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

NKW YORK HERALD, SATUKDAY, APRIL 27, 1872—TRIPLE SHE«1. Bre A DWAYT AND ANN STREET. ee JAMS GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. as sh ie All Dusiuess or news letter and telegraphic despatch mist be addressed New Yorx Henacy. Volume AVUED,. cpesscetoneseesckeune No. 118 HivSEMENTS THIS AFTERNODY AND EVENING, » Twenty-Fourth strect.— sv. Broadway JAM street and Twenty-eighth Matineo at, Tirpegnicon. ROW f, BOWERY.—Der Frerscovre— A Lost 12, OLY —Tnr ToMiMi Matiner at2. BoorIrs y-thitd streat, corner Sixth ay.—tn tinev—Tux Ihow Cuxst. WALLACK , Broadway and 13th street.— Lonvox ss ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourtecnth strect.—Trarian Oreka. Matiuce—Mantna. Evening—Granp Concer, adway'—Comio Vocar- UNION » way.—Tu ARE THE, urteenuth st. and Broad- © aL By. ATRE, 720 Broadway. —Tux Powsr er of 8th ay. and 234 st.— etween Prince and neo at 2. THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— UM, Broady 5 afternoon and even ‘orner 30th st.—Per- formanc SKA OF Ton, MRS. I R, CONWAYS’ BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Manoie tvane, No, 201, Bowery — . Matineo at $4. SAN FRANCISCO MIN Tae San Francisco MinstREL PAVILION, No. 688 Broadway? near Fourth st.—Qranp Conoxer, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scimnce anp Art. ue New York, Saturday, April 27, 1872. “CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, isements. » Capital: The Impeachment of Three Judges; The Governor and the News from Washington—Female Meeting at Cooper Institute Last Tammany Society—Naval Intelligence jyn Reform—Installation Services— quake at Antioch, publicans: The Queen City Fitting Up fov the Coming Convention; Exposition Hull Where the Delegates Will Mect; How They Wil be Selected; The Platform Still Under Discussion; The éandldates; ‘The Ger- man Element and tts Leaders—Notes About the ‘onvention—Miscellaneous Political Notes—Australasia: Export of Coal, Wool and Tallow to the United States—Trotting at Fleetwood Park—Horse Notes. BeSherman on Sesostris: Our Soldtor Pilgrims in the Land ramids; Kingly Kindness of the K oceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Steamship Old Do- ‘he Paterson Murder Trial—Lydia ‘The Prisoner Laughs While the perate; Murder ty the Second De- A Wife Murder—The Murder of George son—Threatening to Shoot an Officer, Leading Article, “The Cincinnatl tion—The True Bend of the Liberal ns"—Personal Intelligence—Amuse- nt Announcements. xico—Vesuvius: The Volcano in e Violent Eraption—Cable Telegrams, land, Fran ain and Cuba—Cin- of the Liberal Move- gations Crowding In—Almost a ie Peace Jubliee Mammoth Co- liseum Boston Blown to Ruins—Miscel- lancous Telegrams—Business Notices, Night —Bro N pot Tempest—An_ Auction at Helmbold 1¢ Methodist Book Committee— Burglary strated—Marriages and Deaths. P—Deaths—Acivei tisements. WW—The Atalantas: British Banquet to the Amert- can Oarsmen—Shipping Intelligence—Adver- tisoments, Al—Advertisements. 12 Advertisements. Vesvvius iN larat anp ALAnmine AcTION.— Telegrams from Italy and England, which appear in the Heraxp to-day, report that the action of the Vesuvius volcano has caused a most sezious loss of life, and that the greatest alarm aud consternation prevail among the people neighboring the scene of the visitation. The Premier of Italy read a despatch from Naples to the Parliament in Rome yesterday, which states that two hundred persons have been ‘burned’? by the lava. Our advices from London leave no doubt that very fatal results have followed the eruption. Flame burst from the earth under the feet of very many persous, and there was a general flight to places of safety from the danger. Torre del so is threatened with destruction. There is little donbt that science will eventually master the problem of this great intra-montane fire, and that clectricity will subsequently be used for the purpose of warning the world of the emission of the first rumble which precedes earthquakes, Then will nature be shown to make glorious reparation to humanity for past injuries and for thousands of forgotten deaths and The inner forces of the fiery furnace are already venting their power in earthquakes. Masses of stone are vomited forth, each discharge being accompanied by a shock of earthquake, the tremor of which is dis- tinctly perceptiblein distant plaes. The Minis- ters of the King of Italy have been summoned from Rome to Naples in order to arrange a provision for the support of the sufferers who have been made honseless by the lava and ashes, and what are now encamped in the fields tothe number of thousands. His Holiness the Pope will, no doubt, experience a sense of relief during the absence of the Italian portfolioists. The Vatican may, in fact, claim a miracle, and 80 seek to balance the failure of a former Pon- tifical effort against a comet by the fathering of all terrors of the volcano. alarms, Tue IorpeacuMent F ance iN THE AssEMDLY.— The State Assembly yesterday after a sharp | | | painted shields of the several States, banners, skirmish finally adopted Mr. Prince's resolu- tion to conclude legislative business as far as possible on May 1, at noon, and then to enter upon proceedings for impeachment against vertain Judges of New York city. The Speaker gud Mr. Alvord opposed the resolution, but it was carried by a yote of 76 to 28. The meaning of this action may not be Bpparent to many of our renders, but it is simple enough, It enables the members on and after May Ist to draw Psy, the same os during the regular one hundred days of the session, Nothing is yet mown of the report of the Judi- ry Committee on the cases of thee Judges; t is uncertain whether any imp:achment will be attempted after all; but as the House will “enter upon proceedings for impeachment’’ the members will draw their per diem from fhe State Treasury, and that is all they gare Diggs, as mater, YORK HERALD The Cincinnatt Convention—The True Policy of the Liberal Republicans. On Wednesday next, tho Ist day of May, the “National Mass Meeting’’ of liberal republi- cans, agreeably to the call of Governor Gratz Brown, of Missouri, will assemble at Cincin- nati to consider the political situation of the country, ‘and to take such action thereon as may be decmed expedient.” This was the original Missouri proposition, a ‘National Mass Meeting’ of republicans who are op- posed to giving another Presidential term to General Grant, and who are in favor of free trade, a universal amnesty, a general turning out of the present federal office-holders, in the way of civil service reform, and who, at the same time, are in favor of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. But since this first Missouri call was issued the movement in question has assumed the definite shape of a National Presidential Convention of seceding republicans in opposition to General Grant and in view of an independent Presidential ticket which will be acceptable to the demo- cratic party, And the democractic managers have become so deeply interested in this scheme that they have suspended all the usual proceedings for their own party Convention. They are awaiting the issue of this liberal republican council at Cincinnati, and Mr. Belmont is there, and General Blair and other democratic leaders are on the ground to assist the seceders from Grant in their great undertaking of a coalition for his defeat. Our correspondence from Cincinnati pub- lished in the Henatp to-day shows that the Western democracy are prepared to back up this movement of their Southern and East- ern allies, and are ready to support the nomi- nee of the liberal republicans, provided the candidate presented is deserving of their endorsement. The leading democratic organ of Ohio, the Cincinnati Enquirer, whose extreme copperhead sentiments during tho war of the rebellion frequently threatened the safety of the establishment and its proprietors, is an carnest advocate of a coalition with the anti-Grant republicans, and the most prominent democrats of the State are said to be all on the same side. George H. Pendleton unites with Hendricks, of Indiana, in casting a friendly glance towards Exposition Hall, notwithstand- ing their old irreconcilable feud. Georgo E. Pugh is said to favor the union movement, although it is true that he is described as “always deaf, generally snoozy, and of no account in the party.’”” Wash McLean, al- though troubled with his kidneys, is on the coalition side, and the whole Western democ- racy is represented as favorable to the lib- eral republican movement, provided they are not required to ‘eat too much pork;”’ or, in other words, provided that the resolutions adopted at Exposition Hall do not reflect in too severe terms on the pastacts and record of the democracy. While this preparation for a love-feast is going on among the democrats it is evident that many influential republicans await the ac- tion of the Cincinnati gathering before making up their minds on which side to array them- selves in the approaching Presidential contest. An interview of a Hieranp correspondent with Lyman Tremain, of Albany, published yester- day, discovers that eminent convert from orig- inal copperheadism still ‘‘on the fence,’’ and the ex-State Attorney General is no doubt a re- presentative man of a large number of republi- cans who do not yet see their way clearly through the fog and mist in which the party 4s enveloped. The position of these uncer- tain gentlemen appears to be this:—They avow themselves not altogether satisfied with the administration of General Grant. Accord- ing to Mr. Tremain the President committed a blunder in distributing the federal patronage in such a manner as to make a distinction be- tween the two wings of the republican party, and in selecting for office and afterwards en- dorsing the official character of ‘‘such a man as Tom Murphy,”’ the ex-Collector of the Port of New York. But at the same time Mr. Tremain admits that General Grant admin- isters the government honestly and eco- nomically, and frankly avows that should prefer to vote for Grant directly rather than to aid indirectly in the success of a democratic candidate for the Presidency. So, with the politicians of whom he is a type, Mr. Tremain is willing to go with the Cincinnati Convention, provided its nomi- nee be a republican who, by uniting upon him- | self the votes of the democrats and of the dis- | satisfied element of his own party, stands a fair prospect of success, but is prepared to re- turn to the support of President Grant in the event of the nomination of a regular demo- cratic candidate, who might manage to slip in between the wide breach made in | the republican ranks. As we have said, | Lyman Tremain is a fair representative of many thousands of politicians, heretofore sup- porters of President Grant, and his sentiments | may be regarded as reflecting those of an im- | portant body of republican electors; hence it is clear that upon the action of the Cincinnati Convention depends the success or failure of | next week’s movement against the administra- tion, and that, with prudence, wisdom and self-denial on the part of the delegates, the | gathering at Exposition Hall may yet accom- plish a revolution in the personnel of the national government. According to the Herarp correspondence | great preparations are making in the Queen | City of the West to insure at least the sensa- tioual success of the great free gathering. The main hall selected for the meeting will accommodate from eight to ten thousand per- sons, and there are two side halls capable of holding os many more, Drapery, flags, inscriptions, carpeted promenades and bands | of music are to do their best to attract crowds within the walls and to work up the enthu- | siasm of the audience to the required pitch. The attendance will, no doubt, be large; but | as it will be all of a spontaneous or volunteer | description some attempt to impart to the Convention a delegated form and an appearance of a repre. preliminary gathering, at which visitors from | the different States are to select persons from | among their number to take places on the floor. Under the best of arrangements, how- | ever, it will be a mixed and heterogenous body, and much care, forbearance and pru- dence will be required to insure such action as will command the attention and considera- tion of the people at large. The adventure is Labold ands doaneraia ona, It ta sehallion, he | sentative character is to be made by a) against constituted authority. The politicians who take part in it place themselves outside the pale of their own party. They do not desire, they would not consent to forego the name of republicans and join the ranks of the democracy, yet they throw overboard the regular action of their organization and strike out in an independent path of their own. They cannot hope for success unless they can carry with them in support of their candidates the whole strength of the demo- cratic party; yet, like Lyman Tremain, they avow their determination to return to the sup- port of Grant, as a republican, rather than to risk the election of a democrat through the split in their own ranks. In other words, they say to the democracy, we will desert Grant if you will help us to elect a republican who is more acceptable to us; but we prefer Grant or any republican to you, and hence, unless you aid us in our revenge upon the President, we will vote for him and elect him for a second term. Tho risk and hazard of such a game will be readily appreciated The democracy, still a powerful party, may rebel against such a one-sided proposition, despite the efforts and wishes of their leaders. They may be unwill- ing to suffer their large body of voters to be used as a cat’s paw by a mere faction of their divided and distracted rivals. They may argue that it would be folly, after bearing twelve years of absence from power, to vir- tually abandon their organization at the very moment when republicanism seems to be in- evitably on the verge of «lissolution. All these difficulties have to be faced and overcome, and, as we have said, they demand from tho Cincinnati gathering the most temperate and prudent action, or the movement that seems to promise so fairly will be certain to end ina digraceful failure. There are two points to be borne in mind by the managers of the Convention. Tho plat- form must be moderate in its tone, brief and concise in form, and indulgent to the past faults of tho democracy. The new allies of the liberal republicans must not be made to “eat too much pork.’’ The candidate for the Presidenoy selected by the Convention must be one acceptable on his personal merits to the democrats. The support of that party is not likely to be -given to any nominee who could not be trusted by them to carry out in good faith an implied, if not an expressed, agreement in regard to the policy and the patronage of his administration. Of all the names mentioned in connection with the Cincinnati nomination that of Horace Greeley soems the best calculated to insure this confidence on the part of the democracy, while it certainly would be likely to draw more strength than any other from the republican ranks, Greeley is the father of ropublicanism, and is, besides, singularly popular among those respectable citizens in the rural district who cultivate cab- bages and raise stock. There is certain blunt honesty about him that commends him to his political opponents as well as to his friends, and that would serve as a guarantee to democrats that he would carry out a bargain in good faith without the form of a written bond. As a newspaper man, who has for years furnished ideas for a large number of country political organs, ho would command a more extended support from the republican party press than would any other republican politician ; and this alone is an element of power not to be despised. Objections may be raised against him on account of his protection absurdities, but they are readily answered by the fact that Congress makes our tariffs, and not the Presi- dent. Besides, no candidate who has been mentioned in connection with the Cin- cinnati nomination is free from objections. Charles Francis Adams, upon whom, ac- cording to our Cincinnati correspondence, the Ohio bolters look with a favorable eye, would be an unavailable candidate in many localities in consequence of his strong anti- Catholic prejudices. Trumbull could scarcely pass muster as the author of the Civil Rights bill and the insufficient, partisan plan of reconstruction. There are objections against Sumner on account of his bitterness and vin- dictiveness against the democracy; against Judge Davis for his intermeddling in poli- tics and labor reform while occupying a seat on the bench; against General Cox because of his Oberlin letter, which would deprive him of the colored vote; against Gratz Brown on several other accounts besides his want of intellectual stature for the posi- tion. So Greeley is not alone in possessing some objectionable points, while his strong ones, on both the democratic and republican sides, are unquestionable. At all events, the Cincinnati movement is a bold one, and only by decisive and determined action can it hope to succeed. There should be no squab- bling and scrambling for office, no hesitation in the course to be pursued. Let the Cincinnati crowd nominate Horace Gree- ley by acclamation; lay down a brief, plain platform, avoiding all unnecessary subjects; leave the position of Vice President to be filled by the democrats, and go about their busi- ness. If they do this they may yet accomplish areyolution in the administration and enjoy the federal spoils for the next four years, Lydia Sherman—A Strange Verdict. The jury has rendered a verdict in the case of Lydia Sherman of murder in the second degree. It is difficult to understand by what process of reasoning the New Haven Solons arrived at this conclusion. If deliberate poisoning be not murder in the first degree we do not know what is. Where a person | takes the life of another without premedita- | tion, malice aforethought or deliberate pre- paration, even when surrounded by brutal or savage circumstances, a verdict of murder in | the second degree might be admissible ; but | there appears to be nothing in the facts or law in this case to justify such a conclusion. To | kill by poisoning is the coolest and most de- | liberate act. The jury, probably, had a repng- nance to hanging, and particularly to henging awoman, and that may have led to this | strange verdict. Bunt that is a question of law with which the jury had nothing todo. It had properly only to consider the facta and to render a decision accordingly. Whatever | sympathy the jury might feel for the wretched woman before it, or however oblivious it might be of her victim, who was out of sight and in the grave, its duty was plain. There was no middle course of action, if the obliga- | tion of the oath administered to the jury had been properly understood. From the facts Aavdoued iy the cave Mra Shorman wos either guilty of murder in the highest degree or innocent. With all the good belonging to our system of trial by jury there are anomalies in it which should be corrected. The jury should not make law or be allowed to render a verdict outside of the facts. The decision should be yes or no on the indictment and facts presented. The Spanish Insurrection in Serious Progress — Radicalism at Audience with the Crown. From Paris and Madrid we have telegrams reporting the progress of the Spanish revolu- tionary insurrection to a late hour yesterday evening. The movement has assumed a most serious aspect, if it is not really alarming to the cause of Amadeus’ crown. Don Carlos’ whereabouts is not known publicly, but his friends and supporters are in the field in strong force. It is alleged that the exiled claimant of the monarchy has left Geneva in disguise, and it is asserted positively that he will be shot to death if he is captured with arms in his hands on Spanish soil. His parti- sans claim that he has fifteen thousand men under arms ; the royalist War Office in Madrid rates the muster of the rebels at eight thousand muskets. The lowest total even is quite sufficient to create a Thermopyle, in defiance of a great army, on the banks of the Douro or the Manzanares. The govern- ment is excited and determined to support its authority by the exercise of the most rigorous measures, A royal proclamation declares a number of places in a state of siege. Tho Cabinet refuses, absolutely, to supply any in- formation to the newspaper press respecting its own intentions or the Carlist strategy. Gover- nors and generals in command in the provinces which present points of insurgent rendezvous are energetic and multifarious in their appli- cation to the Ministry for army rein- forcements. Marshal Serrano has marched for Navarre at the head of six thousand troops of the line. He will personally com- mand the operations against the Carlists in that department, and direct the entire army in the field as generalissimo. Marshal Concha will have a high command. The opposing forces have been in actual conflict. Tho King’s gendarmes, in the province of Vulla- dolid, engaged, and claim to have dispersed, a Carlist muster very much superior to them in numbers. Politics loom up through the tumult. The science of party has been called to the aid of the radicals. Doubt, distrust and popular alarm bid fair to afford the leaders of the organization the enviable position of a balance of power party near the person of the King. Cortes has organized with Rosas as President and ministerialists in the other offices. Sefiors Zorilla, Moret and other lead- ing radicals have been presented to His Majesty, despite the first allegation that the republicans were in league with the Carlists. Party revision and a Oabinet reconstruction with republican tendencies may do much to restore peace to Spain, and to veil again and temporarily from the eye of the world the embers of the citizen volcanic fire which remain burning on the soil of the Spanish peninsula, and which bid fair to enlighten Europe in its path to democratic self-gov- ernment from the war-battled centre. General Sherman’s Tour Abroad—What He Thinks of Herald Enterprise and Egyptian Tombs. Geysral Sherman and the select party of American gentlemen accompanying him have paid a visit to the Viceroy of Egypt. Happy he seems through all his wrinkles in that quaint old, wrinkled land. Perhaps one of the things that impressed him most was the pres- ence of a Heratp correspondent, who dropped in on him in a friendly way at Alexandria, just as a shell might in the old war times. “Well, you Heraup fellows beat the devil. You catch us sitting, you take us flying, and you belt the globe,’ was his natural exclamation at the vision. All true, too, General, and as neatly put as if a whole volume had been written about it, It does not take as great a mind as Sherman's to ap- preciate Hzratp enterprise, but it takes a clever man to state the case so forcibly and briefly. The tribute to their smartness is not overstrained and we hope they will always continue to ‘beat the devil.” The belting of the globe is an accomplished fact, and when the Hrratp man goes for his game by the Nile or the Narrows, even though it be the “commander-in-chief,” like Captain Scott's coon, he might as well ‘‘come down." As might have been supposed, the Khedive received tho distinguished American soldier with that generous hospitality which has made his name famous throughout the world. Old Tecumseh is very much pleased with what he saw in Egypt, has great faith in the Viceroy, and regards the Suez Canal as one of the most won- derful achievements of the age. While at Alexandria a correspondent of the Heranp surprised the General by calling on him, and the interview with the hero of “The March to the Sea’’ is really interesting. Sherman’s replies to the correspondent’s inquiries are truly characteristic. Blunt, honest and inde- pendent, they savor strongly of the character of the man who uttered them. ‘How are you impressed with the antiquities and tombs of Egypt, General?’ asked the correspondent, by way of opening the conversation, after he had lit the bad cigar handed to him by the General. ‘Never did care much about tombs; intend to keep out of my own as long as I can and don’t want to get into other people’s,’’ was the blunt, unpoetic reply. Tombs are good enough in their way, very useful and necessary, but live men do not care to trouble themselves about them, and dead men are oblivious to the sub- ject. The Khedive’s sugar works proved far more attractive to Sherman than the Pyra- mids of the Pharaohs, The Suez Canal elicited his highest praise. He regarded it as one of the most laudable achievements of the last hundred years, Regarding its manage- ment, however, he considered that so vast an enterprise should not be allowed to remain under the control of an ordinary stock com- pany. The commercial nations of the earth should, he thought, take it under their con- trol, and for the immense commercial advan- tages it conferred they should annually ap- propriate a sufficient amount to keep it in re- pair. The General did not limit his con- yersation to Oriental matters to the exclusion of other subjects. Though far away from home his thoughts dwelt on affairs in which his country was deeply interested. Our rela- tious with Cuba and tho Alabama claims, 4 direct ond indirext, are subjects in which Sherman feels a decided interest, the latter question particularly. When asked his opinion of the views tnken by the Eng- lish press and the English people on the claims for indirect damages, and which are provided for by the Washington Treaty, “Geneva,” said Sherman, ‘is the proper place to settle the whole matter. We don't want their money, as they have already admitted they did us a grievous wrong. British neu- trality during our civil war was a fiction and fraud.” Indeed, this is the opinion enter- tained by very many other persons in high positions. They have not spoken, how- ever, as plainlyas Sherman. In his ‘march to the sea’’ he came across some of the evi- dences of this British neutrality in the shape of several superb Armstrong guns, which bore the inscription, ‘Presented by the manufac- turers to the sovereign State of South Caro- lina.” —‘‘However,”’ said the General, “I told my artillery officers to take these ‘neutrality’ guns and make them serve the uses of honest men.” The letter from Alexandria, which is published on another page, will prove most interesting, and Sherman's characteristic con- versation on what he has seen in the ancient land of the Pharaohs, as well as what he has to say about things nearer home, shows that he has lost not a particle of the vigorous language which always distinguished him ere he crossed the seas, The War News from Mexico. Our special despatches from Matamoros will be found to contain some very exciting news of the civil war in Mexico, The fate of the struggle in the Northwest now hangs on the possession of Matamoros, and if the city falls the rovolutionists will obtain the command over the most important part of the Rio Grande, besides deriving great moral advan- tages from the prestige attached to so impor- tant a victory. According to the latest intelli- gence the revolutionists under Trevifio and Quiroga, after much hesitation and delay, have made their appearance before the fortifications of the city. General Trevifio has issued a manifesto to the inhabi- tants recounting the alleged grievances of the Mexican people against Juarez, of whom he speaks as a despot and a usurper. As a matter of course, General ‘Trovifio called upon the inhabitants to repudiate Juarez and to surrender the city. On the other side, General Cevallos, the commander of the gov- ernment troops in and around Matamcros, has expressed confidence in his ability to hold the city against the combined attack of the revolutionists under Trevifio and Quiroga. Intelligence of great import, if true, is the rising of the Lerdistas in the city of Mexico and the recall of Rocha from the command of the army with a view of suppressing it. That no less a commander than Rocha should suffice for the purpose seems to show a dan- gorous state of affairs for the government of Juarez, American Iron Steamships. While Congress has been discussing the question of promoting shipbuilding and pro- posing a number of schemes, without acting upon them, for protecting and subsidizing steamship lines and ship builders, some of our enterprising citizens have been, and are, at work practically in constructing first class vessels. There came to this port the other day a new, splendid iron steamship from Wil- mington, Del., for the trade between New York and Richmond. She is now in the harbor, and will make her first regular voyage this afternoon. This is the Old Dominion, belonging to the Old Dominion Steamship Company, and was built by Harlan, Hollings- worth & Co., of Wilmington. She is two thousand two hundred and twenty-two tons burden, forty-one feet six inches beam, twenty-three feet six inches depth of hold and measures two hundred and sixiy-three foet overall. Sheis said to be, by good judges, equal to, and to excel in some respects, the best Clyde built steamers. She is built of American iron and by American mechanics. If this company and these ship builders can turn out such a fine vessel what is to prevent others doing the same? We understand a number of other iron steamships are on the stocks at Wilmington and on the Delaware. Let us hope this is the beginning of a large business in home shipbuilding which will in- crease our steamship tonnage, and that Wil- mington and the Delaware will soon rival the Clyde. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Congressman Wm. Williams, of Buffalo, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General James McQuade, of Utica, Inspector Gen- eral on Governor Hoffman’s stad, is at the Gilsey House. Colonel J. F. Ritter, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. General John 8. Tyler, of Boston, is sojourning at the New York Hotel. M. A. Shafinburgh, United States Marshal at Denver, Col., is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman Oakes Ames, of North Easton, Mass., yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge J. L. Pennington, of Alabama, has arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. Colonel R. C. Wright, of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, is domiciled at the New York Hotel. Colonel Freyer, the Peruvian Minister, will return to Washington from the Clarendon Hotel to-day. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfleld (Mass.) Repub- lean, reached the Brevoort House late on Thursday night. He left yesterday for Cincinnatl, to take part in the proceedings of the Liberal Convention, Baron Offenburg, the lately-arrived Russian Min- ister, yesterday went to Washington from the Clar- endon Hotel. Paul B. DuChailla will sail in the steamship Adri- atic to-day. He is to go to Scandinavia, to confirm or efface the impressions received during his late tour in that peninsula, that lis intended work on that part of the world may be thoroughly correct. The African Methodist Episcopal Conference yes- terday morning elected J, W. Thomas, J. P. Thomp- son ahd Thomas James delegates to the New Eng- Jand General Conference; Nathaniel Stubbs, dele- ate to Philadelphia, and Thomas James and Dr. Frompaon 0 Baltimore, A resolution thanking Bishop Clinton for the able and impartial manner in which he has administered the affairs of this Con- ference and district, was passed unanimously. The Rev. Dr. Rush, of Cincinnati, gave quite an in- teresting account of his sojourn in the South. He said that all over the South Methodism was largely on the increase, and proepene was found every- where. It was resolved that the Conference for- ward a petition to the General Conference asking for the re-clection of Bishop Clinton to the New York district. The Conference then adjourned, THE GERMAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD, Sr. Lovis, April 26, 1872. The triennial session of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod commenced here to-day. Nearly all the States of the Union and Canada were repre- largest mecting ever held. He oteeaor watt er is President, The day was devoted to religious exercises, and to-morrow the regular business gf the Synod will commence. AMUSEMENTS. The Academy of Mustc. The attendance last night at the Academy seemed to suffer no diminution from the sultry heat, which rendered theatre-going somewhat uninvit- ing. All parts of the house were weil filled with am audience that was inclined to be quiet, if not critical It must be confessed that the music of Rossini’s masterpiece is somewhat caviare to the mass of opera goers, and there were traces of weariness among the assistants, as well’ asa noticeable thinning of the house towards the close of the third act. Nor was the taste of the audience altogether to blame’ in the matter; for there was not by any means the same spirtk or dash in the performance that marked its presentation on Wednesday night. The com- pany were then on their mettle an@ did much better than last night. We cannot understand why thig should be so, There was a general expectation that the second. performance woald run smoothly than the first, but it did not happen so, ‘There was nochange inthe cast. Wachtel appeared: as Arnold, Santley a8 Willlam Tell, Tom Kar! as by Fisherman, Cook as Walter and Hallas Gesler. A) considerable part of the score 13° usi omitted, but last night the Jinale of the third ao’ and the two first scenes of the fourth act were left, out wholesale—cutting off “O, muto ? one of Wachtel’s best and most trying LP ia Owing to the’ skipping process so freely indulged in the ensembdler of the opera was seriously injured, and a certain lameness communicated to the performance that created a very disagreeable impression. It is much) to be regretted that this opera, which had brought so much credit to the management, should have been marred on its final presentation, Wachtel's singing was marked by his usual defect— want of tenderness and feeling—though the rugged energy of his style and the metallic clearness ant purity of his high notes secured him the applause of an audience ever more ready to recognize an applaud robusto effort than careful and cultured interpretations. The duet in the second act with Matilde was Suey wanting in’ expression and tenderness, He had resolved to’ concentrate himself on this point—perform a- tour de force, and so acguit himself towards the public—and he did it. The duet was‘ brilliant enough until the allegro pas sages, when there was some unevenness, tho singers not being well together; but Wachtel covered up all his defects by one of those marvel- lous efforts which never fall to bring down the house, Itis, perhaps, useless to blame an artist for sacrificing a rdle to make a sensation of this’ sort; but, since the people pay him for it, and ap- pian him to the echo, he can plead strong justifica- ion, In the trio in the same act he sang with telling force; but the trio was very rly given. Cook found himself out of his depth, and’ sometimes out of his time as weil, and Santle; preferred to sin in such a quiet an subdued manner that he could scarcely be heard. Probably it was the best thing to do under the circumstances, Neither Santley nor Mme. Parepa-Rosa were in ver; ood voice, but as the opera proceede th seemed to recover themselves. Parepa-Rosa sang the “Selva Opaca” with much sweetness, but there Was not the same flexibility in her voice as on Wednesday last. However, she secured an encore, and did better on the second singing. Tom Kari sang the pleasing baracola “Il piccol legno ascendi” with much sweetness and ar- tistic finish. The choruses were well exe- cuted, but hoa are so grand and impres- sive that it would require a very much stronger company than we are likely to see at the Academy for some years to give them with full etfect. To-day the last matinée of the season will be given—“Martha”’ is the opera selected for repre- sentation. On Monday this company will give “Trovatore” in Brooklyn, and on Tuesday evening the farewell gala performance takes place at the Academy of Music. Concert in Aid of the Teachers’ tion. Aconcert will be held this evening at the Aca- demy of Music in aid of the Teachers’ Mutual Life Assurance Association. The programme is varied and interesting. Much interest Is felt in schoot circles in this concert, which is expected to be re~ markably brilliant and successful. Associa- Footlight Flashes. Edwin Booth makes his first appearance this sea- son a8 Richard III. on May 1. “Article 47 enters upon its fifth week at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on Monday. “Murphy and Help” seem to be synonymous terms, and the Park Theatre, Brooklyn, will ex- plain their meaning for the last time to-night. Alfredo Barill, the anne, pianist, whose first ap- bates in public last week was the subject of favorable comment among musicians, gives @ matinée to-day at Chickering Hall, in which he will be assisted by Miss Eliza E. en Miss Guy, Bergner and Antonio and Ettore Barill. Matinées to-day are as follows :—Academy of Music, “Martha ;” Wallack’s, “London Assurance;” Fi Avenue, ‘Article 47; Booth’s, “The Iron Chest Olympic, “Humpty ee DAM Niblo’s, “Black Fri- day ;? Union Square, the Vokes; Grand Opera House, the grand spectacle, “Lalla Rookh;’ Comique and Tory Pastor's. A benefit soirée will be. A. A. Favarger, at the watch Mile, in the comedy, “Le Cachemire Vert.’ Mile. Cavé and Mr, Favarger will give recitations, Miss Ninin- ger and M. Berthelot will sing and Senores Ramirez and Martin will play on the guitar. A matinée and evening performance will take take place at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, Tuesday, 20th, in aid of “The House of the Good Shep- herd.” The programme is @ nk attractive one. The morning entertainment will be contributed to by the Park and Olympic companies and Hooley’s: linstrels, and in the evening some members of the. “Brooklyn Dramatic Union” and “The Garrick’? will appear in their most successful efforts, after which the world-renowned “Kelly and Leon’! have. kindly volunteered one of their best acts, THE FLORIDA DEADLOCK. Governor Day Explains His Position to the Legislature—He Will Respect His Oath and Compel Obedience to the Laws. ven this evening by Mr. Tnion League Theatre, at TALLAMASSRR, Fla., April 26, 1872. Acting Governor Day delivered an address to both branches of the Legislature this afternoon, im) explanation and justification of his action in calling the extra session of the Legislature. He recited the history of the fimpeachment proceedings against Governor Reed, and claimed that he (Governor Day) had rightful assumed the exercise of the dutfes of Governor under the constitu- tion, pendt the trial of the impeachment, and was still entitled to exercise the executive ae GU as Reed's trial was not yet concluded, both brahches of the Legislature having adopted a concurrent resolution utd | their purpose to continue it and still legally holding Reed in cus- tody. Governor Day then gave a lengthy account of Reed’s action in issuing his recent proclamation and assuming to appoint certain State officers, which proGee Day characterized as lawless a1 revolutionary. He claimed that he had been sustained in his course by the fone of the State, and he denounced the threatened unlawful opposition to his authority as Acting Governor, and called upon all good citizena to sustain him in peacefully abiding the decision of the courts on legal questions involved in the resent controversy, and announced that he would feel bound by his oath and sense of public duty to compel obedience to his authority and to use eve: power in him vested by the law to suppress ai attempts to subvert It. Hovernor Day's address concluded by recom- mening legislation in reference to the taxes and tax collections, and calling attention to some of Reed's bond transactions, in which he alleged the existence of frauds, There was no quorum in the House to-day. A quorum in the Senate was obtained by bringing in Mr. Pearce, who was recently convicted 0} bribery, and supposed to be disqualified, Imme- diately after roll call several members left and de- stroyed the quorum. The Senate, nevertheless, re- ceived a met from acting Governor Day; also ne from the Assembly, stating that it had organ- frea ‘and was ready for business. Both Houses adjourned till to-morrow. A CHAPTER OF JERSEY OALAMITIES, ‘The body of an unknown man was found floating in the North River, near the Hoboken ferry, on Thursday evening. The remains were much de- composed, having been about three weeks in the 1, Deceased was apparently thirty-five years Sass, had black hatr, whiskers and mustache, and yrore dark pants, a blue shirt and frock coat. In his pocket were found papers addressed to ‘ Dunne, No. 8 Washington place,” and to “Mills House, Fourth avenue.” loroner Parslow com- menced an inquest. ‘AGerman woman named Goesler, residing with her family in Grand street, near First, Hoboken, cuther throat witha table knife yesterday and’ fatally wounded herself, She was sth years of age, and had suffered much from violent pains in her head. ‘A young man named John Titjen, employed in a ery store at the corner of Fourth and Washing- on streets, Hoboken, was suddenly seized with internal pains on Thursday, and died after a brief interval of tortures. A post-mortem examination will be made to-day, and Coroner Parslow holds an inquest. ‘he man Frederick Kent, who shot himself at West Hoboken recently, lay at the point of death in St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, last evening. Dry Benson pronounces his case hopeless. The mother of tho suicide is a spiritualist, and sits constent beside him, contributing somewhat to his comfort Kent sapere to have temporarily recovered his reason, butdid not remember the shooting, His de- rangement seems to have been the result, of strange religiquy ideas and igalousx, nna Cavé and M. Jnignet will appear © —————