The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1876, Page 3

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, | A Corps of Herald Reporters in the Crowded Class Rooms. Over Twenty Schools in an} Unsanitary Condition. Overcrowding, Fetid Atmosphere and Foul-Smelling Closets. Ugly Revelations in the Four- teenth , Ward. Demoralizing Temptations to the Children of the Poor. On Monday last, with the view of ascertaining what truth there is in the charge that many of thd public schools are dangerously crowued, illy ventilated and the scholars affected by disease, a corps of Henao reporters inspected all the schools below Fourteenth Street. All the class rooms were visited and the tem- perature closely noted, In many of these class rooms the thermometer proved that they were kept at a | point of temperature dangerous to the pupils, From | the descriptions given below it will be sven that a | umber of the schools are distressingly overcrowded, | while others are so wretchedly ventilated as to se- 4 riously endanger the health of the occupants. One School is reported uniit for habitation. In a number of them the closets are so situated that the windows of the class rooms must be kept closed to prevent the foul odors entering and permeating the entire struc- ture, Two schoois in the Fourteenth ward were found where the innocent httle girls are subjected to grossly demoralizing influences, ‘This inspection clearly es- tablishes the necessity for prompt and sweeping re, formatory measures on the part of the local trustees, as well as the Board of Education, SIXTH WARD, Grammar School No. 23.—Verhaps there is not in the city any educational building im greater need of More ample accommodations than Grammar School do. 23, im City Hall place. It is oue of the oldest schools im the city, built according to old time methods, and so ellectually shut in by blank wails ‘as to be cut off from anything like a sufliciency of light und air, The class rooms in some departments are as fullas they can well be and any further influx of pupils would evidently lead to considerable discom- lort wud positively dangerous sanitary results. The | Feporter took care to ascertain these facts, ashe had been informed some time since that it was the-inten- tion of the ward trustecs to give up a build- | ing close by, which they have been using as a school, and crowd its occupants into the narrow limits of te | Se Se It appears that this outside uiiding Was leased some time ago by the trustees to accommodate the children who could not be supphed with seat room in the school. Two classes were located there, and now there ure almost a hundred chil- dren in it, ‘To take these away and cram them into barrow places hardly large enough to hold them is more than an indiscreet proceeding—it is a positive in- | humanity. When the reporter visited the school be asked the principal where these incoming pupils were to be accommodated, and two spaces wero shown him in the assembly room, which ure to be partitioned oif Tor the use of the two new classes, ‘These epaces are yout fourteen feet square, and when it is known | that about filly children are to be crowded | into each of them an idea may be conceived | of the comfort aud health they will be likely to enjoy. To add to the extreme ucfitness of these rooms tor oc- cupation, the closets are lucated on the floor with them and are accessible only through them, As a con- Bequence a constant passage and repassage of idren from other classes will be entailed, aud what aunoy- ance this will be likely to cause both teachers and pupils can be easily divined. The school trustees are Charged with the care of the cnildren intrusted to them. Let them pause before assuming such a ro- Bponsibility as they contemplate in crainming a hun- dred wore little children into the close, ill ventilated lass rooms of Grammar School No. 23. SKVENTH WARD. Grammar School No. 12—In Grammar School No, 12, located in Madison strect, near Juckwon, the ro- porter found that the accommodations were quite in- Auequate to moet the demand upon them. This school is im a neizhborpood where a large number of tene- Ment houses are built, and although there is re ausple school room in this ward than in many others of {ts size, its school going population is lar in excess ot Most of them, and ting is a point whieh scems vo have received very little consideration, ‘the residents of ius locality belong for the most part to the ‘aboring classes, and many of their children teceive only the instruction comprised in she Uline’ | course beiore they are withdrawn | ‘om school. Consequently the primary departments most of them are overcrowded, and in spite of the dld time expedients existing in them for supplying Jight and heat they are entirely unsuited for occupa- tion by chiidrea who are casily affected by draughts and impure air. This school is one of the oldest in the | city, dating irom 1832, and having all the disad- ‘Vanluges to be found in such oid structures. Several ‘wings have been added to it in the course of the last few years, but they have contributed very little to in- crease the capacity of the building. Tle crection of Jarge tenement bouses in the rear has shut out the light from the lower floors, and the wing projections 0 interiere with it to some-extent above. A fow of the rooms are comparatively well ventilated, but some are so jocated that it is quite impossible to supply ir without creating an injurious draught, and there are two apartments from which the light is almost entirely devarred. There existean urgent necessity of extending this school over a larger area, and providing ampler ac- cummodations forthe primary pupils than they now | | | i | buildings 1,225 children. It would be a far better | in their places, leaving 24 us bemg absent. enjoy. The attendance, when the reporter called, | was 1,295, and moie cure sould certainly be taken where such alarge number of children are crowded | together to afford better warming facilities than stoves, | and some other chances for iighting and ventilating than those supplied by wall enclosed windows. Various cases of croup and occasional instances of allections of the throat were reported in the classes of younger children, the teachers of whom are themseives disposed to ieee sovrenate: the extreme uniitness of the building in iu ut state for occupation, Grammar School No. 2.—Grammar School No. 2, in | Henry street, has lately been altered aud revamped, | and presented inside an orderly and cleanly appear. ance, It 1s warmed by heaters, and as their supply of heat is under the control of the teachers thi jure of tue class rooms is easily regulated. A system ot reports bas been introduced by the principal, Mr. | Hagerty, which is well caloulated to insure pi TF at. ention to ventilation on the part of the teachers and | which remedies to some extent the disadvantages | -whieh au attendance of nearly 1,800 pupils naturally | treates. A card 1s placed in the bunds of every teacher at the opening of school and a correct thermometrical report 18 exacted ut diflerent hours of the day. The re- | rier Jound the class rooms pretty well ajred and | Nigtited, but the capacity of the buildiug is iar too smal | lor an attendance which is still mereasing. The play- ground 18 a very narrow enclosure, aiording litte | chance for recreation, and although an eifort has been | made to so distribute the pupils through the building | us to overcrowd no single room it is found unavoidable, and tho greatest necessity exisis for exteuding the | structure aod further jvcreasing 1s accommodations, RIGHT WARD, Grammar Schogl No. &—Tuis school is well con- | structed, but poorly ventilated, Many of the teachers have been suffering from slight iliness caused by colds during the winter, The primary departrnent bas a low | serling, dis the Worst part of the buridrny, which | ooks very well irom the outside, The school has a humber of pupils. In the primary departuert | mn Sfonday thero was an attendance of 300, with an iwerage of 405. This school runs behind its averago on | account of the Jewish children, who have to remain | home to celebrate the Jewish New Year. Colored Grammar School No. 2.—\his colored school | {sjocated in an old building in south Filth vvenue, constructed of brick and wood, and is crainped, cribved | and contined m its spaces. The building is unut for | Occupation as a sehool, and in the neighborhood it is more than hi that any kind of abailuing will do lor colored children and their teachers, This buliding should be either altered aud good ventilation provia or it should be torn down by the Board of Atonce. The attendance Monday was, in thi fepartinent, 117, with an average of 116 pup: mar department 74, with an average ot 74. aave been many cases of sickDcss in this school und many pupils are absenting themselves, NINTH WAKD. Grammar School No, 8—At No. 400 Hudson street, is located 1m. & large butlding at the corner of Grove and Hudson streets, Notwithstanding its dimensions and the really ample rooms set apart for the diferent scholars itis very much 0 rowded, The prinerpal of each of the departments admits this. The highest | attendance on any day since January 1, 1876, was 604 im the boys’ departiment—wihim 12 of the reg wered maxiinum, The average number of absenives | since that same date was 15 The prinerpal of this de- | partment considered that bis schoot was overcrowded | by at least 100 pupils. The average daily attendance | during 1874 was $56. Ip the female department the | attendance of Monday had not yet veen made up, so | that the bighest number of pupils on one of the days of | last week had to be taken. 1 was 604; the lowest was 448, and the average absenteeism 80. In this fepartinent, which is weil vent the prinempat wies to keep the temperature 70 deg; dut, with he overcrowding, it 18 impossible, In primar wanch there were 734 children on Monday, and ai- hough 137 of those registered were absent, the class woms were too fuil, It should nut be torzotten that rooms are ventilated only by means of the win- ond on very cold days these caunot always be The healt of the children is reported as havin, iy good, notwithstanding the prevalence ot affections. There have been no deaths, ‘TRNTH WARD, | Grammar School No, 20,—The toval number of pupils % | absent bowl se: | taught by special teacber’ on the register in the Chrystie street school was 2,028. Boys’ de 621; girls’, 415, and primary, 1,092. ‘rhe barlding is well and lighted. e ceilings are high, and an air of comfort exisis there, ke other schouls, however, there is a tendency to overcrowding. In the primury department the salaries of the principal and vice principal depend upon the Bumber of jars on the register. Should the number fall below 1,000 a reduction of their salaries would be the consequence. Whenever a promotion to the grammar department of a large number of the children takes place they are forced to canvass for scholars to maintain their quota. This is case in all schools, aud it isa premium on overcrowding which is chargeable to the rules laid down by the Board’ of Education. ‘The classes here average 50 scholars, and the rooms are not equal to the number of classes, The geveral condition of the school is above the average. The main fault is in locating class rooms for some of the primary children in such close get to the closets that it is neces- sary to keep the windows closed at all umes, to ex- elude the foul air, The children are, as a rule, healthy. 7.—The above school, at No, 60 of the oldest in the city—the in building baving been standing fully fty years. It was built under the supervision of the Public School Society years before the ward schools were inaugurated. it is wretehedly ventilated and heated with stoves. The primary department iy located on the first floor on a level with the ground, and there being no | celiar under it is unbealthy, It is wvercrowded to a distressing degree, so much go that four classes are confined to two class rooms tn an outbuilding attached to the school. The stove pipes and flues are out of order, aud smoke from them filled the rooms. This has been so since last winter, Workmen have en- deavored to remedy the evil several times, bat without effect. Every half hour during the day the teachers are compelled to open the windows to allow the smoke to pass out, The percentage of sickness this winter has been larger than in previous ones, to be closed and remodelled on May 1. This will leave at home or cast on the other wiready overcrowded plan to entirely demolish the present structure. Grammar School Ne, 42.—This school, in Allen street, is one o1 the largest, if not the largest, school in the cit; the total number of scholars being 2,770, The mary department numbers 1,600 childre into twenty-tive classes. There are only t ty class rooms for them. The large assembly room is sub- divided by folding doors intu six more to accommodate | the rest, The air in some of the rooms wus foul und the ventilation very poor. necossity for a hasty dismissal, ‘The grammar depart- ments for boys and giris are in better condition, loss crowded and better lighted, and also comparatively well ventilated, The general bealth of the children is ood, . ELEVENTH WARD. Grammar School No, 15.—This school, on Fifth street, between avenues © and D,, was originally a small building containing but two class rooms on each floor, Wing alter wing bas been added until now there are fifty-one class rooms, and yet tho structure is still old, The principal, Mr. N. P. Beers, says that it is with the greatest difficulty that a suilicient amount of fresh air can be obtained without subjecting the chil- | dren to cold. An inspection of the several rooms found them of pleasant temperature, and ali the boys and girls looked happy and contented. The old method of heating was by wood stoves, and these were removed to give way to steam radiators. ‘The former were more preferable, as with them the ventilation was decidedly better than now, Mr, Beers has two improved radia- tors on trial in the assembly room, these being so constructed that volumes of fresh air are heated and then diffused, By the greatest pertinacity only"did be succeed in having these placed in tue building to give them atrial. They have greatly improved the veutil- ation of the roonis, and are much superior to the old, health destroying mechanical absurdities, the common’ steam — radiators, Generally here the cliidren are very healiby, as for instance im the boys’ department, month ot February Jast, with the registered number of 532 scholars, there was an aver- age attendance of 606. Or Monday, in this depart- ment, of the registered number of 530 there were 506 in the girls’ department there were 460 present out of 510 scholars, and of about the same number the average at- tendance in February was 485. In the primary de- partment, of 928 registered there were 849 present, ‘ue average duly attendance in February was $28, ‘The school 1s not overcrowded, as the principal has taken the most decided stand against admitting more children than be has roum to pleasantly accomm date, What objections exist are due tu the class rooms on the ground floor. Little children are compelled to | Temain in apartments that at once suggest sickuess, and improvement in this respect is demanded, The total number of scholars in this school on Monday morning Was 1,816, out of a registered 1,988, leaving 173 absentees,. Many of the later were children of Jewish parents, and they seldom attend immediately | oberg and following their festival days, Miss Jrania D, Secdtd is at the head of the girls’ depart. ment and Miss A, L. Madden in charge of the primary classes. Primary School No, 5, in East Fourth Street.—Of a registered 802 scholars there were present on Mouday morning 687, leaving 115 ubsentees. Lust week tho average daily attendance was 718, and in February it ‘The several class rooms were clean, and principes assured ( L: was hot overcrowiled im apy From the #ize of some of the rooms, however, and the number of children of tender years that remain in them five hours & day, there are ‘fears that they are packed a little wo closely, and though there may retain a vacant seat or two, tis very difficult, to properly ventilate the rooms without giving colds to the little ones. The teachers gre on the alert, and in this wise do the best they tap, but more reom could not be objected to, ‘There have oven many children iil during the winter months, but most of the sickness has been due to the weather, Grammar School No, 22.—At the corner of Stanton and Sheriff streets this school is situated. It 1s one of the newer educational structures built by the cit but yet there is not sulficient accommodations tor the scholars that dainty flock to its rooms, In the boys’ de- partment there were present ou Monday 596 out of registered 445. Last week the average attendan was 410, and in the month of February 308. The regi: tered number of girls is 480, the attendance ou Mon- day being 454, as against the average duily showing of 415 in February. ‘The primary clusses give 933 as the registered number, while there were present 90L The daily average of February was 900. ‘There is order and clounliness m the rvoms, and attention is given to the all-important requirement of ventilation, though one or two of the boys’ apartments were slight health, In each of these departments one or more classes were in the main or assembly room, owing to the lack of proper accommodation, and there is also a dearth of teacvers here. There have been many echil- dren il! during the past two or three months, but the bright weather 1s bringing them around nicely. The totut registered number of scholars in this school is 1,858, while the aitendance when visited was 1,751, showing 107 were absent. Mr. Sidney W. Merritt is principal of the boys’ department, Miss Francis J, Murray the giris’ and Miss Julia A. Bell the primary. Grammar School No. 36.—Uhe temporary quarters of this school are atthe old private hospital building, corner ot uvevue DP and Bust Tenth street. A new structure is in process of construction in East Ninth street, the old building having been destroyed by tire. The present house is madequate to comfortavly wecom- modate the schulars, though, perhaps, it was the best | that could be obtained im the immediate neighborhood, | In the boys’ department, on Monday, ot the 310 regis- | tered there were 270 present; im the girls’ department o1 261 registered 240 were In their places, and in the primary aepartment of SU0 on the books 722 answered to their names. instances they are uncomlortably crowded. The head | of the boys’ department, Mr, A. Dubois, said that the | school generally was Lbealthy, and that, under the cir- cumstances, they were doiig very well. The total number ol registered scholars here 18 1,361, of which on Monday 1,232 were 1a their seats, leaving 129 ab- sentees. Mrs. SMelinda H, Clarke 1s in charge of the girls and Miss Victor A. Hulen the primary depart, ment. The average daily attendance in February was:—Male, 279; temale, 242; primary, 701, THIRTEENTH WARD, Grammar School No, 34, Broome Street, Near Wil- lett.—Mr. Morton, the male principal, has ven agsist- ants, aud Miss Gedney, of the primury, has fifteen | assistants, The girls’ grammar department las a principal und ten assistants, ‘The attendance fs us fol ‘one day last week berng taken as an illustration: — present, 428; girls present, 406; primary boys, 322; primary yiris, 324; total present, 1,480, Boys ab: sent in gramtn: ariment, 25; girls absent, 46; in primary department, 25; ‘total attendance in February was :— absent, #6. The av Boys, 405; girls, 422 jale department Is so crowded that about 100 scholars are kept in the main room. Miss Gedney, of the primary department, sent up four classes in Feb- ruary; that accounts for Unis overcrowding. Her room is etill eo crowded that she bas placed classes in the mnain room. The dive plme ix good, and the children are very teat aud clean, especially iu the primary Dranch Of the school. Cannon Street Primary School Ne the pringipal, has nine assistants, and the average daily wee in Fubruary was 427, The report Friday —Present—Boys, 31; girls, 224; out present, nt—Boys, 23; gitls i; votal absent, 62 ‘The principal reports that (he school is not overcrowded, wod 100 more could be accommodated; that there had 10.—Miss Miller, | been considerable xickness this year among the echolars * and some aths, The building 1 heated by hot air, and there is ample means of ingress and exit, A great nasance |# the 100% of the closets under the class rooms, stead of being placed in thu yard, Other. Wine there Is little ty complain of, ob charge of ¢ | ebarge of the girls and Miss Connor and nine assistants: ool, with K. J, Delaney und six assistants in im charge of the primary brauch. One day last week was selected ax an filustration of the present and ab- sent :—Boys present, 2: urls present, 220; boys ab- ut, 22," Primaty—Roys present, 224; girls , 218; boys and gitis absent, 96 Tou present, $73; total absent, 188, The average im February Was:—Doys, 228; girls, 205; primary nixed), 426. Inthe primary department no therm | eters were used in the class roows. ‘The teachers report but little overerowding, but considerable sickness from sore throat, diphtherm aod ovher diseases which ehy|- dren are beirsto. German, drawing and music are ‘One of the lady teachers complains of very offensive smells in the Tear class coms, AN examinution shows that the closets are un- er Une reat class rooms, “They exceedingly fou, and the olfensive ouor ascends, and, entering the Win- dows, permeates the class rooms, The offeace ts rank, and somebody is certainly guilty of criminal negligence iu the premises. Ward Schoot No. 5, No, 222 Mott Street,—This 18 one of the ola style of senoo! stractures, the class rooms of whieh are pretty well ventiluted and well lighted, “Tho attendnave and absentees are about ax follows:—Boys present, 165; buys absent, 23; primary buys present, 241; primary boys absent, 10; primary gir 164; Drumary iris absent do, The school ts | ‘The building 1s heated with , steam, und the means of egress are good in case of | tly warm for | ‘The rooms lack the pleasant appear- | ance of soine of the schools in the ward, and in many | primary, S22; towl, 1,649. There | bus been ‘some ‘sickness aniong the children, and the | be boys, Miss Sweouey and stx assistants im | presen| ‘Total prowent, 660, | total absent, 43. The average daily attendance in February was:—Boys, 166; primary, 360; totai 516. ‘The teachers report that, owing to the proximity of the | parcebial schools that exist in the ward, there 3s little | or no overcrowding. There has been some sickness, | but the children are now generatly bealthy. There is no female grammar department, as the giris some six- teen months ae were transferred to Marion street school, ‘The building 1s heated by wood stoves. In the male department pearly every thermometer in the class rooms was brvken, Mr. Biringham has five assist- ants, and Miss M. E, MeGili, of the prim branch, has seven and a music teacher. The ses are mixed with both sexes. In this schooi was found a condition of things that is simpiy indecent and immoral. The } closets are just inside the frout doors by the entrance, | and under the class rooms, instead uf the rear yard. H | They are not protected by doors, are accessible to the | | bumimers of the ward, and it is notorious that the | children have no privacy. No wonder the morals of little girls are corrapted with such a condition of things that 1s a burnipg shame to the Board of Education aud the local trustees, who, if they ayply to the janitor, will hear some stories too disgusting to be pat in print. The closets sadly require {nmigating to prevent the foul air being carried into the class rooms above. Grammar School No. 30, Baxter Strect.—Cousider- ing the neighborbood and the fact that the children | are the offspring of the poor, the school is a credit to | the ward. Miss Connoily, the principal of the giris’ branch, has three assistants, aud Miss Ahern, of the | primary branch, seven assistants, In the girls! rooms | there were present Monday, 14 and absent 18, The | average dally uttendauce is about 137, In the primary there were present 197 boys and 24 absent, and lds pirls and 26 absent, The daily average in February 323. The teachers report the health of the children good, and room for 100 more. The jani- tor, Bernard Doran, is 102 yeurs of age, and on Mon- day perlormed nearly all the labors of beating and cleaning. ‘The same complaint is made here ag at the Mott street school. The closets are beside the tront | entrances, are without doors, open to the mdecent acts of the bummers from the streets; and although the janitor is assisted by an able-bodied son, 1t 1s im- possible to prevent scenes destructive of morals aud 4b outrage upon decency, Grammar School No. ‘This schoo! {s located in | One of the most depraved neighborhoods m the city, ) and Sg efforts have been made by citizens to break | up two places of ill fame which are an open and flag- rant insult to the pupils of the building, The school | | is in @ poor condition, During the past winter the school has been at times so cold, because the heaters | were not properly attended to by'the Board of Educa- | Hon, that the children have suilerea rather trom cold than over ventilauon, The attendance on Monday was:—Boys’ grammar department 335, average 340; | girls’ grammar departinent 280, average 280; primary | department 500, average 520. Many promotions have occurred during the past week, The teachers do not | consider that the school is overcrowded so much as | they believe that there are not sufficieut class rooms. | ‘They also say that the imperfection in the ventilation | is the cause of croup and colds, Teachers also state that the boys’ department is full, but not overcrowued. |. Grammar School No, 35.—In this school, which bas | a very large number of seholars (ail boys), the venti- Jation is fair, but not as good ax might be, the butiding | being quite old, ulthough it has undergone many altera- | tons, some of which have been for the better, while | others are of no beuellt, The principal, Mr. Fisher, | pays special attention to the ventilation of his school, every day taking inspection personally, and is thus able to rem * .w@ of the defects of the struction ofthe bu’ — In the grammar department the at- tendance on Monday was 1,010 and the average js about | 1,000. The primary department bad an attendance of | 478, with an average of 486 pupils, Ip the primury de- partment the ceiling was quite low, the air tetid and the class rooms crowded, Three classes are con- stantly taught im the large room of the primary depart- ment, green screens being used as temporary parti- tions, and more class rooms are needed at once, as the children’s health is not what itshould be by any means, The boys’ grammar department has 200 or 300 mo pupils than any other department of a like kind in the city. } SEVENTEENTH WARD. Grammar School No. 13, Kast Houston Street,—The { attendance on Monday in’ the boys’ school was 626; absent, 20, There are ten class rooms, in seven of which there is overcrowding of from six to twenty, No refusals of adm’ This week there will be an increase pupils, promotions trom the primary department. The atiendance for the past two months averaged daily 465, ninety-tour per , cent of the whole register. _1n the girls’ school the at- tendance on Monday was 490, which is the average, | Fifteen pupils were absent, The class rooms are not | | overcrowded, In the primary department tho | | attendance was 878, only ‘five pupils being | absent. Promotions to the number of 116 | Were made to the grammar school, The aver- age attendance last month was 1,020, Within tho | Past few weeks the local Board of Trustees ordered the closing Of the class rooms on the ground floor, wuich sent away to other schools fifty children, These rooms were considered to be unhealthy. There are now school accommodations for 900 children in the depart- iment. There ig at present serious overcrowing in the class rooms. The names of 300 children waiting for admission are on the books. The-principal of the anale department of the grammar school is Mr. Litch- field; of the female department, Miss Anua Hazard, and of the primary department, Mrs. Haggerty. | Grammar School No. 25, Fifth Street, between First and Second Avenues.—In the boys’ department, on Monday, there were 426 names on the roll, thirty-three pupils being absent, The average attendance bas been | 432 Sickness has prevailed considerably during the winter months, especially in February. The class | rooms are not overcrowded, but aro well filled, Tho | male department can accommodate 600 children easily. Ventilation is very imperfect, it boing found difficult 10 tree the rooms of foul air without going to the other extremity of cooling them too much. Thermometers are suspended in ail the rooms, and the temperature is as carefully attended to as possible, an average of 70, degrees being sought for. Patent ventilators are in use; but the principal pronounces them to be inade- quate to aflord the desired degree of temperature. The jass rooms are also badly arranged, it being difficult: tor the teacher ito exercise a full control over each of | the pupils in the seats, In the girls’ department the | namber of pupils present was 467, twenty children | | being absent. The average attendance in hiss leva! i | was 459, and in January 479. The regular daily attend. | | ance is good. Thero are ten class rooms, none of them | overcrowded. This week the register will be increased | by sixty from tho primary department and about thirty trom other schools in the wa.d, It is complained that on warm days the temperature of the rooms is exces- sive, the thermometer marking 78 degrees. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. To-night ‘‘Ferreol’’ will be played for the first time at the Union Square Theatre, H Hans Von Bilow commences a series of piano re. Hl citals to-night at Chickering Hall. Beethoven supplies | the bill. “Rose Michel” will be brought out at the Brooklyn | ‘Theatre this evening, with Miss Rose Eytingo as the | heroine. | Robert MeWado's version of “Rip Van Winkle” is to | | be played at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, this | weiboe Freiscbutz” will be sung at the Academy on April 18, by Mrs. Imogene Brown, Messrs. Bischoff and Remmertz and the Liederkranz and Arion societies. ‘The big San Francisco Academy of Music, built by Lueky Baldwin, on Market street, bas been opened. ' Barry Sullivan made his firet appearance there jn Ca- itornia as Richard III, “Daisy Farm,” which has had a worthy representa- tion at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, has | been withdrawn. ‘The Romance of a Poor Young Man’’ is presented this week, The Speranza Amateur Dramatic Association is a | new organization in the histrionic fled, and will shortly | give a Shakespearian performance for a charitable pur- Postapele Mitchell bas underlined “Nanaotte o’ Wearl- thorne,” dramatized from the novel, by Miss Marion | Reeves, entitled “Wearlthorne,” for one evening, dur- | ing her engagement at St. Louis, which begins to-mer- Tow evening. | Mr. R. Davy, not Mr. Daroy, as has been incorrectly said, 1 the author of the adaptation of Victor Hugo’s | + “Marion de Orme,” which Miss Augusta Dargon bas | accepted, and in whieh that powerial tragédienne will | soon appear. | Mr. Appleby, proprietor of Central Park Garden, is | making extensive preparations for the summer season of concerts, Downimg’s Ninth Regiment Band will ap- | pear, and negotiations are pending with choral societies | | | and celebrated soloists. The garden opens on May 1. | } | his father’s estate in Pomerania, and owing to hi3 | bottles sit I as loving father, | The Florences have mado a great hit at the Walnut | Street Theatre, Philadelphia, with the “Mighty Dol- jar.” The audience drove the band from the orchostra | | on several nignts last week—not that they loved music Jess, but the comedy more, | Theodore Thomas gives bis fifth symphony coneert | at Steinway Hall op Saturday night, whieh will be pro- | ceded by a public rehearsal on Thursday afternoon. | Miss Drasdil will be the soloist. Bach’s Saite, No. 1, | ‘faust’ overture, form the orchestral programme. | An entertainment, in aid of the funds of the Brook- | lyn branch of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, will be given this afternoon and evening at the Brooklyn Academy ot Music. In the evening a comedy by Mr. Henry Bergh, entitied “The | Hard Sex,” will be performed, with an appropriate | | prologue by Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry. Coccia’s “Stabat Mater’? was sung last night at St. Ann’s church, Twelfth street, under the airection of | the eminent organist, Louis Dachauer, ‘The soloists | were Mile, Corradi, Mile, Gomien, Ch, Fritsch and Bium. The favorite pupt! of Paisiello and composer of over forty operas, Charles Coecta, mado his greatest success in writing for church choirs. In his ‘Stabat Mater” the most striking feature ts an ingeniously and effectively constructed quartet, without accompani- | | being able to seize with my own bands cvast herrings in C (first time), the herole symphony and Wagner's | * ment, which was sung in the best style by the admira- ble quartet of singers that appeared on the occasion. Dachauer’s grand “Ave Maria” and Neukomm’s “Tan- tum Ergo” were gi during Benediction, Mme Grand Val's ‘‘Stabat Mater" will be tho feature next Busts evening, NEW YORK HERALD, “MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1876,—TRIPLE SHEET. BISMARCK. | Private Letters of the Fa-| mous Chancellor. | HIS HUMOR AND STYLE OF JOKING. What He Thinks of Marriage and the Troubles of Married Life, The First Baby “Roaring Itself Blue in the Face.” SAYINGS FROM RUSSIA AND PARIS. Ber, March 1, 1876. The Society of German Bibliophiles have lately issued & very interesting collection of Bismarck’s letters, con- | taining several episties of the celebrated statesman | never before published, The edition of the work 18 | very elegant, and much better than generally the case in | German books. The publishers, Messrs. Delhagen & | Klasing, of Leipsic, bave copied in print and form ove of the old Ezevirs, the whole presenting a very stylish Appearance, The letters of Bismarck published in this edition deserve the greatest attention, The leading European statesman is no hidden, unapproachable pa- | ture, He neither veils himself before his friends and - assistants nor before his oppouents. His political lif efforts and thoughts lie in large, universal traits, ex- | posed to the whole world. Every one, nevertheless, | involuntarily thinks that this man “of blood and iron’? cannot be sociable, even in confidential intercourse | with his family and the intimacy of home. These letters, however, show him as a private man exactly as we know him as @ politician, Every: where in his affectionate letters to his wile and his only | sister sparkles the humor of a genial character, His Sense for everything practical—in fact, the key to Bis- marck policy—betrays itself even in the most unimport- ant trifles of life, His bold courage, love of eaterprise, happy carelessness are easily discernible in the off- hand style of bis relations of little adventures and daily events, Bismarck displays himself in this bo ok as A MASTER OF SHORT HUMORISTIC LETTERS, in which he easily glides trom friendly jokes into practi- cal household discussions, intermixed with delightful de- scriptions, which, when “his political career had been a failure,” would have rendered him a brilliant journahst, The first letters in the collection, dated between the years of 1844 and 1846, are all addressed to his sister, his confidante—then lately married to Baron Arnim Kréchelndorf—whom he styles affectionately ‘‘madem- olselle,” “dearest Arnim,” ‘my little ‘one, “ma sur,’ “madam.”? All these youthful letters breathe a very pleasant love of great heartiness and vivacity. The robust ‘Junker,”? who, after a wild, adventurous university life, undertakes the management of reckless frolics is known among his neighbors as “the foolhardy Bismarck,” has an open eye for the attrac- tions of country life and spares in his harmless sallies neither the circle in which he moves nor himself. From Norderney, where, when staying tor the first time, he was filed with that passion for the sea pro- dominant in him ever since, he described in a aumor- ous, tittul mood the parsimonious table d’hOte at which | the guests daily assombled. ‘Beside me,’ he writes, | “gits @ Danish lady, whose appearance fills mo with | sadness and homesickness, for she reminds me of stout old Pfeffer in Kniepbof (an old family servant on b Pomeranian estate) wheu he was somowhat thinner, She must be very good natured or fate was unjust toward her. Her voice is gentle and she, im selfedenial, always offers mo twice of the dish standing before bi Opposite me sits an old Minister, one of those old bureaucrats who trouble us in dreams—a corpu- lent frog without legs, who opens his mouth at every bite to his shoulders like a travelling bag, so that I hold giddily on to the edge of tho table. My other ‘neighbor is a Russian officer, a good fellow, built like a bootjack—a long, slender body and short, crooked Jega.”” BISMARCK ON 118 RSTATE, In his first letters Bismarck touchingly inquires after his father, who, subsequent to the death of his mother, lived alone on his family estate, Schénhausen, He in- structs bis sister to write to the old gentleman more of the little events of daily life:—“Who has been residing at their house, what they had for dinuer, how the horses are getting on, whether the doors cresk and the windows rattle—in short, facts,”” Later on he writes to his sister from his estate at Kniephof;—“Only with | cotvea by him. | other was full of astonishing sche | would only exhibit them, and in reality no: of his stay at Frankfort-on-the-Maine as Prussian Min- ister to the German Diet, where he feels very un- comfortable. As Vrussian “Inuker,” filled with an | overcon| s that his country is called upon to | play a great rove in the world’s history, he is pained | wt itis thrust in the background by Austria in the | u German Confederacy aud not treated with due respec The nollowness of the German Diet was soon per- | Only a few weeks alter his arrival in Frankfort he wrote to iis wile:—"1 never doubted that | the representatives of the federal! governments in the Germun Diet cooked with water; but such insipid, stupid water soup, in which no trace of tat ean be found, surprises me, Send a groom trom the stable or a boy from the kitchen when he is washed and combed. I will hore make a show of him in diplomacy. one of us in the Diet acts as though he though! es and pl know in the slightest what will happen tc more than one of my ploughboys. No one, even the beheves what charlatanism and airs of importance are hidden in diplomacy.” On these complaints of the shallowness of otficial ‘life fol- | lows a description of the charming country round ABOUT PRANKYORT and the numerous fine excursions indemnifying him for vexutions caused in the federal palace, His travels on the Khine remind the ripening man of his boister- ous frolics when a student, travelling im this beautifal neighborhood. Full of sadness and precocious wisdom, he exclaims ‘If it might please God to fill my worthless being with His clear and strong wine instead of the effervescent champagne uselessly Wasted in youth and only leaving sour drogs behind? How many ure buried with whom I then loved, drank and played. My | views of the world have these last jourteen years un- | dergone many transiormations, each successive change of which | considered us the right one, and how much OW appears small what then scemed so great.” Also im Berlin, when called to the Chamber, his never satis- fied spirit seems to yearn for hi pursuits. “There is something demoralizing in atmosphere of the Chamber,” Le writes to his wife. “The best people get vain without perceiving it and accustom themselves to the tribune as to a showy article of dress in which they appear in public, The tbtrigues of the Chamber, [ tind, above all expression, empty and unworthy, By cov: stant living among’ them, however, deception works them into wonders, When I come here so raw trom Frankfort, I seem like a sober man failen among drunkards.’? In 1852, the young statesman, whose abilities seem even then to have been recognized, was sent to Vienna on an extraordinary mission, He fol- lows the court to Ofeu, and revels with delight on the rural beauties of the Danube. Only ing of the Emperor, “the-young master’? and the court seem to disturb his complacency, With much humor describes his excursions ito the country, the en- ticiug forms everywhere on tbe way—the ‘peculiar | charins of landscape, relates to his wile freely of the | beautiful Hungarian’ women, with dark, flashing eyes, | und his conversations with the Emperor on the organi zation of the Prossian army. In autumn we find him | in Blankenbug, inthe Harz mountams, at the hunt. | Some of his prey is sent home, with instructions “to | consumne the bear with roflection, and to make some | Drawn trom it, for it was shot by His Majesty’s own | hand.’ Next year | BISMARCK, AN ENTHUSIASTIC ADMIRER OF THE SRA, goes to Ustende, “I have here,” he writes to his wife, “again jound my old love, and indeed as unchanged | and charming a8 on our first acquaintance. * * * 1 can really scarcely understand bow itis possible not | always to live near the sea.” On his return to Frank- | fort his letters to his sister breathe the old depression, | In April, 1857, he 1s sent for the tirst time to Paris, for a few days only; but bis sojourn seems anything but satisfactory. He si “I have tive cbininvy-pieces | and am a.ways cold; tive clocks, all gomg, and never | know how late it ig; eleven large looking glasses, and | my cravat nevertheless sits always badly.” When Emperor Wilhelm, in consequence of the mental disease of his brother, took the reins of government into his hands as regent, the reactionary Cabinet of Manteuffel, toward which Bismarck was never weil disposed, ‘owing to its weak foreign policy, was dis- missed. As Bismurck was looked upon as a tool of Manteuffel and said to be even more conservative than his cuief, he expected his recall. “When,” he writes, “can no longer tind the parts of a geutieman and a diplomatist compatible I shall not deliberate twice on giving up the pleasure or burden of spending @ high | salary with decency, I bave enough to live upon, and if God grants ine possession of my wife and children I may well say ‘te ta galere”” in whatever circum. | stances it may be. In thirty years’ time it will be | equal to me whether I haye been a diplomatist or | remained a plain ‘country tunker.’? Till now the | prospect of a thoroughly honorable struggie, without encumbrance of oflicial fetters, generaily attached to political posts, has’ nearly as much charm for me as | the perspective of a continued régime of trutlles, despatches and decorations, Alter nine everything is | over, ag the actor says,” His expectations of a recall are fuitiiled, The Ministry of the ‘‘new era’? wanted a “more liberal” representative in the Bundestag. Bis- | marck is removed to St. Petersburg, “where he feels | as champagne placed on ice.’? Inthe Russian capital | the ousily excitable, fiery Frankfort diplomatist | changes into an able, farseelng statesman, without, however, sacriucing uny of tne original ireshness and | elasticity of his mind, St. Petersburg secms to suit him, The Dowager Empress, a Prussian Princess by birth, is very gracious toward him, and the Emperor treats bir distinction, added to which the bear hunts are enticing to such @ passionate sportsman, and | the entire aristocraie tone of society pleases him. | However, in tke midst of this new circle aud new duties, the state of atfairs in Germany and bitter ex- periences made in Frankfurt, as well as the means for ameliorating matters, occupy bim continually, Shortly after urrival at Petersburg he addresses to Baron | Schieinitz, the then Minister of Foreign Aflairs, a long memorandum pretty well containing his programme on phe quéstion of GERMAN UNIFICATION, ‘The following passage in it is especially worthy of note:—"The word ‘German’ for ‘Prussian’ 1 would only like to be written on our standard when we are more firmly and effectually connecied with our other countrymen than at present; it loses its fascination whea now employed and used up in the hollow Ger- maa contederation, I perceive in our relation to the | Dict a weakness of Prussia’s which we must sooner or | later, ferro et igni, ust heal if we do not employ a | timely remedy.” ’ This highly interesiimg note, writ- | ten several years betore the “Parliamentary conmict’’ | and soven years before the Austrian. war, contains nearly the saine demands as aimed at by the National | Union, and, Javer on, by the most vehement opposers | ot Bismarck’s yolicy, | Politics seem now so entirely difficulty can I overcome an inclination to fill my letter with agricultural complaints on night trosts, sick cattle, bad crops, worse roads, dead lambs, hungry sheep, want | of straw, food, money, potatoes und manure, To | heighten my aggravation John is whistling outside, as | persistently as falsely, an infamous schottische, and I | have not the courago to forbid it, as ho doubtlessly is | endeavoring thus to appease his violent lovesickness, ‘Tho ideal of his dreams has lately, at the persuasions of her parents, refused him and married a wheelwright, RXACTLY MY CASK, with the exception of the wheelwright, who is still hidden in the lap of futurity. I must really—the | deuce take it!—marry, for since father’s departure I feel lonely and solitary, and a mild damp state of weather makes me melancholy, longing and in love, No resistauce is of avail, 1 must marry—the people will bave it so—and nothing seems more natural, as | we two brothers are leit alone. My lady love does not produces great impression on me, but that no lady docs; it is at any rate satisfactory where one cannot change his inclinations with his shirt, as seldom even us the latter may occur.” How faithful Bismarck later | on chngs to his wite and children may be seen from | many of his letters. After a short acquaintance he | married his wife, a Baroness Pullkammer, on the 28th of July, 1847; made a wedding tour to Italy, and then settled down on his ancestral estate, 3chénhausen, where he was shortly afterward elocted as member of ‘the Prassian House of Commons. Daring bis stay in | Berlin, as Deputy, his eldest son was born, to whose | christening the worthy pastor Gossuer was invited. | Ono extract from the few letters in which he describes ho cares and TROUBLES OF A NEWLY MARRIED HAPPINESS, in spite of the long mien he draws, the pleasure and pride of the young father, which he depicts to his sister from SchOnhausen in the following humorous man- ner:—"The boy howling in major, the girl in minor, two singing nurses, and between wot diapers and milk I have tor a long | time resisted the entreatics of my wife to visit a | watering place with my family ; bat,.as all mothers and aunts were agreed that only sea air and water could | help poor little Marie, I should, if rofused, hear com. plaints at every cold taken by the child up to her seventieth year, of my avarice and jatherly barbarit, I bave very unwillingly decided to give up my country | leisure; but having done so, the affair is beginning to take a rosy hue and I delight in the prospect of shorty in the depths of the Baltic”” A fow days lator, still occupied with the excursion, he adds;—‘'In reality, my yielding to this journey gives me # right of being placed in the new mad asylum, or at least of becoming | itelong member of the House of Deputies. see my- | self already, with the children on the Genthin plattorn and then in the carriage, with all sorts of childish hece: suries mm the midst party turning up | their noses with disgust, Jovanna, my wiie, is. ashamed to — gi boy ‘the breast, and he is roaring bimseit blue in the face; thon | a visitation of passports, a crowded hotel and finally waiting with both crying monkeys at Augermunde tor horses. 1 was yesterday so desperate at ull those prospects that I positively resolved to abandou the journey, but Jobauna fell apon me in the might with the boy on her arms, and, with all arts that deprived | us of Paradise, as @ mutier of course managed that everything should remain as’ arranged, 1 feel, how- ever, hke one who is shatmefully used, Next year I shall cortainly have to TRAVEL WITH THREE CRADLES, wet nurses, diapers, beds, * * * and:f one only received @ salary bo Bat to travel with nuree- | lings, ou the rewaims of a fine fortune, 1 am very happy !’’ Notwithstanding all these sighs and groans it is palpable what sativfaction the young father Mods in his little family, These letters of his youth manhood show t# the groat statesman jn lis private lile, before entering upon his political career, Although in the remaining part of the collection only one letter is of A pursly political natore, nearly every line, even in the most harmiess correspondence with bis amily, betrays in bie frank and candid character the political achemes and thoughts tn possession of him, ‘Tho next chapter begins with lewsers from the timo | for he alr | Paris or London, or remain here, | joursey from Bordeaux. tw absorb him that he finds litte time for his private | Biarritz for the purpose of sounding sign.” His wish is, however, fulfilled. In Octobe 1862, we find him already in Berlin, where differences between government and Parliament and the reorgan- ization of the army have brought about a serious con- flict His hopes of the Chamber, understanding his ational policy, sending him their support are not re- ized. le is most Violently attacked by the liberals and even accused of treason, Nothing, however, vailg to turn him from the course he bas taken. ‘The letters now become more seldom, his whole time being absorbed by the fierce parliamentary struggle. IN THE HOUSK OF DEPUTIES, on the Ministerml Beuch, he writes to his wife:— “With a speaker, who is abusing me on the tribune be- fore me, between a declsration already given and one about Ww be given, 1 inform you bow it fares with me. Much work; somewhat tired; not enough sleep; every Deginning is diflicult; with the help of God’! shall dure it; but a lie always in public is very hard to var.’ Im the + summer he follows the King to Austria, and comes for the first time in direct coutact as Premier with her loading statesmen, who were atter- ward so outwitted by bim. He finds it very trouble- some im Vienna “to be stared at by every one like a Japanese; it 18 all over with incognito and privacy, unul 1 once, similar to others, have fallen into dis- grace, and another has the preference.” Gassein, Visited by Bismarck for the first time in 1963, pleasea him exceedingly and offers him opportumity to ad- mire the grand beauties of the landscape there, Ow his return to Berlin his complaints reeommence, He 18 depressed at being finally intrusted with the wanagement of Prussian policy and net being sable to progress as he wished and certuinly previously hoped, Above, below, on all sides he 1% assailed “with adopted opimions, doc: trinal principles, political shortsiguteduess und ‘public ho-tihty.”” His second journey to Gassein Js important ou account of the agreement made tor a joint occupa. tion of the duchies of Schloswig-Holstein, However, no traces of the event are scen in this collection; perbaps for fear lest tue Austrian post might not respect the privacy of nis letters, Oniy short, msiguiticant notes jorm his wile of indi ances, From Vienna he writes;—''1 have j AN HOUR IN THE ‘VOLKS unfortunately not incognito, ass ‘n years ago om our wedding trip, but Was stared at by all the world, ‘Vhis existence, comparable to the Ie of a stage actor, is very disagreeable, especially if one will drink a glas® of beer in peace.” Also on hix journey to France and apoleon on the separation of Sclheswig-Holstein trom Denmark tha collection of letters contains but little political news, The lotters dated from this time are written at long in- tervals and contived to trivial events, The important ‘ones Were perbaps laid aside for publication ata later period, A very humorous letter, dated Christmas day, 1865, must not be forgotten, | A high conservauve geuticoman had questioned Bismarck why he so seldom Went to church and reproached him with having been photographed on the same picture with ca, & circumstance creating much scandal at the time.’ Bismarck replied, with regard to Visiting the chureb, “lt is quite incorrect that I do not go to church, But 1 have been these last seven months either absent orill. Whoever made the observation ia quite bout my religious semuments. readily ight go vltener, but it is not so much for want of time as for fears of my health that Ido not go. especially in winter. ‘To those who feel themselves called upon to pass Judgment in the matter! will readil give more accurate information. You yourself will believe it without medical details. As to the Lucca photographs, you would probably be less severe in your remarks lt you knew to What accident its origin ts aue, Besides which, the present Frau Von Rhaden, even if an opera singer, is nevertheless a lady, about Whom, a litle as myscil, no reprouchable actions can be Te- corded. Nevertheless, if 1 could have foreseen at the mowent the vexatiou many a true friend experienced at this little jest, | would bave withdrawn myself from the focus of the glass directed toward us.” ‘The letters from the Austrian war are very few. No disclosures are made to the reader of the seven days’ campaign, 1m which Bismarck finally saw the fruits of his policy aaé his long diplomatic work ripen. The short NOTES PROM THE BATLTREIELD, hastily despatched by him to bis wile and sister, have no particular value, Calmly, unatfectedly and clearly, Bismarck observes and comprelirends the political situation. Alter the surrender of Gitschin he writer to his wife, vefore the decisive battle of Sadowa;—‘) have till vow seen more Austrian prisoners than Pras sian soldiers, Send me by the official courier each, time 1,000 cigars—if possible, at twenty thalers—toa the hospitals, All wounded beg for them, Then let, by Intluence of assdclations or from your own means, some dozen numbers of the Cross Gazette be forwarded daily to the hospitals. Send me a revolver of coarse calibre and saddle pistols; also a novel to read, but only one at a time,’? Another letter to his wife of July 9, iguilicative of his foresight and calin- tling on well; if we were not exag- erated in our pretensions and ‘did not believe we had conquered the world we should attain a peace worth gaining. But we are just us specdily imtoxicated ag dispirited, and I bave the thankless task uf pouring water in the foaming wine and explaining that we are not living aloue in Kurope, but have three powertul, Jealous neighvors. The Austriaus stand in Moravia, and we are almost so bold as to have fixed our headquarters to-morrow where they are still standing to-day. Our people deserve the greatest praise, Each one is courageous, quiet, obedient and mannerly, With an empty stomach, clothes, wet camp, little sleep, soles coming off their boots, they are nevertheless friendly to all. No plu der and conflagrations ; they pay what they can and eat mouldy bread, There’ must bea deep fund of prety among our people, or allthis could not have been accomplished’? A letter of Bismarck’s to his wife from Prague, dated August 3, closes this chapter re- ferring to the war of 1866:. have just returned from a@ drive with His Majesty through the Hradschin and Belvedere, Have once more seen ail beauties of scenery about Prague, In a few days it will be nineteen years since We saw these sights together. What wondertul events have occurred to Lring me to: in this mau- per to the same spot! Tv-morrow we think of being in Berlin, Great dissatisfaction is expressed at Court at the speech from the throne, The couriers agd geu- erals on attendance to the King bave not foresiaght enough, they see nothing beyond their own noses, and practise the art ol swimming ou the stormy waves of phrases, Foes can be subdued, but friends not! They nearly all wear blinkers and see ouly a portion of the world.” ismarck probably had gvod cause to complain, for from this woment his policy became @ national one, but lost the support of the conserva. tives, why, intoxicated by the victories, wanted to sup~ press the constitutional rights of the people id Strengthen the royal prerogatives, From the wat correspondence. He bas removed from the Kussian capital to Peterhof, with the beauties of which he is | delighted, He thus aeserives them to his wite:—“Im- agine the heights of Ohya and Zoppel (two splendid country places adjoining Dantzic) connected with a | park embellished by a dozen casties with handsome terraces, foantains, lakes, shady walks and lawns down to the sea; a blue sky and warm sun with white clouds, and beyond the green tops | of trees the blue sea with sails and sea gulls Ih not felt 60 happy a long | py tine, * * * The other day I dined with the Emperor in articles of dross from jour dilterent people, Not be- ing provided with a dress coat, I looked vory strange. Tam excecdingly well treated here, and in Berlin, Ausiria and the other federal States triendly to her, | are endeavoring to offect my removal trom here in | ite of my being such a docile boy, If it pleases God | contingency, however, does not come from his heart, ly mentions in his letters the probability of acall te the Cabinet. In the winter of 1860-61 he SOCIAL LIVE IN ST. PRTRRSEURG, | “Tam very busy ‘and not atall sociable, my means not allowing it. In strangers’ houses 1 take cold, and, only 30,000 thalers a year, to great restrictions. 1 in- vite people calling on me to dine, that is d la fortune der pas, but I give no soirées. Once I have been out | r | Tlive just as willingly im the country.” ‘The latter | | relates to his sister of | on the whole, one 18 coudemned as Minister here, with hunting, but round the wolves sharper than the hants- men.” In the following summer he tukes sea baths at Stolpiniinde, lying ai no great distance from | his father-in-law’s estate. =Un his return 10 | Russia the Emperor received him most graciously. | “His Majesty was very friendly oa my return; he em- | braced mo and showed ao undemable pleasure at my preseave."” The eventuality of being called to tne head | of the Prussian State is tnore avd more in prospect. | Jn the midst of agitations, projects and plans uerowitn | associated be 18 again overcome with discouragement aud longing fora retired country iife. In January ot 1862 be writes to bis sister, from St, Petersburg :—“I am sineo my illness so languid that all elasticity for | active occupation has expired within Three years | ago L might have furnished a good Cabinet Minister ; now [ appear in my thouglsts like a circus rider uyable to follow his profession. I imuat, nevertheless, re- | main still some years in service if I live, for only | im turee years the contracts of my tarmers at Kolophof aud Schoubausen expire. ‘ul then 1 do not know exactly whore to go if [vend in my resignation, | Lum equally indifferent whether 1 go as Minister to 1 bave as mach fear lor entering ‘the Cabinet as for a cold bath. taking ito eousideration all political annoyances, I do not feel well enough tor so much work and excitement, | IL it were wot for the climate and ty children’s bealth | I should prefer remaming here. Berne ts the object of my ambiuion; tedious places, with pretty scenery, are the thiugs for old people,” In spring of 1862 he succeeds tn once more relusing the post of Prussian Premier, stead of which be gues to PARIS AS MINISTER, opportunity was presented him of studying | poivon ILI, and bis Court, ON THe Lat OF JUNK, 1862, ved by the Emperor to whom he delivered is credentials, “He received me in @ friendly man- | ner, lovks well, has become @ limiestouter, bat by no | Hoabs 80 corpulent UF aged, ax bis caricatures goneral- ly represent him. ‘The Empress Kagénio is still one of the most beautiful women I kuow, 1n spite of St, Peters- j she has even improved these last five years’? ily he makes an excursion in the South, to visit He writes to his wife of his | “L have seen very beautiful | in the Emperor in Hiarita castles. CHAMBORD CORRESPONDS IX Ir DESOLATION to the tate of ite owners. In the wide halis and splen- did saloons, where kings held court with their us- tresses, the childish toys ot the Duke of Bordeaux, aro the only articles of furniture. ‘The housekeeper, con- sidering me a French jegitimist, squeezed a wear ‘when owing me the Loy cannon oi her maswr. I paid for the drop acvording to tariif, with an extra franc, al- | though it 18 not iny provession (o encourage Carlism. An extensive view is had from the towers, on all sides | of which only silent wood and heath are visible as far | # the borizons; no town, no Village, no farm, neither adjoiing the castle nor in its vicinity. Heather i the only flower in the royal garden and swallows nearly two only living beings in the castle, Even for sparrows it J» too solitary,’ No mention is made ia these jot. ters of any political its resulting from this short sojourn ut Biaritz, He seoms to devote himselt ex. | clusively to the enjoyment of nature aud deseribes to | his wife numerous excursions in the Pyrenees. Searcely, however, has he bid adieu to the Highlands than he is again ocoupied with questions of the future, above everytaing bis entrance into the Cabinet. His desire and auxiousness to lead the head of politics is very 1, je will know now for certainty or— bo Writes threateningiy—como What may 1 shail to- | Arrang: against Austria, in 1866, the great majority of the nation heartily coincided with Kismarck, and, in con. janction with the most intelligent deputies and all liberal patrioty firmly and fuithiully supported his policy. With Bis “foes he had in trath been able ta come to an understunding; only bis tormer friends, with the “blinkers,” harassed his life, irustrated his plaus, nd longer anderstood tho sense and ideas of hi policy, und even to-day are nota Little more discer: ing, Ubprejadiced, penetrating or better than in 1866. Here the book closes. It contains only still the well known letter from the battle field in Veudresse, of the 3d ot September, 1870, the day after the battie of Sedan, to Countess Bistuarck, which, however, did not arrive at its address, bat fell into the bands of the franc-tireurs, with the whole post, and was published two years ago in the Paris Figaro, TEMPERAN SOCIETIES, Ameeting of the presidents of the different Romag Catholic temperance societies was beld yesterday im the basement of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Mr. John F, Walsh in the chair, Rey, Father Kearney called the attention of the meeting to several abuses that had crept imto the temperance societies, such as comi¢ singing, &c., and said that the temperance meeting room Was nota tit place for anything of such a kind. nts were imade by the different presidents to puta stop ior the future to all such objectionable prace tices and cultivate a bigher moral tone in the different Societies under thoir charge. ANOTHER RELIGIOUS MANIAC, At nine o’clock last night Roderick McGuire, a shoe. maker, residing at No, 245 Madison street, was brought | to Bellevue Hospital and consigned to the cells as @ maniac, His insanity took the form of a religious mania He dectared that the angels of heaven were waiting for him, and that it was only necessary for him to drink the blood of « human, being to be eternally suved. Ho is hopelessly insanal RUN OVER BY A CAR. At ten o'clock last Saturday night Miss Sarah Corsa, | Aged twenty-two years, while getting off a Second ave | nue car, was knocked down and run over, Her lef foot was crushed, her right foot slightly injured, an¢ she received severe contusions about the back and arins, She Was taken to the drug store No, 662 Secon avenue and sabsequentiy removed to Bellevae Hospit where it was found necessary to amputate ber fi foot, Ata lute hour on Sunday nignt it was feared spe would not recover. FOUND AGAIN, Julia Utley, aged sixteen years, the insane school girl who was picked up in an insensible condition several days ago and removed to Bellevue Hospital, and Who subsequently eluded the vigilance of her re. latives, and again escaped, was recognized by some friends jast week in Kabway, N. J., and consigaed 10 the care of her relatives. DAVE CAFFIN'S GROUSE. (From the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. } Dave Uaftin, who keeps a boarding house at Emigrag Gap, on the Central Pacifle Railroad, ts very hard « hearing—can hardly hear anything that is not shouts in ear, Dave is very fond of hunting, and ofver takes his gun and scouts about the mountains In seard of grouse, quail and other game. A Comstocker, who was snow boand at Cisco for ( day of two last week, tells the following story abo fiin:—He bad been out hunting and was going hom with a grouse he had killed. As he came out of th wood aud etrack the railroad track be was overtakes by a stranger who ask “How far is it to Cisco?” “You,” said Dave, holding up bis grouse, “I got om ore don’t think ’ stranger ‘I don’t think you understand me,” said the “1 asked you bow fur it was to Cisco,” “Yes, hie’s pretty fat,”? said Dave, “he'll make a vorp stew. “You must be a ned fool!” cried the stranger. “Certainly, certainiy |’ said Dave, “There's a good many of ‘em fyin’ avout this rear !/*