The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDO GORDON BENNETT, PROPE ETOR. JAMES GORDON BEI NETT, JR., MANAGER. SUEUR TOE LES BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Wotamoe KXXXIL....--cececeesseseseeeneeeees Ne. 118 | AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street.—Tax SuAMROcE. ORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York nial Coot 4s_4 Cocommer—Naro.son's Ovp Guago— Sonos on tux Tiour Kors, IRVING HALL, Irving piace.—Mx. awp Mus. Howamp Plovs Onaxo Fanewxit Conoxats ix Cosvame. FRANCISCO MINSTRE! so Metropolitan Hotel—ln THETR | ee ene Simaiwa, Dancing aND sro" Bosunseoaa,—Fa Bucs ‘Coox—Tax Firive Scups. ~ : ye ATHE! Prormsson \Hanrs wrt, easroam raua amp His Fair igsuvaine Bi - ESET eee Litas RA! AVENUE OPERA Jet SM ot Wd EY and ¢ Wen Ereran, Moimamigy, basang, Bescasarms, TONY! FssTOR SO SNEe am am. ‘21 Bowery, Focawemt, bots Fours Fesats wORARLRY ig) or COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hi CS road way—In Li get Lavowaa.x “4 4 nna al muuts oF New iregkts or New *_HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermortan Min- Jresusy, Baraps an Bonussques.—Suapow Paxrouis. —Tr THE dle TAPERS: Unie all. een tee a, eres, ay. * a =% Merona Mise ( Matinee Wednesday and Saturday’ at 2 o'clock, t tat hs pila 3 bay td 2, IATOMY, 618 Bi — ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. ‘Wasuinaron wine—W OnDuns mm Scrgnce AND ABT. Raven ‘Dasty. Sees EE A brag (THIS) EVENING—Gnawp V; ar Breur AL, CONCERT way Halt, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, April 28. 1867. REMOVAL. The New Youe Hezaxp establishment is now flocated in the new Hzraup Building, corner of ‘Broadway and Ann street. EUROPE. , By special telegram through the Atiantic cable, dated yesterday evening in London, we learn that the long for prize fight between Wormald and Baldwin, the championship’ ef England, did not come off, \rin failing to appear on the ground. The pugilistic ‘wore ‘‘disgusted"’ at the issue, the *‘belt”’ re- ma abeyance, the bets are void and Wormald draws atakes, | The news repprt by the cable is dated yesterday even- April 27... - A Gorman newspaper intimates that Prussia may con- pant toevacnate Laxemberg. The Dutch government j@euies that there was an offer made for the sal¢ of Lax ibarg to France. Bourse rumors prevailed in Paris to effect that a peace Congress would assemble on the ‘eater of the Franco-Prussian difficulty. The reports {were well received for atime, but subsequently dis- yeredited. ‘Colonel’ Massey, the Fen:aa informer, has [Deon produced as Queen's evidence at the State trials an Dublin, and detailed the story of the Fenian plot to (the court and jury. } Consols closed at 90% for money in London. United five- twenties were at 703¢ in London in the even- and at 77% in Paris and 7234 in Frankfort at nooo. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was very active, and \elosed at a slight advance and firmer. Middling uplands boas at 115, 0.113.) Broadstufts quict, Provisions frm. WProduce quiet, ! By the steamships America and Cimbria, at this port and this morning, we received our European (les to the 17th of April, containing very tateresting de- ‘ails from cable despatches. 4 In the midst of active preparations for war between and Prossia may be discerned the first ination of the neutral great Powers towards diplo- mediation in favor of a peaceful solution the Laxemburg question. Napoleon and Bismarck te have renewed the friendly intimation In proper spirit; but whether they were really sincere dn their desire for peace or merely endeavoring to gain time to make more perfectly ready for war remained j@oubtful. Napoleon agitated the people of the Duchy Mbrough his secret agents, despatched munitions of war ‘im large quantities to the east of France, and did @ot recede from his negotiations with the King of (Holland, while Prussia asserted fixedly that she holds athe fortress by treaty ght, and would not evacuate it, ‘In this position the King of Prussia seemed to be warmly supported by the whole German people, who amore resolved that not a foot of the confederated terri- Rory should go to the foreigner. ‘The alliances and friends of the contending powers rere cageriy canvassed. Prussia was pretty well as- @ured that in case of war with France, Russia and Spain ‘would be-on her side. The Italian people were with her, ‘(Wat the Cabinet of Florence doubtful, Austria was regarded aa doubtful but with maay ‘friends of Prassia; and Eng- Band, although neutral, pointed out the “good luck” of Wiemarck and ‘mistakes’ of Napoleon in the columns of the London Timex, The London Tima encourages ‘4bo consolidation of German Fatherland in words which (Fead vory like « notice of rearrahgement of the Holy tAllmace. . ' The goneral news items by the steamship are quite Atorenting. HE irr. . ‘The Board of Police yesterday adopted a resolution getting apart unoccupied rooms at police headquarters @or the trials of persons whom the associated police may refuse to try. ‘The Board of Health have information that the cholera prevalent in three large cities of the Union, and may ‘expected in New York from the interior, They there- urge habits of cleanliness upon the citizens and a co-operation to stay the spread of the dreed Pestilence The steamers Kangaroo, from Liverpool, and Wash- Sngton, from Bremen, arrived at Quarantine yesterday ‘und were detained, having number of cases of small- ‘Pox on board. ‘Two young girls in the Eastern District of Brooklyn mltempted suicide yesterday, for some reasons unknown, Py \aking Paris green, They wore still alive ats late Dour last vight. ‘Tho two prisoners, Quirk and Owens, who were tried for an outrage on the person of # partially insane girl, mamed Efie Griffin, were yesterday discharged by Jus- Bice Dailey, in one of the Brooklyn (K. D.) feourts, There ‘were four men engaged in the outrage, and to avoid the (Penalty attached to the crime of rape one of them per- Wonated & minister and compelled the girl to marry (Quirk according to the mock rites, The crime was then sPommitted in the presence of the girl's mother, and the sJustio; discharged Quirk, because, as he said, the per- AL ap InsrRv- urteenth street ‘The remainder of the testimony in the Gardiner will ‘ease was heard yesterday before Judge Lott, of the Sa. ‘preme Court, at the Richmond county Court House, Graton Istand. The case will be summed up on Monday (morning and submitted to the jury. The principal wit. ‘mess yesterday was Mra, Julia Tyler, widow of the inte the ‘against Lacien Brown and i Jt, indicted mpeg dy open yin immocence, They were discharged, and the case will be tried again, low fever by means of infected clothing into the United States during the war, has potitioned the Attorney General for permission to return from Canada to his native land and take bis trial in Kentucky. The Attor- ney General is understood to, have answered that he has no power to grant his request, recently drove out a minister of the Methodist Church South and dispersed his congregation. They were in- hearing on which was sot dowa for the 18th of May | The Constitution of 1846—The Work Before next before a full bench. ‘Tho stock market was firm yesterday. Gold was heavy, and closed at threo P. M. ab 186% a X. Consequent upoa the decline in gold, the market, asa general thing, ruled dull and unsettled, and prices for almost all commodities favored the purchaser, though ia some cases am advance was established. leas active, but a shade firmer, m) i prise dates from Eacobede's camp in front of Querétare firm’ thie ‘capture’ of Puebia, The treeps et ‘Tampioe™ Tefused to reinforce Kao obedo according to his order, for. |. ‘the reason that a gun beat flotitia Froneh, ‘was fitting out t'Vera ‘Orus Datiedab ine lar ghice. are. favor. af Bleek; Bab bave not pronounced for him, as they believe there is no chaince of his success. Gomes and Canales have ‘posses. ‘sion of the town for the. purpose of receiving the cus toms revenue, The messenger sent to Juarez by Minister Campbell with the interorasion of the United ‘States for Maximilians safety, was warned at Metamoros to avoid Tampico om account of tho presence there of Canales, We have files from Tark's Island, dated to the 13th of April. The logistative session opened on the 12th inst. President Moir, in his address, efid:—During the past month, @ favorable opportunity of securing steam com- munication between Jamaica on the south, and New York on the north, was opened to me, and you may rest gagured that I will continue to use every legitimate ofort to conclude an agreement, and bring to # successful issue an arrangement so important to the interests of the colony, The demand for salt continued very limited at Grand Turk. At the other two ports some salt had been gathered during the week. Price 120, to 12)¢c. From Bermuda our advices are to the 16th of April. Colonel Thompson, R, A., the senior military officer in command, was sworn in as Administrator of the govern- ment after the departure from the islands of Lieutenant Governor Hamley. The French steamship Magellan, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Cloud, from Vera Cruz, bad anchored off the Bermuda navy yard on her voyage to France. Rear Admiral Cloud, in his steam launch visited St. Georges, paying his respects to Colonel Thompeon, R. A. General Sickles halted the parade of the Obarleston Gremen yesterday, and required thom to obtain an American flag and carry it at the head of column before continuing their demonstration. He also required that a guard of honor should be detailed from among the fire- mon to carry it, that it should be placed opposite the reviewing personages, and be respectfully saluted by every fireman raising his capas he passed. The firemen acquiesced cheerfully, waited for the flag, and after pro- curing one proceeded with their parade. Thad Stevens has written a letter commenting on Senator Wilson's spooch near Hampton Roads, He says that Mr. Wilson's remark that there was no impediment to Seuthern representation if the Soutberners elected Union men will do much harm, aad that mo one is au thortxed to peddle smnestios through the’ South or way there will be no confiscation. / Senator Wileon spoke im Goldubere and Hewvern, N. C., yeatorday. Senator Dixon was received ap io, home ia Hartford yesterday by a aslute’ of guns aad a wei. come from the Mayor. He made a speech in apawer, in which he said the South was: in a state of slavery under the reconstruction act. Deapatches from the scene of Indian warfare in West. ern Kansas report that Genoral Custar has not yet dis- covered the trail of the retreating Cheyenaes. They are, however, believed to have gone south, while the Sioux ave gone north. General Hancock did not burn the deserted lodges which he captured, bet required all property taken from them to be returned. James R. Gilmore, of Cambridgo, Mass., better known as Edmund Kirke, author of ‘Down Among the Pines,” and co-operator with Colonel Jacques in his peace mis- sion to Jef Davis during the war, was tried on a charge of bastardy recently brought by bis servant girl in the Superior Court at Cambridge. The Jury failed to agree, a majority, however, sustaining Gilmore's assertion of Dr. Luke Blackburn, who attempted to introduce yel- ‘A mob of Loyal Leaguers 1a Blount county, Tennessee, stigated by a preacher of the Methodist Church North. The Bowdeinham Bank robbers have been found guilty, and another indictment for assault and battery has been filed against thom. Sentence on the first ar- Taignment was postponed. Our Change of Base. This is the second Sabbath on which we have labored in the new Huratp building. From the old location, endeared to us by the reminiscences of nearly a quarter of a century of steady progress and moving incidents in our own history and that of the country, wo trans- ferred our whole establishment in one night to our present local habitation. We moved as quietly as Grant advanced on the enemy’s lines. We made no boast, like Pope, risked no delay, like McClellan, issued no proclama- tions, like Fremont, but marched our corps of intelligent, talented and industrious gentlemen to the front; and there they took their station, each brain busy with the work of supplying the public with all the news, the thoughts and the counsels that active minds can furnish Opening Streets. Great pother has been made over what was called the Ann street job—a proposal to widen and open Ann street from Broadway to Fulton ferry. It has been denounced as @ great piece of corruption, and jobbery and robbery—and we have no doubt it was, Indeed we are sure it was, from the indications we see of a similar plan for the opening and widening of Church street. Both villanous jobs together, no doubt. We are opposed to all openings and widenings and extensions of whatever character. Leave the streets alone. Property has kept its value steadily in London in virtue of a system of never disturbing the streets. It has decreased in Paris because of the terrible taxes from con- stant “improvements.” The “improvements” are the game of official speculators. It is memorable that the wife of the Mayor of Paris was loud in her regrets that another street was to be opened “right through the property that her husband bought only # few days before.” In fact it seemed like « fatality, that whenever he bought property streets were opened through it, It was ruin, to be sure—rain to a thousand owners and fan to one speculator. Mr. Hoffman is another friend of the people— 8 martyr may be, and we have maay political martyrs of the same type. Let us be gentle to- wards these sacrificing spirits, and leave the streets alone. ——$—— Queer—Why did Mayor Hoffman ‘sell a piece of the Park for a Post Office, and oppose the opening of Ann street? ‘What-did Pontius: constisation of the State is to assemble in leas than six weeks from to-day, and the delegates elect will have bus little time to study and re- flect upon the important questions that will be presented for their consideration. There is general conviction among the people that the government of the State needs searching and thorough reform. Scarcely any person pre- tends to deny that corruption permeates our whole political system, that. it grows bolder and more aggressive year after year, and that it appears to be beyond the power of the law to cheok or punish it, Various remedies have been suggested for the acknowledged evil. In some quarters it has been proposed that the number ot Senators and Assemblymen be in- creased; but this is a very doubtful expedient, and would probably only afd to the legitimate and illegitimate cost of legis lation. Besides, it would but effect a partial cure, if ever 20° successful, and would |.t9:them, for .« .ta@ipal reform: im, the fapda-\ on all Dut -legislative corruption un-. scion! brine laws nused snd epealty ‘Femoved from all’ ‘save the public officer who, violates his trust: Such propositions sre only quack remedies and fail to reach the seat of the disease. adopted twenty years ago, and which ’is nothing more than corruption and anarchy organized. The Convention of 1846 was the bantling of a set of Herkimer county demo- crata, of whom Abijah Mann and Michael Hoffman were prominent types. They had singular notions of State polity, and imagined that the great Commonwealth of New York could be governed upon the system which they found to work well in the county of Herkimer. power and responsibility—to make the State government an aggregation of separate and dis- tinct authorities, each independent of the other, and without any de facto head. The State officers, simply chiefs of bureaus under the Executive, were to be removed beyond the control of the Executive and elected on State tickets at different times. The judges were to be chosen at the polls, the same as Herki- mer county supervisors were chosen, and the cities of the State were to be left without any distinctly defined rights or settled form of municipal government. All these changes were effected, and the principles underlying the old State constitution were swept out of existence under the specious cry of distribut- ing power among the people; while, in truth, the people lost their power over public officers.in the exact proportion in which public officers were relieved from direct responsibility to the people, ani the now constitution was, as. we have said, the organization of anarchy and corruption. The evil effects of the labor of these Her- kimer county polilicians were soon made ap- parent. The great commercial metropolis being left without any solid form of government, and the Legislature having the power to par- cel it out piecemeal, the earliest act done under the new constitution by the several Corpora- tion cliques in New York was to start a lobby to Albany to corrupt the State Legislature and to induce, by bribes and promises, the passage of acts advancing the interests of this faction, or the defeat of bills threatening the power and emoluments of that. A city candidate, bea'en in a Tammany nomination or at tho polls, immediately raised a corruption fund and proceeded to the State capital to secure some law legislating his successful opponent out of office or dividing up the duties and profits of his position. The squabbles between the rival democratic organizations in New York gave an impetus to this policy, and sos- sion after session the legislative halls wore crowded by the enemies and the agents of the city Corporation, and the money of the tax payers was spent freely under the protecting wgis of the new constitution. The inevitable consequence was the gradual disorganization of the city government, as well asof the State government, until to-day the Mayor is a mere figurehead, and the executive power of the municipality is divided up under a dozon different bodies, each independent of the other, and constantly clashing one with the other, until the conflict terminates in anarchy. ‘The corruption thus commenced by the Cor- poration of the city of New York speedily communicated itself to individuals, and combi- nations were formed to push personal schemes through the Legislature by the use of money or the distribution of contingent interests in the projects among the members. Sbrewd politicians at Albany organized and fostered the bustness for their own emolument, and soon gas companies and railroads and private corporations of every sort and description reaped a harvest and scattered a harvest at the State capital year after yoar. The offices of Senator and Assemblyman began to be sought after by needy politicians, al- though the legitimate pay was not suffi- cient to meet the expenses of a session, and shrewd men who went to Albany poor left that city rich. Sporadic attempts were made to stop the rushing tide of corruption and to bring offenders to justice, but the elective sys- tem of judiciary stood in the background, the friendly refuge of the briber and the bribed. the very foundations of our State government under the existing constitution is evident from the disclosures and cha:ges made by officials of the same political party against each other. If we are to credit the statements of Senators who are known to echo the sentiments of the Execu- tive, the management of the State canals has recently been a monstrous system of fraud and rascality. Yet there is no power in the Gov- ernor to check or remove the unfaithful officers, and the investigation into their alleged mal- practices is submitted to the slow and uncertain operation of » Legislative commit- tee, itself not free from the taint of sux picion. Thus department in the State as well as in the city government, and as there is no supreme au- thority anywhere, confusion and anarchy must result. strike at their root, and that isto be found in the organised anarchy and corruption forced upon us by the Herkimer county politicians twenty years ago, in the form of a State consti- tution. We must go back to the old and sound principles of a true demooratic and-responsible government. The Govornor of the State must NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 38, 1867.—TRIPLE SHERT. te niin deme aerrgia A ae privk'eges conferred upon them, exceed their upon the growing intersst in native American art? Why not seek at bome its multiplying sources? Our unrivalled scenery is one inex-. heustible source, as many landscapists have already found. Our history, and particularly’ the history of our late civil war, is another sbundant source. And we see n0 good reason | why nature and life in the United States should not, if conscientiously studied and reproduced, lead to distinctive national school of Ameri- can art, be the Governor in fact as well asin name. The chief executive of a municipality must have sctual executive power, and not be set at the head of the city government as s figurehead is placed in the bow of 9 ship. The judiciary must be the fearless dispensers of justice, and not? political partisans. The powers of the Legislature over corporations must be clearly defined, so that we may know exactly what are the rights of the people. The Chief Exeoutive officer of the State and of every separate municipality must have full authority of appointment and removal over all their eubor- dinates, and be beld responsible to the people for the honest and efficient discharge of their several trusts. This will be placing power in reality in the hands of the people, by affording them the opportunity to reach and overthrow 8 corrupt government at once and by a single blow. ‘These are the lessons the delegates to the State Convention of Revision should stady, and upon the teachings of which they should frame the new constitution. The people took the Convention of Revision. The Convention to revise and amend the According to.our despatches from Charles- ton, which we publish this morning, General Sickles, mititary commander over North and South Carolina, bas had to remind his fellow citizens of the barnt district of the aforesaid city that the flag which Major Anderson was compelled to haul down from Fort Sumter in 1861 was replaced by General Anderson over the ruins of Fort Sumter on the same day in 1865, and that it must- be’ respected, and cannot ‘be: ignored. _ The clroametance of a fremen’s pro- cession in Charleston at this Inte” day, with |; | wind” oxonpt Pt old Big” tho Qh o€ “Abo Y g } toys ia blue,” the Aug” ofthe: Union, was 40’ |.vory extraordinary, and, being the second time, was eo evidently intended ag a deliberate insult, to “the Yankee despotism,” that General Sickles will be applauded by every loyalist in the land for his decisive action in this matter. He only contends that in reconstructing the people of his district they shall obey the laws, keep step to the music, and march behind “the old flag” of the Union, especially when they undertake to reject it. His method of introducing the “Stars and Stripes” into the Charleston fire men’s procession they may have (ought a little rough; but ‘they must remember that the whole war of the rebellion on the Southern side was only an attempt to set aside that same old figg. does transit off the stage and bury them beside the old. lumbering stage: cosches and horee ox- Al meatal grianienen See cgovernmont that will! ‘ruption organized ‘it the ttn, of 14s ‘The Part of Hamlet’ Lett’ Out. We gave to our readers yeaterday, in ‘cli, the argument of Attorney General Stanbery in behalf of the United States, and the argu- ment of Mr. Charles O’Conor in behalf of the State of Georgia, praying an injunction re- straining Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, General Grant and General Pope from the execution in the said State of Georgia of the so-called Reconstruction laws of Congress, on the ground of their unconstitutionality. The Attorney General pleads for the dismissal of these Georgia and Mississippi injunction cases on the ground that the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over them. He rests his argument upon an objection te this Georgia case as not being, in fact, what the constitution contem- plates in a case between a State and a citizen or citizens of another or other States, but that at best it is only a case between a State and certain officers of ‘the United States, wholly unauthorized by the constitution. The At torney General declines to touch the polifical issue whether Georgia, in law, is or is nota State of the Union, satisfying himself with turning the question over to Congress and the Executive. But Mr. O’Conor, on the other hand, contends that Georgia, to all intents and purposes, is a State as she stands, and that if Congress can lawfully interfere in her case, as in these reconstruction laws, then “they may, by way of punishment upon the white inhabi- tants of New York, for not granting, under their State constitution, the franchise to the colored peopte, declare them disloyal to the moral and liberal principles of the present day, and disfranchise the whole of them, and place the elective franchise exclusively in the of negroes, or exclusively in the of Ia- ee ee eee, they may gee fit to | select.” Se far goes Mr. O’Conor in contending for the State rights of Georgia against these laws of Congress. He wants an opinion from the Court whether Georgia is constitutionally now a State or not. We regret that the At- torney General did not consider it worth while to consider this question. As we understand the matter in litigation, it all hinges upon and comes from a certain unsuccessful four years” war. against the. government of the United States, by Georgia, Mississippi and other con- federated rebellious States; but in all the six newspaper columns of these legal pleadings we have no clear allusion to this war on either side. The cases thus presented, pro and con, before the Supreme Court, make up “the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out,” or rather the tragedy of Macbeth, with the witches and their incantations, and the murder of King Duncan and Banquo omitted, as not essential to the argument. But why should the Attorney General hesi- tate to meet this question, whether Georgia is or is not legally a State? Was he afraid of treading upon the corns of the President? Did he consider this such dangerous ground that, looking at Mr. Johnson, it was unsafe to touch it? We think that Mr. :Stanbery threw away a beautiful opportunity for proving from the mouth and the pen of President Johnson him- self the disabled condition of Georgia as a State in consequence of her rebellion, and the broad and exclusive powers which belong to Congress in such cases. Mr. Johnson’s farewell speeches in Tennessee, his-instructions to his provisional governors and his first message to Congress embrace the materials fora splendid justifiea- tion. of these acts of Congress before the Supreme Court; but as in this event the other side might have made up their answer from Mr. Johnson’s vetoes, we suppose that, still looking back at the President, the Attorney eneral in this business acted wisely in ignor- ing the rebellion entirely. It is to be hoped, however, that the Court, in its decision, will recognize the fact of the rebellion, the fact of its suppression, the fact that the war for the Union was not « failure, and the fact, too, that the sovereign will of the people of the loyal States on this business, as expressed through Congress, is not only the law for Georgia, but for the Supreme Court as well as the President of the United States, ee eosin ne URANO Soaibe erent excited over « cable despatch sent us by our special correspondent at Barlin, and which was accepted and published by all the news- papers connected with the Associated Press. We give the telegram as it reached us :— have desired to see more The evit lied in the State constitution A question was subsequently raised as te the possibility of a mistake having been made in the translation of the French word “de mande” which, as rendered by our telegram, gave it its fulleatsignificacce. It might, it was contended, mean merely “asks” or “requeste,” which, though it might modify it somewhat, | took but little from the gravity of the despatch, itself. The gentlemen whom we employ as our spe- cial correspondents abroad know their busi- ness too well to make use of sensational phraseology in matters of this impor tance. They have no connection with speculators or stockjobbers, and (oeel that any attempt to mislead us would be instantly followed by dismissal., That certain little copperhead journals should carp at the terms of the despatch and denounce it as intended to influence the market, did not sur- prise us They think that in doing so they. diminish the discredit of their own failures. But that s paper euch as the Tribune, con- trolled by an experionced . jourmalist like bya aah usa ae the Sout whould have joined in this.time and cry, after | accepting and publishing the despatoh, is | utterly unaccounlable, If they thought that = | it hada stockjobbing look they ought not to | have published it, They certainly were more blamable in doing so than we were, who were fally convinced of its correctness. This has been borne out by the events that have since transpired. Like all such attempts to depre- ciate the superior character of our news | arrangements, the effort has only succeeded in | bringing more broadly into notice the meaa- | ness and jealousy which influence them. Their ruling idea was to scatter Settled for the Present. A few years ago certain busy bodies troubled themselves about the history of the New York Heat, and our history in connection there- with. We have never said whether the in- formation then given to the public was correct or incorrect. It was eaid, we believe, by eome mischievous persons, at the time, that the attemp$ to initiate the public into the above mentioned mysteries was made by parties who had never themselves been initiated. It may not be with- out value to some future historian of the Haratp to be told that twenty-five years ago we occupied the position of its money editor, and that some three years earlier we were its principal reporter. Some say. the Heratp was commenced in a cellar. We have never said yes or no to that statement. If ite begianing was so lowly, no shame, but praise they. sey, “make ytbet endings” | of the Henaty docs not belle the proverb. The romoval of the Haat from its con- venient but unostentatious dwelling in Fulton atreet to its pajatial foie in Broadway has | naturally enough become one of the prominent topics of the day. Some kind and some un- kind things are said: ‘Some of the emaller newspapers, like little dogs, are barking very loudly. The Press, thege little things choose to eall themselvze. As applied to some news- papers—suoh, for example, as the Philadelphia Ledger, the Boston Journal, and 2 few others in New Orleans, Chicago, Cineinnati, St. Louis and Memphis, as well as one or two in this ‘city which: we need not name, we certainly do understand the term the Press, but not in connection with the little dogs above referred to These little dogs, we say, have been barking loudly at the Heratp. The Henatp does not dislike it, It pleases them; it does the Haratp no harm. The Hxratp, they say, has been successful. Has it? We have never said “It has ;” wo have never said “ It has not.” What we have sald is that the people come with their adver- tisements in ever increasing numbers, and that the Hegatn’s ciroulation, which has long been without parallel, steadily grows. We don’t bid the people come with their ad: they come. We don’t bid them buy; they buy. Why they advertise in the Heratp, aad why they buy the Heratp they know, and all the world knows. The Heratp has unbounded confidence in itself, and looks furward hope- fully to the future, What dimensions it may have assumed at the end of the next thirty years, and into what grander quarters it may PS Le renennd, Pe ETS. ME shall not venture to say. Tho Opera aad Operatic Artists. The opera has gone through varions changes and vicissitudes during the past few years. It has been occasionally well managed and badly managed. It has been sometimes adorned and illustrated by prime donne of rare merit, and at other times very indifferent singers have been forced upon public attention. Just now there are two soprani on the boards who command the admiration of many—Kellogg and Peralta. We understand that Patti is soon to come over | here burdened with the load of laurels she has won in Europe. We are glad of it. Nodoubt | she will be as successfal in her own country as ; on the other side of the Atlantic, and may en- joy as much of the homage of Young America as Miss Kellogg has obtained—not se much by ~~ ‘ taking the citadel of their hearts by storm as by her quiet method of using a masterly voice, and by the careful study which led.to the excel- lence she bas acquired. Positively, when Patti leaves Europe, we must send Signorita Kellogg over there; for America must not remain unre- presented in the Old World.’ We take pride in our native artists. In the realm of art, as in everything else, we desire to see those who are born on the soil ruling the country to the ex- tent of their capacity and development. Patti made one grand sensation, and Kellogg may make another. Madame Van Zandt also has made an enviable name for herself and American artists in the leading cities of Europe. ‘ We have sent fast yachts to Europe, begin- ning with the America—most appropriate name for the pioneer of yacht racing on the transatlantic side. Since thon we have fur nished our Qld World brethren with some fine specimens of good sailing boats and plucky sailors, and stanch iron-clads that proved their capacity for making long voyages, which was previously considered s doubtfal quality in vessels of their class. We are therefore not behindhand in yachts, monitors or singers, all of native origin. If the opera here has been managed on old fogy principles of late years, ita failure has only been commensurate with its deserts. We pity the poor Bohemian who has been endeavoring to make it go in the face of such fearfal obstructions and difficulties ' as besethim. We remember the carly days of Italian opera in New York, twenty-five or thirty years ago, when the now dingy Castle Garden was radiating with beanty and its walls echoed | tones of the rarest quality that musical art could furnish, and the Battery, which is now the resort ts from the “old lands,’”’ was wont tO be thronged with fashionable ladies. Atalater period we had the opera at Palmo’s in Chambers street; but this was when Canal street was almost at the end of city travel and the head of navigation on the frog, pond. Now that the city has improved and extended until its uppermost limits are at Fort Washington, Kingsbridge and Harlem, we do not find that the opera has kept pace in the same line of progress. In fact we have gained more reputation fabroad through our native artists than wey have enjoyment at home from our foreign Patti has made us ‘The Mismanagement of Our Railroads. There isa popular prejudice in New. York against railroad corporations. Whenever any special legislation 1s proposed extending the privileges of an existing or incorporating a new railroad company the general sentiment is adverse to its success, and ninety-nine people out of every hundred in the State look upon itag a corrupt job. Yet every person is in favor of railroads wherever they are needed, and not # living man in his sane mind would propose that the country should try to get along without them. The explanation of this apparent contradic- tion is that railroad corporations have been so grasping, avaricious and overbearing that they have brought discredit and disfavor upon them- selves. They have only their own bad policy to blame for their unpopularity. The directors and managers of our trank lines, in especial, have seldom confined themselves to their legitimate spbere of action, They have given their minds to the rise and fall of their stock rather than to the business management of their roads; and many of them, while entirely familiar with the method of “making ® corner,” and sharp enough at buying and selling short, know no more about time tables or rolling stock or any of the practical business of a railroad than they do about Hindostanee. The consequence is that our railroads have been altogether behind the age in their management. The travelling public have had just as little accom- modation and ptotection as the companies could dole out to them, and, wherever an advantage conld be taken of them, have been compelled to submit. ‘The city railroads have been ran in « similar manner; and, while great public conveniences, contrive to make themselves great public nuisances as well, through the gross faults of their managers. The people who ride in street cars have suffered pen- alties enough as s set off for the accommo- dation afforded them. To obtaina seat ina Our artists might have done better than to | car during the busiest hours of travel fs the famous in Huropean citios ; Kellogg may adorn 4 with Earopean imitators of old mas- | exception, to lose the contents of a pocket the the engine of which Patti laid the founda- ters and new. Why should they not rely here | rule. The companies, not content with the | tiom American Artiste at the Paris Exposition. “Hubble, bubble, burst!” So explode many brilliant but unsubstantial hopes of foreign contributors to the Paris Exposition. The rep- resentatives of American art, particularly, might as well have staid at home. The hospi- tality accorded to them seems to have been niggardly enough, if we are to judge by the meagre accommodations allotted to their works. Indeed, some of our artists, and not the least distinguished among them, have been en- tirely excluded, we understand. They have as slender opportunities for display as the Ameri- can amateur oarsmen, who are virtually ex- cluded from the international rowing regattas on the Seine. On the other hand, the liberality of the Jury of Admission into the galleries of the Exposi- tion bas been lavished almost exclusively upon the productions of French artiste, The latter not only claim the precedence im superiority, which, in some respects, foreigners might not be indisposed to yield, but in point of num- bers; and this the guests cannot help yielding also. The majority rule, and Frenchmen are the majority. Throughout the galleries France is everywhere and the outside world nowhere. That corruption and anarchy have sapped department is set against If we would remove these evils, we must ’