The New York Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1871, Page 6

LS ey 6 NEW YOR BROAPWAY AND ANN STREET, etn nnne JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIP TOR, Velame XX¥XVI...... AMUSEMENTS THIS EV NIRLO'S GARDEN, n— oract ‘van Baca Guedes Broadway. Me SPRCTACLE OF WALLACK’S TH TRE, _ Bn IBATRE, Broadway ana 18th street. LINA EDWIN’s THEATRE, 720 B: --PLUTO— Lin@atn’s SEETONES. ities pctv ‘NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowers.—GERMAN OPRRa— LOMENGEIN, 4, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth ay. ana 23d at.— La Guanpr DucuEser, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—ON Hanp—Toe Duan ELLE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twonty-fourty street,— JRZEBE.. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadwav.—Vauirry ENtTER- TAINMENT, &0.—DAY AND Nigitt- -KENO. ROOTH’S THEATRE, 55. Tax Foou's REVENGE. WOOD'S MUSEUM pa. ances every afteraoua sod between Sib and 6th avs.— , corner 30th st.—Verform: ing. “OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadwa Hoaizon. MRS, ¥. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brogkiya. — Pour. -—THE DRAMA oF SAN FRANCISCO MINSPREL HALL, 585 Broadway. — Savsoma’s Royan Javanese TRovee. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteeuth street.—ScRNTS IN vHeE Rina, ACNOBATS, AC TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- RIKVY ENTERTAINMENT THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comte Vooar- ius, NEON ACTS, &C. \_BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 23d st., between 6th and 7h ava.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, S&C, i Soar DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway,— SOLENCE AND ART. TRIPLE New York, 1871. CONTENTS OF T9-DAY'’S HERALD, VaGe. os ie 3) &—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. $—The Ronge Rebellion: More Bloody Work Out- side the Walls of Paris: The Communists Driven Into the City, with Serious Loss—Debate in the French Nationa! Assembly on the Revolt im Paris—News from Washington—Miscellancous Tele, raphic News—Amusements—The Darien eedings in Congress—The Broadway Widening: Decision by Justice Cardozo Aj pointing a New Commission—The trie Rall- way War—Letting the Cat Out of the Bag— Gatching a Check Changer—Statuary Sale— ‘Tue Metiodist Book Concern, 5—Paring Bank Robbery: Desperate Attempt to Plunder the Central Park Savings Bank— Judge Edmonds on Spiritualism—The Coal Miners’ Strike—Cotton Combination —The National Game—Financial and Commerciat REO - MRSC and Deaths—Advertise- nents, 6—Fatorials: Leading Article, “The St. Domingo Scheme—Generai Grant's Judtcious Retreat? — Personal Intelligence—Literary Chit Chat— Phiidelphia Intelligence—The Trial of Buck- hout—Naval Intelligence—The HERALD in Woshington—Amusement Announcements. 7—Connecticnt Elec! A Close and Well Con- tested Election; the Result. Uncertain—Munt- cipal Elections tn Ohio, Kenty » Indiana Maryland—Siipping IJutelligence—Buste Notices. S~ Advertisements. 9— Advertisements. 30—The State Capital—Free Canails—Real Estate Matters—Adverlisements, 4t—Acvertisements. 12—Auvertisements, Tak Conygoticur E:ection.—We cannot yet decide how the election has gone in Con- necticut. The vote polled was so unusually close that neither party can say decisively yet which has won. Both sides have evidently secepied the lesson of the New Hampshire flection, and worked with a will, Witha very full vote, the majority either way will probably not exceed two hundred. ‘ Axovoer Blow at Fgytoy.—Mr. A. H. Laflin bas been nominated Naval Officer of this port, in Wace of M. H. Grinnell, and William A. Darling has been named as Ap- praiser of Merchandise, to succeed General Palmer, A Georgia Paper says there are provisions enough destroyed by vagabond incendiaries in the South to feed all the poor of the country, and asks, ‘‘Where will itend?” That is what “ppears to be the matter in controversy among our Solons in Washington. The rope’s end has beon the end of some of the bread and meat burners. Mr, SwWEENY AND THE QUARTERLY RE- virW.—Mayor Hall comes to the rescue of Mr. Sweeny, President of the Board of Public Parks, in a communication which we publish elsewhere this morning. The Mayor makes some disclosures relative to the cause of the uttack of the Quarterly Review on the Board of Public Parks, which, without being abso- dutely condemnatory, are highly suggestive. We are glad at least to hear so much of the other side of the story, and we will be equally glad to hear Mr, Sweeny’s refutation of the charges relative to the mutilation of Central Park, which the Mayor confidently promises wa. Sexsvor Bua aNp THE ‘“‘BropHEAD” Lerrui: AGAIN.—The question of the Brod- head ‘citer was brought up in the Senate yes- terday by Mr. Scott, when Mr. Blair reiterated the senliments expressed in that letter rela- tive to the unconstitutionality of the recon- siruction laws and the duty of the President to disperse the carpet-bag governments; but, he said, the democratic party had never used such language. Mr. Blair was not the demo- cratic partly nor the democratic party Mr. Blair, The shrewd Senator from Missouri evidenily aims to secure to his party all the good that famous letter may do it with the Sonth, while he shields the pariy from the evil that may ensue from it in the North, _ Tae Lient anp tue Dark Snapes of Southern journalism may be gathered from the following illustrations, The Jefferson (Texas) Times remarks :— ( How mach a country in pertods of public Alsaster and pert requires ag honest, fauhful and reliable journalist, And now peruse the following journalistic gems from the Brandon (Miss.) Repudlican :— 8 ) sey : ___ SPECIMEN FIRST. There is a New York carpet-bagger in the Leg'sia; ture (roi Lafayette county named 8. Vv. W, Whiting, who needs a litte Ku Kluxing, He looks like a fool on stils, aod bas avout as big a pile of brains as a snow bird, . STECIMEN SECOND. Vaugiin and Willing (members of the Legisiature Yaay be white outside, but their hearts are as black hn fueo of a full-blooded nigger 1 a coal pit at nig, ae SPECIMEN THIRD. Aa@evrained Adelbert (Senator Ames), son-in-law of The Massachusetts #poon thiel, who forced him- vive ars — jg J senate from this state b: jonets and base frauds, and who is @ Yaser coward, a bigger Nar and ry ter scoundrel ‘oan his Liear-eyed Satuer-in-law, Inade a speech In the Senate on Thursday last which, for mean, mon- #trous and malignaut i Hiush for shame, ee vows Gas 9 ~e The Republican bas evidently “aot its back up" about somothiag Y K HERALD | St Bomnae Screme-teacral Grant Judicious Retreat, We are gratified to record a retreat on the part of General Grant as honorable to him at the head of the government as his crowning victory of the war at the head of the Union armies. Werefer to his judicious retreat on the St. Domingo annexation scheme, It has been seml-officially announced from Washington, through ex-Governor Hawley, of Connecticut, that with the transmission to Congress of the report of the St. Domingo investigating Com- mission the President will send up an impor- tant message on the proposed annexation, and that it will bo substantially to this effect, that had the question received fair treatment when the treaty last before the Senate was debated and rejected be would not have asked ils further consideration ; but, believing that the scheme had not been fairly presented to the country, and the question having become com- plicated with charges and insinuations foreign to its merits, he desired that full investigation at the hands of Congress which has been made, with results fully vindicating his course in the premises. He has, therefore, no fur- ther action to recommend upon the subject at present, but transmits the report of the inves- tigating commissioners for the information of Congress and the country, still adhering to his opinion of the advantages of annexation, He does not care to press the measure, becanse he is confident that, if the country desires it, the object can be accomplished, and that the action of Congress will indicate the desire by advising a treaty to be made. He does not by any means abandon his own views, but leaves the responsibility of future action upon Congress, and he repeats his original declara- tion that he has no pol to enforce against the will of the people. This, it appears, is the subsiance of the President’s message which will accompany the submission to the two houses of tie report of the St. Domingo “high joint” Cominissioners, Their report will handsomely cover the retreat of the administration from its untenable posi- tion, in view of the discords created in the repoblican party ; for if is nuderstood thai the Commissioners are not only unanimously, but enthusiastically, in favor of the proposed annexation. They have returned, as we are told, enraptured wi the tropical beauties and the amazing feriility, abounding products and incalculable revources of that splendid island of St. Domingo; they return satisfied that it is the general wish of the people of the Dominican republic to come under the pro- tecting flag of the United States, and they are satisfied that the annexation bill of costs will be but a bagatelle compared with the commer- cial profits which from the annexation will be ours, Bui such is ihe Commissioners’ Feport why does the President ‘back down?” Why did be ask of Congress authority to send down to St. Domingo this exploring expedition if it was not for the purpose of pushing on the the annexation scheme? The answer is substantially that the express object of the expedition was the refutation of certain serious charges and insinuations made in the Senate against the President in connec- tion witu this annexation project. What were these charges and insinuations? They were the charges and innuendoes advanced by Mr. Sumner, chairman of the Senate Commiitee ou Foreign Relations, against the President in connection wiih this Dominican enterprise, Thus, according to Mr, Sutmner’s indictment, General Grant has been guilty-in this business of a usurpation of the war power of Congress in his employment of the navy; guiliy of the design and of the attempt to appropriate the territory of an independent State upon usurpa- tions and false pretences, and in opposition to the wishes of the peopl+ concerned ; guilty of a design to foment a war as a pretext for the subjugation and seizure of the African republic of Hayti; gnilty of a disgraceful copartnersbip with a gang of unscrupulous speculators ina scheme to divide the spoils from the annexation of Dominica, in certain appropriated lots and lands, which, nnder the government of the United States, it was believed, would become exceedingly valuable ; guilty of employing officers of the United States navy as confederates of this aforesaid gang of annexation speculators. In short, according to Mr. Sumner, General Grant in this annexation project has played ihe Ignoble part of the interested tool and copartner of a “ring” of reckless adventurers in a mon- strous job, regardless of the consequences to Dominica or Hayti, or to the treasury or good name of the United States, The St. Domingo Commission, afler « charges, insinnations and denunciations, Gene- ral Grant is content to turn over the annexe- tion scheme to the discretion of Congress. In other words, having spiked the guns of Mr. Samner, the Geseral retires from the field, He bas gained his point. soldier's sense of honor, and he has made it good, President Johnson, in the Stanton- War Department imbroglio, accused the Gene- ral of deception and falsehood, and we know the consequences that followed to Jobn- son, Mr. Sumner, in his turn, has already felt eomething of the reac- tion against similar char, touching the honesty of General Gr nd with all his pompous, ponderons and tiuudering phi- lippics, we expect the Senator, by the simple fucts of the St. Dowingo Commissioners’ re- port, will be reduced to a mere bag of wind— “fall of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” It is remarkable, too, that after his unbounded admiration of the Aleska annexation scheme, and after carrying through that delightful pur- chase of icebergs and white bears, at an ont- lay of seven miilions in gold to Ruasia and two bundred thousand to the lobby—it is, indeed, very remarkable that Mr. Sumner ehould re- gard the annexation of Dominica, at less than one-fourth the cost of Alaska, as a scheme of war, bankruptcy and all sorts of national disasters, The opposition of the democracy to this Dominican scheme is not surprising, for Gene- ral Grant in this idea is stealing democratic thunder, Nor are we amazed at the horror concerning the project of those radical repub- licans of the old Puritan school, who fought to the last ditch against the annexation of Texas; but Mr. Sumner’s hostility to General Grant's pet measure, after all, we fear, is mainly due to bis mistaken estimate of his NEW YORK HERALD. care ful investigation under the instructions em- bodied in the resolutions of Congress, having vindicated the President against all these | Ile has the honest ; TUXS own importance as the Magnus Apollo of the republican party. At all events, he is silenced upon St. Domingo, and, with Schurz and the other republican mutinecrs against General Grant, Mr. Sumner must now seck some other point of assault, or give up the fight to cut him out and cut him off as the republican candidate for the succession, ‘Where there is a will there is a way,” and we apprehend that the troubles of most of these disaffected and disappointed republican leaders lie deeper or nearer home than St. Domingo. General Grant, however, has still the party organization within his reach, and may still, with proper management, be master of the situation. Te is learning, but has yet much to learn of the complications of the political party machine. The examples furnished by General Jackson he may profitably con- sult in reference to intractable boliers; and the conciliatory policy of Lineoln with aspir- ing but flexible malcontents should not be overlooked. Jackson ruled: Calhoun off the Presidential track as a declared enemy; but Lincoln conquered the aspiring Chase, and quietly disposed of him as a friend by making him Chief Justice of the United States. Lot General Grant call the leading “ republicans of Congress around bi for counsel iu any doubtful move- ment henceforth, aud he may escape a repeti-- tion of the troubles he bas had to encounter upon St. Domingo. Let him propose a gen- eral amnesty in connection with the pending scheme of a bill of pains and penalties on the Southern Ku Klux Klans, and be may do umch to secure his lost ground in the South; let him be cautious ia interposing bis authorily and his persoaal punishments in relation to the local sqrabbles among his party leaders in this State, that State or the other, and let him seck rather to heal than to widen the breaks in the party lines, and he may do much to keep his party together. Otherwise the malcon- tents may reduce him to the humiliation and the hazards of a scrub race in 1872. Musical Prospects. A fvolish ramor has been set afloat to the eect that Mlle, Nilsson will siag in opera at the Erie Opera House on Bighth avenue next season, Whatever may be the success of opéra bouge at that establishment, we doubt wnueh if it ever can be made the head- quarters of Italian opera, This ramor may have beea thrown out as a feeler to the stock- holders of the Academy to induce them to recede from the extraordinary position which have so long and go persistently main- ed against the true interests of art. There will be a sirong, and, we trust, successful, effort made to enable Mile. Nilsson to appear in some of her world-renowned impersonations at the only recognized opera house of the metropolis, It depends entirely upon the siockholders to make it a grand success. No better opportunity could offer to revive Italian opera upon a permanent basis. A doubt has been expressed by some of the magnates alluded to as to whether the New York public will pay for Italian opera, the most expensive of all amusements, he unprecedented success of the four dollar concerts of Nilsson should be a-conclusive answer, and if that does not suffice we can point to the brilliant career of the Church Music Association, This organization was formed by a niwuber of gentlemen who subscribed ten thousand dollars for a few first class concerts at Steinway Hall, Each concert has been atiended by — the de la creme of fashion, evening dress being ad In the chorus, which number three hundred picked voices, may be found the best solo artists before the American public, and the orchestra, eighty in number, can only be compared to that of Theodore Thomas for efliciency. Now here is an organization called into existence by the liberality and combined exertions of a few of our leading capitalists and made a sort of fashionable necessity. It has grown into such favor now that it will be necessary next season to give the concerts at the Academy and to change the name to some- thing more appropriate than ‘‘Church Music Association.” The gentlemen who founded it, and Dr. James Peck, who conducts it, are determined to make it a permanent success, Why cannot the same thing be done in regard to opera?’ In this society there are abundant materials for the rank and file of a first class operatic company, and the directors are nearly j all connected with the management of the Academy. Tiere is pleaty of time to organize a season of Italian opera for the fall, and if the stockholders of the Academy will only do as much for italian opera as many of them have done in the coucert line success is a foregone conclusion, Meanwhile we are to have twelve nights of opera in May by the iiavana company, with Visconti and Villani ve th te creme rigueur, asthe stars. Even such a morceau will be grateful to the famishing operatic public of the metropolis, } Sons or Trovaie is tae East,—-All our | latest news from Europe strangely raises | the question whether war must not soon be a fact in the Bast, The London Conference has not settled the Eustern question, By con- ceding the claims of Russia the Conference has not, whiie it has made Russia vainglorious, satisfied Great Britain, or, indeed, any of the other Powers, Russia raises a loan and strengthens her army. Austria agonizes to maintain the form of unity, Hungary is fighting for an autonomy which would make her independent of all German influence, and which might make her the nucleus of a new imperial ceutre. Prince Charles of Roumania remains at his post, because he feels it to be his duty, not because he likes it. The Ger- man press now speaks platnly and tells the Cie-Leithans that their interests ail centre in incorporation with the empire, As Russia can now put into the Black Sen as strong a floet as she pleases, we shall not be surprised to learn any day that Russia is on her way to Constantinople, If the Turk must leave Europe, why not now as well as later? Toe Pexarry for selling Iqnor in Georgia on election days unlawfully is fifty dollars, But Governor Bullock offered a reward of one hundred dollars for the apprehension of offenders, Hence the latter are hauled up and pay thelr fifty dollars fine out of the hundred reward, leaving the remaining fifty to be divided among the offenders’ friends, tho | {oformers, This isa species of official sapiency Haat may well be alvled bull-beaded. Another Slaunghtor of the Paris Insurgents. We publish this moraing an important spe- cial despatch from Paris, giving an account of another fight outside the walls of the city and resulting in the complete defeat of the insur- gents, Fifty thousand communists left Paris and marched towards Neuilly early yesterday morning. It was understood, telegraphs our correspondent, that Fort Mont Val¢rien would not fire upon them, and so they marched con- fidently furward. Suddenly the fort opened a heavy fire and very soon the insurgents. were flying toward the capital. Not all of them, however, for a column of ten thousand men under General Bergeret was cnt off, and, although it vainly tried to fight the great bombproof fort with field artillery, at last ac- counts it was somewhere in front of Mont Valcrien, unable to return to its stronghold, Such ia brief is the story told by our cor- respondent. There does not appear to have been any infantry engaged on the side of the Versailles government; nor was any needed. Lt is clear that the insurgent leaders were led to belicve that the garrison in the fort would fraternize with them on their appearance, and that they advanced their men without imagin- ing for n moment the 78e about to be played onthem. Can anything more clearly prove the utter worthlossness of the communist lead- ers than this rushing blindly into a trap? Here are a number of men who aspire to rule forty millions of people so utterly devoid of the most ordinary military ability that they ig- nore the commonest precautions in a warlike movement. Anarchy in politics; anarchy ia war; anarchy in everything—that alone they are capable of producing. How ridiculous appear their decrees arraigning M. Thiers and his Cabinet and suppressing religious bodies, and their proclamations declaring it to be their duty to protect Paris, when their first act is to demonstrate to the world what miserable bunglers they are in the art of government and how little able they are to protect anything! me Eom * 7 While the communists are learning the effect of siege artillery played upon them at point blank range, the Versailles authorities fire displaying a little wisdom. One of our despatches reports that Marshal MacMahon has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French army. If there is even a litile Bonapartist aspect in the appointment it promises well for France, and is the most hopeful indication we have yet had that M. Thiers still retains a remnant of his former administrative abilities. The Methodist Episcopal Book Concern “Frauds.” In another column will be found a semi- official account of the proceedings of the sub- committee of the Book Committee during their two recent sessions in this city. It will ap- pear to-day simultaneously in the Heranp and in the Christian Advocate, the official organ of the Concern here, It is a reply to the unfair and garbled accounts of one of our con- . temporaries, and will illustrate about how near the truth that journal comes when it treats of other topics, in which it has not so great reli- gious interest to utter the truth as in this. The committee's work was to select one expert and two assistant accountants to examine the books of the Concern for the last sixteen years, and to report in writing the results of their investigation for the information of the com- mittee and of the whole Church, This would seem to be in itself an easy task, but the com- mittee at the start laid its head figuratively in the lap of Delilab, and allowed itself to be bound hand and foot, so that atfer two ses- sions the Bishop and members of the commit- tee adjourned sine die without doivg anything except adding to the expense of the Concern, The Methodist Church and public will hardly put much faith in the allegations of fraud in their publishing house made by a man “‘high in the Chureh and ia official stature” who will not permit his proofs to be seen unless he can choose a majority of the experts, We warned the committee last week against selecting or appoiating any man whp should make figures lie in the interest of either party to this con- troversy; and this final adjournment of the committee looks as if there was no other alter- native presented to them than that or nothing. And as impartial representatives of the whole Church they have dropped their relations to this matter and will report to the full Book Committee, which has the power to proceed in the investigation without reference to coun- sel on either side, And this they doubtless will do. The Erie Railway Litigatios An adjourned hearing on the reference in this case in the United States Circuit Court took place yesterday, for the purpose of ascer- taining what has become of sixty thousand shares of Erie stock claimed by the English shareholders to be their property, and now alleged to be, or to have been, in the custody or under the control of the receiver appointed in the State Court to take charge of the stock in question, The receiver, on examination, testified that he had not seen the original certificates of these shares since the early part of September, when he delivered them at the office of the Erie Railway Company. What, then, has become of them? Who has them? This is what the Court, and especially Tleath and Raphael, who lay claim to them, want to find out, A member of an eminent Jaw firm in this city, who appears as counsel forthe English shareholders, suggests the idea that if he were to go to the office of the Erie Railway in search or for an examination of those certificates he would be rudely treated, if not violently bandled, and expelled from the place. Other branches of this rail- way war have been removed from the State to the federal courts. The campaign is com- mencing in earnest, and, therefore, the “gentlemen of the long robe” had better in- crease their knowledge of “‘black letter;” for they wil! require it all in the legal batile that is about to ensue congerning the Erig manage- ment and the disposition o atook, Tus New York Mesmpers or Conaress are having their say just now on the Shellabarger Ku Klux bill, Mr. Roosevelt yesterday made @ terrifying onslanght on the poor negroes, declaring that they never fought for the Union, but aided its enemies all through the war, He should havo remembered his friend and comrade Miles O'Reilly's song about the soldier Sambo :-- Though Sambo’s black as the ace of spades His tnger a {rigger can pull, And his eyes ran Straight ou tae barrel sight From wales bls grov Of Wok, JAY, APRIL 4 ISTL-'TRIVLE SHEET. Wideuing of Brondway—Jadge Cardoro's Ovinion, Looking at tho future growth and require- ments of our metropolis, and in order to keep pace with the magnificent improvements already completed and in process of comple- tion in the upper part of our rapidly growing city, no one doubis the more than feasibility, the utmost necessity, in fact, of widening Broadway above Thirty-fourth street, in pursuance of the scheme that first tuok practi- cal form two years ago in the passage of an act to this effect by the State Legislature. This was. well so far. Everybody con- fessed the utility of the measure. LEvery- body saw that now was the time to do it ifat all. Everybody saw that upper Broad- way thus widened would form a grand com- panion thoroughfare to the boulevards—would open another grand and spacious highway to relieve our choked city from the grievous pres- sure of ils incessant tide of travel. The trouble was the corruption, the jobbery, the manipulations of a ‘‘ring” developed in carry- ing out the scheme. Our large and influential property owners, as well as the city itself, affected by the flagitious character of the awards and assessments made by the commis- sion appointed under the act, fought against the commission. The fight was successful in having the commission set aside and the pas- sage of a supplementary act, empowering a judge of the Supreme Court to appoint a new commission. This power was exercised yester- day by Judge Cardozo, of the Supreme Court, in the appointment of Messrs. A. T. Stewart, William B. Astor and James S. Hennessy as new commissioners. On account of the doubis raised as to the conatitutioaality of the repealing act for widening Broadway, and the recent argament before him in which those upholding the old commission claimed that they had vested rights, Judge Cardozo refaced his appoint- niént of the new: softindaton with a very elabo- rate but clear, cogent and exhaustive opinion on the subject. In this opinion he substan- tiates the constitutionality of the act, indicates the frauds perpetrated under the oid commis- sion and ignores the claim of vested rights, therein supporting the views of the Corporation Counsel, who claimed that no vested right exists until the property is actually taken and used by the Corporation, This oplnion further wipes out all the acts of the old com- mission, The new commission take hold of the subject de novo. It is unnecessary to comment upon the high character of the new commissioners, A great_and important trust has been committed to them, It is a trust they will discharge with unswerving fidelity. If they accept, which it is to be sincerely hoped they will, it is certain that a new and lively impulse will be speedily given to the much desired improvements on upper Broad- way, which, under the old commission, have been under a deadlock. Pending the doubt and controversy on the subject everything here has been at a standstill, and speculation and busi- ness paralyzed, There is ‘loubt no loager and controversy is at an end, Enster Among the ‘theatres. Tie penitential season of Lent is no less unpalatable to the managers than to the devout Christians who are deprived of their steaks and chops by the rules of the Church, A large portion of theatregoers religiously keep away from the seductions of the foot- lights during these forty days of fasting and prayer, and the approach of Easter is hailed with delight at every Thespian temple. With “The Fool's Revenge,” ‘The Marble Heart” and ‘The Lady of Lyons” at Booth’s; “The Nervous Man and the Man of Nerve” at Wal- lack’s, ‘‘Jesenel” at the Fifth Avenue theatre, “La Grande Duchesse” and “Les Brigands’ at the Grand Opera House, ‘Tlorizon” at the Olympic, ‘Across the Continent” at Wood's Museum, “Pluto” at Lina Edwin's, and Sat- suma'’s Royal Japanese Troupe at the San Francisco Minstrels, there will, indeed, be no lack of entertainment the present week, But the attractions at the various theatres next week are particularly interesting, Mr. Booth revives his Richelien, in order to honor the occasion with ecclesiastical pomp, and Charles Mathews makes his first appearance in Awerica in fourteen years at the Fifth Avenue theatre, William Creswick, another dis- tinguished representative of the English stage, will also appear at the Theatre Frangais, with Miss Laura Keene, and at Wallack’s standard temple of comedy a new bill will be arranged for the great festival. Shakespeare, surrounded by all the glory and splendor of modern stage art, will be the presiding genius at Nibio’s, and a vivid picture of American frontier life will be unfolded before the Olymple andicnce, Even the smaller theatres are brushing up for the occasion, and parade their most seductive bills. No one can complain of the energy and liberality displayed by our theatrical managers to please their patrons, and we only wish that a similar spirit would animate the representa- tives of the sister art, With the sole excep- tion of the German opera at the Stadt theatre music will have no Place in this Easter rejoicing on the stage. This is an unaccount- able fact when one considers the musical taste a0 prevalent in the metropolis, Crereina Prospect or Crops Att OVER ane Country.—We published yesterday a synopsis of reports from many and different parts of the country showing the crop prospect this year, From every direction the cheering information comes that there is promise of great abundance, The growing cereals look well, and the soil and labor b in better goudition to produc cotton, tobaded and other things, while only a little gquth of us and thronghout the whole Southern country the peach and other fruit trees are Indon with promising blossoms. This gratifying news comes from all tho Western and Southern States, and no doubt we shall have the same from the North and East as soon as the season is a little more advanced, What a rich and glorious country we have! How favoréd by Providence! Here is not only enough for all our own wants, but this country is the granary of the world ag well. Surely we ought to be thankful for such blessings. THE HERALD IN WASHINGTON, (From the Washington sunday Chronicle, April 2.| Sunday last the New York HERALD issued @ quad- ruple sheet, contaming over eight pages of sold advertisements. The HaRALD ny @ newspaper ts passod, and we are tifed at thig new ‘eviuenge of in. well: Moagrved prvsbenitye nee geen: Personal Intelligence. PAA AAO Senator Fenton left the Filth Avenue for Washing~ ton last evening, United States Senator Matt H. Carpenter, of Wise consin, is 4 sojourner at the Hofman House. Mr. and Mrs, Charles Mathews and Captain Here bert Mathews are guests at the Fifth Avenue. Ex-Governor Wm. Gilpin, of Colorado, is stopping at the Hoffman House. Homer A, Nelson 13 at the Fifth Avenue, where bs also James Terwilliger, of Syracuse. Commander Parrott, United States Navy, ta domi- ciled at the St. Nicholas Hotel. John Hutchins, of Ohio, and Major 3, 8, Blake, of Oregon, are guests at the Astor House, At the St. James the most prominent guests are George H. Carse, of Belfast, Ireland; H, Archibald and Henry McKay—both the latter of Montreal, Canada, General P. Buell, United States Army; Judge Sloan, of North Carolina, and Colonel U. T. Pollard, of Alabama, are sojouraing at the st. Nicholas. Among the guests at the Fifth Avenue Fred Wright and F, Roltinson, of London, and John ‘tf. Heard, of Massachusetis, are prominent. Domiciled at the Grand Centra! are Colonel John Edson, of Philadelphia; T. M. Brewer, of Magsachu- setts; Colonels Lemoine, of Virginia, and Brown, of Towa, and Judge Conway, of Philadelphia. LITERARY CHIT CHAT. PROFESSOR FawCert’s book on appeared in London, A 'tuRIN NEWSPAPER advertises a new edition of the Bible, in twelve volumes, with notes. Mr. Maqures, the British member of Parliament, will shortly publish a novel to be called “Tae New Generation of 1900,” In which he will show the ladies in Parliament, “A New VARIORUM OF SHAKSPEARE,” edited by Horace Howard Furness, is highly spoken of by the English and American critics. The first volume haa been published by Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, Herr Henipert Rav has published, at Stuttgart, A new historical romance, entitled “Deutschland’s Kassandra: Der Raub des Elsass und die Verwist- ung der Pfalz unter Ludwig XIV.," wiih a refers ence to the present times, ~ Sin Tomas Wyse's “Impressions of Greece,” edited by his niece, is favorably spoken of by the English critics, It gives some important facts tn sogpectiog wif brigandism in Greece and in rela- 4 Pauperisa’ hat jon to the had management of the Greek govera- ment. Bass: gemma ot kay A TRANSLATION of a pamphlet entitled “Opinions” on the Eastern Question,” written by General Rostis- laf Faideff, of the Russian army, is attracting some attention im Europe. The author thinks that Russia wili some day have to fight Germany and Austria together, and at the same time to put down a Polish rising. 4 A Perrrioy, numerously and influentially signed, has been presented to Mr. Gladstone, the British Premier, in behalf of the family of the late Rober Leighton, of Liverpool. Mr. Longfellow, writing from Cambridge, Mas3., speaks in high terms oi the poems of Leighton, and expresses the hope that he petition will be successful in obtaining a pension for the widow ana orphans of the deceased poet. Ponpir Som NATH MAKHARSYA, the Sanserit pro- fessor in the Indian Government College, has written @ pamphlet, which has been published at Dacca, om one of the serious evils of Hindu soclety—the very early marriages which are so common. He makes the important statement that two-thirds of the boys ‘who come up, at sixteen years of age, for the Uni- versity entrance examination are married, some of them ag early as seven or eight years of age. PHILADELPHIA INTELLIGENCE, ween Death of n New York Girl in a Bagniom Killed by Her Lover—Continuation of the Ecclesiastical Trial~Banquet at tie Union League Club, PHILADELPHIA, April 3, 1871. | Mary Burke, alias Salule Wallace, a young Irish girl, of New York, died this morning in one of the bagnios of this city from injuries received al the hands of one Thomas H. Keen, about three weeks since. Keen was under arrest for a time to awalt the result of the injuries, but was released on the certificate of an irresponsible Dutch doctor, who asserted that the girl would recover. Keen left a week ago. It1s believed he is New York. Mary’s brother is a Catholic priest and her father a voller manufacturer. Both reside ta New York. ‘The counsel for the relators in the ecclesiastical trial to-day closed his argument till to-morrow at one P.M, He was followed by Mr, Patterson for the Stuart party. Counsel will alternate in their agu- ments until they Lave finished, which will be about Wednesday, Colonel A. K. McClure, @ well known politician, entertained a delegation from the Virginia Legisia- ture at the Union League Club by a grand banquet this evening. The delegation came here to make arrangements for a represeutation of Virginia in the Centennial celebration of 1876, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The published statement that orders have been issued from the Navy Department to fit for sea ser- vice a number of vessels is without foundation. ‘No such orders have been given. Repairs upon ves- sels in the different navy yards are ordered whenever necessary, and several of the vesselq mentioned as having been ordered to be pnt in readiness for sea are now undergoing various re- pairs, Butthere is not, nor has there been, any in- tention of fitting any of them for immediate sea service. : Commander Montgomery Sicard 1s ordered to commana the receiving ship Vandalia, Lieutenant Joshua Bishop is orderea to the Pacific flect. Lieuten- ant Willlam @. Emory is detached from the Naval Observatory and ordeivd.to the storeship Relief. The new navy Register for 1871 has just been ia~ sued from the Navy Department, having been com- plied with much care by Dr. W. S, McNairy, in the Register’s office of the department, It contains the names of the admiral and vice admiral, 12 admirals, 25 commodores, 50 captains, 89 commanders, 17% heutenant commanders, 141 lieutenants, 161 mas- ters, 69 ensigns, 69 midshipmen, 80 surgeons, 32 passed assistant surgeons, 38 assistant surgeons, 50 paymasters, 32 passed assistant paymasters, 29 as- sistant paymasters, 36 chief engineers, 93 first assist- ant engineers, 93 second assistant engineers, 23 chaplains, 9 professors of mathematics, 6 naval con- structors, 7 assistant naval constructors and 6 civil engineers, There are 306 warrant officers, of whom 46 are boatswains, 57 guoners, 80 carpenters, 34sailmakers and 130 mates. Tho retired aud re- served list comprises 20 rear admirals, 62 commo- dores, 23 captains, 14 commanders, 6 Ileu- tenant commanders, 2 Heutenants, 6 masters, 2 ensigns, 2 chief engineers, 7 assistant en- gingers, 10 second assistant engineers, 22 surgeons, 2 passed assistant surgeons, 3 assistant surgeons, 15 paymasters, 1 passed assistant paymaster, 1 assist- ant paymaster, 6 chaplains, 3 naval constractors, 9 carpenters, 4 gunners, 8 boatswains, 3 sallmakers and 8 professors of mathematics, The Marine Corps is commanded by 102 oMicers, exclusive of 9 on the retired list, Sixty-three naval officers of various grades have resigned during the year, 47 have died and 10 were dismisseq. The volunteer navy has 18 officers now in active service. Of this branch 11 were mastered out dur- Ing the B a year, 8 were honorably discharged, 16 resigned, 1 deserted and 1 died. ‘There are 5 Neets, and some of these are divided into 2 squadrons, the whole employing 40 vessels, as follows:—North Atlantic, 10; South Attantic, &; ku ropean, 8; Pacific, 12, and Asiatic, 7, There are 4 Vebecis ‘on special service, 1 e joni! for the South Atlantic ba and 3 are on the Darien surveying ¢x- pedition. The entire navy consists of 99 ‘wooden veasels, 51 fron-clads and 29 tugs, most of which are laid up'at the various navy THE TRIAL OF BUCKHOUT. Ware Prana, N. Y., April 3, 1871. ‘The trial of Isaac V. Buckhout, tndicted for the murder of Alfred Rendall, was continued this morp- ing. Philo Betts, a neighbor, testified as to the mn- jury received by the prisoner by being thrown out of @ wagon three years before the murder, and of Buck- hout's evident comeing os al Pore Rotirsg nd worked rm Sa euaren \e ned ag to ‘his etrange and changed Who had work ant they ovglook tis axtornon in mory of the late Colonel J. P. Jon- Be aner "tue bat, Whose fnnoral takes, col res) kin a member place this afternoon, : ‘ _ THE FIRST WARD WIFE WIFE MURDER. To THe Eprror oF THe Ttappearsin your lssue of this morning that Bows, te alleged wite murderer, was arrested by oflcer Barks tn the of Washington and streets, ‘Thal is oyt-, emia, as he was not a thore, nor Intl lage ever ope hed Sunday, Tn eae 8 of, me make he abpve eorrectia A *yoraer of Dey’ aya asilogion sett.