The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-13


represents the Sixteenth district, acroitly got
resolution through referring the bill to the
Committee On Cities and Villages, Of which he
is himself chairman. The object Of this move
became apparent on Friday last, when the bill
came up for third reading and WA parsed, on
motion Of Mr.. Van Vaikeuburgn, of Steubeu.
Appended to the original printed pih there
wss 'ouno in manuscript three new isems:-One
Of 100000 for rebuilding public establish
ments on Backwei!'s Island; another of $4,000
10 be paid the Police Commissioners for legal
advice and contes'iog their right TO Office; the
other Was an item Of S3S 900 to pay toe sala-
rics of Mr., d. d. Conover and his clerks IN the
Street Commissioa.r's Department, and 500
to be paid to ConOv,r for his expenses in con
testing biz right to The Street Commissioner e
Office Nearly $50 COO for the expenses of a
geDtlem man whose claim to the Office has been de-
cared Illegal by the highest authority in the
| State-who never was Street, COMMISSIONER even
! for an hour! Can the force Of impudepce far
! Their 60? And this addition to the bill was ran
through the House, tackled on to the printed
| cocament at the last moment, aud, we are ia
formed, after the Court Of Appeals had given
| its decision.
| We should like to know whether the members
| from New York were present when this trek
was played, and if So were they asleep or did
| they give tacit sane ton TO the enormty?
THE OrERA BALLs-A GREAT Hoax FOR THE
OYSTER House CRIrICs-The director Of the
Opera and the Musard concerts at the Academy
is something Of diplomat. He appears to
revel in strategy and TO luxurate in intrigue.
At least such is the impression shoat in the
community, and recent circumstances would
tend 10 prove that it is not erroneous The last
coup d'ttat Of the Little Napoleon of Irving
place is very amusing. Some time since, in au-
bouncing the engagement of NJ Alfred Musard.
Ullman stated that there would be given II
''grand fancy dress and domino soiree" after the
fashion of the opera balls at Paris which NJ.
Mussrd conducted. II was further announced
that only the ladies would be permitted to be
masked, and that gentlemen could dress either
| in fancy costume or plain clothes We are ~!
! in the cQUUsels of the clever MANAGER Of the
! Opera, but we presume that this bail was thus
esi)y announced in order to attract attention ia
the Musard concerts and give them some gratu.
! itcus advertising. And further, We suppose
| that the announcement was made as a ruse d.
ggerrr to draw the fire Of the oyster house
| critics, 90 that the manager could see exactly
how he stood with the newspapers. But what
ever may have been its motive, the uGnnuvre
vas completely successful. With one accord
the Oyster house critics have Illuminated their
lghtnings upon the head of the manager. FROM
the heavy sixty -four Of Wall street down to the
Elk Founders Of Spruce and the little French
popgun Of Franklin street. the artillery has play
ed upon him for the past three or four days con-
tinuously. The oyster house critics have assumed
for themselves that he inten6ed to give mas
querade ball IN defiance Of the law They
have assumed that the morals OF the city were
already terribly corrupted by the mere 40.
nouncement of the ball /; and further that they
the oyster house critics before mentioned, were
the only persons who were competent to save
~ from the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah
They also succeeded in 4umtugging Police
Justice, whose letter we publish elsewhere, &c
fur that he wrote to the manager to wara him
against giving masquerade bail, which
never bad any existence, or form, or substance
or deanitiveness, except on paper. The valiant
critics with their police magistrates, are re-
eDactipg the farce Of Don Quixotte add the
Windmill " over again, as well rs giving the
MusaId concerts liberal share OF grstuitous
advertising. They have been the victims Of
What il called, in vulgar parlance, "a decided
sell"
We believe that Ullman intends to wind up
the ball season with grand demonstration ut
the Academy Of Music, with Musard a. tic con
duc'or Of the band. That will DC bal pare.
costume and miiadJt on q magnificent scale. la
any event, the masking OF the ladies would be
q matter TO be settled by themselves. They
could disguise themselves quite US efectualiy
without mask-, and escape any suspicion Of ini-
propriety; and there is no occasion to tell
them that They usually mnusge those mat
tiers for themselves. However, there will be
great BAL cos,vnt-pfobably the Gr-t that has
ever been given in this eouptry uuder
proper management. The attacks upon the
tsi r'asgat will thus serve several pur-
poses-siding the ball that sill really In given,
assisting the concerts. and giving the pubic
another proof Of the shrcwdness OF the manager
Of The Academy, and the stupidity Of the oyster
house critics
the YACHT Ws.d~s~v