The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1870, Page 6

v 8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXV...... cee cecsererseereeee eee SB AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. SRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘8d t.—TuE TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. se “ NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taz Drama or Tun LD Rind, BOWERY THEATER! HBARTH—GYMNABTIO BOOTH’S THEATRE, 234 st., between Sih and 6tb avs.— Epwin Boorm as Macurry. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18h streot.— Loer ar SEs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—New VERSION OF HAMLET. Bowory.—THE SERPENT ON THR XEROISBS—IRIGH EMIGRANT. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th street.—ENGLisu OPERA— MaRBITANA. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-t coe ‘wenty-fourth st.—Fnou D'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIRK, Broad 4 = Bl a lery gee een Sh MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK TH ~— Hs, F. 3. EATRE, Brooklyn. ‘TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couto Vooauiem, NEGRO MINGTRELSY, £0. neoprene THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Bro: & wie peng gd adway.—Comto Vooar- BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany seaaYANa's MinorRELe bt ssp tei 8AN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS A PIAN MIN@TRELSY, NEGRO roy Prods Sir KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRE! i Plax MINGruELGNY, NEGRO Kone Boone oy si HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUS! Brooklyn.—! » MINGTRELS—FRow Frow. sg deed pai is soiled NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—Equ: AND GYMNASTIO PERFORMANCES, £0. yarn eat APOLLO HALL, comer 2th at va Tan Naw Hinensioone Et Aen eee NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIRNOR AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Sunday, March 27, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pace. SMS, 1S 7 Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3=—The Democratic Revolt: Gigantic Prepartions of the Rival Factions for the Coming Fray; The Tammany Programmé Almost Completed; A New Charter for the People to be Presented This Weeek; Mass Meet. ings and Serenades Last Night; Sen- ators Tweed and Bradley and Speaker Hitchman Interviewed—The Buckhout Tra- wedy—City Intelligence—The New Bedford Tragedy—The Newark Desperado, Zeigler. 4—Central and South America: The Revolutionary Excitement in Colombia Dead; The Clatms of American and Peruvian Citizens; State of Affairs in Chile+Steamboat Race—Paris Fashions: Fashion's Opentng Conclave—Black- mailers and Brothels—A Fishing Excursion— Another Street Murder —Jack Reynolds—Gram- mar School Graduating Exercises—Kerosene Explosions—The Brooglyn Election Frauds— An Evening With the Poets—Financial and Commercial Reports, & -Proceedings in New York City Courts—Mar- riages and Deatns—Advertisements, @—Editorials: Leading Article on the Roman Coun- cil, the Issue of the Past and the Church of the Future—Amusement Announcements. ‘7—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Prince Pierre Bonaparte’s Trial; English Com- Ments on French Judicial Subserviency; The City Riots mm Italy; Disastrious Fire in Inaia— The Darien Expedition: Safe Arrival of the Vessels; Operations Commenced—Washing- ton: The Spanish-American Peace Confer- mce; More Favorable Aspect of the St. Domingo Treaty; Cuban evolutionists Still Confident—Yachting—Personal Intelligence— Obituary—Army and Naval Inteiligence— Amusements—Alleged Malpractice Case—A Desideratum—A Testimonial of Merit—The Late S. Weir Roosevelt—Daring Outrage in Willlamsburg--Business Notices. S—Advertisements, 9—Advertisements. , 10—Europe: The Montpensier-Bourbon Duel at Madrid; the German Secession trom the Papal Council.and French Mission to Rome; Napo- leon’s Address to the School Teachers of France—The Amity Street Midday Robbery — Religious Intelligeuce—Shipping Intelligeace— Advertisements, 14—Acverusements. 12—Advertisementi Tammany Hatt ow—‘‘Measure a man according to his cloth.” Try Tweed, Tms Day—ruz Hoty Sasparn—should be devoted to prayerful duties, and, after religions concerns are properly cared for, harmony and conciliation among the discordant elements of the democracy of the city will probably be looked after. Tae Treasury Aurionirres state that they do not know how much Bailey’s defalcations amount to, but the United States will lose nothing, as his bondsmen are good for the amount. Good enough, probably, in holding the amount, but are they good enough to pay up? Tue Piecans of the Tammany democracy are endeavoring to make a show of fight against the old Sachems. Their pluck is to be admired, but they had better send their women and children into rat-holes or coal-holes before the contest assumes a more formidable shape. RECONSTRUCTION IN TENNESSEE.—General Grant has again shown his practical common sensé by discountenancing the proposed recon- struction raid on Tennessee. He takes the Ground that he cannot constitutionally send troops to Tennessee at the Governor's request unless the Legislature cannot be convened, which he doos not believe is the case. TE St. Doutyco TreEaty.—It now appears that Baez's messenger bearing the official vote on annexation in St, Domingo has not yet reached Washington. Several new documents bearing on the treaty have been furnished the Senate by the Secretary of State. The Senate was not in session yesterday, and the treaty “was not, therefore, officially discussed; but it will lose nothing by delay, except, probably, from the fact that the time for exchange of ratifications is drawing near, and it will gain considerably by discussion. The friends of the treaty cannot do better than to ventilate it as much as possible. One More Strep ror tHE Women.—Gradu- ally the women are forcing their way into every channel of active life. It is now an old story to hear of women graduating in our medical schools; the women brokers in Wall street have ceased to be a sensation, as have also the women jurors in Wyoming. It was time, therefore, that the sex should take one step more, and the step seems to be taken by « Brooklyn lady, who the other day was graduated from a law school at St. Conis and admitted to the bar. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAKCH 27, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, ‘The Reman Council—The Issues of the Past | Tho Gatheriug of the Claus in the The Approaching Methedist Conferences. and the Church of the Future. At last we have had @ breeze from Romo. The German bishops have given us good reason to look for something in the shape of opposition at their hands. We know well what the feeling of Catholic Germany is in the mat- ter of infallibility. It has been openly pro- nounced, and in language neither soft nor equi- vocal. But we have waited for the expression of this German spirit in the Council. We did not expect it to be rash; for rashness is not a characteristic of the German mind. But we did expect it. It is gratifying now to know that Bishop Strossmayer, of Hungary, has broken silence, and that, if he has not flung 8 firebrand into the Council, he has at least given proof to the world that holy men who go in for the presence of the Holy Spirit, for infallible guidance and for infallibility in the person of the Vicar of Christ, are after all very much like the rest of us, frail and fallible mortals. Our latest news is to the effect that Bishop Strossmayer moved that for the definition of an article of faith the entire concurrence of the episcopate be considered necessary, The result, we are told, was violent opposition, The Bishop was insulted, driven from the tribune and threat- ened. Of course, this is a meagre and imper- fect report; but, considering the temper of the German bishops generally, it must be accepted as substantially true. If it be true many will ask the question, wherein are the assembled bishops at Rome better or wiser than our Washington and Albany legislators ? That o crisis has arrived in the history of the Council must be admitted. It is, in fact, apparent to the world, All our recent letters and cable despatches go to show that the Pope and the ultramontane party are determined to have infallibility proclaimed, and that the Gallican and German and American parties are just as determined that so far as they are con- cerned no such dogma shall be proclaimed. Dr. Manning, of London, and Dupanloup, of Orleans, head the respective parties, Man- ning has the advantage of being at the head of the majority; but this advantage is danger- ously counterbalanced by the fact that he represents a Catholic State, or rather the Cath- olic States. Manning may command numbers’ and much intellectual ability, but Dupanloup has armies at his back, great States and empires. The situation in the Council is really serious, We never thought it should come to this. We knew that the Coun- cil was convened merely for the purpose of defining and proclaiming the personal infal- libility of the Holy Father. It was our opinion, however, that respect would be shown to a powerful minority, and that the fear of dividing the Church would prevent the assembled fathers and the advisers of his Holiness from pushing matters to extremities. In this last particular we have to admit we were mistaken. The infallibilists are resolute. They have the power, and they mean to useit. Right or wrong, schism or no schism, infalli- bility, in their judgment, is a necessity of the age, and it must be proclaimed. In this emergency the civil Powers who have hitherto looked on have stepped in and demanded a hearing. Count Daru, the present Minister of Foreign Affairs in France, has demanded that, in the event of infullibility being discussed and brought to a vote, Franco have in the Council a lay representative. It is said that Count Dara hes received a letter from Rome in reply to his de- mand, although the nature and contents of the reply have not been made public. Much, very much, depends on that answer. It was proper that France should take the lead in this matter; for France is the leading Catholic Power. Itis France that maintains the Pope in Rome. But for French bayonets, where would be the temporal power? The temporal power gone, where would be the Pope? If the reply to France be favorable; if France is permitted to send a lay representative to the Council, Austria will demand the same privilege or right. So will Bavaria. So, too, in all likelihood will Italy and Spain. Con- sidering the large Catholic population of North Germany it would not surprise us if Bismarck insisted on having the same right. These lay agents in Council may give to the questions at issue a new complexion and very seriously affsct the result. If the answer from Rome refuses to allow a lay representative of any Power to take his seat in the Council, then we shall have France and Austria and Bavaria and Italy and Spain in open antagonism to the Holy See. This may not prevent the Council from bringing in-. fallibility toa vote and carrying it. But in such a case the Roman Church will have lost every secular arm on which it has hitherto leaned, and it will. find itself opposed to and by every civil government on the face of the earth, We have reached a point in the history of the Council when compromiso may play a prominent part, In our judgment nothing but compromise can prevent the Council from be- coming as much a failure as it is already an anachronism. After all, this Roman Council is but reveal- ing on a large scale what all the world has seen and felt in religious circles. Witness the Church’questions in Great Britain. Witness the Bible difficulty in the schools in Great Britain and America, It is a sad fact that in this nineteenth century, and in spite of all our progress, narrow-mindedness should be the dominant characteristic of all religious bodies from that of Rome downward. Essentials are overlooked. Non-essentials are deemed all im- portant. Further and further do we wander from the Sermon on the Mount. More and more do we lose sight of the Master. Galilee and Christ and Calvary are no longer in men’s thoughts. Creeds, already too long, are being lengthened. Dogmas, already too numerous, are being multiplied. It is our consolation that in spite of churchmen we march on, and that the vision of a universal Church becomes brighter, clearer, grander and moro glorious. Churchmen stand still; but the world moves on, and the fuiure is full of promise. A Grossy ARRAY OF CoLorED ARISTOCRACY was visible in a private box at the National theatre in Washington on Friday evening, enjoying Joe Jefferson’s Rip Van Winkle. Like Old Rip they have awakened to a vivid sense of a change of condition, and, like him, are determined to let the doubting Washington villagers know that they ore alive to the * ) prospects of social equality. Wigwam. There is to be a meeting of the Tam- many General Committee in the Wigwam to-morrow evening concerning the troubles among the democratic clans and cliques at Albany over our city spoils. Preparatory meetings of the ‘“‘unterrified” have.been held in numerous places all over the city for several nights past. Both houses of the Legislature stand adjourned to Monday evening, at half-past seven, in view of this meeting of the Wigwam. It is supposed in some quarters that half the Legislature will be down here to-morrow night to assist in the powwow at the Wigwam. It will be a most momentous and important powwow— Big with the fate of Cesar and of Rome. Tammany rules the city ; the mighty legions of the city democracy march under the banners ofTammany. Her power is in the hands of her General Committee, and this commit- tee, so far, has been ruled by half a dozen of the Big Indinos. But the mutineers at Albany have declared ‘“‘war to the knife, and the knife to the hilt,” against these chiefs, and hence this call of the General Committee. Let us suppose the fight to be between Sachem Tweed and Sheriff O’Brien, the one representing the old ring and tho other the new rings, including the jackknives, the Mantilini democrats and all the huckleberry combination. Tho Tammany General Com- mittee numbers between three and four hun- dred men, from all the wards of the city, representing all creeds, all nationalities (except the African and Chinese), and all the demo- cratic cliques and factions, Tweed, however, it is generally believed, will poll a heavy majority of the committee against O’Brien; but if the O’Brien coalition mean ‘“‘war to the knife” we may look for'’secession if they cannot control the committee, The trial, we presume, in the committee will bo made upon the question of a new City Charter, and some compromise from Tweed is spokenof which may conciliate the jackknives, But they are very sore from their terrible chastisement of Tuesday, and old soldiers say they mean mischief; that, in short, their pur- pose is to “smash the machine.” Their strength lies in detached districts, while the strength of Tammany lies in the general voto of the city; and herein lies the main issue between the Tammany regulars and the young militia. So it is feared that if the jackknives cannot be given full swing in elections by wards and districts they will be satisfied with’ nothing but the head of Tweed in a basket. From all that we can learn of the preliminary movements for this General Committee meet- ing, Sachem Tweed on the occasion will loom up among the small fry in all the glory of the Great Mogul, and Sheriff O'Brien and his coalition, lacking the all-important essentials of cash, numbers and discipline, will be as signally swamped in the Wigwam as they were in the Assembly. But what then? That is the question which only the meeting can answer. The Darien Canal Expedition. We publish this morning a brief letter from our special correspondont, announcing the safe arrival at Caledonia Bay of the expedition sent by our government to explore a route for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien. It will be observed that the officers in charge have gone vigorously to work and are sanguine of suc- cess, At the time our correspondent wrote they had already cut @ road, three miles in length, to a river which is said to flow into the Pacific Ocean. Is it possible that this is in the narrow valley on the Atlantic coast which Dr. Cullen insists that he discovered, but which subsequent explorers failed to find? This question will probably bo answered by the fuller despatches which our correspondent, who is with the expedition, has forwarded and which will doubtless be here in a few days. We shall await these with interest, as all the indications now point to a great success. The Indians are friendly, and disposed to aid the explorers, who are energetic and enthusiastic in the performance of their labors. Tae Cunans, it seems, have finally deter- mined, if the United States does not recognize them by the end of the month, to recall all their absentees and carve out their own salva- tion without looking to us further fox, aid. With all kindness to the Cubans we must say that it leoks as if they could not do better. Taz Tween is one of the brightest and sun- niest of the sunny rivers of Scotland, Its prin- cipal affluents are the Gala, Leader and Adder, By a singular coincidence the juvenile de- mocracy of New York, in attempting to dam the Ameriean Tweed, have only given an oppor- tunity for the object of their condemnation to make ‘‘Gala” days for his friends, to establish himself as a “Leader” of the democracy, and, if necessity requires, to enable him to give his enemies the sharp sting of the ‘‘Adder.” Known by Irs Frurt.—The cancan ball, that flourishes in the city in these days, isa bad tree and bears bitter fruit, as is now experi- enced, no doubt, by the poor creature Hattie Moore, This woman was fond of ‘‘gayety.” She was miserable because the home of her husband was a quict place and because she opposed the associations and excitements of which she was fond. She broke from the domestic trammels the other day—went for a regular burst of excitement to the Grand Duchess ball—and rose to such a riot of rum and revelry that she could not come down to her daily life again, and tried suicide as the best remedy. Perhaps such a career is best when it ends early. JUDICIAL THIMBLERIGGING.—There is a story in the police reports, of a country mer- chant who was robbed in a panel house of the Fourteenth ward—and who, perhaps, under- stands by this tipe that a panel house and a court of justice in this town are not such widely different establishments as they ought to be. He succeeded in securing the arrest of the girl who lured him to robbery, and was or- dered to the House of Detention at the samo time the girl was remanded for trial. He did not want to go to prison and protested; but the only way he could escape going to the House of Detention was by withdrawing the complaint and letting the accused go free. If a justice were in league with the panel thieves One week from next Wednesday the New York and New York East conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, numbering about five hundred ministers, and representing nearly seventy-five thousand Methodists, will meet in annual session in this city. The former will convene in the Thirtieth street Metho- dist Episcopal church and the latter in Seventh street. This session of these bodies will be the most important that has been held here for & great many years, Questions of the utmost importance not only to the denomination, but tothe entire Christian community, will come up for discussion, and from the position, num- bers and wealth of the churches represented by the two conferences their action will most probably be followed by the provincial con- ferences that are yet to meet. Here it is that the debates on the question of lay delegation have been conducted with the greatest vigor, and as those conferences will have to vote on it now we may expect a renewal of the discus- sion, Forty-nine out of seventy-one confer- ences have already voted nearly four to one in taver of the measure. The alleged defalcations in the Book Con- cern, the first reports of which were promul- gated with a view to influence the, votes of other annual conferences on this question, will also receive a due share of attention. The preachers of both conferences who reside in this city and vicinity have already taken action on the reports of the Book Committee and have endorsed the majority. The country members may, however, reverse or neutralize this decision, as it is known that the minority report ofthe committee is much more ac- ceptable to the denomination at large, who believe that defateation and misman- agement exists in the Concern, and thatthe Book Committee cotld find the same out if they desired. There is a movement among the laity of some of the city churches to con- solidate some of the districts and thereby to reduce the number of presiding elders, which they think are becoming too numerous and too expensive, This also will come up for discus- sion and adjudication. The subject of ministerial education, made doubly interesting to Methodists at this time— and especially to those Conferences—hy the recent death of the Rev. “Dr. McClintock, demands and will receive tho most careful consideration. It is well known, and has been openly asserted by one of the bishops of the Church, that the majority of applicants for admission to the Methodist minisiry now are men nearer to forly years of age than twenty-five, Tho explanation given of this fact is that young men of wealth, culture and social position ia the Church prefer to enter other professions wherein the labor is lighter and the remuneration greater and more cer- tain, Hence the ranks of the ministry must be recruited, if at all, from among the poorcr classes, and thes¢ must have free. collegiate education or none. The supply of the Metho- dist pulpit by the reyular ministry at proseat does not make up the losses caused by death, location and superannuation, Tie denomina- tion throughout the land owns eleven thousand seven hundred churches, and yet has but eight thousand four hundred and eighty-one travelling preachers to supply those pulpits and to minister to more than seven millions of souls. There are, however, nearly ten thou- sand local or lay preachers besides. Hence the subject of education is one of vital importance to the future progress and well boing of the Methodist Church. Another question, hardly less important, but one of more local interest, and ia which all Protestant qggnominations are equally con- cerned, is the adoption of mora positive measures for the evangelization of the neglected massés of this city. There are in New York four hundred Protestant churches of all denominations, thirty-nine Roman Catholic and twenty-nine Jewish churches. The average seating capacily of those churches is about one thousand each, which gives con- siderably less than half a million persons a chance to hear the Gospel preached on the Sabbath. Thore are, therefore, about six hundred thousand souls in this city every Sabbath day for whom no spiritual provision whatever has been made by Protestantism. The late W. W. Cornell was president of a Methodist missionary society whose efforts are directed towards founding churches in neglected neighborhoods in the city, and under its auspices six churches have been dedicated and about the same number of mis- sion stations opened during tho last four years, Mr. Cornell’s death has invested this snbject with increased interest; for, though the society will continue its operations, it’ will lack the moral and material influence of his name and great wealth to help it forward in its work, The Methodists are now the second religious denomination in the city, the Episco- palians being the first. Tho former have fifty- five churches and the latter ninety-five. Tho Methodist denomination at large dedicate an average of two churches every day throughout the year. = There are two other important subjects that have recently agitated the Protestants of this State and on which some of them have taken action—namely, the appropriation of State and city moneys to sectarian purposes and the reading of the Bible in the public schools. The recent Methodist State Convention unani- mously protested against the former and resolved to sustain the latter. These are among the most prominent topicg that will come up for discussion in these conferences, Tis 13 THE Fourra Sunpay iy Lext— But how will it be observed by democratic politicians? Undoubtedly in a spirituous man- ner, but not in that style which will lead the juveniles and fhe ancients of the democracy jointly up to the altar of a common patriotism. The democracy will no doubt gamble for the best. e é “Tue Paorwrio ARMY OF Francg.”—The school teachers of France presented an ad- dress, by delegation, to the Emperor Napoleon at the Tuileries the other day. ‘ His Majesty, in reply to agpinquiry on the subject, was in- formed by 8 member of the Cabinet that there were forty-five thousand schoolmasters in France, and replied, “It {s an army—tho pacific army of France.” Memorable words. The Emperor then introduced the Prince Im- perial to the delegates—a happy introduc- we do not see how he could render them more | tion, and one by which the greatest of the efficient service than this. Frongh reyolaions hag been accomplished, ed A Bird’s-cye View of the Theatres, | Drees Fashlous in EuroyoA Paris Cou. Many important and radical changes bave taken place in the metropolitan theatres within the past few years. Old landmarks have dis- appeared and new features have been intro- duced, To the popular thirst for sensation everything of the old school, except ina few establishments, has been sacrificed, and the stage carpenter and scenic artist is of more account than either the dramatist or actor. “The Black Crook,” with all its eyil tenden- cles, had this germ of good init: it aroused managers to the idea of placing plays on the stage with more attractive surroundings than before, and compelled them to expend more money on scenery and appointments for really meritorious works than they heretofore: dreamed of, If we take the principal theatres in New York—Booth’s, Wallack’s and the Fifth Avenue—we can safely challonge compe- tition with Europe in regard to their stage setting. Niblo’s and the Olympic are also up to the same standard. In the three first men- tioned theatres the legitimate drama flourishes like a bay tree both financially and artistically. Even the sensational school is rendered tole- rable and even attractive by the artistic care bestowed upon it. Thg importance of theatres at the present day may be ascertained from the internal revenue returns, which show that a very considerable amount of money is annually expended to afford amusement of this kind to our citizens. The managers do not yet, as a general rule, come up to the expectations and demands of the public in their companies. The star system still holds its ground with many of them, They do not seem to understand that a perfect ensemble of cast is preferable to a single star and a bundle of sticks. Those theatres which have been fortunate enough to secure first class artists in their stock compa- nies have been rewarded this season by an appreciative public, No matter how appa- rently capricious and whimsical theatre-goers may be in this city, they never fail in time to recognize true merit and repudiate charlatan- ism. The Lenten season has militated heavily against the managers, and they look forward with eagerness and anxiety towards the joyful Easter time, when sackcloth and ashes will be discarded. It is rumored that during the sum- mer season an attempt will be made to locate the home of Italian opera at Booth’s magnifi- cent dramatic temple. It will be indeed a change for the better from the ungracious place it has had heretofore. In Booth’s it will have everything in its favor, and if the man- agement will only avoid the trickery and parsi- mony hitherto characteristic of the direction of Italian spera and labor to secure good, fresh, acknowledged artists, the theatre will earn for itse'fa lasting reputation. There is no use in preseating before the New York public, the wajority of whom have abundant opportunities of wiinessing and hearing the best operas in Borope, mutilated, inferior and disgraceful performances under the name of Italian opera. Let the same care, be bestowed on ‘the lyric drwma as there is in every other species of amusement in this city, and there is not the slightest doubt of its success, Another fea- ture in amusements is the uptown tendency of theatre-goera, Within very few years there will be little encouragement to any establish- ment of this kind below Union square. The theatres seem to be in advance of other places pf business, and they are gradually pushing their way into districts which even the present generation remember to have been once rural in appearance and importance. An Attempt to Ruia Broudway. Nothing can be imagined more ruinous to property holders and business people on Broadway than thé preposterous Arcade Rail- road. It is worse than any underground job before or since contemplated. It makes an entirely new street beneath that thoroughfare and undermines every portion of it. In its construction business will be at a complete standstill there, and the cost must be some- thing enormous. It is one of the wildest and most insane schemes that ever entered tho mind of a contractor or a lobbyist, and its utter impracticability alone should banish it at once from the mind of any sensible or right thinking person. It would bo impossible to calculate the extent to which it would depreci- ate property on Broadway and injure trade there, The process of constructing this Utopian affair would damage the sjfreet to the amount of twenty millions of dollars, and that would not represent the actual amount of loss to property on that thoroughfare. The proposed underground strect would be wholly untenantable on account of the poisonous atmosphere and racket of constantly passing trains. The tun- nel or pneumatic plans are less objectionable, as they do not disturb the surface of the street to the same extent. The Arcade Railroad is simply a gigantic scheme concocted by insanity and fraud of the most inexcusable kind. It is looming up again in the Legislature and an effort will probably be made during this ses- sion to secure a charter. But we have a bettor opinion of our lawmakers than to think they would consent to such a Quixotic and villa- nousjob, Even if they grant a charter to this company it is more than likely that the funds to carry out the enterprise will not be forth- coming. We earnestly advise our legislators to consider the magnitude of the job and show a little consideration towards the tax- payers by cousigning it to merited oblivion. Crance or Name.—The Tammany tribe of the Tuscaroras are likely to have their name changed to ‘‘Tusca-losers,” judging from the developments of yesterday. * Our Cenrrat aND Sour AMERICAN Cor- RESPONDENCE, printed in another page, will be found to contain the latest and most interest- ing news from the United States of Colombia and the republics of Peru and Chile. It is most gratifying to learn that the fruits of peace, advancement and improvement, are making themselves evident in those countries to which we have justreferred. The day of telegraphs, railroads, public instruction and national im- provements is about to dawn on those nations, and with its coming we may expect to hear less of those unfortunate revolutions which always retard progress and tend to the de- moralization of peoples. Witu1am M. Twexp, turned out of office by the immaculate ‘George! Wash-MeClean !”— this the talk of the street—waxes fat, sharp and decisive, ‘Sharper than a serpent’s teoth ig an ungrateful child,” cil on Spring Styles, The special fashions correspondence fran Paris which appears in our columns to-diy reports matter of joyous and enlivening impet for the use of that elegant, accomplished aid really influential and national class of qr readers—the ladies of America, The cdym,. nication breathes freshly of the balmy ging and augurs hopefully for a pleasing s . It promulgates the dress toilet canons of hour, and in this respect bids fair to enlight the gloom and—it it be at all possible to do so—harmonize the world-wide distractions which have ensued and are still flowing | from the proceedings of the Ecumenical Coun- cilin Rome. Our fashions letter speaks of the unities and beauties which result from the exer- cise of science and skill when directed to the comfort of mortals here below ; of the homo factus ad unguem—or humanity “made up" by the modiste and milliner—as it was pre- sented in ancient Rome, while the schema and written arguments of the Pontifical Fathers aa expressed in the modern Holy City tend very strongly to confuse the minds of the peoples ia 4 most unhappy. direction as to the immortali~ ties in the hereafter. Hoping for the best on both sides of the grave our special fashions writer proceeds to tell us all about “garments of much mystical sublimity,” the garments of the season, A petticoat of a most bewildering combination and elegant trimmings is described, and hata and gloves, and bonnets and boots, and full dresses and outdoor dresses and evening cos- tumes follow rapidly in successive detail. The dress materials most in vogue are reported, a fact of considerable interest to our New York merchants and storekeepers. It is unnecessary to recapitulate the main points of this fashions letter here, useless to run from slippers.to sleeves again, as it is absolutely certain that the despatch will be read and studied in its entirety by thousands of spar- kling eyes before Monday afternoon—we say Monday, as the religious young ladies will only “hear of it” to-day, the Sabbath. Our European Mail Budget. The recent arrival of the French Trana~ atlantic mail steamship Lafayette at this port, after an exceedingly rapid winter pas« sage, with the landing of the German steam- ship Rhein yesterday, enables us to present to our readers to-day an ample, varied and highly interesting news report, -explanatory of our cable telegram despatches to the 15th inst. The details of the Montpensier-Bourbon due} at Madrid are given, coming as they do in melancholy confirmation of the Hgratp special cable telegram first advices of the circumstances which attended that tragic and sanguinary encounter. We publish also the decisive letter of insult to Montpensier, which the deceased Prince bad had circulated in Madrid in the shape of a manifesto previously. The initiatory move- ment of the German secession from the Papal Council is noted fron Rome. We afford also a glimpse of the French Imperial interests ix and of the ‘policy of Napoleon toward the Ecumenical assemblage. Our European mail report embraces in addition quite a number of foreign personal and industrial items, so that it is Instructive and entertaining both as to Old World current history and progress, JACKSON IN THE WRoNG Box.—We cannot commend too highly the vigilance of the Dis- trict Attorney, who has prevented the escape of the murderer Jackson. There wasevidently a job on foot to free this murderer by a verdict in court not dissimilar to that rendered in his favor before the Coroner's jury. Itlooked well for the schemes of the plotters when they had manipulated the indictment so effectively that the man was only to be arraigned on a charge of manslaughter, But for the prompt action of the District Attorney in having that indict- ment quashed and another found the iniquity would have been carried through and added one more disgrace to our administration of jus- tice. Ticker SwinpLes.—There are two or three travellers in the House of Detention who on their way through this city were robbed of some thousands of dollars by ticket swindlers, They are held that their presence may bo secured for the day of trial—but every time the cases are ready for trial the ticket swin- dlers appeal for delay through counsel, and gett; and every time the cases are put off some weeks are added to the imprisonment of the travellers. After awhile they will weary of imprisonment and will withdraw the com- plaints, and the rogues will go unpunished. In such a case the judge who assents to an hour’s delay for the convenience of the accused con- nives at their crime. A Guorious TrIumPH FoR RELIGION.—The members of the Irish State Church Conven- tion, a clerico-lay assemblage, embracing a vast amount of talent and piety, have decided to invest a large portion of their funds in United States securities,. The disestablished churchmen have been wrangling in Dublin ever since the passage of the Gladstone bill, which severs the connection between their Church and the Crown, They have just now learned the infallibility of the Bible admoni- tion, ‘‘Put not your faith in princes,” and aro obediently and reverently resolved to trust all tothe American democracy. They are per- fectly right. They will come in an excel- lently happy time with their cash. Let them invest in New York city stock. Here they will find Christianity in its primitive apostolic essence and meet the men who “‘live like the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet Solomon is not arrayed in greater glory.” The Irish churchmen have heard of the new Charter by cable, Tu Enctisn CorRESPONDENTS who are et Tonrs reporting the trial of Prince Pierre Bo- naparte comment on the ‘“‘subserviency of the jury to the Emperor's supposed sympa- thies” with the prisoner. These English wri- tera understand all about the ‘‘delusion, the mockery and snare” of the Irish State trials by jury in Dublin some few years since, and think that “our plan” of jury-packing prevails everywhere. Accustomed to the quibbles of Lords Lieutenants in Ireland they don’t know a crown free from bias, and'so just as they “live themselves do thoy judge their neigh» bora,”