The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1859, Page 6

6 encenmemmieiimenmeennstes — NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. COBNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. ERMS, cash in adeance. Money sent by mail will be at ‘he ete ie condor. “Podlags dampe wet Mache plop at Mn money. Tilt DAILY HERALD. two cents . 81 per annum. TUE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, et ote, cents copy 7 8 por annum the Buropen Eilon eery’ Wetnentay aa ob cen $4 per annum (o-an iain, Sr $8 10 any part of tha Oe oth Ya inctude morning a verdict was rendered for the govern- ment against a case of obscene stereoscopes, for which Mr. Anthony was claimant, Whatever the morals of thy French people may be, and however facile their op)” tunities of procuring lewd women to sit for those p ctures which are revolting to our | sense of propriety and decency, we protest against their importation, and do not sympathise with the jury who render a verdict for the confiscation of the property and at the same time “recommend” that the importers be remunerated for their pro- perty. The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday, but adjourned immediately atter the reading of the minutes without transacting any business. The number of emigrants arrived during the week was 1,832, increasing the number since December to 62,529. The balance of the commutation fund is now $25,861 86. The noted heroes of the prize ring—Heenan and Morrissey—met yesterday in front ot the Park, and were near treating the public to an impromptu rough and tumble. The timely interference of friends prevented a collision. An account of the affair will be found in another column. Coroner Jackman yesterday held an inquest an the body of Lenhardt Haalze, of 218 Second street. who came to his death by falling from a scaffold at the floating dock between Pike and Rutgers’ slips, East river. It appears thet one of the poles of which the scaffold was constructed broke, and struck deceased, in the head, killing him instantly and precipitating him and four others to the floor of the dock with great violence. A verdict of accidental death was rendered. The deceased was 51 years of age and a native of Germany. Captain Griffin, of the steamship Granada, de- livered us New Orleans papers yesterday, which he brought overland, two days in advance of the mail. A good demand prevailed last week for first quality éattle at fully previous prices, but common, which were more plenty, were somewhat lower: Cows and calves were in good request at last week's rates. Veal calves were active at from 3}c. to 7c., as to quality. Sheep and lambs were in demand and sold as tast as they arrived at from $2 50 to $6 at ‘Conti x 5 the Calyornia Cy ‘on the Sth ‘and 20th of each pokey conta opt oF rum, PH ‘VAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per "WoLunkany CORRESPONDENCE, containing émportant ter of the world; if used, will be R FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE BeaL al, LETTERS piel oa PaRtiOuLan.y ReQuastep To anp Pacx- AGES SEIT AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Seniovs Fauir— ‘Toopers. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Emxesr Matrnavans— Soper rox Love—Muistexs or TOLEpo. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond. street. Dor. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Scuoo. Pox SCAN- pa—Rovgu Diamonn. —_ KEENE’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—See or NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Huxter Srr oF ‘Vinguis—OR OWNED PRINCK—VALENTINE AND ORSON, THEATRE FRANCAIS, 585 Broadway.—Tawnour Bat- tant—Brvrcs Lacux CesaR—TOINEME ET SON CARABINIER, NUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—After- Pen Beiia—Tanor or Tamwortu. Kvening—Ovur or tum Derwms—M. Decnacumeay. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 414 Broadway.—Ernior1an Sons, Dances, 4c.—Ranzoap Sauasn Ur. " 'RELS, Mechanics Hall, 472 Broadway.— ByuLesuuns, Sovas, Danons, eile Woy ne ai ACTOR. MOZART HALL, 663 Broadway.—Ta10p0n’s THEATRE OF RTS, CIRCUS, corner of Thirteenth street and Bronivey,—NaUEstRuas Penrosmancrs, &¢.—Afternoon and Evening. NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway.—Mars. Jusivs T. Staca’'s Vocat. Av INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. ‘SHEET. TRIPLE at our quotations. On sale 4,143 cattle, 122 cows, 805 calves, 13,000 sheep and lambs, and about 6,500 swine, The cotton market continued to rule heavy yesterday, while the sales embraced 500 a 600 bales, on the basis of the revised quotations given Tin another column. The receipts at the ports since September last have reached 258,000 bales, against 234,000 in 1858, 102,000 in 1857, 185,000 in 1856, and 249,000 in 1855. The exports have comprised 98,000 bales, against 65,000 in 1858, 82,000 in 1857, 87,000 in 1856, and 106,000 in 1855. The stock on hand embraced 248,000 bales, against 217,000 in 1868, 102,000 in 1857, 163,000 in 1856, and 233,000 in 1855. The flour market was less active and buoyant, though prices were slightly firmer for some grades. Wheat was with- out change of importance. Among the transactions were good to choice white Kentucky at $146 a $150. Corn was unchanged, with sales of Western mixed and Jersey yellow at $1. Pork was in fair request, with sales of new mess at $1545 a $1550, and of prime at $11. Sugars were some less active and buoyant, but prices were sustained. The sales embraced 700 hhds. Cuba muscovado, at rates given in another place. Coffee was quiet, and sales confined to small lots of Rio, and 400 bags Santos on terms given elsewhere; the public sale advertised for to-day was postponed until next week. The public tea sale, held yesterday, embrac- ed aconsiderable catalogue of both greens and blacks and drew a large and spirited company. All the blacks, and all the desirable lots of greens were sold at full prices. There also continued considerable transactions at private sale, and generally with an advancing tendency in quotations. Freights were steady; among the engage- ments were some 1,500 boxes cheese by steamer for Liv- erpool at 40s.; 60 tierces beef, do., at 4s., with somo 60 hhds. tallow by a sailing vessel at 12s. 6d. Shipments in other directions were light. New York, Thursday, October 13, 1859. The News. The steamship Ariel is due at this port with Eu- ropean news to the 29th ult., one day later than the advices brought by the Indian. The arrival of the steamahip North Star at this port yesterday morning, from Aspinwall, enables ‘us to lay before our readers to-day full particulars of the duel between Senator Broderick and Judge Terry. The account embraces complete details of the painful affair, from the exchange of preliminary notes down to the moment that the dead body of Broderick was deposited in fhe tomb. Nothing has yet been heard of the Quaker City. The report of Capt. Beal, of the steamer Potomac, which arrived yesterday from Baltimore, after a tempestuous voyage, that he had passed large quantities of wrecked material, apparently belong- ing to a steamer, on the 14th inst., between Towns- end Inlet and Great Egg Harbor, gave rise to serious apprehensions as to the fate of the Quaker City. It is clear, however, that the drift staff could by ne possibility have belonged to her, as she was three hundred miles from the Potomac’s course when last seen, and the winds that have prevailed recently would have caused a drift in an entirely different direction. We publish elsewhere a com- munication from a shipmaster of long experience in command of steamers in the Southern trade; he gives his reasons for holding the opinion that the Quaker City is safe, and that no unusual anxiety need be entertained for those who remained on board of her. Our advices from the South Pacific are dated Valparaiso August 31, Callao the 12th, and Paita the 16thof September. Chili was still kept in agi- tation by revolutionary attempts and insurrec- tionary conspiracies against the tule of Presi- dent Montt. Indian depredations in some of the provinces added to the general disquiet and feeling of insecurity. A military mu- tiny had taken place at Santiago, but it was easily suppressed. The Legislature had voted a continuance of the extraordinary powers lately granted to the President to the lst of November, 1860. Two new provinces, one in the south and another in the north, had been formed. The Min- ister of Foreign Aftairs had made a lengthy, but very explicit report, from which it appears as if the Executive were inclined to treat in a spirit of liberality and fair dealing all other governments. A treaty of extradition with France was under consideration. The boundary question with Peru was being considered. Diplo- matic affairs with Spain were very earnestly attend- ed to, but the negotiations had been suspended owing to the illness of the Chilean Minister in Madrid; and the question of remuneration for losses to citizens of the United States by popu Jar outrage or governmental action was said to be nearly adjusted. Trade was very brisk in Val- paraiso, and freights had advanced. In Peru Cas- tilla was fitting out another expedition against Ecuador, but it was doubtful if he would really make further war on the republic. Guayaquil was virtually in possession of the Peruvian troops, General Franco having retired from the city by agreement with the Peruvian Admiral. Serious disturbances had occured on two American ships, one at Callao and another at the Chincas. Rich coal mines had been discovered near the port of Paita, Our accounts from New Granada are dated at Panama and Aspinwall on the 4th inst., but are not important. The mail from Bogota had not arrived. Carthagena and other of the provinces were still in a disturbed state. The Panama Legislature had passed a vexations measure respecting the privi- Jeges of explorers to the Chiriqui gold mines. The details of the news from Havana, brought by the De Soto to New Orleans, dated to the 3d inst., are given in another column. The Maretzek Opera coup had terminated in a splendid success, and created quite an excitement, which promised any quantity of cash to the managers. Yellow fever had disappeared. The Tammany Hall Convention for the nomina- tion of Judges was held last night. Wm. H. Leonard was nominated for the Supreme Court in place of Judge Roosevelt; James Moncrief was renominated for the Superior Court, as was Judge Daly for the Common Pleas; for the Superior Court, A. L. Robertson was nominated, and Henry Alker for the Marine Court. The municipal election in Baltimore took place yesterday, and although the candidates of the “blood tubs” and other rowdy clubs again succeed- ed in carrying the city, yet it is gratifying to know that the reform party have succeeded in seven of the twenty wards, and have reduced the majority of the rowdies to a mere fraction comparatively. _The returns of the State elections in Pennsylva- nia, Olio, Indiana and Iowa come in slowly, but we have nothing as yet from Minnesota. The opposi- tion hove held their own in Pennsylvania, Ohio and The New Congress—The Twenty-one Op- position Members of the South. The twenty-one Southern opposition mem- bers, in the all-important business of the or- ganization of the new House of Representa- tives in December next, will occupy a position of the highest responsibility. They will hold the balance of power between the republicans and the democrats, and this power may be ex- ercised in the work of organization to the selid advantage of the Union for many years to come. To this great end, should the occasion require it, these twenty-one Southern conserva- tive representatives, against the slavery agi- tating disunion movements of the day, will be expected to stand as Leonidas and his handful of men stood in the pass of Thermopyle, each and all prepared to die in defence of their po- sition. But though these Southern men will hold this position, they will not be required to sacrifice themselves to defend it. On the other hand, it will enable them to control the entire field of operations, and to dictate the whole opposition programme of the Presidential cam- paign. In this important view of the subject we have already indicated the proper line of action. Nobody can expect these Southern opposition men to enter into any coalition with the demo- cratic side of the House. Nor can it be sup- posed that they will capitulate to the republi- cans as a simple matter of choice between two evils. These Southern opposition members are the representatives of a Presidential party and a Presidential movement. Upon some thing analagous to the national platform of the old whig party, they would be the natural allies of the opposition ele- ments of the North. They have been separated by the slavery agitation. Remove this ob- struction, and these broken fragments will be veuni The Southern opposition fragment, weak in itself and for itself, is yet strong as a national balance of power. From its local weakness it desires a reunion with the North; from its national importance it has the right to demand some concessions. And as the con- cessions which it asks will have to be made by the republican party to secure, in 1860, the vote of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, we see no reason why these concessions should not enter into the practical business of the organi- zation of the coming Congress. We may safely assume that, for some days and nights at Washington before the momentons first Monday in December next, there will be some caucuses and caucusing of each of the several parties and factions of the House. The republicans, the plurality party, will probably first proceed to take their soundings for the plurality rule, which would give them the un- divided control of the organization, officers and spoils. To cut off this game of the Seward ma- nagers, it will be well for the Southern opposi- tion members to be early on the ground with Towa. «<i have probably gained somewhat in In-| their overtures to the republicans, including diana. the Speaker, Clerk, Printer and other House The ao mail steamer Asia sailed from this | officers, all well considered and well adapted pam a on eee With ninety-seven | for the basis of a coalition. Thus, from the ne. Chutes 8 i e G eae . sae : pa = rior a Specie. The Glasgow | cegsities of their position, and from the imme. sailed jesterday for Glasgow with tiftytyg pas. | a; seth hi ji sengers. | diate and prospective advantages which this A regular meeting offthe Empire Club was held last night at Duryee’s, corner of East Broadwy Catharine street, but in consequence of th of many of the members to attend the Ju ry Conyention at Tammany Hall, adjourned without transacting avy business. In the United States District Court yesterday of Congress in December next may be induced to abandon W. H. Seward and his “irrepressi- ble conflict” with the South, for a Northern and Southern opposition alliance upon a practical and istible national platform. In this connection, the greatest danger to be NEW YORK HE a $7 per head. Swine were in moderate demand | apprehended by the Southern opposition party is the plurality rule; but this they may ward off by the superior ‘advantages of a powerful majority coalition, The responsibility first be- longs to these Southern opposition members. We believe they can effect the ends proposed. We think they can arrange the organization of the House upon terms which will open to them the doors of the Republican National Conven- tion of 1860, and thus give them the power to organize a national Presidential movement which will make either Bates, of Missouri, Crit- tenden, of Kentucky, or Bell, of Tennessee, as acceptable to the republican party as Banks, Chase or Fremont. For all practical purposes we may set down the anti-Lecompton democratic faction of the House as good for nothing to either side. It cannot help the democrats, and it cannot afford to support the republicans. The balance of power, competent to command an overwhelm- ing majority upon all practical questions, as between the opposition and the democracy, be- longe to the Southern opposition members. With the coalition suggested they will'rise into distinction and strength; but with the adoption of the plurality gule they will sink into compa- rative insignifioance. Let them look well, therefore, to their responsibilities; for in the organization of the House they may win or lose the Presidential election and the shaping of the party in power for the next quarter of a cen- tury. Reform in Tammany at Last. Rich fruit is beginning to be borne out of the great movement of the intelligence, in- tegrity and moneyed influence of the people of New York against the rowdy misrule of Tammany and Mozart Halls, Albany Regency depravity, and the atrocious disunion doctrines of William H. Seward. A most healthy, cheer- {ing and beneficial state of feeling is being awakened throughout the community, which ‘promises to sap the foundations of the system of treachery and violence, which has hereto- fore prevailed. It is perceived, at last, that the welfare of the country is at stake, as well as coalition will secure, the republican members | that of the city and State, and that the pros- perity of the agricultural, commercial and financial interests of the whole Union is en- dangered by the suicidal apathy which has so long prevailed among respectable citizens of all classes. The following invitation, which was sent to us yesterday, tells its own story. Itis exactly such a document as ought to have been issued, and it cannot fail to produce the most favora- ble results:— New York, Oct. 11, 1859. Ata meeting of democrats, held at the Everett House on the 7th inst., for the purpose of suggesting an efficient permanent organization in view of the great importance of the coming State and city elections, the following reso- lution was unanimously adopted:— Resolved, That Watts Sherman, James Lee, Algernon S. Jarvis, B. M. Whitlock and Charles A. Lamont, be con- stituted a commitfee, with power to add such names thereto as they may deem advisable, and with authority to request their democratic fellow citizens to attend a meeting for the purpose of consulting together as to the best interests of the democratic party. In accordance with this resolution, the undersigned, now composing this committee, request you to attend a meeting for the purpose aforesaid, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on Thursday evening next, the 18th inst., at cight o'clock. ‘The undersigned feel it to be almost unnecessary forthem to say that the sole object in view is to procure such an or- ganization of the democratic party of this city as shall exercise a conservative influence, tending not only to ele- vate the character of the party, Dut also by securing the nomination of well known tried democrats, of respec- lability and character, to thereby promote the public in- terests. They are convinced that the counsels of a large body of well known democrats cannot fail to produce valuable results, They, therefore, now ask you to co-operate cordially with them and with the leaders of the party, believing that much good can thereby be accomplished. If, however, by continued indifference as to their repro- sentatives, the people of New York choose to allow, with- ut interference, the selection of candidates who do not iairly represent either the whole party, the taxpayers or the commercial interests of the city, it’must be inferred that the acknowledged evils of our party organization and of our municipal government, resulting therefrom, aro not yot sufficiently oppressive to cnlist your active co-opera- tion in producing a remedy. ‘Watts Sherman, Blias 8. Higgine, James Lee. Isaac Townsend, ‘Algernon 8. Jarvis, Stephen Johnson, B.M. : in, Charies A. Lamont, Schuyler Livingston. Joel Wolfe, J. T, Souter, Sam’l L. M. Barlow, Benjamin H. Field, S.-W. Chater, E. K. Alburtis, Arthur Leary, William T. Coleman, George C. Collins, J ohn T. Agnew, James Olwell, George Greer, B.N. Fox, John W. Culvert, John McKesson, Henry Yelverton. Thos. F. Youngs, Several hundreds of the merchants, taxpay- ers and property holders of this city, have been invited to attend this meeting, at which it is in- tended that a practical plan shall be adopted for the establishment of a permament organiza- tion, of an efficient and conservative character. We learn, however, that simultaneously with this uprising of the paying men of the demo- cratic party, the solid and honest working strength of the democracy, have started still another organization, which promises fair to rally around it the bone and sinew of the old Jackson element in the city. The reform move- ment in Wall street, has excited hopes of a broader and more fundamental reorganization and purification of Tammany Hall itself, which is greatly to be lauded. A preliminary meet- ing has been held of honest mechanics and working men who have, heretofore, been com- pelled to occupy a very subordinate position in the democratic party, on account of the iron handed monopoly of power which the corrupt, shoulder hitting followers of the present Tam- many leaders have wielded. Several heads of the federal and city governments were invited to attend it, who are known to be opposed to the abuses which exist, and they have promised their hearty co-operation with the efforts which it was resolved should be made to correct them. Thus two distinct organizations are now en- gaged in the work of democratic reform, and, while it is probable that they will remain sepa- rate, there is no doubt that they can co-operate with each other, so as to exercise a powerful and healthy influence in the city and State. The days of rowdy rule at Tammany Hall will cease, and good nominations take the place of bad ones, as soon as the power shall have passed into the hands of those who represent both the moneyed and the working strength of the democracy. Mozart Hall need no longer be taken into consideration at all. The instant that Tammany Hall is purified, the opposition to it will be defunct of itself. The Mozart or- ganization had its origin in the secession from Tammany of those who were dissatisfied with | the monopoly which a few bad men exercised, and when that shall cease will not even have | 8 motive for continuance. There, probably, | never was a period fraught with more political danger to the country than the present. Itis, in view of the issnes at the coming State election, the initiatory stage of the ne Presidential conflict, and it is a cause of great rejoicing, that the intelligence of all classes in the comunity | has become alive to the importance of a united and proper course of action. RALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1859.—TRIPL.E Senator Broderick’s Death—Degradation of American Politics. , The fall of Senator Broderick, of California, in a duel with a Judge of the Supreme Court of that State, has afforded to the press and to the public at large an exciting subject of dis- cussion. The first and most obvious reflection that suggests itself to the intelligent mind is that the occurrence, deplorable as it was, was but the natural result of the course of public life into which both these men, the slayer and the slain, had thrown themselves, Each had raised himself from an obscure position in life to the highest pinnacle to which he had as- pired—the one toa seat in the Senate of the United States, the other to the bench of the Supreme Court of his adopted State—and it is not unjust to either of them to say that, how- ever creditably they may have conducted themselves in their elevated positions, the means to which they had resorted to get there were far from creditable. They found that bullying, shoulder-hitting, ballot box stuffing, and other similar appliances, were the most ready and certain means to the ends which they sought. They availed themselves of theee mo- dern political appliances, and succeeded ia their ambitious projects, And if the one of them has gone to a bloody grave, and the other stands branded in the eyes of the world as a murder- er, it is because they were both representatives of a degraded and brutal system of politics—a system in which fraud and force prevail over the will and votes of honest communities. It is somewhat surprising, however, to see the manner in which the subject is variously treated by the pgess. Some of the newspapers regard the death of Broderick as the result of a base conspiracy entered into by California po- liticians to get rid of a powerful rival—one who was an obstacle in their path. The pious Courier and Enquirer looks upon him as a political mar- tyr, and gives him a place in its calendar ofsaints; while the profane Philadelphia Press exclaims, in an outburst of nonsensical bathos, that the blood of Broderick is on the head of President Buchanan. Now all this is sheer absurdity. There was no conspiracy in the matter; there was nothing in it out of which the honors of martyrdom can“ be extracted, and Mr. Bucha- nan and his administration had as little to do with it as the Emperor of China had. What were the circumstances? Mr. Brode- rick, having studied the system of Tammany Hall politics for many years of his life, and having been fully initiated in all the mysteries and peculiarities thereof, sought, some ten years since, a new field for the exercise of his talents inthat line. California, being then in a sadly disorganized condition, presented the most attractions. He went there, soon made himself conspicuous in the local politics of San Francisco and California, was elected to the State Legislatewe, and finally, two years since, reached the summit of his ambition by being chosen to represent the State in the Senate of the United States. How did he achieve those honors? By learning? By elo- quence? By any high achievements or any evi- dence of exalted worth? Not at all; but sim- ply by working the political machine, of which he had learned all the secret springs in his ap- prenticeship at Tammany Hall—by a judicious use of bruisers, shoulder-hitters, ballot box stuffers and other such instruments. His col- league in the United Stutes Senate was Indebt- ed to him, it would seem, for being able to re- tain his place, and had in consideration thereof agreed to forego all claims which his position might have given him on federal patronage. But Gwin proved himself more cunning than Broderick, and, from his being familiar with the arts and practices in vogue at Washington, he managed, notwithstanding his agreement, to monopolize for his own friends all the offices and emoluments which the admi- nistration had at its disposal in California. Defeated and discontented, Broderick turned against the administration, and became one of its bitterest opponents. He went back after the last session, entered vigorously upon the canvass for State officers, found himself ranged against his former personal and political friends, and, carried away by his passion, he said many offensive things against @me of them. In this way he got himself involved in several perso- nal controversies, all of which he declared him- self ready to satisfy at the pistol’s mouth as soon as the canvass was brought to a close. He was held up to his declaration. Judge Terry was the first to call on him for satisfaction “in the way usual among gentlemen.” He accept- ed the cartel. The parties met. Two shots were exchanged, and at the first fire Broderick fell mortally wounded. There is the whole history of the affair. It is the old story. By brute force and physical courage this man had attained a certain emi- nence among his fellows, and to the same qualities in another he had to succumb. His slayer had also owed his elevation to similar instrumentalities, and had even brought upon himself the attentions of the Vigilance Commit- tee in 1856; so much so that he was a prisoner in their hands for six or eight weeks, and came within an ace of ending his career on the gal- lows. And now the Judge stands a criminal at the bar of justice, with his hands stained in the blood of his fellow being. And after all, the fate of these two men is but the natural finale to their course of life. To fraud and violence they looked for their elevation to posts of honor and emolument. They succeeded; but they could not escape re- tributive justice. We have in our own city and throughout the whole country numerous types of this same order of politicians. Here, as well as in California, pugilists and loafers and ballot box stuffers give us our rulers and officials. Morrissey and Heenan have more in- fluence on our State and city politics than any score of our merchants or wealthy citizens; and even the United States Marshal of the district feels it part of his duty to bring to a nominat- ing convention a retinue of roughs. In fact, these pugilist politicians are regarded by them- selves and others in the light of the free lances of the Middle Ages, who sold their swords to the highest bidder. To that degraded con- dition have our politics descended, and it is to the natural operation of such a state of affairs that the violent end of Senator Broderick must by Tred. Consistency ov THE TripunE—The Tribune complains that the Supervisors have appointed some policemen registrars. It is only two or three days ago since our consistent cotempora- ry contended that the Superintendent of the Board of Police ought to have been one of three to have the appointment of these regis- trars. In that case we presume there would be a large proportion of the force appointed. It is very wrong to appoint common policemen SHEET. to discharge polftical duties, but it is all right to appoint a head policeman to do the same thing by wholesale. That which in the captain is but a choleric word is in'the soldier flat blasphemy. The Four Living Powers Before China— The True Policy for the United States, The question of the opening of a free and un- restricted intercourse between the nations of the Western and the Eastern continents ts one of the greatest of the age, and its solution is now occupying the governments of the four great civilized nations. It is now nearly three hundred years since the first revulsion of Asiatic sentiment against European encroachment culminated in the ex- clusion of foreigners from the ports of China, and the extinction of Christianity in Japan. At that time and ever since the countries of Southern and Eastern Asia have been looked upon by the prevailing idea in Europe as regions subject to conquest and fit for dominion, and the European nations | have continued, with greater or less success, to | pursue their policy of territorial occupation and rule. The Dutch in Java and Japan, the Portuguese at Macao, the English and French in India, and the Spaniards in the Phillipine Islands, have filled the pages of the history of Europe’s intercourse with Asia with a varied relation of successes and defeats. The early and decisive non-intercourse policy adopted by China and Japan probably saved them from the fate which attended India and the Malasian islands. In Hindostan the conflicting interests of England and France brought them into an early and bloody conflict. Dupleix, the French commander, aimed to subdue the whole of the Indian peninsula, and his genius seemed equal to the occasion. But England's fortunes created an opponent in Clive, who stopped the progress of the French. Adopting at once the deep and subtle policy of Dupleix, he founded on it the British empire in India, which has shaken and overturned so many Asiatic thrones, and which has itself been so recently shaken to its very centre. The growth of commerce has given now, in the middle of the nineteenth century, a new impulse to the idea of opening the countries of Eastern Asia, either to trade or to conquest. But to-day it is not alone European policy that seeks this result. While England has been extending her conquests in India, and giving existence to a system of dominion there that reacts on all the rest of Asia, confirming its dis- trust of European friendship and its fears of European hostility, a young Power has grown up in the West holding no views of con- quest, discarding the idea of distant and tributary colonies, and seeking to open her intercourse with the far East only for the purpose of an exchange of pro- ducts for their mutual benefit. At the same time another European Power, contiguous to Asia, has grown into vast dominion in its cen- tral and northern regions. We know little of the policy which Russia pursues towards the Asiatic hordes she has brought under her sway, or towards the Powers upon which she is encroaching. One thing only is evident. While Europe comes to Asia seaward, and is looked upon as a hostilg existence, the White Czar comes landward and with the appearance of an Asiatic Power. These four nations are now before the fron- tiers of China. England and France in joint hostile array, the United States in a pacific character, and Russia as a semi-sympathetic Asiatic empire. In this condition of affairs the policy of our government is plain and evident. Our Washington correspondent has told us thet the administration comprehends the position, and that it has reprimanded the Minister and naval officer who recently put our interests in China in peril. An obscure journal has denied that this reprimand has been given, but at the same time the friends of Mr. Waxd are under the necessity of publishing his private letters in order to make a lame defence of the error he has committed. In giving this reprimand the President has shown a zealous care for the highest interests of the country. No greater mistake can be made than to identify ourselves with the encroaching po- licy of England and France in Asia. Besides depriving us of all the benefits that should ac- crue to us from three-quarters of a century of forbearance and non-interference in the affairs of the Eastern world, it would subject us to all the contingencies that the present course of England and France may give rise to, And these are many. Though now banded together to open China by force of arms and by conquest, it is an al- liance that carries with it the germs of future conflicts. The empire of China comprises three hundred or four hundred millions of peo- ple—a world within itself. It is ruled by a worn out Mongol dynasty that is hated by the sub- jugated Chinese. In many places insurrection already exists, and in others the bond of power is frail. When England and France have opened China with the sword. and by that very fact consummated the ruin of its present dy- nasty, the questions of possession and dominion will come up, as they did in India. New Du- pleix and new Clives will arise, and the scenes of a century and a half ago in India be re- newed. This is not a conflict which concerns us, and it is one in which we should not be involy- ed. Our only way to avoid being so involved is to avoid the early germs which would lead to it. These are to be found in such acts as Mr. Ward and Commodore Tatnall committed at the mouth of the Peiho, because an English midshipman, with blood upon his brow, looked wistfully from the deck of the American ship to the distant scene where his Admiral lay bleed- ing and his fellows were being mowed down by the murderous fire of the Chinese. Se Tue Tripuxe Sri. iy Trovete Anovr THE Heratp.—The Tribune is still in trouble about the Heratp. We are sorry for our contempo- rary. He will insist on making the Heranp a democratic organ, whether it will or not, like Moliere’s “physician in spite of himself.” If our distressed contemporary will tell us what are the principles of the democratic organiza- tions, we will then tell him whether we sub- scribe to them or not. If he can discover that they have any principles at all beyond the ptinciple of the cohesion of public plunder, he will prove himself more sharpsighted than he ever got credit for. Democrats, whigs, republicans—all parties are precisely alike. Their first principle, their second principle, and their third principle— their Alpha and Omega—their creed, their Lord’s Prayer and their Ten Commandments are comprehended in one little monosyllable— spoils. Those are their principles. Tue Misreny or mux Avrroacutsa Orera Sxaso®—There fs a good deal of curiosity in metrope litan. oixeles about the new operatic campaign, which will be commenced at the Academy next Monday evening with “La Tra- ‘ viata,” in which the new prima donna—for whom rare gifts are claimed—will make her début; She stands in the position of sample of the new article which Mr. Strakosch has im- ported fresh from the nurseries of fair Italia. As our readers have been informed by the remarkable bulletin of Signor Ullman, nearly all the new artists who will appear next week have no reputations in the great Europess capitals, from which the American managers have usually selected their singers, All the details that we have about the latest importa- tions is what we get fromthe managors, whe are indebted for a good deal of their informa- tion to the artists themselves. Of course there are people in this world who will not believe anything which they do not see orhear for them- selves, and there are others who are so unkind as to say that managers and artists always have a very good opinion of themselves, which may or may not be endersed by the public. It is not too much to assume, when we say that the cona- firmed unbelievers and the doubters form a very large proportion of Opera goers. We presume the three hungry Frenchmen are among the doubters just now. Then there is the curious public, which always runs after the latest no- velty, whether it is a prize fighter or a prima donna, and the sympathetic public, who will like the idea of the artist who strikes out for an American reputation before she has rua the gauntlet of London and Paris criticism and received the world-wide notorlety which that ordeal gives. The managers, top, have made a bold venture, which will attract a good share of public attention. They have taken their eyes away from Covent Garden, resisted the temptations of the Salle Ventadour, passed over St. Petersburg, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Milan and Naples, and caught their birds in the hum- ble theatres of Brescia, Livorno and other Italian villages—for they can hardly be called anything more than that. The idea is quite new. In only two instances that we can remember have permanent artists commenced their career im the United States. Those were Malibran and Bosio, both splendid singers, who won their maiden laurels in America, and sub- sequently achieved triumphs upon triumphs in the Old World. When Bosio came to New York she was as obscure as Spe- ranza is at this moment, and a good many people never found out how good the former was until she haé Paris and London at her feet. Malibran was a musical wonder, never fully appreciated anywhere. Like Bosio, she died in the morning of a splendid career. Putting all these things together, with the reputation which Ullman enjoys as a clever entrepreneur, second only to that of Barnum, it is quite natural that the public should be on the tiptoe of excitement, waiting for the event- ful night when the operatic mystery is to be solved. After its own fashion, this coup of the managers will be as attractive at first as if they had brought out a great star, and perhaps it may prove more profitable in the end. In any event, the opening of the season will be ex- ceedingly interesting. All ranks and condi- tions of men and women will turn out in full force for next Monday’s Opera. In addition to the regular habitués of the Opera there will be the curious public, come to have a look at the last new thing. We have no doubt that the three hungry Frenchmen will be there, hun- grier than ever. Likewise the heroes of Solfe- rino and the Mincio, with full brigades of guer- rillas and Bohemians, atlachés of the weekly and Sunday press. Then there are a great many artists and scribblers unattached, with a retinue of camp followers, hangers-on, claquers and small fry dilettanti, who live in a mysterious way, and get admission to the Opera mysteriously; and, of course, as this last mys- tery is in their line of business, they will not foil to be on hand for the opening of Strakosch’s new oracles. These, with a smart sprinkling of provincials, will make up an audience quite as interesting as the performance, and, for all we know to the contrary, more so. It will be a great Opera night. In the meantime, while waiting for this sen- sation, the operatic public may enjoy the pros- pect of having an opportunity to pronounce an unbiassed opinion upon the merits of the new artists. As no one except the manager really knows anything about them, it cannot be said that public opinion has been manufactured in advance. In fact, the managerial tactics have been founded entirely upon the obscurity rather than the celebrity of the singers. It is a new idea, and every one is curious to see how it will work. Rexieious Newsrarers.—There are in this city upwards of thirty religious newspapers, all thriving more or less on their piety. If we were to say that their returns average in the gross $500,000 a year, we should, we believe, be understating the amount. For this large sum the religious papers do but very little work, the bulk of it being left to the secular portion of the press. Thus the reporting of all the religious meetings and anniversaries, as well as of the ordinations, changes of benefices, consecrations and general religious intelli- gence, is all done at a large expense by the Heratp. One would suppose that, having none of this heavy business to attend to, our religious contemporaries would find time to keep watch and ward over the morals of the community. Such is not the fact. They are blatant about innocent Sunday amusements and the infringement of conventional Sabbath observances, but they contrive to keep their eyes shut all the rest of the week to practices which are fraught with infinitely more danger to the morals of the community. Who ever hears, for instance, of a Sunday paper de- nouncing the infamous French publications which are daily issued from the New York press, or the equally demoralizing statues and Pictures that find their way into our public galleries? Who ever finds them laying bare to public condemnation the temptations and _pit- falls which are continually being laid for the innocent and unwary in our large cities? A | brutal outrage may be committed against mo- , rality and private rights, a peaceful citizen | shot down, a wife seduced from her home, or @ child torn from her loving parents by so lustful villain, without their eliciting a word remark or censure from the religious p! The Hxratp, in short, is obliged to do them not only the reporting of all church movements, but the warnings, preachings and the moralizings which fall perly within their vocation, What, it