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NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravv. Rejected communications will turned. 106 be re- Volume XXXV.. =o = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVE! BOWERY THEATRE, Many Houns; Howery.—BuoK, Buck, How Oa, GOLD Ur To 165, &c. THE TAMMAN o¥ Bap DickE WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street. Ours. Fourteenth street.—Tak BuRLESQUS % Idth st, and 6th av.—LA GRANDE RIN. FRENCH THY, DvouRssE vi O A LOUSE, corner of Kighth avenue and » THe JUGGLER—COOL AB A CUCUMBER, BOOTH'S Hamer. between Sth and 6th avs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Paut Pry—Kovrer Macaink. THEATRE, ‘Twenty-fourth at.—Suxz; av Lon@ BRANCH. Broadway.—Granp NIBLO'S GAK Drama or Ruy WOOD'S MUSEUM AND M ner Thirtieth st.—siati ROMANTIC AGERIE, Broa ¢ dally. Performance eve MY OF MUSIC-—Domery Ann NIE. BROOKLYN AC Son—MisouiEvoU MRS. F. B. CONWA\'S PARK THEATR, Rrookiya.— Lirreg Ex’iy. TONY PA! Vooautsn, {01 Bowery.—Costo o MUNSTRELSY, THRATRE © . 514 Broadway.—Comto Vooate 16x, NeGno A: BRYANT'S © st —BRYANT'S E, Tammany Building, 14th RELS, $85 Broa tay BO ACTS, 40.—HLAsHt U atroet. EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASTIO PPRTORMANORS, £0, HOOLEY’S MIneTRELs—Tnar B. 0} Brooklyn. % Hooury's L TUOMAS, &c. APOLLO H ner 28th street and Broadway,— Tus New Hu . NEW YORK Ms O# ANATOMY, 613 Broadway,— SCIENCE AND A TRIPLE SHEET, Now Work, ‘Tuesday, January 4 PAGE. ae I—Adver 13, @—Adver ts, S—Washingion: nia Once More in the Family ot States: @ Debate in the House Over the Virginia 3 Butler's Arrogance kkebuk Military Rule in Georgia; Unived States preme Court—Another senement House ‘ira- gedy—The News from China: What ts the m2 of Natural History: Dutchess County Mystery—Crime Westchester—Pire in Lispenard street— Late mictee— Wu- uisville, Ky. — Cartinen in ‘ieu Surveyig Expedition. Ss in the New York aud Brookiyn Yesterday—New York City and Vouce ce-—Stated Session of the Common Councii—Brvoklyn; Report of the Superin- lntendent of Pubiie Schools; Proceedings of the Boards of Sapervisors and Aldermen— Colie Balley’s Raids on the Me eary of Waiting; Suicide by shi ie: Young Men’s Christian Association—Suicide at Pawiucket. 6—Editorisis: Leading Article on The Adwission of Virginia, Reconstruction Fixed, Now Ww Aniuseu tone’s Summons to ¥ Parita- Supporters; menrary A German Cardinal Against Papai Ipfaliibility—Prince Artour: His Visit to the Executive Mansion Yesterday—The State Capital: Market Jobs in the Metropolia; Consolation tor Patri- ots Drafted During the War—A Singular Case: Mysterious Death of an Old Southern Mercu Suburban Intelligence—The Orphan Bail—Alleged Breach of Trust—Humorous ‘Thieves—Business Notices. S—The Gas Naiance: Oficial Report of Professor Chandler to the Board of Health on the New York Gas Companies—Spirimalisuc iainting— The Smalipox Contagion—The Irish Emrgraat Sociely—Marriages and Deaths. 9—Finan and Commercial Reports—Real Estate Matiers—George Peabody’s Estates: The Ver- —the North Pole—News from of Africa~Pugilistic Noves— Advertisement 10—The Bonaparie-Noir Tragedy: Mistory of the DimMeulty Between M. Vicor Noir and Prince Pierre Konuparte—Aunual Report of the Eric Railway Company to the State Engineer and Surveyor—The Erie Sirlke—Distinguisned Men The Sneak’s Jubllee—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 11—Advertisements, 12—Advertisewents, HERALD SUBSCRIBERS. We will esteem it a favor if our readers will Inform us, by letter addressed, to this office, of any dereliction on the part of the carriers of the Huraxp, either in furnishing the paper late, substituting other city papers, or leaving spoiled sheets. i PrRsonat ExpLaNations.—-Mr. Sumner has discovered an effective way of preventing other Senators from personally explaining away his charges against them. He threatens to make an hour's speech in reply. RepupiaTion.—Mr. Mungen is still harping on repudiation. He presented a petition in the House - yesterday from Massachusetts men in favor of it. Mungen will find himself repu diated before the debt is—by his constituents, THe PrRINceE IN Wastsoros.—Prince ¢ Arthur and the President have finally me without any serious breach of diplomatic eti- | quette. The young man waited upon our Chief Magistrate yest@rday in decorous form, and passed twenty minntes very pleasautly, The President end Mre. Grant, as was to be ex- pected of them, made the young gentleman feol guite at home without any derogation of their ‘own dignity. The royal party afterwards visited both houses of Congress, and although ‘the Prince was an object of interest to the gal- feries his august presence evidently did not flus- ter the membors, Senator Howe entertaining | himin the Senate with a particularly dry essay | on the currency, and that terrible Butler with Brooks and Morgan giving him a taste of our Congressional quality in a hearty wrangle over the despotism in Georgia. | in consultation with Postmaster Jones onthe | . NEW YUKK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1870.—TRIPLE SHERT. Our European Mall Correspondence. Steam Cpmmunicasion with Anstralin by ‘The Admission of Virginia—Reconstruction Fixed~Now for = Universal Amnesty. It will be seen from yesterday's proceedings 1n Congress that the House, after straggling, though somewhat lively, discussion, receded from its bill for the unconditional readmission of Virginia into Congress, and—yeas 136, nays 57—adopted the amendments of the Senate binding the State Legislature to the terms of the fourteenth amendment and some other con- ditions, The bill, as it passed the House some days ago, provided that as the State of Vir- ginia had fully complied with the terms of reconstruction laid down by Congress she was entitled to representation therein. On the test vote this proposition of Mr. Bingham, by a close fit, was carried, by the democratic bal- ance of power, between the Butler, or radical, and the Bingham, or conservative, republi- cans—the democrats voting with the latter en masse. This point having been gained, a good many radicals, on the question of the passage of the bill, wheeled to the right about, and so it passed by an overwhelming majority. But the orthodox republicans in the Senate did not like that democratic balance of power and Bingham’s snap judgment in the absence of Butler, and so they restored the bill sub- stantially to the shape in which it had been rejected by the House. In this shape, being first referred to the Reconstruction Committee, it was reported back to the House yesterday, with the recommendation that it be adopted. All this was equivalent to a party caucus on the subject, aud this recommendation thus became a test of party fidelity. The misfor- tunes of Raymond and others in the House in undertaking an independent course, and of the “unlucky seven” in the Senate on Johnson's impeachment, perhaps, on this application of the party whip, were regarded as warnings against bolting too fearful to be defied; and so Bingham and his followers wheeled back into line. Bingham had hinged his uncondi- tional bill upon the President's suggestion in his annual message; but he no doubt found out yesterday that General Grant does not éare to take upon himself the responsibilities of Congress. His policy is not the policy of Johnson, He has no notion of a collision with Congress when he can get all that he wants without it. He has the inside track for the succession and is not disposed to quarrel. But Virginia, though under the conditions of the Senate bill, is restored to a voice in Congress. The bill, as we have said, passed— yeas 136, nays 57—a strictly party division of the House. Butler and Sumner are thus mas- ters of the field, while Trumbull is still under the shadow of the ‘‘unlucky seven,” and Bingham occupies a back seat in the councils of the faithful. Our squabbling politicians, since the initial twenty thousand dollar procla- mation of Andy Johnson, have led the late “Confederate States” through a rough course of treatment; but now that the case of Vir ginia is settled; now with the reconstruction of Georgia in the +hands of General Terry, who is said to be a first rate lawyer; now that Mississippi has proved her loyalty in the elec- tion of a republican of African descent to the United States Senute; now4that General Rey- nolds has reported the results of the recon- siruction election in Texas as satis- factory, Governor and Legislature; now that the fifteenth amendment lacks only tho vote of Georgia or Texas to be proclaimed part of the national constitution, may we not hope that we are near the end of this recon- struction business, and that the day is at hand when there will be no more intermeddling by military commanders nor by Congress in the local affairs of Georgia, Virginia or Texas than in the local concerns of New York, New Jer- sey or California? With the proclamation of the fifteenth amendment, if not before such proclamation, a bill should be passed by Congress removing all the disabilities on account of the rebellion imposed by the fourteenth amendment, and in the manner provided for in this amendment. Thus the great ultinatum of reconstruc tion, ‘‘universal suffrage and universal amnesty” will be an fact. With universal suffrage secured to the negro all parties will cultivate him, and if not too much elated by his good fortune, even “‘the poor white trash” will cease to persecute him. With universal amnesty to all concerned in the late rebellion, the bitter- ness which has so much prevailed in the South between the disfranchised native whites on the one hand and enfranchised blacks and noisy ‘“carpet-baggers” on the other hand, will speed- ily disappear, and the Southern States, “like giants refreshed with new wine,” will enter upon a new career of prosperity never dreamed of by the projectors of an independent slave- holding confederacy. We have said universal suffrage, but the women are still excluded. Woman suffrage, however, will serve a3 a convenient subject for agitation by our political reformers until something else shall turn up. , Having disposed of the “almighty nigger,” the women of the United States, regardless of color, from blondes to blacks, surely may claim equal rights, But with the completion of Southern reconstruc- tion on the basis of negro suffrage a universal amnesty is the next thing in order. Tue Currency Quzstion was the main sub- ject of debate in the United States Senate yes- terday. The bill under discussion was one to provide.a national currency of coin and notes and to equalize the distribution and circula- tion of notes. Senators Sherman, Howe and Sumner spoke on the subject, Repvction or Postaaz.—One of the most | sensible plans looking to a reduction of the | postage was advanced yesterday by a commit- | tee of newspaper men of this city, who were subject. It was proposed that the postage on all printed matter should be prepaid at the point of departure according to weight. This makes a radical change for the better in the system of furnishing subscribers with their newspapers ; for heretofore a subscriber, in ad~ dition to his regular subseription money, was expected to pay the postage every quarter, and the matter was generally an annoyance. When the postage is prepaid on a mass of printed matter such as first class newspapers | send out daily a very palpable reduction can be made without injury to the general govern- ment, And when we have a postal telegraph system the effect will be to cheapen not only telegraphic despatches, but further to cheaper the still important matter of letter postage. accomplished |" ‘The Rock Island Speculation. It is a lamentable fact “that so many of our finest railways fall into the hands of the spec- ulative stock gamblera, who are to such thor- oughfares what the footpad and highwayman are to the old routes of travel. They waylay what promises to be a dividend-paying line and a safe investment, and by alternately coaxing the public in and then swindling them out of the road they get it into such bad repute that private capital is becoming less and less enamored of railway investment. We have had a late instance of this in the case of the Chicago and Rock Island Railway, which, by the opening of a new link last June forming complete connection between Chicago and Omaha, was heralded as another of the great railway enterprises of the company. Large dividends induced heavy Investments, and the stock rose to 188. A speculative clique took hold of {t at this price and sold stock which they did not own, but which they borrowed for delivery, intending to demoralize the road and buy in the stock at much lower prices. Under such sales the price declined, and in the Sep- tember panic went to par, but only momenta- rily, recovering to 105, which has been about the average ever since. The clique, not content with a good profit, sought to break the price still further, and hence the amazing discovery of a well known fact about the sale of additional stock made last summer to provide for maturing indebtedness and to provide for additional equipment. The stock was struck from the call at the board, and the excited public began to sell their shares in a great fright, lest the price should go out of sight, only to find next morning that the clique had bought all they sold and were willing to take more at a higher price. We have ofien urged the necessity of a national law to meet the exigencies of such a cuse as above narrated, and we think Congress has ample pretext to take general control of all our railways. Teiegraph~A Good Sign iu Congress, In the House of Representatives yesterday Mr. C. C. Washburn succeeded in getting up his Postal Telegraph bill and its reference to a special committee of seven. A motion to refer the bill to the standing Post Office Com- mittee, who are reported to be inimical to the whole postal telegraph system, was voted down by a decisive majority, There was also another postal telegraph bill introduced, making three or four now pending in the two Houses of Congress. The bil! of Mr. Ramsey in the Senate is unexceptionable, and so also is that of Mr. Washburn in the House, Mr. Stewart's Senate billis too general and open to objections. But in the midst of all the pro- positions it isa cheering siga to see in the House an apparent determination to have some kind of postal telegraph bill pass the present session. Itis undoubtedly nearly the unani- mous desire of the people to have a measure of this kind adopted in order that the exac- tions of the Western Union Company need be no longer tolerated. And those members who oppose it in violation of the wishes of their constituents may he sure of coming to grief when the period of re-election to Congress occurs and their claims are canvassed, Let us have the postal telegraph under the direc- tion of the government, with the least possible delay. The Postal Lopez and His Mendacious Enemies. The most effective war that Brazil and her allies carried on for a long time against Lopez was not by powder and ball, but by a system of falsehoods. We regret to say, too, that they were assisted in this by a representative of this country. Our readers will remember how many times the Paraguayan President has been defeated—yes, annihilated—and what hecatombs of innocent victims were slain by him, according to the reports from Brazil and the allies. But we find Lopez still alive and making war against his enemies, and we learn after a while that these reported victims of his cruelty are alive and have never been hurt. The last case in point that has come to our knowledge is that of Mr. Moyniham. This gentleman was shot by Lopez, according to the statement made by Mr. Masterman in his book. But the Buenos Ayres Standard publishes a letter from Mr. Moyniham, showing that he is alive. The editor of the Standard commences an article on the subject of this contradiction of Mr. Moyniham’s death by saying :—‘‘Another dead man has come to life,” which shows how he looks upon the canards about Lopez murdering people. We shall get at all the facts by and by regarding the infamous coalition and war against Paraguay in spite of Mr, Masterman, Mr. Washburn, or any whitewashing commit+ tee of Congress. Hern Gare—One Resvir.—It is reported, and is probably true, that the Cunard Steam- ship Company will shortly transfer its station from Jersey City to Greenpoint, on the East river, where it is said to have purchased an extensive water front. In the removal from Jersey City this company has, we believe, been anticipated by the Bremen Company, which long ago purchased land in the upper part of this island, on the east side. Both the companies thus keep themselves in New York State, while they have the accommodation of the harbor as well as they had it over the river westward. They do better than this, how- ever, in placing themselves advantageously with regard to the entrance of this port as the entrance will be when Hell Gate is open and when the Hallet’s Point Canal is cut. In those times, not perhaps very far away in the future, all European steamers will come and go by the Sound, saving distance and time and escaping the dangers of the Jersey beach, Cottecror Barwey.—The reports of arbi- trary actions which we have been compelled in the interests of truth to make regarding Col- lector Bailey are serious charges, and they can hardly be justified even by the discovery of the great frauds which he claims to have discov- ered, but of the nature of which he has not yet deigned to inform the public or the merchants whom he accuses. ‘Tne Question or OLp Barrets was brought up in the Assembly yesterday and immediately smothered by Mr. M. C. Murphy, who forcod an adjournment on the point of order that there was no quorum present. When there are chances fur so many other more magnificent jobs the idea of a job in old barrels looks like & bunghole and spigot concera, | The European mails to hand yesterday supply written details of our cable telegrams to the 15th of January—barely nine days be- fore—in consequence of the very rapid trip and excellent service of the French Transat- lantic mail steamship Peroire. We publish to-day a comprehensive and interesting letter from our special correspondent in Rome, in which the proceedings and difficulties of the Ecumenical Council are reported, as well as the Papal consolation afforded by some conver- sions from American Protestantism to the faith of the Church, The particulars of the Victor Noir-Bonaparte shooting case are given from our French and English files, with accounts of tho interview between Noir and the Prince Pierre Bonaparte, and the action previous to and after the reception of his death wound of the former. Noir was to have been married next day. M. Ollivier was before the French Legislature actively as a constitutional Premier, The Noir case was treated in the legislative body by MM. Rochefort, Raspail and Olivier. Pope Pius the Ninth, as will be seen, relies with great confidence on his army and remains particularly severe on Garibaldi, notwithstanding the presence-of the assembled prelates and the organization of the committees on Faith, Hope and Charity. ‘ The Old World was evidently ‘‘moving” towards some new issue when the Pereire left, and we chronicle the indications so that the advance may not take our readers by surprise. The Collector and the Cartmen. The difficulty of reforming any sort of an abuse is pretty well known, especially to those who undertake the reformation; and of this difficulty we have a new evidence in the mat- ter of the Custom House cartage. For a very long while the system of cartage has been complained of as teeming with abuses. Under every collector there have been changes made, and somehow or another the changes have always worked with the cartmen at last, and the result of every modification of the system hag been the addition of one more abuse to the list. Qollector Grinnell has now really laid an axe to the root of the evil, and prd- mises to establish a system of cartage in which the interests of the cartmen, while satisfactorily looked to, will yet be regarded as subordinate to the interests of the merchants and the govern- ment. Scarcely, however, has he taken the initiatory steps before the cartmen come at him, impelled by an appetite like that of that feminine figure of speech, the horseleech’s daughter. They fear the loss of their plunder, and they are ready to show, therefore, that the new system is very bad. The opposition of the cartmen to the Collector’s proposition for reform in the Custom House cartage is the highest praise the proposition can receive. Tur Gas Noisanog.—In another column we give the very interesting report of an official of the Board of Health, including all the facts of public interest in regard to the manufacture of gas and as to what has been done to relieve the city of the intolerably foul smells given off by the purification of gas with lime. It will be seen by the report that the purifica- tion by iron is quite as effective as by lime, more economical and not a nuisance. The iron process has been adopted by the New York and Manhattan companies, but the Metropoli- tan Company, whose works are at the foot of West Forty-second street, is obstinately reso- lute in adherence to the practice that makes it @ nuisance. Tue Union Ferry BrgNgvoLeNnog.—The Union Ferry Company does not run its boats for the sake of making money—so it says. It can only pay to its shareholders a dividend of ten per cent by law. How are the figures manipulated to keep the company within the law and yet to prevent it spending some mil- lions per year on its boats and slips? Simply by the watering dodge. Any man who holds ten shares of stock has twenty shares set oppo- site his name in the books and gets a ten per cent dividend on twenty shares, though he only holds ten. This is the way twenty per cent is paid where more than ten is unlawful. Motierr.—Supervising Architect Mullett is running up our new Post Office very fast, and for that we like him; but we still do not believe that he is so great a man that he can affurd to indulge such eccentricities as that reported in our Washington columns yester- day, where he was represented as using vio- lence to an aged doorkeeper who did not happen to know that he was Mullett. It is fot beneath the dignity of any man to make an explanation to a functionary charged with the enforcement of an order; at least it is an invalid sort of dignity that can feel itself injured by making such an explanation, Union LEAGUE INTERESTS IN THE LEGISLA- tTuRE.—The public have all along considered our Legislature democratic to the core; buta resolution introduced yesterday by Mr. Sweet, favoring the reimbursement of all parties who were drafted during the war and had to fur- nish substitutes or pay commutage, smacks a little of those gallant Union leaguers who fought and bled for their country, mainly in pocketorby proxy, Sina Sine is said to be anxious to have its State Prison removed. Probably Sing Sing will sing another tune when the bill now be- fore the Assembly actually passes. Tue Ene Sremers, who were discharged for their previous strike, apparently receive no sympathy from the other workers along the line. They have in consequence become vio- lent, and it is feared the strike will result in blows being struck. Toe WasHBueRN-PaRraguayaN INVESTIGA- tvios—A Watrewasnina Report.—It is an- nounced from Washington that Mr. Orth, the chairman of the sub-committee on the Para- guayan investigation, has submitted a report sustaining Mr. Washburn and severely con- demning Admirals Davis and Godon, Mr. Orth was placed on the committee for that purpose, and has no doubt done the work he undertook to perform according to contract. But in view of the unenviable notoriety acquired by Mr. Washburn, and of the high character of the two admirals who are to be made the victims of his arrogance, wo would suggest to Mr. Orth, or rather to his colleagues on the committee, that they give us the evi- dence in full, The public, whose verdict on this subject has long since been made up, will not be content with garbled extracts. Way of San Francisco. We are informed by telegram from London that there is a project for establishing a steam- ship route, in connection with the railroads across the American Continent, from Aus- tralia and New Zealand to London. The route is to be by way of San Francisco, Port- land, in Maine, and Milford Haven, in Wales. It is thought the entire distance can be passed over in forty days. There is no doubt that this is the shortest route from Great Britain to Australia, and, therefore, such a project as the one mentioned seems likely to be carried out. This will be another important step in making the United States the centre of com- merce for the world and San Francisco one of the greatest commercial cities, as we have foreshadowed from time to time in our remarks upon the revolution which steam power and the telegraph are effecting. The Pacific rail- roads will thus become international highways as well as important lines of communication for ourselves from one ocean to the other. When the Darien Canal shall be cut another great line of communication, particularly for shipping, will be opened, and will tend still more to make the American Continent the centre of trade and movement in the world, But even with that a large portion of the travel and a good deal of light valuable freight will go by the way of San Francisco ; for that will always be the shortest and quickest route. We think the passage could be made from Great Britain to Australia in thirty-five days if all the connections were properly estab- lished. In all these great movements and revolutions of travel and commerce the city of New York must be alive to its interests. It is now the commercial and financial metropolis in America, and has many advantages for holding that position or of becoming the com- mercial centre of the world. But our citizens and capitalists must be on the alert and draw the trade from the new channels that may be The New Prime Minister of France. The duty of forming a new Ministry under the existing circumstances in France was decidedly no sineeure, and it would be an act of gross injustice towards M, Emile Ollivier to render him responsible for obstacles that were previously created. M. de Girardin, in an article in the Liberté of Paris, under the title of ‘Le Cabinet de Bataille,” fully explains the position and also the difficulties against which battle must be waged. One of the first matters to be fought will decidedly be the treaty of commerce of 1860, and on that score he will have as opponents MM. Bancel, Esquiros, Gam- betta and Rochefort. Then the great question will arise, do they require liberty or revolu- tion? If they claim liberty, why, that is being granted, and in due time the new Cabinet wiil effect the reform rationally and systematically. If, however, they claim revolution, how will they proceed in order to avoid a fresh failure affa disappointment? ‘The battle had to be fought, and, as M. de Girardin predicted, it has already commenced—rather on a different tack, it is true; but the combatants have entered .the lists and thrown down the gauntlet. The majority of the Corps Légis- latif will act as umpire and public opinion will confirm the result, Market Jozs.—Almost any method of im- proving our metropolitan markets would be acceptable, but it can certainly be done with- out such an extensive scheme as Mr. Frear’s bill in the Assembly proposes. To reform the markets is an immense task, but it need not be an immense job. PERS INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Dr. Durant, the builder of the Union Pacific Rall- road, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Major General Burnside was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening. Ex-Congressman John A. Goodwin, of Maine, late Governor of and delegate from Arizona, ts at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Schofield, of the United States Army, ts at the Astor House. Captain ‘Harris, of the steamship Mississippl, of the New Orleans line, arrived at the Astor House yesterday. Governor H. P. Baldwin, of Detroit, Mich., is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel C, S. Bushnell, of Conn., one of the Direc- tors of the Union Pacific Railroad, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Generai H. B, Wilson, United States Army, is at the St, George Hotel. ( Ex-Congressman Alfred Ely, of Rochester, 1s at the Coleman House. Rey, O. E. Lindsley and wife, of Southport, Conn., are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General James R. O’Belrne, of Washington, is at the Astor House. General E. F. Jones, of Binghamton, and General W. H. Reynolds, of Providence, are at the St. Nich- olas Hotel. Major Rodney, of the United States Army, is at the St. Denis Hotel. William E. Chandier, ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, arrived at the Astor House yesterday. Hon. Duncan McDonald, of Canada, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor Hawley, of Connecticut, was at the St. James Hotel yesterday. Hon. D. K. McCarthy, of Syracuse, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General A. Hovey, of Nevada, is at the Astor House. James Fisk, Jr., has returnea from Washington, accompanied by Jay Gould. Prominent Departures. Ex-Uovyernor Emory Washburne and wife, of Wor- cester, Mass., sailed in the steamship Lafayette for France on Saturday. Sefior Don Cayetano Romero and sister, Sefiora Luz Romero, of the Mexican Legation at Washing- ton, arrived at this port on Saturday from Vera Cruz. They left for Washington last evening, the former being bearer of despatches to the Mexican Minister, Seflor Mariscal. Professor Wyman, wife and daughter, sailed for Europe on Saturday. i Charles F. Secor, monitor builder, has gone to France, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, of Canads, passed through this city yesterday. General Personals. Ex-Postmaster General Randall will spend the winter in Washington, Mayor Hall's recent lecture on the “Prism of Charity” netted the charitable institution in whose behalf it was delivered $1,000. Mrs. Abbott Lawrence, of Boston, has contributed $25,000 towards @ fine art museum tn that city. Mr, Cunard and family arrived at Portiand, Me., yesterday on their way to Europe in the steamer Delta. Intelligence has reached the Boara of Health that the swill mMk dealers have become alarmed at the vig- orousaction of Mr. Bergh and the fact that the public of Brooklyn refuse to buy their milk, and have re- fused to remove the slops from the distilleries. They are giao selling thetr cows off. The slops from the distilleries are being run off into theriver. The case RN eto) rg keeper of toe swiil milk stables in cy venue, Was again itponed yes! morning to Wednesday next “ AMUSEMENTS. THEATRE FRANCAIS—REVIVAL oF Ores BOUPFE.— ‘The pluck of young America is proverbial, but we ture to say that it never received a more striking illustration than in the enterprise of Messrs. Starr & Byrne in attempting to revive the fleeting glories of opéra douse. 4g no doubt that the public, after they recovered from the surfeit of musical bonbons with which Grau and Bateman fed them for two seasons, longed once more for the deshpots of Offenbach, and rejected the manna of Mendeissoha ‘and the other prophets who wished to lead them to the promised land of genuine music. Therefore, while the murmurs of the people were at the loudest, two of the youngest managers in Manhattan threw themselves into the breach, raised the Orfea. bacntan standard, sang sale respective banners on the outer walls of tne Francais and unsheathed the sabre de son pére. The resuit was “La Grande Duchesse” last night, Mrs. Howard Paul and @ crowded house, Mrs, Paul made a genuine hit in the tie rdle, thereby endorsing the high encomiuma passed upon her by the London press. We cannot well compare her witn Tostée, as her rendering of the part was more artistic, more retined and wore ladylike than the wilful potentate of the petite Paris- tenne, Her fine contralto voice was also heard to advantage. There are few artists on the stage who possess a finer lower register of contralto voice, and although when it merges into che region of the 80- prano it nants its quality tt is nevertheless always: enjoyable. Her actlog and arch, with abundance of vivacity, but no vulgarity or coarse- ness. ‘he Fritz was an indifferent singer and infe- rior to our old friends Guftroy and Carrier in act- ing. The Boum was the well known favorite, Du- chesne; and Francis made an excellent Prince Paul. Duchesne was hoarse aud manifestly distracted by nls double duties, as stage Manager and général en ches, Wanda sang bauy, but acted beter. ‘The cyorus and orchestra, under the able direction of bert Stoepel, one of the most rellable conductors tn the cliy, was all that could be desired. Alte- gether, as @ performance, we can safely say that Messrs. Starr & Byrne have made a successful open- ing of their season, aud we trust that they may be able to pilot their way safoly through the many shoals aud quicksands that beset the managerial crait in the metropous. GRAND OPERA Hovse.—‘Jocriase, the Juggler’ — the first time of its performance—was brougut out last evening at the Grand Opera House before a very large audience. The play is a domestic drama, im three acts, from the,French, but adapted to the American stage by an appropriate transposition of parts. Mr. George C. Boniface played the leading part—perhaps excepting Mrs. Bonitace, who, by her womanly beauty, graceful postures and uncon- strained repose, brought out frequent rounds of ap- plause. The taste Lhat thus lady showed in her dress of scarict satin, with lace trimmings and shawl, showed at least that she knows how to catch the artistic eye and how to blend the unts of her dress fabrics with those of the scenery about her. Of the impersonation of the juggler by Mr. Boal this can be sald—it was easy in execution, offhand in the lite byplays end without pompous afiectuuion. Mr. Boniface is a genuine actor, but his chief merit 1s in his capacity of facial demonstration, which doubtleas exceeds that of most any actor of the American stage, Hs transitions from the ludi- crous to the more ludicrous, and then to tne inane oe aoc choos reflections of nature—not forced an ome ar Then Mr. Boniface acts his 3 fo doa iat act to the orchestra chairs, to Mr. James Fisk, dr., or the private boxes; and this isa triumph sel- dom accomplished. He seems to know what ougnt to by doue, and does it. This wall there is to cuar- act@ization, and radical critics should make note of the fact. ‘Cool as a Cucumber”? was a rattling comedietta in which the parts were sustained by the same stars, well supported. ‘The great sensatioa at the Grand Opera House, and, iaeed, the grand dramatic sensation of the century, Will be the production next week—on Slon- day—oi the ‘Twelve ‘temptations, @ spectacular and legendary drama, produced by Mr. Fisk at an sae Of $100,000, after over cs Aime preparation. It is safd that this piece will set New York wild. We hear it whispered—genily insinuated—that there ts to be a dress rehearsal on Saturday afternoon. ‘Tho advent of such a tempting morsel will not be far ahead of the public interest. PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN.—The success which attended the run of “Little Em’ly” at Niblo’s a week ago has been trausferred to Mrs. Con- way’s Park theatre. There ts little doubt that but for the advent of the great Fechter at Nivio’s the dramatization of his friend Dickens’ novet of Coppertield would have had an immense run, and Dickens could not for a moment have thought, when recommending his triend Fechter to the piay-goers of the city of New York, that be was, in having room made for him at Niblo’s, shortening the run of one of his own best dramatized pieces, But so tt was, brooklyn, however, has reaped the benelit of it. Mrs. Conway, of the Park theatre, with her ever present desire to please her numerous patrons, has transierred the play of “Little Em’ly,” discarded for want of time to run, from Niblo’s to her own popular theatre m Brooklyn. Our readers are too conversant with the portions of the novel dramatized to require to have placed before tnem here a picture of the scenes or incidents included in the play. Enough to aay hat the play has been most faith- folly rehearsed, that the scenery has been wonder- fuily well adapted to describe and, in fact, aimost present to the eye well known locaitties, and that all, even the minor accessories of the play, were well up in thetr parts. Mr, Conway was an admirable Wil- kins Micawber, ever waiting for something to turn up. His spouse (Mrs. Marie Bates), together with her offspring, were all that could be desired. Ham (Mr. Mark Bates) and Dan Peggotty, bis uncle (Mr. Canoll), really arled to the iece all the interest that the writer could ave hoped to have thrown ‘round these two creations of hisfancy. Any notice of the per- lormance meant to do Justice to the getting up of the piece or the manner in which the actors acquitied themselves would certainly be imperfect if some special notice was not paid to Miss Lizzie Mahon’s impersonation of Little Em'ly, the heroine of the play. ‘When tt 13 sald that every person present that ad read ‘David Oopperfield”’—and that, of course, was every one witl the buiiding—saw in Migs Mahon a perfect ule teats of the original Little Em’ly, such as they would fancy her, enough is said, ‘The house was crowded, and gave such an earnest of success a8 to leave little doubt that Little Km'ly will have a big run in the Park theatre, SPECIAL POLITICAL NOTES. Up for Governor of Sau Domingo and a market— Fred Douglass. Oregon Kepubdlican State Convention—Aprtl 7. ‘The Louisville Journal thinks there will soon be @sound of Revelsry by night im the United States Senate. Mra. A. E, Hammack ts to be made a notary public 1n Ilinois—the frst of the season. A party in St. Louls have receiyea the contract for building the pasement of the new State House in Springffeld, wl, at $30,000 less than the estimate of the architect, Look out for a relief bill, unless these contractors are more honest than others we wot of. A Washington correspondent of the Chicago 7rt- dune states that there is some feeling among the republicans in Oongress about the course General Terry 19 pursuing in Georgia. Nobody knows by what authority he is making & military investigation into the right of members of the Legislature to hold seats, and some of the soundest republican Senators say ne has no right under any law to do this thing. A Washington correspondent of the Cincinnatt Inquirer states that Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minis- ter, has expended $5,000,000 in gold in the United States the past six months. He has purchased 490,000 stand of arms for the Turkish government together with the machinery necessary to alter them to breech-loaders, ‘ ‘The Albany Argus editorially advertises:—‘*Want- ed—A Hellgious Fight.” Take a trip out West. ‘There 18 never any difticulty tn finding ‘fighting par- sons’ there. ‘The Cincinnati Commercial says:—“It ts currently reported that Abel R. Corbin dia not make a success- ful dye of it at Jesse R. Grant’s house in Covington afew dayssince. His formerly white whiskers ore 1d distinct colors. “LEAGUE. Bosron, Jan. 24, 1870. A two days’ session of the New England Labor Reform League, held tn Boston, closed this evening. It was thinly attemed. Among the speakers were &, A. Heywood, Premdent of the League; Jonn Orris, Miss Albertson, Cora Symes, Jennie Cuilins, Mrs. Warner, Dr. White, Prof. Denton and 3. P. Cum- mings, Chief of the St. Crispin Order. The latter denounced the resolution presented as favoring repudiation as an insult to the laboring men’ of the State. Caring not what name the organization as- sumed, whether Labor Reform League or apy other, he classed them, for uttering such sentiments, with Jet Davis, as guilty of treason, and proceeded ta intimate that the author of the resolution was a taitor, when the Chairman called litm, to order. "The Treasurer reported the receipts for the year to be $4,763. Expenditures, $4,762, ‘The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—Presiaent, John Orvis, of West Roxbury; Vico Presidents, L. K. Josselyn, of Rnode Island; Mrs, B. L, Daniels, of Boston; 8. 8. Foster, of Worcester; ©. Young, of Mame; A. W. Phelps, of Connocuicut; J.G. Blanchard, of Boston, and Samuei Fit, of New Hampshire; Corresponding Secretary, i. H. Heywood, of Worcester; Recording secretary, [er- bert Daniela, of Boston; Treasurer, H. H. Bigelow, of Worcester: Auditor, A. A. Keed; Executive Com- mittee, E. H. Heywood, E, D. Lenton, Soin Orvis, Mrs. &. L. Daniels, H. HU. Bigelow and W. J, Mc-

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