The New York Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1871, Page 4

€ NEW YORK TER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, - JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIDTOR, Volume ANXV NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad Tre Brace Ca0vK. TREATRE, Broaiyay ana Win street Honrep GRAND @2asy Ui OLYMBIO " THE PESIOD. BOWERY THEA SouTa May avy THEATRE, Twenty-fourth wie AVENUE NEW YORK STaADT TNEATRI Lizss. orwoon duh anu 6b ave.— RiowRLire. Woon's Sch st. --Perform- ancca every hoatve Francats)— CONVAS'S PARK TH TIELD~POCAUONTAS. THEATRE COM Wu, Nexo Acts, BAN FRANCISCO Y NrGho MincrRELs TALL, corner APOLLO ¥ » DIORAMA RC NEW YORK CIRCU THE RING, ACBOBATS, 4 SOME NIGITION OF LE ART Wouas WITH SUPPLEMENT New Vork, Friday, February 17, 1871. Finwucial au “bh Movement Naval 0 Art te Democratic Party, Acts an id the & sonal Intelligence—Arnusements— Univ: y b— I bs Alumni Assi on—Trinity Coiege Alumni— ‘The Tenness: e HERALD In Phiiacelphia— Amusement Announcement: S—The Joint High Compilssion—France: Bir- s Terms of Pr Armistice Pr louged for Five Days © The French Na- toual Assemb! Army—News Trom Cuba and New Previ —China and Japan—Miscelianeous Telegra: ‘Business No- tices. d Saginaw: Picture of Their Camp and—ireland: The Exiled Fentans ception in America—The Peaboay Fund—The South Carolina Trou- veirs—ihe Irish Dare -—Southe' Kk City New lision Case ansas—Race Horses from Kentu %—Acivertisements. S—burope: Mati Detais to February 6; The En- trauee of the German Valerein; The Bombard for the Falien—The Cou Ae an, (Continued from Eighth Pages— Muddle—The State Ca zs in tl ings—Marriage of the New ue—Philadelpiia Items. 's from Washington—Tke Holden Impeach- Dy rous rire in Brookiyn—The Water Yhe Bili Passed m the State AS hipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments. a Mes. Wooprvit has opened ber Presiden- tial campaign.with a very effective speech, | which she delivered to a full audience in Lin- colo Hall, Washington, last evening. Tax Water Surery Bri passed in the Assembly yesterday, and the mighty hunter | Tweed rejoiced much therea the hotel. in his parlors at Tf it be true, ag stated, that he has no job in this Lake Gilead measure whatever, ‘but that be sells the mucli needed additional pure water to the city at a dead sacrifice of something less than it cost him, he ¢ philanthropy more heartily than anyh know of. Tre C AL Biaamese.—The jury in n Bowen, cha: ton, failed to agree npona v. discharg They stoed elevea for conyi aad one for acquittal, <A very tight sq Yet, on fewing the te 1g upon the amount of wilful per- jury put in as evidence for the defence, it is the jury did aot promptly and y upon a verdict of guilty, ze mony and Bowen will, it is reported, he again tried for the oe J THe Jom? Hien Con geen from our Washington de subject to-day that the imp gaining ground among the matists at the capital that we ne: mething more than money to heal up the sore in- jariee that Great Britain ‘our war through her ! thing more than money inkes Canada and British € occur that the withd from the American nitimatum of the United . And then No pent up Utiea cont Bat the whole bo: It will be tch on this nis ste diple gave us during yet British flag ry become the Tax Barcisn Auuy Rirrorm apecisl cable telegram from London enabled to present to our readers an additional report of the main points and provisions of the measure which Mr. Secretary Cardwell bas presented to the British House of Commons for the reform of the English army system. | The statement goes to confirm the contents of the initiat special despaleh which appeared in our columns yesterday, The question excites the liveliest interest, The seene in the Com- mons was quite animated during the delivery Of the Ministerial exposition, His Grace the Dake of Argy!| gives much attention to the progress of the bill. ALD General Grant, the Democratic Party, the fe Cotton | —Freuch Ballooning Billiards in | - | subversion, as never made out, | Bii.—By a} e | General Grant in this apparent design of his NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 117, 1871.—-WITH SUPPLEMEN’r. Reconstruction Acts and Ameoudmont. General Frank Blair, by authority of the Missouri democracy, has, in the United States Senate, defined his position on the Southorn reconstruction laws of Congress and the fif- teenth amendment. He says that, though carried through by fraud and perfidy, he does rogard the fitteenth amendment as complete and as part of the law of the land; that he has never held any other doctrine in regard to it; but that he does not now regard, and never has regarded, the reconstructioa acts of Con- gress as any part of the law of the land, and | thatif be had been ina place of power, and called upon to act in this businese, “‘he should have acted out his conviction, let the conse- quences be what they might,” In the cele- 1b Drodhead letter (reproduced in another bad said that the army in the be made to undo its usurpations i of reconstruction, and his idea s that this would be done by recalling the when the carpet-bag governments would the Fifteentu then, is the present position of Gene- j ral Blair on the reconstruction laws and the amendments to the constitution—the thirteenth and fourteenth, with the fif- teenth, IIe accepts these amendments parts of #he supreme law of the land; holds that the reconstruc- \ acts are “‘unconstilutional, revolutiouary, null and void.” We all know that General omination for Vice President on the Seymour, in 1888, was on the sup- dstrength of his Brodhead letter West } and Soath, in connection with the Wade | Hampton resolution in the Tammany platform against the reconstruction laws. Our readers Rew | will next remember that when, in the October iate elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and In- na, the democracy bagan to realize the ex- | tent of their mistake in this matter, a dospe- | rate attempt was made in this city and at to remove General Blair frem the ket and to substitute some other man he great battle of No- {| vember, ced we repeat here the effect | of this abgnrd movement upon the democratic camp. It is enough to say that this demoral-* s act of treachery towards General Blair septed on all sides as a demidératic con- n of their impending defeat, and that it contributed much to the decisive triumph of General Grant. Bni what does all this sig- nify now? Who cares what General Blair said or did in 1868, or what was said or done by the Tammsany Convention of that year? Is it ef any consequence now, when all this reconstruction business is settled, and when emancipation and negro suffrage are fixed in | the constitution? It is of ne consequence | what the democracy suffered for their folly in 1868 if they have given it up. But have they given up this folly? This is the question we are now called to consider. The debate in the Senate upon which General Blsir defined his present position grew out of a joint resolution from the demo- cratic Legislainre of Indiana withdrawing that State’s alleged ratification of the fifteenth amendment as a fraud. Mr. Morton, aceept- ing the challenge thus presented bim by bis -| Legislature, took up the question and pro- | | ceeded to show—first, the power of Congress | over the rebel States; and next, that the demo- | eratie party, in its attempted repudiation of | the reconstruction laws and these recent | j amendments to the natiounl constitution, | { j | vestigation advised by General Grant and proposed by Senator Morton and ordered by the Senate—the investigation which Morton's committee is now prosecuting into the alleged political atrocities of the Southern Ku Klux Klans. Morton is gathering the materials from which a budget of Ku Klux outrages will be compiled of a frightful character, in- tended to show that the spirit of the rebellion is still burning in the South and that the Northern democracy are still in sympathy with it, and that the common object of the democratic party, North and South, is to upset and abolish the whole reconstruction policy of Congress and to repudiate the ua- tional debt and to restore the ‘constitution as it was” and as it was construed under Bu- chanan, And what course will the democratic party pureue against this atiack along the whole line? If they act wisely they will follow the example of Tammany Hall, and with a stronger accent, in frankly recognizing fixed facts, and in dropping these dead issues of the war—or which, if not dead, only need the consent of the democratic party to make them so, But there are still some powerful copperhead influ- ences over the party, here and there and every- where, ready to resume their worse than use- less fight of 1868 and 1864 on reconstructien, the everlasting nigger and State sovereignty. Nor have we, except from General Blair, had any flat-footed, honest recognition, so far, from apy democratic Legislature, convention, conventicle, leader, orator or newspaper organ of the validity of this fifteenth amendment. General Grant and Senator Morton, then, have a fine opening before them for the arraignment of the democratic party before the people as a revolutionary party, which, in its elevation to power, will restore the constitution of the Dred Scott decision, repudiate the national debt, as an act of justice to the South—the Southern war debt being already repudiated— and leave the Southern States each to regulate their niggers as they may think fit. This ar- raignment of the democratic party, we believe, is in preparatien by and with the advice and consent of General Grant, gad the safest woy for the demooracy is to meet it at once by fol- lowing the lead of General Blair on the fifteenth amendment, and by going a little further in recognizing reconstruction, constitutional amendments, negro civil equality and negro suffrage as the logical and fixed resulis of the war, The French National Assembly—Prospect of a Republic. The result of the voting yesterday in Bor- deaux among the representatives for President of the National Assembly was nearly unani- mously in favor of the election of M. Grévy to that position. M. Grevy, as the sketch published in another part of the Hzrarp this morning will show, bas all his lifetime been a republi- can—not one of those rabid democrats of which Flourena, Gambetta and Rochefort are types. He was nevertheless a bold and de- termined opponent of kingly rule and imperial despotism, and a firm believer in the rights of the people and the right of the people to choose the form of government under which they desired to be governed. These were his views long years ago, his openly avowed principles immediately before the fall of the empire, and it ia scarcely probable that ia the period which has elapsed between those times and the present that his sentiments have undergone a change, At all events he has beea and is known as a republican—and a bold one—thronghout France, and his election as President of the | stands committed to their nullification and These Iudiana resolutions, he contended, breathed ihe docirines of nullifica- tion and secession, and that it is well for the country to know that the democratic party re- main as they were and do not mean to accept any of the results of the war or te recognize the reconstraction acts or the fourteenth or fifieenth amendment, but would, if they bad | the power, nullify them all. As proof of this he cited the fact that the democratic members of the House of Representatives at the last ses- sion voted solidly againsi the resolution essert- ing the fourieenth and ‘fifteenth amendments, { and re’erred to various official acts tv demo- cratic Siates commilied in fiagrant contempt of these amendments and by the eanal rights established under them. He also applied the fact that the democratic Legislature of Cali- fornia had declared the fifteenth amendment a y aud not binding upon the people of that ate. From alt these things Mr. Morton d that the democratic party, etili com- mitted to nullification, secession and rehellien, is not to be trusted by the people. As the individual opinion of Senator Morton, it may be said that all this signifies nothing, | | and it insy be asked, what can he make of it? | We think it means mischief to the democracy, | and for this reas Mortoniz the chosen mouth- piece of Genera! Grant in the Senate. No mem- ber of the body possesses in a higher degree | than Morton the confidence of the President. The nomination of this Senator as Minister to England, and his reasons for declining it, and his defence of the President against Sumner on St. Dow are proofs sufficient upon this point. We expect, hewever, an additional proof of the perfect accord between President and Senator in the approaching reconstraction We may safely assume, then, that in this atiack upon the democratic party in reference to the reconstruction laws and the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, the Sen- ator has ken by authority of the President, and that in thie speech is foreshadowed the party 2s of General Grant against the | democracy in the Presidential campaign of | 1872. In this view this general indictment of | Morton against the democratic party is not | weakened by the answer of General Blair, | although he admits the fifteenth amendment to | be port of the law of the land, What, then, will be the line of action of null on: t taciic | to make, in part, the battle of 1872 upon the same decisive issues as his battle of 1868— the issues of the war? His line of action, as | we have said, is foreshadowed in Morton's “Russia, with or without arraignment. All the doings of the demo- cratic party in Congreas, in their State Logis- latures, in their party conventions, {n the courts which they control, and all the pro- ceedings of the party organizations, State, city or county, looking to the nullification and subversion of the established results of the war, will be brought against them in the com. Ing campaign. This is the meaning of the in- National Assembly by a vote of five hundred and nineteen out of five hundred and thirty- eight votes indicates that a strong republican fecling pervades the whole body. When the returns were first received i: looked as though the Orleanists possessed a strength which was not expected, The Orieauist candidates made a respectable show, but the news from Berdeaux, which we publish this morning, alters the aspect of affui In con- nection with this aews we also learn that M. Thiers is universally regarded throughout France as the coming man for President of the Freach republic, and Jules Favre as the probable Premier. The names of other distinguished men besides M. Favre are men- tioned for members of the republican Cabinet. Among them we fail to notice the names of any of the radicals of the Gambetta stripe of Congress Yesterdnay~The West Poiut Academy Difficulties Severe Measures Anainst the Officers and the First Class of Cadets. The House took action yesterday on the report of the Military Committee in reference to the recent diflculties at the West Point Academy. The preliminary discussion was terse, pointed and vigorous. The officers of the institution came in for more severe hand- ling than the guilty schoolboys. A California member flung metaphorical mud upon them unsparingly, charging Colonel Upton with malignity, hate and falsehood, and as being unfit to occupy a position as pedagogue ina district school; all of which might have been very brave, eloquent and statesmanlike on the part of the California momber, particularly as the oflcer attacked had no theans ef defend- ing himself, and could not even bring his as- sailant to an account subsequently for words spoken in debate. But fair-minded per- sons generally will be apt to think that such gross attacks upon public officers, whese honor and reputation are thelr only wealth, reflect no credit upon those who make them or upon the body which encourages or tolerates them, There was only one effort made in the House to shield or defend the officers of West Point, and that was inthe case of General Pitcher. One of the Indiana members, Mr. Niblack, stood up for the General as being a native of his State and district, and a brave and gallant officer, of sound and discriminat- ing judgment and large experience. The Gen- eral was allowed to speak for himeelf in a let- ter written to Mr, Niblack, in which he refers to the report of the comtalttee ‘“‘as a partisan measure, inspired by prejudice and ignorance, and made without the proper degree of inves- tigation.” He alludes feelingly to the malign influence exerted on the social atmosphere of the Academy by the. presence of that young American citizen of African descent, and inti- mates that when members of Congress are brought into such close social relations with their colored colleagues as cadets must necessarily be they will not find the contact so agreeable. At the close of the discussion the amendment offered by Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, to make the penalty of the First Class cadets a deprivation of the customary furlough on their graduation, Was rejected—ninoty-sevon to one hundred and elevea—and thé resolutions of the ééfii- mittee were adopted, and also the resolution offered by Mr. Johnson, of California. The effect of this action is to restore the three original delinqucnts of the Fourth Claas, to have a court of inquiry on the cadets of the First Class, of whom the instigators and ring- leaders are to be expelled, and to have the offlcers of the Academy also tried by a court of inquiry; and all this fuss and trouble pro- ceeds from a schoolboy’s New Year's Day frolic, and from the little fib told by his com- rades to conceal his delinquencies. We think that, in commemoration of the circumstances, and as a warning to all future cadets of the Fourth Class, there should be framed in their study room those two appropriate lines— Oh, what a tangled web we weave ‘When tivst we practise to deceive, After disposing of the West Point question the House took up and passed a big bill intended to regulate the management of steamboats, and to compel them to adopt all measures calculated to secure greater safety to the lives of passengers. Notice was given by the chairman of the Pacific Railroad Committee thathe would on next Tuesday report back the Pacific Railroad bill for immediate action. The Committee on Reconstruction directed its chairman to report a bill, in accordance with the President’s re- commendation the other day, to repeal all acts imposing test oaths. ‘he effort to get at the bill repealing the income tax will probably bo renewed successfully to-day. In the Senate the session of yesterday was chiefly devoted to the Legislative Appropria- tion bill. The only point of public interest decided in that bill was the question of judi- cial salaries, which have been fixed at the following very moderate figures:—Chief Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of the United States, $8,500; Associate Justices, $8,000; Circuit Judges, $6,000;. District Judges, %5,000; Chief Justice of the Court of Claims and of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $6,000, and Associate Justices of republicanism, This is a hopeful sign, and shows conclusively that the sober thonght of the people is not influenced by the glitter of the empty boastings of mev, who, unable to conirol themselves, sought to rule the destinies ofa great nation. It would not, after all, be sur- prising to see France rise from her prostration and assume her position among the nations of the Earth, not as an empire nor as a monarchy, but as a great and powerful republic. If so, the many sacrifices, the noble struggles, the grand heroism which throughout the war France made, with fortune against her, will not have been altogether in vain, German successes made Germany an empire; will French humiliation prove but the precursor of the establishment of a republic in France? Premier Gladstone in Censure of Indis- erect Diplomacy. The subject of Mr. Odo Russell's recent dipiemacy at Versailles, of which we had 80 mach, but in reality so little, by cable telegrams from Europe, engaged the attention of the English Honse of Commons yesterday. A member inquired if Mr. Russell had been authorized to state to Count Bismarck last No- vember that “‘the state of the Eastern question would compel England to go to war with allies.” Premier Gladstone said that Mr. Odo's Russell's “argu- ments were unauthorized, bat bore an offi- cial character.” Mr. Russell “had been vested with certain discretion, bunt no specitic fnstruciions had been sent him,” sad “his conrse in this matter was cen- surable.” The Ministerial sentence is ‘cen- surable,” one of the heaviest that can be pro- nounced by the Prime Minister of Britain, It is a sorry termination of a sorry system of “hedging” diplomacy. As is Eugland’s wont, she has thrown away the broken sword. She leaves Mr, Russell the thimbles and the pea, Tuk LuaiwsLature takes a recess to-day un- til the 27th inst., parily to duly celebrate the birthday of the wisest and greatest, &c., but those courts, $5,500. A resolutionin regard tothe bonds of the Union Pacifle Railroad was referred to the Judiciary Committce, and the President's veto of a bill for the relief of certain contractors for the construction of war vessels and machinery was sustained by fifty- seven to two. The Proposed Grand Parade Ground. A bill has been presented in the Legislature to authorize the establishing of a grand mili- tary parade ground, a Champ de Mars, in the city of New York. The idea is a good one, and will meet a necessity that has long ex- isted, The First division of the New York State militia require somo ample field upon which to exercise their evolutiens without being obliged to cross the river and entering the corporate limits of our little cousin Brook- lyn for the purpose. But while we ao- knowledge the propriety of the undertaking we cannot help warning the Legislature against allowing any corrupt jobbery to creep into the business. No doubt property in the vicinity of the proposed parade ground will be en- hanced in value, no matter where it may be created; but the Legislature should sur- round the law with such safeguards as will prevent speculators from having full swing in the premises, The purchase and preparation of the ground for the object contemplated will probably be entrusted to the charge of the Department of Public Parks—a board com- posed of gentlemen in whose integrity the pub- lic can repose a reasonable amount of confi- dence. But even let this board beware of temptation, and do the werk in a manner that will reflect credit upon themselves and prove a lasting honor and attraction of the metropo- lis of the nation, The sum of three millions is amply sufficient to be appropriated for the purpose, and that amount we believe the people of the State as well as of the city will be willing to have appropriated when they realize the grandeur of the design as well as the practical benefit to be derived from the object in view, especially to enjoy, untrammelled by Legisla- tive burdens, the jollities and jim-jams of the carvival season Trm Broapway WipenjnG Britt. bas passed both houses of the Legislature and now awalts + the Governor's sienaturay Science Simplifying Diplomacy. Premier Gladstone informed tho British House of Commons yesterday, in reply to @ parliamentary question, that during the sittings of the Joint High Commission in Washington “‘any difficulties arising” are to be referred by the English officials to the home government by cable telegram report for treatment, and that the Cabinet § in- structions will be ‘returned the same way.” . This executive announcement by the Prime Minister of England constitutes in itself one of the most splendid attestations of the power of science in promoting a friendly international communion among the peoples of the Earth. The intelligonce comes in ploasing verification of the Hzraup's anticipations of such a result—anticipations which we put forward the very day after the first success’ of the cable and since. Mr. Gladstone assures us, in other words, that ‘red tape” will be formally consumed by electricity; a consum- mation which will have the most civilizing effects—a fitting tribute to the geniua of Franklin, : Bogus Divorces—A Ringleader Caughts ‘The habit of men calling themselves lawyers, 80 constantly practised, of proguring divorces upon cheap principles, by the use of fraudu- lent testimony and other nefarious means, has grown te be a great scandal and evil upon tho community, The sanctity of home and family is placed at the mercy of these wretches. While man and wife can be separated by the simple edict of a court, without the knowledge of one party or the other, there is no longer any safety fer domestic life, happiness or family unity. The last notorious case of this kind has fortunately fallen into the hands of Connecticut law, where it will probably re- celve an honest interpretation. The crime of which the man House, a lawyer of this city, is charged was committed in New Haven. The case appears pretty clear, A suit for divorce was sought for by this creature House between a Mr. and Mrs, Randolph, of Virginia, and, as proved, witnesses wero produced by the lawyer to prove all kinds of scandalous charges against the wife, who, meantime, never heard a-word about the transaction. It is alleged that a bogus wit- ness was produced in court who represented himself as Randolph, the husband, and plaintiff inthe case. cre "We take ff for granted that with sich teati- mony before a Connecticut court the convic- tien of this ringleader of the bogus divorce system may be regarded as a matter of cer- tainty. It is time that this whole abominable system of cheap and fraudulent divorces should be put an end to. Hitherto our courts have not accomplished anything in that direction. If the courts of Connecticut afford us any relief in extinguishing such fellows as this House we will feel grateful te our neighbor State, Tue Spoyren Doxvi. Disaster.—What- ever mystery there may be clouding the story of the New Hamburg slaughter—and there seems to be a good deal of doubt as to who was responsible, or whether any one was responsible for the horrible catastrophe—the recent accident on the Hudson River Railroad at Spuyten Duyvil is not open to any doubt concerning the party who is directly charge- able with gross neglect and indifference, If the facts as alleged be true the conductor of the passenger train permitted the cars to stand upon the trestle bridge without taking any precaution to siznal the train coming to Yonkers—which he must have known was fol- lowing hin—that his cars were disabled and standing on tke track in this most precarieus position. We say if this fact can be proven upon investigatien there will be no difficulty in fixing the blame where it belongs. A man who could be so entirely indifferent to his duty and so reckless of the lives entrusted to his charge should not be placed in a position of responsibility. What, therefore, shall wo say of the company which employs such men? Certainly the prior responsibility rests with them. - Personal Intelligence. Senators Patterson, of New Hampshire, Thurman, of Ohio, and Representative Bent, members of the Congressional committee of investigation, have ar- rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Genoral G. M. Brayton, of the Untted States Army, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Governor J. B, Page, of Vermont, is among the arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel D. W. Middlevon, of Washington, 13 tem- porarily at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. Alexander H. Rice, ex-Mayor of Boston, 13 staying at the Fifth Avenue Motel. General A. L. Pearson, of Pittsburg, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain David C. Woodrow, of the United States Navy, Is stationed at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Thomas C. Davis, member of Congress, of Syracuse, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on & brief visit. Mr. Homer A. Nelson, Secretary of State, of Albany, is temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Thomas A. Scott, Vice President of the Penn- sylvania Central Railroad, and Mr. J. H. Ramsey, of Albany, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. THE TENNES3EE. Admiral Lee’s Opi He Thinks Her AU Right, WASHINGTON, Feb, 16, 1871. It seems to be settled now that the Tybee, due in New York en the 22d inst., will bring the first news of the Tennessee and the St, Domingo Commis- sioners. Admiral Lée has telegraphed to Secretary Robeson, from Key West, that he bas no news of the ‘Tennessee, and that he dues not expect to have any until he bears from the Tybee on her arrival at New York, He 14 confident that the vessel 1s ail right. In conversation with General Babeock to day he stated that if the Tybee brought no newa of the Ten- nessee then woula there be reasonable ground for fear, but that until then we might as well suppose the island itselt had been swatiowed up, because it had not been heard from, {tis thought by some that the Braziliam steamer due at New York on Sun- day will bring definite information of the expedt ton, The following 1s Admiral Lee's despatch:— No news of the Tennessee. None expected until the Tybee returns from St, Domingo (he of the Taonth) to New York, I beliove she is all right. Rear Admiral Commanding N. A. Flee Fleet, THE HERALD IN PHILADELPHIA. (from the Philadelphia Ledger, Feb. 1.) The NEW YORK HERALD 1s one of those cosmopoil, tan journals that, like its contemporary, the London Times, furnishes the public with everything they want in the shape of a newspaper. The expenditure of money 1s lavish in both establishments, and both spare neither pains nor expense to secure early and accurate information. In its telegraphic news the HERALD is now particularly successful. Much of the transatlantic Intelligenge given dilly to the country 1s originally obtained by the HERALD, and by it ished 4 the Associated Press. The nonce my of James gordon Ben- hett a8 a newspaper man keeps pace with every im- Tearomnes, ‘Bnd ingiutaing Bia journal ty the front AMUSEMENTS, Boorm’s TuraTre.—Weutr's Manes M CAL: —Albert ‘Weber, rj of those musical entertainments, 1s- evidently an adept in the managerial business. First of all be engaged one of the best theatres in New York, and then he secured the reigning queens of fashton as 8 Valuabie nucleus oF a select and distinguished audl- ence. As an inevitable consequence the theatre yesterday afternoon was crowdea with ladios of the first rank in society and the most elegant tollets were visible. This 18 the true, businerslike theory of plano matin¢es. ‘rhero are plantsts in this city who give very artistic performances at some of the music halls, and yet never guc- ceed in securing good honses, 1 reason is that they do not know how to cage the leaders of fashion, Ap audience at a fashionable matinée ia somewhat like the plan of operations adopted by Western bee huniers, They secure the queen bee and the entire swarm follow, as @ watter of course, a following programme was presented yester- lay :— . Song, “The Wanderer”.. Plano Solo, Fantasia, burl fr. James Mf, W Barcarolle, “The Pau ‘Enchantress’ Mr, William MacDi Cavatina, “Ii Polluto”.... Madame $A “Wan derstunden” 1B “Tarenteile? ve Mr. James M. Weblt, Song, “Those Bright Black Eyes". it. MaeDoi fA “Silver Boils” U8 “Bans Soucl Galop"} cseecestereeseere Mr. James M. Ballad, “The Heart Bowed Down”. Herr Rem! Ballad, “Farowell!”sssee.seoee Madame Salvo, Piano Solo, “Home, Sweet Home"... (For left band 0: Mr. Jumes M. Whelt, Now the correct theory of a mattnée musicale in regagd to the programmo ts to have one or two solid dishes as Well a8 choice entrées, as an artistic cuisinter arranges a dinner. Mr, Weili 13 a bravura player of rare skill and well founded reputation; but be should mingle some solid music with his own salon compositions ond the showy pieces ot Stephen Roller, The best work he performed yesterday waa 13 own ‘Luriine’’ lantasia—a real gem of the bravura: school, He piayed 1t with a dash and spirit which placed it ba ics attractive light, His unpetuosity and want of repos» carries him away unwarranta- biy sometimes and robs nis play! of deitcacy and poetry. Mr. Wehli’s technique 1s faultiess and his earnestness undeniable. Yet we have hi his OWN compositions (aud some of them are worthy of Thaiberg) played by amateurs in a parlor with nore discernment and care than he plays-them in public. In the matter of acoustics the theatre Is supe for every note of the grand plano received the resonant power one would wish for. Mr. Remmertz is a very fine baritone singer, and his School possesses none of che harsiness of the Ger- man style of singing. Mme. Salvottl saag the cava- tina from “Poiiuto” beautifully, but can she not vary her selections a littie? We have never yet heard her sing anythtng else Im public, with the excepiion of the trifiny ballad of Graham's. Mr. McDonald cap) abominably, and proved to be the weak feature ol the matinee. On Saturday afternoon Mr. Wehll will give a piano recital at the Union League theatre, on Whieb occasion he will play the Moonlight sonata. Srapr—MarRIB SEEBACH.—As the long engage- ment of this admiravie artist draws to @ close the brighter and more gpd become her performs, ances, This week opeacd with her Adrienne Lecouyreur, an impersonation which will take rank with unt of Rachel in bid PRAY of the drama. sy) Tuesday the magatiicent play of “Uriel sta’? was Presented and iast - event Mme, Seebach appeared mn “Valerie” an “A Oup of Tea,” lattey being a lIlttle comedy written by herself. An analytical review of each has already been published in the HERALD. She created quite a furor last evening by her match- less acting, and loud and long was the applause bestowed upon her, On Wednesday evening she took even her most enthusiastic admirers by sur- prise by a rendering of the réve ef Ophelia such as the American stuge has seldom witnessed. Yor the remainder of her engagement, two weeks, Mme. Seebach apvears every night, commenciag this evening with Anne Eliza. When she leaves the stage we shall lose one of its brightest and purest luminaries, EUTERP£ ASSOCIATION CoNCERT.—This sterling association gave thelr third concert last night toa crowded and fashionable audience, in the concert hall of the Young Mon’s Christian Association, Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue. The per- formance opened with a selection from Burgmiller’s Second Ampliony in D. The arla “Batti, Batti,” was sung by Miss Ida Rosenburgh in the sweetest style of her sweet soprano. The triumph of the evepmg was Mr. 8. B. Mills’ pianoforte rendition of the ile- grofrom Chopin’s beautiful concerto in K miner. ‘The popularity of both composer gnd player was testified in the applause which greeted this a Mendelssohn's First “Walpurgis ight" was given by the soctety. This is an ambi- ious task, and, though the Euterpe aeserve grea! credit for the training they exhibited, the work re- quires a Estee fore and even better musicians, Vocal and instrumental, to do it full justice, than the Euterpe at present can muster. Schubert Plano Solo, Piano Solo, WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY CLUB. Third Aupual Reuzion at the Astor Houses After Dinner Wit and Wisdom. The Wesleyan University alumn resident in this city had their annual reunion at the Astor House last evening. About 120 ladies and gentlemen, ministers and laymen, were present, The following. officers for 1871 were elected :—President, George: G. Reynolds; Vice Presidents, D. Curry, D. D., and B. K. Pierce, D. D.; Secretary, Charles R. North; Trea- gurer, Orange Judd; Committee of Arrangements, B.K. Pierce, H. ©, M. Ingraham, 8, H. Olin and Dt G. Harriman, Judge Reynolds presided at the dinner, and when the table had been cleared he made a brief address, alluding to his college days and to the influences Which bound him to his a’ma mater, There was nothing so like a family gathering as these annual reunions; they renew the pleasant experiences of college days and revive scenes whl they can never forget. The alumni ought to stand by old Wesleyan, because there is no institution in the land which gives better instruction to its stu- dents than It, and she has shown her confidence in het children by taking them into her councils and to the conduct of her affairs. But the information that is most useful in life is found outside of the college wails, Dr. B, K, Pierce was called upon to act as toast- Master, which he did with great geod humor, and at his call Rey. George pansies ‘Caylor recited @ couple of original paraphrases from old poems— “Excelsior”? and ‘‘Hoheniinden."” Rey. Dr. Cummings, President of the University, responded toa call and Papromes his thanktulness to the local committee for the arrangements of this entertainment, and then, referring to thegcollege buildings, he paid avery high and deserved compit- ment to Mr. Orange Judd, who, besides building The Judd Hall of Science, at a cost of $75,000, has en- dowed a chair of natural science with $30,000, During the last twenty-five years the college hag received gifts and endowments of over $500,000, and he looked for greater gifts in .he future, Dr. C. D, Foss referred to his college days in ola Wesleyan and to the greater importance of a tho- rough a education, rather than classics, in these days. C. P. Disosway, & graduate of Columbia College and an honorary graduate of Wesicyan University, conirasted the experiences of the two, Professor Harrington, Van Benschoten, Carhart, of Claverack; Flenry Staats, of Union ‘Theological Seminary, New York; Mr. Quinlan, of Newark; Mr. Kellogg, of Chicago; Dr. Curry, Chauncey Shaffer aud others delivered brief addresses, and toward midnight the company parted, closiag thelr third annual reunion, BANQUET OF THE DICHINSON ALUMNI ASSO— CIATION. ‘Tho Guests and the Specches. ‘xhe New York Associatiou of the Alumni of Divx: inson! Celiege, Pennsylvania, held 11s second annum dinner last evening, at Delmonico’s, Most of the Alumni of the association resident in the metropelis were present, bat few of those resident in other cities found it convenieut to be present. The Rev. Dr. Durbin, president of the association, presided. Among the more prominent persons at the banquet were the Rey. Dr. Deems, Key. Mr. Lana~ han, Bishop Janes, Rey. » Crooks, editor of the Methodist; Rev. 0. HM. Tiffany, the Hon. J. &. Diehks and Horatio 0. King. ‘Letters expressing the Ce f of the writers at being unable to be present were. celved irom many ex-students and professors ef Dickinson College, many of them now. occupying ; prowinent public pozitious. Among those who sew ¢ such letters may be mentioned Postmaster Creswe} |, Assistant Postinaster Marshall, Willtam I, Alby a) President of Girard College, ana Rev, Jesse T. Peek, ex-president of Dickinson College. Several lad og lent the charm of their presence to the occas on. ‘The pocretary, Tloratio ©, » introduced, the a of the evening. He road the letiers Tiron the absentees previousiy referred to. In xeap-onse to the first toast—The Faculty of lyse the Rey, Onarles Deems made sone ex. tended remaris concerning the ory history of Dickinson College so far us his experitnie wenr there. He pata 2 high compliment io the talent, ana assidnity of Ke Durbin, the first ‘prosider 4; of the institution afier the Methodists, = bonghe it The Rey, Dr. Orooks replied to the toast 4 sur Gradnates.” Remarks were mace by several osnox speakers, and if was near inidnight when than: game blage broke np. TRINITY COLLEGE ALUMNA A meeting of the New York Assoctatis of the Alumai of Trinity College was held last nagnt at No. 1,267 Broadway for the purpose of Maing the nee cossary arrangements for the annual r, |. Roy, Dr. W. EB. Curtis occupted the cha’ ae a of April next was appointed as the {ime for the ro- unton, aud @ committee of three a take shiarge of the arraugummoutan Ys sProwsed (0 the manager and originator > ‘ \ ( X