The New York Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1871, Page 9

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 187L—QUADRUPLE SHEET. thurch in the same city, which Rav. Dr. B. M. Adams vacated to go to Fleet street church. The Rev. 8. H Platts bids adieu to the latter. Rev. D. O. Ferris is going from Dekalb ave- aue and ©. E. Glover from Nostrand avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Mr. Ham- mond, at present filling an appointment in ‘Connecticut, will succeed Mr. Glover, and Dr. ‘Chapman, of Boston, is expected to succeed ‘Dr. Andrews at St. John’s, The Rev. A, H. Mead, of Green avenue Methodist Episcopal church, it is understood, is going to Connecti- cut, He'is one of the few wealthy ministers dn the denomination, who it is said takes the poorest charges that he may help them along, end not that they may help him. The Church and the Conference ought to have many such men. The spirit of the itineracy is wanting, though the form is still maintained among Methodists. Ministers and presiding elders now live within a charmed circle of their own, and it is not often that a new man can get inside. The churches in most cases choose their pastors long before the meeting of the Conference, so that the appointments by the bishops are little more than the public announcements of contracts previously made and ratified. Ministers and churches too are growing tired of such frequent changes, and they have already made two extensions to the term of the pastorate from one to three years, as it now is, and there are whispers of a further extension of the pastorate and the presiding eldership to four years, and a limitation of the bishopric to the same term, to meet the quadrennial sessions of the General Con- ferences, Time may develop those changes. Rents in New York and Brooklyn. In connection with the problem of future real estate values there is nothing more in- structive or interesting than the present con- dition of rents. To begin with, this, may be summarized and asserted with a calm con- sciousness of certainty that could disregard even M. Ollivier’s early restrictions against unaccomplished facts, the reverse of which grew too rapidly for him to keep track of, as exhibiting a very considerable decline in rental valuation. This, of course, indicates a corresponding decline in the value of the fee in B general senge, but there are particular in- ptances in which the relation is not wholly Jogical to the strictly financial mind. Rents, * ike everything else during the war, were abnormally disturbed. Indeed it is probable ‘that the excitement in this respect was one of tthe principal causes of the largely advanced figures of improved realty following that period. The movement in this respect was greatest near the close of the war, when several ‘Nattalions of brigadiers, colonels and majors jhad left sorrowing and impecunious relicts be- jhind them. Of course it was impossible that these could impair the distinguished memory of the dear departed by any less honorable employment than that of keeping a fashionable boarding house. Thus there was an immediate demand for first class houses in first class Jocalities, where rent was no object, of course. The lessee was generally introduced, fn weeds, as the widow of General ——, killed fin the service of his country ; relict of Colonel So-and-so, who led such and such a storming party, and died, fighting nobly ; or the sur- ‘viving partner of Major Roe, who commanded @ brigade in the Wilderness, and was killed at ithe head of his troops. Under such circum- stances it was impossible to be severe. Cash could not be insisted on; patriotic feeling pre- vented it; so the rent was marked up. Seven or eight thousand dollar houses thus readily found tenants, the average widow be- ing generally quite incapable of calculating a year’s possible expenses and being extrava- gantly hopeful of making a fortune. Sometimes this rent was paid—at the incep- tion of the movement it largely was—but of jiate years there has been such a general fall- dng off in stepping up to the captain’s office to settle that landlords are not so anxious to let jto that class of tenants who promised such Jarge rentals. It is all very well to let a house at eight or ten thousand dollars a year, if you have your rent assured; but if at the end of three months, say, your tenant becomes bankrupt nd can’t pay, and the house is left on your jhands for,three or four months, it were better fto let for six or seven thousand dollars, with security for the prompt payment of the rent. . ‘Things ain't now as they used to was,” as they say in one of the burlesques of the period ; sconsequently these high rents are not paid. , Another reason for a decline in rents is }the small profit derived from business during the past year. Mr. Boutwell has paid off in that period something over one hun- gred million dollars of the public debt, But'this one hundred millions represents pre- cisely that amount taken from the business profits of the country, a portion of which, if passed to private bank accounts, would doubt- Jess have contributed to swell the rental value ‘of our property here, as affording the oppor- ‘tunity for more free expenditure than our aerchants are now capable of. . The actual decline in rents may safely be down as follows:—Seven, eight or ten thousand dollar houses are without quotation ‘and landlords are very glad to receive offers. In the case of houses renting last year for ‘$5,000, $3,800 to $1,000 is readily taken now. Houses that rented last year for $4,000 can be got this year for $3,200 to $3,500. Last year's $3,000 houses are quoted this spring at $2,000 to $2,200. Houses renting easily last year for $2,000 can be had this year for $1,700 to $1,800, and last year’s $1,800 houses now at $1,500 to $1,600. Leaving what is known as high priced houses, a very different and exceptionable con- dition is found to prevail in respect ta small ‘houses, which, this year, are in demand, and, wing to their scarcity in good localities and in good condition, command a premium. ‘Thus this class of houses that rented last year ‘at from $800 to $1,200, if not too far up tewn, ean this year command an advance. These houses are few, however, and do not affect the general rent market, which exhibits an un- mistakably downward tendency. The same is trae of Brooklyn. Landlords there, are still trying to hold up old figures, puttenants as a rule recognize manifest destiny too clearly, Thus there lias been very little let- ling thus far this year, The fact is there are very few houses in the rent market worth taking hold of in Brooklyn except awav out on the avenues or in South Brooklyn, to get to which car travel is a necessity, Now, as car travel in New York, with all its embarrassments, is much pleasanter than car travel in Brooklyn— which, by the way, stops virtually in the latter city at half-past eleven—it is more cheerful in many respects to live up town in New York than in the back parts of Brooklyn. The con- venient houses in our dormitory sister are for the most part old and dilapidated, and no landlord with any consciousness of glaring facts could ask the same rent for these houses this year as last, The moral of all this will be readily drawn that property in New York and Brooklyn has gone down. Soit has, as a current quality of value. The bridge for a time galvanized Brooklyn property into a certain sort of activ- ity, but assessments and taxes and the Duteb Mayor's messages soon killed that ; and as the bridge is now, upon later knowledge, generally regarded as a doubtful experiment, it helps but little to sustain values which are equally uncertain and unreliable. In spite of all, however, we hold to this position, that to a strong capitalist real estate in New York or its environs is unrivalled as a safe, permanent investment. In conclusion, we may remark that there is a general disposition on the part of landlords to make all reasonable concessions to present tenants to induce them to remain, This is significant, Our Religious Press Table. The religious press this week, we must frankly say, is dreadfully dull. It contains but little news, and even that little is told in the most tedious and disagreeable manner possible, Lent, we know, is the serious sea- son of the year, . but religious editors should not show its sombre influence too palpably. Then the leading articles, with one or two ex- ceptions, are dreary webs of played out com- monplaces. It is not too much to say that the entire religious press this weck does not con- tain a baker’s dozen of original ideas. We regret to be forced to speak so strongly, but we are spurred on to perform our painful duty by the memory of half a dozen hours of the most dreary drudgery we have lately had to en- counter. We have just waded through our ecclesiastical exchanges, and we feel as glad to emerge from the depths of this literary pur- gatory as Orpheus was to escape from the realms of Pluto. The Independent defines its position on the duty of self-denial. It says the Son of Man came eating meat and drinking wine, and boldly avows its opinion that it is well to imi- tate Him in these as well as in other respects. Tilton croons forth a dismal two column leader in the Golden Age about the “Golden Hour of the Democratic Party.” Everthing is golden with Tilton, In the same paper there is, how- ever, a timely article on the now notorious Voysey decision in the English Episcopal Church. True to its millennial title and in- stincts, the Age calls loudly for a restoration of peace in the Christian sheepfolds. This is a pleasing dream ; but from the very beginning the Church has had to struggle against intes- tine strife, and a louder voice than Tilton’s is needed to still the waves of dogmatic contro- versy. This same Voysey decision is also dis- cussed by the Observer, and is made the peg on which to hang some very bitter strictures upon the Ritualists, whose ‘fantastic cere- monials,” it says, are ‘‘entitled to the same measure of respect” as the ‘freaks and fancies of a body of Bedlamites.” The Observer also calls for a special spell of praying for the ben- efit of the Joint High Commission. Fancy the Commission dragged, nolens volens, before the Throne of Grace, enwrapped in the perfumed incense of collective supplication and smoth- ered with the pious entreaties of the entire American Church! The Hvangelist alludes in conscious accents of ‘‘indignant abhorrence” to Mike Norton’s bill about the Children’s Aid Societies. Mike is described as floating in the “lower deep” of political corruption. The St. Louis Christian Advocate also has a fling at this same piece of prospective legislation. It gives the Baptists particular fits; but “the grasping Romanists” natur- ally come in for the lion’s share of invec- tive. The Christian Standard, of Cincin- nati, has a really religious editorial—of the highly religious length of two columns and a half—on baptism for the remission of sins. The Standard believes that the blood of Christ, and not water baptism, is the one thing need- ful to salvation. The article is a model of controversial polemics—tolerant and yet of decided tone, calm and conciliating, without slurring over the points of dispute. The Hpiscopal Methodist of Balti- more has a kindly article about Old England and analyses the causes of American dislike of our cousins with the Cockney lisp and mution- chop whiskers. It thinks that England has done well to avoid being drawn into the Franco-Prussian duel and that she has gained strength by this pacific course. The Methodist, however, would do well to give a great deal more religious news and discussion and a great deal less weak political twaddle and bun- combe. The Jewish press is, as usual, genial, tole- rant and kindly in its tone. The Messenger has an article on the duty of nineteenth cen- tary Israelites which enshrines a noble concep- tion of the mission of the chosen people, The Times also has a seasonable paper on ‘‘Woman Suffrage,” in which the high position assigned by Judaism to “lovely woman” is defended and applauded. The Situation in Ireland. The Heratp special correspondence from Dublin, which appears in our columns to- day, attests the fact that Ireland remains agitated and distracted to the very core. Her people, ever fervent in their religious faith, appear to seek quiet with a bumble content- ment. This they do not find under English rule. The classes are consequently antago- nistic—the governing power repressive, the inhabitants defiant of its authority. Inter- mediate between the two are numbers of men—tenants who have been dispossessed of their holdings and pauperized—who associate in their wretchedness and sorrow in the darkness of agrarian combination against the law and in opposition to what the landlords term the ‘‘rights of property.” The malcon- tents assert that they have already expe- rienced the full of the ‘‘rights” and that they now demand to know something of the ‘‘duties of propertv” as thev were officially provounded by the late Mr. Drummond years ago from Dublin Castle. Major O’Reilly, the ‘‘hero Spoleto” in the Papal army, has given forcible expression to the feeling and home wants of the Irish in his place in Parliament ; so that the Gladstone Cabinet has the ‘Irish diffical- ty” before it in all its intensity, just as it presented to the late Sir Robert Peel. Thus are we informed, specially and again, by the European mail that Ireland remaing irrecon- cilable to the plan of British government in the Island. The Tartuflos of Methodism. Now let the licentious playgoer tremble. Dancers, ballgoers, calico hoppists, private partyists, quake; you are on the verge of being blasted by a bolt of Methodist pulpit thunder. Innocent girl, with garlanded hair, stepping daintily in white satin chaussure upon the floor of your father’s salon, every pace you take is eighteen inches more or less nearer to perdition. Exquisite Emilius of the centre-parted hair, swallow-tail and patent- leathers, your daintily curled mustache of glossy black should wilt to the whiteness of your snowy necktie did you but know how, at every glance upon the fair girl by your side, your immortal soul is blackened with guilt. You know it not; then learn. We sing the song of cant, of undying, irre- pressible cant. It is no new song, and yet not so very old. It is chiefly sung through the nose. There is cant in every profession, but head and shoulders over all stands religious cant. Itis with the latest outburst of this holy hypocrisy that we propose to deal. Ages ago there was Romish cant; centuries ago there was Puritan cant; now it is the Metho- dist variety of the same article. In the days of le grand monarque Molitre was much exercised over the cant of the period, and, with a courage worthy of the HERALD, wrote a certain witty play called “Le Tartuffe,” or, the hypocrite. He attacked Romish cant right and left, and it has never recovered from the blow since. There was a big fight, however, for the long-hatted, black- gowned gentry of the day had the play driven for some time from the stage. It is curious to read in his apology nowadays how he implores and conjures them with all his heart ‘“‘not to condemn things before secing them; to rid themselves of all prejudices, and not to wait on the passions of those whose grimaces dishonor them.” There was much humor for the masses in it, but the tartuffes could not laugh at the joke. The play was played notwithstanding, and the risibilities of generations have been tickled ever since. On the Protestant side cant has held a sway which no amount of satire can wholly scourge out of it. Swift, in his celebrated ‘‘Tale of a Tub,” goes for it. It was Calvinism then; but his description of Jack, who could not eat or drink or do anything else without a Scrip- ture phrase, fits exactly on the canters of to- day. These things happened in the seventeenth century; so let ns skip over a couple of hun- dred years and drop into the midst ofa Method- ist Conference which took place last week in New York city. John Wesley, with his cocked hat, is nearly a century in paradise; but Dr. William H. Ferris, Presiding Elder of New York, is sitting under the lank shadow of his picture which hangs on the wall. Arouesd him are the luminaries of the urban pulpit, and the dance as a Christian institution is be- foré the house. Brother Gorse, with his six feet of corpulent hamanity, looks meek asa tame elephant over his shaven upper lip and close-cropped beard, as he rises to re~ mark that ‘“‘all these things are sinful. He was never ina theatre, could not dance (this was almost needless), couldn’t play chess, cards or checkers, but was compelled, on his experience as a pastor, to liberally.condemn them all. O my brethren in Wesley! when once a church member has seen a play he or she will not listen toa sermon.” It might be interesting to have learned whether it was the fault of the sermon or the play. There are those who would say that Gorse, this wild flower of Methodism, ran a church which was a comfortable place to sleepin. Pious, tall and thin Brother Smith acknowledged an equal ignorance of what he was talking about and came down heavy on the dance. A hush broods over the sorrowing assemblage as Brother Schaffer, of the Five Points Mission, rises to his feet and says he does not go to the theatres, nor does hsmoke or chew tobacco, yet he did not consider it very wrong for people to dance in their homes, He himself had danced with his two sons and daughters, and could see no harm init, The picturo of the venerable Schaffer floating about in the mazy waltz or hopping a peri- patetic polka fleated in horror before the eyes of the Conference and made stout Dr. Ferris bounce up from his chair like a cannon ball on the ricochet. He could not stand it any longer, he said. ‘‘What will the world think of us, when a minister publicly acknow- ledges his criminally saltatory conduct ? How,, “brethren, can we condemn from the pulpit what we do in our own homes?” We can fancy how the capering Schaffer shuddered ; but he found strength to plead the super- vision of parents as a palliation. Shud- der after shudder attested the weakness of the excuse. The last shudder shook little wiry old Dr. De Vinne off his chair and put him on his feet. He had been in the ministry sixty-two years and never heard of such a thing. There was a terrible laxity everywhere when such a thing were possible. One after another, we learn, did the pious brothers pelt the devoted Schaffer with the hard-boiled eggs of Wesleyism. Last of all came an angel, with a half-moon face, and, if the phrase may be permitted, a ‘Methodist comedian.” When he takes the floor he gives the knowing wink of a man who bas been there. His name is Wood. He was, formerly a sailor, then a printer, and in his unreformed past generally came under the genus ‘‘b'hoy.” We can fancy how he gazed at Sehaffer; he felt he had him in his power— Then he gave @ hitch to his trousers, which Is a (rick all seamen larn, And, having got rid of a thumping quid, fle spun bis paintul vara. “] have been to the Old Bowery, brethren; I was at the Old National; 1 was in dance houses, and I know that theatre-going and @ancing are immoral, not to say irreligious, in their tendencies. Fancy a man sweltering with voluptuousness, placing his arms around your daughter's waist and gazing upon her uncovered bosom, &.” O excellent Tartuife! it is the skies. not the hearta of men, that change. Who cannot seo how nobly Brother Wood could perform that scene at the Old Bowery or the Old National where Tartuife gives his handkerchief to Dorine lest his eyes should gaze upon her shapely shouldera—with what holy unction he could speak the lines, For such are the objects which wound man’s soul And culpable thoughts to his bosom uproll ? But enough of this reformed Bowery “b’hoy.” Let us get, if possible, at the inner thought of this canting asceticism. They may quote inap- plica le texts from St. Paul till their vocal chords are relaxed beyond redemption, but what does it all amount to? Simply that church members are lax when sermons are in- sufferably dull. They will not see it in this light, and we may expect to hear the long line from Tartuffe to Chadband thunder at them- selves and hurl hell, without limit, on their copgregations fora few weeks to come, while a pensive world will marmur, itt the phrase of the day, “We know how it is ourselves,” Personal Intolligence. General Garrtt Smith, of Geneva, N. the arrivais at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. W. C. Smith, member of Congress of Vermont, 18 sojourning at the Brevoort House, Jacob Sharp, of Kome, N. Y., 18 temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General R. F. Stockton, of New Jersey, has arrived at the St. James’ Hotel, Coionel J. F, Barrett, of Albany, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, AMUSEMENTS, Mean Geh Annan NILSSON’S FAREWELL MaTINgeE.—Steinway Hall was a parterre of beauty and fashion yesterday, when the Swedish Nightingale took her leave of those who were the first to welcome her to the shores of America and to start her on that career of triumph which has had nothing to equal it here. In another week the hundredth right of her engagement with Strakosch will arrive, and then it is @ matter of doubt whether the indomitable Max or Jarrett (her agent) will have the sole control of her movements. A few days, however, will decide this point, and, at all events, she will be the reigning star in opera next season. She was in splendid voice yesterday, and sang the “Ah ! forse lui,” the fuale of the first act of “Tra- viata,” with a dramatic fervor and passion that carried her hearers by storm. Her greatest success was tn the garde: ene from “Faust,” in which she sang and acted “The King of Thule” and “The Jewel Song” in a style that made all sigh for the time when they can see her as the Gretchen immor- talized by Goethe and Gounod. In the second part of the concert she contributed two selections from “The Marriage of Figaro,’ the same as she sang on ‘Tuesday night last. res were tumuituously de- manded after each selection, and she responded with “Home, Sweet Home," “Old Folks at Home,”'a Swedish song and a French chansonette. Miss Cary sang an aria from ‘‘Dinorah,”’ and seemed to pe suffering from indisposition. Brignoli divided the honors with the diva, and outshone himself in the “Beltsario” duet with Verger and an aria from “The Star of the North.” Vieuxtemps played his Magnificent Polonaise, a standard work in violin literature, with that artistic finish for which he 1s so celebrated. He also played an obligato toa baritone arta, ‘J’amie,”’ which was given by Verger with unusual effect and expression. Alto- getner the fareweil of this unrivalled concert troupe and their distinguished cantatrice was worthy of the occasion, the metropolis and art. It will be lon; before such a concert company cau be assemble together, so complete and so great in ensemble and detatl. BowEry THEATRE—‘“‘ON HAND.'—Sensation 13 piled upon sensation at the Old Bowery, making Ossa like a wart, ‘The effects that startle women and make young girls turn pale with afright crowd upon one another like the heels of ballet dancers in the new drama of “On Hand,” while the merrier and more soothing scenes, in which Johnny Thomp- son dances his seven jigs, sing Nis six songs and plays on his twenty different musical instruments, garnisi. the startling edifice of sensation like a wreath of evergreen upon a winter wali or the sparkle of a diamond upon a bony hand. ‘On Hand” has proven atrump card for the management—a right bower for the Bowery. Standing room only will doubtless remain the standing order as long as the piece lasts. Tne management stand ib BORN: Freligh enjoys it freely. The money boxes are full, and even the real rain water fails to dampen the ardor,of the treasurer, CONSERVATORY CONCERT.—A very interesting concert, the third of the season, came of on Wednesday evening at the Conservatory of Music in Brooklyn. The pupils and professors of the schooi participated with much credit. The Messrs. Mollen- hauer and Professors Arnold, Bruchausen, Eisner ‘Bnd Miller gave considerable force to the entertain- ment. Some of the piano performances by the ad- vanced students were admirable. Notable among them was the rendering of a valse brillante ef Wol- lennaupt’s on two pianos by Miss Ella Lyons and Miss Lena Heisenbuttel—the former a beautiful bru- nette and the latter a blonde of the purest type. The execution was perfect, and the young ladies themselves looked as though they could muster the instruments in much higher works of art. The hall was crowded with many of the most distin- guished people in Brooklyn, who heartily applauded the performers. RAILROAD MATTERS, The Pennsylvania Central Railroad Com- pany—Reorganization of Its Leased Roads West of Pittsburg. CHIcaGo, March 25, 1871. The reorganization of the railroads west of Pitts- burg, leased by the Pennsylvania Central Company, does not seem to be correctly understood. The fol- lowing statement is by an officer of the organiza- tton:— The number of miles of road in the West exceed 2,000, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company pro- poses to relieve the working of its central organiza- tion, at Philadelphia, and delegate to a separate corporation the immediate supervision and manage- ment of its properties west of bes 2 The legal ttle of this new corporation is “The Pennsylvania Company.” It is chartered by the State of Penn- sylvania. Its capital stock consists of:—Preferred is among stock, $8,000,000; common stock, $4,000,00p; total, $12,000,000, ‘The’ $8,000,000 of ’ preter stock is heid and is to be held permanently by the Pennsylvania Raitroad Company. This amount of new capital stock, in consideration of which the above ratlroad interests of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company were transferred, March 1, to the Pennsylvania Company, covers fully all the expenai- tures of the parent company in this connection. The $4,000,000 of common stock Is aiso held by the Penn- sylvania Ratlroad Company, who may sell it at par whenever from time to time such use of it may be found expedient. All the profits of the operation of the new organization during 1871, after meeting the obligatious of the lines leased, are to be used by the Pennsylvania Company in perfecting and equtp- Ping the roads transferred to tt. After 1871, 1b13 claimed, the preference shares of this company will Yield at least six per cent on their par value. ‘these works, a8 a whole, now yield net revenues more than suflicient to meet the interest upon all the obligations assumed for the Pennsyl- vania Ratlroad Company in taking possession of the properties west of Pittsburg, while the operations of the sinking fund of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Com- pany, the terms of which have been faithfally com- plied with, and the semi-annual amount to be charged to the running expenses will pay off the whole of ita mortgage debt of $13,563,000 before the bonds are due. ie management of this Pennsyl- vania Company hus been placed by the company tn the hands of seven directors, as has already been announced. New Railroad Enterprise in Ohio. CLEVELAND, March 25, 1871. A spirited meeti® of the stockholders of the Lake Shore and Tuscagawas. Valley Railroad was held yesterday and mine directors elected, sufficient capital having been subscribed to authorize an or- ganization. The new enterprise bids fatr for suc- cess. It will open up the great coal flelds of Ohio, The road will extend from Tuscarawas county “through Stark, Medina and Cuyahoga counties to Cleveland, a distance of about eighty miles. The Memphis and Selma Railroad. MEmMpuis, Tenn., March 25, 1871, The Little Rock Railroad nas been completed to White River Bridge, over which it will be finished iu two weeks. A vote in this city to-day for subscription by the county of half a million dollars to the Memphis and Selma Railroad resuited:—For subscription, 4,611; against it, 366. The vote in the county was light, but decidedly against the measure. Two-thteds are required to Carry it, but the friends of tne railroad are sanguine of success. DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. At three o’clock yesterday afternoon, as Jonn Dunn, of No. 20 College piace, was returning from a bank with $900 tn his possession, an unknown man met him at the top of the second Might of stairs and lit him on the buck of the head with a saad bag, but not with suficieat force to render him hetpiess. Dunn raised an alarm, when his assailant (00k to ita heela 800 ubade Lis excave. ART NOTES. T. Addtson Richards, she amiable secretary of the Academy of Design, has selected one hundred of his palutings in landscape, fruit and flowers, and placed them on free exhibition at sho Somerville Art Gallery, where they will be sold without reserve on Wednesday evening, March 29, His summer wanderings for mnrany years throughout the Southera, Middle and Northern Stases and tn Canada, as well as his vistts to Bu. rope, have supplied him with ® great variety of studies, which he has worked up sto compositions evineing a decided preference for the beauties rather than the sublimities of nature, In No, 78, “A Quiet Nook,” the spectator finds the Keynote of the softer harmonies which manifestly delight she artist more than the whirlwind and the storm. “French Broad River, North Carolina;” “On the Ashley Raver, near Charleston, Soutn Caro- lina;” “The Brook Scene in Northern Geor- gia, “The Valley of Wyoming, Pennsyl- vania," “Summer Morning on the Susque- hannah,” “On the Hudson,” “Evening in the Adt- roudacks,” “Meadow Scene in New England,’’ “The Saguenay River, Canada,” ‘Twilight on Lake George,” in fact all his representations of American, as well as of English, German, Swiss and Italian Scenery, exhibit his fondness for the pleasing in form and color, He leaves to bolder pencils the entire reaim of the sensational. WILLIAM 8. MOUNT, Whose death occurred too soon for the full development of his powers, lived long enough to entitle himself to all the praises be- stowed upon him as “one of the tirst American painters to do justice to the humorous and genial phase of the negro character.” A collection has been made of the miscellaneous works which he left behind him, and they will soon be offered to the Public at an executor’s sale to take place in the Somerville Art Gallery, THe LADIES’ ART ASSOCIATION gave thetr third reception and exhibition at Cimon Hall yesterday atternoon. The exhibitions have, perhaps, been too frequent this season to permit the sixty mempers to be represented in 1ull force at auy one of them. A regular annual extubition might secure vhs de- siraple object, and, moreover, leave to each member ample’ time tor doing her very best werk. A catalogue would also be con- venient, especially for those visitors who wouid take pleasure in recording the names ol the artists and the tittes of their pictures. Among the princi- ae contributors to yesterday’s exhtbition were i. H, Remington, corresponding secretary of the association, C. V. Hamiiton and M. Kollock, Small as the collection was, it offered lighly encouraging signs of the successful future which awaits the cul- ture of art by American ladies. Mrs. C. V. HAMILTON, Whose earliest eftorts, both in 11 terature and art, have won for her the heartlest enco uragement trom leading spirits in the delightful American society at Kome, where she bas been studying uuttl recently, exhibited yesterday, at Clinton Hall, only three of her paintings. But these—a noble ana gracious head of the poet Long- fellow; a young girl, whose expression of pleasure in looking at @ bunch of violets 1s tempered with sadness by the thought that, like ry “thing of beauty,” a violet cannot be ‘a joy forever,” but must ere long fade; ahd a pretty Italian landseape— richly entitle the artist to her cordial welcome in the art circles of New York. Mr. F. &, CHURCH will exhibit this week at Gon- pil’s gallery, on Fifth avenue, lis new and splendid picture “Jerusalem.” Mr. W. H. Barb will shortly submit to the public his striking, original designs for the Portals of the projected Metropolitan Museum of art. Mr. H. A. Loop has just tnished “Inspiration,” which all who have seen it pronounce to be the best of his ideal works, Mr. Davip JOHNSON has nearly completed a pic- turesque view of the well known “Old Kate Bridge," on one of the highways leading from Rondout, in Ulster county. Mr. J. M. HART 13 at work on a large canvas, to represent “Winter in the Adirondacks."’ Mr. CONSTANT MAYER is busy on a carefally stu- died interior, a remimiscence of ‘A Village School in Besangon, France. Mr. JOHN RogERS has completed “Rip Van Winkle,” the first of his statuette groups, to which we lately alluded, in illustration of Je! rns matchless tmpersonations of the hero of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Mr. EDWARD MoRAN, whose admirable collection entitled by him ‘Sea and Land” is on exhibition in Philadeiphia for the benefit of the victims of the Franco-Prussian war, and 1s to be sold on March 30, will soon remove to New York. Foreign Art Items. QUEEN VicToRIA will open in person the Royal Hall of Arts and Sciences on the 29th of March. The new buildings are now fnished and are ready to re- ceive the works of the London International Exhibi- tion of 1871, which opens on Monday. ‘They will ac- commodate 60,000 persons. The Commissioners propose to make an International exhibition a per- manent Institution of the country, giving to indus- trial art the same opportunity that is afforded to fine art by the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy. Mr. POYNTER, says the A(henum, will probably contribute to the forthcoming exhivition of the Royal Academy his picture of a damsel atiached to the worship of Isis feeding the saered ibides before the great temple at Karnac. The columns of the edifice supply the background, with their vast shatts and bases, and are richly decorated in sculptural and colored hieroglyphics on the white stone. Sun- light falls.on the female figure, which Is aptly clad in the Egyptian mode, and posed with grace and spirit; it likewise falls between the enormous pil- lars, clheckermg the floor, and on the fine plumage of the birds, which are diversely designed and freely grouped. Professor RusKIN delivered the last of his lec- tures on landscape on Thursday, kebruary 23, in the Theatre of the Museum at Oxford, The sub- ject of it was “The Relation of Form to Color in the Greek and Gotnic Schools of Patnting.”’ A tall syn- opsisof the lecture was given in yesterday’s New ork Leader, Mr. Ruskin says that we may call the Greek and Gothic schools respectively the schools of orystal and of clay. The former 13 chiaroscurist, the latter colorist. The aim of the former is tranquil activity; it seeks to make the real and material which was before indefinite to see all things truly. The aim of the latter 1s passion- ate rest; it teaches to see ail things dimly. Again, he says, the coloring of the Greek school 1s essen- sentially sad. That of the Gothic is always cheerful; it assumes that all nature is lovely, and never paints change and decay, but oaly wha tis bright and healtntul and a fit object of our love. This is a defect of Gothic art, since it is impossible for Art to show a complete sympathy with humanity withous the memory or the present consciousness of pain. Tur LIVERPOOL TowN CouNcHL, has decided to open an exhibition of pictures in that town, which hus hitherto depended upon the picture dealers for such exhibitions, Many of the best London artists have promised their support. Two PHoTOGRAPHS, published by the London Ste- Teoscopic Company, are mentioned by the Graphic as interesting memorials of the seige of Paris. ‘The one 1s a reduced copy, a little more than an inch square, of the advertisement sheet of the 7tmes, which, on its arrival in Paris by Pigeon post, was magnified by means of a magic lantern and pro- jected on a screen. The other is a menu of a curious dinner given during the selge and at which the American Minister was present. Cats, dogs and os- triches figure im this bill of fare. FERRY REFORM IN WILLIAMSBURG, A large number of the citizens of Williamsburg assembed in the Town Hall last evening for the pur- pose of expressing their sympathy with the move- ment made tn the Legislature by Assemblyman Haver, to compel the Brooklyn Ferry Company to reduce their rates of ferrlage and run their boats more frequently tran at present. Alderman Raber presided. Mayor Kaibileisch addressed the meeting at length, He said thas he sympathized with tie movement, but had grave doubts m regard to the intentions of the members of the Legislature. He related an instance of his taking $20,000 to Albany tora similar purpose, and the legislators (through the agency of the “lobby’?) attempted to “beat”? him out of the whole sum by promising to pass the bill for that amount. But they failed to do so, be- cause Thurlow Weed, whom the Ferry Company had previously “seen,” told him positively that the Gov- ernor would veto the bill if it was passed. Notwith- standing these discouraging remarks the meeting appointed a committee to circulate petitions in favor of Assemblyman Haver’s bill. BROOKLYN'S WATER DEBT. Tue water debe of Brpoklyn on the Ist of January amounted to $8,265,000. Since that time the Com- mon Council have authorized’ the payment of $378,000 fur the extension of mains and repairs to the engines, which was very essential. All that re- mains now to be done Is the construction of the new storage reservoir at Hempstead. Yesterday the Mayor began signing vonds lor Uus.work, the frst instalment being $100,000. VIEWS OF THE PAST. FARC! 5 aparte acquitted of the mur- 1870—Prince Pier der of Victor Noir, 1854—Duke of Parma stabbed by an unknown as- sassin. 1 1861—Tbe steamboat Lowell sunk by collision near Pittsburg; fiiteen lives lost. . A Fine Stock of Spring ¢ and Trowserings. J, W. MCKINGEY, Broadway, corner of Prince street. atines, Vestines at Tatlor, 588 An Unnatural Redness ef the Nose or Face is positively cured by DE. B,C, PERRY. Narmatologsat, 43 Bond street, New Yor! | 2 A * © © © © © © @ « @ WALTHAM WATOHES, ' In soligiting anew the public patronage for Watches of domestic production, the Americaa Watch Company respect- fully represent :— || That og fact in the history of manufactures \a more com- pletely demonstrated than that the best system of making Watches is the one first established by themy at Waltham, ‘That system always had the warrant of reasow and commow sense, and now the test of time in the trial of the Watches themselves cannet bo denied to have been ample and admitted on every hand—the evidence of and common repute that the only keep correct times, but that aa machines’ shey endure, It should weeny thats satisfactory. It is | daily’ observation Watches not nothing more ia needed But that thelr sizes, ahapes and ape Pearance should suit the tastes of the people, As to ail these conditions the American W, Company are vow fully pre-~ tho market. They confi- pared to anawer tho exac dently assert there is no longer any need for such reasons to’ import watches of any description whatever. Evory ste tm? ordinary demand, every i every varlety of finish and decoration may now behad. And aa to price, the tecent reductions leave no room for doubt that the Watham aystem of watchmaking 18 the most economical as well as the most reliable, and that the Waitham Wateh ts the cheapest 2» well as the best, aes, Many new varieties of movements have been added dur- ing the last. year, allof which display the latest improve- ments in design and finish, and evince the rapid progress- 1 perfection in the art, Among these the new small sized Watch, for boys and young ” the Company is making to gentlemen, Is to be spocially noted. A very low price haa b itis @ boy's Watch, and * with the object of bringing it within the means of boys’ of ' all classes, Price belag considered, no such Watch, tm - quality and beauty, bas ev duced. The “Crescent Street” full plate Watch, added during the last year, {8 now made either with or without stem winding and setting attachment. This Watch, in elther form, the Company challenge ail manufacturers of ail countries to beat or equal for its price. It is made with all the latest in provements In every part been made for this Watch b in any country, been pro- rovements whieh improve— and which not only make {t better for its purposes as a timer kee;er, but will make it tho great favorite with watehe makers, This—the bighest grade of full plate Watches * made in this country—in size = and —_appear- ance, in finish and general excellence, is especially intended for and recommended to. _buisiness men, and in particular to railway and express men, to con- stant travellers—in fact, to all live men who must ve told by their watches the correct time of day whenever they want it. Ail such men should have’ the “American Watch Company, Crescent Street,"" Counting on such destination for this variety of thelr manufacture, the Company devote the greatest caro to its constr employ upon tt only thelr best men and best machinery, and issue it with their reputa- tion at stake upon its success. For sale by all leading Jewellers. No watches retailed by the Company. ROBBINS & APPLETON, General Agents for American Watch Company, No. 162 Broadway, New York. A—Tiffany & Co, Union equare, announce that they have purchased, and will offer immedi ately on arrival, the whole stock of FINE “BRONZES its pemaining In Py pening. A London Dress Hat.—Espenscheid Has Just Introduced: the leading style of Dresa Hat for young men, now creating quite « furore in London—iaviies the fashlonable young men of New York to examine these cle- fant fabrics, which surpass anything In the department of tting offered this season. ESPENSCHEID, manufacturer, 118 Nassau street. A.—Gourand’s Oriental Cream Has Proved less treasure to many a lady whose skin was disigured pimples freckl lowness, roughness, &c. Thia cream makes the harshes darkest’ skin as smooth and whie as snow. GOURAUD'S POUDRES. 8! warranted to extirpate all superfluous hair; $1; mali BI i URAUD'S LIQUID "ROUGE is designed to tm? art ermanent artificial color to pale cheeks and lips. \OURAUD'S world-renowned preparations can be had at his old depot, 48 Bond street, New York, formerly 453 Broad- Way,and.of druguiats, Inventor of the ITALIAN MEDI CATED SOAP for the cure of Scald Heads, Ringworms an all skin diseases; 50 cents: mailed, 75 cents. “Beware o counterteit and send for circular. A.—A.—Go This Morning, Between 7 and 13 o'clock, to 23 and 25 East Fourth street (one block east of Broadway) and enjoy the luxury of a Kusslan (Vapor) Bat. It will make you fee! li ike a “new man. Allen B. Miner & Brother, Auctioneers, Will give their personal attention, as customary for the past 2@ . years, to sales of furniture at private residences; also at theig salesrooms, 9 Chambers and 17 Reade strests. HENRY D. MINER. tablished 1847, A.—Hecring’s Patent CHAMPION SAFES 261 Broadway, corner Murray seaste All Perfect Fitting Boots, Shoes, Gaiters a1 SLIPPERS, at E. A. BROOK'S, 575 Broadway. = and Shoes Sel t earn. ling at Half A.—Soiled Boots and price at E. A, BROOKS', 575 B: A.—For a Stylish and Elegant Hat Go te DOUGAN, 102 Nassau street, corner of Ann. A.—For Moth Patches, Freckles and Tany use PERRY'S MOTH AND FRECKLE LOTION. Depot 49 Bond street, New Yorx. Sold by druggists every where. A.—Citizens and Strangers Who Desire a fine, tasty and elegant dress Hat should call at ESPEN~ SCHEID‘'S, manufacturer, No. 118 Nassau street. Price $7, A.—Wazard & Caswells Cod Liver Ol] ta. the best. Ans a Remedi en of the. Rianeys the MISSISQU: A fresh supply. fo. 8 College pay A Specialty.—Gentlemen’s Silk EH Broadway stylos ai about bat Broadway price,” os D. HAT COMPANY, 12 Cortlandt street. A Rare Chance to Make Money.—Gentles men having means please cali at 176 Fniton street, between. Wand 1 o'clock, Monday, and sea the exhibition. A.—Ask for Thoso $25 Chamber Suits and 50 Parlor Suita tn reps at WENTWORTH & SON'S, No..103, jowery. Stored unt! May 1. Elegance, Durability and_ Economy.—Web= BER, the Hatter, Sixth avenue and Thirty-tirat street. His Head Is Riaht!—Iow Often This Exe pression fe tnoughtlessly nnd untruth(ully applied! | No man’s head can be richt unions It fs covered by spring style, HAT, purchased of KNOX, 212 Broadway, corner of Fulton. Indin CamcPs Hair Shnwis.—Have Re- turned from Europe with Spring Stock. Wit! show on Mone day. J. RUSSELL, 33 East Twemieth street. Luxurious Flowing U1 hemical Analy~ sis has satished the mnxious world that CHEVALIER'S LIFE FOR THE HAIR contains the only, vegetable sate stance known to restore gray hair, stop ita faling and tu. crease its growth. No Remedy in the World Kver Came Inte. such universal use or bas so fully wom the confidence off mankind as AYZR'S. CHERRY PECTORAL for the cure of Coughs, Colds and Consumptjon. ‘The Milton Gold Jewelry © : ae The unexampled anecess that has attended the matertal. known as Milton Gold since {ts tirst introduction for the manufacture of jewelry and dijouterie of all kinds was. better illustrated than it has been sit ¢ opening of the new establisuinent at 71 Broadwa: urticles here. displayed are of such wonderful variety and eleganceot de- Sigh that the e7e of the visitor becomes Cagcinaied with taem, and 80 perfect is their resemblance to the pnrest gold that none bnt the most accumplisied expert could, by the clorest inspection, undertake to assert they are’ not mautiac- tured of that metal. 5 Broadway rowded from morning ‘tnti! late at night with thrones, fe, to Whom the prodiic:ions of the Mitton Gold Jevw- ‘A genuine souree of wonder wud delight. A ablishment is that no impertinence om tha mich is permitted by the management The y is open for inspection to all comers, any one of whom, for the inconsiderabie sum of $1, can become the possessor a= of any articla weatever comprived in it. Visitors may fre quently oe seen comparing with their produeons rings and cther articles of pure golt jewelry worn by them, but the most critical amon: thei aii to discover any differeace be- wouder is expressed as to how the. equivalent ‘in every respect, so far ag nuine; rice, The salea- f the appearance 40 ) articles manufactured of the metal, can possibly be sol room at 761 Broadway 1% orn leadiug show places of this city. ‘Thousands ot peaple have visited it since ite opening, three weeks ago, and It is not too muck to say that each and all who bave purchased arti- cles here ave gone away more than eatisiied that they bad received Cull value fur thew money. Tre Infanv’s Fricod, . MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP ia the beat and surest reiedy in the world (ur wll diseaena of chudren, suct, as tocthing, wead cuilc, &c.