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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
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The probabilities arc that the weather in JVew
York anil its vicinity to-day will be wanner and
partly cloudy or fair. To-morrow it will be warm,
with yruduully increasing cloudiness.
Wau Street Yesterday.?The stock maiv
kot was dull but steady. Hold was quoted
all day at IOO;,4. Govern incut bonds were
strong. States steady and railroads tirm. Money
on cull was easy at - u II per cent.
The National Party lias token tlio ticld iu
Iudiuna.
The Polar inuupl seems to bo the bell punch
Ol' the sugur men.
A Colored Man, for the first time in tho his
tory oi our city State courts, took his scatiu tho
Jury box yesterday.
The Proposition submitted iu the Board of
Education to consolidate the white and colored
schools is not likely to meet with much favor.
The Uacinu Season iu this section was opcucd
yesterday on the Piuilioo track at Baltimore,
There was u large attendance and some excel
lent racing.
Russia Is Thinking of trying the virtue of
Yankee guns on British commerce. Negotia
tions for heavy ordnance have bceu opened with
a Boston tirm.
Creditors will not be comforted by tho de
cision in one of the courts yesterday thut under
tbe Revised Statutes trust estates ure not sub
ject to their liens.
Tm Grand Jury has begua its invefttigution
of the charges against tho Aldermen iu regard
to street encumbrances. Several otlicials were
examined yesterday.
Pkk.w.to has at lust succeeded iu riding three
handled uml five miles in lilt ecu hours. In fact,
lie luiil half an hour to mi>iire. The exact vhIuu
of liid victory id not very apparent.
Okk ok tiu: Wait Vkskllh of Samoa lius been
seized liy a British gunboat. If Steinberger
were in puwer Kiigluml would not have dared
to commit thin outrage. He would luiro de
clarer! war ut once.
Tm Hi:st Way to prevent an Indian war in
to lie prepared for one. uml the authorities at
Washington ure w isc in making such a ilisposi
tion oi tin slight force at their coiutuaud that
bitting Hull will not be tempted to cross the
border this Miiinner.
Ik Ai.l our str. et paradea were like^liat o^
the Sunday school procession in lirooklyn yes
terdny the public would willingly submit to
the iueoiivetiioneo wcaiioueil tiv tlieni. Fifty
thousand children, it in estimated, were in line,
ami tie moral lesson of the spectacle will not,
It is to be hoped, be lost on the "City of
Churches."
Whi.s Two fni.oiii n Clkhiii mi.n are, as they
Were yesterday, eheered in the (ieneral ('onfer
iiht ill the Methodist Episcopal Church South
the time ought not to lie very distuul when
the Amerieaii Methodist Church will lie again
united. It certainly shows that tho issue upon
which they separat-d is ih .id and that it is fool
is). to any longer maintain, separate organiza
tions.
'iili: SvMiirvih yesterduv advanced tlie price
of fonr-tiiid-n hull's to and accrued in
terest. This is the Menial ndvanee in a week.
biVoo hint Thursday. w lieu the price ot the homls
w ?s rained to lO'Jhj.tlie Syndicate was deposed
of ^l.ruMI.IMMI Of the hots Is. The total salts, up
to date, amoittit to leaving a
balance on band for use in this country of
$l,7r?0,(MK>. The $10,000,000 sent abroad
will he kept exclusively tor the European
market.
Thk Wkatiii.h.?The higloest pressure re
mained central over the lakes altiritig yesterday,
causing the prcvuilti g westerly winds over the
Eastern and .Middle States and the easterly
winds prevailing ir. the Mississippi Valley and
the West. The hfwest pressure is off tlie New
England const, hut depressions are eeiltrul iu the
West and Soutlll.eat, influencing the weather
in l.oth seefioiiv Bains fell during 'luesiiuy
night and yesterday morning in tlie IMatte
Valley uml oil the New England coast, ami
duriiig the morning and afternoon in the western
ami central % aik'y regions. The temperatures
Were rclativejy low in the lake district, the
Lower Missouri "Valley and Northern New Kng*
laud. Klscw hiji'o they w ere iincliuuged or con
siderahly hig'jer than on Tuesday. Attending
the coast ami western depressions, as well us on
tin- Westci n/CJiilf roust, the winds were hrisk to
very strong, having most force in the lake
region. Local ueuthcr was moderately cool
ami fair. In Ni .w York ami its vicinity to-day
the weather wil.^iie wanner and partly cloudy
or fair. TVeiiiorruw it will Ikj warm, with
gradually iucruisiiig cloudiness.
Our Ritflit lo Sell Ships?The Law
of ISIS.
Throughout Russia the movement for the
creatiou ol a fleet of cruisers line assumed
the phase of a patriotic demonstration. In
the popular comprehension of the scheme
itappeurs that the ships for tho purpose aro
to Lo purchased in foreign countries and
paid for, as far as possible, by popular sub
scription, or by the munilicenco of indi
viduals or associations like that of tho Mos
cow merchants, whom tho Czarewitch has
just thanked for a contribution of four hun
dred thousand roubles. But the ships thus
supplied to the government will be
come Russian national ships, will bo
subject to tho disposition of the ltussian
naval authorities and will fly the national
colors, 'though tho designation of "volun
teer fleet" has been used this does not seem
to imply that tho ships will be loss national
in their maritime character than any rnan
ol-wur in our own navy would be if given to
the government by a rich merchant rather
than built in the national navy yards. In
fact, tho Russians seem to have adopted
this scheme by way of a substantial re
sponse to that spirit of patriotic bluster
that has filled all tho British beer shops
with Jingo songs for some months past. Eng
land, say the minstrels, has the ships and
the men and tho money. Russia, say tho
Russians, has tho men, and with what
money wo can spare we will help her to get
tho ships.
Naturally this movement has attracted
attention outside of Russiu, especially here,
where the ships have been sought ; and in
England, where it has been the fashion to
doubt that there existed in Russia any ele
ment of this sort of popular inspiration and
impulse. Comment in the Loudon journals
h.ts been in groat part based upon an opin
ion extensively entertained within Her
Majesty's dominions that tho world is a
piaco in which Englishmen are at liberty
to do what they please, hut in which other
men must explain their motives. One section
of the British public, sufficiently large to
support a press devoted to the special main
tenance of its views, thought tho Ministry
would be justified in demanding "a cate
gorical explanation from tho Russian
Foreign Office concerning the reported
armament of Russian privateers in tho
United States." Perhaps in a day or two
more the same authority would have urged
the government to demand an explanation
irom the United States on tho same subject,
aud would hnvo suggested that for the sake
| of appearances England should in both
cases accompuny the demand with an ex
planation of her own recent warlike prep
arations. But the British government
was inspired with different conceptions; for
when an inquiry directed to the point was
made in tho House of Commons on Tues
day night the Attorney General said that
"ho had heard of tho ships purchased by
persons said to act on behalf of Russia, but
thought there was no reason to suppose that
the ships would bo employed in the event
of war as privateers in contravention of the
Paris declaration. There is no reason to
believe, he said, that the Unitod States will
depart from observance of tho three rules
of the Washington Treaty. There is no
noccssity for discussing tho responsibility
resting on tho governments of Russia and
tho United States, since there is no reason
to suppose that they would violuto their re
spective engagements." In other words,
Her Majesty's Attorney General knew what
was his business and what was other people's
business, and was inclined that all should
respectively mind their own.
On our side tho Atluiitic it cannot but bo
profitable to take particular notice of thl<
distinct English declaration on the relations
of nations to one another in a time of peace.
It involves the rational, sound and wholc
soino views of those relations, and hints
at tho impropriety of making imper
tinent inquiries into tho acts or inten
tions of governments that must be assumed
to bo honest in all cases and friendly when
not at war. Unfortunately our own attitude,
as declared in our laws, as there appears to
bo a disposition to interpret them, is for
less handsome and less worthy tho
dignity proper to intercourse between
the governments of great nations. If
tho statute of 1H18 is not a ilead letter
the simple fact of the purchase of a ship
in any American port by tho agent of a
foreign covcrnment empowers and ap
parently requires the United States govern
ment to investigate tho motives and inttn
j tions with which tho purchase is made. !t
| is to be assumed always that the government
of an independent State is responsible toy
its acts in a legitimate w?y, mid tlint it is in
contravention ol its dignity to inquire into
tliem in any other than n legitimate way ;
yet this statute can only bo eniorccd
through the exercise of a surveillance that
regards the government of a friendly nation
as unable to appear in our markets save
with purposes that nro criminal under our
laws.
lly the provisions of that law every mer
chant in tho United States who mny linvo
a ship to sell is regarded somewhat in the
light ol the tieket-oi-icuvc man of the Eng
lish criminal system troin tho moment that
war becomes likely in any foreign country
or between any two foreign Bowers. As the
tick) t-of-leavo man is at large on his own
good behavior, but must, in any emergency,
prove the innocence of his acts where
another may defy the authorities to prove
guilt, so tho merchant in the United
Slates with ships to sell is a man to be
subjected to the espionage of the police from
the moment that war anywhere becomes
probable or possible, lie is no longer in
the possession of the common privilcgo cf
a citizen to he presumed innocent, lie is
u presumed offender and must give an nc?
count of himself to preventive justice. No
other nation has a statute so illiberal and
degrading, for mi other nation was ever
placed in tho position in which wo Wore
when that law was enacted; and if any had
been we doubt whether, with such preten
sions as ours to independence, they would
have permitted such a law to be extorted
fiom their timidity. In the early years of
tho century nearly all Spanish America
was in revolt against the mother country,
and iu all the conflicts of the
colonies in South America against
Spanish forces and in tho similar coullicts
of Mexico, men from this country oper
ating on lund and sea gave their share of
trouble to the attempt to put the colonies
down. Privateers out of our ports cruised
against Spanish commerce and complicated
our relations with Spain, while hostile ex
peditions were htted out on our soil with
such effect that these States becume the real
base of operations against Spanish dominion
on this side tho Atlantic. In such a con
dition, and to prevent the unpleasant conse
quences that the condition was likely to
produce, the statute of 1818 was drawn iu
tho stringent terms in which it limits the
right ol our merchants to sell ships. Made
in such circumstances it is a national dis
grace and should have disappeared ere {his.
If any appeal should be made to this law
to cripple the operations hero of tho patri
otic ltussiuns we doubt if the courts will
take the same view of the intent of tho
law that is said to be taken in the Cabinet
In every opinion given by the Attorney
Generals on the effects of this statute it has
been held that the actual existence of war
was ncccssury to give it effect
The Academy of Music Kedivivus.
The average expression one hoars relative
to the happy change in tho management of
tho Academy of Music is that it camo none
too soon. We are prepared to go further
and say our only regret is that it was not
made many years ago. Here was a fine
opera house that went begging for lessees.
Occasionally some well meaning Germuu
singers wandered thither lor u fow nights
to remind us for what purpose tho building
was designed. Of late years wo should else
Luvj iorgotteu, for ou the other occasions
when its doors were opened it was for balls
or college commencements, according to
season, with an occasional night of very
dismal "original comedies." The grand old
house had become a byword and reproach.
With Mr. August Belmont as President of
tho Board of Directors it is very certain wo
shall chango all that, llis name is itself
assurance of a successful opera season next
winter. We understand that the new man>
agement propose having a real opera, and
not as formerly an operatic concert. In
other words, instead of one star with a com
pany of dummies, or beings that everybody
wished were dummies, we shall have one or
two operatio suns surrounded by a galaxy of
singing stars. Mr. Morton, one of the newly
elected directors, who is now in Europe, is
in activo correspondence with Mr. Maple
son, tho well knowu impresario, of Her
Majesty's Opera House, London, to secure
a company for next season at the Acudemy
of Music. It is rumored that perhaps M.
Pnure, the marvellous French baritono and
great delineator of Mephistopholes, may be
secured, and that Adclinn Patti, the queen
of the lyric stage, nn^ Mile. Albani, now so
wonderfully advanced in her art, may be
persuaded to come over. If such should
prove to be the case we do not doubt that
the operatic season next winter will be tho
most brilliant in New York since tho days
of Jenny Lind and Piccolomini. We have
said if, but we are half assured of it already
by the knowledge that Mr. Belmont is the
President and actively interested in tho
affair.
Thn Belgian Government ant) the
Halifax Award.
Our correspondent at Brussels, in a de
spatch from that city this morning, Bays
that the government of Belgium is not
satisfied with tho position in which it
and its Minister at Washington (Mr.
Delfosse) have been placed by the diplo
matic correspondence sent to the S nate last
March in regard to the circumstances of his
appointment as tho umpire on the Fishery
Commission. It complains that owing to
the incomplete publication then made
its own action and that of Mr. Delfosse have
been placed in a wrong light, and it has de
termined to ask our government to make a
correction by a full publication. 'I he selec
tion of Mr. Delfosse, it will be remembered,
was objected to from the very beginning by
our government. In the list of Ministers
submitted by Mr. Fish to Sir Edward Thorn
ton his name was omitted, but notwith
standing this marked objection Mr. Delfosso
was finally chosen umpire by Count Beast,
the Austrian Ambassador at London. Tho
correspondence shows that Mr. Delfosse was
entirely ignorant that an objection had ever
been raised by Mr. Fish to his selection. If
ho had boon aware of the fact ho would not,
of course, have served on the commis
sion. But while the correspondence ac
quitted him of all blame in the matter,
it nevertheless placed him through no
fault of his own in an unfortunate and un
favorable position. If, as the Belgian gov
ernment seems to tlunk, there is anything
in the despatches that tends to throw ad
ditional light on the subject and thereby
relievo Mr. Del fosse, our government, wo
have no doubt, will be glad to make it
pnblic. The request is a just and reasonable
one and should bo complied with us
promptly as possible.
Columbia's trow Mm Us
Columbia's four sails for Europe to-day
in the City of Ch< t. r. 'iwico before have
gentleman crows from this country crossed
to England to try and wrest victory from
her on her own waters and in n sport of
which she is passionately fond. Both the
former trials were on the long lour mile and
threo lurlong l'utncy to Mortlnku course,
while this is on the Thames at Henley, and
only a mile and five -sixteenths. Harvard
was beaten by less than a length of clear
water. The Atalantas wets distanced by
tlio famous London rowing men. Harvard,
English fashion, carried a coxswain, was
overmatched heavily in weight, and wns
badly out of condition on race day. The
Atalantas had dona nothing at home to jus
tify their going out, and Would have stood
a poor show against their Own present best
crow. Columbia starts off in fine spirits,
has lour good men in hor bout, and if they
can stand the change of climate and get
plenty ol sharp coaching over there, so as
to bo thoroughly together, ought to make a
tight race with any student's crew in Eng
land. Now that theJT are off their trlends
should see to it that they have plenty of
money and of such other aiHistanco as they
may need, so that they may have every
thing in readiness on tho important day?
the ith day of July.
ChitrgM Agslnit Oar Consols
China.
Tho report of the House Committee on
the alleged China Consulate scaudals will
be found in the Hebalu's Washington cor
respondence to-day. Charges were pre
ferred against George F. Seward, late Con
sul General at Shanghai and at present
Minister of the United States at Peking,
and O. 13. Bradford, late Vice Consul Gen
eral and Postal Agent at Shanghai. The
investigation has not been completed in
Mr. Seward's case, but in the case ot the
Vico Consul the charges are held to have
bocn proved, and a majority of the commit
tee recommends his impeachment. Two
members entertain doubts as to whether
the position held by Bradford is one in
which impeachment proceedings can be
taken, but they agree with their associates
in pronouncing the churgcs established by
tho proof, and recommend the reference of
all the testimony to the Judiciary Commit
tee for such action as it may deem proper.
The articles of impeachment presented
by the committee reveal a state of aflairs
absolutely startling. Tho charge that the
ex-Vice Consul General became interested
in the construction of railroads in China,
and munaged by sharp practice to build
such roads despite the well known opposi
tion and against the wishes of tho native
authorities and people, would not be judged
very severely. While tho oflieiul position
occupied by Bradford made it impropor
that ho should enter into speculations of
that kind ho might be regarded as a public
benefactor if he did manage to build rail
roads or causo them to be built against the
stupid prejudices of the Chinese authori
ties. But tho gravest accusations against
him are those relating to his alleged official
corruptions and tyrannical conduct toward
citizens of tho United States in China. If
tho charges embracod in some of the ar
ticles are true?and the committee declares
them to be substantiated by the evidence?
Bradford took advantage of his position jto
commit acts of the grossest oppression and
injustice toward his own countrymen, en
couraged, no doubt, by their helpless con
dition in such a country and trusting to
his own standing and influence with tho
Chinese authorities to hold him harmless.
It is almost impossible to credit some of the
accusations formulated by tho committee,
for tho reason that any sane man must
have known that complaints would reach
our government, and that sooner or later ho
would be called to account. It is startling
to think that Americans going into a semi
barbarous country, where they most need
the protecting arm of their own govern
ment, should find the official representa
tives of that government the first to oppress
and wrong them. Unless tho committee is
greatly in error the ex-Vice Consul General
is a disgrace, not only to the American gov
ernment, but to tho American name. In
justice to him some public trial of the
charges made against him ought to be
held, in order that ho may have an oppor
tunity to disprove them if they are un
founded.
Suppressing Voltaire.
Many admirers of Voltairo in Frunco have
determined to celebrate a Voltnirenn
centenary by tho appropriate method
of a wide diffusion of Voltaire's thoughts.
They have made a selection of pas
sages from his writings, and proposo
a gratuitous distribution of a volume
of these throughout France, and they put
a chance to tako< part in the centenary
at the easy rate of a contribution
to tho fund for this purpose. War is made
on this project by tho Catholic prelates,
and one of them has asked tho government
to interfere. But tho government happily
responds that it cannot prosecute writings
that have been printed a million times and
aro in circulation. It is certainly rather
late to try to head off Voltaire with a cen
sorship.
'Work of tike Grand Jury.
The Grand Jnry is evidently resolved to
pat a stop to tho nuisancers to which their
attention has been directed by Rccordor
Ilackett. The largo number of indictments
they have already found is an earnest of
their good intentions. It is stated that the
inquiry into tlio action of tho Board of
Health and its responsibility for tho exis
tence of tho nuisances has been postponed
lor a few days for tho purpose of securing
additional evidence. It would bo unjust to
indict the owners of the slaughtering
houses, soap factories, hide, skin and tal
low yards, petroleum works, fat rendering
establishments, fertilizing factories, manuro
heaps, ike., who hold pcrmitB from tho
Bourd of Health and to lcavo nnindicted
the health officials who have thus in a
measure sanctioned those nuisances and
who have at least done nothing to put a
stop to them. Men who obtain a permit
from an official bourd to follow a ccrLuin
lino of business may well supi>ose that they
are within tho law, especially when they
receive no notice that in the use they make
of the permit thov are violating tho law and
endangi ring the public health. Tho offi
cers of tho Health Department endeavor
to make light of these permits, but no
ouo can Icgnlly follow certain busimsses
that uro offensive in their character
and annoying and dangerous to tho
public without thein. Before they are
grunted, therefore, it is tho duty of tho
officers who grant them to bo satisfied that
they are not going to be used to create
nuisances or to locate an offensive business
in a neigliborhoo 1 where it is likely to bo
injurious to property and hazardous to
health. The proof of tho wilful negligence
of the Board of Health is to bo found in the
very existetioo of these many nuisances at
this time. Tho Grand Jury will fail in its
duty it it does not indict tho principal
officiuls of the Board, whose spasmodic
activity, now that the fear of an indictment
is before their eyes, is, in fact, an admission
of guilt.
'1 ho Grand Jury are, it is said, now in
quiring into tho action of the Board of
Aldcrinen, who have granted permission for
tho obstruction of the streets and avenues
in direct violution of law and alter repeated
vetoes by tho Mayor, protests by tho Com
iiiissioner of I'ublie Works and adverso
opinions by tho Corporation Counsel. It is
to be hoped tho Grand Jury will teach the
Aldermen that they are not above tne law
and have no special privilege to set it at
defiance. The street encumbrances have
grown to bo an unbearable nui
sance, and the eagerness with which
permission to mako illegal use of the
sidewalks is sought may be gathered from
the statement made by Alderman Morris
that the firm of Mucy & Co. had been offered
one thousand dollars by a pedler for their
consent to the erection of a stand on the
sidewalk in front of their store. This shows
that the permissions given out with so
liberal a hand by the Aldermen have large
pecuniary value to somebody, liut they
are in direct conflict with the law, and the
insolent persistency with which the Alder
men continue to distribute them shows a
remarkable contempt for law and is a direct
defiance of the present Grand Jury.
A Shakespeare Memorial.
Tlio project of a memorial theatre to
Shakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon, in which
Miss Kate Field takes a leading interest,
may not bo as entirely commendable on
practical grounds as it is on the ground of
pretty sentiment; for, though to have
Shakespeare's immortal plays performed
night after night in the town of his birth,
likoa continual offering up of incense to his
manos on an altar built between his hirthpluco
and his tomb, is a lino concoit, yet when we
consider that Stratford is a little country
town, as far from paying audiences as Peoria,
we are in doubt how long even our fair
countrywoman's enthusiasm would foot the
inexorable bills. She may, however, have
modified her plans to what she must excuse
us for calling practical dimensions,
for our London cable despatches in
form us of . a successful benefit
at the Gaiety Theatre, in that city, in aid
of the project. It is gratifying to learn
that so much of the excellence of the pro
gramme was duo to sterling American
artists like Miss Genevieve Ward and Mr.
Veziu. Where an enthusiasm like Miss
Field's brings about such a perform
ance as that describod to us we may be
assured of its general healthy direction,
and if an American lady can move English
men to do fitting outward honor to their
national poet we shall have all the more
reason to bo proud. Shakespeare, in the
minds of the civilized world, we do not
think needs a higher pedestal; bat if any
body can put him an inch or two above his
present altitude by fine presentations of
bis plays who would not give a hand to so
excellent a hoisting apparatus ?
Consul Gennrui Torbort.
Tho notion of the Senate yesterday in
confirming the nomination of ex-Governor
Fairchild by a strict party voto as Consul
General to Paris in placo of General A. T.
A. Torbort, who is rccnlled, must not bo
hastily set down to tho detriment of the
latter. The letter from General Torbert,
which we publish in our cable despatches,
indicates that if any credence was given by
the Senate to the charges made before the
House Committeo on Expenditures of the
State Department against tho Consulate
General under his ohurge he lias not been
quite fairly dealt with, lie claims that he
made a full and sufficient explanation of
these charges to the Stu^e Department, show
ing that he acted "entirely in accordance with
law and custom, and that no ground exists
for any complaint." General Torbert lias
served his country as a distinguished
Holdier and hns also had a meritorious con
sular career. The reputation of such a man
is too valuablo to the country to be thrown
away upon the statements of irresponsible
accusers.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
nob ningcrsoll, tho dovll's own bon-bon, Is in Bos
ton.
Mr. Tilden will not glvo up while on ash barrol re
main*.
Nabant in summer is eooL At any rale it's cool lor
scandal.
Mr. Uayos docs not propose to look n gift mule In
the bcoi.
l tio Emperor Wtlltnto, of Germany, will go to Kms
In lite Oral week ol Juno.
General Woodford will spook In his usual enthusias
tic und electrical manner at Passaic, N. J., on Deoorx
ttuu Day.
Mr. ihram Atkins, editor ol tho Monlpeller (Vt.)
.-Iri;it) and one ol tno National Democratic Committee,
is in Washington.
Chlol Justice Watte will preside at the June torra or
tbo circuit Court In New York city, In piaco ui Jus
lice Hunt, who is ill.
Tho Wusbiugton Capital rays ibalnewspapor dtrocio
rlos ura a sort of black mulling enterprise on tho part
ol advertulug agents.
"Carrie*'?Mix sumo rtoo flour and red pooper and
Iced It Is your chicks, eud your little banieinu will
strut the lawn In lull traihor by eutuuiu.
General Uuuter, ol Virginle, tho drst Uuioo soldier
who declared that slaves who came within his liuea
should he Irec, and Whose order to that ?ir ct Lincoln
publicly annulled. Is a very old uiau, with a mass of
bu liy, wuvv white hair.
Miss KuiiuIj Potter is s.ild to be tbo best rider In
Wushingloi. She Is tho daughter ol a geueral; and
she recently at a i-'alurduy soirao uanced lor ua hotir
or two in ruling coatumo, which must kuvo boon pic
turesque, II not convenient.
Tho Itev. Thomas liowrnau, D. P., ol St. Louis, one
of tho bishops or the Methodist Kpiscopal Church,
tall id on the steamship N'jilcrland, Irom Philadelphia
lor Autwcrp, yesterday. lie is to insko a tour arouui
tho world to luapeot tho missions of the Church.
Nelson Handy, or Cincinnati, la fllty, married und
black. Alice, the chambermaid, Is swocl eighteen
nud prettily wlilo. Tlioy have eloped to Canada.
Are the social chords ao lightening that tho timo will
eotiio when dark Senator Hruce, ol Mississippi, wbo
Vitus tho 1'rosidont overy day, will becutno a member
of tho Cabinet 1
Ii 1* pleasant to read In a Southern newspaper that
Colonel Abram 3. Hewitt has duno so mid ao, that
Colonel Peter Cooper la in the Houili, that Coloncj
llcnry Ward Uccohor la lecturing, that Colonel Chirk*
A. Dana calls Colonel Hnyc.s a Iraud. Everybody
acoina to be a colonel. Alter a while stolen paragraph*
will be credited to tho Colonel P. 1. man.
Hero Is a trpe ol clvilixitiun in Nevada. The
Kuroku Hepublicaa snys Ibut idling around town with
tbo Hnoshone squaws is a very pretty little girl about
twelve yenrs old. la as dirty, ragged nnd hid
eously puinted as any ol tbc Indian woman, but, In
aplto ol all drawbacKS, abs Is handsome and graceful.
Tho child la a ball-bread; Is not dsrkcr than su ordi
nary brunetto, and luia gloaay brown bair. It
ia a pny that some good womau cmnot luko bor out
ol bar savage and squalid ills and bring her up id de.
cency.
The last timo wo Haw Don Cameron his prosonl wile
wan, us a sweet, blooming girl, with a moulb more lhari
ordinarily beautiful, tliiiug In the rcservo gallery
the Senate. Don all In a moment eat In tbe seat behind
her, talking practically in bis sanorots tunes, as u
m*n ol tbrao millions assumas the right to talk. Sba
looked up Into bis Isea with airlien confidence and
with some of that spiritual glee wblcn a dellastt-ly
sweet girl alone can posset*. Hag pardon, l'on say,
ho hates newspaper men; we ought not to have men
tloued him.
chakjlotte cushman.
MISS STEUUlXb* LIFE OF THE DEAD ACTRESS?
A WOUTHY TRIBUTE FROM A 1'hILXD? LET
TERS AND ANECDOTES.
Ellas Emma Stabbing' long expected "Ufa of Char,
lotte t.'ushmau" baa just Touched us, damp from tut
press of Houghton, Osgood h Co. Miss Stehbius' tit
ness lor tbo position oi biographer ol Miss Cue Inn ?u
is oiiablisbed by tbo tact ol tbo long and loilmaU
Irkcndship that existod between these two gllto<
women, before her death Eliss Cusbmun placed at
her letters and papers in the hands ol ber friend, ai
tbo same lime expressing the desire that she woulc
writo tbo record ol her lilo if It should ever ho written.
Tbo choice wss a wise ouo, as the voluiao belors
us at ouco proves. It is wri'ten lu uu
oiiruost at troll as entertaining style, und lu it w?
loam much ol the great actress that the world has
never been permitted to know bo love. It deserves to
rank with Elacready's "Rtcollettlous" and othei
laiuous uuuals ol tlio stage. The principal events In
the 11 lo ol Miss Cusbiuau were mado (ainlllir to the
roaders of tbo UsuAhn at tho Unto ol her deutb. With
these we will not deal, hut Luteal will quote Iront
her letters and tho uuecdoics related byMlssSlcb
bins. The work is very gruoclully uud appropriately
dedicated to tbo dram itic protes->lou, "wluou Mies
Cushmau loved anil honored, to which sho gave the
study of her lifo and tlio loyal devotion ol her- great
powers, to which alio bus loft lu Uor example a noblt
and imperishable rcmoinbranoo."
K1KHT Al'l'KAKANCK AS AN ACTKXSS.
We Qod tbo followioK account ol Ucr ttrat appear*
nnce as un actress in EllssCusbmsD's own words:? >
Willi Hie Maeders I went to New Orleans, and sang until,
owiug pcruaps te luy youth, to change of c.iniato or to a
tee are.it strain upon tile upper register of my voice,
which, as his wile's voice was a contralto, it was inure to
Mr. Maojer's interest to u.e man tho lower one, 1 lound
my voice sudiluuly failiux me. In mv miL'sppinuas I wrut
to ask counsel anil auvico ol Mr Caidwull, tuo manager ol
Hie chief New Orleans theatre. II: ul once sai l to me,
"Vou ought lo be an actress. and not a sinner." lie ad
vised uiu lo study s ine parts, and presented me tu Mr.
llariou, mo tragedian ul the ti outre, whom ho asked lo
hear lue and to take an interest tu me.
lie was very kind, as indued they both were: and Mr.
Ilarnm. alter a short lime, was suHieient y Impressed with
my powers to propose to .Mr. Caldwell that i should act
Ludy Macbeth to Ins Macbeth, on the occasion ol hie
(Iturtou'si benefit i pen this it was oecidru that I should
give up singing and take lu ?ctlug. My contract with Mr.
.Mat-tier was annulled, 11 being the end ot the so ison so
enraptured was 1 with the idea ot acting this part, and so
fearful of anything preventmc me, tuui 1 did not tell the
manager I hue no dresses until it was too late for me to he
preveutud Irom uctiug tt; uud the day boiure i lie perform
mice, alter rehearsal, 1 told lilin. lie loituenla'.ely sat
down and wrote a unie of introduction tor me to the
tragedienne of tho French Theatre, which then em
ployed some of the best among French artists lor its
company. Jills note was lu ask hor to help ino to
costumes lor the rule of Lady Macbeth. 1 was a tall, ihiu.
Pinny girl ut that liuie. about five teet six incites in height.
'Hie r'roucli woman, -Mine C.osol, was a short, tat persou, ul
not mora than lour leut ten inches, hor waist lull twice the
size of uiiiio, with it very large bust; but her euape did not
prevent i.er being a vary great actress. Tho ludlcrou-uess
of her clothes being made tu Hi ino struck her at ones.
?She roared with laughter; but sUe was very good uatured,
saw" iny distress ami set to work lo see liuw she could help
It, by dint ol pieciug out the skirt of one dress it wa?
made to answer lor an underskirt, and theu another dress
wai laaeu in in every direction to Mo uuty as an overdress,
and so make up the costume. And ??bus 1 essayed fur ilia
first luuo tus part ot Lady .Macoelh. lortuuately to lha
satisfaction ol the auuieuce, tha manager, and all tha
mom hers ul tho eompany.
mas cosuxax's saluk.
Mtss CusUmau'B biography would bo Incomplete
without a relcrcuco lo bor faitblul colored maid.
Any meinotlal would be iticoiupletu which would leave
ou'. tuo Iritntl und companion ut all her wauJunug*, (be
aharer of her trial* auu lio" trioinplie, thi good, devoted,
faithlui Sal lie .Utiroer. she came Into these close relatione
with hor mistress verv o nly, wluu she was but fourteen
yours ol u e. HlM Uttslimtli Was at ruck by ner serious,
steady wit.ve. her anxious lorehoaa, but especially by her
oyi'biowa. she bellev d lit what she colled "couscien
tools eyebrows," uud Sallle's were so peculiar iu that
way, that one of our merry An'dtu'V in Koine used to say,
"1 utii aiwuys iu expectation ol socior Sallie's eyebrows
go over the lop of licr bend." Tbere was some dlBlcully Iu
taking lies away truoi her mother, who also bad her Ideas
III the Child's Value; but it was one ot the mints fated to
be, and so was dually accomplished From that time IU*
two were never separated, except lor tbe necessity or pleas*
urn ol Ills! Lushui.in. sailiu never had any will, any love,
any oeslre aonrt trout her and bor interests I'erhaos mere
never has bucn a more perlect iustanceoi absolute devotion
on tbe one sole and apprccloilou and trust on toe other thAu
tuis ass iciatiou presented. Sal.I ? was the only "dresser" shs
ever bad, llie guardian and eustodlan of all her theatrical
properties, she knew to a pin whatever was ujcessary te
each costume, uud. no matter how uiauy were tuo Changes,
not. lug was ever missing Long exuericuce had made the
routine absolutely perlect, relieving her mistress ut all c ire
upon tiio subj.ct. Afterward, whuu tbe pressure 01 slow
w earing disease came, wliat tongue or pen could ever do
Justice to lit..- uulaillng. untiring travail ol heart and baud
iu the service ol the beloied and worshipped mistress.
Sl'CCKSS IX KNOLAXI).
A letter ol Msrch 2, 1845, speak a of bor great sue*
ccss in Loudon wub Justifiable exultation.
iiy the packet ol the 10th I wrote you u few lines sag
?out a lot oi newspapers, which could tell you in so inncu
oeller langusgo tUuu I could ol luv brilliant and triumph*
ant success iu London, i can say no more lo you tbaa
tuis-tnat it is far, lar beyond my uiost sanguine expecta
tions. In my must ambitious m incuts 1 never dreamed of
the success wnicli has uwaltgd me and crowned every sO'ort
1 have made. Io you 1 should not hesitate to tell all mr
griel and all my lallure, il It had been such, lor uu one
could l.avj lu.t more wita uie aud lor mo. Wuy. thou,
should 1 hesitate tuuless through a fear that I nilgai seem
eguiiiilcali to loll you all iny iriuiupnst all iuy success I
Mldlcu It, all my successes put togetber since I have been
upon the stuge wou d nut come no?r my success iu Luiidon,
and 1 ouly wanted some one olyou here to enjoy It wiltt
Ino lo iu?ao It Complete. e
in unother letter, written about tbli time, aha
?ays:? "Everylblog goes on Quely; 1 am doing wall,
und I hope my sur may coutluuo Iu lbs ascendant. 1
have given luyselt ilvo years mure, and 1 think at tba
cud ol that time 1 will bare $50,000 to retire upon;
that will, II well Invested, give as a comlortable hotne
lor iho rest of our lives, und u quiot corner la soma
respectable gruvoy ard."
LOVK OF IIKit raoFKssiox.
la a leltor lo a young Uugllsb Irioud, abaut toga
upon iho stage, s o says:?"How many tbero aro wba
have a horror ol my proiessiou 1 Yol 1 dearly luvt
the very hard work, the very drudgery ol It, wblcb
has made uiu wuat 1 am. Despise labor ol auy kind I
I bonor it, und ouly despite thoso wbo do uot Und
sufllclcut valuu lo it to admire. You did not
know uie wheu you asscd ino il 1 would desplso yoa
loritl Uut you must Uud llitio limo lor practising
music?a bard and labor-deiu inding vocation. 1 have
tried it myself, tbcrolore 1 am lulljr quallllea to spoak
of it"
TilK CAKLYLKS.
In a letter Kiss Cushmau desciibes bar Qrit Inter,
view w.ib lira Carlyle:?
On Sunday who should cum? self invited ta meet rae but
M rs. Cariyls 7 .-be earnest one w'cluek and stay d until
eight. Aud i.ucli a day I have nut known I Clever, wtty,
calm, cool, uimmllug. unsparing, a nMMfeer unparalleled
it nianiiur imuiiiablv, it behavior scrupulous aud a power
Invincible? a >oiii 'lualloii ram and slraugn exists in tual
plain, kueu, unattractive, yet uuricapabic* woman ! Uh, I
must tell you of thai day, for I c >uuot write It I Alter she
lull of coureo wo talk a about her uutti tue small noun
ol tne luuriilug.
Alter ibis tbs oitcn saw Mrs. Carlyle In her own
house, and had iho privilege uiso of m olug iho Tuua
Uerer l.liueelf engaged iu tho inuudaue process of
taking bia loa l.kc any ordinary mortal, and bearing
blm talk?uot liko any other mortal tnal ever was
made, lor ue creature but himself could ever s?y lbs
things be ssitl and Iu the way he said thorn. When in
the right mood and to too right listeners Carlyle was
greater than his no kc
IISUiXD TIIO kUNXkS.
"there can bono more inriiiiug rcprosentailoos ol
beroio deeds tic lore tue curmiu," gays M its Slebbiue,
"than ine olteii going ou in undeiuoustrallve slienoo
und patient oiiiturauct behind IL Tbere is uu class
inure kind lo oue auulher, none more geueroue; their
faults all lean to Virtue's side, and wuen we reckon
up their till* ol omission uud commission e oaoiid
and uublitesud Judgmoul will admit that iu tbe eternal
equilibrium oi loroen thoir woreer qualities will surely
?kick the Ueani.'"
"iiuhina tnu scones" It sucb a Umi incognita lo the
world at largo met lew aro able tu Judge righteous
judgment Horn the standpoint ol porsouni experience.
10 lUoee wild liaVv this experience it ought to he ?
duty as woil as a pleasure to speak a Word iu season
lor u much iniMUiidcrslood und ill Judgud class, wuo
have inherited tno prejudices of ages, and yet ueve
been uUlo to show so tniuy shilling examples ol
geulus nud goodness to Iho adiniraliou ol Ibc world.
It was oiio ol Miss Lusbmau's crowning glories,
that she knew how to recouoiie ibo tncousieienciei
nud hurinoiiizi the discordances ol tine peculiar
realm, whore alio reigovd witii itie sa.uu uu
uoubtvd sovereignly si everywhere ei.-o. Iter inure
pr> sauce on thu hoarde sucined to ulvo lllu aud
valuu io what w?s too ohou a mere collection
ol incongruous materials. Hor earnesmcsr, her
thorough uvea, scorned to be at on.:e mimed iuiu tno
mass ol Inertia, Ignorance and indiilorencu, nl> had to
do their best, because sho alwaye aid hor beet, und
bel best wus not, as iu so uisny lusluuues, ? mere ryo,
?talking around, wrapped in its own sublime idf.
r nlldeliOe, looking down upon and ignoring tbe leaser
lights as 01 no cOossquoncc,
not k or oun.naax.
"Among tlio letters of this poring," says her biog
rapher, "I Ilhd rnauy expro-slona ui Miss Co-Uiuai "i
passionate lovo lor clilluiou, without some mlu-iou lo
which tins inuiuoir would be v?ry incomplete. It
was one ol the most merged trmis in Iter cneracter.
She wee hi sympathy with children aud could bu a
child with them. 1'hey lured her uud gave her their
cocildoiiUe, und siio was never so occupied ib.it eue
could not give 11inu uud siroogtb tu ilieui. Her
nopliow'e children wuro lo bur like ber own. Mlie
caiiod hereell their 'big mamma,' anil aho w.mld
iritvol any dihlnhcj to be present at their birtn, creu
on one occasion crossing iho uceau lor that purpose.
11 ?us hor great Joy lo no ino Urst lo recetvu mem lb
her arms, uud she und a leeliug that this ceremony
made tuein more hor own Her llrsl vittlore In IIM
morning wero always the little children, and she had
miiiIos und songs and merry games lor iliem, even
when at limes ber anff.iring* conn nod ber to her bod."
We should like lo quote much mom of this ai s irb
ingly interesting roiuine, which, aside liuiu ns in
trinsic merit, is a wormy tribute iroia oua noola
woman to another, and uot only every member ol the
drains tic pro loss ion, but everv American, should leul
proud nl tins biography of a ?liter prvletsional and
cuuutry woman.