The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1871, Page 8

RUSSIA. eeeeneeee eee Growth of Russia in Material Wealth and Political Greatness. THE EMPIRE AS IT 1S. Bighty Millions of People Steadily’ Advane- ing in Progressive Strides. REFORMS INTRODUCED EVERYWHERE. Free Trade, Universal Suffrage and the Spread of Education. RIGHT OF ‘TRIAL ‘BY JURY. ‘The Visit of the Grand Duke Alexis to the United States. Sr. PeTerssura, Oct. 20, 1671. ‘The knowledge at the disposal of the reader con- -eeruing the Russia of the present day is not oniy ‘very limited, pat princtpally antroe, so that ideas | are disseminated concerning these eighty miulions -ef peopie wach are unjust aad érroneous. It may be, therefore, interesting to lay before your readers @ short and concise account of that empire as tt really exists. No more fitting time or more able ambassador could have been chosen by {he Emperor Alexander tosend to the United States than the Grand Duke Alexis. A tine Anglo-Saxon s0oking representative oF bis Davion, #8 much renowned for his bravery as he ts jor his intelligence and kindliness of heart, he ‘will be received by the great American people as a representative of & mighty empire which 1s really moving ahead. He will be apie to veil his brethren on the oluer side of the Atlantic the giorions reforms Wiich bis imperial father has been able to carry out; he will point with sausiaction to the glomous result of that most glorious event--the emancipa- tion of twenty-tive millions of human beige, who for upwards of two hundred and filty years have been bound down to “a state of serf- «liom ana misery unequalled i the annals of history; he will prove to you how Mose poor vers, with a pavural intelligence not ex- ceeded by any peuple in the world, are now gradu- ally becoming a solid, sound, useful body of men; ow many of ihem have become small manufac- ‘turers, many more small farmers—all move on, how- ever, Jaying the foundation of an industrious dower class, without woom Bations never can be- come great. He wilt tell you, moreover, how tn @heir social position also the late serf is improving, that he now ireats his women folk with more re- ‘pect and attention, aud has ceased to look upon bis wife ws a beast of byrden. Be will tell you with trot that schools are now springing ap ip Vitlages, where before the voice of education was wever heard, and he will tell you of the reform and improvement among the ministers of religion. Uav) lately the priest’s office was hereditary; none conta be a ‘Pope’ bat the son of a Pope; conse- quently the ignorance among them was proverbial, RoW, op the contrary, anybody walling and able to pane the necessary examination is elected a mem- wer of the priestly circie, and insiances are no Jonger seen of a Pope reading the services with his prayer book twrned upside down, his limited amount of earning not allowing him w Gistinguish which was the begining and whie) the end of the book, But many more reforms will you be told of than these. Grand Doke will tell you of the new iaw which his ¢aUier has been able to introduce; that now justice is administered publicly and orally, as against pri- vately written so-called justice which used to be ad- ministered. fle wiil teil you that that great safegnard of the liberty of the subject—“trial by jory?—is Dow in operauion over the major wart of his father’s dominions, that cvery man accused of an offence must be brought before his judge within twenty-four hours, that capital punishment does not extat, and that the judges are now weli paid, indc- pendent men, trremovabie even by the Emperor him- ible to contemplate ? in Russia t would not. = — ‘inc State, and which to-day 18 bys wraintenance. oe Sie that festering wi: ‘on, and sax Sy Gaz Rak its'Way 1010 8 of ible to suite NEW ‘YORK HERALD, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1871—1gIPLE SHEKY. to content nimseir with the aotea Zona PRACTICES IN RUSSIA. rae. oes hot Tammany ste that ound, allowed still to rob uming and eating mo; whcation hor- holds up tts head; but ou Will be shown how Does not Tamman’ the kussian acted when the great salt rpetrate’ at Nizhnee-N: or ramads ‘of salt robhery was in which mijlions were , in which everybody was interested who had any finger in the manage- ment—in fact, a second Tammany. Well. in Russia ‘We thing was not hushed up, but every singie indi- vidual who had bad any hand in i was ruthlessly | | i if \ ‘the | welt; and he cau with justice teil you that now there | ts vo longer one law for the rich and another for the poor; but that rich and poor, gentle Man and peasant, are equal on vhe floor of the court, You wil have proven to your sauisfaction that the reports of the cruel treatment of prisoners in Siberia are all humbug, gotien up by people who Know nothing, ana are talking of the traditions of the past, The worst Kind of criminals only are Weated with hard labor, such as murderers, &¢ hose convicied of jighter offences being absolutely free wen, and recelve land, &c., upon which they e, and by i S 2 2 ee gan carn thsi Own mcana 2s oh ave vas BE SHOWD that the spec- sacular reports of gangs of chained convicts, at- tended with sojdiers armed with “knouts,” are all moonshine, and wat the present transition to Siberia is made by railway, steamboats and car- viages. THE RAILROAD SYSTEM OF THE EMPIRE. The Grand Duke can potnt out with pride that @uring tie jast ren years uns favher has, with the aid ‘©f one of the most liberal and honest ministers that he has surrounded himself with (I speak of M. de Reutern, the present Minister of Fimauce), built and opened ten thcusund versts of railways, when only Ven years ago rallways were hardly known tn Rus- @ta.. You-wiil be shown by the rallway map that the roads from St, Petersburg to Odessa, from Mos- cow to Rostov, from al! the other central points ot commercial iuteresi, are now covered with the tron ‘way. You will be told of the improvement of com- merce and the increased locomotion which neces- Garily must bave followed the introduction of ihese meceseary means of locomotion. Even you Americans may learn with some astou- ishment that the water communication of this large cipire of Russia is so perfect that goods can De embarked in Siberia to be delivered m the wame bottoms at Astrakhan or St, Petersburg. You may, if you like to take a journey to such a distant Spot, contemplate from the bauks of the Uka and Volga, at Nishy Novgorod, barks lying side by side, some of whic are wending their way slowly ~-yet. surely to the desolate wilds of porthern snow-clad Siberia, white others will ere long be in the suuny region Ol the vine-clad slopes of river Don. You may learn that steam- Doats, Dative bull, are now plonecring the far dis- want river of Eustern Siberia, and that it only araiiway of Bo great length to jom whe WiMunication between the Kama and the ‘Tural, across the Ural siopes, to make it possible ; ery portion of tue em- Dire, where you will ve in one continuous water cCommunicauon from St, vetersburg to the Sea of a Jrom Siberia to Persia—in iact, where you wi COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS, You will have explained to you the totroduction duto Russia of communa: Iinstivations, of tue estab- Itshmeni of zeinsiois, or loval assemblies, by Which That great ineentive to peopie's taking care of there selves ~» local seii-government—is LgW pos- sesse:) by the people, In all districts these election assemblies—ig the election of inemuers to which aul —_ ay o- DOW look aiter the distvulon Of tax ation, ihe crection and keeping in repair bridges, making roads. atiending to the local nos- pitais, prisons, &c.—in fact, managing the whole of the Jocal institutions, and inus, as sticuid be the case, giving every man a voice in the spending of money Which he has helped w pay. You will heat ‘thal every Village has is own rep the president of which If elected by What is as near universal Bul as possitie; and i yoo do not hear i 1 can vouch for the fact (at in these repubiics you Kee matiers Carried out and guesi.ons argued in a mane ihat would astonish you, aud with a decorun pi which, allow ie to say, 1s MOL seen in your Ameri can Municipal meeungs. In Kussian town councils oue never secs inkstands thiown af tue mayor's head or pistois introduced insiead of tak. OFFICIAL CORRUPTION DISAVPEARING, ruption iD (ficial matters” being away; that at this moment omicial pecula uo down and poxisied with an nnsparin band, bever inind who (be welinquent may be ane ow bigh or great bis rank. He wil teli you tuat the Oid-sashioned Zehin'rik or government em- ployé—namely, a buliet-hbeaded, ignorant, tyrannical cheat—is noW becoming & wing of the past: that the animal who in old Un tha his income out Of Whe misfortunes and pockets Of those deuier people who had to do busibese wit) bin ie pow ] i urswed and to the last man delivere? over to jus- ice. ‘The moral is Uhat the sait robvery does no longer exist, while Tammany docs. PRODUCING POWER OF RUSSIA. ‘You wil! bear won ‘of the producing power of Rassta; vou will be told of those immense steppes ‘of magnificent pasture country, of regions of lack oorn-growing lands, where seed only bas to be sown 10 be reaped without any over-farming. You will be old of Lie treasures of tron which abound in many ts of the empire, only waiting the hand of man be made usciul; of the mountains of maguetio rou in Blagonat, on the Ural Mountains; to the ordmary ron stone in the regions of the Don. | You will have read to yon the accounts of the workings of coal in many parts of Russia; of all sorts and descriptions, irom the fine biack gas coal, on the boroer of the Kama, in the north; of the brown coal mn the central governments; of the anthracite on the border of the Sea of Azof; of the abundance of the formation on the other side of the Caspian to the later discoveries in the Crimea. You will hear of whe new copper producing country in Easern Sibe- ria; of the silver mines in the Safausk Mountains; ‘of Russia’s productions of malachite, silver, 1a platinum. You will be told of new places where all ‘these are continually — found, and, atthe same time, told that many of these are only waiting for, probably, the go-ahead spirit of your ‘people to be turned to more useivl acconnt, You will hear with wonder and astonishment o: the vastness of some of the metailurgical works of the empire, the number f men eniployed, power of works, extent of land covered, which will, even to the india rubber muuds of Americans, be be received with astonishment. You will hear of a country the whole length of the Urai Mountains, some Lundred miles broad and twelve hundred miles long, as abounding with gold. Not a spot can be dug which Will not yield gold, more or less, and you will be more astonislicd when you hear that tms gold is hardly Worked and when it is very badty. What you im America and California think yourselves jucky in getting fifty cents of gold out of, in Siberia the Washers want two dollars, and wages are four or in America as against ity cents ja Siveria. Tois also ts a country where even Americans should come to. J always think, when travelling amid these surroundings of gold, of the different sights I should see were some few nun- dreds ol go aheads to come there from your country. REMOVAL OF TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS. ‘The Grand Duke wil tell you of the removal of all restrictions from travel in Russia which formerly annoyed every traveler, and which really made Jocomotion impossiie. Everywhere a passport + used Lo be asked—for on ratiroads, on steamboats, on cars on horses. It was impossible to move without @ pass stuck ip your hat. Now all is altered. A man can travel irom one end of the kingdom without any let or hindrance, Nobody will bother him, nobody rop him; and J believe 1 may add, nobotty will attempt to cheat him; and, as fa janguage goes, your native Russian peasant is a Pericct wonder at understanding pantomime. If you can only manage to speak one word oul of a sentence and pantomime the others you will get on very well. Inno country that 1 know of can you now travel more easily than Russia, RECENT CHANGES. Don’t be astonished, thereiore, if you have given different ideas and views ot Russia than you had beiore. You wili find that much which has been told, much that has been written for the world 18 simple humbug. Visitors have stayed in Russia a few months, visited Siberta, and perhaps travelled a3 faras Moscow, and then written books hke “Toll Rassta,” which, mMstead of ein, anybody wo understand the country, has only filles (oY heads with nonsense and most unjust and érro- neous conclusions, Russia is a difficult country to understand in a few weeks, and the observer must live amopz the people, peasants in particular, be- fore he is justified in giving the world his opinions about what, l beheve, have been a& most uyjustl abused people. You will, as I have therefore said, no doubt receive many of these statements with astoaishment; but it may be as well to note het once for all, that all the information contain herein is net hearsay, is not picked up, or is not iniormation Srom books, but the result of continued residence aud much study of the people and their insiitations, five aullars a @ The Engl people iwaye 0 ixh thelr ‘ne English le are always mixing up the! India with the Eestern, or, a8 I prefer to call it, tne Central Asian question, and are continually assert- ing that the Kussian Czars have from time imme- mortal persisted in following one policy—one tending to obiain India, It is absurd; there never Was & greator falsenood than this statement. All historical facts 2, to negative this assertion. A careful study of the diplomatic documents show that for ail tame the different Czars had but one idea, and that was to open uD @ trade with india. ‘This ts why Russia went to the great expense of conguering the savage hordes in the khannates of Khtva, Knokand and Boxhara, These brates once subdued (and I suppose nobody will argue that they | are any Letier than your Jndians), a trading road | to india was opened to the Russians. Russia could thus obtain mauy things she needed, such as drugs of ,ali soris, tndigo, spices, &c., and even later cotton, and she could in exchange for these barter her manufactured goods, From force of circum- stances Kussian manu‘actures bave always been suitable to kastern trade. She was the first country to manufactare exciusively many designs whic! could only be sold to Eastern peopics; consequenuy she had no chancedor trade with them in the West and naturally looked to the East for ber orders, Already she has derived much benefit from thi Policy, and the trade very materially increases, ani with it Russian infucnce over these savages; but I maintain that any idea of Kyssia taking Judia never entered into any Car's head. --s. veces “FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, Americans will also learn with astonishment, and Derhaps it wili be in your columns that this trutsm is firet Reralded, that with the exception of America aud England, the press is freer in Russia than in any ee country in Europe; decidedly much more 8. oe in either France or nner, ‘olitics are vor} jAcTIRREG i wruoee Lhe Hit Wr tdtiytchte Hate AES respectabity and importance, Formerly the preas was bought, each department having its own spe- Cial Uigess hug pow changed and examples of e are Tai . —— ~n- EDUCATING THE rEOPTE. The Graid Dike wil tell the Americans of the tust defeat which the ancient retro- rade aristocratic party of his country sul- Brea at the hands of the Kmperor. This old party, brongut up and educated with a know- ledge of modern languages and ali the vices apper- taming ‘thereto, wished to content their children with the same, who, fpognes uence, qe an acute disposition for acquiring all the yigu ihe tasbtonapie world and displaying Wh muita igeyree with the secrets of the Jockey Ciub and the language of the coulisses, shows an awful ignorance of the history of inelr own conntry. he Minister of Education saw the evil and aetermined tu remedy it by introducing a classical education 25 men, The old-fashioned Party went Against it. and the Councl) by a large matority ob. Jected to the introduction; but the Emperor went ‘ainst the inajerity and declared in tavor of his inister, and Dow we may hope to see young Russia educated as other civilized nattous educate their young men. Tuis old arstocrauc party have been the bane of Russia, aod jie to ikeia that must be attributed aimost al) thatis bad in the country. Luckily their me 1s rub, and an G/ete, Wornout and biasd, ener- Vated race of arristocrais are now giving Way to an intellectual, well-behaved, middle ciass of citizens, who in time will become the hacebone of the State, and Whose Iberai and enlightened opinion will raise Kuss @ to thal pinnacle which she ought to and is able to attain. TUE MANUFACTURES OF TUK EMPIRE, You may hiear of the vast improvements which have taken place in the manufactures of Russia, a branch of industry not yet fity years old, and which can now compete in several articles with other countries, Cotton goods are excellent both in quality and design. Cloth is made by Russians as good as by Englishmen, and the English are absolutely beaten out of the Leld with this article by (he Kussians in the Chinese markets. The silver works of the Russian emptre has uo equal in the world, and, while silk 18 not 80 good as that made in France, satin 1s far superior to tie article manulac- tured by the french, Wine is a commodity that will one day figure very considerably in the productious of the Russian empire. Some now made in the Crimea is excellent, and many a worse boitle of Wie may be drank ii France than that made on Prince Woronzon’s estate, As is well known the product of bect-root sugar 1s immense, far more manuiactories existng fortis arucle in Russia than io apy pther country. A varied list of eimall articles might be mentioned, of whieh negative the assertions of those who are continually saving that Russia and the Russians are aslecp. SIBKRIA, You will be astonished to hear, is not thal desvlate ‘waste of ice, sow and bears which jt is generally described te be; but a great portion of thal vast country enjoys & climate absolutely mild, with a richness of vegetation in summer that many another country might envy. In whe woods are found grow- Ing Wiid strawberries, ra currants, cherries and over berries, in sufMicient quanuties to allow Of the Inhabitants obtaining thelr supplies from these resources, 1n many Fwd of Sibena ine weather 1s sufficiently mild to aliow of eattie graz- ing on tie pastures al) the year roun Fish is very ovuudant, aad the common necessaries of life re- markably cheap. The Grand Duke, having been a great traveiier in his own country, wil be able to | give you many Inveresting acconnts of the improve. Inents which even b wil) tell you that THE RUSSIAN PRASANT is Nol @ east ashe has been Fo ireqnentiy repre- Young as he is, has seen. He fented to be, but @ really refined specimen of Haomanity, making an excellent workman aud capavle of imitaung anything placed before him, bo watler What. it may pe. Luckily Jor these poor people the rule of the — aristocrat was vroken, aod lucky also for the novle- men themseives that they were allowed to die out BO qu ihey had one narrow escape, In 1506, Ou Ube 4th of April, the itie of the Emperor | Was attempted to be taken, for way it is imp #sible 0 say, umless for the good he Las dove his people siece he ascended the throne, ‘The frst rumor of tuis event Which Was cireuiated over We country Was that (ue Would-Ve assasein Was @ noblewan. panama nore | owing | | arrangemenis are very similar. 1 iy fatioaval The wooly nella; Lackily this rumor was. con next day, or Hom breparatioug winch T migaelt saw made | believe every novieman in the country Woukl have nated mreturn. The peasants lo ror with @ childlike devouon to be- old. Well they may, for is it not him who made thera citizens of world and gave them what is dearer to every man than than anything else—free- dom? When one coi re the Se ag of iag the country; or, picture the difference of an empire down im the. depths of serfdom and ignorance by 16,000,000 of aris! is as agaiust the same ore raising its head supported by 64,000,000 of civilized citizens, REFORMS ON THE INCREASB. You Will bear of the liberality of most of the pres- ent ministers; you will hear of tne reforms that have - taken place in ail the departments of the gover’, ment; you can with equal justice be told thatthe re. form extends itselt to the internal provinces Of ‘ine empire, that where all used to be peculatic 4 ang corraption honesty is now the predominav', e. And while you are listening to all this, d0 4% forget togive honor where honor is due. Think yourselves oi the barriers which had to be broken down before this ower side of the picture cou'’@ pave been realized. Suppose a body of petty monarchs (and each Kussian aristocrat Was @ MOP arch in bis Way), each with some particular abuse ',6 noid up ana pro- tect, and all joining together Ir, one common vond to sway the mgs of fay honest man, inen Dehold the picture that exists to-day and give credit where credit is due, and person of the young Grand Duke show that appreciation of the sérvices which have been rendered toall mankind by his father, the Bmperor Alexander, THE LIBERAL PARTY IN RUSSIA, The Grand Duke, as a member of that liberai party Which is fast Huropeantzing the Muscovite Emperor, Will see, no doubt, Muny prea, im America of the advantage of the policy which his party are pursu- ing; he will see many institutions which will now happily remind bim of the similarity to those of bis own country. Iu your republic he will see, as nearly 48 possivly can be, the type of his own village Com- mune, and, above all things, he will see wha! he will never forget—that it is possiole ior forty millions of Peopie to govern themselves and be happy without any arvtocracy, AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN RESOURCES. Ifhe should take @ journey to the Rocky Moun- tains he wili be enabea to Compare the wealth of that region with that now hidden in the bowels of his own country, He will there see before him what man caa do in overreaching the dificuities of inac- Cessibillty, clumate, &c., and surely will be induced to endeavor to unearth those fortunes of gold and siiver which now lie in Siberia only waiting the ad- vent of tne explorer, and which riches are, I believe, vastly greater than anything you have or ever had in America. Should be pay @ visit to the oil regions of Pennsylvania he cau tell you, with truth, of the sume riches which exist in his father’s empire, and which again are ouly waiting for the operator. ‘THE HOME OF ALEXIS, He can point with pride to the vastness of those dommions trom which he comes, and can tell you that be beheld in an ethnographic exhibition in. Moscow specimens of all the peopies who acknowl- edged te sway of bis imperial father, and that those races commenced with an Esguimaux and endea with a copper-colored fire worshipper. He wil! possibly hold out for your observation a map of his father's kingdom, and, with his finger proudly pointing to a lite spot in the middie thereof, tell You that on that spot exists an Obelisk with the word “Europe” on one side and ‘*Asia” upon the other, and that standing thus, with one 1oot 1n Europe and the other in Asta, those dominions a0 not end for some three thonsund miles oa either side, RUSSIAN CUSTOMS AND AMERICAN PRACTICES, You will hear mauy things to show you that seve- Yal similarivies exist between the Russiags and Americans, In the houses of the better class the inthe daily habits Of the saine classes the same similarity exists, ‘Tne appearance of Aiuerican ladies approaches more to that of Russian ones than any I have seea, and certuinly in extravagance of dress there is noining to choose between the two. But lest Ishoul! be supposed to be giving a 100 glowing account of What has been sach an abused peopie, it is only honest to remark, that in intetligence ‘the Grand Doke will not be able to compare his own better class of people with their compeers in Amer. lca, Here he will notice a great falling off, and Americans must not think that all Russians are like the Grand Duke Alexis. Naturally, as a uaval man, he cab much beiter himself give you a good account of what Russia is doing, and 10 listeniug to witat he upon that pot you must remeiaver that this brauci of the service is presided over by his uncle, the Grand Duke Constantine, one of the most liberal of Russian liberals, THE ARMY OF RUSSIA ig a subject which has been so often and so pe, thoroughly expiamed and particularizcd that it would ve only wasting your space to dwell upon it. Sudlice it to Say thut the Guards, sume 40,0v0, are the finest equipped and mounted wen in the world, whereas the figoting‘or cominon regiments are as ordinary soldiers a3 can be met with. UNITE THE TWO COUNTRIES WITH AN BLECTRIC BOND. It is a great pity that the project of the telegraph to join the two countries—Kussia and America—fell trough. } look upon it as a great misfortune in a doubie point of view. It would have done much to consolidate the good feeling between the two coun- tries, aud would have been of great good to the World as ripe g: meaus of communication with Awerica and the West, instead of the temporary one which only now exists througn the sufferance of the sea asits bottom. That THB VISIT OF THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS must have an immensely interesting bearing op bota America and Russia there can be no doubt. Lie will see in America-aud, seeing it, he is exactly the man to profit by it—that very natural instinct of “go-abeadativeness’’ which will be so valuable to his own countrymen. Jt 1s the clement most of ail pine tnat is wanted to push along Russia. She as Hin & slau # backwardness for so many ears that naturally thé ‘go-abead” feeling comes but slowly. He will, moreover, see of what ay ood citizens are where ‘cach man belore lian 38 qual, and where the accident of birt gives no advan: tages, and, Onuily, he wil see the utter uselessness of his OWN arisidcracy, & people which, I again re- peal, are of no use to apyvoly and only an awfa) hulsance in their own empire. AN LMPARTIAL GLANCE. In the above remarks 1 have tried to lay before the American people a tai, trae aod mparual view of the great Kussian empire as it now exists, 1am well aware that many of my remarks will occasion surprise, and that ior most people this picture of Russia will be @ new, us I hope it will S€ W pldasant onc, fo. them, _ But Rusya and the Russians mist be an Interesting subject. to every thmking American, and 1 believe, after reading my remarks, the reader wili bear me Out In my opening assertion, that this 1s a most fa- voravie Ume tor a Rassian Ambassador of the type ot the Grand Duke Alexis to go on a visit the great repubiic. He is not an aristocrat in his tdeas, aid Amvassadors with aristocratic teudencies aro noi wanted tn these times and can never succeed in making themseives agreeavie to the Powers to whom tiey are accredived. In conclusion, | must observe that Lam neitaerussian nor American, but that { have long pictured to myself the rising up of 9 miahty nations: Wein may Ue called thd @ni- and I believe inat when wence and free trade have entirely prevailed over bigotry aud conservatism, and by these means nattonalities are destroyed and man is simply man before his feliow men, then will rise up two cnor- mous kingdoms—the great Northern State, whose fag will oat over and thander from continent to continent, as the fag of the United states of America Will Wave over and thunder {rom ovean to ocean, WILSON INDULTRIA\ SCHIOL, The Place to Get Work Done, At the corner of Eighth street and avenue A is a Jarge lnaustriai school, where ail day 226 girls, of all ages, may be seen busy with their tasks, These girls are from the poorest classes of the clty—giris, in great part, who have lost either jather or mother, and who would be begging in the strects were they not in this school. Here they bave a comfortanle asylum through We day, a good dinner, and, besides the ordinary lessons, are all taught sewing as soon as they are old enougn. The Lutte ones piece together the bits of calice ‘hat the Wholesale merchants give to. the school, and make quits and garménts, which they are allowed to lessons and good deportment. The oier poptis work in the outitumg and dressmaking depart. ments, and are paid accoraing to the usual rates of work. All Kinds of undergarments are veautisaily made and for a very low price, The dressmaking depuartinent is under the charge of a Competent su- perintendent, and the work 18 done as well ay at aby odisie’s establishment aud at a much lower Ogure, The managers of the schvol desire to em- ploy as many of the girls as possible, ana to keep them from going into siups and factories and from being thrown upon tielr own resources, 1 they thereiore very justly solicit the patronage of ladies Who wish to aid the msucution and at the fame lime get their work done cheaply and weil. Here is a chance to begin at the very root of a great duany trou It hulies will take the trouble to go to this schoo! and see for themselves, and then carry thelr work there, they can heip without any rac- rillce, Indeed with @ saving to themselves, to keep | young giris in an insttution that exercises over them the protection of @ home. patronage the greater number of ployed from the ranks of the acboo! ‘Two hunared and twenty-five girls, cating their dinnera of beef soup aad bread, standing at deal tables, some of the cropped heals bo hiviier than the board! What a sight is this, and how 11 ougnt to appeal to the heart of every woman! llow mauy of these girls have in them the possibilities of nubie womanhood can only be ascertained by care and guidance. If they are leit to themseives, what then? Let women visit this school, carry vo it patronage apd heir donations if they tind it wortiy. ‘The larger the girls can ve om. Aft AWAY SLAVE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF LOUiS1ANA.—In Lit the year 1841, appeared the following advertisement, prefixed by the iuevitavie cul represenuug a run: away slave:— $6 Reward.—Run away from the sabsonbers, on t November ja ne.ru boy, Oscar Dunn, an to tue plastering trade.” He is of gritve eotor, bet And twenty-one years of age, and about five feet ten or eleven inches high, All persone are cautloned otto haror seid boy under penalty of the law. WILSON & PAITRKBON, cor ner of 8, John and Common mreets, ¥ ona tice wenty The negro bor, Oscar Dunn, Is now Lieutenant Governor o} Louisiana, New Orleans Mecayune, during | buy, With the marks of merit that they get for good i | sort of a twilight, ana then all was darkness THE HOOSKC "OYE, | ene one Au Inspections py Railroad Super. | jatende ats of the Greatest T’ gnnel in the Country. Tle Progress aud Prospects of the Mammoth ‘Work. Graphic Description of % Two-Mile Ride Into the Bowels of the Earth. Stage Journey Over the Sierra Nevada of New England in the Midst of a Thun- der Shower and Snow Storm. Banquets on the Rail, at North Adams and Fitchburg. Boston, Noy, 13, 1871. ‘ome up to Fitchpurg t-morrow morning on the. seven-thirty train and join a party of railroad superintendents in an excursion tu the Hoosac Tun- nel.” This was the brief and significant telegram received by the HERALD correspondent. a few days | since, from Mr. Raggies, the veteran manager of | the Vermont and Massachusetts and Troy and | Greenfield Railroads, I accepted the invitation, | and, together with some thirty or forty of the prin- cipal railroad men of \!: country, witnessed the + progress and work in wha tll ina couple of years hence be the longest, lar: >:t and most complete tannel on the American Continent, and only second tg any in the whole world, 1! is generally admitted, J believe, that this country can boast of no | modern enterprise whatever in connection with the building of railroads which begins to approach in magnitude and diMcuities surmounted that of this very Hoosac Tunnel. It 1s one of those great Works which, when once viewed and fully compre. hended, seems as if it was wrought by nature rather than by the ingenuity and perseverance of man, Apart from the commercial advantages which will be derived from it by an increase of fa- cilities for transportation between the East and { West, the work will be an important one as showing the progress, in spite of ali apparent natural ob- structions, which the Americans are making in the matter of railroads, ‘twenty years, yes, even ten Years ago, some of the best engineers in the country declared that a five mile tunnel through the solid rock of Hoosac Mountains was an impossibilty, and that none but. the insane would seriously tolerate such av idea fora single moment. There were others who hed faith in the undertaking, and 80 clearly was the feasibility of the enterprise ex- plained to various Legislatures thit suficient funds were appropriated trom time to ume to carry for- ward the great work, and its completion within a couple of summers 1s now almost an absolute cer- tainty. THE PARTY OF VISITORS who participated in the inspection of the great en- terprise the other day was, a8 before intimated, composed of many of the most prominent practical | rauroad men in this section of the country,.and ; their examination of the tunnel was andoubtedly as entertaining and interesting to them as were the varions banquets furnished by Colonel Ruggles, the host, during the two or three days’ tour, and the various demonsirations of the people along the line of the Vermont and Massachusetts and Troy and Greenfield Ratiroads, Among the prominent super- Intendents iorming the board of Visitors and [Lx- atuination were Mr. blood, of the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg; Folsom, of the Boston and Provi- dence; Mr. Tucker, of the Flushing (Long Island) and North Side; Mr. Ladd, of the New Bedford and Taunton; Mr. Stone, of the Connecticut Valley; Mr. Waterbury, of the Naugatuck; Mr. Mulligan, of the Conuecticut River; Mr, Todd, of the Northern New Hampshire; Mr. Chamberlain, of the Concord; Mr. Kendrick, of the New Orleans and Jackson; Mr. Brown, of the Androscoggin (Maine); Mr. Stone, of the Providence, Warren and Bristol; Mr. Heywood, of the Fitchburg and Boston, and Mr. Cushing, of the ‘Joe Cushing’ Railroad (between Fitch- burg and Punchbrook). Others, prominent in faliroad life, but pot ney Tallrogd — super- artadiniat sae dies pene pa bers, including such as -Mr. Walter Ruggles, of the Lake Snore and Michigan Southern; George M. Towne, a director in the road penetrating the tunnel (and the man who has, probably, done more than all others combined to secure the completion of the great work), and Mr. Elvers, of the frm of Funcker & Elbers, the celebrated steel rail manu- facturers in Prussia, “Que INEVPPABLE SPECIAL TRAIN was provided to convey the party, and a very ele- gant one it was, too, Assistant Superintendent Cornee was the master of ceremonies so far as the train was concerned, and, under nis direction, it was very elaborately decorated both outside and in, It consisted of one drawing room car, one sleeping coach, one hotel or dining room car and one bag- gage car. The locomotive was most generously or- namented with fags, bunting and choice flowers, and on the tender on either sidg were various i Th Bk, Sree ee ~ mottoes Or juscrhiptions applicable to local events in some of the principal towns through Which cng Fate of gorgeously arranged train passed at ine forty or ity miles an hour, Gilmore's band, to the number of » dozen pieces, was along, and furnished such inspiring and enlivening music that some of the nsnaily staid and quiet railroad managers found it possible to resist the senpration to indulge ina moneutory breakdown, and thelr efforts in “shaking the light fantastic” were rendered somewhat ludi- crous by the rapla motion of the train. Between Greenfleld and the tunnel the inver man was re- | freshed with a very claver repast--one which, con- sidering the probable diMmeulues of a culinary de- partment moving through the country at lightning speed, was indced as remarkable as it.was elegant and complete in every deta A table, extending the full length of tbe dining car, afforded seats for the whole party, and the various courses seived embraced ail the delicacies of the season, A JOURNEY INTO THE TUNNEL, To pencwate the bowels of the earth a distance of @ couple of mules requires no sinall degree of nerve and courage, and when the party arrived at the eastern portal there ‘were not a few who Were ratiter | reluctant to undertake the journey. “I dun’t care | Particularly about it,” said ove, and “Tam atratd I Wii spoil my hat,” said another, and co it was with nearly two-thirds of them. Nearly every one bad an excuse of some kind, and the few brave ones, such as your correspondent, had to actually shanie the more timid Into witnessing the intertor of tne great work which they had come so iar to imspect, Finally all but half a dozen or so gatiered sumcient courage to enter, and those who were lef; benind (as Was found out afterwards) occupied the time by becoming accessories to crime in encouraging a vio- Jation O| (hat well kuown Massachusetts jaw which forbids the sale of sweet cider. THE MEANS OF CONVEYANCE INTO TRE TUNNEL was by no means @ luxurious and handily a com- fortable one, Half a dozen rade, maddy cars, ordi narily used for bringing out the debris of rocks a8 the tnnnel progresses, were all that were furnished, and these were drawn by a miniatnre double-ender Jocomotive. The contrast vetween this and the pa Jatial trains Which had just been left was puintully felt, bat very properly there were no complaints, When the company had got fairiy aboard Mr, Cornee wave use signal, and away We went into the dark- ness, For a moment we had a disinal, oe ane feriibie darkness too, The head-ll,nts of the | putian engine which pulled us in from the cheertul world withont were the only signs of lie, and these were obscured more than two-tlnrus of the time by the volumes of smoke which came from the loco- motive. At first tne company feygned to be de- lighted, but a8 the rickety oid dumpy cars began to in-rease in speed, and asthe track became appal- ingly roug, even those who iad io.iowed raiiroa ing ail tieir lives began to shudder and wisn then selves once more surrounded by the pure light of heaven. One of the number—& man whose voice | sounded like that of the superintendent Oo} a tailroad connecting Rhode Island and sassachusetis—at- tempted to manifest an enoyment Oo! bis ride, but his ejaculations of admiration were tn such a husky Tone that his real feelings were exposed. The tain | mouved very rapidly, aud as the speed increased the | jears of the nervous were correspondingly mule tpited, There were halt a dozen or so in each of the dumpies, and all clung to each otner | with 4 grasp not unlike that of the terrible deat grip itself, The light trom ihe entrance of the tun- nei had disappeared long, long siuce, for we were now upwards Oo! & mile inside the great vault or channel Ocoasionally the dim lautern of @ work- man ‘Was ooserved, but these and the now and then ght of ihe engine were all Ww anord reliel to yund and imdescrivable darkucas which we ere now becoming somewhat accits omed to, At Jength, afler a ride which seemed W have oocaped an jour, but was really not more than fifteen min. Utes, the speed to slacken, and a moment Javer the train. to a full and unpleasantly sud- aen stop, We were now pall a mile or more from ine of the ‘tunnel, the balance of journey had to be formed on fool, and a portion of the party under- it. The seupecname, Mt svould be sammsing Was now very many dey warmer which we had left, and overcoats and winter cloth- ing wero burdensome and uncomfortabie. Progress im the direction of the heading was necessarily slow, in consequence of the roc&y di bris and mumers | The ous gully holes filied with filthy water, the depth of | Which several unfortunate considerable accuracy. MOST INE: ones can testity to with Ag we approacaed a ; AL NOISE Ww more and more distinct, and mingled with the cessaut din and pounding ‘was a strange smell— an odor which noue could divine the cause of. Vue ot the workmen was uuiterrogated, and the reply wut itro-giycerine, damu you,” AS may be interred, this 1utelligence, so frankly aud em- Fegan imparted, Was nob. calculated to intensify he desire for further investigation, A halt was made and @ retrograde movement suggested; but Mr. Cornee, who had seea something of the tunnel beloie, assured the party thatit was ali right, and the pilgrimage into the profound darkness was re- sumed. AtJength the journey 1s accompushed, and Qinid & noise equal to the pounding o! a thousand i Hammers, in the presence of a murky set of ngs, each bearing @ headight in his cap and re- sembiing a devil more than a humaa, in the midst of ali these and other repuisive surrouns we have reached the eastern heading of the Hoogac Tunnel and are nearly three miles vistant irom the beanutul white lignt of day. ‘The purty made @ brief tarry here to get something of an idea of HOW THE TUNNEL Is BOKKD, and the contrivance was so simple, or their aptness for mecnunical instruction so keen, that only a very few moments were required to satisfy them. Ner- Vousness probavly had nothing to do with the brevity of their inspection. ‘The appara‘ us used tor Grilling is the invention of Cuaries Burleign, of Fitchburg, and 38 about the only contrivance that has been used with ane degree of success since the tunnel was commenced twenty years agu. It con- Bists simply OF a cylinder and piston, and is operated by the elastic force of compressed air, which 18 forced in through over two miles of iron pipes from the mouth oi the tunnel, the piston, the air turned on, and the instrament then pegs away with astontsning Jorce and rapidity, each siroke penetraung wu quarter of an inch mto the solid rock, When a suilicient number of holes have thus been made around the surface of the heading the ma- chines are removed and each caviiy is supplied with a metal cartridge tilled with nitro glycerine, and to each cartridge ia attached a wire, which is connec.ed ata distauce with the galvanic battery. The workmen then reuire to safe distances, the ne- cessary circuit is closed, and then there comes what is well described as a scund like all the noises of an earthquake and a thunder storfn rolled into one, followed by @ tremendous rush of uir toward the portal, and this is tae Way tne Hoosac tunnel 1s ng made. & RETURN TO DAYLIGHT. TH Asaiready intimated, the party did not care to linger long, and it was With joyous bearts that they found theuiselves again in vhe rude, uncomoriavie, but bdetoved dumpies. No elaborately up- holstered chair in the finest of Pulle man’s palace cars ever had the charms that & stand up position 1 one of these rough structures had for the professionai railroad men who had now made shelr first visit into the Interior of the Hoosac Tanunel. When all had embarked the engine moved out as rapidly as 11 came iu, but tne passengers were DOL so nervous. ‘Ihe experieuce, though brief, bad hot been without some effect, and a slight feeling of security hud succeeded that of peril Some meimbers of the band, who sad brought in their tnsirumenis, gave vent toa mediey of patriouc airs, aud their efforts were undoubtedly a8 much of a reltef to the vViitors as they Were nove: and astonismiig to the workmen. ‘Av we approached tne porta! toe train ‘Was stopped for 4 ieW muments to allow the parly to view toe litte speck of daylight as it appeared in the atstance. The scene was one of grandeur scarcely describab.e. As we moved towards i, aiter the train resumed tle journey, the brilhaucy lucreased, the outline became more ais- {Po the perature changed from temperate to rigid, tua aud ag We Gaened into the opeu world Gilmore's Musicians piayed the accompaniment while whole party joined in singing that touching ballad commencing, “Oh, ain't 1 gtad to get out of the wilderness!” “WHEN Will THB TONNEL BK COMPLOTBD was a question wich was often asked Mr. Ruggles ailer the visitors had witnessed and comprehended | its magnitude. and seen for themselves what wonder- ful progress 18 being made. . “sn about two years,”” Was his untiorm re] 4 aud from appearances it Is gale to gay wnat it will be ready for trains Within) =tnat time. ‘The length of the tunnel from portai to portal will be but a trifle short of five miles, watch is much longer than any exist- ing or prospective vunnel in this countrys ‘The long- est tunnel in the world 1s the Mont Cenis, just com- leled, and Which is sald to be seven miles and a length. The other great tunnels are te Woodhead, 1n England, and the Neuthe, in France, each aoout three miles in length; therefore, tne Hoosac, when finished, will be the secona longest in the World, and the only one of any magnitude on the American Continent, Work 1s now hey driven Irom botu ends, and from toe centre in tue direction of either end, and when the various yan.s have met the great work will be almost comp.ctod, Means for working in either direction irom tie centre were obtamed by the sinking of a shaft down through the top of the woun- tain. This immeuse hole, when tbe 19 Onished, will serve as ® Ventilator, and pure air Ulus be gained irom one end of we great tube to ihe other, AU the débris is now drawn up through bois huge Nole in mammoth eievators, and it is dige posed of quite us rapidly in this way as by the cars used at the east and west ends. ‘There is now somes thing over & mile to be completed, and this will pene. be anished witnin the period mentioned, ‘he total cost of expended, wil be about hine sullion doltarg, the whole amount a8 (0 be cancelléa by. REA? _ Posen ysel advantages to be de a4 his #Feat Taunel are omy those advantages which grow out of ail competition. Jt will furniab an ad- gitional thorough‘are between the East and West, and the business between the two sections has in- cseased so rapnily of lave as to absolutely demand increased facillti A RIDE OVER THE MOUNTAIX—A SNOW STORM AND THUNDER SHOWER, Pending the completion of ine tannel a consid- ‘The drill is fastened to | y the real genuine sky was visibie, | ' them back to the eastern end of the tannet back wus fraught wita ail the excitemens and interest of Lae one going over, excc tung, Snd'suow storm ue" wear was Sir . ir Wi though, and When the House, at the 01 end, was reached, thesew pailtuls of ‘Tom and Jerry which bad been pre} ed dowo With & Teoh retin. prepared Were sipped do A SPECIAL TRAIN (the same oue that brougnt up the party) was quickly dled, avd ina moment or two a was Yaplaty wend- Ing ite way toward Fiteni and Bostou. About the only sto, made was at Turner's Fails, where’ feria te ou ann ge BOWE Ea . eo my cousi. almost & Nagai is mo eno. ‘to ‘ne facile Several paper mills are being built inthe 4 ate neighborhood, others are projected, and, atto- gether, there seems to be a dove commercial, career iu prospect, ¥ THIRTY MILES IN TWENTY-NINE After ieaving the Falls a Ute feat in railroad travelling was performed, A favorable ‘of the road—distance thirty mules—was selected for the trial, and Mr, Folsom aud Mr. eywoou were ” appointed judges and tumekecpers. and they re ported thatthe distance was made in twenty-pine minutes. ‘Ihe party arrived AT FICCHBURG at three o’clock, dud were met vy carriages, which: conveyed them through the vartvus interesting por. tions of the town. A brief visit was made to the celebrated Joe Cushing railroad, recently opened; also to one of the principal hair aud chignon man- wiactories und to the mew and extensive water works in the suburbs of the town. Having “done? the town, x A BANQUCT AT THE FITCHURG NOUSE wound up the twodays’ festivities. Thé entertain’ ment was one oi those Drilligut adairs characteris- tic of only a few such places a3 veimonico's and the Fuchburg, and the speeches which followed were of unparalleled orullancy and eloyuence. When the cloth Was removed uyeriuteadent Rug- gies expressed the pleasure that it had afforded hi to mingle witn so many prominons rauiroat men the couniry daring the last tew days, and noped he would meet them all arouad the fesuve board again when the great work which: wuey had visited | was completed. The gues’s present followed in a f tunnel | | Shortly brought out at Booth’ s. | Mule, Nilagon 1m the title rote. series of remarks congratulut: s the Management of the enterprise upon ita success, and at the close all united 10 & youn: of cheers ivr tue Moosac Tan- nei and three times three for Mr. iuzgles. MU3I0 AND T> DS ala, Madame Viardot has accepteaa professorship a¥ the Paris Conservavwire, oy “golon Shingle” and “The Violtms” wi ve Signor Surasaie, the eminent violinist, bas re- turned to this city from Boston, On Monday Mr. Florence appear: as “The Ticket of- Leave Man” at the Grand O,era House. “Guarany,” the new optra vy se or Gomes, hag ‘been successfully produced at the P_rgola, Florence. Signor Luigino Ricei’s last work, “Un Curioso Accidente,” has been succesmully produced af Genoa. " ‘The sixth Sunday evening ¢ 1 ers to be given by, Colonel Fisk's Ninth Regiment vand at the Grand Opera House. “Le Pont des Soupirs” (Bridge of Signs) will bé ‘the next attraction of Almée’s 9 «ru bouge season at Lina Edwin's, The long-looked for novelty. season, “Mignon,’? will be prov u tne Itaitan opera cd lo-night, with Mr. E. L, Davenport pas made ‘ie Chestnut Street ‘Theatre the Wailack’s Of Pollades lua, und is on high road to fortune there. His Majesty the King of tne wucigians bas gra- cugusiy ousterred the houor ot aaizat of the Order the | Leopold on Sir Jules Benedic success at Wale mmolisned mane sotious. ; ce” at the Pittw taere is not ihe, ‘ance, Dat crowded “Rosedale is meeting with x jack's, The Elliott Grey of the ager bas lost none of its pristiue i xbe hundredth night of “DD Avenue is rapidly approachi slightest diminution of the awe: houses every night, Mr. E, ». Davies, the very cley-r ventriloquist at: the St. James, takes a@ benent tuls evening, and te talents he has displayed tu his iis eniitle him wa crowded house on the occasion, “Genevieve de Brabant,’ un vera bouffe by Offenbach, w:s produced for wie first time in Eng: land on Saturday. the 11th November, at thg Philharmonic Theatre, laitngiv Atelegram irom St. Petersucrg in announcing the successful commencemen: vu! tac opera season, states that on the opening nurht, on wiich occasion “Faust” was performed, siguor (rita Was slx Les called before the curtain, Madame Arabella Goddard, wise fame as @ Planist 1s world-wide, and wavs» artistic career hag been one of uaimterrunted succ: Curposes visiting this country next scason for a p:o.esstonal tour. She will recetve @ hearty Welcouw: tron our musicay public, s Tho Pattison Concert Troup:, this city for the purpose ot pres all such entertainments In the sw organized ip 1g coucerts w ISSIE BLYIO, consists of the following eminent aud ular | artists:—Mme. A. C. Martinez. ; ma donne Lied Ren Miss Barron, contrajto; \7. \v. J. Hill, tenor; Ir. E, Gildert, baritone, A Joon N, Pattigon, ‘Works, iMmciuding thas already { i erable passenger business is now done between. Troy and Boston, the journey o: seven or eight miles over the Hoosac Mountain being accomprished 1m stages, and the railroad taking tne Passengers to their respecuve qestinations from eitner end. It was by stages hat thay tone fy step are ee | superintendents were taken from the eastern portal over to the western, and from thence to the cele brated Chinese setilement of North tas, Tt required about a dozen stages, e: n six horses, to take the pany and t bir ented up and down the steep all Ing decuvities of he FehoW NER Hoses peal: o1 the party WO 'aq Sfossedl the Sierra Nevada and clared t, -waniains—and there were severdl—de- how's wat Witt ail the boasted perils of those re- “aed ranges ihey were positively insigaiticant when vompared with the dangers which, at first sight, seemed (o exist here. As tiey progressed on tmeir journey, however, they found that what from the base of the mountains seemed perpendicuiar thoroughfares were in reality but little more cle- vated Lhan the ordinary hills Which abound in Hins- dale and other portions of Berkshire county, When the party left the eastern side or the mountain a sharp thunder shower prevailed, but belore they reached tne summit of the pe kK there Was a smart snow squall, and @ frosty atmosphere decidediy uvcomlortabic, The ride, however, taken alto gether, was one of dehghtiul pleasure, and not the least of the pleasing features were the aimost uuimterrupted strains of Gilmore’s band, Which occupied the foremost stage. e tery steeds Of this vehicle were driven by Superintendent Ruggles, who handied the ribbons and cracked the whip With as much skill as ‘al Ricuardson” pim- self, North Adams was reached about tive o'clock in the afternoon, and straigutway preparations were made for A GRAND BANQUBT IN THE WILSON HOUSE. A repast of the most elegaut and elaborate de- scription Was prepared, embraclag everyiunng in the line of edivies “irom soup to walnuts,” and 1 sorts of drinkables from Piatra the choicest brands of Schneider. The party ate freeiy sparingly, aod when ther comfortably foritied there came ub of reason and flow of soul.” Mr, burg, presided, and in cal ng sentatives of the difierent railro: was remark. ably eloyuent and sparkling, Every one present had to make a speech of some sort or other. Some of the gentiemen were inclined to be humorous, and others had an eye to the bustuess interests which they represented, ‘The ups and downs of the tunnel were aliuded to at length, and Mr, Towne spoke of it as an undertaking and Achievement scarcely Jess than tual of the New YORK HERALD. “What that journal anol the newspapers of the world,’? he said, ‘the Hoosac funnel will be among the triumphs of acience and engineering skill.” Mr. Blood, of the Boston, Ulinton and Fitchburg Railroad, made the Most solid and serious speech of the evening. He Wok the ground that, as superimtendents, they should exercise the most watchiul care over every employé of their roads, and that they should ouly employ good And faithtulimen, and when such a man Was jouud the matier of dollars and ceuts should Not stand in the way of his retention. ‘These views Qnd others equally sensible he advanced for the beweit of his vrother uperintendents, and he hoped that they in tarn would entorce them upon Ule stockholders. Phe company did not break up Un il long aiter mednight, und irom that hour until and drank S.olachs were inevitable “feast Towne, of Fitch- various repre- dayoreak there were-iestiviiies less sormal, but equaily jolly, A VISIT TO SAMPSON'S CHINAMBN. On the following morning the whole party made @call upon Mr. Sampso: , We here of the North Aqams Chinamen, anu t man who bas probably done more (han ail orners combined to weaken We Crispin organization in West®rn Massachusetts. Mr. Sampson, alter welcoming the distinguished vis itors, turned them over 10 Charley sing, Who in turn took them tnrouga the establishment, Charle: insisted that his kin and Kindred were content, that they were as proncient in the art of shoemakin a8 any other body o: men im the country, and froin appearaces he was now far from we truth. Mr. upson expressed himself satisfied with thi as workmen, and the people of North Adams take Kindly \o them as fellow citi- zens, ‘They attend charch and evening schools, smoke tobacco instead of opium, prefer biraight Wiiskey rather than cold tea, and in several other reepects are becoming rapidly Americanized, BACK AGAIN OVER THE MOUNTAINS. From Sampson's the party retarued vo the hotel, where the six Lorse couches were in bad lager | Roderer and | is | | | ' i | B. wad solo pianist, This admirably seiecicd comp pear Brat at Association Hall, Pee Marie Taglioni—to give the grea: danseuse familar pame, oc phe pees of Verseui, i we propery suotis cal “Te Wi Bi 43 hor iuture days nN Ena and. It is not her wpe 1611 42 take any pare in theatrical matters or 16 appear dgam in the ballet. Most tempting offers ha e been made to her by different European managers, ait of which have been resolutely «leclined. it Is the lady’s intention to settle here for the purpose of giviag private les ons 10 ballroom dancing only. ‘The Baltimore Sun thus speaks of the recent pro- duction of **Don Gtovanni,” at "3 Upera House, by the Parepa-Rosa English op Troupe:—"* the characters were well sustained, Madame Pare- Leatigcoe ge her usual in p over her hear- hile the sprighuly au et oxi added to the welrrounded and oie mem Vi ndt, ag Zerline ie vence Of Mrs, ag wr eh wesue ner iiany friends by ner anon aid Wining perrormance. Mrs. Vam YZahdt te one of the most coarming of American Priaia donnas, having made her debnt tn this conn. ‘ty only a few years since, alter thorougt Euro) a tS a cultivation ana extensive experience in ue schools of ihe Old World.” On ‘Tnesday evening, the 21st instant, Theodore Thomas will cominence @ series oi five grand certs atthe Academy of Music, Philadelphia, ‘I success and universal appreciation with which wis organization has heen received throughout the country ias led Mr. ‘Thomas to increase the propor- tions of the orchestra, and bring It to a sull greater degree of perfection. This increase of ube orchestra resulted naturally from the vast réperioirv, embrad ing every branch of Binal fromm the symphony down to the dauce lorm, oniag bits hoi adhere. one atyle of masi¢. [is aim is to pay tribute to which is good, whether of the oi or new schools, and thue has gained the position of being the. creator and cousluctor of the best aud most verssula orchesira in the world. In aaditios to the other atar rformers of his tmproved orchesira Mr. Thomas as secured the services of the celebrated pianist, Mile. Krebs, who will appear at ali his concerts, The musical world of Italy ts in a dame; the great theatre of Bologna promises to vecome a battle field where the Qnest musicians, as well as the finest music, runs the risk of being executed. ‘The whole of Italy is at the present moinent gesticuiating, lalk- tog, screaming und roaring. because “Lolicngnp’? 1s Lo be played at Bologna, The King of bavaria ts golug from Munich, tue Princess Margharita ig. going from Rome, to ve present at the play. ‘The opera is taken as@ manifestation of purty. Tne republicans, headed by the Mayor of Bolozna, who claims to be the first discoverer of “ouengrin,” are in favor of the performance; the royalisis, Irteuds of Verdi, are determin:d to oppose the success of any rival of his tu italy. Again, the Princess Mar gharita is bent on patronizing ‘*Lohenzrm,” and the great critic of the Perseveranza, Dr. Filippi, in. vited to the festival (quite as solcian as that of oun), with d’Arcaijo and Braga, ali of them ‘cen. sortiats,”’ are decidedly in favor of tts auoption. THE ESCAPE OP THE COUNTERFEITERS. A reward of $1,700, in addition to @ reward ot $250 by Warden Tracy, has been offered by Colonel Whitley, of the United States Detective service, for ‘the capture of three uf the wen who escaped from Ludlow Street Jali om, Wednesday evening. The names of these men are Tim Ballard, Jim Quimby and Billy Brown. Ballard is a very dangerous character to be at large, inasmuch as he 1s a most su ceessiul counterfetter, The paper on which he ninted the forged bills was made by imself, and so closely resembled te genn- Ine. article that even the manuiacturers were deceived by its appearance. fe flooded yome parts of this country with his counterfeit notes, and Iie escape 18 2 great peril to the nation. One thousand doliars reward 1s offered for his capture, five nun- dred jor Quimby, and two hundred for brown. The Warden’s reward ig in addition to this. Quimby and Brown are both dangerous characters, the former having just been sentenced to tive years’ Imprisonment in the Kings County Peaientiary. There is evidendy some defect In the administration OF justice in the United Seatet Courts, or these risoners Would have been placed on thety tral Before this. There are nearly thirty prisoners now awaiting trial trom Colonel Wuitle; "THE FISK LEBEL, The Examination Next Saturday Moervings ‘The case of James Fisk, Jr,, charged with the pnd. Neatton of a malicivus ibvel on dirs, Helen Josephine Mansfield, haa not, it now appears, been sent to the Special Sessions, as at first reported, but will come up for examination at the Yorkville Police Uourt next saturday morung, Mr. Fisk’s counsel only elected that in the event of Justice Bixby's decision going against him tne case should then ve sent Vo the Special Sessions, Mr, Charles Spoucer and David Dudicy Ficid are to appear on behalf of Mr Fisk, while Mi. Ira snafer will lay down the jaw. on behalf of Mian Mansiaie : ‘8 department, pee *