly- gamy, is a problem which will be settled, peaceably, we hope, by this road, It isa prob- lem, however, which in the interests of peace, common justice and humanity ought not to escape the earnest attention of General Grant, in view of some saving recommendations to Congress in December. For the present pro- tection of himself and people Brigham Young has succeeded in diverting this road from the south end of the Great Salt Lake (where his City of Zion lies, in the midst of a garden created in the desert) around the north end of the lake, making the nearest point from the road to the city some twenty odd miles, over a cluster of mountains, But this diversion will be to the Prophet and his Saints only a tem- porary measure of relief. They must prepare for a settlement of the main question; for the border ruffians are close upon them. But we have said that this road will not serve to draw the teas and silks of Ohins and Japan across this Continent to New York. The difference in the conte of trangportation be- with a pair of fine horses, remarks that he has eocepted the present with a view of making this a etable government. Bacoace.—It has just been decided in the Supreme Court that travellers must withdraw their baggage from the keeping of railroad companies upon arrival; that the companies are under no obligation to store the baggage, and are not liable for its loss if ‘‘not removed within a reasonable time.” As this is very different from the system in Europe European travellers should especially take notice of it. Our railroads, of course, are run on too hifa- lutin a scale for the managers to think of such @ trifle as accommo dating the public on the trunk question. Is THe Rionr Dinecrion.—The Inst rail- road for the city, through the whole length of Twenty-third street, is to belong to whoever will pay most for it to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. Spawn AND GrpraLran.—There ia no better evidence that the revolution in Spain has re- vived a real national feeling than the demand for the possession of Gibraltar. Gibraltar is likely to lose some oftite value to England, be- cause it will be flanked by the canal that is to be built through France from the mouth of the Garonne to the Mediterranean. This fact makes it more probable that Spain may get the fortress. Judge Benedict’s Charge to the Grand Jury. Judge Benedict admirably accomplished on Monday his task of defining the powers and the duties of the Grand Jury. He demon- strated the special importance at the present time of a full and vigorous exercise of those powers and a careful, conscientious discharge of those duties, He directed attention to cer- tain provisions of law and certain questions of fact which the Grand Jury will be required particularly to consider. After stating that the war, which decided the question whether a government framed like ours had the ability to quell by force of arms a great rebellion, raised another question, which is now in process of solution—namely, whether such a government can surely provide for the payment of the in- terest upon a great debt—Judge Benedict exposed the fraudulent evasions of legal taxes on the part of those willing thus to grow rich at the expense of their fellow citizens. This latter class—numerous and powerful both socially and polifically—has, he said, from the beginning confronted the government in its effort to collect the revenue. He especially exposed among these various fraudulent eva- sions what have been designated as the customs drawback cases, The total amount of these frauds within a space of six months’ time pro- bably exceeds seven hundred thousand dollars. Similar frauds have been committed in other departments. In the warehouse department, for instance, dutiable goods have been with- drawn without payment of any duty, until the loss from a single warehouse has equalled four hundred thousand dollars, according to the estimate of an official. The Judge denounced in unmeasured terms the official corruption which such facts disclose, and eloquently urged upon the Grand Jury their duty diligently to inquire and presentment make of every offence arising under the laws of the United States which shall be made to appear by reasonable prima facie proof. Let us hope that the action of the Grand Jury may be such as to check the rising tide of official corruption and general demoralization. In that case Judge Benedict’s charge will have sounded the knell of the whiskey rings, Tue Last “Lisk” IN THE Pacirico Bar- ROAD—May it never be broken! Tue Ruopg Istanp ELEotion.—The politi- cal agitation which exists in Rhode Island relative to the issue of the municipal election in Providence will be quieted this evening after the close of the polls. The local entanglement of the different parties has been simplified considerably, and the bitterness of the canvass neutralized toa great extent by the withdrawal, yesterday, of Mr. Thomas A. Doyle, the Sprague candidate for Mayor. This leaves the contest between the Brown and Ives nomi- nee, and the democratic candidate, Mr. Van Slyck. It is considered not unlikely that the latter may be victorious. A strange result, should it happen so, of the division of the prominent interests in little Rhody. Tne Last Ratt on the Pacific road has been laid. That would be a good thing to lay be- tween the North and the South. They have been railing at one another long enough. Tne PaciFio RAILROAD AND THE NEWs- PAPERS.—Mayor Hall did no more than justice to the newspapers when he said in his reply on Monday to President Ames’ telegram an- nouncing the completion of the Pacific Railroad that the newspapers of this metropolis ‘“‘have largely contributed to this day’s result.” The grand idea of commercially welding together two extremities and coasts of an immense con- tinent had been agitated by the newspapers for many years before they succeeded in mak- ing it popular and practicable. They will con- tinue to uphold the enterprise, and at the same time they will vigilantly guard the interests of the public against all possible abuses on the part of those directly or indirectly charged with the management of the road which con- nects New York, on the Atlantic, with San Francisco, on the Pacific. GRaNULATED.—The Leavenworth (Kan.) Bulletin facetiously remarks that St. Louis ‘‘is at length teaching a lesson to Chicago, which our friends on the 1%ke admit goes much against the grain.” That’s-because, perhaps, there are so many “‘rogues in grain” among the pupils. matte! Raprep on THE KNvokLEs.—Master Under- wood, the exuberant but rather empty-headed personage who is United States Judge in a district of Virginia, some time ago discovered a mare’s nest, He found that certain Virginia judges were ineligible under the fourteenth amendment, and though they were left alone by the appropriate legislation, he, on his own account, proceeded to set free from the Vir- ginia jails all persons condemned by those judges. His judgments have just been re- viewed by Chief Justice Chase, who tells Underwood that the ‘‘appropriate legisla- tion” should have been his guide, and that the decisions of de facto judges are always en- titled to respect. Underwood had better take the advice of his lawyer before he renders Nosgs anv Rosgs.—They have a ‘‘War of the Noses” in Cincinnati. The chief difference be- tween this war and the ‘‘War of the Roses” in England is that in the Cincinnati conflict the emblems of both houses are rea. A Check to Prussia. Many have been the reports circmated by the Enropean press in reference to the wagni- tude of the warlike preparations at present being carried out by Prussia, or virtually by Count Bismarck. Hundreds of men are em- ployed in removing trees around the fortifica- tions and preparing everything for a case of emergency. Moreover, the King of Prussia is to go on @ tour of inspection to the northern seaports about the middle of the present month, from whence he will probably visit the fortified towns along the Rhine, All these precautions cannot have escaped the watchful eyes of interested neighbors, especially after the publi- cation of Count Bismarck’s ideas respecting the future form to be adopted by the map of Europe. The city of Mayence is a strong point and lately has been particularly favored with the Premier's attention ; in fact, from re- ports current we are led to presume that it is at present occupied on a scale equal to that of awar footing by Prussian soldiers, and the gonsequence is that France and Austria are @etermined to find out what this means, on a nseeeenenrnmnnninamethtthitinciemenip comin cet cette nes ineeiin nities Basing their demand upon the cession of the principality of Hesse to the North German Confederation, they ask by what right Prussia cccupies the fortress of Mayence. Should this question be enforced we may anticipate that stronger arguments than diplomacy will be brought forward by Bismarck, which may tend to kindle the firebrand of war now evidently pending in Europe. Such is the dread of an early struggle that merchants in Europe re- fuse to close forward contracts for the purchase and delivery of goods, which must necessarily be very detrimental to the general interests, causing a prejudicial effect, both to the labor- ing classes and to the capitalists. Couut Bismarck has proved himself an able states- man and has doubtless given the matter due consideration before entering upon his pro- gramme; but in his endeavors to aggrandize his fatherland he must not forget the difference existing between the kingdom of Prussia and the North German Confederation. The Quarantine Trouble. In taking care of the sanitary interests of the city the Board of Health finds that there is trouble in the Quarantine management. “The trouble is that we do not seem to have a Health Officer who will inform the Board, or who has the capacity to inform it, whether a vessel coming up to this city has ship fever on board or not.” This succinct statement of the trouble is by Dr. Stone, one of the Health Commissioners, an able physician and a re- spectable gentleman. His declaration that the Quarantine doctor ‘has not the capacity” to perform the duties of his station, or fails to perform them perhaps for some worse reason, is sustained by the facts, notwithstanding the Health Officer's success in browbeating those members of the commission whose motto seems to be ‘Anything fora quiet life.” That the Health Officer does not know what ship fever is is shown by a statement he made in the same discussion from which'we have quoted the above sentence. He said in regard to infected ships that he had passed, ‘There has never been an instance where a case developed itself afterwards.” Now the James Foster, Jr., that he sent up to the city, is an instance which exposes at once the impudence or ignorance of this statement. Her captain died of ship fever in Brooklyn. The mate also died of ship fever in Brooklyn, and several other cases are reported from the same infection. Justly alarmed by these facts the Board of Health sought to supplement this inefficient Quaran- tine officer by establishing a regulation to com- pel him to notify the city health authorities of the coming up of any ship that he had tound it necessary to disinfect. As it does not suit him to have any supervision of his acts the Health Officer flew in a great rage at this, bul- lied the whole Board of Health, and proposed an amendment that leaves things just where they were before—that is, in his discretion— and this amendment was carried by the votes of the non-medical members, all the doctors voting against the Health Officer. Srm. Tuzy Come.—One ship that reached here on Monday last had fourteen hundred im- migrants, All the German steamers to sail between this and September will have a full complement, and the lines from Liverpool and Queenstown have stopped booking for one month. Already the number of arrivals this year is greater than for the same period of any preceding year. Plenty of farms for the taking on the line of the Pacific Railroad. Sootan Journatism Out West.—A West- ern paper has established a department of “‘Betrothals,” whereupon the Leavenworth Bulletin suggests that a department of ‘‘Flirta- tions” should be introduced, the publication of which has heretofore been monopolized by sewing societies, quilting parties, love feasts, picnics and clambakes. In another Western paper, in the department usually devoted to *¢ Births,” a fine boy was introduced under the heading of “Fire!” That boy is bound to make a blaze in the world. Very Correct.—A Chicago journal says that city is just as sure of being the capital of the nation as it is of being the chief metropolis. Just about. Growixe Reports continue to come to us from the West and South in regard to the coming crops. In Wisconsin there is some talk about grasshoppers, but the editors out there are getting up a rivalry about the size of the young ladies’ feet in their respective locali- ties, the championship to be given to the one who can ‘crush out” the greatest number of grasshoppers within a specified time. Taat Sprke spoke a golden word on the completion of the Pacific road. But it was nothing unusual, after all; for persons travel- ling that way frequently have occasion to see Pike's Peak! Avsornen Lirtte Bett is Wastinetox.— On Monday the tinkling of a little bell was heard at the national capital, but how different from Seward’s little bell! Its notes sounded no danger to any man’s freedom or rights, an- nounced no arbitrary will to trample out oppo- sition to political programmes; but pealed a little lyric of the progress, growth and glory of the American people and of free thought, and hymned such a triumph of intellect over matter as must be conceived before thirty million minds can be concentrated on a single point. Broapway.—lIt is one year since they began to lay the present pavement on our great city thoroughfare, and they are only up to Tenth street and have skipped half a mile below Canal street. Citizens who want to take a Broadway stage up or down find it an aston- ishing puzzle in these days to know what street to wait in. Aut Ratt.—In sending goods to New York from a Western city the sender contracted with his Western road that the transportation should be “‘all rail,” and ina suit that subsequently arose on the destruction of the goods he claimed that this stipulation had not been kept, as the goods were brought into this city by the boats of the Camden and Amboy road. The Court decided against him on the ground that the ‘‘ail rail” clause did not exclude necessary ferries, Certainly the North river cannot be crossed by rail, But is there not another point in the case? Did not the contract with the Western road require the sending of the goods by some other route? Thera are rontes into this city that aro “ all rail,” A Disgrace to the City and Country. The rotten, dirty, spasmodic-looking build- ing called the ‘Bagge Olice,” situated at the junction of East and North rivers, is a shame and a disgrace both to the city and nation. It belongs to the general government, is used for the customs service, and we believe aw appropriation has been made by Congress to pull it down and erecta more suitable structure in its stead. But it seems that either red tape or some jobbing ring, has control of the matter, and theimprovement so much demanded has been from time to time neglected, if it be not entirely abandoned. The site is the most con- spicuous in the harbor from vessels eom- ing up the bay, and it must give our foreign visitors a strange idea of the importance of the city and country to behold such an unsightly figurehead to the metropolis as this dismal and gingerly pagoda; and the interior is a great deal worse than the exterior. Our new Col- lector could not inaugurate a better reform than by promptly blotting out this nuisance, and, if there be an appropriation for the pur- pose, having a respectable edifice at once erected in its place. Two Lirtiz Girts were arrested, locked up all night and taken before a justice in the morning on @ charge of robbery—not that they had robbed any one, but merely because they were ‘‘fooling around Fulton Market.'* This will do to go with that great police gambling case of the two babies pitching buttons, MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. “Othello” at Bootn’s theatre has returned to first principals. Mr. Booth this week again assumes the role of the jealous Moor, while Mr. Adains person- ates the intriguing Iavo, Blonde Fanny Herring has added the ‘Field of the Cloth of Gold” to her burlesque representations, aud will dazzle the eyes of the Williamsburgers with tt this evening ‘The Central Park Garden concerts, which were ex- ceedingly popular last summer, will recommence this evening, under the direction: of Mr. Theodore Thomas. “The Tempest” of Fisk, Jr., is in its last flurries at the Grand Opera House. It will rage with all its ac- cessories of heavy thunder and brilliant lightning (both artificial) but four nights longer, when it will be withdrawn to make room for Sardou’s heroic play of “Patrie.”” This piece is to be produced after orignal modeis used in its production tu Paris, aad the scenery and costumes are to be entirely new. This play. has met with an immense success in Paris, and there is no good reason why it should not prove as great a success in this city. The last nights of “Humpty Dumpty,” the pale- faced, speechless scamp of murth-provoking mis- chet, are also announced. His course at the Olympic is well nigh run, und on Saturday evening next he will cut up his capers for the last time, which occasion will be made the peg to hang @ bouncing benefit upon to the siy Fox, who, as “Humpty Dumpty,” has delighted the town tor nearly 500 consecutive representations. On Monday evening next the new pantomime of “Little Ked Riding Hood” will be produced, wita new scenery, costumes, tricks, &c., which, it 1s said, will be even more novel and gorgeous than those of tae venera- bie “Humpty.” “The Great European Circus’? has captured the village of Brooklyn in the most approved houp ia style, 4 e by glittering prove-sions of knights im tights and good performances days as well as nights. Its tent is pitched tn a convenient position near the City Hall, where the “show” will remam during the week. After shaking the dust of pious Brovklyn from off its spangies the entire establishment wiit tramp through the New England States, bringing up im the exctiabie “Hub” in season to participate in its great “Peace Jubilee.” The buxom Worrell sisters will appear this even- ing in Mobile for a short seasou o! burlesque. ‘the giris are great favorites in the South, aud their en- gagement in New Orieans, which closed on last Sat- urday evening, Was one of the most successful ever layed by them, ‘They will first treat the warike Sobileans toa view of the “Ficld of the Clotn of Gold,” after which they will indulge them with op ra bouge, with the cancan and other Lerpsichorean flourishes thrown in gratis. Rose Massey opens this evening in Pittsburg as Abdallah, captain of the “Forty Thieves.” At last accounts the manager of the Pittsburg theatre was sadly in want of ‘forty young ladies” whom he was desirous of metamorphosing into tne necessary “thieves.” He evidently considers the handsome Rose scarcely strong a yet to take upon her- self the arduous duties of the entire gushing band in addition to seen as their gorgeous captalu. Sie might possibly do it to the satisfaction of the man- ment; but we trust that the sooty l’itisburgers will insist ibe the full compiement of “forty” or flatly refuse to be robved. ARMY INTELLIGEYCE. Officers Assigned to Duty in partment. WASHINGTON, May 11, 1869. ‘The following is the order just issued assigning military oficers to duty as Indian agents:— GENERAL ORDERS NO. 49. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, May 7, 1869. By orders received from the War Department the following nained ofticers, left out of their regimental organizations by the consolidation of the inlantry regiments, are under and by authority of an ace of Congress organizing the Indian Department, ap- proved June 40, 1584, hereby de‘atiea to execute the duties of Indian superiniendents and agents, and 1m- mediately on receiving notice of this order will re- ok by letter from their piaces of residence to the Commissioner of Indiaa Aifairs, Mr. E. 8. Parker, at Washington, D. C., for assignment to duty and for instructions. Should vacancies occur entitiing them to promotion in the regular army during their term of service on such Iadian duty they shall receive promotion the same as though on ordinary detached military duty, viz.:— Superintentents—Colonel De L. Floyd Jones, United States L. Anurews, liedtenant evionel rigadier General Allred Sully, United States Army; Brevet Major Gene ¢ Indinn Dee Hentenant colonel eral Jobn B, McIntosh, lieutenant colonel Unit ‘States Krmy; Brevet Colonel A. D. Nelson, lieutenant colonet United States Army; Brevot McK. Hudson, major United Dourlans, « nited states Aciny Br major United States Army ; Brevet Colo captain United States Army, bl “Ageno—Brevet Major T. Ten Eyck in United States } Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Caleb H. Cariton, eaptain Unived States Army Major James W. Long, captain United States Army; Captain #. R. Ames, United States Army; Brovet Major Wiliam fi. Smyth,’ United States Army; Brevet Major Wiliam RK. Lowe, captain Uut.ed States’ Army; Brevet Major George M. United States Army; Brevet Lieuten: Higbee, captain (nited States Army ; United States Army; Brevet tates Army; Captain James H. States Army; Brevet Lieutenant Co onel © well, caplala United States Army; Brevet M iL Wilson, captain United States Arm; ia Dewi C. Poote, Vaited States Arm) 7; Captain FT. hennetts United Staten Army: Captain Walter Ciiford, United States Army 5 Brevet Lieutenant Colonel L, H. Warren, captain Unite States Army; Captain Georgs T. Olmated, Jt, Untied States ‘Army; Brevet Major James Parkinson, United States Arm: Fram eeiosnser arbors dasey wes ne Army ; First vitenaot J. iH. jolted rem) First Tieutenant Joba R, Hothovell, Usted States Arm First Lieutenant George W. Graifam, United Stace Arm: Brevet Captain William W. Mitehell, nrst leutenant, Unit States Army: Brevet Captain J. first iieuten: United States Army; Krevet Lieutens: Rice, Sret Heutenant United States Army ; (Fi F, A. Battey, United States Army ; First H, Davideor juited States Army; First Lieutenant Geo e W. Ziegler, United States Army; Brever Unpinin GC, Dy Hilt, frat’ Heutenant — Uni Staves Army; | Frat Lientenant J, L. Spalding, United States Army; Firat Liew- tenant Jowlah 8. Styles, United States Army; Fic@t Lieuten- ant J. M, Smith, United States Army ; First Liemenant Jennie M. Lee, United States Army; Hrevet Captain Willian Re Maize, first lieutenant United States Army; Brevet Major §. Caibreath, first Heutenant ( nited States Army ; Brevot Major T. W. War, first lieutenant United States’ Army revet Captain 8. Keyes, first Heutenant | nite B. utenant William W. Parry, United States Army; Brevot Major Joseph K, Boyera flirat "ileuten- ant United States Army; First Licutenant Wiiliain B. Penney United W. 'Kelier, iret Lieutenant J Firat Lieutenant, + Brevet . iret — Hie nt United States Army; Firat ant G. B Ford, United States Army: Firat Liew William 8" Jyhogin, Unitett States Army; United States Army; anedy, United States Army; United States my; Fh States Arm, t Lieweo- William = W. io KM, tenant First Lievtenant Charles EB. First Lientenant J: M. Ke Lieutenant 0, Frank D, tates Army Army; Fi By command of 6 E. BD. TOWNSEND, Adjutant Gi al ~nenene NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Tientenant Commander EK. P. Lull was detached from the Naval Academy on the sth inst. and or-, dered to be ready for duty on the Lancaster. First, Assistant Engineer Henry L. Snyder and Second Assistant Engineer John Roothwick are ordered to! duty at the Naval Academy, Paymaster J. B. oe house wiil relieve fer Watmough from as ‘vor of Provisions avg Yard on the ist of July. Lieut placed on waiting orders,