The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1870, Page 4

“ NEW YORK HERALD BHOADWAY AND AN . ‘STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR, . All business or news lelter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HeEratp. Letiers and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXV. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVEKING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, broadway and Lith street. Tur LANCERS, Matinee at 19. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth #t.-FROU- Froo. Matinee at 1, THE TAMMANY, Pourtecatn strect—Geann Vaniery ENTPRIAINMENT, Matinee at 2 OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broxdway.—THe Fate ONE WITH BLonpe Wiu, Mativee at 2. DD OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and PS ak ed AWHLVE Feubeatiomn ‘Matinee at 2. 2UM AND MENAGER(T, )roadway, core YS MU Mer ‘Mitinee daily, Perforaanco every evening, per Thirtiech si. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway-—Tur DRAMA OF Mos: QUITO, Matinee at 2 BOWERY THEATRE, BE NIOk OF TUR WOODS—SIAMPSE TWINS, Lion or Nupra— Matinee at 2. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Ith street,—IraniaN OrRka— Matinee at 11. TROVATORE. 23d st. een Sth and 6th ava.— O8T ASHORE. Matinee ut 13g. BOOTH'S THEATRE Fox VEnsus Goow: MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— SPEED THE PLOUGH—JONATUAN BRADFORD, THEATRE COMIQ'E, 514 Troadway.Comtc Vocat- 16M, NEGKO Acts, €0. Matinee at 23. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowerv.—Com1o Vooatisé, NEGKO MIN@TRELBY, 40. Matinee at 2). BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tatnmany Building, 1th BL—bRYANI'S MINSTRELS. KELLY & LE Tas Brack StaTux—UNBL: . No. 720 Broadway.— HED BLONDES. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—HooLr y's MUN- STRELS—PANOBAMA, PLOGEESS OF AMERICA, AC. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth streot.—Granp Partt Concert. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th ay,, between 58th and Sith ste. THEODORE THOMAS’ POPULAR CONCERTS. NEW YORK M''SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— SCIENCE AND At New York, Saturday, Ma: y 21, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, PAGE. A—Advertisements. 2—Ady B--Adver € 118, 4—Edito ial: Leading Article on Disorganization of Polity al Parties; A Carnival of Extravagance Inevitable—Personal Yntellicence—Naval In- tellixnee—Deooration Day—Important Art Sale—A Husband’s Ketribuucu—A Fashiona- bie Swindier, S—A Portuguese Political Revolutionary Coup a@’btat; Change of Cabinet in Lisbon by Tu- muit, Violence and Death; Napoleon’s Speech “im the Hands of the Priniers;? The Ttalian Navy Agaist Itallan Radicalisem— ‘The international Yacht Race—Amusements— Centra’ and South American News—Ciy Intel- Mgence—Another Phase of the Ei War—one of ‘n+ Results of a Strike—, Ar ful Dodger—Jersey Lightning — Busin Notices. 6—The New Regime—The Darien Canal Trexty— New Youk Cou ts—Munictpal Af - ricu: Disappearance of a Bank C ce ani Comnercis| Revor Against S. D. Morris, Di mn Kings County—A Ban} timized—Chess Ma .er'—Marriages and Deaths, '7—Advertisements, S—Wasiingion: Congress ty Adjourn on the 15th of July; Serzure ot Arms for Red River: Animated Discussion in the Senate Over the Fifteenth Amendment cement — Bill-- Lecture on Convent Life by _Brid.et OG t at the Fashion e ping Intellig -nce— ements, AN Revorvrion.—The latest news from Venezuela informs us of the sue- cess of the reb:'s under Guzman Blanco, On the 27th of last month, after three days’ hard fighting, the insurgents succeeded in occupy- ing the capital, According to our corre- spondent houses and stores were sacked and robberies were carried on to « fearful extent by the soldiers of the victorious party. Fora long time Blanco has been plotting to secure the everthrow of the established government, and he has apparently succeeded in his efforts, Tne Ve Tae Deiness IN Wart Srreet.—Wall street is a curious place in many respects, A week or so ago the transactions at the Stock Exchange were on gn enormous scale, The capital stock of an ordinary railroad was often- times bought and sold in a few hours. The reaction has come. Wall street is dull and spiritless. As an operator would say, the market is tired. The brokers have done a good business this spring, and would like to do more, of course, preparatory to going into the country this summer. But as it is the season has been @ profitable one to them, and Long Branch, Newport and Saratoga will reap the benafit of their good fortune. A Cow IN A RAILROAD TUNNEL may appear a very trifling thing; but when the bovine animal endangers the lives of hundreds of people, as one of them did in the tunnel at Trenton, N. J., the other day, it becomes a serious matter. There is a question for engineers involved in this matter. It seems that this tunnel, which is on the road from New York to Washington, is so low in the roof that the cars can barely pass through without touching. In the case referred to one of the cars was thrown up by the little diffi- culty of running over a cow so high that the roof of the car was torn off by collision with the roof of the tunnel, and the whole crowd of passengers had a narrow escape from a very serious disaster. Should not this tunnel be remodclled so as to avoid such risks as this? —The novelty in these parts of a tournament is to come off at the Prospect Park, Brooklyn, to-day, beginning at twelve o'clock. The prepara- tions, we learn, have been made ona scale to secure an exhibition which will givea pretty fair idea of the tournaments of the Middle Ages, including the gallant knights, the heralds, the qneen of love and beauty, her maids of honor and all the accessories of this favorite spectacle of the days of chivalry. The tournament has for many years been a popular pastime in the South, and quite a company of gallant horsemen from half a dozen Southern States will participate in this day's entertain- ment. As for the uses of this institution, they were illustrated in the Black Horse rebel cavalry at the first battle of Bullrun; for the skilful rider in a tournament is already trained, to a great extent, for cavalry service. Should the weather be favorapic it is expected that the pageant at Prospect Park will be a beau- | Disorgantzation of Political Parties—A Car- nival of Extravagance Inevitable. Looking at the enormous wealth and won- derful development of the material interests of the country on one hand and at the disorgani- rush for public plunder on the other, it is evi- | extravagance as we have never sven before, | people and government about economy and doing things on a small scale. federal government ten years ago was con- sidered enormous, and this extravagance was bitterly condemned by the “watchdogs of the Treasury” in Congress and by a large portion of the people and press, | The stupendous grants of land and money to roads since that time would frightened the country and would have been listoned to in Congress, havo at such proposed appropriations of hundreds of millions of acres of land to railroad com- panies as are now made. The war made the people familiar w'th enormous expenditures, A hundred millions of dollars were and are spoken of as unconcernedly as a million was previously. In tem years the peace expendi- ture of the government has been multiplied from sixty or seventy millions to three hun- dred and fifty millions or thereabout. In ten years the expenditure has been increased five times the amount it was previously, There never was such a revolution in the financial affairs and condition of a eountry before. No other nation on the globe could have endured such a revolution in so short atime. Yetsuch are the resources and wealth of the country that our people feel the change and the bur- dens far less than other nations do theirs. True, we hear something occasionally from Congress of retrenchment, of reducing the taxes or of modifying the tariff a few millions ; but this is a bagatelle oompared with the vast and now necessary expenditure, and is used merely by Congressmen for political capital in their districts or at home. The truth is, the extraordinary revolution produced by the war has. launched us on a sea of extravagance which was never dreamed of before. Were political parties organized upon broad princi- ples of national policy, and were they more equally balanced in Congress, we might expect reforms and a greater econuviuy; but neither the republican party in power nor the dem- ocratic party have any fixed policy. Neither presents any issue to the country. The revolu- tion produced by the war has not only changed our ideas of economy and finance, but it has also buried the issues of the past. The negro is no longer available for political capital. The amendments to the constitution and the laws of Congress have placed him on an equal footing with the white man. Nothing more can be done him or made out of him. He must now find his level and place in society in accordance with the laws of nature and his capacity. Reconstruction is about finished, and that, with all the other issues growing out of the war, will soon be closed up. The republican party cannot perpetuate itself upon these dead issues, though it is endeavoring to galvanize them for that pur- pose. With all the great questions relating to our finances, progress, foreign affairs, the tariff, taxation, the enlargement of our com- merce and destiny of the republic, neither the republican nor democratic party has shaped a policy. They are utterly without a policy with regard to the wants of the country or the future, Even the republican party, which has an overwhelming majority in Congress, cannot agree upon any important measures, and has no co-operation or affiliation with the adiminis- ; ‘ration of its choice. The consequence of this state of things is that all are scrambling for public plunder, Those representing the iron and coal interests of Pennsylvania, the manufacturing interests of New England and the land-grabbing rail- road interests of the West, are intent upon making the most for themselves and their sec- tions, regardless of the general] welfare of the republic. “In the general disruption and want of principles of cohesion in political parties the members of Congress and sectional cliques are bent upon making all they can out of the government and people. The future is uncer- tain: they see nothing beyond the present; they will make the most of the present carni- val of extravagance. The only hope that remains is that in the lavish use of public money something will be done on a large scale for the benefit of the people and the country. The Pacific Railroad, for example, was a stupendous job—one that has cost the country an enormous sum and that has made many speculators very rich; but it is, after all, a grand work which will prove of the greatest advantage to the country. Let us have, then, in this era of reckless expenditure, some- thing to show for the cost. There ig hardly any limit to the wealth of the nation or to the patient submission of the people, and if we must be extravagant let us have some- thing grand to show for it. These remarks, though intended for the federal government especially, will apply as well to the State of New York and to our city government. We must be taxed heavily—that is inevitable; but, then, the wealth of New York is accumulating so fast that the people can bear it. Only let us have something to show, as we said before, for the cost. Our new city government has almost unlimited power to make improvements, The men in power now can make New York a mag- nificent city. thought and taste they can make this metropo- lis the admiration of the world, Can they not find some such man as Haussmann, who beauti- fied the city of Paris—some man of such taste and grand ideas—to improve our city? No city in the world is so favorably situated for the grandest improvements. Our river front all round the island can be ornamented by the most splendid and convenient docks, wharves and piers; we can have magnificent elevated railroads on stone arches from one end of the island to the other, we can have the broadest and finest avenues, noble bridges across the East river to connect Brooklyn and Williams- burg with this city, the best drainage and many other improvements. This is the glo- tions fubyre thas awaits the metropolis of for zation of political parties and the consequent | | dent there is going to be such a carnival of The war uprooted all the former ideas of the The expendi- ture of sixty or seventy millions a year by the rail- not Such @ graut as that to the Pacific Railroad of gov- ernment bonds and lands, for example, could not have received ten votes in Congress, That body and the people would have stood aghast If they have the grasp of NEW YORK H#RALD, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1870, America if the men in power here have the ability and understand their opportunity. Not to advance with the progress and luxuries, tastes and habits of the times, is to fall back, really, avd to fight against destiny, Let the nation and the city, then, march on in the grandest works of improvement, for that will he in accordance with the present order of things and the mighty future of our country. The Recent Chanuel Races. We are astonished that the British press does not see the real points of significance in the remarkable victory of the Sappho over the Cambria in the Channel races, Whut these races exhibit is, first, the immense superiority of the American model of yachts for all quali- ties’ of seagoing boats, for general sea- worthiness and clear speed ; next, the supe- rior spirit, nautical skill and seamanship of American yachtmen and sailors, As to the first of these points, the Sappho'’s victories are demonstrations that a sane sailor could not dispute. Inthe two races in which the Cambria went over the course the victory was so easy and the Sappho was so much ahead time for her opponent's size. In the other race of the three her victory was, perhaps, a flaer one, because purely intellectual. Jt was the victory of a spirit ready to venture any sea over the sentimental sailor who likes the “soft and gentle gale” for which the gentle- man in the song “heard a maiden sigh.” Is it so strange, after all, that they do not recognize this on the other side? They do not like unpleasant facts. In what contest of an international character, of the many in which we have beaten them, have the English ever handsomely acknowledged their defeat ? It was almost worth our while to have the Harvard boys beaten last year for the sake of the generous example they gave; but it has had no effect. The Customs Cart Burean—Another Incubus Upon Oar Commerce. While the worthy Collector of the Pori of New York is exerting every endeavor to pro- mote the interests and convenie; of our merchants, and at the same time taking rigid care of the concerns of the government in the premises, it seems that certain parties are continually striving to throw obstacles in the way of the commerce of the port and endea- voring to cripple it in every way they can. The shipbuilding interest having been essen- tially crushed ont by the exorbitant tariff upon the raw material and other restriciions, ine! - ing the intolerable quarantine regulations under the late Health Officer, waich were imposed upon the commerce of the port greatly to its prejudice, it now appears that another and a very annoying incubus bas been cast upon it in the shape of a new-fangled notion called the ‘Customs’ Cartage Bureau.” In order to obtain a proper understanding of this new machine for plucking our merchants we will briefly recur to the warehousing system since its organization. The first warehousing law was enacied in 1846, and provided that all bonded goods should be held in warehonses owned or leased by the government, and the Collector of the Port was authorized to take possession of the goods at the vessel's side and place them in the government storés. The operation of this law was found to be oppressive to the merchants, and in 1854 a bill was passed = abolishing all goy- ernment stores and permitiing citizens to bond warehouses, making their own terms with the importers for the storage of the goods, and at the same time the importer bad the privilege of carting his own property to the bonded, warehouse he might designate on his permit, for which permit the importer is re- quived to give satisfactory bonds to the gov- ernment equal to double the amount of duties ; any loss of the goods between the vessel and the warehouse will not exempt the importer from the payment of the duties. This system has worked well for sixteen years; but sud- denly the whole machinery is thrown into con- fusion by the introduction of the present method of cartage through the mediam of the “Customs Cartage Burean,” a concern located somewhere outside the Custom House and managed by private parties for private inter- ests—interests inimical to those of our heaviest importing and duty paying merchants, Under this system the charge for cartage to our im- porters has been increased a hundred per ceut, and so grievous is the additional tax consid- ered that some of our merchants are importing their goods via Baltimore, Boston, and even Canada. The leading merchants of the city openly protest against this usurpation, and when such hovses as A, T. Siewart & Co., Phelps, Dodge & Go., Spofford, Tileston & Co., Benkard & Hutton, Wetmore, Cryder & Co., Olyphant & Co., Fabbri & Chauncey, P. Balen & Co., Kunhardt & Co., John E. Devlin & Co., Chamberlain, Phelps & Co., W. H. Weastervelt & Co., Lawrence, Waterbury & Co., Frederick Schuchardt & Co., William A. Freeborn & Co., and a large number of other most prominent merchants remonstrate against the continuance of the system, and the influ- ence of members of Congress having heen en- listed to further the same end, we feel assured that the Secretary of the Treasury will promptly authorize the Collector of the Port to abolish it altogether and thus relieve the commerce of New York from at least one intolerable incubus, First Music in Central Park This noon, ‘There will be ‘‘music in the air” for the first time this season in Central Park this after- noon, commencing at three o'clock. The pro- gramme is glorious, We learn that the Park Commissioners intend this to be the initiative of a series of grand open air concerts, which will be continued in the principal parks dur- ing the summer season. They will be given by the “Central Park Band,” under the direction of the famous Grafulla, The Park Commis- sioners have already foreshadowed a determi- nation to go to work in earnest in the matter of reviving the beauties of our public parks, and under an able and energetic superinten- dency their former degree of usefulness as healthful places of recreation and public pleasure grounds will be rapidly restored. To-day will be, as it were, the grand opening day under the new Park régime, and, as the Park itself is clothed in a robe of emerald velvet, bespangled with the most beautiful stars Qf Flocg’s rrala, it wil) podouhtedly Afters that she would still have been the victor :if she had been compelled to make allowange of is placed where if properly belongs, prove a aplendid beginning to an uninterrupt- | edly brilliant season. Let the public—all the | men, all the women and all the little children— | join in the chorus in “‘Macheth” and Rejolce, rejotee, re-joy-oj-oyce. Papal Infallibility in Congress. The great debate on the Syllabus which the House of Representatives drifted into on Thursday will, we hope, be duly noted by his Holiness the Pope and by all the cardinals their several appetites. His Holiness will observe that all the gentlemen from the country paris—all the pagans, as we might say, speak- ing after the manner of the ancients—are against the great dogma; and he will also observe and be rejoiced to aee that whatever is said in a gentle spirit toward the Church and himself comes from the representatives of this great metropolis of the wealth and culture of the West. He will regret, no doubt, thas the voice of Morrissey was not heard on such an occasion. All this debate was apropos to the proposition to sand an American Minister we ought to have » representative of that grade in the ‘Eternal City; but we scarcely appreciate some of the expressions of gentle- men who.are also in favor, apparently, of the same thing. One of them says that wo with- hold a Minister from Rome because she is a Catholic Power, and that this is a case on our part of persecution for religious opinions. If this were true it would be funny for any champion of Rome to cite us before the world for religious intole- rance, especially with the Syllabus in all its freshness ; but it is not exactly true. It does not persecute either Rome or the Pope for us to withhold some one of the second rate poli- ticians that we are so apt to name as Ministers to such places. The only people persecuted in the matter are our holiday-making country- men who go abroad to spend their money and miss the Minister's house and his receptions as pleasant conveniences for meeting charming y. It also persecutes a little, perhaps, the second rate politicians who may be waiting for the place. Is it a sign after all of the vitality of Rome that now, in what seems the very age of her decrepiiude, the simple men- tion of her name excites so lively a flaine and such keen cutting and thrusting in the Con- gress of the last Romans of all the nations of Western civilization ? The MaveTrap Railrond in Greeawich Street. What hwve the authorities done in reference to the construction which collapsed with such peril to human life on Monday last? We trust that steps have been taken to cause its removal forthwita. It was evident from the first that it was an experiment, but conducted upon a scale before unheard of. The mere alterations and modifications which have been made in it weaken the most secure structure, and when it is considered that this crude conception, which violates all the principles of engineering and all natural laws besides, has been built under the sanction of legislative enactment, overriding the local authorities, we have addi- tional canse for congratulation that the city of New York has at length been restored to self- government and that the responsibility for measures of this kind, involving life and pro- from time to time would have a tendency to One of our most frequented thoroughfares has been taken possession of, and, under cover of law, a stock company have appropriated to theinselves a large portion of the sidewalk, destroyed the privacy of every house on the street, erected a novel and dangerous con- struction, the operation of which has been the cause of innumerable accidents from run- away horses, and all this has been submitted to with scarcely a protest, for two reasons—irst, that it was done in accordance with legislative enactment; and, secondly, the whole mass of the people are anxious for rapid transit to be accomplished. We are the last to deride or discourage any scheme simply becanse il is an experiment, and we well know how strongly the genius of the American people tends to the successful exercise of inventive faculties ; but inventions, however ingenious, are of no value if they attempt to controvert mechanical laws, which, being synonymous with the laws of nature, are immutable; and certainly no one will deny that the most glaring and reck- less disregard of the laws of gravity—of the effect of centrifugal force, of the adhesiveness of metal and the capacity of jron to regist ten- sion—has been shown throughout in the con- strnetion of this aerial man trap, Let it, there- fore, be done away with at once, and let the trne engineering talent of the country be enlisted to perfect a system of transit and locomotion which will do credit to that profes- sion and give the city of } York a clear solution to a long vexed problem. Movement The Duke de Saldanha, long one of the most aspiring chieftains of the European military system, ranges up to take bis place in politics among those who have not hesitated to use force in order to grasp controlling power. By our cable telegrams from Europe dated yes- terday it will be seen that, availing himself of the general discontent felt in the great cities of Portugal with the Soulé Ministry, Saldanha placed himself at the head of the main body of the Lisbon garrison on the morning of the 19th inst. and marched against the royal palace, where the Governor of the city had taken precautions for defence. But the troops there intrenched were averse to any serious resistance, and, after some desul- tory firing, in which half a dozen lives were lost and a score or two of men were wounded, the palace was surrendered. The victor, how- ever, made no other use of his triumph thau to lay hie commission at the feet of the King, who immediately invested him with authority to form ® Cabinet, the Duke de Soulé..having at once resigned, His Majesty met with no affront, but his prompt acquiescence having been made known he was cheered by the troops and the people. /Thus has another change of ministry been effected by violence, and thus another step achieved toward the complete transformation that is rapidly enveloping ail the wormeaten dynasties and demoralized races of the old régime in Europe. Saldanha, too, now has his opportunity to become one of the common dupes of personal ambition or to rise to the The Revolutionary in Portugal. and bishops; but we hope it will not affect | may give peace and security to his country. Another step toward the reconstruction of the map of Europe! CongressThe Adjournment Resolution. The adjournment resolution was the subject of much debate in the Senate yesterday, a por- tion of which was very undignified and utterly unworthy of the high tone that is popularly presumed to characterize that body. The re- publican representation was especially assailed by some of its friends in bitter terms for band- ing with domecrats to delay the business of the country and prolong the session. The re- solution was finally amended so as to make the 16th of July the day of final adjournment instead of the 4th, and on that the bill was passed. The bill was also passed, as amended, in the Jouse, 80 that for nearly two months we are to be bothered with the fruitless legislation that has encumbered the interests of the country here- tofore. Indeed, feeling as if it had a new and certain leuse of life for that much longer, ness already accumulated, will attempt some now improvement ‘on the old business—try to” tried. to paint the white darky even whiter. In these long sessions there is no certainty when any business is entirely done with. The House, exhausted with its serious exer- tions of the day before in passing, under such adverse circumstances, the Diplomatic Appro- priation bill, transacted no business whatever of importance yesterday. A few private bills for the relief of Jones & Co., or some one else, or to pay certain moneys to a naval crew, or to reimburse some impecunious disbursing officer, which remind one of the frequent legis- lation of our Assistant Aldermen ‘‘to pay Timothy O'Rourke three hundred dollars for one horse fallen through a ‘pier,” consumed the entire day, The Opera. We are glad to notice that the enterprise of Brignoli has been rapidly growing to a grent success, Not only have the performances in the Academy here been most enthusiastically sus- tained all through the three nights, but in the twin establishment in Brooklyn the sedate dwellers in that grave City of Churches on Thursday night actually waked themselves up to a larger display of enthusiasm at Kellogg's fine acting, Brignoli’s dulcet notes and Gaz- zaniga’s remarkable rendering of the Gypsy than they ever did on the occasion of a Sun- day school exhibition. This is certainly a triumph for Italian opera and an excellent en- dorsement from Brooklyn, But, then, “Tro- vatore” was superbly given and the house was crowded almost beyond its fair capacity. The management has, so far, been wise in the selection of those operas which best developed the talents and power of the troupe. Miss Kellogg's first effort in a tragic part gave the public a new idea of what she could accom- plish on the lyric stage. She has made a hit, and the management has exhibited much sagacity in giving her the opportunity so to do. The old favorite of the New York pub- lic, Mme. Gazzaniga, has reinstated herself in the good graces of her old friends by the assumption of a new 7éle, She has, indeed, never been forgotten here throughout her many wanderings, and is gladly welcomed back again. In Miss Isabella McCulloch we have an artiste of rare talents—an artiste grown up among us, crented, as it were, by earnest study, a fair specimen of that American spirit which halts for no obstacles and submits to no obstructions in the path that leads to success, Miss McCulloch is, therefore, to-day one of the most promising gems of American art, with a future before her that looks very bright for a young prima donna. “After the dreary gap in Italian opera it is pleasant to see a good company on the boards again, directed by a prudent manageiment. We trust that’ the encouragement they have received will lead to the, establishment of a good season for the winter. It is evident that the public are willing to sustain Italian opera if it is only well managed. But public taste demands that we shall have talent of a first class order. Who has enterprise enough to give it to us? Tar New Boarp oF Assistant AtpER- MEN—New York tHE Gory or IrELaANp.— The nationalities of the members of the new Board of Assistant Aldermen are as follows:— Natives of Ireland. 12 Americans of Irish p 3 dow Yorkers born Of Americ: 3 merican carpet-bagger 1 Natives of Germany... 2 This exhibit, in connection with the repre- sentatives of the Emerald Isle in all the other departments of our city government, shows that this great and prosperous metropolis, so largely built up by Irish labor and so largely governed by Irishmen, is the glory of Ireland. O'Mahoney was doubtless impressed with this idea when he set up the green flag and the headquarters of his Irish republic in Union square, But why should these Fenians be wasting their time, talents and monéy in their premature and crude schemes for the liberation of Ireland when they can have all’ that they want in New York, and where, by a proper organization, they can save up money enough in ten years to return to Ireland and buy ont the British landlords, or bring away every Irish mother’s sons and daughters to the liberty and equal rights of the United States and to the glory of Ireland in New York ? Avyoruer Crystal Patacr.—Various par- ties, with an eye to business, are beginning to discuss the question of another Crystal Palace for New York. Let us have it, and let it be in our great Park, and let it be built to stand, like the Sydenham Palace. Why not? NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, — s The United States steamer Lancaster was at Mon- tevideo on the 14th of April, Some changes have taken place on board this ship. Lieutenant Com- mander James O'Kane, Lieutenant B. L. Edes and Ensign Simons were detached from the Lancaster on the 81st of March and ordeted. to the United Staves steamer Wasp, fourth rate, the first named oMeer to her. The Wasp to forthwith proceed (0 St. Gatharines to test the question of her sen-going quallites, The United States steamer Sunken Com- mander E. Barrett, having completed. her term of service witt the South Atlantic, was ordered home and lett Montevideo on the 4th of April. She is ex- pected to reach Hampton Roads about the middie of June. ‘the United States steamer Portsmouth, Com- mander A. A. Semmes, Is supposed to be returning irom the coast of Atrica and will probably arrive at ‘Rio by May 1. The United States steamer Mohican sailed from San Francisco May 19 on a cruise, Admiral Turner, of the Pacific squadron, has been ordered to the Kast, ag the successor of Commodore a eight of 2 patelot, zho, hy judicious reform, 4 Gacaieu, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Prominent Arrivals in This Clty Yesterday. Count G. Gaull, of the Italian Legation; Erastus 0. Pruyn, of the United States Legation; General Jaa. Cunnngham, of Boston, and J. N, McCullough, of Pittsburg, ave at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Baron Friedenthal, of Vienna, and ©, Rayel, of Yokohama, are at the New York Hotel, Hon. G, Monckten and Colonel @. Morland Halton, of England; Captain Crosbie, of the Sixtieth Rifes, Canada, and A, E, Phillips, ex-United States Consul, of Santiago de Cuba, are al the Brevoort House, General N, H. H. Terre}, of Washington, and Joseph Gothers, of Chile, are at the Everett House, Governor Goodwin, of Arizona; General Schofeld, of the United States Army; Judge Comstock, of Syra- cuse, and Colonel Busimell, of Conaccticut, are ab the Fifth Avenue Hotel, T. Marshall, of the Fifty-thiid regiment, British Army, and W. P. Dole, of Washington, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Henry Kipp, of Bufalo, and E, B. Morgan, of Aurora, are at the Astor House. Colonel J. 8. Fickerman, of Albany, and W. ©, Hot, of San Francisco, ave at the Coleman House, _ H. G, Watson, of Baitimare. and Mrs. Sprague, of Washington, are at the Grand flotel. q Ex-Mayor McMichael, of Philadelphia; ex-Governor W, Beach Lawrence and General A. G. Lawrence, of © | Rhode Island, ant General. C, Armstrong, of © Hampton, Va., ate at the Albemarle Hotel, _ Senator Famunds, of Vermont; Thomas B, Wattson _ aud J. B. dustin, of Ph iladeipita, are at the Holman | House. Prominent Departures. Sir Clinton Murdoek and Mejor Vivian, for Wash- mgton, and F, T. Carrington, for Oswego. DECORATION DAY. Preparations of the General Executive Com. mitteo of the Grand Army of the Re- public. ‘The General’Executive Committee of the Grand Ar vy of the Republic meé last evening at the head- quarters, No, 31 Union square, to make preparations for the memoriai services on Decoration Day, the 30th instant, General Duganne presided, and Colonels Forbes and ‘Tregaskis acted as secretaries. ‘The Commiitee ou Speakers reported that General J. B. McKean had accepted (he taviiation to deliver the oration at Cypress Hit. The invitation to chaplains was referred to ihe Committee on Speak- ers. The foliowing resolutions were adopted:— Resolved, That all friends in any way interested in per- petuating the memories of those who upon land and sea ave thelr iives for the preservation of the Union ure cor- lilly invited to attend with us. Resolved, ‘That floral contribnitons are earnestly solicited from the variousachools and churches and from citizens in general. On motion of Colonel MARSHALL the ladies of New . York were invite’! to co-operate with the Floral Com- mittee in procuring flowers to be strewn over the raves, . Colonel MUSGRAVE, of Brooklyn, reported the pro- gress of the preparations in Brooklyn. He remarked that a numver of Brooxlyn ladies hat held a meeting and appointed a Commiatice to sirew the flowers over the graves. Colonel F, M. Patrick observed that he had an in- terview with Colonel Jim Fisk fhe previous day and that he expressed himself to the effcet Liat he would feel pleasure in giving all the assistance he could in rocuriug transportation for ihe children from the Union a Pee 1b1st street aud Eleventh avenue, to Cypress ‘Tne Gomuituse on Dress reported that the oficers and members of the Grand Marshal’s sta’ were to appear in black dress and fatigue cap and the re- mainder of the processionists would be allowed to choose thelr own dross, IMPORTANT 4RT SALE. Within the last few years the works of the most eminent European artists have found a ready sale in this eity, and the prospects for the encouragement of art among the cite of society ave very reassuring. Our own artists win golden laur:ls abroad, and as Europe, perhaps from curiosity, is ever anxious to receive a tribute to the temple from this crude coun- try, we should at least wetcome the products of foreign genins which, coming as they do, is no derogation from our character, as the luxuries of civilization must necessarliy come from the olaer civilization of the Eastern hemispliere. That we are appreciating the beautiful m art 13 ex- tremely manifest, as the sale last night at Leeds & Miner’s, 817 and 819 Broadway, abundantly demonstrates, Bek samy tiref ecb by celebrated and iayorlie American and European ‘artists were offered, and, jniging from the spirited style of bidding and the evident appreciation of certain artists’ work, the New York public may congratulate itself in possessing a number of connoisseurs in intings. The first pictures of any consequence of- fered by the auctioneer were two companion Swiss landscapes by Bernardi, which sold for $105, Mr. J. How's fine paimting of autumn life in the forest, entitled ‘Morning in the Adrion- dacks,” broaght $2, The tone and fluish of this almost local picture were such as alover of tie beautiful would delight in, and the biilliant hues of tire ley seemed to have been “quariied from the golden light of an Athenian sun- set.” Haas’ picture, entitted “Scene Among the Alleghany Mountains” brought $180; and “Belle of Antwerp Preparing for Dinner’ $140—a piece, by the way, full of the refinement of afiiuent life. Lack- enwita’s ‘Stag Atlacked by Wolves,” a very large painting, sold tor-$415. It was full of life, and every ligament of the animals depicted seemed to be re- plete with vitality, Friebel’s “Lake Scene in the Tyrol,”’ with aa artistically grand fulness in the dis- tance and middie distance, brought $230. Rother- mel’s “Republican Couri Time of President Lincoln,” a@ painting more tobe esteemed for its historical value as portraying the exact features of those re- presen'ed than for ita qytistic merit, brought $450. ‘The sale will bo gontinued this evening, and will compiise some of the rarest gems of art ever offered for public competition in America, includi: ot orga from some of Europe's most favor is, A he nife’s _“Olreas, Seer ofiginaly Went for Ghaaee 1085 Bracketeer’s “Antwerp Cathedral;” Sunile's “After- noon Among the Mountams;” “Near Shelburne,” vy Bierstadt; “Horse Market” (Smithfield), by Woilam Brown; “Italia,” by Baron Gustave Wap- pers; “President Lincoin. Delivering his Second in- augural Address,” by Leutze, &c. A BUSBAYD’S RETRIBUTION. Verdict in the Schultz Caso at Jersey City= What Judge Randolph Snid of the Case. In the Hudson County Court of Sessions, at Jersey City, yesterday, the trial of Charles Schultz for cut- tng his wife's throat, with intent to kill her, was brought toa close, Schultz, who possessed a large amount of property, went to California to avoid the persecution of his wife, and when he reiurned the wife had all the projerty in her own name and threw him out of doors. He went to work as a barber wll wis sight failed him, as he was sgixty-flve years old, yet the family merely allowed him “the “crumbs that fell from the table.” His wife and chilaren were placed in the wiiness stand at the trial, and all mant- fested the most intense animosity against the old man, except one son, His daughter declared she would not call him father. The Overseer of the Poor testified that Schultz applied to him for reitef, but he declined to grant it, as Schultz had over $40,000 worth of property. The old man’s reason was at length giving way, and in @ moment of des- peration he cut nis wite’s throat with a razor. Judge Randolph, in his charge to the jury, delivered a withering rebuke to the “ un- natoral wife and children, and declared that the evidence for the defence revealed a terrible state of things. It reveaied a feeling towards a father which, if directed towards him (the Judge) by his children, would certainly crush his heart At the close of the Judge’s remarks, as well as the address of counsel for defence, many persons shed tears. When Mr. Rowe, prisoner’s counsel, concluded an outburst of applause followed, The jury returned @ verdict of guilty on the count charging the prisoner With assault. Great sympathy is manifested for the poe who stated that even if he were discharged @ has me home to go to ana he is too old and feeble to work. A FASHIONABLE =SWINDLER. The somewhat secluded village of New Rochelle, Westchester county, was visited a day or two since by @ fastidiously attired “swell,” who announced himself as “Walter Wood, a Wall street broker,” in search of a summer home jor some members of his family. Having selected one of the principal hotels in the village he informed its proprietor that he was about to visit Europe with his wife, and wished to engage board for his three daughters, his wife’s sister, & man servant and a span of horses during his absence. A contract was speedily made with the plausible stra 4 ‘who agreei to pay, in consideration of the comforts furnisied, the monthly sum of $236 in advance, Apparentiy delighted with the neighborhood, the man of fashion exiended his stay for some days, and while faring sumptuously ran up @ board bill of about forty dollars, He ultimately handed >the hotel keeper & check on the People’s Bank of New York for $235, being the amount of the first mouth’s board, as per agreement, and at the same time re- marked that he would liquidate his own board bill on leaving, At the su tion of his considerate guest the host proceed once to the city for the purpose of getting the check cashed, and the next train down bore the swindler from the scene of his exploit. It is almost needless to add that on_ pres acutaiicn os tus chock At Was propounged worthless