The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, a Reformation in the Sudsidy Business, NEW YORK HERALD Pactfo Railway Tanuicnenenss Us Have BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Rejected communications will not be re- AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston ets,—POLL AND PART: between Prince and Jor. WOOD'S MUSLUM, Broaaway, corner $9th st. ~Perform- ences afternoon and: evening HUNTED Down. 7” FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, T a _ eee E, Twenty-fourth street. 8T, JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-sighth street and Broad- way.—Maokvoy's NEw HIBERNICON. Matinee at 2, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—ANTONY AND CLEO- PATRA—SHOE BINDER OF LYNN, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—ITa. OpEnA—It TRovATORE. ge asas BROADWAY THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— GOLD. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tue BALLET PAaN- ‘TOMIME OF HUMPTY DUMPTY. Matinee at 2. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty. we PLOT AND PASSION, hirdat., corner Sixth av. 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ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— near Fourth st.—Granp April 10, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. ar Advertisements, 2— Advertisements. 3—The State Capital: Eighty-eight Bills Passed in the Senate; The Question ot the Charter Tabled; Senator dames Wood Not Expelled, Dut Mildly Censured; The State Registry Act Passed; Reorganization of the Board of Emi- gration Commissioners—The Supply Bill— Floods and Fresnets—News from Washing- ton—Aquatics. . 4—Financial and Commercial: Persistent Strin- po in ihe Money Market; the “Bear’’ Clique still Withholding the Locked-Up Greenbacks; Their ‘Triumph in the United States Court; Stocks Dull and Feverish ana at the Close Weak and Lower; the Gola “Pool” Let Gold Of a Poit or Iwo; the Wail Street Lock-Up; the Money Market Still Tight; a Card from the Ursa Major, Dan Drew; Proceedings in tne Courts—The Committee of Seventy: A Woful Watt Over the ‘Mutilated Charter’!—The Mar- Ket Savings Bank—Worthy Foirs—Horrivie Murder im Maryiand. S—Interesting Proceedings in the United States, New York and Brookiyn Courts—The Tombs ‘Trouble—The Burglar’s Fate—attempted Mur- der in New Haven—Allegea Wife Murder— Obituary—Marriages and Deaths. G—Eilitoriais: Leading Article, “Pacific Ratlway ‘islation—Let Us Have a Reformation in the Subsidy Business’’—Personal Intelligence— Music and the Drama—Amusement Announce- ments. %=—The War in Mexico: Reported Capture of Puebla by the Revolutionary Forces; Great Pantc in Matamoros—Cable Telegrams from England, France, Germany, Spain, Rome and Traly—The Metarie Kaces—Amusemeats— The Bar Association—Business Notices. S—The East River Bridge: Rink Reform Com- mittee Overhauling the Accounts—Installation of @ Pastor—Homicide in Willlamsburg—Ad- vertisements. 9—Advertisements. 10—The French Arms Fiasco—Rapid Transit—The Stuyvesant Bank Difticulty—The Robeson In- vestigation. w Jersey Charter Elections— Packer Collegiate Institute—Shipping Intelli- gencs—Advertisements, 11—Adver!isements. J2—Adverusements, Tne Look-Up or Money in Wall street is the chief topic and feature of that region nowadays. The “‘pool” still hold the money out of the banks and have so far defeated the prosecution in the United States Courts. It remains to be seen what will be done by the Congressional Committes. Tne Mosite Register—like the white man sometimes quaintly referred to—is ‘‘mighty onsartain,” One day it winks at the democ- racy supporting Judge Davis, and the next it cries out lustily, “Keep the flag up!” Senator James Woop was yesterday nicely whitewashed by his brother Senators, in resolutions proposed by Mr. Murphy as sub- stitutes for those of Mr. Chatfield. Action on the resolutions of expulsion is indefinitely postponed and the Senator is correspondingly happy. Tne New Ortgans Iepubdlican (Warmoth organ) declares that the Cincinnati Liberal Republican Convention is (to be) ‘‘a republi- oan gathering in every respect.” What is the name of that other organization which meets at the same time and has the same headquar- ters? Ab! The “party of reunion and reform.” A coalition of this party, which is composed of the veriest soreheads. of all par- ties, will, of course, help to make this Cincin- nati Liberal Republican Convention ‘a repub- lican gathering in every respect.” Iptz Rvumors.—Queen Victoria, as all our readers know, has just returned from her visit to Germany. This German visit has given birth to all sorts of idle rumors. It has been associated in the public mind of England with the marriage of the Queen’s youngest daughter, the Princess Beatrice. It has been stated that the Queen went to Germany to see the Princess Mary of Cambridge and dissuade her from seeking a divorce from her husband— a divorce which would scandalize English society and bring disgrace upon the royal family. It has also been said that the Queen really intends to abdicate and that her visit to Germany bad relation to this determination. It will not surprise us to learn that each and all of the rumors are idle, It is simply absurd to talk of the Queen's abdication, Why should she abdicate? Would the British people per- mit it if she wished to take such a course? And why should she go to Baden-Baden to make arrangements for carrying out sucha purpose? It is one of the characteristics of these times that people ia high position cannot move without giving oocasion for suspicion aod scandal, We care nothing whatever for General Negley’s particular resolution in reference to the management of the Union Pacific Railway, but we are glad to welcome any legislation that looks towards a thorough examination of our railway system, so far as it has been sub- sidized by the government. The Heraup has time and again called attention to the manner in which the government has been served by the great corporations who have shared its support, and the sensitiveness shown by Mr. Brooks, who is a government director in the Union Pacific, indicates a suspicious anxiety on the part of the managers. We are not in position to charge these directors or those who built the road with manifest violation of law. We desire to know if the law has been violated and to have certain ugly questions answered. If some of our demagogues in Washington were really anxious to investigate into something worth knowing they would take up our Pacific railways and give us the neces- sary light. The case is too plain, read as a simple statement of facts, to be neglected or over- looked. The Union Pacific Railroad was built in response to the general wish of the country for overland communication with California, A Commonwealth had grown up on the Pacific in less than a generation, our brothers and friends and children obeying the same laws and under the same flag. They were practi- cally isolated, as far from communion and intercourse with the A tlantic States as we are from Norway and Russia. So in time the country was menaced with what threatened to be a divided nationality. Considerations of love for the Union, not to speak of commer- cial and business reasons, made the building of thisroad a national measure. The Southern statesmen opposed it, as they opposed every measure that looked to the aggraudizement of the free West. Manifest destiny meant with them to go South, where slavery might follow. Mr. Buchanan gave a cold endorsement to the project as a bid for the electoral votes of the Pa- cific, but his administration took no steps towards its completion. Mr. Lincoln was elected upon a platform directly pledged to the enterprise, and when his friends took pos- session of the government a bill was passed providing for the work. A road was wanted, the country as it were commanded it bya popular vote, and Congress justly answered the country’s expectations. But we knew really very little of the business we proposed, Congress was groping in the dark. Little was known of the country to be traversed. We had had exploring expeditions and surveying parties, but their reports were dismal and profitleas, and rarely went beyond the culi- nary and sporting experiences of the officers who composed them. So when Congress came to endow this railway and grant a subsidy it gave money and lands enough to, build four railways. The bill as passed made the Union Pacific Railway the most richly endowed cor- poration in the world. The men who received this endowment built a single track in a hasty, shabby man- ner. Government examiners were induced to report in favor of its acceptance by influences which might be explained before an intelligent committee, for it all happened in the easy, happy times of the good Andy Johnsvn. While building the road the managers formed themselves into a ring called the Credit Mobilier and paid themselves the whole endowment. The profits of this Crédit Mobilier were enormous. The money and lands intended to make this Union Pacific Railway a real, gen- uine, lasting bond of union between the Atlantic and the Pacific were divertéd from their proper uses and made to aggrandize the few members of the ring. The ring has dissolved. The Credit Mobilier has faded away. The road in its stripped and famished condition has passed into the hands of Mr. Vanderbilt, whose genius for railway resusci- tation has made him a national benefactor. In bis hands it will be made, we trust, a benefit to the country. But what we want to know, and what the country is bent upon discovering, is, what became of the endowment voted to this railway by Congress? Who were the members of this famous Crédit Mobiller? What dividends were paid? Who were the men high in place who were repre- sented in the directory? How did it happen that Mr. Colfax and Mr. Blaine appointed committees to suit the interests of this combi- nation? What influence induced Johnson to name commissioners who would only see what the ring desired them to see? Who received the half million of dollars which an officer of the road testified he had expended in Wash- ington in ‘“‘behalf of the road?” This money was paid to somebody. The officer de- clined to give vouchers to the directors, as he regarded bis expenditures in the light of confidential transaction. What did he do with the money? It came from the sale of bonds which were given him by the people, and was the people’s money to be used by him in trust for building the road. He did not build a railroad in Washington, nor pur- chase rolling stock, nor erect statues, nor con- tribute it to the payment of the national debt. Now, when a railway manager expends a half million of dollars in Washington the inference is that somebody was confidentially bribed, and we cannot resist the conviction that somebody was bribed to connive at the violations of law which this railway plainly committed. In other words, a railroad which had been endowed by Congress in a magnifi- cent manner used the money which the coun- try gave it to enable it to bribe Congressmen to consent to the directors putting a large part of the endowment in their pockets, It may be we are wrong in this conclusion, but the facts as they are known can lead to no other logical belief. We insist that these facts call for a searching inquiry, and the foundation of a new and honest and states- manlike policy in this matter of subsidies and railway legislation. The corruption surround- ing the whole subsidy business began with this Pacific Railway adventure. We paid four times as much as was needed to build the first road, and we have not passed a subsidy bill since that has not given from two to three times as much in lands and bonds as was really necessary for actual purposes. Take, amoug other things, the Northern Pacific Railway. Here is a corporation endowed with as mucl} land as in all New England, sod what guarantee have we that the mea who build it will not enrich themselves and give us a barren railway? We are in favor of the Northern Pacific just as we favored the Union Pacific and every enterprise that adds in any way to the greatness and prosperity of America, But we object to the hasty, crude, immoral and pernicious legislation which creates these corporations, gives them enor- mous grants and permits them to manage the business without’ the scrutiny of the govern- ment. If there had been honest scrutiny in the first place we should not have had the Crédit Mobilier and the dismantled road it threw upon the government. We cannot govern corporations by the moral laws, If we have honest scrutiny of the Northern Pacific we shall avoid trouble. Nor in demanding this from Congress do we make any reflection upon the men who have interests in the own- ership and management. They are in all respects, as the world’s opinion goes, honor- able men; but bad men may usurp their seats, as we saw io Erie, and without the guarantee of law we should be at their mercy. This is what we propose when we urge upon Congress the duty of opening up the whole Crédit Mobilier business and punishing the men who absorbed the national endowment, and the further duty of taking cognizance of the Northern Pacific. Having given this road as much land as is contained in the European area of France we must see that that land is applied honestly to the purpose of building a railway to the Pacific. If this is done we shall have in time a double track railway for the whole distance and an enterprise worthy of the government. We must, then, have an end of special sub- sidy legislation. We cannot remember a bill of this character that was not in some way a job. Instead of endowing special corpora- tions, let a bill be passed laying down condi- tions under which any railway-in a new coun- try may file its map in the Land Office and take a grant. Let it be provided that such road must be a certain number of miles from any other; that the lands must be in value at least one-half of the amount necessary to build + the road; that they must be sold at a cer- tain price to all who choose to buy, and that no actual awardings shall ensue until the road is built. Let this law be so framed that gene- rous subsidies to enterprise may go hand in hand with the Homestead law. This will put anend to jobbing, prevent the scandals that have disgraced our legislation, and, above all things, put an end to the rapacity with which our homestead lands are being seized by adventurers and speculators, The Spring Freshets. The spring freshets, unusually late this year, promise to be unusually destructive. The late extensive and heavy rains are pro- ducing a pretty general break-up of the recent ice-bound streams over all the country east of the Mississippi and in the immediate valley of that great river on the west side. The breaking up of the Mohawk and the upper Hudson has ushered a considerable flood upon Albany, bringing down the river immense quantities of ice. “The tributaries of the Ohio, on both sides, have in many cases been swollen beyond their banks, carrying off bridges and other obstructions to the free pas- sage of the rushing waters. Reports from below Louisville say that the low country there is all flooded. North and South, but especially in the Southwest, there will, doubtless, be from these spring floods abun- dance of work given to bridge and railway builders. . Butour great fear is for New Orleans. These April floods, from the Alleghany tribu- taries of the Mississippi, and from the imme- diate streams on the west side, will be apt to fill the river below to the top of its embank- ments, and to hold them full or overflowing till the floods from the melting snows of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains come rolling down from the Missouri, the Arkansas and the Red River, and then will come the danger to New Orleans. We threw out some warnings to New Orleans on this subject a month ago, and we are gratified to perceive that the authorities and citizens of that flour- ishing city are wide awake to the danger suggested. Nor can they be too active in their preparations; for the strengthening of their levees at all points should now, to authorities and citizens, be the special order of the day. A Field Day for Political Conventions. To-day will be a field day for political State conventions in various parts of the country, as well as for the novelty of a national con- vention of colored people in the city of New Orleans. The following is a list of the con- ventions as officially called :— 1, Pennsylvania State Repudlican Conven- tion in Harrisburg, for the nomination of State officers and the selection of delegates to the Republican National Convention in Phila- delphia, June 5. 2. Massachusetts State Republican Conven- tion in Worcester, for the nomination of State officers and the selection of delegates to the National Republican Convention. 8. Florida State Republican Convention in Jacksonville, for the choice of delegates to the National Republican Convé@htion and other purposes, 4, Oregon Republican State Convention in Portland, for the selection of delegates to the National Republican Convention and other purposes, 5. Kansas Liberal Republican State Con- vention in Topeka, for the purpose of select- ing delegates to the Cincinnati Liberal Repub- lican National Convention. 6. National Convention of colored delegates to New Orleans, for ‘‘commercial and politi- cal purposes.” From the above it will be seen that while the republicans, both regular and irregular, are making active preparations for the coming campaign, and that while even ‘our colored fellow citizens” are moving into position pre- paratory to the impending conflict, the demo- crats are making no public demonstrations in that direction. The National Executive Com- mittee will, however, meet in the early part of next month and arrange for the time of hold- ing the National Convention and consult about gther matters for the benefit of the party, In regard to the convention of colored peo- ple it has been intimated that they intend to demand for their race a representative in the next Cabinet of General Grant, if he should be elected, as a guid pro quo for their support ig the auproaching election We Have It at Last—Mr. Belmont Calls 2 Meeting of His National Democratic Committee. Mr. Belmont, as chairman of the Demo- cratic National Executive Committee, which is composed of one member from each State, has issued an invitation to each of the mem- bers to attend a meeting of the committee ‘‘on Wednesday, the 8th of May next, at two P. M., at the residence of the chairman, 109 Fifth avenue, New York.” So here it is at last; and after an extensive consultation with the democratic members of Congress and other magnates of the party, the 8th of May has been aptly chosen by Mr. Belmont for this important conference. The particular business with which the Committee is charged is only the naming of the time and place for the gathering of the democracy in their usual national council for the nomina- tion of their Presidential ticket, and the proclamation of their ‘new depar- ture” for the Presidential campaign. But in this call for the meeting of the Democratic Committee on the 8th of May we have the official announcement from Mr. Belmont, in view of a joint stock ticket, that the demo- cratic party is dancing attendance upon the anti-Grant Convention of liberal republicans which meets at Cincinnati on the 1st of May. In this connection Mr. Belmonts call will admit of this enlargement :—‘‘Gentlemen of the Democratic National Committee, after a careful and extentied consideration of the subject, and upon the advice of a large num- ber of leading and influential democrats, representing all sections of the Union, I have the honor to request your attendance at my residence in New York, on the 8th of May next, for the purpose of choosing the time and place for the meeting of the Democratic National Convention. The 8th of May has been chosen in order that we may shape our course according to the upshot of the Cincin- nati Convention of anti-Grant republicans, which meets on the Istof May. This Con- vention is a new thing under the sun, and its deliberations may be protracted; but as they will hardly exhaust more than a week, the longest time occupied by any Democratic Presidential Convention, we think we shall have the results of this Cincinnati Convoca- tion certainly before us on the 8th of May. The enterprise may be a failure, as an attempt promising to cut off the balance of power from the republican party adhering to the administration. In this event, in addition to the call for our National Conven- tion, we may have to issue such confidential suggestions to the heads of local democratic clubs and committees throughout the country as the occasion may seem to demand, in view of democratic harmony; and we may find it expedient, also, to delay the meeting of our Convention till August, in order to avail our- selves of any republican dissensions that may follow the renomination of General Grant as the regular republican candidate. “But, gentlemen, we expect the Cincinnati Convention, as a republican bolt, will be a great success ; and as Governor Brown, Sen- ator Carl Schurs and other Missouri leaders in the movement have been given to understand that if they nominate, on a broad and flexible platform, some such ticket of liberal republi- cans as Judge Davis and Senator Fenton, or Senator Trumbull and Colonel McClure, or Governor Gratz Brown and Horace Greeley, they will be supported’ by the democracy, we may be called, in the event of such action, to an extraordinary alternative—the exercise of absolute power in shaping the course of the democratic party. We may find it expedient to forego the usual call of the Democratic National Convention, and to issue, in lieu thereof a circular to the democratic party, recommending to its support the Cincinnati ticket and platform. For if to ratify these Cincinnati proceedings we call a Democratic Convention the Cincinnati ticket becomes merged in the democratic party, whereas we wish it to appear that the democratic party is merged in this new party of liberal republi- cans, so that the Grant republicans shall not be able to fight us again onthe issues of the war. Such, gentlemen of the Democratic National Committee, are the considerations governing this call for our meeting on the 8th of May. You will not fail to recognize the importance of the occasion and the momentous consequences inyolved, and a full attendance of the committee is therefore con- fidently expected.” This, we suppose, is a fair interpretation of this call of Mr. Belmont’s committee on the 8th of May, and we think it probable that, under the advice of the democratic leaders, North, South, East and West, the outcome of the Cincinnati anti-Grant republican gathering will determine at this meeting of Mr. Bel- mont’s committee the question whether the democrats shall take the field as the demo- cratic party, or, abandoning their National Convention, they shall be merged in the party of the outside republicans, The essential facts established in Mr. Belmont’s call are, first, that the Cincinnati Convention of the outside or anti-Grant republicans meets under a sort of contract between its managers and the managers of the democratic party, as the high contracting parties, for a joint stock Presiden- tial ticket to be chosen by the anti-Grant re- publicans; and secondly, that Mr. Belmont and the democracy, resting upon their oars, are hopefully awaiting the issue of the Cincinnati Convention. And so we may be within one short month of the formal disoolution of the democratic party. Who knows ? Joba Bright Declines a British Prosiden- tial Nomination. A party of English democratic revolutionary republicans have just forwarded an address to John Bright, in which they declare that he ‘‘is destined to be the first President of the republic of Great Britain.” The distinguished nominee of the radicals replies in a letter the purport of which appears in the Hrratp to-day. Mr. Bright endures the prospect of the com- ing executive honor with a degree of modesty characteristic at once of his personal conduct in political life and of bis religious bearing in an unobtrusive simple congregation. He expresses the hope that ‘it will be a long time before the English people are called upon to decide between a republic and the monarchy, Their ancestors settled the mat- ter for them—at least for the present; pos- terity must decide in the future.” Mr. Bright expresses doubt as to whether the republicans are his real friends. In (hig he disvlava the caution of his creed. He believes in the trath of the falsus in una falsus in omnia maxim, and, consequently, disclaims the policy of premature revolutions aud disavows the sentimentality of treason. Presi- dential aspirants in England may, according to Mr. Bright, lapse into the ordinary routine course of reform politics at home, and endeavor to beantify the surroundings of the constitu- tion before they attempt to ‘‘crown the edifice,” after the fashion, it may be of the Man of December, when he was in power in Paris. Iv his expression of distrust of the “Red” idea, as it prevails in England, Mr. Bright has elaborated a very useful principle for the future enlightenment of the people of the United Kingdom—one which may exercise a saving effect on the public fortunes of his democratic friends in Ireland. Vesuvius ia Violent Eraption—Startling Appearance of a Pillar of Flame. Coincident with our reports of the occur- rence of earthquake shocks in California and Antioch, and with the news of the completion almost of the desolation of the ancient city— which was named and embellished by Sileneus Nicator in the year 301, B. C.—we have intel- ligence which assures us that Mount Vesuvius is in violent eruption. A telegram from Rome, under date of yesterday, states that the vol- cano has sent forth a column of flame which rises to a height of several hundred feet above the mouth of the crater, and that stones, ashes and cinders are driven from the fiery furnace and scattered in dense showers around the summit and sides of the mountain. The peoples neighboring the scene are hasten- ing to witness the spectacle. A number of tourists took their departure from Naples yes- terday with the view of securing a safe and advantageous position for the enjoyment of the sight. Nature is evidently busy inher laboratory, and man must await the result of her operations with courage and philosophy. Let us hope that he will have faith also, like unto that which moved the hearts of the people who were led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, The first recorded eruption of Vesuvius occurred in the year 79. The elder Pliny perished by it, and the cities of Herculancum, Pompeii and Stabie were overwhelmed and burned by lava and ashes. Forty-nine eruptions followed in the period from 79 to the year 1850. They were more or less violent at intervals, The most serious, and consequently the most cele- brated, took place in the years 472, 1779, 1794, 1819, 1834, 1839, 1868 and 1871. The latest was equal to the present in its flerceness of first effort and more excessive—so far as the present is yet told of—in its ruinous consequences to life and against the home peace and property of the people, who were forced to flee at the moment from their humble homes at the base of the burning pyramid. Stones and ashes were thrown from the crater of Vesuvius into the Bay of Naples at that time. The Holy Book assures us that there shall be “signs and wonders” before the end. Do we now hear of the premonitory symptoms of the coming of a grand revolution of Nature, or have we only the natural evidences as Heaven-sent events designed by the Omnipo- tent to mark the commencement of an era of radical change in the current of the affairs of our sublunary planet, and to afford to mankind a fixed point for date of a ‘‘uew departure” in the history of the world and its peoples? The Hopeless Situation in Mexico. — The struggle in Mexico continues unabated, and the prospect of its end appears to be more remote than ever. According to our special despatches from Matamoros each side is striving desperately to obtain the mastery, each side claims to have achieved important victories, and each side is relatively too strong to “throw up the sponge” and yield to the other, On the one hand it is positively as- serted that Treviiio has combined the revolu- tionary forces in the north—making in all quite a respectable army—for a formidable attack on Matamoros, and that the inhabitants of that city are panic-stricken, apprehending capture by the revolutionists, On the other hand there comes a report to the effect that Rocha, at the head of a victorious army, which is constantly increasing by re- inforcements, continues his unopposed march on Saltillo. The _ possession of that place will be an important gain to the Juarez government, but not important enough to counterbalance the loss of Puebla, should the advices from Monterey announcing the capture of that great city by the revolution- ists receive confirmation. If, in addition to the taking of Puebla, Trevifio can accomplish his object—the capture of Matamoros—then the revolutionists will acquire the preponderance in the greater part of the country, The in- terest of the struggle is at present centred in Matamoros. General Palacios, the com- mander of that city, is making desperate prep- arations of defence, but should the expected relief of government troops not arrive in time the place will fall into the hands of the revo- lutionists. The loss of Matamoros would be a fatal blow to the government and: prolong the struggle for an indefinite period Thus we cannot see a gleam of hope in the present situation, and Mexicans of both factions might goon cutting each other's throats till the crack of doom unless a Power superior in strength to both combined intervenes and makes an end to the terrible civil strife which now de- vastates poor Mexico. The Monroe doctrine and other imperative considerations of sound policy forbid that that Power should be any other than the United States. The Pope Ketuses the Italian Dotation. A sum of money, as will be seen by refer- ring to our cable despatches of this morning, has been offered to the Pope by the Italian government. The Pope, with a dignity not at all unbecoming his position, has declined the offer, The Holy Father states that he is not yet in want. He adds that when it becomes a necessity for him to take alms as a means of subsistence he will receive euch only from the Catholic world. This we cannot help regarding as a noble and dignified course. We cannot blame the Italian government for making the offer. It reveals o kindly spirit. It does moro; it shows us that there is an honest, earnest and even anxious disposition on the part of the government of Italy to make the Holy Father as comfortable as pos- sible under the new condition of things. As little can we blama the Holy Father. In his Jndgment the government of Italy has en- croached on his domains. It has despoiled him of his temporal sovereignty and of the income which thereto belonged. He has taken strong ground against Italian encroach- ments, and hecannot resile from his position. It is not to be forgotten, however, that Pope Pius the Ninth has but a few years to live, and that what is not possible or convenient for him may be at once possible and conve- nient for his successor in office. The Pope does well to remain in Rome, The Italians do not wish to lose his gracious presence in the ancient city. With Italy well disposed and kind, and the whole Catholic world con- tributing to his comfort, the Holy Father has small reason to regret the new conditions under which he lives. Rome was once the centre of the world. With a sacred and a secular. chief living within its walls why should it not become the centre of the world again? Personal Intelligence. Judge Boss!, of Quebec, is at the Gilgey House. Lieutenant J. Forsyth Metgs, of the United States Navy, has quarters at the Brevoort House, Governor Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, yester- day arrived at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Mayor W. L. Scott, of Erie, 18 sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jer- sey, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Dr. E. Eldridge, of Elmira, one of the Erie direc- tors, ts at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Edwin Adams, the tragedtan, is registered at the Astor House, Three other members of the Japanese Embasay reached the St. Nicholas Hotel from Washington yesterday. They are Prince Nagooka, Takanori Sassaki (who 1s said to be Chiet Justice of Japan) and 8, Shirane, who has become attached as @ student to the Naval Bureau of Construction. * Harry Palmer, of Niblo’s Garden, 1s recovering from a severe illness, He has been advised by his physicians not to immediately resume his mane- gerial duties and to seek health iu another clime, He will therefore leave next week to apend the season of his recuperation in Europe. Senator Carl Schurz will speak at the meeting of sympathizers with the Lberal republican move- ment which 1s to be held at the Cooper Institute on Friday evening. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Olympic Theatre. “Humpty Dumpty,” again remodelled, has once more taken a fresh and vigorous start, The entire pantomime has been changed, and the new scenes and tricks have not only tne attraction of novelty, but are even more instinct with fun and humor than their predecessors. Fox,, indeed, seems to grow in power and popularity the longer he flils his part, and he may fairly claim to be the greatest clown we have ever seen in America. His mobile features express, without apparent effort, in ex- quisiteiy finished dump show every requirement of the scene, But itis not alone his face to which the audience look for the story of the piece; there is pregnant humor and meaning in every movement, even of the hanas or body. Tne vuriety features and the ballet dances are also nearly all new, and come up to the same igh standard of excellence as the business of which they have taken the place. Tne ‘Cat Duet,” however, still remains, and nightly awakeus storms of applause, ‘The suicid tableau Nas also been preserved, and 1s, as we have stated be.ore, one of the most tastefully gorgeous combinations of color, light and form, of costume aud sceuery, ever presented to tne New York public, Tne Wilson Brothers introduce a new acrobatic feat and turn some wonderiul aerial summersaults, Thus, thorougaly rejuvenated, the piece has opened anotner brilliant run. Last night was the two hundred and sixtieth periorm- ance in tne present season and the atae hundred and twenty-eighth repetition of nis part by Mr. Fox, Grand Opera House. “Lalla Rookh”’ has proved a great success, for, indeed, any spectacle really worth seeing seems certain to draw a good audience in New Yorke And 1t ts 43 @ spectacle, and a spectacle simpty, that this piece ls worthy of notice. ‘The dialogue is unnatural and in many places even unmeaning, and ube story is neither coherent nor interesting. Nor is the cast, with one or two exceptions, very well filled; and yet tne houses are crammed nightly, snd the audience, breathless with excitement, gaze In dazzled wonder at the gorgeousness of the scenery, the splendor of the dresses and the charms. Of the more prominent members of tie limb brigade, There must be some reason for this decided preference for mere sensuous exhibitions, and probably, a3 has once velore been suggested, New Yorkers work too hard in the business pursuits of the day to have energy enough lett to relish a play in the evening requiring much intellec- tuaiexertion for its enjoyment. And taken a3 @& show “ alia Rookh’ 18 one of the nest sustained and most artisuic displays upon which the public have had an opportunity to feast ther eyes. he encampment on the shore of the Lake of Pearls and the vanner scene in the fourta act are marvels of skillfully biended effects of lignt and color and appointments, Miss Challis and Miss Chine sustain the leading female parts with grace and intelligence, and Messrs. Morris and Mr. Fiske fli a couple of tunny roles with marked success, The latter gentleman now sings very. ef- fectively & new song, entitled “Sister Liscar.’’ Miles De Kosa and Albertina, amoug the ballet, are nigntly greeted with sturms of applause, ‘The man- agement contemplate introducing at an early date several novelties, Brookiyn Theatre. Mra, F. 8. Chanfrau appeared on Monday even- ing, for the first time at this theatre, in Tayleure’s new drama of “Christie Johnston.” The drama 13 founded on Charles Keade’s novel of “Out of the Depths.” Tne play 13 sensational without being vul- gar, but it is worthy of being entitled a society play, inasmuch as it hits off several of the prominent fol- es oi English higher life. ‘he scene 1s laid in Scotland, in a fishing village, and the story in- voives the adventures of a ‘true love’? that does not run very smooth, but’ comes out all right m tne end, There are stage sensations, too, such as the launching of a sailboat om the theatrical briny deep and the rescue oi the releating and constant lover, that harrow the soul to the intensest point of exciiement. Mrs, Chanfrau as- sumes the character of a fisherman with wondrous success. She sings ‘You aud 1” ana “Quiler Her. ron’ witn greater fecing and more scieatitic preci- sion than stage-sung songs are generally sung. She 18 an actress of great ability, and leads shroughout, the drama with a confidence and thoroughness that are quite refreshing to her audience. Mr. Lamb 1s Flucker Johnston and Mr. M. A. Kennedy 1s Lord Ipsden. Tne former manages the Scotch accent very well, aud throws a great aeol of natu- rainess into lus personation, Mr. Kennedy makes the most of a bad part, An English lord, wiihous the average amount of brains, 13 aiMcult of reali- zation by a clever man, but Mr. Kennedy redeems the personation waen it comes to the putting fort of British pluck and open-nanded generosity, Miss Burns and Miss Reeves play miuor parts, but play them well; notably ls this the casein Missy Burns? Laay Barbara. There was a crowded house, ant the plece, which runs through the week, will oe very popwiar. Rustlings fro je Wings. Bonawitz has @ piano recital at Steinway Hall thas afternoon. Tony Pastor bas a lot of bran new songs aud a pantomime. fhis is the last week of the season at the New York Circus. Miss Nilsson appears a3 Marguerite at Wallack’s on Saturday afveraoon. Tne San Francisco Minstrels bid farewell to the Metropolis on Saturday night. “Rigoletto” will be given at the Academy on Sat- urday as the matinée entertainment, The Italian Opera Combination appear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the 29th inst, Miss Polly Daly and her female minstrels are the attractions at the Thirty-rourth Street Tueatre, Little Vile Goldsmith gives a dramatic entertain. ment at Robinson's Hail on Thursday evening. The Union Square Theatre ts being dressed up in holiday fasion for the Voxes family next week. A matinée of ‘Article 47" wil be given on the 17th inst., at the Filth Avenue Theatre, for tae ben. efit of the Founding Asylum, Le petit Neise Seymour will have a matinée benet at Bryant’s on Thursday, at whtch ali Ethiopdom Will assist and a bewildering bili will Le performed. Signor Carlo Patti’s concert at Steinway’s on Saturday will introduce suoh artisis as Mile, Pau- Mine Canissa, Mme. De Lussan, Mme. De Ryther, and Messrs. Karl, Cooke, Pattwou, Meigs and Johan- nessen. Mrs, Annie Lynon, who has a Conservatory of Music in Monroe street, gave a concert at Associa- tion Hail last nignt, at which sne and @ large number ot her pupils appoared. The performance seemed to ive abundant gratification to the audience, but joes Dot Call for any critical remark, It will be veon that music has ita votaries on the east side of (he town, evea aot Includim the German element,