The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1876, Page 3

FAT TUESDAY. Celebrations of the Tradi- tional Festival. CARNIVAL IN CINCINNATL Scenes from the History of America in Fantastic Procession. THE CENTENNIAL EPOCH OF PEACE Grotesque and Allegorical Performances of the Mystic Memphi in Memphis. THE AGES OF LITERATURE. Homer, Horace, Anacreon, Shakespeare and Rouget de Lisle. St. Louis in the Pageant in New Orleans. PANCAKE DAY IN GOTHAM. Masquerades and Other Entertainments Among Our Foreign Citizens, ‘The carnival season culminated im the festival of Mardi-Gras yesterday. This featival is more partica- tarly observed in the countries of Southern Europe, in- habited by the nations of the Latin race. It has been introduced also into the South American communities. Tato New Orleans the custom of celebrating Mardi- Gras was introduced long ago by the French popula- tion, and from there it has spread to Memphis, and even to Cincinnati. In these cities great preparations were made this year to honor the Mad Prince by fan- bastic and grotesque street processions. ' In this city the custom of celebrating Mardi-Gras, whieh is no doubt an outgrowth of the Roman Satur- nalias, has been introduced to a certain extent by the French populace and the German clubs and societies. Its observance is mainly confined to masquerades, but ‘these jovial persons do not parade our streets, but confine their jollity within the doors of the ball rooms of the city. MASQURRADE BALLS, About half a dozen masquerade balls came off last might in different parts of the city ander the auspices of various Gerinan societies, besides a number of minor carnivalistic entertainments. At.the Harmonie Rooms, in Essex street, a German “Pleasure Club” gavo a bal masqué, in which the Abt Quartet Club of Brooklyn and a gay and festive assemblage in brilliant costum participated. The Arion Quartet Club, a popular Ger- man choral organization of recent origin, entortained its friends at Concordia Hall, in avenue A, the hall being dressed in gay colors. Le Cercle des Chefs de Cuisine celebrated Mardi-Gras by having its first masquerade bail in irving Hall. The ball was in overy respect successful. The hall was beautifully decorated. Streamers of red, white and blue were festooned from the centreof the ceiling to the side walis. Along the sides of the hall were the French and American flags arranged in artistic designs, and cages were numerous from which Canary birds mingled their songs with the strains of the band. The variety of costumes was'very great, the various com- mittees not being confined to any particular dress, It was not until about half-past ten o'clock that the grand march which inaugurated the baliwas commenced. At What time the floor was filled with as merry a party of masqueraders as has held high carnival this season. The ball was exceedingly well conducted, not the lightest thing occurring that would mar the feeling of the most delicate, ana while eminently sociable thero wasan entire absence of anything like vulgarity or undue license. The society has been only organized about two years, and has among its members not merely artistes Je cuisine, but many of the best of our French citizens. fhe officers are:—Charles Ranhofer, President; J. V. Peryrnix, Vice President; F. Delice, Secretary ; Sebas- Nan Michel, Vice Secretary; August, Treasurer. Contrary to general expectation there was no display of pieces montées. The only ornamental piece was tn the committee room—a confection mocking the fruits of every clime. The supper, however, which, of course, bad been propared under the personat supervision of competent members of the society, Was @ marvel in its way. CHARITY ENTERTAINMENTS. The German Women’s Benevolent Unton gavo its fourteenth annual ball at the Natioual Assembly Rooms, the proceeds of which will be turned over to the charita- ble fund established by the association; and another German benevolent organization, the Victoria Women’s Aid Association, gave a masquerade atits nali in West Thirty-second street. The proceedsof this affair will - also go toward helping some charitavie project. Company B,of the Eleventh regiment, National Guard, celebrated the advent of Fastnacht by what was termed a calico hop, THE CARNIVAL IN CINCINNATL Cixctxxati, Feb, 29, 1876. Cincinnati for the first time in her history, and for Whe first time in the history of any Northern city, has celebrated Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, a festival that falls on any day between the 2d of February and the 8th of March—a time when the climate north of Mason and Dixon’s line renders its cele- bration almost impracticable. It is strictly a Cath. olic feast, and was observed by the Germans until the time of Luther under the name of Fastnacht, and the Fastnachtspicie plays for Mardi Gras day are the oldest form of the German comedies. These plays were simi- lar to the English mysteries or sacred plays ot the Mid_ file Ages. Every license was allowed on this day, sometimes men and women running through the streets naked, their faces alone masked, Many of Luther's fulminations were directed against the follies and ex- travagances of this occasion. The day lost much of {ts force and application because they rejected the doc- trine of confession, believing that people should go to the deacons with their sins, and prayers be publicly offered up for them. Hence the idea that open confes- sion was good for the soul. IN ENGLAND, In old English plays there 1s frequent reference to the customs and frolics of Shrove Tuesday. Master Si- lence, in Shakspeare’s comedy, erties, “Welcome, Merry Shrovetide!” and the clown in ‘‘All’s Well That Ends Well’ speaks of something “as fit as a pancake Jor Shrove Tuesday.” Taylor, the water poot, quaintly feseribes the day as jollows:—‘Shrove Tuesday, at whose entrance in the morning all the whole kingdom Is tn quiet, but at that time the clock strikes eleven (which, by the help of a knavish sexton, 18 commonly called nine), there isa bell rung called the pancake bell, the sound whereof makes thousands of people dis- tracted and forgetful either of manners or humility. Then there is a thing called wheaten flour, which the cooks mingle with water, oggs, spice and other tragical, magical enchantments, and they put it little by litte into a {rying pan of boiling suet, where it makes acon- fused, dismal hissing like Lernean snakes in the reeds of Acheron until at last, by the skill of the cook, it Is transformed into the form of a flapjack called pancake, which ominous ‘neantation the ignorant people do de- vour very greedily." On that day children ran about from door to door and sing snatches of such dog- gerel as Pit « pat the pan is We are cama sain, ” SEW “YORK “HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH bearing @ silver baton, comes from the kitchen, fol- | Peon, stands under @ tree in his broad-brimmed hat. | kar and the Moslems ‘The city is taken by the Chris- lowed by the cook of the school in his white apron, Jacket and cap, and carrying @ pancake, On arriving ‘at the sehoolroom door he announces himself, “The cook,” and, having entered the seboolroom, advances to the bar which separates the upper from the lower form, twirls the pancake in the pau, and then tosses 1¢ over the bar into the upper schoolroom among a crowd of boys who seramble for the pancake, and he who gets it unbroken and carries it tothe deanery gets a guinea from the Abbey fund; the cook receives two guineas for his part of the performance. The first pancake baked was given to the greatest lay- abed. In Poor Robin’s “Almanac’’ for 1677, allusion to the custom in these lines;— —- Pancakes are eut by greedy cut And Hob and Medge ruu for the slut. Goldsmith, in the “Vicar of Wakefield,” says of the parishioners of the good vicar ‘that they religiously ate pancakes at Shrovetide,”” and an old poem of the period has the following lines:— But, hark, T he: Rau iriters meke a yuilact smells cock THROWING, This was a brutal sport indulged in always Eng- land up to the commencement of the present century. It was finally abolished by legislative enactment. Hogarth, the caricaturist, in his first picture illastrating the four stages of cruelty, gives us some idea of what the sport—if so it can be termed—was, The scene is laid between the walls of a court; numerous acts of cruelty are in various degrees of progress im different parts of the picture; in the foreground is au urchin jn three- cornered hat, stockings and knee buckles, holding a cock, while a few paces off there is another boy am- ing with a stick, intent upon knocking off the animal’s head, Behind the latter stands another boy, holding in his arm a second cock, ready for death when the first is killed. Sometimes the owner of the cock real- ized quite a fortune, for he trained the cock to dodge the sticks aimed at him, and charged two pence a throw, Some say the custom has reference to the persecutions the Jews offered the Saviour; others that it refers to the crowing of a cock one Shrovetide morning when a purty of twelye Saxons, who wore sorely oppressed -by the Danes, had broken into the city gates for the purpose of Killing their masters, dq thus obtaining their freedom. But © more probable theory iy that the custom arose wm the daya ol Hen: ry the Kuglish, having gail several victories 0 French, whose King’s name corresponded to that of the cock, took this means of showing their contempt for all inbabitants of La Belle Franco—as much as to say that tho same treat t they offered the poor fowl was what they had in store for their neighbors across the Channel, Sometimes the bird was tied by a short cord to a stake driven into the ground, and the partici- pants threw atit with broomsticks ata distance of twenty yards. A hen whose powers of usclulness were becoming dilapidated was generally selected for th purpose. She was laid ona barn floor, and the men and boysattacked them with flails, and be who succeeded in killing one had her for his pains. Sometimes the hen was tied to & man’s back, with some horse bells, and a number of men and boys, blindfolded and armed with boughs, followed the ringing of the bells, trying to kill the bird. Considerable fun and many bruises followed, for the blows were as apt to fall on the man as the bird, aud sometimes they fell on the backs of those blindfolded, When the bird was killed it was boiled in a pot of bacon and served up at the shrovetide diner, and eaten with the pancakes, rients. Cock fights were an institution of the day, and were very often sanctioned by the public schools. The schooimaster presided on the occasion, and when he furnished the cocks he received a small tax from each of the boys, called acockpepny. An old rhyme aliudes to this custom, now entirely o! Le Anick and # nock, A hen and a cock, ‘And a penny for iny master. In Scottish schools thia custom was in vogue as late as 1790, tor we tind in the records of the parish ac- counts of the minister of Applecross, in Rosshire, that the schoolmaster’s income was composed of 200 merks, with ls, 6d. and 2s. 6d, per quarter trom each scholar, and the cock fight dues, which are equal to one quar- ter’s payment for each scholar, In New Grenaga, South America, they bave to this day a peculiar cus- tom quite similar to cock throwing. A cock is tied by his feet to a pole, his neck and the participants’ ride by ona iult gallopand use their best efforts to grab him by the neck apd puil him off, FooTwa! Lak, Games of football were also common sports on Shrove ‘ruesday among the London apprentices, who played at Finsbury Fields. At Teddington the game was car- ried on with such violence that ‘eepers often had their windows broken in. In the village of Sconce, near Perth, Scotland, a gate not unlike football was played ou this day, that uo one was allowed to kick the bail. It was played be- aween the murried men and bachelors of the parish. He who At any time got the ball into his hands rau with it until overtaken by one of the opposite party, and then if he could@bake himself loose from those on the opposite sido whe seized bin he ran on; if not ne tbrew the ball from bim apless it wrested from bin by some of the osher, a Pet the married men was to “brang’” is, bo put it three times into a sinall hole on the moor, which was called or limit, on the one hand; that of the bachelors was to droun” it, or dip it three times in the river, the limiton the other, The party who could effect either of these objects won the game. If nether won the ball wascut into two parts at sunset and divided between the con- tending parties. Considerable violence occurred at this game. Hence came the old proverb, ‘‘A’ ia tair at the ba’ 0’ sconce.” MARDI GRAS IN AMERICA. Last year for the Urst time the east was celebrated at Louisville, and for several years it has been ob- served at Memphis, but in New Orleans has it attained tts greatest glory. The celebration of it in Cincinnati is due entirely to Colonel Nick Roberts, to- mime troupe proj wor, and Robert J. jutler, of New York city. Mr. Cutler was properties mas- ter with Augustin Daly when he ran the Grand Opera diouse, Filth Avenue Theatre and Wood's Museum. He had been with Barnum for eight years, and latterly has ling with the G. L. Fox Pantomime Troupe machinst and property man. These two interested the Mayor, G W. €. Johnson, who is re- puted to have Congressional aspirations, and who, hav- ing so successfully gotten up the jamboree on the 1st of January, eagerly seized the first opportunity ollered for asecond and more magnificent spree than the frst. Fully 4 month was occupied im preparauons, and tor the past two Weeks 150 workmen have been employed at Exposition Hall, Fourteenth and Elm streets, manu- facturing masks avd floats. Upward of 900 costumes were hired in New York, and alluir was every way & grand success. The procession consisted of wo parte—irst, the advertising, aod second, ine fantasti- cally allegorical. At twelve o'clock, bigh Boon, the bells of the town all rang out their most discordant notes and cannon thundered forth their belchings. The Kex, or King, who was in No, 5 at tho Burnet House, came down the stairs, and, en- tering a carriage, Was driven to, the gates of the city Which bad been erected in a large square, just east of the Y,obasco Fountam and near the new Cus- tom House building. The gates consisted of two towers, about thirty feet Ligh and forty ieet apart, over the top of which ran an arch, in the centre of which were two figures, back to back, one representing the Goddess oft Liberty, the other General Washington. Near one of the towers was 4 smuil stand, im which stood the jolly Mayor, who delivered up the keys of the city to ing Carnival—Momus, the god ot fun, Henceforward tun and frolic were to rule, Accompanied by atiend- ants and various escorts, the King muyed through se’ eral of the main streets toward the Exposition buiid- Here the procession was formed iu the following iad Beeuf Gras und escort, royal orchestra, an THe ROYAL CHARIOT. This was surrouuded on each side by the beef eaters, represented by six enormous knives and torks, each containing persons whose faces were hidden’ by a mask in the centre of the knife or fork, and was drawn by tour elephants. The royal chariot con- sisted of an immense float (that is, a table ladon a wagon atid covered by canvas to the ground, hiding the wheels, so that it seemed to float, not roll along) ‘Thirty feet by fifteen, on the table or float, was a large platter, aod on this an imita- tion Log’s head of colossai proportions. It was twelve foet high and surrounded by all sorts ot vegetables aud dressings. Verched between the ears was His Majesty the King, clad in all (he paraphernalia of comic royalty, He was a genuine Henry Vill. sort ot a king, of Falstattian proportions, a Teuton, weighing about 350 pounds ‘of lagor beer and eauer kraut. On each ear sat 8 attendanty, and straddled across the suout was the jester, a comre fellow who did the humorous part of the show. The hog represented the boast and pride of our city hog. The back part of the head, cut off at the neck, disclosed a grinning Memus, over whose bead fell the iettuce leaves in which the Ku throne was enveloped, form’ 3 it Were, a natural Wreath around the of the og, mirthial mask. THE FRONTISPIECK, After the lords, chamberiains and squires came the frontispiece, showing Christopher Columbus in the avt of planting sh colors on American soil with his ieft band, while his right was raised, sword in hand, his lips moving in prayer asit thanking God tor his success, On his left stood a monk friar, Jean Perez, Superior of the Order of Dominicg, and Vincent Yavez Perzon, commander of the Nina, and Martin Alonzo Pp commander of the Pinta, and on his right a 3] archer. In front was an Indian kneeling, his ones strauded on the beach betow, AMERICA AS IT WAS, After the band chariot came a float representing a characteristic scene of carly days. On the k as an Indian tent made of skins (lke Brian O'Li coat, the hairy side within), undera tree, On one of the limbs hangs a tiny paj Within the tent lays an Indian sleeping, and just outside the entrance a tat old squaw was pounding corn between two stones, On the right of the scene wn Indian chief, elaborately drossed, gazing out With savage Surprise at the audacity ot the Spanish vessels that are supposed to be bringing the discoverer of America Atthe foot of the ledge of rocks on which the chief stands isa smail Indian boy playing in a canoe, iling in the water over the side of the craft, had more the appearance of ber the Indian discovering Columbus America as it was, Z. . COLEMATS’ DISCOVERY OF AxmRICA. ‘This float contained a lull rigged two-masted Spanish brig, With rousd, port holes, and painted in old style, Uolumbus is seen forward, and by his side are two of his favorite officers, while betind bim stand a group of ‘Spanish sailors. PENN'S TREATY WITH INDIANS This float contained a representation of the old familiar picture of the geographies, The good Quaker, By bis side aro bis trunks and pcg jee to be | tians and the holy sepuichre delivered. full of the trinkets that purchased the City of Brotherly SPANISH BPOCH, Love. The Indians are stand game with wou- |, . Tauizav 13.—Calderon and Lope de Vega. der and admiration at the articles Penn is showing Scene.—A base, incrusted in Mosaic tile work and them, while he seems hugely pleasea at the success of bis bargain. BOSTON TEA SHIP. This float contained a gooa sized English merchant vessel, English colors floating at the masthead, and on deck are seen cit'zens of Boston, disguised as Indians, burbng over large puper boxes marked “tea,” which Went over the side of the ship, and, falling upon ap in- cline plane, shd into the hoid and were passed up on deck to be again huried overboard for the amusement of the crowd, THE CALL OF PUTNAM, ‘This float represented a field, in one corner of which is seen Putoam ploughing. The horses have stopped to rest and adown a steep bill is seen a boy riding with the news of the battle of Lexington. In the distance are minute men, and near by the coatless, barefuoted sou of Putnam, bringing his father his rifle, shot pouch ms tn hora. The Centunental Drum Corps fol- TION OF INDEPENDENCE. This float represented the well kuown scene at Phila- deiphia, July 4, 1776. A building representing the in- terwr of Indepeodence Hall. In the background, pawtings of the signers aod ia the foreground livin; persons seated and standing about a table covered wit! paper and writing materials, Inthe archway 1s seen the motto, “Liberty for AlL’’ Tne old bell tawer and bell are visible om top of the building. WASHINGTON CROSSING THK DELAWARE. The float representing this seene, too well known to need mach description, represented the open river filled with cakes of ice, soldiers rowing a single boat, in the bow of which stands the man who never told a lie, clad in military cloak, and holding his righthand above his bead as if shading his eyes to see the shore, PAUL JONES RAISING THE INST AMERICAN FLAG AT SEA. ‘A smail vessel, and on it the supposed Paul raising up the Stars and Stripes. CINCINNATI AS IT WAS, This float contained an old log cabin situate on the banks of the Obio. ‘The cabin door is open and within isseen an old-fashioned spinuing wheel beside a log fire, over which is crane and kettles; adog sleeps by the fire, and tied to the bank 18 a John boat, or home- made skill of planks. i“ JACKSON AT NEW ORLEANS. This float contained a cotton baie fort, with the mouths of threatening cannon protruding. The bales are tumbled and ragged, indicative of an engagement, General Jackson, arrayed in unilorm, is seen planting the Stars and Stripes on the fort, surrounded by Amer- ican soldiery. CAPTURED BY THE MEXICANS, ‘This float contained a Spanish volante drawn by ono horse in shafts, while another is tied alongside. ‘Two seforitas, smoking cigurcttes, with mantillas and co- quettishly managed fans, are using their brightest glances to cupture several American officers that are riding alongside. SOLDIER'S DREAM OF HOME. This float contained what purported to be a repre- sentation of the well known picture illustrating Camp- bell’s poem, “The Scldier's Dream.” Stretched at full length on the ground, which is covered with slush and snow, is a sleeping soldicr. Over bis head is a cloud, which contains a home scene, showing an old read- ing @ letter trom the field of battic, and an old lady watching a cradle, which contains a baby. These people wero represented by children dressed as old people, and was very effective. PEACE AND RECONCILIATION, This float contained a temple supported by four posts; withia the temple sits a female representing America, and on one side Justice, on the other Peace; on the ps of the temple wo Uniou and Contederate oili- cers shaking hands, and in the foreground is a camp fire, around which sit rebel and federal soldiers talking over old war times. UNCLE SAM AT PEACE. This float was Uncle John Robingon’s Circus wagon and contained his lioness. By her side sat Uncle Sam, hus hand on the lion’s mane, loat was fully deeo- rated with evergreens, and on shells at each corner Were representations of the four quarters ef the globe, THR GAMBLERS? FLOAT. This float represented a barroom complete, and a life- like image of one of the proprietors of a well known saloon, The Empire. A rough-looking fellow is at the bar asking for something to drink, and on the floor lies sprawled a chronic drunkard. Threo praying women, in hideous looking masks, represent the crusad- ers. Along the line of march the buildings were {llu- minated and pyrotechnics of various sorts lent their aid to the comic pageant. The line of march was four miles long, and upward of 30,000 people from adjoin- ing towns came to witness the pageant. The entire aflair concluded in a masked ball at Exposition Hall THE PAGEANT IN MEMPHIS. Memruis, Tenn, Feb, 29, 1876, The city is altogether absorbed in the carnival festivi- ties. Business is entirely suspended and all the princi- pal streets presenta dense mass of surging humanity. Prominent amid all are great crowds of grotesque maskers, representing every conceivable character. THR PROGRAMME, The following isthe programme, as issued on rose- tinted paper, with blue and maroon colored. letter- press, of the “Annual Spectacular Display of the Mystic Memphi , ‘The subject of the tableau presented by the Memphi im their annual pageant in the streets of the city this year is Poetry. As tancy has obtained greater hold on the public taste retimemont has advanced. As imagina- ton has been more widely developed: civilization hus spread its genial influences. in its illustrations of poetry and its commemoration of poets the Momphi Dave, therefore, culied attention to one of the great- est factors in the construction of human. his- tory, The poet is of all ages and nations. The primitive bard, the wandering minstrel and the polished writer of the most finished stanza, when & biting the true aitiatus, are all pone apd among instructors of man. Greece, Kom italy, Spain, France, Gerioany, England and Ame! have all con- tributed their gifts.ot genias, and stril scenes from the great master pieces of their noblest benctactors are embraced in the pageant. And the pageant is not an idle show, for its vivid and attractive pictures cannot fail to awaken poetic feelings in many breasts, and hundreds will be induced to seek in the pages of im- mortal writers for the rich feasts of veauty and imagi- nation which are the sources whence the tableaux havo been drawn. ‘These polish’d arts have hamanicod man! Boned the Tudo, and calm’'d the bouterousmind, PORTKY. Prelude, Tapteau 1.—Fact and Fancy. Scene and Characters.—A view of earth and clouds. Fac ied by @ rustic at the plough, is startled trom Uhe labor of tho fleld by the vision of Fancy—a beauti- tnt youth bestride Pegasus. Fancy is encircled by garlands, and thes through the clouds on bis winged Steed, mockingly casting flowers upon Fact, TAULEAU 2—Birth ot Poetry. Scene and Characters,—On the island of Delos. A sunny landscape, rich in foliago, vines and olives; @ sparkling lake in the foreground ; a grotto in the back- ground, elevated, Poetry, new born, is discovered, inspired wud in the act of ‘composing. ' The Hours aro dropping roses upon her. Mercury swiftly conveys the intelligence to Apollo, who is seen inthe grotto, reclining On ation. He souuds his lyre in honor of the event. TaLeav 3,—The Muses ou Mount Parnassus. Scene and Characters.—A prospect of verdant hills and shady groves of myrtle aud cedar, through which ander the waters of the Castalian Springs, On the nd leaning on a columy 1s ia, with crook and mask—goddess uf pastoral and ic poetry. Erato, with lute aud lyre, patroness of amatory verse and song, attended by Love, bearing a flambeau, 18 ascending the pleasant paths, whilo Melpomene and Calliope, goddesses of Tragedy and Heroic Poetry, are near an altar, sacred to the Muses, GRECIAN EPOCH, Tawteau 4.—Homer and Anacreon. Scene.—A sectwn of @ Grecian temple of Pentelic marole, approached by grand steps. The capitols und entablature ure richly chiseled, and scenes from the Olympic games are Carved in bas relief on the tym- panom, Between the columns is the siting statue of Homer, with tablet and stylus, Neara wine urn stands the statue of Anacreon, TABLE. —Revenge, Scene and Characters (argumeut taken from the “Ihad”’),—Achilles, in a radiant chariot of steel and brass, drawn by two swilt buttle steeds, is dragging the dead body of Hector round the walls of Troy, te ix clad in arthor forged by Vulean, and bears the dazzling shield on which are “wrought fair cities, and discord and tumult, avd destructyve fate.”’ TauLkav 6.—Love's Power, Scene and Characters (argument trom one of Anac- reon's odes). View of the torge of Valean at Lemnos— & palace like grotto, scintillatmg with bright metals aud flashing arms §=‘The god of fire is in the act of moulding arrows for Cupid, and Venus is dropping honey on the tatal shafts, Mars, iu gorgeous panoply, enters and laughs at the feathery weapons, Cupid dips an arrow in gall, which Mars seizes and immo- diately suffers the pangs of iove. ROMAN KPOCIL Tamieav 7.—Virgii and Horace. Scene,—The rains ot a massive, ivy-covered Roman arch of the palace of the Cuwsurs, with vaulted panelled ceiling of stucco decoratious, The walls ure adorned with mural paintings; on the Mosaic pavement are the noble statues of Virgil and Horace, Tanixac 8,--The Elysian Fields, Scene and Characters (argument trom the ‘“neid’’).— Eneas, conducted by the Sibyl of Cumm, having de weonded into the infernal regions, now enters tne Ely tracery, with fountains im action. From the base rises & pedestal of arabesque decorations and a group of florated figures, supporting a terra cotta basket of vrange leaves and pomegranates. The statue of Lope de Vega is reclining. Calderon stands eroct, Tauueav 14,—Jealousy. Seene and Characters (trom “The Physician of His Own Honor"’).—A summer house ina garden at Seville, reached by marble steps from a lake, in which swans are swituming. Dofia Mencia, wile of Don Gutierre, 1m & swoon, 1s discovered lying ov a couch iu the pavilion. “Her bosband, Pon Gutierre, maddened by jealousy, forces the Doctor Ludovico to open his wife’s veins, and thus effects ber murder without discovery. TanLeav 15,—Injustice. Scene and Characters (from the “Iunocent Blood”), — Mall in the royal residence at Martos, Spain. Ferdinand 1V, seated. Near him, Don Ramiro, Don Juan de Caravajal (secrouy married to the Lady Aun) aud Dou Pedro, his brother, are brought before the royal pres- ence in chains and guarded, falsely accused of treason. The King offers to spare the lives of the two cavaliers on eoudition of lady an marriage to Don Garcia, a favorite, The lady 1 tly reluses; invokes the ection of Leaven flies to a convent for safety. ‘The Caravajals are led to execution PRENCH EPOCH. TABLEAU 16.—Rae aud Moliére, Scene,—The lite size statues of Racine and Molitre posed on & massive octagonal pedestal of the Renais- Sance style, with bosses and cornice richly carved. A graceful shalt of acanthus leaves, supporting inverted scroll work, surmounted by a rich vase of foliage, rises trom the pedestal, Tal v 17,—Woman’s Influence, Scene and Characters (from “Esther”’).—Scene at Susa, im the palace of Ahasucrus. canopied, alabaster throbe, profusely decorated, rich in coloring and studded with gens. Queen Esther implot King Abasuerus to preserve the Israelites trom slaughter, and startles the King by contessing herself a Jewess. Eliza, the Queen’s confidante, near by, Haman, favorite oft the King and enemy to the Jews, alarmed und dis- concerted, Hydaspes, officer of the palace. An armed Persian, TanLeau 18.—Patriotism, Scene and Characters (from the “Marseillaise Rymn”).—A field of combat, Artillerists at the guns; grenadiers charging, led by am olficer with the tricolor Of France, The serene figure of the great Napoleon 1s descried in the background, GERMAN EPOCH. ¥ Tamixav 19.—Goethe and Schiller. Scene.—A memorial Gothic monument and the stat- uese of Germany's immortal poets, Goethe and Seniller. TAMLRA| —Civie triumph. Scene and Charac chiller’s beautiful song, the *Lay of the Bell,” illustrated. ‘Pure shining ay a star of gold,’’ the bell has been released from its mouid and “Concord” inscribed upon it. ‘The master, surrounded by his meu, 1s admiring the work of his art. Tanteav 21.—Repentance. Scene and Characters (from *‘Faust’’).—A Gothic chapel. On the altar a devotional image of the Mater Dolorosa Marguerite, repentant und overcome by grief, beseeches the Mother of Sorrows for support and tearfully deposits votive offerings of flowers. Faust, in despair, secks to reach Gretchen, but is restrained by Mophistophiies. ENGLISH EPOCH, ‘Tauuxav 22. —Shakespeare and Byron, Scene,—The power and supremacy of Great Britain symbolized by the Globe, resting near a monumental mast, capped by an urn of oak leaves, Cannon, & trideat and sceptre, and two royal lions at the base. The statues of Shakespeare and Byron surmount the glo Tamtxav 23,—Folly. Fatstapy—Come, my masters, let us share, and then to horse before day. ‘An the Prince and Poins be not two arrant cowards, there's no equity stir- ring: there's no more valor in that Yoins than in wild duck. Prince Hexny—Away, good Ned, Falstaff sweats to death: n Fields to meet Anchises, He there bebolds the sparkling fuuntains, the happy groves, the joyous pisces, where dwell the biessed Shades, Orpheus, robed ike » Thracian priest, recites in song to the sgund of his lyre and Muswus and Assaracus and thf happy youths disport themseives in the pleasant grounds, T, vellers. (argum trom Horace’s nine- teenth o#e).—A bower in a Roman villa, enciaced with Toses, Vines, creepers and clustermg grupes. Kevellers are seen within; drinking cupe, amphorw and musical mstruments he around in disorder, Horace und Glycera occupy the festal couch; the youth Glaacus, near a Greek statue, 1s singing &@ Wine sung; Murena ts leaning against a column; Telepbus is retiring from the feast. ITALIAN KPOCTL. TARLRAU 10,—Dance and Tasso, Scene.—A pedestal, with caryatides supporting a block of Carrara marble, on which rest the Papal chair, Uara and aris, and the stataes of Dante and Tasso. Tantxav 11 —The Hereafter, Scene and Characters (trom the ‘Inferno’ Dante).—Dante and Virgil, conducted by the un enter, midst sobs and wailings, the portals of the rible and awe-inspiring gate of hell. ‘TauLeac 12.—Ail for the Cross, Scene and Characters (from ‘Jerusalem Delivered’), — Attack on the walls of Jerusalem at the gate ot Herod by the first Crusaders, led by Godirey de Bouillon, Tancred, Raymond of Toulouse and of Nor- mandy, The walls are defended by Solyman and Ista- of And inrds the lewn earth as he watks slog; Wer't not for laughing 1 should pity him. Pows—How the rogue roar'd. [Pirst part Henry LY., act 1i., seone 3.—Shakespeare. Scene’ and Characters.—The road by Gadsbill; a bridge and forest. Fulstaff, Bardolph and Peto have wayind and robbed the travellers, and while dividing the booty are in turn set on by Prince Hal and Poins, They fly and leave fleld and spoils to the merry Prince, TauLeav 24.—Pride, Argument. Dock— How say you? finish’d! Doldream? Tis false— Givo me the paper— {Marino Faliero.—Act i,, scene 2.—Byron, Scene and Characters.—A grand corridor near the Doge's room, in the Ducal Paiace at Venice. Vincenzo, officer of the palace. The Secretary of the Council of Forty bears to Marino Faliery the judgment of that body, inilicting a light panishment on Michel Steno for an offence of grave character committed against the aignity of the aged Doge, The violent old warrior, #tung by the injury, anutches the paper from the hands of his nephew and reads it, trembling with rage and wounded pride. AMERICAN RPOCH. Taixav 25, —roe and Longfellow, Scene.—-The statues of the dead and living bards of, Amotica—Poe and Longfellow—erected on a inassive gtanite rock. - Tawiwau 26 —-Grief. For {hethioon never beams withont bringing me dreams Of the bewutifal Annabel Loe: And tbe sturs never rive, but U fool the bright eyes « nitiful Annabel Lee ; And 80, ail the night tide, I lie down by the side Of my dariing—my darling—-my life and ay bride, Lu the sepulchre Cpe the sea, Iu her tomb by the sounding sen. ’ (Annabel Lee.—Edgar A. Poo. Scene and Characters.—A bleak, precipitous cliff by the seaside, Jashed by waves. Near a copse of cypress and a solitary willow, is seen the sepulchre of Annabel Lee, marked by & cross entwined with immortelles. ‘The figure of a griefstricken youth—an unopened book at his leet, a miniature in his hana—reclines listlessly on the grave. TanLeau 27.—-Defance, Thon from the rattlesuake's skin, with a sudden contemptu- ous gesture, sorting the Ludian arrows, he filled it with powdet and bul- rt jets Fall to the very jaws, led it back tu the gavage, Suying, iu thundering « “Here, tuke it! This is your answer.” [Courtship of Miler Standish.—Longtetlow. Scene and Characters,--Near the Puritan eburch at Plymouth, in the old colony days. Midwinter. Deep si ‘The branches of jeatless trees whitened by frost. The ‘brass studded Bible’ lays on a rude table, at which are the old elder of Plymouth aud his Puritan companio senyger from nis tribe pre sents to the vage’s symbol of which Miles Standish defiantly filed with batlets, eoNet ~The Muse and the Memphi. TamLBAU 28 Scene and Chavacters.—\ swan-like silver car, richly carved and decorated with garlands and lotos ‘leaves, drawn by lions, bearing tho radiant figuré of Poetry. Tho cnartot is conducted by the Sublime Ouro, and tho Spirit ot Memph guides the Jioas with silken cords. Loves are in gracetul attendance upon the Muse. Jasued trom the hidden recesses of the Panofy, this 4076uh your of our dynasty. SUBLIME OURO, Attest: TYPHON, THR CITY THRONORD WITH vasiTONs. The weather has been pleasaut and the success of the carnival was great, The steamers Andy Baum and Parker, which arrived last wight from Cincinnati were crowded with pleasure seekers, und every train arriv- ing is crowded. The pageant of the Uiks and Krewe ot Motley moved at halt-past two ?. M., and at eight to-night the magnificent spectacular pageant of the Meinphi moved. There have been more visitors here than at any former carni CELEBRATION IN NEW ORLEANS. New On.xans, Feb, 29, 1876, The King of the Carnival appeared im the grand pageant here to-day, marching through the prineipay streets. The chief feature was the King’s body guard, The streets were thronged with spectators, and it was alinost impossible to clear them for the pageant, which represented the retura of Louis 1X. to France from bis crusades. ALUMNI AT DINNER. The annual diaver of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons was held last even~ ing at Sleghortner’s in Lafayette place. A large number of promintnt ptiysicians and surgeons were present The first toast, “Lhe College of Physicians and S| os," Was responded toby Professor Markoe; Profi sor Nowbury responded to the «Columbia Col- lege;’’ Dr. Rylanee t ‘The Cle Judge Howland to The Bar,” and Chi Daua to “The Press.’? Associations,” r York Univer. sity and Dr. Charles Teale for Bellevae College. LICENSING HOUSES OF ILL-FAME, Tho Woman’s Social Education Society, of which Mrs. Gabriel Kent is president, considerod yesterday the official recommendation of the Committee on Crime to the Legislature of this Stato, to license prostitution. Mrs. Laura M. Broason was appointed to prepare a pro- toxt against any such enactment, to be sigued by the officers of the society and sent to Albany at the proper time, SUDDEN Aman named Jobn Kelly died suddenly at a quarter to eight o’clock last night Ho was standing ina baker's shop at No, 39 Madison gtreet when he dropped dead, The cause is said to have been heart disease, He was thirty-five years old and had no home. FIRE IN A PACKING HOUSE. Ata quarter past ton o'clock last night a fre broke out on the first floor of No. 386 Kighth avenue, owned and occupied by John Holzderber as a packing house, Damage, $200; insured. DEATH. ARREST OF COUNTERFEITERS, Three young men named Robert Cusick, Charles Firth and Joseph Sands were arrested yesterday in Newark and taken before Commissioner Whitehead, to ans’ a charge of passing counterfeit five-cent nickel Pleces, They will have a iurther hearing next week. I, 1876--TRIPLE SHEET. CENTRAL AMERICA, INSTALLATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CON- GRESS TO EFFECT A UNION OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS. It will be remembered that some months ago the Republic of Guatemala issued an invitation to the four other Republics of Central America, asking them to participate in an international convention, which would have for its object that of reviving the Republic of Central America, This laudable scheme of Guate- mala, which, if carried out as originally intended, | would give to the world @ strong Central American nation instead of the four or five weak and divided Powers that at present oxist there, was favorably re- ceived by the countries interested, and on the 20th of last month the representatives of Guatemala, San Sal- vador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras met in the city of Guatemala, capital of the first named Repuolic, to treat the important question of # Central American’ Union, In anticipation of the assembling of this jnterna- tional congress the principal saloon of the University was tastefully adorned with the flags of the separate nations represented, and flowers and paintings pro- fusely graced the great room on this unprecedented oc casion, Being assembled in executive session, the repre- sentatives took their seats, as follows:—For Cuata Rica, Sedor Don Rafael Mata; for Nicaragua, Sefor Don Anselmo H. Rivas; for Honduras, Sefior Don Adolfo Zuifiga; for San Salvador, Sefior Don Manuei Ohvares; aud for Guatemala, Sefor Don Antonio Zulazar,’ The President of the Republic of Guatemala, General Don J. Rufino Barrios, was present with the members of his Cabinet; the Diplomatic Corps und resident Consuls, the Council of — State, the Judges of the Supreme Court and of the city; the Faculty of the University, the Directors of the Bank, the Directing Commitive of the Economist Society, the Mayor of the city and Municipal Council, some’ inili- tary chiefs of high rank, the employés of the Treasury Department and other public officers, Seior Rivas, whose turn Jt was to preside, during THR PIRST DAY'S DISCUSSIONS made formal declaration of the {nstallation of the Con- gress, and its sessions Were now open, A discourse by the President of Guatemala was read, in which that chief magistrate congratulated the Congress upon as- sembling under favorable auspices, Seiler Rivas re- plied in a happy manner on behalf of the Congress to the address of President Barrios. 5 ‘The iollowing named gentlemen, as secretaries of the representatives of their respective republics, had seats with the members of the Congress:—Don Felix Her- rena, Costa Rica; licentiate, Dou Gilverto Larios, Nica- raugua; licentiate, Don Pedro Garcia, San Salvador. ‘The cadet corps and a military band paid the customary honors. Many well known people and a numerous as- mblage of private persons were present, so that the grand saloon and its corridors were filled by interested Spectators, The session was solemn and well attended, as might be expected from so important an event, WHAT PRESIDENT BARRION SAID, General Barrios said that the {dea of Central Amer- ican nationality had found place in bis breast even be- fore he began to take part. in public affairs, and now, when at the head of the government, he thought it his duty to give active expression to this fruittul senti- ‘The disumion of the Central American republics is the great cause of their misfortunes, and only by uniting themselves could they be elevated to that high degree of prosperity to which they are justly entitled by their natural riches and their mag- nificent geographical position, It was an unfortunate hour when the Central American Republics split into small fractions to speedily convert themselves into « theatre of fratricidal struggles, sterile revolutionary movements and unjustitiable interventions. The syi- pathetic reception by the other governments of this initiative made him hope that tne Central American union would be realized in the form most favorable to the actual common interests of the five Re- publics. He welcomed the representatives of the sister Republics, being, as they were, there to treat of « most important object. The pres- ent disunited condition of Central America did not arise from want of patriotism among the people, but, perhaps, came from the fact that the best means to realize a permanent union had not been hit upon. WUAT SENOR RIVAS SAID. In answer to the warmly received address of Presid Barrios, Sefor Rivas, on behalf of the Congress, replied, in substance, that they had heard ' with pleasure the | hopes ex- pressed by His Excellency. The spectacle then and there witnessed in that place, where first the country glorious political emancipation had been proclaimed. an event which reveals tho elevated ideas that ai e soul of the government and the anxiety which is felt tosee again renewed those close bonas which united the Central American family and which nevor ought to have been rent asunder. From the mo- ment when the revolution of 1871 — tri- umphed and the banner of liberty and of progress was raised Central America has entortained the hope that from the midst of that revo- lution would come the thought of national reorganiza- tion. For this reason the country received with the greatest enthusiasm the patriotic and sensible initia- tive of Prosident Burrios in trying to bring the States of Central America to the practical ground of unity by the assimilation of their interests. The Congress congratulated President Barrios on the ‘work which he had thus felicittously commenced; tho sentiment did him honor, He was right in jooking upon-war as an extreme measare, which could only bo adopted in dofence of national rights. The orator teared war, not only for the fearful consequences that followed Jn its wake, bat also for the opportanity which 1t offers to tne spirit of destructiveness to extend its aark wings over the horizons of the coantry, —_ All those measures which tend to prepare the States for the organization of 4 general government must have ap enthusiastic rece, tion from all who are iuterested in our prosperity, i" It is now to be most sincerely hoped that the delibera- tions of this Congress will bring forth a realizable thought, which will serve a3 a pedestal to the future greatness of Central America. . EMIGRANTS FOR ARIZONA, In August last the lectures on Arizona, delivered by Judge O. W. Cozzens in Boston, awakened a strong de- sire among many unemployed men in that city to try their fortunes in what he represented to be a land of unbounded mineral and agricultural wealth. A com pany, having for its object the colonization of a chuice part of that far off country, was readily formed, with Judge Cozzens as President; J. M. Piper Secretary, ond S.C. Hunt Treasurer. Mr, G. B. Maynadier, the chiet cugineer of Harry Moigg’s great railroad constructions | in Peru, was engaged by the company and started for Arizona about a week ago to arrange for the transpor- tation of colonists from the end of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and te pick out a loc tiun for a town at the base of the San Francisco Moun tain, which 1s the objective point of the colony, Yescerday morning the first band of colonists, 150 in number, passed through this city, They go from here by way of the Pennsylvania Raliroad and its connec- tions to Atonegon, and irom Santa Fé will have a jouw ney of 8x hundred milesby mule teams. The colonists are nearly all artisans, representative Now Englanders, full of energy and determivation, and carry with them ail that will be necessary tor the plant vilization in those wilds, hitherto infested by thi ous and treacherous Apaches, The comtract which each man, with bis 200 pounds of baggage, is to be transported from ‘the Hub” to the San Fru M tain w $140. Provisions for ninety di taken along and a full outfit of agricultural implements and mining tools will be obtained at Atchison, The mountain to y 1s going 1s re- ported to be very rich ¥ deposits; and, indeed, the mineral wealth of all that part of Arizona | is represented by government explorers as being al- most boundless, In about one month the families of somo of the colo- nists will be sent out, and at the same time another | band of tnen will go. Already over eighty names have been registered for Unis second party. ARMY AND NAVY CLUB. The locition of the Army and } changed lust evening from its former home at No, 21 West Twenty-seventh street, to No, 28 West ‘Thirtieth street, adjoining the Gilsey House, The new club house is delightfally situated for comfort and pleasure. Last evening the parlors were comfortably filled by prominent members of the association, wio | had followed tho flag on tand and sea, and some of whom came many miles to be present at the camp fire im the new headquarters. Among thove present | were Generals Hanmbal Day, United States Army; M, 1, McMahon, Anson G. MeCook, Lioyd Aspinwall, Wintield 8, Hancock, Kilburn Knox, General Green, Chiet Engineer, Department of Parks; Colonel A, J. Suuth, Surveyor General of Montana; George M. Van Nort, Generals Joshua T. Owens, 3. D), Olyphant; Adam KE. King, Surveyor of the Port of Baltimore; James MeQuade, Colonel G. W. Mi * Colovel John J, Coppinger, Me K. Loeser, ex Governor > syivania, andothers, Daring the evening a banquet was served, but, in accordance with a rule of the club, no speeches were made, The club ix composed of some 420 metwbers, compriving Veterans of the war in both arms of the service, many officers and privates in the present National Guard and several prominent ervitiog ‘The parlors are handsomely decorated with and bate among the prominent mish scene in underbrash by Julian soldier artist, wherein the faces of the skirmighing party are portrans, and the thrillu seene of the death veneath the glory ot the flag is eloquently portrayed. In another panel of the parlor is a vivid scene of a bat tery of artillery going into position. To those who have seen Schreyer's picture in the Luxemburg it need be suid only that the picture here is « proof copy. Many other pictures of merit adorn the walls, and every effect of drapery und ornamentation gives evidence of the cultivation of exquisite taste and high art by the members of the bouse committee. The clab house proper has on the lower or basement y Club was floor a series of card rooms. Beneath are the plethoric wine cellers, Jast above are the parlors, with their paintings aud carved tauarble mantels, and the ten-bar- relled Gathog’ gan Just under the front parlor mirror, Upstars are the billiard, reading and meeting rooms, and he two floors above them are the luxarious dormitories, Membership is open to all respectable and responsible eitizons, and the Army and Navy Clab its new home to become oue of the most 1@ ity, promises popular in THE WAR IN CUBA, ENGLISH OPINION OF SPANISH RULE IN THE ANTILLES—ALFONSO SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE INRVITABLE CONCLUSION. {From the London Times, Fob. 17.) King Alfonso opened the Spanish Cortes at a fortu: nate noment. A couple of days before he delivered hie speech from the throne Geueral Quesada and Genera’ Moriones gained such victories over the Carlists as must be tmportaut and may be decisive. On Sunday Don Carlos was driven from strong positions at Eigueta, aud he ig said to have “fled” toward Villareal and Zumarraga, General Moriones has taken by sur- prise heights commanding Aya and Cestona, It would be rash to assume that even now the war is about to end, aud, in another column, a telegram from a core respondent with the Carlists says that on the l4th the Alfonsists sustained a serious repulse, Still the Prospects of the royal troops have certainly never before been so promising, and the King himself may Juifil his promise to visit the Biscay Provinces with some hope of being able ‘to contribute to the restoration of peace.” His references to the rebellion in Cuba are less satisfactory, and we cannot congratue late his Ministers on the force of their long and elaborate answer to the complaints of the United States, If their reply, which we printed in our Paria correspondence of Tuesday, proves anything, it proves too much. The insurgents are made out to be so in. significant that it is difficult to understand why they were not crushed years ago, The damage done by the struggle 1s assumed to be so small that the complaints of America appear not only unjust but incomprehensible. Spain speaks as if she had not merety been guiltless of op- pression, but had treated the island with generosity; and altogether we are forced to infer that a people which has fought against so good a protector for more than seven years with indescribable bitterness must be an unparalleled compound of stupidity and wickedness, Such a line of argument lacks the first element of good advocacy, for it is not even plausible. A very slight knewiedge of human nature, of Spanish history and of colonial life would suffice to show that it must be fatally incomplete, When we test it by the real facts of the case, it is found to omit the circumstances which make the origin and the continuance of the con- test intelligible. * * * Spain treated the colony simply as a farme It was governed as if it existed merely for the sak¢ of the mother country. The import duties, for exame ple, were dictated by an ignorant wish to keep as muc! of the trade as possible in the hands of Spaniards, ani although that device failed as conspicuously as protec: tionist schemes usually do, it artificially imposed immense loss on the planters and the free workmen. The natural market of Cuba was America and England, and by tur the inost of the sugar went to those coun- triés, in spite of the protective daties imposed by the United States in retaliation for the heavy taxes levied on the articles they sent to Havana, Nevertheless the Cuban planters” bitterly resented a system whieh contiscated the riches of their soil to serve the ends of Spanish merchants and manufacturers. The selfisiness of Spain was tho more intolerable because the Cubans saw in Jamaica an istand absolutely free to sell and buy in the best markets of the world, ‘The Spanish government saya nothing about a system which forced the colonists te purchase Spanish commodities at an artiticial price, and thus inflamed them with a sense of injustice. Not doos it even refer to a cause of perhaps still deepes disaffection, Cuba was administered by officials froma Spain. Governors, military commanders, officials, and even soldiers were all sent from the mother coun- try. Very often they were men who had been found turbalent at home, and had been despatched to Havana to prevent them from being troublesome in Madrid. They naturally gave the rein to imperious tempers when — set over powerless colonists at the distance of thousands of miles from the capital; and, come ing into collision with a people as proud u@ themselves, they often stirred up moro bitterness by their insults than the government did by its unjust At the same time the Cubans bad to pay 3 whom they were not permitted to choose, ‘They bad also tofurnish direct contributions to os mother country; and, as the people were not allowe to control the oxpenditure ot their own money, it wat spent recklessly. ‘The government forced a paper cur: rency on the island as a means of paying its debts, and thos the colontsts were pillaged indirectly as well ag directly. Such facts render the cause of the mesurrec tion a hiitle more intelligible than itis made by the Npanisa note. It isa wonder, indeed, that the plant- ers, the freedmen and the slaves bore the seltish« ness of Spain so long. No doubt there vam, and is, a@ Spanish party in Cuba, just a throughout the Revolutionary war ‘there wag an English party in the colonies which are now the United States. * * * It is clear, at least, that Cuba will never be pacified by such means as Spain | hitherto employed. Even if an end were put to all open resistance the island would remain in a state of suppressed civil war so long as it is ruled in the old way. If, indeed, Spain should abolish slavery, make trade free, give most of the public posts to Cubans, grant them self-government and spend every shillin of their revenue within their own shores, the islan might, perhaps, become as peaceful as’ an Buglish colony. But it would need a robust faith to beheve that Spain will display such proofs of a capacity to rule dependencies, The prospect is the lest hopeful because the note says that she has ‘made more concessions than any European goverument hag given its colonies.’ This means, we presume, that tha Cubans are allowed to senda considerable number of to the Spanish Cortes. But the Ministers are deplorably mistaken if they fancy that these powerleat votes are equivalent to self-government, A Canadian, New Zealander, or an Australian would taugh at tha idea of exchanging the right to manage his own aflaira at home for the right to elect some members of tha House of Commons who would be swamped in any reat division, Spain must give her colonists far more than ornamental seats in the Cortes. Hitherto governed her colomes by means of a state of siege. uuntry seeks to interfere by force with her pot n of Cuba; but itshe cannot govern it, she would do welltoconsider how she could best prepare it tor the trecdom which always follows colomal —a9eay JOHN HAMPD Rey. Dr. E. H. Chapin lectured on John Hampden Jast night in Chickering Hail to an audience of rare ine telhgence and cultare, which filled every seat in the room. The lecturer began by describing the social and politieal condition of England when Hampden made his advent, Two parties were at issue, the king aud the people; two principles, royal prerogatives ang popular rights, The spirit of lhberty wae abroad. It did not spring up exclusively in England, It sprang up amid tho elements of bar- barism. It grew with the oaks in the forests of Gers many and spread out into a broad-limbed tree, whose fruit is now Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights and the Deciaration of Independence. When the Normans ar- rived in England they set their feet upon the necks of the Saxons, but they could not keep them there, for the people remembered their ancient riguts and could not become slaves, At the time Hampden peared, tne voice of freo thought bad rang through the land, and the elements of feudal were melting away amid the ring of the hammer and the smoke of fac~ torie: The speaker reviewed the career of Hampden from the time of his emerging from the obscurity of his re- | treat at Buckingham till he retired from the field, biceding trom the death-wound inflicted at the hands of the minions of Prince Rudolph, And thus, said the speaker, fell & man whose triends houored him as a king and whose enemies acknowledged him a ed and spotless statesman; whose piety was such that a great and good man said bis company was one of the pleasures he hoped toenjoy in heaven. Macaulay sud that in the subject of the lecture England had lost a man to whom the history of revolutions turnishes no parallel except Washington, Indeed, said Dr. Chapin, there i# a striking resemblance between Hampden aw Washington, To the former would apply the motta which it was suggested should be engraved upon the sword of the later. “Never drawn without grievance or sheathed without konor.”’ Both possessed stron religious faith, and though one fell upon the fleld oI battle and the other sunk to rest among the green hilla of Mount Vernon, they live in the memory in indisso= juble brotherwoou, The lecturer thought there arg no two political events so closely ailicd as the English Revolution of 1640, and ours of 1776. The principle was the same, and in the words of Tennyson :— | The deep chord which Hampden smote will vibrate te the oom, To us, continued the speaker, is given to illustrate liberty and to carry torward its work. That old story has had strange power over the hearts of men. It wa that which moved the Southern soldiers to throw bouquets upon the graves of the Northern soldiers, and that act has done more to reconstruct the Union than 100 years of law. ‘The lecturer eoncluded with an eloquent invocation to the spirits of the martyred heroes of liberty, and rev tired amid long and Joud applause, FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. The train which left Hanter’s Point at five o'clock last evening and was duo at Bridge street, Flushing, at twenty-five minutes past five, when gotng round the curve in the track near Peck’s oh aes adjoining the depot, strack an old man named Jobn Gleason, coms monly known in Flushing as “Gralleman John,” and crusted. him so that there was no hope that he could recover from bis injuries, He was at once attended by Dr. Bume. DANGEROUS SPORT. About six o’clock yesterday evening Annie Mabie, of No, 6 Bethuno street, while getting into a car on the corner of Eleventh and Greenwich streets, was shot im the forehead by the explosion of « pistol cartndge which had been placed on the track by some unk person. The wound was fortunately not at all danger- ous Miss Mabio was attended by Dr. Van Kouren and taken home. ‘4 BITTEN BY A MAD DOG. Thomas Monahan, of No, 322 Pearl street, while Standing in front of bis residence, was bitten last night by a mad The vy a.ned dom. |The dog was billed by Omeor Murphy,