The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1872, Page 6

NEW YURKK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBKUARY 27, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET), NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI —————— — = AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—CnossinG THE LInr— ALO BIL. 8T, JAMES' THEATRE, Twenty-eighta street and Broad- way.—MARRIAGE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth stroct.— THE Naw Duawa OF Divonog” ONY (ours sree. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tum BALLET PAN- TOMIME OF HuNPTY Dumpry, BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av. — JULIUS CaHbAR. WOOD'S MUSLU! ances afternoon and ev: ‘ondway, corner ‘:h st, —Performe ng—OUT AT SEA. WALLACK’S THLATRE, Broadway ant 1%ih strest. — Tae VETERAN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. and 28a sh— ‘Dew Freisouvts NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway Houston sts,—Tuk NalaAp QUEE: between Prince and MRE. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN z 8 Bat DeMonio. THEATRE.. 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OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. = Advertisements, ‘2—Adverusements, 3—Washington: The Alabama Claims and Fisk's Reply to Granville; the Quaker Gum Resolu- tion in the Senate; Frelinghuysen’s Piteous Appeal to Have That Blank Charge Drawn; Nye Annihilaung the “Liberals; ine House Passes a Kesolution to Inquire Into the Sales; Bilt Day in the House—The State Capital: The HERALD’s Erie Bombshell Failing at Albany; Gould’s Hosts Completely Routed; the Classl- fication Act Doomed; O’Brien’s Bill Causn oe be Ratlroad Panic; the Gas Question looted. ‘4—Pennsyivania: The Political Feuds of the Politi- gal Factions; Cameron and McClure; How United States Senators and State Senators Are Sometimes Elected: the Wonders ot Quincy; ® Little Gontest in Philadelphia Jeopardizing the Presidential Flection; Grant and Forney; Review of the Political Situation—Political Movements and Views—Yachting Notes—The Seamen’s Retreat: Leyislative Investigation Into the Alleged Abuses of the Institatlon— Suspicious Case—Fatal Elevator Casualty — The End of a Joke. S—Mayor Hall: Opening Proceedings in the Trial of Mayor Hall for Alleged Negiect ol Oficial Duty; The Pubiic Excitement; Great Array of Counsel on Hoth Sides; Only ‘nree Jurors | Obtained Up to the Time of Adjournment; Rigid Examination of an Editor as to Hi Claims Against the City and asa Sinecurist; The ‘Trial to be Resumed {iis Morning—Pro- ceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Probable Murder of a Policeman: The Roughs of the Nineteenth Ward on Their Muscle—'the Swindling Sirens Again—Rapid ‘Travsit. G—Eadiorials: “The Disconraged Democracy and ‘Their Presidential Embarrassmenis—Amuse- ment Announcements, —Mexico: Herald Special Reports from Matamor- ‘ag and Brownsville ; Military Report of the Op- erations in and Around Sah Luts—News trom Belgium, France, Spain, Germany and Eng- land—Miscellaneous Telegrams—The Came ign in New Hampshire—Weather Reports— ir. Dexter Hawkins and the St. Vincent's Hospital—Business Notices. 8—The Snow Blockade: Twenty-eight from San Francisco to Chicago: Travel Re- sumed on the Union Pacific Railroad—Muni- cipal Affairs—Financial aod Commercial Re- rts: Decline in Sterling Exchange; Stocks jp, Goid Vown and Money Easier; A New Pool in Northwestern; ‘the New Loan of the Oity—Tne Quarantine Investigation: Dr. Car- nochan Sustained and Approved—The Judi- ciary Investigation—Kings County Municipal Affairs—Anotber Suicide—Crushed to Death by a Rail Car—veath of a Distinguished Jersey e. @—Pugilism—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- ments. 40—A Clerical Scandal: A Baltimore Clergyman Oharged with Seducing Several Religious Pupils; Proof of Gailt and Flight of the Ac- cused—The Newark Coal Case—Ratlroaa Re- formere—The Kilian-Frear Election Contest— ‘he Tammany Society—Grand Temperance fovemeni: Meeting of the Catholic Total Ab- stinence Union of America at Baltimore— Obituary—Pabiio School Teachers’ Associa- tion—European Markets—Shipping Intelli- nce—Advertisements. 11—Advertisements, 42—Advertisementa, Days SgnaTor SAMUEL 8. LowERy was Assembly- man in 1870, This will be enough to put Gould and Lane on his track with their **youchers.” We shall see by his vote on the repeal of the Classification act whether they have been successful in finding him. Sgnator James H. GrawaM was a mem- ber of Assembly last session. He had better have retired to private life with that honor on his head if he should prove himself now a tool offthe Erie Ring by voting at its order pa repeal of the Classification act. Senator Loran L, Lewis was in the last State Senate. Erie connty has too many in- teresis at stake to suffer its representative to vote this year in the service of the corrupt Erie Ring. Senator Lewis must not be ‘‘seen” by Lane. Senators Benepict, WEISMAN AND Tir. | MANN are New York reformers, They would be traitors to their constituents and their prin- ciples if they should vote against the leading champion of reform, Senator James O'Brien, on the Erie Ra4road question. s anti-Ring men they are bound to vote against the cor- rupt Erie Ring. Sproat Despatcurs rrom Mrxico,.—The Heratp special correspondent in Matamoros, Mexico, reports by telegraph the news | despatch which we publish to-day. It is | dated on the 23d inst. The aspect of affairs | had not altered very materially, The military operations at and near San Luis Potosi were exceedingly active and the opposing forces becoming still more concentrated and numer- ous, It was conceded pretty generally that the fate of the republic would be decided -by the men in arms within a brief period of time. The revolutionists did not credit the report of Diaz’s deatb. American commerce on the border was making more decisive efforts to free itself from the consé- quences of the irregularities which prevail in the Mexican Custom House system. Sznator Groncz Bowen was in the State Senate in 1870 and 1871. He has been | reconstracted old-liners of the South ? | combination of this sort The Discomraged Democracy and Their Presidential Embarrassments. A hunter of the Rocky Mountains, who had become a cripple for life from his wounds received ina fight with a grizzly bear, said, in his relation of the terrible adventure :— “I thought I had the ugly varmint, from the No. 58 | lead I had fired into him; but when I had smashed my rifle over his head, and he had knocked my knife from my hand, and had closed on me and brought me to the ground, I felt discouraged, and gave the yell of a man who wants assistance.” And is not this the condition of the late powerful and self-reliant democratic party? From the collapse of the Charleston Convention of 1860 to the State elections of 1871 the ‘“unterrified,” confident in the elastic and recuperative powers of their party and its ‘time-honored principles,” fought bravely on, still hoping and believing that a popular reaction in their favor was close at hand, though losing position after position, from battle to battle. Thus, foot by foot, from one campaign to another, they were dispossessed of their strongholds on slavery, from the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law to the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, establishing negro suf- frage as the supreme law of the land. Nor even then did the democratic leaders abandon their purpose or their hope of upsetting the whole budget of radical reconstruction meas- ures, and of restoring the good old pro- slavery constitution of Buchanan, under which the normal condition of ‘Uncle Tom” was slavery, and under which, as defined by the Supreme Court, the negro had ‘‘no rights which a white man was bound to respect.” The democracy had given nothing but un- certain sounds of a recognition of these new amendments to the constitution, establishing the equality of the black with the white race in civil and political rights, when the New Hampshire election of March last came off. Their astonishing and wholly unexpected victory in that election, however, including three members of Congress, where they had hardly counted upon one, brought them out. They were dazzled by this glorious result; they hailed it as the opening ofa great and decisive political revo- lution, including the complete overthrow of radicalism and allits negro equality outrages. This cry from the revived copperheads of the North was taken up even by Jeff Davis in the South, in the recital at Selma, Ala., of his visions of the ultimate triumph of the “lost cause.” But while yet the democratic roos- ters, East, West and South, were crowing in this fashion over the March election in New Hampshire the April election in Connecticut came on, The republicans, accepting the challenge of Jeff Davis, fought their fight upon the old war issues thas revived, and, hand- somely recovering the State, they threw all this New Hampshire democratic fat into the fire. * Thus were the democratic leaders convinced of the folly of fighting any longer the issues settled by the war. Then came their “new departure,” accepting negro emancipation, equal civil rights and negro suffrage, as engraft- ed upon the national constitution. But this new position was a surprise to the general rank and file of the party, and, instead of promoting harmony and enthusiasm, it excited among the “old-liners” only distrust, disgust and indif- ference. And then came the damaging Tam- many disclosures, which drowned the clamors against the corruptions of ‘Grant's military despotism” in the general consternation ex- cited by the stupendous robberies of the Tam- many Ring. And so, from Connecticut to California, and back again to the seaboard, the defeat of the democracy went on, from bad to worse, until the awful crushing out of Tam- many in our New York last November elec- tion. This placed the democratic party of the country in the position of our Rocky Mountain hunter—disarmed, prostrated and helpless under the grizzly bear. The acknowledgment of a complete defeat and the cry for assistance have been heard through the length and breadth of the land. General Blair, Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz respond from Missouri, ‘“‘Lie still, we are coming with the liberal republicans to your rescue.” Sumner, from Massachusetts ; Trumbull, from Tlinois; Fenton and Greeley, from New York, and some trading carpet- baggers from the South join the cheering voices from Missouri, and the democratic party, “playing possum,” in pretending to be dead, is only awaiting the signal when it may bounce to its feet again. But here, in the very agents of relief, its embarrassments begin. Bring him to the pinch and on the issue of civil rights between General Grant and the opposition alliance, Mr. Sumner will go for Grant, not because he hates Grant less, but because he loves “Uncle Tom” more. Mr. Greeley has given notice that as the opposi- tion league against Grant will almost certainly ride the hobby of free trade he will not ride with it, because he will never abandon his hobby of protection while the rains fall and the grass grows. There is no place for Mr. Fenton outside the republican camp, and Mr. Trumbull is a dead weight toany party. And how can the democracy fuse with the labor reformers on free trade, when this new party has declared for protection ? And what mixed ticket and platform—liberal republican and democratic—can be com- pounded which will be acceptable to the un- What on the fifteenth amendment, can be made which will not ap- pear to Jeff Davis, Stephens, Toombs, Wade | Hampton and their followers as ‘‘a sounding | brass and a tinkling cymbal?” Will not the | Ka Klux Klans turn up their dainty noses at this abomination in any shape, and retire to their tents enraged at this surrender to the infernal niggers? In truth, the embarrass. | ments of the democracy are manifold, | They don’t know what they can do with these liberal republicans, and they don’t see what they can do without them. The Northern leaders appear utterly indifferent as to the wishes of the Southern fire-eaters, and the fire- eaters have at least come to this conclusion, that Grant, as a military despot, is more acceptable to them than such liberal republi- cans as Sumner. If the revolutionary Schurz were eligible for the White House, with the Ger- marked by some of his own party for his votes in those years, Will be dare to brave public opinion now by doing the dirty work of the Erie Ring and voting against Senator O'Brien's bill to give the stockholders of the Erle Railroad their rights ? ‘ man vote to back him, the case and the course for the democracy would be plain enough; but here is the embarrassment to Mr. Schurz, and we fear that by the time we have a con- stitutional amendment for hia relief it will be 4s useless to him as to Prince Bismarck. The democratic party, as things are, can do nothing better than the embarrassed Micaw- ber, in falling back upon his I. O. U. and in waiting for “something to turn up.” Perad- venture something may turn up again in the New Hampshire election to give the democrats a lift and set them all again shouting ‘Halle- lvjah!” Let us wait and see, Sznator Isaao V, Baxer, Jn., was a mem- ber of Assembly in the foul Legislatures of 1869, 1870 and 1871. The offensiveness of those sessions adheres to every member's skirts, Will he now add to the unsavoriness by doing the dirty work of the rotten Erie Ring and voting at their bidding against the repeal of the Classification act? A Slack List for Vena! Legislators. * The repeal of the Erie Classification law is a simple act of justice. No argument based on reason, justice or expediency can be urged against it. The law was passed by the pur- chased votes of a venal Legislature, It keeps in office men who are corruptly squandering the money belonging to the stockholders; men who pay bribes to disreputable adventurers for dishonest services on vouchers signed by a single director and falsely charge the amounts to legitimate expenses; men who drain the treasury of the road for contracts and supplies in which they are personally interested ; men who have pocketed millions of dollars belong- ing to the stockholders; who are alleged to have stripped the company of all its property except the bare roadbed, to have sold out depots, workshops, rolling stock, and every- thing within their reach, and to have made away with the proceeds for their own benefit. To repeal the Classification act is simply to restore to the dona fide stockholders of the road the clear, legal and equitable right of which they have been robbed, to elect their own directors. Ifthe stockholders desire to retain the present directors the repeal o Classification will not overthrow the Erie Ring. Ifthe present directors are holding on to the road against the wishes of its owners they are simply pirates who ought to be driven out by the law. These facts are so self-evident that it is cer- tain no honest legislator can vote against the repeal of the Classification act. The Senator or Assemblyman who refuses to give the Erie stockholders the right to decide whether they will retain or depose the present directors must either be bought up directly with the money so lavishly dealt out in bribes, or otherwise corruptly influenced in favor of the Ring. The Hxratp will there- fore publish a Black List containing the names of all Senators and Assemblymen who vote against the repeal of the infamous Classification act, and will keep it constantly before the people until every bogus reformer who sells his vote this year shall have been impaled on the sharp stake of public in- dignation. Sznator WEBsTER WAGNER was in the last Assembly. He knows how the machine was run that year. If he now votes as the tool of the Erie Ring he will be unable to sleep with a clear conscience even in a palace car. The Ice Dissolution on the Upper Mise souri—The Herali’s Warning Repeated. 'yhe information reaches us that the ice in the Missouri River has begun to break up at Fort Benton, Montana, As yet we have had no tidings of the loosening of the Upper Mis- sissippi nor even of the Lower Missouri, nor in any part of the northwestern country where the rivers have been sealed up by the Frost King. The Heratp took occasion a few days ago to advert to the climatic peculiarity of the regions extending from Eastern Montana to the coasts of British Columbia and Washing- ton, and known as the mild winter belt. The fact just alluded to, of the commencing of the ice dissolution in the extreme Northwest, where the rivers might be supposed most solidly frozen, is a singular and significant evidence of the just claim of that country to be regarded as one of the finest sections west of the Mississippi. No better evi- dence of its mild climate can be given than the early breaking up of ice in the river at Fort Benton. This will probably be followed at an early day by an extensive movement farther South, and the Heratp’s timely warn- ing to New Orleans may now be repeated with greater emphasis to that city, and also to the thousand flourishing towns and cities that lie scattered from Fort Benton and St. Paul to the lower valley of the Father of Waters. Now is the time to prepare for inundation all along the Western river valleys. Instructions have been issned, in anticipation, by General Myer, the Chief Signal Officer of the army, to all observers at stations upon the Western rivers to make special reports by telegraph of avy sudden or unusual change in the riv- ers, This will bo of the utmost service to steamboat men and the whole Western country, and will doubtless greatly tend to the preser- vation of property and life, and immensely increase the usefulness of the Weather Bu- reau. Senator Norris WrNstow was also State Senator last term. He is one of the men Lane will run after. By his vote on Senator O’Brien’s repeal of the Classification act we shall soon know whether Lahe has caught him. Germany, THE Jesvits AND THE RoMAN Caruotic Cuvrou.—The government of Ger- many is taking measures to prevent the agita- tion of the empire through sectarian agencies. The police of Posen have just searched a Jesuit establishment and seized and carried away a large quantity of manuscript and other papers. Prince Bismarck has defended his position towards the Roman Catholic Church in a speech addressed to the Prussian Legislature. The Premier complained of the animus which distinguishes the members of that body, moving them towards a system of demand for separate and exclusive faculties, acknowledged that he was annoyed by the course they had adopted in public, and pro- claimed that the government was for the empire and for the whole people and without any restriction or any preference in the matter of religion. The Premier paid a merited com- pliment to the Israelite population of the empire, Senator Danten P. Woop is an old legis- lative bird. He cannot be caught by chaff, His vote on the Erie Railroad bill will show whetber he can be caught by checks, Congress Yesterday—Seuaterial Courtesies— Smeaks nnd Hypecrites—Tho House Med- ley. The French arms resolution formed again the staple of the debate in the Senate yester- day, enlivened, however, by an episode grow- ing out of the previous discussion. It will be remembered that last week Mr. Morton had ridiculed Mr. Trumbull’s pretensions to supe- rior merit in connection with the civil service reform, and had even charged the Illinois Senator with being foremost among the place- hunters on behalf of relatives and friends. Mr. Conkling yesterday followed up the attack by offering a resolution calling on the depart- ments for a statement of the number of rec- ommendations for appointment to office made by Senators from Illinois, Mis- souri, Nebraska and New York—meaning Trumbull, Schurz, Tipton and himself. The discussion on this resolution evoked a good deal of angry feeling. Trumbull denounced it as a mean, contemptible business, and wished the inquiry to be still further pursued, 60 as to ascertain who the ‘‘sneaks” were who went prowling around the departments to pick up such information. He declared that civil service reform was not to be defeated or official corruption covered up by personal at- tacks on those who attempted to expose them, and he invited the administration Senators to “Lay on, Macduff, and damned be who first cries, hold, enough!” It would appear from this that Mr. Trumbnill contemplates no soft- ening down, but is determined to carry on a war of extermination, regardless of consequences to party or individuals. Morton took up the gauntlet thus flung down, and replied to Trumbull’s insinuation about ‘‘sneaks” by proclaiming his right to denounce “hypocrites” wherever he found them. He charged, more distinctly than he had done before, that Trumbull’s visits to the Executive departments, pressing appointments for relatives and friends, had been persistent and importunate, Under these circumstances, he wanted to know “who is the sneak?” Was it not the man who impugned the motives of his fellow Senators and talked about their hanging on to the skirts of power, while he himself had been one of the importunate seekers for office? Many more compliments of the same kind were interchanged, leaving a strong impres- sion that the Senate of the United States was composed largely of Tartuffes and Uriah Heeps. And then, after this resolution had gone over without action, at the expiration of the morn- ing hour the French arms resolution was taken up, and Mr. Nye, of Nevada, opened the dis- cussion with a sly hit at Sumner, whose anger towards the administration he ascribed to the removal of Mr. Motley, and he closed his speech with a parody on ‘Excelsior,” of which the burden was, ‘‘Anything to beat Grant.” Of course the Senate and the crowded galleries were highly amused and en- tertained. The proceedings closed with a speech from Mr. Frelinghuysen, of New Jer- sey, who complained that, although the charge of fraud had failed, the charge itself remained unretracted. The business of the House yesterday, as usual on Mondays, was a legislative medley. First a large number of bills were introducea and referred, among them one by Mr. Shella- barger, chairman of the Committee on Com- merce, for the encouragement of the foreign commerce of the United States. It appears, however, to be in substance the same bill which the Secretary of the Treas- ury devised some weeks ago, pro- posing a bounty to iron and wooden steam and sailing ships; and we have already given our views as to what the worth of that proposition is. Mr. Hooper’s Supplementary Civil Rights bill came up, but went over with- out action. Then there were a dozen disa- bility bills all rolled into one and passed, without even the names of the relieved indi- viduals being read to the House. Then a bill repealing the stamp duty on canned fruits and vegetables was passed. Then -proposi- tions to reduce the tax on pig tron to five dol- lars a ton, and to make the tax on manufac- tured tobacco uniform at sixteen cents a pound, were made and defeated. And finally the Deficiency Appropriation bill was taken up and considered uotil the hour of adjourn- ment. Senator James Woop can have no pleasant remembrance of the last State Senate, of which he was a member, especially since the failure of the Bowling Green Savings Bank. Then he borrowed money, it is said, of Tweed, and voted for Tweed’s charter. Ifhe should now vote against the repeal of the Erie Classi- fication act everybody will believe that he has borrowed money of Gould and Lane. SECTARIAN APPROPRIATIONS—THE CoMING Srrvaaiz aT ALBANY.—From the late pro- ceedings of the Union League Club reformers, including their very interesting statistics of sec- tarian appropriations from our State and city treasuries for several years past and their resolutions on the subject, and from the active movements, views and purposes on this branch of reform of Mr. Dexter A. Hawkins, as given in the Heratp, our lawmakers at Albany will have to face the music on this im- portant question. The subject is a broad, important and exciting one, and when broached in the Legiflature we shall perhaps have a discussion which will carry the con- troversy into the Presidential canvass. Very well; let our Legislative Solons, when called to meet it, dispassionately endeavor to settle the question according to ‘the supreme law of the land,” and there will be no trouble about it. JupaE RopeRtson will vote in favor of the repeal of the Erie Classification act. He is an honest man. Senator Madden may vote against it. He is an honest man also, but sadly wrong on the Erie question. Tne Winter East aNp West.—This winter, east of the Mississippi to the Atlantic coast, has been remarkable for its comparatively light snowfall, while west of the Mississippi to the Sierras Nevada, the eastern bordering mountains of California, the season has been as remarkable for its unusually heavy snow- fall, and throughout California for its deluging rains, It is probable, however, that our de- ficiency in snow and rain for the winter will be more than supplied in the spring and the summer, while from the great Plains to the Pacific their winter's supply this time will carry the farmers and the miners nicqly Adrovgh their dey a9gs0r. Sumarors Parues, MoGowass, Dicxmmon ailp Omanzzs H. Apaus bear good reputations. Let not one of them sully his good name by Voting against the repeal of the Erie Classifl- cation act. There is no argument to be used against it, and the recent bribery disclosures show that Gould, Lane and their associates dread its passage more than anything else, and are prepared to pay liberally out of the stockholders’ treasury for its defeat. These three Senators cannot afford to vote for com- victed bribers, Sackeloth and ashes, those traditional’ em- blems of the penitential season of Lent, are not considered as having any affinity with the glitter and glare of the footlights, and there- fore managers have slways been accustomed to take a reef in their financial sails at the close of the gay carnival season, and prepare for rough weather during the forty days that separate them from the still gayer Easter holi- days. Buta change has taken place, in fact, this extraordinary season of music, and the drama has been go revolutionary in its character that it has obliterated many of the distin- guishing features of its predecessors. Lent has come, and the managers, to their surprise and delight, find no change in the public mind toward them. The same crowds flock to Wal- lack’s, to the inimitable performances of ‘The Veteran,” as they did when they were allowed their full complement of meals per day. “Julius Cesar,” at Booth’s, has experienced a greater loss in the departure of its Cassius than from any undue ascetic feelings on the part of its patrons, The admirers of the Fifth Avenue do not seem to be divorced from their allegiance by abstinence from flesh meat; pantomime gathers as many laughing followers under the folds of its banner at the Olympic as if there were no extra prayer meetings in question, and the goat and snake at Niblo’s still hold brilliant receptions, Even the remarkable feat of the Fabbri German Opera Company, in. giving eight performances in one week at the Grand Opera House (a very dangerous expe- riment, calculated to render every member of the company voiceless), met with a fair share of public attention. The prospects of novelties during the season of Lent are very encourag- ing, as the managers are emboldened by the liberality of the public. In the musical line the principal attraction will be the farewell engagement of Mlle. Christine Nilsson, at the Academy of Music, which commences next week. Although the disappointment of the numerous admirers of the Swedish Night- ingale at not being afforded an opportunity of witnessing her grandest impersona- tion, the rdle of Ophelia, in ‘Hamlet,’ is intense, yet all are desirous to make her farewell as brilliant as her début. She will appear in the 7dles of Mignon, Leonora, Mar- tha, Marguerite, Violetta and Lucia, which delighted the New York public for forty nights during the fall and winter season. As the management announces that the days of opera “spasms” are past, and that the institution of Italian opera has been rescued and endowed with vitality, we may expect mise en scene, appointments and ensemble in the operas in which Mile. Nilsson appears far surpassing those which marked the presentation of these operas last fall. This will be a welcome feast during Lent, and will whet the appetite of opera goers for the epicurean table set for them in the Academy of Music on Easter Monday, when Madame Parepa-Rosa, Miss Adelaide Phillipps, Herr Wachtel and Mr. Santley appear in Italian Opera. Srnators Coox, Jarvis Logp, Jonnsom, HarpensurcnH AND Henry C. Murpuy are democrats. Can they afford, on principle, to vote against a bill that simply gives the stook~ holders of a corporation the right to choosed their own directors by a fair election instead of being ruled by an oligarchy? Can they afford to desert Senator O’Brien, a democrat like themselves, on such an issue? Personal Intelligence. United States Senator William A. Buckingham, of Connecticut, is gt the Fifth Avenue Hotel, J. Hanscom, Chief of the Naval Bureau at Wash- ington, 1s at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Amos A. Lawrence, of Boston, is sojourning atthe Albemarlo Hotel. Colonel Stanley G. Whiting, of the British Army, 1s quartered at the Grand Central Hotel. General ©. A. Whittier, of Boston, is stopping at the Hoffman House, Admiral C. 8. Boggs, of the United States Navy, has taken quarters at the Glenham Hotel. Colonel George W. Riddle, of Manchester, Eng- land, is domictled at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Captain 8. G. Cabell, of Alabama, has arrived at the St, James Hotel. Captain R. B, Lowry, of the United States navy, is temporarily residing at the Kverett House. ~ Judge J. L. Henry, of North Carolina, is among the sojourners at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Colonel James McQuade, of Governor Hoffman's Staf, is again at the Gilsey House. Judge Luke P. Poland, ex-United States Senator, and at present member of Congress from Vermont, was at the Grand Central Hotel yesterday. Juage Hartwell, of Oregon, is among the sojourm ers at Earle’s Hotel. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Niblo’s. The “Black Crook” has at last given way to @ rival spectacular drama—‘‘Ine Naiad Queen.” But. acting perhaps on the principle that a rose under any other name would smell as sweet, the manage~ ment have left the “show” part of the entertain, ment much the same as ever; indeed, tt 1s doubtful if the ballet and ‘‘variety” ele- ment is not even more prominent im the new piece than in its predecessor. Scaaty, indeed, are the remnants inthe way of dialogue of the well-known “Lurline.” Still they framework of the story has been preserved, and new and strikingly good scenery has been painted to illustrate it. The music has also been paruy changed, and the novelties were singularly succesa- ful, The greatevent of the evening was the ap- pearance of Mile. de Rose, who was one of the prin. cipal go ee sae “White Lita Lat Mind ago. Her dancing belongs, perhaps, & little decidedly to the violeutiy gymnastic school; but it is never positivery ungraceful, ana ner feats exhibit so much vigor and power, and are besides in many cages so strikingly novel, that it was not wonderful they should be greeted by the house with extravagant storms of applause. Ce Adrienne also met with signal approval. Santiey, Miss Lee and Arthur Matthison each have new and they rendered them wit Sore Ree er spirit effect, and it might further Sgnator Witu1aM B. Woopm cannot afford | be sald that they improved, as far as they were able, the opportunities afforded them by the dramatic portion of the piece, but these were, of course, too slender to i pepe criticism. Last night a new snake was introduced: in Sasai’s charm dance, and proved much liveliert than his predecessor, which has died after a short. but successful run of a couple of weeks. At the end! of the scene, when hé ought to lie still on the stage, he, indeed, snowed such decided symptoms of an erratic disposition that the ballet girls had to recover to vote against Senator O’Brien’s bill to repeal the Erie Classification law. His raflroad committee has drawn public attention to him. It was too decidedly in favor of the railroad rings. A vote in favor of the bribing Erie directors now would bear a decidedly ‘‘fishy” appearance. mm oher = di little sooner: Hit back in the badiet, ‘The remaining best fear im back in ske' e (ea- Rumored New Proposition for a Settle- | tures of the “Orook’’—the magic fountain, the ment of the Alabama Claims. troupe of trained animals, the little old men, the Spanish minstrels, and, last and greatest of all, the oy goat Alexis—are all retained, and all met wi their usual meed of favor. ‘The Natad Queen!? only runs during the present week and will then be positively removed to give piace to the appearance of Mrs. John Wood. Grand Opera Heouse—“‘Don Giovanni.” The geognd week of tue Fabbri German opera opened last night With Mozafils che? dieuvre be- fore a fairly filled house. The cast was the same as at the Stadt Theatre—Mme. Fabbri as Donna Anna, Mile. Rosett: as Donna Elvira, Mlle. Anna Elzer as Zerlina, Jacop Muller as Don Giovanni, Carl Formes as Leporello and Carl Bernard as Don Ottavio. Mme. Fabbri and Maller repeated the success they achieved in the Bowery, and Mile. Rosetti sang her selections admirably. Mlle. Eizer, in spite of ng and most terrible attack of ilineas, did wonder! well, and gave evidence becoming one of the best artists on the operatic There isarumor in Washington that our government would be prepared to accept a settlement of the Alabama claims by the pay- ment by England of a round sum of fifty mil- lions of dollars. It is said, too, that a banking house has been authorized to make the propo- sition, This seems to bea peculiar way of reaching a settlement. Still, if the statesmen and diplomatists fail in the object and there be a deadlock among them, some indirect plan of overcoming the difficulty might be adopted. The payment of a round sum, if the amount could be agreed upon asa final settlement, would relieve’ both governments from the present embarrassing situation and might dis- pense with the Geneva arbitration entirely. It would be, perhaps, the best solution, if not the only one, under all the circumstances. But the proposition should come from Eng- land, as she has protested against the treaty, or our interpretation of it as it now stands. We are prepared to abide by it and the decision of the Geneva arbitrators under it, and therefore have really nothing new to pro- pose. If, however, England wishes to get out of the difficulty she has placed herself in, and would in a friendly way propose other terms of settlement, our government might listen to een pigor of her great abliities as an “A Night in Granada” will be presented this evening. We would advise the management to at- tend a little more to the ensembie, tor at present it 1s simply atrocious. Theatre Comique—“Ixion.” ‘The gentle sisters yelept Worrell appeared at this theatre last night before an overwhelming audi ence. The Msping Sophie, the divine Irene and the vivacious Jennie brought the house down by their various and wonderfully constituted styles of performance. There 1s little difference in the sisters from the time that they made the steeple of the old New York Theatre Te-echo vit the plaudits of their admirers, and young New York will, probably, during the term of {heir engagement at the Comique send bouquets and Jewelry (not from the Dollar Store) as plentifully ag when their names were attached to manageriat them. bills, and employés brought inestimable gems (cash ‘on delivery) to be presented on their own s Senators Amzs, Fostgr, CHATFIELD, Har- | The great spectacle of “Chicago Before, During and* ROWER AND ALLEN will be closely watched on | Aer tite Oly, OOS cemupieention Ct the Erie Classification vote. If they desire to figure in the Hzratp’s Black List let them go over to the paid legions of Lane. The Legitimists in Antwerp—Great Growing Confusion. Our news from Antwerp makes no more mention of the Congress of dethroned mon- archs, The Count de Chambord seems to be the only person in the town who commands apy attention, What the Count intends to do or expects to do, whether he is making any real progress, whether he is or is not likely to make a descent on France, are questions which we have no means of answering. It is a fanny thing all through, this Antwerp busi- ness; but the funniest thing in the whole affair is that the big, fat fellow is inspiring the Bel- gian authorities with fear. Great excitement, it is said, prevails in the city, The gen- darmes have actually found it necessary to charge upon and disperse the crowds. Seve- ral persons have been wounded. The citi- zens, who are arming themselves with all sorts of weapons, are determined to expel the strangers, and the authorities, apprehensive of serious disturbances, are making extensive preparations to suppress rioting. Although there is but small chance that his legitimist friends will carry Henry the Fifth in triumph from Antwerp to Paris, it is not at all impos- sible that this whole affair, very ridiculous in itself, may lead to some important results. prethanttisad ~°STe Tae Prorie or Axtwerr calculate that there will be a million of strangers added to the population of the city before, evening to-day. Good for tende, Wml. ROPT, Hews, (or Brooklyn Theatre. John Brougham’s romantic play of “Bel Da monto’’ was presented for the first time to a Brook- lyn audience last night. The mounting of the piece was in harmony with the elegance of the appear- ance of the theatre and with the reputation that this house has obtained in this regard, There was large, effective and talented cast the Principal of which was Mr. Frank he, ‘who sustained the character of Angelo. Miss Min- mie Conway was admirable as Margaret, and sus- tained oth her histrionic and vocal accomplish- ments exceedingly creditably. Miss Ella Burns had @ true conception, and was successful in the por- trayal of Lena. The plece will run for several nights, and 1s likely to bea great success. There was a large attendance, which will be nightly aug, mentea as the plece grows in favor. The original music of the play 1s retained, and the orchestra was successful in its rendering. Metropolitan Gorsip. “Richard the Third” 1s in active preparation at Booth’s Theatre. Lieutenant Cole, ventriloquist, will shortly visit America, aria will open at Niblo's Garden, this city. ‘Albert Alken has secured Lina Edwin’s Theatre for a short time, commencing on March 11. McBvoy’s Hibernicon unrolls at the St, James ‘Theatre, this city, on April 1, and continues for two months. jon returned to New York from the pete Hon the 2ist inst. She had to forego her California engagement in consequence of the snow viockade. Conrad and his two begs, also David powiey snd Harry Raynor and brother, left for Eng~ jand on the 24th inst., under contract from Colonel ‘T, Austin Brown to appear In London, Provincial Gleanings. Emmet was in Troy all last week. The Richmond, Va., Toeatre closed its season on the 24th inst. The Chapman Sisters open atthe Opera House, Rochester, on March 4. Kate Denin plays the principal 76’e in “Divorce!? at the Opera House, Rochester, next week. Ada Gray is the star this next week at the Fifth Avenue Upera House, Pittsburg. Turck Marius takes out a travelling dramatia qQmavanLiok a tour West. commencing March %,