MINSTREL FESTIVAL NOTES.—A special monster Minstrel Festival train will leave New York on Sunday morning. December :lt;0, with invited guests to the Festival. Mr. R. C. Campbell, business manager; Mr. C. K. Taylor, assistant, and Mr. William Gearin, advertising agent, are now in the city.—There was a lively advance sale of Festival seatf yesterday at Hawley’s. If the present promises art fulfilled, the matinee audiences will be something tremendous.—The Magnolia Quartette, from Jacksonville, Fla., arrived in the city- yesterday. They begin rehears ing for the Festival to-day with the Cincinnati chorus.•—Mr. Charles Callender, one of the oldest minstrel managers in America, will arrive from New York to-day, to remain until the close of the Festival.—Mr. Gus Frohman yesterday received a telegram from Charleston, W. Va., securing thirty seats for tho Festival.