The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York THE TAMMANY, Fourteonth street,—Tur BuRLesqua oy THE SEVEN. eames THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ORS, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 @., betwoon bth and 6th ava.— Epwin Boorn as Hamu! FRENCH THEATRE, lth at, and 6th ay.—LA GRanp Ducurese. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Senious FaMiLy— ‘THE SPiTFiee. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—SUBP; On, SUMMER SOENES aT LONG’ BRANOu. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Gzanp ROMANTIC Pray or TH” Duxe’s Morro. Be: WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtieth st.—Matines daily, Performance every evening. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery— Orgua Burro—La Bette wean BOWERY THEATRE, howery.—Buox, BuoK, MANY HoBNS; O28, GOLD Ur 10 160, _ cod MR8. F. B. 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Pag. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Wasbington: The Negro Senator from Missis- sippl; The Currency Bull Passed in the Senate; House Resolution Extending Belligerent Rights to Cuba—News from Cuba; Victory of the Insurgents at Guatmaro—The Brooklyn Cock Fighvers—Brooklyn Burg!artes. 4=—The New Charter for the Metropolis: Enlarged Powers of the Mayor and Common Council; Ali the Commissions Retained as Departments; Free Lager on Sundays and Whiskey through the Back Door. S—Proceedings in the Unitea States Supreme Court and New York and Brooklyn Courts Yesterday—The Wynockie Children Discovered Dead—sSinking of the Steamship Brunette at Sea—Army Intelligence—Anotner Nut for the Gas Companies to Crack—The First Potomac Shaa—Police Trials. 6—nditorlais: Leading Article on Reconstraction at Albany; Our Proposed New City Charter— Prince Arthur: How His Royal Hignness En- joyed Himself Yesterday—Amusements— Amusement Announcements. ‘7=Telegraphic News From All Parts of the World: Provable Channel Race Between the Yachts Sappho and Cambria; French Demand for Military Protection for Parliament; An Aus- trian Archduchess in Flight for America— The Turfmen’s National Congress—Destructive Fires in the City—Reddy the Blacksmith in Trouble Again—The Williamsburg Building Calamity—The Government and Education of Children—The Liberal Club—Fatal Boller Explosion—ghe Weather at the East and Northwest—Sick in the Street—Business No- ticea. S—New York and Brooklyn City News—Commis- sioners of Emigration—Cruel Rovbery of Emt- grants—Overiand Journey and Visit to the Mor- mons—A Desperado Nailed—The Contested Seats in the Board of Aldermen—Personal In- telligence—Pigeon Shooting on Long Island— Suburban Intelligence—The New Jersey Legis- lature—Excitenient in Newark Theatre—Meet- ing of the Commissioners of Education—The Naval Hospital Case—Heavy Tieft of Jewelry. ®—Financlal and Commercial Reporis—Real Es- tate Matters—Marine Transfers—The Ice Crop of Central New York—Public Health: Full Hustory of the Relapsing Fever—View of Crime and Criminal Justice in New York—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. 40—The State Capital: The New City Charter in the Assembly; The Ice Question; A Uniform Excise Law Throughout the State De- cided Upon—The West Side Asvociation— Literature—The Bond Robbery at Homer, N. Y.—The Ram Atlanta—The, Oldest Map in Ohio—Singular Habeas Corpus Case—Burned to Death at a Theatre—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements. 11—Aavertisements. 12—<Advertisements. Canby, in addition to its other deleterious ingredients, it seems, sometimes has cock- roaches init. A specimen of this kind was presented to the Board of Health yesterday. Tae FirresNth AMENDMENT CoMPLETE.— The Georgia Legislature has ratified the four- teenth and fifteenth amendments. This com- pletes tie list of States necessary to make the fifteenth amendment a part of the consii- tution. Tue Ancupvoness Evizaperu—Her Fuicur to Amrnioa.—lIs it true? Is it not true? We cannot well tell. It is our belief, however, that the United States is destined to be the home of many, very many, of the wandering princes and princesses of Europe. Love, we suppose, is stronger than patriotism, Tor Broapway Jos up v.—Senator Genet proposes a surface railroad on Broad- way, to be given to the highest bidder. Every other device has been tried and has been snuffed out by Mr. A. T. Stewart. But what can he do against this plan of the highest bid- der? He will have to give up the fight or build the road himself. It has come to this at last. AprroacHING War IN WINNIPEG.—It is now stated that the Canadian authorities are preparing to throw a force of men into Win- nipeg early in the spring. The news which we published yesterday of the arrest of Riel and the assumption of the government by the Hudson Bay Company has probably encour- aged the New Dominion government to make a show of war; but if they really mean it they have made a mistake which they are lia- ble to rue before they succeed in forcing the revolutionists to terms. The New Dominion is too young in business to afford a war debt or any larger disaffected population. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Reconstruction at Albaay~-Our Proposed New City Charter. The reconstruction of our city government 48 proposed in the bill reported to the State Assembly yesterday by Mr. Frear is a matier which we hold to be of such commanding im- Portance to the people of this island that we publish the bill in full for their information. We presume that it is substantially the new city government agreed upon by the chiefs of Tammany. It corresponds with tho hints thrown out by both Governor Hoffman and Mayor Hall, each in his late annual message. It is evidently framed upon the ruling idea of Prime Minister Sweeny—‘‘let us not tear down faster than we build up again.” The scheme is, that foreshadowed by Mayor Hall. It makes the Mayor the responsible head of our city administration, and the Board of Alder- men the municipal senate for the confirmation of his appointments, removals and suspen- sions. ‘3 The bill provides for thirteen city depart- ments, the managing boards of which are to be subject to the Mayor and Aldermen. Be- yond the heads of these several departments there are to be no material changes in the per- sonnel or working machinery of any of them. The Street Department and the Croton Depart- ment are to be merged into one, to be called the Department of Public Works. Tho Park Commissioners are continued in office during their present term. There are to be five Com- missioners of the Police Department, and the City Judge and Recorder are to be two of them. The policemen are not to be disturbed, except for cause. The Fire Department will be under three commissioners, but ths present efficient firemen and the steam engines and horses will be retained. The old volunteer infantry system will not be restored. Nor will the excise be absolutely abolished. There will still be an excise board of three commissioners ; and the license fee to liquor sellers will range from thirty to a hundred dollars. Liquor shops and saloons will not be allowed to keep open later than one hour past midnight, nor must they be open again before four in the morning. This arrangement allows @ reasonable margin day and night to the thirsty citizen and the enterprising retailer. But liquor shops must be kept closed all day Sunday and on election days, though the harm- less beverage known as lager beer may be sold at all times in gardens not less than a quarter of g mile from any place of public worship ; while at the same time, be it remembered, reasonable ingress and egress shall be allowed to those liquor shops in which the liquor sellers have thelr domiciles. Now, this concession to the churches in re- gard to the lazer beer gardens is something for which our church-going people ought to be grateful, because the sacrilegious vocal music of a beer garden a quarter of a mile off will not disturb any church worship except on extraor- dinary occasions. Nor will the lager beer peo- ple have any right to complain of this compro- mise, because where a beer garden is within a quarter of a mile of a place of worship the garden or the church can be removed a litile further off, you know. The worshippers of the jolly King Gambrinus will have reason espe- cially to be thankful for this—that under the new charter they will no longer be compelled to travel to Jersey on Sunday to enjoy their lager and their music, and the same may be said of whiskey. Verily, the millennium of the democracy is at hand, and we are on the verge of a revolution in our social affairs as great as that which in England followed the return of King Charlie after the oppressive rigors of the “Praise-God-Barebones” Puritans. Nor are these good things coming to be limited to this new city charter. We are to have a new election law, for instance, under which the bothersome farce of registration will be dispensed with, and half the canvassers and inspectors will be» elected by the people and half by the Board of Supervisors, and all will be democratic, This plan will put an end to election disputes and make everything run smoothly. The republicans, with their State commissions over the city, have held for a long time the whiphand over this metropolis, and still our Corporation rings, corruptions and spoliations have gone on from bad to worse, and still our democratic city majorities have increased. Now give the democrats a ‘fair trial and let us see how they will come out. They may fail; but they may, perhaps, delight and astonish our taxpayers and law and order people with their retrenchments and reforms. At all evenis they are in a fair way to outdo the radicals of Congress in their work of reconstruction, and such is the spirit of the age. Mexican News.—The news from Mexico is of the most gloomy character. The revolu- tionary party is daily receiving accessions to its ranks. Able generals are joining the rebels. Among the latest of those who have espoused the insurrectionary cause the names of Daville, Macias, Zarequi and Espinosa ap- pear. The present state of affairs {s critical. Notwithstanding Mr. Seward’s late consolatory speeches of Mexican prosperity, peace and quietness, the day is fast arriving when in the interests of humanity and civilization the United States will have to step across the bor- der and establish péace and order where now exist strife, confusion and anarchy. Tae Stoppace or Newspapers.—A cable despatch which we publish this morning states that while American letters have been received up to the 19th American newspapers have not been received later than the 11th of January. This may mean that the change which has taken place in the international postal system, and which notoriously works badly, has made trouble. It may also mean that the Emperor and M. Ollivier dread the honest expression of American sentiment on the Bonaparte tragedy. We can see caution, But in our opinion fear or caution, or what you will, has spoiled the Emperor’s pie. Tue Exouisn TeELecrara System.—A de- spatch from London states that the English Treasury Department has paid £736,000 ster- ling for the telegraph cable connecting Eng- land with Germany, England has already un- der government control all the land lines in the United Kingdom, and finding the system a success has wisely concluded to extend it to the exterior lines communicating with the Con- tinent. While she is thus spreading the bene- fits of the postal telegraph system we stand halting undecided on the threshold, The Kelgu of Crime, Nothing in the history of Christian olties— the worst capitals in the worst ages of the past—-can equal or approach the dreadful prevalence of crimo in this metropolitan sham- ble. Scarcely a day passes without its fright- ful story. Our city news is just now only spared chronicling two more murders, similar in character to the Townsend butchery, by the failure of the murderous aim in both cases, Already in the one month of this year we have chronicled a murder or attempted mur- der for every day in the month, and not one of these crimes but seems inspired by a spirit of fiendish savagery equal to the worst act men or devils could conceive. It is not only that the pistol and the knife are on all hands the ready arbiters of every difference, but it is almost as if some general madness to kill had taken possession of certain classes, and as if this frenzy vioted in the certainty that the indulgence of its impulses was absolutely safe. The worst feature of all these crimes is the readiness with which violators of the law push minor offences to the enormity of mur- der. Here is an old man in Hudson street who refuses to harbor a rogue that comes into his house, and this refusal invites a death- blow. He keeps his eye #o closely on the intruder iuto his little shop that no chance is afforded for the theft he went to commit. Ordinarily we might suppose a thief thus foiled would go away and ply his craft elsewhere. But no; he stays and murders where he cannot steal, To him there is no difference between these crimes. He would as soon commit one asthe other. He is equally ready to extend his hand to take a watch or take a life. He would as lief strike as bandy words, and recks not at the thought that the hand that strikes {3 armed with what will make it unne- cessary to repeat the blow. He has a temper so desperate and savage as not to be appalled by any consequence of what he may do, The men who shot at the plumber in his doorway the other night sent the bullet intended to murder him as their answer to some speech of his. In ajrecent murder in a rumshop, never yet investigated, the fatal bullet was a retort ina discussion. It is so through the cata- logue; and this readiness to kill is so noto- rious that citizens hesitate to interfere with lawlessness or violence of any sort, for a word may cripple a man for life, and an affray is certain death, It appears to us that the first cause of the outburst of crime here isin the vindictive, vio- lent, desperate character of the rufflans of this city, and their readiness to assert and perform their own outrageous purposes, not only in defiance of all law and order, but with abso- lute disregard to the extremity of the steps they may take and the consequences that may ensue. But what is it that has within a few years thus given the reins to the fury of these murdering wretches? It is their conscious- ness of immunity; their discovery of the enor- mous power that they wield in our corrupt political system, in virtue of which power it is impossible to punish them; the repeated con- nivance in their escape of all the authorities, from the policeman in the street to the Judge on the bench; the state of the law, the state of the administration of justice in this city, and the state of the public mind with regard to the death penalty, Scarcely less guilty than the murderers them- selves are the so-called philanthropists who have unsettled the public mind with regard to the propriety of capital punishment, These Innaiic teachers of free love, who have broken down the morality of society in their assaults on the institution of marriage, have also broken down the great barrier of safety to human life in undermining the only penalty that appalls the thought of the murderer, Without the weakening effect that the doctrines of these persons have had on the public mind it would never have been possible for Judges to so scout justice and for allthe authorities to so connive at the escape of murderers as they have done, Then consider the direct effect of these lessons on the mur- derers, ‘‘Hanging for murder is pleyed out,” therefore murder on—never stint your will; keep the tools plying till ‘‘the heart shall be merely a strop for the knife.” For murder there is at worst an imprisonment of a few years. For theft there is also an imprisonment of a few years. Now, the criminal classes dis- tinguish between crimes only by the results to themselves—the penalty ; therefore, they read this—the same punishment the same crime, Hence the butcher Bream believes that for what he did in Hudson street he will have a fow years in prison, Just She game sabe might if he had stolen the contents of he ee cer’s till, He is ready for that, but he ‘‘does not want to die.” But though the state of the public mind on this topic has rendered it possible for corrupt Judges to trifle with the safety of society with- out danger to themselves, yet nothing excuses, nothing can in the least degree pafliate, the heinous offences that have been committed here in shielding murderers by the very machinery contrived for the administration of justice. Our city ia corrupt and rotten with the guilt of this offence. The Judge's ermine is dabbled in the blood of the citizen, and he holds his place, not to protect society, but to protect its foes, Our municipal func- tionaries are. chosen in great part from the ruffianly classes of society, and the power they wield in office is used to protect their asso- ciates and intimates in the perpetration of out- rage. It is for this reason that open, bloody, flagrant murder has been committed in thia city within a few months and the murderer dismissed without any inquiry whatever into the offence. It is for this reason that one can count on his fingers twenty. murders for one execution, The instincts and sympathy of the men entrusted with the safety of society are with the dealers in outrage and violence—the potent fountains of political power, who can commit no crime in their hours of frenzy that they may not condone on election day. The authorities and the crimi- nal classes stand in the relation of confede- rates, and while one does violence the other obstructs punishment to favor escape. Is not this the plain history of all the recent notori- ous murders and murder trials? What other interpretation can be put upon tho history we give elsewhere of the way in which a criminal was brought from one of the country counties on the writ of a city judge? And where is the remedy for all this? Is it in the forthcoming democratic reconstruction of the metropolis, which boldly promises the whole spoil of the city as the prize of that spirit of violence and corruption that is the source of all our trouble? Probable Channel Ruco Between Cambrin and Sappho. By a cable telogram in another column it will be seen that there is some probability of a race between the yachts Sappho and Cam- bria, though not one of the races proposed by Mr. Douglas in his recent letter to Mr. Ash- bury. Mr, Ashbury, in answer to that letter, now declines the direct challonge it contained, and furthermore withdraws his own previous proposition to race the Sappho unconditionally, requiring time allowance for the difference in the size of the vessels, as ascertained by New York measurement. With this condition he is willing to match his vessel for the seve- ral Channel races hitherto discussed or to sail three races on a new course, This course is triangular, around two lighthouses and a point atsea, The Nab light is just off the Isle of Wight, and Ower’s light is fifteen miles away, on the Sussex coast. The course proposed is to start from the Nab light, ail to, and around Ower’s light, thence to and around a twenty miles from land, and back to the Nab light, Such a coursevis evidently one that offers great advantages to an English boat, from the fact that it lies quite within the influence of the land breezes and currents with which, of course, they are thoroughly familiar, while yachtmen from this side are not. This one advantage for a boat that is at home in those waters would more than neutralize any advantage the Sappho might have in her size; yet we see that Mr. Ashbury requires the start that time allowance may give him. As the size is to be found by the equitable system of measuring used here, this will not be very great; yet we can- not but observe that the owner of the Cam- bria, for a man who thought ‘Americans would not make arace where they were not sure to win,” has a remarkably keen eye to all the little points. Should this race take place it will be a very interesting trial of two fine boats in waters in which Englishmen do not doubt they are our superiors. It appears that Mr. Douglas’ defiance to all England for an ocean race is still without an answer, * The Cuban Victory at Guaimaro. We publish in another column of the HERALD fall particulars of the recent great battle between the Cubans and the Spaniards near Guaimaro, The mail accounts corroborate the telegrams already published announcing the complete victory of the patriots over their’ opponents. General Puello, who commanded the Spanish army, anticipated nothing like the ill luck which was in store for him. He left Nuevitas on the 25th of December full of great expectations. He went out to bring the rebel- lious Cubans to subjection. His promises were loud and boastful ; but five days later he realized that his boastings amounted to nothing. All along the road he met a deter- mined enemy. Every inch of ground was contested, and when at last he encountered the patriots in force, between Palo Quemado’ and Guaimaro, he found that he had for opponents brave and hardy soldiers, commanded by a general his equal, at least, in the art of war. What has been the result? A most disastrous de- feat, in which he lost hundreds of men, some of his best officers killed, and he himself wound- ed. Yet General Puello might have fared worse. Had it not been for the treachery of a negro his whole force would have been annihi- lated. This battle may be justly considered as the most important of the war. It was a fair test of the bravery and fighting qualities of the Cubans. They were led by General Jordan, a capable and experienced commander. Op- posed to them was a force about equal in numbers, better equipped, and com- manded by an intelligent but rather vain leader. In the test to which the Cubans have been subjected they have come out with honor- able distinction. They have met the enemy in a fight of his own seeking and driven him back to the shelter of that seaboard city from which he go vauntingly issued as the old year was drawing to a olose. It augurs well for the Cubans that they inaugurated the new year successfully, Let them follow up the advan- tages they have won. General Goyeneche, who left Puerto Principe to go to the support of Puello, is now reported missing, Perhaps the fate of Puello is in store for him also. Tuk FentaN Prisoners IN ENGLAND.—The House consumed considerable time yesterday in discussing s resolution directing an inquiry into the condition of naturalized American citizens held as Fenian prisoners in Great Britain. The debate upon it became general, and was only stopped by the expiration of the morning hour. Tue LeaistaTuRE AND Coneress.—In the Assembly yesterday resolutions were adopted favoring the abolition of the franking privilege and the reduction of the pay of Congressmen. Both resolutions are good in the abstract; but the passage of them conveys the idea that our democratic Legislature is anxioug to run the national machine. If they will wait till 1872, and conduct themselves right in the mean- time, they may have better chance, Tue Lost WyNnooxtg CuILpren were found yesterday, dead, apparently starved to death, lying in the woods within two miles of their home. The bodies were so little decomposed that it is probable they had not been dead over two weeks. The agony and terror and pains that the little ones must have endured during the half month that they lived, wandering about night and day through the dark woods in the winter’s cold and storms, is enough to make brave hearts shudder, Can 17 Be—That the vencrable Brown, of Grace church, the model of all the proprieties, is addicted to the bad habit of profane cursing and swearing, as charged in one of the news- papers? If so Brown is not bright, snd if not so Brown should set the matter right, Mx. Berou Amona tHE Cook Fientrrs.— This humanitarian, Mr. Bergh, has been poking his nose again among the sports of the cockpit, and has been carrying off a number of their game roosters. But let him beware how he interferes in these gentle amusements, or he may get his wings clipped at Albany, Already they have been talking ahout it up there, The Tarif Bill ta Congress. Talk about untying the Gordian knot, find- ing out the Chinese puzzle or solving the most difficult problem, why the new Tariff bill be- fore Congress is more difficult to comprehend than any of them. It is the fnost complicated plece of legislation ever worked up. Remark- able as tariff bills have been generally for their intricacy, this beats all previous ones. It will give plenty of work to the lawyers, courts, revenue officers and the Treasury De- partment, and will require a little army of Officials to carry it out. It is not surprising that the bill meets with a good deal of oppo- sition in the House, and that a formidable lobby ls engaged to doctor and push it through, for it exhibits no statesmanship and is both crude and cunningly devised to protect certain classes and interests. While it appears to favor the masses of the people by reducing the duty on tea, coffee, sugar and other arti- cles of general consumption, the reduction is only just sufficient to benefit the’ merchants and traders without reaching the consumer. We question if the people will derive any advantage or see any change in the price of these articles worth speaking about, At the same time there 1s no reduction in the duty on coal, an article of the first necessity, and the changes in duty on iron of different classes make the tariff more burdensome on this article. In fact, the tariff has been mado more with a view to protect the coal, tron and other inte- rests than to benefit the people or to improve the revenue. We might notice many other articles to show the same ingenious contri- vance to protect the manufacturer and particu- lar interests while holding a false hope of lightening the burdens of the people; but it would fill a volume to analyze the bill and show all its inconsistencies. Our whole tariff system is wrong, and it is absurd to attempt the doctoring plan proposed by Mr. Schenck. Better let the tariff remain as it is till the demands of the Treasury will permit of a general reduction and a thorough revision. Then the bulk of the revenue should be raised from a few articles of luxury, such, for example, as spirits, tobacco and other things that are not necessary, that are rather inju- rious, and yet that enter into general con- sumption. This would simplify the tariff, reduce very much the cost of collection, and would enable the government to take the duty off articles of prime necessity. This tinker- ing the tariff shows that we have no statesmen at Washington capable of handling the subject and that the protectionists control the legisla- tion of Congress for their own benefit. Progress of Yankee Notions Down South. Reconstruction must have done its work very thoroughly if it is true, as reported, that woman’s rights meetings have been held in Richmond. Before the war the’ “isms” of Yankeedom were considered abominations of the first magnitude. They were associated with Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garrison, Hel- per’s book, abolition and other terrible things, and deemed seditious and apt to provoke a bloody insurrection. If a woman had made a speech or proposed to organize a club she would have been put on the level of a Yankee schoolmarm, and if some long-haired philoso- pher had suggested woman suffrage no doubt the less thoughtful chivalry would have booted him out of his place, and the fair ladies themselves would have laughed at him, Ideas, seated as these were, are hard to eradicate. It is easy enough to reconstruct the South as far as spreading republican senti- ments, giving the negro a vote and preventing the killing of Northern men are concerned, for there is something tangible in all these. But this opposition to isms is deep rooted and can only be eradicated by a revolution of ideas—a gradual revolution probably, but only the more sure for its slowness. And this is the revolution that we expect this innovation of the strong minded-women in Virginia will inaugurate. It is a more effective blow for the infusion of Yankee sentiment in the South than McClellan’s famous advances. It is the ery of “On to Richmond” put in the right place. It will blow up more old fogy Rich- monds than a thousand of Ben Butler’s powder boats or Burnside’s mines. And as the strong minded women have entered the wedge and the indefatigable Miss Susan is engineering the work, we venture to predict that they will reconstruct Richmond more thoroughly on some points than the two amendments und the Virginia admission bill put together. We may in time have General Lee arguing on the sub- ject with Miss Susan and Henry A. Wise giving up his old convictions before the strong arguments of the stately Mrs, Stanton, and probably both of these gentlemen may be induced finally to wear their hair long, as maty other Southerners do, and even to speak nasally. There is no telling to what lengths these Yankee notions. may progress in the South, and if they stop short of free-lovism Indiana divorces, political preaching, Fourier- ism and ministerial improprieties, so mo the better for the South. Papar InFaLuipinity—Tue ConpiTi0n or tHE Popx.—Papal infallibility is unquestion- ably the great religious question of the hour. A big vote has pronounced the whole thing absurd. The Pope is fond of infallibility ; but the good old Pope trembles. His now failing health makes it plain to all the world that infallibility is nearer dream than reality. If he should die the world would enjoy the flutter more than the victory. In any case, infallibility is, so far as we know the facts, a fallacy. Councils have been great bungles before; but the greatest bungle promises to be that of the Vatican. Ssrvx To BE Covuntep Ovr.—It appears that the powers that be at Albany have dis- covered that the plan of legalizing the election of Smith as Supervisor in the face of the law will not work, and that Foley after all, by his persistent enforcement of the law, has the inside track. This shows that some things cannot be done by ‘“‘the ring’ as well as others, Ammnioan Sitver IN CANADA.—It is a re- markable fact that American silver, in half dol- lars, quarter and dimes, has become a drug in the Canadian market, and that they propose by law to reduce it in value twenty per cent in order to get rid of it, and Sir Francis Hincks proposes fractional paper currency as a substitute. Very good, for American stamps will then be the article, PRINCE ARTHUR. How His Royal Highness Enjoyed Himself - Yesterday—Ho Takes a Ride on Horse- back in the Park, a Walk on Broad- way, Visits Stewart’s Store and Dines With the Collector. Peoplo who dave an idea that e prince is a some thing altogether above the ordinary run of humanity in every respect worth speaking of will be aston- ished, no doubt, in learning that Prince Arthur did not leave the Delmonico ball, that began on Monday night, until the wee sma’ hours yesterday morning; thus conclusively proving that it is not at all necea- sary for a man to be outside the pale of royalty to indulge in what certain straight-laced folks would term “exceedingly bad hours.” Indeed, it may be safely said that had the good-natured, unassuming young gentioman made himself an exception to the general American rule in this regard he would certain- ly have been very much at fault, when the amount of attention in the way of female loveliness, which was one of the beautiful features of the occasion, is taken into due consideration. Be that as 1 may, he did, not arrive at his hotel until very near four o’0ck in the morning, when heretired and slept sourdly— at least it 1s supposed he did—until half-past nine o'clock, at which hour he @rose and had breakfast. , ‘There are those who predicted that the balls and) parties and what not, all which have. been and are! being given for his especial gratification, would goon, make him look rather ‘‘stale’’—to use a very vulgar’ but extremely expressive term—but when he sat’ down to table yestorday morning he looked for all: the world as though he had never indulged in @& dance or a late hour festivity during the whole course of his royal existence. How he manages so successtuly to defy the wear aud tear of his well- wishers' Opportunities is rather @ mystery to our young bloods, who are knocked on the head—t tively speaking, of course—for a fortnight after a few nights’ dissipation;” but it is tne pelief of the knowing ones that bis Royal Highness’ fondness tor heaithiul exercise—such a8 long walks—accounts for the amount of “boring” and wearisome testivi- es be can stand without giving way entirely. After breakiast yeaterday. about ten o'clock, ac- companied by Lteutenanis Fitzroy and Picard, ne went, by appointment, to the resideuce of Mr. L. P. Morton, where he had dined the bg Pebiicend and took a ride through the Park on horseback, ‘the Prince and his suite seemed during the ride, to enjoy the bracing air and delightful scenery of the Park very much; and the tact that they were accompained by toree beautiful young ladies dia not by any means detract one iota from the general eu- joyment of the party. ‘The rrince returned to his hote! about noon and then proceeded, With his suite, to the residence of Mr. A. ‘Tt. Stewart, where @ magnificent luach was done alk honor to, after which Mr. Svewart conducted them through ‘his new palace opposite his present resi- dence. Although the interior of the splendid edifice % 18 im such @& tate is not yet completed, as to give @ visitor @ good idea of tne architectural richness 0; the building, and the Prince expressed himself as highly delighied with all ne saw. ‘The party then drove down to Mr. Stewarvs store, corner of Tenth street, and were snown through its various departments by the proprietor. When the Prince arrived the great warebouse was filled with lady “shoppers,” and the way they crowded and eibowed one another out of each oth- er’s way to get a good sight at his Royal Highness was @ caution to people who are not blessed (r) with the usual human quantum of curiosity, of the female strength and texture. It is need- lesa to say that even in the heartug of the Prince, who went through the gazing ordeal like one accus- tomed to being stared at without flinching, the ladies indulged in all sorts of comments upon the way he walked und talked, how he compared with his elder brother, the Prince of Wales, &., ad infl- nitum. He returned to the Brevoort House about four o'clock, and at five o'clock started out with a portion of his suite for a walk, wich, happily, they enjoyed without being disturbed by the inipudent stares of the invensely curious; for they passed along the ave- nue and into Broadway without anybody discover- ing who they were. . Occasional escapes like this from the admiration of the multitude the Prince appears to enjoy hugely, and it those who would like to please him only Knew what an agreeanie thing it ls to him to be allowed to go his way in his promenades as though he were us free to do as he please as the most ordinary repubiican. they wouia be doing him & very great iavor. and as people don’t get a chance to do favors to princes very olten nowi 8 the “gazers” may as well take this as @ hint for the balance of the week. ‘The Prince, on bis return from his watk, about sfx o'clock, accompanied by nis suite, drove to the resi- dence of Collector Grinnell, where he dined. It was expected that he would be present at either the per- formance at the Acad of Music or the French theatre; but Mr. Grinnell suc ied in capturing hun for the entire evening; for afier the dinner a sort of impromptu ball was gotten up, which did not end Until late at night. The Prince danced several times, and was as a matter of course much sought after as & partner. He was quite impartial, however, and waitzed it as gayly with the ladies of an “uncertain age’ (several of Whom were present, be it said sotto voice) with as much apparent decorum as he did witn the belles of the occasion. ‘lo-day he will visit the harbor fortifications, and will be under the special care of Major General Mo- Dowell. A select party of ladies and gentlemen will accompany the Pri to the forte in @ government tug and a review of the troops will be had at Fort Columbus. A collation will be served at Fort Wads- worth, after which there will be a “German.” In the evening his Royal Highness will positively go to the Charity Ball—to dance, or merely to be present as @ spectator, is not yet settled. It may be mentioned, tn reference to this bali, that nearly all the tickels nave been disposed of among the friends of the managers, and that the aflair promises to be Jar ahead of its predecessors in years past, AMUSEMENTS. PakK THEATRE, BROOKLYN.—That old familiar play which was wont to be popular a decade of years ago among the sympathetic readers of Mrs, Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ was reproduced om Tuesday evening at Mrs. F. B. Conway’s tneatre by “special request.’ (!) There was @ large audience present who gave irequent vent to their apprecia- tion of the eflort of the actors and actresses to give a life like portrait to the respective characters which they assumed. It 18 que to the entire company to say that they exhibited their familiarity with the suoject and went through their various réles like veterans, but to littie Jeannie Tromans, a pretty, versatile child, belongs tne palm for her beautiful rendition of Eva St. Clare. Tne Pe of Miss Marie Bates was an excellent one and won for her several encores, Her songs were good. Mr. E. Lamp fas the generous but eccentric Phineas Fletcher was capita). Mrs. Howard’s Ophelia, Migs Jennie Car- ’@ Eliza Harris and Mr. Sbannon’s goatee | ‘Were each admirable, Miss Lizzie Mahon perto: the [ans of the dignified Madame St. Clare wih much grace. The representation, as a whole, is well calculated to afford an evening's entertainment in the revival of pieasant recoliections of the past. It ‘Will be given again tails evening. Masical and Theatrical Notes. Hartz, the “illusionist,” opens his new hall of parlor magic on the 14th inst. The Worrell Sisters are playing this Week in Elmira. On Monday next they will endeavor to charm our hard-nearted legislators in Albany with their shorv-akirted burlesques. “Foul Play” is to be the sensation next week in Louisville, with Miss Fanny B. Price to give it fair play. Kate Reignolds takes her “Richelieu? to Vicks- burg next week to have him reconstructed. ‘The shadowy Colviile will shortly pass into New Orleans with the high-kicking Kiralfles and his pai tomime troupe, Where he proposes to astonish t natives with “Humpty-Diccory.” Will they (tl creoles of the Crescent City) tamely submit to be as- tonished. A lavish display of legs and arms are not by any means, the only “vast proportions” that are now oa exhibition at the Tammany. ‘there 1s, or rather ‘was on Monday evening, aiso @ vast fraud there on tbe public, who were compelled to purchase the programmes of the entertainment from a red-shirted attache of “the great Wigwam” for five and ten cents a piece. A little more talent, less vulgarity, and, above all, less showing off of unsigntiy and misshapen forms on the stage, will doubtless in- crease the patronage of the theatre, “Esmeraida,” an opera by Signor Fablo Campana, Nas just been brougiit out at St. Petersburg, 1019 said with success. ‘Faust’ has been played with Mme, Adelina Patti and Signor Mario, It was the lady's firet appearance in the part in Russia, and the audience emphasized the event by recalling Mme. Patti twenty-eignt times in the course of the evening, Miss Minnie Hauck ja still singing in Moe- cow, and hes lately been playing Elvira. “fhe Hub of the Universe” 1s in danger of having its big peace jubilee eclipsed. San Francisco has courageously taken up the gauntlet which was so deflantly thrown down by Pat Gilmore last summer in the name of Boston, and now propases to bea the whole of New Engiand at ite favorite game of monster inusical festivals. And all this commotion ig caused vy a woman, too—Miss Camille Urso, the fiddler—which wilt make it doubly bad for New Engiand and particularly Boston, should she succeed in ‘taking the bhine” and brag “out of them.” By inteliigence Se recetved from the Pacific slope we learn that extensive preparations ‘fare in progress for the festival. ‘The Board of Edu- cation of San Francisco have granted a vacation to the schools to allow the pupiis to attend and assist at the concerts. It is also suggested that business be entirely suspended in the city on the 22d, 2a and 24th instant, the days set apart for the entertain- ment, Rehearsals bave been held in San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton and other interior towns. at many of which there were over 500 singers, The entire Fire Department of San Francisco will smite the anvil after the manner of the Hubites, and seve~ ral artillery companies Wil join in the choruses with heir pop-guls