The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1867, Page 4

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A SQUIHERNER BeATEX BY A COLORED MAN.—Yes » Richard Lioyd, & Sodtherner residing with. his family at No. 57 Ninthst., caussd the ar- et of a colored man named Jerry B. Petorson, livan-st., on a charge of having severely, 4he facts in the case, as elic- Dowling, would appear to be 8 follows : pretty and genteel-ap) woman, 1s & dressmaker aud was hire the complainant to make her a dross. sent home it did not fit well, and 'Mr. Lloyd ence of Peterson to have some altera- words passed between im and Mrs. o ok dln.ll‘ml-lrwln u-qualnt:d ; . , and, natura udignant, ho the restdence of Mr, Lioyd and, -ynklng % ; vy, Toe uuiataio decided L verely, The wagistrate dec accused to bail to xfllfl 4 to bail to anawer the complaint at the e — TriaL 0¥ Parrick DWyEr ron MURDER.— nelude the proceedings against Patrick with the murder of Patrick McCudden of December, 1565, which have boen progress- iy since Monday last. All that remalne to com- ‘trial 15 the examinntion of two or thres wit- summing up of counsel, the charge of the 1 of the verdict. Ymda‘ the fiena. that he was m’a&mg knew this NewDork Duily Srikmne, b FRIDAY, JANUARY %, 1667, 70 CORRESPONDENTS. No notice can bo taken of Avonymous Communleations. Whatever 18 intended for insertion must be authenticated by the nume and addross of the writer—nob uecessarily for publication, bt a8 & guarsaty for his good fith. All busivess letters for this ofice should be sddressed to “ Tas Taid- s, Now-York. We eannod undertake to return rejected Communications ——— mmmm—m——m—— T0 ADVERTISERS IN THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Adyertisements for Tme WEEKLY TRIBUNE must be sent in on Monday. QV' The MQMQIO‘I,” Hon. .{;«:fin A Mvfl;fl 0 on rrency, I{o Representatives yesterday, 18 printed use in full on the d . The same page g g 0 oy e 1 o : - ;orl of the &%;?1{0 Board of Health, and Personal. the third page are a letter Contractor Whiting on the Strect- Question; A Report o) the Sv’»rinm t Ken Boar?f: rookl) ows; Honfl Articles, and Markels. The Ugurt Reports; Board Coun- cilmen. ‘Army and Navy Gasettes and Shipping Intelligence wilh be found on the seventh page. | The Tariff bill was amended in the Senate yesterday, and o number of articles imported for educational uses placed upon the free list. An amendment to reduce the duty on lumber was rejected, and the duty on flaxseed raised 020 cents per bushel, and on linseed oil to 80 cents per gallon. The French are hastening their departure from Mexico in good earnest. Our last advices from Vera Cruz, state that the embarkation of the troops was rapidly proceeding, gnd that it would shortly be completed. Maximilian still re- mains in the country, and his friends have issued a new proclamation summoning the people to rally around the Mexican throne. But the Lib- erals are rapidly advancing toward the capital, - which must soon fall into the hands of Juarez. We print some twenty sontences of Senator Grimes on the Tariff bill, not without regret that any Senator should be willing to utter such foolish words. Spoken in the heat of de- bate, they would be deemed passionate ; written in the closet and delivered from & manuseript they have all the effect of a calculated mis- representation. It fs difficult fo sup- pose that Mr. Grimes believes what he says; it is charitable to cencede that his un- wonted rhetorical effort confused his percep- tions of the true and the false. If this is the best the Free Traders have to offer,they pay a poor compliment to the intelligence of the country—reminding it also that a man who loses his temper is always supposed to hAve the worst of the argument. As the Eastern question is rapidly,approach- ing & crisis, our Constantinople correspondenco will be found of more than ordinary interest. The letter which we publish this mornigg gives a full and lucid review of the diplomlfi'm re- lations between Turkey and Greece, Our cor- respondence is also enabled to furnish us with an abstract of the importans note which the Porte has recently addressed to the three protecting Powers to invoke their aid against the Greeks. The Porte firkt complains of the attitude of the Greeks with regard to Candin and to Thessaly, and declares that the Government of the Sultan, though not desiving to bring on an open war, will accept all the consequences of any situation which may be created by Greece. The letter contains some interesting statements on the relative strength of the two Powers in case of war. me——— The Connecticut Republican State Conven- tion met yesterday at New-Haven, and by ac- clamation renominated Gov. Hawley., Oliver H. Perry was nominated as Lieutenant-Gover- nor, William T. Elmer as Secretary of State, Henry G. Taintor as State Treasurer, and Leman W, Cutler as State Controller. The reso- lutions, adopted unanimously, were thoroughly. Radical, and we congratulate the Republicans of Connecticut wpon the declaration that Tmpartial Suffrage is a fecessary element of recoustruction. Gov. Hawley's renomination is deserved, and with fhis ticket and platform Connecticut should not fail to win another and even more decisive victory for freedom. Our friends had a hard fight last year, having to carry the weight of Mr. Johnson,who at that time still profeséed some sort of fidelity to hisparty and principles. With the help of the President's open opposition they expect to do a great deal better this Spring, and to give Gov. Hawley such a majority as his brilliant military career, his excellent admiristration in office, afd his high personal character entitle him to receive. The proverb “familiarity breeds contempt,” should be considered by the House of Represen- tatives. Mr. Cooper of Tennessee, who glories in the fact that he was the confidential friend of Andfew Johnson, at the time that gentleman be- trayed his party, yesterday called Mr. Kelley of Pennsylvania a liar. This -charming little scone was the natural result of the negro minstrel performance on Tuesday night., Members who do not respect w;h other cannot be expected to respect the ‘rules. Mr. Colfax hoped that the members would set a good example to the galleries, but we think the galleries set a good example to the House, The gpectators may privately consider each other liars, but at least they do not say so. If the House would only be as orderly as the galleries we should be satisfied. Mr. Randall of Penn- sylvania said “Bosh!” and though this brief speech is less objectionable as an argument than most of his efforts, it was not sufficiently ro- speetful to the House. It had no application to Mr. Stokes, but, as an independent utterance, was one of the best things Mr. Randall has said this session. After this little exchange of courte- sies, the House appropriately considered the sub- ject of reconstruction. By an account which we publish on our second page, it will bo seen that the Ferry Companies are bound by law and covenant to do just those things which they have invariably failed to do. Before granting these momopolies their leases, it was stipulated that they should fully equip their boats, and man them number - of able-bodied and with:| of impudence such as the world has seldom be- hgsed gropy isa provision when any of the Companies suffer their ferries to be discontinued, or omit to fulfill any partof their covenant, that the Corpor- ation of the city may take possession of thelr Tho question is rl::i enb—vz’hyC:u not the Corperation inferfe ago? Cer- tainly, oeug(%n fias not been wanting, as witness the burning of the boat Idaho, and the recent ghameful blockade of the ferries. We may be thankful that the Legislature has intervened for the protection of the public. MR. MORRILL ON RESUMPTION. fn the intense excitement of politics, thoughtful men do not forget another subject of even more importance than the immediate restoration of the Southern States. These may stay as they are—not without serious injury to the whole country, it is true—but our finances cannot con- tinue as they are, and the alternative is improve- ment or ruin, States may prosper without represcntation in Congress, but the business of the country cannot be established upon an 4rredeemable paper currency. hope that the speech of the Hon. Justin 8. Morrill, delivered in the House yesterday, and printed in full on the second page of this morning’s paper, will convince Congress of, the necessity of making immediate preparation for contraction. Mr. Morrill's argument is thorough and irrefutable; we believe the majority of Congress admits it, yet the first step to enforce its conclusions has not been taken, and there is danger that the subject will continue to be neglected for others of far less pressing im- portance. @ eaimestly Mr. ‘Morrill might well express a feeling of mortification that the necessity of contraction should require sober argument, or that any one could “espouse the cause of an endless reign of “paper currency, of which it takes one dollar “and thirty, forty, or fifty cents to buy & «dollar in specie.” The condition of business in the United States is sufficient, without argu- ment, to answer the theories of those who be- lieve that the immense volume of paper cur- rency is not more than we need, and that the abundance of such a substitute for specie is a proof of prosperity. We must even buy our iron ships in Europe, because no American can afford to make them. Our manufacturers cannot compete with those of England. A nominal increase of values has unsettled all business and all prices. The value of production, of manufacture, of profits, of losses, is beyond exact calculation, A shift- ing standard has made even economy diffi- cult, and the abundance of paper discourages honest industry and fosters speculation. Even the Government, in the easy manufacture of money out of national credit, spends millions of paper with little reference to their value in specie. If the country is not in one sense unprosperous, it is in spite of the burden of currency, not Dbecanse of it, and every month adds to the proof that we can only escape vast evils in the fature by resumption of specie payments and the con- traction of the currency to the legitimate needs of business. Mr. Morrill's statistics. show that the total amount of paper currency now in use, in- cluding legal tenders, national bank notes, compound interest notes, etc, s $063,- 200,551, or nearly One Thousand Millions. In 1862 the total of paper currency was but $184,000,000, Can it be contended that busi- ness requires such an enormous inerease? The very depreciation of the currency is an answer; its excess diminishea its value, and prices rise a8 the value ginks. Mr. Morrill shows that the increased production of gold angd silver is tend- ing to the steady depreciation of specie itself, while the coinage of the United States in com- parison with European standards is debased. How, then, does our paper money stand when the standard itself is degraded? A Chinese nation may fix arbitrary standards, but the Americans, a commercial people, cannot prosper with a currency which is terribly discounted in every market, and even refused in our own gold States on the Pacific. This excess of paper .money is the legacy of the Rebellion; but it is folly to plead the evils of war as an excuse for the blunders of peace. Resumption should have begun in 1868, That it was not attempted then is all the more reason that it should begin in 1867, and in Mr. Morrill's opinion “never shall we have a more “auspicious moment to initiate nieasures for a “vigorous retirement of the excess of our pa- “per currency.” That opinion 15 ours also. We ought to begin to-day. Credits are not un- usually expanded, and the people generally are free from debt. To postpono resumption is to tempt the country into extravagance, and to risk, and, in fact, compel a change of this favora- ble condition. We know that our paper currency is well based on national credit, and admit the Dblessings of its uniformity. The danger is in its irrodeemable character, and in the excess of issues, monstrously disproportionate to specie, and business needs. Mr. Morrill, who is cer- tainly a determined opponent of the politics of the Secretary of the Treasury, sustains that great policy of resumption which is the chief hold of Mr. McCulloch's administration upon the confidence of the people. Politics should not prevent all sound thinkers from urging its immediate adoption. In offering this unan- swerable argument Mr. Morrill has done the country good service, and Congress will be held _to a stern responsibility if it refuses to heed his warnings. » A dispatch from Washington informed us yesterday that according to advices just re- ceived in the capital the Legislative Council of Colorado had voted a resolution of thanks to Gov. Cummings for his able administration of the affairs of the Territery. The resolu- tion and preambles, as wo find them in the Den- ver newspapers,are hardly susceptible of a very complimentary interpretation. After reciting how the Governor “has failed to perform his “duties ta the satisfaction of the people,” and how “he is continually in a disgusting and “dictatorinl manner intermeddling with the “duties of the other territorinl officers,” and how he, moreover, entertains dishonest designs upon the Treasury, with the aid of a “syco- “phant auditor,” the Council resolved that the President be requested to remove Mr. Cum- mings from office. Theso:Colorado miners cer- tainly have a blunt way of putting things, and if his Excellency Mr. Cummings can hold up his bead under the load of public odium which seems to have fallen upon him, he is a prodigy held. Austria is in a great commotion over the Imperial Patent of January 2, ordering the clection of new Provisional Diets in all the countries not belonging to the Hungarian Crown, for the sole purpose of clecting mem- bers of & new Reichsrath, bnd convoking latter body for February 25, at Vienna. mm&hmwumm- rath will be the ‘relation of Hungary to the re- R the [ the Poles, who hope to s it againgt the Cen- tralist party, and propose to consnlt with the Hungarians how to effect the ruin of German influence. The German Provinces, on the con- trary, are greatly irritated, and strong dis- cussions arp anticipated. . THE FATE OF POLAND. It is singular that at & time when the op- pressed and dismembered nationalities of Eu- rope are regaining their unity and independ- ence, one of the foremost of these nationalities —one which for the fulfillment of her national aspirations has suffered more than any other— should be threatened with new dangers. Such, however, 1s the case of Poland, the larger portion of which was never in greater danger than now of being absorbed by Russia. Instead of being a Venice, with the certain prospect of being reunited with other parts of the same national stem, it seems to be on the point of becoming an Alsace, where the conquering race grad- ually, but surely, forces upon the conquered its language and ofher national character- istics. Amid all the vicissitndes ‘of the times, the Poles living under the scepter of Russia had heretofore the satisfaction of possessing & semblance of national existence as “Kingdom “of Poland.” The Treaty of, Vienna of 1815 had guaranteed to the Kingdom national insti- tutions, but these the Russian Government had deemed itself justified, by repeated insurrec- tions, to withhold, or, if they had been conceded for a time, again to abolish. Virtually, Russian Poland has long been assimilated, in point of administration, to the Governments of Rus- sia, but the continuing union of all the five provinces constituting the kingdom of Poland under one’ central administration, left the im- mediate supervision of the civil service, to a large extent, in the hands of natives, and pre- served a fecble remnant of Polish nationality. This remnant the Russian Government has now destroyed by three ukases fssued on the Gth of January. The old division of the eountry into fivo governments gives way to a new division into tem, each having a separate Governor, almost wholly dependent upon orders from St Petersburg. The other ukases place the finances and the postal administra- tion under the direct control of the Russian au- thorities at the Russian capital. Together, these ukases leave hardly anything which dis- tinguishes one of the new Polish Governments from those governments of Russia proper, and the removal of the last remnant of this dis- tinction will hardly be delayed for any length of time. If Poland, like Venetia, had an inde- pendent people of the same nationality to lean upon, or if Russia were peopled, like Austria, by a number of different nationalities with clashing interests, the changes in Russian Poland might be regarded as more nominal than sig- nificant. But as neither the one nor the other is the case, and as Poland, more dismembered than ever, will be fully incorporated with one of the most powerful and compact nations of the world, the danger of a progressing Russifi- cation of ti country is great and immediate. There are strong reasons for believing that the fate of the Russian Poles will be similar to that of their Prussiamn brethren, who have to witness every year an increasing inroad of a German population upon their territory. The severo measures which the Russian Gov- ernment has adopted with regard to Poland have chiefly been occasisned by the great patronage whieh has of late been extended to the Poles in Austria. It has, on a sudden, granted to them nearly all their demands, It has appointed an enthusiastic champion of a re- stored Polish nation, Count Goluchowski, Gov=- ernor-General of Gallicia; it fhas” allowed the Provincial Diet of Gallicia to be opened for the first time in the Polish, instead of the German langnage; it has discontinued the official German .papers published in the Polish crown land; it has gone so far in complying with the wishes of Poles as to allow them fo pass the most oppressive and unjust measures against the Ruthenians, who constitute about one-half of the population of Gallicia. By these and other measures Austria has raised in the Poles the most sanguifte hopes for a restoration of their nationality, and the Poles in Rossin and Prussia openly avow their readiness to codperate for reuniting all the Polish territory under the rule of Austria. If Austria were possessed of a greater strength and vitality than she really is, these move- ments might become dangerous to both Russia and Prussia. But as it is, they only serve to irri- tate and unite Russia and Prussia against Aus- tria; and it secms likely that the Poles will have to pay dearly for putting their confidence in a Power that i8 not strong enough to avert its own ruin, much less to restore a shattered na- tionality. THE SOUTHERN RELIEF MEETING. ‘We remind our readers that the great meeting called to devise means for the relief of the suffering South is to bo held this evening at the Cooper Institute. We earnestly. hope that New-York will make a prompt and generous response to the appeal which is addressed to her in behalf of the starving and destitute. The appeal is ono which ought to touch the finer sensibilitics of every man’s heart, and en- list in its support patriotism, benevolence, and brotherly affection—to say nothing of the coarser impulse of self-intercst which has a concern in the welfare and speedy regeneration of every portion of the country. It is a sad case, this, of our Southern brothers, It s not easy to exag- gerate its painful features, Look atthe picture presented in this extract from a letter written by a Northern clergymai in Atlanta, Ga.: “ But the périshing and the half-naked poor— “ where are they? I can tell you where they “live. In tents scattered along the edge of “the railroads, or in the outskirts of the town; “jn huts which may be called ‘iron-clad, “ though affording poor protection against the “ bombardmentf of want—edifices composed of a “ half-dozeén frail scantlings, picked up in some “lucky hour, and lined around and on the top “with nothing in the world but old tinned “ plates, once the roofing of some building that “perished in the conflagration of the town; “in shanties, in hovels part canvas, part old “ blanket, part old strips of board. Very often “ there is nothing but an carth floor. Do these “ people actually want? Look at their sunken “ features ; the livid hue of their faces; their “eyes, in whichn.dull craving exhibits itself; “ their few, scanty, perishing garments; their “feet, with nothing ‘on, as they tramp along 4 the “frozen ground (for Winter is not all “ Summer here), except the cast-away shoes “ which you threw out on some refuse-heap “ the other day. There ave families here which “ have not the slightest idea to-day where the “ corn-cake, stirred up with water, and baked “in tho ashes, for to-morrow will come from, “qunless the slender possibility of a little job “ of work is realized, or unless the supply de- “ pot here has been enabled, through the gen- “erosity of citizens, ar of Kentuckians, or « perhaps of New-Yorkers, to furnish them with without his bonnet on. venient men who let you have your own way seemingly, and thereby have their own really. “stammering speech. It has not probably oe- and caps; BY TELEGRAPN TO Insurnnce of el st & on J¢ ol & g BACHELORS OF GENTILITY. Mr. Leonard W. Jerome, a person of opulence, wgll known upon 'Change and the turf, has, with intentions which, we bave no doubt, are_ excellent, however indefinite, bestowed upon Princeton College, a most respectable seat of learning, the sum of $5,000. The interest of this sum is to be annually employed to buy a medal'!or that graduate who shall be voted by his classmates “the first gentleman” of them all. The phrase used by Mr. Jerome inevita- bly reminds one of that anointed blackguard and fat incarnation of selfishness, George the Fourth, who was dubbed by his deyotees, themselves most of them blackguards also, “the first gentleman of Europe.” Mr. Jerome, it is true, gives his idea of the foundation of the character of a gentleman—he thinks it to be “a due regard for the feclings of others.” This is:good so far as it goes; but this is pre- cisely the outward consideration which was persistently displayed by Lord Chesterfield, who was the hollowest and the rottemest of all the varnished tribe. The truth is, there are two kinds of “gentlemen” in the world, and the world has agreed to admire both. There is, however, a difference in its admiration. Its readiest and loudest plaudits are naturally reserved for the forms, and modes, and shows of gentility; for o studied complaisance and “plausive manners;” for shallow good nature and “the amiable weakness which always answers “ yes"—the ponderous servility of the wary Polonius, or the skipping suavity of Osrje, These are the con- They are delicious until they are found out, and sometimes they go to their graves, and are moaned for in plaintive obituaries without being found out at all. We hope that Mr. Jerome's Five Thousand Dollars will not be the making of many of these civil impostors. It would be hard if the taking of a gold medal in college should render a man insineere or in- sufferable for tho rest of his life, We tolerate stage gentlemen at the theater, partly from long habit, and partly because we cannot help ourselves; but it would be dreadful to have fhe art of seeming and the science of blarney. introduced into the college courses. The second kind of gentility, and the most genuine, is quite consistent with awkwardness and angularity of carriage, with great careless- ness even of costume, and with rough and | curred to Mr. Jerome,§whose ideas of what five thousand dollars may do have possibly disturbed® the equilibrium of his moral perceptions, that a true gentleman of this class does not want his prize; would consider the acquisition of a medal for good manners in the light of a personal mis- fortune, and might affect an unreal rudeness in order to escape it. The peliteness that is paid for is quite sure to be of a pinchbeck quality, and contests of urbanity can scarcely produce anything better than caricature. The medal- man of Princeton might indulge in a well- grounded apprehension of peing mistaken for a pretty fellow, a carpet-knight, or a water-fly; of being called “Gentleman George,” or “Gentle- man Tom” all his life; and, perhaps, of being pointed out by anxious mothers as the Turvey- drop of his time, to their growing boys. The real gentleman, Mr. Jerome may not have con- sidered, does not care to be talked aboat, avoids observation, shrinks from noteriety, and pre- fers that his politeness should be regarded as a matter of course, as a gift of nature, not an acquisition, as something which money could’ not buy nor the loss of money (or medals) take away from him, The essence of good manners is veracity, and veracity never competes for a premium, There is nothing finer in this world than gn ingenuous boy, whose instinets are all noble, and thefifrankness of whose demeanor is but a symbol of a fresh and generous nature, unspoiled by contact with the artificial idols of society or by the study of its glittering and conventional standards. But Mr. Jerome's medal spoils alll To compete for it will be to loso uncopsciousness, - and to lose that will be.to forego all real claim to the premium, # become an exhibitor of foreign airs and studied graces, until the frank inter- course of youth may be changed into a mere aping of others who are, or who are supposed to e, peculiarly polished and exceptionally urbane. Nor is this all! The fortunate competitor may well preserve a most gentlemanly serenity; but we cannot but think of the others, who after bowing and scraping for four years, with the full understanding that they were upon their best behavior with an eye to the Jerome Medal, find that they have bowed for nothing and have scraped in vain! To swear is vulgar; but such a disappointment might, we thipk, extenuate the resort to a little profanity for relief. There must, we should hope, be more than one gentleman in every Senior Class at Princeton, but as there is to be only one medal, how are all the well-behaved fellows, save one, to be paid for their politeness? It may not be of the su- perfine quality, but if only fine,is it to be treated with contumely, or if merely medium, is it to be contemptuously neglected? This student may be" “very much of a gentleman,” that “quite a “gontleman,” and the other simply “a gentle- “man;” and when the gradations are very nice, and the class comes to the ballot, how does Mr. Jerome Jnow that there may not be broken heads, and even “ge: t}epmply" dugls? We hepe not; and our mTv ce to the Seniors of Princeton 1s to think nothing about the Je- rome Medal, to behave themselves as well as they can, and to leave the rest to the immortal gods. > UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL ConvesTION.—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Charles Lenox Romond, Louisa Jacobs, and Susan B, An- thony) ‘will address the Herkimer County Equal Rights Convention at Fairfield, Monday and Tues- day, Jan. 28 and 29, and the Fulton Co\m? Conven- al tion at Johnstown, Thursday and Friday, Jan. 81 and Feb. 1, alternoons and evenings. FIRES. P IN WALKER-ST. On Wednesday night about 12 o'clock a fire } e broke out in tho premises No. 08 Walkerst., owned by A. Ji Jackson and occupied as follows: Base- | soi it, Xi saloon; insured B0 Aango, stk Hecond. fioor, Moo & Baldw! floor, H. laces, ruches, eoto.; mfiv‘hm o, maknown @h‘fi& e O3, Tornas ot and straw goods; loss unknown; §, Trelmor & Co., X E s P A L& Co. unknown, 1OSSES OF HARTFORD INSURANCE COMPANIES. :;‘gl"-:-' o Etns and Phenix Fire panies [ose #75,000 each ouYthe late Vieks- RD, CHATR ¥ llcllnufl. Joan, 4 u'st., Was v been the J 3 but now we may congratsilate ourselves tainty that the hundred ov’so pictures have been borrowed from the galkeries of our eitizens for the Exhibition, will fairly si:ow tho progress thot Lins been made in art among us sinee 1855, In the selection of Mr. 8. P. Avery of New-York for the honorable but laborious position of Becretary, the Committee have still further proved their'zeal in the cause of American art, and their desire to sccure the best possible help in carrying out their Mr. Avery is well known to be the not only to care for the pictures sent to the Exhibition, to see that hung and properly protected to their owners, but also to that contains them @ pleasant for Americaus, and for foreigners who wish to learn what “eur artists are doing. jected to the severe and searching ordeal of a oriti- cism more fine and thorough than they have ever met; on the other, the Europeans will no donbt be led to acknowledge that many enterprise with interest, and the cho to take a leading g?und to the credit of our country, and to the beaefit the artists. The Galin method of musical instruction, whick has in France the patronage of such masters as Rose sini, David, Offenbach, Poniatowski, and Wely, has Dbeen exhibited for the past week in New-York by Mr. C. H. Farnbam. The lectures of this gentleman explain what isto usan altogether new method of the science of music, comprising the inventions of the Galin-Paris Cheve merits and its benefits are lad that its lecturer is meef k deserves. thod is professedly a far more way of acquirin of h{ln[l:%le to‘ ing. The means it offers for with method. uestionable, and we g with the success language the writing of melodies under dic simpler notation of alone to be good Hhe of the pupils will within a short time be enal music written on the ‘staff, and write me dictation. In several lecturcs Mr, Farnham has convincing clearness presented an the leading advantages of his & here only suggest, as they need prac teacher. to us thoronghly qualifed for diligent study of this method, with honn:man of its trons, the latter includi the most eminent musical names —Several n‘;vmonnwm_enu of musie 1 Wi music entitles him to wi tinée at Steinway’s on Fi the Sonate Pathetique. A Cherubini’s rare overture for its chief featun i s ] SEes sixth Beethoven Ma enzel Kopta, the new ‘Wm. Mason appearing among lois The Concert at Steinway” the German Ladies Society, 6 Toceato in F, by M s it that the name of even in the most classic selection of this pai ce, resolute treatmen ties exact, was course, _ th our musical handiwork, whis but far less strengtheni - l‘i £2 ic of our concerts, that song of ~ Tho Wanderer,” recoived song of ** T, v fmn‘o Madsme Frederici. Mr. Frederick Stein’s cert its most peculiar charm en exquisite execution i frable - Ty Clalle Ui not e EXPLOSION ON BROADWAY—ONE PERSON INJURED, At 12} o'clock p.m. yesterday, while Mr. Willinm Fitch, a son of Dr. Fitch, was engaged in mixing some chemieal compounds in the laboratory attached fo hig father's residence, No. 714 Broadway, the chemicals sude denly exploded with aloud report, Fitch about the face, neck th smoke,and some severely injuring Mr. m&m The of the furniture in flames before they had uch d.nun.' 'l‘l:nlom o&t{l&exphflnn been very great, as the roof laboratory unvudr:bout tWo Inches. ACCIDENT ON THE HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD—A CAR | THROWN DOWN 'AN EMBANKMENT. BY TELEORAPE TO THE TRIBUNE. HypE PARK, Jan. 24.—A very narrow escape from a disastrous ratlway accldent occurred near Hydo Park on the Hudson River Raflroad tis mornfng. The Cinelas nati Express train due here at 4:16 a. m., left Albany over two hours behind time, While coming down and when botween Hyde Park and Platsburg going at the rato of 35 miles the heur, ohe of the wheels under the last car on the train, a sleeping car, broke, throwing that car and the embankment and "’%"w.n'.n-“ fl‘r n making 3 Mr, Massey, &