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4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXV1. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 st. netween oh and 6th avs.— Riv VaN Winkie, Matinee ai lig. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taw SPECTACLE oF ‘THE BLACK CxOOK. Matines at Li. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broaiway ana 18th street.— Warm. Matinee at 1s. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Kinp To A PAULT—ALADDIN, Matinee at 2, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay, and 23d st.— LEs BRIGANDS. Matinee af 2, FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais)— IVALIAN OvenA. Matinee at 1—Trovaronr. wa OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. Tax PaNTOMIME OF Wer Wiuur Winkie. Matinee at 2. BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.—Joun pit Proctpa— OULD IRELWND AND YOUNG AMERTOA—OUT ON A SPREE. MRS. F. B. CONWA\'S PARK THEATRES, Brooklyn. — GUY MANNRRNG—JONATHAN BRADFORD. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 30th at.—Perform- ‘ances every afternoon and evening, GLOBE THEATRE, 798 8: TAINNENT, &0, Matinee at ¥ dway.—VAiETy ENTER. FIFTH AVENUS THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street,— SARATOGA. Matinee at 1¥. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ROUSE, 21 Bowery.—Va- RIEIY ENTERTAINMENT, Matinee at 249. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Camto Vooan- 15M, NEGRO AcT8, 40.—JOLLY Sanva Craus. Matinee. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth atreet.—SommEs 1 Tux Ring, AcROBAT atinee at 2's. SAN FRANCISCO MI BL HALI, 585 Broadway.— NFGRO MINSTRELSY, FARCES, BURL RSQURS, &0. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 984 at., betwoon 6th and 7th avs.—NEoRO MiNSTRELSY, ECORNTRICITIES, £0. APOLLO HALL. corner 26th street and Broadway.— Du. Couny's DionaMA OF IRELAND. ASSOCIATION HALL, 28d street and 4th av.—Afternoon at 3, GRAND Concent. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, CERT. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOU: KELLY & Lron's MINSTER BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE——Wrion, Auanes & WHITR's MINSTRELS. -HOLIDAY PANTOMIME, &O. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SOCIRNOR AND ART. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOrRNOR AND arteenth street.~-GRAND Con- Brooklyn.—HOOLEY's AND New York, Saturday, J: ————————————= CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. 1—Advertisementa. 2—Advertisementa S—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Curious Slander Case in Connecticui— Journalistic Notes—Adverusements, 4—Editoriais: Leading Articie, “General Grant and His Cabinct—The Crisis ac Wasbington’?— Personal _ Intelligence— amusements—Obitua- ry—Fire in Barclay Street—Amusement An- houncements. G—France: The Germans to Occupy France After Peace is Declared; German Successes on the Seine—Prim's Murder: Special Details from the Scene of Assas<ination—Spain: King Amadeus’ Cabinet—Miscellaneous Telegraphic News—The Middies’ Ball at Annapolis—Views the Past—Rewards for the Police—Business oles. 6—Prince Erie a Place Hunter—The Liberal Club— Woman Sui “The Biter Bit’’—The East River Market—The Charity Ball—-New York City News—Educational Afairs—Education in Jersey City—The Arrest of Pat Macdonala— News from Europe—Outrages in South Caro- lina—Sneak Thieves Abroad—Nava! Intelli- gence—The ‘Gas Patent” Alleged Swindle— Sudden Death of a Literary Gentleman—Polt- tical Affairs in Mexico—News from Hayti, St. Thomas, Porto Rico and Venezucla—The New Jersey Legislature. '¥—Proceedings mm Congress—Judge Dowling’s Mem- ory—Mayor Hall's Police Removing Obstruc- tions—United States Supreme Court—The (oar aan of the United States—Financ.al and Commercial Reports—Marriages and Deaths. ®—News from Washington—The New Crusade—The Western Whiskey Ring Come to Grief—Mc- teorological Record—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, Tae ANNAPOL!S Mippigs had a splendid ball at their academy last evening. The embryo tars were on deck in their nattiest rig, and en- joyed themselves with that zest which youth and health alone can give. Tae Miuirary Srrvation in FRrANcE.— Nothing in our war despatches published this morning indicates any events of importance different from those which were given yester- day. A few skirmishes between detached por- tions of the Army of the North and individual sections of Manteuffel have taken place. Be- yond these our war news from Europe is dull. AmeEstY has received its deathblow in the continued opposition of the President. If a general bill were passed in both houses it would probably be vetoed aud could not possi- bly repass by the necessary twe-thirds vote. The President's opposition is evidently based on his belief in the “natural depravity” of original rebels. ComMMUNICATION WiTH Paris.—A despatch from Brest, which we publish elsewhere, re- ports that the French government has notified the telegraph companies that ‘‘messages for Paris will be accepted, to be forwarded by pigeons at senders’ risk. The charge is ten cents per word and messages must not exceed twenty words.” This announcement will be received with satisfaction by all persons hav- ing relatives or friends in the besieged capital, and the means of communicating with them will doubtless be eagerly seized. Tax Heap or roe Famity.—We are specially informed by cable telegram from London that advices have been received in that city from Vienna, which state that the Emperor of Austria has agreed to accredit a representative to the court of King William as Emperor ef Germany, at Versailles. His Majesty Francis Joseph acts at the request of Count Bismarck. King William may then proclaim himself head of the German family in the Old World, The last words of Napoleon L, at the mo- ment of his death at Saint Helena, were, “‘Head of the army!” King William's title is much more useful, in an ethnolegical point of view. Mosto Haxt, in Boston, was crowded to its utmost capacity last evening with Catholics anxious to express their sympathy for Pope Pius and offer their services to him. The meeting was very enthusiastic in denunciation of the usurpation of the Italian King, and one orator stated that twe hundred million Catho- lics were ready to do homage to the Pope with their hearts and do him service with their hands, It may yet happen within the year just opening before us, which has the near precedent ef the one just gone for extraordi- nary events, that the Catholics throughout the werld may descend, like old Crusaders, upon the home of their Pope, and drive the King of Italy and his Italian followers forth from their new found capital, It would seem even now that it needs only a Peter the Hermit to blow the spark of religious excitement into an up- coatrollable dame aOR NEW YURK HHKALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1871 General Grant and His Cabinet—The Crisis at Washington. What is a crisis? Webster defines it as “‘the point of time when any affair, movement or course of action must terminate or take a new course, or be turned back; the decisive mo- ment; the turning point.” Thus we may say that Napoleon's declaration of war against Prussia marked a crisis to Napoleon and his empire; to France, Prussia and Germany ; to Spain, Italy and the Pope; to England, Prussia, Austria and Turkey; that the siege of Paris has approached a crisis; that the fall of Paris will bring a crisis to the French republic, and that recent events around us indicate a momentous crisis to General Grant's adminis- tration and the republican party. Indeed, a Cabinet crisis seems to be impending, and from the fact that Mr. Fish has made up his mind soon to retire from the cares and per- plexities of the State Department we may partly conjecture what is in the wind. A crisis has come in reference to the future policy of General Grant as the head of the govern- ment and as the head of his party, and in this double capacity we are called to consider the necessities of his position. It was only the other day that the philoso- pher Greeley expressed the opinion that it was too soon by a twelvemonth to talk yet of General Grant as the republican candidate for the next Presidency ; but on this point he is all right now. He has made the important dis- covery that Grant is the man for 1872, and no mistake. Fresh from a little diplomatic visit to Washington—for Greeley, like the Chevalier Wikoff and the venerable James Watson Webb, has a weakness for diplemacy and hot water— the chairman of the Twenty-second street repub- lican ‘‘straight-outs” said to them in high council on Thursday evening last: —‘‘As to the admin- istration of General Grant, I recognize no one as a republican who is not grateful for its judi- cious, energetic and successful efforts to pro- cure the ratification of the fifteenth amend- ment—that keystone of our political arch, whereby the fruits of our great triumph over rebellion and slavery are assured and per- petuated. That the President has made some mistakes in appointments is obvious ;” but the responsibility belongs to the party, and the blame, says our thoughtful philosopher, ‘falls rightly on us, who took him from the head of the army and made him our civil Chief Magis- trate, fully aware that he had never voted a republican ticket, if, indeed, he had voted at all.” ‘But here comes in the saving conclu- sion:—“‘While asserting the right of every republican to his untrammelled choice for next President until a nomination is made, I venture to suggest that General Grant will be far better qualified for that momentous trust in 1872 than he was in 1868.” Now, as the result of one short visit to Washington this is better, much better, than all that Greeley knows about farming. For months past, however, we have been telling him and all the other republican trumpeters and managers that General Grant is their only man and their only hope of salvation in 1872. But, meantime, the mischief they have done to their chief, his administration and their party is almost as serious as the troubles brought upon Napoleon by his greedy, selfish and un- scrupulous understrapppers in the late empire. And if in these republican discords our pro- fessor of agriculture has not openly revolted against the administration, like Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz of Missouri, nor declared war to the death against the President, like Sum- ner, his sympathy with the cause of the Fenton faction has been anything but advan- tageous to the republican party of New York or to General Grantas a candidate for the succession. It is surmised, nevertheless, that ag a reconstruction of the Cabinet is demanded from the necessities of the time, and that as a reconstruction may soon be expected, the late trip of our sub-soil cotemporary to Washing- ton may have had something todo with this important business. We infer, however, from the reports upon the subject, that the object of this mission was to reconcile Fenton to Gene- ral Grant's appointment of the amiable ‘Tom Murphy” as Collector ef this port, and that the mission was a failure. Perhaps our phosphate philosopher may have had this case of Murphy upon his mind in speaking of the obvious mistakes of the President in his appointments. But if we come to that, every man who expected an office or several offices which he failed to get is of the same opinion. Still it is true that General Grant has been unfortunate in his ap- pointments as well as in his disappointments, beginning with his Cabinet. In the very out- set, like Old Zack Taylor, he should have called the wisest heads and shrewdest old politicians of his party around him for their advice and assistance in reference to his Cabi- net, his foreign Ministers, his principal Col- lectors, Postmasters and Territorlal Governors and other officers of large political importance or influence. But what’sdone is done. The question is, what is General Grant to do to re- lieve himself and his party of their present embarrassments to get the party ship off from the shoals and breakers into which she is ariftin> The best thing, im our judgment, that he can do for a beginning is to make up a new Cabi- net on a new line of poliey in relation to both our foreign and domestic affairs. For ex- ample, a foreign policy, bold and decisive, in the matter of those Alabama claims, and upon the Eastern fisheries and St. Lawrence river navigation difficulties, is wanted and is ex- pected after the bread hints thrown out by General Grant in his late annual Message. Could any better or more satisfactory evi- denee be given to the country of a bold and decisive policy upon these questions than would be gives in the appointment of General Ben Butler as Secretary of State. Unqnes- tionably this appointment would startle John Bull and the Canadians and electrify Old Ire- land and the Fenians. With the first manifes- tation from General Butler as Secretary of State towards the execution of his Cape Cod programme General Grant could carry the city of New York; for he could wipe ont the whole of 1is eighty thousand democratic ma- jority. Then, with Senator Morton, of Indi- ana, as Secretary of the Treasury, on the platform of the reduction of our internal and exiernal revenue taxes to the aggregate of one hundred millions of dollars, the masses of all the producing classes of the country, from the great relief accorded them, would gratefully rally to the support of General Grant, his administration and the republican party, Some such decisive diversion as this upon our foreign and domestic affairs is needed to divert Greeley from his mischievous agitation of a high protective tariff, and the poets of the Post from their foolish fallacies of free trade ; Sumner from his mumbo-jumbo, his “raw head and bloody bones” of St. Domingo; Fen- ton from his old womanish spite against Col- lector Murphy ; Trumbull from his fallacious visions ef the White House by the side door of a third party; Gratz Brown from the same hallucination, and Carl Schurz from his awful purpose of selling out the Western German republicans to Tammany Hall. The policy we have indicated would silence all these disturbing elements—all these factions disorganizers and disappointed, greedy politicians. And why not? Is it not manifest that the democratic party is becom- ing more united and stronger from day to day as things are going on; that the withdrawal of Hoffman from the White House track has restored democratic harmony between the East and the West, and that State after State dowa South is falling off from the republican party and its ‘‘scalawags” and carpet- baggers ? The simple truth is that when a great party has fulfilled its appointed miasien it must be reorganized for a new departure or it goes out and goes down. A new departure is now demanded from the party in power, and from General Grant as the official head of this party; amd as the first step to am active, liberal, decisive, go-ahead policy at home and abroad, the best thing that General Grant can do is to appoint a new Cabinet. If only as a tub te the whale a new Cabinet will be some- thing; but the crisis demands something bet- ter than a tub to the whale. A Power Grown Up im the State Greater Than the State Itself. Such was the expression of Governor Palmer, of Illinois, in his message to the Legislature on the 4th of this month. The Governor was referring to the control of the railroad corporations of the State, and in that connection made the above remark, saying, however, that to say the State has not power, acting through the appropriate legislative department as determined by the constitution, to control the management of railroad corpo- rations, is to assert there has grown up a power greater than the State itself. He be- lieves the State has the power to regulate the rates imposed by railroads as common car- riers, so as to prevent extortion, oppression or unjust discrimination against or in faver of localities or individuals, or to investigate their management and pre- vent the employment of vast sums of money under their control for purposes of corruption. No doubt the separate States have this power over railroads within their limits, and we believe the federal government has a similar power over the great lines that run through the different States under the clause of the constitution that gives it power to regulate commerce among the several States. These railroad lines are as much the arteries of commerce among the States as the great lakes, the rivers or the sea ceast. But what is the use of talking about State govern- ments controlling the management of rai- roads? Tae railroad magnates can buy up almost any of the State legislatures or gov- ernments, The railroads are really a power greater than the State itself. It is a matter of doubt even whether they cannot control Con- gress er the government at Washington as well. The time is coming, and not far off, when the federal government will be called upon imperatively by the people to proteet them from the exactions and tyranny of the railroad corporations and to control those pewerful institutions. Governor Palmer has sounded the note that will awaken attention and opposition toa dangerous and overbear- ing monopoly. ‘A New Cabinet. General Grant needs a new Cabinet, reor- ganized from the ground up. If he should call us to mame one we should first name Mor- ton for Secretary of State, because he is a friend of the President, a soupd American, and an extreme radical. For Secretary of War we should nominate George B. McClel- lan, because he understands the duties of or- ganizing armies and everything else connected with war, and because he is a liberal republi- can, clothed in war democratic robes. For Secretary of the Interior we should unhesitat- ingly insist upon Horace Greeley, because his knowledge of farming brought to bear in the Interior Department will save the country its present expense for a Bureau of Agriculture. Besides, Mr. Greeley, being » peacemaker by profession and astride-the-fence republican, will cement the party in New York if he is immediately called away to Washington or some other distant spot. For Postmaster General and Attorney General nearly any man willdo, It is better, however, to name some one who is otherwise eut of office—say Alexander McClure, of Pennsylvania, or Judge Speed, of Kentucky. But for Secretary of the Navy our favorite is Ben Wade. That ag- gressive old chief of the republican party is the oaly man in the country that can be relied on to do the work that Welles and Borie and Robeson have left undone. It is only Ben Wade who can holystone the decks of the Navy Department to the clear whiteness of an ordi- nary man-of-war, or ever scrape the barnacles off the hull of our naval system. Caprure oF MARraAcarso.—Another South American agony is over. A telegram informs us that the city and forts of Maracaibo are all in the hands of the Blanco party. No one donbted this result; but what good will ceme of it? Willit tend to the establishment of peace in that distracted republic of Venezuela ? Will the devastation and destruction be checked? We think not; it will be the old etory ef counter revolution; the oppesite party anxious for power; more battles, more sieges and more surrenders ; and so it will go on until some stronger Power steps in and exerts an influence that will put a stop to revo- lution and constant tumult. Will our govern- ment have anything to say in the matter? Tuk Prestpent enjoyed quite a round of festivities last evening. He danced at the middies’ ball in Annapolis and also at the LUlinois delegation ball in Washingten, Cougress Yesterday—Censure of High Naval Officers. There was no session of the Senate yester- day, that body having on Thursday adjourned over till Monday. In the House the debate on the resolutions reported by the Committee on Foreign Affairs in relation to Paraguay was continued, and occupied the whole day. It will be remembered by most of our readers that during the war in which Lopez and the Paraguayan people fought so desperately against Brazil and her allies, the United States Minister, Mr. Washburn, incurred the suspicion and ill will of Lopez, growing out of the protection extended by Mr. Washburn to two men, named Bliss and Masterman, the one an American citizen and the other an Englishman. They were accused of being concerned in a conspiracy against the government, and Mr. Washburn had given them shelter and protection, and claimed for them that they were attaches of his embassy. This claim, how- ever, was denied and disregarded, and the two men were seized, imprisoned and sub- jected to torture, in which they were made to implicate Mr, Washburn himself in the con- spiracy. It is charged that Admirals Godon and Davis, who successively commanded the South Atlantic squadron, failed to discharge their duties properly in sustaining the Ameri- can Minister and giving due protection to him and the imprisoned attach¢s of his embassy. The subject was brought before the House of Representatives and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, which took a large mass of testimony, and reported resolutions condem- natory of those officers of the navy. It was these resolutions on which the House has been engaged for the last two days, and which it passed yesterday by very decided majorities. While the action of the House, so far as it evinces a determination to protect American citizens abroad, is proper and commendable, it is not so clear that exact justice was done to the distinguished naval officers concerned, whose course met with the commendation and approval, not only ef the Navy Department, but also of the State Department. They cer- tainly were entitled, when grave charges were made against them, to have those charges in- vestigated before a naval board, or court of inquiry, where their defence could be fully entered into. Although they were heard before the committee, it cannot be said that they had the fullest opportunity of defending themselves, and it is no slight matter to them to have their professional and well- earned reputation branded by legisla- tive censure. They may, however, thank Mr. Fartisworth for offering a resolution, which the House also adopted, instructing the Secretary of the Navy to institute proceedings against them before a naval court martial. This will give them an opportunity of redeem- ing their fair fame and of showing that they acted within the line of their duty and of their instructions. We cannot but think that would have been the proper course to pursue in the first instance, and that resolutions of censure should have awaited the action of the court. The real trouble originated in the jealousy between the diplomatic service and the naval service, and the way to guard against similar controversies in future is to lay down clear and specific instructions for the guidance of ministers and naval officers on foreign stations. We hope that Congress will itself see to the necessary work. Prim’s Murder. Our special telegram report from Madrid, by way of London and through the Atlantic cable, supplies a further detailed record of this horrible tragedy, its first results and concluding consequences. The wounds which were inflicted on the General by the assassins caused him to sink rapidly, notwithstanding the fact that he was attended immediately by some seven surgeons of eminence. Political party feeling was obliterated for the season in the Corjes by the sad occur- rence. The parliamentary leaders, as will be seen by our special report, paid feeling tribute to Prim’s memory, entirely irrespective of the animus or remembrances ot former and past debates. Sefiora the Madame Prim had just quitted the bedside of her dying husband for a moment when he expired. The fixing of the exact second of time of his decease gave rise to much discus- sion. The street scenes in Madrid during the eventful night were wretched in the extreme. The weather was intensely cold, and poverty huddled itself in its rags by fires lighted at some of the corners. The Spanish Parlia- ment appears to have beem completely equal to the emergency. Constitutionalism, in its essential seriousness, prevailed over the temporary alarm of society. The in- habitants of Madrid commenced their prepara- tions for the reception of the new King. Tri- umphal arches were in process of construction and the fétcs of the morrow bade fair to cause the citizens to forget that another ‘‘proud son of man” had been “‘returned to earth.” Yet so it was, and so itis—‘‘the gloom of glory” on Earth. SPEAKING OF CaBINETs, the following Cabinet might not possibly be endorsed by the entire republicam party, but, as that party is divided, it may be necessary in order to create harmony to give each division ‘a show” in its reorganization. Then, as a stroke of policy, it might be well to let the democratic party have a hand in, and as the offices of Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury are of some importance, let the sop be thrown in a democratic direction. Thus, with allowing the President to select one of his advisers, he might suceeed in making a pewer- ful party composed of contending elements. The following is a list:—For Secretary of State, Vallandigham, of Ohio; for Secretary of War, Ben Butler, of Massachusetts; for Secretary of the Navy, aman that knows some- thing about ships; Secretary of the Treasury, Bill Tweed or Jim Fisk ; Secretary of the Inte- rior, Horace Greeley, of agricultural fame; Attorney General, Charles Sumner, and Pest- master General, Pat Jones. How Wovutp Tins Do For a OsBInet?— Secretary of State, Sam Ward; Secretary of the Treasury, Mrs. Victoria Woodhull ; Secre- tary of War, John Morrissey ; Secretary of the Navy, Glenni W. Scofield; Postmaster Gen- eral, J. J. Koopmanschap; Secretary ef the Interior, Miss Anna Dickinson: Attorney General, Charley Spencer. The Democratic Festivities. The Americus ball at the Academy of Music and Irving Hall opened the gay season with & great display of canary birds and orange blos- somson Thursday night. Canaries from all parts of the Canary Isles (and no doubt from Sing Sing) and canary birds from other places, im- ported for this occasion only, were swinging about im their gilded cages from the walls and domes and flies and wings of the halls, singing, whistling and chirping as merrily and sweetly as if the dread warriors of Tammany were not dancing their most terrible war dance directly underneath them, and as if they had no idea that the catacombs of the Academy would ruin their voices, as they bave so often ruined the voices of sweeter singers than themselves, The great men of the city, the ponderous politicians of Tam- many, the immense leaders of the local gov- ernment, the gorgeous women ef the metropo- lis, were there in astonishing array. The onerous duties of the legislative session, the overwhelming hardships of the Mayor's office and the City Council Chamber, the cares of the city judiciary, the heavy labors of the Public Park and Public Works Commis- sioners—even the life-sapping drudgery of the Governor's office—were momentarily forgotten in the more congenial pleasures of society or lost in the misty mazes of the dance. Happy and merry “cusses,” to be able to lay aside, even for so brief a period, the corroding cares that are eating away the hearts of our Tweeds and O’Briens and Hoffmans and Halls—to shake off the dust of official slavery with their twinkling feet and to shuffle off their political coils im a double-shufile! More happy. doubtless, than the wretched Sweeny, whose only hours of official recess are bound up in another duty, even more imperative—one that consults not the political welfare of his city alone, nor even looks merely to the supplying of food or coal for the voting families of his ward—but ex- tends beyond that, and includes in one grand object the health and cleanliness of his cen- stituency. He is building a Turkish bath in the rear of his house—the first, no doubt, of a great series all over the city for the washing of the hitherto unwashed democracy, and even in his leisure hours he has no time for dancing. When it is not work with him it is wash. The two ballrooms, connected by an arched passageway, laid with Corporation carpet and covered with silk bunting, were resplendent with fair womea and brave men. A view from the balconies presented dazzling vistas of diamonds and silks and white arms and shoulders, and dress coats and lavender pants and starry shirt bosoms. The crash of the music set the whole buzzing hive in motion, and then the great brilliants, borrow- img even greater brilliancy from the grand lights overhead, flashed and sparkled and intermingled like the Drummond lights of s thousand locomotives coming into sudden collision on the Erie Railroad. The shuffling feet on the floor, the hum of words, and the shrill carolling of the million canary birds caged all about the room, battered the ear until each indi- vidual’s ear-drum ached worse than the head of Grafulla’s bass drums; and the flash of the calcium lights upon the diamonded shirt fronts, the more modest electric sparks suspended from fair neeks and the sudden flare of Fisk’s Drummond light as he whirled corners in the quadrille dazzled and pained the eye so that smoked glasses could have been sold in great profusion by the opera boys in the lobbies, if those thoughtless urchins had only supplied themselves with more than they needed for their own personal protection. In this dread- ful dance the tigers of Tammany opened their gax season, and it was not until long after the initial hours of the new day that the democratie ¢lite of the State ceased driving the dull care of politics away with the steady tripping ef the light fantastic toe. This Is the Cabinet for the Money. 1. Hon Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachu- setts, fer Secretary of State, because he under- stands boundaries and knows what to do with contrabands and Alabama claims. 2. Jay Cooke, of Ohio, for Secretary of the Treasury, because he has the interests of the nation at heart along with the solid principle of party success. 3, Henry Clews, of New York, for Secretary of the Interior, because ‘no pent up Utica contracts his powers.” He respects the past, but looks to the future of the land we live on. 4. Hon. Thomas Fitch, of Nevada, for Sec- retary of War, because he’s toward the Pacific slope. 5. Admiral David D. Porter, of Pennsyl- vania, for Secretary of the Navy, because he “knows a hawk from a hernshaw when the wind’s southerly.” 6, Colonel John W. Forney, last of the Dis- trict ef Columbia, for Postmaster General, be- cause he has more experience in U. S. mails than any other man who publishes ‘‘two papers, both daily.” 7. Hon. Hiram R. Revels, of Mississippi, for Attorney General, because he is *‘leatned in the law” and the prophets, and has gone through more trials than any member ot the Senate. In addition to the above, let us, while we are about it, nominate a Commissioner for Indian Affairs. Make the choice between Hon. Carl Schurz, to win back the “big Pawnee” who has shown such skill in Western scalping and tomahawk exercise, and Hon. Charles D. Drake, whose wounds by the Pawnce’s scalp- ing knife have been but partly healed in the Coart of Claims. How happy coula we be with either, Were Uother dear charmer away ! Seriously, here is a good, fresh Cabinet, of various shades and sections—quick, sharp, progressive men, and, after all, nicely poised and adapted with that “fellow feeling” which makes us ‘‘wondrous kind,” and secures a re- turn to work and the era of go-ahead American ideas, Try them and see—Excelsior! For General Grant's New Casinet— Mr. Morton, of Indiana, as Secretary of State; Mr. A. T. Stewart, Secretary of the Treasury ; Admiral Porter, as Secretary of the Navy ; General Sherman, Secretary of War; General Orr, of South Carolina, Secretary of the Interior ; Senator Williams, of Oregon, Post- master General; Benjamin F, Butler, Attor- nev General, Personal Intelligence, Governor Scott, of South Carolina, left the Metro~ politan Hdtel, last evening for Washington. General W. Merritt, of the United States Army, has taken quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Major General Sir Trevor Chute, of the Britian army, and Lady Chute have teft tne Brevoort House on a flying visit to Washington. Mr. 'T. H. Ridley, of Newfoundland, member of the Canadian Parliament, is ameng the latest arrivals at the Grand Central Hotel, Ex-Governor James Tufts, of Montana, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr, C. F, Bushel, Vice President of the Unton Pacific Railroad, has apartments at the Grand Cen- tral Hotel. Sefior J. Mariscal, the Mexican Consul, is tempo- Tarlly at the Everett House, Sefior 0. Carranxa, Secretary of Legation to the Argentine republic, has arrived at the Westminster Hotel. State Senator A. X. Parker, of St. Lawrence county, came to the city yesterday and put up the Metropoit- tan Hotel. Mr, Warren Delano, ex-member of Congress, of Newbu . Y., 18 staying at the Brevoort House. Commander J. T. Bingham, of the United States Navy, is stationed at the Irving House. Mr. R. M. Shoemaker, member of Congress from Ohio, nas arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. E, L. Plumb, ex-Consul to Cuba, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge Charles 8. Lester, of Saratoga, 1s registered at the Metropolitan Hotel, Mr. John M, Francis, editor of the Troy Times, has alighted at the Grand Central Hotel. General F. D. Sewall, of Washington, is quartered at the Astor House. General C. W. Tompkins, of Providence, has are rived at the Grand Central Hotel. Commander J, W. Graydon, of the United Staves Navy, has engaged quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel W. H. Daulkinson, of the United States Army, 1s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, AMUSEMENTS, STEINWAY HALL—MISS ALMA KRavsE’s CON- CERT.—rhis lady, an ex-member of the Stadt Theatre Operatic Company, had a slimly attended benefit last evening. She was assisted vocally by Miss Rosenberg, Miss Durgem, Messrs. Candidus and Remmertz, and a chorus from the Teu- tonia Minnerchor, and instrumentally by Mr. Gerbel, a zither player. Miss Krause has @ foo, well cultivated soprano voice, better adapted, owever, to the opera than to concert, The tone ia very fuli and the quality dramatic. The operatic selections last night were unsuitable for a concert hall with @ mere plano accompaniment. The ficiaire deserved a more liberal acknowledgment of her undoubted ability than her compatriots vouch+ safed her. Benefit concerts, however, are sorry affairs nowadays. FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE—ITALIAN OPERA.— The second night of the opera season at this house ‘Was not so well attended as on the first perform- ance. The opera was the same, ‘Trovatore.’ Mme. Czillag, the Leonora, sang better than on the occasion of her débit, but not even the fire and earnestness of her acting can hide the fact that her voice is worn to an extent detrimental to a satisfactory rendering of such ardle, A mezzo soprano voice cannot in its wave be forced up to the high pitch of a soprano, especially in Verdi's music, Without losing much of its power and clearness, We never heard Le Franc’s magnificent voice to better advantage. Itis aremarkable organ, this voice. Na- ture has endowed 1t with a brilliancy, clear, round tone and sympathetic quality, which we rarely hear on the stage nowadays; but it is a treacherous voice, and deceives its possessor and the public at the most unexpected tune. Last night Le Franc was 1a maguificegt voice, aud we have not heard for a long tame stich a te renditien of the réle of Manrico, Still we question thé policy of the management bills, “Signor Le Franc will on this ‘occasion mtroduce his celebrated Be 0." It 1s too much like the line in a circus bill, **Mr. Weinaninsky will introduce the celebrated trick pony.” Mme, Gazzaniga 1s a fine Azucena, second only to Ade- laide Phillips im this country, and Signor Retna ts @ blatant voiced Di Lune. The chorus was of the usual execrable standard, and Signor Nicolat had considerabie work with lus orchestra. A matinée of the “Trovatore” will be given to-day, and “Un Ballo en Maschera” is promised for/Tuesday. Lina Epwin’s THEATRE.—“Kind to a Fault’ ts the title of a new comedy by William Brough, which was performed last evening at thia house. The plot of the piece, like all its Predecessors by the same atthof, is founded of @ chapter of mistakes, in’ which the different characters are involved through the absurd jealously of a Mr. Drewitt (Mr. E. A. Eberle), and the foolish conduct of a Mr. Frank Golds- worthy (Mr. J, L. Hall), who, by being “kind to a fault” gets into all manner of scrapes, which culmt- nate in a general uproar at the end of the first act, There were also an elopement, an indignant parent, the usual hide-and-seek business and angry recrimt- nations, from which, however, the several parties happily emerged by mutual explanations before the fail of the curtain. The dialogue of the comedy is sparkling throughout. The part of Mrs. Drewitt, per- formed by Miss Edwin, gave her full scope for the display of her talents, i. M. W. Leffingwell gave avery amusing representation of the stupid funky, whose ambition it is to keep ‘an early breakfast house.” His amours with Jerry, the chambermaid (well acted by Miss Bella Howitt), and his fits of tales provoked the merriment of the audience, Mr. Hall enacted the leading character in his usual finished and masterly manner. Tne performance concluded with the burlesque of ‘“Aladdin,’’ in whieh Mr. LeMingwell, as the Widow Twankey, caused roars of laughter. To-night Miss Lina Edwin will take her benefit in the burlesques of ‘sack Sheppard” and ‘Aladdin,’ and we hope a ia peas Wil show that she has a strong hold on pub. ic favor. Musical and Dramatic Notes. Matinées will be given to-day at the following theatres:—Fifth Avenue, ‘Saratoga;’? Wallack’s, “War; Booth’s, ‘‘Rip Van Winkie;’’ Olympic, “Wee Willie Winkie;” Lina Edwin’s, “Kind to a Fault’ and «Aladdin; Niblo’s, ‘Black Crook;”’ Fourteenth street theatre, “Trovatore;” Grapd Opera House, “Brigands;” Bowery, Globe, Comique, Circus, Tony Pastor's, Apollo Hall, Association Hall, Hooley's, Park and Brooklyn Opera House. The Philharmonic Society give a grand concert at the Academy to-night. Miss Lina Edwin, one of the most popular actresses in her line on the stage, takes a benefit at her pretty little theatre to-night. The third Orpheon concert will be given at Apollo Halt this evening, with @ grand ball as a valuable accessory. Mr. George Hows, the talented young lecturer, delivers his new seri0-comic lecture, “Home, Sweet Home,” at Dr. Garmo’s this evening. L. F. Harrison has a choice matinée ¢ oncert this afternoon at Steinway Hall, followed by a ball at Irving Hall. Mr. Jesepn H, Walsh, ® young violinist of con- siderable talent and excellent school, gave avery successful concert at Lyric Hall on Thursday even- ing. He was assisted by Miss C. V. tela og ptm Cc. Terry, Signor Filippi and Mr. H. E. whe. A grand sacred concert will be given at St. Stephen’s church, prety hth street, on Sunday evening, by Miss Jenny Miss Clara Perl, Misa Alma Krause, Le Franc, Coletti and H. B. Danforth, assisted by a large orchestra. Dr. Will Berge, the accomplishea organist of St. Francis Xavier’s church, preparing some masser for his inimitable choir which will make a sensation in church masic oircies. Mile. Fanny Janauschek’s tour through the West Was one of unexampled success. Everywhere she was greeted by large houses and won the most en- thusiastic encomiums by her grand, impressive style of acting. Already she has received numerous. offers of engagements from managers tn various parts of the country. The second concert of the newly organized bana ofthe Ninth regiment will take Dlace at the Grand Opera House to-morrow evening. It is a body of musicians such as any leader might be proud of. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Willlama met with great suc- cess during their late engagement at Providence. OBITUARY. Dr. Wesley Smead. A despatch from Poughkeepsie. announces the death, in that city, of Dr. Wesley Smead, He cele- brated the 70th anniversary of bis birthday at the Morgan House two weeks age, on which occasion he gave $5,000 to the Widows’ Home in Cincinnati, making $87,000 he has given that institution Ip all, He has also given Mberally to charitable institutions in this city, He was the author of several vatuabie works. He was well known In the West, and also in business circles in New York city, FIRE IN BARCLAY STREET. At about half-past twelve o'clock this moraing » fire broke out on the top floor of O'Shea’s publish. ing house, No. 27 Barclay street. The firemen were promptly on the ground and soon mastered the flames. All the contents of the top fuvor were de- stroyed, and the books and other things on the other floors were damaged by water. ‘he loss and ‘ the amount of insurance could not be ascertaumed.