The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1873, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD STREET. BROADWAY AND ANN JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. i ————— : = 4 Wolume XXXVII. No. 141 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadw: corner Thirtieth st.— Weumrs. Afternoon and event ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Granp Variety Exren- ainuunt. Matinee at 2s. 40'S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and sasustnets—Asmaxt n, Tux Magic CuaRM, Matinee at2, NION SQUARE THEATRE, Brades y. SWVituour « Heart, Union square, near OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston ‘and Bleecker streets.—lvurty Dumrrr. Matinee at 2. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth gtreet.—Tue Squine’s Last SuiLuina, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth syenuc.—Amy Ronsart FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broad- MavELEIN MoREL. was BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Conwscricut Courrt- pur—Cusa Linrg. THEATRE COMIQUE, N Pun Covoren Broruxn, \ GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth v.—Mowte Criszo. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— 14 Broadway.—Dix1x; on, nee at 234. MRS. F. B, Man ann Wire. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Svuwer Nicuts’ rents, TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, S8th st., between Lex- aston and 3d avs.—Orrretta ann’ Ligut Commpy. Con- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘ARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. \ PRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner hh avY.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, 2c. . f \ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— TENCE AND ART. QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, May 21, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. #THE MYSTERY OF THE POLARIS EXPEDI- TION! THE STRANGE DEATH OF CAPTAIN HALL! THE STORY OF THE ICE FLOE’— LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—E:cnrn PaGE. ARCTIC DRIFTINGS! THE FAILURE OF THE HALL EXPEDITION TOWARDS THE NURTH POLE! THE STRANGE DEATH OF ITS LEADER! THE DISSENSIONS! THE DIRE SUFF HE MEN UPON THE ICE SUFFERINGS OF MAP OF THE HYPERSOREAN REGIONS! VARIOUS EXPLORATIONS PAGE, MR, O'KELLY’S TR. ER TO SPAIN! THE MIN- ISTERIAL CO: LTATION OVER His CASE! A PROMISE OF AN IMPARTIAL TRIAL! OR- DERS FOR HIS REMOVAL TELEGRAPHED TO CUBA—NinTH PAGE. IMPORTANT HISTORICAL NINEVEH! I ING OF THE LIBRARY OF THE ASSYRIAN KING AND OF VALUABLE FRAGMENTS OF A TABLET! THE HISTURY OF THE DELUGE TO BE MADE KNOWN— NINTH PAGE. NEITHER KHIVA NOR THE KHAN CAPTURED BY THE RUSSIANS! HEAVY SNOW STORMS DELAY THE PROGRESS OF THE COLUMNS! NO JUNCTION AS YET BETWEEN THE TH PAGE. ‘ATION IN THE FRENCH NATIONAL M. THIERS THREATENED— N SHAH ENTHUSIASTICALLY IN RUSSIA—NiyTH Page. DARING ATTEMPTS AT CHECK FRAUDS! A FEW INSTANCES — OBITUARY — twELrTi PAGE. SPECIAL ITEMS FROM THE FEDERAL AND STATE CAPITALS—IMPORTANT TELE- THE | MADE—Firtu DISCOVERD AT GRE. . NEw YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1873—QUADRUPLE SH¥ET: The Mystery of the Polaris) Expedi- tion=—The Strange Death of Captain Hall—The Story of the Ice Floe. Among all the saddening stories of Arctic exploration which darken the records of its triumphs none will bear a more painful inter- est than that which tells the full trath of the death of Captain Hall and the failure of his expedition. Elsewhere the details of the voy- age of the Polaris up to her separation from the nineteen souls upon the ice floe will be found, as learned by our correspondent at St. Johns, Newfoundland, from the lips of the survivors themselves. Dark as the long Polar night is the mystery that hangs around the brave-hearted explorer’s death in the icy seas. He was a man without the refining culture ef the schools; but his powers of observation were acute; his experience wide in the work he had undertaken; his cournge and energy inexhaustible, and his enthusiasm in the work he had undertaken had all the halo of a master passion. He had pushed his’ vessel further towards the North Pole than any nav- igator had ever done before, and,’as the story now appears, was forced backward with vic- tory almost within his grasp. The Open Polar Sea that was his dream seemed spread- ing its tumbling waters for eighty or ninety miles beyond the prow of the Polaris. There were not five hundred miles between him and the Pole, If the wreathing mists, warm puffs of-wind and heaving waters bore out their promise of an unfrozen ocean still beyond and to the north, he was within three or four days’ sail of the northern end of the axis of the earth. Under these circumstances it was that the fears of Bud on, the sailing Peta tr cs are nb 7 —aieerr” Aber nas master, prevailed on Captain to go some ‘@birty-cight minutes south and Winter. That | this untoward opposition to proceeding fur- ther north was a weighty disappointment to tho gallant explorer we may welj believe. The indomitable courage of the man and the heart that he brought to his work can be in nowise better illustrated than by his starting in a dog sledge, with his faithful Esquimaux and one white companion, to fur- ther trace out his pathway to the Pole. Once the ship was frozen in for the Winter he started. This was on the 10th of October, 1871. He*.was absent fourteen days and travelled fifty’miles north of the ship. Be- yond this nothing of interest is known regard- ing this trip into the waste regions through the Polar night. He returned to his ship in good health and spirits on tho 24th of October, and here the interest begins to deepen, until what follows wears the grim frown of tragedy. At the best, under the most heroic or the most beneficent circumstances, the chill arms of death must come in that desolate Ultima Thule with no inviting clasp. The soul shrinks backward from the melancholy thought of dying so far from all that man can love, with aspirations unachieved, with no prospect in the world save a grave amid the eternal snows. The conditions of Hall’s death show how ter- ribly even that bleak prospect can be dark- ened. He drank some coffee and was taken violently sick, vomiting, and lay suffering for four days. The stories of the Esqui- maux have a significance here which cannot be overlooked. Suspicious of those who should be the mainstay of his hopes, he asks the Esquimaux if the coffee had sickened them. It had not. Through the broken ex- clamations of the two men to our correspond- GRAPHIC ADVICES—NINTH Pages. ‘ ‘NEWS AND RUMORS FROM THE VATICAN! REASSURANCES OF THE HEALTH OF THE HOLY FATHER! PRESS SENSATIONS! THE RECEPTIONS! MISPLACED AMERICAN MISSIONS IN ROME—FourTEeNTH PaGE. SEEING THt GREAT WEST! FINANCIERS AND PROMINENT PUBLIC MEN ON A GRAND RAILROAD TOUR! WHAT THEY SAW AND DID—EMIGRATION AFFAIRS—TairTeestTa Page. ‘WHAT CONSTITUTES CITIZENSHIP! THE CASE OF A SPANISH SUBJECT, WHO DECLARED INTENTION, DECIDED AGAINST HIM! AN IMPORTANT €ASE! UNION DOWN—ART P NEWS—SEVENTH Page. WILLING THE MUMCIPAL OFFICES! THE MAYOR STILL “RULING THE ROAST!” AN EXCITING DAY—YELLOWSTONE EXPLOR- ATIONS—BANK SUSPENSION—Tentu PaGe. WACKSON, THE EIGHTH WARD MURDERER, CAPTURED! ATTEMPTED SUICIDE! A CONFESSION OF GUILT! AN ASSISTANT IN THE HELLISH WORK—ANOTHER BROOKLYN MYSTERY—ELEveNTH Pas. (STIRRING TURF STRUGGLES IN ENGLAND! BEATING THE FAVORITES AND THE PRO- FESSIONALS—HORSE NOTES—THE BEL MONT STABLES—FovurteeyTH Pace. “BRAZILIAN ADVICES BY MAIL! RAILROADS, TELEGRAPHS AND TREATIES! A LEGIS- LATIVE RENCONTRE—THE CRIMINAL RECORD—THRTEENTH PAR, {ENLARGED REAL ESTATE OPERATIONS! THE GREAT BRADHURST SALE YESTERDAY! ent we catch glimpses as of things ‘seen through a glass darkly.” Captain Hall says that there was something bad in his coffee. The word “poison” comes out like a spectre from the scarcely coherent phrases of the Esquimaux. One of them tells how the man arose and pored in painful persistency over four medical books, and at last found the word he wanted. He pointed it out and pronounced it; but the strange word has escaped the Esquimaux’s memory. Captain Hall grows better ahd stronger, but re- lapses soog into what is described as paralysis, suffers exceedingly, becomes delirious, insensi- ble, and at last dies—‘‘went ont like the snuff of a candle’’ says Heron, the steward. Bessel, the doctor, ascribed the death to apoplexy. The absorbing question will be how this can tally with symptoms of the disease. Sus- picions, quarrels, open-worded or ominously silent, distrust and dislike among. those left after Hall's death, flit in ugly, ghoul-like forms across the narrative. The grave on the shore of Polaris Bay to all its other forbidding sur- roundings adds the mystery that enshrouds the death of him who lies below. How will it THE JONES’ WOOD SALE—JERSEY CITY REALTY—THIBTEEBNTH PAGE. }FRAIN ADJUDGED INSANE AND ORDERED TO AN ASYLUM! HIS COUNSEL ENDEAVOR- ING TO EXTRICATE HIM FROM WIS DI- LEMMA! LEGAL SUMMARIES—Tanra Page. JPN CHANGE) A WALL STREET SPECTRE! GOLD LOWER AND GOVERNMENTS AND ERIE SHARES IN THE ASCENDING SCALE— ELEVENTH Pace. Anp Now, Arren Aut, they have left poor Sonn Foley out in the cold. Do these formers hope to console him with the Bega Chamberlainship? Tae Frencn Nationat Assemniy postponed ¥he debate on the question of constitutional vilege and executive power which was to ave taken place at Versailles yesterday. The ronservative element has vindicated its strength in the legislative body by the election of M. Louis Buffet to the presidency of the chamber. We Pupiase on another page of to-day’s poper an interesting letter from one of our porrespondents in the West, detailing the ex- cursion of Eastern capitalists across the Weat- ern orairies. be solved ? In connection with this subject there recurs the opinion pronounced toa Hznaxp reporter a few days since by Dr. Hayes, the Arctic ex- plorer, that Captain Hall had been murdered, It was a bold and startling theory which the Doctor announced. But do the recitals of the survivors look as though it was all fair play that had been used towards the strong man who go strangely died? In his touching con- fidences with the half savages by his bed- side there is a whole volume of doubt that he had been fairly treated. The reticence on the subject of the officers who have sur vived is another mystery in itself. They are emphatically called upon by every claim that man can make upon his fellow man to throw what light they can on this mystery in the Polar night, cost) what it may to whom it may. Never in human sunals has a story, begun J fn such high hope, carried on with suoh prom ise of a brilliant end, and suffering suddenly a | dread eclipse, had so extraordinary a sequel. The sufferings, the bitterness, the privations, the heart-sickness from hope deferred, with tentative human will bearing up manfully against all in that affrighting clinging to life upon the ice floe, have already reached us in skeleton. The imagination of the reader, then, filling in the details of wild and varied emotion, will be found to have fallen far short of the reality as it reaches us now. To the courage, tact, pertinacity and incessant watchfulness of Captain Tyson are doubtless due the preservation of those who with him on that stormy October night were so pitilessly, as it would seem, yet per- haps so mercifully, torn from the fated ship. A shudder runs through the frame at the thought of the terrors of their first night upon the groaning ice, with all human hope shut off save such as might be born of hardy self-reliance. To see the Polaris onco again, to hoist a black signal flag and to see the ship disappear behind the land, suggest an age of mingled’ hope and despair. Prolong this dreary battle for existence over six months; picture the friendly ice broken into fragments by howl- ing storms and washed over by angry waves ; think of nineteen souls—men, women and children—living through it all, and you have gained an idea of what humanity can bear and can survive, From the death of Captain Hall a series of ‘brooding horrors crowds upon the shifting scene. The sufferings of the saved have been terrible, but who can say what has been thé lot of those under the command of Captain Buddingion, who wero left behind, and who doubtless, if living still, believe the party on the ise already lost? The conduct of Bud- dington to his superior while he was alive, his alleged threats afterwards to others of the crew, his lax discipline, tho impression of wilful abandonment which is embedded in the minds of the saved, are bad indications on which to prefigure the salvation of himself or those with him. It is, in Oaptain Tyson’s experience, that to his firmness and tact the preservation of his party is due. The absence of these qualities, the emotions evoked in a sauve qui peut, and, if the men’s belief in the wilful abandonment be well founded, the consciousness of guilt augur’ badly for his surviving serious danger. Whether something like the curse that followed the Ancient Mariner be upon the ship and those therein we have no desire to speculate, but the Providence that saved these men to tell their fearful, wondrous story may have as great a mercy in store for the human beings upon the ship, that the dim tale of the one death in Polaris Bay may be told in the light of day. Those who carefully read the report in the Herarp to-day will lay it down with deep regret for the perished hero of the expe- dition—Captain Charles F. Hall. The high trust reposed in him he proved himself worthy of. Speculation on what ‘might have been” is fruitless now, but we cannot be wrong in feeling that when his indomitabie energy and pure simple-mindedness were gone disaster became a near probability, almost a necessary consequence, The great feat that he did accomplish of bringing his ship so far north as cighty-two degrees six- teen, minutes will place his name among the highest of those daring explorers who triumphed or died in the frigid zone. These circumstances make it imperative that his un- timely death be made the subject of searching investigation now and when the remainder are reached, if they should have the especial good fortune to survive. It will, when all made clear, if ever, be a “strange, eventful history” as ever crossed the seven ages of man. Locan Oprion Vetorp.—Governor Dix last night returned the Local Option bill to the Assembly with his reasons for withholding his signature. This bill proposed to allow each community to decide by a vote of the people whether, within their respective bounds, the traffic in liquor should or should not be licensed. It has been urged by those who wish to see the trade wholly stopped or very largely curtailed, and was passed as a temper- ance measure. It has for several days been known that Governor Dix believed the bill unconstitutional and would probably decline to sign it. Its friends were therefore pre- pared for the message, and assert that they are able to give it a two-thirds vote, making it & law in spite of the veto, They will, no doubt, make a vigorous effort to do so, with what success is not quite certain. Potrrics mm THE Sovtu.—Southern politics must have assumed a very novel phase when we find such a veteran democrat as Henry A. ‘Wise taking s prominent place among the candidates for Governor of Virginia, backed, as it is asserted, by o republican national ad- ministration. There is but little doubt that there is a friendly feeling in Washington tow- ard the venerable Virginian politician, in consequence of the course he took during the late Presidential contest, and it would not bea matter of very great surprise to see him taking the reins of the State government of Virginia again in his hands. This is a good way of establishing reconstruction. It is practically reconstruction without misconstruction. Prmogz Atexanper Joun Covza, the first Prince of the United Principalities of Mol- davia and Wallachia, who was compeljéd to abdicate in the face of a revolution in 1866, hag just died. His demise will attract re- newed attention to the question of the East, sland’s Propose® Checkmate to Rus- sia—The Agitated Scheme of an Over- land Railway from Lendon to Cal- cutta. 7" Already the Russian invasion of Khiva is having its reactionary effect on the English mind and powerfully stimulating it to produce a checkmate to the Czar. Ina recent leading editorial the Hznaup advanced the opinion that the immediate designs of Russia in her Present campaign were to make herself mis- tress of the great Central Asian trade routes, which from time immemorial have been the highways of the caravans crossing from China to the Western World, and at the same time to come within striking distance of Horat, the long-reputed “‘key to India,’’ The latest in- formation not only corroborates this opinion, but shows that the British statesmen and East Indian capitalists are impressed with its force and are already agitating the splendid project of a grand overland railway from London to Calcutta, passing directly through Herat and enlisting the friendly aid and support of Turkey, Asia Minor, Persia and the British Provinces of India. There can hardly be a question that this magnificent scheme would prove a financial success, and it is receiving already powerful advocacy and support from able British writers and engineers. It is proposed to con- nect the great continental railway lines of Europe, which pass through Cologne, Frank- fort, Vienna, Pesth, Belgrade, Adrianople, and” now terminate at Constantinople, with the Indian system of railways at Peshawar by a railroad across Asia Minor and Persia. Although the continental tines leading east- ward between Calais and Osteyd and Con- stantinople aro not quite_ooiiplete it is said that the Turkish-Qovernment have recently made armrfements and negotiations to this St, so that the longest link in the great chain is already provided for. In Asia Minor there is a small and nascent gailway system which the Ottoman authorities are strongly disposed to favor and furnish with pecuniary aid, and, indeed, they have already gone so far as to secure the extension of the Smyrna and Cassaba Railroad for fifty miles with a view of extending it to a point three hundred miles further. Turkey is friendly to any effort on the part of England looking towards the checkmating of a Russian advance, and is ripe for opening an iron way for her transit ‘across Asia Minor to the Persian frontier. Persia, also, has not been slow in construct- ing railroads, and, both for purposes of pro- tection from Muscovite aggression from the vicinity of the Caspian Sea and Khiva, and for the immense commercial advantages that would be agguired, the Shah could have only one mind about the enterprise, and that most friendly and enthusiastic. The entire railway from Constantinople to Peshawar (which latter place is the western terminus of the very extensive railway system of British India) would be about two thousand five hundred miles-long; and, it is computed, the cost of building ayd stocking it would not exceed thirty million pounds. This is a high figure, but the enormous traffic, both local and transasiatic, would be enormous, and English capitalists think the revenug would pay a vory high percentage on its cost. Eng- land, Turkey, Persia and India will undoubt- edly be willing to make very large concessions and governmental subsidies to secure any company that may be formed to prosecute the undertaking. The construction of the Persian link in this transasiatic line would open up the resources of Asia Minor and that vast Oriental region whose hills, though often dry and sterile, are, nevertheless, ‘wherever there is the scent of water,’’ covered with flocks and herds, while the valleys are clothed with corn and redolent with roses. Such a line would open up and greatly develop the trade of Persia .in silks, shawls, leather, carpets, and the luxurious and unsurpassed fruits of this almost tropic country. It would shorten the time of transit and transportation from London to Calcutta from five hundred and thirty-two hours (as now consumed via Marseilles, Malta, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Bombay Railway) to two hundred and fourteen hours via Vienna, Constantinople, Persia, Herat and Peshawar, the route now proposed. The immense profits of our Pacific railways, traversing a new country, just entering upon its period of natural and commercial de- velopment, prove, beyond doubt, the financial security of such a transcontinental avenue as that poposed between Northwestern India and the “Golden Horn’’ of the Bosphorus. The distance from New Youk to the Pacific by the Union and Central Pacific is about three thousand three hundred and eighteen miles, and by the Northern Pacific about two thou- sand nine hundred and eighty-three miles, while the total line from London or Calais to Calcutta, via Constantinople, would be about six thousand four hundred and nine miles. But, vast as would be the demand for such fa- cilities as the latter would afford in the old countries of the East through which it would pass, its value and significance, in a military and diplomatic point of view, would be greater. Constantinople occupies a geographical posi- tion which has always made it, in the eyes of the great Powers of Europe, ‘‘the key to the East.” A railway such as our Pacific rail- ways, running eastward from the great Turk- ish emporium, midway between the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, skirting the Persian border and the northern frontier of Afghanistan, would in a few years develop and people these regions with a living wall of op- position to Russian encroachment from the Caspian basin, Khiva and the Oxus Valley, It would enable England and her Continental allies to interpose an effectual barrier to the Ozar’s long-cherished designs of supremacy in the Black Sea, which met such @ bloody and disastrous defeat in the Crimean war. And, what perhaps is of quite as great moment, not only to England, but to all Southeastern Europe and South- western Asia, it would cut off the present Rus- sian scheme of seizing the Central Asian ancient highways of commeree and allow the overland China trade to flow westward through the Bosphorus and Mediterranean to Vienna, Paris and London, rather than northward through the Caspian Sea and Volga River to ®t. Petersburg. The rpilroad has been found to be one of the mightiest en- @ines of war ds well as of peace, and should the long-predicted struggle of Bussia, with England and her other antagonists of the Con- tineps ever take nlace south, of tae Caspian the proposed overland railway to India might decide the supreme issue. The present and prospective wealth and Prosperity of our own great transcontinental railways to Oalifornia and Oregon, as certainly as anything human can be, assure the unity and development of our own country. And all civilized nations of the globe would hail the completion of a transasiatic railway as an event reflecting the highest fame upon its authors and big with the richest benefits and | blessings to the world. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Senator Conkling ts in Utica. Gladstone 1s a good psalm ginger. Tho King and Queen of Belgium are still “doing” London, Vicomte de Thurey, of France, is at the New York Hotel. The Prince of Montenegro will be in Vienna on the <4th inst, Profesor 0, C. Marsh, of Yale College, is at the Hoffman House. General Lew Wallace yesterday arrived at the S&. Nicholas Hote. Ex-Congressman Roswell Hart, of Rochester, is at the Gilsey House. Governor Dix has been nominated for the Presi- dency by a Western paper. Mayor A. Manning, of Toronto, Canada, rived at the Grand Central Hotel. Ex-Congressman Thomas H. Canfield, of Ver- mont, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Hector Varela, the publicist, has been ap- pointed Minister from Guatemata to Paris. Professors Benjamin Pierce and Mitchell, of the United States Coast Survey, are at the Brevoort House. Sefior Antonio Flores, Minister from Ecuador, has arrived at the Westminster Hotel from Wash- ington. The Infante Alphonse and his wife, Donna Maria de las Nievas, are near Igualada at the head of 2,000 men. Rochefort ts confined in the Fort St. Nicholas at Marseilles, whence he is soon to go the Isles Sainte Marguerite, Justice Ward Hunt, of the United States Supreme Court, yesterday reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel a3 ar Oba ln actin Governor 0. A. Hadley, State Treasurer Henry” Page and Senator Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, are at the St. Nicholas Hote! Captain G. C. Strahan, late Acting Governor of the Bahamas, who is now at the Clarendon Hotel, will sail for England on Saturday. Edwin James has become a clerk to a London solicitor named Roberts, with a view to admission to practice as an attorney and solicitor. Mr. Henry P. Haven, of New London, is at the Glenham Hotel. This gentleman lately failed to find @ haven in the office of Governor of Connecticut. Sir Heary Rawlinson, who was formerly Minister to Teheran, 1s to meet the Shah of Persia, on his arrival in England, as the representative of Queen Victoria. The King of Belgium has been officially notified of the marriage of the Princess Marie, of Saxe- Altenburg, to Prince Frederick William Nicholas Albert, of Prussia, General Sherman will leave Washington to-day for Indianopolis to attend the funeral of General Canby in that city. The remains of General Canby will arrive there to-morrow or next day. His Excellency John Pope Hennessy, British Colonial Governor of the Bahamas, on the way from London to enter upon his duties at Nassau, N.P., yesterday paid a visit to the HERALD. Hav- ing been duging last year British Governor-in-Chief of the West African colonies, he took a deep in- terest in the glorious success of Mr, Stanley in suc- coring Dr, Livingstone, in the heart of that dark continent, and wished to pay his respects in per- son to the source of that enterprise. In the course of a brief visit at his native city of Cork on the voyage hither he was the recipicnt of a muni- cipal address, complimenting him on his brilliant success in Parliament and as an executive officer. Governor Hennessy will go in a few days to Wash- ington, and about a month hence to Nassau. AMUSEMENTS, “Madelein Morel” at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. . The new play, “Madelein Morel,’ produced last night at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, goes further into the exposition of those delicate questions of morals and society which have long been a trouble to a certain class of philosophers than any piece of its kind. We therefore give. more space to re- counting the plot than is generally necessary :— Fourteen years before the play opens old Count Dalberg drove ignominiously from his doors his steward Jacques Morel and the tatter’s child Madelein, then a girl of but four Summers. The cause of this expulsion was the discovery of a Supposed defalcation by the steward, who, thus branded as a thief, wandered to Vienna, and, after every experience of ill-fortune, died in ® charity hospital, leaving his daughter friendless in the world. This girl, cursed with ‘the fatal gift of beauty,” struggled for years at laborious trades to earn a living, shunning insult and admiration for a time, but at last falling into companionships which left her, at the opening of the play, at eigiteen years of age, with a heart full of despondency, a loveliness without blemish and a history over which a veil of mystery was always dropped. Among the most respectable of the people to whom chance had introduced her were several actresses of the principal German theatres, one of them, Meropé, being a girl of gooa heart, fine talent, laughing disposition, but strong sense, In the first act of the pisy these ladies, with several others, are invited to a farewell bachelor supper given by the Barton Von Arnim, @ young Alcibiades of Vienna who is soon to marry Lotte, the daughter of the late Coant Dalberg and, who gives his last supper “this side the line.” They go to his feast, but find the host in a strange predicament; his future brother- in-law, the young Count Julian of Dalberg, a virtuous country youth, has just arrived in town with the Abbe Valmont, an old ecclesiastic and friend of the familly. Not to shock these rural anchorites the ladies are made to pretend themselves persons of quality—the family of Von Reinwald, one of the Baron’s chums, and so are introduced to Julian. He instantly falls in love with Pervenche (the name borne by Madelein Morel, who has never revealed her right one), believing her tobe Reinwald’s niece Blanche, and fresh from a convent. But he fs soon unde. ceived, for the young girl, unwilling to trifle with what she sees to be en honest affection, tells him enough to plunge him into the profoundest grief, and so leaves him, Julian and the Abbe have come to town to discover, if ible, the fate of ues Morel and ttle daughter. After old Count. Dalberg’s death the widowed Countess, who has always doubted the guilt of the steward, employs herself and yea reinvestigatin; ancient accounts. The soon discover that Morel has committed no crime, although his boeks, badly kept, seemed to prove he had, and, struck with re- morse, both mother and som reselve to find and re- store the Morela to honor and happiness again. But, in spite wl a Srecrnhe: bed oiky and a ene Sullan,” He resolves 10 restore Madelein to his ian. mother’s arms, and, more, to make a noble reparation for his father’s, injustice—to mine seed Countess receives Madelin with The oy; so does the fair Lotte, her daughter; ted toe ance, and Julian, firmly persuaded that ate ts dead; accedes to his mothers wishes, and is about te marry the fair Marguerite Langfeldt, a noble gink and his childhood’s friend. The wedding day ar- Fives and the ceremony takes place at the rural church at Linz; but as the bridal party leaves tite altar, another ceremony interrupts novice is about to take the veil—a broken-hearted woman, whose dream of seppmnets hasbeen bere Soro erring life demands an eternity of repen' approaches the altar to become the bride of heaven. itis Madelein Morel. But she nized. Julian sees the face he thought tosee more on earth. He.calis to her. Repen' ligion—all are forgotton at the sound of his vi love asserts ite Mastery—but too late. His mar- riage with another snaps the silver chord, and. the unhappy Madeleine, awakened from despair to ploase tmto stiti deeper misery, sinks under the low. Death, more merciful than humanity, comes bo stil het spouted heart. 7 ocala apie iow 1s innocent to people Ww! read the plot of the play. bat ortho mplorit of those who see the piece the story wears ent iy digerent aspect, Both offended virtue and of- fended vice are only too likely to condemn Made- lein Morel—virtue because society never forgives a fault in a womar, and vice because it gives tone to society. Accordingly, we may expect offended vir- tue to cry out indignantly against putting these base creatures on the stage. Every heart, on Futeming she formance, deeply as the sad future of elein Morel pot red by Miss Mor- ris’ powerful acting may atfect is to assent to this verdict. Yet it is, in truth, a true Picture of life, not only in Vienna but here In New ‘ork, in all pine Save the forgiveness which ts its ae side. the subject is one which leads and the play has other te no re- it to endless discussion, te be eagerly canvassed. Re treated with as much asin the real world, and even the irreligious are apt to complain that the sacred forms of the Church are invaded by the processions which close the ~ The play itself is a weak one, and burdened by the ‘ame eneirely we a? inaioaet - upon e ac for succes. The act Po ast night was of @ very high order. Miss Morris displayed in her: t & .Vivid truth and depth of feeling which, in a higher clags of dramatic art—we do not say of dramatic rendering—would have been conceded to be genius, After her Mr. Charles Fisher, as the Ab! Showed more even than his usual fine feeling, taste and generous culture, The other parts were well sustained. The stage settings were very nne, finer than, anything which preceded them, is saying & great deal. We may expect a lo! yn for the piece; for, if nobody else fostered it J woman suffragists ought to support it, the strohgest argument yet made in their behalt, Rubinstein’s Sixth Recital. The scene at Steinway Hall yesterday would con. vince the most sceptical ofthe higk appreciation and esteem in which the New York public hold one of the greatest, ifnot the greatest, of living pian- ists. For an hour before the rocital commenced hundreds of ladies thronged the stairs and jobbies at the entrance of the hall, numerous carriages form a to Li in Kot nth street, and by ane dade ct Se War teat ‘at ‘Steln Hall ‘one of the jargest audiences evel known there at a matinée. Both balconies as well as the floor were crowded, and, although the programme was of sufficient length to satisfy any reasonable mind, yet there were at times in- dications of encores, which, of course, were net responded to, applause being liberally bestowed upon the efforts of the pianist. The concert com- menced with three little nocturnes by the best pupil of Clementi, tho favorite of St, binstein’s interpretation of these delicious waifs of musical poesy was more beautiful than ever. Their very simplicity and delicate grace keep them out of the hands of our pianists, who wish only for effect, and to that end seek the turbulence of Liszt. They were succeeded by five of the most character. istic works of Adolph Heuselt, full of that sound, deep feeling, elegant finish and vivid imagination Peculiar to this much-neglected composer. They were ushered in by the agitated measures and odd harmonies of “The Storm,” ta which the lovely “Cradle Song’ formed an agreeable foil, The leit-hand passages of the latter, as played by Rubinstein, ‘formed a diaphonous drapery over the tender subject. “The Fountain” and “‘Liebeslied” followed next, charm- ing in their variety, and the ever popular “If 1 Were a Bird I'd Fiy to Thee” was an Anacreontic sonnet in music, limned in the most delicate shades ofcolor. After this Rubinstein seemed to get of an unknown coast, a sort of Mars Head, where his genius was entirely at fault. The two works oi Thalberg on the ramme, the A minor étude and fantasia in “Don Giovanni,” were not given with the power, finisk and_brilliancy that might be expected. There is a favor of the salon about the fantasia, perhaps, that offended his delicate sensibility, and he seemed only anxious to rid himself of a disagreable task. There were touches of beauty, however, to redeem the general coarseness of the conception, notably, in tue ren- dering of the favorite serenade. But those figures / ornamentation with which Thalberg so plenti- fully bedecks his fantasias, and which are so lib- erally copied by modern “transcribers,” were flung by Rubinstein over the main themes with an utter disregard to the anatomy of the latter. Perhaps he wished to cast ridicule on the school of salon music to which Thalberg gave birth. Leaving the dangerous coast of Thalberg, the Pianist found himself in greater peril amid the maelstrom of Liszt. He commenced with the ‘Don Giovanni” fantasia of the eecentric abdate, a work which, we suppose, Was never designed to be played by the present race of men; ior its technical diticulties approach so near the bounds of the impossible that {tt ts natural to thing that they sometimes step out on the other side. it is more. Ike work a written for two pianos than within the compass of ten fingers. It may be called by enthusiasts, “colossal! marvellous! Titanic!” but in our humble judgment there is a superabundance of noise and aiming after orchestral ef- fects such as place it outside the pale of true piano music. Rubinstein fared no better with it than have others before him, and it Proved to be the least, interesting work on the bill. After this whirlwind of noise there followed in Tapia succession 4 number of Liszt’s lesser works, principally consisting of transcripdons, Amon, them were “Auf dem Wasser,” “Erl King’ ani yea. at Vienna.” Three gems from jubert, “Soirées Musicales,” a half dozen bits of Reasinian melody, ‘Wujus Ani ” from the ‘Stabat Mater,” “Lucia,” a rather flashy rane of the beautiful sestetto; an impromptu waltz ane “Rhapsodie Hengreise,” in D flat major. On Thurs- day evening the final farewell of Rubinstein will take place, on which occasion he will pertorm over forty of his own reer dae Here he will find himself completely at home, and will complete the greatest work ever accomplished by a plantst on the shores of America, WEATHER REPORT. Wark DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THR CHIEF SIGRAL OFFICER, Wasuineton, D, 0., May 21—1 A. M. Probabilities. For the Middle States and tower lakes, slowly diminishing pressure, southeasterly winds, cloudy weather and rain; forCanada and New England, high barometer, southeasterly and _ north- easterly winds, cool and partly cloudy weather; for the Northwest and upper lakes and thence to Missourt and Kentucky, falling barometer, southeasterly winds, warm, cloudy and rainy weather; for Tennessee and the Gulf and South Atiantic States, northeasterly ta southeasterly winds, cloudy weather, rising tem- perature and occasional rains, clearing in the Western Gulf. ‘The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Bulldiog:— 72, 1873, ‘ terday. +. 86 average ‘feniperavure cure for corresponding date * last year... Oe eecvevccceces %~ CONVENTION OF GOVERNORS, Meeting and Organization of the “Chief Transportation” Delegates at Atlanta, Ga. ATLANTA, May 20, 187% ‘The Convention was permanently organized by the election of Governor J. 0. Brown, of Tennessee, President; B, G. Richards, of Alabama; E. A. mother, who thers from lin’s broken avowals some glimpses of her sad history, resolves, in a spirit of Christian charity, to receive her as a - Wee wie cane mR Der ep ge Hay Amend e loves the unhappy girl, pride and o! a gle for the mastery, She asks time ‘3 ‘ass. erate belore determining on her course. Not 80, however, with the gay Baron Von Ar- min, who is to marry Lotte Von Dalberg and who will ane ils wife's famity to Hace ye graced by a nce—particularly sine fulsmarria fe Julian will be disinherited under the terms of the old Count’s will, and Von Arnim, with wil say I trappell-you into vis-eince a my House say I trapped you in! fs s mck thy cfeature So Van Atma epeaks first met this creature toa But Julian is id, ag & last re- fo Julian, resolved, Coaxes, argues and menaces her unt; the James, of Tennessee; H. W. Walter, of Mississippi; Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts; Thomas Taylor, of South Caroling; Jolin Martin, of Kentucky; . 0. Carpenter, of Iowa; 3. L, Morehead, of North Ooo ina? O. Carrington, of Virginia; Gove Woodsen, of and Fu. Villij of Florida, Vice Presidents, Over three hundred dele- gates wore present, representing thirteen Stat ‘The Convention adopted a resalution that cheap transportation was the only subject fer De Acommittee to peryars, business was appointed, of which Governor Smith, of Georgia, waa "made chairman. A number of rosolntions were referred to that committee. The Convention adjourned till Govern Hendricks, Of Indiana, will ‘arri night, General Gordon will address thetelogation z The city ts full ef visitors, ap.d great en- The members ef the Convention wi, make an ex. te Brans' veanal and | Suuate, leavune on the morning sr the 2au. Petersburg for many years, Johii Field. Ru. °