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He is a President in search of 8 | Cabinet Minister, for while in that pleasant city, in the enjoyment of those alleviating and tranquil hospitalities for which Philadelphia is famous, he seems to have tendered the office of Secretary of the Treasury to a distin- guished Pennsylvanian who has never taken any part in politics except to support the war measures of Mr. Lincoln and the policy of the republican party since the war. Although this appointment hes been declined, the gratifying fact is that the gentleman who seems to have met the President's standard of excellence is opposed to inflation, inconvertible cur- rency and every other form of national dis- honor and repudiation. That the President should have made such a selection shows that he is fully alive to the financial necessi- ties of the country. One thing seems to be established by these rumors, and it is that the President bas been considering the propriety of taking his admin- istration into dock and giving it a thorough overhauling. It has become waterlogged and leaky. Ugly seams have made their appearance, the keel is covered with barnacles, and there are unwholesome odors from the bilge-water in the hold. The country is rapidly losing heart, and we have not recovered our credit abroad. Plainly, also, these evils come from the Treasury. In a government like ours, when the finances are unsound there is sound- ness nowhere. Without blaming Mr. Rich- ardson, the President or any one in particu- lar, it is certain that our Treasury manage- ment has an ill name. Sanborn contracta, Jayne moieties, quarrels between Bliss and Davis about fees, corruption in public affairs, one thing comes after another, until we can scarcely open a newspaper with- out a ‘disclosure’ or an ‘‘exposure” offending us like s miasma. We repeat that we blame no one particularly, for in this | rude, unthinking, hurry-skurry, buffeting fight which has been going on we have taken no part. But whether the President and his friends mean to make another appeal to the country or not, in his nameas thechoice of the republican party, it is very evident that they can do nothing more fitting and popular than make salutary changes. Unless such changes are made the administration will rapidly sink to the position of a condemned administra- tion, with no fature but to drift into oblivion amid the contempt and aversion of the people. This is a fate that has befallen governments more powerful and brilliant than that of Gen- eral Grant. Mr. Gladstone’s fall is a sugges- tive example. ThePresident owes it to him- self to save his administration. He has heard the warning voice of Connecticut, and he is not the man to hear it in vain. The first trouble with the President is that in a matter as delicate as the finances his ad- ministration has no power. In a representa- tive government, elected by the people for the people, nothing is more natural than that the two branches of the government—the legisla- ne | tive and the executive—should be in harmony. From our reports this morning the probabili ie are that the weather to-day will be cloudy and rainy. Ds. Lrymcsronz is to be buried in West- minster Abbey, and the government has | undertaken to defray the expenses of the | faneral. It is a graceful and becoming tribute | of respect to the memory of a good and true man. In thus honoring the memory of the great missionary and explorer the British na- tion does honor tc itself. Avsra1a anp France.—A leaf from the seeret history of the Franco-Prussian war | diplomacy shows that Austria heartily sym- | psthized with France during the struggle of 1870, but feared the alliance of Russia and Prussia. There'is nothing new in this except | the official proof of what was unofficially | known. Rret.—The big Parliament House at Ottawa | was the scene ofa great deal of excitement | yesterday, because Riel, the Manitoba agitator, | failed to put in an appearance in obedience | to the Speaker’s order. English and English | colonial politicians of great and small degree | delight in the trial and punishment of treason, and we are not surprised that Dominion | statesmen make the most of their little oppor- | tunity. Tue Lovistana Trovsix.—Senator Carpen- | What harmony exists between the President and Congress? In England, when a great financial measure is proposed the government takes the first step, and Parliament only acts | upon the ideas of the Ministry. So it has been with other administrations in this coun- try. No one doubted the views of Jefferson on any important measure. Jackson's wishes on the United States Bank were tumultuously | proclaimed. Mr. Chase always impressed his ideas upon Congress when Secretary of the Treasury. Yet at a time like this, when it is all-important that the government should be in harmony with the Legislature and have a policy for good or for evil, we see it drifting helplessly. There is a chasm be- tween Congress and the President. No one knows what Mr. Richardson wants, and we never see the Secretary except when necessary to explain some Sanborn contract or some of Mr. Jayne’s revenue achievements. The ad- ministration and the Legislature are wide apart on these financial questions, and we cannot but feel that the alienation is the fault of the government. When we have a Treasury Department without views or a purpose, what else can result but differences and eventual discouragement in the minds of the people and a burning desire for a change? If there were any definite purpose in the democratic party we could understand how its leaders might take advantage of this derange- ter has given notice that on Monday next he | ment and apathy and the mistakes of the ad- will again call up his Louisiana bill for the action of the Senate. There is little hope, ministration. The possession of power is cer- | tain to bring with it mistakes, and power in however, that anything practical will result, as | time crumbles away. But, notwithstanding the dominant party in Congress seem to think | the incredible helplessness of the Treasury, the best way to settle the trouble is to let it there has never been a time when the settle itself. But the republican party will | President could not arrest this crumbling have to bear the infamy if Judge Durell is | process. General Grant brought to the not impeached. The charges against him are | Presidency a great name, a tremendous per- too specific to avert the necessity of trying him. Tae Fur Istanps.—According to one of our cable despatches this morning the sov- ereignty of the Fiji Islands has been formally tendered to Great Britain. It has long been apparent that the missionaries and the traders were laboring towards this end. It is but little likely that the offered sovereignty will be refused. It is not Johnny Buil’s habit to | despise such gifts when they come in his way. | In another place in the Heraxp of this morn- ing will be found an interesting sketch of the islands. Under American or British rule it 1s | “ismissed the illustrious Sumner like a | qnite manifest that the value of these islands might be greatly increased. Bewsammy Disnazut is not to marry the Countess Dowager of Chesterfield. The re- port of yesterday to that effect, as will be seen from this morning’s news, is flatly contra- dicted. Weare not told whether the denial comes from the widowed lady or from the Prime Minister. Mr. Disraeli is, perhaps, the most popular man in England at the present moment; and it is not at all to be wondered at that in his proud position as Prime Minister he should be an object of interest to the ladies of England. A mistress of ceremonies he needs, and of course the match makers and the gossips are busy. Mr. Disraeli’s attachment to the late Countess of Beacons- field was genuine and sincere; he spoke of her as the best wife in England, and it is probable that his sorrow over her loss is as yet too fresh to allow him to think of another matrimonial alliance sonality outside of his office. In this respect he resembled Washington, Jefferson and Jack- son. He was not a popular magistrate, Men did not shout over him and women did not give his name to their children. But he suc- ceeded in winning the common sense of the country, and when he came before the people for re-election he defeated, overwhelmingly, one of the most illustrious and widely known | and highly respected citizens of America. This convinced us that, great as the republican party was and had been, the President was greater. He has confirmed this in his party discipline. He mutineer, and sent Schurz and Trumbull and Greeley and Fenton and Banks to keep him | company. And yet the time was, and not very long ago, when the secession or political | outlawry of these men would have been re- | garded as the death of republicanism. But | the party stood by and saw the banishment | Of ite favorites as patiently as the Roman | rabble viewed the banishment of Coriolanus. | With this tremendous power coming from his | Own personality as a successful general and | the confidence he had inspired in his posses- | sion of the qualities of honesty and common | sense, with @ party under military drill obey- | ing his orders and the vast army of civil ies ready to execute his will, nothing | seemed easier than for the President to so shape the policy of the republican party as to dictate one of two results—the continuance of the party in power or his own candidacy for ® third term. But the time has come for him to see if he really possesses this power. Without any ‘WM There Be a New Departure 1— | knowledge of the President's intentions, or The President and His Oppertunity. | doing him the injustice of attributing to him ‘We have been favored with many stories | °rdinate ambition, wo have always held that from Washington and elsewhere in reference | be had only to expreas a wish for a third term to the intentions of the President. His recent | ? Teceive @ nomination. Nothing is impos- errand to Philadelphia is said to have been an | ible to the master of the power which now dominates this Republic—nothing but a revo- lution. We are in the eddies of a revolution. ‘This financial question controls all questions. No power, not even the stern and disciplined army behind the President, can control this revolution without taking @ radical new departure, and we can very well understand his anxious search fora Cabinet. There was never a Cabinet that as a whole expressed less the feelings of the country than the one which now surrounds the President. A majority of its members were never heard of before they entered the Cabinet, and will most certainly never be heard of after leaving it. They drag the administration and overweigh it. The President can make no better answer to Con- necticut than to give the country a Cabinet that will inspire the people with confidence, and enable him to terminate his career with- out weakening and tarnishing his fame. So that we can well understand these Presidential journeys in search of new councillors—his anxious desire to select advisers who will strengthen, not weaken him. The one thing the President naturally dread is that his party ogi ina mutiny. This would be an 4 inious end to a career that has become interwoven with so importants part of the national history. But what else can result with a Cabinet which no longer manifests any power or commands the respect of Congress; with a people who cry out in pain and crave relief; with loyal States who have never before abandoned the party seek- ing the democracy? However wedded to his administration, the President cannot ignore Connecticut, and if he continues his pilgrim- age until he finds a Cabinet it will be well for his fame and well for the prosperity of the country. The Loss of the Europe. Although we have not received satisfactory particulars of the loss of the steamship Europe several points may be assumed as clearly established. Five days after this ocean leviathan sailed from Havre she was ready to founder. Not one French officer or sailor, as it appears from the brief telegraphic account published yesterday, remained on board—that is, they all gave up the ship. But the crew of the Greece was made of far different stuff, even making allowance for the courage that may be inspired by a hope of liberal salvage. With twenty men taken from the Greece the first mate of the lutter vessel remained on board and tried to save the ship. Two days afterwards, with eighteen feet of water in her engine room, which must have rendered all further efforts fruitless, the Europe was abandoned and the salvage crew proceeded to England on board the Egypt. A brief despatch received ata late hour last night says that the cause of the leak is not as yet known, although it was said to have begun in the engine room. Without discussing this point now, we will simply observe that if steam lanes bad not been a reality the Europe would have taken to the bottom the four hundred persons now on board the Greece, which may arrive at any hour in | the lower bay. Thus steam lanes are actually essential to the security of life on the sea. The Stupidity of Partisanship. The action of the republican State Sena- tors on the occasion of the reception of the Governor’s Message regarding the currency propositions before Congress illustrates the stupidity of partisanship. After the Message bad been read Mr. Ganson, of Buffalo, offered ® concurrent resolution approving the senti- ments expressed by Governor Dix, and di- recting copies of the Message and the legis- lative endorsement to be forwarded to Wash- ington. This resolution was the more com- plimentary to the Governor and the more forcible from the fact that it originated with & political opponent of the State Executive and of the majority of the State Legislature, and any sensible man would so have regarded it. But the partisan minds of Senators Wood and Woodin could only discover in it, to use their own refined language, ‘‘a put-up job for the democrats to get all the glory possible out of the Message and resolutions.” So the for- mer offered an opposition approbatory reso- lution, the latter moved the reference of the whole subject to the Finance Committee and the republican majority voted in favor of the motion. Meanwhile Mr. Lord, a democratic Senator, claimed the Message as a proof that Governor Dix is ‘‘on his way back to his old love for the democratic party.’’ With such brilliant minds in the Senate what wonder that our State legislation is notorious for shortsightedness if no worse. The Civilized Indians, Now that the Indian question is prominently before Congress and the public we would in- vite attention to the condition of the Indian Territory. Armed desperadoes, intent upon plunder, make incursions into the territory ) of the Choctaws and Chickasaws, steal their cattle, rob their reservations and carry terror and demoralization to these comparatively peacefal nations. There is no constabulary, no police, apparently no protection for the Indians who are civilized enough to have | schools, newspapers and regular forms of government, If these Indians, who have been forced, os it were, to occupy a region little to their taste, have no protection from the government against the | lawleas acts of reckless ruffians, can we hope to anticipate complete obedience and quietude among the wilder Indians to the north- ward? There are some fifty thou- sand inhabitants in the Indian Ter. ritory, spread over an area as large as all the New England States combined. These Indians are all becoming civilized. While the Comanche tongue is the court language of the Plains, the Choctaws and Chickasaws have adopted ail the forms of civilization. They have magistrates, governors, courts, legislatures, four high schools, forty-eight day schools, and more than the sum of fifty thousand dollars is annually expended upon education. The general sentiment among them is in favor of a Territorial government, and we do not see how Congress can well deny their prayer. The best argument that can be addressed to the savage is that his civilized brother has been accorded all the rights of an American citizen when he has shown himself worthy of the diatinotion, National Banks in Congress. We have seen the power of the national banks in Congress and over the administra- tion whenever there has been occasion to call it forth, Touch their privileges, and that will prove the Ithuriel spear to arouse & monster. More than half the members of Congress, probably, are interested personally in the national banks as directors or stock- holders, It was not , therefore, that the amendment recently offered to the pending financial bill in the Senate by Mr. Saulabury, to make the banks pay for the privilege of a national circulation, should have been de- feated. It was, in fact, rejected without a division, This amendment prohibited tho Treasury Department paying interest on bonds which have been or may hereafter be deposited as security for the circulation of the banks, except on the excess of the par value of guch bonds over the average circu- lation, while such bonds shall remain on de- posit to secure circulation. It is simply a proposal ty tax the national bank circulation. Mr. Soulsbury took the idea, probably, from the laws governing the circulation of the Bank of England. We believe the Bank of England is required to pay to the British government two-thirds of the profits on its circulation in excess of the specie held in its vaults, That is, if there should be thirty millions sterling in specie in the bank and it should have sixty millions of notes in circula- tion it must pay over to the government two- thirds of the profits on thirty millions. The specie held in bank is dead capital, and the notes representing that are not, of course, considered profitable. But upon any issue over that, which is clear profit, the govern- ment makes the claim. The British govern- ment foregoes one-third, perhaps, on account of the services the bank renders in managing the public debt, in making loans and in other ways when required; and, notwithstanding the services rendered to the government by this great institution and the payment of the profits on its circulation, it has been com- pelled always to pay heavily whenever its charter has been renewed. But our national banks give nothing for their privileges, have no dead capital except the small legal tender reserve they are required to hold, and make a double profit, amounting to twelve or thirteen per cent—first, on the bonds deposited, and, next, on their circulating notes. In short, the government kindly doubles their capital within ten per cent and gets nothing in return. Of course, the national bank power in Con- gress would defeat any proposition to tax cir- culation in whatever form it might come. And it is just as intent on extending its privi- leges and enlarging its profits. The Western men, and particularly those from Indiana, have always been great on banking. In the old times they established and run more wildcat banks in almost every part of the country than all the enterprising speculators of other sections, Then, to tax circulation or tho bonds on deposit representing and securing circulation, which amounts to about the same thing, would do more to restrain inflation than anything, and that is just what these Western inflationists do not want. They may talk loudly of wanting more money to help industry and to benefit labor, but they will not consent to make the banks pay over to the government a portion of the enormous profits derived from national circulation and other privileges. A New Powzr.—We are constantly com- plaining of the railroad powers and the money kings and other forms of tyranny. Buta new influence has arisen in England, which threatens to menace the Parliament and sovereignty. Archbishop Manning called at- tention to it a few days agoin a public speech, showing that the liquor trade represents six hundred millions of dollars, and that ‘the influence of distillers, brewers and publicans was growing more and more dominant over public opinion, over the electors and the elected and over Parliament itself.” The Archbishop feared that the time would come when Parliament would be unable to cope with or control this power ; that there was no Minister now who would cope with it, and that any government who would venture to touch or try to settle it would be shattered. A statement of this kind from an authority as eminent as the head of the Catholic hierarchy in England should be gravely considered. Cotton was once king in America, but gin and beer now rule England. Removat or THe Commissioner or Cus- ‘roms.—Mr. W. T. Haines, the Commissioner of Customs in the Treasury Department, re- moved by the Secretary on account of compli- cations growing out of the famous comma in the clause of an act of Congress relating to tropical fruit, is now out of office by the con- firmation of his successor. It seems that the Secretary ordered the Commis- sioner to audit the claims growing out of the mistaken punctuation; but the Com- missioner declined, except upon an order in writing. This the Secretary gave, but subse- quently revoked it and dismissed the Commis- sioner. The latter, however, refused to be dismissed, and we now see in the confirmation of his successor how much the majority in the Senate respects the Tenure of Office act, as Haines was evidently right and Richardson wrong. Tax Puestpent’s Oprorruntry.—A contem- porary, whose name unfortunately escapes us, asks:—‘Will President Grant heed the Henaxp’s timely appeal? No President since Washington has had such a round of opportuni- ties to place himself rightly and grandly before the country and the world as General Grant, On him now rests a truly awful responsibility, With one stroke of his pen he can literally prove that it is, indeed, mightier than the sword. With one stroke of his pen he can match all his sword strokes in the importance of the results.” There could be no truer words. Opportunity comes rarcly in a life- time. General Grant has now an opportunity like that of Washington, when he approved the Jay Treaty ; like that of Jackson, when he suppressed nullification, and only second to that of Lincoln, when he proclaimed emanci- pation. Let him destroy the spirit of repudia- tion and thus round and cap his fame. Tumrreance in PauapetrHma.—The tem- perance crusaders in Philadelphia, discarding the Western notion of singing and praying bands, have determined quietly to importune every saloon keeper in the city to give up his business. There can be no objection to this course, and the success of the crusaders will be a matter for congratulation River Contamination and Its Cure. A distinguished English engineering jour- nal has been recently agitating the question of Preventing the pollution of the rivers, and we need a similar agitation in this country. The immediate advocates for legislation against river contamination in England are the gen- tlemen engaged in stocking the streams with salmon and other highly prized food fish. A century ago, it is said, the British streams were plentifully supplied with salmon, and apprentices are reputed to have stipulated in their indentures that they were not to be fed on salmon more than three times a week. The poisoning of the running waters in the manufacturing districts has so increased that even artificial means fail to replenish the fish supply. According to two of the most expe- rienced pisciculturists the chloride of lime from paper mills, paraffine and naphtha, bleach works’ refuse, sewage in its various forms and much other fecal matter combines to 80 taint the rivers that the water is deadly to fish and unfit for man or beast. That thisis a great and unnecessary evil has never been sufficiently felt. Mr. Baldwin Latham, ina recent work on sanitary engineering, and Dr. Beale, in his work on disease germs, statistically show that the proper application of sewage engineering in Great Britain alone would effect an annual saving of nearly one hundred thousand lives. But to lay aside the sanitary importance of the prevention of river pollution, it has an economic aspect which is rapidly attracting the attention of manufacturers, who can be touched by no appeal but that of the pocket. The age has abounded in new and successful experiments for utilizing waste products and effete matter. Not long since we had an inventor who made currant jelly from old leather. The Vienna Exhibition, to encour- age the utilization of refuse materials, had a special division for this purpose. We know that nearly every waste product is susceptible of a new utility, and the sooner the manufac- turer is forced by law to find out what it is the better for him and the community. A well known statistician and late writer tells us that the sale and profitable use of shoddy, rag wool and mungo have attained very large proportions over all the manufacturing districts of Europe ; and also that the sale of rats and other rodents for their fur and flesh has converted a source of former ravage and nuisance into one of vast revenue. The utilization of slag and scorim for architectural materials is another illustration of how the proposed reform may be carried out.. The sewage experiments have not yet gone so far as to indicate clearly which ot the present methods for utilizing is best, but enough has been done to demonstrate the im- mense value of sewage as a fertilizer. The refuse of tanyards and some other factories is also a highly valuable fertilizer, and, instead of being used, as now, to corrupt the water we drink, might enrich our fields and low grounds. The chemical solutions deposited | by factory drains in the freshwater streams are the most difficult to manage; but even they with ao little filtration can be rendered innocuous. The subject is one of a class which is rap- idly forcing itself on the attention of our law-making powers, especially in the thickly settled and manufacturing States. As the spring and summer seasons advance, and the grave sanitary problems come back upon us, year after year, then turn our attention to such matters. If we should have next summer, or any summer, @ scarcity of rainfall, of a few inches only, the rivers and streams of our Atlantic States would, in some instances, be so foul that they would be unfit for the manufacturer's pur- poses. This has often occurred in the Old World, and we should be prepared against such an emergency by adequate and timely | statutory provision, such as is now proposed in England. The numerous old statutes have been so loose that they need here, as abroad, a thorough and immediate reform. If the manufacturer was forced to reserve the refuse of his factory, and not permitted to poison the community, he would soon find a method of converting it into a source of income or else of rendering it harmless. Tue Penatty or Miscoversment.—We hear one manly and warning voice in England on the Indian famine question. Mr. Henry Fawcett, one of the foremost men in the lib- eral party, and not only an orator but a thinker, who, like Burke, has made the East Indian Empire a special study, recently made aspeech in which he charged the English Parliament and nation with indifference and reckless carelessness in their treatment of India. This famine was neither unwonted nor unexpected, and for all that was doing there might be four more famines during the next fourteen years, as there had been four during the past fourteen. The people were in an extreme state of poverty, and yet taxes were raised for acts of incredible extravagance. With the money thus squandered hundreds of thousands of acres might have been irrigated and thousands of miles of road completed. One result of this shameful misgovernment was that the Indian question might become one of the most important in modern politics. All this is painful, but there isa sad comfort in seeing that the United States do not alone understand the art of misrule, and that our Southern States have a parallel in the splendid Eastern Empire of Great Britain, Coxcennina Moxuments.—We now havea proposition to build a monument, at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars, to the memory of Sumner, Greeley, Chase and Seward. We do not oppose that tendency in the human mind to express itself in monuments, It comes from the spirit of reverence, one of the most beautiful traits in our nature, the underlying element of truth and religion, Bat the difficulty about monuments is the danger of building them too soon. True fame is @ matter of several generations. The Roman Church does not canonize its saints until time has proved their sanctity. We should build our monuments to men of the past generation and leave our own, honors to our children. Tue Annest or Croves, charged with shooting the well known pugilist, “Dooney” Harris, was effected yesterday. If the tortu- ous paths through which the police followed him are indicative of the winding ways of the law, by which alone he can be punished if he is guilty, it will be some time before the end is reached, and in the meantime the names of both men will be heard oftener than 1 good, for better solution, we | a ART MATTERS. —_—— The Spring Exhibition at the Academy of Design. ‘The private view at the Academy last night was ® regular crush, in spite of the unfavorable Weather. So many promises of better things had been made by the artists and academicians that peng eetiohag interested in art was anxious hether or not the brilliant promises had Poms Ht ets, 12 the crowded state of the rooms. mot very easy to form any- thing like critical opinions of the various faced but the general impression made by the collection is very satlafactory. The supply of works of re- apectable merit was for the Orst time sumictently large to enable the Committee of Selection to re- ject the mere daubs that on former oc- casions were 0 offensively prominent. This of itself marks @ forward step, for which thoge interested in art ‘have much to be thank- ful,” and 1s, we hope, only the inauguration of » system Of rigid exclusion of mediocre works which will make the Academy a real training school of art taste, This is what ought to be atmed at by the directors, and, though much has been done, there are many pictures in the collection which might have been excluded with advantage. Still the improvement is so marked that we are willing to forgive any fault of omission in this regard, in the hope that next year will exhibit still further advance. The public have not been slow to mark their appreciation of what has been done, and over $5,000 worth of pictures were purchased yesterday, This ought to encourage the artists to persevere in making the Academy truly representative of American art, Three important marine pictures, by Moran, Richards and De Haas, attracted considerable at, tention. They have all a smell of the briny deep about them that is perfectly refreshing, In this branch of, art America stands high, and we doubt if any European exhibition could show three marine paintings of superior merit, The sense of motionin the sea and the transparency of the water is conveyed with ad- mirabie fidelity. Considerable improvement is algo visible in the genre pictures, Beaufrain Irving contributes what is, probably, bis best work, “The Bookworm,” painted after the manner of Melssonier, whom Mr, Irving takes as his model. Eastman Johnson comes out with a very strongly painted picture which gives promise of a new departure. This artist has the right notions about painting, and when he will consent to con- centrate himself on work similar to “The Prisoner,” he may louk to making a strong im- pression on the public mind. J. G. Brown bas one of his characteristic child pictures, ‘Hiding in the Old Vak.”” The most striking picture in the collec- tion is a fine sheep subject by Schenck, which occupies the place of honor. The artist has thrown into the composition @ strong dramatic interest, which immediately rivets attention and compels us to read the story of the picture, It 1s not merely a representation of sheep painted with dexterity, bat a really interesting sheep story. There are quite @ large number of portraits hung round the rooms, but very few of them are of much “upurtance. Some are 80 bad that they ought not to have been admitted to a place on the walls, and only a few deserve commendation. Page has at last produced his long promised Shakespeare, and we regret to say that we cam not consider it a success, The artist nas built up a new man with the aid of an apochryphal mask, bat he has not improved much on the original William with whom we are acquainted. The head has not even the merit of being well modelled—a tmerit we find in a portrait of an officer by the same artist. The sculpture room is as usual almost wholly devoted to portrait busts, Cushon hase very good marble bust Of Colonel W. R. Roberts, and Calverly contribuses an exquisitely dnished portrait ofa gentleman, Toere is only one illiesize figure—a statue of St. Agnes. AMUSEMENTS. Italian Opera—Di Murska as Linda. The second night of the Di Murska season of opera at the Academy of Music was signalized by the production of Donizetti's light, sparkling opera, “Linda,” which, since its first representa- tion at Vienna, over thirty years ago, has nad some of the brightest stars of the lyric stage in the title rdle. Miss Kellogg has been the immediate predeceasor of Mile. Di Murska in the rdve of Linda at the Academy. The opera has of late years fallen into semt-oblivion, owing to its very lightness and want of those grand dramatic effects that characterize some of the other works of the same composer. The brilliant cavatina ‘0 luce di quest, anima” was delivered with tnat limpidity of tone, delicacy and completeness in execution and ease and elegance of style that set it fortnin a brighter form than ever it received on the Acad- emy boards before. Tbe contrast of tone between Di Murska’s beautiful voice and those of the other artists in the cast robbed the duets in which she took part of a good deal of the expected effect; but when she had the stage to herself, as in the mad scene at the of the second act, as Pirotto layed only the part of a spectator in this scene, lle, Di Murska’s exceptionally brilliant voice en- chained the attention and interest of every hearer. But in the last scene of the opera, when she introduced tue ‘Carnival of Venice,” with Introductory theme, written especially for Jenny Lind’ by Sir Julius Benedict, the effect of her truly marvellous vocalization was electrical, and the audience called her before the curtain halfa dozen times. There were trills Which sparkied like diamonds, chromatic scales, arpeggio and staccato passages of the same de! and beauty and artistic fnisn as ii they emai trom the violin of M. Wieniawski. Indeed, if They Were written for the violin they could only be suc- cessiully executed by such a virtuoso. And altnougo Mile. Di Murska ig such a phenomena: vocalist that she carries, as it were, with her by storm the coldest audience, yet her true artistic method, her keen appreciation of the necessities of a role and her tulfillment of every artistic demand in- spires an be degree of aumiration. i the other membersof the company who appeared it 1s only necessary to say that the tenor, Verati, was better than on Monday evening; the contralto, Mme. ‘Testa, displayed the vibrato in her voice to a dis- agreeable extent, and the barytones, Mari aud Keina, united in a duet im the first act, which would have been heard above the din of a peace jubilee or a Wagner opera. The orchestra was ‘sadly out of trim, and the violins ees sad pranks, “Dinoran’ is announced for Fridap even- ing and “Martha” for the Saturday matinée, The City Missions Benefit Concert. This grand musical entertainment, which will take place at the Academy of Music on the evening of the 14th inst., under the patronage of the most Gistinguisned ladies and gentlemen, of this ctty. will nave, as the chief features, Mile. lima Murska, Miss Dora steel, Miss Horie, the Lieder- kranz Society and Graiulla’s Seventh Regiment Band, pain di Musical and Dramatic Notes. Mr. Stuart at the last moment has been obliged to postpone the opening of his new Park Theatre until Monday night, the 13th, ‘A testimonial benefit will be given to Mr. G. B. Bowlend ths evening at the Academy of Music. ‘The play selected for tne occasion is “The Rivals.” Miss Augusta ., Dargom will givea reading at Decker’s Concert Rooms, No. 83 Coton square, on the 15th, for the benefit of the Sisters of the Order of St. Dominick, of New Orieans. A charity benefit will be given at Nibio’s Theatre on Thursday evening, April 16, under the manage- ment of L’Union Francaise, Lodge No, 17, F. and a. M., when, in addition to Mr. Frank Mayo's truly beautiful rendering of “Davy Crockett,” the dis- tinguished and accomplished artist Miss Carlotta Leclercq will appear in & French comedy, sup- ported by M. Juignet; siso the extraordinary character dancer Espinosa, whose appearance will be the frst and only one in America for afteen years. ‘Mrs. Etta Manning gave a dramatic entertain. ment at Robinson Hall on Tuesday evening. There was a large audience present. Mrs. Manning was aided by several excellent amateur players to per- form the comedietta “Delicate Ground” and the farce “The Area Belle,” Inthe comedictta Mrs, Manning played the part of Pauline in avery pleasing manner. In the intervals of the dramatic performance Mme. De Ryther sung several solos, her good method and voice evoking considerable applause. A, & W. SPRAGUE, PROVIDENCE, R, I, April 8, 187% In the United States District Court this the recente in bankruptcy against the A W. 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