The New York Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1870, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ‘8d .—THR TWELVE Terra MOND. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taz Drama RUBEALD RING. Malinge ai Sy DEAMA OF THR avenue and aa BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Prpgiti0—Drx Fsxis- ouuTZ—TWO DROVERS. Matinee at 2. , BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 at., between Sth and 6th _ Matince—LabY OF Lyons. Evening MEG MERBILING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broad Lost AT SRA: Matias at Lg ny And WHR stron OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broacway.—New VzExs: Hamer, Matines ai 2 fp salad ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 1th street—ExauisH i ae sama. Eedng Honsstee oe eee -_ FIFTH AVENUE THEAT! Twenty-fourth yon! ‘Fuou, Matinee at % ia Gets WOOD's MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, . ‘per Thirtieth st,—Matinee daily. Performance every « ning “MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK T _ a 'HEATRE, Brooklyn. 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Q—Advertisements. ‘3—Advertisements. 4—Editoriais: Leading Article on tne Albany Quarrel; the Smash Up and Overthrow of the Democracy—Personal intelligence—The Cherokee Indians and Their Grievances— Amusements—Life in the Gold Room—Death of R. J. Bowdoin—Fire in the Bowery—Prob- able Murder—Amusement Announcements, S—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Prince Pierre Bonaparte’s Trial; Italian City Riot and Fatal Collision with the ‘froops—The State Capital: ‘The War of the Factions Not Yet Ended—Yachting—A Woman Shoots Herself in Clinton Place—The Norwalk Bond Rob- bery—Reception of the Nassau Boat Club— ‘The Dougias Murder—The “Murderer’s Block” Panel House—Business Notices. G—New York City and Brooklyn Courts—Another Sequence to the Bailey Raids—Rald on a Party of Dog Fighters in Amity Street—Finan- cial and Commercial Reports—Real Estate Sales—Marrlages and Deatas. 7—Advertisements. ‘ S—Washington: Senator Wilson's Army Reduction Bill; Senator Morton’s Speech on the St. Do- mingo Treaty—Tragedy in New Bedfor¢—The Sleepy Hollow Massacre—Shipping Intell. gence—Advertisen 5 Tae Great Dirricctty AMona Our City Cuarrer Rerormers.—It is this: the calibre of the minds engaged upon itis too light and the range thereof is too short for the work required. And we can expect nothing but a waste of ammunition from a battery of six- pounders against fortifications of spoils stronger than were the walls of Fort Sumter. Tar Jack Mokrisszey Demooracy.—Pri- vate news from Albany informs us that the democratic faction led by Jack Morrissey and Jimmy O’Brien are totally demoralized. Bill Tweed and the Tammany Comanches, aided by the Mohawks, are iu a position to dictate the terms for a complete surrender of the plug ugly d Exowma News rrom Arrioa.—Despatches from the African coast announce that the Pre- sident of Liberia is ‘‘prosecuting an active war against the neighboring natives.” It is to be hoped that the governments of England and the United States will maintain a strict neu- trality. Itis areturn to first principles, but where is the right of belligerency? Which is Napoleon and which the Duke of Wellington? Jup@z BepForp yesterday denied the mo- tion to quash the indictment against Thomas Jackson, charged with the murder of Archi- ‘bald Douglas last November. The ground on which the motion was made was that the ac- cused had previously been indicted for man- slaughter, and that consequently the action of second Grand Jury in finding a true bill for murder in the first degree should be quashed and Jackson tried under the first indictment. The prisoner, it will be remembered, was a. deputy sheriff at the time he killed Douglas, Tue ANNEXATION oF Sr. Dominao.—A coup @'état is meditated by the friends of the Proposition to annex St. Domingo to the United States in the event of the Senate not ratifying the pending treaty, which requires a two-thirds vote. Itis proposed that a joint resolution be passed by both Houses of Con- gtess, a8 was done in the case of Texas, authorizing the annexation of the island. It is believed that a majority of the Senate will support the measure, while there appears to be no doubt of the consent of the House. Such being the case, the prospects are that St. Domingo will find shelter under the protecting wing of the Union, in spite of Mr. Sumner and the other narrow-minded Senators, Tae Postal TELEGRAPH SYSTEM IN Franox ano Exatanp.—Representative Washburn, of Wisconsin, has received official information from France of the operations of the postal telegraph system under government control. As we have repeatedly asserted, the exhibit is most favorable to the system, the number of “~essages haying increased enormously and the receipts being much larger than ever, although the rate per message is as low as economy de- mands. Advices from England are to the same effect as those from France. The in- crease of business has been great, and there is no doubt that the postal telegraph system will prove a decided success in Great Britain. Tho Albany Quarrel—Tho Smash Up and Overthrow of the Domecracy. Out of all the turmoil at Albany comes this result: the advantage of a great. democratic victory {s loat to the people of this democratic city, Since the State was carried by the de- Mocracy in the fall the people have counted confidently that they would now at least have the government of the city given into their own hands; and this to the masa of the people here seemed the one grand conse- quence of the victory in the State. At once they expected to be freed from those com- missions that have been contrived by republi- can ingenuity to defrgud the people of the right of self-government. One great griev- ance was, that in a country where all govern- ment stands upon the theory of popular sovereignty, this city alone was a despotism, with its whole government machinery ad- ministered by persons in whose selection and appointments the people themselves have no ‘voice. Our city is governed on a plan which assumes that democracy is a delusion, and concedes that universal suffrage is a failure; and this assumption in regard to this city and its people is made by the party which declares that the country will not be -safe till every nigger has a vote. Republican legislators at Albany dared not go 80 far as to appoint a Mayor and Aldermen for the city; but while they left the choice of these officers to the people they took away all the powers of the offices. They ap- pointed men to perform the duties that pro- perly belonged to the Mayor, and parcelled out the duties of the Aldermen among others; and thus, while the people went through the form of an election every year, it was a farce, for the men elected were dummies only, Their legitimate powers were transferred to men appointed at Albany. Against this rob- bery the people have protested for years, and for the correction of this evil they relied with implicit confidence upon the democratic Legis- lature. But their confidence is betrayed; their hope comes to naught; and, witha demo- cratic Legislature in session, and a dmocratic Governor ready to sign any good law to do justice to this city, the people are as far off as ever from a remedy for the evils they endure. Who is reponsible-for this before the peo- ple? What is the cause of a fact so fitted to excite a bitter spirit in the community? The origin of all this difficulty is in the pitiful spirit, the mean motives and the poor brains of the men who have endeavored to take the reins up at Albany, They alone are to blame for the miscarriage of the popular hope. Our city politics, it would seem, trains no men in political science, gives no in- sight of the philosophy of government, and, what is worse, invites to the arena marvellously few men of education or commanding talent. Tn fact the political science of the men who essay to govern us is the science of arithmetic done on‘the fingers of the left hand. It con- sists in counting up how many offices a man may hold and how many thousand dollars he may getfor each. Beyond thisit is all a game of low, cheating cunning, in which the grand object of victory is to secure to this or that man in the strife a fat contract or equivalent excuse for plundering the public treasury. In fact, it is almost as if there were a Nemesis in the condition to which the once groat demo- eratic partly is brought. Once it was a party that produced great men and sup- plied the political arena with brains. Its leaders were men with a sense of public virtue and party pride; but they did not sufficiently repress the stealing pro- pensities of the underlings, and now the un- derlings are the party, It is made up for this latitude of men who seo no other reason to rejoice in success than a money’ reason, Our so-called ‘‘young democracy” went to Albany, not rejoicing in the opportunity to free the city from the domination of the repub- lican commissions ; not resolute to give the city a new government, soundly based on democratic principles ; no—all that is ‘senti- ment” and ‘‘moonshine” to them. They went ready to leave the government stand exactly as it is, preserving all the bad, abusive, anti- democratic points in the system, if they could only substitute their own men for the republi- cans intrenched in profitable places. They went only with the feeling of ‘‘strikers,” reso- Inte to force a ditision of plunder from the meninpower. That was their only idea of the fruits of a democratic triumph. Not only is the city likely to lose entirely the opportunity for the reorganization of its government through this spoils warfare of pitiful leaders, but also the promise for the party with which the future seemed bright is completely swept away. There can be no national future for the democracy, while in this State, the one grand field of its success, it is in the hands of leaders so contemptible in intellect that they have actually driven into alliance with the opposi- tion enough of their own votes to destroy their own measures. Not only have the democratic leaders here broken their majority to frag- ments, but, with the dislike that mean minds ever feel for stronger ones, they have driven from their councils the only man capable to ad- vise them in any emergency that goes beyond the spoils arithmetic. As the result of all this pitiful quarrel of the city spoilsmen the demo- cratic power in the State threatens to crumble away; for they have not even the conception of compromise or conciliation in them, and, therefore, will make no peace. So the State will once more go into the hands of the repub- licans next fall, ahd thus will be ruined a very pretty democratic vision of possible tri- umph in the next Presidency; for with this State gone the democracy loses the very ground of its hopes in a national career and leaves everything open to Grant and the republicans, Tue Riaut or Way for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien has been secured from the Colombian government; but the way, or the right way, for that canal remains to bo discovered, We are somewhat sanguine that the exploring expedition now searching for it will find it; and if they do the capital for the work will be raised at once, and perhaps within two years thereafter the sailing route from New York to San Francisco will be short- ened fourteen thousand miles, A Heavy Fart—ta tho calculations of the rough and ready boys on their profits from a | new Charter. NeW YURKK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAROH 26, 1878. The Noutrality Resolutions Bofere Con- Grea, Almost every day, for some weeks past, the Washington correspondents have been telling the public that the committees on Foreign Affairs of both houses of Congress were about to do something, or had agreed to do some- thing, favorable to the Cubans. A oumber of resolutions to that effect have been offered and referred to these committees. But the mountain has brought furth nothing yet; and if we may judge from the latest reports it will only give birth to a little mouse after all. The result of all the resolutions, speeches, conferences of the foreign committees and labors of the friends of Cuba is likely to bo only a string of neutrality resolutions that will put the Spaniards and the Cubans on the same footing. This is o very small mouse for such a mountain to bring forth, Perhaps this would be better than nothing, though it comes late to benefit the insurgents materially, and after Spain has received all the aid in war materials she needed from the United States. Never before did so great a nation as this exhibit such weakness and vacillation, Both the ad- ministration and Congress seem paralyzed by timidity. Neither the public voice nor public policy can dispel their fears or nerve them to face this question in a manly spirit. No won- der that Spain is boastful and threatening; no wonder that American citizens are slaughtered with impunity by the bloodthirsty Spanish vol- unteers; no wonder that our Consuls, the re- presentatives of this great republic, are obliged to flee for their lives and to take shelter under a foreign flag. The conduct of the govern- ment must make every true-hearted American feel deeply the shame and humiliation brought upon the country, Instead of these neutrality resolutions, why does not Congress -direct the President to acknowledge the bellige- rency of the Cubans? No unprejudiced person can deny the fact that the Cubans are belligerents. Eighteen months of war against all the power Spain could bring to bear and the successes of the Cubans prove beyond doubt that these people have won the charac- ter of belligerents. This country ought to hail the opportunity afforded to extend republican institutions in this hemisphere, instead of aid- ing a European despotism—and the worst des- potism in the civilized world—to crush the rising liberties of an American people. Every principle of policy, right, justice and humanity calls for a prompt recognition of the Cubans as belligerents. Spain would have no just cause for complaint. We owe her nothing. She recognized the Confederates early in our war and gave them most efficient aid. Are we afraid of Spain? If so let us tell the Cubans plainly that we abandonthem. But let us not pursue a weak and vacillating policy, for that will make the mighty American republic con- temptible in the eyes of the world. Bad Newa from Italy. Cable telegrams from Florence report that the city of Pavia was made the scene of tumults yesterday, in which the military and citizens came in conflict with fatal effects. The de- spatch says ‘‘some were shot on both sides.” This wording indicates that the conflict was a severeone, Weare not told, however, whatthe *“umults” were about or how they originated. In the Parliament Sefior Lanza, speaking for the Cabinet, confirmed the news of the blood- shed, adding that ‘‘the government will do all in its power to prevent the recurrence of such lamentable events.” Such remarks, coming from such an authority on such a subject, are of themselves lamentable. Government will do “‘all in its power to prevent” disturbances, Why, that is just what the London Peace So- ciety does all over the world in time of war, and just as the war is right on; so much, but no more. The fact is that Italy is considerably demoralized by politicians, the churchmen, financiers and peace men, The day of her “unification” is, we fear, a far way off, and it is quite evident that the existence of the Coun- cilia Rome does not hasten the approach of the moment of the “lati triwmphantes.” Asin the time of Virgil, the sic vos non vobdis isin melancholy realization in the sunny clime, More Asout Inrattsmity.—The Pope is stillunconvinced. It is not otherwise with the American bishops, with some bishops and with some statesmen elsewhere. The Pope is less believer than he ought to be, and so it is all round. The Pope does not believe that he is notinfallible, The American bishops and those who, like them, have some respect for the prin- ciples of common sense, do not believe in in- fallibility. They are unbelievers, all, Even Dr. Manning, who insists that there should be no doubt, no disbelief, isa Thomas of the worst kind. Why will not all our good and well- meaning ecclesiastical friends come out of their dens? Will-they never learn that there is some truth in Bacon's idea of an ‘‘idol of the cave?” They all look out on the world from their cave. Will they not begin to believe that there are other things in the world than are dreamed of in their philosophy ? ANOTHER BATTLE IN CuBa,—A special telegram from Havana, by way of Key West, informs us of the successful landing of a Cuban expedition at. Nuevas Grandes anda battle at Manati. As Manati is but a short distance from the point where the landing waa effected it is probable that a junction had been made between the invading party and a con- siderable body of the Cubans, and thus con- solidated the insurgents gave battle to the Spaniards at the place named. Troops have been forwarded in hot haste from Puerto Principe, via Nuevitas, to the scene of action. The fact of no particulars of the engagement having been received, or, at least, none made public in Havana, looks bad for the Span- iards. They generally make a big blow” when they accomplish anything. Silence, in this instance, may be regarded as an indica- tion of a Cuban victory. Wuat City RerorM Mzans at ALBANy— The spoils, And the new charters proposed mean a new division of the spoils; and the new ones still to come will be shaped simply to se cure the spoils. All the schemes of re- form proposed, and all likely to be proposed, have or will have as their main object, not a reductiombut an increase of the spoils, None of our city reformers at Albany propose to reduce the spoils. But the trouble is the division of the spoils to the satisfaction of each and all of the squabbling cliques of spoilsmen concerned. Each clique demands the lion's share; the outa insist upon coming | BROADBRIMS AND CHEROKEES. into the fat places, and the ins protest sgainst going out. A general caucus of the wranglers has been tried as remedy for these troubles, but it has signally failed. An appeal is to be carried up to the General Committee of Tam- many Hall on Monday night next, which will probably smash that machine. So with the State Central Committee, should it interfere to regulate the distribution of these city spoils. In any event, from present appearances, the city reforms we shall get from this demo- cratic Legislature will be an enlargement of every placer of spoils and plunder, and a few more millions added to our city tax levy. Yesterday im Our Legisiature. It was the calm after the storm, or some- thing like the peace which follows the shindy at a Donnybrook fair. In the Senate Mr. Genet attempted to introduce a bill to pre- vent fraudulent voting; but Mr. Bradley ob- jected. Now, as we presume this is a good thing on the part of Mr. Genet, we are at a loss to understand the objection of Mr. Brad- ley. Probably Genet was trenching upon the forbidden ground of those three bills knocked in the head on Tuesday. Mr. Norton boldly tried the experiment of making the bill (a huckleberry charter) consolidating the city and county government of New York, and abolishing the Board of Supervisors, the special order for Thursday next; but by a vote of 11 to 19 the Senate objected to any such arrangement, which leaves the land out of sight to Norton, The Senate then ad- journed till Monday, at half-past seven in the evening, which gives a margin of two days for the members to talk it over confidentially, in order to see how much, if anything, can be done towards patching up a treaty of peace. In the Assembly several important bills were reported affecting the interests of the people of this island; but none relating to the matters embraced in those three bills killed off on Tuesday. After a remarkably quiet day of routine business, unembarrassed by cross mo- tions or debates, the Assembly, too, adjourned till Monday evening, at half-past seven. So the members of both houses will have two days for caucusing, compromising and com- paring notes on the situation. The two houses, we suppose, have adjourned over to the time mentioned in order, likewise, to hear what the General Committee of Tammany Hall will have to say on the situation in their meet- ing of Monday afternoon or evening. We ap- prehend, however, that the disjointed demo- cracy at Albany will get very little comfort from Tammany, and that the proposed pow- wow at the Wigwam will result only in extend- ing the war-whoop among the excited braves up the river to Albany, and all the way back to Dunkirk, We do not remember a time more ominous of divisions and disasters to the wrangling democracy than this since the return of John Van Buren from the Baltimore Con- vention of 1848—a return which was followed by the division of the party in this State be- tween Martin Van Buren and General Cass for the Presidency, whereby the whig candidate, General Taylor, was elected, The New Bill for Ireland, Mr. Gladstone has given Ireland one grand reform. He is giving her another. But his Church reform and his land reform have not contented the Irish people. Agrarian outrage still prevails, Mr. Gladstone has in conse~ quence been compelled to introduce a measure to repress lawlessness. It is no doubt a harsh measure, but harsh measures are sometimes rendered necessary by exceptional difficulties. In our telegraphic columns to-day we give the outlines of the debate which took place in the imperial Parliament on Thursday night. The bill, as will be seen, was somewhat modified in the course of the debate. But the great outstanding fact remains that Ireland, in spite of Gladstone’s reforms, is as dissatisfied and as bumptious as ever. When the bill shall be passed it will be penal to carry arms, and imprisonment for such offence shall be for one year. Inns in the proscribed dis- tricts shall be closed at sunset. In the same districts the writ of habeas corpus shall be temporarily suspended. The tone of the debate, and the large majority which rejected the amendment relating to press prosecutions, clearly proves that Irish malcontents, offensive and annoying as they are, must bow to the in- evitable. A liberal House of Commons that has devoted two whole sessions to the removal of Irish grievances, and that has agreed to this Protection to Life and Property bill, has a purpose, and that purpose is not to be mis- taken. This isnot an American question, ex- cept in so far as it relates to the grand reform movement which is world-wide in ils sweep. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Colonel E. F. Bloagett, Foster Bloagett and Major E. Freedier, of Georgia; J. P. Southworth, of Mobile; Colone) G. M. Brown, of Springfield, Ill; Captain 8. R. Stafford, of the United States Army; Colonel Charles R, Bates, of Kalamazoo; Lewis Downing, principal chief, and five other cniéfs of the Cherokee nation, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Coionel R. L. Archer, of Richmond; Thomas A. Scott, of Philadelphia; Dr. J. L. Wilkins, of North Carolina, and Dr. Loyea, of Oregon, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain Ferguson, of Massachusetts; W. R. Hoyt, of South Carolina, and G. S, Tew, of Khode Island, are at the Astor House. J.C. De Leon, of Mobile; L. 8. Hargous, of Rich- mond, Va., and J, D. Kremelberg, of Baltimore, are atthe New York Hotel, Dr. F. Gaunte, of Binghamton; T. 8. Seabury, of Long Island; Alfred Bristow, of London, England, ana W. C. Burney, of Amherst, Mass., are at the Everett House. Professor Risley and Troupe do Ballet, ofiEngland; J. W. Brown, of Chicago, and G. C. Dorsey, of Ge- neva, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Judge Mason, of Hamtiton, N. Y.; ex-Congress- man J, E. Woodbridge, of Vermont; Dr. Grosvenor, of Providence; 0. 8. Bushnell, of New Haven; Ros- coe G. Davis, of Boston, and Charles E. Vinton, of Springfield, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘ President Parker, of Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. Albert Day, of Binghamton, and Captain Lindsay, of Mon- treal, are at the Irving House. Richard Courtney, of Baltimore, don Hotel. Beverly Robinson, of Toronto, and George D. Steadman, of Cincinnati, are atthe Hoffman House. Captain Sunderland, of Dunfermline, Scotland, aud Captain R. T. Donaldson, of Hamilton, 0. W., are at the St. Elmo Hotel. Prominent Departures. Colonel F. C, Crowley, for Port Jarvis; Dr. Butier and Dr. Blanding, for Providence; General Tidball, Governor Claflin and Samuel Shellbarger, for Wash- ington; A. Maynard and H. G. Parker, for Boston, end Senator Fenton's family left last evening for the West. 4g at the Claren- ene ‘The Oborokee Indians and Their Grievances Pow-Wew at the Brieade’ Mootiug House Last NightAddresses by Native Indian Chiefs. A crowded and enthusiastic meeting was bela inte: ‘hen proceeded to @very en narrative of the progress of tho Nebr, mision the satis- ion paid y the Friends to ine mavet.al Gevelopmeat otGoverbor Dowsing, chief of zhe Oheroxee tribe of to tat of ike average Aserican, spoke "wish, co0- Ne He said that it gave him the iH i speak on behalf of the Inaian very powerful on this : a i 4 : a ; F id is eEee i rt 42 a! ae a EB Hd mas Ww ‘spoke tn the Indian alterwards by a veryjremark- an jan who was intro- ge : el Adair. After a few prelimi. deservations he spoke of the pledge given to the Indians when they removed from Georgia and sought @ home west of the Mississippi river. The then President of the United States gave. them a edge tat they should never be distur! and that ey should remain on their own soil unisturped as long as grass grew and water ran. ‘That population ‘which was in 1837-39 43,000, numbered in 1850 23,000. At the cloge of the war there was nothing left in the country, for they had fed and supported two armies alternately. The Indian country of the} Chero- kees was well managed and the legislation was made up of the Circuit Courts and the Supreme Courts, as In the United States. Statutes were es- tablishea prouibising polygamy and bi y, and they had also adopted tue Maine laws. There were 800 ministers of the Gospel among them and a large number of churches. Colonel Band, another Indian complatned of the treatment of the United States government to the Indians, and said that it n agreed to pay $3,600,000 for atract of land which amounted to about seventeen cents per acre. Since they had failed to get that treaty ratified, and they were told the land was not worth it, and they were offered nine cents per acre. The Indians were not allowed to sell the lands theméeives, and thus they were placed in @ position of at injustice for they would if taken into the Union be open to receive all the vagabondage of the world. isaac Newton Parker, another Indian, briefly but forcibiy addressed the meeting, which was suorly afterwards brought to a olose. . AMUSEMENTS. PHILHARMONIC REHEARSAL—Liszt’s =DANTE— SymPuony.—At last the eccentric Abbe nas found a subject worthy of bis crazy aspirations, Dante's sublime “Divina Comedia.” We heard it for the first time yesteraay, aud although a first rehearsal cannot be expected to develop al] tne extraordl- nary features of such a work, yet a definite opinion can be given generally of it. It is in three move- ments—allegro frenetico, andanteamoroso and maestoso, Beethoven’s choral symphony furnishes numerous points for the working up of some of the main features, especialiy when the voices are introduced. Tne opening recitative of trombones, followed by a tremolo of the strings and the terrible curse—Lasciate ogni spe ranza, voi ch’ entrate—given by trampets and horns, with the wildest discords of strings, reeds and brasses that ever afflicted human ears, all show power and intimate acquaintance with all the resources of the orchestra, but 161s power uncontrolied by judgment or taste. No matter how chaotic the subject may be there should be poetry in 1ts musical interpretation. No man ever brought out richer treasures from the orchestra than Beetho- ven or Weber, anc yet they never overstepped the bounds which divide true music from chacs. What can be more effective than the incantation scene of “Der Freischutz,” in which Weber diabierie, such a& Cagiiaostro himself w@ild shrink from; yet it is music—true, melodious, soW-reachin: music—througnout? What can attain the empyreal regions of sublimity into which Becthoven soars in the Choral Symphony? and yet he never divests himself of the garb of poetry and music. Simplicity is akin to sublimity ib other things beside music; but never so much as inthe divine art. he sounding phrases do not constitute greatness in literature, neither do extraordinary musical phrases inthe sister art. True tness Must be spontane- ous; Liszt is never so. Therefore we take excep- tion, despite its sensational character, to nis musical description of wyerno. There is neither harmony nor melody in it, and those are essential character- istics of music. The andante has some very pretty passages, or rather fragments of them, but the want of unity of idea in the movement neutralizes the pleasure that its component parts otherwise would give. We care not for any masical checker- board or Mosaic groundwork in which no two ideas assimilate. In this work one can see that Liszt 1s more successful with the wind and percussion instru- ments than with the strings. The latter form the fat a part of every musical structure erected by eethoven and Weber, Liszt is a constant bungier with them. They seem in iis hands to be tangled skeins, @ Gordian knot, whick be cuts by huriag on it all the power of the brasses. The themes in the andanie are unmistakably Italian tn origin, and some quaint dialogues between the clariouet, oboe and cor Angiais occur. After this episode a palpa- ble reminiscence of the choral symphony comes in the working up and gathering together, so to speak, of the entire strength of the orchestra to a grand climax. It bas not, however, the graduated power and sublime gentus of Beethoven, In the one it ts like a mighty billow, a wall of water, sweeping towards the shore to break thereon with resistiess force; in the other it is but a succession of smaller breakers following in the wake of their larger predecessor. The close, in which everything from a fiddle to a dinner gong ia introduced, is an instructive lesson to all Christians to lead good lives and not endure such torments as the damned must suffer if ever this symphony 1s played for them. The next vart, ‘Purgatory,’ 1s more tolerable. It opens quietly and a feeling of sadness pervades it, A sort of fragmentary chorale, in which the oboe and cor Anglats are prominent, is followed by a beau- tifal theme given by the first violins. A fugue with an uninteresting subject introduces the voices (the vocal part at this point was omitted on yesterday), and works them up into agrandcnoras, The resolu- tion of the subject into a more joyous and triumph- ant strain, in which the “Magnificat” 1s sung by a chorus of boys, is another reminiscence of Beethoven. ‘We doubt if boys’ voices are alone sufficient to give adequate expression to the hymn of triumph, especi- ally wits such an orchestra to overweigh them. Again, it would be better to place the boys more in front and not immediately benina the percussion in- struments. Looking at this work in general, we are of opinion that much valuable time and talent have been wasted upon it, and that it can only be interest- ing a8 @ musical curiosity, Machine music is the most appropriate name that can be given to it. ‘What a relief from 1s were Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture, although it is by no means the most inter- esting of the Titan’s works, and the ever welcome, never tiresome overture to “Buryanthe,” the bright- est, freshest, most melodtous and most varied ever written by Weber! It was indeed Paradise alter Liszt's “Inferno.” Masical and Thoatrical Notes. Matinées will be held to-day at the following theatres:—Daly’s’ Fifth Avenue, “Frou Frou;’ Academy of Music, “Martha’’—one of the most ex- Sse quisite performances of the Parepa-Rosa English Opera pany; Booth’s, “Lasy of Lyons; Wal- lack’s, “Lost At Sea;!’ Niblo'a, “The Emerald’ Ring;”? Olympic, ‘Hamlet;’’ Wood's, ‘Sappho; Association Hall, Miss Fannie Goodwin and other artists in a rand concert; Grand Opera House, ‘The Twelve ‘emptations; New York Circus, Milé. Caroline Rol- land, Tom Barry and the full equestrian troupe; a pat Mckvoy’s ‘‘Hibernicon,’’ and Hooley’s, rooklyn. “The “Bohemian Girl” is on the bills at the Acad. emy of Music for ttis evening. The cast is every way unexceptionabie, On Thursday night last, when Mr. Albert Lau- rence undertook to sing the part of the Count in tue “frovatore” his voice suddenly left him from some unexplained cau: FIRE IN THE BOWERY. About nine o'clock last evening a fire broke out under the counter of the store No. 266 Bowery, occu- pied by F. S. Millington & Brother, manufacturers of umbrellas and parasols, who also occupy the two upper floors and the upper floors of the adjacent (264). «soundsman Schultz, of the Tenth precinct, endeavored to extinguish it, but failed, and was slightly singed. Tne fire worked clear up to the roof, and de- stroyed about $8,000 worth of stock, which is insured for $6,000. The neighbors state that one of the firm left earlier than usual after closing the piace. Benjamin Levene, dealor in crockery and glass who occupies the first floor and base- ment of No. 264, sustained $800 loss on stock and furniture, He is insured for $2,000 in the Mechanics and Traders’ Insurance mpany. Waile the firemen were working in his stor of the insurance patrol present, Mr. Levene reported Dis drawer was of forty dollars. Captain Waisn, with’a platoon of men from the Fourteenth; Rounds- man Randall, with men from the Fifteenth, and ave pasa yb i tno, ne uli were present os ‘ 3 owned by a Mr. Weyman, was damaged $0,500. Pally insured. ‘and members LIFE IN THE GOLD ROOM. THE PERILS OF TRADING ON “NERVE.” A Broker Found Guilty of a Fictitious Sale—The Board Talk Over the Matter and Impose Fine Upon the Auriferous Dealer in Fiction—A Great Moral Wrong and a Gentle Reproof, Many people come to New York, and they trevet ‘about and see a gooa deal and retire to their ruret abodes and boast of having seen the metropolis. Not one in a hundred of these nave ever been inside the “Gold Room,’ and consequently have failed to see one of the most important phases of our modern metropolitan life. For that matter very few living in the city have ever visited this great maelstrom of our money market, and therefore are as profoundly ignorant of this great mystery of mysteries of the city. Bus we will not describe the place now, the narrow and dark and sinuous approach to the room isaelf, the singular gathering of singular looking mea in the room, and the babel confusion of talking and shrieks and howls and shuMiing feet during pusiness hours, amid an atmosphere blue with tobacco smokes There is system in tt all, but tt looks Dewllderingty otherwise toa stranger. This noise means business underlying this bedlam confusion, There 1s cool method, and these myriad voices shrieking out im high key words, ‘unintelligible to the stranger, pro- claim transactions in gold to the amount of mullions, They haves constitution, though one would thiak they pald but little attention to it from the furious way they all smoke, and bylaws, though the prevall- ing disorder would seem proof positive to the con- trary. In reference to this constitution and bylaws @ special meeting was called forthree P. M, yeater day. Two members of the Board bad been charged, to borrow the technical phraseology of the Board, witha ‘fictitious transaction,” or @ “wash,” as It is otherwise called, and i was posed to some action in the cases. This “fictitious trangso- tion’ simply meant that gold had been sold by them below the market price. {¢ was @ spasm of virtue. Parturiunt, montes nascetur ridicuius mus. Precisely at the hour specified Mr. J, Underhill, the president, rapped loudly with bis gavel on the desk. The noisy sales of gold at once ceased, and the disposicion to make @ poise, grown into a habit, took another direction, in shouting ‘Clear th fas lery,” ‘Hats off,’ “Down in front,” ana the like vociferations. The gallery was cleared, but hate Were not taken off, and the sitting room being very limited, nearly all had to stand. ‘the PRESIDEN, as s00n a8 he could make nimaeit heard above the preliminary tumult, announced thas the meeting was a private one, and that all reporters present would leave. A member came tu the resoue Of the reporters and moved that they be allowed to remain, Which motion was @¢ Once put and with only five dissenting voices. This matier seb- tled, Mr. Akers, the secretary, read the report of the nee committee on the subject of the charges, aa follows:— ane i Oboe ® AND er or Lda ey tinned joLp ExonaNax—Your commi a oatl- gate the charges made against Mr. Jaines Lounsbarry, of the rm of G. C. McDougal & Co, and Mr. John Fincken, of tha firm of Duff, Timmerman & Co., of having made a flotitious Sransaction on the afternoon of the 24d Lost, respesttully rex port— Thattho transection in question hag been clearly proven tohave veon Hetitious, but. find that Menars. Dut, ‘Neamor- man 4 Co, are and were innocent and had no knowledge of @ wrong intention. Your committee having become convinced that the action of ‘Mr. Lounsberry was influenced by the at- tending circumstances which unfortunately prevailed daily After the regular business hours of the board, namely, a gen. ‘eral disregard for the rules, therefore beg to recommend that the board act with proper lenieney towards biz, Kespect- fully submitted, UDOLPH Rerpuen, Committee. . L. EDWARDS, New York, March 25, 1570, Mr. KEPLER moved to lay the report on the tabie, Two other motions quickly followed, oue to accept and the other to adopt the report. Mr. WALLER, chairman of the committee making the report, said that after fully investigating the facts laid before them they had been compelled to declare a worthy young member of the board guilty of @ fictitious transaction. Still, so lax were the ruses of the board and the members so frivolous of observing them, that they felt 1s would be unjust to impose in the present case the rule, and therefore had recommended an exercise of leniency. As the motion to tabie the report had not been seconded he moved its adoption. * Mr. Hoyt, Vice President, insisted that the report should be first adopted and that onthe question of its acceptance the merits of the case could be dis- peels ‘The report on bis motion was accordingly adopt Mr. WALLER renewed his motion to accept the re- port, which was seconded by Mr. Hodgkins in quite @ speech. He claimed that a great moral wrong had been committed, an act of clear and unmistakable fraud, and as such meriting not only their disap- proval but punishment it was no shadow of ex- cuse that the rules were lax. Colonel ‘Tuckex sald he was satisfied that Mr. Lounsbury was actuated by no wrong motive and he trusted the board would be ientent. Mr. Hopas ioved that Mr. Lounsbury be fined 5500, Mr. WALLER urged that they could not impose a fine, but must either suspend the ruie alleged to have been violated or expel Mr. Lounsbury. The reading of this rule was called for, and was Tead by the secretary, as followa:— ARTIOLE 18. No fictitious sales shall be made at this ooard. Any member contravening this article shail, on con- viction thereof, be expelled. Mr. Eutis said the transaction in question was after the Eid hours of the board, and Mr. Ed- wards said the same thing. Mr. HoyT again urged the suspension of the rule in question, and insisted that otherwise they would be at sea and never know the price of gold. Mr, WALLER submitted a resolution directing the Execytive Committee to amend the rule, making a first fictitious transaction punishable with fine and the second with expuision. Mr. GInsoN said if they surpended one rule they Might, to suit the convenience of cases, suspend any aad ail rules if need be. Mr. Hopegtss appealed to Mr. Lounsbury if ne dia not know be had committed a great moral wrong and oughtto pay the penalty; but Mr. Lounsbury made no response. Mr. Cross moved to amend the motion as to the fine, and make it $100. ‘The motion was lost. ‘The vote was now taken on the motion to impose afine of $500,and the result being uncertain, a division was called, which resuited in forty-four ayes to thirty-six noes. There being no further business the meeting ad- journed. As the proceedings progressed tie noise calmed down and a very dignified quiet character- ized ita continuance and close. A few minutes a(terwards everybody was again busily immersed in buying and selling gold, and Babel confusion once more reigned in the Goid Room. DiATH OF GEORGE R. J. BOWDOIN. Resolutions of Regret by the New York Yacht Club. At a meeting of the New York Yacht Club, held on Tuesday, the 25th inst., it was communicated to the club that a cable telegram from London had an- nounced the death of Mr. George R. J. Bowdoin, who was one of the oldest of ite members, formerly an officer, @ graduate of West Point and a warmiy esteemed member of the bar of New York. On mo- tion, the presiding officer, Commodore Stebbins, appointed a committee, consisting of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Mr. Rutherford Stuyvesant and Mr. W. A. Morton, to prepare, before the ad- journment of the club, @ series of resoiutions ex- pressing the sentiments of the meeting at the news of Mr. Bowdoin’s death. In pursuance with tne instructions above stated the committee reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:— Whereas the members of the New York Yacnt Club have jearned with sincere regret that they have been deprived of one of their oldest and most valued associates by the death of Mr. George R. J. Bowdoin, of the bar of New rork, they therefore desire to give expression, though feebly and inadequately, to their sorrow ag their sad bereavement, be it therefore Resolvéd, That the members of the New York Yacht Club sympathize with the family and kindred of the deceased in the irreparable loss which they are called upon to sustain, Resolved, ‘that they recognized in their deceasea associate a member whose thorougn military educa- tion, varied attainments and social refinement con- stituted admirable qualifications for the distin- guished position he beid in society and ta the par of our State and city. Resolved, That they have had opportunities for fully estimating all the elements of character which combined to make Mr. Bowdoin a valued friend, zealous promoter of the material interests and nau- tical improvement of the New York Yacht Club aur- - ing twenty-five Fin of its existence, and an agree- able, social and spirited participant m the recrea- tons Incident to its organization. Resolved, That the members will unite in paying respect to the memory of the deceased by attending the luneral solemnities, of which due notice will be ven. eeolved, ‘That the secretary be requested to enter the foregoing preambie and resoiutions in the min- utes of the club. A. MORTON, Secretary New York Yacht Club. , PROBABLE MURDER, At the boarding house, No. 69 Madison street, last evening, a dispute arose be- tween James McDermott and Michael Scanian. During its progress McDermott became enraged, Ww his knife and plunged tt {nto the abdomen of canlan, who sank down with a dangerous wound. An officer of the Seventh precinct, hearing of the affray, entered the place and arrested the cuiprit, who was locked up, Scaglan Was sent to Bellevue Hospital,