The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1870, Page 8

8 THE FINE ARTS. Pictorial Sketches in Paris in Time of War—Art Progress—Popular Im- pediments—The “Phantom of the Rhine” — Life and Hope and Light. Paws, August 20, 1870, ‘yhe most remarkable artistic works which have as yet been inspired by the war with Prus- sia are Gustave Doré’s phantom army rising by moonlight on the borders of the Rhine to en- courage the successors of the republic on their road towards gloomy Ehrenbreitstein, and Car- peanx’s statuette, representing a warlike female— “La Patrie”’—in the act of calling patriots around her, while she bounds forward, weapon in hand, after the savage contemplation of a defeat, from the top of a battery belching forth a torrent of deadly fire. But there are tableaux everwhere in real life, and unto no artist is itgiven to repro- duce them on canvas as rapidly as they pass be- fore his observing eye. The grand, the ideal, the hideous and sublime are blended inharmo- niously on the stage of life in France and on the fields of death around us. ‘Then there are scenes and sensations which the brush and pencil are inadequate to express. The homble pen alone can tell all the vague dreariness of dejection and anxiety of the latter days; the subdued hum among thousands moving forward no one knew whither, but all under the pressure of suspense; the breathless expectation and mute inquiry from all eyes addressed to every passer by. Social forms have all becn forgotten, everything like etiquette banished from the family of citizens exchanging their impressions without prior intro- auction or consideration of rank. At length General Palikao cautiously made it known that things looked better, and yet no one darst utter the word ‘‘victory.”” That announcement came trom the Englieh papers. The French, they said, had gained a victory while retreating, and this was followed soon by the publicity of Marshal Bazaine’s telegram to his young wife—a line only, but, in its concise brevity, a poem:—‘I and my wephews are debout (up on our legs); battle gained.” SOMBRE AND SORROWFUL. Nota shout of joy has yet welcomed this and subsequent intelligence equally comforting to Parisians; for the invaders are marching ever for- wards, and all the nerve, muscle, senses and spirit of the capital are swarming round the belt of Lu- tece, the bulky goodly matron now letting out her bulwarks emblazoned by a brilliant zone of thundering cannons which will proclaim her motto—Fluctuat nee mergitur; ‘Boating but not sunk.” Fluctuat, though blown by storms within, | fructuat, though held at bay the keenest brains in the Old World, those of Otto-Edward-Leopold de Bismarck Schoenhausen; fluctuat, though it takes every one of her men in arms to defend her; cluat, because the pilots have slept so long; luctuat, becanse the steeraman no longer holds he helm, but not mergi‘ur until every stone has given way, every wall been shaken to atoms; every man, woman and child have darted the last missile on her invaders, and all the thrones of FEausope have been mined by that picrate of po- tassiam called republic, the last explosion kept by Paris in reserve. It is @ picture in itself to behold visitors mixing with workmen among the earthworks; ladies, in silk aud velvet, passing their gloved hands over the muzzles of heavy pounders, and looking through the tubes as if they were only amplified opera glasses. SAD BCENES. ‘These fortifications are melancholy towards the Bois de Boulogne, where the gilt gates have been torn up and plantations around rooted from the und. This is the place for wholesale detec- won of Prussian spies. One or two, dressed as French officers in the navy, succeeded yesterday in arresting the progress of the works by assur- ing the men that they could rest, for marine troops were coming to relieve them. Every minute jained - by the enemy has in proportion all e value of a lost day as_ things now stand. The supposed officers were betrayed, however, and walked off to prison. It cannot be denied that the system of scouting is a very perfect organization as carried on in Prussia, and unto this is due the rare and almost unexampled boldness of the march of the enemy as far as they have now advanced on French territory. The general opinion of a Prus- sian is that his foe must be watched, surprised and crashed; totally opposite is that of the Frenchman, whose opinions are never in his head, but located somewhere in bis bosom, a part that ver faces the enemy in fall daylight. ‘This divergence of convictions led the Prussian on to victory at Wissembourg and, Froschweiller and the French to total defeat there; a loss, how- ever, which looks so mach the Thermopyle that MacMahon’s troops w) e survived are contributing fifty centime ‘pieces for the purchase of a sword of honor %"be presented to him as a memorial of his hefoism on that fatal day. ‘BSBIRCTS POR PICTURES. The few oi fiers left to tell the tragic story pelate one after the other their regiments werg if |, fresh comers, who knew they were going to certain slaughter (for MacMahon had embraced them in one supreme adieu), were forced to gallop over the bodies of their own dying and wounded. Instead of groans, these men, even while being thus crushed under the horses’ feet of their brothers, rose, as well as fainting strength would let and cried out to the last breath, ‘Vive la France!” One youth, who had caught a riderless horse, mavaged to escape and join a few, who had been equally fortunate ina small village. A woman, strock by his torn, wasted condition and assumed devil-may-care appearance, asked hjm if he and his friends were ail that was left of bis regiment. He bowed in the affirmative. “And is that all you know ?” she again inquired. “No,” replied the lad; ‘‘we know the flag is not taken.” Some of the doings and sayings in the “Lives of Platarch” are not grander than many which have been reported to me; but what does the new ery portend’? Itis no longer ‘Vive I’Empereur!”’ 4 18 “Vive ja Nation Armee!” (‘Live the Nation in Arms!" AT CHALONS. Political considerations shall not arrest me; 1 wili go on sketching the soul-stirring scenes that your artistic readers would most delight in. Those seen at Chalons are very interesting among the Garde Mobile. It appears the youth of France turp out splendid campaigners now. They are steadied down by necessity and discipline. The sons of dukes and counts could not be expected to know how to concoct an eatable soup until hunger called for any kind of soup; but since they have diseovered they have not only to eat it, but make it, they have applied them- selves to the choice of onions and cabbage with proper discernment. The fun now is who will season the mixtnre best. Some of my old friends, whose sons and nephews are mob- dois, as the term goes, have recejved sketches of a “dinner party.”” Nothing in the Tuileries hue. Some of the attitudes round a gamelie are lu- dicrons in the extreme. The camp is divided into streets, each with a Parisian name. ‘There is a Maison Doree and a Boulevard des Italiens, while ood humor prevails everywhere, even on the Sn ground. Capoul, the tenor, is among the hi 3 DRAMA AND THE OPERA. There are but seven theatres now open in Paris on opera nights; consequently dramatic news can be of little account. Al) superfinous funds are spent on the wounded, and the nobility of France are up their ancestral residences for hor- fone e chateau de Chambord has just been by its owner for this pur, . There are no Jess than 440 rooms to fill wounded. er. Dupree has offered four with beds for the isa splendid dwelling, surrounded by and fores celebrated sings h beds in his chatean of Valmoudais, Baroness de Rothschild bas given up her splendid estate and at Ferrieres and the brotbers.of Marshal offer sixty beds within their famil residence at Chatou. Th example gat? fol- Jowed by the poorest within the capital—all con- trating thei mite to the ees! stock, each ac- is means. sina SISTERS OF CHARITY. ‘ The account given of a Sister of Charity whose legs were both shot of while she was dressing a ecldier’ wounds is the sub; Bot an are now posted over Paris ese admirable women leave the. very quietly, by the night rie ey, ol partics or less. They more than a ce the fervent expres- countenances, up by NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, courage and tion, would inspire 8 painter. They never Pes ere they are going to, obe- dience Sele their rule; many wear the order of the Legion Honor and are selected becanse the have acquired a certain experience of battlefields in the Crimea, One of a party who left this week had but one arm—the other was amputated at Sebastopol—and although she admitted in my hearing that she could certainly not be so useful as her companions, still she would take the lowest rank and perform the meanest services, ‘‘for, for- tunately, the arm left was the right one, and it might still pillow some drooping head.” othing can be more admirable than these 4 women of the Order of St. Vincent de Paal, who depart either for China, Lapland or Italy, with utter indifference as to their personal safety, and who oppose to every attack a mild glance, up- raised ds and prayer. ART IN TIME OF WAR. English Opinion of Modern Civilization. {From the London Builder, August 20.] War at all times, whether it be for the most rightcous canse or the most indefensible, is a calamity. Who knows the limits of such a war as that now commenced, and the loss civilization and mankind will sustain by its occurrence! It is the daty of all to speak forth traly, without any subtle reserve, at the present moment. t loss may not the SOYAg Ory, of man and the barbarism of war entail upon the universe? Who knows not that history, in the course of war, is ever and ever re- peating itself? Who knows not that thirst of power and despotism ere never careful to discri- minate, and that to preserve an enemy’s mona- ments would only be to enrich her at the expense of her assailant? This is the war view of the question. The very same course of action that was prosecuted in the days of Alexander and Cesar was carried out centuries later; and the same warlike excesses a8 were perpetrated in the Middle Ages were 2 ma half a century since, and are still likely to be imitated, if a Kuropean war ensue. The prospect for archi- tecture and ‘the other arte is, therefore, at the present moment, a rather discouraging one for us all. It is not that forts, bastions and barracks may be tumbied, and towns and cities undergo wreck and rain. Much more than this. Amid this inevitable destruction and terror the finest 8! tered ; and, while evil pas- sions and bloody instincts surge rampantly, acts of violence will be committed that may affix an eternal stigma upon the nation that gave them birth. War is a foe to civilization, and whenever architecture and art cease to progress, mankind mast retrograde, for nothing in nature can stand still. Look upon the question in any way we may, it is clear that war is not only inimical to man’s best interests, but subversive of the very foundations of society. We are not speaking of the war as members of the Peace Society, but we are simply viewing it in a rational way. Jn viewing the war inan architectural aspect, and eliminating for the moment Great Britain from the field, still we cannot but feel the most grave concern for all the interests involved and jeopardized onthe Continent. If public institu- tious, libraries, colleges, churches and schools passed unscathea through the storm, and if even in the pablic forum the national galleries. mu- seums and public statues remained unmoved and unpiilaged, sufficient injury, notwithstanding, would be otherwise accomplished by the con- tinnance of the war. The whole mechanism of society would have been unhinged, and a moral, intellectual, and commercial collapse would show itself in every channel of the countries at war. Who supposes, or can reasonably suppose, that injory would not overtake the national monu- ments or institutions of a nation at war with another? Would Prussia, in her present mood, if her legions got footing or entry into Paris, withhold from the work of devastation? The exclamation that Blucher was reported to have made while walking through Lon- don, looking into the wealthy silversmiths’ shops, would be heard, mayhap, on the Boulevard des Italiens :—‘‘Mein Gott! what a city to sack !”’ Added to the danger that always ex- ists from the recurrence of a war and its con- tinuance to the iojury and destruction of art aud monuments, there is this second evil: War has ever the baneful effect of weaning or scaring stu- dents ana workmen from their legitimate and honorable pursuits. And the patron and em- ployer are, if not affected in the same manner, sure to be affected otherwise by a deprestion in business; so what acts upon one reacts upon an- other member of society, and thus through endless variations of the body politic. War is, as we haye plainly stated, a calamity in whatever manner we view it; and it should never be resorted to until every other means were exhausted to effect a re- conciliation. National honor is, no doubt, a proud boast, and the Bresei tion of this honor is worthy of some sacrifice; but kings nor em- perors, no more than journalists, should be dicta- tors of national or public opinion: they may dare to speak, but still ever hold themselves amenable to the public will. If this course were always pursued, and this same view taken of public questions, by public mei? who hold sway and have a voice in the af- fairs of the nation of which they are subjects, they would be supported by a mutual reciprocity of common interest on the part of the people that would end in peace. An era of peace is always an era of improvement; not a siavish peace, ap inert quietnde, but a state of wholesome, manly watchfulness, bespeaking a conscious rectitude in our ultimate resolves. Under such a state of feeling material progress must be made. Civili- zation must exist, and no fear need be enter- tained that the brain and brow sweat of several generations has fallen in vain, and that the bar- barism of man will destroy in a week the art treasures and architectural triumphs of centurics. THE NATIONAL GAME. Eagles, of New York, vs. Olympics, of Staten Island. The Eagies of this city visited Edgewater, Staten Island, on Saturday last, played a friendly gawe with the Otympics of that place and came off vic- torious, as will be seen by the annexed scorc:— OLYMPIC, OF 8. 1. EAGLE, OF X. ¥. Players. 6. R. OPla oR. Beester, |. ¢ 2 2 Lat 2°'% Vermilye, p 5 2 ae) J. Staples, c. 4 0 : Mason, 8. 3 a 5 W. Staples, 6 ioe Jon Biss 4 5 3 Hitchcock, ¢. 3 Ganghan, p. ae Waters, 2d b 4 2 Gallagher, Ist b! 5 3 Woods, r. £. 41 Wiison, c. 6 2 29 th. Sth, 8th. The &th. 90h. 3.7 o 7 8 29714 47 ughan, & h, of the Enterprise Club. ‘Two hours and ufteen minutes. ‘ume of game Base Bali Notes. ‘The Putnam Club, of Troy, arrived in this city last night and will play with the Tattle & Bailey Club to- day, at the Union grounds, Brooklyn, E. D. These clubs are juniors, yet they play as sharply as many of the professionals. The object of the game is the Jnnior champlonsiip. Botn clubs are confident and @ fieree contest, therefore, may be expected. Should the weather prove unfavorable the game will take place the first fair day, Tue Putnams and Fiy Aways are engaged to piay atthe Union grounds on Thursday. On Wednesday the Stars and Knickerbockers will play at Hoboken, and on Thursday the Empires and Orions will play at the same place, ‘AN INDIGNANT POLICEMAN. oMecer Daniel Frazer was yesterday arraigned be- fore Justice Coulter, at the Yorkville Police Court, charged with assaulting and threatening to shoot Terence Leonard, of No. 694 Eighth avenue, without provoeaiion, Frazer says that he had sufficient pro- vocation to do what be did. Leonard had come to his house while he was absent to purchase some second hand furniture which Frazer had to sell, and while there offered his wife twelve dollars to prostitute herself tohim. When he learned of the tasult he went direct to Leonard, thrashed him, and he was not sorry for doing it either, Frazer waived an examination before Justice Coulter, and gave bail in $300 to ane wer at the General Sessions. His Wilitngness to 1et a jury of his peers decide on tho Inerits of the case does not 100K as it he thought he had done wrong. TERRIBLE AND PROBABLY FATAL ACCIBENT. |From the Rochester Express, Sept. 3.) A terrible accident occurred at the Central Rail- road bridge, just east of the depot, this morning. Daniel Adams. a bridge repairer, was en 5 with several other workmen, in repairing the floor- ing of the bridge. While ai work he noticed a train backing up on the north track, which was got ob- served: by some ladies passing over the bridge. He ran # shor! distance to apprise them of their danger, and, while in the act of pushing one of them from dui not observe thé approach of the special New York express, which leaves at tweniy- tive minutes past seven. The wheels of the locomo- tee caught both of his feet and crushed them ina shocking manner. The unfortunate man fell on toa second platform some four feet below the level of He wag taken ont immediateiy and a patched for Dr. Moore, who arrived ina and bad the sufferer conveyed to St. Mary's Lo pital. Tue dostor gave lus ophuion that both feet world bave to be ampat and t| rd the en THE NEW YORK THEATRE. Reminisences of Edifice, Both Church and Theatre, Where Preachers Stood .and Where Actors Didn’t Flourish Much—The Story ef Lucy Rushton in Prese and of Other Poople—Preseut Recoustraction. ‘The partial dismantling of the New York theatre, formerly Dr, Dewey's Unitarian church, recalls some incidents of Iceat history which may be interesting at this time. Standing where it does on Brondway, nearly opposite Waverley place and in the midst of a@ neighborhood which has all the time been under- golng reconstruction until it 1s now the most modern busmess portion of the city, it bears a decidedly sin- gular and antique appearance beside all that is so fresh and recent, Yet the building itself cannot be calied old, though it looks unmistakably venerable. It certainly wears as antique a complexion as many edifices in Europe which date back five and six hundred years, This in a measure may be the effect pro- duced by the mildewed front of dark gray granite, built in imitation of an old, obsolete church design, and erected amid the most modern style of com- mercial concerns, Though only a quarter of a cen- tury old it has seen vicissitudes enough in itstime to lay claim to a matured existence, SOMETHING OF ITS PAST. It was the first Unitaman church boilt in New York, and under the ministry and management of Dr. Dewey was one of the most fashionable places of worship im the city, Atthat time it had ample surrounds of green trees and shrubbery; but in the course of years it became jammed in by the course of uptown building, and finally its congregation, moving with the tide of travel, left it to its fate, In Dr. Dewey’s time 1 had a large and wealthy patronage, The furniture, organ, choir, commu- nion table and pastoral contributions were all ova rich and liberal scale. The pastor was in the prime of nis trained and varied intellect, and under the apeil of his glowing eloquence in the pulpit sat many @ Sunday morning and evening some of the oldest and worthiest citizens of New York, END OF ITS RELIGIOUS USES, After Dr. Dewey came Dr. Osgood, who is too well known to the citizens of New York to need any no- tice. But spite of all the attraction in mental worth and moral purity of the new pastor, the new church was doomed to find its congregation gradually di- minishing in the uptown exodus, Clearly it could no longer be deemed convenient nor suilabie for those whose places of private | residence were fast trenching on the confines of the Centrai Park. ‘The congregation therefore deemed it best to dispose of the edifice, and a customer was found in Mr. E. Fox. Money enough was raised to build the splen- did structure called the Church of the Messiah, cor- ner Madison avenue and Twenty-eighth street, Rev. Mr. Hepworth pastor, and there at present in the holy caim of every Sabbath morning and to the sweet and simple service of the Unitarian creed many a silvery head and aged fa lifted in prayer whicn was wont in olden days to join among the first of the worshippers in the now deserted church on Broatiway. FOR WHAT IT WAS THOUGHT FIT. About six years ago Mr. Fox soid out the property to Mr. A. 'T. Stewart, who found it considerable of an elephant on nis hands, as tt had ceased to be any longer an attraction to religious communities, kor almost all other purposes than those of religion he had numerous application Some wanted itfora gymnasium, others for a livery stable. One man offered atively rent to be allowed to turn it into a lager beer concert saloon, with waiter girls, bag- pipes, tddles, dancing nymphs, painted faces and bare legs. To’ none of these did’ Mr. Stewart yleld a a lapse of two years after he had mage the pur- chase. THE FIRST THEATRICAL ENTERPRISE Abont this time an Englishman named Mr. Davis, of Drary Lane theatre, came to this country and hired the old church for the purpose of turning it into a vaudeville theatre. There came with him a jady, who was familiarly known here a few years ago, named Miss Lucy Rushton. Both went to work on the limited meaus in their mutual possession and contrived to make a tolerabiy fair show on the opening night. Lucy furnished the theatrical and Davis the business brains of the concer ut became Onally necessary that some one should far- nish: the sinews of war. It being known at the ume that the theatre as a pecuniary speculation was a fail- ure, and that in spite of this it wasstill keptrunning, some folks lightiy cireulated the rumor that it was: Mr. Stewart who was supplying. the funds from out his pocket and from out his deep admiration for Miss Rushton. Jt was clear there was some mistake here, for if the theatre had s@cured such a wealthy and effusive patron Miss Rushton might be acting there still, As i happened, she called but once on Mr. Stewart, which was at bis ofice, purely on a Matter g1 business, LUCY AND THE LAWYER, Bat there was one gay and festive lawyer, who, struck by Miss Rushton’s fleshly charms, ber mas- sive figure and her solid looks, came with a rush to her rescue, and fioaied herself and Davis into smooth water for at least awhile. Bul paying money simply for the sake of admiring the lady of his love at the distant footlights in the theatre of an even- yng was. rather catcuiated to pall on the fancy of this ardent yet practical lawyer. He wanted ‘ap equivalent for the funds le advanced, but fuilng to get tt and finding Lucy and Davis only cared for his money, he cut the concern m dwgus When the lawyer left them they could stand We stram no longer.” ‘the theatre burst up and Lucy and Davis retired to the tower on top, like folks in feudal times who took refuge in the donjon keep from the enemy atthe gate, Théy lived er, time In the old tower, but it fust have been a grim exisleice, unless it ‘was a very exalted attachment; for the old tower looks black as a dungeon outside, and it was never more than a beliry within. in the end they capitu- Javed to the lord of the manor, Mr. Stewart, who brought them out and took the keys of tne sortress, OTHER THEATRICAL VENTURES. After Miss Lucy came the ponderous Mark Smith and Baker, with a Black Crook arrangement, into which there was a larger umber and greater va- riety of legs compressed than had beep previousiy exhibited, It consequently had a long ran and paid well, After this exnibition was carted away to the country the Worrell sisters, for whom Reuben Lowell Jeased the theatre, made their appearance and did tolerably well, As @ theatre it made a very ex- cellent show; not large, but comfortable aud hand- some, FINAL FATE OF THE BUILDING. Lavra Keene, who 1s brave enough to try ber for- tunes in any kind of theatre, applied to rent it; but Mr. Stewart declined, having anoiher object: in view. kventuaHy he decided to lease it to Mr. Sainue! K. Spencer, who | is at present engaged in reconstructing the building for the purposes of a first class vaudeville theatre. He will take down the tower, remove the tront and Tedecorate and reseat with swingback chairs the whole interior, Hithervo its exterior has been a crawback, Tootmuch of the church appearance Was lett and too littie of a theatre given Lo it. Bub in the present uptown tendency of theatres as weil as everything else, there is no doubt, if Mr. Spencer Inakes the proper kind of improvement, his untier- taxing will be a great success. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES, Mrs, Scott-siddons announces an engagement this evening at Wooi’s Museum. The opening piece will be the adaptation from the German called Axe and Crown.” The burlesque extravaganza, “The Golden Butterfly,” will be given at the matinee, Emmet enters upon the last week of his engage- ment at Waillack’s, “Fritz” therefore remains but #iX nights more. “Little Panst” Olympic. features, Manager Daly announces the opening of the Fifth Avenue theatre on Tuesday, September 13, with his own dramatization of Wilkie Collins’ “Man and Wile.” This will be a gala week tn the classical line at Niblo’s. To-night “Julins Cesar” will be presented with a star cast, comprising Messrs. Walter Mont- gomery, Mark Smiin, E. L. Davenport, L, Barrett, T. Hamilton, Madame Ponisi and Miss Bachanan. On Tuesday ‘‘Othello” will be given. Mr. Joseph Jefferson still continues his inimitable “Rip Van Winkle’ at Booth's, The last week but two of Madame. Lanner’s ballet troupe is announced at the Grand Opera House. Kelly & Leon’s Minstrels have made a hit with their new theatre. “Le Petit Faust’ ts still the sen- sation there, A grand concert will be given to-night at Terrace Garden by Moliennauer’s orchestra. Lina Edwin's O:jou theatre will open next week for the regular fali dramatic season, ‘The San Francisco Minstreis have a new bill this week. has the Comique, in which Wyndham Clark, the tish tenor and a burlesque on the great European will be the feature. varing Vick, the Detective,” and the “Ocean Yacht Race” will be the features of this week's bill at the Bowery. ‘ “Phe Black Detective” 1s Tony Pastor's drama for this week. Hooley’s Minstrels commence the to-nigtt in Brooklyn. M B, Conway begins the season at the Park, Saturday. 1 her company of artists sailed, from Liverpool in the Cuba on Saturday and will appear at Steinway Hall this month. ‘The sale Of seats for the Marie Scebach season at the Fourteenth street theatre (late Francais), com- mences on Thursday next, The mitial perlormance Will be “Faust.’? Oliver Dowd Byron opened to a very large house at Her Majesty's Theatre, Ottawa, Ontarlo, on Thurs. day last. He performed his ovginal character in Across the Continest.” ‘The play is spoke highly til holds the boards at the Mrs. Outes and Pox are the principal fall season of, Miss Annie Newian, @ young, pretty ond picaging little actress played Peachblossom in “Under the Gaslight” "in Elizabeth last Friday night. Miss C. T. Parsioe will have # maimee benefit at Wallack’s on We Miss McCulloch is at Al ville, &. C. Theodore Thomas announces a series of orches- tral concerts at the Boston Music Hall, ten in num- ber, to pexin October 14. Miss Mehiiy 1s the pianist. ‘The dramatization of “Monts Cristo,” by Mr. Feehter, to be produced atthe Globe Theatre, in Bos- ton, is to have thealstribution of parts following :- Edmond Dantes, Mr, Charles Fechter; Nortier, Mr. J. W. Wallack; Albert de Morcerf, Mrs. F. 5. Chan- fran; Viliefort, Mr. C. H. Vandenhoff; Fernande, Mr. Frank Koche; Dangiars, Mr. G. H. Gridiths; Cad rousse, Mr. Charles Leclercq; Abbe Faria, Mr. W, LeMoine; Morel, Mr. H. F. Daly; O)d Dantes, C, Stedman; Mercedes, Miss Carlotta Lecicreq; C. conte, Mrs. Melinda Jones; Nile. Danglars, Miss ida Savory. On the 27th inst. Miss Glyn (Mrs, E. 8. Dallas) win depart trom England in the Russia for New York, thus commencing a tour which wil! probably com- prise the principal towns of America and Australia, THE OFFAL CONTRACT. AUGUST 31, 1870, To THE EpIToR oF THE HERALD: x As there are always two sides to @ story, will you favor us with publishing @ fair and candid state ment from our standpoint in the matter of the New York Rendering Company versus public clamor, In order clearly to understand obr position and Yelation to the public and public authorities let us premise by stating exactly the terms of our contract with reference to the removal of dead animals and offal from the city, Jn the year 1665 a contract was then made by authority of the Mayor and Common Connell between the then City Inspector and the Long Island Bone Laboratory, extending for a terin often years. The specjfications of ine contract are that the parties of the second part and iis successors: shall collect and remove from all parts of the city of New York to the dock or slip at the foot of West Thirty- e@ighth street, North river, or to such other docks or slips as the Cily Inspector may hereafter designate, all dead horses and otner dead animals woich may be obtained by the said party of the second part, or of which he shall receive notice, or which sbali be offered to him in any public place, street or ailey within said city, and that said party shall at alk times provide and keep at his own cost and expense such a number of suitable carts as shall be necessary for the prompt and faitn- fui performance of such work. * * * That whe sald party of the second part shall at all times pro- vide and keep at such dock or slips a sufficient number of suitable vesseis for receiving ali dead horses and other dead animals, all blood, offal and other refuse matter from butchers’ slaughter honses; all bones, fish, offal, diseased or tainted or impure meats and ail other matter or nuisance of a similar kind as shall be offered by apy person or persons at said docks or slips, or which may be desired to be removed from said city by said Cily Inspector, and to transport and convey said dead animals, blood, offal, and other refuse matter, as aforesaid, at least once cach day or twice in each Gay, tosome place beyond the limits of said city. ‘This is the gist of the contract as origi- nally executed in 1865. Under the specifications as above it will be observed that the contract calls for the work to be done exactly as we now are doing it, and the literal performance of which is 80 greatly berated by the public press, About four years since certain parties became impressed with the idea that the business might be done in a mnch better man ner and with vastly less cause of offence. After re- peated consultations with members and officers of the Metropolitan Board of Health, laying before them certain improved apparatus and methods for rapidly removing from the public eye and nostriis the ma- terial brought to the dock in such an offensive state, it was finally determined to make the experiment, and it was sanctioned by the then Health Board. Extensive and very costiy machinery was obtained and placed aiongside the dock foot of West Thirty- eighth street, North river, the place set apart by the city authorities for receiving this material, The decided improvement in the conditions of the dock and businesg which took place immediately in com- parison with those that had existed before were kuch that encouraged us, as well as the Board of Health, further to improve and perfect the arrange- ments and details connected with it. The new elements infused Into the company, which had been reorganized, gave assurance of stability and imtelligence. The detatls of the business were laced under a more perfect and thorouge system. The collection of dead animals, through the tele- graph system of the Police Department, was so per- fected that notice of any dead animals sert to our oMce received immediate attention and were promptly removed. Immediately upon their ar- rival at the dock they were placed in tight tanks and all cause of offensiveness therefrom at once re- moved. So with butchers’ offal and all other refuse matertal from markets and various places. Nothiug was alloweo to accumolate or taint the at mosphere from the moment it was received at the dock. Everything was placed in steam tight uks, and not only removed from sight, but so contined in such tight tanks that from that moment, all gases being consumed by combus- tion, it became both inomensive and useful. Mem- bers of the Metropolitan Board of Health and its officers frequently visitea us and critically examined every detail, and their annual report will show that they were well satisfied that the methods adopted by us had removed one of the greatest dificulues in caring for the proper health of the city. Health au- tmorities from other cities, where the same diMculty ‘was expericnced in taking care of offal, refuse and dead animals, not unfrequently visited our works in company with members and ofiicers of the Board of Health, and the universal opinion was that of as- tonishimentand approbation a3 to the process and manner aycondu our business, Our aim bad always b @g to assist the heaith authorities in every effort to remove all causes of complaint from citi- zens, with reference to dead animals and offal, and wenceded no goading or persecution from any y ct = quarter, constanil; study how to improve our methods and perfect Them in every particular it was our interest to do so. That there were and are offen- sive condivions with our bus! none deny—the; are inherent; animals die, ge™killed, maimed an sick; batchers slaughter, markets make refuse, every housekeeper contributes something to the quota of nuisances, the city rapidly enlarges, ana the nuisances become in the aggregate formidable. New York city is In duty bound to take care of its nuisances In the most rapid and least objectionable manner. It bas no right fo offend its neighbors with them, ain our humble efforts to assist 1p rapidly disposing of them we claim that we are in the light of publ i¢ benefactors. We do not deny that we bave selfish motives, but in placing our capital in this business we do claim that if we derived any profit from tle outlay, so long as we faithfully used our best endeavors to se conduct the business In a@ legiti- mate Manner least detrimental to public health, not sparing expense or hesitating to adopt whatever tinprovements science or me- chanics could suggest, We are entitled at least to the res of our fellow citizens and the countenance advise of the health authorities. Quietly sub- mitting to this unjust opprobrium from the public, conscious of our own integrity as business men and law-abiding citizens, jeatously watcfal of our busi- ness in its every detail, we desire that truth should preyatl, When the present Heaith Board was organ- ized the public renewed the attack and hounded tt on, until the Board, by one act, revoked all permits, without distinction, thus plac. ing us under the law as violaters and subject to arrest jor misdemeanor. Bound by our contract with the city to collect and remove dead animals, offal, &c., we were compelled to fall back upon its specifications or throw it up, forfeit- ing heavy recognizances, Even in this extremity we have endeavored to mitigaté the necessary evils attending upon the final disposal of this enormous stmount of material; for it must be remembered that the dead horses alone are more than double the num- ber they were five years ago. Ratlroads, omniboses, mercantile traMc and private uses bave more than quadrupled the number of animals in the city, as alsu the very large increase of slaughtering of cattle, &c., during the past fve years. Since per- mission was denied us to dispose of the mass in the rapid and inoffensive manner we were doing atthe dock foot of West Thirty-cighth street, we have removed them ‘beyond the city limits,” going more than ten miles beyond the pro- per city limits, and exactly m the manner our con- tract with the city ete That dead animais are found in the upper , aud even about the docks of New York and Brooklyn, there is no question; but that they are thrown there by our means we deny. Our boats proceed beyond Sandy Hook bar before a carcass 1s thrown overboard in every instance, and should a proper depot be alloted us this means of Gisposal could be dispensed with. Butas to the source whence these dead animsis are derived, an extract from the New York Bening Post of August |, may afford some light:—Thomas Ireland, driver for a siaughter house in Hudson avenue, was arrested last night for dumping offal on the dock foot of North Sixth street, Williamsburg. It appears that all butchers are compelled to cart the refuse of their es- tablisnments to this dock, where they are charged fifty cents a load for dumping. The number of ves- seis being inadequate, the material remains upon the dock for @ (lay or two, or is dumped overboard, Very little appears to be carried to Barren Island. ‘This stuff is carried away by the tude, and is scattered on the beach from Ked Rook Point to Fort Hamiiton, causing so great a nuisance that the residents threaten to shoot any one tound dumping dead anhnals or offal in the river or the vay.” This we understand ts of daily occurrence, and yet we must bear al) the blame, although our vekselsgo beyond Sandy Hook bar with thetr loads belore discharging, but under the circumstance, there 1s no alternative. One word more with refer- ence to the former manner of conducting our busi- ness, and we will not bore you or your readers with any further remarks. So long as we disposed of une mass of putridity at the dock there was no complaint of dead animals floating about the docks or of thelr not being promptly removed from the streets of the city. Our system of information by police authority was perfect, our means tor im- maediate removal npon receipt of information am- pie, our interests Causing Expedition. and oor dese 10 contribute to the common stock of @ well organ- wed city government, as honest, law-abiding citi- vens, stim ulated us to comply not only with gil re- urements and 8 health ant % attention ras Jay in our power, but by close avery detail in be Lacire of the business remove ail sources OF Imagini: Complain; The necessities of mi ay: w! (4 teeming miljlions of inbabi'ants, its numerous horse railroads, stage lines and mercantile pursuits, require that some coprt or place should be perma- neully designated and appointed for Drain! and Baer cleposing: of its dead and dying animals, Its offal refuse, its household waste, ifs market déorés, and that at should make such provision as not to be either a means of annoyance to neighboring cities ‘or of reproach from its own citizens; apd we aver that it can be dove within our own precincts, and with proper care withowt complaint or of- fence. We are prepared to conduct the bust- ness of removing, and that rapidly too, ali these evils in « most unexceptionable manner, and are both willing and anxious to be al- Jowed to do so. Let the proper authorities assign us @ location where we can ge properly our present apparatus, which ix acknowledged by ex- perts to be complete in every respect, and we will guerantec that uo more complaints will be heard from anything with which we are justly responsible, Competent legal authority advises us that it Is the duty and within the power of tne Health Departinent to regulate and set apart a proper depot; but not- withstanding repeated efforts ou our part we have @s yet been unable to obtain any action. GALEN A. CARTER, Vice President. THE LATE SUICIDE AT BUFFALO. Eber C. Chace a Defaulter to the Amount of Nearly Thirty Thousand Dollare—Suspen- sion of the Mechanicw Savings Bauk. {From the Baffalo Courier, Sept. 2.) The Mechanics’ Savings Bank, of which Eber C. Chace, who committed suicide on Monday Jast, was the secretary and treasurer, failed to open its doors: yesterday for the transaction of business. On the door window appears @ card written in German and English, of waich we following is a copy:— “dhe committee appointed to examine into the adairs of the Mechanics’ savings Bank, eince the de- cease Of its treasurer, Ond that there 1s a deficiency, ‘The trustees have concluded to close the institution through the Bank Department.” This card was posted in accordance with the de- termination oi the board of traxtees, who held a forma! meeting on Wednesday evening. An inguiry into the condition of the bank reveals the fact inat Mr. Chace 1s a defauiter to the amount of between $25,000 and $3u,000, ‘Lhere is also an overdrawn accoant of Mr, Chace, as agent, lor $9,000, which may or may not be a loss to the insti- tution, The indebtedness of the bank 18 $157,000, and the numoer of depositors avout 6%, Warren bryant, president of the Buffalo Savings Bank, has signified to the trustees of the closed in- stituon his willingness to take the securities of the bank, and to assist them as far as tne securities will warrant to settie with their depositors, Mr, Chace’s bonds were only for $10,000, and the genilenien lable as Nis bondsmen are Edward Bennett, f, D. Lockwvod, George L, Marvin and Rolin Germain, ‘The hypotnesis of his friends that his snffering from @ severe neuralgic aflection probably led to iis deaih was a generous one, and they were entitied to its benefits and Copsojations so long as the methory of the unfortunate man remained unimpeached; but an ordibary intepreter of motives could scarcely be content to accept such @ theory while there were other possible explanations to be sought alter, In our inquirics as to the condition of the man immedi- ately before his death, we did not find that his neu- ralgic paius nad troubled jim on Monday. They had extoried comp.aints trom him the day betore, but we inferred that he was eniirely free irom them ihe morning he committed suicide, and in our opin ion never resulted jrom the memory of acute pain 01 irom the anticipation of its cecurrence. We learn that Mr. Chace had been repeatedly neYfed ny the trustees at he must increase the amount of his | bonds, and that he jatied 10 do so, ‘These facts, lunked together, leit but litle doubt to the motive | Which lea to suicide, aud the subsequent investiga lion, the result of which we have given, sets We | question forever at rest, THE SOCIAL El court. iL Board of Health Kules Declared I and Iilegal—A Number of raigned and Discharged. From the St, Lonis Republican, Augast 26.] ‘Twenty-five or thirty cases of women who were arrested und«r the Board of Health rules, pre- pared for the enforcement of the social evil ordi- nance, came up for hearing before Mr. Justice Schoener at the Police Court yenterds . The charges are composed of two classes—those in violating the ordinance No. 7,330, approved by the City Council on the 9th of July, 1870, and secondly, those in opposition to police rules that have been passed by the Board of Health. Major McGinness, after a sickness of two weeks, took his accustomed seat as City Attorney. The following demoiselles were arraigned first: — Jane Wheatley, Lizzie Campbell, Emily Davis, Viola Greene, Hattie Evans, Eliza Jones, Emma.‘ Johnson, Jane Gourd, Kate Lewis, Lizzie Jones, Ceila Coleman, Elleta Alexander and Lizzie Hop- kins. The charge in these cases was violating section three of the Board of Health Police rules, providing that no member of the demi-monde “shall ride in an open carriage, or in any manner make undue display of her person in the day time in any public place in the city, nor shall such stop at or visit drinking saloons.” Lou Delsonta, Mollie Crane, Annie Williams and Jennie Wilhams were arraigned on a charge of violating section two of the same rules. The section prohibits the demi- monde class of women ‘standing or a@ pearne at the open door or window of any bawdy ouse or house of assignation within this city; neither shall they, by word or sign or action, ply their vocation on the streets or in any public lace.’ a Major McGinness said that, as city attorney. he did not believe it was his dutyjto enforce anything plainly not lawfal. He did not pretend to sa: whether the rules were constitutional or not. It was not his duty to say whether the ipse dizit of this or that person was law. The Police Comiits- sioners, by section four of the ordinance, had power to suppress any house not complying with the provisions of the said roles, but they had no pores to order windows to be closed, to oct in jouses or to prevent courtezans from riding carriages. @ ordinance was passed as a gani- tary measure and not as a part of the police regu: | lations. He believed the first three police rules of the Board of Health were inoperative and void. The defendants were accordingly discharged. VIOLATING THE ORDINANCE. Sabina Wilson, Sarena Wilson, Rachel Johnson and Mollie Davis were charged with violating the | third section of the city ordinance No. 7,330, which is as follows :— The said Board of Health shall divide the city into districts, and for each district appoint a regular physician, whose duty it shall be to visit at Jeast once a week each of the houses of ill fame and rooms used or occupied by prostitutes located in his district. A list of these, together with a list of. prostitutes and their places of living, shall be furnished to him by the Board of Healt! for his sole use and inspection. Such physician shall there carefully inquire into the salary con- dition of the prostitute, and, if necessary, subject them to an examination; shall make all necessar orders and give all proper directions for their sanitary management. He may order the removal of any of the inmates to the hospital, and in cases where there is danger of infection he shall order such removal or such action as shall remove such danger. He shall furnish weekly a full report of his action and of the condifon of all such houses and their inmates to said board of health. The keeper or per- son in charge of every such house or room shall pay to such physician the eum of one dollar for each such inmate weekly, which money shall be delivered to the clerk of the Board of Health, sub- ie: to the order of said Board. Any person lating or disobeying the order of such physician, er obstructing, hindering or preventing bim from discharging his duties, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not less than twenty- Vv doilars, provided that any person may, with three days, in writing, after its issue appeal from any order of said physician to the Board of Health, which shall thereupon grant a hearing to such person, and its action thereon shall be final in the Premises, and disobedience of any order therein made be punishable as in this section provided. | The counsel for the defence said those were dif- ferent from the cases coming up under the Board of Health rules. The. question of the validity of the ordinance itself would come up. A portion of the ordinance he believed to be valid; other ortions he thought neither the Council nor the Legislature had a rightto pass. He moved a dis- missal of the cases. This the justice declined todo, but took them under advisement until Saturda; THE RECENT GASOLINE EXPLOSION. Cuptain Simon Pepper, who had an oMice in the Premises 118 and 120 Maiden lane at the time of the explosion of gasoline there some ten or twelve days since, and who was terribly burned during the tire, aied yesterday in the Centre Street Hospital. The mat will be investigated before one of the Coro- ers, A Smart WomAN.—Miss A. P. Ladd, of Augusta, Me., was on Wednesday appointed by the Governor and Council a justice of the peace and quorum. This is beileved to be the first appointinent of a icy, to this oftice in New England and perhaps tn the United States, east of Wyoming Territory. She holds the responsible position of chief clerk in the United States Pension agency in Augosta. and is said to be a ae cas eee POLITICAL. GOVERNOR KOFFMAN IN BINGHAMSON. He Reviews a Brigade ef the National Guard and Makes a Speech. JFrom the Binghamton Republican, Sept. 2 Governor Hofman, accompanied by eee General McQuade “ind Commissary General of Orde Dance Wil H. Morris, arrived in thbs city ong the Bufalo express (og from New York at aif< past five o’clock last evening, whe train being abou® (hirty ininutes behind time, On the arrival of w train a salute of twenty-one guns was fired, and tha Governor was met at the train by General Barto an stad, of the Twenty-elghth brigaide, Carriages were also in readiness to carry the Governor and escort to the Exchange Hotel. A large crowd of peopie had gathered around-tne igs among whom were many personal friends and acquaintances of the Roseanne, Bg seinen oe from all sides, Every nttion gracefully acknowledged Governor, by aa During the evening the Governor recetyed a number of citizens, who called upon him at the par- lors of the Exchange Hotel, An the bumper who wentto pay their respects were prominens men of both political parties. General tO and staff were also present Garin Se D. At nine o'clock Colonel bie and sia, of the orty-fourth regiment, and Colonel Smith and stam, of the Fiftieth regiment, rode up in froat of the Ex- cbange Hotel, accompanied by the officers of both potent ae er 3,000 persons, ‘also. crowd, nom rodably assembled on Court airece between the canal bridge and Washi street. Ata. trom Colonel Clough, Assistant Adjatan® General, the bands played * Hail to the Chief.” arewed the Govetuor from his" piace among Ie or from amo! officers. on Ke i jn the The Gor seneel see ded very vernor mn happily. course of his remarks he said:— = 1 am here in the di * to be in this beautiful and tn sp cnet Set ne ies iateea rer eh Ramee a will be as of its it history and present ity? tie our duty, as it 1s the duty of all good people, to jabor together, no° only pred, local welfare, but as citizens of one great Stale, to strive to make the state greater even than it and vindi- codng Sere its inde, and its honor. ul should labor with a sincere and bag! w ourvelves e promote the great interests of the mass We. inay differ POE Soh ies of a = rigade and inspect itscamp. It forms part reat National Guard of Bie State of New York. ‘hat National Guard nomoers nearly twenty-five thou! men. in the cities the iife of a soldier— the volunteer in the National Guard—is compara- tively ony. pene armortes and driil rooms near at hand, and they are thered er fox milftary duties. On perady faey are watched and admired by vast assemblages of i ee and every Co Reet fpepired by military enthosiasus jou. snd person: Tn many tie National Guard in the rurat districts is different. ‘They are scattered, in a great many instances, over iniles of country, mountains and valleys intervening between them and their officers aud comrades. ‘Their dunes are not easy, and their encampments call for separation frome home and familtes, at great distances. I find here to-day several hupared men from two sounties, under the‘disetpline of camp, and far from home. ‘They make great sacrifices, but 16 is well; tor there are umes im the bistory of every people, every State and every couatry, when they must 100k for safely to their citizen soidiery. _ We must maintain our Nattonat Guard in time of peace; in time of peace prepare ‘or war. When [ hear, as I do sometimes, the grumbling of the tax- payer against the small proportion of tax paid for the support of this gaard 1 feeel that I want to go among them and telltnem thas 1 is @ tax they ought to pay cheerfully, for it secures to them & proper itary organization, ready to be called to active duty @t &@ moment's notice when the public safety demands it. You the tax ly, because it keeps alive @ military jor always ready to come w the support of the civil authority in defence of your families and hi y one Broversy. and your beer Batl Saree rs wo long, assure you, altn may in| an Geshe emy it iri @ Ver, cidfeut i bg onal @ speech When oue has no! 6 ly irien the chaplain, who has forge ey you, would take @ text and make # most admurable sermon; and if he addressed, as he did last winter, the State Military Associciation, it. would make a@ speecty that would read as well as itsounded and be ad- mured everywhere. But Iam called upon, without notice, to make & speech without a subject or @ text, and I have talked to you fifteen or twenty minutes without really having @ word to say. 1s a wonderiul gathering, looking at 1tin any light. Here are sev- eral thousand people gathered together on this beau- Uful August night, just as the heats of sammer are ended, and the autumn is about to break upon us with its beauties glories; several thonsand people athered together after the close of the busy day, for the simple pt of test their respect for a public omcer, It is the duty of the citizen to respec the powers that be, jnst so long as the powers that be respect the rights of the citizen. (Cheers) Dif- ferences of opinion there may be; but let all men be luberal and tolerant. What we want m this country of ours, bleeding as it has bied at every pore, during long years of civil war, and still suffering {rom the struggles it en- dured—what we want now is to banish ali the old hatred ana prejudice of the past; and while we maintain our individual independence and indivi- dual opinions, clinging to w! we believe to be right, and never willing to compromise with error, yet ready to concede to others that which we claim: for ourselves—integrity of purpose and honesty of inteution—in the discharge of our duty, public or private, remembering always that for alj the errors of public men, and for all the evils that exist in society, there are abundant remedies under the con- stitution and the laws. ‘The ballot boxes are the e's resource, The courts of law and the officers of the law their prot ctors, And then there 1s that which is more powerful than the law—mwore 5 potent than civil authorities or military power. I mean public opiuion—the voice of the people, which, when spoken, is the voice of God. POLITICAL NOTES AND COMZENis, | General Schenck has retuzaéd home wo enter at once upon the canvass in .a@ Ohio Third district. Jonn A, Logan, according to present appearances, will be renominated without opposition tor Con- gressman at large in Illinois, Aaron F, Perry, the Cincinnati Chronicle is author. ized to say, Wi definitely announce to-day his de- cision in Yegard to the Congsessional nomination tendered him in the Ohio First district. Benjamin A. Mose, of Hamilton county, is a repube lican candidate for Congress im the Tennessee Phira district. John M. Bright declines to become a candidate for Congress in the Tennessee Fourth district. General Quarles having withdrawn from the cole test for Governor in Tennessse, the Franklin Zeview now supports General John C. Brown. General Hawley, of Connecticut, will lecture the coming season on “Gentlemen in Politics.” ‘The republican party in lowa has never Jost a State election since the party was organized, and it carries every Congressional district, and out of one hundred counties all but six. Its usual majority im the State ts about 40,000. The Buffalo Commercial wants the republicans to nominate Lorenzo D. Vuliins, of West ‘Troy, for Canal Commissioner. Men who are not Congressional candidates in the West are distinguishable by their wearing badges. Tn one district there are only six. Mr. Pettybone offers himself as Congressional suc- cessor to Tennessee Butler, the widow robber. B. F. Butler is not a candidate for Senator in op-_ position to Henry Wilson. John Hill, republican, has been renominated In the Fourth district of New Jersey, and bas been twice before elected. A Republican State Convention nas been called to Meet at Richmond, Va., on the 22d inst., for the pur- pose of effecting a thorough organization for we Congressional elections in November. A BRILLIANT METECR. ‘From the Providence Journal. Sept. 3.) On Tuesday evening, 4 little after eleven o'clock, @ briiiant meteor fog! over the northeastern sec- tion of the sky. Its form and size were like that of an egg. Coming from the distant realms of unknown space, moving with starting velocity, it impigned upon our atmosphere, All ablaze with glowing light from the concussion it illuminated, for two seconds of time, Its golden racecourse among the stars, gnd then dissolved tn @ ‘‘flery tear,'? Quickly ag the star moved © human thonght moves on fleeter wi d human fancy pierces! the Soe of intersteilar space, where countless myriads of meteors ‘revolve under their resistiess sway of impalpable force. There imagination beholds the meteor-zones circulating in vast ovals, boundiess in extent, startling it velocity, AT eet in tenuity of substance, in- comprehensible in the piace they fill in the economy of the universe. While we wait patiently for the re- velations of the future jor more light on these tiniest and lightest members of the material universe wo behold with reverentia! awe the mighty range of Gael power which now sends a solitary waif like the one we have described to disturb the eter- nal calm of the hours When stars are in the quiet sky, and now sets the firmament on fire with meteors Jaling beadiong from the heights above, tek as a@ young lady of first class business qui This appointment qualifies her to admin take ackuowiedgments of deeds. solemnize mar THEE. Ay Hake early snow, and which, with gleaming coruscations, Shooting throngh the darkness, gild the night With eweeving giories audlang traims of high