The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HEKALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Herat. i NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tuk SPRCTACLE oF THE BLAOK Coo. WeaDuAORs THEATRE, Brosiway ana 13th street.— LINA EDWIN’s THEATRE. 720 Broadway.—KiNpD TO A FAULT— ALADDIN. GRAND OPERA HOU Lr Perr Faust. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tu PANTOMIME OF Wee Wrnuir Wixxrr, BOWERY THEATRA, Bowery.—Dog oF Tuk OLD Tour HOUsE—A Go.vEN Lerren. of 8th av. and 93d st,— WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ances every afternoon and evening, GLORE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—VatreTy ENTER- TAINNENT, &c, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-tourtb street.— SaBaToca. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 st BIORELIEU. NEW YORK SEFBACH AS M ween th and 6th avs,— TADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Manie STUART. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — GUBUING CLORINDA—ROMNO JAPYER JRNELNS, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Jrrrrrson as RI VA x. TONY ‘PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowers.-—Va- RIETY ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 B: 1sM, NEGRO AoTS, &C.—JOLLY way.—-Comio Vooan- ra Claus. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— Nrono Mi RELSY, PAROS, BUS! RSQUES, £c. 25d st., between 6th SX, EOOENTRICITIES, &, APOLLO HALL. corner street and Broadway.— Dr. Couky’s DioRaMA oF I ND. 4 LA. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1871.-''RIPLE SHEET. : The Occupation of France by the Ger- mans—How Long ¢ The London Times of Friday printed « despatch from its special correspondent at Berlin to the effect that arrangements had been made for a prelonged occupation of France after the fall of Paris. This announce- ment is so much in’ harmony with the views which we have again and again expressed in the Heratp that we cannot refuse to take advantage of the fresh opportunity thus afforded to repeat them. Itis no longer permitted us to doubt that Paris must fall, and that with the’ fall of Paris France will submit tothe yoke of the con- queror. There are not a few enthusiastic French sympathizers who persist in refusing to believe that Paris can be taken er that the Germans will net be ignomiciously driven from French soil. On the part of all such the wish is s2 much father to the thought that we can afford to pardon them for wilful blindness. That the French have been fighting well since the commencement of the siege of Paris no sensible map can refuse to admit, The armies of the republic have saved France from the dishonor which must have clung to her if peace had been concluded after the fall of Sedan. In making this admission we give France all the glory to which she is justly entitled. But, in spite of this admission, facts are facts; and the facts prove that sinee Sedan the French people, or, rather, the men who arrogate to themselves the right to repre- seat the French people, have been prolonging a bloody, desiructive and hopeless struggle, What are the facts of to-day? Ail the East and all the North of France, from Strasbourg to the sea, is overrun. Througheut that wide range of territory, which for generations every French government has been endeavor- ing to make impregnable, not a single fortress worthy of the name but has fallen before the NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—SozNEs Dn THE RING, ACROuATS, £0, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Do "8 AN KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS 7 —HOOLEY'S AND BROO! Ware's N OPERA HOUSE——Weroa, Hons & SSTRELS. -HOLIDAY PANTOMINE, &C. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SOMENOE AND ART. New York, Sunday, January S, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HZRALD. PaGE. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisementa. 3—The War tn France: Herald Spectal Reports of the Progress of the Paris—Napoleon: The Emperor’s New Reception at Wil- helmshihe—German Uni Scocesstul Diplo» macy for National Fraternity—Spain: The New King and the Murdered unister—Miscellane- ous Telegrams. 4—The State Capital: Reduction of City Taxation— Terrible Accideat—The Next Presidency—The Estrangement of Grant and Sumner—The Dynamics of Life—North Carolina: Baptism and Spiritual Reformation of Governor Hol- den—News from St. Domingo—The Tehuante- peo Ship Canai—Music and the Drama—Mili- tary Notes—Ti nians: The Reception of the Li! erated Pairiots—Phe Garden City, 5—The Charitavie Rivals—Fire on Madissn Ave- nue—Horse Nores—Criticisms of New Books— Musical Keview—Union Home Fair—West Point “Pleasantries’ Among the Pupils— Rome and the Papacy—Jer: “ity Water Sup- piv—The Ice Business on the Hud: 6-Evitoriai: Leading Article, “fhe Occupation of France by the Germans—How Long ?’— Amus) 7—Eaitorial Inielhigen ments 8—Prince and Ar Parag The Criminai C: The Conrts—sSouther N Page)=-Personal hington—Amuse- ness Noti ‘onopoly in Jersey the Porder Rufiia: Shocking and Commerciai Reports—Ma ns. nan Murder: Statement of the Accused fomb:—Thwardng the Gallows: Si , the Convict rving Himself to sat the Tombs—Skating in y at Jetferson Market Pouce The General Interests of the by Governor Claitiin—General Advertisements, Vice Presipent Corrax thinks the demo- cratic victories down South augur well for the republican party in 1872, because they have pro- duced Ku Klux ontrages and negro massacres, and so warned the true men of the country whata era democratic Presidential vic- tory in 18 ld be. This may serve very well for 1: yat surely the republican party doesn’t expect to live ou such ‘negative virtues” as massacred darkies forever. Vice President Colfax may like it very well, but it ctory to the d: having very re- cently ent uties as Internal Revenue Commissioner, has hardly succeeded war harness. He : forbidding subordi- internal to visit oa except by special permit and un- regulations, which revenue seme extent a very good ; much of “G Headquarters, s country was unpleas war. anything so uoy ew peace care ; Smacks too » Military which the familiar during the asant at the outset of his A ConGres L Desatinc Cuive.—The House of Representatives ycsterday resolved itself into a debating club, in which one member told all that he knew, which was not mucb, about the ‘Heathen Chinee,” and | an Arkansas man raked up the stories of re- publican election frauds in the Bowie Knife State. We doubt whetker any other national leislature ever commits the absurdity of setting apart whole days, in which no public business is to be transacted, but which are to | be exclusively used for the purpose of giving the lesser lights of the body an opportunity of airing their ideas and of rehearsing written speeches on miscellaneous subjects not con- nected with pending legislation, Such an eccentricity is peculiar to the House of Repre- | ¥ | , and would, perhaps, be unknown sentativ even there if it were not for the existence of | Hobe, in which all these essays find a resting place. The more experienced members, however, rather e the plan, becanse it relieves them rom ihe daoger of hav- the Congressional ing such speeches inflicted upon the House to the delay of public business." The Congres- sional Debating Club has, therefore, its use. | while serving to | Commissioner Pleasonton must not do | | older and | foe. Strasbourg and Metz and Thionville and Sedan and Phalsbourg and Laon and Mezi- eres and the rest are to-day garrisoned by German soldiers. Alsace and Lorraine are as much German, so far as government goes, as Bavaria or Baden or Hesse. This, however, is net all. Some five hundred thousand men with keen, eager eyes and hearts that know no relenting—not to speak of the glit- tering lines of pointed steel which, flashing in the sunbeams, almost make ruin levely, and the ready and effective needle gua and the ponderous cannon charg.d with their countless tons of death—shut Paris, so re- cently so lovely, away from hope and mercy and give her no choice but to embrace despair. So long as this huge army of five hundred thousaad men remains in this attitude France can, of course, make some little show of life. With the fall of Paris, however, the situation will be completely changed. All the soldiers now under Trochu will be prisoners of war. A small body of German soldiers will suffice to preserve order in the fallen capital. The great body of the investing army will be let loose on the provinces; and resistanee from the Vosges to the Atlantic and from the Bel- gian frontiers to the Pyrenees and the Medi- terranean will dieina week. It may not be long—as we think it will not be long—until all this has parsed away from the region of specu- lation into the regien of fact. Paris will be reduced; France will be submissive; King William will reign in the Tuileries; Bismarek will issue his instructions from the Hotel de Ville, and in another and larger Warsaw peace will reign. Waat then? The new facts will be that France for the third time in less than sixty years has been trod by the foot of the invader, and that her glorious capital, the eye ef the civilized world, as Corinth once was the eye of Greece, has been occupied by foreign troops and controlled by a council of foreign princes. Now that there is no longer any question about the fall of Paris or about the occupation of France another and a more important ques- tion—more important because more live—is being put. How leng wili the occupation last? To answer this question we do not pretend to be able. But our inability to give to the ques- tion a definite answer does not diminish its importance or lessen its claims on our atten- tion. It is fair, we think, to take it fer granted that the new German Emperor will, with much coolaess and with not a little deter- mination, temporarily, at least, establish him- self in the Tuileries. After her hard struggle France will be allowed a little time to breathe—an opporiunity to reflect on the struggle through which she has passed, to measure the depth of her disgrace, and to learn once. more the folly and sin of war. The Germans who have fought so well and who have so deservedly won will be allowed a little liberty; nor is it impossible that while they will remember the disasters which followed the battle of Jena, they will indulge in some of the license of 1814 and 1815. It may also, we think, be taken for granted that King William and his council of ad will take proper steps to restore France to herself by giving her a government more or less according to her choice. This government, no matter how chosen, will have submit to the conqueror’s terms. Germany insist on a cession of territory, and the pecuniary indemnification of Fatherland for lo: sustained by the war will not be for- gotten. Itis not unnatural to conclude that the responsibilities which will devolve on the | new government will deter many of the-best men of France from accepting office. Few hinen_ will be willing to have their names permanently associated with the humiliation of their country. To the Gernran Emperor there are many possible courses. He may | follow the example of 1814, and deal with | the promiaent men ef the hour. In such acase he will recognize the old Senate and the old Corps Ligislatif—the Senate and the legislative body which proclaimed the war, but which did not sanction the déchéance. It is possible that these bodies will staad by Napoleon.’ It is not impossible that they will | desert him, as the same bodies, in 1814, de- serted his uncle. King William may ignore the constituled bodies and summon around him a council of magnat the Staies General. that he will reco merits of a 8, or he may convoke ize, evea in France, the (biseife, In any case intrigue will not be abandoned by the different factions. The R cans, the Orleanists, the Legiti- mists, the Imperialists will all be busy, each party using its best efferis to accomplish its special purpose I is scarcely conceivable | | | quently overwhelmed by it. sible that serious trouble may arise in ftaly in connection with the Pope and the transference of the capital from Florence te Rome. The Eastern question may take a serious shape. Germany herself may become divided about the terms of peace and the apportioning of the spoils, The London Conference, intended te heal divisien, may involve Europe in war. With the Alabama claims unsettled, with Fenians burning for revenge in England, with millions of Catholics in all lands panting for an oppor- tunity to make another crusade—with all these combustible forces more or less directly affect- ing Europe who shall say how long this Ger- man oecupation of France will last or how it will end? Whether the occupation be long or short it ought to be a source of gratification to us, om this free and rich and hourly-developing American soil, that war, with all its horrors, is not likely soon to give us other sorrow or other concern than that which belongs to the mere spectator. All that we can hope for is that order may soon grow out of this confu- sion, and thot this latest and most destructive war may prove a gain to liberty and genuine progress the wide world over. The Bombardment of Paris Opencd=Thke General Military Situation, We publish in this morning’s HErarp a special telegram from our special correspond- ent at Versailles, giving an account of the German activity on the north, east and south of the besieged capital. The taking of Fort Mont ; Avron is still a matter of much surprise at the Prussian headquarters, The silencing of the guns of Forts Rosny and Nogent is also a cir- cumstance of equal wonder. The belief ex- pressed that these two forts can now be taken, and this task accomplished, that the Ger- mans can then advance on Montreuil, is a be- lief we are not yet prepared to share, Dark as the prospect appears for Paris, from the reading of the telegrams we still adhere to the opinion that Paris is not on the eve of capitu- lation, and that before the city capitulates one great, desperate effort will be made to break the investing lines. We very much mistake the character, ability and courage of General Trochu if, with the large force which he must have ander his command, and which during the whole siege, now numbering one hundred and seventeen days, he has been preparing to raise the siege and save the capital, he will capitulate without a tremendous effort. ‘The story of the deserter as to the condition of Paris can be taken for what it is worth. During our war we had intelligent con- trabands come within the Union lines with the most startling revelations as to the state of affairs on the other side. True, many of them proved correct, but very many of them were stories ef questionable veracity. We feel satisfied that Paris suffers, that much misery prevails there, and that it cannot last much longer. Yet we hear of no act of insubor- dination, no riots, no tumultuous pro- ceedings on the part of the sufferers, Trochu is calm, collecteg and _ silent. No,wordy proclamatioa, no grandilequent ad- dresses, no appeals to French patriotism come from him, and this very reticence encourages the hope that his forces are under a state of discipline and organization that when the preper moment in his judgment arrives he will be prepared to act, and with such results as may possibly surprise the armies which months have been awaiting the struggle. The bombardment of the city on three sides has been inaugurated and is still continued. Forts d’Issy on the south, de Nozent on the east end de Rosny on the northeast have, at least so the despatches say, all been sileneed. The comparatively short and easy mazner in which these results have been attained causes us to reflect a moment ere we arrive at the too hasty opinion that from such indications we may anticipate the easy capture of Paris. If a grand sortie in force is contemplated we be- lieve that neither of these points are the ones contemplated by Trochu. When we consider the movements of Chauzy—of whom, by the way, we have heard little or nothing for the last two or three days—we are inclined to the belief that, should a sortie in force be attempted, it will be made to the west of the eity. Estimating Trochu’s army at three hundred thousand men, disciplined as they ought to be by this time—a force almost equal to the army besieging Paris—it is diffi- cult to think that the capital of France is about to fall into the hands of the German in- vaders without a struggle of the greatest mag- nitude. The very silence of the cable, too, in rela- tion to the movements of Chauzy and Bour- bali can be construed im no other way than that they have not been checked; that they are still ‘‘marching on,” and that the crisis in France is fast approaching a climax! Faid- herbe’s success at Bapaume was greater even than the first despatches led us to believe. The very energy displayed by the French generals at present, the vast accessions being made to their armies, the spirit tuat has been awakened throughout the whole of France may be the stimulus which has urged the German Com- mander-in-Chief to inaugurate the bombard- ment of the city, which has been so often promised and so frequently deferred. Tie ADMISSION OF THE GEORGIA SENATORS will be an important question in the present session of the Senate. There are eight or nine of them, Georgia evidently wanting to make up for the eight or nine years she bas been un- represented. Mr. Tweep has been led into an interview with our reporter at Albany on the subject of his fifty thousand dollar charity. He doesn’t like te have the matter discnssed in the papers. He says they generally abuse him to the proportion of a column for every hun- dred people he relieves, and he is conse- As for political capital, he certainly did not intend to make political capital out of charity at all. He bas political capital enouzh without charity. In | fact, Mr. Tweed has enough of everything— worldly goods, political power and personal proportions—and he believeth, with St. Paul, that without charity it profiteth him nothing. Iv Is Nor Yer Kyo when t Fenian prisoners will a Britain, The Irishmen of New Yor’ ing the grandest preparations for a Country greeting to them when they do get » released rom Great re mak- nwhile, it is not impos- | back. Spain, by Special Telegram. By special telegram from Madrid, forwarded to London and thenee ‘through the Atlantic cable, we are enabled to continue eur report of the exciting events which have just tran- spired in Spain. Our telegraph letter, pub- lished to-day, is dated on the 30th of Decem- ber. “The correspondent relates the scene which attended the landing of King Amadeus ¢ hisreception by Topete and other high officers ; his first festive entertainment of his new sub- jects on board the frigate Numancia, with his initial step en route for the capital. Then we have additional matter relative to Prim’s as- sassinationand death. Again we are told of his widow and his orphan son; the honored wards of a high-souled people and the tender charge of a very gallant nation. The duty of Spain towards the Sefera Prim and her child is, as will be seen from our special advices, being discharged nobly. Prim really died on the very altar of his country ; his family shall not look to the shrine for consolation in vain. Our despatches speak, further on, ef city gloom and the exist- ence of a popularly nervous alarm. Soldiers were kept under arms. An outbreak was feared. The volunteers were being disarmed. here were thus seen among the Madrilenos joy, sorrow, excitement, fear, poverty and uncertainty as to the future—very poor in- gredients, indeed, to present to the hands of a statesman for the purpose of enabling him to regenerate a Latin race country, and to elevate the inhabitants of a soil which has been here- tofore shaken by the charges of foreign con- tending armies and the roar of the fire of Albuera, Talavera, Badajoz and Barossa. We must hope for the best for Spain, however. This is a good deal more than some of her own children do, as will be noticed frem the words of the reply which was given by the Director encral of Telegraphs to our special writer, who wished to give the wires plenty of work at gold charges. Napoleov’s New Year. New Year dawned on his Majesty Napoleon the Third in his castle prison at Wilhelmshihe. Judged by historical contrast and In the light of political retrospect, it was a very sad one for him when compared with the morning of the like anniversary of 1859, when, standing in the Palaee of the Tuileries, he alarmed Europe and heralded the war with Austria by his sudden announce- ment to Baron Hiibner that “our relations with Austria are not so friendly as formerly.” Taken in the acceptation of a religieus disciplinary mortification, Bonaparte may have been far happier a few days since than he was at the first mentioned period of his power or arro- gance. He appeared in excellent health on the Ist of January which has just closed. He was greeted at early morn by the voices of a few tried and trusty friends. The priest was on the altar and mass was celebrated. There was the parody of a court—the reality of a reception. His chamberlain (Bassano) was in complete state attire. An elegant lady (Princess Muskewa) stood by his side. Bazaine called and a few other companions dropped in. Science came to aid in the work of his conso- lation, Telegrams were received from ‘‘all parts of the world” by the royal captive, in which were spoken words of congratulation for the preservation of his health and aspira- tions of hope for the future. His Majesty thinks that Paris will eventually vindicate France. Eug¢nie is expected from England. The Emperor does not entertain a very exalted opinion of the volunteer army levies of Prussia. He is, indeed, rather uncharitable’ in his anticipation of evils to inure to German society from the effect of camp demoralizations. In this respect we fear that Napoleon adheres more and more to the unforgiving spirit of his uncle, and does not at all incline to profit from the lessons of charity which are just afforded him by the ac- tion ef King William towards the personal ene- mies of the head of the French ‘‘dynasty” in Belgium. In Wilhelmshéhe the Emperor of France repeats the old military motto of “Nemo me impune lacessit.” Tue TenvaNtspeo Snip Canar.—The act of the Mexican Congress authorizing the con- struction of the Tehaantepec Canal, from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, has become a law. The provisions are generous enough, especially to Mexicans and those who are willing to become Mexicans in order to enjoy the ixcome that the project offers to secure them. The conditions required from the com- pany are not exaeting. Tbe government is content to give them the full profits of the canal for niaety-nine years, requiring ne tax or contribution in return, and, we presume, making no forced loans whatever upon its capital. After the ninety-aine years, however, the whole concern becomes the property of the government, which modest requirement certainly cannot seriously affect any of the present stockholders. In fact, there is only one objection to the concession which Mexico so generously makes, and that is an objection to the Tehuantepec Canal itself. It won’t hold water. f A Just Cart Upon Coneress—The claim of William B. West, late United States Consul at Dublin, for indemnity for extra expenses incurred in consequence of the Fenian pro- ceedings in Ireland from 1865 to April, 1869. These Fenian troubles brought upon Consul West an immense and costly cerre- spondence, requiring the employment ef a vice consul to assist in the business and competent clerks to copy the numerous letters which it was his duty to place on file. Mr. West’s memorial and his vouchers make out a clain— a small claim—which Congress, we think, can- not deny with any show of justice or upon any pretence of economy; nor can we suppose that there will be any objection to the payment of this little bill. Tak Fam vor tue Usion Home anp Sonoor, for the soldiers and sailors’ orphans closed last evening. It has not been a pecu- niary success, netting, so far as heard from, little over eight thousand dollars, The raffle for the grand prizes is yet to come off, and it may add afew thousands more to the sam total. This fair has been the ove of all others that appealed to all our people, without regard to sect, nationality or politics, and the cause of its ill success is a mystery. It remains now for our patriotic citizens to retrieve the bad fortune of the bazaar by liberally sub- scribing to the grand prize distribution, ae acih It is told of Fenelon, that half divine man, the beauty of whose life and the loveliness of whose nature, so exquisitely pictured by Vio- tor Hugo in the good Bishop of “Les Miser- ables,” has enshrined his name in the heart of good Christians of every shade of creed, that & young priest in his diocese having once refused to read the service over the remains of a dissolute young actress he sent for him and said, ‘‘Young man, when this girl on the day of judgment comes up before her God do you think He will ask to what professlon she belonged, or that He who sees into all hearts will mot judge her with tenderness and mercy by what she did or strove to do in the path in which she was placed? Who are you that you should dare to judge and assume a pre- rogative which belongs to God aloue?” So spoke Fenelon, Some weeks since an old artist died in this city, a kindly, geatle, good old man, upon the mirror of whose life no breath of badness had ever fallen, How many among us remember when young to have listened with delighted smile to the merry mimicry of old George Holland! How many of us caught the sweet music of eur children’s joyous laughter as they revelled in innocent delight over his quirks and jests and patent snufflo! And during the many years in which he played many parts there is not a man within this city who can point ¢4o a word which ever passed his lips which could touch with the faintest wound tho delicate sensibility of agirl! His life was one of manly work and blameless goodness, and he brought up a numerous family to waik in the ways their father did. When he died a brother artist called on a clergyman—a young priest, too— to read over his remains the service of the dead. One would have thought the discharge of such a duty over what was left of such a man would have been toa Christian clergy- mana labor of love. It was not to the Rev. Mr. Sabine. His answer was, “I want to have nothing to do with an actor. There isa little place round the corner where they do these things’—that place round the corner where they do these things of which this min- ister of God speaks with this tone of arrogant contempt being a church dedicated to God and devoted to the preachiag of the creed to which he himself belonged. A green grocer who had not the article you required could hardly German Unity—Conquest and National Cone solidation, We have a very interesting and important telegram letter from Berlin. It reached us yesterday evening through the Atlantic cable by way of London. The united nation of Ger- many is rapidly consolidating under the pru- dent, far-seeing diplomacy of Bismarck. By his recent able circular addressed to the Austrian Cabinet, at the hands of Baron Buest, he has really neutralized any feeling of hostility which may have still lingered in the minds of the statesmen of the apostolic empire towards the North German Confedera- tion. He attracts Bavaria and Wartemberg atthe very moment when he destroys their power for future revolt. Prussia has matured a charter of government for the conquered provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, Tho inha- bitants are to enjoy the benefits of federation, with the advantages of local self rule—a Cabi- net, Parliament and judiciary. The subjugat ed French will stand much higher inthe rank of European citizens the very day after the war closes than do the people of Ireland to- day, after five centuries of British rule and English reform. The war draft is pressing heavily on the Prussians. Melancholy scenes are witnessed in Berlin daily as the new levies march to the front. Indeed, it is quite appa- rent that Bismarck is determined that no obstacle, no feeling or consideration, shall stand in his way towards the “‘illumination” of his ‘‘trophies” of battle. Revival of the Legitimate Drama. The week that will begin to-morrow will re- store to us gleams of real sunshine on the stage as bright as those which have made the first days of January rival t® genial light of April. Marie Seebach, the great German tragédienne, whose merits and well earned honors the HERALD cordially recognized upon her first appearance among us a few weeks ago, will to-morrow night open an engagement at the Stadt theatre with her magnificent réle of Marie Stuart, after a tour through the interior which has been eminently successful. More- over, Miss Glyn, whese superb readings in “‘Antony and Cleopatra” and ‘‘Macbeth” have elicited such universal praise from the entire prass of New York, has concluded an arrange- ment with one of our leading up-town estab- lishments for a line of Shakspearian perform- ances. Thus we shall have, at one and the same time, two stars of the greater magnitude shining in our dramatic firmament, but in dif- ferent orbits. The one perferms exclusively in the German language, and chiefly im the great plays of Schiller and in the presence of German audiences. The other, in addition to her high talent and ripe renown, enjoys the advantage of possessing our own tongue, and will depend mainly upon audiences who speak and understand English. Both will, undoubt- edly, attract the highest order of intelligence in their respective walks, and both, we trust and believe, will be well rewarded for their efforts. The taste of our metropolis, emerg- ing from the idolatry that has so long bowed it down before The crazed creations of misguided whim, has this season shown an honest desire to retura to the legitimate drama. The delight- ful series of Shakspearian evenings recently given at Niblo’s, and so cordially patronized by the public, were but a coroliary upon the kindly welcome extended to Madame Seebach, Janauschek and Mrs, Lander, and they were followed by the hearty appreciation shown for Miss Glyn’s readings at Steinway Hall. Dur- ing those pleasant evenings, and once or twice very recently at the German opera, we have been reminded of the days when Matilda Heron on the dramatic and Lagrange on the lyric stage gave New York pre-eminence, for a brief but brilliant period, over’both Paris and London. We now anticipate a decided revival of that time when one could bask in the light of real genius. For Madame Seebach we know that her country people by origin have ready an enthu- siastic reception. For Miss Glyn, who is the greater stranger among us, we entertain “great expectations,” commingled with curi- osity, to see how a genius new to our metropo- lis, but splendidly tested at the desk and ad- mired by all our critics, will be received when she sweeps the stage in full dramatic costume. She already has the general verdict of the London press in her favor as rivalling even Mrs. Siddons, and many who have heard her here rank her in style, port and elocution the equal and, in dramatic physique, the superior of Ristori. We therefore can but congratulate the public of New York—American and German—upon the enhanced intellectual gratification indoors that the opening year proffers for these nights which are made so clement ouiside by the dalliance of autumn lingering and spring ad- vancing to beguile the mood of winter. uv air of more savage sulkiness, This answer is the broken feather which fixes this man to the Earth. It needs no comment. If it was a thing sinful to be done why send to another church of his own creed to doit? Qui facit per alium facit per se. So spoke the Rev. Mr. Sabine. There was no Fenelon to chide and to teach here; but the Rev. Dr. Tyag chris- tens him “‘Silly Sabine.” As to ‘ihe little church round the corner,” it has since become garlanded with roses in the affections of all charitable souls. The Rev. Mr. Sabine, in his Sunday sermon, seems to think that every man should mind his own business ; but this is the business of every man. If such acts of bratal bigotry are per- mitted to be perpetrated in the name of reli- gion, where are they to stop? Up to this act of barbarism one would hardly be driven into believing that at a season when the star which stood over the stable at Bethlehem seems to shed its gentle radiance around, and the thoughts and hearts of all men warm up to gentle and charitable emotions and all discor- dant feelings are hushed in the cultivation of the amenities of life, and the realization for once of the sense of human brotherhood and evangelical love, New York would be shocked and aggrieved at the sight of a minister of the Gospel scorning to perform the rites of the Church at the funeral ofa fellow Christian, and that fellow Christian a man who led not only an honorable life, but who acquired a distinguished position in a profession which has been recognized by the Church itself as the most appropriate medium for symbolizing reli- gions truth and the history of Christ and His apostles. Long before the days of Mrs, Sid- dons and Talma, both of whom innumerable dignitaries of the Church recognized as their equals, or before those of Rachel, who, not- withstanding the fact that she was bora ont- side the pale of Christianity, was constantly received as a guest by the Archbishop of Paris, the stage was regarded not only as the theatre of histrionic art, but of the Church itself, and for many centuries sinee the advent of the Saviour to the present day theatrical per- formances were used for the illustration of religious history. Especially in the South of Europe has the connection between the stage and religion coatinued up to the present day, where year after year pilgrims from every part of the world throng Oberamergau, in the Bavarian Tyrol, to witness the ever-thrilling scenes of the life of Christ, as personated by artists in whom religious arder is so much blended with artistic genius that the audience is thrilled with evangelical rapture as well as by a sense of admiration for the actors engaged in this extraordinary annual performance, One would think, did oae of these artists die, that the whele world would be ransacked in vain to find a clergyman to turn his back upon his grave save that unfortunate one who pre- sides over the ill-fated church corner Twenty- eighth street and Madison avenue, who refused to discharge his Christian daty at the funeral of old George Holland. The difference be- tween a religious and # secular dramatic per- formance is simply one of degree, and had the Rev. Mr. Sabine happened to be at Obera- mergau he would have, of course, displayed the same contempt for the dead actors thera as he exhibited here for the remains of good old George Holland. Is it necessary to remind a minister of the Gospel in this country and at this period of civilization that, even if a de- ceased fellow man was a murderer, he would outrage the lessons of his Master if he coldly stood aloof from the sinner’s grave? What, then, can be said ina case like the present, where ali voices unite in proclaiming this ola St. Dominco.—From Port au Platte we have a despatch containing a manifesto of General Cabral announcing the defeat of Baez. Its language is pointed, strong, and means business, He says:—“Baez is faithless to us, In exchange for gold he wants to sacrifice our independence, and our isdependence we must maintain as the only thing we have, and as the most precious jewel we can bequeath to future generations.” The concluding para- graph fully sets forth his intentions; it is as follows:—‘‘The revolution accomplished, we will have the Majority in the election of men of known honesty to fill the offices of public administration. Citizens, union! and we will save the Dominican Republie.” A Democratio Masorivy of one in the Assembly is a very uncertain hold for Tam- many. Some of its adherents seated in the ball this winter are most disasirously addicted to late hours and extended visits to New York and soda water of a morning, and conge- quently there is no telling how Tammany measures may fare. A couple of riotous mem- bers may nullify forever the proposed new Registry law, or upset Mike Norton's new ele- vated railway, or even smash the entire Erie directory; for we all know that a good demo- crat wouldn't leave his teddy even to prevent acoach and six from being driven through some favorite democratic measure. noble, useful one, conceatrated on a profession not deemed unworthy of commemorating the imposing incidents of sacred history jiself? It were vain and idle in the present day, after pean mameen oC a8 ee Shakspeare has transformed the stage MencEn, of Ohio, is fierce against the mon- | into a high school of humanity and grel Chinamen, because the radicals want | Schiller aud Govthe have crystallized it them for voters, Would Mungen decline a] into a handmaid of ethics and Ghristian thought, to enter on any defence of its recog. seat in Congress if the Chinamen seaiae | nized authority asa moral agent. 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