The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD eee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —————————————— Welume XXXVI............. ++/Ne. 159 — AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner yb ay. a at. “Tax Tarte HuNCHBAOCKS. sc ourhaaieaat as 2 hes il THEATRE, Bowery.—Pomr—Tokr FEMALE AREER. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— TNo Namur. {pOLYurrto THEATRE, Broadway.—Tue EMOTIONAL LAY OF East LYNNE. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Tuz GREAT DRAMA yor Neck anv Neck. . BOOTH’S THEATRE, 28d st, between Sth and 6th avs.— ABE Man O° AIRLIE. \_ WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadw: WBnces every afteruoon and even! corner S0th st.—Perform- THREE BLIND MICK, ‘WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street.— RosEparr. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Kit, THE ARKANSAS VORAVELLER. \. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—TaE Cor EEN Bawy—Brvant’s MINSTRELS, £0, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATSE, Brooklyn. — (Tux SLEEPING BEavuty, 4c. NEWCOMB & ARLINGTON'S MINSTRELS, corner 28th st, and Broadway.—NEGRO MINSTEELSY, £0. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Taroporr Tuomas’ \Sumauxx Niauts' Concerts. + DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— \ SCIENCE AND ART, ‘WITH SUPPLEMENT New York, Thursday, June 8, 1571. = = “CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Paar. mee 1 Advertisements, 2—Adveriisements, 3— Advertisements, 4—Editoriais: Leading Article, “The Presidency— General Sherman Peremptorily Decunes—Tne Vision. of Vallandigham—‘the Dry Bones of the ‘Democracy’—General Grant Waxing Stronger and Stronger’—Personal _Intelll- Fee fememente—vow Hampshire Legis- lature: Grand Overturning in Political Affairs; The Election of a Democratic Governor and Senator Secured — Aquatics — Shipmasters, Avast !—Amusement Announcements. S—The Paris Martyrs: Funera! Ceremonies Over the Remains of Archbishop Darboy, Grand Vicar Suret, and Fathers Du- guerry, Becourt and Sepatier—The Situa- tion “in France: A Compromise Effectea im the Case of the Orleans Princes; Communists Tampering with the Soldiers— Presidential Chit-Chat: A Conversation with Grant on Indian Atl¢irs—News from the Euro- pean Capitais—Interesting from Australia: Disastrous Floods in New South Wales; Pro- — Annexation of ihe Fiji Islands—The ireat Railroad Lease—Tne Washington City Lottery Scheme—The Viaduct hkailway— Weather Report—Business Notices. @=Prospect Park Fair Grounds: Second Day of the Spring Meeting—The Claflin Clan: Tne Fair Financiers’ Family Feuds—Yachung In telligence—Second Day’s Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons— Great Wrestling Match in Pennsylvania—Inter- national ‘Typographical Union—Base Ball Notes—Views of the Past. S—Advertisements—Proceedings in the Courts— Working the Bowery—Mulcting the Mer- chants—Shdeelin’ a Hoss—Meeting of the Board of Healch—Real ave Matters—Mill- tary Encampment at Niagara—Homeopathic Convention—The New or Flood—The North Vole: Captain Hali’s w Expedition vo the Arctic Regious. 9—The North Pole (continued from Eighth Page)— Financial and Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—Foundation of a New Synagogue— Boat Club in Fall River, Mass—Marriages and Deaths—Aavertisements, 40—The Morse Statue: Preparation ration Ceremonies—Ob!tua' Sea: Arrest of we Bowen's © ‘News from ‘Washington—Protection to Swiss Citizens— The Naval Academy Examinauon—Shupping Intelligence—Advertisements, the Inaugu- e Murder at ResToraTioN OF ORDER AND CIVILiza- mI0oN.—A railroad accident has just occarred near Paris, whereby some seventy-five per- sons were either killed or wounded. Tne Dr. Sparr, who figured in the late Blood-Woodhull trial as one of those who urged Mrs. Claflin to present her charges against the husband of her daughter Victoria, ‘was found dead in a room in French’s Hotel yesterday afternoon, having died, it is sup- posed, in a fit of apoplexy. Tux New Hampsnire Evection was virtu- ally decided on the organization of the State Legislature yesterday. In the House the democrats elected their presiding officer, and showed a majority in both houses sufficient to settle the mooted gubernatorial and Senatorial successions. The majority, although, like Mercutio’s wound, enough, is still a very slim one, and the democracy have no more to boast of in their New Hampshire triumph than the republicans have in their Connecticut vic- tory. Tae Two NarionaL AcApEMIES at West ‘Point and at Annapolis are holding their an- nual examinations. The proficiency evinced by the young graduates in both schools so far is highly creditable, not only to them, but to the system and care with which the schools are conducted. There have been many dis- turbing elements present of late years, espe- cially at West Point, but we cannot see that the general excellence of the material in either school has in any way deteriorated since the days when Thomas, Farragut, Grant, Porter, Sherman and Lee and Davis grad- uated. Funeral or Arcusisiop Darsoy.—Our special correspondent in Paris sends us a full and graphic account of the funeral ceremonies which took place in that city yesterday over the remains of Archbishop Darboy and four other Catholic prelates who were murdered by the Communists. The Church paid ite last honors to the distinguished dead in a manner befitting their lives. The grand, solemn and impressive ritual of the Catholic Church was celebrated amid a scene rarely witnessed. Notre Dame was crowded to repletion. The interior of the Cathedral was @raped in mourning, magnificent catafalques sustained the remains of the dead, and drums, trumpets and cannon aided in imparting due solemnity.to the occasion. Tne Venpomge Corcmn.—The destruction of the Vend6me Column will live in history as one of the Vandalic acts of the Paris Com- mone. It was a monument which perpetuated the military glory of France, while it per- petuated the memory of the empire and the “triumphs of the First Napoleon. It is gratify- ing to us to know that all the pieces of the column which were of real value—we mean which were not stone and brick—have been found. In spite of the recent vote of the Ver- sailles Assembly, we take it for granted that the pillar will be restored and that some suitable statue—that of Liberty or that of France, if not that of the First Napoleon, ‘as of old—will adorn its summit. Paris ‘would not be Paris without its monuments. eee cannot watt be disveaged } And yet « sirewd old law-giver NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, J The Presidency—General Shermas Poremp- terlly Declines—The Vision of Vallandig- ham—“The Dry Bones of the Democ- racy”—General Grant Waxing Stronger and Stroager. General Sherman, in his distant retreat at the Comanche Indian reservation, has at last heard of the great political commotion created east of the Mississippi in the agitation of his commanding availability as the democratic candidate for the next Presidency, and thus he defines his position :— FORT SILL, COMANCHE RESERVATION, May 25, 1871. To THE EDITOR OF THE RERALD:— I have been skirting the Texas frontier for the past month, and here for the first time I meet files ol Eastern papers, by which I see quite an unneces- sary muss has been raised by a purported speech made by me at a supper of the Union League Club of New Orleans the night preceding my departure from that city. Whoever reported that asa speech by me committed a breach of propriety, for Governor Warmoth presided, and before 1 consented to re- spond to a call I was assured by the president of the society that no reporters were present and that whatever was said would be sacrea and confined to the persons present. Now as to politics, I think all |. ™y personal frienas know my deep-seated antipathy to the subject, yet as you seem not to understand me I hereby state, and mean all thatl say, that I NEVBR HAVE BEEN AND NEVER WILL BE A CANDIDA’ FOR PRESIDENT; THAT IF NOMINATED BY EITHER PARTY I SHOULD PEREMPTORILY DECLINE, AND EVEN IF UNANIMOUSLY ELECTED I SHOULD DECLINE TO SERVE ° If you can find language stronger to convey this meaning you are at liberty to use it. Iam your obedient servant, . W. T. SHERMAN, General. This settles the question in reference to General Sherman. He is satisfied with his present position as head of the army, and has evidently an abiding horror of party politics and the tortures of the White House. So van- ishes into thin air another of those gorgeous democratic castles reared in the clouds, and fading away under the pressure of a high wind. We have entertained high hopes of the de- mocracy in 1872, under the banner of Sher- man. On the theory that the republican party had substantially fulfilled its appointed mis- sion, that an occasional change in ‘‘the powers that be” is essential to the health of the body politic, and that under General Sherman all the still unhealed wounds of sections and fac- tions resulting from our late civil war would be healed, we have had great expectations in connection with the name and fame of the patriotic Sherman for the democratic party and for the country. Now, looking at the situation as it is, and at ‘‘the constitution as it is,” what is to be done? What hopeis there for the children of Israel? Where shall we find their Moses, after all their long and weary wanderings in the wilderness, to lead them to the Promised Land ? A prophet here comes to the rescue, and his name is Vallandigham. Moved by the spirit of his new departure on “the almighty nigger,” he rises among the faithful on tie southern border of Lake Erie, and lifting up his voice, after the manner of Ezekiel, he says:—‘In the valley of vision there were many bones, and they were very dry. And the spirit said, ‘Can these dry bones live?’ And we prophe- sied, and there was a noise and a shaking among the dry bones, and breath came into them, and they lived and stood upon their feet, an exceeding great army—the army of the democracy rallied again.” Such is the resurrection of the democratic party foreshadowed by the prophet Vallandigham, and great is the enthusiasm of his followers, from this new idea of falling in the wake of the Philistines and behind the banners of ‘‘Old Ben Wade,” “Old Thad Stevens,” Abraham Lincoln and General Grant, and side by side with “Uncle Tom,” asa man and a brother. This is, indeed, a ‘‘right about face” for the unterrified and a wet blanket from the Northern democracy to the Southern Ku Klux Klans. It requires the party, in a single bound, to clear the back track on the road over which they have been ten years fighting and travelling toward ‘‘the last ditch,” which is the river Jordan. | The route is marked by a line of telegraph poles, each bearing a name, and each having at its foot a pile of the dry bones of the twelve tribes slain in battle there’ And the poles, respectively, are inscribed as follows:—The repeal of the Fugitive Slave law; the abolition of slavery inthe District of Columbia; the military order of contrabands ; the emancipation proclamation; the thirteenth amendment, sweeping slavery from the land; the Civil Rights bill; the fourteenth amend- ment, establishing equal civil rights for citizens of all colors, white, yellow, red and bleck, &c., &c., and the fifteenth amendment, establishing negro suffrage under the protec- tion of Congress. The dry bones of democ- racy along this whole line are to be revived and are to stand upon their feet, with the application of the republican elixir of these three amendments, and the democratic army along this whole line is to fall in behind the army of General Grant, like the French army of Sedan behind the Prussian escort, heading for Germany, on the track of Napoleon the Third. This isa surrender, indeed, not only of the army of Sedan, but of Metz, Strasbourg and the whole democratic Rhine frontier to the bor- ders of Switzerland. Does it open the road to a great democratic victory? Mr. John Quincy Adams (a chip off the old block) says yes, The medicine men of the Tammany Wigwam, in their diamonds, war paint and feathers, say yes. ‘Jerry Black,” the righthand man of Old Buck on State sovereignty, and all the Bourbons of Pennsylvania, in State Conven- tion, say yes. And their brethren of Ohio, aftera hard fight on the question, say yes. And the same echo comes up from the Con- federate crossroads of Kentucky, and from the graveyard of Hood's army of Nashville, and even from Appomattox Court House, Very good. But still is this not a surrender? It is, in fact; but, according to democratic construction, it is only a change of base, from the Chickahomjny to Turkey Island Bend, like that of General McClellan, The party accepts these amendments, but reserves the right of interpretation, That's something, but not much. It is like that good old demo- crat who believed in temperance principles, but was opposed to their enforcement. It is like the honest Dutchman who got down from his horse to get on better. It is, however, following the example of Pelissier at Sebasto- pal, who said, “If we can’t get in at the front door we will try the back window,” for we are bound to get in. it as his opinion that where two men ride a horse together one must ride behind. In support of this judicial opinion, in turning back to the Presidential campaign of 1820, we find that Monroe, with the old federal party riding behind him, walked his horse over the course, The federal party, which, all the way through, had opposed the war of 1812, had at last surrendered, and the people had become ‘‘all republicans and all federal- ists.” So, both parties being at last on the same platform, the larger one absorbed the smaller, and the old federal party disappeared. Im 4824, in the absence of party lines on principles, we had a Presidential scrub race on the personal merits of Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Clay ; but in 1828 we had a crystallization into two distinct parties. So, from present ap- pearances, we may have in 1872 the election of 1820 substantially repeated, and in 1876 the scrub race of 1824 over again, preparatory to a new organization of parties. The democrats have taken the last jump of the old federal party in surrendering to the republicans, and in mounting the same horse they must run the chances of having to ride behind. But looking at all the republican defec- tions, and at all the republican soreheads, such as Sumner, and Trumbull, and Gratz Brown, and Carl Schurz, and Fenton, and Greeley and so on, is there not still a fine opening for Tammany, with her enormous sinews of warin the Tax Levy, and the Cen- tral and Erie railways, and with those active bushwhackers, the Tammany republicans? Not by the present outlook from the Joint High Commission, Jeff Davis and the fifteenth amendment. Sumner has been outflanked on St. Domingo and the High Joint men, Trum- bull has become a sort of political fossil, Gratz Brown has been checkmated by Frank Blair, Carl Schurz is on the anxious bench, and Fenton, scratching around with Greeley, is making only the fuss of an old hen with one chicken. Greeley is a great philanthropist in a small way, but in politics he is a great blun- derer. His vanity and his egotism are too much for his discretion, and so he is always out at the elbows and always in hot water. In 1852, when Pierce and Scott ran upon the same platform (an experiment which ended the whig party, as the experiment of 1820 dis- solved the old federal party), Mr. Greeley, while accepting Scott as the whig candidate, said, ‘‘We spit upon and execrate his plat- form ;” and so he did all that he could to assist his party soreheads in the work of destroying their party, which they accomplished in the overwhelming election of Pierce. Again, in 1860, in dissolving the firm of ‘Seward, Weed and Greeley,” because the third member of the firm had not received his share of the spoils, this member (Greeley) re- joiced in Lincoln’s nomination. But he gave Lincoln, as President, as much trouble as Kentucky neutrality, although the good humor of “Honest Old Abe” was too much for the blundering philosopher. For instance, when the President, by this philosopher, was in- formed, in the midst of the rebellion, that it would be a good thing to negotiate a treaty of peace with George Sanders and Company at Niagara Falls, Lincoln appointed Greeley his envoy extraordinary to Sanders and Company, But at the same time, regarding the whole thing as a trick of rebel strategy, the saga- cious Lincoln, who would have his joke, com- missioned his confidential agent, Colonel Jacquess, to run up to Niagara Falls ‘‘and crack that nut;” and the nut was cracked. But General Grant is not so much given to joking as was ‘‘Honest Old Abe,” and has no patience with a double dealer. So he has given Fenton and Greeley to understand that they cannot run the Custom House; and so they have resolved that one termis enough for Grant, But all this signifies nothing beyond the folly of Greeley. He can’t budge Murphy, and he can’t make a profitable martyr of Fen- ton, All these radical soreheads will have to come to their medicine. Meantime, General Grant’s sensible and popular views of men and things, as given to our reporter at Long Branch, show that he is master of the situa- tion, while General Sherman’s letter, we fear, will do anything but revive ‘‘the dry bones of the democracy.” Tne Jupiter or Pops Pivs tag Ninru.—On the 16th of June, 1871, Pope Pius the Ninth will have occupied the Chair of St. Peter for twenty-five years. Since St. Peter, if we can place any confidence in history and tradition, noone has occupied the Holy Chair so long. The occasion is to be celebrated in Rome and all over Catholic Christendom. Should the Holy Father see that day—and the presump- tion is that he will—it will be a proud day for him, and it ought to console him amid bis many misfortunes. It will be recorded asa curious fact in history that only the first and the last of the Christian Pontiffs of Rome saw the end of the twenty-fifth year of their in- cumbency of the Holy Chair. Two hundred and fifty-nine have reigned. Two only have had the special honor. Is the cycle complete? Who dare say that the new departure of the Papacy will not develop grander results than anything known in the past? Tue Directors or THE Viapvot RAILWAY held a meeting in the Governor's Room, at the City Hall, yesterday, which was quite fully attended, the merchant princes who had been named as directors signifying their accept- ance of the position by their presence and by their heavy subscriptions for stock. Over one million three hundred thousand dollars’ worth of shares were subscribed for during the meeting by the twenty-one gentlemen composing the directory alone. This looks quite promising for our new route of rapid transit, but the active interest taken by such men as are named in the directory is even more promising still, We can always find money and capital enough to carry out any needed enterprise in our city, but it is not always so easy to find the earnest co-operation of property holders. This we have in the viaduct railroad plan, however, and our urgent advice now is, “Hurry it up, gentlemen.” Tue ALBANY Argus of the 7th inst. says the “deadlock in the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture still continues, and the prospect of an adjournment is still remote.” Inasmuch as the Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned about a week ago, it is probable that that ‘“dead- lock” has been consigned to the tomb of the ‘Capulets, American Jockey Club. The spring race meeting of the American Jockey Club begins at Jerome Park on Satur- day afternoon, and will be continued on alter- nate days during the following week. To say that this meeting will be more brilliant than the many that have preceded it is but the truth. More good horses are now at Jerome Park than were ever gathered together before at any time in this country, and they are of a superior class. There will be about one hundred and fifty horses in readiness to take part in the various racing events of the meeting. The first race is for the Fordham Stakes, a handicap sweepstakes, the distance being a mile and a half, and the horses have been so satisfactorily weighted that a dozen or more will be likely to come to the post. This is a very open race, and it would puzzle the most intelligent ‘‘tout” to point out the winner, notwithstanding all the trials he may have witnessed. This race will be fol- lowed by the race for the Belmont Stakes, the most important event of the meeting, as it brings together all the begt three-year-olds in the United States, and it is held as high in racing circles in this coun- try as the race for the two thousand guineas in England. It is looked upon as the trial race of the three-year-olds for the year. The distance to be run in this race is longer than that for either the guineas or the Derby, but our horses do not carry as much weight by a few pounds. Still this race will bear comparison with the English leading events. There were seventeen starters for the Derby at the last meeting, and we would not be sur- prised to see as many start for the Belmont Stakes. The speculative interest in the latter race is very great, Colonel McDaniel’s colt Harry Bassett being held even in higher esti- mation by the bookmakers here than was Both- well for the Derby on the other side of the Atlantic. The race for the Belmont Stakes will be a grand affair, and is looked forward to as the greatest event of the kind that ever took place in America. This race will be fol- lowed by a dash of two miles for a purse, which no doubt will have some of the horses that are entered for the Westchester Cup, who will run in this as a trial of their powers. The first day’s racing will close with a steeple chase, which is always a popular race with all classes of our people, and as there are a num- ber of horses at Jerome Park that are good over timber or ‘‘across country” we expect to witness an exciting race. THe MUTINEERS oF THE BowEN were yes- terday taken before Commissioner Davenport, having been arrested the night previous, through the prompt action of the crew of the HERALD yacht, and were held for examina- tion. It appears from the statement of the men that they were roughly treated, and muti- nied to save their lives. One of them con- fesses to having killed the captain, but denies having any intention to do more than disable him. They are all negroes. On the other hand, the first and second mates claim that, while trying to enforce the necessary discipline, without having resorted to any blows, they were assaulted by the whole crew, The case is one of the gravest interest, and it is to be hoped that the hearing of it will suggest some mode of har- monizing the apparently conflicting interests of the officers and the crews of vessels at sea, We hear many stories of ill treatment of men by the officers, but it is seldom that we hear of so bloody a mutiny as the present one. There must be some way of securing to seamen a more Christian treatment, and at the same time guarantee to the captain and his officers that enforcement of discipline that is more necessary to the safety of the ship than stanch tibs,or an unerring compass. Tae Jews in CrncinNATI.—At a Rabbinical Conference which was held in Cincinnati on Tuesday last—there being present some twen- ty-seven members, representing New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas and Pennsylvania—the Rev. Dr. Hubsh, of New York, was elected president, and Dr. Lilienthal, of Cincinnati, vice presi- dent. A most interesting report was read by Dr. Lilienthal. The report closes by recog- nizing the fact that religious questions play a prominent part in these times; that in Europe Church and State are preparing for a violent atruggle which will influence this country; that in the circumstances it is the duty of the Jews to show that they are favorable to com- plete separation of Church and State, and that Judaism tries to adapt itself to the progressive spirit ofthe age. When we bear in mind that the Church and State alliance is based on the theocratic principles of ancient Judaism, this action of the representative rabbies in the United States is deeply significant. When the foundation is undermined the edifice cannot stand. Church and State alliances are doomed. Lovrs Buano Denounces THE COMMUNE.— M. Louis Blanc has written a letter to the Figaro denouncing the Commune. What elae could he do? Butwhy should he doit? The wickedness of the Commune stands patent be- fore the world. Since the downfall of the first French republic men who knew their real character have been waiting for a revelation which the world could not mistake. M. Louis Blanc was one of those who preached Com- munism ; who preached it because he believed it; who waited for the opportunity, and felt satisfied that the opportunity would adorn his teaching and justify his principles. The op- portunity has come and gone. Those who knew the real character of the Commune are satisfied. M. Louis Blanc is sadly disap- pointed; and what pleases us is, that the his- torian of the “Ten Years” has the manhood to confess his error as well as his disappointment, Diamonp Rezr, between Governor's Island and the Battery, a point that has always been very dangerous to passing vessels, has been blasted out of existence by General Newton's drilling scow. There is now probably a depth of twenty-four feet of water where the danger- ous rocks formerly were; but it will require an actual survey, which is now being madg, to warrant an official announcement to this effect. General Newton has already com- menced work with his scow on Coenties reef, just off Coenties slip, in the East river, and all vessels are warned to be careful in passing him, not onaccount of the blasts altogether, but on account of four hundred pounds of nitro-glycerine which he has on board, and which a slight concussion might ‘‘sond off, UNE 8, 1871—WITH ._SUPPLEME el Tar Gow “Corner."—The operators In the Gold Room relaxed their hold yesterday, whetber through fear of Mr. Boutwell or through bad management was not very clear. The “corner” so fur has been a diminutive affair, and hardly more than what might naturally arise on a very plentiful export trade, when gold is legitimately sold against outgoing cargoes and the gold borrowed for immediate delivery. Vick Presipenr Corrax ALL Ricnt.— Vice President Colfax has written a letter from his home at South Bend, Ind., in which he says his recent illness can be ascribed to the old story—‘‘mental strain, without relaxa- tion.” It will be gratifying to his friends to learn that the amiable Vice President is fast regaining his accustomed health. Personal Intelligence. Jesse R. Grant, the paternal progenitor of Ulysses Simpson, ts at the Fifth Avenue, Governor Louis E. Parsons, of Alabama, ia domi- ciled at the St. Nicholas. L. A. Fratley, of the United States Army, 18 quar- tered at the Astor House. W. 8. Lincoln, of Washington, is sojourning at the Grand Central. Ex-Governor James Tufts, of Montana, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas. Ben Field, of Albion, is staying at the Fifth Ave- nue. Captain Alexander Hay, of Philadelphia, is stop- ving at the Astor House, A. H. Gilman, of the United States Navy, is domi- Ciled at the St. Nicholas, E. P. Carpenter, of Boston, is at the Grand Cen- tral. W. C. Andrews, of Cleveland, is staying at the St, Nicholas. AMUSEMENTS. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.—“No Name.” What a Suggestive name 1s this for a book or a play! How interesting 1s this book of Wilkie Collins’, and this play, as given (first time on any stage) at this house last night, of Collings and Daly. “No name.” The words at once suggest the dispossession and the troubles of a child, or a family of children, left by father and mother, looking at the marriage require- ments of the English law, with “no name.” And such 13 the story of Collins, worked out with his wonderful skill in plot ana counterplot, and in unravelling legal dimculties, quirks and quibbles, and with his elaborate perfection in hitch- ing characters, events and circumstances to- gether, in view of the moral at which he aims, And such is this play of Collins as adapted to the latitude and longitude of the Fifth Avenue by the nicely discriminating Daly. Here we have two young giris—by the untimely death of their good father—left with “no name,” and one of them, the younger, we find with something of the wiil and re- solution of Mrs. General Gaines to fight .the battle for her good name and her property to the day of judgment. Plotting and counter-plotting, mining and counter-mining, we have here the parties in possession, tye contesting party and a third party in expectatfon, ail engaged in the game for the dead man’s estates; but it all comes out right in the end. The play 1s in four acts and five tableaux, and the scenes are laid in Somersetshire, Yorkshire and at an English seaside summer resort. The characters are:—George Bartram, a man of ten thousand, Mr. D. H. Harkins; Admiral Bartram, the old mariner who walked in his sleep, Mr. W. Davidge ; Noel Vanstone, who inherited something more than the orphan’s fortune, Mr. George Parkes; Captain Wragge, @ “moral agricultulist,”) Mr. James Lewis; Mr. Pendril, the late Vanstone’s legal adviser, Mr. G. F. Devere; The Attendant at Cross Abpey, Mr, W. E. Pierce; Noel Vanstone’s Valet, Mr. John Burnett; The Waiter at the Inn, Mr. W. Beek- man; school children, visitors, &c.; Magdalen Van- stone, one of those women who make @ revolution in human laws justifiable, Miss Clara Morris: Mrs. Captain Wragge, late of Darchs’, Miss ranny Daven- port; Mme. Lecount, the good creature who would protect her master against the wiles of the siren, 183 Kate Newton; Miss Garth, governess and friend, = Mrs. Gilbert; Miss = Van- stone's Volmer. Miss Morris as Magdalen Vanstone is really superb; Miss Davenport as Mrs. Captain Wragge 1s one of the most completed stage transiormations we have ever seen, and one of the best representations tu its line we have ever witpessed; miss Kate Newton as the scheming Madame Lecount ts also very fine; Mrs. Gilbert as the faithful governess, does her auty as usual, according tothe letter and the spirit of the character; Lewis as Captain-Wragge, tne morat agriculturist, is in his element, and seems to enjoy it hugely; Davidge as the ancient mariner is ihe enuine, honest, generous, jolly old sea dog; larkins ag Geoge Bartram 1s the man who really makes the case of his lady tair the one great object of hts life, and he satisies us that he is in earnest too. Parkes as Noel Vanstone, the party in possession of his dead relative’s property. makes a beter consumptive, cross-grained and suspicious imvalid than we had supposed {t possible Parkes could be made, and, in short, the whole performance, in all its parts and detalis, was good. The play, a8 we have sald, is ex- coedingly interesting, and 18 sure to have a good run. For the first night, on account of the muggy and rainy skies, the house was not large; but it is one of that class of plays, illustrative of modern society, which are Lees! even Shakspeare, and which never fail to pay. It will be repeated this evening and every evening for some time. Metropolitana Gousip. Theresa Wood does not remain at Wood’s Museum next season, “Emme” will not be produced at Wallack's theatre until July, after the “Long Strike.” Venturoll, Oberti, Bruvetta, Lusuardi and Leah, premiére danseuses, are at present in this city. J, O. Williamson and Owen Marlowe, of Wallack’s theatre, go to the California theatre for next season. Wiiliam Withers has been engaged by Lina Edwin for next season, Clarke remains as business manager. Walter Montgomery will return to this country early in the fail, and is under engagement to open at Booth’s theatre. John Brougham, who went out through the East lately with a travelling dramatic company, returned to this clty on the 5th inst., with all the party, the genjai John having been taken suddenly i. AQUAT! Yale Barge Race at New Haven. Yesterday afternoon the annual spring race for barges by the Yale navy took place in the harbor and was witnessed by a large crowd of spectators, Three crews were entered as follows:— Sophomores—Flagg (stroke), McCook, Day, Daven- port, Hemingway, Adee (bow), Phelps, '70, coxswain. Fresnmen—Bussing (stroke), Weeks, Waterman, Monroe, Dunning, Gunn (bow), Boomer, '72, cox- swain. Scientific—Davennort (stroke), Devlin, Coggswell, Ganse, Smith, Sargent (bow), Hoyt, coxswain. ‘The crews arrived very promptly, and were started at @ quarter to six by Mr. Ford, the comm odore> The Sophomores had the inside, and the Freshmen next. The Freshmen led from the start, and came in Lait lengths ahead in 22m. 3s.; distance three miles, There was & warm contest between the Sopho- mores and Scientifics, The former turned the stake first, but the latter came in ahead, leading about four lengths. Time of Scientifics, 22m. 57%8.; Sophomores, 23m. 13s. ‘he result of the race was somewhat of a sur- prise. A part of the Sopohmore crew were mem- bers of the University crew, and for that reason 1t Was thought they would win. They carried thirty. five pounds weight, The prize, which was awarded to the Freshmen, was a pair of gold oars crossed, for each one of the crew. In the afternoon the Yale base ball nine played a ame with the Athletics of Brooklyn, at Hamilton ark, and won the game, by a score ‘Of 15 to 8, SHIPMASTERS, AVAST ! The Pilot Commissioners give timely notice to mariners that they are about to moor a drilling scow over Coentles Reef, opposite Coenties slip, East rwer. They aver that contact with her will be extremely dangerous to passing vessels. This will be well understood when it is stated that there are 400 pounds of nitro-giycerine| on board, For vessels at anchor near the scene of the blasting operations care will be necessary, a8 the govern- ment procter not lable to any damage to ships resulting therefrom. Diamond Reef, which formed the obstruction be. tween ory Lonel ae ee ee Uber, ca been successfully removed, and "- ferred to has been removed from Diamond Reef to Coenties Reef. BREWERS’ CONGRESS. Prrrspura, Pa., June 7, 1871. ‘The eleventh annual Congress of the National Brew- ers’ Association met to-day. Henry Clousen, Presi. dent, addressed the Congress, taking strong grounas ainst the action of the general govern- mong regeruing the taxation of their pro- ductions; —_ holdt that while they were anxious to establish beer as @ national bevel to the exclusion of alcoholic liquors, the wxou Was greater than on the other beverages, NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATURE. Grand Overturning in Politi< eal Affairs. The Granite State Returning to Her First Love. Republican Defeat by Coalition of Democrats and Labor Reformers. The Election of a Democratic Gor- ernor and Senator Secured. Concorp, June 7, 1871, It 1s evidently all up with the republican party of New Hampshire. ‘The democrats, so far, have made @ clean sweep of everything, and probgbly they will complete their record of victory to-morrow by the election of Mr. Weston for Governor, and then again in a few weeks they will crown all by sending A DEMOCRAT TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE. The Legislature, the great body which is to determine the immediate future political dea- uny of this State, met here to-day, and many of tne scenes and incidents attend- ing the assembling of the representatives of the people have been of a most spicy and entertatn- ing character, The democrats, with a balance of members just enough to give them a working majority, have endeavored to push through every- thing looking to an organization and strengthening of their forces, and at every step their republican Opponents have fought them with an energy and will waich challenges admiration. All night long the streets and hotels were noisy with demonstrations of visiting politicians and others who had come to participate in the excitement afforded by the strug- gle, and when morning dawned they charged upoa the dining saloons and gin mills in a manner that reminded one of a Fisher's Island prize fight, It was given out that the Legistature would meet ateleven o'clock, but for two hours before that tine the crowd was clamorous for admission to the Capi- tol building, and when at length the doors were opened the rush to get through them was tremen- dous. The galieries were quickly filled and also that portion of the floor of the Representatives’ Hall not assigned tothe members, and yet the concourse of heey € anxious to get inside seemed scarceiy dimin- ished, and this was the case all the daylong. if they could not get within hearing distance they were bound to linger around the halls of legislation aud get from each spectator who emerged from tue hall the latest tidings of what was going on. The Senate had a meeting tor temporary organt- zation and then adjourned to mingie in the exciting proceedings of the other branch. They were com- menced shortly after eleven o’clock by the calling of the roll, when it was ascertained that EVERY REPRESENTATIVE ELE@TED WAS PRESENT, with the exception of a couple who are confined to {hetr rooms by Ulness, Such promptness in atvend- ance at the opening of a legislative body was never known in New Hampshire before. Governor Stearns occupied the Speaker’s chair and administered the oaths of ofice to the several memoers, and when he retired George W. Nesinith, republican, of Frank- lin, was made temporary presiding officer, To ELECT A SPEAKER was now the first aay and the House proceeded to its performance with fear and trembling. The dem- ocrata Were sanguine of winning, and so were some of the republicans, and yet all had apprehensions that there might be one or two traitors in their ranks who would upset ail their fond hopes of victory, Of course no other means but the ballot couid be entertained to determine who the Speaker should be, and taree men of undisputed integrity were chosen to super- intend the voting. The candidates forthe office were William Gove, of Weare, who is himself a labor reformer, and was supported by his own party and the democrats, and James 0. Adams, of Manchester, who was voted for by the entire re- publican body of the House. The process of votin, and counting the ballots occupied an hour, an probably such an hour of painful and anxious sus- nse was never before experienced by 9 legislative hody. When at length Judge Nesmith began to de- Clare the result it. was evident from the husky tone of his voice and the few silent tears which trickled down his nonorable cheeks, that the result would be anything but satistactory to the re- publicans. Amid a silence positively harrowing he read in aslow and measured manner the words, “Whole number of ballots, 326." Then ne paused a Tull minute and read again, “Necessary for a choice, 164.’ Another pause and he again proceeded, “James 0, Adams has 162.” Another and longer pause, and amid silence more painful than ever lie nally uttered the woras— “WILLIAM H. GOVE HAS 164 AND IS BLECTED.”’ He did not have time to fully finish the deciara- tion of the vote before there was a round of appla’ almost deafening. Cheers after cheera went up fr the members and spectators, and the crowd taking them up they were repeated again aud again, until the whole city of Concord seemed like @ miniature Bed- lam. ‘fhe republicans, of course, did not enter very heartily into the these joyous demonstrations; on the contrary, they were seriously despondent. Harrison, the ex-Governor, took his hat and started for the first train, and ex-Governor Hule fcllowed soon after. A few moments later Sergeapt-at-Arms Ordway had business outside, and as he went through the crowd a democratic voice asked, “How about that speech, Nehemiah, that you made down in Washington the other day? You said the State would be all right in June, and you were not far from correct.” “Oh, you know how it is yourself!’ responded Ordway, and away he went down tothe depot to take the first train for bis beautiiul home up in War- ner. When the demonstrations of joy inside the hall had somewhat subsided, a committee waited upon Speaker Gove and conducted him to the cnair, whereupon he inauiged im the following SPERCH OF ACCEPTANCE:— Mn. CHAIRMAN AND REPRESENTA1IVRS—I thank you for this expression of your kiuduess, and 1 trust it is with a due degree of dididence that T accept ‘the position to watch your partiality has assigned me, profoundiy impressed as I am with the conviction that there are many members among you whose eminent abilities and large legislative expericnce ren- der them much better qualiied to perform the dutics , Of presiding officer tl hope to attain ; T shail, nevertheless, throw = myself unre iy upon your co-operation and assistance, knowin that I shall have your sympathy and that you will be to criticise lightly the errors of inexperience. It m amiss for me to express the hope that we shall approach the duties and responsibilities of this session with that careful deliberation ani est foresight #o necessary to wise and mn; that we shall adopt whatever em necessary for public reform as little consumption of time as is consistant with due deliberation and careful consideration; and, gentlemen, if the Legislature of New Hampshire, now assembled, should see fit in its wisdom. to place upon record the opinion of the people of the State in relation to mutters of, broader significance and more general interest than affairs confined to our own State, I know that the voice of New Hampshire will receive that consideration in the coun- clls of the nation to which she im entitied, standing, a abe does, second to none in her lor of constitutional Liberty in her loyalty to the “oid Union.” (Prolonged ap- se.) pi It was now about dinner time and the democrats Were 80 Joyous that champagne and choice viands Were more acceptable than anything else, and pro- bably their opponents had an appetite for something cheering, for they ail united in endorsing a motion for adjournment. A SET BACK FOR THR DEMOCRACY. Upon reassembling the roll was called and every mau present in the forenoon was again in his seat. A motion to further complete the organization by choice of James R. Jackson, of Littieton, for Clerk, and James H. Colvath, of Barnestead, for As- sistantClerk (both democrats) by acclamation, was made by one of whe members of the winning party. The measure was promptiy opposed by tne republicans, and after a@ spirited discussion the question was taken by ballot and lost by a tie vote of 161 to 161, the Speaker casting his vote to make it ate, One of the republicans then matntained that the Speaker had no right to vote, but tue latter said that was one of the things he was elected to do, and there was quite a laugh at the expense of the repub- lican member, who questioned his privilege. From this moment it was clear that the anticipated war between the two parties was about to begin. The republicans began a series of filibustering movements, such as motions to adjourn, to ballot for clerks, &c., all of which were decided in the negative, sometimes by a tie vote and sometimes by @ majority of one. During all this time the greatest disorder prevatied, and now and then THE DIRECT LIK BEING PASSED between the members of the rival parties, The Speaker told the gentlemen that they were the custodians of their own dignity, and he was sorry te see them lose it iu such @ dis- graceful manner, but his words were of no avail, for through the whole afternoon the excited proceedings were characterized by acts which all the members will be ashamed of in their cooler moments, Bingham, of Littlevon, who aspires to be the leader of the democrats, lost all control of himself at what he styled the dilatory motions of the minority of the House for the porpoee of crushing the majority. He saw, he satd, that this minority ‘was bound to have an all night session, and he hoped there was patriotism enough tn the majority to sta; there all night too if necessary, (Cries of We will’? from the democratic side and hisses from the repub- lican side.) ‘This scene of confusion was kept up with more spirit than dignity uncil the middie of the evening, when both battalions of political warriors agreed upon & suspension Of hostilities until ten o'clock to~ morrow morning. The fight will then probably ba resumed wich renewed vigor. After the organization of the House one of the va- cancies in the Senate will be filed, so as to give that body a working majoriiy, and then a jotnt conven- tion Will be held, at which a democratic Governo# and Railroad Commissioner will be chosen. Cus Will possibly be accomplisued to-morro We