The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 25, 1869, Page 2

-aNTS. —— aa¥=The Young Recruit. CADEMY. OF MUTSIO—Itarlan Opera. Le Favorite, BREW YORK THRATRE—Lady of Lyons. ARORN—Forty Thieves: or, “Striking ‘On im * Family dare” Matinde on Satarday. DOOTH'S THEATRE, 280 et, detwean Sth nnd GLO ave, Romeo and Jattet, Matinée on Baturday, WALLACK'8—Moch Ado About Nothing, HOODS MUSECM—Fra Diavolo and ihe Field of the Cloth of Gold, Living and Wrid Animate, DLYMPIC THEATRE—Humpty Downpty. Matinces at 1 o'cloek, Weanesaave and Saturdays, THRATRK FRANCAIS—Gencvicve do Trabant, Math née on Satnnday WAVERLEY THEATRE, Matinée on 42 Rrondway—t orgia M.D., of La Grand Doctross, Mati Raturdar. POWERY THEATRE—Medai of Death. Matinée on aiurday. KEW FORK CIRCTS, 14th Ft, opposite Academy of Morice The Brothers kazare, Alsiiute today, 5 eee The Mraz Sun, Tt Bhines for Alt THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 95, 1869, ‘Terms ot the sun. Darvy.per rear tomail subse Baur Warxny, per year. Ten eopics 10 obe audee Twenty copie to one Fifiy copies to one Wreviy per year red Twenty copies to ove aires’, -.+... rato one address... copies, i Clad paciage nt iwveriably (a Advanes, ADVERTISING RATED, Fortin Pint. peri nese. at Club rates so carte Three lines ca words) oF less, Preciat Sortces, por iine...... ee i coats | Te charged ouiylor the «pave secur THE SUN Ws cervet to Rumeribere at thelr omen, Rronghout the Metropolitan Distrist, at 12 carte per Week. Orders for the paper received wt le sux Ciice | doruer of Nassau and Frauafort ea, oF et any of ue Pews siands, — A Step in the Right Direction, The House of Representatives has dene a forcement of his party will be a euro conbe- quence of his success, That Gran will make mistakes is more | of smiling women Instead of the bandy black | 72 PLANS AND SPROEFICATIONS, than probable. No man could ayoid them ‘The shrewdest and most experienced states: man is sometimes led astray, But Grant's military record affords an assurance that he will not often orr either in the formation of measures or tho selection of agents. And, however that may be, while the masses of the people give him their confidence, the Republican party cannot deal with him on Any narrow or grudging terms, The existe ence of that purty as a governing power now depends upon him. If he fails, it col Inpses. Tf he wine, the glory is his, but the profit will go to tho party. The interests and the life of the Republican organivation aro bound up with his official fortunes to a degree almost without example in our history It is judiepensable that Congrees should lay aside the extraordinary authority it hes maintained during the struggle with Mr. Jonxson, We do not find fault with its original assertion. Under the circumstances it wag natural; indeed, let us say, it was necessary, Dut the exigency has gone by, and the normal conditions should be restored, | ‘The different powers of the Government should at once be brought back to their un. questionable Limits, he President who is inaugurated next week should at the begin: fog bold in his hands all the means of dis. charging his fanctions that are contemplated by the Constitution. ‘This is required by the needa of the country. It is required quite a much by the needs of the Republican party. If Gen. Grant is fettered 60 that he cannot net, the country will témporarily suffer, but the Republican party will break in piccvs pasiiaihhardhietaly Good-bye to the Minstrels. It is an old dogina in medicine, and a most happy arrangement for suffering humanity, wise thing in passing Mr. Scuruncn’s bill | at the system refusce to bo afflicted with fecla @ that the faith of the United States | ™re than one discawe at a time. This rule fe wlemnly pledged to the payment, in eoin | ends beyond the sick room, and adinits of Dr its equivalent, of all the interest bearing obligations of the nation, excepting those Which sre, by express terms, payable in eur tency. To take away all appearance of hard- ahip or unjust discrimination, however, the bill provides that the principal of none of the dbligations thus declared to be payable in Poin shall be paid before maturity, unless the United States legal tenders shall pre. viously have becn made redeemable in coin at the option of the holder; in other words, hot until the Government shall have resumed Bpecic payments, & very general application. half a dozen popular re It holds good in our pleasures aw well as in our pains, and ia as true of the public at lurge as of an indi- vidual sudden admiration for one kind of amuse- | ment, ali the others are neglected and de- | rerted, | the how easily it transfers itself from one class of entertainment to another. Tf the public mind selzed with It is curious, therefore, to observe ckle nature of popular favor, and to note Within the last ten years there have been vitions in the dra- matic world. The wheel goes round, and what is uppermost towlay finds itself on the Jt is apparent to all, who have considered the subjcet of the national finances in the Fame commonsense light that they would Apply to the affairs of an individual, that the | Dret thing to be done to bring the country into a healthy financial condition is to raise | the national credit so that its promises to pay, whether actually paid in gold or not, shall | be universally regarded as equal to the gold | Ateclf. Until this isdone, we shall be floating | about ina soa of uncertainty, aud pour trade in an unsettled state entirely incompati | the real burlesque eompanics hav descending #lope to-morrow. ‘The French opera Lou, or buffuon opera, came, and the Italian opera disappeared, Now, burlesque ia in full possession of the field and negro min- strelsy is on the rapid decline. And no wonder. The negro companies have utterly forgotten the old adage, “ No cobbler beyond his last,” | and undertaken the burlesque business. Now come, and, fighting them upon tho ground they have attempted to occupy, beat them at every Blo with true prosperity, Great mischief hag | Point. ‘The very things that the artists in been done in this respect by the carcless burned cork do in a bungling, cheap way, and wicked threats of partial or complete the white companies bring out ina superior which some of Yepudiation in our style, and the public turn with pleasure from Logielators have indulged ; but as soon aw | the #lipshod colored performances to the Mz. Scrrexcn’s Dill is concurred in, ax it un. | More bri lant, costly, and elaborate produc. Boultedly will be, by the Senate, much, if | Hons of the burlesque theatres, Hot all, of this mischief will be remedied, No ono will be sorry whon negro min- Let tho world once bo convinced that wo | #FOlay receives its final quictus and ie Intend to keop © faith, and let it further see that we are prac tising the retrenchment and ceonomy by which alone we can accomplish our inten tion, and but little more will remain to be | done. Our bonds and our legal tender notes will goon riso to par in gold, and the whole difficult problem of the resumption of specle payments will have bee effort. The other section of Mr. Scrmnxck's bill— that declaring that contracts for the payment pf coin may bo enforced according to their lerms—has lést much of its importance since Whe decision of the Supreme Court to the dame effect, but it may nevertheless serve to allay all possible doubt on that question, and do be useful, —_ The Repudlican Party and Gens Grant. The Republican party was saved from de- Teat at the last elvetion solely by the prestige of Gon. Grant's name and character, and Me stupidity of the Democrats. As that ablo and upright statesinan Gov. Bovrwews remarked the other day $n Con. Breas, the restoration of the Southern States Bnd the fifteenth amendment of the national Constitution complete the history of the party. It was born from hostility to the extens on of Mavery, It came into power in 1361 by the connivance of the Southern fanatics. Ite earcer has been memorable, glorious. It has ~ killed secession, buried rebellion, abolished Wavery, and raised the reputation and influ. ence of the country to an unprecedented Importance before the nations of the world. Thia being done, the party has to take a now departure, and set np for itself new objects and a new policy. Its situation Is like that of the Democrats after thoy had whipped the Federalists, or again after they had overthrown the United States Bank, It often happens that such transitional periods In the development of parties are marked by Mheir defeat and the incowing of the opposi- Von, Buch an event was quite in the natu- ral order of things for the Republicans last fall, but they escaped it through the opcra- ion of the causes we have mentioned. —— Tt some respects the presen? circumstances of the Republican party are promising; in othe! yy are unfavorable, he long ci test Mr, Jounson has indeed given the party the advantago of resisting a weak, blundering, and contemptible antagonist, doomed in advance to an extreme unpopu- larity ; but, onthe otherhand, ithas imbued ‘Congress with the love of exclusive power ; At has suggested to the Senate that it is the natural centre of the Government; and by fastening on the President the shackles of the Tenure of Office act, it has rendered the Buccessful administration of the Government and the honcet collection of the revenue well nich impossible. These are difficulties and dangers of great magnitude; but they aro counterbalanced by the fact that in Gen, Guanr the Republicans haye elected a Presi- dent of extraordinary firmness and discre. tion, Though not « politician, and though his primary object will be to perform his du- Mes wisely faithfully, and for the wood of a Hoel promiaas ty good | Otiven off the fleld. solved without an | | degenerating for yore, and has fallen into very general disrepute. When it was frosh and new there was a certain pleosure about | it, Attempts were then made to hit off the ludicrous phases of tho negro character, | and to reproduce the features of plantation | life, Good song writers composed | to pass into the musical literature of the | country. ‘They wore sung by accomplished | vocalists, and the best of them, | “Old Folks at Horm Carry mo back to OM Virginny,” “Old Unelo Ned,” and a hundred others, had some reference to the joys and sorrows of the blacks, their love of home, and their better characteristics ; and this light, as well as from their intrinsic beauty, were interesting. But this was dropy od by degrees, In | their hearts hated the negro himself; and it | iba noticeable fact that during all the long moral straggle for the freedom of the black race that proceded the war, and during the war itself, those men, Who made their liveli hood by parodying the poor negro, never spoke a word in favor of the despised race or aided its cause in the slightest deprec. Ou the contrary, the staple of their wit was ridicule of those who favored his enfran- chisement. We have sald that the decline in negro minstrelsy was marked by the abandonment of all attempts to illustrate negro character. It has been hastened by the minstrel troupes gradually transforming themselves into bur- Josque companies, aud undertaking traves ties on Ttwlian operas, When this was done, their Dluckened faces lost all their elyniti. eanee, One of the operas they have bur- lesqued, for instance, has been * Lucretia Bor- gia.” What possible aid to the fun of the thing it has been to make a black Luerctia, and a black Mugeo Orsini and Gennaro, it is dificult to see, Still loss is it comprehensi- ble how people could find pleasure in hear. ing @ man dressed ag a woman serecching the part of Luchitia Borgia in a detestable falsetto voice, forced and unmusical to tho last degree, alded by @ company utterly in competent not only to render but even de- contly to travesty tho music of Doni zerTi's bewutiful opera, When we wero 60 hard driven for some. thing to laugh at that we had to resort to such poor second-hand attempts at buffoon opera as this, it certainly was time for the genuine opera bouffe to come ; and when tho negro minstrels had strayed #o fur away from the original purpose for which they were format as to flud no better employment for themselves than the endeaver to see how badly they could ridicule the Italian opera, it was high thine for somo more legitimate form of burlesque to make ita appearance and drive the black usurpers from the field, ‘This it is apparently in a fair way to ac complish. The negro audiences aro gradual- ly dwindling away before the superior at- tractions of their white rivals, The latter— in fact, have every advantage in their favor, better theatres, better costumes better orches- KPO | melodica of sufliciont merit to enable them | such as the | reality, the Imitators of the negro always in | is imprisonment in a State prieon for not the offence und Provecation, and by pleading guilty had | saved the county the trouble and expense of | atrial, Judge Baw only two years, diffused throngh the ranks of rascality in | this city by the stern course which Judgo | would be wneerssity for incurring any debt what Bauxanp has pursued during the term of | ¢'" the Oyer and Terminer that has just elo should shield him from such attacks as those a report which is extensively eiroutated among the eireles of Ni of the Fifth avenue to celebrate ths unve statue representing the Roman god tho entire country, the building up and rele. | tens, bettor sonory, and as a result, better andionees, ‘They give us pretty white faces Instead of ugly black ones, aymmetrical legs shins of men, resplendent golden locks in place of curled wool, With so many points against them, it is hardly to be wondered at that theee Othellos find their occupation nearly gone. — Judge Barnard and the Press. Some unjustifiable eriticiems by th country press, and more expecially the Albany Bren- ing Journal, Wave Veen bestowed upon Judge Banxaty tor his recent sentence of Grins NG for the killing of Trmuxan. The simple focts are that TIEMNAN provoked GnEeENING to attack him, and the result of their quar. rel was that Greenina stabbed TreHNAN, Both were intoxicated, and in the altercation ‘Tremsan fell dead under the knife of Gners- ING, his is clearly a case of manslaughter in the third degree, ‘Tho Revised Statutes do- fine the different grades of this offence with precision, ‘The killing of a human being, Without a design to effect death, in a heat of pesion, but ina eruel and unueual manner, ia the eecond degree, ‘The killing ins heat of passion, without a design to effect death, by a dangerous reapon, ithe third degree. ‘This Inst was unquestionably the crime of Greesina, He had heen indicted for murder, but the District Attorney, seeing that he could not conviethim ofthat offence, accepted hie plen of guilty of manslaughter in the third degree. According to the usual mode of transacting business in the Courta, the Judye had nothing to do with the acceptance of this plea ; it was done by the District Attorney. The punishment in cases of manslaughter is fixed by etatute, For the third degree, it mi y than four nor leas than two years ew of the fact that Green In # committed | cireumstances of strong | ARD sentenced him for | terror which has | to which we have allud: b_SUN, THORSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1869, ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. © —_—_—— ——— ‘The Central Park the Field of Operations ‘Natural Hiscory~An Buore It is well known that the Central Park Com missioners liave from the firat intended to add to the attractions of the Park extensive zoGtogien! gardens; bat, ae at this time of severe taxation they are no- wilting to angment the budget of city expenditnres, ‘Wey consider it dee rable that the proposed gardens shoutd be made retfsupporting if poesible. Va. Hous plans for the attainment of tis end have been condidered, bit Ht (« nnderstood that as yet none has | been definitely settled anon, One scheine which bas net with the favor of fome of onr most prominent eelentifie men, ae well af the support of thoroughly preetien! bueiness men, seems to offer a epeedy and very simple means of are riving at the desired reenlt in a manner which ean: not full to command the approbation of the entire community, and is substantially ax follows: It is propowed to form a Zovlogical Boctety, whieh shall incinte not only reientifte men, but aleo other eitizons of high standing and reputation who may deco Interested in the project. and that thir So- elety a offer to assume the labor and respons bility of organizing and monaging the gardens in th interest of the public, Stch a soctety, by means of correspondence with forelan sclentifie societics, would be enabled to eeenre peculiar advantages, and by taking the work into their own hands would re- Neve the Commissioners from the care of innames rable details entirely foreign to the general purposes of the Commission, and which the latter would donbiless gladly delegate to other hands, provided that they could be assured that the interest of th Public Would not suffer by such meourse, ‘There is good precedent for such a disposition of the rater | in the action of the Crown Commissioners of Woode and Fe fn England, who made over to the Zodlogical Society of London « portion of Regent's Park for the formation of the Zoological Gardens established there, Buppore, then, th Park Commissioners lay Out te grounds selected for the purp cording to their original intention, and then place the work of stocking and conducting the gordens in the hands of the proposed Society, Itis beileved that, with prover eftort, all the money noecasary for the rex 1 purpose can be raised by voluntary suvserip- ng OUF Wealthy und public spirited eltizens, | fothat the enterprise should start clear and free mdebt. If not, bonds or might be fesued able in ffteen years (Interest payable yearly), with the option of retiring these obligations as rapialy as the means of the Society would admit. Some spcetal legislation would be required on this and other points, but in the right hands tis ean be m: a | easily, It is not probable, however, that there ‘These preliminary details arrantfe will be rendy for active operation MOW TO GET THR ANIMALS, ‘There are many Anverican animals that are rarely seen In menagerios, and would he ae attractive as , the So- ¢ — We feol ourselves authorized to contradict York society, This report i that at a syinposinm tately given by a yentlen ing of Mereurius the guests were all dressed in Rotman style, in tunics and togas of the true classteal pattern, | without trousers or stockings, and with antique | ad of shoes, As there were among those present several gentlemen of great distine- tron, such as Admiral Panraget, Gen. Gitmone, Mr. Davin Dy Finan, Professor Daisuen, the Rey. Dr. Dix, Mr. Howann Warywnionr, the Rew, Oscoon, and Mr HM. 'T. Teckenwan, it is evi- dent thatit is Lighly improbable that an} ading, so little suited to the season, could have token place among them, We have also ascer- tained by actual inquiry that nono of the hundred: oF more guests were attired in this rigorous clus- siont style, though it is true that most if not all of them, as Dr. Osaoon stated at the Harvard din- ner, had their brows filleted with wreaths of em- blematic flowers sting though rather pagan signit We refer to the subject, however, Account of what took place on Uh plenply oo eusincew jrupveriuud sandals ing! masquer- cance, attained a degree of credence that is quite sur- prising. - —_ A decision in bankraptey will be found in | the column of law reports of considerable inn. | portance to both bankrupts and their creditors, Ht would appear that the debtor, finding him. sell in w state of insolvency, thought to save w | little money out of transaction, pay up his confidential ereditor, give @ «imal amount friendly donation to the person to wh ] the transfer of his effects, pay his own expenses | ia bankruptey, got clear of all his debts by means ory n hemate | Californias, the former of enormone size, | animals are to be found, who wor and took part in rites of | any foreign varieties, while they might be eccured at trifling co Grisly and cinnamon bears aboand in ‘There are | Maine, New | | magnificent pi mas in Texas; in Branewick, and Canats, the moose and earribon; elk wud buffalo in the West; antelope in the Rocky Mountains and on the Plains; the common black bear almost everywhere; smaller animale in great vorlety all over the country, The Society, as soon a organized, could commence the Work of secking ou intelligent men residing in the localities where ty H act as agents in uring specimens, It could open correspondence with zologieal secietios abroad, and procuro eata- logues of all the animals the various z logical collections of other countries, #0 a® to ascertain where American aniinais would be wanted, and what institntions are possessed of foreign anim: in surplus, to theend that a comprehensive system of exchanges may be jut ly Innururated, Intel+ ligent and reliable persons residing abroad should be secured to visit the large animal dealers of Burope (ike Jamrack of London), and ascertain what ani- mals pass through thelr hands, Where they go, and the prices they bring, so that the Society may be thoroughly informed in regard tothe market value of every apecies, Our shipownel should be interested in the enter. Prine, that their vessels may become agents for the cvllection, Tu foreign ports extremely rare animals | are frequently picked up by «ail errat Wal sectindler cada that pean | brought from Calcutta on a single trip, without any and inercly on speculation, one royal Bengal tree Poonah bears, several leopards, one Tnabel bear (@xtemoly rire), a pair of xobuy, three axis er, and @ variety of smaller ami such @ society could bring ent ign residing countries, grant results could be derived from a com paratively trifling expendijure, It Is safe to way that such a s6 4 Urlng together private ps ction ut one-fourth the cost dat ties woul incur ta the same uidertaking, OW TO MAKE THM GARDENS PAY, of the act, aud leave bis creditors to whistle for their money. But it seoms that in banksuptey no more than in ordinary life can aman eat bie ako and have it too, ‘The facts bein presented to Judge Biarcarorp by the official assignee in bankruptey, that Judg quickly boukrupt's little scheme to the winds, declar tho whole transaction fi has 9 udulent and void, aud directing the delivery of the whole of the bank | tupt’s ostate to the official arsignee to be d tributed among tho legitimate creditors, This Prompt decision of the Judge will discourage scheming debtors from attempted evasions of the law on the one hand, and on the courage creditors to pursue the fi ae s Tho velecipede makers have generally agreed to the terms imposed by Mr. Wirry, as the owner of the Latuemant patent, The royalty which he exacts is ten dollars for each machi: and the price of velocipedos has risen according. ly. It seeins, however, that there are still two other patents in the way of these manufacturers, The; r rights, enterprising are dated Jan. 9 and Feb, 9, 1609, having been granted, we believe, in place of earlier patents, dated some two years ugo, They include the adjustable saddle, the adjust. able cranks, the bifurcated or f od reach con. neetin the two wheels, and the combinas tion of the brake mechanism with the han. dios, Those patents were isened to Wi. usm and Epwanp Maxton, who are. still their owners, The devices which they cover are in use in every velocipede, and the only question is how much the Messrs. Haxnos will demaud for them, If their price should be ag that fixed by Mr, Wirry, the making of pedes will be checkad, if not stopped altor gether, The payment of §20 for patent rights upon each machine would destroy the business pretty efvetually, Indeed, €10 is «ite as mach as it can stand, high » In another part of this paper will be found the outlines of a plan for the establishment of Zodlogion! Gardens in the Central Park, by a hod which, if adopted, seems likely to insure the desired result without any draft upon the public funds, The subject is one of general in- terost, aud the suggestions put forth deserve serious consideration, ‘The project in its present shape originated with Mr, W, 8. Apama, of the New York Cirous, formerly of Van Amnunau’s Menagerie, who has had the advantage of over twenty years’ practical experience in the business details of extensive and highly successfal oxhibi- tions, and it has received the warm support of some of our most distinguished scientific men, at whoxe suggestion it is now made public, It is universally conceded that the establishment of « rodlogical collection in the Central Park would be a vory desirable improvement, and fn the article referred to is prasentod a simple and eminently practical way of going about the work, ver his pop. manan )* & ia ‘tho Preebyterian Church edifice, er will en. | ‘The gro | for tho Ze 1 Gardens comprises a 1 teen acres, It hes on above Seventy-soventh atrect, and it ded to connect |t with the Central Pore | Proper by a tunnel or archway under the avenue, It | Proponed te make the gardens free to the public, and to provide for a revenue by a spectal exhibition | within the gardens, and by other means, ‘This ape: cial exhibition must be some t any two-penny show would be out of place, | A building at least two hundred f | Md be provided, with nd aclected by the Park Commissioners | little more | the west wide of Fighth ave | | in width » trance, and every practicable | tom. From the entire vest ehiowld be w 1 Lnposing sory Of decorn. jock of animals, enough of eted to form a line ext By forming w line, tt ik meant that the varlo or enelosares shontt extend the length of the bulld ing. For admission to this special exhibition a moderate entrance fee would be required, This fee should not he more than 9 cents, and that auin Would Le just as readily paid by the vast majority of visitors a¥ amach smaller one, ‘The remaining animals disposed of over the grounds, we havea grand Zodlogleal Garden, presenting a far more nte tractive exhibition of nutural history than the public Jus ever seem in thie country, with ita animals at every turn, {t# monkey liouses, avinricn, bear pits, Kev Kes ite ponds with aquatic fowl, its beasts, birds, and reptiles in great variety in the open air, absolutely free to the public, The result would be an overwhelutig rash of people to the gardens, and the special exhibition would be continually thronged by eager slahtecers, who would cheerfully pay the triing price of admission, Tie floating population Mone Would support the institution your after yeur, | The tree exlibition would draw finmense throngs of people to the gantens, and when thers, the special | exhibition belug really meritorious, attractive cheap, they would be led to enter it and p cir money for the privilege. Of course the novelty would wear off after a time, and the extraordinary Tush subsite; but by ebauging the nature of the Attractions from year to year, and providing for noveltion, both in the free and spoctal exbibitions, from season to season, the enterdiise could be cous duoted with great profit incefiuitely ‘There are many privileges which would rent for large sums, such as for the sale of refreshments, &c. Boda fountains, @ minerol water spa, a baxaar for the tale of rare birdy and pet animals, would all add to the attractiveness of the gardens, and at the same time contribute to their maintenance, Handbooks of rodlogy would soil in immense numbers, and other sources of revenue of a similar nature would naturally present themselves, ‘These privileges ahould not be leased for @ longer time than twelve montha, # they will increase greatly in value from yeur to year, AN AQUARIAL GARDEN, If managed with tact and economy, in a few years afler the rst opening of the gardens, the Society, besides expending large sums on improve- ments aud in supplying losses among the stock, will find itself possessed of a large surplus tn ry. When thot time arrives, a most tractive feature may be addod in fresh and salt water aquaria upon @ large scale, At the Paris Exposition @ mammoth aquarium was one of the most popular aitractions, and in various parts of Europe aquarial gardens havo proved a reat success, Some of the German scientifie soctotios have paid great attention to the work of improving the construction and man- avement of aquaria. aud of al] these labors (he Soci treasu- pvel and ate OV WOWE, reap the advantage. Withr@ eplendid in successful operntion ae a Apecial Shite, @e Seely would be ablo to dispense ‘with the special exhibition of espe | oly make the entire godlogical eolicction abolately ta the Putte, eaining by the eliarge, as the novelty amd in- Koreat of the new feature would create almost as EFoat & furor ws the Orat opening of the gardens, A MUSEOW OF NATURAL mistonY, Tn the plan for taying oat the Zodiogteat Gardens Prevented By Messts, Olrgsted and Vane, provition is Mace (pF A nuneentH for the reception of atuMTed epee! ‘This {ten should by ail means be carried out, live animale are much more interesting tron than dent ones, tt execution may be prodtably deferred until the gardema are In active operation, after which the matertal for euch a rnuseata may be Accumulated by degrend at ¥ery Ittle ev THe GARDENS IN THR FOTURR. fore many yore have elapsed the proposed gar. dene will be fo the midet of a dense population Then they Will he a general resort at night, ae well ae in the daytime, and, in addition to the roMugteat collection, the aquortal garden, and the free musenta, it will be within the legitimate xeope of the Society's operations to provide other atirottons of an inver eating and fnatrnetive charseter for the throngs who will congregate upon the grownis. Bui it 1s not doemed desiratie in this article to more thau hint at the opportunities in this direction which the fw presents, altioug® tho subject Is a tempting on ‘To Insure the success of this plan but two things Are necessary: First, to eoliat the right kind of m in the work; seeard, to secure the cooperation of the Park Commissioners, It fs very sure that tt Commisstovers wil never delwrato ang such Urn except to men thoroughly competent to the exeention Of the project, and of auch standing in the comme nity a to render it certadn that ey wonld con: the gurdens wholly tu the interest of the publie—men ea would Wea KuMelent enarantee that hing approaching “Jjobhery" mitied to enter into their trunsuetions. Uiat, with ays Hort on the part of Hire 9 ave intercated $n zodlog.ea gardens estab! ed here, mon of th to take them: and Yb 1s row sat.efactory re: stoners shonid offer to ‘osal Woull be take charge Fendily acer It will be seen that by thls plan ed nron to contribute one cent toword the we Of the animals, oF the expense of keeping the institution, except as they may volnntarily atribute by the’ purciaw of tickeis to the spe exhibitions, for which they will receive a full equiva lent. ‘The gardens onve extabiishod on tuis play will require no farther ald any quarter, hat will go n for all time, paying their own way, and constant ly increasing in interest, valne and ‘attractivences, there is tobe no provrietary Interest to elaim div ail the proceeds over actual expen be reinvested in increasing the altractious of the gardens, ‘The greater the attractions, the erecter Will be the crows drawn to witness them, and the greater the crowds the greater the receipts.” It thus follows that the longer the proposed Society «bail | exist, the greater will bo the tm at Mts command for the execution uf Ii purporer, SOKOSIS. - The Meeting on Monday—Report of the ‘ommiitec ou Art. The regular meeting of Sorosis was held on Monday last, ‘The geners) business pasted off as | w ‘The greater part of the retnainive thme was spent in divenssing the report of the Committee on Art. Some tine was spent in considering the matter of reporting the meett The report | of the Committee on Art heming by stating that there | are amonr the members of the Sorosis 6 artiste or workers tn ai anthors, @ editors, 13 mastotans, T historian, 11 poets, 9 teachers and lectarers, 8 svell- known philanthropists, @ physicians, 4 writers on {| telenice, and 40 contributors to periodicals In literature woman livs established Lereclf on an equal footing with ian, and has won the universal consent of tie world to the truth that cenius I no sex, Within the Inst ten y drigade of young, fresh, vigoro have marche the “great an do” much nio he taxpayers are of Sorosis, oward of 0 labor are constant Some of the best art critich Wook the work of their pens. In more than , they have been rolled on the edito- of the daily newspaners, They are wichd- ing a positivennd powerful tufluence over theology, medicine, ethios, social science, education, temper: ance, and wll otier | hea of reform. Woman hus won's clear and undlspatet title to the reala of ime agination, especiaily Im the fleld of modern fiction, Bo fa woman has never yet achioved Insting fame as @ musical composer, Perhaps the ex: planation iv the fact that mustea composition laa: piles Kevere and exhaustive studies, bordering 1y.on the more exaet sciences, such aa! Low. women ore fitted by education to undg . 6; | After reverring to the nehvexoment of wonieh as | vocalists,the report goes on to speak of thelr success in the plastic arts, and mentions tle names of many women who lave excited im this fei. tn the fat century, Marta Angelion Kaufman was admities to: be geal she O29 AE ERED, oh PR UAE Wien has not a single laly member, and only one woman associate, Mrs. Bogardus, though there are more than forty women represeated on fis wails, | mostly by walvreolor drawings, The art idea of | | Amerlean women up to thie tine appears to lav found its in st complete expression in scuipture, Hardiet Homer and Eunea Stebuina have son. an enviable a otk ant their example has been enthusiastivally followed by Margaret Foley, Mrs. Freeman, Misa Whitney, Mina Laudor,fduicnia Lew: | ny otners | in bis work opon American arti: painter, designer, or cnet ¢ are uu | lay, Liy' M. Spencer, Julia Ibes It a | Gove, Voginks Granberry und wister, Miss Warner, Misa Blehop, Mies Kaith Cook, ant Mery L, Stone. | while the School of Design for Won Tustitute bas 10 pupils thin how Tond, ait Is strozetiny Heting with miterial Interests that Hheral spirit whie come boat dition an untried fleld, 0. fearlessness and iniependenes, that enti Acerat jon whicht sures success The dramatic wit appeais tobe the only one in which woman has retrograded from a hich and come on at Cooper for a foothold, | Ten would help woman to over: h tollows a first atiompt in | emaie art etulents lack that | ! manding position, malead of stevtily sdvaneing in honor rooute, Wotan has aliowi as i pinanding genius In tis ort as nan, Mr. dows, Fanny Kemble, Reehe, Ristori, ant Char ushinin ‘ire not over: nes UPON OUF Hale record OF dramatie preneat the greavcat dro p uctressc# of pronoun cus of te drama have die ulowed by the great dnd their vucant thrones are awaiting sucessur® | worthy wid gale Afice wome untinpormnt basiness the meeting ad our ee at HARLOPPE B, WILBOUR, Cin, Miss Kars Hutanp, ses Miss Avaueta Lannip, ( Seretaries, a The Police TUK TOMDS—IUSTICE HOGAN, Thauwarwew Pueparixa ror Sixa Stxo.—Chas, Thomson, who kuocked dows and robbed Win, Kil s 01 $52 in the hallway of 40. Baxter street coinmitted, as was also Henry Amex, who aud robbed Owen Solilvan’ of §15'at % I Chambers street, whieh he had ent with a Wo the town, KSSKX MAKKET—JUATICE MANSPIELD, Caaep.—Joseph — MeGovern ing Dueglariously entered at 24 RuGolk atroet, red in company JEPFERSON MANKET—JUSTIC Avrnenticesnte av Foroery,~-Marmion Brown Unuer arrest (oF obtalving Ky O'Brien's cout by mears of # forged note to Mra, Kinearde, of 1 Sreond avenue. Mrs, Kincarde testified that the prisoner applied at her house on Monday with « hotey 8 she sopposed, trom one of her boarders, and worded as follows © Please be kind enough to let the bearer have my Lepwirn, overcoat, Which i Inns room. “1 should Daye mene Uoned I this mor beroro Tiett, Hlewse take out wuy thing whieh tatu the po (signed) PB. O'DRIE! Of course Mre, Kincarde delivered the coat to Brown, and when Mr. O'Brien reiurned home at might, she learned be Veron to ber, Oniccr Corkey arrested Brown yesterday, and Le was held to anawer, Hypxopuonta.—Mr, Thomas Eckerson, of Sad- dle River, who was bitten by » mad dog not long ago, died on Tuesday, eter N. Tibbals, Jr, was arrested in Jerse: City yesterday, on charge of attempting to stab Mrs, Susan Snyder pws | «not yot | * Coroner Warren, of Jersey City, eld an ine quest list evening over the body of Jihn Delany, an employes of the Morris & Cummings Dredge Cour puny, who was accidenally drowned on Monday. The dead bodies of the wife and child of Geo. W. Greene, an engineer of dissipated habits, have doen locked up in’ his residence im South Elylih nrvet, Jersey City, aud descrted by Min for several aye. RECESSES La Metropolitan Police Disct| Homaxtry ix tue Porice Force,—Rudolph not 183 Avenue A, accased Joshua Hodgen, patrolman, of improper’ conduct, “Phe complainant 4 huld tomt On Tuesday last the defendent arrested iiram 1. Measenger on charge of larcen'y but iat the patrolman took the prisoner to his (oMlce: hou rs ¢ Instead of bo the police station, and produc: in Coustnext morning. The officer, who hi Docu tn the forge Aiteen years, mal that bo had stil some humanity left io pb! withstanding bis servi- tude, de ‘been the compainané i ed aa oe Hee seen 3 harged in th arrant with larceny, but wit fraudulent uee of bonds. "A. lanr etolation gp Jor which tha wiles tha ance, IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. — KINGS COUNTY JAIL FILLED. — Nino Months in Prison for a Debt of $300 —-— The expos! toode in THe Sex of Monday seems to have attracted the gener! attention of the com tunity, We have received scores of letters urging us to Koep before the people the Iniquitons workings of the present asstem of fmprisonment for debt, A keneval wish Is exprested for the repeal or modules: iow of the present law. Onff two correspondents have pusianed the lawas It now sinus. One of these accused our reporter of ex parte statements, | ‘The reporter of Tur Sww hardly probed the depth of Iniquity surrounding this unjust Inw, as will be aeen by the following graphle deserlption of its workings Kings county, whieh we elip trom the Brooklyn gles or aamm mits. WRPONR ote LeOTeE ATURE, The DIN now beore the Leetsinture comnotting ereditor® on inearcersting debtors, pending liga: Hlona for thereeovery of tioney alleged to be dae, to Pay twenty Ave dollaré a month in advente for thete fupport during the tima they ee fit to keep them tn meets with antveraal commendation, ond will become a law as toon me ft x porsible to eAstomary. stated of Tox station, those who have taken the tronble to investigate the inaiter since It has been brought into so much Prominence, the wondor Ie that eucl @ state of wifaira fy the Inquity disclosed could have existed for ao | E many years and not have provoked corection. ‘The very Iden of imprisonment for debt Is repugnant to the present civilization, and the laws of the State exnl i itly provile that no man shall ba deprived of hiverty for this enuse, THA PRESENT ODIOUN LAW. Another proviston ot the Inw, that where afidavite are made to a Court that tne debt for which a civil soit is mstituted wos contract. | ed by means of fraudulent repre #, the Court may order the defendant to giv fwnit sue OF the trial, ond should he ful to do so, then he may be committed to prison om the sume iMda- Vita. “Tina is the only provision In tie law which sllows OF hinprixonment in civil eager, and, Wille due der iis shadow the most grievous wrones have been comivitted for sear it is really "a puaale vo know why itever should have found a place at ail on We suitue books outside of the criminal law, for ifthe | ailiduvit of the ereditor that the goods, for the value of which the debtor ts au btoined hicans of false and fraudulent representations, ts founded, thon the debtor i» awenable, ot WoW ely bute erlwinal prosecution, HOW SMART BUSINESS MEX ANB TRAPPED, Every man in business credits Mimeoif with an amount of sharpuoss and business ke xe whieh In many cases are not perceptible to anybody but themselves; and when such men, throwgh eagerness to vivo a sale, neglert the ordinary precautions, 1t isa voy casy’ matter for them to persuade them- selves that the enstomer really made fals tatle oF elie how could they have given hin It is so natnrul, too, that they ite spiteful to the person to whom unwarranted credit, ant all these pt the mind to condition Wwoull be altested to attord balm to their wounded voulty, or give hope of wing thelr pecuntory Wound, GUATIFICATION OF PRUEONAL or victt ch we give below, of prisoners at pwever, provides things edt eae in whieh almost anyt REVEN) HUNDREDS The casca w sent confined in the Jail, show how wickedly (his vy eu be worked by un¥eruputous ereditore and lawyers, fof 10 enrthly purpose except the gratifiea. tion Ive ure ed by thie lal within years past there in n bandrods of persons coutined there for pi Tohcing fom a Week to Bia mont aud in on suiee, during the term of Sherif! MeNamee, ou fortur Han W ined in the debtors’ prison for over » year and @ half, tor a debt the ont ateunt of whi ior fourt a Weuld 1 tk have paid his bow rm of his incareeretion 6 10 provision had be jo by the the sujnort of uch person 1 thie con lebtors Was even more miseraule tha» wt (for Af they iad no funds of toer own they | Were entirely dependeat upon the Sherif for tieir | support 1 TO THE RAYMOND sTuth: the natural and widespread terest ex 1 ip the community by tolt question since tt bas broughtinto prominence, one of our reporter erday Visited the Ruy: atreet jull for the pu p f keeing the condition of the debtors Impria- oned there at the preseat time, ‘The room ia which the debtors are condned: ze and well ventilated ich oeeupi {he place formerly used ay a room appropriated to their use #hice the pre- sont Sheri, Patrick mpbell, entered the of ‘The room contains six small single beds covered ‘With ory blankets, and a large tableand four or five | ‘chuits, | ‘The Walls present the peeuliarity of all pris- “om Wuile, being covered by ail sorta of scraps Of p tures cut from ilustrated newspapers, and together in all au fashions, as the tancy succecdti . In thie reon Avo ut protent confined Ave wen, Whe have dierent periods, KEMARKADLE CASH OF A DENTIST. ‘The most remarkal iy that of George F, Newton, a dentint, aid a very imteiigens aud appa well educated man, Mr wton has b, ab cenpant of that miserable room #inee the 1th of | list May, for a debt of $588, contracted unaer the JolloWilg Cireuiastances, @ecoruing to ment, Erevious to May hast he was en York and Brooxlyn as a journeyman. de er SOUR. Mitt, With Whom he Was aeqt catiet, promosed that they should go hn rouved own state lin New An iste 1, uusiies toarther partersiiy was entered ino, Mr ancy he bad to ftup the #! t. White, of WI Broadway, ude nye ed Mr. White asked tor D, Ab ton Mr. Why bimnseif abouc thi he ubOVe Alm He started, Kondout, » fata piace Of Dasinesd ft ut | tere he foaed that bie porta av. | Feonded Wilh Nis inoney, leaving hum to pay the rent of the plice he lad ted, He ind nomoury, anu b had to sell bi « | goods to pay Mis bowed bill, aad then | edown to Brooklyn with the r. He | | | waa arrested on nin wreiva an order of tne Court requiring bins to give Ucing unable fo do 60, Was locked up, Wierd he ‘his remained ever since, origlual de mt te the connty of more + and without ony benetit ty an, A POOR DOOKKERPER IN THE TOIL. Another prisoner, whom we sivait eall Mr dors tot wisi his mune to 1,1 the | ashe | mtn the prison tor three wee Under the tol low OUNSTANC eS, Woo prosessed tw be wf booskeener to amerea ch He sad ho Aud some Oter partics Were aoOUL to CaLAbLis In New York. Me t MOUCEY Hore i Park place and (orty dob hava wort coplag altairs of (he now fet © chiorge tem to Underwood that It they did not pay for of Underwoud & Co, falied uw weeks. Mr. A. went hito bokI nh. Son aiver can the bil For the stationery, Mr. A, emul ho bane nto pay it, but agreed to pay dt by to. ts, and paid $23 on account, The messenger ared 10 be sutistird with tis arrinigement, but prescntiy came buca and said be bad been instrie fo shy in the stoce Ui he got his mouy, Mr. A. ge fhad dnd told tw le would have bo wale a d~ long tue Ucn, A Lew day titer, on an ailidavit that the goods bad been Kot by fraudilent representation, be Was uiiested, and hub vemalued there cvce sluce, ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE ON A GHEMAN, Tf not In point of time, nt least In pornt of atrootty the worst cane ts that oc Williaa Bauman, a Gerad Who has now been in the debiors’ prison for abot A Week A tow weeks since Baumas,, wile drink {nA lager bier saloon, was robbed of all the to he hadon the world, 81), A man who was in tl re dit the tme told him that» German nuine Leon had taken it. and acting on this niu caused Joon to be ucested. When t for exauiiuwtou Las imtormunt coud Bi and he deciued prosecu discharged. Leon then bring dawages for false Imprisonment, and b his lawyer a werated p succeded in having Bau whl, Da Par ing tars tewue oF the poor mut, wud hardly wbie to Understand by what eieumsts Present posnion, THRER THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OP MOLASSES, Another of the persous-lmprisoved, whose nang We oult at his own request, purchased’ ¢!,40) wort OF molakees (rom a dealer in Wut Bacchi ine article, ‘The $8000 worth of molasses he ciauns only ret ved ¥00 Worih of Wuiskey, and le War out $1,000, “He offered $200 to the ereditor, with a Promise to pay the remainder when he was uble, but the otler Was reiused, He then weut to Savannah to Vielt lis brot on his return, tree weeks since, was urresied and has becu couftued in Jail ever tine, KINDNESS OF SHERIFF CAMPRELL AND oTiERs, ‘There are just a few of the cases that have been partly wdjudged in that debtors’ prison, but enough to sow tat the law needs amending, In closing this hurried aruele tt ts but Justice to way that all th soners unite in praising ihe consideration and indness shown to tuem oy Sherif Cumpuell and the keepers, Giddings and Cassidy, since their de- tention, a Down with the Tyranuy, fo the Battor of The Sun, Sia: Tread an article in your paper this morn- ing on imprisonment for debt, 1n which you have en- eavored to exhibit both sides of the picture. But, sir, If itis trne that one Iniocent man, one honest man, las or docs suffer the hardships and outrages depicted in your article, 1t should he suficjont to call down upon a law that permits it the whole coud: nation of the press and public. You have do: wort ting the people handod tyrnnny is carried on in thelr mide Sev brrls tae wi BO ‘any "abWaKD Terry he eough to We is put an his ‘wat Gounuy BUNREAMS. consi =Virginia is said to possess 040,000 acres of oyster rocks,” ylelding annually $10,000,000 worth of oysters, —There is said to be a bookkeeper in Norwich, Conn,, who writes equally well with both bande at the saine time. —A man in Alexandria, Va., recently had the cap of lis knee broken by a shoemaker, Who Was ree moving a ‘ight boot, =The Richmond Enquirer sags that the lato Rov, Henry A. Wise was not the lust surviving som f Gov, Wise, The latter hae two sous now living 4 Tich woud, one a physician and (he otwer @law yer, —The London Tilegraph calls the exhibition of the Slamese twins a "cold-blooted contempt of all that fe reverent, alt thet iv yitiul, end all that te vilinarily hums,” and wants the authoritias to for bid it, =The Philadelphians are aftald their promis. ing city will get alead of New York. Their feare are groundless; we hove only to annet a connty oF tro to keep the Ivad, It ts always fair to take@ hint frotw @ rival, —Vresident Johnson finds favor among the Mormons, who are said by a receut visitor to Cea o regard him as the “noblest American sinee Washington's day," "a dike ftetesman, a tree gentionan a dC than. —The story going the rounds about Tom Cor. Win borrowing of the Judge the amount of the One Which the latter hed imposed upon iim bas one wilght inaccuracy, Tha livre of the tale wae not Tom Corwin at all, but Tom Marsha'l of Keutucky. —At Dubuque, Lowa, the boys seom to by i pretty much thelr own way An areemblage of cluizens, headed by the “munteipal authorition™ lately browen up and driven from the ground by @ crowd of the boys armed only with snow balla, A writer in the Chiongo Tribune says that the ladiow at Washington dress moro remarkubly tile Winter than ever before, “ They wen that expose the entire spine, At reer pilons one rece nume bers of ladies exia! tog museuiar ten —Bombino, as the Htaliana call King ing Francie the Second of Naples, yet, looks ns wrinkled and old os if he wore over filty. Smoking strong clears nearly all day long, and eambilng at Ligh takes, are said tu be the ev The Abbot of the Russian monastery at Joru fulem has lately purchased the cclebrated old oak {roo near Hebron, sald to have been planted during the lifetime of Abraham. A suitable wall will heness forth protect it, and it will become the object of pik grimazes, —A Now Hampshire Baptist clergyman named Lowell, accepted @ “enil at alews autary thee his present one. ‘The case may not be « peculiag one, but the newspapers are fo fond of publishing instanecs of the opposite sort, thut it is but fair te mention this on —A fellow is extracting much sympathy and greenbacks froin people tn Lowa by travelling about with a pretty little girl, whom he sayshe rescued from the tender mereies of the Indians, He changes names and fneldents to suit different localttics, but the gird remains the same, Charles 8. Shaw, aged 19 years, a farmer's boy of Mine + started Oct. 15 from home, bound for Lincoln towosi)ip, Iowa, Not taking the shortest Le was obticed to walk seventeen handred and arrived there after ‘orty-elght walking dope, which would be a littic more. than thirty-live miles per day, now illu sofe inating material, reeently patent. ts of a mixtnre of two parte of the poorest rape seed oil and one part of good por trotoum, It is burned tn a lamp of peculiar eon struction, but somewhat eim'lar to that of the ordh nary moderator lamp, and xives a light not to be suse passed for purity and brilliancy, —Our army found the word “you uns’ and “we the way from Penney ja to (he Guif, In Tennssce a Yankee soldier askod an ancient Indy ifshe had seen any Federals in that neigunorhood, Well,” suid the dame, thar was some of you ane over thar, ‘erossthe road, but some of we ans come ‘long, and them uns got up and dusted.” —In Pennsylvama India rubber shoes are ometines ealled “gums.” A gentioman from Pull dolphia, with hie wife, was on a visit to New York, and on returning to the house of their host one evening, the gentleman entered the parlor alone, “Why, where ix Emily? Ho answered, “Olt, ly I» outvide. cleaning her gums upon the mat.” swine years ago aman named Brown was ace quitted by a jury {n Main county, Olio, on a charge of murdering an editor in Dayton, Sinee then every one of the Jury bas become inaane, mot an unnatural death, or committed suiclde, and the Judge who prov J atthe ial died recently Im alunatle asylum, This an Oblojournal colle a “startling inewnce of the retributive justice of Heaven.” —A dog in Dubuque, Lowa, named Carlo, is fudto hove saved the lives of foar persons. He dingged a creeping bave from under te feet of @ Pawing coll, palled two drowning girls from Lake Peosta, and gripped his master’s coat tall one darts and stormy niglit a# he (the master) headed for @ stream whore the Dridge had Just been swept away, Carlo bas the unmuzazied freedom of Dubaque at all seurona, —The otl were exbil when a bumorsome old r evening a couple of young men Unga patent churn tn Canton, Mhinots, lady averred that the ma chine was a humbug. ‘To disprove the assertion, they offered to make butter within ten nunutes, The old lady filled the clinen, tho pateat-right herocs eet to work, a nt two hours in porspiring and ro Hoving each other, to no purpose, before the Jocula watron Infortcd thesa that they were churuing but termitk, —King John, of Saxony, has comple translation of Siukespeare’s Hamlet, and pro translating Romeo and dutiot next, The King re cently suid to @ bookseller, that If he lived long enough be iight translate the whole works of Shakespeare, ‘Tho old monarch t# exceedingly active and industrious, He rises at 6 in the moming, ond often works mnuilwiter midnight, Ho i by all odd the most redned aud best educated of German sow ereigns, —Mr, Whittier writes to the Washington Star that Barbara Fritehic was the heroine of the pocm of that name, and not Mrs. Qaantrill, or any other per son, He says: * Fhave fall confidence in the truth of the original stutement farninhod me by @ disti®. cuished Neerary Indy of M ston ae reapoots Bars bora Fritelle—a state soon ater confirmed by Dorothea Dix, who visited Frederick, and made her- setf acquainted with many interesting portienlors of the fife and character of that remarkable woman, An argument between a conple of Texas edi tors Is thus deserlood by a correspondent at Honston: “The sivoting ecripe hetween Somers Kinney of the Times, and Traey of the Unton, grew ont of some severe personal remarks about cwh other in their papers, Tracy was the aitveking party, He had Deen waiting for some tine for Kinney tn Szabo cotton warchouse, near Times ofice, At last Kinney appesired, unconsetous of dangar, when ‘Trocy commenced firing upou Liu with a alx-stooter, Te shot wildly, aud killed @ little boy, a son of Mr, inckle, who was passing tn the street, fe fire three or four times,as Lunderstand, Kinney was not hurt. ‘Tat individual stood it ke a stone wally daring is antagontst to come out and xive him a falr chance, A tremendous crowd soon gathered, and Tracy was nrrested and borne off,” —O stream desconding to the sea, ‘Thy mossy banks between The Hlow'rets blow, the g The leafy trees are grecn, s RrOW In garden plots the children play, ‘The flelds the laborers till, And houses stand on elther hand, And thou descendest still, O life descending into death, Our waking eyes behold Parent and friend thy lapse att Companions young aud old, Strong purposes our minds possogs, Our hearts affections fill; We toll and carn, we scck and learn, And thou descendest still, O end to which our currente tend, Inevitable sea ‘To which we flow, what do we know ‘What shalt we quess of theo? A roar we lear upon thy shore, AS we ottr course fuldi; Bearce we divine ® sam will ahine And be above us still, mila