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6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR, Sletten es The Late New York Llectton—The Oat | bilities, as proviously demonstrated in the ca- look of the Democracy for 1872. pacity of captain of one of the principal police The democratic journals aro crowing lustily | districts in the city—including Wall street— over the general result of he late New York | eminently befit him for-the station to which be election. ‘They profess to believe that it means has just been assigned. The Park Commis- 4 political revolution ; thut it signifles that tho | sionera are to be congratulated upon this evi- people have risen in judgment against General | dence, at the outset of their official action, of a All business or news letter and telegraphic | Grant's administration as a failure; that the | determination on their part to put the best despatches must be addressed New York | days of the republican party are numbered ; | men in places that require the most responsible that it is rapidly falling to pieces, and that the | work, and we have no doubt the public gene- ~~~ | democracy, strengthened on every side, com- rally will accept the appointment of Captain . No. 145 | pact and united, will carry everything before | Wiley as one most fitting to bo made. rT = a them in the grand national campaign for the guy 5 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. Presidential succession, Ore TEETER. Broxdway.—Tux Fats One wiru Hine is _ pte ba election in < this State has simply gone by default on a very Pipa tg oy Bereta. Pe areene PPP T short vote, like a numbor of the State elections Domini foot, th ' Ls of 1862, and like a many in 1867, includ- ion on foot, there is certainly a great ing New York. — that in 1962, | ea! of burrahing in the woods and marching when Seymour was elected Governor of this and countermarching in tho telegraphic reports. State on the platform of “a more vigorous * ae ie yp aes “great activity dur- prosecution of the war,” after Pennsylvania | 98 the last forty-eight hours,” of “large had gone for the democrats by default, they | bodies of drilled voterans,” and five car loads were fully convinced that they had the Presi- of these are reported in a later despatch as dential clection of 1864 in their hands; and | 0¥ing from Buffalo through Rochester for they, perhaps, have not forgotten that after their ocr point further east, from which it is con- astonishing successes in 1867, beginning with mie sana are to approach the frontier. Connecticut, and culminating in New York, far wd ee ame explosive fellows. with # majority of fifty thousand, they were bias ays nal Auborn as on the way to sure that the backbone of the republican party | ¥, te urlington and other points in was broken, and that with almost any ticket | ‘°rmom send word of their movements, and they were good for the Presidency in 1868. weston fon oe to tell of the same How far they fell short in their lively expec- | | 144, s i ng iat case the de- tations and estimates in 1864 and in 1868 we pei hess Si aaa mbar inte—firet, it m5 THEATRE COMIQCR, 12g ,Bronaway.—Cowto vooare | need not here exhibit. The lesson taught by is ‘that 4a pea Ning bang fee ; 7 these elections and by all the others since 1856, uh a are aia <— fa MD. SReOTICS OF involving national issues and national candi- Lore copiiaiateadids tad ta Groen tgeace dates, including Congress, is this—that the results of intermediate elections of a purely nna NS | cone eee — g! ered ner we local character signify, in a national view, United States volunteer Pha Sec at Ilttle or nothing. more conclusive still of the acon intention Such is the meaning of this late New ‘York of these valiant souls to free all of Ireland that election. In reference to General Grant's ad- can ‘be found on Canadian ‘eoil—th ministration and the Presidential succession it ment at Washington has recelved 4 f bay signifies nothing. Tt does not even signify sufficient to warrant the President A tanaiay that in 1872 New York will remain democratic, | ) 5, proclamstion warning’ the Fenians of hie for New York is one of the most unreliable and illegality of their purpose. So long as the uncertain of all the States as a democratic | 1 clamation is unaccompanied by a general State. Assuming, however, that this State is | 1 ovoment of United States Sead andl wa line secured to the party for 1872, the election of | gj.criminate arrest of every suspected person- 1868 establishes the fact that General Grant age bearing arms, however, it will not avail canepere. New York and still be re-elected by much, and the invaders, if the necessity occurs an overwhelming electoral and popular ma- | and they are discreet, may even be enabled to jority. Nevertheless, the New York democpacy get into the enemy's country by dodging the appear to be satisfied this time that their tre- troops sent to prevent them, Here, ‘th en, mendous majority in this purely local election | i, apparently the fact of a Fenian operation of 1870 clears the Presidential track, and fairly before us, and the further fact that the clears it forGovernor Hoffman. It is thought, | persons in charge are putting forward material indeed, that so strong are the claims of the | that can hold its tongue and stand fire. Specu- New York democracy upon the party of the | jations of the possibilities of such » move- mand —The Meaneat Woman fn: New York— Union that the next democratic convention | mont may, therefore, well be spared, since it Yacht Races Full, ieports of the First Contest | Wil be only too glad to accept Governor Hoff) wint certainly not bemany days, perhaps how Setween the Sappho and Cambria; HeeaLp | man as their Presidential candidate. before perce ite will be beard of Ct the New Steansmip Gli of Merida the Steam. | Now, while we entertain a high degree of | more or less bloody collision with soldiers, respect for Governor Hoffman, while we be-| militiamen or the police om the other side the Congreve—The Shipping Bill and the Cuban Question. The further consideration of the Legislative Appropriation bill was the main business of the Senate yesterday. An hour's debate was held on a motion to insert four humdred and fifty thousand dollars for the completion of the Louisville Canal, amended by another motion to insert the whole Harbor and River Appro- priation bill, When it is remembered that the bill under consideration is to make appropria- tions for paying the expenses of Congress, the President, the judiciary and the various departmental branches of the government, it will be seen how out of place an appropriation for a canal would be in it, and it will also be seem how sense- lessly the Senate fritters away valuable time. The motion was finally withdrawn, The report of the Conference Committee on the disagree- ing amendments of the two houses to the Fif- teenth Amendment bill was then discussed until adjournment, and thus more time was frittered away by the Senate. In fact, the only effective part of the whole day's: proceedings yesterday was a hailstorm, which pattered with much noise and force on the roof and compelled Mr. Drake to cease speaking for at least five minutes, The day was a rather important one in the House. Mr. Lynch's bill to revive the ship- ping’ interest was again thoroughly debated and a:call for the main question was: defeated by a vote of 85 to 97—a severe blow to the bill, The morning hour having expired; how- ever, it went over until to-day, when the final vote will be taken, and unless the opinions of some of the members undergo a change in the meantime it willbe formally defeated. The friends of the bill are still hopeful, however. The defeat of the bill, if it be defeated, is due, we hope, only to the objections members may have to Mr. Lynch’s particular way of reviving. American shipping, and not to any indifference: on so important a subject. Some measure: of the kind should be passed, whether favoring subsidies, drawbacks or extension of the registry privileges. The Diplomatic Appropriation bill was taken up, and called forth one of the most energetic debates that has occurred in Congress for many days. A motion was made to omit Santiago de Cuba from the list of consulates, and Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, made such a strong speech in favor of a more vigorous policy against Spain and for the protection of American citizens in Cuba that he roused the House into enthusiasm on the subject, and both sides almost clamored for governmental aid to the struggling insur- gents. General Banks announced that his Committee on Foreign Affairs would be willing and glad to present a bill at once granting belligerent rights to the Cubans, but the cooler and more methodical rales of the House in- tervened and the enthusiasm expended itself. The proposition to omit a consulate at Santiago was then rejected, and the Appropriation bill, on being reported to the Honse, was passed. it and demanded of it? This has to be seen. Time will give the answer. Dr. Newman. mon chief and patriarch, Brigham Young—the ments of the Feniaus—A Proclamation by the President. If there is not a veritable Fenian operation against the peace and sovereignty of the New the centre of Mormonism, at Salt Lake City, is an event in the history of that remarkable people both novel and startling. Dr. New- man, it will be remembered, delivered a very able discourse in Washington not many weeks ago against polygamy. It was able because it was almost exhaustive of Scriptural authori- ties against the system. The preacher showed that, although the patriarchs of old practised the system, there was really no authority in law to sustain them; in fact, that the prece- deat which they established was no precedent at all-exeept as a violation of law and morals as laid: down by divine precept. It is not admitted by the learned preacher that because Abraham and David and Solomon and the other prominent prac- titioners- in the science of polygamy pursued: the bent of their inclinations in this respect that they were acting within the limits of the divine law as given by Moses, but rather that they were outside the line and had no dogma de fide to justify them. Polygamy was 8 custom of those days, it is true; but Dr. Newman: contends that it was a custom which would have been in the ancient patriarchal days, as it would be now, ‘more honored in the breach than the observance.” In short, that there is no authority in the Scriptures to sanction the system of a multitude of wives, and that it;was as much a violation.of divine law and as great a social evil in the: days of | Abraham and Solomon as in these latter day saintly days‘of Brigham Young and family. Now all these arguments—new indeed, but cogent as they are—which Dr. Newman urged, were faithfully recorded inthe HxraLp, and the Apostle of Salt Lake, who, no doubt, isa regular reader of this journal, found in our columns, all the way out in the Salt Desert, this challenge to. meet, upon logical and Scriptural grounds, the ebjections:to the Mormon system. Brig- ham Young has met Dr. Newman with bold oballenge to argue.the question in the Taber- nacle at Great. Salt Lake Ciy, and Dr. New- man has fearlessly consented to join issue with the Mormons-on their own ground—in the midst of all their wives and children, their full congregation,.Danites included. It will no.doubt be an interesting debate. The modern patziarchs of the desert will of course endeavor to show that they are only following in the footsteps of the patriarchs of old, But they will have to meet the argument of. Dr; Newman, that practice does not make law in the matter of polygamy any more than it does in the matter of burglary or petty lar- ceny. We shall watch, with the prospect of some enjoyment, how the saints and prophets and orators will expand themselves upon this WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirueth st.—Matines dally, Performauce overy evening. NIBLO'S G: Tan Ld Piss -ARDEN, Broadway—Tur Dama OF FH) BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.[Naomat, TUX Ba HARIAN—THE LION OF Nubia. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th strect.—IraLian OrRRA— 1. 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Advertisements. 3—‘ashinaton: Remarkable Debate in the House; Severe Arraiznment of the Foreign Polley of the Administration; Cuban Affairs Ventilated; Senate Bil for the Reduction of Revenue 3 ‘The Bill for the Revival of American in Danger—Personal Intelligence. The Revolutionary Rising m Paris Specially Reported: Piot for the Assassination of the Pepe; Great Powers’ Negottations on the Greek Question; Political Radicalam in England—The Meanest Woman in New York— Our Streets—Duty of the New City Gov- ernment. We have pointed out to our new municipal government the way to facilitate travel from one end of the island to the other and at the ship City of Paris. 5—The @ensus: Everything Prepared for Taking It = wane _ Ac anaes pero of the In- | Hleve that in talents and study, and from his |jines, . #rom the:widely different points at tog Day of the Prospect Park Tournament — record and experience in public affairs, he is | ‘hich the movement-simultaneously appears, e Recen| ractice Case—The i i Commission—The Pedestrian Ocusrame | a8 well qualified for tho office of President a8 | i goems to be intended to throw parties across re fast ron. Saket Tier Enoecdingy in rd perhaps any other candidate in the democratic | the frontier in a way to baffle all possible vigi- ” nits—Accident at vewart . Hudding—Real Estate sfatters—Marclages and camp, we have still a very strong impression | Jance on the other side and on this side also. 1s. i i © : t, . ord torial Leading Article on tre jEato i a het pends pope the rahe ae Invasion in this way is easy enough, but the or ection, the 0] the Der crac: vention of! 2, a ‘endieton was in 7 i for 1872—Amusements—Armusemient announce | 4; abs thes Ereanicaa ek hat of | concentration in the enemy’s country of these 3—elezraphic News from all Parts of the World teagan oe ener speeiew eal od perch raced oche: aighenbbah igen ilo craputc News trom all Parts of the Word; | Buren was in that of 1844. We have the im- | matter if the Canadian authorities are not and Desolved ; Spanish Dirticuitics ‘on | pression that the great West will control the | gtampeded by the fi same time to beautify the city by grand and | new biblical view. They will have to take ~ . on by : y @ first alarm and act ey ee, Ter One, Ccameaon i Russian Inquist- | party convention of 1872, and dictate a West-| at the right moment with discreet energy. If solid works that will make our proud metropo- | issue with Moses as against Father Abraham, Family of Five Persons in England; Twenty-, one Persons Starved to Death in the Indian Ocean—Th* Fenians: Prociamation by tie lis the admiration of the world. We have urged, too, the construction of splendid piers, wharves and docks along the river front on both sides of the city. There is still another very important work to be done—that is, to give us good and enduring pavements on the streets, to make them comfortable to travel on and easy for the horses, and, by a good system of draining and constant attention, to keep them clean and healthful. Money enough has been spent—yes, more than enough—for this object, but i# has not been accom- plished. The city treasury has been robbed by paving jobs, and that through the connivance or aid of the city authorities. All sorts of experiments have been tried, without any regard to practical experience or princi- ples of science. Every one remembers what an outrageous experiment was made lately in repaving Fifth avenue, and that the pavement was no soorer down than it had to be taken up again. We might mention other similar examples of defrauding and annoying the public. What we want is a system of paving that will first stand the teat of science and. common sense and that has all the elements of endurance and convenience. There is some difficulty, we are aware, for unscientific people to decide upon the merits of the various plans for paving—between those of wood and stone, and the different kinds of these, as well as upon the merits.of the various composite pavements. But surely we have scientific men who, guided by the facts of science and experience, can give the city authorities all the information they need. While we do not undertake to decide upon the: relative merits of the numerous kinds of pave~ ments which are being put down and tried, we would call the attention of the city authorities especially to the pavement now being laid in Maiden lane. It seems to us that this is superior to any we have seen. It is a wood pavement, and different from any other. That, with the materials used in connection with it, forms a solid, compact, immovable and endur- ing mass, It is said this pavement will last loager than any kind of stone, and, as far as experience with it goes in San Francisco and ather cities, the claim appears to be well founded. The wood blocks are laid with the fibre vertical and upon a substratum of sand. ern candidate as the only satisfactory equiva- | jt shall ever happen, however, that two or lent for Seymour’s nomination in the juggling | three thousand of the reckless and. resolute President Warning Them to Desist trom The! i : ii Chiawiul Proceedings: United States Onicers | Couvention of Tammany Hall; and to this end | rascals who probably make up these parties Ordered to Enforce the Laws; Movements of | we have an idea, too, that the convention will | are concentrated on Capadian soil, under a orth Dee Eon Gonratient vo be held in the West. At all events, with the | jeader of only average skill, we do not see why gerne New Regine? Mecting of the Board of Park weight of Seymour's juggling nomination upon | jhe world might not be indulged with the Lt edo te ete ieee er man wi cut out, 4 y less bloody scale. Until the war really comes, banner wa ‘i ft y Ti Fenian movements, we are at present onl, simfeome arts The Suing ,Mecing ore | Grate paiy ean hake the aod popularity of | guihoriznd. ta ‘conolading. that the. Fenian Bodaer—Sew vor ity Newstnaiw rimaate oe seareri We ne ae is as sure | treasury is empty and that the leaders feel slaughter by a Butcher—The Long Island | of a second term as ral Jackson was in | conyinced that ‘something must be done’’ to ee ee rannoieeAuIp ate his day against all comers and all combina- | 4)) jt, . Intelligence—Advertisements. tions. He is backed, too, by a party which So evermore: has become the party of the nation in a far higher degree than was the old democratic party even under Jackson. The record of Jackson’s administration has nothing larger or more conspicuous than the stifling of the South Carolina nullifiers and the overthrow of Bid- ; 3 . dle’s national bank, while General Grant, his day. boc Renealiay and bi? mabeteanes ot party and his administration are identified with meanity( Bioes we oo nae mae — sana the grandest, the most imposing and the most surface oF that “glorious mirror, the image of } +. portant events and achievements of -any wieenity:s nation in any age of the world. From Washington to Jefferscn our original pro-slavery federal constitution was a smooth experiment; from Jefferson, under his State rights construction, to Monroe it was an un- broken success. Then began over Missouri the actual trouble on slavery, which was patched up with compromises from 1820 to 1850, and then in 1854, with the violation of those compromises under Pierce in behalf of slavery, began in Kansas the overture of our great rebellion, the disruption of the pro- slavery democratic party and the development of the anti-slavery republican party as the great national party, under a constitution of universal liberty and equal rights. This is what this party, sustained by the ad- vanced and powerful North, has achieved in the field and in the government under General members of Congress have been away on Grant. As the representative of this party in | strawberry and fishing excursions Wall street 1868 he was put into the White House, and has been attending to their business and pass- hardly any event in human affairs looking for- ing funding bills, currency bills and other ward to 1872 is more certain than his re-elee- | important measures. The honorable M. C.’s tion as the embodiment of the great progressive | were much surprised on their return to find achievements, measures and platform of the | what a lot of work had been done for them by republican party. Like all other parties, the very willing ‘‘bulls” and “bears.” Church or State, it is addicted to spoils and wey ey Lu or with Abraham as the model of their system against the thunders of Sinai—a position which Dr. Newman denleshim. If the disputa- tion ‘should: oceur in Brigham’s temple, as arranged, it may effect a very curious and, perhaps, important revolution in. Mormonism and in our relations with the Mormon territory. “Decoration Day.” By general consent the 30th of the present month .is-to be devoted, wherever practicable, to the patriotic duty of strewing with flowers the graves.of brave soldiers who fell in main- unfortunate it is that the same: praiseworthy devotion cannot be displayed in other than upon the: places of sepulture in elegant ceme-- teries and amid all the pleasing surroundings: of, peace and civilization. The remains of many gallant soldiers, with their names un- honored and with their deeds unsung, lie smouldering in trenches upon rude and bar- ren battle fields, or in hastily dug pits upon the routes of retreat, or in extemporized grave- yards.upon a forward march, or upon a tem~ porary hospital station, or ina thousand other places where the eruel bu? imperious necessi- ties of war compelled their quiek interment, and their early desertion ia their home of ever- lasting earthly rest. And, again, how besutiful it would be were it possible to see an snnual gathering about the graves of those who felt in other wars than the. war of the rebellion— of all who fell in order that the principles of liberty andthe glory of the republic should endure forever! Bué as this cannot be—as the memories of those heroes who fell in the Mexican war—like that of poor Farnum, who was buried‘Jast Sabbath, or like that of the gallant Baxter, whose monument, being long since subscribed for, has not yet risen from the sward that covers other precious relics of heroism ;-as the graves of the soldiers of 1812 are almost forgotten, and as the tomba of the patriots of the great Revolution of 1776 are overgrown with. moss and mildew and are crumbling to their original dust—as these tabernacles of the heroic dead patriots of the past cannot be anaually strewn with flowers in this present day, let the emotions that actuate the present floral decorations of the fallen Union soldiers be respected, and every aid From the Old World we have, by mail, a continuation of our special. written history of the progress of affairs in Europe to the 18th of May. The exhibit is quite important and very attractive in its contents. A Herarp. writer in Paris continues his narrative of the late radical ‘‘Reds” revolutionary movement against Napoleon. He takes the reader into the streets and shows him the aggregated ele- ments of disorder just as they seethed to violent outbreak and murder, with o metro- politan pillage in anticipation. The action of the military and police is described and the loyalty of the masses—the conservancy of in- dustry and capital—duly credited. It is a strange story; fitful in its bearing and phases, but one which will remain in the future as an illustration of how European revolutions, when made ‘‘to order,” expire, and also as 3 con- vincing proof that the mind of a great people always rights itself in the end. From the other countries, continental and British, we have quite 1 number of news items, some of them in detail of our European cable tele- grams, others original and independent of the electric source of comm unication. MurpEerR oF A FamiLy, consisting of five persons, in England, and twenty-one persons found dead from starvation on board a ship in the Indian Ocean. Such are the horrors re- ported by the ocean cable in our columns to- {cELAND THREATENS to secede from Den- mark and set up on her ‘“‘own hook.” An ap- plication for recognition by and an intimate alliance with the great American republic would be very favorably received by our people any time from June to September next. It might save the Fenians the trouble of run- ning to Canada to ‘‘cool off,” and reduce the vost of “sherry cobblers” and ‘‘cold punches,” Tax Nosiz Rep MAN has arrived in Wash- ington, fresh from his wild prairies. Spotted Tail is his euphonious name. He ie accom- panied by a suite of three other chiefs—tho Bear Brothers and Yellow Hair (evidently a blonde, dyed red)—and a French interpreter, They strutted about Washington last night with six-shooters lavishly strung round their bodies, and expressed much pleasure at knowing that the Great Fatherand other white people at the capital had already heard of their prowess in collecting white scalps. They are to meet ted Cloud, « greater chief than any of them, and one of their deadliest enemies, who is expected with a party of his own in a few days. We again advise the authorities to Conergss 1N Watt Sreeet.—While the * Russta AND SwitzERLAND are at logger- i . that a proper regard for the feelings of the ke . ay fee Washi n whiske * pro) ray eep the "y fe “ ‘ashington whiskey, plunder ; but it is still the representative party | heads, The Czar seeks, as we are told by Wedges are driven between the blocks with living soaehentatives of theidape aah end and we would further suggest that thelr port- | Op the American people of this new age, and | cable telegram, to “bully” the republic and: great force and below them deep into the sand, | | +1, oxtonded in this hour-of tender and able arsenals be temporarily seized. the democracy, still adrift between dead issues x ‘i oe which is compressed firat almost as hard as a 8 oa im. ROUT der ani force the people to forego their right of asy~ lam to foreigners. As the Emperor of France is a naturalized citizen of the Swiss republic the case may become serious should the Mus- covite persevere. stoke: «than Ete a all tiled’ tp /a00 coverea | MoMmoboly reminiscences: with » compressed composite of tar and fine gravel, which makes the whole as hard and unyielding as anything can be. Of course it makes a beautiful, even surface, very easy for horses, as well as pleasant to travel over. If it he as enduring as the best stone pavement—and it is said to be more so—the advantages, of course, are far superior. There seems to be a sound scientific principle in this | to address the House in German. The exact system of pavement, and it certainly strikes | point of this motion was not very apparent; the ordinary observer as being an excellent ) put it seems to have been intended asa joke. one. But, as was said before, let the city | 1f the purpose of the pointless joke was to authorities get all the light they can from | ridicule the Germans it may be 4 piece of practical and scientific men ; let them take the | profitable information in Washington to say best pavement, whatever it may be, and thus | that from this distance Mr. Cox appears the put a stop to the innumerable jobs and | only ridiculous figure in the report. What a wretched experiments with which this city has | pitiful thing is an ambitious and unsuccessful been cursed. In addition to the other grand | joker! aud living issues, are in no position to supplant this dominant party in 1872. st or Write Scounpreis are ws who, according to Genoral Sher- man, were caught near Fort Hays disguised as Indians making a raid upon our white settlers, "These ruffians were caught in the act, and thus the practice was brought to light. Now, the question is, how many of these so-called ‘in- dian” bands are composed of white mon? Sherman advises that no mercy shall be shown Wuere Dors raz Laven Come Ix?—Two Germans, members of Congress, addressed the House on Monday in a temper and tone far above the average of the Congressional style, in vindication of the intelligence and inde- pendent thought of the adopted citizens of German birth. Immediately thereafter Mr. S. S. Cox moved that Mr. Mungen be permitted IMPROVEMENTS OF THE PuBtio Parks— A Goov ApporntwENt.—The Park Com- missioners at their meeting yesterday unanimously appointed Captain William L. Wiley to the important position of Super- intendent of Public Squares and Places. This to these murderous gangs, whether they have | appointment is a signal evidence that the white or red skins, end he is about r But | Park Commissioners intend that their opera- the white scoundrels sbould be the first and | tions in regard to the contemplated improve- the quickest to suffer. Is there not 2 key in | ments in our public parks shall be placed in Amazonio.—A woman's rights orator out this little incident to a good deal of our Indian | the hands of trustworthy and competent men, | West, feeling assured that the female suffrage troubles? We have always said that Indian | Captein Wiley’s experience as Deputy Sur- | movement will finally succeed, is preparing raids have been fomented and kept up by | veyor of the Port, as an organizer of | the way for laying the foundation of a female white men, acting in various capacities, and | battalions, exhibited in his successful efforts | West Point institution. The cadetesses will some of them, we are sorry to Bay, acting | in recruiting and equipping the famous ‘‘Ex- | no doubt prove admirably adapted for infantry ander the government itself, celsior” brigade, and hie administrative capa- | evolutions. PRESIDENT GRANT was visited yesterday by a delegation of Sunday school children and Vice President Colfax started to Philadelphia during the day to attend a Sunday School Union. It ought to be a matter of congratula- tion to the people that our Chief Magistrates are men of such religious tendencies. Brigham Young’s Challenge to we Rev. The challenge offered by the adipose Mor- man of many wives, much hopes and great faith—to meet the Rev. Dr. Newman in fair controversy on the question of polygamy in of nis pari as coukh be expected, andiso we taining the sacred cause of the, Union. How | a improvements suggested for the comfort and | The Interuational Yacht Race-Our muecin: convenience of the people and for beautifying our city we want well paved streets, Is our new city government equal to the work before Report of the First Contest, By a special correspondence from Cowes, England, dated on the 11th of May, and news- paper mail reports from Great Britain and Treland, we are enabled to furnish to our read- ers to-day an animated and quite interesting account of the late race between the yachts Cambria and Sappho, The first contest of the international series is described at length, the merits of the competing vessels set forth, and their trim, rig and navigation detailed in words in which there is, evidently, ‘‘aothing extenu- ate” and no exaggeration, The struggle was maintained stoutly and ekilfully to theend by the Sappho, and so also by the Cambria for portion of the time, The race was conducted in the presence of many of the most experi- enced aad gallant yachtmen of the day, hail- ing from the Old and New Worlds, and we are consequently rejoiced to find that its termina~ tion was to be celebrated on shore amid a festive scene which will show forth to the world that brave hearts, “hearts without a flaw or speck,” can commingle in all climes and ‘‘stand the deck in strife or storm” without reference to national prejudices, or the war deeds which may have been accomplished under national flags, and in the true spirit of “liberty and fraternity.” So it was, and so may it ever be. AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MusIC.—UN BALLO IN MASOHERA— Verdi's opera, one of the most fantastic and, per- haps, labored that ever he wrote, was brougat out last night at this house, under very disadvantegeous circumstances, which put the calibre of the troupe to the most severe test imaginable, Tuere was no rehearsal. Mr. Lefranc, the tenor, was indisposed and was replaced at @ moment’s notice by a uew- comer, Signor Phillippe—who, however, proved & more than adequate subsiitute—and Mara Tipogen Brown, a@.soprano ot this city, made her début in pub- Me in the extremely trying role of Amelia. There was not even.an orchestral relearsal, The opera ts the most difficult of all the composer's works, for itlacks the spontaneity so eminently characteristic of him. Therefore when Wwe state that it was credilably per- formed we bear testimony to the genuine excellence of the company. The yey feature was the ex- uisite impersonation of by Miss Isabella jcCulloch, who looked charming page’s dress and like the true artist she is. Mrs. Brown has @ fine soprano voice, but the part under the circumstances was rather too much for her. She gave promise, however, of bu- coming @-valuable acquisition to the ranks of our lyric artisis, and experience will do wonders for her. ‘he tenor has a rebust, strident voice, which 1s very effective in tours de force, and 13 more reliable taan that of the gentleman he replaced. Tne great suc- seas of the season, “il ‘frovatore,” with the representative soprano and tenor of America, Kellogg, and Briguoli in the: east, will be given to night. Firru AVENUE THEATRE.—For the firat time tn- side of fitty-two years, according to Mr. Daly, the resurrector of the piece, Goldsmith’s fine old-time English comedy, the “Good-Natured Man,” was Jast night performed in this town, and to show the man- ager’s estimate of the play if was brought forward directly upon the heels of the wonderfully popular modern French “Frou-Frou.” As a picture of English life, manners, customs and cos- tumes, from ,the baronet to the bdum- bailiut and the “dead beat,’ a bundred years ago, when New Yorkers prayed for their “gracious sovereign” King George, this play is very interest- ing to the student in the progress of civilization. We see from these English.charactors, as drawa by the good-naturea Goldy, and as “tricked out” in the peacock toggery of that day by the painstaking Mr. Daly, and a8 represented by his careful actors, that “the world does move;” and we partly wonder how England survived the weakening and de- moralizing influences of that long reign of flummery, during which fashion made the merest popinjays of the men who gave the law to society, and bow the women of that time, ag compared with the men, in practical common sense, were so far above the belittling and debasing conventionalities and stupidities that surrounded them. We may trace that long reign of Engush flummery from the Restoration down to the appear- ance of Napoleon, who fairly knocked the flunmery outor John Bull and made @ comparatively decent man oi him, Such were among the reflections #1 to this wiiness at the reproduction of this. old-time Enghsh comedy last night. Asa picture of society it 1s a hundred years old, and though by one of the old, masters, itis not the thing to eclipse “ Frou- Frou.” It is done in Goidsmith’s masterly style; it abounds. in good hits and spar. king’ conversations; the plot is neatly contrived aud worked out, the characters are i sufficient variety, and there are some amusing cneounters and incidents; but slill the play, though old. wine, is like wine, so very old that 11 has lost.its bouquet. As Croaker Mr. Davidge was in his element. {[t is a art which suits hts and which he fis admirably. fir. Lewis as Lofty, the all-powerful and induential “uead beat,’ is aiso excellent. Mr. Clarke as “the good-natured man,” Mr. Honeywood, made ag much may of the rest of the good actors in the play. ey walked through it as _ thro an old Engiish minuet, gracefelly and in time with the music; but the Whole thing, though very fme and showy and elegant, was very slow.. It was even so from the prologue of the ponderous Dr. Johnson to the pretty epilogue of the graceful Mr. Winter, The reproduction, however, is interestiig, we say, as a icture of English society, customs, costumes and Bvemaking w hundred years ago, though it lacks the enduring elements of “She Stoops to Conquer;”” and yet as some rare old treasure drawn out from the bottom of. an ancient chest laid by for genera- tons, It will pay to see it, Woop's MusguM—“THE WITCHES OF NEW YORE.””— ‘This piece was given for the first time Mopday even- ing to a crowded house, and proved in every respect a genuine success, AS.a picture of New. York ‘socl- ety,” in its. various phases, it ts beyond she ordinary run of plays which have for their principal atirac- tions the ups and downs of metropolitan life, as but few people see it who have aot studied New York in all its vagaries. The plokof the piece ts simply this:—A. young girl is deprived of her. rightful inhe- ritance by fraud, ana struggles through life, for a long time hopelessly and. without knowing really what she is, Ofcourse she gets out of her trou- bles in the long run and villany 18 crushed and virtue reigasgupreme, and ali that sort of thing. There is one excellent scene in the first act, that of a house on fire, and in the other ucts many of the well known “landmarks” are pictured with an ap- eer to the reality that is positively wonderful. ‘ha piece will, undoubtedly, have @ long run. Some of the scenes, it may be sald, might be toned down to advantage, such, for instance, as the love and @ronken scene in the first act, The deciaration of Jove of the orange girv to the iawyer, even under the supposed circumstanees of the case, 1s not natural, aud, therefore, snouid be changed accordingly. Miss Olivia Ranc, as Mile. A. Eloise, the danseuse, was, 93 the “gods” would say, ‘lm- mense,” and brought down the house at will, In fact, she made her character the character par ex- cellence of the piece. Mr. Aiken as Royal Keene, the lawyer, showed in the scene between him and the “gcion of one of the old New York fawilies” that he does not know how to get drunk, Miss Rosa Rand ‘was o very pretty orange girl, aud acted her part exccedingly weil, and ricaly deserved the frequent appiause she obtaincd. Mr, G. C. Charies made a very acceptable ‘Tombs shystey,” while Mr. Mes- tayer did the best, or vather the worst he could of the “sensation writer.” Miss Theresa Wood in the ballroom scene was excellent, and the pas was cer- tainly well termed on she bili one of fascination, Mr. J. Barnes made a good Itahan djamond broker without spoiling the character by the too common, stage exaggeration of the broker Jew in real life. ‘TAMMANY.—A crowded house on @ wet evening 1s an irresistible proof that the Tammany Alhambra is. a favorite place of amusement with the public. Variety has its charms, and Temmany gives to its patrons a charming varicty. Every class of ‘+busi~ neas,” to use a professional phrase, 18 put upon, the boards, except the tragic, and that is curefuily avoidea, Arausement, but not instruction, is.essen- tially the order of the night, and it is searcely pos- stble to conceive a better programme for beguii- ing the hours away. ‘the recent management has placed @ ballet upon the stage thut is not too “broad” for the feminine eye, aud, there- fore, 16 was with pleasure that we saw a few ladies in the sprinkiing of the fair sex who were present. “The Pearlot Tokay,” the new ballet pauiomime, is highly creditable to the “Brothers Kitaify,” and 18 the principal attraction ofthe bill, The music and the dancing were both above the average of this class of performance, This ballet and the Indian performance are accessions to ihe excellent stock company for which Tammany has so long been famous. An evealug's amusement of more than ‘usual attractivencss may now be salely reckoned on at Tammany. A Dvr. Tat Dip Nor Come Orr.—A duel was to have taken place across the river last evening, between Messrs. Pritchard and Adams, of Canton, Miss., but owing to some misunderstanding oue of the parties failed to reach the place of ere fh the appointed hour, which prevented the fatal agar trom coming otf.—Vicksoury Sentinel, May 39