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Efre 3Ufa-g0rh gfrnts, Pntrtmg, gunt 21,) 1880. i JIOSCOW AND ITS SUBURBS jULTD TUB SPLENDID WILDERNESS OF SAEOLNIKL 'j-LQPDISO TUBOCGH BAITD-DRITT rBOXO--1 PCTO AID THl BLOODT BATTLX WHTICK FT SAXS RECALL THV FHEaEST ASD THK rAJXA TALB TDK DATS Or A-i rolXOS A BTATt tO rCBIttCT. Sakolsiki Pa hi, Itoacow, Mj 23. TLe 'peelings of the well-known. thirsting camel as aeon the well," so cf ten "and so vividly do-' 4cted without any tint from the camel hinv pLf, are bat Una and feeble image of those i every pedestrian on escaping into this splen-tcJd.

wildernesa of greea torf and rustling lea vea tfom the hot, tane, dusty and a half of road that Ilea between, it and the entrance of P.loeoow. Even in the calmest weather, this objectionable tract send up dust enough at Urerrstep to give one a vivid idea of the pleasures of life in the desert "but when the iwiad begin to Wow in real anient, it baffles all description. Struggling blindly onward through the driving sand-spray, with one eye lightly shut and the other as little Wn as possible, you catch a glimpse tver' anon of a shadowy, moss xm3ngajjove just in time to escape eihg crushed by some passing cart or cartilage, the driver of whvh has head turned ever his shoulder like one of Dante's distorted criminal. Ladioa hold down their veils with the grasp of desperation foot passengers flit speo-f rally past, applying vixionary hands to half-kM fxrw nnl icemen -shut their- eves h'terallv it well as metaphorically to the mlsdeccs of kbrlr neighbors while here and there, and everywhere the airyj' tormentor Wp' and 'dadoes, ineeting you at every turn with a Jvclentifio whirl thnt cnds a shower of hot, jrickly dust tingling through every crevice or your clothing, and giving to the old saying that ''man is but dmstf an unpleasantly prao- tical application Were the "IUmblef' of Central Park allied to run will, and dappled with little broad balconied cottagas, quaintly decorated i.nd painted, it would represent Sakolnikf" )f airly enough. But this leafy labyrinth, where ijho "merry boys of Moscow" may wander 'with their lady-loves in the twilight of July, r-r get robbed with nearness, and dispatch on a Bark night in August, lor ear the wolves giv-ng musical soirees for their" own benefit during the Christmas holidays, iS at this season as (busy as Broadway.

Moscow is flltjting to jtba country, and all proprietors" of Villas and fancy cottage in PogorotUkoe, Tcherkeeaovo, fend other outlying villages are rubbing their -Jiands in expectation of a plentiful harvest. tAs Lord Macaulay would have said Eadl-w trains of wagons, that creak beneath the I malarial IM corn-sacks and of household goods, choke every roaring gate. Forthree months to come, the soft, dreamy, uplands around the great city will-be deluged with lunch-baskets, novels, romping children, mustaches, spectacles, pretty faces looking out corpiottishly from beneath the shade of broad-leave-l hats. Then, with the rst breath of the cold Autumn winds, all this vanishes as if it had never been, and the plodding peasants, in whose ox-like existence this periodical invasion ii the only excitement worth naming. relapse1 into their normal stag- nation tor eiut months more.

Concerning this same park of Sakolnildthe Policu traditions of Moscow have preserved She memory of an exploit worth reoonling. Home years ago. It lxjpm to be noined abroad that the. Bakolniki Barrier was haunted after dark by a "spectre wearing all the outward -aspect of a certain narnentiunable potentate, it a-u--m nnmnlaTlnh Artl-V M-M nn.l i. I hIIII The Police paid title attention at first to Kvliat they considered fnerely a rather violent 7rctical joke but it -Boon apieared that this irolicsoiae demon, notjoontent with terrifving ilu'latod iayfarerx, wai in the habit of robbing (thorn as well.

It was uight when this news was first brought to bt-sd-juarterR, and among he lLtenem was a young Cossack who had Xeoently joined tuo Moscow Police a -hort. strongly-built, I heavy -looking fellow "who hardly ever spoke inore than two or three I words at a time. 11a ring 'hoard the whole I ktory to an end, this silent man suddenly roso, i und kaid, quiotlv, lt' agaiimt orrters fTir he mi after him." Bo nayiug, he went out, and rode olt at om to thej haunted spot, armed only wfth his arken, (short lasa lie soon i encountered the phantom, who, coming up to said in a hollow yotoe, Cossack, I want jyou come with me dorn ibelow." This kind Invitation was hardly tendprel when the lasso i ettled round the speaker'))! neck, and the luck-l 'less dtsmon found himself jerked up, half tran-1 clod, on to his captor's BOi-se, and wliirledaway into the town almost bofore he knew where he was. The head Inspector had just gone to bed, when there came a tap; at his door, and a breathless voice gasped out: "The devil, your the devil The announcing of such a visitor, in the doad of uight. might have scared st far more easy-oiiuscienced man than the worthy Inspector, who tremulously asked what was toe tie re a ixkmcjc doiow, your honor," answerwl the messenger, who ij ays he's brought in the devil, ami wanta to know what he's to do with him." The recol lection of the barrier demon" at once flashed upon the Inspector, who hurried on his clothes, end; hastening down, found the Cossack and ids prize, surrounded by an eager crowd.

The (removal of the phantom's horned mask disclosed the face of a noted thief whom the Polios had long hunted in vain, and the daring Ivptor was rewarded as he deserved. BoRODo, May 27. It is difficult, even for who knows its history, to realize that this ouiet little nook in which I write has been the. icecie, within the mensory of many men still living, of Xim fiercest and bloodiest battle of ipodem Man's ravages are as transient ns nunseu. anu oruuujw unui bb iiu.iv uwn ul and bloodshed as Bunker Hill or Saretd-: The tiny stream of the Moskva, almost narrow enough to, be (overleaped, sparkles as merrily in the sunlight as if it had never run red with the blood of 11 nations.

1 Kheep and cattle graze peacefully on the i mooth. ereen uplands which were- once heaped with the mangled bodies of a (. i hundred thousand men and a few lounging eaant8 in greasy sheepskins are the only 1' Wgn of life in the quaiat little hamlet, far the possesrioa of which thousands of the bestaol-' diers of Franca and Kissia shot, stabbed, and Jirained each other during nine tierce Hours on Europe tuere is prooaoiy no quieter or more insignificant plac than this tiny cluster of rudely -thatched log hovels hardly to be called even a village, for it has only SI cottages and 64 inhabitants to which the irony of fate has awarded such a ghastly immortality. Among a few of the oldest "muhka there seems to linrarsoma sbadowv tradition of Tsar Ka- JHUWOi HII.W HWJUili; HIPIIIIMH VVHLC( themselves much more with the eartongof tlieir daily hunch of black bread and the keep-f ing of their tattered sheepin frocks from ing altogether to pieces than with the mighty tragedy which haa niade tiie name of their ii iiirUiDiace a household word forever. From Mojaisk onward the point at which it is better to leave the Smolensk Railway and walk the remaining Bcvea miles to Borodino the country, but for some thinning of the for-ests, looks very much as it did when the Grand Army traversed it in IMA At this point the great plaia of Central Bussia Is broken np into a soooasAon of low, undulating slopes, thickly dappled with birch and pine woods, and intersected bv numerous marshy brooks.

Between of this i ridges the great battle was fought, the French advancing from the one, while the tBnssians strove to bold the other. On the prast of the latter, Just above the hamlet of Borodino iteelf, rises aaunst the pals blue sky long, dark, upright line, gradually resolving ritaelf into a. tall ptaar of black vtones, sartBonntsd by a gilt cross, with a sol itary tomb at its foot, and an msenptton upon each of its ten sides. Tb tomb is that of the i Prince Bagratton, the most famous of all 'the 45 GeaeralB who fall on the Roasian aid that day. Most of the Inscriptions are mere lists of names or of the nambsrs and losses tan either side- bat there is on sentence worthy of Tacitus himself: "Moscow occn pied by the enscny.

Bent. 3, 1812: Alexander antared Park- Marck 10, There to nothing in all history to surpass the grand and gloomy significance of these few words, except the parallel inscription oa the bank of the I remnant of the Grand Army struggled wearflr I 00.000." But the men! who lie here need no epitaph. If PolU va be the most glorious of Russia's victories, Borodino is beyond All question the most glorious of her defeaU. IBuch a defeat, indeed, was well worth ten victoriea. On one side was the finest military system ever known, enlvted in the cause of falsehood and wrong; on the other, the stubborn tenacity of men fighting for their homes, their country, and their: Uod.

against one whom they regarded as the common enemy of alL For the moment, indeed the on just cause triumphed, hut the stab inflicted upon it was so deep and deadly that the so-called victorious advance upon Moscow was merely the rush of a mor-tuty-wounded tiger toward the nearest thicket. Moscow only finihhed what Borodino had begun, and the unknown heroes who fought and fell that dsy merit all the praise bestowed upon them by Prinh kin's splendid poem. The Aram beat loud the n1st-clond don 'isri eastward lighter grow. Ani binnrhrd from unexpected gun Csme greeting from the foe. Tlwn upake our chief before eor Mne: JI'kwow behind us, children mine.

Mosrow we die to shield Twu thus our brethren did the deed 1 And one and all we vowed to i And well that promise did we heed On Borodino flWd." i But all the poems and histories of the great battle, many as they are, fall far short of the graphic intensity and pictaresqueaess of detail that marked the account of it which I once beard from an old Russian General, who had himself been in the thick of it from first to last. His memory was un usual! clear at the time I met him, and I enioyed to "the fall the treat of listening to ono who had seen Napoleon himself face to face upon the greatest of all his batUe-fieldi We bad got quite tired of always retreating, and when we saw that old Kutuzoff meant to stand and fight, you should have seen how we all brightened up. Home of the books say we were discouraged and gloomy on the morning of the battle; that a lie. Mow mucn ms- onuraged we were you may Judy by this, that even after thn battle, when naif our army was destroyed, our men wantfd to try It again and if we had, I lielieve we should nave won, for the heart wns nearly out of tho enemy by that; time. The FrenAman is soon hot and soon cold "but we KtuwiAna are a stubborn W't, and grow harder the inorej we're hit.

The norning row chill and disi mal, with a cold, whit mlt wrapping us! round like the shadow of the grave but it soon' scattered wben the guns began to fire. 8uch a din as thev made 1 it seemed to tear the yerv sky, and the earth shook for miles round. had 640 cannon, all firing away as fast as they could be loaded, and the French quite as many if not more. You should have seen my father's eyes light up af the first crash of the cannonade lie commanded a lottery in the great redoubt which defended our centre, and I was beside him, for with such odds against us even a boy of 14 was worth something. All the fights I ever fought" (and the old man's eyes flsnhed fire as he spoke) "were as nothing "to that one day.

Three times over all the gunners of our battery were killed off to the hurt man three times over fresh men took their and the work began again harder tnanj ever. Half our guns were dismounted, and the breastwork of the redoubt was so smashed and beaten down that at last it lay fist like an overturned hav-riok. The air was hot and choking, the smoke so thick that you could hardly See a foot before you only now and then, as the cloud parted, you caught a glimpse of sortie man falling dead, or wriggling on the ground with his blood running out like water. The whoop of; the cannon-bails through the air was almost as loud as the din of the firing itself and what with the heat and the uproar and the blinding smoke, and the shadowy masses of int-n looming through it with their bloodshot eyes and powder-grimed faces, and the crashing and shaking of everything, it was as if the very world itself were bursting in pieces before the coming of God to judgment. (Suddenly the cannonade ceased for an instant, and in the lull I hoard a strange sound far away iu the distance, like rain' pattering upon fallen leaves, which grew louder every moment.

All at once a whirl of bright uniforms and shining helmets and charging horses and gloaming sabres came surging up ovt the front of the redoubt like a great wave, and in burst the cavalrV of the French Imperial Guard, sweeping afl before them. That charge carried the redoubt and broke the centre of our lipe as gallint a thing as I ever saw done, even though they who dud it were our enemies. I had just time to dive under -a gun-carriage as the rosh swept by, and when it was past; I crept out again. The first thing I saw was my own father lying dead within three feet of me, crushed by the horse-hoofs like a trampled luaf and close beeide hhn lay the body of a French officer, in a rich, gold-laced uniform. I afterward learned that this was Col.

Caulain court, who had led the charge ami been shot dead just ias, he leaped into the redoubt. All was still around mo, but? far away to the north I could hear the roll of cannon and musketry still going on, and there was a red glare in the darkening sky over the Village of Borodino, which had been set on fire by the shells. Suddenly I heard voices close to nie. and saw a group of horsemen with plumed hate, whom I guessed at once to be Napoleon's staff. There was Murat, with his laced jacket and long white plnnie, a riding-whip in bis and Eis hair hanging in curls over his shoulders, just like a circus-rider.

There was grim old Rapp, with a face like the knocker of a prison door, and Michael Ney, with his low forehead and bulldog jaw, shut as tight as a trap. And there, in the midst of them all, was the man himself, in his little gray coat and cocked hat, calm and cold after afl the fury of the battle, and with a kind of far-off look in thooe deop gray eyes of his, as if they saw Moscow somewhere in the sky, and could see nothing between. has been a glorious day, indeed cried Murat boastfully, flourishing bis -whip over his head. Paris mav well illuminate over such victory I' Victory, indeed I' parbleu, and there 11 be no ono left to carry the newshome I Do you know that half the army's gone I i We had better fall back, and wait for reinforcement. Then Napoleon turned his head, slowly, and looked, at him, just as a statue might have done.

Thou counseling retreat, Michel that's something new, indeed 1 jxo uo iaumg back 1 must uate my bulletin from Moscow. And as for the army, one can't make an omelet without breaking a few When rfteard him say that. I knew that he was doomed, for no man but one whom Uod had forsaken could speak so of the fall pf a hundred thousand, brave men. And when we were hunting him back over the frozen steppes, three months later, I felt that the spirits of the dead marched with us and led us on." Moscow, May SL Our leading topic of interest here at present is naturally the expected unveiling of Pushkin's statue this day week, (June 7, which is to be presided over by Ivan Tourgueneff in person, and attended bjy a brilliant concourse of native and foreign literati, including, if report speak truly, even Tennyson himself. The site of the monument has been well chosen.

In the midst of the open space formed by the intersection of the Strastnoi Boulevard and the Tverskaya Uhtza. (Tver-street,) and immediately facing the tall white tower of the Strastnoi Monastery, rises a top- neavy structure or planking, very much like a half -decayed windmill, fenced in with a wooden palisade, through tlie chinks of which red-shirted workmen may be seen peering at all times of the day, with that marvelous power of deriving amusement from staring bard at noth- ing which the lower class Russian excels all the children of men. Those who are tall enough to look over the palisade see little except four tall lamps of polished bronze, inclosing in a kind of quadrangle a pedestal of granite, which makes itself dimly visible through the gaps of the windmill aforesaid and this is all that any one is likelv to see till next Monday morning. The unveiling of the statue and toe commemorative speech of Russia's greatest novelist over her greatest poet are to lie followed by a dinner and a theatrical performance taken entirely from Pushkin's own works. Huch a tribute, however partial and imperfect, to the power of intellect, augurs well for Russia.

Readers of Gogol and Lermontoff may perhaps question the right of the famous Moscow poet to stand oremuot in that muster-roll of great names which begins with Lo-mowoeon and ends with Tourgueneff but about the wide range of his powers, and their full recognition by his own.coimtrymen, there can be no question whatever Toet, dramatist, brilliant naturaliser of foreign models, Alexander brgeievitch' Pushkin waa already a household word in tha mouth of Russian wben cut off in his prime by the fatal duel of which the finest passage In his finest poem Eugene' Onaigin ') seems like a gloomy More lorcunai wan many of nis brethren, ha enjoyed, even in his uxe, a reputation wtuca das vasuy increaseo. during the abort lapse of time smee his death. His sham, sttonarlv-marked features and curl- tng black hair figure in every town from the White Sea to the Black; and thousands of his countrymen are now flocking hither to do him aonor, ana to near voa praisa ox im unssian i trwr.w tat vi trTgn vyiTrt- PYnn US TO THE "BEACHES WHERE TIIE PILGRIMS FOUXD RE LIEF YESTERDAY, rofTT i ixn visitors estimated at 40 bOO HOTELS DOEKO A UVXL.T BCD- XFis eiOHTS AND 8CESEB AT, BOOt- AVCtAY A REMARKABLE MUUUB. The lat of the City and a natural desire for healthful recreation after a week; of work ana con finement drove thousands from Kew-Tork yester-dar. asxi bv far the greater number of the excurslon- fet sooAt the sea air and the sandy beaches of Coney Aland.

The railroad cars from Brooklya ran at frequent intervals, and four steamers ran to the rest iron pier direct, while several ouiers landed their passengers at the West End i and the wooden jwharf east of the ocean pier. They ran from I ii the morning until 8 in the evening, aod carried 4rowds of passengers, returning generally urine tke tnorninjr and early afternoon com para tlrely enjpty. Few of the reimlar boats to the iron pier made their down-town landings on time, and the tbrtkigs awaiting them, anxions to get away from thd heated City, passed the wcarv moments of waitiiif In sTUmhlinjr at the managi-nt of the stearaant This policy, however, did not hasten thn nrrfc-al of thn boat bv a minute's time. and when she di come the throng; paneo Into her ontt to nndj every seat occupies, ana to make tlie trip to Coney Island standing and dlscontitd. The Kill Von KulL which was advertlHd to leave the foot of Rector-street at 3:45 1.

dih not approach the dock until alter 4, and then a rteat crowd was awaitins her: the is li censed to carry 1.000 paMcnpers, and there were probabl 800 on lioard on this trip. Of those, seats were pviled for about and tho remainder. already weary from standing; on the pier, were forced te keep on their feet during the hf'Br and a half occupied In the trip down the Hay. There was plenty of room to more around, but nowhere to rest, and the -when they reached tho Wand wfre so thoroughly tired out that half the anticipated pleasure of the day were spoiled by the eiToii to reach there. A niofe twrfpctlv en lovable dav on the water tt would hi difficult to imagine.

The burning heat of the sun as tempered bv a-niild breeae. jut strong enough lo create a motion on the surface of the wster, Rpd cool the tares or ttie: excursionists, out not stroig enough to prove iu the least dimigreea-bln. Tlit saloon of the Kill Von'Kullwas almost desertelbuther decks were crowded with passen-irers. wl drank in the fresh air eagerly, and with an appetite Dorn ot long deprivation. iown siairs on tue lower oecK was anoitier crown, wnicn was di-tikmg in something loss Invigorating than tin wn nir The bar-room mf the boat, winch a small room forward, was the Mrora of a itraiiii of pilgrims, and tho scores of men who offered tticlr sacriilce there paid well for the enter tainment which they received.

They were packed -six deciiBn front of the bar. and there thev stood and panlca for many long mtnutos awaiuiic tneir turn tol secure attention from tno tier-keeper. wiser than their fellows, took their camD- stKls with them In the search i for beer, and rested while the struggling throng IB front secifred their spoonrulor nquiu ana glass ojrroam. i lie strugcia forbeerKwis an excltiiie one, and lasted from tho sailing of the steamer till fchu, was made fast at the iron bici ben pie arrowg had been tiassea, ina toney Lsland have in eight, the breeze ireshenel, and soon Quite a respectable swell was perceptible. It wan not heavy enongh, however, to serionsly incom mode as person on board, aud, aitbougn a few ladies assumed a disgusted air, which ems to be the regular thing to do on approaching Coney island.

noDoav was sick, ana evervboav congratu lated oflier on their exemption from pay ing tribate to old Neptune. A crowd of me.i, wpmcn.l and children stood upon the pier to welcome the new-comers, and after the usual strugglelin a vain attempt to crowd live persons on a gang-flank constructed to accommodate three. and thcfconfuslon and disordered toilets naturally arising fV-om this insane all were landed safe and soann on the pier. Business here was In full I blast. The cafo and wine room was liberally! filled with men snd women, and the ico-creaai saloon attracted its quota of the fair ones.

Tine restaurant, too, was open, ana a lew gentlemen and ladle were eating clams and salads. but this art of tho pier in the early afternoon was eompnn lively deserted. The gruat mass of the visitors, the island preferred to roam along tho beach aj watch Uie bathers, or to distribute themselves it the many saloons and restaurants, where their eyi could rest upon the surf which sounded in their lore. -i A tripsin the railroad to Norton's Point showed that thelislamrfrom Cable westward held attrae tions fog but very few of the great throng of per sons wl flocked there yesterday. At the Sea feeach i' ilaoe duite a erowd aembled and passed the tlin-.

in drinking lager and eating lams. Extensive mprovemcnts are contemplated at this resort. The grounds in front of the Palace are being la out in gardens of the same general style as thosalwhinh render tbo Manhattan and Brighton Beach Hot els so attractive, and It Is Intended to add largely to the accommodations of the 18 lace. Further westward a few persons lingered round the st mil hotel, or roamed along the beach, but mere wt-re no attractions to draw a crowd. Nor ton Hurray's place was utterly deserted.

Wortm have been engaged in making repairs during i he past week, and it is ex-pected that the pavilion will be opened this month. From the iron pier eastward the was thronjtei wilh strolling visitors, and the water was tmcKiy dotted witti toe Heads of bathers sporting mine waves. 1 he surf was moderately high, lust high endugh, the Tld bathers said, to render, the spurt exciting and healthful. Tie water was not very coll. but It was not warm enough to -induen any vorjl large crowd to encounter it.

Hill, enough uatners laid venture in to make the scene an animate one all along the beach; and those -Iwho feared tontact with tho waves ttalked along 'the sand and enioved the anticson their more daring mends. Toward even ing the (tin was obscured by a mass of black clouds. and thiit served to make tho surroundings even more pl4asant. The water was high and the sands were wet. and the nromenaders discarded their blue glasses, and gazed without num.

upon trie bed of old ufean as the waves receded and left tt bare. Everybody was laughing and chatting as the morsow's toll aud care were indefinitely ixist- poned. snd the waves might tell onions tales could tbty recount tho secrets that were whispered In their I earing along the sands of Coney Island by yesterda r's troop of pleasure-seekers. The in tin centre of attraction during the day was Mar hattan Beach, where the crowd always seems tc be thickest, if It not linger tle long est. Tfaire have been larger throngs at -the hotel than that which attacked It yesterday, but It was large en4ugh to fill the verandas comfortably, and to Pack I the bathing navilion oloselv at certain hoars.

At 11 o'clock in the morning the clients of the Manftattan. and the early visitors to tiie beach, attend! divine services. The band-stand was for the time converted Into a pulpit, aup every seat on the lawn In front was occupied. The slrurins wu br the congregation. Levy accompanying wilh his cornet, kind Mr.

P. S. Gilmore acting as Director, n'he sermon was preached by the- Kev. I)r. Cage, of Hartford.

and was listened to at- tentivetd by the great congregntlon. Religions services on Sunday morning are now to become a regular feature at Manhattan Beach during the season. 1 lln the evening the pulnit was aeain trans formed tki a band-stand, and Mr. Gilmore arkd his musicians gave a grand concert. This was lfetened to by sevfral thousand persons, and the applanse woien greeted tne several pieces snowed tnat they were fuily appreciated.

Between Manhattan and Brighton Beaches the Marine Hallroad ran crowded cars all day long and realized I a small fortune for its The Brighton Beach TJotel and Pavilion are now in full blast, an the consequential waiters flitted to and fro durh the day, taking scores of orders which they nev filled, and filling scores of other which they nev received. There were more batners at Brighton Beach than at any other point on the island, and the restaurant in the pavilion was packed I during the afternoon. Lager beer and ire-cream beyond estimate were consumed, and avordupois was measured on a I KalroanK scale at 5 cents; per head byi a fat man who wonld be an Invaluable addition to a museum. A lively business was done in shell Jewelry, aud the fortune-teller and soda fountain man drew in a goodly amount of shekels. Trams tr mi Brooklyn rolled Into the depot filled with pas lengers day lone and until late In the evening.

and It was estimated that over people were lanHed at the Brighton Hotel alone during the day. Ofi the number who visited the island, it would difficult to form an approximate estimate, Kilt Ail ffctn A h. nHthln Ka Amiaua while lis; all it was much larger. Ol those woo paruclnated In the pleasures of the sea side. It rn be said that they were all good- humored, though probably all came home on the crowded! boats and cars weary and foot-sore.

Beer was consumed uv-unlimited, ouantitlas. but there wsb no fighting, and not a single distarbance was reported during the day-. It is a credit to New- York that this can recorded of her most popular Summer n-esort, where all classes of her clrVenm come together in such masses as to form a largo army. THE ROCKAWAY PILGRIMS. a CRrin ox tux trains of the long I ISLAND RAILROAD.

The 1 ong Island Railroad Company, may hare ca enough to carry many thousands of people a one time and in the same direction, but they did not have a suffioient number of them at hand yesterday morning to convey the crowds that wire anxious to go by the early trains to Bocks way. The charming' weather naa eaicu to do with the rushi that took ilaoe yesterday. Everylody who left the 'lty knew that the right breeze that played through be streets would be a stronger breeze at the sea-siore, and that it would be scented with tne sac. I of the ocean. Men tramped down to TrJrtv-Murth-8treet Ferry as brisk as if they were boys again, carrying huge hampers and leading their wires and children at a scampering page over the hot sidewalks.

Into the cars were hustled hundreds these family narties. and a plentiful sprinkliAg of young men and maidens, to say nothing of unrestrained "shavers." as a con ductor railed a oartv of notsv and iMImi bovs who weie off on their own hook, spending their vwb aMwy. ana spreaamg uesBseives very mucn as if they had ohartcred the train for their own special aooommodatiou. From o'clock until the trafeis were ail densely crowded. Passengers nappy hi fin ding comfortable stand lnr room.

All son Tt of ear wers beoorht into reouisitkm. Ths brought I maay ears that are poaches and baggage vans eom- bmeo. Tneee were nuscaxen lor smoaiag oars, aaa were geonrully appropriated to that use without qotion fry the passenger! who were inclined to moke. 3m ride an hour through the eouotry betweea Long Mimd City ana JtocKawsv was a pleasant ope at any time of the day. There was little dust, and the breese btew strong enough to carry the cinders from the engines away from the passengers.

The early trains took many passengers to Far Bockaway. These were not of the class go provided with hampers, but rather the more fortunate who were to sit dowp at well-appointed tables, to eat abundant dinners, and to wash It down with something more palatable, and xitroely less sparkling, than the surf that beat upon the shore. Some of the diners al Far Rockawsy Joined a caravan that set out toward the went, and continued unbroken until sunset, the throng wending their way along the beach, stopping occasionally to watch the bathers as they lounged slenr. aid arriving at the Neptune House. or the Immense new hotel, in time to catch the eftrly evening trains or boats I back to this City.

There are always a great many pilgrims to Rock- away, who have revisited the beach after an ab sence many years. Some of these comparative strangers were mere yesterday, ney saw many changes. Where 10 years ago there were stretches of sand and stunted pine, they found a mushroom growth of sheds, de voted principally to beer, bathing-clothes, and clam ehowder. They missed, tire thimble-riggers and turee-oard roonte man who once made the beach seductive and expensive. Thev found a crowd of persons, where formerly the rowdy was monarch of all he surveyed.

If thev explored the sandy streets they discovered the seaside museumr-wltn its goepusly-palnted devices. whereon are. outlined things not of tne beavens above, the earth beneath, or of the waters under the earth, but creatures out of the Imagination of the theatrical sign painter. At the extreme end of the Point thuy found a hotel a quarter of a mile long, nearly completed, and with an illimitable exiianse of chamber windows looking out upon the sea. Thev found the surf as glorious as It waa In the old dsys, and they happened to oorae upon a tide unusually high.

The keepers of batulnc-nouses and Hotels along tne shore found the tide a new and exciting topio with which to entertain their guests, and all sorts of explanations, involving the moons, influences, and the- ocean currents and nulls." and other thin its Inexplicable, were sug gested as perfectly proper theories upon which to account lor innumerable wet teci. Tne tine and surf ran so high that ladies and children who attempted to promenade were kept constantly scam pering bp and dows out of the reach of the hissing water. Tom o-ciocs unru i me waves prose within 10 feet of all the lnnding-stalrs in the neighborhood of the Neptune IIouso Station. Bathing was Indulged in by hundreds, aud as the water was agreeably warm, the fun was enjoyable for a half hour at a stretch with great comfort, but not without some danger, as tho undertow, owing to tho hlrh tide, whs exceedingly strong. I tie peats wtnen had brought down heavy loads.

returned with decks black with tired-out excursionists. iThe trains returning lietweeii 5 and 7:30 o'clock wiere sent ut in double sections, and were all packed: It was1 estimated by the hotel-keepers that sot Jess than, 3U.0U0 persons cad visited the beach? during the Those who returned hy boat fom the long? irpn pior that juts ont into the ocean, were not atjall crowded, although the boat hud a large luad. f'rom the pier to Coney Island Point there was ium enough swell to roll the 1 wi- light about easily, and not enough to make anybody seasick. To add to 'the pleasure of the trip fhcre was -an invigorating breeze and a gorgeous sunset with a mirage effect. Half an hour Wfore the snn disappeared behind the Jersey hills, it emerged from a cloml, snd the atmosphere became lumluouswith a rich golden light.

In this light the great unfinished hotel appeared to be suspended, the shore had dtsapearod, and the building seemed float tn a lake of molten gold. Further on, as the boat approached Coney Island, a similar effect was Tlie glittering eiectrio lights lie-fore the Manhattan ijeach and Brighton Hotels rose high in $he nary air, and below them the flickering gas lamps were stretched out In an interminable line. The shore had disappeared, and for miles the buildings teemed suspended In the fading rose-colored atmosphere. Suddenly a bank hi cloud rose in the west, the sun was hid. and the Illusion was dispelled, after had leen enjoyed by he Twilight's passengers for half an hour.

HOT AX ArCJDEST. TTEWS OF TIIE RF-V. DR. REY.VK OS THE SOCND DIPABTER. A large coiigregatiou assembled in the Sev enth Presbyterian Church, corner of Broome and Ridge streets, last evening, to listen to a discourse from thetRev.

Dr. Revan, of the Brick Church, en titled "Tho Steam boat Pfcsster on tho Sound' Tho preafher announced the proposition that this event was not an acrtdent, and that there was no such tiling as an accident in the exact meaning of that term. Ho admit led that It was a common thing to apply this term to such occurrences but. In his view of the ruse. It was a term expressive of our Ignorance of the laws which governed events; and he claimed that just in proportion as we got rid of our ignorance, inst in that proportion would the range of what as termed accidental grow lese and less.

He did not consider the occurrence accidental. even from a human point of view. If thev would look into these events carefully they would find always that there was a cause for them, either through the imperfection of material or of workmanship, or a waut of proper su pervision, or lark of care somewhere on tho part of soumbody. The Jpeople Ht large, through a careless and irresixuiMble puMic sentiment, mliht be In some degree responsible for the cruel death ol the unfortunate people who perished that night, either by tire or water, when the Nar-ragansett Went down. No man should say it was accidental.

Care, watchfulness, vigilance, skill, anil a proper understanding of the conditions by which the ship was surrounded could havei prevented the disaster, and tt could not be called tlie act of God. There was a human responsibility isomewhere. and public sentiment should una out here it was and punish the nersotn oriersou in some adeimatc manner. They could not be hasged. btit he nelieved the corporation should be 'mulcted in heavy damages.

Tempests would come and no one could prevent them; sea fogs would arise and no one could blow them awav with' a breath; but. tinder such circumstances, if the obligations of care in all respects were projt-rly discharged, disaster would is? imtKissible. Nature's laws, he said, were strict and iuexorable.and without failure or exception, and thev were thus-in order that we might be safe and secure; If those laws were understood and obeyed under all circumstances there, never would be any ganger. This event was not an accident, nor was: it Judgment. It was not a judgment upon the boy who went to swim on frunday that he got drowned He hud simply paid the penalty of placing himself In position of peril accordlnir to inexorable nr- ural law.

Prom this event, then, since it was neither an accident nor a Judgment, should be learned the lesson of care. When people said that this shin was de-stroved and thenc liven lnvt thrrnr.h the mysterious h-ovldeuee of God. he wishes to avow thut it was nothing of the sort. It wns the carelessness of manj and men must be made to feel this responsibility htain and again, until these events should take pla no more. THE BVRGLAKlFi OF A DAY.

Tho following burglaries, which occurred during the interval between IMday morning and Saturday morning last, were reported at Police Head-quarters yesterday: The tailor shop of Aaron Goodman. No. 144 Delancey-street, was broken into and robbed of made-up clothing valued st $2f0. The side door of Bertha Gloeckner's lager-beer salixini No. SK! Kast Houston-street, was forced open, and jewelrv snd clothing valued at J175 earned off.

Thieves visited the spartmenr of eanette Biishnell. at No. 4ti Avenue and stole property valued at -The rooms of Louis Seiter, at No. ino Columbia-street, were entered py Durgiars and roDDed or jiao worth of property. ON GAB FIELD.

Froth Vie San Fraru-isco Call. Junt 9. Lost evening a Call rejxrter visited Gen. W. 9.

Rosecrans, at his residence In this city, and ob tained from him some Interesting facta concerning the military career of the Republican nominee. replied Gun. Kosecrans In response to an Garfield was a member of my military family during the early part of the war. He raised and drilled the Forty-seventh Ohio Volunteers, and was aruoreu over into R.en.rucs.y, when he was given command of a brigade, aud did very good He got after Humphrey Marshall and drove him efore him in fine style. He was made a Brigadier, and soon afterward ordered to report to me.

When he came to my headquarters, 1 must oonfesa that I had a prejudice against him, as-t -understood he was a preacher who had gone into politics, and a man of that cast I was naturally opposed to. He remained at bead-quarters for a day or two. as 1 wanted to become acquainted with him before assigning him to duty. The more I saw of him the better I fiked him. and finally I gave him his choice of a brigade or to become my Chief of fr-taff.

Most men would have probably taken the brigade, but he decided to remain with me. We were together until the Chattanooga affair. I found him to be a competent aud efficient officer, an earnest and devoted patriot, and a man of the highest honor. His views were large, and he was possessed of a thoroughly comprehensive mind. Late in the Summer of be came to me one day and said that he had been asked to accept the Kepublicaa nomination for tkmrress from the Ashtabula district, and asked my advice as to whether he ought to accept it, and whether he could do so honorably.

I rupued that 1 not only thought he could accept It with honor, but that I deemed tt to be his duty to do so. The war Is not yet over, I said, nor will it be for some time to come. There will be many questions arising in Congress which require not akme statesmanlike treatment, but the advice of men having au acquaintance with military affairs will be needed and for that and several other reasons which I named, he would, I believe, do equally as good service to his country in Congress as in the field. It was, too, a great honor to htm to be nominated by the Ashtabula district, which had btws represented in the House by one man for a quarter of a century, Uushaa SL Glddiugs: they were thoroughly ao-quatnted with hint, and he was in aocord with their sentiments in politics. Before th.

inter view closed. I said to him: Garfield. I want to give von some advice, hen vou on to Conniess. be careful what you say. Don't talk too much but waea yon qo taut, speaa to tne point.

Be true to yourself, sad you will make rout mark before the ooontrv. A few years ago 1 met him in Wsahing- vm aua seia to nnn: wen, baroera. yen rtvs got ENDING THE COLLEGE TEAR BACCALAUREATE SERMONS VA- RIO US COLLEGES. PRESIDENT CACXHWELL's ADDRESS AT VAS-6AR ST. PAUL A3 A DREAMER THE VISION ART ELEMENT IN RELIGION.

I POCOHKEIPSIE, June 20 The hotels are fast filling np with relatives and Yriends of the, pupils of Vassar Collere. Commencement exercises will take place at the college on Wednesday next. To-morrow evening here Is to be a musical soiree and reception, and Tuesday is Class Par. The Alumna? will meet at the college this year, commencing on Tuesday evening, and much interest Is felt in regard to the visit. This morning at 11 o'clock President preached the Baccalaureate sermon In the College ChapeL The graduating class had seats directly in front of the preacher, snd many strangers occupied prominent planes.

President Cauldwell took his text from Acts xxvi 19: Wberenjxm. King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision." He said: Here is a man who has a sudden vision, and for 30 years to the end of life follows it, and sllows it to have supreme Influence over him. Iu the pursuit he faces all peril, denies himself all indulgence, and. die for it at last. Such a nan is called a visionary.

He follows the dream of his mind rather than the sight of his eyes. He lets his illusions lead him, and gives the unreal, the imaginary, such power as belongs only to reality. And, indeed, there Is not much to be said for the mere dreamer. It is the Infirmity of some minds that.they fly in the air, and rarely touch the solid earth. They waste their power because they mistake shadows for realities; visionary speculations In philosophy or business unsetrtle Inen's heads and come to little gtxxl.

One purpose of your education here Is to tho mistakes into which fancy and dreaming lead, yetthere are visionaries who Justly bear no such reproach. There are visionaries who lead the world and come to the end and height of "their visions, because they see so far and believe in what they see. M. Paul was olx-dient to the heavenly vision, and that made a mighty difference in his That henceforth empowered, immortalized him. From the touch of Ananias upon his blinded eyes at liainascus.

even on to tho stroke of the. headsman's axe upon his neck at Rome, he kept the vision tefore him. I speak of the relations, of visions and actions, and tell vou that what you ldo in lif will depend much, first of all. upon what you see. Obedience to tho highest and l.t thing you see is the word for this parting Seeing the unseen this is the paradox of religion this is the mystery of faith, it is the perplexity ofe unlelief.

But it is the very thin which divides! men, and hih is the crowning excellence of hu-i man nature. It is the gift of religion, as it is the attainment of life. It is a clearer vision, an ampler mng, an annexed realm of knowledge, that "precious seeing to the eye" which love adds, that Invisible," that vision of G.xl which belongs to the pure in heart. This Christianity asserts. This Is the meaning of tho doctrine of the Hoik Ghost, written In Its earliest creed, as It is on all tlie front of the New Testament.

It has lceii and it Is a conquering energy iu the life of the world, because it reveals tin hidden nnd nnyells the because it opens the' eyes' to spiritual realities, and employs for its weapons the powers of the world to come. Tt comes in the way first and most naturally for vou who for a year have been studying powers of the human mind, to see that there is such a faculty In man. that there is tlie power, actual or potential, which apprehend invisible things: which f-es in things more thau appears; which sees beyond things present ami sirtiial. not of tho senses ami not of man. There is the ethical, the philosophical, the spiritual, a well a the poetic, nil of them the same power of the mind which on the realm of the possible discovers of creates, expects or lM-lieves, ai'l so fills time and space with visions which lire to it realities.

There is the power of faith which, whether it lie riittural or supernatural, is the substance of things hoped for. the evidence of not seen. There is in a word the power of i.iion not in the eye, which can reach to the mom. lain top or to far Orion, biit of the soul, which reachesto immortality and to God. There is "the vMoh and tiie fiioulty divine," which is the Poet's, liccaiise all souls are poets, discovering God in the universe, a monlluw all life, a morel order in tho world, a spiritual world to which he l.elong, ami in which his im mortality has root and certainty, lo that source we trace whatever power ot faith, of knowing God and the things of God.

of knowing sin in its evil, he world to come in Its terror or its splendor, whatevr-r sight not prophets only have of tho secret of God. but hich any of us have, which ar hid den Jrotn the eye and revealed bv faith, lint a realm to lie seen if we have eyes to it Wide as duty, character, life, immortality, truth. God: How far. how deep, how much one sees If helps our vision What visions come lo us in the hours of divine visitation tin: rt vrhition of Christ to the heart, in the time when i open-- is great doors, and we view tne great tin ts of our fellowship with Go.l. and the immorteutv of our being.

If only there lie spiritual illuminatinti, there is a loiindless world of things to see I It is the oflice of religion to create the sain lime dissatisfactions, the fair ideals, the high auiU, tions which redeem life from its commonness pnd lilts it to heighti! otherwise unattuined. So t'hris-t'aniry has gone among the nations, stirring with-what is. and holding up and higher Ideas. It is this kindling vision of a grander possibility, this impropriation of the future, which makes man a nobler creatnre than if hn lived from hand uiou'li. never aspired, never preempted a future -which is l.i only hope.

Such dreTOs belong to our youth. They flush the sky of moiuing, though they often fade before noon. Your visions, rmuiy of tnem. will fade. Put there, are vMons which mav be reached.

They will not be it Vjm do not have them. Have them, cherish' them. Let ialth kindle them; let experie nce help the.ni. Vision and action must go together. It is obedience to the heavenly vbiou which keeps it and fulfills it.

At the close of the sermon a few words were addressed to the graduating ci.i.ss. tiie mem bers of which r'e from their s'-uts us President Cauldwell spoke. WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY: Mipdlktown, June A Bacca laureate scrm. was deli to-night by Bishop Koss, J-resideut of the Wesleyan I'ni- versiiy. His text was the twentieth and twenty-first versos of Jude, and the generel sub ject was character building.

He said: Chnracter being a building in whi-h the builder innsT live forever it oiiL-hr to be well Imllt, and upon a secure foundation. There nyst be no fal-e work, and no quicksand under it. Tn executive head of great vested interests mddenly; disappears In disgrace becau-e his menMl forces and sur face graces rested on no solid of virtue. When the repeated storms of fierce temptation hs-sail him he goes down a disastrous wreck. The trim-tples upon which tlie work of character buUd-lg must proceed are that man Is immortal, man is religious, and man has conscieuce.

and the plan must be broad enough and far-reaching enough tw befit the augut-t conception of a soul endowed wilh eternal duration aud e'erual lmprovabll-ity. The foundation must be absolute truth and goodness. Tbesjt aretiw-otily proper bases of character. We must Intelligently accept he divine Idea of our mortal life as being the process of building Immortal life. Any scheme of life which fails to submit it to the domination of the augot-t' powers of the world to come is an lnijcrti-nence.

Death, judgment, heaven, hell, eternity, and jtjod these are the realities, and to ignore them is the supremo follv of man. In all nations where the teachings of the great Teacher have came to be even half understood, the grandest results have followed in civilbjuion. government, learning, and individual character. Is there not iu this radically changed aspect of -the world which Christianity has brought about the profoundost reason for aa admonition to build up, to quote from the text, on your most holy faith. The speaker, touching on tho practical part of the work, spoke strouglv iu favor of caring for the body as au aid to the brain.

He also urged the importance of methods of steady cnlture of intellect and self-cultivation by personal religion. In addressing the graduating class, he urged steady determination to do what was practicable and best, aud to conform to working plans of true RUTGERS COLLEGE EXERCISES. New-Brusswick, N. June Commencement week opened In this city with the Baccalaureate sermon in the Second Reformed Church, this evening, before the Faculty and friends' of the college. The orators were; Primaries.

Ellis A. Ap- gar; Scaundus, the Rev. Ralph Willis. Thirty Freshmen have entered college, of wlik-h number 16 will take the classical course and 14 the scientinc. A large number are expected to present themselves for examination on Monday, and at the opening of the college In September.

Ou Monday, at 5 P. the following raws writ take place on the Raman: Bateau race, open to all classes, challenge of the Class of '81. Entries Schmitz, bow; Schneeweiss. stroke; '(. W.

Chamberlain, bow; M. T. Scudder. stroke; '83, Rill, bow; Lautienhetmer, stroke. There will be a scull-race, open to the college, and tub-races, with the following entries: Schmitz.

'HI; Booraero. 'Hi: Wight. '81: Rusting. 'HI: Warwick. 'HI; Scudder, 'S3; W.

Chamberlain, 'B2; Rogers, Philip. '8i and Ward. The Sophomore cremation will take place at II p. M. on Monday.

On Tuesday evening the Junior exhibition will be held In Masonic Hall, with the following speakers: PeltbessoDbuin C. H. SchoonmaVr. L. L.

Taylor, J. S. Wight, and M. W. Lane: l'hlloclean J.

W. Brooks. II. U. B.

Mulford, O. Fielder, and O. P. Sc.huee- weiss. On Wednesday.

June 23. the Com meneement exercises will be held In Masonic Hall at 10 A. M. The procession will form on the college Campus at Grafulla's Band, of New-York, will furnish music during the exercises. and will be In attendance at the Senior hop in the asMMUbly-room of Masonic Hail to the evening.

The Committee on Collation consists of Dr. William C. Campbell, President of Krttgtrs College, Lr Cook. Prof. D.

T. Relley, and Prof. Doolitthj. THE SERMOX AT DARTMOUTH. HAJroyxB, X.

June 30. The Baccalaureate sermon before the graduating class of Dart mouth College was preached in tha villaxe church this morning bg President BartleU. from the text Pint Thetsilonlans tl: "Prove all things; hold fast that which is Tha discourse closed wtta aa earnest exhorts- Ucii -to araaaaHU daat" to through life to this divine maxim, holding fast to their personal Integrity, holding fast to everything food around them, holding fast to 1h word of God and to God the foundation and fountain of all that is good. Prixea in botany for the best herbarlans have been awarded as follows In the Chand lev Sclentino the first prize was divided betweea William Y. Carter, of East Concord, N.

and Joha T. Freeman, of Baltimore, 3f d. tlie second to William Hale, of I'pton, Mass. In the New-Hampshire Agricultural Collere. the first A.

ichors, of Irry, H. the second was divided between lid win P. Dewey, of Hanover, 2i. and George A. Love-land, of Norwich.

Vt." The Freshmen cremated mathematics st 1 1 o'clock last night with troprea-sive ceremonies. The class, clad In white garments, and bearing torches and transparencies, marched through the streets, accompanied by Instrumental music. During the eeremou on the college Campus, addresses were made by Edward F. Wheeler, of North Woburn. T.

H. Edwards, of Chelmsford, and W. W. NUes, of jvew-iors t.ny. GOSPEL TEST ORATORY.

THREE CAJTVASES FOR eTJOTER StTfDATjSETt- VICES THROW SOPEN YESTERDAY. 1 Three Gospel tents were opened to public worship yesterday in different quarters of City, and In two of them at least, last evening, the' audiences were very large. On Second avenua, between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, is a vacant space comprising. possibly, 3 City lots, open to the breeze on the north, east, and. south, and hence tolerably comfortable of a Sunday afternoon.

Here, under the auspices of the Baptist Citv Mis sion, with the Rev H. Mac Arthur and Mesnre. R. u. Cornell and J.

M. Dubois as a Committee of Ar rangements, the Baptists have erected, a Gospel tent capable of accommodating about 8.000 eople. Tlie opening services took place at :) P. M. yesterday In the presence of a crowded congregation, among whom were roanv of the most prominent Baptists in the CitT.

Seaed nrvin the platform were tho Rev. J. L. Benedict, who conducts the services; the Rev. K.

S. MacArtbur. the Rev. J. I).

Here, D. the Rev. J. F. Elder.

V. tho Rev. J. J. Browner, the Rev.

S. Patton. D. D. the Rev.

S. Almnn. the Rev. D. II.

Miller. D. and Messrs. Wash ington. Lemuel 'Soule.

Rnalson, Calvert, R. B. Hull. S. P.

Willis, ti. H. Hansell, Vice-President of the City Mission: B. T. Judson.

James Pyle. William Kemp. E. LlttleflekL K. f'ornell and others who are interested in the success of the work.

The initial discourse of the afternoon was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Elder, who ex pounded the purpfses and methods Illustrated in Gospel tent work and the utility of such means of grace in the midst of miscellaneous population. Alluding to the difficulty of finding speakers equal to the strain of open-air speaking. wnicn tries tne voice extremely.

Dr. tider said that in the only Interview he ever had with the Rev. Charles Spurgeon. of London, that celebrated pulpit orator explained to hlrn why he found it so difficult to ohtsm good speakers for the Tabernacle. I nnd," he said, "that men who have anything to say haven't the voice to say It, and those who have the voice haven't anything to say that Is worth hearing." Dr.

Elder defended the? method of tho Baptists in Initiating meetings of tHeir own Instead of uniting with other denominations. He was followed bv the Rev. Dr. Herr and the Rev. Mr.

Mao- Arthur, and there was a very, full meeting in the evening In tffo vacant lot at Broadway and Fortv third. Ftreet the same tent that has already done such service under the Rev. Dr. Tyne, has been put up. and was formally opened last evening with a service of song and a brilliant sermon on Jesus in Galilee or the Rev.

Arthur Brooks, whose pulpit reputation drew not less than people. A oollection was taken to raise' for the prosecution of tho work, but tho sum did not equal that amount. Here there will be noon day meetings every day In the week, aud on Monday evening service of song; on Tuesday evening, a temperance meeting, conducted by Mr. S. Pulls; on Wednesday evening, sermon by the Rev.

Joseph Sundervin, I). 1). on Thursday evening, a prayer and testimony meeting; on Friday evening, sermon by tho? Hev. James Mathews nnd on Saturday evening a led by Mr. J.

M. Sutherland, (Bob Ilart.l who had a seat on the platform lat night. On Twentv -fifth-street, 'near Eighth-avenue, a naming yellow transparency announces that Messrs. Map-hall and Smith, from Scotland, have a Gospel tent, seats free snd no collection. There are services on Sunday at and 7:80 P.

and every evening at o'clock. The gathering was not very large last night, but the speakers abated none of their enthusiasm In the and, however uncouth in method, are thoroughly earnest iu their exhortations. ATdJ-TlCEITS CURIOUS CONDUCT. DKCLARING A DRUNKEN MAX SOBER AND A -f-OBKR MAN DRCNK. Whether Putroliuan Daab, of the.

Eighth lYevinet, suffering yeeterday from the heat or whisky, or fiohi the combined efforts of both. Is a problem his fTtperinr officers are now endeavoring to solve, ruid one which the Police Commissioners themstirts will 1 required to shed some lltfht upon. His conduct was ssifllcimly eccentric to call for a searching investigation. Early iu the afternoon he brought Into the Station-house Thomas Daly, who claims to be a resident of Albany, and to have been formerly a detective In Pan Kran- i-'eo. This, man was tn- a state of beastlv in-tuixication and unable to take care of himself.

Sergt. Riley, who was at the desk at the time, abked the officer what charge he had to prefer aguinst his prisoner, and Daab answered that he had none. When asked to explain why he had brought the man In, he said that the Roundsman had ordered him to and had threatened to make a complaint against him If he refused. Tlie Sergeant called the attention of the Patrolman to the condition of Daly, who was Ifaulng against the railing, apparently oblivious to what wns going on apouud him. but Daab.

Ui-1st ed that the man was tv-ber, and demanded tliat Daly should be discharged. Sergt however, ordered the man to be hx-ked up. and Daab, thereupon, with great reluctance, consented to make a charge of intoxication again-n him. He then left the station ostensibly -to resume his natrol. but sn after rushed back dragging by ti; collar.

Robert Blair, a respectable young man, rf No. J01 Thompson-street, I and charged him wilh being drunk and disorderly. Blair was perfectly sober nnd offered no resistance. Sergt. Riley examined him.

and finding that he was sober, asked him for his statement. Bluir said that he jwas sitting quietly on the stoop of his residence when Daab tame along, seizod him by the collar and dragged him off to the statioh-house, and had he resisted, would doubtless have clubbed him. The Sergeant refused to hold Blair, whereupon Daab grew white with rage, abnsed and threatened the Sergeant, and as Blair was leaving the station-house seized him Hgain with the intention of dragging hinxpff to some other station for the purpose of having' Llm liH-ked up. After going a sFior distance, however, he released Blair and returned to his post, Sergt. Riley has made a report o( the conduct of Daab to I'apr.

McDonnell, and will to-day prefer a formal complaint of unlcomlng an officer against him 'to the. Police Commissioners. Blair will also prefer a charge against the officer. A OX TUE POLICE BEXCR. A German meerschaum carver was brought before Justice Wandell, in the Essex Market Police Court, some days ago, for being drunk.

The prisoner snid ho wa a fortune-teller, and asked to smdy the magistrate's palm. He glanced at the lines and Informed the Justice that he was a great man, and would live lUfi years. In consideration of this flattering Intelligence he was discharged. Yesterday he was brought before the magislrate again for the same offense. Ah." said the Justice smiling.

1 see you are here again. It Is now my turn to tell your Let me see your hand." The prisoner raised a sorted palm, and the Court said slowly aud impressively, The lines do not ruu propitiously. Vou stand under an unlucky star. The Indications are that you will not get a chance to taste liquor again for 10 days.j VOLORF.tiMEXFAI.LlXG XTO One hundred and fifty names were enrolled at the meeting'of colored Republicans, held at No. 140 rilxth-avenue, Saturday nighti for the purpose of organizing a Garfield and Arthur campaign club.

Much enthusiasm was manifested. The officers were electedl President E. Barquet; First Vloe-1'resident-t John J. Zuilie: Second Vice Pretldent-tjessc L. Potter; Se retary John B.

Spelraan: Assistant Secrt-tary James H. Johnson; Treasurer James Mathewes; Executive iminiUee P. Barqhet. Kate, Joseph H. Walker, E.

C. Johnson. Jacob stwart, Chsrfes Scott, George Peterson. W. W.

ackson, John B. Sjlman; Sergeant -at-Arms Jacob Dyett. RETVRX OF TUE SHJ- WA BfCA E-METTES. From Ou Monro (Jfu-4.) Democrat, Jan 16. The Shoes returned home lat Friday from their New -Orleans trip.

There wp no brass band or cannons mixed up with their retun in fact, the sporting community in Monroe cared as little about it as the politicians did about tne return of the dark horse" at Chicago. There no doubt that the Shoes went to win, and mean' to win, but they doubled the course too much to a success of it'. On Icterv lewing the subordi ate members of the crew, they assert that bad st ring aud want of training were what did it, as Summer at Saratoga. To get an the oate last ther man at the helm was out of the question, so Itliey held a kind of an Impromptu meeting alter toe race ana suia their boat on tne it to the St. Jlihu Rowing Club for IJOU, put the money to their pdeket.

aod starUid for home, vanquished by a crew teat they ean give 10 seconds in any nisa from one and one-half to three miles. They biauie no one for the loss of the race, but declare they will not all torether again this season. Stephen Duseau id w. H. Durreil hare bought themsel vw atlouble ud will enter the lusts as double scuUera.

rH uelr Inches wide and 33 feet'rlon. is of cedar. IS I weighs about 86 pounds. She formerly belonged to the Undines, of Toledo. Their oars are feet and a inches lung with a six-inch blade.

Ther are going to name ber the Doubtful George W. Bowls by. the famous single sculler, who also has bee a member of this four, is expecting a Single scull in a few days Moses Kadeao, the captain of the crew. Is andeoid-ed as to what he will do, bat thinks he will rest oa his oars the remainder of the Summer. That an four-oared crew wtu ever omn together an- MUSIC ANDjRAMA'JIBEOiD NOTES OF TILZATRICAL LYRICAL STJGB LNSCSop The Hankm-Leea ae twmakinr the Figush provlncea Mr.

Albery's Tw Rosesn hat beea at tha VanderCls Theatre tn LaodW IttasaidUsMWiurfterktofuthss-w Thomas with a new sympheay while the Xorope. .) Verdi. Othello will be giv'bi bs. next Autumn, whei Adeliaa patd wm sJr Deademoaa. i.

a trsgdy by a Witef kao-, meratttre as has tse trsajV Greek by an Atbeniaa, and Lrto be DrrtnZ the Hellenic siagttrT Richard Wagner ii seriously onsideria. our wmcn pas Deca nude to hla Amerioan manager foinbe purpose of taOarJ ootnposer to come to composer to come to America aod flra concerts. At the inl Delalr'sJ" Oaria" a vuvw OOQMt three acts, by Edouaftl PsJlleron, and ft Lz in five acts, bv EirutoiAugier. Wui tkiTrlE the occasion of a grea reconciliaUQa'r Berlios's La Paiuriation de Faus" rosch direction last season, has" hem LZT -brought out in England for tha pears to have been as npuch of a ooe8at5ir5 Mme. Marie Rd4 sjtipulates In her eamw ment with Messrs.

Strakosob and Rest thsl 2t smg ordythre times a week The seasoawmZ! st the Flfth-Avenuei Theatre, Kew-York. HIT? "Aida" and "Carmenf WU1 be iaeladea repertoire. I It Ui lid that the famous Hurrey-siile boat melodrama, the Victdria Theatre; Is abaotia transformed Into a muiio will bs m. ducted or teetotal principles. It was th ewL-S Mrs.

Bmwn who caiied this house toria'aOwm Theartr A. 11- A new, drama of serious interest, by Derman Q. Meriyale, the suggestioa of whirA found In the "Gtofge Barnwell;" of LCkv shortly hebrought outiln London. Grestcla2 are made hi the plot ol the original play. iadE catastrophe Is altered.

At the latt concert in DnsdK Wagner's Slegf riedUfU was introduced noveny; nut pcing written ror the oomooseri family circle and lnPrnoto friends. It wu kM adupted to meet the ute of even Wsgneri Ma and' faJedio-produce any striking or deep imn2 sion. After the MenafAiite," tne(M Bouqutfei des Innocejits" wilt be revived at the Ports tost Martin, to finish the Hammer season. Tie Wkiiis ana Jules verse. 1 iue acung ol the; Dutch company now it London Is spoken of Inkhe highest terns of prtba -The of this Company are seosders trta the Grand Theatre of -Amsterdam.

Snd reprstiit movement in favor of more natural and lest demical stylo of art ttum has hithsrto beta aa. couraged in their couniry. i. A Ixmdon paper stt that "teonoraRobu sou is Col. Maplesorn newest trnlsltiOn.

Sit bears a striking rescrnlianco to Sf nie. PappenhsUs. Her perforrosnce of Lwinura Hillo oa "aw unlay was exceticnt, vid she has already bsoostss great ravontc. mip ws ne mnh. jiany which Manager $iapkon is Jorriiis for III Vnited States for next'ason." i Tho death cf Miss ateSantlcy isannonnwd by the Londou journals just received.

Miss Santley was a native of Germany, thoagft ber early life was passed In England She haJ perf ormed wltk success In burlesques, opera bouflM, aud also la the legitimate drama, i At one time she Sppsarel a Jessies to Charles Ryan's shyUmk. Some ytari ago sha traveled thrcfigh tli I'nited appearing in most of the rhlcf cities. After praising lile. Bembardt's Froo Fro at leogtli, the. sifurday Rttiit lay solsuk ly and Daradjixicslly: Altogether baf Prou-Frou, while it brings a Wf lcome return of bt lief In her powers, nisjies one regret ths mart thai she has left the theatre where those powers Bdru havo found a wider d'vrlopmen than can result from such tUii pert onnsaces aa her pres.

eut one." i The original manuscript scocfe, In the eoa poser's hand writing, pf MendeLiJoSa'l sir, "(t 1-a i.n Htalf.fli ri'am S)k' tJhniM ai letter addressed by tte composer to s. Mr. tholomew. whose widor had preseflted them to th library, after keeping ftem in h-p possaulos fur over JU years. tradt of ta: thlcl MS ytt Met discovered.

5: Tha Daily Newt rjri fits the following item Tha new comedy entitled A Frofesdoosl Beauty, produced last woek at the Imparlsl Ttna ire. Is a work it some promise author, vlkt adopts the pseudonyni of Vincrut Arohros. kM forgotten to ucknowlwrge that li under vmtUr eruble obligations to MJtt. Eugene Uibicht snd Hit- inona Lresjanqes. jurj Amnrise if rounaw oa piece by those writers.

eitiiJid ri Xirt tn lnee sa produced at ThMtrt It Uymnase in April, isit" i i A reoent performaice of the 'gamenmuOr tho masterplcco of Jhya--1. at CoStfV sttrscU'd a great dea of attention la Eoflsal The performance of Latin plays hafe bees oonM enough in that countiry, but Grk'k phv ks seldom been neeu upn the stsgoi Dr. the father of tlie dramatist, hsd one of M-tragediesof bit tchols ,1 Ail li Is (Edipus Tymnnus Bid the Trachuihe." TheH were the first two reprtscutatjons pf the kind iTrt In England. The enzaeement bvilr. Alapiesoa or uerr- Hans Richter to couiuijt Wagner i Loheagrla'' A Her Majesty's Theatre jexcitod contldemhle eoar ment when first announced, and has been tht caM of much preliminary discussion.

Tht Iatst sdvteM reoelvedJndicate thetitcoaas of Mr. Mapleson iP pernuont iWr Ktuhtenwho It Wagbur't eonfidast made ruthlets havoo wltb tho altered score la 4 In London, restoring mpch that Uid been cut, altering the orchestration, and, presumably, bodving Wagner's laU emendations of tht wnit, The'result was however, a verslojt of tht opwt which seems to have ven specials delight to Wagnerites. aud to base slicited tlie patett thuslasm over the conductor'! abilitiet from erlucf nf Vmo VilaUCS WIS IM Eisa, and Hr. Candid a4 the Lohengrin. The accomplished dramatic critic of tt Parit Trmj was present at tbt reprcsentstVsi Phedre In Londoi Thiii is what ha wroti about it: I am not, however, torry to tsvs this represenUtion.

Ii was present at a which alone was worth the journey, and was will remain one of tho gayest souvenirs ot life. Talbot played In TLeramene. No. be wbe not teen Talbot In TMrwaene hat tee nt Ah how I regretted that we wereBotsmcMiV iarr I What a ftn laugnj we should hsvs bad I bit di puttie awiait imposed upon ut! compose your face ani keep It rigid It mf out It had the air of CHinx aU tbst Talbot relating the deb of that poor What one water-camr race ne nso bmc .7 and what declamation WelTfnJ those F-ngUsh are so conrteous thsl all tkii P2 like a letter through tfe. Post Ofic.

So "32 of their faces movedJand some rrra wsbim applaud." 1 i Mr. Arthur Sullirha is reported to bt sa-gaged in the composition of soother onmlc cpt for production in thii country vk xk teas. libretto being by Mr. I Gilbert. thsts twe coihplishid writers wi only profit by sxpsrlsn" and take to heart the lesson tffonU hy tbsWJ parative failure of tlie Piretwr Jt they will in oil probalUy make a uco of new opera.

The conditions of maraiirsaiMS country ire no Infiutoced by theritj customs of the English tae. Jf the pnbiic Wn afforded an oppertuuity to know Tri2J of the words and mutio of the "flrat 1 JJ iauc." and to leoom as familiar wua the case with Plnafos-." the unit open iw doubUee have met wlh more favor. It It ably a more amosbig hnd meritflrtoua won Pinafore." but uo onf has ever red WV learned the mtislo. bndi the result has not become so poptiar tt deserved to "I this oonuecttoa It mar rumor in the EnrUVhi pM-r will toon be described Sir Artho The Spectator, whose commenjba apc DanttM appear at arathfj1 late )or, scree with Its chief -ookUwdonrt Ion of Mr. Milfcr piayj It finds frfshw.

nA nrtvaI fwtsilfir In hSl tmconvefitlonar onwa. There Is a tonchiof naivete la iU prait are occasloiiaTinteiptioos of hbasls but they do ivaironttltuie so 8Xv Diistmesamtses in 1 cur order. A Uttle more ot fcst fo be taken rr does aot matter mach asson dramatto eonstitaeaui as lfWl inwA in sfMi tna Uonnoa 1 Joseph Smith a camp pf miners in a ht fciooj-tss -attaaUkAa these and is entirely andwetayeo or heathen Chinee; a sex is onaospeeud by, hr oamrmde ssoaBtaia-peaaa, psiioi blue distaaoa. otouue -1: rv.HvMaj i A WWII etpeoiauy toe mnuman attw fctplokedto pteoM, ogrumme comprise the Arbrs at RosT1 by ssi-s. Mortier.

Iterrier. and A til. Voyage dans rlmpsilMe." bv Mnun rw.J-1 aJ Ives" sncef 1.