The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1873, Page 6

‘NEW YORK HERALD, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVIII.... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Uncia Tox's Casin— ‘Quxz Bor Burin, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5i¢ Broadway.—Tax Two Bozzaups—Lirtix Jace Suxeragp, &c. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Monts Cristo. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Carrain Jack. Afternoon and evening NIBLO’S GARDEN, B: ‘ay, between Prince and louston st8.—AzRakL ; OR, MaaicCnanm. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, \way.—AGN ks. ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Guanp Vauiery Exten- Raveamer, near OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway. between Houston Gad Bleecker stree ts, —Humery Domerr. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth Street.—Brorusr Sam. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth Svenue.—Aur Rossart NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broad- way.—Maveuay Monet. MRS. F, B.-CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Caniux, &c, * CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Souwan Niches’ Con- Cuats. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., botwoon Lex- Aggton and 3d avs.—Orzrerta av Ligar Vomepy, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowory.— Varrery ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner av.—Necro Muvstretsy, &c. ens HALL, Fourteenth street.—Gaanp Con- NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— 1kNCR AND ART. "TRIPLE SHEET. =— New York, Friday, May 30, 1873. ,— as at THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. @THE LESSON OF THE FLOWERS UPON THE SOLDIERS’ GRAVES TO-BAY"—EDITORIAL LEADER—SIxTH PaGE. MECORATING THE DEAD HEROES’ TOMBS! THE FLORAL IN MEMORIAM OBSERVANCES THROUGHOUT THE NATION! OUR DUTY TO THE DEAD OF “THE LOST CAUSE”— Fourta Page. §Panisn PROGRESS! MR. PRICE, THE IMPRIS- ONED CORRESPONDENT, KEPT IN STRICT- EST SECLUSION! NO EASONS VOUCH- SAFED FOR HIS ARREST! MR. O'KELLY TO LEAVE FOR SPAIN TO-DAY—Sgventa Page. BAavVAL MUTINY IN SPAIN—TELEGRAPRIC ADVICES FROM THE WEST INDIES AND ELSEWHERE—S8VENTH PAGE. POLITICAL QUARRELS IN CUBA! THE REPUB- LICANS AND CONSERVATIVE PRESS AND PARTISANS AT DAGGERS DRAWN — SgveNTH Paqe, DERBY DAY FATALITIES! THREE PERSONS KILLED AND MANY INJURED BY RUN- AWAY HORSES, FA NG STANDS AND THE GREAT CRUSH—S8VENTH Page. LITERARY BONDS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA! J. LATHROP MOTLEY’S SPEECH AT THE LITERARY FUND DINNER—MAN- ZONUS FUNERAL—SEVENTH Page. QPLENDID RACING AT BALTMORE! FULL DETAILS OF THE VARIOUS EVENTS—THE PROSPECT PARK MEETING—TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD—Turmp Paae. ENGLISH ROYALTY IN HUNGARY! REGAL RE- CEPTION OF THE VISITORS BY THE NA- TIVES—THE MATRICIDE IN THE VITY OF CHURCHES—Tuirp Pace. FEDERAL CAPITAL NEWS—THE SELECTION OF THE ROUTE FOR THE JERSEY BOULE- VARD—TENTH Pace. THE STATE LEGISLATURE PUSHING BUSINESS THROUGH! A LIVELY SESSION—SgEvENTH a Paae. WEST POINT EXAMINATIONS—SECTARIAN TAX- ES—Tuurp Pace. GENERAL VAN BUREN’S DEFENCE ! HE DENIES THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM IN TOTO, GIVES THE REASONS FOR THE FAILURE IN THE AMERICAN BRANCH AND ASSERTS THAT THE CHARGES UF CORRUPTION AKE GROUNDLESS—Fovati Pace. WHE FIGHTING CURE OF SANTA CRUZ! A HERALD CORRESPONDENT HAS A CON- VERSATION WITH THE FAMED CARLIST CHIEF! UWiS TRENCHANT BLOWS FOR KING, CHURCH AND STATE—FovrtH Page, FOX'S FOLLOWERS DEPART IN PEACE! WHAT THEY HAD TU OFFER ON THE INDIAN QUESTION AND INTEMPERANCE! SECTA- RIAN EDUCATION URGED UPON THE CON- FERENCE—Firtu Page. YELLOW FEVER RAVAGES IX SOUTIT AMERICA— THIERS’ COURSE REVIEWED—NEW BOUKS AND BROCHURES—Forrtu Pace. A REVIEW OF THE WTI ON-ENGLISH LIBEL CASE! BAIL RE THE DE- FENDANT Bi FROM PRISON! TPALIN DECI. NE—FUTH PaGE, BUSINESS IN THE HOME AND FOREIGN MAR- KETS! DEC! TION DAY ON ‘CHANGE! PACIF! 1ONS—ST. MARY'S FREE HOSPITAL—Etauru Pac REAL ESTATE OPERATION HABEAS CORPUS TRAGEDY—Firtit P. —THE SMALL CASE—AN ALABAMA A\ Mr. O’Kexvy starts to-day on his long voyage to Spain to undergo his trial at Madrid for the offence of being a correspondent of the Benarp. Mr. Price remains in Fort Cabana thus far, no causes being assigned for his de- tention. In both cases the Spanish authorities refuse the consuls representing the countries of which our correspondents are citizens leave to see the prisoners. Could there bea more humiliating spectacle than this? Two of the most powerful nations in the world are defied by a petty satrap in the West Indies, and yet they look on dumbly while their authority is derided and the rights of their citizens are out- raged. The United States and Great Britain, Mr. Fish and Earl Granville, present a pretty igure before the world, and will no doubt be Jong remembered for the vigor with which they uphold the honor of their countries ! Tae Vienna Exxustrioy.—We have the in- formation that the Juries of Awards at the Vienna Exposition have postponed their mect- ings until July 1, and thdt goods may be for- warded to the Fair until the 10th of Jane. ‘This notice comes too late for the Upited States, and is, perhaps, intended to apply only to such goods prepared for the Exhibi- tion as are at or mear Vienna, awaiting trans- portation to the building. Since the ex. posure of the scandalous mismanagement of ‘the United States department of the show at the beginning very little interest is mani+ ested in the concern on this side the water, f Warn, Ox, Wan are wo to ave that music the Pask? The Lesson of the Flowers Upon the Soldiers’ Graves To-Day- To atrew the graves of the battle-dead with flowers is a besutifal cistom. Decoration Day, observed North and South in the time when Nature puts forth bud and leaf and flower, flushed with tho first glory of the Sum- mer’s dawn, is rapidly losing all the smaller or Sectional attributes which prevent it from be- ing one wide feast of love and reverence. The graceful, delicate act becomes more and more honored irfts performance. The tears of the nation, North and South, are almost dried by Time, and the bitterness that wells up with tears is ceasing to flow from the nation’s heart. Kindly and gently Time does his work of soothing the sorrewed. Man, with his evil eyes, his biting words and passionate hates, struggles against Time in vain. If God is love, love is eternal ; and so the worse must fall away in time before the better. On this lovely morning, then, as tender, loving hands lay dewy wreaths and. garlands of earth’s sweetest flowers upon the soldiors’ graves, may the spirit of lovo be diffused with the fragrant incense that is wafted on the morning breeze. It is becoming an old story now how discord rose, in God's own time, among the prospering people of these United States. It will to-day be pondered over by millioris how the mad act of one section plunged the nation into civil war, and how the fact came like a fearful dream upon a people used only to the glitter of uni- forms and the glint of sabres as features in their days of national joy. To-day we do not demand whence came the first wrong that caused the sabres to be sharpened and made bare. The war ghost, no matter how or by whom called forth, overshadowed the land ; the rattle of the drum and the trumpet blast struck dumb the quivering lips of fear; for good or evil, for life or death, the ranks on either side were filled ; and, with a gathering cry, in a gloomy hour, the contest was begun. How it deepened until the most sanguine in the cate of love despaired that the wounds of North and South could ever be healed is within the recollection of all. But tho war, for all its fury, passed away. North and South were joined once more. The strong hand grasp of the North would not admit being shaken off, and as the two sisters looked each other in the face the sign of friendship in the clasped hands soon began to have its subtle influence in their hearts. Passion is passing away; the green grass waves over the trampled, shaken battle field, and the old love for our grand united heritage grows fresh and green where poison weeds of hate had once usurped its place. If the bright dew of tears hangs, diamond-like, among the leaves, the reawakened love will gleam but the brighter to the eyes of all humanity. For the dead alone were the flowers first laid upon the soldier's grave. For the man he was, the cause he served, and the life he yielded for that cause, the garlands first were gathered and strewn above the soldier's moldering clay. The poignant grief of mothers, sisters, widows and orphans lent the sweet scattering of flowers a reality of sorrow at first that kept out of sight the great benefi- cent end which it would serve. North and South it was the same. The wail that rose all over Egypt when the first born, from Pharaoh's down, were slain in the night, was like the wail heard over our land when the great war was done. The cry for blood, the battle cheer, the victor’s exultant shout, have all their dismal echoes in that wail of sorrow, which will not be stilled until the lorn hearts are weary of their grief, and Times’ misty breath has dimmed the haunting picture of the scarred and gory dead. Meanwhile the world must have its heroes. A pride (how often false-rooted ?) supplants regret. Song and story tell the fame of those that fell. Glory, with its blatant bugle-blast, claims the dead for her own. Ephemeral may be the glorification, although dazzling to the eye. Names are inscribed on pillars; shot-torn flags are blazoned with the battles where they waved ; vanity is nursed like a hothouse plant and thrives. A century or so passes and the pillars crumble, the flags fall into dust and the vanity becomes a mere word in history. The shame of defeat passes away, too. Those who have fought with honest heart in a beaten cause pluck glories of their own from the ruin, and, setting them against their bitternesses for a balance, can let the past die gently in their breasts. Between race and race, nation and nation, the evil often will not die, because the same wayward causes in one generation may reappear to produce similar results in the next. But in cases of civil war the ex- citing causes disappear and generally become almost inexplicable to the body of the nation in a century or two. Guelph and Ghibelline, York and Lancaster—white rose or red rose— who in Italy or England, save the student, now cares or asks which won or perished? Pregnant with the shaping of the present in France and England, as were the war of the League and the onslaught of the Puritans, what citizen of either land asks his neighbor in passion now if he comes of those who fought beside Honry of Navarre or Oliver Cromwell? ‘Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.’’ So will it be here when our grand Republic, out of its transition present, has reached a period when the full fruits of the foundation of the fathers of our country are gathered— when the good achieved through turmoil, blood and tears in the civil war has risen like asun above the foggy exhalations that ob- scure it somewhat even yet. Then North and South will not merely have forgotten, but will wonder how any hand could have drawn a line upon the map that could sunder their sympathies—their Union. Decorate the graves, then, North and South! Let the tears be dried and love alone remain! When the flowers are scattered on the graves the tran- quil dead below will but seem to wear 4 garb of beauty, Nature at such a time suggests no thoughts but those that soothe, that soften and expand the heart, Let not man or woman, then, North or South, attempt by the beauti- fied resting places of the dead to waken the feeblest echo from the vanished days of strife. “The war was fought out finally in the days of the war. Vain glory or vain rogrot will fall with feebler and fainter effect upon the ear from day to day. The past is dead and hallowed, and flowers and prayers alone should be noar its grave. The great words of Abraham Lincoln in tho comotesy at Gotivabure aro the wroatest robukg ae wellas the gentiest that we can apply to those who would do otherwise than mercly deck the sod where it heaves in sorrow above the aoldier dead: —‘The world will little note or long remembor what we gay here.” And again, ‘Ip a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.” It is the soldier beneath, not the citizen on the earth, that can make the spot sacred. Spread tho choicest, sweetest flowers above the graves; enemy or friend is he no longer who has blended with the common clay. Let love shine among the flowers to- day; let tho relics of hate perish with the fading flowors to-morrow. The nation’s heart is firm and its purpose as resolute as ever. The Empire State makes holiday and goes forth with radiant brow to pay its tribute to those who died ‘‘that the nation shall, under God, have a néw birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” It has not perished. Our land is the home of the oppressed of all the world. Its future no man can write; but to-day we gracefully and heartfully hide the darkest, if the moat hopeful, hour of its past. beneath the fairest flowers. Wemeet above the honored clay charged to remember and te forget. Tho Government and the Indians—A Mistaken Policy. An oxtraordinary item of news reaches us from the lava beds, which, if true, places either General Davis or the government in a very unenviable light. It is reported that the redskin murderers who were recently captured, and whose crimes called for a long rope and short shrift, have been provided with arms and ammunition by General Davis and sent in quest of the ubiquitous Jack. They propose to send that redoubtable chieftain to the happy hunting grounds or bring him back as a curiosity for somo oxhibition, But the strangest part of the story is that the General is satisfied of their loyalty. It would be interesting to know with what degree of satisfaction he will learn of their reunion with their chief. We are also in- formed that Secretary Delano has written to the Governor of Texas in most pathetic terms, imploring His Excellency to pardon two ill- used Indians, named Satanta and Big Tree, who are in durance vile on account of a few murders which their exuberant spirits led them to commit. The circumstances attending these murders were very un- pleasant, and showed that the two copper-colored gentlemen were adepts in the art of mutilation; but then Mr. Secretary Delano thinks that their friends might be offended, and that, after all, poor Lo must not be held accountable for those little escapades in which a long acquaintance with the tomahawk and scalping knife causes him to indulge. The principal thing to be consid- ered is the wrath of the friends and accom- plices of these fiends, with whom our govern- ment wishes to preserve peaceable relations. Can anything be conceived more pitiable or humiliating than the position of the govern- ment in regard toIndian murderers? Itis the the same as if one of our judges should in- struct the jury to bring in a verdict of acquit- tal in the case of a self-confessed assassin be- cause the cutthroat friends of the latter threat- ened vengeance should their “pal’’ suffer. The crimes of the Kiowa scoundrels, Sa- tanta and Big Tree, should have been long ago expiated on the gallows; but the mistaken policy of our government stood in the way. If this policy is intended to prevent an Indian war it will have the very opposite effect. Steel and the bullet are the only available ar- guments with redskins on the warpath, and attempts at conciliation serve to make them more brutal and daring. Should these two murderers be set at liberty their first thoughts would be to avenge in the blood of the white settlers the long imprisonment they have un- dergone. Their release will be the signal for an extensive, bloody war on the Plains. What a shameful comment on the Indian policy of the government! General Canby’s murderers enlisted in the United States service and two atrocious murderers set free in order to im- brue their hands again in the blood of men, women, and children! It is a disgrace to the name of civilization. Great Excrrement among the office-seekers prevailed around the City Hall yesterday, We hope they will feel easier to-day. Two Important Busts with tHE Gov- ERNOR—The bill leasing the West Washington Market property to a company fora term of years and the “bill to suppress intemper- ance, pauperism and crime,’’ known as the Ohio bill, which holds the liquor seller as a hostage for the good behavior of the liquor drinker. An evening contemporary denounces the first-named measure asa job in the inter- estof a “ring.’’ The new Temperance bill, though it appears to meet with little favor from the ultra prohibitionists, is said to work well in the Western States where it is the law, and is regarded as sure to receive the Governor's approval. Having passed the Assembly by a vote of 68 to 28, and the Senate by 17 to 5, the bill, whatever may be the Governor's action upon it, will probably become a law, unless the legislative session shall come to an end while yet the question “to sign or not to sign’’ is under considera- tion by the Governor. “Nopopy To Buame.’’—A report from the Rhode Island Railroad Commissioner certifies to the General Assembly that the wholesale slaughter of passengers and employés in the Richmond switch disaster was a ‘‘ mysterious dispensation of Providence,” for which no- body was in fault. He thinks the bridge was properly built and in good condition; that it was destroyed by the breaking of the dam just above it, which he thinks was sufliciently se- cure. So the dam seems to have given out without excuse. Naughty dam !—and properly built, too. The Commissioner suggests that cars should be supplied with facilities for put- ting out fires and for releasing passengers from wrecked cars. That would be well; still, if those safeguards were required by law gnd neglected, the next terrible sacrifice tothe par- simony of railway managers would cause a repetition of ‘‘nobody to blame."’ Encovraaine to THE Watenina Praces— The heated term im the city of tho last two days. Yesterday there wore several cases of sunstroke in our gultry streets, The thermometer in front of the Henzaup Build. ing marked at threo P. M. 87, with a good breeze blowing, and with cheering sigus in tho clouds of coming rajn, The Centennial Celebration en@ Inter. mational Exhibition of 1876. Three years from next Fourth of July the hundredth#year of the independence of the United Statesis to becelebrated. What an event, both in the history of this country and the world! It ought to be the grandest event of all times, The Exhibition which is to com- memorate it should be the most complete and imposing ever witnessed. No epoch ever represented such wonderful progress in all that pertains to the freedom, civilization and hap- piness of mankind, or ever foreshadowed such mighty consequences in the future. Thirteen sparsely settled colonies, with a population of three millions, will have grown up to thirty- seven States and forty-five millions of people in our Republic. Indeed, there may be more States by July, 1876, for there are five or six Territories almost ready to be incorporated in the Union. Territorial expansion has given the Republic the area of avastempire. There appears to be in all human probabilities no limit to the growth of the country short of continental dominion or to the growth of its wealth, Well may the American people feel proud of the great event to be celebrated three years hence. The hope of all is that it may correspond in grandeur with the glorious past, the magnificence of the present and the more glorious and mightier future. If it should not the people will be disappointed and their patriotic sentiment wounded. What, then, is the prospect? We confess we do not see clearly what is to come out of the movement. We are not disposed to be hypercritical, particularly in advance, and wish to give the Centennial Commission hav- ing the matter in hand all the encouragement possible. But we fear there is too narrow and local a view of the subject taken by some of those having control, and especially by the people of Philadelphia and other parts of Pennsylvania. Instead of looking at it in o broad and national point of view there seems to be something like a little huckstering idea, such as the small peanut dealer has about turning a penny. The Pennsylvanians—the Philadelphians particu- larly—are too much inclined to look at the celebration as belonging to them especially, with the offices, the plans and arrangements. An instance of such local assumption and grasping is seen im the appointment of a Pennsylvanian, Mr. Boyd, as Commissioner for Indiana and in the refusal of the Com- mission to recognize the appointment of Mr. Johnson, of New Albany, by the President in the place of Boyd. The first mistake made was in not deciding to have the Centennial Exhibition at New York, the metropolis of the Republic, where the facilities would have been much greater and where there is a world’s fair continually. True, there was some weight in the claim of Philadelphia for the honor, as it was at that city independence was pro- claimed and where the seat of government was first established. Still, as a great national event, it ought to be where the greatest éclat would be given to it, and where there are the best opportunities and most conveniences. All we want, however, is to see such a unique and grand celebration as will be creditable to the country and worthy the oc- casion. The fact that the Commission finds it necessary to come to this city for consultation and to prepare for the event shows that the metropolis would have been the best place to hold the Centennial celebration. There is not much to notice in the proceedings of the Ex- ecutive Committee at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Wednesday, for they were merely prelimi- nary and preparatory, and were recorded in our issue of yesterday. The building for the Centennial Exhibition ought to be the finest and most artistic ever erected. But if our public men, not one out of five hundred of whom have any idea of art or architecture, are to decide, we fear the structure will prove an abortion. We have only to look at the wretched objects of art, so called, which these men have voted money for and disgraced Washington city with, to understand what might be expected from their decision. Plans should be invited from all parts of the world, for art is universal and rises above nationality. A committee of the first architects and artists of all lands should decide on the plan. Means should be used to collect and transport the finest specimens of mineral and agricultural products, the best machinery and mechanical inventions, the choicest manufactures of all kinds, the great- est and best works of art, and everything, in fagt, that will show both our own skill, genius, wealth and progress, as well as those from other countries. The Centennial Exhibition should, indeed, be in the largest senso a universal one. Above all, let not the Republic be disgraced by any jobs, schemes, advertising dodges or narrow-minded conduct of those controlling the celebration. For once, at least, let patriotism on that grand occasion tise above selfishness. The Derby and the Oaks. Derby Day, in spite of Tom Hughes, ancient priest and professor of muscu- lar Christianity, has come and gone once more. It was a London holiday, as usual, and all London, from the pedler to the peer, enjoyed it. The road was never more crowded ; the Downs were never more bril- liant and gay. There is a sort of gallantry about these May races on Epsom Downs. Derby Day is too much a gentleman’s day. The crowd, the rush, the fury make it un- pleasant for the ladies; but the ladies are not forgotten. One day only is allowed to inter. vene between the Derby and the Oaks, and the Oaks, by way of distinction, is called “Ladies’ Day.’’ On Friday Epsom Downs will again be crowded. The crowd, however, will be more select. The Oaks is Ladies’ Day in a double sense, for fillies only are entered, and the youth and beauty of the female aristocracy of England preside over the scene. Horse racing, as we know it, can- not be altogether commended ; but wherever it is accompanied with so many amenities, as at Epsom Downs, it must be condemned with qualification. Until we have better times we might have more reprehensible amusements. Tar ALpaNy Argus (democratic) announces the death of the republican party in Illinois, where it lately had fifty thousand majority, Perhaps the “spirit (and campaign) of '76” may resurrect it. Suserprovs Siience.—Nothing has been heard from the Modoc braves who volunteered to go aud wore aout in search of Captain Jack, | FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Another Check to the Cable Monopo- sts. One of our latest cable despatches from London informs us that a bill has just been filed in Obancery having for its object the prevention of the Anglo-American Cable Company from amalgamating its stdck with that of the Newfoundland and French Atlantic Cable companies. Coming, as this does, so rapidly on the heels of the action taken by the Newfoundland government, it does seem asif the grasping monopolists had reached the end of their tether. The Newfoundland government has made a sensible offer. It Proposes to give up its pre-emptive right if the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraphic Company will abandon its exclusive right, according to contract, of landing cables on the shores of that colony. Tf not, then the government of Newfound- land will exercise its pre-emptive right. The action taken in London and that taken at St. John’s will surely have the effect of bringing the monopolists to their senses. If the monopolists should still prove rebellious, then the governments of Great Britain and of the United States must take the matter in hand. This cruel monopoly, which is restraining thought, taxing intelligence and hindering business, must be broken up. The yoke has become too heavy. It can no longer be borne. The Boston Anniversaries. Yesterday the anniversary meetings were concluded in Boston. Tho weather dur- ing tho week had been delightful, and the gatherings, on the whole, satis- factory. There is one feature in these Bosten anniversaries that distinguishes them from those held in other cities. It is purely a “Boston notion.’’ We refer to the annual festivals of the Unitarians and Univer- salists, Usually they have been held in/the largest halls in the city—Faneuil Hall and the Grand Music Hall, for example. This year the Unitarians held their festival in the latter hall, but the Universalists had simply a colla- tion in the vestry of one of their churches. For eloquence and oratorical displays generally, as well as the high order of the menu, these entertainments are marked events in the esti- mation of the good people of the ‘‘Hub,’’ for it has been acknowledged that the pulpits of both these denominations have had and still embrace an array of talent excelled by those of scarcely any other sect. It may not be con- sidered exactly orthodox to say so, but such is the fact. For a wind-up of the dull and prosy business of the anniversary meetings these fes- tivals are wonderfully captivating to Bostoni- ans, and the meeting of the Unitarians in the Music Hall last evening must have been especially enjoyable. Tue Boarp or Enucation has received’ an encouraging report from the Suporintendent, which testifies” to the general efficiency of the schools in instruction and discipline. The condition of the buildings devoted to educa- tional purposes is not quite as satisfactory, and many sanitary improvements are necessary. Additional schools are required to meet the constant increase in the number of pupils. No action has yet been taken in respect to the institution of a department of music, which is sadly needed. The Board should not treat this subject, which is of vital importance to the public, with indifference. Onder the present régime music is completely ignored in the public schools or doled forth in homeo- pathic doses by incompetent charlatans. A Jewew ror Sr. Prrerssvrc.—Ex- Governor Jewell has informed the President that he accepts the Russian Mission. Tue Two Houses at Albany yesterday worked like beavers. See our legislative reports. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Lientenant Governor J.C. Robinson is at the Grand Central Hotel, Captain Moodie, of the steamship Cuba, is stay- ing at the Brevoort House, Ex-Congressman William Williams, of Buffalo, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Comte de Bearne, the French Consul at San Fran- cisco, is at the New York Hotel. Secretary Robeson left the Fifth Avenue Hotel for Washington yesterday morning. David Stiles, “the oldest Mason,” celebrated his 108th birthday on the 2lst inst., at St. Paul, George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, arrived on the Cuba on Wednesday after a long tour of Europe. Daylesford House, the favorite and latest home of Warren Hastings, is to be sold ander the ham- mer. General A. Gorlof, the military attaché of the Russian Legation, yesterday arrived at the Hoil- man House, with his family. Rev. Dr. Paddock has accepted the Bishopric of Massachusetts, and will probably commence his ad- ministration the 1st of September, Mr. Alexander Stephen, ® Glasgow shipbuilder, has received from the Emperor of Brazil the deco- ration of a Knight of the Order of the Rose. Sir William Guil has just recetved from the Em- press Eugénie @ gold box containing a pair of sieeve limks worn by the late Emperer Napo- leon Tif, William S, Pease, formerly of this city, agent for a mammoth show, has been sued for libel in To- ronto by a rival show agent. Probably a “got up” advertisement Jor both. Mr. Willliam J. McAlpine, of Pittsfield, Mass., is at the Hoffman House. Mr. McAlpine will return next month to his labor of improving the naviga- bility of the Danube River, in Austria. A Western squibbist says he would write up the man who was a@ householder, and did his ewn whitewashing, and got lime in his eye, but he fears to intrude upon the domain of a rival humorist. A lady of Greeley, Colorado Territory, has abandoned the needie for the plough, and, accord- ing to a Western paper, has done plain sowing to the extent of eighteen acres of wheat. She had formerly been accustomed to sewing tares. Rev. Mr. McDowali, a Scotch Presbyterian, said lately, in a temperance meeting at Edinburgh, that ina recent journey of 5,000 miles in the United States he omly saw two persons drunk, and one of them looked very much like a Scotchman. Another daily Times has ceased to exist in Bos- ton. The times seem to be literally “out ef joint” at the Hub, The old Times was the pioneer penny paper in New England and under George Roberts, now of this city, was at one period a very prosper- ous journal. The Chicago Times, apropos ef sending to New York for an architect to select a Court House plan for Chicago, remarks that one prominent building in that city, designed and built by a New Yerk architect, is tumbling down and will have to we re, built. Chicago mortar, then, must be as bad as its morals, Among the passengers sailed for Europe yester- day in the steamship Silesia was Dr. Anthony Rup- Paner, ono of the Commissioners to the Vienna Exposition. The Doctor was among those sus- pended by Minister Jay. He at once left Vienna, came to this country, and his innocence being vouched for in an ofictal document from Mr. Jay to the State Department, the President endorsed Dr. Ruppaner’s immediate reinstatement. An Australian millionaire named Dykshon is re- Celving @ deal of attention ia Parla om agcquAt ef nis wealth. He tan Yankee and dolngs in Met bourne that brought his riches are thoroughly ex- Preasive of the ’cuteness ofa New Englander. When money was plenty and hotel wore sparse he was an innkeeper. nm the demand Was great he would put up his rooms at auction and thus get greater prices than hesiae 7s 3 loa Montes came to Melbourne and was put'te his use by “mine host,” who advertised that the no- torious actress would dine at his table d’hote every evening. The rush to dine at his hotel was tre- mendous, and as he doubled his prices, of extra- ordinary profit to Dykshon. In these instances are indicated the methods of Mr. Dykshon to make money. , REVIVAL OF “AGNES” AT THE UNION SQUARE THEATRE. ‘The sudden spell of warm weather is hardly con- ducive to theatrical enterprise, but the revival of M. Sardou’s play of “Agnes,” laat evening, with the announced reappearance of Miss Ethel, for the first time since her recent illness, succeeded in at- tracting a very large audience to the Union Square Theatre to witness the representation of this popu- lar drama and to extend towards the lady an ex- Pression of that sympathy which she, as an actress, . has so peculiarly won among our New York au- diences. The revivalof the play at this time calls for no particular mention beyond a reiteration of the fact that it is‘one of the poorest of its kinda, which, unfortunately for the higher purposes of dramatic art, has become too successful with our American playgoers. Its representation elicited, a usual, Many manifestations of pleasure and in- terest, and, as usual, the scene in the office of the Prefect of Police between Miss’ Ethel and Mr. Mackay was listened to with rapt attention, occasionally broken ee involuntary applause. Miss Ethel’s personation is too well known to need de- scription now, and, though she appeared some- what paler than usual, her acting has lest none of its charms of earnestness and sweetness of di sition revealed under tr circumstances. Miss Fanny Hayward appeared as Stella, in lieu of Miss Glover, and Migs Griswold ap) in the charac- ter originaily filled by Miss Mordaunt. Both act- resses appeared to advantage. The rest of the characters and the other adjuncts of the piece were a3 before. The favor extended to it last even- ing will doubtiess insure its prosperous continu- ance until the revival of “fernande,” in which ee Ethel will finish her engagement at this theatre. THE CINCINNATI MUSIOAL FESTIVAL Cincinnati, Ohio, May 29, 1873. The Musical Festival Committee to-day officially announced that hereafter the Cincinnati Musical Festival would be held biennially, the second ome in May, 1875. The committee invite all musical so- cieties in America to participate. The State Com- mittee will soon promulgate the programme. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN OHUBOH OONVEN- TION. PHILADELPHIA, May 29, 1873. The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America was in session here this morning. Rev. J. T. Scouller, of Ohio, was elected Mouerator. Memorials in favor of establishing normal schools among the freedmen, and for the Pept of a sustentation fund, were re- ferred, Afternoon Session. The Assembly met again at two o'clock P. M. The report of the Board of Education was pre- sented, showing the total receipts to have been $5,886 10; exvenditures, $5,186 25. Ald has been given to forty-six young men who are under the care of twenty different presbyteries, Thirty- revs are literary, and thirteen theological stu- en! Amemorial from the Presbytery of West Mis- sourion the establishment of a permanent dele- gate fund was referred. This evening a conference was held on the sub- ject of foreign missions. Home missions and Church extension are the subjects for special order on Monday. VIRGINIA BAPTIST GENERAL ASSOCIATION. RICHMOND, Va., May 20, 1873. The Baptist General Association of Virginia met to-day in the temporary tabernacle at Richmond College. There were about 10,000 people, com- posed of delegates, visitors, and citizens, present, many of whom could not gain admittance. The proceedings were opened with prayer by Rev. James Fife, the on!ly survivor of the originators of the Association fifty years ago. Alter the completion ef the organization Rev. Dr. Curry, President, made an able address of two hours’ duration upon the connection of the Baptists with the religious history of Virginia, in which he took the ground that the Baptists of this State had not only been the joneers for religious freedom here but by their efforts had secured it. He gave historical views of their struggles ana perse- cution in Virginia. He further took the broad greund that the Baptist was the only denomina- tien which by the principle and by the force of its organization was the champion of toleration and reedom. Kev. Dr. Burrows, from the Committee on the Memorial Fund, reported that about $220,000 had been collected, of which $200,000 had been con- tributed in Virginia. Eighty thousand dollars have yet to be raised to complete the Memorial Fund. Over $17,000 were subscribed on the spot. INNOVATIONS IN THE CHURCH BALTIMoRg, May 29, 1873. Tne Diocesan Episcopal Ceuyention of Maryland had an exciting debate to-day ou the canon pro- hibiting members of the Church irom attendance at theatrical amusements. The discussion was an- imated by many colloquies between the reverend gentiemen, the Low Church advocating the eanon and the High Church endeavoring to kill it. After adebate in which many sharp things were said, the Convention by a large majority rejected the canon. This canon was of long standing, and its repeal 18 & great innovation on the practice of the Church in Maryland. ZION CHURCH CONFERENCE, PUILADELPBIA, Pa., May 29, 1873, The Baitimore and Philadelphia Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America (colored) is in session in thiscity. The action of the Generai Conference in consolidating the Baltimore and Philadelphia conferences was endorsed. The annual address, by Bishop Moore, was listened to wita interest by the Conference. TEE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 29, 1873. In the National Agricultural Congress to-day the Committee on Agricultural Colleges reported for adoption a resolution approving and endersing the effurts now being made to secure additional aid from Congress for colieges established under the land grant of 1562. An adverse minority report being offered, the re- port was tabled. The Committce on Miscellaneous Business re- ported a series of resolutions declaring the efforts of any class to increase or decrease the value of labor for the product of labor as pernicious in their tmfuence and against the interests of farm- ers; that the Eight-Hour law is unwise, unjust and a disturbing element in the business of the whole country, and ought to be repeale: The resoiuiions were rejected by a large ma- jority. A lengthy report from the Committee on Trans- portation was referred ‘back Jor modification, and the Congress then adjourned. A RAILROAD SUIT DEOIDED. New Haven, Conn., May 29, 1873, The arbitrators in the case of the Derby Ratiroad Company vs. the New York and New Haven Rail- road Company. to decide what sim shouldjbe given by the latter to the former for Ipnd taken for the site of the proposed new depot, decided to-day that the Derby road should receive the sum of $112,500. ——$—_———}—. A LEGAL RAILROAD WAR. ‘ PITTsBuRG, Pp., May 29, 1873. This afternoon Judges McKenn@n and Nixon, of the United States District Court) of New Jersey, have been engaged in hearing atargument ons motion fora preliminary aun Tedoad Chine the N York awd Long Branch Ratlroad Com; hom building @ brage over the mouth of the Rank tan River. The complainants are the Pennsylvania Ratiroad Company and the lessees @f the New Jer- sey Central. Theodore Cuyler, of Philadelpnia, and Judge Scudder, for complainants; Senator Freling- huysen and Chancellor Williamson, Of New Jersey, for respondents. \ ICEBERGS OFF ANTICOSTL Quesec, May 29, 1873. Captain McNeill, of the bark Mayertion, reports: May 19, off the east end of Anticosti, gaw a heavy field of ice, as far as the eye could reaich, and from there to the southwest ond saw very heavy ico- bergs. Ten miies west saw the hulls of two ves- sels, and A tent onshore. Passed en botircen the Brangy Potg and Quebem } ) —EEEE itd.