The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1857, Page 4

< NEW. YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR 4ND PROPBIBTOR. Grrice x. w. omnes oF prrurom AND MABBAD OTe. ecteuk b PRINTING axectad with maatness, cheapness and das TERTISRMENTS rmawont onary daw | alvertivcnents dre Lye Fasur Hanus, aod in Oe HIBLO™ GARDEN, bet r ‘Niort Rora¥rats—Fiora Amp Zar ar8—Souriee ror i BOWERY THRATKE. Bowery—Cusircs DaR—Vision oF Tas DasD BUBTOWS THEATRE. Rroadwer, ovposite Bond at.— Dtaiian Ore a—iinve LAMOUD urn Mog- LAURA KXENW'S TUEATHE Kroacwar—Faixt Haupt Mevax Wor Faw Lanr—Bovew Stamos inisu Teron BARNUMS AMERIOA§ MUSETTE. Breedwar—Tue } Roaus Breer. Basy—DissoLving Views -OUMONITINS, a MECHANICS HALL. 672 Broadway—Nugeo Mucovres, bc. —Anexa SPORTS—BY BRyane’s Minere ara, Wew | York, Mond: ys August : 2a, 1897, Mails for manbe i ‘TUS NEW YORK SERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Ovaard mail ttoamsbip Canada, Capi. Wickham, will | Jenvo Boston on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close tn this city ata quarter past one o'clock to morrow afternoon, ‘The Exropean odition of the Bexarn, printed {n Frenon | fend English, will be puvitshed at ten o’olcck in the morn. | ing Mingle copies, la wrappors, nix cents, | Bubscriptions and advertiroments for aay edition of the Bew Yous Hamain will be roveivod at the following places te Eerope:— Laspos—Am. & Kuropean es bar ot tng | William at, Rae Do. 8 Place de ls Boures, SrvEeroo1—Do. rr trees, LavmRrooi—R, Stuart, 10 Exchange streat, Kast Bavas—Am. & European Express Oo,, 21 Rue Corneille. ‘The coatents of the Furcpean edition of the Haxauy will combine the Bows rooaived py mali azd teiegraph at this Office during the previous week, aud up te the hour of pabtoation. The Aews. ‘The etsamer Angio Saxon, which left Liverpool at 2 o'cioek P. M.onthe 12th inst., has arrived at | Quebec advices. ‘The telegraph squadron left Valentia Bay on the | evening of the 7th inst, and despatches have been | Teceived from the Niagara down to 4 o'clock P. Bf. of the 10th. At that hour three hundred miles of the cable had been laid. She was then in water two | tiles deep, with westerly winds, and reeling off the | cabie at the rate of five miles an hour, the ma- chinery working finely. The Anglo-Saxon reports en- countering westerly winds throughout her voyage ; the wind of all others best adapted for the submerg- © ing of the cable. We shal! in all probability have the gratuication of announcing the arrival oi the | squadron at Trinity Bay in to-morrow moruing’s HgRALp. There is nothing new from India or China. ‘The steamers Vanderbilt and Atlantic, which !cft | tus port at noon on the Ist inat., arrived reapec- tively at Southampton and Liverpool on the 11th. The hear of the Vanderbilt's arrival is not men- tioned, but her time is pat down at nine days and thirteen hours. The Atlantic reached Live: midnight on the Lith. Withont going mi perticalars, it may be said that the Vanderbilt reached port twenty four hours in advance of her competitor. The difficulty between Turkey and the Conti- nental Powers appears to have reached a crisis. ‘The representatives of Russia, France, Prussia and Berdine had suspended diplomatic intercourse with the Porte. The question in dispute is, however, to be eettied by a conference of the Powers interested: An American vessel, the Jupiter, has been seized in the Bight of Benin with slaves on board. At Liverpool the cotton market was firm, while | breadstuffs continaed dull. Consola are quoted at | 904 0 904. From the city of Mexico, under date of the 1 ith | inst,, we learn that General Goicouria bad obtained from the government a concession for the establish- ing a line of steamers from New Orleans to Vera | Cr, tovchivg at Tampico, and also a grant ot the | privilege of introducing colonists to the republic. | The question of raising a war revenue in case of | attack trom Spain was much debated A forced foan, the saic cf a portion of the national territory, and confiscation of church property were each | recommended, but the eecond plan was the most | . Her news is three days later than previous | The tate partnership difficulty between the pro- | prictors of the shoemaker's shop under the Howard Hotel, corner of Broadway and Maiden lune, has resulted fatally. Deter Virtu, the injureu man, died j at the New York Ho«pita!l yesterday morning from the effeets of the wounds received at the hands of James Regan, his partner in business. Coroner Connery held an inquest upon the body of the de ceased, when the jury rendered o verdict against the prisoner. Regan was committed tothe Tombs to | await the action of the (irand Jury. Our correspondent at Troy informa ns that Jadge Wright, of the Third Judicial district, has rendered a decision im favor of the legal propriety of laying railroad tracks through the puplic streets of cities. The suit waa brought by James Brown apainst the Troy und Poston Railroad Company. Our Albany correspondent furnishes some addi- | tional information respecting the corrupt schemes concocted by certain applicants for grants of land | under water. He also brings to light instances of infamous logisiation last winter, and refers particu- larly to the law giving railroad corporations autho rity to fix their own valaation on their property, by which process they manage to evade assessments | of taxes. An instance is cited where the returns of | valuation by the Central Railroad Company, in Liv- ingstoa and Mource counties, is placed at one-third the amount fixed upon by the assesvors last year, This is & matter worth looking into. | Tue annexed table shows the temperature of the | atmosphere in this city during the past week, the | range of the barometer, the variation of wind currents, and the state of the weather, at throe pe- | riods daring each day, viz: a8 9A. M.,and 3and9 | o'clock P. M.:— Dy aid fatarday—Morning overcast and warm afarnovn, warm | pitermet: aight, clear and cool “oe Cleat acid piesrant all day Mondey—Overoast kat coo! day Tuesday —Overgaat and co ‘all dy Wednesday —Morning , clov ay : aiternon, cloudy and cool Bight, Coot ereday—Mernitg cloudy, afternoon, cloudy and coo! ' Mirning clear, afternoon, cloudy; night, clear Mat. ruay ‘The Rev. I Morning, ¢owdy agenio Kincaid delivered a diseourse | i the new Baptist church corner Higbth yesterday . orth street, on the missiona ‘ avenue @ Thirty | pedition is | ty labors in the aoe empire. weil filled, and @ coliection takea up. The value of foreign gopda impocted at the port of Boston during the week ending 22d Instant amounted to $1,029,483. The value of imports dur- ing the corresponding week in 1856 was $415,868, ‘The eaies of cotton on Saturéay embraced about 6000 900 bales, the market closing firm at fall prices. Floor was heavy with moderate esies, closing ai from Ge @ 10¢. per bbl. deolne, especially on the common grades. Wheat was beavy for all grades except for choice lots of new Southern; lilinols oid winter red soid at 3: 45, now red Tepnessee at $1 60, fair Southern white at $170, choice do at $180 enc fair new white Orio at $170. Corn was entier, and Western mixed Mt Sic. a 86c, Pork was firm, with sales of moss at ‘76 @ $26 674; and tn rete! Joe at $26, end at $22 for prime, Sugars wore without change of moment. The sales embrace 1 about 900 a 1,000 bhds. and SCO boxes, including @ portion jof Cuda for ex: port, Coffee waa quiet, awalt'ng the pudlicaue [rotghts ‘Were without change, while engezements were light.- News from the Telegraph Squadron--Proba- ble Arrival of the Telegraphic Spark from Europe. The Anglo Saxon, which arrived at Quebec yesterday, brivgs us very satisfactory news from the transailautic telegrapa expedition. It ap- pears that the squadron did not finally leave Valentia harbor till the evening of the 7th inst. Despatches to four o'clock ot the afternoon of the 10th instant had been received from the Nia- gara, at which timo she was Uirer hundred miles on } was then paying out the cable at the 2 sper hour, All was working weil ard the future looked higtly encouraging. ‘The distance across the ocean along the line which the expedition will follow is aboat 1,640 miles—sey 1,700 miles for deviations from the straight line—and it is calculated by persons in ‘The church was | the confidence of the company that they will accomplish this distance in twenty days—thatis to say, tbat they will travel at the rate of three or three and a half miles an hour, including stop- pages tor accidents, dc. The firct three hundred miles, according to ihe news by the Anglo- Saxon, was accomplished at an average rate of a little over four miles an hour, and we now learn that the Niagara was proceeding at the last accounts at the rate of five miles per honr, We believe that the expeditions which laid the Mediterranean, British Channel, and New- | foand!aad cables did not find such a bigh rate | | of specd as this attainable: the Mediterranean ex- not believed to bave averaged over | two milcs an hour; but, doubilces, allowance must | be made for the completeness of this expedition, the high character of the vesseis cagaged, and | the fair weather which it is reasonable to pie- sume they have had hitherto, and to hope they | may enjoy throughout. The opinion that has +} been expressed by the fricudsof the company has not becn lightly tormed, or adopted withcut the | very best counsel. ‘This is the twenty-fourth of August. Shonld the expedition, therefore, perform the voy- | age within the time indicated by the success of the three first days, it is possible that we may hear of the landing of the cable to-night: If the expedition should arrive at Trinity Bay be- fore. A. M. to-morrow morning, to-morrow's Hrraup would contain news from all parts of Europe up to this evening, and possibly up to | tomorrow morning—as the difference in time will enable us to print in our morning edition the European news up to 5 A. M. of the dayon which | our paper appears, We bave read with some attention the argu- | ments of several Londen journals against the feasibility of laying tue cable. None of them appear to be so wellfounded as to justify serious apprehension. As to the reversing of the coils to constitute no serious basis tor alarm. The danger of kinking of course exists; but when the | | stupendous preparations which have been made to | Obviate sach aci cidents are borne in miad, this will appear really very small; and even a break would only cause a few hours delay. It must be well | remembered that the portion or the cable which isat apy given moment exposed to injury is very short in proportion to the whole length. That part which Is on board the ship is beyond the reach of harm, and that other part which lies oa the bottom of the ocean is safer still; thus the only part which can kink, or snap, or be broken by « fish, or be injured in aay way, is the few fathoms which hang over the ship's stern, as the whole is being paid out. With mere ordinary good fortune no serious mis- | hap need be apprehended. We have all of us talked and thought so mach about this traneatiantic cable, and its dangers and ite prospects and its grand results, that now | Ut it actually spproaches realization, it is not | casy lo destroy the old, vague, distaat, shadowy jon that we have uureed so long, and substi- ute for it a real, palpable, practical fact. After | dwelling on the scheme as the public have doue for two or three years, they are really further from realizing the reality than they were at first; aud the first telegraphic message that we receive from Earope wil produce « shock even more sluring than it would huve done bad the line beeo carried into effect two years ago. Asa ge neral rule, it is likely that the bulk of this com- , munity ure incredulous as to the success of the enterprise; it seems so grand, so gigantic a Foheme that, ag the ld ladies say, it is too good to be truc: people have read and heard, too, of eo many accidents happening to telegraphic bles that it seems safe to withhold belief for the | present. This eort of reasoning is common sinong avery large class of people here. It will ea. } bance the excitement which the first mewage from Queen Victoria will create. ooking back, over the long liet of great dis- coveries and inventions which have illustrated the present age, one fails to find a parallel, or anything like a parailel to this transatlantic tele- graph, The steam engine, steamers, locomo- tives, all fought their way into favor by slow de- grees. Fulton's steamer eailed euccessfully ten | | years be the world appreciated the invention: there was a locomotive built in the United States | nearly twonty years before they were invented in | England. The invention—for the term suits of traneatlantic steamers was, after all, only an improvement and new adaptation of forces aud modes of conveyance known before: fast ships with » fair wind could still | the swam packets. Nor even wae Morse's electric telegraph ® parallel case to this transatlantic line; for without referring to the electrical experiments which hed been made in Earope for nearly half a | | century, ¢ t since the days of the Mgyptians, telegraphs of one kind aud another had been he instantaneous transmission of intelli ge Bat this transatlantic telegraph is un- paralleled a« a novelty in the developement | of ecience, and unparalleled in the sud. denness and completeness of thal develope mest. Like the old heathen godde it will spring out of the brain of Professor Morse and the company in an instant, compicte and armed cop pir. The first news that we shall have that the Niagara haa reached Trinity Bay will be ace vagement that NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1857. the” Emptror Alexander haa got back to St, Potersbarg, that the Commons have passed the Jew bill, aad that the funds closed that day at 90, has been exhausted in predicting the cffect of -he telegraph on commerce, civiliza- tion and soo'cty. Of its workings in the former, we cannot in truth yet form @ proper judgment’ it will caturally put an end to one kind of specu- lation, namely, that which turned on the fluctua- tious of cotten aud corn ip Englaud; but it will promote others, by making us more directly part- ners in the commercial movement of Hurope; our Exchange, for instance, will become Liuble to be | wffected by ritings in the Peaineula, crop failures | on the Volga, and other events which hitherto have never troubled us, One change--a emall one—that will certainly be wrought by the telegraph, will be a dimiau- tion of our interest in transatlantic steamers: People will no longer ask each other what steamer 8 uext due, for it will be a matter of no conse- quence to these who have neither friends nor gcods on board. The names of the steamers, their spccd, and their reputation will become matters of comperative indifference. They will cease to be bearers of pews and will only be carriers of property and buman lives. Sovraeny obra TO THE MINEST RAS ‘Ti0N—PRoGRess or THE War—The rabid bos ty against Mr. Buchanan and bis admiaistra- tion, that was developed come months since by a few Southern extremists and fanatics, does not seem to be dhwiniehing in intensity, or ia the sphere of its influence, On the contrary, the war | is being waged with incrcased virulence, and its | theatre of auction embraces all the Southern | States. At present the city of Richmond appears to be the headquarters of the movement. The mutincers have conceatrated there as in another Delhi, and there is being carried on the struggle which threatens to disorganize the democratic party of {Le Union, and to extinguish the last ves tige of ite power. ‘This momentous movement has sprang up from the most ridiculous cause. No otherreasen for it bas been given than that Governor Walker, of Kar happened to tell the people of that Terri- tory what they knew very well before—that the constitution to be framed by the convention that is to meet there next month will have to be sub- mitted to their rejection or approval before it be- comes the fundamental law of the new State Thereupon the ultraists of the South—those im- practical fanatics who are co ridiculouely self conceited as to imagine that their will is to be | the supreme law, and that if they say Kansas is to be a siave State her own people ought to have no voice at ali in the matter—flap themselves into | a terrible condition of excitement and wrath. | They bluster and rave about the rights of the South, and fulminate threats of secession and dis- solution. Democratic conventions in Georgia and Mississippi, led away by the frothy declama- tions of such hair-brained political coxcombs as Keitt, of South Carolina, and his compeers, adopt resolutions condemning the course of Governor Waiker and demanding his recall. Of coutre Mr. Bushanan is too able and sensible a man to pay avy attention to the abrurd pranks and capers of these Southern ultraists, and goes on, | never minding them, Then the indictment of trearon to the South is transferred from Governor Walker to Mr. Buchanan and his sdministration, and they are accused of having entered nto @ couspiracy to procure the admis- sion of Kanesae into the Union aa a free State. ried on against the administration, the result of which will probably be the utter annihilation of | the democratic party, North and South, and the | erection on its ruins of a thorough, consistent, | Union-loving, conservative party, as free from devotion to nigger driving principles on the one side as from false abolition philanthropy on the other. The editorial articles which we transfer to our columns today, from the respective organs of | ultraism and conservatism in Richmond, and the | hostile editorial correspondence which they led to, and which we also publish, exhibit a very intelligible feature of the rancor (hat exists in the ' South between the two partice into which the . democracy is now divided there. As one of the partics to this hostile correspondence seemed ex- ‘tremely anxious to maintain his ireonito, ‘it was pretty generally belicved in Richmond and throughout the Southern States that | the anonymous champion of the administration was a no less distinguished person than the chivalrous Governor of Virginia himself. We leara, however, from one of our Washingtoa cor- respondents, that the guess, though very close, wae not exactly correct. He informs un that the | Writer ia the Znquirer, who appeared eo ready to do battle with the editor of the Sou//, was not Governor Wie, but bis son, the late Seerctary to the United States Legation at Paris, This is tignificent. ‘This war of parties at the South is likely to lead to vay important end dangerous conse- quene.s, The ultra eection of the democratic party there cannot hope to enlist the sympathies nil co operation of the democratic party of the Union. A large preponderance of the people of | the South themselves are opposed to these ex. tremist notions, and care very little what charac- tcr of political or social institutions the people of Kaners may choore to live under; and #0, even at some, these headstrong fanatios need not expect | much support. But still, the movement is one which caonot be regarded without aggrehension. | The elections that have so far taken place ia | the Southern States do not afford any good | indication by which to judg! the effect of this anti administration movement. For the most | part, the same members who represented their reepeetive districts at the Inst Congress are ro- ' elected, the only noticeable deviation from the tule being in the care of Know Nothing represen- tativcs, most of whon are allowed to stay at home But the election of United States senator from the State of Virginia, will, it ie suppored, afford a pretty fair criterion of the strength of the move- ment in that State at least, The sentiment of the anti-administrationists is represented in that struggle by Senator Hunter, who is a candidate for re-election. Governor Wise is the opposing candidate, identified with the administration. The former, besides being a statesman of high clarac- | ter, has the advantage of being in poesession of the poet-an advantage of considerable impor- tance in the South, where the principle of rota. tion in office ‘4 not obeerved ag it ix at the North, Nevertheless, the great popularity of Governor Wise restores, in a good meusure, the equili- brium between them. The struggle, therefore, will be a severe and deeply interceting one. It will be watched with anxious attention in Wash. ington and throughout the country, as on the re- sult of it will somewhat depend the issue of the war waged by the extremists of the South against Mr. Buchanaa gad bis administration, | cpenly made in the island. These occurrences ppreber h r | And now we bave a regularly declared war car- | the trade with the British West Indies is met only | of wire ia the two portions which were made at | , different factories, thisis admitted by engineers | Are the Antiliss to Becom: African or Ame- wieant The scheme of African emigration to the West Irdies is making silent but eure progress, aa is evirced in an article which we publish in another column, from the London Mercantile Gazette. From this paper we learn that not ouly have the new negroes begun to arrive at Martinique, but that the French government haa been for some years | csrrying on the same trade io African labor, from | Madagascar to the isle of Bourbon, and that the veesela employed bave been fallen in with by Britich cruisers, but not molested, they “having a government officer on board, who made no secret ot his occupation.” We also publieh, in connec tion with this subject, a curious article from the London, News on General Concha’s recent procla- mation against the slave trade, aad the exiibii it makes of the despotism of the Spanich govera- ment in Cuba, and an extract froma Spanish journal announcing the carly departare from Spsin of eome Catholic iivsiovaries to certain Spanish istands on the coast of Africa. ‘These apparently distinct questions are more nearly related than they seem at first glance to be, acd we will explain thew connection wilh each other. The first publio announcement of the echeme of importing large numbers of free negroes to the Weet Indies was a work on the subject, published in 1852, in Spain, by an officer from Cuba, end who is now officiatly employed near the highest authority in that island. As it was finally developed and adopted, the plan com- prised the sending of a number of Catholic missionaries to the Spanish isiands of Anvobon, Fernando Po and others on the coast of Africa, and the importation into Cuba of 100,000 free hegroes, apprenticed to labor. Gen. Pezuela was seat to Havana, as Captain General, to carry out the plan, and reached there in December, 1855. The measures that were immediately adopted by him ia regard to the siaves, alarmed the people of the country for the social safety of the iriand, and caused the greatest excitement among the blacks, This feeling waa increased by a secret cireu- lar issued by General Pezacla, ou the 18th of January, 1854, toa number of persons ia Ha- vana, aeking their opinion as to the best form in which African apprentices could be brought and the system established. The coasequence of this course on the part of Gen, Pezucla was an en- ergetio protest to the home government from many of the first people in the isiand, who saw clearly that the end in view was @ politicai one, which was to be brought about by increasing | largely the preponderance of the black race. Besider this, large contributions were made to the funds cf the Cuban revolutionary janta, which had then transferred itself to New Orleans, aod preparations for revolution were almost alarmed the Spanish government, and the execu- tion of its plans was snepended. Gen. Pezucla was superseded by Gen. Concha, who at once ep- plied himself to calm the public excitement. For three years the subject bas been kept out of public view, but in the meantime the sapport of France has been secured for the scheme of African apprentices, and in England a party has been found to favor it, and the government looks upon it with @ tolerance that has a re- markable appearance of connivance with it. From Madagascar and the isle of Bourbon the French traders in negro apprentices have spread to the coast of Guinea and Mar- tinique; while in England the clamor for opening by a request to wait and see if the French expert- | ment eucceeds. It is stated that the scheme must not be extended to Cuba, because slavery exisis there, and the apprentices wouid degenerate into | slaves. This is a mere eubterfuge. The impor- tation of Chinese coolies into Cuba is carried on to a greater extent than into any other country. No argument will apply to the traffic in negro ap- | prentices that will not apply to that in Cainese. | But other reasons exist for believing that the | system Is to be applied at an carly day in Cuba | ‘The Spanish mission is to be sent at once to Fer- | nando Po; it is now waiting in Cadiz the arriv: al | from Havana of the vessel that is to convey it, | and which it is not unlikely will return to Cuba | with a cargo of free negroes. Recent accounts from Spain state that General Serrano, u maa of the same school with Pezuela, is to besent as Cap- tain Generai to Cuba, and that tac garrison of the | island will be largely increased. These pro- ceedings may create another excitement amoung the Cubans, and lead to 4 renewal of tho revo lutiovary agitation we saw there und in this | country a few ycara siuce. The article which | we copy from the London News evidentiy points to a renewal of the feeling of hatred in Cuba to- wards Spain. It behooves our own government to look into these matters, aud to be prepared for any sudden emergency that may arise in Cuba growing out of these questions, Any attempt on the part of the governme’' to change the exist ing eccial relations of the white and black caces | there will lead probably to a convulsion; for their numbers are too ueurly equalized, and the | Cubans fecl themscives too strong to be euddeniy | degraded and destroyed, as the white iniabitants oi Jamaica have been. Tur War Pemiune ov Srain,—If we may judge from the tone of the public journals, the war spirit aguinst Mexico is becomiag quite strong in Spain, notwithstanding the mediation of Franco and Eoglaod in the question. We publish else- where several extracts from the Spanish journals, by which it will be seen that the government contemplate sendiig 25,000 mea to Cala, aad that the accepted mediation is not overploasing to Spanish pride. Negotiation at the point of | the bayonet is recommended, and it is argued | | | | that no fears need be entertained for the fate of | Cuba, a3 Spain can place a larger fleet in the Galf of Mexico than the United States can. The Mexican Minieter is scoured of using “ insidious negotiations,’ “deccitful and pertidious projects | j of arrangement,” while the government of Co- | monfort is said to be “shameless,” and Mexico is | styled “the slippery republic.” The journalists | are, in fact, quite savage in view of the short de- lay that has taken place. Now, we have had for years accumulating and just claims againet Spain for injustice to our citizens, bat not the sightoat | regard is paid by the Cabinet of Madrid to the repeated and urgent representations of our Minis- ter there. His official notes have cither remained | without reply, or have received merely an official acknowledgment of receipt, without any reference whatever to the questions at issue. {n view of | theee circumstances, we have come doubts whe- | ther the Spaniards do not judge the Mexicans by themeeclves, and that perhaps the epithets they apply eo liberally to Lafragua, Comonfort and Mexico might with truth be applied by «s to Spain. We hope Mr. Dodge will study the pre. vailing tone of Spanish comment upon Spanieh diplomacy, and apply « little of it in his labors to obtain justice for cur citizens who lave olalins upoa Spa. | like aa any that have preceded it. | steamer. Tos Inatsan Opera saxr Exd50n—Prosrecrs ov 4 War —It really seems aa it it were impossi- bie to have a bit of Itelian music in New York without @ great deal of Angio-Saxon. discord. We are promised that the coming season shall be an exceedingly brillisat one, and it seems likely, from present indications, that it will be as war- Lit us take a giunco at the fictd, On ove side we ficd Thalberg, Uilmaa aad ; Strskosch in possession of the Acudemy of Music, where they are bound to give forty per- formances of Italian opera, They have the fol- lowing named artists:—Madame Frezzolini, Mme. de la Grange, Mme. d'Angri, Siguor Labo- celta (tenor), Gassier (barytone) Formes (basso), Anechatz, conductor of the orchestra, All thee artists aro eogaged likewise for concerts, which Mr. Thalberg purposes to give, assisted by Vieux- | temps, the violinist. On the other side are Mr. E. A. Marshall and Mr. Max Maretzek. Mr. Marshall has the Aca- demy of Masfe at Philadelphia, and Mr. Marctzck has the Tacou theatre at Havana, Mr. Mardaall has also am agreement with Mr. Barry, of the Bestoa theatre, by which all artists, mu- sical or dramatic, are engaged to ap- pear in Philadelphia, New York and Boston. The Marvhal! Maretzck combination have the opera company of last season, wilt Mae, de Gezzaniga, Signora Ramos, Brignoii sod Amodio as the principal artista. Maretzek baa engaged a ballet troupe, directed by Maitre Ron- zani, aud was nocgotiating at the last accounts with Tamberlik, Ronconi and Tagliafico, Any one familiar with the Opera will readily see how powerful these partics would be com- bined, and how disastrous to both sides will be the war which is threatened. The working meu on cach side, Ullman and Mareizek, do not love each other with that intensity for which Damoa sod Pythias were celebrated, and their enmity scems likely to prevent a union of the forces, which is almost an absolute condition of success. But this might possibly be gotten over were it not for the ugly fact that each party is anxious to gel the New York Academy for September and October, and that is the rock upon which the negotiations have so far eplit. The resumption and favorable conclusion of these negotiations are absolutely necessary; for the Marshall party cannot get sufficient money from Philadelphia and Boston to support a firet class opera com- pany, and the opera to be succeesful here must be given al the Academy. On the other hand, Ullman cannot rely upon New York alone, and he must give his forty operas in order to comply with the conditions of his lease. Overtures for a reconciliation and an amicable exchange of ar- tists have been made, but each party is so puffed up with pride and vanity as to demand its own terms without concession to the other. So we are likely to have another Capulct and Montague feud—the wars of York and Lancaster over again: ‘This will aot do. We advise a compromise, which much abured word we will accurately de- fine, for the benefit of our foreign friends :— 1, A mutual promise or contract of two parties in controversy to refer their diflerences to the de- cision of arbitrators, 2. An amicable agreement between parties in controversy to settle their differences by mutual concessions, & Mutual agreement ; adjustment. We really cannot have any more fighting about the Opera. it may be very good fun for the out- siders, but it is death to the directors. Maretzek has always been in hot water, and he has been rained at least nineteen times; Strakosch has likewise been ruined several times, and Marshall was so far ruined by only one prosperoas Opera ecason that the poor fellow had to cut the Phila- deIphians and take a benefit in New York. The only person among them all who has not been ruined, more or less, is Thalberg, whore safety may be attributed to the fact that he has attended very strictly to his own affairs, an example which | some of his frierds might imitate to their profit. Wecan't have these fellows ruined again. We insist apon their doing very well and being very | prosperous, and we recommend them to settle their differences by cither of the three ways pointed out above. First, let there be an armistice | proclaimed and a general amnesty. Then let the managers all join and give a grand oyster house teast—both critics and oysters will be in sea- son very shortly, Under the modifying influences of a dozen raw, or a few broiled, let the whole matter be referred to a committee of arbitration, to be compored of the editors of the leading daily journals, the managers binding themselves to abide ly tbe award. Then shall thg eaterprising Mereball, the astute Ullman, the indomitable Mar izck, give a tableau illustration of the scrip tural text: —‘How pleasant and how good it is to see brethren dwell together in harmony.” ‘This is substantially the same advice which we gave to the greut powers who were quarrelling some mouths ago about Central America. recommended all the Commodores—Vanderbilt, | Law, Gartivon, Morgan and the rest—to kiss and be frierds, when, by uniting their eflorta, they | might bave set up a new empire upon the Pacific coast. No, like the Hebrews of old, their necks were stiffened and their hearts hardened. ‘They | preferred to fight it out; and where are they now! No where or everywhere. Let their fate have a proper effect upon the Opera managers. Let them at once unite their forces. So, and eo only, shall we have a pros- Pperous Opera season. So shall all the young ladies in Pifth avenue and elsewhere be delight- ed. So shall the fancy goods trade be improved: So shall we be civilized, refined and enlightened by the most delicious of arts, expressed in the most entertaining and elegant way. So shall we, | in the joy of our hearts, be able to allow our | country friends in Philadelphia and Boston to en- joy ® part of our pleasures. ‘The managers willaleo remember that when | we have the Atlantic telegraph we can import artiste in Icss than a fortnight after wo find they are wented, aud thereby a new company can be femmed at any time. Her Meesty’s theatre, | London, and the Salle Ventadour, Paris, will be | brought within whisper of the New York Aca- demy, and if there is any nonsense here we can | bring over Calzado or Lumley by the next enongh. Now we demand that our musical friends shall pull together and play together. If | they don’t we shall Jet on an extra quantity of cditorial steam, and put them all down together. Burxome Kansas--Birnowwa New York Mazen Grecley, having recently lost heavily on his mining and otber stocks, is busy bawling out | over “bleeding Kansas.” Has he nota tear to shed over “bleeding New York: The acts of the last infamous Legialature have increased our | State taxes over (rw millions and added to our city taxes over one million. Have the people of New York pot bled cnough to extract a tear from Maga Greeley’ Can't Kansas take care of | herself ? We} We have had operatic discord long | a Sovuranas Dusiixu To aN Lperenpswry Pret —Procress or Frum Ornvion.—Eilsewhere will be found aletter signed “A Virginian,” repudiat- ing da indignant terms the effort made at the Knoxville Convention, by @ clique of disunion fire-caters and rabid secessionists, to exclude the reporters of the Nozthern prees, Our corres- | pondent states that an overwhelming majority of the Southern people unequivocally disapprove of this movement, which he stigmatizes as “anti- American, aoti-national and ungrateful,” for, as he justly observes, but for the New Yorx Haran, which went to the expense of sending s special reporter there, but little would have beea kaowa to the world of its proceedings. We can fully understand the warmth with which our correspondent expresses himself ia re- gard to this matter. At this time of duy itseeams dificult to comprehend hew such a proposition could have been cutertained for a moment by any bedy of intelligent Americans. But the passions and icdividual intereste of men will frequently blind them to the folly of attempting to stem the cnwent of public opinion, or of seeking to gag itelegitimate orgacs. For oar own part, although the special objeet of this foolish proceeding, we de not entertain a particle of feeling in regard to it, We know that it isa necessary incident of the developement of the influcace of an indepem. dent prees in the South, aud we therefore hail the defeat of the proposition ay u satisfactory evi- dence that the Southern mind is becoming fully alive to its advantages. When we firet commenced our efforts to substi- tute for the old spiritlese party backs a journal of untrammelled action and independent views, we recollect that we encountered here in the North just the same obstacles attempted to be thrown in our way by Mr. Pryor and his as3o- ciates. The first resistance that we met with was from the moneyed interests in Wall street, whick were unreasonably alarmed by the reports that we began to publish of their operations. Siace then, what a revolution has taken pleco im the opinions and practices of these men! Next the religious world took fright at the re. ports which we commenced publishing of their anniversarics and missionary meetings, or this we encountered no small amount of the spiritual thunder which “the pulpit frum ecclesiastic” knows bow to deal out on the heads of offenders. We weve etyled impious, blasphemous, unrighte- ous, nay, an instrument of Sutan himeelf, for daring to meddle with things sacred. Look on that picture and on this. Now we may regard ourselves as the most favored organ of the ortho- dox of all creeds, for in their pious thirsting afer Christian fame they all run tous for ald. This is oatural, for in none of their own organs do the different eects fiud themselves so fully, or on the whole, so fairly represented. Parsons militant, parcona suppliant, parsons proud and parsons meek all readily find a place in our colamas, In our desire to do equal justice to them, we mast admit in all candor that we sometimes inflict a penance on our lay readers by giving them over- does of theological twaddle. But theee are not the only classes of persons whom in the ouiset of our career we found ready to throw obstructions in our path. Curious to say, the politicians, who now look to the newspaper as the chief stepping stone to the gratification of their ambition, were amongst the most determined foes to the operation of a free press. Henry Clay, and even the great Webster himself, had at one time the strongest repuguance to have their speeches reported by any newspaper. We remember, about ten yearsago, the former publicy annouucing from the stump in Kentucky that he wonld mot speak if the reporter of the New York Hrramp continued to take notes of what he said. It is still fresh in the recollection of our readers how Governor Wise made war upow us on his stump campaign through Virginia for daring to send «a reporter to preserve to posterity the winged words of his cloqueace. The Governor has, however, seen the error of his ways, and we forgive him for the hard epitnets | which he at that time lavished upon us. He is | now, we believe, fully convinced that but for oar | efforts he would not be half the man that he ix, | and perhaps would not now be Governor of Vir- | ginin, ‘The moral of these examples is conclusive, and will not, we think, be lost upon Mr. Pryor and his fellow obstructives of the South. Thoy will sec from what bas occurred at the Knoxville Gon- vention, that any farther efforts to shut out tho light, by waging war against the Northern news- papers, will only disgust intelligent minds, like {hat of our correspondent “Virginian,” and t | them to think for themselves. Let them not | ter themselves by eupposing that they vex us by singting out the Hemann as the object of their | ridiculous spite. All that they effect by it's to | advance the cause of truth and the legitimate in- fiuence of an independent press, Romscumy axp THE run FReseu Ratnroan Du- raritens—-Tas Lawyers axp THx Nrws- | varens.—The action brought by a so called | depnty jailor in this city against Messrs. Towns- bend and Galbraith, the lawyers employed to | defend Grelet, Parot aad the other French rail- j Toad defaulters, some months ago, has agaim | brought that remarkable case pefore public at | tention. The action in question is for damages | in conrequence of an alleged assault by the we | gentlemen of the law upon the peraon repee- senting himself to be a deputy jailor. The answer of Mr. Gaibraith, which we published om | Saturday, shows conclusively, however, that not- withstanding all the violent denunciations in- dulged in by some lawyers agd newspapers im referevee to the circumstance, Mr. Galbraith’s tole connection with it was to interfere to pre- vent a breach of the pence, In that he acted in the capacity not merely of an officer of the law, but of a gocd citizen. “The complainaas | Was engaged in what Mr. Galbraith considered ea legal act, and it was only for the purpose of | preventing worse consequences that were likely to arise from such act, in the abape of violeoce aad a breach of the peace, that Mr. Galbraith stepped in and interfered in the peaceful but | firm manner that he did. | The fact is, however, that in the whole of that temarkable case for the extradition of then Frenchmen, who made free with the stock of the Great Northern: Railroad of France, there was | much more than met the pablio obervation, It | was the conviction of some of the best minds of the country that the case of thease ! French fugitives did not fall within the operation | of the extradition treaty. Butfaots were iaveut ed and legal principles @ere subjected to a rust | omonnt of stretebing to afford even a shadow of exoure for making Uv treaty applicable to them. Baron Rothchild was known to be more liberal with his gold on that occasion than that misouly mitlionaire is wont to be, Kverybody who sided, Hitest degree in procuring the warrant henteomely rewarded for it, Aud co, by vais neal expenditure graong law. ton wae R etearas o- > omer eh wate ee ay te ee