The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1859, Page 6

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The China mail had reached London, with the gratifying intelligence that our Minister, Mr. Ward, had been courteously received by the Emperor at Pekin, and that he expected to be able to send hame the ratified treaty by the next mail. It ia stated, as among the latest ramors, that the Great Eastern would leave for Portland, Maine, ebout the 24th inst. Public securities had advanced both in Paris and London. The quotations for consols are 96a 96} for both money and account. At Liverpool cotton and breadstufls were steady, while provisions continued dull. ‘There had been no arrivals of sailing vessels at Liverpool from United States ports subsequent to the 6th inst. ‘The Tuscan Cabinet having ordered the exequa- tar to be cancelled in the case of a Leghorn mer- chant, M. Bona, Acting American Consul at that seaport, it is said a despatch has been sent to President Buchanan explanatory of the act, and professing the utmost cordiality to this republic. Signor Bona is alleged to have outatepped his func- tiens, and outraged the neutrality of the United States, by sanctioning, at a banquet given at Monte- nero, intrigues of Prince Poniatowski, such ban- quet being not of a personal but openly political character. Our files from Laguayra, Venezuela, reach to the 1st inst. The advices are principally confined to accounts of successive defeats of the rebel forces. Senor Gual had retired from the temporary exercise of the duties of President, and had been succeeded by Senor Felipe Tovar. The conduct of Falcon, the rebel chief; has been most atrocious, having, among other enormities, hanged a number of chil- dren. The works on the Petare Railway had been suspended, and some of the principal engineers had left for Philadelphia. Old Brown and his companions in the Harper's Ferry plot were arraigned for trial yesterday, at Charlestown, Va., the grand jury having found in- diotments against them for conspiracy to cause an insurrection among the negroes, treason against the State, and murder. They each pleaded not guilty, and demanded separate trials. The prosecution elected to try Brown first. He begged for a brief delay, urging that the wounds received in the conflict at Harper's Ferry had impaired his hearing, and so debilitated his system that he @ould not properly enter upon his defence. His counsel seconded the plea, but the prosecuting offi- cers opposed postponement. The Court, however, in effect, decided that if the prisoner's physical Condition was as represented, the request of the Prisoner would be entertained. A physician and two officers of the jail then testified that Brown’s intellect appeared to be perfectly clear, and his hearing sufficiently acute. But at this interesting stage of the proceedings, the telegraph, owing to the prevalence of a storm, gave out, and we are left in the dark as to the results of the inquiry, Cook and Haslett, two of Brown’s men, have been arrested, the former near Chambersburg, Penn., and the latter at Carlisle, Penn. Governor Wise made a requisition upon Governor Packer, of Pennsylvania, for their surrender to the authori- ties of Virginia, and the demand was acceded to. We publish to-day some very important and cu- rious,revelations respecting the operations of the ebolitionists in Kansas and the complicity of the black republican leaders in the Harper's Ferry conspiracy. There was a strong rally of the Mozart Hall democracy at the Cooper Institute last evening— the building being considerably crowded. There was great enthusiasm manifested throughout the evening, and speeches were delivered by Mesars. Oushing, Fernando Wood, Schwackhamer, and others. A fine band was also in attendance and played between the speeches. A meeting was held at Brooklyn last evening to ratify the republican nominations. Senator Wilson and Hon. Mr. Duryea made speeches defending Seward's “irrepressible conflict” doctrines. See our report elsewhere. A special meeting of the Board of Education took place last evening, at which a large amount of routine business was disposed of. The Finance Committee reported that the amount for special Sppropriations for 1859 is exceeded already by $19,148 90. No other matter of any interest to the public came up till the Board adjourned. The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday afternoon. No business of any public interest came Up till they adjourned. The number of emigrants ar- rived the week were 1,087, making the num- ber for the present year 65,284. ‘The balance of the Commatation fund has now risen to $30,543 25. ‘The total amount paid to counties of this State of the fifty per cent due them for the support of emi. Sranta, from the Ist of May, 1557, to the Ist of July, 1959, was $23,535 75. The paymenta were made Yesterday the weather was quite cold, with a Plorcing wind from the north-northwest and an overcast sky, with every prognostication of » com- ing storm. At eight o’clock in the evening the mercury in the thermométer was at thirty-eight ao- grees, or four degrees above the freezing point, with every appearance of still colder weather. Cater in the evening the most infivitessimal fakes NEW. YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1859—TRIPLE SHERF. . Of snow fell—the first of the season, We expect to hear of a heavy fall of snow in the northern and western parts of this State. ‘The steamer New World, on her passage to*Al- bany last night, when opposite Fort Washingtoa, broke her connecting rod and other portions of her engine, & portion of whioh wont through her bottom, causing her to fll and sink to her first tior of state rooms. She had about 250 passengers, all of whem were taken off by the steamtug Ohio and a achooner. The receipts of beef cattle during the past wook Were very heavy, and prices declined half to three- quarters of a cent per pound. Cows and calves were quiet and unchanged. Veal calves were Plenty, and in moderate request at from 30. to 60.0 70. per pound. Sheep and lambs were very Plenty, and somewhat lower in price. Swine were also plenty, but rates unohanged. Tho receipts ‘were 4,823 head of cattle, 196 cows, 741 veals 18,061 aheep and lambs, and 6,204 swine. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embracod 700 a 800 bales, closing on the basis of 113¢c, a 11%c. for middling up- lands, chiefly at the inside figure. The receipta at the Ports since the lat of September last amounted to 608,000, against 460,000 in 1858, 211,000 in 1867, 356,000 in 1856, and 400,000 in 1855. The exports have reachod 202,000 bales, against 124,000 in 1858, 82,000 in 1857, 78,000 in 1666, and 178,000 in 1856. The stock on hand amounted to 875,000 bales, against 340,000 in 1858, 170,000 in 1867, 208,000 in 1866, and 292,000 in 1850. By the above atatement it will be seen that both the receipts and exports of this staple, since the Ist September, exceed those of any previous period. The 202,000 bales exported since the Ist of September last, if estimated at the average value of $50 per bale, amount to the large sum of $10,100,000. This extensive and early shipment®* has reduced the price of foreign ox: change, an operation favorable to our banks, and enhanced. the rates of freight to Europe in northern ports. Flour was firmer for some grades, and in tolerably active de- mand from the home trade, with somo purchases for ex- port, Wheat was less steady, and the higher grades held with firmness, while sales were fair. Corn was sold to a Imited extent, at rates given in ancther place. The market for pork opened heavy, but was steadier at the close. There was a good demand for future delivery. Mess on the spot sold at $15 26 a $15 36, thin mess at $15 25, cloar do. at $17 25, and prime at $10 95a $11. The sales of sugars embraced 400 a 500 bhds. and 101 boxes on terms given elsewhere. Coffee was quiet and sales light. Freight engagements were moderate but firm. Among the shipments to Liverpool were flour at 28.; cheese, by steamer, at 40s.; do., sailing vessel, at 268.; lard at 40s., by steamer, and some oil at 22s. 6d., by sailing veasel. To London flour was taken on private terms, and 100 bis. lard to Glasgow at 83. More Disclosures from Harper's Ferry— ‘Two Years’ Seoret History of Abolition- ism. The conspiracy correspondence which we published the other day exclusively in the HERALD was suggestive of the extensive rami- fications of the plot, and conclusive as to the complicity therein of sueh abolitionists and black republicans as Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio; Gerrit Smith, of Peterboro; F. B. San- bosn, of Concord, Mass., and Dr. Howe, of Bos- ton. But the disclosures that are made in the documents which we print to-day involve much higher game—referring as they do to Seward, Sumner, Hale, Chase, Fletcher, Greeley, Law- rence and many other leading republicans. There is a cpriona hiatary conuecwa with this correspondence, and suggestive of the truth of the old maxim about the effect of thieves falling out. A certain Hugh Forbes— familiarly known as Colone) Forbes—an old comrade of Garibaldi’s in 1848, and since then a refugee in this country, seems to have been hired, on the Dugald Dalgetty principle, to go to Kansas a couple of years since, to co-operate with Ossawatomie Brown and to impart to his raw levies a little instruction in the art of war. Forbes and Brown pulled together well enough for some months, until there came to be a mis- understanding in regard to the pay and pro- vender. Forbes appealed from Brown to the general abolition commissariat in this region, but found that he was doomed to be cheated all round. Greeley fell back on the strict letter of the law, and pleaded that he was not bound by Forbes’ contract with Brown. Sanborn, who was the Secretary of the Massachusetts Emigration Aid Society, and Howe, a well known abolitionist of Boston, kept paltering with Forbes until, in the words of one of his own letters, his family’s credit was stopped at the French or Italian restaurant where they used to get their meals. Forbes became indig- nant against Brown and the humanitarians, as he styles them, and denounced them all in pretty round terms. But still the troubles of his family did not wean him altogether from the work to which he had lent his hand. On the contrary, he devised a plan which he submitted to his abolitionist friends North, to perform effectually the “Kansas work” that Gerrit Smith speaks of in his letters. Forbes’ plan was simply an organtzed system of stampeding slaves along the border States, and thus gradually driving the institution farther South. Brown’s project was declared— 80 long ago as May, 1858—to be identically that which has had such a miserable failure at Harper’s Ferry. Forbes was too experienced a stager not to see the inevitable result of such a ridiculous project, and much of his corres- pondence that has fallen into our hands is taken up with denunciations of Brown’s crazy idea, and of appeals to the leading republicans to stop Brown or to denounce him. It appears beyond all peradventure, by this correspondence, that among the persons to whom he denounced the Harper's Ferry pro- ject, a year and a half ago, was Senator Wm. H. Seward. He had an interview with that Senator in Washington city, in May, 1858; and, as appears by one of his letters, he went fully into the whole matter. Again, he had inter- views with Sumner and Hale, also in Washing- ton; and, in fact, it appears that all the leading republicans and abolitionists of the country were fully cognizant of the plans of Brown, and, if they did not actually identify themselves with him, they did not denounce him to the au- thorities. On the contrary, they kept him far- nished with money and arms, and carried on correspondence with him. Forbes’ letters show another thing. They show that it was not alone a feeling of philan- thropy, nor even a political motive, that led these New England and New York abolitionists to encourage old Brown of Ossawatomie. Something more than all that was at the bot- tom of the movement. And what? Specula- tion in the rise of cotton had more to do with the Harper’s Ferry outbreak than all other causes combined. The correspondence places that beyond a doubt. Old Brown told Forbes that a member of the house of Lawrence, Stone & Company (celebrated for the $87,000 free-wool movement in Con- gress, a few years ago) had promised him $8,000 if he succeeded in his Harper's Ferry dash. But Forbee, like a blunt soldier who had gone into the thing a8 a military speculation solely, could not understand making a commercial Speculation out of it; and so he denounced the project as bitterly and obstinately as old Dal- getty himself could have done, The main thing proved by this correspon- dence is, that for the last year and a half, at least, the project of the Harper’s Ferry out- break was well known to Seward, Sumner, Hale and others, and that they, in their intense selfishness, and to forward their political or commercial speculations, suffered the project to ripen and to bear the disastrous fruit that it has borne. They—not the orazy fanatic John Brown—are the real culprits; and it is they, not he, who, if justice were fairly meted out, would have to grace the gallows. Our November Election=The Three State Tickete—An Opening fer a Great Revo- lation. Late events have given to our impending November election an extraordinary degree of importance. What is the prospect? Will the Empire State throw herself into the breach against the enemies of the Union, or will she continue to lead the great Northern crusade organized for the suppression of Southern sla- very? These and similar questions, as the decisive day approaches, may be heard upon every side. They are questions, however, which cannot be satisfactorily answered, as a simple statement of the present condition of our political parties will abundantly show. We have three State tickets in the field, a fact which necessarily would seem to involve the existence of three contending parties. It is very widely suspected, however, that the third party to the contest was practically disbanded in the formation of the third ticket by the American Utica State Convention—a ticket which, composed of one-half the republican and one-half the demooratic ticket, oan hardly be classed with fish, fowl or red herring. It is also charged that this hybrid or mixed ticket was a desperate invention of Scroggs, Ullmann and Brooks to sell out their stock in the ex- ploded American party at something above its real value in the market; that they have failed to strike a bargain, and that their bold attempt to dispose of their party for their own selfish purposes has only resulted in its precipitate dissolution into its original elements. Of the truth or falsity of these allegations we know nothing, nor are the motives and selfish objects of Scroggs, Ullmann and Brooks entitled to a moment's consideration in the broad and general view in which we are about to treat the subject. We have, then, three State tickets before the people—a complete republican ticket, a complete democratio ticket, and an American made-up ticket, adopting one-half and rejecting one-half of each of these two complete rival tickets. Thus, should the entire republican or democratic ticket be elected, the result may be re; as @ more complete party victory than any other which has oo- curred in this State for many years; but should the mixed ticket be elected, and by = heavy plurality, re tat nave & more im- portant practical xesult than that of any politi- cal election in any State since the October election of Pennsylvania which decided the isaue of the last Presidential campaign. - A result of this kind woul administer a wholesome rebuke to the demoralized demo- cratic party, to its corrupt managers of the Al- bany Regency, and to the revolting rufflanism of Tammany Hall on the one side, and a crush- ing blow to that arch-agitator, W. H. Seward, and his “irrepressible” disunion conflict on the other. A popular rebuke of this sort, involv- ing alike the corrupt managers of the democ- racy and the treasonable doctrines of the annointed head of the republican party, is very desirable, and the thing can be done in the elec- tion of this mixed State ticket. Its success will show that, between the demoralized democracy and the sectional republican, there is in New York a popular balance of power competent to Tule them both, and to shape the grand pro- gramme for 1860 upon broad, practical, na- tional issues. In view of this achievement, the results of our last November election are by no means discouraging. In that election, as compared with our Presidential returns of 1856, the re- publicans lost 30,000 on the popular vote, the democrats gained 35,000, and the American party was diminished one-half, that is to say, some 60,000 votes. From these figures it will be seen that between the active republican and democratic forces of last year there is an inde- pendent and reserved force of the popular vote of 1856, of sufficient strength to elect the third party or mixed State ticket of the present year by a plurality of over 100,000, Vote of 1858 for Morgan... Vote of 1858 for Parker... Now let us look at the loose materials as be- tween these two parties, allowing that the in- creased democratic vote of last year was drawn from the American camp:— American vote of last November ++ 60,000 American vote in reserve... 30,000 Republicans not yoting last year 30,000 Total + «120,000 The bulk of which, perhaps, may be made available in November, in behalf of a new par- ty movement for the Presidency against both the rotten democracy and the Seward republi- cans. Thus it will appear that both these unsatis- factory parties may be rebuked in this State in November, by a plurality of a hundred thousand for the mixed ticket, and simply by the third party playing off the one against the other, in the election, and using each to break the other to pieces. The result thus indicated would be equivalent to a mighty popular revolution throughout the country in the re- construction of parties for 1860. So, let New York strike the first blow in November, and the independent opposition members of Congress, North and South, in December, may follow up this wholesome reaction in a great movement which will anticipate, supersede and cut off both the great sectional parties of the day in the Presidential campaign, and save the country from revolution and bloodshed here- after. PREPARATION FOR THE Jobs oF THE Next LeGts- LaTuRE.—Thurlow Weed, the leader of the lob- by power at Albany, is in town, and is, we learn, very busy with the heads of all the poli- tical factions in the city—at Tammany Hall, Mozart Hall and the gathering places of the republicans—notabout anything concerning the State election, but with reference to the jobs which are to be got up in this metropolis in the next Legislature, by the influence which all these factions can bring to bear on them. Foremost on the slate is the great city railroad job and the disposal of the franchises which belong to the public to a few individuals; then, we under- stand, the widening of Nassau street, and the appointment of 4 commission to make a job out of Washington Heights, are on the pro- gramme, along with a host of others, out of which a few millions canbe made for Weed and his friends, All these jobs will turn out like that precious “Improvement” called the Battery enlarge- ment, which has almost destroyed the channel, and which we denounced at the timo it was started—predicting the very result to our har- bor which has since been verified. The waga- bonds round the City Hall deceived the publio in that transaction, and we warned them of it. It would be well for those who take an interest in preeerving the franchises of the city, and applying the proceeds of them to relieving the city treasury, not to allow them to be bartered away by the Legislature for the benefit of a few scheming politicians. There are now in train some twelve to twenty jobs in prepara- tion for next session, and we intend to expose the whole of them and all the parties con- cerned in them before long. The Abolition Invasion of Harper's Ferry—A Lesson from the Slaves. Many of the country journals, either from a want of wit or a want of honesty, insist upon calling the invasion of Harper’s Ferry by a scere of black and white abolitionists from the North a slave insurrection. Tf there is any one point in the late proceed- ings of Ossawatomie Brown, of Kansas noto- riety, that is more prominent than any other, it is the singular fact that none of the Southern slaves were mixed up in the affair, nor did a single one of them voluntarily come forward to accept the great advantages which Brown and his fellow fanatics in the North held out to them. Within a circuit of a few hours’ ride of Harper’s Ferry fully five thousand slaves re- side; but not a sign of disturbance or discontent was exhibited. Yet Brown had been busy for months round there, his means of communica- tion were established, the underground rail- road has its stations all along to the Canada frontier, and J. R. G. was a willing contri- butor from Ashtabula, Gerrit Smith applauded the “Kansas work” from Peterboro, F. B. 8. sympathised in Concord, and many a scattering abolitionist all through the Northern States, no doubt, wrestled in prayer that the slave might be freed from his bonds. But the deportment of the slaves has shown that they possess avery correc appreciation of the misnamed advantages of Northern free- dom. They know very well that all this mock philanthropy exerts itself merely to ran them off from their comfortable Southern homes to leave them to starve in the cold and inhospi- table wilderness of Canada. When we com- pare the condition of the free negro at the North with that of the slave at the South, we cannot be surprised that Cuffy should prefer to remain in slavery. In the North, everywhere, the negro ceases to awaken the least sympathy for hig sufferings in the hearts af #he «¥-*elver ists; they cease to care in any way for his ne- cessities, they refuse to admit him to their houses or churches, they will not sit by his side in the carsor at table, they reject him as a mechanic, a servant, or a laborer, and perse- cute him with neglect till he sinks to the very dregs of society, and dies in misery, In the South his condition is widely different. It is true he is held in slavery, but nogro sla- very is a condition of patriarchal servitude, From birth the negro is in close and intimate con- tact with the white man. His childhood is cared for, his youth is instructed in some useful labor, and all through the maturity and decline of nanhood, his master and himself work for the sime family interest, until, in his old age, he is a family pensioner secure from want. In this lifdong intercourse between the white and theblack, between the master and the slave, the inferior has the benefit of the control and guidénce of the superior intellect. Through this stmulus and this example his morals are improved, his industry is increased, and in every way he is a better member of soclety than the vicious free negro of the North or the liberated barbarian of the tropics, Eloquent proof of this fact is found in the advice of one of the Presidents of Liberia to the Colonization Society:—“Send us slaves from the South, libe- rated after they have attained to manhood, for they make better citizens and more industrious people than the negroes from the North.” The close intercourse between the two races tha\ exists under the patriarchal institutions of the Bouth can never be obtained under any other system of society. Nowhere else will the white lend his efforts to teach the black, no- where else will the black unite his physical labor with the intellectual effort of the white ‘or thejr common benefit, no- where else will the superior admit the inferior race to the advantage of close family contact, as nurses, housekeepers, handmaidens,. and not seldom as foster- brothers. Nowhere else will the white labor side by side with the negro in the open field, guiding his ignorance, bearing with his inca- pacity, and rectifying his errors or neglect. It would be well for the fanatics who wish to dissolve this great social tie in Southern so- ciety, through the shedding of blood or the cheat of Northern freedom for the negro, to learn a lesson from the refusal of the slaves in and around Harper’s Ferry to accept the boon held out to them through the abolition invasion of old John Brown of Ossawatomie. ° Ovr Democratic VIGILANT ASSOCIATION IN THE FreLD.—The independent league of wealthy and influential democrats of this city, of the style and title of the Democratic Vigilant Asso- ciation, issue their first manifesto concerning the great issues of our November election, through the columns of most of our daily journals, this morning. Following the advice of John Ran- dolph, this Vigilant Association “pay as they go,” and are thus able to command a hearing through the organs of all parties. As the organ of no party, we cheerfully give this document a place in our columns, and especially commend its treatment of the late abolition emewteat Har- per’s Ferry to the serious attention of our read- ers. The committee concerned have made out a strong case against the republican party, as the party of Mr. Seward and his “irrepressible conflict;” and the commercial community of this city and State should decide now whether they are for this dangerous agitator and his supporters, or against them. We expect this independent Democratic Vigi- lant Association to make its mark in this No- vember election. The same gentlemen, with their liberal subscriptions of hard cash, saved the State of Pennsylvania to the democracy in 1856, and thus secured the election of Mr. Bu- chanan. To be sure, such chaps as Sanders, Hart, Rynders and others assisted in eating the good dinners of those gash paying democrats at the New York Hotel, and kept up such o blowing and crowing over it as to got somo fat offices from Mr. Buchanan for their services; but the men who really did the work then are now enlisted in this Vigilant Assoctation. They are regarded with tearful eyes by PoterCagger, Confidence Cassidy and the Albany Regenoy, and by the hungry loafers and rowdles of Tam- many and Mozart Halls; for the Vigilants have stopped the supplies of the Regency, of tho Tammany and the Mozart beggars, and we hope for the best results. For the present, we sub- mit the document in question to the earnest consideration of our readers of all parties, as the first broadside of an “irrepressible conflict” with W. H. Seward and his followers. Tax Oreratio Mystery Soiveo at Last—AN Intestine Fevp oy Irvine Piace.—About a fort- night ago the metropolitan journals were full of a great operatio mystery, the olue to which was in the keeping of Impresario Strakosch. He had just returned from Europe. He went two months before, armed with a letter of credit to the amouat of nobody knows how many thousands of dollars. He came down upon fair Italia like the wolf on the fold. He returned with bright hopes and the prima don- na Speranza. She wasa mystery. Speranza, a prima donna of whom no one had heard. Speranza, a blonde Italian. Speranza, a rara avis in terris. Speranza, a well dressed, blue eyed, fair haired, girlish looking young wo- man, sat in one of the little pews of the Acade- my dress circle and received the mate homage of a hundred . lorgnettes, of which she seemed all unconscious. Strakosch was proud of her. He said, cara Speranza, behold your public! View the elite of this great metropolis, inolud- ing ‘the three hungry Frenchmen,” sheltered by the American eagle and taxed by the Alba- ny Regency! Public, continued the mercurial Maurice, great public, dear, good, liberal pub- lic, behold your Speranza! Be kind to her. She has youth and beauty, and, I think, genius, She appeals to the gallantry of the American people, which [the Hon. Jefferson Brick has made patent to all her country- men, women and children. I bring you my Speranza, fresh from the land of song, dewy, I may say, gushing -with the souvenirs of a childhood which was surrounded by the art-memories of ages. She will sing to you the “Traviata,” and if she is successful, you will add another laurel to your art-wreaths gained by the Worth Monument and the Wash- ington statue. Cura Speranza, allow me to introduce the most angelic and sympathetic public in the civilized or heathen world. Speranza, public; public, Speranza. Well, the public went away and talked about Speranza; while she, somewhat reassured, but still fluttering like a disturbed canary, attacked the score of the “ Traviata” right merrily, The eventfn] dav orriena oycrauza was the town topic. Napoleon Ullman had issued a bulletin of the most pathetic order, so heart-rending, in fact, as to move an oyster-house critic to tears, ‘The mystery was ready for solution, The pub- lic was penetrated with anxiety. Night came, but no Speranza. Nothing but a physician’s certificate. Speranza, according to a metropo- litan Hippocrates, was like a bottle of Bor- deaux—she required more time to recover from the effects of the voyage and the new climate, which, to be sure, is not exactly Italian, but is the best we can do. Other topics came up; other artists sang at the Academy; the public still waited for its Speranza. The bills looked ominously. They announced that Hope and Speranza were inde- finitely postponed. But don’t let it be imagined that Strakosch lost his faith, Not he. He clung to his prima donna with all the devotion of a woman to her dry goods, or a politician to his place. He still believed in Speranza. He still talked about Speranza Speranza was his all in all. Still there was a cloud over the path of the new prima donna. Napoleon Ullman was op- posed to Speranza. Could not see her, in point of fact, at any price, Wanted to send her back to the land of Dante, Alfieri, and so on, by the first boat. Party spirit ran high in the coulis- ses and the lobbies. The liberally disposed stockholders who had advanced the money to carry on the Opera were cornered firat by Ull- man, next by Strakosch, one condemning, the other praising Speranza, until these highly re- spectable gentlemen—ornaments of Wall and Broad and Beaver streets—were in a state of mind bordering on insanity. And all about Speranza. All the attachés, runners and hang- ers-on, barbers, Bohemians, Jews and Gentiles, even to the discordantly voiced youths who sell books of the a-apera, took sides either for or against Speranza. And the public, like pa- tience on the Washington Monument, waited for the Hope that, contrary to the proverb, was to come to all who were willing to pay for it. * At last it comes, Garibaldi Strakosch, fight- ing a good fight, for the faith, gets a night for Speranza. It is this identical evening—an off night, it is true, but a most important, a most interesting, a most absorbing, and a most at- tractive night. The managers are at war about Speranza; the stockholders are bewildered about Speranza; Strakosch swears by Spe- ranza; the three hungry Frenchmen don’t know which side to take; the public is in a deliciously puzzled state of mind about Spe- ranza; but one object is gained—everybody is talking about Speranza. For our part, we know nothing of the new prima donna more than that common report makes her out to be an exceedingly beautiful woman. It may be that she has but little voice; it is rare that great musical gifts accom- pany rare personal beauty. Jenny Lind was not handsome, nor was Griai beautiful. Poo- ple can’t be handsome and clever, and have great voices, all at once. It would be an un- just monopoly, and contrary to the spirit of our free institutions. Speranza, then, sings to-night. The War of the Roses is at its height. Garibaldi Strakosch still holds out for Speranza, Napoleon Ullman thinks she’ll fail. Let us await the event with the calm dignity which its vast importance de- mands, iene Tue Great Easrern.—Amongstthe European correspondence that we publish to-day will be found another letter from the same lively writer whose graphic descriptions of the mam- moth ship and her performances have been read with so much interest. In his present communication he gives us an amusing account of a dinner on board the leviathan, of the pran- dial perplexities of her gallant captain, divided ashe was between his sense of hospitality and his trememously onerous duties, and such a general insight into the present appearance and inter- nal economy of the ship as cannot fail to bring her visibly before the mind’s eye of those whe peruse it. Asto the probable period of her departure on her firat voyage, our correspon- dent is not able to give us any information, from the simple fact that several rival cliques are trying to get exclusive control of the vessel, and that until one or other of them suc- ceeds nothing definite can be known on the subject, ‘ horenezas rcreame caer ‘The Emperor's Speech at Bordeaux and the European Congress—Approaching Crisis im the Italian Question, In our European advices by the Persia, it is announced that a general Congress of the Euro- pean Powers will meet immediately after the closing of the Zurich Conferences, to take into consideration the present state of that Conti- nent and to ratify recent territorial changes that have taken place there. That Congress will be composed of Catholio, Protestant and Greek Powers, with perhaps the admission of a Moslem element, and after ratifying the recent driving of Austria from Italy, the next and most prominent question for it to discuss is that of the temporal power of the Pope. It may seem an anomaly that the Catholic sovereigns of France, Austela, Sardinia and Spain, the Protestant ones of Bag- land and Pruseia, the Greek Emperor of Rus- sia, and the Mahometan Sultan of Constaati- nople, should unite in discussing the question of the Pope’s rule in Italy; but when looked at in its true light, it will be seen that there is no anomaly whatever in the proceeding. The Papacy, in its temporal aspect, is one of the European family of nations, aud as such is bound to Catholic, Pro- testant, Greek and Moslem alike, to observe the rules of good neighborhood. This it has not done, for the bad government of the Papal dominions has contributed as much ag any one thing to make Italy the Pglitical vol- cano of Europe, threatening at every moment to pour its lava over the dominions of the other sovereigns. For ten years its ebullition has been kept in check by the presence of French bayonets in Rome, and Louis Napoleon, with his accustomed tact and directness, touched, in his late speech at Bordeaux, the real point of the question which now agitates the European mind. Reoognizing the great fact that the other Powers could not consent to his being al- ways the guardian of the Pope, he pertinently asks, “What will be the condition of Rome when I withdraw my troops?—anarchy and ter- ror, or peace?” And that is the question which Pio Nono will have to answer to a European Congress? It is only the hierarchy of the Roman Church that adheres tenaciously to the temporal power of the Pope. The subordinate orders of the clergy, and the great mass of the faithful, from Dan to Beersheba, would be glad to see 11 re~ mvvea. ‘ine incompetence that has been ex- hibited in the government of the Roman States, the bitterness, partiality and injustice in tem- poral affairs which have marked the conduct of the hierarchy, have for long years formed a deep stain on the Church and its faith. It would be a satisfaction to the Catholic world if Italy were left to govern herself, and the hierarchy of the church were to turn its ex- clusive attention to matters of faith and spirit- ual affairs at large, Some time since it put at rest thelong mooted question of the immaéu- late conception of the Virgin, and the world received the new dogma without a struggle or asingle throe. If there are no more dogmas to be settled, there are numerous saints waiting for canonization. Four, at least, are at thig momert under examination by the holy synod, who have to ventilate their claims and verify their miracles. Let the hierarchy turn their attention to these spiritual affairs, and leave the temporal government of Italy to hands more competent to wield it. That such will be the result of the delibera- tions of a European, Congress, we have no doubt. Louis Napoleon’s speech at Bordeaux gives us the key of the position he will take before it. He will withdraw his troops from Rome, and leave the Italian people to deal with the Pope. He willnot consent that any other Catholic Power, excepting, perhaps, Naples, shall interfere in a question purely Italian im its bearings, and in this he will be sustained by the Protestant, Greek and Moslem sovereigns. Then comes the solution of the long debated Italian question. The people, under the lead ot Garibaldi, will drive out the few Swiss guards which the Pope sustains, and relieve the cardinals of all their troubles in temporal affairs. The new political organization of Central Italy may present some difficulties at first; but these can be got over, asin the case of Greece, by the appointment of a squatter sovereign to the new throne. This will end the temporal dominion of the church, which has endured, through good and evil report, since Charlemagne established it a thousand yearsago, and which has become inconsistent with the present state of the political and spirit? ual developement of the world. Tae Cone Municrrat, Rerorm.—That body of respectable men who comprise a large portion of the wealth, industry and talent of the city, known as the Democratic Vigilant Association, and who are setting themselves vigorously to work to arrest the corruption and digracefal course of the governing mass which controls all parties in this great metropolis, is attracting a great deal of attention all over the country, for the other large cities are pretty much in the same condition as New York in this respect. There were some misgivings in the beginning that the attempt would not prove very successful, be- cause similar efforts had been made before, and failed. Some years ago the same thing was tried by a few men calling themselves the Re- form Association, the leaders of which were Peter Cooper and Azariah Flagg. Mr. Cooper is a good business man,a very humane and chari- table person, but he does not understand human nature, and he was not equal to the Herculean labor of cleansing the Augean stable. Flagg is an old hack, who does not possess the efficiency or comprehension to con- duct anything properly; honest enough, it is true, but wholly incompetent for a public posi- tion, and it is mainly to his inefficiency while Comptroller that we are indebted for the de- moralization of the municipal government. In the present association we have a different kind of men—energetic, shrewd and talented—and they are determined to reform our municipal system, if perseverance can accomplish it, by the organization of a vigilant bureau to keep close watch over the proceedings of all our officials and public bodies, and by selecting men of a respectable class for the offices of Mayor, Corporation Counsel, Aldermen and Councilmen, When these names are presented