The New York Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1874, Page 10

10 - SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS. Mr. Talmage Condemns “Conse- crated Tight Rope.” -Mid- Falk’s Fight Against Time night Pantomime. THE * AMERICAN SABBATH SUSTAINED, Midnight Ryeeerenee at the Tivoli tre, Paul Falk py “ was fondly hoped the police had buried the hatchet and tnat the great sacred Sunday coucertizer would be allowed to pursue tne even tenor of his way. It wasthought, Indeed, in view of the general indulgence in Sav- batarian luxuries, to Wit, cagcan exhibitions, the _Jortanes and fate of “Brian Boroibme,” sparkling ppéra boufe and other equally solemn and awe inspiring displays, that poor Paul, under cover of | the religious sentiment which, like a revival scemed to animate a large portion of the commu- nity, would be at least ignorea by the keen tye of the law and permitted to d yight and edify a host of appreciative ‘patrons who believe in the unities of the drama and a full ficet of “schooners” in com- mand of Admiral Gambrinus. Now, Paul bas done ‘much toward the improvement of his establish- | iment, and it does not appear that the perform- ‘ances therein conducted have of 1: been calca- ated to demoralize the pleasure-bent minds of the Jaughter-loving crowds that congregate within its ‘walls. For mstance, the proprietor intended to ‘trot out ‘The Seven Dwarfs” yesterday evening, “and tt is believed that their antics and deformities would bave excited appropriate risibility, and ‘would have served as a warning to the audieace to vbserve more care in future in getting on or off Street cars, or, indeed, in treading on slippery tron plates which cover coalboies on ty days. But vhe hopes of the bright Teutonic youths who lay abed ali Saturday night dreaming of clown, panta- Yoon and spangled harlequin, to say nothing of the rosy coiumpine, blushing like @ maiden in ber teeus, were doomed to be srustrated. The dismay of ‘the gushing throng must have been something indescribable when wt three o'clock yesterday notices were scatterea about the Tivoli Theatre to the effect that as strict wrders had been issued by the police authorities prohiprting any performance wherein costumes ould be introduced, the performance would be | wonfined to vocal and instrumental music. The Be was that Captain Siebert verbaily notified on Saturday that «The Seven Dwarfs,” “The Maid of Athens,” “The Hand ana Dagger, or, The Bleeding Turkey,” or, in fact, any similar | ‘solemnity could not be regarded as sacred and | ‘would, consequentiy, be prohibited. Paul, how- ever, Was equal to the occasion and substituted a concert in which several artists appeared ‘‘ata moment’s notice” and gave great Satisiaccion, the | ‘wily owner of the concern arguing that as there | ‘Was music in the churches a similar treat mignt we enjoyed elsewhere. In the eveving again, ne = another concert, and itis but fair to add that | be assemblage was orderly and decorous. | But it was not the,.vocal anda tnstrumental | Xreat that caused the faces of the audience to light | up with un intellectual nalo or gave rise to the ‘Babelic sounds of surprise and pleasurable antici- pation that rang through the hall. It was not the ‘Warbiing of tue fat primadonna nor the sepul- bral sones of the heavy-headed basso that pro- = such universal comment, In short, it was | thy, plucky and paternal notification, which as follows:—‘‘At mianight (tweive o'clock), mot tmiringing with the Sunday Jaw, the curtain will be r.ised to mtroduce to my friends and { patrons the principal parts of the great trick | pantomime, ‘The Seven Dwarfs.’”’ Chests heaved ‘With-emotion, and, with mingled feelings of curi- | osity.and dread, it was resolved that the dwaris should have a'show. ‘Vat I vant,” said Falk, is this. I vant to show that that vich is acrime t five minutes to twelve o’clock 1s no crime at all wt twelve.” Well, sure enough, Paul was as good as his ‘word, aad precisely at twelve o’clock up went the curtain before a substantial house. There was a age of the fair sex—and very and = sieepless damsels they were. Sartosity was aroused to ascertain whether the police would interfere. Captain Sievert | gnd a jew detectives from the Seventeenth pre- cinct were In attendance, but their services were { not called into requisition. Indeed, the audience sat down soberly to enjoy the entertainment, giant Cee of beer enhancing the pleasure they » deri from the Interesting evolutions of the peg The bounding latries appeared to possess extra elasticity, and at one o’clock this morning the performance was in {ull biast. With eyes Biistening with triamph the hero of the hour sur- reyed the scene, and with arms akimbo ex- claimed, “And all for twenty cents.” It was a scene to remembered. Walters were almost tripping each other up in their zeal to respond to customers, for, despite the rain, batches of revellers kept pouring in, tne orches- ‘tra struck up the “pie SSGECtETS strains, the ballet wriggied and wisted = in most approved style, and, what with the Popping of corks, fumes of smoke ana peals of | jaugoter, which were frequent and prcionaed, the Tivoll presented a picture rarely witnessed before dawn on a Monday morning. It was long past o'clock before the well disposed fairy | yore handed the wand to the harle- | juin and’ lummonea the Columbine. Then followed she usual scenes incident to pantomimic exhtbi- tions, There was no disorder and the andience, Jrom all appearances, would e the felicity of | encountering the milk cartsin their way home sadder and wiser men. The Stadt Theatre Closed by Order of the Police. An immense crowd assembled at the Stadt The- atre last evening to witness the performance of Miss Lina Mayr in the Viennese opéray douse | “Die Duachgegangenen Weiber,” which, im its localized form, might be called “Girls of the Pe- | riod.” The doors of the theatre were closed and | anotice affixed stating that the police would not permit any performance to take place. The crowd | thereupon crossed over to the Bowery Theatre and filied it to the extent of “standing room only.” | ‘The injunction ovtained by Mr. Adoiph Neuen- dorf, of the Stadt Theatre, against tne police | being dissolved, no more “Sunday concerts” can be given there. The manager of the Bowery The- Btre still holds his injunction, but action will be taken upon it this week. Loud and Cs ad com. pay were made last evening against the inter- erence with Sunday amusements. Germania Theatre—No Performance. Hundreds of hignly respectable German citizens, who are in the habit of spending a deligntful Sun- | @ay evening with their families at the Germania | Theatre, were greatly disappointed at finding this | popular resort shrouded in the deepest gloom last svening. The spacious lager beer saloon of | the entrance was closed; there was | uo besten oF giasses, no flirting with | pretty Ig, no roars of mirth | over Mr. 7 mente quaint humor and Mr. Kirschner’s exuberant spirits: no bright blaze of wae lights—all was darkness and silence. Against | tne coor there was posted a notice announcing that at five o’clock in the afternoon the police forbade the performance, and that the money for the tickets already sold would be refunded this Jmorning. Bowery Theatre. Sacre@ concerts are decidedly in favor at this house. The twenty-third funcion was given last night to an overflowing audience. If there was little evidence of religious feeling there was at | least an absence of anything calculated to give offence to any save the grim-visaged ‘“unco’ righteous.” ‘The piece selected for the occasion ‘was the well known romantic drama, “The Pearl of Savoy,” a work with the sterling ring of honesty which most delights the hard-handed but soft-hearted sons of toil, who chiefly support this | house of the earnest drama. The moral of the piay “1s unexceptionable, and there 1s enougn incidental ‘Yocalism to give color to the claim put forward in Err of “the sacred concert.’ The tair sex was ly represented. It is @ question open to | Bericus discussion whether Sunday amusements are not directly conducive to the moral well-being Of @ large portion of our population, The sacred concert keeps the family together. One has only to look round at the smiling faces of husband wives, children and lovers, to come to the conclu- ‘Flon that the audience might find very much ‘worse employment for their Sunday nights than attending the sacred —— Dr. Talmage on 1 God's Sabbath as = NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1874.-WlITH SUPPLEMENT. ] Gay or rest, wnico 1s essential for his mental ren- ovation and the renewal of his strength. For those purposes fifty-two days in the year have been added, and all experiments prove that without them man cannot attain to age. The great English Minister Lord Castlereagh broke down through devoting all tne days of bis life, | Che! without cessation, to worldly avocations, and Wilberforce said of bim, ‘Poor Castlereagh, this | is the result of non-obedience to Goa's ordinance of the Sabbath.” Everything in man—bis muscies, his mina, bis whole nature—requires if. And what is true of man ts true also of the brute creation. The traveller who allows rest to his borse makes more real progress than he who docs NOt consider this necessary law of the Creator. Sheep and cattle that are sent cannot get on without whose drovers remember tne Sabbatn get first to the seaboard. It is known by the fishermen of Newfoundland that those among them who make the best haul of fisn are those who rest on the Sabbath day, He had even Deen told by a railway engineer that locomotives re- quire to be allowed to cool one day tn seven; and thus, as a law of the God of Nature, it was shown to be necessary that the Sabbath should be ob- served. Intelligent man, dumb beasts and dead | machinery alike proclaim it to be necessary; but | 4m this State and in these cities there 1s an attempt tokillit. It ts either to be respectably drowned by being flooded with secular amusements, which possess every type of worldlings and the worst week-day pleasures of manxind, or tt is to be BURIED DECENTLY to the sound of brazen music and the chorus of enraptured audiences, At the present moment ia this great country there are tens of thousands of people who are attempting to cut out the heart of the Sabbatn and to leave it bleeding. We don’t Want, as Christian men and women, to be aroused after the citadel is taken nor to enumerate New York, although the last found, among the citics that have perished. We received our ptety and | our Sabbath from previous generations, which | gave us tne heritage of our institutions. sball we Pass them on to our descendants, the Sabbath With our laws and oor institutions, or snall we give them up? God helping us, we will pass them | on. ‘These, then, are my reasons ior upholding that sacred institution, and on the ground of whica I desire to maintain its growth. I Provest, then, against those Sabbath amuse- Mments—frst, Decause they war upon 8 divine en- actment and against the will oi that Holy One, who has said that man shall not do his own picas- ure on the Lord’s Day. Tue sensual and worldly has no dread nor preciation of the earthquake; but tne beasts of the field bel- low and the fowl nides itself under its own wing when it feels its sensation, and, although the | whole lower creation know its necessity, man ‘will not remember Goa’s decree to Keep holy the Sabbath Day. Enter these places and look from the boxes at their Sunday entertatnments and see how God is regarded. He will not be despised nor ignored upon His own holy day; but, perhaps, I shall be told that among all ‘these lively exercises, sent: mental songs, trapeze, dancing and frivolity He 1s not forgotten; that it is a holy dance and a CONSECRATED TIGHT ROPE. If the People have rights, bas God no rights, or is God to be pushed out of Hts rights ana have no appeal? Is tuere no court of appeal for the Maker of heaven and earth against the wrongs done to Him? You caunot put God on trial, ior His court 1s above all, He has never given aright to break the Sabbath, whtch is His own institution, and | never will, and the people nave no rights but Jehovan’s, ¢ Prophet asks will @ man rob God? | Yes, he will at theatres and every kind uf en- tertainment opened upon His day, which is the | most nigh-handed larceny ever heara of. When a@ crew had been discharged ang new bands were being taken op an old sailor asked the captain if he should be required to work on a Sunday, aod on betng told he would he said, “If yon would rob Goa you would rob me,” and re- Jused to go tosuch an employment. It is indeed | dastardly and mean to break the Sabbath, and | thereby robGod. Would any of you, having given your children six oranges, be contented that they | should steal your seventh; or, a8 a dry goods man, having sold or given away ‘six yards of cloth, | would you be contented that the man shonid go | behind your counter and steal unother? The Almighty has the same rights as man, and pre- serves one for himself. But this movement of eee amusements is war on the statutes of the tate, Dr. Talmage then quotea the words of the statute in reference to Sunday prohibition of | chy eaarig and asked who made this law, and he said—Is 1t not an insult to you who made this law at the vallot boxes thatit should be wiliuily | infringed by some low manager of some low | tneatre ? luagge Donohue issued an injunc- | tion—which the reverend preacher also read at length—requiring the authorities to reirain from interiering with any theatrical, operatic or other entertainment on Sundays, or irom arresting any one concerned in providing them for the public. For three whole weeks was this imjunction honored over the city, aud 1t could not have been Becessary that the law of God and the law of the State should be so long defied. At length the in- peg] was lifted, and it was then snown what the Ge nme had a right to tent and had really said. Again, this desecration of the Sabbath is A FOREIGN WAR, If the news of a fore! war reached us by a shot thrown into the ernacie, should we not be alarmed? Would not every sbip of war be brought outand every gun brougnt into requisi- tion? And yet this is an invasion. There are two classes In every population, the good and tue bad; but the lawless people who come irom other shores to these bring witn them this Sabbath desecration. Do the people o! this country want such an invasion? Dothe people of New Eng- lana, those who have lived under the Adirondacks or the Catskill Mountains, or the further off poopie from ‘tennessee or Onio? 1 say, don’t ring your Spanish, French, italian or German Sabbath 1oto this country. We want none of them, for we love and will preserve our Chrisitan con- | secrated American S. nb. 1 was once in Pari: 0 observer, and saw.and felt a Parisian Sabbath. I woke up with more noises in the street than usual, and was told it was Sunday. Noises musical, unmusical and bois- terous were perceptible ali Gay; parrots, pedlers, Punch and Judy shows and audiences were to be jound in the streets all day, and in the evening the theatres were in tull blaze and tne wine stores and all the vilest places vpeo. I saw the me poe apd cnilaren returning from as endless e: cursion Compare such a day as this with such an American Sabbath as we wave been used to. Think of the soiemn silence in the morning, tue busi- ners man talking to his children of sacred | | sabjects. They may Moger at table, for their ideas | contormed to the dechared are of congratulation and good cheer and thauk- juiness for what God has given them; but the | streets are stient, and there is rest for body and soul, and the soul needs it enirely, and they are all tarned outin the morning ten y younger. Waich picture do you like best—the foreign Sab- bath or the American one’ And I can tell souin what boat one came and in what boat the otner wil take it away. The American Sunday came in the Mayflower, and if it should ever happen that she leaves us it will be in an urk flout. log over a deinge of iniquity, Again, this fovasion of our Christion rights, secured to us by State law, wrongs employés of rest. We will not speak of the first class act ors, but let us think of the scene-shifters, the supers and the call boys, and the inferior actors who have to take parts, those who have to go home alter twelve o'clock at night regularly, tired, to gar- rets—and you want to take away Irom them one day of rest! Is it thus that the CRUSHING JUGGERNAUT OF PLEASURE is to pass over the bodies and souls of those who serve its votaries * Can it not stop for one day? In the next place lobject to this unthinking Sunday desecration because it 18a war on the spiritual welfare of the peopie. How do theatres give culture to the soul’ J once knew a lady who sang tn a theatre “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me,” but 1 cannot heip tninking that the idea of bemg born n Would not accord with the music of the “Grand Duchess.” Ought not, in tair play, if such entertainments go on ail the week, Coristian min- isters to have one day to do their imperish- | able soul work? There was once a jewel whica, being of great value and in the hands of one who could compare such things, had in it three stones—a carnelian, an amethyst and a diamond, and the carnelian was interpreted as tne body, the amethyst as the intellect and the diamond as the soul. Looking Irom the body will you suow no value for the soul, which is just about worth $100,000,000,000 to a 1arthing. On the Sapbath the whole Christian efforts of all our States go forth With one blast from 50,000 pulpits to summon to repentance and to heaven. ‘yhis is a war ye political institutions. With be Sabbath’s downlall the Kepublic would go jown. ernment. Look at France and Spain, with no 5ab- baths. See the young man at Chiselhurst before whom France quakes, and why ’ Because she is a Republic desecrating the Sabbath and cons quently will go down in Communism and in ti * prosperity which sets in blood, operation of the jaw is untatr and partial; some theatres can remain open and others nD "waite the artists of the jatter sit in greenrooms American Institution. The Brooklyn Tabernacle was crowded to its | very utmost capacity yesterday morning, The | Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached a very | powerful sermon on the question of opening the | theatres ana other places of secular amusement on the Christian Sabbath. He wok his text irom the thirty-first chapter of odus and part of the thirteenth verse:—‘‘Verily my Sabbaths ye shail Keep.” He said that the wisdom of assigning one | tay out of the seven to rest and as arelief to the | hard jot of man as a laborer had commended itself to thinking people, Actually man could do less in seven days than im six with the provision of the | wasting their sweetness on the desert air some may open to-night, others are re- vented - A the club of the law. ny, however, should any of them be open if an ordi- nary storekeeper cannot? vhy shut the stores anc keep theatres open? Are theatre people vetter’ Are bailet girls, the man who clutches the blood-stained dagger, the man who pretends to write with @ peo With no ink in It, or the man who pretends to make thunder out of wrongs, are these vetter than honest workingmen ana women’ May tt please you, judges of the Supreme Court, what is right in one is rightin al. Next we are told that the manager can’t pay, He wants more dojlars, and if the theatre is not kept open on Sunday he wilt go Into bankrap: We are not certainly going to surrender the sab- | bath to enavle such men as these to pay expenses, Who, then, will be on the side of those who would wish to massacre the Christian Sabbath? [ call on all who love our political institutions and Christianity, tor all depends on the Saobata con- our Gull Stream, and the whole affair | seemed to me like an elephant Fourth of July. | Its ruin means the dissolution of our gov- | Besides this the | test, Oft ae 1 wil se oe ‘Bey are those who out pulation, bat of those who | Feristod this sireat commandment that the; Bot worthy of burning, but their bodi or Long live the sunk in the dept the sea. Christian Sabbath ? Dr, Talmage announced that he would in a series of future sermons indicate wnat are law/ul amusements and show the many other th foes which assall the Christian life, inciuding the | corrupt literature of the day, eS a at te ARS T4E PACIFIC MAIL. The Contract with the Post Office De- partment Unbroken=(pinion of the At- torney General=—The New Iron Steam- ers for Peace or War. WASHINGTON, Dec, 13, 1874. The following is the fulltext of the opinion of the Solicitor General, indorsed by Attotney Gen- eral Williams, relative to the contract with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for an additional monthly mail between San Francisco and China and Japan, which was recommitted by the House to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed :— | | | | aaemeener or Fay gd | SHINGTON, Aug. case stated 0: you in your communication the Attorney General, under date of the 27d riot 0 otto By actot February 7, 1 Postmaster General was authorized to contract with the lowest bidder for a monthly steamship mail service between San Francisco and China and Japan, in first class American seagoing, | steam: ah a PP ce less than 3,000 tons burden, for hot more than tem years ils was orang done, and the service so ‘acted for hag been continued until now by bing Pacine Stall Steamship Company. By act of June lL. 1872 17 Etats ul), the Postmaster General was turcher authorized to ears for an additional monthly mail ser- , Upon the same conditions and limitations and at races not to exceed those in the former contract: “provided coe |L_ steamships here- aiter accepted for suid, service be of not less than tons register each, and nal ‘be burit of iron, and i} Sith wheter engines aud machinery shall ve wholly of | American construction. and shall "be so constructed as | to be readily adapted to the armed naval service ot the | United States,” &c.. and to be inspected and reported to the recretary of the »avy and the Postmaster General as complying with this condition. before acceptance, ac. Theretore, under date of August the Postmaster General entered into contract with | the above company, as lowest bidi by which the | latter bound itsett To transport the mails of the United \ states between, &c.. twelve round trips per Lecpatyi a in additional line of first class American st isnt conform in all respects to the requirement j sionsot the third section of the act of Congress ap- } proved June 1, 1872, and the advertisement of the lost | Master General, issued in accordance therewith, dated June 5, 18/2, and of suMcient number to perform the Fequired monhly service for and during the term ot ten CO Uctober, | 1873. "and for the Iron, and, wil wholly of Aner! terms of the act); al: Ms | Fte"Durts be subject to. and_in all. respects governed by | the requirements and provisions of the third and sixth sections of the act ot Congress approved June 1, I | entitled,” 4c. ihe price to be puld tor this service was | $500,000 ber annum (or at the rate of $41,666 66 per voy- age), @ pro rata deduction to be made ‘or any voyage omitted. No ships like those specitied in this contract ve yet been offerea and accepted. and out of this con- diuon of (ings, as modined by facts yer to be stated, arise the questions mentioned below, MODIFYING FACTS, Those facts are that since 1369, and with more or less frequency untii now, the company has made extra trips, carrying the mails in excess of a monthly service, for ch. upon ity application, it has been paid, under, the provisions ot the general iaw, us for “sea postage,” up to and including a trip ending November 23, 187% Some of these extra trips were and some were not by steam- ships accepted under the Orst contract. tince May, 1872, | with a tow omsions, these extra steamers have Kept uD | a second monthly ‘ive situation oF the parties to the fecond contract was made the suvject ot the report t eee r} Ae a session by the Committees on Naval aff Tacs ada' Pout Homes There nuree in stating {hat ihe | contract is still in force. No legislation occurred in that connection The Pacitic Mail Steamship Company upon being asked | by the Postinaster General to account tor its nun-fulfi!- Rient of its contract. stated ay its reasons therefor. dst that it was found by the contractor for the progressed, that the rolling hinery large enoush toroll the beains required which for American ships were of an unprecedented size, contract wit the lowest bidder for a term of from October 1, rere and that five mouths were lost In preparing such new’ ble time | machinery; and second, that other consiJerab! | had beon lost in consequence ot lavor strikes, Dany also suggests that the act of 1872, abo' { contemplate that the additional menthly service should | be entirely by ships ot the size, &c., specified in the eon- tract; but only that such additional ships as might be | thereatter accented’ tor that purpose should be; that } cont emnpiatod the chances that the com- pany might become contractors tor such additional service (us appears io section 6) and therefore provided that the new requireine ats should affect only ‘tail steam- ships hereafter acceptea,” leaying the company irce to continue its use of all ships already accepted for postal service under the act of 1368. ‘Theretore, that und@r the facts already stated as to its extra trips, Virtually dolbg all that the law ot 1872 reqwired, and so all for which the pacties to tae second contrac: had in- tended to stipulate. Upon the 8th ult. the company requested the tion.and acceptance of two new steamships, the bine of Yexing and Tokio, under the ‘contract of August 20, ii73. wine alleged, comform to ali the Fequirements of said contract, ‘THE CORTRACT STILL BINDING. In view of the above statement you ask whether the comtruct of August 20, 1873, not having been aanulled by the Postmaster Gener: if, unde n'the two. snips Proved, accepted: or, whether the continu: tion ot ‘such additional service | Postman r Genera:: or. whether it has abso ately fallen ‘operation of law. ‘In Yay opinion tne contract ta still | bhifestory. and theretore the company is eutitied to the inspection a anded, and to have its steamship: cepted. placei in the additional mail the conttiuance or abolition ot which Within the option of the Fostmaser Genera to me plain that the act of 1372 did not re Aidongl nail service to be done in steahehips of the new class, unless other ships hecame necessary. Tho act refers expressly to the existing mail contract be- tween the places numed, and then peaks of steamships “hereafter accepted’ tor the “addi ” service, and | Fequires them to conform to a certain description. | Plainly, af the steamships heretofore ‘accepted should | turn out to Le suMficient tor the new service as well as for the old, the special eeatreeae as to mships would bave had no for “hereatter” none such would be “acce) ted" a ‘as they would not be offered, But the contract does expressiy | bind tae company “to transport the mails. &c., by an additional Bony. line of frst class American ‘steam: ships, to contorm in all respects to the requirements and | Provisions of the third section ot the uct or Congress | above cited, approved June 1, i c., and of sufficient | Bumber to periorm the required ‘additional monthly ser- vice for and Ganee tbe term of ten years, commenct i ‘on the Ist of October, 1873;" that is, the entire adaitiona! peas was to be rfone im new vessels of the class speci- We have, then, a casein which an agent has varied | the instructions Of his principal su as to make a cont G perhaps more beneficial wa hat principal, ut certainly | more onerous to the other party. What has subse- quently happened is that the contract, as planned by the principal, has been observed by the contractor, while the failure attributed affects only the variation. Morcover, the fuilure is a failure to mect the volunteer f has be ‘Veen given of an intention to avold the contract ereu' ‘fhis ‘statement regards the Dartien as private: per: | sons. It seems to me that the fact th rineipal here 1s the United States, that its plat of tract Is, | theretore: in # certain sense. public policy in that respect | which departures theretrom are not, and that in the case betore us, what has happened, viz.. that events have policy of the government, ail that its views have succeeded, makes the case stronger, tor the position that substantiaily the relations between the parties remain unbroken; in other words, that the | points in which the contract has been broken are imma. Le onceded that the purposes of Congress | have been e d, it seems that other departments of | She’ goverutnetst trast hood that s failure ts ooraipean ade dition thereto other benefits stipulated tor by agents | appotnted to make the contract is not, in general, mat- | ter of substance, | _ In the present case, for instance, Concress desired to put into operation a femi monthly mail service between San Franctyco, Japan and China. This has been done. Congress provided that no steamship “hereatter ac- cepted | tor that service spould be without certain qual. | fications. This also has been done. The Postmaster s any has tat ere: pany has done all'that te can ‘wit its present re- urces to bev: BL in good taith Aga the re- quirements” stipulated for by the ‘ontmanter | General, and the latter, far from ® forieitare, reports | thereupon Congress, by inaction, acquiesces in’ this view which, at the close of its session, is indorsed by reports from two ot its standing committees. In my opinion the matters in which the contract has been ated are not substantial; and even it they we: t to take advantage of such violation hi ved. I therefore repeat, that the contr int and the company entitle | entioned above inspected, and, If accept | placed 1m the additional mail service, and tat the Post- | master General has no such option as is avove suggested. Nery respectiully your obedient servant, 4. F. PHILLIPS, Solicitor General. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S APPENDIX. Without questioning the correctness ot the Folicitor General's opinion I preter to put my approval of iton ‘he following grounds:— Tird—Loosing to the object of the act of Jane 1, 1872 authorizing an additional monthly mail service between Sun Francisco, Japan and China, and taking into con sideration the fact that such additional mail service has been rendered as provided for in said act, Lam ot the inion that it was not an essential part of the contract | that the new iron steamships should be turnished by 1 Ist of October, 1873, it at that time it setistactorily ap eared that they would be furnished within a reasoua- ié ine thereafte Serond—On the Ist of October, 1878, it waswell known by the Post Ottice Department that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company was expending larce amounts ot | money Inconstracting such ateamanips nsw ore required by the contract to perform the additional mail service vtherwise provided. But instea: of notifving the com- | Dany that its tailure as to time would be regarded ns nd to the contract the Department, | Aiterwards treated the coutract as still subsisting. Rot bellevecit would be: legal or, Fight now, wit | completed steamships have been prosented tor inspec | ton, for the | poh eleany to reiuse to receive them into | Service under «nid contract, Vecause they were not fur nighed by 78. i et in question provides years from the Ist of Oc | tober, Is7, and that the primary objects of this legis Won were tu subserve the interests of Amer Merce and provide ships for the naval ser United States in case of war, L think it would be subor- | dinating the great ends oF | matters to hetd that the will of Congress upon ject was whoily deteated by the failure of the compa Yo turnist iron steminships. within afew. months ot the tine fixed by a spectiication In the contract, especially when such specification was outside of the requirements | of the law authorizing the contract, Very respoctiully yout ubedicut servant, | HEORGE U, WILLIAMS, Attorney General. | The Poseuasern Grxnnat | “ANOTHER “MANIA | Wiltam B. Swan, aged thirty-six years, who has | Deen staying at the Hofman House, was discov- ered at half-past ten o'clock last night to be in- ne, He Wus sent to Bellevue Hospival. mills. had ‘to Te’at the option of the | the ‘contract ought to, be held. ay sitll subsisting; and | RIGHWAYNEN ABROAD. Beware of ¢ Men with the Biack Slouched Hats. At least two footpads have been jubilant since Saturday night, when about half-past ten o'clock they robbed Mr. James Pollock. That gentleman keeps ary goods store at the corner of 12ist street and Third avenue, and hives at No. 166 East 119th street, Ashe was on his way home from business be was grasped at the back of the neck and’ eal ne Wet throwo to the nd. ee who nad thrown ey down “ned tim while another ar wayman sought Jo! ketboo! his poe! when the latter had found this bulky rood) Reels both robbers ran away, and escaped. rollock went vo the Twellth precinct station, where he nie ported his unlucky adventure, and stated that is poe Ketbook contained $700 in cash; acheck for 36, drawn in his javor on the National Shoe and pateer Bank by Dennis McMahon, and also some vaiuable papers. He said he believed he could identify the thieves, and described them as young men, each about twenty-five years old, attired in dark clothing and weariog black, sloucbed hats. MADDENED BY GBIEF. A young woman known as Mollie High has been living for several months past in the Revere House, She ts weil favored in face and form, and has always been gay in manner. She was the wife of James Sylvester, the young atniete who was Killed at Berry's Opera erate in Thirty-fourth street, about a year ago, she was trained and daring, she used ae to take part with bim in gymnastic performances before the public. Since tue death of Sylvester Molite has had occasional fits of melancholia, but on no oc- casion bas she given evidence \hat she was be- coming & maniac trom grief. The evidences of violent insanity were Urst noticed in her actions early last evening, and, as the indications were Mistaken by their ovservers, Mollie was simply put to ped, Soon she beca: outrageous in her demeanor and was conveyed in an ambulance to Bellevue Hospital. MATERNAL INFANTIOIDE. Achoked waste pipe in Kent avenue, Green- point, gn Friday led to the discovery of a revolt- ingcrime. The previous day Mary Molloy. nine- teen years old, a servant of Mr. Clarke, had complained of being too ill to work, and been allowed to go, as she asked, forrest and nursing toa friend, It became evident that some solid onstruction in the water pipe stopped the pak ward flow, anda plumber opened the tube. was horrified woen he iound that the plug wi newly-born baby. Mary was at once suspecied. Being iound oy Police Captain Rhodes sne con- tessed her gutit, averring that she had been se- duced by aman who had refused to marry her, and therefore, to hide her sliame, she had placed her iniant in the waste pipe filteen minutes alter its birth. She was taken to the City Hospital, where she is very dangerously 1I!. MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Last night, about half-past nine o’clock, a man named Richard Downey, who resided at No. 123 Roosevelt street, was found lying dead in the yard of that tenement. No knowledge ts had of the manner of bis death. A Coroner was notified to make an inquest inro the cause of his decease. SHIPPING NEWS. OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. DATES OF DEPARTURE FROM NEW YORE FOR THE MONTHS OF DECEMBER AND JANU. Destination. 1113 Broadway. 4 Bowling Green Broadway. 15 Broadway. 19 Broad way. 6” Broadway. 7 Bowling Green 12 Bowling Green 29 Broadway. 4 Bowling Green 72 Lapse way. Hamburg. . Liverpool. Hamburg. f I Liverpool. 6. 12. 19, Hal 19. 19. 19. 2. Bs. Ghinbria |De City o1New York.| Republic Helvetia Cabtoruia Dee. Dec. Liverpool. Liverpool. Glasgo' Bremen Liverpool Livernoot. Glasgow. Rotterdal Mambureg.. Liverpool... Glasgow. 5 Broadway. 7 Bowling Green 55 Broadwn: 2 Bowhna . | Liverpo 60 Broad way. | Hambure..)I13 Broaawar. 4 Bowling Green . [61 Broadway. 19 Broad way. road wi 7 Bowting Green 2 Bowling Green 72 Broadway. ol Br A PORT OF NEW “YORK, DEC. 13, 1874. ARRIVALS. REPORTED BY THE HERALD STEAM YACHTS AND HERALD WHITESTONE TELEGRAPH LINS. Steamship Grecce (Br), Thomas, Mert his Soe 8, 9 Hive De apne Cw seamsnto't pound E EB Sewing 5 ged balls in "yueceasion; llth, @ Guion steamship, ‘Steamship Cornwall (Br), Stamper, Bristol Nov 30, witn mdse und 13 Pawengereto W D Morgan. Had srond W.cales the entire passag rt a nsniD Colon, ner, Bey yeni Dec 5. with mdse P. inte Saul Bteamship Co} Hamilton (Ber- and passengers to ; at Ete days, with mae and psasscogers to A E ra Canim Oute: SearseninO ‘ortes, Freeman, New Orleans Dec 6, with mdse and passengers to Clark & Seaman. ‘Steamship achilles, Artis, Wilmington, NC, 60 hours, with mdse to Wm P Clvde & 9 a Co. steamship Wyanoke, Couch, Richmond, City Point and Norfolk, vite mdse and passengers to the Old Domi- Bion Steamship Co, amnship BU Knight, Seana pGecres ees po, with mdze and passenueri to JC Kon Steamship Fanita, Phitadeiphie, with mdse vo Lorilisrd Stea aud passencer: D Cr. tteainship cori Crowell Pailadelphla, tn ballast to W Quintard & Don Gauicies (of sdverpodd),. Lamers Got vest uo days, with nitrate of soda to Brown Bros & 1 to Hi Corttey Dy beg oat ‘sale Sept 24, and d ofowed th juator Nov i0. in ton pees ates (Ital), Bozzo, Cork 47 days, In ballast tod Bark Elisa (Nor), Kteldsen, Taganrog 67 days, with woot to order: enel to Tetens Bockmann. Passed Gibraltar Nov Bark Fearless (ot Yarmouth, NB), Eldridge, Rio Janeiro Qct 1S, via Hampton Konds $4 ith cot Am sinck 4 Co; vessel to Schr C P'Sinnickson, Murray, Mosquito Inlet, Fla, 19 davs, with lumber to Switt Bros; rece ia trong northerly winds the entire sent Bs Huzaed., Georgetown, SC. Sdays, with naval a gira to Rountree & Co; vessel to Yientley," Gildersieeve jannah Little, See serials, for Boston. Schr a be fee ym Fehr kxertiony Schr Rebecca te iy “ar ccke Vssinia. chr Alethea, Da’ pehr Joseph & Feawklin i Randolph, Virginie. Senr J 8 Gilmore, mith, Virginia, | Schr Eva Holmes, Van ort Vt Schr Jos Parker, Vanzaun, Vi: fis Schr Isle of Vines, Steelman, Virginia. dene Atlantic, Hearse. Virginia tor Hyannis, Schr Mary Riley, Riley, Georgetown, Re unnell, Georgetown, DO, for Boston. Schr Pocasset, Racket, Georgetown, DC, for Provi- jence. nehr Abby, No: Soh hs he Hi Horton, Fche 1's Levering. ; chr 9 Gwar, Mason: Fuliadeionia for Boston. Rent MP Smith, Phila@iphia ior Boston. Sehr RF Milter, Sarvin, Philadelphia for Boston. pane Alex Young, Biake, Philadelphis tor New Bed- Rthe J R Maloy. Flefhing, Philadelphia for Schr EC Irwin, Johnson, Philacelphia tor Newport. Sehr American’ Eagle, a Newlove, ‘Newcastle, De for ewh weehe ie H gt I'Glieen, Patne, Providence for Phitadetphis. ‘bor. ite Wing, Hawkins, Providence for Virginia. Putin tor a harbor. E wet MM Howes, Howes, Wareham for Philadelphia. Pur R'M Smith; Gray, Boston for Philadelphia. Pat RM Lethal Put in for a hare Baltime Powell. I pbtiadetphia tor Boston. Philadelphia for Boston. etd raha a Love, Salem for Norfolk. bor. The orig Susan Bergen, which arrived 12tn, crossed the Equator Nov 1%, in Jon 37 50, Was 6d Hatteras, with heavy NE and NW gales. Passed Through Hell Gate, BOUND ‘SOUTH. Sehr E Chambers (Br), Reed, Gloucester, NB, for New York 15 days, with stone tof P Sherwood & © r Agnes, t we tir Money Wal nan, == Tor hew York, wiih tam to Jonn Brinton, rele Bay, 8 State, Buckley, Boston for New York, with sehr 8 8 Tyler, Barrett, Providence for Hoboken. Be hed B Carrington, Parker, New Haven tor Balti- mache Georgie D Loud, Clark, Providence for Charies- ton. Nchr Frank W Emory, Felter, New London for New reports lays N of digo pc ‘or chr Priscilla Scribner, Casey, Boston tor Baltimore. ene Henrietta, ‘Iruedel stamford tor Now Eee Weues Hoek, Wiskeun, sonthport lor New Sehe Arn Amelia, Alien, Haven for New achr Old Zac “Mayhew, ‘New Haven tor New York. i cur Brazos, New London tor New York. sche s M ‘teier, for New York, Seur Be Ni Boston tor Vhiladelphia. Smith, Bridgeport tor New York. alsh, Clark, Providence for New York. iF Riverdale. brown, Gioucester tor w Yor! it fish to ord sehr Jd G Pierson, Ferris, Greenwich for New York. BOUND Bast. Sehr Ella, Hutchins, No ‘we (oF pasting. sehr Pilow’s Brie sehr Watehtul Sehe Galvan sehe dence, h | | Stocktos, Nov 30—Th caset asber' Varker, Catpenter tbl Gun Oy of Fitchbarg, pnelp Snr Steamer Electra, Young, New Yor tor Frovidence Wind at sunset, N, light Maritime Miscellany. Yurser Clark, of steamship Canims, from Bermuda, ‘bas our thane for courtesies, wht’ Cosace py a Pictou) bound te Btevideo, with Mra Saree of Pouch 4 th Bins, matin} cma oh a repairing Dee — Bang K: ft pe, jalands for Hi ith imber, tounde rod lathe Ohina Sea during a'vio-eak | wah pig on Dec & Crew faved. nig Wixocene (Br, Lofvering, from, Le philadelphis which was reported "by cable Dut back to the former port in distress, will ‘argo for repairs. Scnn Dick Witttams, from Rockland for Newbern, NC, =e Se poor oe ot ice, put into Newport Dec 12, with loss of ails Scuin Gro Poa 18D, frorg Bt Johe, MB. for Bos ton which wot ainote of Latio’ A 7th after discharging Ne! lumber. d. probably to the extent of $2500. The American Lloyd's Register of Am: id Foreign shipping have attached a permanent signal iy revi have to ine number to cach vessel reported ther These num- bers, displayed on the Beret yee be seen from signal siations, and the of numbers by vessels passing cach othe watt give the name and his- tory oteach more fully and with more certainty, The system of numbering has become of great service in con- nection with the telegraphic system for reporting ma- rine news. Caanueston, Dec 13—Bri lorence, Frisbee. at this porttor Liverpool with LT noe of upland cotton, was discovered on fire in the cotton jast night, to extinguish which the vessel was Glled with water, 5! being pumped out. tosome extent by fire. The injury to the vessel ts a: yetuncertain. Vesset and cargo are said to be insured: Craxperer Istas, Dec 7—A Nova Scotian schooner, pt Windsor for Boston, got ashore on t! beach where at work on the G ¥ Baird. She came off to-day leaking a litte. Luwezs, Del, Dec 1s—Schr K Duryea, with sugar, from Demarata for orders, went ashore on Cape Henloj iar this inept but got off Becmyncy’ ‘uninjured, anc anchored off the Breakwate: Bonross, Dec pears scars, having bees thoroughly Welstnpyard, (Noe Cora was bound to Boston, and put hipya: i ’& was bound to back yet Nov Sara as badly.) Suiravitpinc—Boss C K eaten and his son John W tchum, of Greenport. tai ave leased a vara at city nd and will build there for © W Alcott, of New “ork, alight draught 3 masted schooner for the Virginia pine ‘wood trade. MrJW Ketcham is now in Virginia got- ting out the frame. pasron-The ine bark building at Mr Starrett’s yard, Rockland, tor Capt Hooper, will’ be ready for launching about the ‘last of this month. Lacxcurp—At Wilmington, Del, Dec 10, from the yard giaeeence: 4 Sharp, a three-masted schr named Henry RK ton. At Port Medway. NS, on Thursday, bark H P Kewch- um, 60) tons burthen. Notice to Mariners. Licat at Point Hugxexs, Catironsta.—Washington, Dec 12 —1he Lighthouse Bosed gives notice that on and after Dec 15, ‘will be shown from the light- house recently erected at Point ltueneme. Calitornia. The light will be Axed white for one minute, followed by six consecutive flashes of ten seconds each. The illuminating a) Sane is catadioptric of the fourth order, lighting $0 deg of the horizon. The focal flame ts 46 feet above the ground and 56 fect above meat Jow water. The light should be seen in clear wea! from the deck of a vessel 15 feet ubove the sea, 123% nautical miles. she structure isa frame house, painte| light buff the tower rising trom the house, ands on a slight ele vation, showing very, prominently against the distant piils. pa) approximate position of the Lignthedss, as (aksn hn nT Pee NOR Survey charts, is as tollows:—Lat 4 U9 N and lou Magnetic bearings and distances of prominent objects are as follow Point Mugu Et by 8, 8% Qantical miles. East Point (over, Point Vincent), Anacapa Island, SW by. 5, 345, 104, nautical miles. 29 nautical miles, abta Parbara light W by N, Point San Buenaventura NW, 14 W ‘9 nautical miles. Spoken. Ship St ota aber son San Franciscu tor Liver- pool, Dec 2, lat 35 N, lon 124 W, Ship iy adams, from Liverpool! for Callao, Oct 80, lat 822 N, lon 25 74 a Pearl. Harding, from New York for Anjier, Nov 10 \ 8, lon Hoppet (Rus), irom New York for Calcutta, Nov Bark M1, lat 7 14 N, lon 26 50 W. NOTICE TO MERCHANTS AND SHIP CAPTAINS. Merchants, sfipping agents and ship captains a informed that by telegraphing to the Hzaaup London Bureau, No 46 Fleet street, the arrivals at and depart- ures from European ports, and other ports abroad, of American and alt foreign vessels trading with the United States, the same will be cabled t this country tree of charge and published. OUR CABLE SHIPPING NEWS. —-—_—_ Bomsar, Dec 12—Arrived, ship Sagamore, Wood, Liver. Pool; bark Malleville, Waite, do, Banta (by telegraph trom Lisbon)—Arrived. brig Mary E Thayer, Groesnick, New York. Caprz, Dec 12~Arrived, brig L F Munson, Munson, New York. Livenroon, Dec 13—Sailed, bark Jessie (Br), Morgan, Yavannah. Lonpon, Dec 18—Arrived, bark Mathilde (Ger), Kraeft, New York. Maassuvts, Dec 12—Sailed, bark Preciosa (Nor), Jacob- een, New York. Puruovrs, Dec 18—Arrived, steamship Silesia (Ger), Hebich, New York for Hamburg (and proceeded). Quzznstown, Dec 13, 6PM—Arrived, steamship City ot Montreal (Br), Mirehouse, New York for Liverpool (and proceeded). Also arrived, steamship Indiana, Morse, Philadeiphia for Laverpoo! (and proceeded). Loxpox, Dec 13—A telogram from Brest reports that American sbip has been wrecked off Audierne, coast of France. Her name could not be made out. Barks Avena, trom ‘St Johns” tor rligo, and the Bri- arley, trom Demerara for Liverpoo! (both toreign ves- sels), have foundered atsea. Their crews were rescued by the steamship Indiana, at Queenstown from Philadel- phia, and the steamship Silesia (Ger), at Plymouth trom New Yori, and lanied. A telegram from Santander says two vessels (neither names nor nationalities given) have been wrecked off that port and eight lives lost. Foreign Ports. Benucpa, Dec 3—Arrived, brig W R Bar John, NB; 7th, bark Capt van (Br), Whit jor Montevideo Shee, Miscellany): beist 0: a Br). Hooper, Pnediac; scpr Carrie, ding; bi York. 18 po rt Dec 9 vark Lotus (Br), ganstzace (Dutety, Hevtiger, trom Sew ¥ York tor Barve: Leghorn tor Pnila- Elbe (Br). Chisholm, trom och in " distress. disg: Cadiz tor Gloucester. repg Jacraue, Uct 10—Satlea, bark cu Whitmore, Peabody, Falmouth, b. Rio Janeint bee li—Arrived previously, bark Minnie Allen, Loper, Cardiff. (Pan Sreamsurr Cara, at Bostox.) Amor; Oct 10—Arrived, Eaglet, Nichols, Swatow. d 10th, Picciola, Grate, New Yor Borvracx, Nov 30—Suiled, State of Minnesota (8), Hamlin drom Liverpool), New Orleans Barexxrnaver, Nov 7/—Arrived, Hester A Blapchard, Se Ak: Argonaut, Steengrafe, Baltimore; 27th, Cron RE a Delap. North America; Shakspeare, Fech- jer, Sandy jatavia. Oct Je—sailea, Bonito, Seward, Sourabay: 17th, Doel Kenny. Buenos Anus, Uct i amnived, Andre Marie, Gronden, Quebec: Reunion, Kmerson, New York. Caroirr, Nov 3)-Arrived, Wm Croscup, Fitchet, Dun- ‘irk. Cxtre, Nov 23—Salled, Cateilo Ciro, Savarine, New ‘York. oh Coxmaven, Nov 27—Salled, Cito, Seghorn, Savannah. Catcorta, Dec 1—Sailed, Kate Kellock, New York. Dera, Nov 0—Arrived and jos ee Hermann, Welle sen. jLicndon for Pensacola; Dec 1, Goldfinder, Kelley, ede: % aseod 30th. Dauntless, Amers, Boston for London; Dec PS sane Kilgour, Kilgour, Montreal tor Newcastic. Fatwourn, Nov ‘Uit, Peleg, Meghella, from Rotter- baie for Rew York. G nay Nov 8—Arrived, Brilliant Star, Nichols, Wil- 3 TO arrives. Alice Ada, Tharmott st ida, Dunlap, Fugwash;: Wave Queen, Wil- St Stephen, Ni Constance, unas Quebec ; Dec ran id) bi + Gohaomaed @, tt red 28th, Liverpool, Crawford, PRE Pass ¥ntered our’ th. Jamaican (jo. Winger, Barbados, &e. Lonxpox, Nov 9—Arrived, Winslow, pricksen, Quebec; Dec 1, Hervatska, Schwartz, New York Sailea from Gravesend Ist, Formosa, tor Tybs Lrcuonn, Nov i3—balled, Annie Burr, Sitmpson, New ‘ork. casa, Nov %—Arrived, stephen Bishop, Gilkey, Tri. SMoxteeapro, ms Met Bonafides, Rostrup, Que- tin bec; mth, Melvin, Montreal; seth, kutique, Olive, Buenos 5 "et Po! Quebe: sone, Bermuda. Sailed. 0, Neill, Call. |. Nov 28—Cleared. “Mary a Way, Anderson, West c Ce voant Africa. Snirips, Dec 1—Put in for shelter, Phenix trom Que- bee for West Hartleponl. ' eclenaihne Oct 1—Arrived, HC Sibley, Colson, Bata- atled 13th, Sacramento, Lane, Sourada SINGAPORE, Oct 2—sailed, Anna Sf. ie Oct 7=Arrived, Almatia, Lowell, New- led, Stormy Petrel, Pryor, Cieniuc- Toriconn, Oct 2—Arrived, Fappho, Hughes, Bombay. Warrrronp, Dee 1—Sailed, Nornen, Jorgensen, New | Orleans. Liverroo ‘ov 30—The Lea, from New York, was tn culliston to: in the Alfred Doca with the Luctian the latter surtainga siiyhtdamage. Kawseate, Nov H—The Duppel, Krumreich, trom Lon- | don tor Doboy, was towed im here this morning with ballas: shitted and a quantity of water in her hold, hav- | ing been in collision with the Maha » of Newcastle, | inthe Downs, seriously damaging her’ sternpost, and | losing two anchors and chains; agreement £65, | Joan, NB, for this place, In comiog up the river, Nov 2), | gryunded close ty Newport janding, efforts to tow her off having tatied; | being discharged: vessel strained and makin; | water; ut low tide there are only about four fee forward aod five feet aft, and bottom is rou sh a | even. and still remains, the deckload 1s now mitelt rate | | Trieste, Nov 17—A telegram, of yostet Lucsin piccolo, states that the Austrlan-ttt | Vata Casuiien. hawt been wrecked at le 2: Fancy Boyd, trom | ya. | Geovondi, New | orks _couRasara, Oct 10—Arrived, Jennie Barker, Waite, Batavi e Aunes. Ferguson, from St | TBS SNTAdg 8 Snares of Cape Pasrere cet American Porty. Perry tag lim arrived, echrs Leura Messg, Paes Sev Ee RN, YATE | "Baris Bee iin tlea Sark Nonpa: 1 Beveren, barter end i bes lary © Roseve! wane nad ee steam nae iseenanee (Br). or th can BW Ferg tooe® Pea i, ace Aero Dee ‘i— Arrived, steamer OCcrorers, Rey- 1s, Now York. a . Manson, ny John an schrs John T Manson. Man: Hy Khaw, Cox, Hoboken: Geo Churenmany, Ri je ce; aimar, e | ‘ort i3th—arrived, steamer Martha, Stevens, Chance, few Dec 10—Arrived. schr JT Weaver, Gisd- nce iw Yor! SfON, Bec. is Atrived, enti gute rry, New York: Raleigh, irom nial (BN. Uphar, Tartlepoor: orig eal vortiand agnre re at and, Hana, en le Ryerson, Cousins, New si jeden Manhattan, New York: bark Archt schr BF Waite, Aylward, te istol, aont Als, Dec 9—Cleared, HNYARIEN, Ga, Dec 8—Arrived, bark Eliza McLoughlia Br). Dennis, Ant Pith—arrived, snip John Barbour (Br), Jones, Antwerp rl Friedrich (Ger), Routh, Kew York (before Te rived Ist): Fisher (Br), Templ i, Sermpere nd I . bar a schannes (Ger), Inder, Liverpool: fare. Cle Aurora, ‘bn lo ship Bessie Crosby (Br), Brown, for . United Kingdom, Idg: Darks Geo MJones, (Bri and Jory 1 Lorentzen (Nor), Pedersen, for do do; echF Hattie Turaer, Hupper, for ——. EDGARTO' SrArrived,, schr Hudeon, Fost, New York (and sailed for Boston 10th—Arrived, schr Liazle ‘Daker. Buckard, Philedel- Dhia for *t John, SB 'RESS MONROE, Dec 12—Paseed in f irk Chare (B), Rosinson, trom wore, Dried Augart ( cat et itrackholder, Rio Janeiro; Sal jrown, assed outs Ship 5 ), for Bi olf (Nor), eae aah Ets! 1h orks Got réchand eh, lo; Iona (Br), reepeal: trate Oarde Sate a froma cere “Bry eeinigaes Ernestine, Cubs pa: “out, Amanda (Ger), for Liverpool (from iglimend Rayon IVER, Dec 10—Arrived, schr Ellen M Duffield, Port Johnson, 1ith—Arrived, sehr Rosina. Beal, Philadelphia. Bulla sole CH smith, Hanscom, Philadelphia; Al- TOALV EATON, Dee's ScArrived, schr Hattie M Crowell, Crowell. fie" ‘oF! Dec ‘p-Arrived, schr RG Whilden, Heath, russe for Cambri ILE, itm a Harewood (Bri, Liverpool ule Bou nal red—Bark Mondego, ‘Lombardy —1 schr Frank raw OR ORLEANS, Dec 13—Arrived: at id Passes, Edith (Br, Rogers. Bremerhaven: barks A igoaea! Stone, Rio Janeiro: Reformer (Br). zarmouth, Fp). asset, Muvre: Delfine (ta). order Bark’ "Agincourt Salledns teainshiD New Orleans; pips. v Yetonte, Hea waleatys barks Deset! Dubrovack!, Pr OR, Vee ToArrived, sch Marion "Rogers, Wood Pili ictphis. EWBURY PORT, Dec, 10—Arrived, echr Lacy K reall Phila ox ith“Ariived, east eondcalberticn: Rastadeb TheW BEDFORD, Dec 12—arrived, schr Isabel Alberta, wraligd—Schra Yankee Boy. Philadelphia; WD Man- wath Lid ae if a phia: Man. fork: oy NARKAGANAMTD 1 PIE, Dee 10—Arrived in Dutch Ist and Harbor. schrs W. wil ler, Walters, Boston fr eae ~ 553 3 @r, ler. ‘ob Kienzle, Steolman, nnd Annie May. Simpson, Boston for do; Marv Susman, Ad- hite Wing, Robbins, Providenes to! ‘ding, Wareham for New Yore leigh, Haverstraw. Also arrived. schrs John Nye, Wiley, and AB Dyer, Young: Providence tor Virginia; J barnett, Gardne ears and Mira A Pratt. Pratt, Providence tor Waite Wings Robbins, do for Virninis’ so oop Emily, Hay: den. do tor New York (and ait sailed AM 12th) ‘Aiso arrived, schrs. Ked Wing, Da '6 Hole for Nomnk. with lon al iibstay (repaired and sailed ASL Tab): Uriah B Fisk, Brown, Bonton for Baltimore; Mazgle Bell, Rondout tor Providence (and sailed AM 12th); Vliver Chace. 3 ae Frormancs, for New Bedford. New York for Pointe ', Turner, Port Johnson f Providence for New Yor! Fenga: Loon, Hubba, New York. 123th, aoe rivals Sail John | Pierce, Townsend, ice Be: achts Ethan allen, Blake, Portland for D Barker. barker. Boston for Tangier Ghainp ville, StJohn, NB. tor New York: Blackston Vrovidence for do’ Harvest, Corwin, do for doz Henderson, Wicktord for do: S 8 Smith, Saow, Warehan tor do: U 'H Macomber, Sargent, New York tor palems a Love. Salem for Norfolk. in port—Schrs Potter & + ooper, Bradbury, from Haver straw: La! J Watts, Watts, from St John. NB. NEW LU Dec li—Arrived, schr Emme (Br), St John. NB (ad galled 12th tor Sew Yorn. 3d, Dee 1l—Arrived, schr Gso Osborn, from Neri Ri iver, AVEN, Dec 1l—Arrived, schr Ann Amelia, align Ellzabetnport Uth—arpved- sche Forest Oak, Paltimore, Nolled—Senr I overt tta, can Harvest ‘Homie, ti a ride wetta, Harvey, nok F t OWN LEN. Dee Scarrivess bark Hertha leout, Fo! ourne. BETA DELPHTA, Le) Arrived, bark Behrend (Ger), Berdinz. Liverp pa Ls staat Nadab, “Gneney, Newburyport via New. pastic. oath —Arrived, brig Marianna IT (Port), Lo lites Foor secs Hannah D (br, pew), from indsor Newcastix. Dec 13—Passed down steamships Mary, for Providence exormat, ter Bo Wyoming, for Saysunah: schrs Stari ane. We 2 Bava yy ‘West Wind, for Fall River: A M Ala for Geityshurg (from Wilmington. Deb. tor Unerleston. Lewrs, Dec leer Meo ‘schr C Duryea, from Demerara Miscellan; NeRSMOUT Var bce 1—Salled, schr Arieville OL ORSMOUTE. ve Peary. Peary, Providence. In Rappahannock River 7th, schrs Lizsle W Bangs. Cobb: J Albert, mith, Patterson, and Robt Pettis, Ells, 12 for Providen POSTURE Dec 11—Beturre | Brig Eudorus, for New Yor! Arrived Uth (not 12th), sohr Ligure, Stanley, New ‘FoRTsMoutu, Deo 11 Arrived in lower harbor, echt Lucy Baker, Alien, Now York for Bella PROVIDENCE. bec licarrived, stea hp mi Crocker, Philadelphia ; wonee BS sigbes ollie ae sinin: Senator Grimes, Philtrook, Eliza ethpogt: Watson, Eargent, dnc Eliana. | omit Baker, Port Newport: TC Lyman, Wit, Groton He'en A Ames, Endicott, Bi dle, Cranmer. i'huiadelphia; J HY és, Remsen. and John Stockham, ue alogp Emily, dayden, PAWIUGKET Deo Te-arrivel, sche Wm F Burges, Adams, Hoboken. ; RICHM NORD. Dec 1l—Arrived, schr Samuel 4 Hawes, ort, New Y. isle Me eneaelt, Steelman, Newcastle, Sailed—Schr Ma; Del, via Osborne Im the river, brig “aavence (Br), Throstenson, from Liverpool tor Richmond. ROCK Dec 4—Saijled, schrs A Jameson, Can- dage, New York: J Farwell, Gregory. Rehmond. Sth—Sailed, schr Win McLoon. Rogers, New York. oth—sailed, schr Dick Williams, Garson, Philadelphia, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 5—Cleared, bark Mariano Ryder, Burrard Inlet ailed—shins Comipadre | {Br Thomas, Live; Cape Horn (Br), Youn Granger, Doane, Live Bool: xchr Miltoy Had rley, Melbou: BY ceed anu 1 iver Lune (Br), Willlams, Liver- “SAVANNAH, Dec 11—Arrived, sehr Stephen @ Hart Hart, Providence. Sailed—Schr Ciara F Bergen, F Dayton, Phitadelphia. lth—Cleared, bark Modoc’ (Br), Marsh, Liverpoot; scr Estelle Day, Carey, New Yor! Sailes—Schr Matt Bedell, Porter, New York 1sth—Arrived, berk Unanima (Br), STexerson, Bay we: Sailed—steamships Seminole, Boston; America, Bal more: Tonawanda Philadelphia, ALEM, Dec 10—Arrived, schrs Alcora, Robinson: ‘Lucy Hammond, Robinson, an Johnson; Lucy Wentworth Dow, ed, schrs Flora A Newcomb. Eaton, ee Elizabethport for Portland; L W ortland for Matanzas. Dhas H Fabens (new, of Salem, 301.26 Harbinger, Parker; Magnet, Handy, Port Hoboken. o gers Riva, Dunton, heeler, Bowman, b Cleared—Schr 0) tons), Keene, Cayenne. Ralicd<Schre Lizae Smith, Gorham, Tangier; L & M Reod. Steclinan, Haltimore; 86 Frvon. Nickerson, Phil adelphia; L W Wheeler, Kival, and others. : OMERSET, Dec —Arnved, brig MC Haskell, from WILMINGTON, NO, Dec I!—Arrtved, schrs Robert Palmer, Dennison, Ni ssa; M D Marston, from Charles ton. WICKFORD, Dec 10—Arrived. schr EC Dennison, An nold, dibany. MISCELLANEOU: Sssss_ MM «MM IITTITITH A ss88s@ 8 MM MMU ot H Hs 8 8 MM MMI OT M HS . 8 MMMMIL T HWS sssss. MMM Mil T HHHHA 88886 MouM MIC oT UO OR 3 M MioT WK H M Milo oT H HS M Mito H s8ss8 ‘EW YORE L i EREER L E i EREE L x 3 E LULLL + EEEEB AAA pn ahaa AAAA LL AA AA LL AA AA Lb AA AA LL AA AA Lu AAAAAA LL AAAA AAA LU Fa ve ue ae AA EbLbLELLt AA AA LLL BREWERY, EIGHTEENTY STREET, _BETWREN ENTH AND EIGHTH AVENUES, BSOLUTE DIVORCES OBTAINED of different state; 7 ees in advance, a ate. FROM COURTS tno publicity: mer eieres? Counsel! Mark's place. BROLUTE D LOM pire ent States, | ac, sun. Henteauses no puviicity > onary) watll de vorve granto ls wlyic sr 1 HOUSd, Attorney, Ut Broadway FOR KENTUC KY $100 a STAGE SIN BER LOTTAR for the be y of Patucah, to. de drawn Dec IMMONS, DIKENSON CO. t, $20; halves, $19; qu kars of imformation hs & 70 codar street, York (Post office fox 4,404, Agents tor managere