The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1873, Page 6

NEW YOUKK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, -1873.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIII AMUSEMENTS THiS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Mouston and Bleecker streets.—Humrry Dumpty, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—A Busivess Woman. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davip Garnicn. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Dappy O'Dowp. GRAND OPERA MOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—UNcLE Sam. BOWRRY THEATRE, Bowery.—An Inis Farce— Destiny, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, N Burtxsque anv Oxo. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—ALIxk WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Egnani. Afternoon and Evening. Sia Broadway.—Drama, ATHENEUM, No. £8 Broadway.—Granp Variety En- TRRTAINMENT. . GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third ay.—Dix SPitzENKOENIG! NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Lxo anp Loros. ST, JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st.—Bun- uxsqux Orkra—Lucrezia Borgia, MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Monte Cristo. PARK THEATRE, opposite the City Hall, Brooklyn.— PANORAMA OF CaICAGO. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUS!) 6th av.—NxGRo MinstRELey Twenty-third st.. corner TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanuery ENTERTAINNENT. Matinee at 23. BIJOU THEATRE, (Robinson Hall), 18 East Sixteenth t—AN EVENING WIEH THE Ports. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th av.—Oration, “ST0RMING THE BastiLe.”’ STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- ‘cert. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrance anv Arr. New York, Tuesday, March 18, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ee 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE LULL IN PQLITICS AND OUTLOOK OF THE FUTURE!”—LEADING EDITORIAL AR- TICLE—SixTH Pace. ONE DAY OF THE GREEN FLAG ABOVE THE STARRY BANNER! GRAND PARADES AND BANQUETS IN CELEBRATION OF ST. PAT- RIGK'S DAY! THE SHAMROCK DROWNED EVERYWHERE BUT IN CELTIC HEARTS! MUSIC, MIRTH AND MARCHING UNIVER- SAL—TuIRD Pag. WITHIN THE MODOC STRONGHOLD! THE SAV- AGES, IN FULL WAR DRESS, TALKING FIERCELY TO THEIR PEACEFUL VISIT- ORS! A PERILOUS SITUATION! AMID TREACHEROUS INDIANS, GUARDED BY THE CHIEFS! STEELE’S ANSWER! LY- ING MATILDA—FourTH PaGE. 4 PROBABLE SOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH CABINET PROBLEM! MR. GLADSTONE PLACES HIMSELF AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE QUEEN! PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS UNTIL THURSDAY TO PERMIT A RECON- STRUCTION OF THE MINISTRY—SeventH Pack, CABLE TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE—LATE NEWS DESPATCHES—SEVENTH PAGE. ANOTHER CALL FOR THE GALLOWS! THREE RUFFIANS REFUSE TO PAY FOR LIQUOR AND BEAT AND MANGLE THE BODIES OF THREE MEN AND A WOMAN, THE OOUU- PANTS OF THE HOUSE—Skvenra Paar. 4 BOSTON STEAMER GOES DOWN IN A FURI- OUS GALE, OFF DUXBURY! EVERY SOUL ON BOARD LOST! WITHIN VIEW OF THE SHORE, BUT ASSISTANCE IMPOSSIBLE! RUMORED LOSS OF ANOTHER VESSEL AND TWELVE MEN—SEVENTH PaGE. FORGED RAILWAY CERTIFICATES TAKEN BY THE CONTINENTAL BANK! A SUCCESSFUL SWINDLE—TeEnTH Pace. QUBAN DEPUTIES TO THE CORTES! REPUBLI- CANS PREPARING FOR THE ELECTION! PLACING THE NEW LOAN—SeventH PAGE. WHY GOVERNOR DIX WOULD NOT COMMUTE FOSTER'S SENTENCE! HIS LETTER TO REV. DR. TYNG! NON-INTERFERENCE WITH THE WELL-CONSIDERED DECISIONS OF COURTS AND JURIES—Turrp Page. €ARL GRANVILLE ON THE MEXICAN FORRAY INTO HONDURAS! THE WRONGS SUF- FERED BY THE BRITISH DEMAND RE- DRESS AND A GUARANTEE OF FUTURE IMMUNITY! THE MEXICAN REPLY—TENTH PaGE. ERIE STRATEGY AT THE STATE CAPITAL! THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE “REFORM’! DI- RECTION! LOOKING INTO LOBBY LEGIS- LATION! A CORRUPTION FUND! WHAT THE COMMODORE IS “GOING TO DO ABOUT IT!” EXPOSURE IMMINENT—FovurtH PaGE. WEST INDIAN NEWS DESPATCHES—THE PRES- IDENT OF VENEZUELA MAKING WAR AGAINST SMUGGLERS—SrvenTH PAGE. JUDGE RICHARDSON’S APPOINTMENT TO THE TREASURY! SENATOR BOUTWELL’S RES- IGNATION! THE NEW SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS TAKES HIS SEAT— SEVENTH PaGE. FOREIGN EXCHANGE, GOLD AND GOVERN- MENT BONDS ADVANCING! THE INFLU- ENCE OF JUDGE RICHARDSON’S APPOINT- MENT ON THE GOLD MARK: STOCKS FALLING OFF IN PRICE! PACIFIC MAIL ACTIVE AND STRONG! BOWLES BROTHERS’ BREAK—Fourtu Pace. OPPOSING THE GERMAN REFORMERS—Firtn Pace. Spam—Tue Canuist Dereat.—The Spanish government has received official information of the defeat near Pampeluna of the united Carlist bands. The Carlists were led by Otto Perala and Dorregaray. The goverament troops were led by General Castrano. Report says that the Carlists were completely routed. It is gratifying to find come signs of life in the Spanish army. We always knew that the Spanish soldiers could fight well. The late Lord Clyde, who had fought often with them, side by side, was wont to say that for personal bearing and endurance they had few, if any, superiors in the world. What they need is to be well officered. If the republican govern- ment Can get the army well in hand, and can find suitable and capable men to lead, they hhave little to fear. The army on its side, the Republic ought to win. “« * ta Sr. Lovis Republican, remarking upon | Yhe fact that none of the unbribed members of | Congress are to have home receptions, says “it is only stained reputations that provoke the admiration of certain constituencies."’ This is hardly complimentary to the coustituencios gf Oakes Amos and Colfax The Lull in Politics and Outlook of the Future. y With the election and inauguration of Gen- eral Grant for a second term, and the success of the party he represents in securing an over- whelming majority in the Forty-third Con- gress, there has followed a lull in party poli- tics amounting almost to apathy. The recent State and Congressional elections in New Hampshire and the local elections in this State were scarcely an exception to this apparent general indifference, though there was an evi- dent reaction against the dominant and admin- istration party. The vote was not a full one, and there was that absence of political inten- sity which characterized the Presidential elec- tion and other elections last year. True, the opposition, which now includes the disaffected Greeley republicans with the democrats, gained upon the administration republicans, and their success might have been greater had they been well organized and more determined. The Crédit Mobilier developments, which involved many of the leaders of the republican party, the high-handed and partial conduct of the administration in the State affairs of Louisiana, the act of Congress for largely in- creasing salaries, including those of its mem- bers both prospectively and for the past session, and other damaging acts of commis- sion and omission, gave the opposition a good opportunity for attacking and signally defeat- ing the administration party in these first elections. The public mind was prepared for that; but, as was said, there was a lack of organization and interest, and consequently the gains were less than they might have been. Asin nature a calm follows the storm, in accordance with the principle of reaction or compensation, so there is always more or less political quiet after the excitement of a gen- eral or Presidential election. But the quiet at present has more the appearance of a collapse. The democratic party was inspired with hope when it united with and adopted the candidates of the . bolting __ republicans, When, however, ‘the coalition” failed to develop as much strength as the demo- crats alone and united could have shown, the party lost heart and became demoralized. The democrats saw in the end that they had made a false step—had lost the prestige of integrity and consistency, and, like a fallen woman, felt bowed down by adversity and incapable of showing a bold face. The break- ing up and division of the party in the great State of New York, and the consequent success of the republicans, through the corruptions and overthrow of the Tammany Ring, left the democrats powerless where they had been most strongly intrenched. New York qwas their, great stronghold. Now, in place of a . powerful and vigorous organization, with abundant means, there are not only divisions in the party, but the Tammny clique, which claims to inherit’ the power of the old Wigwam, is utterly inefficient. The lead- ing men have no energy or ambition, and they seem to hold office in the society merely for the sake of the honor or to serve their individual interests in con- nection with certain railroad magnates and schemes or to promote certain jobs. They are, for the most part, political fossils, respect- able nonentities or selfish speculators. Un- der their rule Tammany, which was once so vigorous and powerful, has lost its vitality. We do not see, therefore, how Tammany is to betome a controlling power again, at least not for some time, in the democratic party or in national politics. Then, as to the National Committee, or the party representation in Congress, where are we to look for the proper men or for any vig- orous action? Many ot the best and ablest democrats have been thrown out of Congress, and others who have taken a leading part heretofore have become so tainted and un- popular that, whether in or out of public life at Washington, their career of usefulness is ended. Not only do we fail to find any such democratic statesmen, or even active and energetic politicians, as formerly, either at Washington or in New York and other political centres, but there is neither life nor organization to be found anywhere. All is a dead level and withering mediocrity. Nor do we see any towering men of the party who could be taken for Presidential candi. dates—men who have the elements within them to arouse popular enthusiasm. Mr. Hendricks of Indiana, and some few others, are respectable enough, but cannot awaken any stronger fecling than ordinary respect. Such is the situation at present with regard to the democratic party, its most prominent men and its organization. What change may take place in the course of two or three years, or by the time of the next Presidential election, no one can predict. The prospect at present is by no means flattering. The minority of the party in both houses of Congress is so small that it will be powerless in matters of legislation, and it is almost as powerless in most of the States. With abundant elements in the cor- ruption, mistakes and short comings of the dominant republican party, the democrats have not the ability or organization to make use of them effectively. The republicans, having the administration and the enormous patronage of the federal government, an overwhelming majority both in the Senate and the House of Representa- tives, and the control of most of the States, are in a position to paralyze any ordinary op- position and to cover up their misdeeds. There is no power that can reach them but the independent press. The democratic party press is weaker than the party itself, and has neither ability nor a platform of principles to work upon. So weak and hopeless is the con- dition of the democrats that many of them who have ambition go over to the republicans, because that appears to be their only prospect of advancement in the future. In fact, the present republican party is made up largely of such seceding democrats. Others are going over and will continue to go for political refuge and security. Yet many of these poli- ticians would prefer their first love—would prefer to remain with the democratic party—if it afforded them hope in the future. However corrupt, extravagant or unsound politically the republican party may be; however much it may usurp power and threaten the constitu- tional rights of the States and of the citizens, it has acquired a firm hold of the government and country. There never was & more | thorough party despotism. No public man, | however exalted, can venture to be independ. ent and patriotic without being ostracized. In view, then, of this state of things, when ond whery fre we to look for a healthy and . vigorous opposition? What chance have the democrats or any coalition to elect a President in 1876? What is to prevent General Grant being elected for a third term? True, it may be said that would be unprecedented. But let us consider how flattering it would be to the ambition of any man to be chosen President three times by the American people! Can we suppose that General Grant would not be gratified to have an honor conferred upon him that no other man ever had ?—to be honored as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson or any other President was never honored? That would not be human nature. Looking at General Grant’s character, quiet but vaulting ambition, and that steady, deep and firm purpose which is disguised by an ap- Pprent modest and reticent nature, we cannot believe that he would not be delighted at such an unprecedented honor. Then, it is but fair to say that the President learns by experience, though he knew little of public affairs when he entered the White House, and though he may not be ambitious of being distinguished asa statesman. He rather likes to take things easy, and considers, probably, that it is enough for history to be simply the Chiet Magistrate of this great Republic. To be President three terms or longer would be for him ambition enough, though his government might not be characterized by any great act of statesmanship. Fortunately the country can govern itself, except when a powerful party deludes the people and takes the reins in its own hands. But as the Presi- dent does learn some things by experience he may, in the interval between the present time and 1876, take up some popular measure, as the annexation of Cuba or Mexico, or some other great project, and thus distance all his competitors for the White House. There may arise rivals in his own party, but with the power at his command he will be able, prob- ably, to put them down. The democrats, to all appearances, are out of the race; still, Whatever, may be the rivalry, turg.of the political cont or résult of oP pidential question in 1876, which is a long time to ‘look forward to, there seems to be little prospect for the democratic party, as it has no head, organization, ability, or platform to work with, and is all adrift. We do not say that the Re- public is in peril from the apathy of the people, from the want of a strong opposition, from the lack of ability and virtue in our pub- lic men, or from an unrestrained dominant party, but we do regard these things as of serious concern to the American people. The St. Patrick's Day Festivities. That Irishmen who have thrown off the shackles of the British subject and taken to themselves the easy yoke of American citizen- ship should yet fondly remember a red-letter day in the calendar of their mother land is not very astonishing. The naturalized Irish- man, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, has nothing in the government of his native land, either in its form or its administration, to cause him a single regret in accepting allegiance to the Republic. He becomes a fervent lover of the new government and the new land because he never considered the British government as morally his and because its laws combined to make him a stranger on his own soil. But his natute is of the most conservative in its affections and dislikes. Under the outward feeling of bitterness to all things English there lives a profound love for his olden land, its outlawed nationality, its faith, which England has contrived to identify with that nationality, and the dear domestic ties that blossomed perhaps in hunger, cold and misery. He has no great national day in the secular sense, for that would surely be identified with some triumph of the government he most hates. He falls back, then, on St. Patrick’s Day, because, though nominally a religious festival, it carries his mind far back through the troubled centuries to the time when Granua Aile was mother and queen of his green island, and no strangers, save the pilgrims of learning, were said to be found upon the island's breast. It is the only day in all the year which, as the festival of a Christian nation, has survived the wreck of her fortunes. The fires of St. John’s Eve are relics of the old fire worship of the pagan times, St. Patrick’s Day is Christian, and goes back centuries before the incursions and par- tial expulsion of the Norsemen, and, of course, long before Strongbow came from England at the call of the Izish chief McMur- rough. Although in the Roman calendar St. Patrick’s Day can be duly found, it is not as a religious festival that it is most revered, but as a sentimental embodiment of old, deep-hearted love and old, tenacious hope for the nation- ality so long crushed and shattered. The processions of thousands and thousands of adopted citizens of Irish birth, which have annually for so many years past paraded our streets, are gathered together under this link of a common and beautiful sentiment. It is easy to sneer at sentiment, particularly when it is of the dreamy order and indulged in by thousands of stalwart men; but a sneer in America cannot be expected by the most egotistic cynic to destroy what centuries of bitter persecution across the Atlantic failed to stamp out. Yesterday's demonstration was very large and orderly, and we congratulate our Irish fellow citizens on the latter. When we remember how differently some years ago these parades eventuated we are especially glad of the improvement. There were no collisions anywhere on the line of march, and the deflection from the usual route, in com- pliance with the wishes of the police, caused considerably less interference with ordinary traffic than heretofore, In the evening the various Irish societies, who affect a banquet instead of a parade, met and dined and wined in hearty good humor, and overflowed with love of the old land and loyalty to the new. The chronicling of all the events will-be found elsewhere. May the shamrock never have a less pleasant memory twined in its mystic leaflets than yesterday's celebration of St. Patrick's Day in New York. Tue Sovrn anp GENERAL Grant's SEconD Trnm.—The Ashville (N. C.) Expositor does not share in the impression that the South will receive better treatment under the new administration of General Grant than hereto- fore, and fears that» “‘the South has not yet seen the end of her humiliation and suffer- ing.’’ We hardly think there is a lower deep to that lowest depth of humiliation witnessed in the Louisiana wrong and usurpation, and believe, with the old adage, that ‘when things get to their worst they are likely to mend.’’ We shall continue to hope for the best under all circumstances, and advise our Southern friends to keep up their spirits, to keep the wheels of progress and industry in motion, and, by a sturdy determination to labor for the general good, command as well as deserve success. butts The British C: met Crisis. The English ministerial crisis continued yesterday, with a very decided probability of a resumption of power by Mr. Gladstone. Parliament reassembled during the afternoon. The chief of the liberals made an important announcement to the members. He stated that on the previous evening he had received a communication from the Queen, in which Her Majesty announced to him that there was no prospect that the op- position would form a government. He re- plied, placing his services at the disposal of the Crown and undertaking to consult with his colleagues, The consultation was now progressing, and he, in order to enable the de- liberations to mature, moved that the House adjourn to Thursday, the 20th instant. Earl Granville delivered a statement identical with that of Mr. Gladstone in the House of Lords, and concluded with the motion for adjourn- ment. This was agreed to in both houses. Mr. Gladstone has thus executed a veritable coup against the tories—one worthy of the best days of Lord Palmerston for its style and finish. He makes the Queen the mouthpiece of a proclamation of the political inability of the tories to conduct the government, and also gives the people to understand that should he consent to continue his administrative labors it will be in obedience and in compliment to the royal will and the popular voice represented in the legislative majority. This position will give a vast degree of new power to his party during a general election. Mr. Disraeli ob- served the advantage which his opponent had gained. _ He endeavored to lesson its force by stating that he informed the Queen that he was quite prepared to form a ministry, but ‘could not undertake to carry on the govern- ment with the present Parliament, The Duke of Richmond ré-echoed the Words of Disraeli in the House of Lords, Thus the case still stands, with all the facts tending to a dissolu- tion of Parliament and a general election. Whoever holds the reins of government during the electoral contest will have the «‘whiphand side of way,’’ or, as we term it, the inside track. oa Not So Fast, Mr. Bergh. ne Mr. Bergh has an act in process of passage in the State Legislature, entitled ‘for the better prevention of disease and cruelty.’’ Many of its provisions are quite necessary, while some of them are loosely drawn amd fortified by pretty despotic powers. Ingen- iously concealed in a section about abattoirs or slaughter houses, and providing for killing animals by hitting them on the head, is the following sentence:—‘‘But no living creature shall be killed or mutilated by any person in any contest of skill, or for any wager, bet or stakes of any description.’’ These words are intended to dissolve all the pigeon clubs of the State, and to enable Mr. Bergh to accom- plish directly, in preventing pigeon matches, what he last year endeavored to indirectly effect by a forced construction of the phrase “needlessly kill.’’ And if the sportsmen of the State are wise they will look after this young African whom Mr. Bergh hides away in his Albany Cape of Good Hope. Nor is it alone a pigeon match which the apparently innocuous sentence prevents.. It is common in the Adirondacks, whenever trout- ing or hunting deer, for sportsmen to amicably bet respecting their results of individual skill. In the less romantic purssit of. killing sheep or converting hog into pork throughout the rural districts it is quite usual for Giles and Jeremy to bet on the celerity with which they can draw for grease their shining blades in a manner never contemplated by Byron. The hunters for quail, partridge, woodcock and reed birds often wager on the weight of their bags at the end of the day’s sport. Yet over all these “‘killers of living creatures’ will impend Mr. Bergh’s little sentence, like the suspended sentence of a Justice. Where are the remonstrating sportsmen? Why are not their clarion voices uplifted against the proposed encroachment on their rights? Do they know that under the section in question they may be called upon to lay aside their rifles and their fishing rods and to exchange the hunting grounds for the un- pleasant cOnfinement of Blackwell's Island, should Mr. Bergh enact his law? There is no time to be lost, tor the great philanthropist has marshalled his men, and to-day the As- sembly propose to consider the measure, which has already been approved by the Senate. Important News From Mextco.—The highly important correspondence which has lately passed between Earl Granville, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the President and government of the Mexican Re- public relative to English reclamation for out- rages alleged to have been perpetrated by Mex- icans against the Queeh’s subjects at Belize, Honduras, is published specially in the Henaxp to-day. The English note was deliv- ered at Vera Cruz from man-of-war and for- warded thence to the Mexican capital. It is ®& very matter-of-fact document; pointed in words and dotted with dates of occurrences. The Mexican reply is exhaustive, retrospective, logical and republican. It constitutes, ap- parently, an excellent counter-case in offset to the Downing street circular; so that, after reading President Lerdo’s bill of charges, Mr. Bull may find that the balance is on the other side. Ifso, willhe pay up? The despatches will command the earnest attention of the American people. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The death of Bishop Mclivaine leaves a vacancy in the Peabody Southern Educational Board. Edward Conigiand, of Halifax, N. C., is men- tioned as the proper person to write the history ef North Carolina during the war. Dr. Deems authorizes the announcement that Commodere Vanderbilt has given $500,000 to Bishop McTyeire, of the Southern Methodist Church, to es tablish a university in Tennessee, Chan Laisun, from China, who is superintending the instruction ef the numerous young Chinamen now being taught in this coumtry at the various colleges, is in Newark, N. J. Mr. Laisun is com- paratively no stranger, he having been educated at the Bloomfleld (N. J.) Academy. Is it not a little queer that the quotation, Thou cut’st my head off with a golden axe, And smil'st upon the wound thou inflict'st, has never been employed by those who have harped so frequently upon the transactions between the great axe man of North Easton and the great Smnilist of Scund Bend ? Victor Emmanuel addressed a levter to his goa, | brings into the dlav there is @ certala a King Amadeo, respecting the abdication of the crown of Spain. He thought it better to secure the lasting and grateful affection of the Spaniards by & voluntary act and retire into private life than to remain exposed to the vicissitudes of party agita- tion and the risk of violating the sanctity of oaths. Amadeo was ,assured that a warm reception awaited him on his return to Italy, and that nis choice of Turin as @ place of residence met with the King’s approval. A correspondent of the Boston Traveller says the Washington gossips are busy over several dig- nifled members of the Senate, who, although gray, are unmarried, and it is currently reported that one of them is certainly engaged. The report ema- nated from the doorkeeper of the lebby, who as- serts that a few days ago a dashing Washington belle came up to him and asked to be admitted to see the said Senator. “That is against orders,” said the doorkeeper; “only Senators’ wives are allowed that privilege.” ‘Well,’ said the lady, blushing, “I don’t know how soon I may be one.” From this trivial incident the fair fame of another noble Senator is coupled with foreclosed matri- monial intentions. Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island, is the man. oh Nae AMUSEMENTS. Sardou's “Uncle Sam” at the Grand Opera House. The production of the long-promised play of “Uncle Sam” at the Grand Opera House last night, was a great success, both in its rep- resentation and the number of persons who witnessed the performance. The fact that the play had been prohibited in Paris, osten sibly because it was likely to be offensive to the American people, only served to advertise it and increase the desire to see it, In consequence, the immense theatre was fliled by one of the largest audiences ever gathered within its walls. Unfor. tunately, if M. Sardou had@ witnessed the first rep- resentation of the piece he would have concluded that the audience was full of his worst samples of Americans. The best seats in the house were sold apparently, belore the doors of the theatre were opened, ‘aiid yet when the curtain rose thé Orchéstra stalls were almost all empty. Haif of the first act was lost to those who came early in censequence of the confusion created by the laggards in reaching their seats. Nothing more ill-bred was enacted on the stage throughout the entire performance than was the conduct of the 690 people who disturbed 2,000 other persons because they were not and the others were in their seats before the curtain rose, Butin spite of an- noyatices which ne foresight on the part of the management could prevent when the act closed it was plain that the play, im spite ef its bitterness, would prove @ success, and thus the way was paved for something very like enthusiasm when it closed with the surrender of Young France to Young America. “Uncle Sam” is a play in four acts. It is called a comedy, but is in facta drama. There is not a real American lady or gentieman in the piece. The thread of | the story is exceedingly slight and each act is. in fact only @ iarce. The play opens on the proménade deck of the Hudson River steamer St. John, the scene being a very fime specimen of scenic art. Mr. Duflocg’s skill makes the stage of the theatre as realistic as if the action took place on the boat itself. When the curtain rises a tradi- tional saloon hand is seen dusting chairs and ar- ranging tables. A strolling French fiddler on his way to New York to give a concert at Steinway Hall is the first to enter and is goon joined unexpectedly by a former friend, the Marquis de Rochemore. Then come, Mme. Bellamy and Elliott, an American jour- nalist, The talk, of course, is about America’ and the “imperial city.” Mme. Bellamy is disgusted with the country and ready to be a mentor to the two young Frenchmen thus encountered. She has good reason to be disgusted, for she had bought land in Kentucky, which was @ bog, and took in all its proprietors, and had a lawsuit in two States for property situated partly in Connecticut and partl. in Massachusetts. She gained her suit in Connecti- cut amd lost it in Massachusetts, and then ap- aled, eetrie it in Massachusetts and losing it in Jonnecticut. In the end the Courts of the one State awarded her the drawiag room and the Courts of the other gave the bedroom to her ad- versary. The purpese of all this talk isto prepare for the introduction of Miss Sarah Tapplebot, the niece of Sam “ Tapplebot, a lew York millionnaire, living at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Miss Sarah, with some of her friends, has been at a camp meeting at West Point. The Freach description of the camp meeting is very funny. Briet relates how the Rev. Jedediah Buxten de- nounced all alcoholic drinks and recommended in- stead the ‘Celebrated Indian Bitters—Health Re- storative—B—T—1890—Wax,” which was to be had only at ‘‘Boum’s, No. 173 East Twenty-second Street.” Elliott describes old Sam—naming him- self as Sam’s ex-son-in-law—as a broomseller at twelve, @ perk ker at seventeen and a manu- facturer of black! t twenty, who made a fertune in cocoa, was repeatedly ruined and finally estab- lished by a lucky speculation in guano. ‘Then the ladies appear—Grace Flibburty, Elliott’s ex-wife; Betsy, @ music teacher, and@ strong-minded, an: Miss Sarah. Robert de Rochemore is introduced to Sarah, and when the boat arrives in New York she takes his arm and forcibly walks him off, with Mme. Bellamy Ware !’’ sounding in his ears, ‘The second act shows us Sam himself in his pri- vate parlors. His first duty is to receive Fairfax, a lawyer, and Jyp Direson, a pelitician, who are Managing his canvass as a candidate for the Com- uncil, Then his family come together, Ul 8, nis elder son, who has just failed fora million and founded a bank m his liabilities; Ben, his younger son ; (irace Flibburty, his daughter, whom he has not seen tora year; Colonel Nathanie! Flibburty, his newly discovered son-in-law, and the other members ef the Tapplebot family, including Miss Betsy, their music teacher. Sam asks every- body to dinner, and almost at the same moment the Marquis comes to take tea, at the invitation of Miss Sarah. Briet also appears, and Madame Bell stops Sam on his way to dinner witha roposition to buy some more land in Tafile- t city. According to Madame Bellamy and M. Wardo. the pens, ladies of New York always visit their lends §=attended by their ‘“beanx,” and so after dinner the room is filled with visitors, Miss Olympia Olyphant, Miss Lucrezia Brown, Miss Cora Livings- ton, Miss Clara Renwick and Miss Lydia Polhemus, each attended by her beau. Miss Sarah forwards her courtship with the Marquis, and the act ends with her departure, ostensibly for Long Branch, her new lover accompanying her. The third act takes place at Long Branch, and consists of busimess, like the second act, the episedes being the marriage of Briot and Miss Betsy by the Rev. Jedediah Buxton, greatly to the amazement of the Frenchman that he could be wedded at a soda water fountain, and a peculiar quarrel between Miss Sarah and the Marquis, with a notification to the latter trom Sam and Fairfax that he will be compelled to pay for the injury done to that part of Sarah’s anatomy she calls her heart. In the last act Mme. Bellamy compietes her pur- chase and circumvents Sam; nis son Ulysses cheats his father out of the election: tor Cemmon Ceuncil- man, Fairfax and the Marquis fight with pistols in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and everybody is recon- ciled, accerding to rule. M. Sardou’s play is not a play on American society and manners. It is not even a caricature once American society and manners. Yet itis a bitter and not entirely unjust satire on many things that are American. 18 Satire 1s, of course, an exaggeration of occurrences which have had a foundation in fact, and we are not disposed to overlook the truth it contains or to cry outin anger against the lesson it teaches. “Uncle Sam" is just such @ play as an intelligent foreigner whese knowledge of America was drawn irom books and errant na and shoddy tourists would write. The weakest character in the play is Uncle Sam Tapplebot himself, for the type to which he is supposed to belong never travels and has never been described in books, Nathaniel Flibburty, on the other hand, is strong, because Dickens furnished the ideal for him and for Tapplebot City in “Martin Chuzzlewit.” In every part of the play are evidences of M. Sardou’s reading. Hepworth Dixon’s “Spiritual Wives’’ supplied him with his ideas of the free love ten- dencies of American women. He generalizes from the stories about the Oneida community, the in- sane utterances ef a few people like Mrs. Wood- hull and newspaper talk abeut Mg 4 and In- diana divorces, wh he speaks ef the virtues of this country, to imagination the whole American Continent is not as great in extent or as diversified in manners and ioms as his ewn city of Paris, Madame Bellamy, who married a creole and went to live in the Seuth, is in the North, Her Westera property—the Tapplebot City lots—is in Kentucky, and her Seutkern property on the line between Connecticut and Massachusetts, His idea of the behavior of respectable American ladies is quite as absurd as his netions of Ameri- can geography. Sarah Tapplebet is scarcely as macdest or as Well bred as the worst of abandoned wemen. At their first interview she invites the Marquis de Rochemore to take tea with her at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. She gets from him something like a written promise ef marriage the sane even- ing, and goes with him to Saratoga in the middie of the night, spending three days in his oa without hurt to her reputation. Mrs, Grace Flib- barty, described inthe bills of the Grand Te House as ‘‘a married butterfly, with a penchant for diverces,” {3 familiarly talked about by M. Sardou’s. other characters in the play as “the ex-wife of Elliett.”” Sam, strange te say, was in entire igno~ rance for three months thi is daughter had mar- ried his agent, Colonel Fiibburty, and when he ts told of it he thinks if he hadheard it before he would have remembered it. The failure of Ulysses is a characteristic piece of satire, and perhi it is not unmerited. In everything which the “vga truth, but the fault is that he localizes universad vices and seems io make them exclusively Ameri- can. Over-dressing is not confined to America. Speculating in stocks and making financial failures for money gains are as mach French as American. Free love advocated by a few persons in every country, and the idea of spiritual wives is a@ thing that would hardly be understood by the better class of Americans. It is an extreme xi ration and one that is inde- fersible to represent young ladies as publicly sitting On men’s knees—thia is the language of the Play, “sitting on tnis one’s knee; c!as} inébe other one’s arms; brushing he: iden hair against this one’s beard.” A scene like this M. Sgrdou represents as actually taking place in Sam'§par- lors. It is very much as if we should repmsent Frenchmen as selling their daughters in the ‘ket, vaough we must do Mr, Sardou the justice — say that this is not so cruel @ picture, and we hape as well founded, as that which he gives of hig own countrymen in the third act of “‘Agnes.”” in speaking of M. Sardou’s play one ti must never be forgotten—it 1s a Frenchman's i of America, In this respect it is a skilful ai in France it may be regarded as a brilliant production. But the dramatist entirely loses sight of his art and makes exaggerations of exaggerations pass folrep- Tesentations of manners, a crude collections of impossible men and women A Such as it is the picture is well drawn and where it is grotesque it enly pro vokesasmile. We have not seen an audience which enjoyed a play more thoroughly this Winter, nor a play which was more enjoyable. Witty even when it was most absurd, it was impossible to frown down tne caricature. Taking the advice of the HERALD applause followed every thrust, and the keener the biow the more unrestrained the laughter. It was seeing ourselves as we never saw ourselves before—as no human being ever saw us, and so the grain of truth we discovered in what M. Sardou has to say of us acted like the spice o1 the dish he places before us. And, most of all, the American people showed to the world last, for society. night that they are not over-sensitive as regards what other people or think of them. They stowed besides that what the French government feared would prove offensive to this ceuntry was, on the contrary, a pleasure both in its truth and its absurdity. Con. sidered as a comedy “Uncle Sam’ is full of things that are unworthy of dramatic art, but asa roar- ing drama of the class of “Round the Clock” and “Roughing It” it is exquisite. There has not been @ better burlesque on any stage since the first production of “The Lady of ons.” It is no wonder our people enjoy it, for a mind fully com- prehending the subject could not have conceived @ piece at once so true and so false, so serious and so absurd. °. We have already alluded to the manner of its roduction, which throughout is as exquisite as the eck of the steamer in the first act. Sam’s private suit is Roseibly too splendid, The Lon; ranch scene is Very fine. It is well set upon the stage, and the hporeuntey for excellent tableaux was never surpassed. The only thing to be complained of, so far as the perfect picture is concerned, is the want of action on the part of the “supers.” This was inseparable from a ‘first night’—a thing cer- tain to be remedied, beqause it was observable. One or two of the important parts were badly filled, notably that of Mme. Bellamy, one of the best in the play, but as a rule the acting may be described by a stronger word even than “excellent.” Mr. Crisp played the Marquis de Rochemore with much sweetness and simplicity. Mr. John Brougham made up the part of Sam Tapplebot with great skill and played it with effect. Mr. Lemoyne’s Colonei Flibburty was a mag- nificent piece of work, true to the author’s concep- tion of the part in dress, manner and language, it impossible in every other respect. Mr. Meade’s Rev. Jedediah Buxton would have satisfied fectionist’’ in make-up, for it was the pert - Sardeu'sideal. Mr. Ketchum’s saioou hand was weil done and not too highly colored, and Mr. Devere's. Elltott, the journalist, was a passable performance. As Sarah Tapplebot Mrs. John Wood was in her element. She fully appreciated the burlesque of the piece and exhibited both the grace and absurdity or the part, @ performance so difficult that even she might have tailed init, Miss Mary Cary made her second success ef the season as Grace Flib- burty, her introduction of her husband Ne. 1 to her husband No, 2 being Fpecially noteworthy tor its grotesque mockery of the possible in the impossible. Somae Of the other parts were fairly done but coo- tained nothing requiring particular mention. On the whole the play was well sustained threughont, and its general excellence 18 a matte’ 01 con- gratulation both for the management and tie public, i Italian Opera—“Faust.% y The repetition of Gounod’s pepular work attracted another numerous assemblage to the Academy last evening. Few, if any, of the modern operas have taken such a complete hold of the public—a fact that has had ample demonstration during the past and present seasons, Mr. Maretzek’s artists have appeae certainly to much better advantage in “Faust” than in many other of the productions to which their somewhat limited répertoire is seem- ingly confined. Mme. Lucca was again the re- cipient of enthusiastic tokens of approval, to say nothing of a handsome floral tribute; and in tie prison scene renewed her great lyric triumph of which so much has already been spoken. The per- formance was altogether marked by great smooti- ness. ‘La Favorita” is announced for to-morrow evening, and ‘The Daughter of the Regiment,” in. which Mme. Lucca appears, for Friday. Miss Cushman’s Dramatic Readings. This lady, who has enjoyed an unusually long career of unvarying triumph on the stage, made her first appearance at Steinway Hall last night as@dramatic reader. She selected those scenes from ‘Henry VIII.” in which, in the character of Queen Katherine, she has wen seme of the choicest laurelS as an actress, Albeit the strong, pas- sionate energy, masculine in its de and power, that characterizes her histrionic e: 1s at times too fiéry tor a fit illustration of the gentle, suffer- ing Queen, yet there were moments of inspiration, especially in the scene with the Cardinals, that roused the audience to an unwonted display of en- thusiasm. The strong-willed, hot-headeé King was admirably limned by her, as also the at Cardinal. On Wednesday evening Miss Cushman reads selections from ‘Remeo and Juliet’ and others of @ miscellaneous character. ‘Macbeth’? is reserved for Friday eveming. The audience last Boer theugh not large was refihed and atten- ve. Booth’s Theatre—“‘Daddy O'Dowd.” An Irish drama, “Daddy O'Dowd; or, Ture About is Fair Play,” was produced last night for the first time at Booth’s theatre, its author, Mr. Dion Boucicault, sustaiming the principal rdle. The piece 1s undoubtedly mew 80 far as the title goes, but the situatiens, the sentiment, the treatment of the characters, and, here and there, even scraps and fragments of dialogue, suggest to @ veteran playgoer memories more or lest vague of something he has seen and heard before. Still “Daddy O'Dowd” exhibits in a marked degree the literary skill, the dramatic and the polished wit of the playwright who fathers it. Its plot is simple, but yields several tableaux of striking interest of the “emotional” type. ie characters are skilfully contrasted and adroitly de- veloped, and the dialogue sparkles with ton mot dash, many of which, by the way, fell unnoticed upon the audience, but will probab at future representations nit the mark. Mr. Boucicauit’s “Daddy O’Dewd” deserves the warmest praise. He portrays admirably the virtues of the Irish character, its thrift, industry, domestic affection, self-sacrifice and heroic fortitude. Gallery and dress circle, alike, applauded the grace, finish and ease which marked his imper- sonation of the part. Percy Walsingham, his son, was enacted by Mr. Wheelock; but no one in hig senses could ever Suppose that the connection was more than putatively filial. He looked alcogether too fine a gentleman te have been bred in a Gal- way farmhouse. Miss Bella Pateman’s Lady Gwendoline exhibited a mild degree of pathos, but the part was not by any means a satisfactory one to portray, since from her conduct she seemed to have been weaned on London Journal novels and fedin her womanly maturity upon the productions of Miss Braddon. None of the other parts deserve special notice. The mount ef the play was ex- cellent, and the first scene of the last act, the city and harbor of Galway, preduced a decidedly favor- able impression. ret too early to say Itis as whether “Daddy O'Dowd” will add another leaf to the laurel wreath forming Mr. Boucicauit’s drama- tic chaplet. Last night it seenfed to be a fair suc- cess, and the working of the piece was extremely smooth ior a first night, but the temper of the house scarcely seemed to indicate that the piece would ever rank as @ success with the “Colleen Bawn,’? or he others of Mr. Boucicanit'’s very popuiar wor! ‘POLITIOAL REFORM. The New Yerk City Council of Political Reform held a meeting last evening at their rooms, 93% Broadway, and adopted a series of resolutions protesting against those who now profess to repre- sent the republican party in violating all the pledges under which they secured the co-operation of reform organizations at the last election; declaring that if the protest be disregarded it wilt be ies, orien tone! ther “a disre- to act hence gard all evertures from pwlitical parties; declaring the charges that they want a change in the Police Courts, with a view to obtaining er con~ trolling patronage, to be unfounded ; regarding the resentation of new bills before the charter has Been finaliy acted upon as ee dangereus, and that they hold those responsible for any defeat or rejudice the cause of reform may suffer who ked coldiy on, without plan, confidence or con- tribution, while we prepared the bill, awakened public, opinion and carried the measure through it¢ most, dangerous stage, and who did net appear until victory was assured and patromage secured within easy grasp. DEATH OF CARLO PATTI. CINCINNATI, March 17, 1873. Carlo Patti, a prominent musictan, and brothet of AdeliiM and Carlotta Patti, died here to-day ot consumption, | a