The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 19, 1868, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, BIBLO's GANDEN-Osteubach's Opera Nonfte, Barbe iene. WALLACK'8—Fire Fly. Leading eharnetor by Lotta. MEW YORK THEATRE=Foul Play, New Com pany, new scevery, &c. Matince on Saturday at 2PM. BOWERY THEATRE=Pantomime Troupe, The Red Gnome, Sonzt, Dances, &e. The Sa Sun. EDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1868, Terms of tive Sans Darry, per year to mail subreribers, fant -Werety, pe ‘ ‘Ten copies to one addives ‘Twenty copics to oie adare Fifiy copies to one address WHRELY, por FON. cose Tweity cop.os to one Address Fifty copies to one addres Additional . in Cin Jayment invariably In ndvane ANVENTISING RATES | thie ery of “carpet-bagyer” is ne Those at whom the epithet is} and those who had remained through the previous persecution, together with the large body that were ‘native there and to the | manner born,” who concurred with them in | sentiment and purpose, naturally took an in terest in restoring those States to their old time relations tothe Union. the nearly all those States, demagog flamed with the fie emerge from their hiding pl the expulsion of the carpet baggers, and the overthrow of the carpet-bag governments. it of the rebellion of American citizens out of the So violation of that provision of the Cons shall be entitl nities of eitize 1 to all privileges and immu 6 in the several States,” but vam of in fatuation. hurled, and men of Hike type from the North Fourtn Maan, per 's Thiree Hines (20 words) er love Term Maen, Bremree Nore ' Leabnn ADVERTIOAMEN TS Charged only for luc ry econ ied | Ix Wensty—por line ne above. | THE FUN ts served to pubserihers at thelr homes, | t the Mf fi the pa e oF nev ni | Notlee to Sabscrt | Fobecrinere wishing thelr add god will p | tate w Darey, See We + WEEKLY, 0 ro be particular to give thelr o'd fiate, County, and Port Oties, as well as the wow place to Which they wis | thelr p U | Our f ° hele sul yt will also | fo well te remit plent. If n conta Woney wad fiat and Cosoperntion. The capital held by | the labe y, as shown by | the returns of the savings Danks and th | var! Hicatos of | what great power they could | they only unite their resources for any sing’ purposs, Not one of our capitalists, and | possibly no combination of them, could con: | trol so much money. Now this accumulated | tapital, if applied to the object of improving | the present condition and the future pros: pects of the class to which it belongs, would hecome a source of the highest good. Codiperative socictios alm at effecting such The house-building associntions have been particularly successful, That in Edinburgh bailt four hundred houses within | five or six years, and, it is said, cannot now produce them fast enough to mect th mand, Its shares were all rapidly taken up, and its managers have adopted the plan of receiving deposits from non-members, allow ing thom five por cent. interest, and empl ing the money in enlarging tueir building operations. That similar associations both successful and us tan scarcely be doubted, 4 life insurance companics, would pr ful in our own eities | They require only | | foil, and even the whip | passed through a revolution a de | men who and West, are needed to lift the South from slough wherein the rebellion whelimed her, The Southern people were always among the mort dependent commun tics in the world. ‘They not only relied upon the North to supply them with manufactures whose production required large tal and exqui site #kill, but looked r for the radest and cot nest i euch as the hoes with which their negroes disfyrured t s with which they Until they have hoes and hi urjrod th learned to m wheelbarr nt their own and wagons, their own houses, plougt gona and daughters r scl and acad. wnt) the yple of that ir own energies, can sup ehiy cloth, knives, and spoons, and ean of their own tot ina word fection, through tl i and the radinents ¢ bestow v them in the AB Cs of thing: better than insult It is objected that som thes grants obtained office in tl structed States. This is true, though toa much less exiont than is generally asserted. The old ruling element in the South fails to appreciate the fact that their seetion has 1 whose their monopoly of political power was destr staked their all on the throw of the die; they lost, and must accept the result and its consequences, Those who stigmatize as carpet-baggers ain office in States other than those of their birth, may profitably recall the scorn Which Webster, in his reply to Hayne, showered on those who refused to recognize merit “ because it happened to spring up be. the litle limits of their own State and Liborhood.” ‘Tried by the Southern ral many of onr most illustrious statesmen must Le adjudged carpet baggers, Rufus King, of New York, was a carpet-bagger from Massa emies aaries of Life , they ought to me to instruet civilization some thets, y themselves with upon the immi recon convuls| prudent and intelligent management. But | chusetts, Albert Gellatin, of Pennsylvania, their aim should bea moral rather than a] was a carpet-bagger from Switzerland. pectiniary one, and a great deal depends upon | ‘Th the spirit and zeal of the cotiperators, It has been proved indeed that the workmen ne produce such good work as when laboring One chief advantage of such an association {e, that it prevents the weste of time, labor, | and money usually attendant upon a strike, At Edinburgh the workmen struck for “nine hours’ labor and nine hours’ pa A long contest followed The em) ra re sisted, | and the workmen quietly but resolutely por tisted in their demands, They very properly | ermined to retain the control of their own affairs, At the end of three months the ma. sons received a note from the seerctary of the \ masters’ association, intimating that they did not it expedient to prolong the etre the fight was won by the work men, But the latter found that during the contest the ‘on had expended nearly cons der ir associ $25,000, and the perative society was | formed in consequence. A new principle was discovered If our intellient workmen would under. take the control of their own considerable | capital, and direct itto the benefit of their own class, the most excellent results must follow. They can provide themselves with | comfortable dwellings and happy homes. ‘To theso they may add, as has been done in several European cities, the means of intel lectual progress, They may have their own Ubraries, lectures, and schools of science or art, and may equal or surpass ony other class in knowledge, refinement, and mental power, : ie Carpet-Baggers, A well informed writer has estimated the losses of the rebellion, in and the inval and currency, at six. the dollars. Doubtless t Nation of twelve m pinched with poverty commonly received 2 auth, in cor ones of the the value of her slaves sund millions of there is no civilized lions of Ko It might be inferred that 6 a community would rejoice to obtain aid from any quarter, and capecially when it was tendered in the | form of skill, and enterprise, which proposed to make common cause with the {uhabitants of th npoverished States in | generous effvris to lift them from their low condition, and carry them to a he'ght of pro perity thoy Lad never be reached. Proba Dly this would be 0 with a earth, except the iufatuate volved the cotton, sugar, and rice States of this Unionin rain, What those § s need to repair the ravages of the war ai them on the road to. wealth and power, j influx of fifty thousand Dusiness men fom the North and West, skilled in all useful av ocations, and backed ifty millions of cs p- ital, So obvious was this need, that in the summer and fall of 1505 pioncers of the class mentioned emigrated to the South with the intent of permanently residing there, and carrying on the work of renovation, Though rather coolly received, others of like character and with like objects followed in. their track the noxt year. Their reception was even more chilling than that of their predecessors, and ere long the majority of these imui- grants, with the opprobi@us epithets of carpetbagger and scalaweg ringing in their ears, were glad to escape with their lives, leaving the wreck of their fortunes Le- Nind, Whon the military appeared for the pur- pose of carrying into effect the reconstruc: other people on class that in i tion policy, it became possible tor this class af man to reside in that scetion of the Union, carpet-bag + | fon, of Tennessee, was a earpet-bagger from | South Carolina, for cach other. and William H. Harrison, of Ohio, were | pet-bapgers from Now Hampshire. | I. | | carpetds lating of the Confederate debt | as Addis I uinet, of New York, was a rfrom Ireland, Andrew Jack- Heary Clay, of Kentuck rpet-bagyrers from Virginia. Lewis Casa of Mic n, Daniel Webster of Massachu- setts,and Salmon P, Chase of Ohio were car- Silas Wrisht of New York, Stephen A, Douglas of Ilinois, and Thaddeus Stevens of Penn- sylvania wore carpet-baggers from Vermont Iward Livingston and Zachas lor, of siana, wero earpet-baygers, the one from ew York and the other from Kentucky ; which latter State sent Abraham Lincoln, a petlayger, to Hlinois, while New Jereey deputed John McLean with his carpet bag to Obio, and Pennsylvania sent Robert J Walker, similarly equipped, to Mississippi. James R, Doolittle, of Wisconsin, is a carpet: bagyer from New York, and Frank P. Blair, of Missourl, is a carpet-bagyer from Ken- ich State despatched Jeih is, earpet. bag in hand, to Mississi the Confederaey, three of hy grrers, viz: Benjamin, Memminger, and Malloi James Brooks, of New York, is & carpet-bagger from Maine, and even Andrew Johnson himself, though hailing from Tennessee, carried thither a small car. pet bag, doubtless the product of his own handiwork, from North Carolina, But the roll of would be as intern: contemptible, recent sharp; Cabinet being At th's moment larye num. inmigrants from the put! competing in our Northern cit with the old settlers in every avoestion, He | How ¢ ¥ man of sense seriously imagine 1 svioslionla“tropose’ 107dii iron uk, on | oak tN argument to interlard it with such even treat them with discourtesy, would | bithetst end and aim of every writer upon wither under the frown of public opinton, | grave political and financial questions is to con- - ; | vince bis readers id she ea ever de ase la ane Asso Mite contlannt rs; and this he can never do if he Was Gisvovered by @ carpet-bagyer of Genon, fur fiom him that they are liars and villains, and the f tious of our own country Were | Even if the article in the Zriune be sound | laid by rs from every ¢ De- | in its principles and true in its reasoning, | yond the & aperity of some | in ite pr form it only angers those to | pecially of New Or. | whom it is addressed, and confirms them in thelr Jeans, ey ton, and Sa- | Previous opinions, When will politicians learn | vannab, was la: . | the wiedow of the fable of the wind and the sun, | Northern men, ag whom 8 through an e sa W for the pan, and a prefer African rac start | which amazed white mou elsewhere, she had wlled, fora long series of 8 (so called) from th years, cary France. Hence, when the struggle eam the dusky race for whose sake she had r fused to open her gates to white im | who would have given her pros). nt rity, pow gers in blue, the old dominant element of the South seem not to have departed from them, — a Senator Abbott, of North Carolina, the war, assertion, We presume there is som men, and welcome them, in ad of trying But now that : litary authority employed in the work of reconstruction is about being abandoned in ces and demand Not only is the attempt to drive this class aa ution which declares that “citizens of each State such carpet-bngyers able as the epithet is | , 8 | Hyeech proves | might have a, Th t prow to —— greatness by a + of carpet-bag At a Democratic meeting in Choctaw gers; while the South Inpaed into deeropi: | ty, Alabaina, on the 8th inst., eloquent ad- Fes ‘shia Te nd ex were delivered by Col, N. B. Glover, Aaninan eliitaiit » fuiled to establish | Mite) and Lewis Moro, Peter erett, N hecicdunendutncta Tueliie ere Me Tob. Faulkner, colored ; after whi y only of Ja ; Northern and Western States, from Ireland, Germany, and cer, and prestige, deserted her standard, and she was trampled down by the earpet-bag: Though brayed in the terrible mortar of our great civil war, the folly of quoted as having suid that $10,000,000 of North. ern capital had been invested in that State since truth in the At all events, this amount might be had, not only by North Carolina, but by every other Southera State, if her noisy rebel politi. | Eli clans would but cease their abuse of Northern drive them, and bully them, and fiighten them THE SUN busy in doin things are now, a Northern-born man at the South must cither suppress his real sentiments, and #0 ac- knowledge himself @ mean-spirited coward, or else be content both to endure general hatred, and to defend his life, night and day, with his revolver, a One of the most interesting and intelligent journals of New England, and also the best printed, isthe Boron Sunday Times, Indepen- dent in politics, it is able to judge fairly, without any trace of the rancor of party prejudice, In its last number this philosophic mewspaper ex- presses the subjoined opinion: “Tne New York Svx is now managed by the only man in the mewapaper business who man. aged Horace Greeley, He was the first man who ¢ plousibiiity to what appeared an anomaly to everybody clee—that Mr. Chare could er nsistently become the Democratic candidate for President, Mis management of that ‘lark’ we consider as one of the greatest feats of Amer Son ie independent and saucy, ironical and sensibie, and Withela thoroughiy good newspaper, It not fear thes big guns of the * Quadeitater which It {9 surrounded, bat fearlessly belabors the Herald, Tribune, Times, and Wortd, white they are pummeliing cach other, Tux SUN isa sort of m tor over the unruly politicians and wire pull tolls Voth parties how they may win, and I will tose Like thy stories of the the position “of Tue Sus ls entire pacales the somewhat fossilized editors of Gothaw,* ‘Thisis most of it true as well as complimen. } tary, but we take exceptions to what is xaid abo ¢ Honace Gurevey. T Veen hawked around the country long en mics of Mr, Gresley, und it is time to stop it Grecley ie @ man on aigh by own wecount, #0 far as we know, nobody ever managed | Ile has positive notions of his own, and | | le often think him obstinate and head. ut them; aad if anyt thinks or any bod else ever controlled the contrary to Mr, Greeley's, will, he is much mistaken, Our friend thinks th Chief d te for th | Presidency was nothing bata joke. 1 t ifthe Den 1 had gon the Chief Justice for their ean¢ »vomnent to wr 1 atic cand tus add rats nough to te, and to put G ncock in the second place on their | ticket, it might have t @ very successful joke | for them, But they preferred a different course, and they are now be; ning to ui it was never t ; What the Zimes says about Tie Sew is true; and if it had only added that it furnishes for two cents all the news that the blanket-sheet papers sell for fi nd nm good deal more besides, it would have told the whole truth, “Tf another civil war should come,” ex- cl. as the monster of Fort Pillow, “ I want no drones inmy dram of bees.” That is, ho will wait till his enemy surrenders, and then he will slay his prisoners in cold blood, Doesn't Gen, Forrest talk pretty loud for a paroled prisoner ? te a Gen. J. J. Revxonps, who has just asaum- ed command of the new military district of Texas, was serenaded at Austin on the evening of July 29. He thanked the crowd for the compliment, saying that he hoped but a few months would pass before, in addressing an assembly of citizens, it would be unnecessary to prefix the word “loyal’” to one class to dist ish it from another; that all would soon be proud to acknowledge the flag of the United States as their flag, and if need bo fight for it. He added that the principal cause of trouble in the State was from the fact that one class of people are teaching another class that the laws of Congress are not laws; but that he had been sent there to cary out the laws of Congress, and would do it to the best of his ability, His remarks were received with cheers by his audience; and there is good reason forthe belicf thatthe murders and outrages on Union people which for three years have mace a pandemonium of Texas will now be decisively stopped. ‘The real state of things there hitherto yay be judged from the fact that in 1866 there murders; in 1867, 951; and since the g of 1808, there have been 204, Gen, Reyxouns was one of the most distinguished officers in the army of the Cumberland, and eov- cred himself with glory in Thomas's remarkable defeat of Bragg at Chickamauga, after he had routed the right wing of our army, Heis a man of firmness, discretion, and immovable fidelity, A better day begins for Texas and for the country with Lis entry upon that command, ——— inia's vote for President shall be says Green Clay Smith, The law of ed States says it shall not, What is going to do? He says he will head another rebellion to carry out his edict! sind Rehman The Tridune yesterday morning had an arviele upon Mr, Vallandigham’s Fort Wayne speceh, from which we cull these choice ex- pressions “Mr, Valtandigham deliberately tes when he asserts that the Republicans propose to increase the debt to $3, 190,000,000."" “Here he lies again with malice prepense, | the thee of abundant and trretragable testh Who wow says that they villain Hes no less basely than be- f sn this Me Me 74 wualand the whole drift of bis takes occasion every few lines to tell those who nee in controversy for gentle tocy? the following resolutions were adopted, along with two or three others: et eondtall convention. A erebanty mite J enough ior wratic Club, ‘atic Club, y lias been foreve ts, WiLhOUL dis- to be called the Ler o- | and that, as the ‘que ‘ordially Invite to Join With. us, Gaul the day oft 8, W ebext Presidential The Club was then organized. Its officers are 4 President, three Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, and @ Treasurer, Two of the Vico-Presidents are negroes, the other officers are white men, It is plain that the political equality of niggers is fully recognized by the Democracy of Choctaw county, us CL as is Railroads ought to be fenced off, and cross = WEDNESDAY, AUGUST business on track. Nor bad the train any business to cross the wagon road, Railroad com- Panies ought to be made to guard every crossing under heavy penaitics. oo Judge Bernard, of the Supreme Court, yes- terday directed that non-bailable attachments be issued against the new Board of Councilmen, for disobeying the writ of mandomus issued by the Court, directing the admission of Messrs. Geo. W. Tvans, Geo. A. Heinrich, Wm, Lamb, Jobn O'Brien, and Henry ©. Perley, duly elected last fall, to participate in the proceedings of the Board, Our readers are familiar with the contemptuous man- ner in which the newly-installed majority of the Board received the wr't of Judge Barnard. It went so far as to instantly depose its chief clerk for obeying the precept of the Court, The con. tumacious members will be brought before the Judge to-day, and treated according to their deserts, — We like a frank, outspoken politician, but that (horough-going, uncompromising Democrat, the Freeman's Journal, seems to carry it rather too far in the following extract from its edition for the present week : “Mallenant and hateful and hating as he was, ‘Thad. Ntovens was not the Worat Of the Blnck Te! publicon party, He did not devise the Infrmous party, Oniy, as it eame up, his evil heart was, ready for it, and resolced In it," But there was, at least, heat and passion In hls evil doin He was not the cold-blooded Haard that Seward is, who helped to devise the Black Republican party, with no other motive thin that he might thrive on th country.” Itis possible that the late Mr. Stevens was a ivnant, bed man at heart, although ft is r fula of the him that he was ever doing acts of volence, and that his purse was alvi ve in neod. It is possible, too, that Mr. Seward is also a wicked wretelr, bent on the of thereby. at if is country provided that be may thrive hh should b the truth res those two pro it is a trath that no man can know, ‘Their ner souls and essential rs cannot be visible to any mortal not subject to any mortal cond ge not, that ye L words of Divine Wisdom, The reason fur these denunciations of the Freeman's Journal only makes them more un- justifiable, That reason is, that Messrs, Stevens and Seward have long been Republicans, w the Freeman's Journal is a zealous Democrat, Had they belonged to the same political party with that paper, they would never have been as sailed in sueh a manner, This bitterness of spirit i natural to ardent feelings and positive convictions, much cultivated, too, by zealous poli They are apt to be led to believe that the party to which they are opposed is made up of sncaks, liars, thieves, and villains, Of course this belief must be false; and it is a fortunate thing for the world that the common sense of the mass of men always rejects such exaggerated and absurd opinions, and recognizes the truth that the real aim of all political parties, Democratic or Repub- lican, is the good of the country, and that with all their fary they only differ as to the best means of attaining that end. peting not judged,” are the en of It is ‘ eniliiinies k The tone of complaint pervading the reso- lutions adopted on the death of our public men is practical Atheisin of the worst kind. Death is evidently regarded by these resolution makers as a sort of arbitrary and eruel dispensation, which ought to be puta stop to, See the resolutions which have been generally adopted about the death of Thaddeus Stevens, en Mr, Ontver Dynn's article on" The Mag- datens of New York City,” in Zuckard’s Monthly for September, is quite as startling as “ The Wickedest Man in New York,’ which made such a sensation in the July and August numbers of the same magazine, and has @ much more practi- cal bearing, According to bim, there are six hundred and forty-seven known houses of prosti- New York, and he explains some of the hellish devices by which they are provided with inmetes, in addition to the supply which natural female immorality furnishes, In some cases the very parents of the girls themselves profit by their shame, and bring them up toa life of vice as they would to a respectable occupation, Mr, Dyer's discoveries, while probing into this great ulcer of society, are of exceeding interest, and deserve attentive consideration from philanthro- pists, A point specially worthy of note is as follows + A tarce majority of these gicls were once Sabbath: school rs, and many of them are daughters of Numbers of them were formerly chore and members of Christian ‘The same painful fuets have been revealed ors of the Midnight Mission in London, guile rescued from the strects and dens of vice in London by that M one had been w Sabbath-eehool scholar and thelr aggregate aitendance at Sabhgih amounted to one Uhousand two hundred aad sixty: * yeure—an average Of over tree years to each u gir If this be so, does it not prove a radical defect somewhere in the religious instruction imparted in these schools? : —— The agents of benevolent socicties in Sa- vannah, are now in Bost soliciting aid for those people of Gcorgia who have been dismissed from their work because they are Re- publicans, This business of carrying politics into the telations of labor, and of proscribing workingmen on account of their political opin. ions, merits nothing but severe condemnation, The new Dominion is very far from enjoy- ing that domestic tranquillity which was to have followed the confederation. Nova Scotia is bit- terly hostile to the whole business, and a late is- sue of the Halifax Chronicle flames out after th ficree fashion : ‘The Kings who paid tribute are dead,’ Muky Abu Massen to. the envoy of Fedin who came to demand the yearly tribute, ‘and one Mints at present coin nothing but blades of seimitars wd hevds of Lan .' In like manner we say to there Canadian Koighte! “Go biel, sires and tell your Governor-General that the people whe were willing are dead, and at present wo ‘offer but seorn and detestation, We We will not be conciliated, We will tave repeat dently the Blue Noses are in earnest, and if Monck doesn't do something to soothe thom shortly, he may have a little secession war on his hands before he knows it, In that event we shallfecl bound to accord the plucky Nova Scotiaus belligerent rights, at the very least. The Franco-Mexican bond business is making Napoleon's imperial stool joggle under him, It adds nearly €20,000,000 to the French permanent debt, and was a bit of stock-jobbing gotten up for the benefit of De Morny, the ror’s half brother, The late debate in Napoleon's law-making body was quite lively. Jules Favre and other Democrats pushed Rouher, Napoleon's spokesman, to the wall, The fact was elicited that Napoleon's first plan to reduce Mexico to an empire was to take sides with the rebels and occupy New Orleans, but Secretary Seward pre- vented that! oo President Salnave, according to Mr, Con- sul Hollister at Port au Prince, isa paragon of republican integrity. If so, we hope he will put down the rebel Cacos, and restore peace to his troubled republic, Hayti needs @ system of common schools, and so do Jamaica and Domin- Wagon roads ought to be made to pass either un- der or over them ; or if that is impossible, gates and tenders ought to be kept at the crossings, whether in town or country. For want of one of the Jorsey train, when nearing beth on Saturday morning, killed a team. ster and his two horses in the act of cross- to] ing the track, It is no excuse for railroad people to suy that the victim of their neglect had no ica, to bring them up to the level of our Southern colored population: ta ee Congressman Poland, of Vermont, promises ® majority of 90,000 in that State for Grant aud Colfax, —Gor, Seymour pledges himself, if elected, to defend the Constitution, Does he include the four- teenth amendment? Will he auswert? F, P. B, Diu’ ay pays he does pot, ame 1. OUR NEW THEATRES. oe Booth'y Theatre. Itis fitting that Edwin Booth should build a home for the classic drama, Opera bouffe and the ballet are well enough in their way, but of late we have had a surfeit of this kind of theatrical food, and there is@ longing for something higher and nobler, ‘The time for introducing, of rather repro- ducing Shakespearian and other historical plays ts therefore propitious, To this end Mr. Booth is in- vesting a large fortune in erecting a splendid build ing at the corner of Twenty-third etreet and Sixth avenae, which is to be dedicated to tragedy and com: edy a# found in the works of the immortal play. wrights who lived and wrote long ago, and for ail time, ‘The theatre is 130 by 100 fect, with entrances on Sixth avenue as weil as on Twenty-third street, The parquet will be 7 fect wide; from the footlights to the rear wall will be 47 feet, and the stage will be 7H fect wide by 85 feet in depth. There are to be three ticrs of galleries, The latter differ somewhat in construction from the gal- lorles of other city theatres, ‘The boundary linos are of pecullur contour, unique bat gracefal, and instead of rising directly above exch other, the second tier recedes above tue first and the third above the eee: ond, Viewed from the stage this arrangement lools well, besides having the advantage of permitting the “gods of the secoud aud third tiers to have fall view of the ttage fs a cavity out of the solid performance, Beneath 82 feet in depth, blasted rock, aud which will be made available for tho purpose of sluking whole fcones, thus obviating telescoping aud the eumb:ous machinery generally used. seonery will be handled on anew aud fmproved plan, specially ai vised for the wee of this theatre. The carponter’s and boller end m will be under the side- walk of Twenty-third #ireet, so far away from the body of the building as to render danger from fire most impossible, At the rear of the theatre i Dullding (2tx150), in which the green room, {nt rooms will be located. the old Winter Garden was burned, Mr. Booth Was Wad consteuted a tire-proot room, where his valnable wardrobe will be deposited. ‘The honse will eat 1,70) persons comfortably, and 1,000 more ean be squeezed juto standing room. The distance from the entrances to the body of the ho is short; and as there are six means of exit the house cau be emptied La a very few minutes in caso of emergency. ‘The exterior of the theatre will be one of the most chaste and imposing specinens of architecture in the city, It is in the renaissance style, bullt of white Concord granite. The height to the cornice will be seventy-two fect, which will be considerably in- creased by the addition of a high ornamental Mai ‘ard roof, surmounted by threo elevated square towers, Over the doors ou the Twenty-third street side will be bas rollefs, representing tragedy, comedy, And romance, Over the main entrance is a niche where a fulilength statue of the bard of Avon, the presiding genius of the estublisument, will be placed. On either side, In corresponding uieves, tragedy and comedy will take their appropriate places, near to the figure of him who was (le greatest of all men in both, ‘The Sixth avenue aide will be rented for etores, te only reservation made being the entrance on at stres On the top floor of the builuingsthere vil be one of the most magnificent Masonic lodges in the country, It is already rented to New Yo Lodge %”. The Lodge will also bave the ne of parlors, ante-rooms, and offices, Opposite to the theatre, where a row of old-fashioned houses now stand, the Grand Lodge of the State of New York will rear a noble edifice as a Grand Temple. This building will be worthy of the strength and influ- ence of the fraternity in the Empire State, and will not pale in architectural beauty alonside the magniil- cent theatre golug up under the influence of the en- ergy and enterprise of the genius and gentleman, Edwin Booth. Messrs, Renwick & Sands designed the outside of the theatre, hut to Superintendent John A. Robert son are due the internal arrangements, which have met with the unqualided approval of the proprictor, ‘The work was delayed about three weeks by the bricklayers’ strike. The walle are nearly up to the required elevation, and the roof will soon be put on If nothing Intervenes (o upset present calculation theatre-goers will have an opportunity to welcome back the legitiwate drama on the first of December next, The entire cost will bo ne: $700,000, Mr. J. Henry Magonigie, Dasiness manager, takes the place of Mr. Booth, who ts generally absent at Long Bronch. ‘The opening of this house will be an epoch in the history of the drama in this city, Mr. Booth's ward- been in the hands of the manufacturer and it will exceed any: New York boards, The costumer who has charge of this Important work {a periy ia), Who thoronghly wn- derstands the garb ti ¥ t ‘every period of his tory, Booth devotes much of his time to supervising the production of his wardrobe, pede 2 Lis Wood's Mascum and Metropolitan Theatre, At the corner of Broadway and Thirtieth street stands a play-house, known to play-goers principally as the place where De Pol produced the “Devil's Auction,” which sale continued but for a brief pe- riod, It was a ecll, This same building of unpro- tentious exterior promises to become better known in the future, and before many years have gone by the name of Wood's Museum will found as pleasantly on the ears of our country cou- fins as did that of the irrepressible and world-renowned Barnum, This museam will em- brace all the notable features of the old museum, besides many new ones; and the faults of the latter establishment—for, like all mandane things, it had its fuulie—will be beacon lights of warning to Mr. Wood, For instance, the drop curtain will not be an advertising medium where patent medicines will stare in the purchaser's face immediately afer the ixappenrance of some {un-making actor, The the: tre has becn improved; handsome prosceniuin boxes have becn added, and two tiers of galicries, instead of three as hefore, admit of better ventilation and cor- responding comfort, and enable the audience to have an unobstructed view of the stage. Margie Mitchell will be the opening star, and a bright oneshe Is, ‘The play will be “Lorie,” written espectally for Misa Mitchell, ‘The Museum las been thoroughly renovated, and the agents of Mr. Wood iu Europe have sent over novel atiractions, ‘There will be wax “fg- gers,” as Artemus Ward used to write it, and 4 to) “amusin’ little cusses of all kinds, form ing happy family domesticating together tn one cage, Then there will bo “snaix"? and other specimens of the works of natar which, fortunately, are #0 novel to us that we are willing to poy to see them, An aquarium will bea pleasant source of nmuscment to admirers of Lawak Walton ; and those who cannot afford to go to Lon- don to sce tho Parliament Houses, or Wash- ington, or have not an opportunity to take a bird's-cye view of this city, can do so at the Muscum, where models, neatly and accurately con- structed, will be on exhibition, This is not all, for the Siamese twins—genulne Siamese and twins cer- tain—are coming before going to Paris to be separated, and so 1s the baby woman, and Miss Swan, the glantes#, who narrowly ezcaped from Barnum’s fire, and a pair of Clreassian girls, with whom adolescent youths will be infatuated, and Scottish dwarfs, and many other curious and wonderful things. The Automaton Leotard ts a marvellous fellow, We won't deseribe him minutely, as it would take the edge of the pleasure of seelhg him por sonally, Splendidly furnished dressing rooms for ladies and enticmen have been added to the resuurcer of the house, On the inaugur num wiil deliver an address, fisted in the management Thomas Theall, long and favorably known at the New York Theatre, will be Chancellor of the Mu ‘soum Exchequer, and It would be bard to find a bet- ter one, jon day, the Stat inst., Mr. Bar- Mr. Wood will be os» Mr. Colville, and. Mr. pasar baer Fifth Avenue Theatre, Mr, John Prougham {s renovating the old P:fth Avenue Opera House, and, like everything be does, {t will be well done, It will consist of a parquet, dress circle, and @ second circle—the prices of al- mission being a dollir and « half to parquet, a dol. lar to dress circle, and seventy-five cents to sccond— with six private boxes, two of which are already let for the season, It will be as handsome as money can make {t in the auditorium, and have all the new im- provements behind the curtain, A cholce stock company has been selected, together with a One orchestra, under the leadership of Mr, Eckhart, ‘This theatre will be conducted according to the strictest rules of good taste, ‘Tho plays will be ight, pleasant, and attractive, but free from every thing tashy cr sensation he house will open early fi ober with two new pieces by the genial roprietor, wud ean hardly fall (© be a success from Wie ouley ers to Correspondents, “Theology.""—The question, “ Did God remain {dlo before the creation of the universe? touches: upon subjects which we cannot discuss In these columns..." Anxious."—Commodore — Vanderbilt usually resides at 10 Washington place, New York. Where he may be at any given moment, you can find ‘out by inquiring there, or at the offices of the Harlem and Hodson River Railroad Companies ....“ Con- stant Reader.”’....A man's widow Is entitled to dower in all the land which he owned at any time during the marriage, without respect to the number of wives he may have had previously, He ean, if he pleases, sell his land without her ature to the deed, but the purchaser, in that ease, runs the risk of bis dying before his wife, and of being obliced to allow her her dower...“ W. C."=The site of Canal street from the North River to a little east of Centre street, was formerly occupied by a pond called the Cotlcet, It was never a canal...“ W. 1" —We know nothing of the employment agencies you speak of, but would advise you to pay then no such money a8 you ay they ask....°@, B. A."—Vor infortoation about Cornell University, see Monday's Suw, first Page..." Constant Rendor.*--Sehiooey's Mountain 1s 1,100 feet above the level of the sea, We can find ho statement of the height of Port Jervis, - — Jobu Goulding, the Champion Walker, en Somnambullsimy To the Biitor of Th Sin: Noticing in your valuable journal an ar- ticle on sommambaltem, E thought I wonld contribute rome evidence of son the subject, having had ome experionce during my arduous tnok of walkie 1,000 mice in 1,000 hours, For somo time after had completed the last mile, T was subject to fits of rising from my bed at very “une pnable’ hones, aud getting myself in readiness to wal wile, Mo strong was the Inclination that I coull hardly persuade myself that Iw y wear tua'ly on the track. During the mateh T employed a person to awaken me atcertain hours, You eon ima; that this methodical treatment beeame almost “=ocond n ‘The barber has shavel me when to all in torts and purposes asleop. After I hal finished 1 was ordered by an eminent physician to be awa Kened at stated Intervals, for a fortulg Prevent a violent reaction of the m Tean safely say that Ehave performed more feats of von puilsm than 1 y firmed somnambulists, futivae, Indueed by the «! The sen on ain on the nervous aystem, Isaspectes of longuor that i as near to the feeling produced by opium, hashish, or other intoxicating drags, as can be imagined, thereby incres disie ng the Ues of being awakenod and propared tor ra JOHN GOULDING. ee TMB ENT RUSS MUESSENG AN ST. LOUIS, oR ROBBERY From the St. Louta Republican, August V3. Shortly after 9 o'clock yesterday morning a robbery of extraordinary boldness was developed on Becond strect, and crenied an intense exelterent for some time. "The party robbed was Josiah Cross, messenger of the Adame’ Express Company, aud tae amount taken is stated at abor OH, Cross iW a respectable wan, about 40 veurs of nce, and has been counceted with the Company rbout four years. His duties have Deen thoge of u messenger or money deliverer, and he enjoys the confidence of his employers. Yesterday morning he started on his rounds as usual, having 40 or 50 packages of mot to deliver, and one marked as containing #117.7, dressed to Th, F. Goodrich & Co., Roont No. 3111 North Secoud atreet, between Cliesuut und Bine, east side. ‘The messenger visited two or three thon bent his steps toward the ome of Co. The ground floor of the builitf the Erte 1 Hnces, anit Joodrtely & is occupled by naportation Company, ‘and a narrow stalrense lends to the upper floors, whieh are divided in rooms. On the second floor, to the right of a small lobby, ts room No. 2, and from the top of ‘ie door projected yesterday tnorning a board to wiich ed a long card henring the #/gn in lare type, Goodrich & Co." and shuliar cards wer ‘on some of the stops of the stairs, Wholely unsuspecting anything wrong, Croce mounted the stairs and knocked at the of He was bid to enter, and fn he wen the room, one sitting at a desk at the wind her, it is said, reading a nowspaper, rected to hand the parkage to the party at th Cros advaneed and did xo, and the anparently to reevipt fur it. At the uniuel ee Twos sclzed fro door had been closed, and now the tru meneed, The robber was a powerful man, and n stood his business: his fingers sank deep and viec into the neck of the messenger, on ene wide, niu Cross «trageled Half choked and bew tthe villains, and a terril! Probably nearly two tm Anally ‘resorted to. dea Every minute was franght will peril reckless of human life, One of th oF heavy iron, about fiMeen ine fragment of a tire of a whee kiralghtened out. Itwas nearly broad, and al this murderous weapon, brought to the room in sirnek Cross three or four times heavily until at length he fell to the floor and insensible, Ina moment the robbers had gained possession of his ¢% nd all of his packages, and tinmed urcetiny . for bot w lod a piece i, apparently , witch had been an ineh and a tialf uta quorter of dn inch thick. With and no doubt scenred of nee the rol Po: tion Company, but at Orst it was supposed that t z med by the now fem moving in pr perty, Mr, Albert Parker, one of the clerks, spoke about the noise up stairs, and sald be though he 1 go and see what k! of goods Goodrich & were moving In, He walked to the door of the ny idea of wetually feng the doorway he lewd ‘taira very fust, and then aman carrying a number of packages passed hin, walking very quickly, and went rapidly down Secon street, In about three or four minutes the meseonzer, Cross, came rushing down stairs, He carried the vitled t-bae in his hand, and ran out on the atreet, he blood was streaming from his head, his arms were Waving Wildly, and his whole demeanor that of a crazy man, He'could only utter incoherent cries at fret, but finally got out fn broken words, “Did you see them? y took all Lhad; where did they got Why. didn’t you stop He was evidently suffering from the eftects of the chlo- roform, and as hewas seized by some gentlemen he fell down on the street. In a moment more, how ever, he had cained his feet and ran like one de. imented toward the express office, which is only a short distance from the spot. A lurge crowd axsem- Died on Second street, and fora tew moments no- body seemed to understand what had happenest, and agiod deal of excitement prevailed, ie facts of the matter soon became known, end the room in Which the robbery was perpetrated was visiiod by many, and the particulars of the desperate aftalr formed the theme of conversation in the vicinity du- ring the morning. In the meantime the robbers esea Only one man was seen to come down the st the oue nos theed by Mr. Parker, and where the other rolber went or how he escaped ts not known, The faets of the robbery were promptly reported to the Clief of Polle nd * Fly Cops” vanished in pureult, but with what success remains to be seen. The actual amount of money taken was about §5,100, contained in about forty packages. ir, Cross was ver efivets of the chloroform, but from the blows on the head, the marks of four of which remain. The fingers of one of his hands were badly bruised by a stroke from the iron bar, His wounds were dres and then he was taken Lome, He is much dist at the robbery, but, under the circuustaue conduct deserves nothing but praise, It Is probable the robbers iced to get amount than that which fell Into thelr pe ‘One reason they reelected a room office doubtless, that they nger would come fo thelr room suurted out upon his rounds, and hence wi all bis packages with him, At the same ( left the office, another emnenncr started delivering tour, having with him about ¢ itis fortunate Tor the company that the package fe Goodrich & Co, was not intrusted to bim, It ts that Cross felt a little vague suspicion as he ap proached the place, aud hesitated in the lobby before entering the ruom, jal A Ne Real Issues of the Election, Prom (6 Sreeman's Journal, Let it not be 1): sight of fora moment that the issmes to be ¢ dare two, One is the resto + to their ancient free and lai the Union, with t ute a is agains ‘a Let keep the afllieted peopl uth fron) rebuilding what ‘Tecumpeh Attila burned and des\.oyed—and to call that {desolation ene is to adjust the financial trouble, set se at's large part ot he taggge imposed. Herutle platform was tntended, thls time, It means poting ational Banks, It me ndding to the “legal-tender” greenback currene: about Ove bundred piillions. It means, thu ining taxation to the amount of sixty o Hons a year, Without ralsing the pr its present mark, Let Democrats bo emphatic, everywhere, in in- sisting on cach of theso Issucs, ‘The first concerns not ouly the restored prosperity of the who. coun- try, but the very preservation of onr Wberties, at the Noith as well as at the Houth. A population of po, litical abjects at the South, hanging on. the will of the General of the Armies, who has held and used that position to make himself President also, is in- compatible with the pr..ervation of liberty in any part of the North, And, again, the horrible debt, which is distressing the Jaboring people of the country—who seem to Ve ring great wages, but ean saye nove of it, because it is eaten uf 4 tuxes—this debt, we say, must Le ‘otten rid of, When it is cleared, ther labor may 1 bope to have some re to be explicit, not end to the oppress OF LO Make BOWE Sayings, seriously injured, not from the | UNDEAMS. eemsstlfpeennen =Mr. Gladstone has decided to be a candidate for Parliament for South Lancashire, —The first snow of the season fell on the dome of Mt. Washington on Friday morning. =A fossil elephant has been dug up at Easton, Md. Many portions are nearly perfect, including tusk eight feet long. —A hundred and fifty native Japanese Chris: tans drowned, by order of the Pogan Mikado, and Christian powers with their fleets near by! —Over 6,000 pilgrims to Mecen have returned home, absolved from all their sins by kissing tho famous black stone, —The conversion of 50,000 Fee joo cannibals, ous ‘of 900,000 anthropophagi, into eaters of } ah and vegetables, Is @ triumph for the Christian mis #lonaries, =When the fow own the land, the scenes vs ‘Tipperary are inevitable, It used to be soin France, All the Revolution came and divided the taads) among the many. Seymour is announced to de annual addr ver the of September, —The late Sir Benjamin Lee Guin wealthy brewer ef Dubin, lett property to the value of Mariposa in California, who when Fremont was de- he would er ected Prest. Ile hair is his n the grown r the Presidengy, and tT his favor ¢ sould bee ne, in the last Ave yenrs, to jeros and antver ities and theotegtieat naries in the United States, Indicates a tove of ‘on whieh no other nation under heaven has ulate rt that the late Mr. Thaddens Sto. s was baptigcd just before he dled, hy a Sister of arity who was nu him, t+ contradicted by the Freeman's Journal, on the ground that such baptism ‘would be contrary to the rales and usuges of the Ca- tholte Chureb —An English reporter, describing the appear- ance of Mr. Jefferson Davis end family, who arrived in England at the commencement of the month, says that Mrs, Davis looked as if she had a dash of mulatto blood” in her, and her children looked as if they had the #ame, —The Spragues, of Rhode Tstand, have given out contriels for $1,000,000 worth of machinery to be put into tuctories to be erected at Angusta, Me, within five years, Senator Sprague has recently Veen ia Angusta on business counected with the Purchase of the company in that city, —The South Carolina papers are inoxpressibly shocked because ata colored fair, retently given at Columbia, “Mr, Speakor Moser, of tie (so-called) Legislature of South Carolina, and young Mackey, the would-be Sheriff of Charleston, were present— the one funning and gaily chatting with the dusky dameels, while the other promenaded the room with 4 young lady of mixed breed, —Vrof. Max Maller, of the University u« Oxford, wishes itto be known that the repoit of a lecturing visit from him to the United States te not true, “Much,” he writes to an Ameriean frlead, “an T should like to visit the United States, I should feel that, as lecturer on language and religion, was carrying coals to Neweastle, considering how many exellent lecturers on those subjects you pos- res in Americ: —The Pope has communicated to Count de Sart) the Freneh Aub dor, his determination to admit to the Geumenteal Conveil a representative from the Emperor Napoleon, indepen tently of any decision he may come to respecting the other Catho- Me Sovereigns, With respect to the other Sovereigns, Cardinal Antonelli remarke “Who can assure os that the Kings now reigning will be on thelr thrones ‘at the end of 18607" —Among the candidates for seats in tho new British Parliament ‘eral are or have been con- neetod with the newspaper press, including Mr. Lowe, Mr. Baines, Mr. Roebuck, Mr, John Walter, prinelpal proprietor of the London Times, Professor Morley, of the Fortnightly Review, Mr, Edward Mi- all, of the Noaconformist, Mr. Tillet, editor of tha Norfolk News, Mr. Jaifray, of the Birmingham Post, and Mr, Gorrie, formerly editor of a Seoteh paper. —It is proper, we suppose, to repeat a little thing about young 8. I, Tyng, who was one morning walking to a chareh in which he was to preach, Ho was accompanied by his father, On the way they got into conversation with an olt colored man, who as- rured them that he had rejoiced in a Christian hope for upward of fity years, “Are you going to this chnreh It was the only church in the village. "No, sah—T neber go to that church." “You never noto church—ond yet you have been a Christian these fifty years!” “No, sah—Ineber go to hear thom young ministers prac-t ® preacher my seif—T i —The Nata? (South Africs) Mercury gives @ horrible account of the slave trade carried on by the Boers of the Tronsvaal Republic, The Boers make expeditions against the native tribes, kill the ads and carry off the children into tlavery. The Rev Mr. Ludorf, an old Dutch minister, stated in a pul Me meeting of the Boers that on one occasion, near Zoutspanberg, a “number of native children too young to be removed were covered with long gra nnd burned alive,” and no one contradicted him, ‘The London Spectator says: * The Britis: Government is determined to proteet the Basutos against these raids, and the Boers have sent envoys to Europe to protest against its conduct, and procure ald for the Republic, ‘They ought to obtain a hearty reception from the gentlemen who adhered to the South, and subscribed to the Eyre Defence Fund.” —The editors of the Phris Magazine, a very able, but not very prosperous, Paris weekly, applicd recently to Henri de Rochefort, editor of the Lan- fern, and the most successful French journalist ot the day, for advice ns to the steps they should take Im order to make their paper finanelalty successful. He told them to shun, above all things, long articles, ond never to publish anything containing more than one hundred and fifty lines. * Formerly," he says, “people went home with a magazine, put on thelr dressing-gown and slippers, and read until dinner time; but now they keep their boots on and read in walking, Publish plenty of small items, enfrefilets, separated by considerable spaces, ‘The public does not thank you for giving it more ‘copy? than it de- mands, Our readers, It Is true, like good editorial Dut most of tacm, as soon as they open thelr Jour- Jook in the local columns in order to sec it Mademotselle Marie Roze bas found her little d again.” —The Full Mal! Gazette say “ Mossrs, Rive ington, the well-known publishers, have just received practical warulng against giving credit to ‘infant? undergraduates of the universities, Jonn Bentinek Hopwood, of Trinity College, Cambridge, the son of clergyman, ran up an account for books with Mr, de Lisle, the manager of Messrs. Rivington's business, to the amount of £8448, Gd. Mr. J. 8, Till, a solicl- tor, acting for Mr, Hopwood's father, called upon Mr. de Liste, and warned him not to trust the son any further, offering at the same tine a cheek for £70 in discharge of the debt then due, which Mr, de Lisle refused to accept, saying that he should continue to trust young Hopwood; and trust him he did, until his secount amounted to £09 74, Md, The Messrs. Rivington brought an action for thatamount. The Lord Chief Justice tried the case at Cambridge on the ist instant, and afer animadverting most severely upon the credit system adopted by tradés- men at the universities, pointed out that such books as the Bible with Gustave Doré's illustrations, two copies of Hotten's Slang Dictionary, Rabelais IlIps~ trated, a Chinese work In five volumes on rice paper, Joe Miller, ® History of Signboards, and » copy of the warrant for the execution of Charles the Firet, &e., &e., could not be held to be necessaries for au undergraduate of moderate means. Neither was ‘necessary’ that a copy of Don Quixote should be bound at a cost of £5 10s,, or that a copy of Tenny> son's Poems should be charged £4 48. ‘The ju concurred with Sir A, Cockburn, aud fouud a verdict for the defendaut™ before the Saratogn Agriculttrral So. clety, Saratoga Springs, on Thursday, the 10th day \ the gy 0), wh is id tobe the largest an t ever disposed of by will in Ireland, —The proceedings of the annual Westeyay Conference In Engh show that the great body of the Weslesan ministers are opposed to any plan for | reCatry into the English Chure =. Serres, well known for his researches in | pateont has beqneathed to the French Acade- ty of Sclenees a sum to be dev 4 toa triennial prize of the value of £240 for the best memoir on See - area