The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1871, Page 4

4 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXV1 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 15th street.— LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE. 730 Broadway.—KIND 10 & Fauir- ALavpry, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth av. and 234 at— Ly Petir Faust. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tum PawTomius OF Wer Wivure Winx. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Doa oF THE OLD TOLL Hovsr—A GoLpen Letrre. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner S0th st.—Perform: ‘ances every afternoon and evening, GLOBE THRATRE, 738 B: way.—VARIBTY ENTER: TAINMENT, £0. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Baratoca. BOOTH'’S THEATRE, 334 st., between th and 6th avs.— BIONELIEU. NEW YORK STADT THRATRI Bowery.—M. Bexwaon 48 Many STUART. am ria NIBLO'S G. Bre i Pe 54 ARORM, Broadway.—Tus SPECTACLE oF MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— Gveutwo CLomINDA. RoaNo JArrES VaNEiNe: BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—JEFFERGON 48 Bip Van WINKLE. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 901 Bowery.—Va- BIELY ENTERTAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUES 514 Broadway.—Comto Vooau- 1M, NE@RO ACTS, &C.—JOLLY BANTA CLAUS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 885 Broadway.— NEGRO MINSTRELSY, Fanors, BUR: RSQUES, £0, BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 384 at, between Oth ‘and 7th ave.—NeEGRo Mineree.ey, Koomntaivitiss, &C. APOLLO BALL, corner Sfih street and Broadway.— Dx. Couny's DIORAMA OF IRELAND. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth stroct.—Sonszs mx ‘THE RING, AcROBATS, 40. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Bri klyn.—HOouey's AND KELLY & Leon's MINSTRELS. “pil ap BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE—Weon, Avon & Warrr's MINSTRELS. HOLIDAY PANTOMIME, 40. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND azr. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIRNOR AND Aur. New York, Monday, January 9, 1871. CONTENTS OF 10-DAY’S RERALD. Pace. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Advertiscments, 4—Editeriais: Leading Article, “Tne Trade and Financial Condition of the Country; Where the Treasury Poucy is at Fault”—Amusemeut An- nouncements. 2 5—Editoriais (Continued from Fourth Page)—Per- Sonal Intelligence—France: HERALD Special Reports from the Seat of War—The European Congress—The Fenian Exiles—Loss of the United States Steamer Saginaw—Miscella- neous Telegrams—Views of (he Past—City Intelligence—Business Notices. 6—Religious: Pulpit Lessons on the Findta; the Temple: The Neglect of Sinners to A! - @on Evil; The Goodness and Love of Christ; The Privilege, Negiect and Doom of Uaper- naum; Sermons Yesterday in the Metropolis and Elsewhere, ‘Y—Papal Iniallidility: An Indignation Meeting of the Catholics of New England—Another wil- liamsburg Tragedy—Badness in Brooklyn— Creamer Complimertea—Court Calendars for ‘To-day—Financial and Commercial Reports— General News Itews—Deatas—Advertisements, S—News from Washington—The Real Estate Mar- ket—Music and the Drama—Shipping Intelli- gence—Advertisements, Doutvra, a city of yesterday on Lake Su- perior, already boasts of a daily paper—the Morning Call. It is about the size of a pan- cake, but has ample room to spead itself. Tue Lovisiana SzNaTor Harris, radical, finds himself likely to be defeated for a re- election by the pretensions of another radical named West. This will not be a democratic triumph in Louisiana; but it is still very harassing to Harris. Senator Erzor Vance is thought to be the advance of a long list of rebel Senators elect, and he will probably be refused admission te his seat. Hin constituency in North Carolina have hallooed in the Ku Klux fashion—before he was out of the woods. Divorces rN Cuicaco.—The Chicago Re- publican says there were no less than six bun- dred and sixty-cight suits for divorce entered in the courts of that city during the past year. Matrimonial infelicities were the principal causes assigned—jealousy among the rest, of course. ‘Honest, honest Chicago.” A TraGcepy IN WILLIAMSBURG, in which two men, unknown to each other, jostle together in passing out of the ferry house, and thereupon each mistakes the other for a robber and murder ensues, isa telling instance of the folly of carrying pistols. Such a case occurred on Saturday at the Grand street ferry. Tae War 1x Cvusa.—Telegraphic advices from Havana siate that General Chinchilla had defeated a body of insurgents near Laguanja and killed fifteen of them. Presi- dent Cespedes’ wife and another woman have been captured, with a large amount of specie for the insurgents in their possession, and the Spanish authorities are disposed to congratu- late themselves greatly on the achievement. Tue New Beprorp FisugeMEN are in Washington clamoring for their damages by the Alabama. They think, if the government has such a sure thing of getting all the money from England, it can afford te advance them the amount of their little bills. They don’t want to sell out at a discount. It is cheering to see that the claims have “‘riz” since Gene- ral Schenck’s appointment as our special Ala- bama claim Jamatoa is to be fortified, by order of the Home Government, on account of the near prospect of war. The other English provinces among our West Indies will prebably be for- tified also, and thus our own ‘‘buitresses” will be armed, if not against us at least in aid of country with which we may some time be at war. Nothing can bring us to comprehend more forcibly than this what necessity there is for our own government to own seme of these geographical menaces. Prospect or a Livery Day in Conaress— On the St. Domingo question, directly or inci- dentally, and on the expected message from the President on the doings of the Ku Klux Klan and our uureconstracted brethren generally in the Southera States, and particularly in -refe- rence to the recent elections in that still politi- cally unsettled section of the Union. The atest news frem St. Dominge indicates a revo- {lution down there, which will be apt to chal- lenge the atteation of Senator Sumner. It is resolution day in the House, and we look for a number of suggestive resolutions in that bvedy from both sides en various questions, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1871. The Trade and Financial Condition of the Country—Where the Treasury Policy is at Faolt. With all the resources of the country and active industry of the people, which are un- equalied by any natien in the world, trade is paralyzed, business and the markets are dull, | and productive labor and enterprise are de- pressed. This state of things is general, though there may be exceptions in a few cases of incidental prosperity. Certain few indus- tries thrive in the dullest times, and somo even upon the general distress; but this fact does not disprove our assertion and the evi- doace everywhere seen of the paralyzed state of trade and industry ia general. New York, which is the commercial and financial centre of the country, represents the condition of business throughout. Like the heart in the human system, when it beats streng and healthful and the circulation gives fresh life and vigor to every part, New York shows the state of trade and industry through every part of the republic by its own condi- tion. And what de wesee here? Ask our mer- chants, tradesmen, manufacturors and work- men, and the well grounded complaint is heard in every direction that this is the dullest time known for along period. It may bossid that this season of the year, dead and mid wiater, is generally one of depression in business; and this is so to some extent; but the present depression is unusual even at sucha time. It is clear, then, that there aro other causes operating to produce this uncommon and almost unprecedented decline of trade and industry. There is no doubt that the chief cause, if not the only one, of this state of things is the burdensome taxation imposed upon the people. Almost everything they use or consume is taxed in one form or another, directly or indirectly. Even the farmer cannot sell his produce, by which we subsist, at anything like. the cheap rate of former times, because his expenses and the cost of production are raised greatly threugh taxation. The coal that warms us, the clothes we wear, the very salt that seasons our food, and every article that enters into domestic use or that is used In industrial pursuits aro either taxed directly or the price raised through taxation in some ether way. The people bore the enormous burden so patiently during the war and while the war issues were being adjusted, for the sake of the Union and from a high sense of patriotism, that the mem- bers ef the goverament—the administration and Congress—imagine there is no limit to the capacity and forbearance of the public in sus- taining taxation. They forget that such a strain upon the psople wears them down in time and leaves them prostrate. The country may be compared to a splendid team of horses or animals of burden, which at the beginning can move or carry the greatest weight with comparative ease, but which after years of heavy work lose their strength and sink be- neath thelabor. At the commencement of the war tho coun- try was full of virgin resources, realized wealth and capital; and these were breusht out ina manner which astonished the world and even surprised ourselves. The vast ex- penditure of money to carry on the war and to adjust the issues of it, which entered into manufactures and business, kept up a sort of ephemeral prosperity for a time. The excite- ment, too, caused the people to lose sight of their burdens and the financial results to follow. It is always so in war. But the taxes, the drain of laborers from industrial pursuits te supply the armies and the extra- ordinary destruction of property were sure to be seriously felt afterward. The debt then accumalating, as no national debt ever accu- mulated before, had to be organized and the interest paid at the close of the struggle. The precess of exhaustien was going on all the time—yes, even when it was not felt se much. Now, however, we have reached the period when the effects of the war, the debt and taxes are most felt. Had it not been fer the wonderful recuperative power of the South, and the hundreds of millions worth of cotton and other exportable products ef that section— as good as gold—raised every year, the whole country—North, East and West, as well as the South—would have been prostrate under the burden long since. Let us not be de- ceived, then, by appearances, by what the country has borne, and imagine it is capable now of sustaining the continued strain without serious injury and great suffering. It is gratifying, no doubt, to know that upwards of four hundred millions of the organized public debt has been paid, besides a large amount of floating debt, since the close of the war in 1865. But we venture to say that if that sum, with the additional large sum that it cost in collecting through an army of office-holders, had been left in the bands of the people the nation would have been far richer to-day. Still the payment of so much debt has had the good effect of establishing the credit of the government and of assuring the people that the whole can and will be paid. But that object having been attained and the time having come when the exhaustive results of the war are most sensibly felt, why should the government continue to impose unneces- sary burdens upon the people and to paralyze industry? Why not leave as much of the earnings of the people in their own hands as possible, te be applied to production and the increase of the national wealth? The policy of the administration, or rather the policy of the Secretary of the Treasury— for we suppese the President leaves this matter to him—is all wrong. To call for an enormous revenue in order to pay off a hun- dred millions or more a year of the debt, and to keep alarge surplus of a hundred to a hun- dred and fifty millions locked up in the Trea- sury all the time, is foolish and anything but economical, No business man would hoard np bis money in that way. It has been a dead loss to the nation in interest alone of six to nine millions a year. But if it had not been exacted from the people and left with them to be applied to industry it would have yielded a much larger amouat to the national wealth, Every dollar taken by the goverament over what it absolutely needs is a jess of two to the nation. Then the collec- tion of such an unnecessarily large revenue erates hosts of office-holders, who might better be employed in producing something them- selves, Besides, a vast revenue and so much money lying idio and unproductive in the Treasury leads to extravagance and corrup- tion. Members of Congress, officers of the gov- ernment, office-seekers, railroad and other speculators, and a host of claimants of all sorts, fix their eyes intently on this pile of wealth. Every imaginable scheme is invented to get hold of spoils so abundant. Keep the Treasury empty and the government with just money enough to pay its way economically, and there will be much legs corruption, fewer schemes to reach Mr. Boutwell’s chest, a diminished lobby, and Congress will have more time to devote to the real business of the country. The Secretary of the Treasury pretends that the revenue will be much diminished by the taxes already taken off, and that at the end of the fiscal year he will have little to spare to be applied to the liquidation of the debt. This is his old story. Ifthe present taxes remain he will find a similar redundancy of money in his hands, The reduced taxation, as far as it goes, will do some geod, and at the same time will have the effect of increasing the revenue from taxes that remsin. Then the population and wealth of the country must increase from natural causes, notwithstanding the presont depressed state of things, and through its wealth would inérease much more if there were fewer taxes, so that there need be no apprehension of the Treasury becoming poor. A hundred millions more of taxes might now bo taken off, and next year the Treasury would have ample means to pay the current ex- penees of geverament as well as have a goed round sum for asinking fund. Take off a bun- dred millions of taxes, and in ten years the people will be better able to pay two dol- lars than they are now to pay one. The debt will be light then, comparatively, to what it is now. And in twenty to twenty-five years, when the population will be doubled and the nationa) wealth trebled or quadrupled, what will the debt that remains amount to? And why should not the next generation pay a portion of it? Mr. Boutwell imagines that he will make a great reputatioa by paying off the debt rapidly; but he is mistaken. The people feel the burden too keenly and the couatry is suffering too much, It seems to be the New England policy—the policy of the protectionists—to keep up a large revenue in order that high duties may be im- posed and manufacturing interests protected. The war was a blessing to the protectionists in this respect, and, perhaps, they would like another one. But is it not time that the in- terests of the agriculturists and the mass ef the people generally should be considered? Surely the New England manufacturers and iron men ef Pennsylvania will not be per- mitted to govern this country always,’to make war and to impose burdensome taxes in time of peace for their own benefit only. The na- tion is suffering now from heavy and unneces- sary burdens, and the only way to relieve it and to revive trade and industry is to reduce the revenue and to take off a great part of the taxes, leaving the government to draw its in- come chiefly from a few articies of luxury. The War Situation in Fragec. The belief which the war despatches yester- day seemed to imply, that Paris was almost ready to fall inte the hands of the besiegers, was a belief we were not quite ready to accept, and, believing, said so. The news this morn- ing served to prove the cerrectness of eur views. The bombardment of the forts has ac- complished little; the Germans have not ad- vanced on Montreuil, theugh ‘Forts Rosny and Nogent were silenced ;” and the state of affairs generally around the besieged capital differs very little from what it was a month ago. It now appears that the forts on the south, east and northeast which were silenced, according to the despatches, only temporarily suspended operations, and are now at work returning warlike compliments of shot and shell on their German aggressors, In the provinces we find that the French generals are by no means tardy. General Bourbaki, with his army, is pushing on to the east with the view of getting at the German line of communications. This movement, if successful, will prove most disastrous to the Germans, and ia order to counteract its influ- ence they will have to employ a considerable force to operate against the French army moy- ing in that direction. Chauzy, still unimpeded, moves slowly towards Paris. His army, num- bering two hundred thousand men, has not as yet met any serious reverse, Faidherbe, too, in the north, is reorganizing his commissariat preparatory to another offensive movement, according to the despatches; but, in our opinion, he is preparing to march eastward with a view of ce-operating with Bourbaki. Contradictory as the despatches frem day to day appear we still adhere to the view already expressed that a large portion of the French armies now in the provinces are directing their attention to the German line of communications—a movement which, long since, should have been attempted, and which, we believe, was only deferred on account of the incomplete organization of the French forces. Even at the present timo, if success- fully earried out, it would have a greater effect in raising the siege ef Paris than any means which can be employed. The questien is, can Paris wait? Will the French be capable of accomplishing the task and be able to do it in time? A few days may put a different phase on the war; and, for the present, we anust only watch and wait, Tue Eastern QUESTION—ENGLAND ARM- 1NG.—One of the most significant facts of the day is that the British government has resolved largely to increase the effective strength of the army, The inference to be drawn from, this resolution of her Majesty’s government is obvious. It cam only mean that, mueh as the British government and people desire a gen- eral and lasting peace, they feel that at any moment the necessity may be laid upon them to unsheathe the sword and rush into the fight, Mr. Gladstone and his friends know that the peace-at-any-price party is far from being popular in the country, The attitude of Russia is such that the British people to-day must feel humiliated. It is quite manifest that Russia is willing to fight and that she is not unprepared, The uncertainty which prevails regarding the London Conference does not afford much encouragement to the lovers of peace. Come what may of it, the war prepa- rations of Great Britain are ominous of trouble, Yesterday’s Sermons, We would say that yesterday was so incle- ment as to almost forgive those sinners who remained at home instead of attending divine worship, had not the reporters informed us that all the Catholic churches were crowded, while at most of the Protestant churches the attendance was small, What have our Pro- testant preachers to say for the lack of reli- gieus zeal manifested by their congregations? It is their duty to keep alive the fires ef reli- gion in their flocks, and we must hold them responsible for their dying out with the first cold snap and a heavy fall of snow. There is nothing more melancholy to witness than frozen religien. Those persons who were not afraid of a few snowflakes listened to some passably good sermons yesterday. At Trimfty Rev. Mr. Duane, a Canadian minister, preached on the subject of the fate of Capernaum, while at the Allen street Methodist church Elder Pease dis- coursed on the bounty of God’s works. Dr. Potter, at Grace church, was eloquent on the advent of Christ and the finding in the temple. In Brooklyn Rev. Mr. Powers preached en the parable of the sower, and ‘Rev. Mr. Carpenter gates of the divine abode. At the Catholic churches the sermons were also interesting, Father Ronan at St. francis Xavier explained wherein the life of Christ differed from the life of this world; at the Nativity Father Everett preached en the visit of the wise men to Bethlehem, enlightening his hearers on the meaning ef the offerings they made to the infant Jesus; at St. Michael’s Father Pratt was eloquent on the neglect of sinners to abandon the devil and return to grace, while at St. Bridget’s Father Meister discoursed on the same subject as Father Everett. At these churches the music was of that fine character which has made the cere- monies of the Catholic religion so peculiarly agreeable to sinner and saint alike. We must refer the reader to all the sermons mentioned in the foregeing, and to the others not specially mentioned, all of which we pub- lish this morning. Their perusal cannot fail te direct the mind to the great question of the future life, and to bring men and women to a more intimate knowledge of the saving powers of Christianity. The “Hub” on Infullibility. The people of Massachusetts and the citi- zens of the anclent, loyal and pious city of Boston have voted themselves, and ‘‘their man servants and their maid servants,” and their “goods” (manufactured enes particularly), infallible long since. They were infallible in their modes of discovery and punishment of witches, infallible in their pulpits, infallible in their educational system, slightly fallible in the, matters of steamships and general eaterprise, and, again, infaliible in the affairs of big drums, trombones, clarionets and mod- ern “blowing.” That Massachusetts and the “Hub” should come to adopt Papal infallibility in the end was certainly never dreamed of in the Commonwealth in days long subsequent to its early settlement—perhaps, indeed, a few shortyears ago. That the influence of the Col- lege of the Propaganda should be felt and be profitable at the very footprints of the Pilgrim Fathers and that the spirit of the rollicking, gay hearted and improvident cavaliers of Eng- land should assert and vindicate itself over the Church economies, the ‘‘steadfast” faith, the “blue lights” and Boston rum, which have been inherited and poured down te us from the exiled passengers of the Mayflower, were, if such at all seriously spoken of, regarded as utterly impossible events, even by men of the present generation who are atill young. Yet so itis. His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth has converted Boston. This fact is made patent by our special report of the great meet- ing which has just been held in the ‘“‘Hub” in defence of the Pontifical temporalities as it appearsin ourcolumns. This Roman Catholic assemblage was asuccess in every respect—in numbers, in representation of wealth, in oratory and in the matter of its plain speaking resolu- tions. The American people—that is, America outside of New Eagland—will read our special account of the affair with very great interest. Rome is making great strides in a new nation. The successors of St. Peter never tire. They fail not in the faco ef danger, whether the danger present in Burmah or in Bosten, Hence the earthly triumphs of the missionaries of the Roman Cathelic creed. We are rejoiced to find that they have been so successful in Boston, and hope most sincerely that they will keep polishing away at the “‘Hub” until it is made to shine out like a ‘‘new pin” in the Papal dalmatic and as an American brilliant in the tiara. New York is never jealous. RusstaN Revier FoR THE Evropean Dirromatists.—We are assured on excellent authority, by special cable telegrams from London, that most pointed difficulties still present against the plan of the assemblage of a European conference. Republican France won't have anything to do with such a meeting, and imperialist Russia proclaims that the Black Sea navigation ques- tien is already settled by the abrogation of the clause of the Treaty of Paris which attempted to regulate it. Where's the use of a congress? Congress plenipotentiaries, ‘‘red tape” men and “big wigs” generally won’t be wanted in Europe by and by. We are assured, per contra, by a London journal, which frequently assumes the spirit of official inspiration, that the congress will meet before the end of the present month, whether France is represented or not. M. Jules Favre's refusal to attend is not considered | final. We must await events. A Lerrer rrom General Butler to an annex- ationist in Canada has turned up in which Butler urges annexation on the ground that, once united, the Catholic Church of North America will be the largest body of intelligent Catholics of any one nation in the world. “Indeed,” says the General, ‘‘in view of the troubles in Italy, it is not among the impossi- bilities that the keys of St, Peter may be trans- ferred to this country,” In that case, sug- gests an exchange, who knows but Ben Butler may put in a bid for the Papal tiara? A Turrvinc Stare 1s Wisconsty, her entire indebtedness being but two and a quarter millions, and her receipts the last year balt a million in excess of expenditures. Pity some of her elder Eastern States could net show as good a balance sheet, Tho President's Message Against the Ku Klux. Tt seems to be certain that the President will send a special message to Congress at an early day relating the authenticated instances of Ku Klux outrages in the South, and urging that there be a specific enactment making it a penal offence for parties of men to go mas- querading about the country committing such outrages as are popularly pttributed to the bloody bones democracy of the South. The effect of the message will extend further than to the Ku Klux. It will certainly delay indefinitely all prospects of a general amnesty, and will most likely defeat the efforts of Gov- ernor Vance, of North Carolina, and the “tainted” Senators elect from Georgia to secure their admission into the United States Senate. As a concession to extreme radical- ism it will be apt to secure the suppert of Sumner and his political co-operators and hasten their harmonious affiliation with the President himself. But whatever ills it may precipitate upon the people of the South, they have themselves to blame. The im- peachment of Governor Holden, the election of Governor Vance, an unpardoned rebel, to the Senate, the Arlington-Lee speech of Senator McCreery and the State rights am- nesty motion of Representative Jones in the House have all given the radicals and many good conservatives throughout the country the impression that political power is still a most dangerous weapon to place in the hands of the people of the ex-confederacy. Some of the true friends of the South have been driven from their support of a generous policy towards her by these untimely outcroppings of a malicious spirit, and the crafty old leaders of the democratic party, such as Davis, Bayard and Eldridge, have warned their friends time and again that the result of these mistakes would be just as it has turned out. The Albany Kailway Robbery and Murder. The unknown villain who murderously assaulted Halpin, an express messenger, and stole two or three thousand dollars from the safe in an express car, as the train for Boston was starting from the Albany depot last Friday evening, has exemplified the perfection to which railway banditti have at length carried bur- glary as a science and murder asa fine art. His audacious and atrocious crime has had antetypes, within a comparatively recent period, in two murders, one of which was committed in a French and another in an Eng- lish railway car. But in both those cases accident played’ an important réle, and in neither were there signs of so diabolically deliberate a plan as in the attack on poor Halpin. Surely it is high time for the proper authori- ties to sharpen their wits and multiply their means of protecting travellers, im order to oppose to the accomplished railway banditti of the period at least equal skill, coolness, quickness and strength. Nay, they should strive to become more than a match for these outlaws. Meanwhile, the door of an express car should never be left open except in Presence of an armed guard, whose special duty should be to see that it safely leaves or enters the railway depot. Every burglar is @ potential murderer. Neither chance nor temptation should be afforded for putting his doubly criminal purposes into execution. So long as, in spite of all precautions, it is possible for the ruffian to rob and kill, so long will it be unsafe and unwise to abolish the death penalty. Loss oF THE Unirep States STEAMER Saci- Nnaw.—By telegram from San Francisco we learn of the total loss of the United States steamer Saginaw on the French Frigate Shoals, inthe North Pacific. The vessel soon became a total wreck by reason ef heavy surf, and although but comparatively few provisions were saved, compelling all hands to be placed on quarter rations, the entire crew was landed in safety. It soon became necessary to seek assistance, when the gig, in charge of the executive officer, Lieutenant Talbot, was despatched for the Sandwich Islands, and after one month in this frail open boat, suffer- ing the greatest hardship and privations, in attempting to land on one of the group the boat was capsized and the gallant young ofli- cer, with three of his boat’s crew, were drowned. Information was at once sent to Honolulu, and vessels were immediately despatched by the United States Minister and Hawaiian government to the succor of the survivors, and it is earnestly hoped they will be in time to prevent the horrible fate that awaits those on the reef if assistance does not soen arrive. DEMAND AND Supriy or CoaL.—It was authoritatively stated ata meeting of miners and workingmen connected with the preduc- tion of anthracite coal, at Mauch Chunk, Pa., that the market: demand for coal in Pemnsyl- vania this year amounted to sixteen million tons, against a capacity to produce of twenty million tons. Depression in prices is the natural consequence, and suspension of work in the mines is, therefore, deemed necessary. It will be seen from this statement that our local coal dealers have no reason to demand higher prices because of a reduced supply, which, it has been alleged, the recent strike among miners was calculated to produce. “As Stow Our Snip.”—By a special cable telegram from London we are informed of the fact that O'Donovan Rossa, accompanied by four other Irish leaders, is at sea bound for New York. They were embarked on board the steamship Cuba, under cover of a strong gov- ernment guard, last Saturday, The privilege vi communicating with any person on any uusiaess was peremptorily refused by the officers. The exiles leave, never, as is hoped by the Queen’s government, to return, but te “ive and die” under the Star Spangled Ban- ner, a ‘‘wearing of the green,” if they so please. Tue Sr. Dominco Treaty, according te Senator Sumner, is not worth waste paper, because it has expired by limitation of time. The additional clause, extending the time one year, he claims is illegal, Goop For “Oty KentvoK.”—Kentucky is now the eighth State in the Union in point of population. Formerly she was the ninth. It seems that her increase during the past ten years is greater than that of Ohio, notwith- standing she was the dark and bloody ground during the civil war, ‘This is a good record for “Old Kentuck.* The Great Boston Theatrical Row. To great, calm capitals, like New Yerk, the passjons of a village are generally most amusing, and that which has for the last fort- night created such a tumult in the veins of Boston is no exception to the rule. It has given us here for the last -week or two matter for much merriment, Now that the sterm in her saucers is somewhat stilled it may be plea- sant to sum up this great ‘‘Cheney-Fechter- Chanfrau-and-Wallack affair,” even though the quarrel may be a mighty pretty one as it stands, and explanation may help to spoil it, Bosten, as is well known, is somewhat pre- teatious for @ small place. It sits, like Mr. Dombey, with a starched neckcloth and a large bunch of seals, and has a huge sense of its own importance. It especially affects the drama. Yet how dees the drama stand there? There are three theatres in Boston—the Bos- ton theatre, the Museum and the Globe. The first of these is leased and manazed by Messrs, Orlando Tompkins, B, Thayer and Mr. Booth. The first of these gentlemen, as hisname, which implies a mild mixture of poetry and pills, ecnveys, is what is vulgarly termed on the other side of the Atlantic, a licentious apothe- cary; the second is an open air broker, and. the third a gentloman who, of course, for con- siderations of high art purely, permits to be sandwiched between them the notoriety of his name. The second is governed by Mr. Mosea Kimball, a species of Bosten Barnum, whose name implies a cross. between a Hebrew and Yankee—one of the most dangerous class of cattle to be found. The third, the unfortu- nate victim of these riots, is Mr. Arthur Cheney, a Massachusetts manufacturer, who, in some wild moment of lunacy, conceived the idea of competing with our own great dra- matic Mecenas, Mr. Fisk. Now, all these men are most worthy men in their way, but the knowledge they possess of art in any of its branches might safely be pounded into the most diminutive of pills, placed in one of Mr. Tompkins’ smallest pill boxes, and labelled the most infinitesimal portion of a grain. The last of these theatres is the scene of the great drama which has now been the sensation of Boston for the last fortnight, and which promises te close—well, about as late as the “Black Crook” upon its opening night. Mr. Charles Fechter is the manager, having under- taken its direction, as he modestly informs the world in his card, et a great sacrifice, for the sake, of course, of art, and his big- hearted and big-pocketed friend, Mr. Arthur Cheney, at a salary of eighty thousand dollars a year. Oh! History, how unreliable thou art! We had always understood that Mr. Charles Fechter had made a heavy monetary failure at the Lyceum, Last season he appeared at the Boston theatre and aroused a decided furor. This was chiefly created by a dim but very false impression, artfully fed, that Mr. Fechter was ungently treated by the New York critics; and that is ever sufficient to make the quills of Boston stand. Noxt, frem the fortunate circumstance that a number of Camoridge pro- fessors who were preseat on the first night, being in a more than usually gay mood after a pleasant dinner at the Parker, so far forgot themselves as once or twice during the even- ing to break into a mild applause. When the fact of a professor having applauded—an event which had occurred but once or twice before ia her bistory—had been carried through the city the whole of Bosten ‘rose at him.” Hitherto Mr. Edwin Booth had been the fa- vorite, and a mumber of school misses, with the fond fidelity of girlhood, still threw up their little hats and handkerchiefs for the hero of the slate pencil pallor and shallow shanks. But the professors and the people swept every- thing before them, made a lion of Fechter, and lifted him to the throne. Our manufacturing Mecmnas, Mr. Cheney, caught the contagion, and, seizing the opportunity, scattered all his other engagements and leaped at the lion and caged him at his theatre at a salary of eighty thousand dollars a year. He has since found, we famcy, that he has had to carry an ele- phant instead of the royal beast. From the commencement of Mr. Fechter's management, when he opened with a very weak and washy version of lis own of ‘‘Monto Christo,” down to the present hour, his direction has been, both financially and artistically, a melancholy failure. Actors who resemble women in tho hour of theatrical ease—being coy and hard to please—do not at all resemble them in their tenderaess when the hour of sickness comes. The moment disaster appears at the door ac- tors get ready to leap out of the window. Had Mr. Feehter’s management been success- ful we should doubtless have been despoiled the delights of that amusing drama of which we regret we can only present a slight synop- sis. The scene opensin Mr. Cheney’s parlor. Mr. Fechter and Mr. Chanfrau, a sort of half-and- half of Bombastes Furioso and Bob Acres, are discovered with hands clasped. Actors always clasp your hand; they neither take nor shako it. When they become unclasped Mr. Chan- frau immediately repairs to the Parker House and employs his portion of the hands in indit~ ing an epistle to his brother clasper, Mr. Fech- ter, in which he wildly throws a number of innocent substantives and adjectives around without the smallest provision for their sup- port, which, however, when caught and con- fined, would seem to convey that Mr. Fechter had formed some mysterious and deadly design, not mentioned, against Mr. Chanfrau’s wife. Before sending this epistle Mr. Chan- frau, of course from the necessities of dramatic action, judiciously takes his departure for Long Branch, N. J., and invites Mr. Fechter to follow him. Now, Long Branch, though of a rather vulgar glare, may be in the summer time a sufficiently pleasant place for those who like it; but we question whether even Hamlet, with all his filial devotion, would follow his father’s ghost along Long Branch beach at a period like the present, when ‘‘the ball is up.” Mr. Fechter drops into an easy chair in the parlor of his big-hearted friend Cheney, and the curtain falls on Mr, Chanfrau standing alone at Long Branch, N. J., with a rather blue beak and cadavereus aspect, among his cabbages and calves. The epening of the second act discovers Mr. Fechter and Mr. J. W. Wallack at the bar of a pleasant hostelry in the neighborhood of the Globe, with hands clasped. When Mr. Wallaek releases his por- tion of the hands he employs it in handing ta the janitor at the stage door the mannscript part of Don Salluste. which was given him ta 2