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8 NEW YORK HERAT itnnnnne BROADWAY A JAMES GORDON BE! PROPRIETOR TREE INETT, ABUSEREATS THiS EVER, LINA EDWIN'S THSSTRA. 720 Broatway.—Ling Rv Barrons Nayar ExGageurars, 40 GRAND OPERA ROUSE, comer of &) ay, anc 2d at— Aes URORGIZA ES "XBW YORK STADT THUATSE, 4 Bowory.—Gunua Orxsa—Paver. BOWERY THEATRI, Jowsry—ON MAND—A Dax Wri. Srkawr. MIN SS FIPTH AVENUS TURATRS, Twenty-four streot.— Baxarooa. isa GIOBE THRATLS, TR Pros PAINENT, &0.—JUpGk Dow.n VARIETY Entan BOOTHS TAKATRE, B52 m, Woon GAN and 6b ave, OxaELLO WOOD'S NUSYUM Brondway, corner sith st. Perform ances every afleraoun and eveulos. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Proadway.-Tu2 Deava oF Hoaizox. NIBLO'R GARDE) ‘THs BLAcK Choox. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broaiway ana 23th street.— Maan Lok Broadway.—Tum Ser SACLE OF FOURTEENTH STRSK GusiLvia, RE (Theatre Francais)— MES. F. B. CONWAY'S P fur Ciauny Stearn BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF ATUSIC, Moningne etree Gaasv Conoxer ov THE BROOKLYN 1%. UNION, 4 85 Broa tway.— QvAd, So. TONY PASTOR'S O RIBTY ENE CAME THEATRE COMIQUE, 6: ts, NEORO ACTS, ac. ¥EYANT'S NEW OPERA Tol and Tth aya—Neoxo Moyers: HOOLEWS OPERA Ht Emiy & Lros’s Mis DR KAL Rorenor A | 3 i] | pad oe pron | ic er it] glace Fagin Ca: Proceedings tn D . on! | son's Farewell © cements. he Paris Revolt: He: French Capit Insurgenta’ D in Favor of Urder; Stronger and Nore riage—The iancous Tele: ness Notice 8—Financiel and Commercial Reports—The Cot- ton Movement— Advertisements, 9—Adyertisements. 10—A Spec of War In the F. Expedition to n Feathers: An Evening Shipping Intelligen: f1—Advertisements, 12—Advertiseucnis, fn opposition to the pnoumatic railway on Thursiay next. Our holders have thus a final and most promising chance of defeating this threatened outrage. They mast noi let it pasa from them, Waicn is Cor —The St. Domingo Commissioners say that the people ef Do- minica are almost unavimous for annexation, and yet Ben Wade in ells private letter says that if annexation does not take p! Baez wiil be ousted by the revolutiouists, the former st latter be tru War Horo: ROK AND Morrxe, — Oar news of this morning shows that the Emperor William is maguanimous in the hour of victory. All the world kuows that the Prussian system is slow to honor me All the honor ana glory belong to the crown. it mont is correct bow can the But al! men everywhere know that two men | have made the Emperor William what he is. These two men are Bismarck and Molike. The one has boen to him aad Gormany a brain; the other has been to him and Ger- many ao skilfol right arm. We are glid to learn that Bismarck 1s to bo a Prince of tho German empire, and that Moltke is to be adorned with the badge of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Iron Cross, Cotonen Jonn Wannen, one of the Amorican citizens imprisoned in Ireland for Fenianlam, proposes to Iay a claim for half 6 million dollars damages before the Joint High Commission. If the British members ever seriously contemplated pressing the clalma of individual Englishmen for damages received in this country dariag our civil war asa gort of set-off to the Alabama claims, let this startling demand of Qolonel Warren be a warning to them. For every Englishman that was in this country during the war we can bring forward a half-dozen Irishmen—true blue American Irishmen, too, according to the terms of the American-British naturalization treaty—who have heavy scores to geitlo on the other side of the account. A Gescrg Equi AL Stoem-—That which ended here gt the close of the dey on the 21st fast., the day when the Sun, in bis course to the northward, crossed over to our side of the equinoctial line fu his daily jouruey across the firmgment. We cannot properly, however, ofll this of the dist the equinoctial storm, inasmuch as {t was only the winding up of a series of eqninoctial rains, siorms and tornadoes, running through a period of two or three weeks and extending over the whole Continent, a8 far as known, The whole Conti- nent Las thus, io its fields, forests, mountatas, plains, wells, springs, streams and lakes, re- ceived a supply of rata or snow which will go far to tosure us a fraliful year, from tho lakes the Gulf and from ocean to ovaan, we. ey DI | al the Lottom | He bas ' revenue exacted from the people the more f | peeple to the manufacturers. \ Broadway property | ce at once | NEW Y Esmors of a Chango ta thy Oxbluot and Retiremeut of Mr, Boatwelt. A rumor comes ag: ain from Washington that j Scoretary Bontwoll will soon retire from the Treasury Depariment. His saceessor, it is said, will be Sonator Morton, of Indiana, Tho reason assigned for Mr. Boutwell’s retirement j is that the President rogards the financial policy of the Secretary as unpopular and damaging to the administration. Whether the old saying, that where there is mach smoke there must bo some fire, be applicublo or not to the rumors about Mr, Boutwell going out of the Treasury, thero can be no doubt that the reasou assigned for his retiroment is a good one, He has been o weakness and a drag to the administration,all along; he has done nothing to make It popular, and had it not beon for the supsrabundant resources of tho country and the enormous revenue, which have kept the Treasury on a high tide of pros- perity and enabled tho goverument to pay off a large amount of debt, public opintoa would havo set strongly against him long since. ‘The people hava borne heavy taxation with patience, and have lost eight in a measure of Mr, Bontwell’s ineapacliy because they felt | some gratification at-seeing the debt greatly ! reduced. But the credit of having a vast ‘income is not due to the Secretary; that comes from the enormous wealth, resources and industry of the country. But there are two sides to this question of raising a vast surplas revenue and paying off the debt so rapidly, and Mr. Boutweli has ; been on the wrong side, as fer as any action jhe has taken ia the matter goes, What the country most needed after the bulk of the floating war debt was paid or adjusted was a reduction of taxation—a removal of its bur- dens—and a limited income only for economi- cal current expenditures and a small sinking That would have stinualated industry and caterprise, improved the condition of the people and increased trade and commeree. ‘he money unne rily extracted from the — . | poekets of the people to keep the Treasury ed would, if left with them, have created re wealth, bave placed the country in a r tion (o pay the debi hereafter, aud ed ex{ravagance and corruption, tary did not or would not see this, but one idea, and that was to keep easury full—to keep on hand all the ime from a hundred to a hundred and fifty lions of dollars, and to poy off the debi at ate of a hun d millions a year, in order that he might make political capital, Then, nis extravagant aud burden- ae financial policy, there bas always been another one which springs from Mr. Boutwell’s New England protective edaca‘ion and notions. beea co) 13 that the larger the protection would necessarily be afforded to the New England manufacturers. In taxing articles of general consumption to raize a vast revenue i@ home mannfactiirers are protected, and the higher price they get in consequence from the consumers is as much a bonus as if the money were paid directly out of the Treasury | or transferred directly from the pockets of the Here, then, | oppose the reduction of taxation and to keep np an enormous surplus revenne—to promote his own political aspirations and to serve his New England friends, Mr. Boutwell hag overreached himself and damaged both the edministration and his party. We should not be surprised, therefore, if General Grant is waking up to this fact and should desire a change iu his Cabinet. The divisions in the republican party on various grounds are embarraasing the administration, but none are likely to prove more disastrous toitthan the difference that exists between the Eastera and Westcra republicans on revenue and tariff issues, The revenue re- formers, who are for the most part a frag- ment of the republican party, are numerous ia the West, and hav? no interest in common with the New England protectionists. Asan agricultural people thoge of the West naturally incline more to free trade. Many of them, it is true, are from the Eastern States, but while their radical and old home affiliations may re- main to some extent, they are governed fly, as all other people, by their material As a consequences the breach {that is already apparent between the old | Tepublicans of the East and the West must widen as time advances on revenue and tariff It is certain, too, that the mighty West will goon overrale the New England pro- teciive policy which has controlled the gov- ernment for some time past. Then the in- terests of the South and West, both being gricultural, will be combined before long against the protectionist section. | The sooner General Grant emancipates bim- self, then, from the control of New England politicians, modifies his policy to suit the West and leans more upon that section for support the better it will be for him. The people are weary with the burden of taxation, They | bore it patiently and nobly as long as the life of the nation was in question or its credit re- quired to be sustained. But the war end war issues being settled and the credit of the government firmly established they demand a large reduction of taxes, a mach less revenue and economy. ‘They cannot see the justice of keeping up taxation for the protection and benefit of a small section or a limited class, Besides it is well known that a plethoric Trea- sury is always ao tempiation to extravagance and leads to corruption. If il be true that Senator Morton {s spoken of os successor to Mr. Boutwell in the Treasury Department there may be a change tn the financial policy of the administration, and one more likely to suit the Weatera people, he beiug from the West and more imbued with the views of that section, The administration and yepublican party oannot roa the government machine | longer upon New England principles and for New Eaglaad without Imminent danger of disruption and defeat, ri | There fs another good reason wy Mr. Bout- well skould retire from the Treasury Depart- ment, He has shown fgnorance of the simplest principles of national finance and economy. During the hole Of his term of office h to the government and people fully six millions of doilars a year in hoarding 4 capital of over a handred millions instead of putting it out at interest, or, what amounts {o the same thivg, instead of buying up the in- terest-bonring debi with it, There never has | ch interests, URK HERALD, been any reason to fear the surplus money iu the Treasury would be waated, Had the Treasury been emptied any time during the last few years there would have been a month or two ufier a surplus again, so fast and con- stant Las been the stream of incoming revenue. No business man of the most ordinary capacity would have been guilty of euch folly in the management of his funds, No one would have locked up bis money when he could have drawa good laterest from it. The pretext that a large reserve of gold was necessary to keep down the preminm is fallacious. The diffu- sion of it through the currents of trade would have had a better effect, Mr. Boutwell is a failure as a finance minister, and if General Grant would consolidate the republicans of all sections and save the West from going over to the democrats, the sooner he invites the Secre- tary to retire the better, both for himself and his party, The Latest News from France. The tenor of the latest despatches received from France indicates that the lull in the revo- lution is about to give way to activity, Both sides manifest little or no disposition to yleld, M. Thiers has addressed another circular to the prefects, giving a favorable report of the situation, and asserting that the government and the National Assembly are rapidly becom- ing masters of events. A proclamation is to be issued warning the insurgents to lay down theley arms, although M. Thiers announces that he will not declare war against them until instructed to do so by the As- sembly, When this instruction will be given is a matter of doubt, as the proceedings of the Assembly are lacking in decisioa, All it has done thus far hag been to approve a proclama- tion condemning the insurrection and appeal- ing to tho troops and citizens to rally and save the republic; which means that the Assembly is anything but assured of its power, Armed assistance has, it is true, been offered by all the departmental authorilies, but as these officials are appointees of M. Thiers they could not very well make any other offer. Of more signili- cance is the announcement of the provincial protests against revolation, and declarations of adhesion to the government, While the Versaiiles authorities are resoly- ing and proclaiming the insurgents in Paris aro acting as wellas proclaiming, They have occupied all the fortifications on the west sida of Paris, but unless they can get possession of Fort Mont Valcrien they will be unable to hold them. The Central Republican Com- miltee have declared that they will hold the communal elections without the ¢o-ope- ration of the Mayors of Paris, and their newspaper organ denounces the National As- sembly as ‘narrow-minded and rural,” and as incompetent to act, beiag elecied ‘under pressure.” Altogether it is becoming more evident that the crisis must attain its height before many days, when one side or the other must back down or come to blows. Such is the conclusion at which we arrive from a pe- rusal of the despa'ches received from France this moraing up to the hour of going to press. Where Were Those Boys? Our readers were no doubt a little astonished yesterday, in perusing the Heatp’s graphic report of the marriage of the Princess Louise with the Marquis of Lorn, at the non-appear- | ance of the names of the male members of the Queen’s family as participants ia the august coremonies, The whole affair ssems to have been arranged by the ladies of the royal circle, with the good and motherly Queen herself a3 mistress of the occasion. Now it will be enri- ous to know what caused the absence of the male scions of the house of Guelph on this in- teresting event. Where was the Prince of Wales? Where was Prince Alfred? Where was Princo Arthur? It is no answer to say that either of them was abroad (and we believe Prince Alfred is at sea in some part of the world), for the nuptials of a sister of the blood royal should have been fixed for a day upoa which the entire family could hava been present—had they wished to be. Was the match considered by these young princes an unsuitable one because the bridegroom did not come of royal stock? If any reason like this prompted the'r ebsence we must say it was unworthy of them os men, to say nothing of it as the act of those pluming the ves upon being princes among men, Tho doy of this kind of snobbisiiness has gone by. The Queen mother acted like a mothér andasa Queen among mothers in giving away one of her be- loved daughters to the man of her choice, albeit that mam was a subject of her Majesty. She will receive the praise of all mankind for her noble conduct in the present instance, while the pride of hor sons will surely be humbled in the end. in we ask, “Where were those boy. Lorp SaLisBury on ENOLAND’s Posttion. We publish in another page of the Heratp this morning-ihe substance of the speech of Lord Salisbury, delivered before the House of Lords on the evening of the 6th, on the position of England with foreign na- tions. Ils lordship expresses himself fully conselons of the inability of England, with its existing military strength, to meet any of | the three great Powers of the Barth, Russia, Prassia or the United States. Even with the augmentation recently proposed to the British army, Eagland will still be far behind the great European nations whose military strength at the prosent day is suafficiens to be the canse of uneasiness to that ‘ight little island” which is only separated from the Con- tinent by a ‘streak of silver sea.” Tur Erie Crassivication Reprat Bux is still under discussion befure the Railroad Com- mittee of the Assembly. One of the Erie lawyers yesterday ventured upon a defenco o} the original Classification act, and seth English precedents to uphold him. Whatever arguments may be advanced on either side the fact remalus that Erie will not pay divi- denda, and dividends are what stockholders want, Te TO ee ae fic" the te nonpenes Tag But to Consormare the city debt was passed in the State Senate yesterday, Mr. Tweed exercising his masterly ingenuity by # othing it with life after pid had killed it, The consolidation of our cliy debt al a lower rate of interest is, iu the main, a highly de- sirable consummation, but the title of a fen lative document is so unreliable that there is no certainty what dreadful job is hidden under this comfortable cloak of consolidation, The Paris Jnsurgents. “No farther atrocities are reported from the insurgent “reds” {a occupation of Paris, The shopkeepers, however, have no faith in them, for the shops remain closed, and all business and labor, except the labor upon the barri- cades, continues suspended, The benevolent usurpers of the city administration have issued a decree interdicting, till otherwise ordered, the expulsion of lodgers who cannot come up to time with their rent. The parties responsi- ble for this decree find it, no doubt, very con- venient, They will, if tolerated much longer, proclaim all rents for lodgings aristocratic {m- positions upon the people, incompatible with the republic of “‘liberty, equality and frater- nity." Thia is unquestionably a fundamental docirine of*Couat Bismarck’s ‘‘gontlomen of the pavement,” who now rule the capital of modern civilization, which appears, also, to be the capital of modern barbarism, As the capital of France, Parla, they contend, is the only place for the National Assembly. They want it ta Paris, and they demand it; but M. Thiers is too old a fox to be caught in such a trap. Not until these iasolent rufians ere dis- armed and driven back into their holes will any government of law and order be safe in Paris, There is surely no safety for the National Assembly in the city while the officers of the polico are in prison and the whole force is virtually dis- banded and an armed mob from the slums and socialistic back streets are the masters at the Hotel de Ville and the Tuileries, These facetious patriots betray themselves in their declaration that while they will respect tho treaty stipulations with Germany i! is but jast that the largest portion of the indemnity should fall upon the authors of the war, . The “reds” mean by this that they intend to have their revenge upon the Imperialists, the pro- perly holders of Paris and France who sup- ported the Napoleonic governmeut, whereby these sans culvites for twenty years at tho bayonet's point were kept upon their good be- havior. Of course all these things are operat- ing in Paris and throughout France to produce a reaction among the property holders and men of capital and active business pursuits in favor of the empire and the strong mailed hand of Napoleon. No doubt the ex-Emperor and Empress, in their secure retreat at Chiselhurst, England, in discussing these anarchical scenes in Paris, find in them not only a strong vindica- tion of tho empire before the world, but a strong hope of aa early restoration, This im- pression widely prevails, and all the circum- stances of the situation seem to justify it, Still we apprehend that the fearful losses and crushing humiliations to France result- ing from the disasters of Weissenburg, Woerth, Mars-la-Tour, Gravelotte, Beau- mont, Sedan, Strasbourt and Metz have left an impression too deep upon the people of France to reconcile them to the restoration of the Bonapartes. We know not, however, what France may be driven io as a choice of evils to escape the horrors of anarchy. We can only hope that every day gained by M, Thiers againet the Puris ‘reds” is a gala in behalf of law end order, and a strong and stable government acceptabie to the great body of the French people. The Bantam Republics of ‘ai | By telegram from Kingston, Jamaica, we have later advices from Panama, and leara, | without surprise, that Honduras bas formally declared war against Salvador. These wars and revolutions of the bantam republics of Central and South America are becoming amusing. They used to he looked upon in 8 serious light, but they have become so thoroughly farcical that we cannot hear of them without a smile. They are attended with so much bombast, so much fuss and feathers, and the results are so insignificant that they are herdly worth recording, We have not cared to examine closely into the cause of this war in order to determine which is the injared party, but are content to let them fight it out until one or the other or both are tired of the spori, and give it up in order to let some of their neighbors have a chance, Tae other republics of Central America may be drawn into the war, and we should not ba sur- prised if they were, Then they will be happy, for they will all be in ‘‘a muss” together, and they can have a good time generally, We learn, also, thet a new President of Nicaragua was recently inaugurated, avd that immedi- ately theréal a revolutionary party (ried to turn him ont ef power, but were not success. ful. In Colombia the revolationary party was ineeting with success in the State of Boyaca; and so it goes on, a never ending war, a con- tinual riot, a perpetual scene of anarchy j and bloodshed, with no strong Power to step in and give them all a good sound thrashing and make them keep the peace. Why should these mongrel republics be permitted longer uproar and confusion? This is a question that it is high time to answer, We can see no reason why they should not be cautioned and warned that further disturbances will not be permitied. A stroug notification of this char- acter would serve every purpose and maintain peace and tranquillity. Tae Woxperrut Penicious INFLuesce oF 1HE HexaLp.—An evening contemporary takes note of the fuct that the Hon, Benjamin Disraeli, while awaiting at St. George's chapel, Windsor, the royal party, was carn- estly engaged in reading the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England; and our philosophical neighbor thinks that os Mr, Disraeli was never known to do such a thing before, he must have been brought to this roligious frame of miad “by the rays of our dazzling religious contemporary, the Huratp,” We are strongly inclined to think so too, hear- ing in mind the great s@nsation created tn England some time ago by several of our editortal Sunday sermons on the Millennium, and ‘“‘the New Heaven and the New Marth,” and the “New Dispensation” which is coming, and ‘the Now {opuantem of Now York, Wiar Wr. tae Governor Do with the Pneumatic Tubg bill? All tho arguments aud objections which were held f be sound against the arcade railroad Jast year are good as against the pneumatic bore. The same pre to Broadway will follow from one as from the other; therefore we do not see how the Governor can discriminate {in the matter, If the arcade road was declared a nuisance what is the pneumatic ratlroad ? America. | to keep tiat part of the world in a state of THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET ‘The Emporor Wiliinm’s Speech from tho Throne of Charlemagne. Tho fpoech delivered by the Emperor William on the eve of his seventy-third birth- day, fa the North German Parliament, must, not merely from its intrinsle merits, but from’ all the atiendant circumstances and surround- ings, be ragarded as the specch of the period. First of all, the spooch was d2livered from the throne of Charlemagne, a chair identified with Roman finperlalism in the West for many centuries and which, up uatil the sixteenth century, when the Holy Roman Empire be- came, nominally at least, the inheritance of the House of Hapsburg, and which the Empe- ror William, with a ‘skilfulness not ynworthy of the occasion, has had transferred from Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) to Berlin. Secondly, the speech takes it for granted that the Gorman empire, anciently the Holy Roman Empire, is once more a fact and in trath more a fact than ever, All through his speech the Emperor shows that he thinkd no longer of Prussia as Prussla, but of Germany as Germany, of which ho is the unquestioned chief, Tho war has been so conducted that glory fg the resalt, but the glory is to be shared as much by Bavaria as by Saxony, as much by Wurtemberg as by Hanover, as much by Baden as by Saxe-Coburg. The war brings indemnity in the shape of money, but all the States of Germany must benefit by the distribution. The war has realized all the German dreams of tha past; it has mado Ger- many a unit; but the German empire, the Parliament Is plainly told, mast be defended, preserved and honored by Germany. Thirdly, Germany has her missioa in Europe and the world, and although the Emperor's specch is not so explicit on this point as on the others we have mentioned, it is not difi- cult to gather from it that German modesty is henceforward to cease. The success of Ger- many is a guarantee for peace, but it is also a good reason for German seli-confidence. We are not disposed to exaggerate, but we cannot conceal from ourselves the fact that the re. moval of the throne of Charlemagne from Aachen to Berlin (a wicked spoliation in itself considered), means the re-establishment of an empire in Europe which shall know no rival. Russia must now march eastward, S:weden and Denmark will find it convenient to recog- nize the Teutonic empire and all the Southern peoples will submit to dictation, The ‘“‘streak of silver sea” cuts England off from the Con- tinent and leaves her to follow out her career aga grand Asiatic Power. We have entered upon a new era. The Emperor William’s speech from the throne of Charlemagne, of Otho the Great, of the Ked-bearded Fredorio, marks its commencement, Conzvoss Yesterday--iiu Klux Logisixtion. After a very exciting discussion yesterday, in which Messrs. Blair and Pool made faces at one another ond otherwise acted vory naughtily, the Senate passed Mr. Anthony's resolution to limit legislation altogether to the Kn Kiux and the Deficiency Appropriation bill, which latter fousd its way into tho resolution as an amendment. In fact, the resolution had hardly been bronght ont for the first vote before ff was plerced by amendments from ail sides, Cool repeal clanses were flu and Missour salt repeal and gencral nesty clauses from South Carolina; civil rights me 8 from Massachosetis; an in- come tax abolishment measure from Califor- nia; an internal revenue proposition from New Jersey, and a tariff reform amond- ment from Maryland, were all hurled pellmell at the unsuspecting Anthony. Bat none of them lefs their mark upon Anthony’s resolution except the De- ficiency Appropriation bill, which had to be passed under any circumstances, The others fell unnoticed. The resolution was then agreed to by a vote of 36 against 18, and the untiring Senators set to work at once discussing anti- Ku Klux imeasures for the Sonth—a subject which they had thoroughly exhausted in their discussions on the measure just passed. In- deed, these indefatigable public servants have been siuce the early part of tho month arguing abont the Ku Klux on the gnestion of whether or not ii was worth while to argne about tho Ka Klux. Now that they have discovered that it is worth while, no doubt they will coa- tinue to spin out the well-worn thread. There is nothing of interest going on in tho Honse, There are no committees, and with- out these compasses and rudders of legi tion the big unwieldly Housa floats aro’ aimlessly and na lessly, like an old hulk at soa, Scienti Pes. We have frequently mentioned the encour- aging fact that the lecture season which is now drawing to a close has been characterized by epecial efforts on the part of lecturers and committees to popularize the results of modern science. Some of the ablest of our college professors beve heartily seconded this move- ment in the right direction. Perbaps none of these learned men has personally done more at once to stimulate and to satisfy the thirst of the public for scientifie knowledge than Pro- feasor R. Ogden Doremus, who will deliver to- night, in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the third lecture in his course on the “‘Agreement Bo- tween the Mosaie and Scientific Accounts of the Histories of Oreation.” Among the experl- ments by which Dr. Doremns is to illustrate the correlation of light, heat, electricity, mog- netism and power will be that famous and beautiful experiment, the revolution of a globe of oi!, which has been so often tried in Ame- rica by other chemists, byt never successfully carrigd out excopt by himself, Like Orfila and other celubrated chemists, Dr. Doremus is enthusiastically devoted to music, as well as to science, and it is doubtless at bis sugges- tion that Mr. @. W. Morgan, the skilful or- ganist, had volunteered to précede the lectures of the ex-President of the Phillyrmonic Societ; with “apprdprials elections from 1 aydn’s “Creation.” Hach evening thus offers a feast for the ear ag well as the eye and the mind, rooklyo 45. city of schools, no less than of churches, and it is not strange that the scien- lific lectures at the Tabernacle attract crowds of iis most refined and intellectual citizens, Prorer Drainaar for the city is the import of a bill introduced in the State Senate yester- day, There are very few things upon which a little timely legislation could be better ex- pended, We sadly need. an improvement in our sewerage and drainage system, ag at it from Ohio and Illinois | o ane oe The Annexntion of St. Doimluzor By telegram from Key West we learn that the Tennessee, with the Commissioners, will leave that port to-day and will call off Savan~ nab to land her distinguished passengers, who. will proceed to Washington by rail in order to present their report at the earliest moment. It is stated fa Washington that republicar Senators have expressed the opinfan that if the subject of annexstion is brought up now it will be defeated in the Senate, It iz also said that Bon Wade has weliten a private letter to a friend, in which he soys that {¢ must be acted upon at once or else the probabilities are that Baez will be turned out by the revo- lutionary party. The President, although not desirous of pressing the subject at present, by reason of the doubtful success of bis pet pro- ject, may be compelled to do so by force of cir- cumstances, If go we shell probably have the question before Congress during fhe com- ing week, The more light that is thrown cpom the matier of annexing the republic of Do-~ minica the darker the picture locks. Baes has been held in his office for some time past because the United Siates forces will not per- mit him to be molzeted by the revolutionary. party, and if we desire to get possession of him, his territory, his people, hia debts and tho other li matters that wiil go with him, we must take him at onee, or clse, in spite of the iastructions to our novel authori'les in the Gulf, Luperon, Cabral aud their commands will end the maiter by cowpelling Mr. Baea to leave for a more healthy clime, and ina very summary manner reject a closer rela. tionship with ihe Usited We do not think that Ce i3 will be apt to saddle tha country with St. Domingo until the whole affair reecives duo ani most careful considera+ tion, States, Governor EF ows Conviction. We publish this morniog a epectal despate’s from Raleigh, North Carolina, announcing the conviction of Governor Holden by the Stato Senate. From the time the trial, which hag ed, began, the impression pre- the accused official had no chanca of obtaining a verdict of acquittal, and tha result has not disappointed public expectation. What has surprised us is the announcement that some of tho republican Senators voted for conviction, while some of the democrats voted to acquit. Unless this was prearranged it relieves the conviction from the charge of partisanship and gives it’something more thaa a semblance of impartiality. And it musi be said that while the evidence brought forward by Governor Holden exhibited a deploratte state of affuirs in North Cavolina, which must have provoked him to arbitrary acts, it is none the less true that the evidence against him developed the most shock'ng bratality om the part of tis subordinates, his responsibility, for which is doubiless the cause of his cons viciion. The sentenco of Governor Hotden is exs ceedingly severe. Ife is not only deposed from oMice, but he is declared forever iacligible to offices of emolument and trust. Thus, by a singular reversion of fortune, the ex-Governor finds himself more absolately disfranchised t ny of the ex-rebel leader: whose rehabilitation in their politi Lrixhis and privileges so stroauously opposed. | It is a notewor fact, alse, that Governot Holden is the first chief magistrate of a Stata in this republic found guilty on articles of im peachment and subjected to the fall ponaliy of the law, To many it may appear that tha provocation he received atoned in part for his offences, but it is a mistaken public policy which punishes evil doing with evil doing; aud, though the precedent furnished by Gova ernor Holden’s conviction is most regretabls,! if it teaches other Governors a lesson off moderation and forbearanes it will be produce tive of some good to the peace and quiet of 4 the country. In conclusion, itis to be hoped! that now Governor Holden has been put cufi of the way the Ku Klux Klan and other dig orderly and ruflianly characters of North Carolina will give their State tranquility, and ging in murderous occupations has arr at tbe Brevoort Hiouse. General Myer, of the quarters at tho f Avent Governor Price, of New Jersey, 1 sojouraing at), the St. James Ho ) A.D, Barbour, of Titusville, N. Y., is temporarily at the Hofman House, \ Colonel Oimsted, of Connecticut, and Colone! D, S. Dexter, of Rhode Island, are at the Metropolitaw Hotel. Mr. 4. G. Watson, President! of the French Gavia Company, 13 among the arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel, } Jutge GM, Johnson, of South Carolina, ts tempo rarily at the Grand Central Hotel. General William G. Ely, of Connecticut, is quars , tored at the Fitth avenue Hotel, i General Willams is stopping at the St. Jamcs Hotel. ry Mr. Harrison Tweed, of Taunton, Mass., 15 at tha’ Filth Avenne ilotel on a brief visit. ) General J. H, Martindale, of Rochester, is at the Hoifman House, H Mr. Hugh Allen, one of the members of the Mon- treal Occan Steamship Company, has arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel, AMUSEMENTS. NiLsson’s FAREWELL CoNcERT.—Perhaps during! the entire grand successful season of Nilsson there never was a house more crowded and more fashions able than that which received her with the warmest, appreciation at Steinway Hall last night. The r ne resentatives of the highest class of New? York society were there to endorse by thet m which the des. goutatylo 1g held. Nilsson wis ig ent yoscd; the etd of fatigue whic! J hoticeabie since her return from the West,, epee phe had to struggle a little against hare ravel and a femporary Lliness, were not noticeabi Jast nignt. Sheleoked more lovely than ever, and gs Lappy ag a cheerful jnind end a éoigoiial aut due could make ne ‘ She rendered fame lavorite catalina “Prayiata,” “Toj ith hex Hea tei @ i gad delieac ot Eee Tha ‘Migerer yh sProyal 5 prigno! brotg at tho fitted ot the ana ence ronal ioh Ted neore, Mjss Carey, whose delights Ft Voie oh ease of execution catty a charm i * 2 tuem, sustained herself splendidly in the aria frou “Dinorah,” Kathleen Mavourneen, "which she san; 1n résponso to an encore, and the duet from "I'rova- tore,” with the accomplished tenor, who, aithoug’y not in as good volce a3 wo have sometimes hea him, sang divinely, a8 he was in duty bound to d to such a house, ‘Jo say that Vieuxteaips, te gveal master of the violin, kept the audience entrance by the exquisite playing of his own com} ositions would be but to repeat what must be sald of hink upon all occasions, Mlle, Nilsson will sing at a fare? Well matinee on Saturday, and will conclude tig oncert season In these parts at tne Acadony 0 uso, tn Brooklyn, on Monday evening. From here she will go to Philadelphia, Boston and other counts try places, where sho will no doubt renew the 4 we hus wet ber eyery where in the proviact

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