The New York Herald Newspaper, June 2, 1870, Page 6

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TRIPLE S Thursday, CONTZATS OF TO-DAV’S HIRALD, A—Advertisements. 2—Adveriisements. t 3—Washington: Rejection of the Sandwich Islands Treaty, President Grant’s Message on the St. Domingo ‘Treaty; President Baez's Trickery Expose; The Tax Resluction Bill Undey Con- sideiation in the House; Attempt to Repeal the Inco! ‘Tax—Educational Afialrs—Another op Tragedy—Another Murderous As- rope: German Royalty Passing Quietly Out of Sight; Popular Alarin in Ireland and Opera- tion ef the Gladstone Lasd Bili—National Bauk Jobs in Congress— Point: The Opening of the Season, d Other- wise—Fine Aris—Cuba: Tro West- ju ern Part of the Island; Insurgent Successes in the Eastern Department—Dezperate Rovbery— The Shipownerst Association—Attempied suk cide In Newark—A Rare Bir 5—=TheNew Begee. : The Depa a Tour of Inspection; De) ent of Public Heatth—The Public Debt Statement—The Trenton Libel Suit—Trotting at Prospect Park Fa‘r Ground he Burke-Gardiner Cise—The Rivington Street Skeletons—Political Notes and Observations—The New Yorx HERALD in California—Suburban Incendiarism—Sbad in an Alabama Stream, G6—Editorials: Leading Article on Tie Dominican Annexation Treaty, General Grant’s Policy— Amusements—Personal Lntelligence—Testing tne Elevated Raliroad—Amusement Announce- ments. ‘YeTelegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Revolutionary Agitation in iar: The ast of the Greck Brigands Murderers aptured—The English Derby—Billiards— New York Liberal Club—The Steuben Monn- ment—New Jersey Episcopal Diocesan Con vention—Tie Feniang—The Presbyterian Sy- nod—Muzic in Washmgton Square—The State Inebriate Asylam—Business Notices. S—Procecdivgs in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Financial and Commercial Reports— Real-Estate Matters—Funuy Mistake at an Irish Faneral—Marrlages and Deaths—Advertise- ments, P—Advertisements. 16--Another Ratiroad Horror: Stocking Catastro- he on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Loquet of Kashion-<the O'Day New York City News—Political Cor- ruption in Jersey City—Burglars Beaten—Sul- cide at Newton, N, J.—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, 11—Advertiscments. 12—Adveritiseme: nt of Docks on A CuanaceE or Basz, But Nor or Arvse.— An exchange states that Senator Harlan, of Towa, who last year styled the reporters ‘‘the lazaroni of the press,” now politely calls them “tthe chronometers of public opinion.” Does he mean now to say that they are like most Bohomians, continually going on “tick 2” Lory Farmourn’s Horse Krycorarr won the Derby stakes on Epsom Downs Course, England, yesterday, in 2:45. The great European turf event is fully reported, by cable telegrams, in our columns to-day. The pedi- gree of the winner, with other interesting par- ticulars, is —Red vrond . He,bas Red is ai the home of the Wh r Shirt and Red Dog, big chiefs of the Ogalalla Sioux, with him. He has also many chiefs of the Bear family with him, snd four squaws. Red Cloud wonders at the white man’s coun- try. The white man is thicker than blades of grass. Tue Sioux chief woaders at the great cities and the power of the while chief, but he despises spring mattresses and white shirts, and he already pines for the wild forests. He will have a talk and smole-——he and Spotted Tail, the great chief of the Brulé nation—with the White Father on Monday, and then he and the Brule chiof will betake themselves again to the prairies and the war path, with new hopes of driving the white nations from their hunting grounds. Sanguine and sanguinary savages! Naro.zon av Menton.—A cable despatch which we print this morning hus it that the Emperor Napoleon, after leaving Chalons in July, will go to Munich. This is not a bad idea. If Bismarck has not been there before him Napoleon may give a new point of departure to the Rhine boundary question. Bavaria, Wuriemburg and Baden constitute the debatable land. On this land the eyes of Prussia, Austria and France are fixed. Since the close of the late German war diplomacy has been doing {ts best, and Prussia bas had to play against both Austria and France. In the meantime Prnasia has the advantage. Treaties, military and commercial, bind tho South German States to Prussia, and it is not easy to see how these treaties can he set aside. In the interests of peace we should be more glad to hear that Napoleon was about to visit Berlia. VA ' NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNK 2, 1870.—TKIPLE, SHEET, The Dewinican Annexation, Troaty—Gen- | A Mexican Eruption which Defies tho | Comaross—Tho Frauking eral Grants Polley. The views and the West Indian policy of General Grant, embodied in his reccat epecial message to the Senate on the Dominican annex- ation treaty, are very interesting and of the highest importance, He first treats of the Monroe doctrine in reference to the West In- dian islands, and characterizes the annexation of the island or the proposed division of the island of St. Domingo as the practical inaugu- ration of that broad American doctrine. He thinks, too, that the fine opportunity for this new departure in reference to the Weat Indies should not be lost, because it gives a peaceful and practical solution to the great question and makes it a fixed policy. On the other hand, he contends that the rejection of this Dominican treaty will be equivalent to the abandonment of the Monroe doctrine and an invitation to the Western Powers of Europe to intrigue for the control and the possession of the feeble, independent States in the Mexican Gulf and on the mainland to the southward. Applying this argument directly to the re- public of Dominica (which covers three-fourths, of the splendid island of Hayti or St. Domingo, the black republic of Hayti occupying the re- mainder), General Grant says tho Dominican government is weak and unable to support itself any longer, that some more powerful nation will have to give it a helping hand, and that if we réfuse the liberal offers of the Dominicans to join their fortunes with ours, asa Territory of the Union, we shall bave no right to complain if they look for protection and security elsewhere. This is a strong point, from whieh the President proceeds to portray the great value of the island to the United States in a commercial, military and naval view of our situation and development, In St. Domingo, he rightly contends, we shall have the key of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, and by guarding these waters, instead of waiting for a foreiga enemy to come pounding at our very doors, he is kept at a dis- tance, The position, too, gives us positively the control of the manifest destiny of the whole West Indian group to which it belongs, the most important consideration of all. The President, therefore, renews to the Senate his recommendation for the ratification of the treaty. Why not? Because, they say, there is a job in it; bat it appears to us a good job for the United States. The equivalent in money involved is a bagat-le—$1,500,000—and carefully guarded to this limitation the birgain to us will be worth more than a hundred millions. The reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich Islands, which the Senate has just re- jected, though a good thing, is a second- ary affair compared with this Dominican treaty, which proposes to give us (for Hayti is ready to follow Dominica) a large and one of the very richest tropical islands in the world for almost nothing. The time for the ratifica- tion has been extended to the Ist of July next, but it does not as yet appear that a two-thirds vote of the Senate can be counted upon, The main difliculty, it has been represented to us, lies with Senator Sumner, who is said to have this objection, among others, to the acquisi- tion of the island—viz.: that its population, mainly of mulattoes and blacks, is of that kind of which we have enough already, This may bea grim joke against the Senator; but tho objection involved is, at least, as good as the best we have heard against the treaty, which means that it amounts to nothing. Still, as it is to be apprehended that the Senate, if left to itself, will delay action upon this treaty till the end of the session, we prefer the proposition of General Butler to substitute a joint resolution for the treaty form. Atreaty requiring a two-thirds vote for the annexation of Texas was first tried in the Senate, and it was rejected, the range of vision of some of the Senators of that day, as of this, being somewhat contracted; but the joint resolution plan, which requires only a majority vote, was next tried and car- ried through; and from that act of annexation we have now not only the great cattle, corn and cotton State of Texas, the golden State of California and the silver State of Nevada, “but the Territories of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and the Pacific Railroad and universal liberty and equal rights. Results perhaps as great, wonderful and glorious may follow the annexation of St. Domingo, Who knows? It is enough that with this annexation accomplished it flanks Cuba, points the way to all the rest of the West India islands and to the awaiting States of Mexico and Central America. It is, indeed, enough that this annexation will give us at once the larger division of the fine island of St. Domingo, and that the other division will shortly follow. Hence, to make it sure, we approve the joint resolution plan of General Butler, and hope he will push it through. General Grant’s policy, as developed on this question, is the true American policy, and the only satisfactory application of the Monroe doctrine. Cuitp ToxtTuRERS.—It is honorable to the general humanity of the American people that a case in which the question at issue is whether a man and his wife together did cruelly beat a little girl excites in the neigh- borbood in which it is on trial almost as much interest as any of our first class criminal trials, Acertain Mr. Ballard and his wife are the persons accused of brutally misusing a little ginl who is the wife's sister. Good evidence of the maltreatment was given; but it is only natural to note that when the little girl was put on the stand the only person she could see in court was the tyrant who had beaten her, aud who ghe no doubt feared would beat her again if she should say what would displease him. So she did ker little best to unsay what had been said, and to invalidate the testimony of the neighbors. It is pretty clear in these cases generally that if the court does not ren- der justice public opinion will, and the crimi- nal should rather prefer a verdict against him than the rough reversal his neighbors would make of any legal decree in his favor. Rattroap AcoweENt Near Paterson. —A car, occupied by workmen, on the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad, while going on a | dowa grade to the new bridge near Ruther- furd Park yesterday, jumped off the track, and fell twenty fect to the ground, Several men were killed, and a number of others fatally injured, Power of Juarez. | Mexico, taken altogether, is a most romark- able country, It matters little in what light we consider it, we find the elements so mixed, varied and conflicting that things which io other lands would convulse nations are re- garded there as matters of little moment. Revo- lutions in more civilized countries are con- sidered by the inhabitants as afflictions; in Mexico they are regarded as mere pastime. Men elsewhere make fortunes by commerce, trade or enterprise; in the land of the Monte- zumas they win wealth by the more expe- ditious, though less honorable, means of ap- propriating conductas laden with gold or silver, and then glory in their act inthe name of “God and liberty.” Every French soldier be- lieves he carries a marshal’s baton in his knap- sack; any Mexican pronouncer who has the requisite cheek, daring and ambition, whittles one whenever the occasion presents itself, and then, supported by followers less ambitious, though fully as daring as himself, he sets out upon hig self-imposed mission of freeing his country, It is a significant fact that in Mexico every mun in office is regarded as an enemy to his country by those who are not in office. Reverse the situation, and place the outs in and’ the ins out, and the chances are that many of those who now occupy lofty places and declaim patriot- ism in the most tropical vein would, on the first opportunity, issue a pronunciamento, take sides with ‘‘God and liberty,” and leaye patriotism to take care of itself, And yet, may we not ask, are the Mexicans to be blamed for these strange and interesting fea- tures of their character? May not the pecu- liar character of the country have something to do with these peculiar characteristics of the people? Have climatic influences no effect? They may. Of late, however, we have had a lull; the revolutionary market is dull, and the Huertas, Cadenas, Rochas and Aguirres are quiet. Yet Mexico is not without its disturb- ances.” The volcano of Ceboruco is again in action, Thiseruption, which fortunately bodes less harm to the State than a corpo- ral’s guard of pronouncers, attracts the atten- tion of the government—for scientific pur- poses, no doubt; yet we cannot lose sight of the fact that investigation as to the causes of erup® tions, whether they result. from fiery moun- tains or flery leaders, are matters of consider- able importance, not only to the Mexicans themselves but to the world at large. In the eruption of Mount Ceboruco President: Juarez learns of a rising which defies his power. The Public Debt Statement, It will be seen by the monthly statement of the public debt published to-day that the cof- fers of the Secretary of the Treasury continue full, and that the income far exceeds the ex- penditures. There isin the Treasury over a hundred and six millions in gold and upwards of fourteen millions in curreney, Against the gold there are certificates of deposit out to the amount of more than thirty-five millions, The surplus cash, then, which the government has actually on hand, after deducting the amount of these gold certificates, is over seventy-one mil- lions in gold and fourteen millions and up- wards in currency. Reckoned all in currency the sum would be nearly a hundred millions. Something like this amount, and sometimes moro than that, has been lying all the time as dead capital in the Treasury. There is con- sequently a loss of about six millions a year in interest by this useless hoarding. There is no reason why the money should not be used in buying up the interest-bearing debt and thus save six millions a year. If the Treasury were empty now there would be @ surplus at the end of the month, and this would continue toincrease. The flourishing condition of the Treasury and prosperity of the country are seen in the large and continual decrease of the debt from month to month. During the month just ended the debt decreased over fourteen millions, and for the three months since the Ist of March more than thirty-one millions. Well may the credit of the United States’ rise both at home and abroad. No nation in the world has such resources or such a prospect of liquidating its debt within a reasonable time. The expenditures are still much too large, and if Congress would reduce these there would be a large margin for remov- ing taxes and lightening the burdens of the people, A plethoric Treasury only leads to extrayagance and corruption. He Represents His ConsriruENocy.— Apropos to the election in South Carolina, in which Mr. Whittemore is probably the successful candidate to Congress, the leading republican organ gives, in a penitent spirit, a glimpse of the political condition that results from the great philanthropic reform of putting the nigger in the white man’s place as the con- trolling political power. Whittemore, it is conceded, is a scoundrel, and of the meanest possible type. Hi taking a bribe in Congress is showa to be not merely in his usual way, but rather above bis usual way in point of dignity and fair dealing. Even his defence— that he applied the money to charitable pur- poses—turns out to be a common defence with him, and he has made it in casés of knavery on so small a sum as seventy-five cents, Yet this fellow must go to Congress, and there is no help for it—all because, knave as he is, he is popular with the negroes, who are too obtuse, morally, to conceive of these points of character as objections, These are the voters, who, in the new republic, are the suc- cessors of the white men of South Carolina; and for a constituency of such voters Whitte- more is certainly a proper representative. Dramonp Experts.—The ruse by which two or three thieves converted a room in the St. Nicholas Hotel into a robbers’ den or trap into which they decoyed to plunder him a man with a name so suggestive of shrewdness as Joseph E. Isaacs is only another illustration of what is possible in great cities. Hotel keepers, of course, cannot prevent such a use of their rooms if the thieves are adroit, and the invita- tion to a diamond broker to visit a hotel and buy diamonds of a newly arrived foreigner is one sufficiently in the way of that trade not to excite suspicion. So the case was well laid out on the part of the rogues and Mr. Isaaca stumbled; yet withal he contrived very well to have only two hundred dollars about him in ready money on a trip to purchase twelve thousand dollars’ worth of stoves, ) wanderings extended. Privilege The Hawalian Treaty and the Income Tax. The Senate consumed most of the time yester- day in considering the bill to change the judi- cial circuits, which was finally passed. Dur- ing the discussion the bill to abolish the frank- ing privilege came up as a special order, but, on motion of Mr. Trumbull, it was laid aside, andthe Funding bill was given preference over it, The Senate evidently intend to kill the bill to abolish the franking privilege, either by amending it out of shape or post- poning it indefinitely, What we object to especially is the unseemly way in which they go about it. They parade it too much before the public, with the apparent intention of leading the people to believe that they would like to pasa it, when the public is already fully convinced, beyond all cavil, that there is nothing further from the intention of - the Senate. This unnecessary parade of a condemned victim is therefore an insult to the intelligence of the people. It would be in better taste to smother the bill quietly in committee, and then the people might for- get all about it, An executive session was held in the afternoon, at which the proposed reciprocity treaty’ with the Sandwich Islands was rejected. In view of the increasing im- portance of our commercial relations with the islands of the Pacific, and the probable early establishment of tele- graphic communication with Hawaii, it is to be regretted that the recriprocity treaty was defeated. There is one thing developed by the discussion upon it, however, which should give us a grain of comfort, Mr. Sum- ner, who, as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and by reason of his ‘“‘rhe- torical ponderosity” is the big gun on treaties, expended all his eloquence in favor of it in vain, and we may therefore hope that the’elo- quence he proposes to expend in opposition to the ratification of the treaty with St. Do- mingo will be as ineffectual. In the House the bill to reduce the internal taxes was further considered. In the course of the discussion Mr. Schenck said it was the intention of the committee to do away with the whole system of spies and informers, and Mr. Sargent stated that a reduction in the present customs duties of ten per cent and on the present internal taxes of fifteen per cent would yield a surplus outside of all expenses of twenty-two millions four hundred thousand doliars a year, even with the income tax and all special taxes abolished. A long and inte- resting debate ensued on the propo- sition to continue the income tax, and it will be farther discussed to-day. The tenor of the speeches from the most able members so far is against continuing the tax, and it is probable that it will be rejected. Outside of the considerations of its injustice and oppressiveness it is the ‘species of tax most obnoxious to a free people and most di- rectly opposed to the spirit of free institutions, and Mr. Schenck, who stated that his com- mittee intended to wipe out the whole sys'em of spies and informers, would show himself consistent with that spirit if be would also aim, to wipe out a system such as the income tax, which is almost exclusively based ». jue information gleaned from espionage. Lola Montez. The memory of a very remarkable and cer- tainly not undistinguished woman, who many years ago attracted the attention of a fair por- tion of the whole world asan actress, a lec- turer and a diplomatist, is about to be revived in a lecture to be delivered at Steinway Hall this evening by the daughter of the famous Lola Montez. While the remains of the Coun- tess of Landsfeldt repose in Greenwood Ceme- tery, with the green sward, a few bright flowers and an unpretending monument (raised by friendly hands above them), the story of her life is to be told to-night with all the affection with which a daughter can embellish it, and no doubt will be rendered peculiarly interesting by many facts in the career of the well known actress, whose whole character and inner life have probably never been thorough!y under- stood. Lola Montez, as we know, made a little episode in the history of Bavaria during the democratic conflict between the King and the people, This was her first entrance into pub- lic life. It was then that people began to know her. Her subsequent career as an actress is familiar to everyb@ly. She travelled pretiy much over the entire globe. From St. Peters- burg to Australia and California her artistic Her latest efforts were in this city, and here ghe died. It will be in- teresting to hear from the lips of her daughter, Editha Gilbert Montez, a lecture on ‘‘ the wrongs of her distinguished mother,” which is to be given this evening. It will retresh the memory of poor Lola Montez—a waif of genius that the waters of life tossed about somewhat roughly. Fottowine A Goop ExaMpLe.—The new. City Chamberlain, Seaator John J. Bradley, we are happy to see, is following in the footsteps of his worthy predecessor, Peter B, Sweeny, in the matter of depositing in the county treasury the interest on the public deposits. The first of all our City Chamberlains who took this acceptable plum out of his own pocket and gave it honestly—and let us say magnani- mously—to the people was Peter B. Sweeny. His successor, Mr. Bradley, it seems, is not to be outdone in public honesty. He has paid to the County Treasurer interest on deposits for the month of April $6,353 54, and for the month of May the large sum of $13,462 72, making a handsome total of $19,816. We applaud and congratulate Chamberlain Brad- ley for following so bright an example. In these days of vacillating virtue and indirect corruption the people will not forget the men who are brave and earnest enough to be honest. ANOTHER SPECTACULAR ACOIDENT.—It seems, on the principle that ‘misfortunes come not single spies, but in battalions,” that accidents of a class come in groups—that one, as it were, precipitates another, like a row of bricks. We had a few days ago the attack of the lions on Minnie Wells, and the fall of the trapezist at the Tammany, and now comes from Washing- ton the report that Harry Leslie, who is known for his daring feats in walking the tight rope at Niagara and at High Bridge, andon a trapeze suspended under a balloon at Jones’ Wood, has fallen from a tight rope thirty feet and in- jured himself so seriously that it is probable he will die, Puritanism and Padding at the Hub. One of the Boston courts has beon for some ‘time, yntil recently, engaged in the trial of a suit in which the plaintiff was a fashionable dressmaker and the defendant one of the mushroom aristocracy of the Hub. The sum at lsaue was less than two thousand dollars, charged for dresses and robes made up for defendant's wife. “The work covered a con- siderable space of time.- Now, the Simon Pure aristocracy of the Old World would con- sider this charge a mere bagatelle in the way of disbursements for laces, silks, satins, fur- belows, trimmings, waists, bosoms, busts, bones and paddings for a lady of the aut ton for even the beginning of a fashionable season, And, remembering the lavish ex- penditures during the gay and festive reign of our own King Petroleum of glorious memory, two thousand dollars wouldn’t pur- chase a jewellod bodkin to confine the tresses of one of the éite of the royal line of peerless princesses of Petrolia. How mean it appears, then, for one of the would-be aristocracy of to-day to grumble about paying this pretty little milliner's or dressmaker’s bill. It is un- society-like, and decidedly picayunish, But the fact is the glory of the olden aristocracy of New England. is fast passing away; bat one pure light remains—the venerable and honor- able Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis still lives to adorn and mellow the fading sunset of Boston’s ancient aristocratic prestige. When she departs—and may that sad duy be far, far hence—there will be nothing left of the grand old New England régime—the cream of the early republican courts of Washinton, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe—and all the tone, refinement and aplomb of New England’s polite socicty will be vested in the calico and codfish aristocracy, in shoddy and snobbery. The case just on trial is a case in point, The suitor: for pay for the suits in question has been non-suited, and the poor- rich modiste is minus hor two thousand dollars for the present, The moral of all this is twofold. It warns fashionable drossmakers to ascertain who they are dealing with when ‘“‘price is declared to be no object ;” and it warns wiserly husbands, who would have thetr wives appear in gor- geous array in the society they aspire to move in, and yet are too mean to foot the bills, that there are other ways of breaking a good woman's heart than by tight lacing, and one is by keeping too tight a purse string when once she is allowed to sail before the prosperous ales upon the fascinating sea of fashion. A lit- ds fashion, like learning, is 9 dangerons thing. Drink deep or taste not the bewildering stream. That rendering will do for the recent case of Puritanism and padding at the “Hub.” Commencement of Quarantine. Yesterday the important order of the Health Officer of the Port quarantining all vessels from ports in the West Indies, Spanish Main, west coast of Africa and others where cholera or yellow fever exists, went into effect, and they will hereafter ‘be boarded and examined in the lower bay. There are hopes, based upon the known skill and fidelity to duty of Dr. Carnochan, that our city will befree from loathsome and contagious diseases during the summer, at least so far as the proper administration of Quarantine affairs will tend to that result. Dr. Carnochan and his deputies have devoted the greater portion of their time recently to the careful inspection .of the various departments connected with their responsible positions. Days have been passed in the personal examination of the hospitals in the lower bay, resulting in improvements in their arrangements calculated to make the sick and weary foreigner as comfortable as circum- stances will permit. But little is known by the public of the exacting and onerous duties that fall to the lot of the Health Officer of the Port and his deputies. Yet they may be imagined when one reflects that upon an average seven or eight thousand immigrants are landed ‘here weekly, all of whom come under the personal observation of the Quarantine officials. By many of these strangers disease is contracted upon the ocean, and only by the faithful dis- charge of sworn duties can this city be pro- tected from devastating epidemics. This is fully intended to be done by Dr. Carnochan, and, consequently, he has taken the initiative in the right direction to make the Quarantine of this harbor a model for all others in the world, with none but skilful and honorable men among its employés. Heretofore too much reliance has been placed in the sagacity of subordinates; yet while they are of the greatest value in their places they cannot feel the same responsibility as the Health Officer, to whom the public look for and demand protection. That Dr. Carnochan, practically as well as nominally, will be at the head of his office, none that know him will for a moment doubt. This assurance is hardly necessary, but it cannot be otherwise than well timed, and the million inhabitants of the metropolis will rejoice as we do in view of the important fact. A Concession To Prorgotioy.—It is re- ported that Mr. Wells, Special Commissioner of the Revenue, will ‘not be reappointed” upon the approaching expiration of his torm of office. This will be a concession to the tariff shriekers that we shall be sorry.to see. Mr. Wells isa thoroughly competent man in the sphere in which his duties liv, and is one of the small number of persons in office who can give to all the dryness of tax tables the attraction of a scientific study. We do not believe the gov- ernment will readily supply his place with a man equally fit for it. He has told us many truths of our financial condition—truths not always palatable, and least of all palatable to the protectionists. And it is no doubt because of the passionate and furious assaults of these persons on the man whose straightforward statements are sometimes damaging to their pretty theories that he is to have the go-by. Tne Prince IMrertat is, we are told, about to be affianced. To whom? This among the princesses of Europe will be the question of the hour. The young man is not likely to experience his father’s difficulties in seeking a wife of royal blood. The star of Josephine is still in the ascendant, and there are some people who think that royal blood is fatal to the Bonapartes. Meanwhile the question is, Who is who? Mob Rulo in Brooklya. We have seldom seen go plain and offensive an assertion of mob power as appears in the reported visit of political committee to cer- tain’ persons in office in Brooklyn, It appeara that the Commissioners of Police in Brooklyn and the Water Commissioners also, while they are democrats and recognize their relations with the democracy, are not blind democrats, and can conceive that they have a duty to discharge toward the whole people. They have, therefore, in regard to the appointment of their subordinates, been more regardful of efficiency than of political opinion, and this haa especially displeased the intolerant mob of place seekers who hurrah for dembdcracy wherever it wins, and, of course, waat all the pluces, whether they are fit for them or not, So a committee of these worthies waited upon several heads of administrative departments to deliberately demand persecution for po- litical opinion in the land where every man is supposed . to be free to think and vote as ho pleases, They required that every person not. ademocrat should be dismissed from place, Some of the gentlemen, especially, Mayor Kalbfleisch, indignantly repudiated this dic- tation; but we are sorry to see that others scemed to assent that there was some shadow of right and propricty in so gross an outrage, AMUSEMENTS. ‘WarsacK’s.—Lovel’s five act play of ‘ Love's Sac ridce’ was given here last night to a large audience. ‘The play is calculated to bring forth the dramatic ability of those to whom the parts of Matthew B+ more, Paul Lafont and Margaret Elmore are en trusted, and these characters found goo exponents in tne persons of J. W. Walluck, Charies Fisher and Miss Madeline Henriques, Try.ng as is the charac- ter of Maigarct Elmore, Miss Henriques played with much vigor and a rare bape ge of her trying vole, aud to wituess Mr. Waliack in Mate tuew Elmore, or simitar parts, is a treat only counterbalance: only by ‘he regret that he will in- sist in playing Pes which might legitimately fall to juventie actors, Has veting last nigat was tnished ‘and will hold @ fond recollection im the minds of theaire-goers, associated with such charact . tions ag his Martin Haywood, Iron Mask and other paris of this character. Stoddart's Jean Russe waa admirably conceived, and actod with that quatot humor for which he has of late become so noted. Miss Loutsa Moore and Mrs. John Sefton, m tae parts of Herminie and Manon, je't us nothing to de- Sire, Mr. Rockwell played friar Bominick well, nd his reading in the (85) oct yavs evidence of Taken altovether “Loves Sacrifies Ww played throughout. “she Honeymoon"? wit be repeated to-night, NivLO’s-—-MISS MARKHAM'S Ban — ‘The Pretty Horsebreaker” and The Forty 1 were given at this tady’s benefit ast night before a fairly filled house. As the merits and personnel of the company have been fully discussed before it 18 only necessary here to say-that both pleces were played with their wonted spirit and vivaclty, and Thad the véndfictaire was the recipient of applause aud pouguitss nd Beckett and Cabill brought down tl oG8e by their irresisitbly comic acting, and Mr. (onnolly, the clever leader of the sechescra, saa a desetvéd encore for iis “Railroad Galop.” To. ight the same bill will be preseated for the list time, and on Friday Miss Taomp-on will play “The Litile Rebel” and “Ixton’” for her beneflt, ‘rho pre. parations tor the great military dvama, “Not Gutity,”? which will be brought out at this house on Moaday, are on the grandest duale, anil (ae piece bids fair to have a long and sueceasiul rua, " Musteal and ‘Theatrical Notes. A grand concert, with a mammoth orchestra and some of the best solo vocalists and instrumentalists iu New York, wi!l be given at the Grand Opera House on Sunday next, The programme comprises classl- cal and popular selections and the concert com- mences at eight P, M. Mr. Edmond Falconer takes @ matinée benefit at Waillack’s on Tuesday, on which occasion he will be assisted by such artists as Miss Leclercq, Fechter, Brougham and J. W. Wallack. The bill 1s a choice one in every sense of the word. ‘the preparations for the great Beethoven Centen- nial Festival, to be held at the American Institue Coliseum tn June, are nearly Sonnets 1, The com- bination of pperene artists is of the most complete character. Negottations are nearly concluded with the renowned Handel and Haydn Society, of Boston, and Gilmore, the successful manager of the Junilee, will be one of the principal conductors. Brignoli, Lefranc, Reyna and Randoltl are already engaged. Loita bade farewell to the New York public at the ee. of Musi¢ at Colonel Brownie’s benefit on nesday. On Saturday night Mr. L. F. Harrison, the welt known business manager of the Fifth avenue theatre, has @ benefit, and on Monday Mr, Jaines Roberts, one of the best scenic artists in the city, will also appear us a Uénésiciaire at the same house. To him much of the snecess of the’ past season has been due, and his stage setting of Mr. Daty’s beauti- ful piays has won universal praise. “Tie Good. Natured Man” has been selected for both benefits, Dan Bryant's benefit comes off to-night at the Academy of Music, Mr. Theodore Moss opens his summer season at Wallack’s on Monday, with Brougham’s drama, “The Red Light.” The tinal farewell matinée of “The Corsican Brothers” tukes place at the French theatre on Sat- urday, and in the evening Mr. Fechter and Miss eer Close thelr eugagement with “The Lady of ons.’/ ‘The Parepa-Rosa English Opera Company give the last performance of their season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday. “Oberon,” the best of their extensive répertoire, will be presented on the occaston. Madame Matilda Heron is now preparing dramatio pupils for the stage. Peat Alice, in “Robert,” nas taken London by storm, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Major General Sir F. E. Chapman, K. 0. B, R. &., Governor General of Bermuda; Captain Chapmin and Lieutenant Curling, A. D. C. of the Royal Navy, and John M, Douglass, President of the Ilinots Cen- tral Railroad, are at the Brevoort House. Monsieur Place, Consul General of France; Dr. Ry 8. Strong, of Liverpool; Mr. Washburn, of Minae- sota, and Captain Macauley, of the steamer China, are at the New York Hotel. E. 0. Banfield, Solicitor of the Treasury Depart- ment, Washington; Charles A. Lovett, of Hong Kong; Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts; Colo- nel W. Le Hull, of St. Louis; Professor J. Woodrow, of South Carolina, and M. P. Bemus, of Maysville, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonet E. D, Baker and J. W. Williams, of the United States Army; Bey. P. H. Heally, of St. Louis; Rev. James Haggerty aud Rev. M, D. Buckley, of Cork, Ireland; State Senator Cheeseborough, of New York; Dr. Storey, of Pennsyivania, and Dr. W. Rice, of Providence, R. I., are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor 8. W. Johnson, of New Haven, Is at the Irving House. Commander E. Simpson, of the United States Navy; Captain W. Boutcll, of England; George Innis, of Poughkeepsie; Rev. A. Young, of New York, and George E. Lincoln, of Boston, are at the Astor House, Charles P. Peabody, of Boston, ana H. D. Barto, of Trumansburg, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Alfred Ely, of Rochester; James Carlisle and W. Black, of London, are at the Coleman House. Frank King, of Virginia, and John Satterlee, of California, are at the Hotfman House. 3 Pro mt Departures. General Negley, for Washington; Judge Nelson, for Poughkeepsie; Judge Allen, for Albany; Jacob Hoffner, for St. Louis; Judge A. White, for Albany; Colonel S, E. Smith and Dr. Buckhauer, for Boston, and Colonel S. Taylor, for Washington. Governor Hoffman left town to-day (0 visit Clinton Prison. TESTING THE ELEVATED AAILAOAD. Since the oceurrence of the late break while test. ing the road’s capability of bearing a transverso strain on the columns and spans of the Greenwich street clevated railroad numerous other experiments of a simiiar nature have w thin a few days been suc- cessfully made, The company, wishing to ascertain the bearing capacity of the ratls, yesterday morning freighted a car weighing 10,622 pounds with 20,172 pounds of pig iron, and ran tt twice over that section comprising the britge over Houston street and north- erly to Twenty-ninth street, The total weight of the carand load Was 15.704 tons. The trou was at the request of the company, weighed by M. 1. Everitt, city weigher, and the car by William H, Paddoc superintendent of the Kleyated Raiiway Compa: and certificates hearing the above-mentioned amounts given, ‘The rates of speed varied from two, to fit. teen miles per hour, aad no more “weak spots!) have been discorsved.