The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1872, Page 6

G RK I NEW YO in RALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ———_—-— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ~ AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, FIPTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street— auricex 47. ¢hth street and ST. JAMES THEATRE. Tw h ON. Broadway.—MacEvor's New If WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broudway, corner 30th st.—Per- formances afternoon and evening. —JARTINE, BOWERY THEATRE, BOWERY.—Witcues or New York—My FeLtow Chere. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broudway.—Tu Bartrt Pan romime ov Humpty Domrry. BOOTIV'S THENTRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth av.—Kicuanp IL, UNION SQUARE TH way.—Tnx Voxes Faxt eenth st. and Broad- yHe Kircurs, &c, BE WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 15th street.— Lompon Assonasce. LINA EDWIN’S THEATR' tux Fauity—Wanteo 4 Parinn, B. CONWS Broadway.—Foo. or ‘38 BROOKLYN THEATRE.— MRS. PF. Axricny 47. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— Joan or Axc—FRENCH 5: THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway'—Comic Vocat- ras, NuGRO Acts, &0, STOR'S OPERA HOUS! NTHICITIRG, Bortrseuns, &v, No. 201 Bowery.— Matinee at 2! IRVING HALL, corner of Irving place and Fifteenth streot.—Grand Concent. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Graxp InstromentaL Conourt. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF SciwNoe AND ART, New York, Tuestay, May 14, 1872. NATOMY, 618 Broadway.— CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. ee ae es Paor. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Washington: ‘The Enforcement Act in the Sen- ate; Amnesty and Civil Rights in Both Houses; Voorhees, the Vicious, on Greeley, the Great; Bluine’s Movement for the Presideucy—Adfairs at the State Capital. 4—The Fish Fight: Dove-Like Delaware Attacks Naughty New Jersey—Kentucky Association: First Day of the Spring Mecting; Large and thusiastic Attendance—Ficetwood Park— e Anglo-American Boat Race—Methodist General Conference—The Carpenters’ Strike— The Sickness of Commissioner Van Nort—Tie Van Saun Case—Honorably Acquitted—What Are the Police Paid For t—Inhumanity on Jersey Railroads—How They Do It in Gow- NEW YORK HERALD, TUKSDAY, MAY 14, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET, | The British Rinistry’s Exptanation of The Herarp cable despatches to-day bring intelligence of the official explanation made last night in the British Parliament of the negotiations between the English and Ameri- can governments in relation to the claims for indirect damages made by the latter in the case presented to the Geneva Conference. Mr. Gladstone was the spokesman for the adminis- tration in the Commons, and Lord Granville in the Lords, Their statements were, of course, identical. They set forth that on the 18th January of the present year it first be- came known to the Ministry that these con- structive claims had been advanced, and on tho 3d of February, sixteen days afterwards, Her Majesty’s government protested that they were not within the scope of the Treaty of Washington, nor within the intention of either party thereto. To this protest Secretary Fish replied in April that ‘he thought the Geneva Board ought to decide the en- tire question,’’ the tone of his despatch being “qnost courteous.”” Meantime, our Minister at the Court of St. James suggested as a cours that would be acceptable to both nations an interchange of notes setting forth the views, terms and conditions whereon each would be willing to proceed to arbitration. This sug- gestion was accepted by England, and a cor- respondence was carried on between the two governments through the instrumentality of the cable. On the 9th of the present month the British Cabinet ascertained that a proposi- tion for a settlement of the difficulties based on these negotiations, which had been submitted by President Grant to the United States Senate on tho preceding day, was not in accordance with the English understanding of the brief cable despatch on which it was based, and so on Friday last, the 10th inst, a draft of a letter fully covering the views of the British government was sub- initted to Minister Schenck. This letter, al- though lengthy, was immediately telegraphed by Mr. Schenck to Washington entire, and, on the following day, last Saturday, our Minister informed Lord Granville—of course on the authority of official despatches from Wash- ington—that the President had accept ed and the United States Senate had entertained the English detailed proposi- tions, which was regarded by the British anus. tm 6—Financlal and Commercial: Gold 11344; Sharp Upward Movement in Pacific Mail, Panama and Erle; Influence of the New Peaceful Pros- pects The General Stock List Strong, with icderate Activity; Governments Firm end Southern Securities Steady ; The Specie Move- ment and Foreign Exchang utwell's Re- sources and Our Imports; The iness of the | Sub-Treasury—Municipal Att A Female Cabinet as almost equivalent to a ratification and a final settlement of the matter in dispute. All the information given of this last English proposal, however, was that it ‘sustained the position taken by the British government in the Queen’s speech’’ at the beginning of the present session of Parliament. In the Com- Navigator—New York Law Instiiute—Mar- ae a pages: es aths, | mons the Ministerial statement was well Senaisorin i mama Oiaims | Feceived, and Disraeli, we are told, atest paces wane aoe ai | thanked the Premier for his statement, gence—Riot in Michigin—Amusement Au- | and declared that he should not nouncements, le 4 i T=—The Alabama Ciaims in Congress and in Partia- | 8k to embarrass the government in ments—Cabl grams irom England, | its efforts to secure what all parties desire—an France, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil and Cuba— The War in Mexico—Business Notices, S—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and | Brooklyn Courts—A Desperate Character— | Highwaymen at Work—Advertisements. | 9—Advertisements, | 10—Tne Connecticut Senatorship: Nomination of | General Ferry by the Democratic Cancus; Hawiey’s Alleged Utterances Concerning | Greeley—Shipping —latelligence—Advertise- | ments. 11—Advertisementsa, 18—Advertisements, Genenat Furry last night received the | nomination of the democrats of the Con- necticut Legislature for United States Sena- tor. Ifthe liberal republicans vote for him he will be re-elected, and the caucus nominee, General Hawley, will be defeated. Thus the | first great step will be taken in the projected | union of the anti-administration elements in the Presidential contest. , Tae Government or Juarez has at last obtained the mastery along the border of the Rio Grande. According to our special | despatch from Camargo the retreat of the | revolutionists from that place has degenerated | into a disordered flight, and the government troops commanded by General Cevallos are close upon their heels and expect to capture | them. | New Yonr Democratic State ConvENTION.— The New York democrats hold their State Con- vention at Rochester to-morrow, for the pur- pose of choosing delegates to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore on July 9. Some of the counties have expressed a desire to direct the New York delegation to vote for the endorsement of the Cincinnati ticket; but | whether this may be done or not it would be very proper for the State Convention to declare the readiness of the New York democracy to accept and vote for Horace Greeley as Presi- dent, provided the National Convention shall decide in favor of a union of all the opponents of the administfation on a single ticket. Gree- ley is acceptable to nine-tenths of the demo- crate of the State, outside a handéul of politi- cal intriguers, whose fidelity to the party is | doubted, and there is no reason why the | Rochester Convention should not speak ont in | meeting and say so. | Mr. Voorners, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives yesterday made it pretty effectivly known that the Sage of Chappaqua need not expect any active endorsement from that irascible gentleman. He does not beli he scoffs at the great Greeley; he execrates the amiable philosopher. .Glaring incon- sistency, indeed, he points ont be tween the philosopher's early “erring- sister-go-in-peace’’ pronouncement and his | in Horace; | honorable and peaceful settlement of these difficulties. In the Lords the snappish and unhappy Earl Russell, who could not resist a sneer at the United States, trusted that the question was ‘no longer one between the honor of the Crown and the re-election of | President Grant ;’’ while the Earl of Derby | and the Duke of Richmond, both in the oppo- sition ranks, expressed the hope that the new propositions of the English Ministers were unambiguous, as there had already been enough misunderstanding between the two parties to the controversy. The cable report of Mr. Gladstone’s speech is probably meagre, and it may be that the ministerial explanation was more full in detail than appears from the despatches. At present there seems to have been a singular slurring over of the negotiations or correspondence be- tween the two governments from the 3d of February to the 9th of the present month. We can hardly believe that all the reply made by Sceretary Fish to the dilatory protest of England against our case was that he thought nor can we quite understand how Minister Schenck can have been officially informed on last Saturday from Washington that President Grant had accepted and the United States Senate had entertained the new English basis of settlement, Our surprise is increased when we learn from Mr. Gladstone that the English proposition fully sustained the position taken by the British govern- ment in the Queen’s speech on the 7th of February last, which declared that the ‘arge claims’ included in the American case were “not within the province of the arbitrators.” To ‘sustain’ this position fully the American claims for indirect settlement which no American administration would propose, no American Senate would confirm, and which the American people would never endorse. Indeed, we fail to find in the anxiously anticipated explanation of hope that the differences between the two nations were happily adjusted and the treaty saved, and the demonstration made yesterday in the executive session of the United States Senate when the correspondence in relation to our claims was laid before that body, do not seem to put any brighter aspect upon the difficulty. We believe that the shrewd and politic Disraeli at once dis- covered the insufficiency of the statement, and, |-with the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty in his | Memory, understood that cable congratula- tions and civil expressions do not always subsequent “On to Richmond’ Perhaps the saddest thing in his marks is his characterization of the noble old man’s bailing Jefferson Davis as ‘‘a piece o: impertinence."’ Not only is Mr. Greeley's cabinet of peace smashed on his own cranium, but his war paint is smudged with Southern mud, and, unkindest cut of all, the sardonic son of Indiana plays hari-kari with the philosopher's bowels of compassion, Scarcely less irritating to the sense of propriety was the vicious Voor- hoes’ expressed preference for the Hero of the Wilderness over the hero of | the blooming onion patch. Te would | kiss the sword of Grant, but could! not be induced to salute the hatchet of the Chappaqua farmer. Howey , Greeley is Philosopher enough to refrain from swearing | and to console himself with the reflection that Dan Voorhees is notorious for qu everybody, including himself, and Bvonsivg nobody, binayelf included, howl. velling wi for im- re- | mean a successful unravelling of a difficult | complication, He no doubt knows that | another hitch in the negotiations would be instantly fatal to Gladstone's administration; | that a refusal of the United States Senate to | ; Sanction even an indirect abandonment of our | case would drive the liberal ministry from power as certainly apd as speedily as would a complete yielding to the American demands; and he must have felt that there was nothing solid, substantial ond positive in the explana- tion of the Premier, however handsomely col- ored and highly perfumed it may have been. ‘The courteous remarks of the tory leader were, in this view of the case, far more politic than the waspishness of Earl Russell or the half- way protests of Earl Derby and the Duke of Richmond in the upper House, But then | Divraoli has more brains and tact than all the poers of Great Britain put together, and he is unquestionably satisfied that, whatever result |» muy be reached in the present difficulties, the popularity and power of Gladstone are for- the Alabama OCiaims Diillculty—Is | There to Be Any More Diplomatic Juggling ? the Geneva Board ought to decide the entire | | question, damages would have to be unconditionally | | withdrawn, and this we are confident is a the British government any justification of the | bered. The little that has been said by the British government forces upon President Grant and the United States Senate the necessity of at once laying all the details of the negotiations with England, from first to last, before the American people. Our citizens will now insist upon knowing, without delay, whether Secretary Fish had no better or stronger reply to make to the first pro- test of England against our case than an expression of his own personal opinion that the Geneva Tribunal ought to settle everything, and whether the last basis of settlement pro- posed by Great Britain, upon which the people of the United States were offi- cially assured an honorable compromise could be made, actually sustained the position taken in the Queen's speech that the claims for indirect damages in the American case “ are “not within the province of the arbitrators.’ The correspondence was laid before the Senate in “secret session yesterday, and an attempt was subsequently made to remove the injunction of secrecy, but it failed, The supposed main facta that appear in the correspondence are told in our special Washington despatches ; but-what the people require is an official pub- lication of all the negotiations from first to last, including the new proposals of the Eng- lish government. Their demand for informa- mation must be promptly complied with. We must echo the expression of hope uttered by the opposition peers in tho House of Lords—that there will be no more ambiguity in the official lan- guage used in these singular negotia- tious. There has been enough of jugglery and double-dealing in the bs 4 now Jet us have a clear understanding, in plain, intell ble words, so that gyery person may know the exact position of the two nations. Eng- lishmen and Americans need no subterfuge and quibbling in their dealings with one an- other, and they are tired of the tricks of pro- fessional diplomats. Itis just as certain now as it ever was that the people of the United States will neither consent to abandon their case as at first presented to the Geneva Conference nor to withdraw the claims for indirect damages from the consideration of the tribunal. All Mr. Gladstone's smooth words will never make a settlement on such a basis an accom- plished fact, and the sooner he understands it the better. His explanation will only serve to confirm Americans in their determina- tion to ascertain the plain truth as to the posi- tion they occupy before any decisive step is taken by our government, and we insist that it is the duty of President Grant and the United States Senate to lay before the people at once the full details of all the negotiations that have taken place be- tween the two nations, together with the new propositions for a settlement made by tho British Cabinet and now under consideration at Washington. Sucressful Eight-Hour Strikes, The great question of labor, which is quietly biding the time to take its place among the great movements of the century, is presenting just now several instances of the success which attends the combinations of the toilers. People are likely to fall to sneering when they see, as in Connecticut, of late, that a Labor Reform candidate for Governor barely received a score or two of votes, and that its candidate for President is quietly snuffed out before he has time to make a stump speech. But the move- | ment is not to be so easily disposed of for all time. It stands at present with its feet in the earth and its head in the clouds, plodding on as ever below and its brain full of vague Utopia above. As to broad, clearly-defined ideas, possible of application, it has none at present which could take up and rivet the attention of the whole people to their serious consideration. A great many lay this want of coherent, comprehensive plan at the door of its demagognue leaders; but its real cause will | be found in the condition of the great body of The Labor labor itself. Like the Union forces in the beginning of the war, the army of labor is a badly drilled mob, impressive only in numbers, and just as little capable of taking or keeping a position against such a wary, organized foe as capital, for they have not thoroughly learned the use of their offensive arms, the “strike” | and the ballot. In such a condition it is not wonderful that frothy creatures with a few catchwords such as equality, capital tyranny, revolution, and so forth, should by their loud- | mouthedness be taken for their lenders. The work of discipline, however, goes on, and we are called upon from time to time to chronicle | the results of their skirmishes with the enemy, recording a varying success. It can be seen at once that the process of organization, although limited to certain crafts, whose members are | concentrated in numbers convenient for the purpose, is rapidly spreading; and, with the present rate of progvess, it can be casily com- | puted that many years will not elapse before | the present ‘company’ drill of the artisans has expanded into the brigade, division and army tactics on the most extended scale, In other words, the successful strike of to-day of | a certain branch of labor will mean in the end hotly contested, peaceful ballot-box baitles for the contxol of cities, counties and States, and, lastly, for the whole Union itself, The New York painters’ strike of last week for eight hours of labor and no reduction of wages was successful ; the carpenters’ strike, inaugurated yesterday on the same terms, will ! record its full success in a day ortwo. The | bricklayers, it is understood, will strike next week, with the same object end with similar prospects. It will be observed that these three trades are at the base of the building interest, and their regulation of the times for ‘‘strik- ing’’ evinces a bold and carefully prepared plan, They were aware that at the present season capital in this branch is screwed up with contracts and an attack would leave it no resource but surrender, The eight-hour legis- lation of Congress proved ineffectual in con- trolling private firms, end now labor steps in with its injunction and an understanding is instantly «arrived at. It cannot be denied | that the Eight-Honr law, although , obtaining legally only government works, has had considerable effect in paving the way for the present spread of the system to | private enterprises, There is a certain fear mong the weak-minded that, as labor learns its strength, it will become so overbearing as (to become a tyramay upon capital; but ag on ever gone and the days of his rule are num- | labor progresses it will learn of itself the limit to which it can go without dostroying its own moans of existence, Capital may grumble as the giant feels his power and begins intelli- gently to exercise it, yet as it is necessary that capital must exist and act with a certain un- constrainedness, labor, secure in its might, can only maintain its position of watchfulness and conserve the advances it has gained. It has much ground to cover yet before that goal is reached, much drilling to undergo and much patience to exercise. The late and prospective victories of the building trades are something for labor to be joyful over, though they were simply achieved by a number of men saying to capital, ‘“We will work eight hours if you wish; but if you think you can afford it we will not work at all.’’ Capital pre- ferred to save them from the sin of idleness. The Last New York City Charter— What the Governor Ought to Do. The Palmer charter, as it is called, which passed the Senate and Assembly last week through the concurrence of the Senate in the amendment inserted by the Assembly in regard to sectarian appropriations, is still in the hands of Governor Hoffman, and it is not yet known what action the Governor may de- cide to take upon it. As a whole it is a far bet- ter law than the charter of the Committee of Seventy, because it does not seek to make a questionable experiment in government upon a city of over o million of inhabitants, and because it places the real executive power where it properly belongs, in the hands of the chief executive officer of the municipality. Probably it is not altogether a bad law, although it certainly contains some pro- visions that might be materially improved. If it had been introduced early in the session, ma- | turely considered in the Legislature, properly discussed and understood by our citizens, judiciously amended and passed with- out haste, it might have been made acceptable to the people of the metrop- olis. But it came suddenly into exist- ence on the final disappearance of the cumula- tive scheme, was pushed through both houses almost without debate, patched up in a hurry and sent to the Executive chamber just as the session is happily about to close. Scarcely a citizen of New York knows anything about its provisions ; certainly few of our people are sufficiently conversant with its details to vote intelligently for officers to be elected under it ; and should it become a law in a few days by the approval of the Executive, we shall be called upon to choose in less than two weeks the men who are to be entrusted with the duty of carrying it into operation. Under these circumstances, independent of any faults there may be in the law itself, we re- gard it to be the plain duty of Governor Hoffman to veto the bill without further hesitation. It would be worse than a blunder, it would be a crime, to force upon the great metropolis whose prosperity is so closely identified with the interests of the State and of the nation, a hastily enacted charter, and to compel the people to elect officers under it before they un- derstand its provisions or have an opportunity for deliberate action. It would afford corrupt men, who are banded together in the ties of common interest and who are always prepared fora united movement, an undue advantage over honest, independent citizens, who have a stake in the good government of the city, but who need time for consultation and organiza- tion. An election forced upon us on the last day of the present month would almost as- suredly be carried by the worst class of voters. There is, besides, no immediate pressing ne- cessity for any further change in the city government, and in little more than five months the people will have the opportunity to elect new municipal rulers under our present charter. In the meantime the finances of the city are in safe keeping, as all agree; the departments are in the hands of men placed in power through the influence of the reform movement; the Board of Aldermen are reformers and no interests will suffer by the postponement of an election for Mayor until next November. Cn the other hand, the city might be seriously injured by any interference with the work of the present Dock Commis- sioners, who have undertaken a comprehensive plan of river improvements that will materially advance the progress and prosperity of the city, and in connection with the great im- provements at Hell Gate will work a complete revolution in the business aspect of the me- tropolis. If their plans are allowed to be car- ried out without interference or hindrance New York will be put forward a quarter of a century on the high road of its manifest des- tiny in leas than three years. We shall have a system of dockage unequalled in any city of the world, and two splendid business streets reclaimed from the rivers, running nearly the entire length of the island on both sides, giving ample room for magnificent warehouses and wholesale establishments, and affording facilities for the construction of viaduct railfoads, at comparatively trifling cost, from the Battery to Spuyten Duyvil Creek, along the North and East Rivers, No benefit the new high pressure charter could confer upon the city would compensate for any in- terruption of the comprehensive plans of the present Dock Commission; and should the | bill be vetood, ns it ought to be, we shall call Tpon the Comptroller imperatively to carry out the law in relation to the Dock Commis- sioners and not to interpose any technical or narrow-minded personal objections to the liberal appropriations they are entitled to claim and which the grand and valuable character of their work demands, These are some of the reasons for which wo call upon the Governor to veto the Palmer charter. The government of the city of New York is of too much importance to be placed at the mercy of law passed at railroad speed without proper consideration,and of officers elected at ten or twelve days’ notice by voters who are ignorant of the responsibilities and duties devolving upon those for whom they are called upon to cast their ballots, Tue Removat or Contxcror Casny.—The President, we notice, has requested the rosig- nation of Mr. Casey, the Collector of Customs at New Orleans, and of his deputy, Mr. Herwig. It is generally known that General Casey is a brother-in-law of the President, and this action, consequently, shows that Gencral Grant is ready to remove his relations from office when the interests of the public service require it. Though the Congressional Com- mittee appointed to investigate the affairs at New Orleans Lave not made a report implicat- ing General Casey, the President bas thought the character of a portion of tho testimony required a change in the officers at the Custom House. The conduct of General Grant in this case will be approved by the public, and will Go far to silence the enemies of the President, who are incessantly charging him with nepotism. The Cotton Claims in Washington. There seems to be no end to the agitation over and difficulty of finding a way of settling the cotton claims against the government. These claims, in one form or another, have been before the departments, the Court of Claims, the Supreme Court and both houses of Congress ever since the war closed. It ap- pears there is a fund of about twenty-five millions of dollars in the Treasury, which is held in trust for the claimants, though ten millions of that is barred, it is said, by statute of limitation. An efforthas been made in Con- gress, by an amendment to the Deficiency bill, to lock up this money in the Treasury, and thus to leave the judgments of the courts in favor of the claimants unsatisfied. The Com- mittee of Conference of the two houses pro- posed to abandon this amendment, but the House was not willing to yield. The muddle arises from the want of a due sense of justice on the part of some of the members, from the old bitter feeling against everything connected with the South, and from the insatiable lobby which has connected itself with the cotton claims. Injustice is done to a great many worthy, loyal and suffering people in conse- quence. There ought to be little difficulty in deciding whether a loyal citizen's cotton was taken by the government or not. The govern- ment has no right to withhold the money it has received for the ‘cotton of Yoyal “citizens. Let us hope justice will be done in all cases, and that this troublesome matter may be re- moved from Congress to the courts, where it belongs. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sir Eustace M, Martin, of London, ts at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge Israel S. Spencer, of Syracuse, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander Gordon, of the Royal Navy, has ar- rived at the Brevoort House. Colonel W. Yates Selleck, is stopping at the Hott- man House. Captain Hamilton Perry, of the steamship Repub- Ue, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General J. G. Foster, of the United States Army, has quarters at the New York Hotel. A Committee of the Common Council of Pittsburg is at the Grand Central Hotel. O. S. Winans, of Dunkirk, N, Y., is at the Metro- politan Hotel. Homer A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, ex-Secretary of State, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel G. Thomas, of Nicaragua, has arrived at the New York Hotel. De Witt C. Littlejohn, of Oswego, ex-Speaker of the Assembly, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Oscar G. Sawyer, an old New York journalist, yes- terday arrived at the Hoffman House from Salt Lake City, where he has been for some time con- ducting a paper. Baron de Smirnoff, of Russia, and his bride, yes- terday arrived at the Fith Avenue Hotel. The Baron is an attaché of the Russian Legation in Munich, Bavaria. He was formerly stationed in Rio Janeiro, and there met the lady to whom he was wedded in St. Louis a few days ago, and who is the daughter of Henry T. Blow, late United States Minister to Brazil. The new Commission from Japan yesterday ar- rived from San Francisco at the St. Nicholas Hotel. It is composed of Shogoil Kioyanari Toshida and General George B. Williams, as special Commis- sioners, and six attachés or secretaries, whose names are Otori, Yosheda, Minami, Honda, Tagel, Takaki, What its mission is is as yet unknown, but from the facts of its chiefs being officials of the Treasury Department of Japan it is surmised that the object of its visit is in some way connected with financial matters. General George B, Wil- liams, one of the Commissioners, is the only for- eigner upon whom such a place has been conferred by the Japanese government. His abilities are of a high order, else he could not so readily have over- come the reluctance to honor other than natives, which, with all her new-found liberalty, Japan has yet retained. The General was until last December connected with the Internal Revenue Department at Washington but resigned to accept the place of coun- sellor to the Japanese Ministers of Finance. Yoshida, the dominant colleague of General Wu- Hams, is the Vice Minister of Finance of Japan, and a cultured gentleman of pronounced ability. He has graduated from colleges in this country and England, and has travelled through @ great part of the world, thereby disciplining his mind to libe- rality and discernment. tori, the First Secretary of the Commission, is quite a noted character in Japan. During the civil war he was a devoted ad- herent of the Tycoon, and so determined in his op- position to what he considered the ancient ideas of the Mikado’s party, as contrasted with the somewhat liberal ones of the Tycoon, that he was imprisoned for two years after his sur- render. Upon his release he discovered how com- pletely the Mikado's ideas had revolved, and their liberal tendency suiting him he gave evidences of loyalty and was rewarded with his present posi- tion, Last evening the Commission left the St. Nicholas Hotel for Washington, but will return to this city within a week, Before its departure a HERALD attaché conversed with General Williams, and clicited that from the results of his observations he considered that the Japanese are rapidly pro- gressing toward an entire divestment of those prin- ciples by which they have been so long pent up. He sald:—‘Every Japanese [ynet_ was eager to be instructed in the ways of the outside world.” The General also asserted that the isolated position of Japan, cheap labor and her great mineral re- sources will eventually make her the Great Britain of the East in a manufacturing sense. Last evening the Academy of Music was crowded with the élé/e of our Irish citizens, male and female, who had assembled to listen to the eloquent Dominican monk, Father Burke, who lectured on the “Life and Character of Dantel O'Connell, the great Irish Liberator.” The boxes were fled with elegantly dressed ladies, y 4 THE DRAMATIO FUND ASSOOIATION, The annnal election’ of this association was held yesterday and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, S, L. M. Barlow; Treasurer, C. K. Mason; Secretary, ©. S$, Bernard; Trustees, Wm. ©. Alexander, James Boyce, W. R. Travers, D. Kingsland and John Brougham; Directors, W. J. Florence, F, Chippendale, J. H. @toddart, H. Isherwood, William Da- vidge, John Moore, William B. Harrison, W. R. Dunham, F. 8. Chantrau, 0, W. Couldock, A. Grossi, T. G, Hind, T. E. Morris, D, Whiting and D. ©. An- deison. The financial statement for the year shows the amount of expenditures to have been $5,083 06, the receipts $4,926 45, leaving an excess of expendi- tures over receipts of $162 61. The number of claimants on the bounty of the association is sixty, and the amount of stock held ts $51,147 27. STABBING AFFRAY IN A LAGER BEER SALOON, Abont six o'clock on Sunday night Carl Wartz, of 47 Sullivan street, and Bernard Ammon, of 273¢ Snl- livan street, both shoemakers, met in the lager heer saloon 49 Sullivan street. An old grudge exist- ing between them they renewed their abuse of cach other, which terminated in Ammon drawing @ shoe- maker leg, inflicting a severe the effects of which ee Hickey, of tne Eighth precinct, and upon being ar- raignod before Justice Ledwith, at Jefferson Mar- ket, dented the charge, but was held to await fie result of injuries inflicted on Wart, who, upon being confronted with Ammon, fally identified him aw the party who had stabbed him, resent confined to his ° 4 yesterday by Oflcer MIRERS’ RIOT IN MICHIGAN, Appeal of the Sheriff of Haughton to the Governor for Military Aid—The Situation Alarming. Derrorr, May 13, 187%. Bartholomew Shea, Sheriff of Haughton county, telegraphs to Governor Baldwin that the rioters at Calumet and Hecla copper mines have rescued the prisoners and taken arms from the Sheriffs men. The Sheriff considera the situation alarming, and asks that more tham one company of troops be sent him, The com) of 100 regulars under Major Kinzie which left Sunday morning on the steamer Atlantic were de- tained upwards of twenty-four hours by the steamer ising round in the St. Clair River. Should the disorder increase, & con ee State troops will be sent to the scene of the difficulty, AMUSEMENTS. SS eee Steinway Hall. The farewell concert given by Sefior Sarasate last night at this hall was worthy of the reputation which he has achieved in this country. Great care was used in making the seleotions; but, however Much they deserved praise from an artistic point of view, we fear they were rather above the taste of the assembled audience. It was evident, from the vacancies that were visible on the floor of the hall, that these concerts were somewhet caviare to the general public. We missed the inveterat: Roers, and tho absence of the American element Was most marked, Wherever one turned the faces of the audience were foreign, with here and there a few unmistakable native faces, just enough to break the monotony. The programme opened with @ duo on themes from ‘Don Giovanni,” by Miss Marie Krebs and Sefior Sarasate. The execu- tion was excellent, and at once established the aie formers in the good graces of the audience. Mlle. Gomilen, a contralto of remarkable richness of voiee, mene Batfe’s “If Thou Couldst Know,” in French, with much feeling, displaying high, solid culture in the management of her voice, Mile. Corradi ren- dered successfully Dachauer’s grand aria, “Faust,'" obtaining an encore. Sarasate executed in brit Mant sty! fe erent ony Freisch pels response enphusiast encore, play 5 Patrick’s ea) with Variations, dis) playing mag- nificent wer of execution. Selections from Chapin, Flotow, Prume, Thomas and Mendelssoha completed the programme. . utz,"’ and, in Opening of the Thomas Concert Seasons When the long summer evenings come and wearied Manhattan looks for some cool, pleasant spot im which to while away the sultry hours, the an- nouncement of the charming musical soirées at Central Park Garden, given by the unequalled or- chestra of Theodore Thomas, is welcome to all. Summer after summer these concerts have been the attraction, par excellence, for amusement-loving People, and one may see there on an evening the same classof audience as patronizes the Italian opera and the Philharmonic concerts during the winter. A long line of carriages passes by the en- trance of the garden, as in Irving place on a gala night, and a modiste may derive instruction from the elegant toilets that make up a large proportion of the visitors, These toilets will be enhanced this season by the magnificent full-length mirrors that decorate the walls and promenade of the hall, Mr. John Koch, the proprietor, has added considerably this summer to the beauties of the hall and garden, and has made lavish preparations to accommodate the fashionable class of people that attend the con- certs. But the music is, after all, the crowning feature at Central Park Garden, Mr. Thomas has brought, by constant practice together in every work worthy of a musician, by a profound acquaintance with all the arcana of the divine art, by @ rigid discipline and command over the artists beneath his baton, his orchestra, which now reaches the neighborhood of fifty, toa degree of perfection of ensemble, appreciation of every nuance of expres- sion and feeling, and a heartiness of spirit such as cannot be found in any similar organization in America and in few even in Europe. Last night they played the following programme :— March, “Tannhauser,” .. Wagner Overture, “Magic Flute” Mozart Waltz, ‘“Koenigslieder Strauss in. ‘Precio: : Selections frot os ener . 97. “Beethoven Ly Strauss Rmnaryiii, ir par le Roi Louis X11 Polka, “Graciosa”” Baltarello....... Mr. Thomas was the recipient ofthe astic and spontaneous applause at his appear- ance by an audience that fairly crowded the hall, lery and adjoining promenade and flowed over into the garden. The rformance was charac- terized by the extreme finish and high cultivation for which this orchestra has Cras since become famous. Mozart’s ever fresh and bright overture; ‘Weber's pastoral, deligntful music, the gem of over- tures, by Rossini; ‘agner’s majestic operatic engemble, the Strauss waltzes (& specialty with this band) ,the melodic overture of Wallace and the quaint old-fashioned air of Louis XIII. were delivered with matchless power and spirit. It is the only orchestra ‘we have that can give a panes crescendo, diminu- endo or ptanissimo; and jn the string department the ensemble of tone is wonderful. The programme is chal every evening, and Mr. Thomas has an exhaustiess répertoire, in which may be found a score of works never played before in this city. Te Judge from last night's brilliant ior tes the sea- son, the concerts will be more successful in @ popu- lar point of view than during any prece summer, e aa THE MUSICIANS IN COUNCIL. Annual Meeting of the Musicians’ Nae tional Protective Association, The first session of the regular annual meeting of the Musicians’ National Protective Association of the United States was held in Steinway Hall at eleven o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. U. C. Hill, the President, presided, and Mr. John Orr Finnie acted as secretary, After the presentation of cre- dentials the annual report was read, at the conclu- sion of which the Convention resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole, Mr. Philip Harkins, of Philadelphia, presiding, for the consideration of amendments i) the constitution, the most im- portant of which was the changing of the annual convention to a tri-annnal and Re wcien for an annual per capita tax on membership of local asso- ciations, On motion of Mr. Harkness, Franz Abot, the ‘eat German composer, who recently arrived in this country, was invited to the Convention. In a few minutes be made his epewrene and was most enthusiastically received by the entire assem- blage. At conclusion of these little festivities the annual election was proceeded with and resulted as fol- lows:—For President, U. ©. Hil, of Philadelphia; for Vice Presidents, George Edris, of Boston; J. H. Roswald, of Baltimore, and H. Schoss, of Chicago. Mr. Finnie, of Philadelphia, was elected Secretary and Mr. J. W. Jost, of Philadelphia, Treasurer, ‘The Convention then adjourned until elevea o'clock this morning. BLOOD HORSE ASSOCIATION. pablastore ci Opening of the Spring Mecting—Doable Out Winner of the Agreed Stakes a Eland the Cumberland Stakes, NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 13, 1872. The spring racing meeting ovey the Blood Horse Association Course, near this city, opened to-day with two spirited contests. The weather was of the most delightful character, the track in fine order and the attendagge yery Jarge and entha- since es; OMIT TR ‘The first event was Afi greed stake for four-year. nce $50, for a purse of fae, Malle Neate cee weaceary, and the race was easily won by Double Out Hi the Second Sees wags the Cumberland Stakes, for three-year-olts, mile arse of $400; the entrance being $50. there ware four starters, Eland scoring the motory in style. sryxany. me y Lup TENN.—SPRING MRFTING OF TIE Baa ione ASSOCIATION.—Finst Day, May 13, 18 First Rack—The Agreed Stake, for four-year- olds; mile heats; purse of $400; entrance $50. Owner entered Double Out. . R. B. & A, Cheatham entered b. Brown Dick, dam Woodbin: Ownor entered b. c. Richland, } dam by Shark... aie 8 Mr. Diggons entere: n'Dick.... 4@is ‘Time, 1:50—1:47 34. Same Day. wD Rack—The Cumberland Stakes, for three-year-vlds; mile heats; purse of 400; entrance $50, wher entered Eland... . Owner entered bh. f. Mignonette Marshal, dam Ellen Bate W. G, Harding entered b, dam Mazurka... G. W, Stewart entered b. f. James McK) . Repeater, by Jack Malone, anh. tee ‘allniah, by Planet, inn by Planet, dam Volga. rf 84 Time, 1; Tho fair now being held at Harmonia Rooms, U4. Essex street, for the benefit of the Polish refagees in this country, is to terminate with @ social enter- tainment this evening. ‘The drawing of prizes wilt commence at four 7. M. and will so at HOVER o'clock, Several valuable prizes on hand, and hopes are entertained that the patriotic efforts of Ue mangers Wil moet With Complete HUOCOHMe