The New York Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY MAY 5, 1867—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. SAMES CORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. VAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR. MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Fovrcents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. Volume XXXIT.....-ccccceccescenerereeere No. 125 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, pireet.—THe Suamnoce. near Broome ‘ THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street. near Sixth wenue.—Mapamx Ristori’s Fagswelt PeRroRMANcEs— LIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. \ WORRELL SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo- ite New York Hotel —Acappix, tas WoxpearuL Scamrp— “Cinpereiia. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving ‘Trours or JAPANESE ARTISTS IN Place,—Tiz ImPEeRtat ‘agin WONDERFUL Fars. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Mze. axp Mas, ‘Howaap Pavi’s Granp Farewett Concerts i Costume. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58% Broad Opposite fag Merrocsiina: = — Brworias a TAL anere, Sincing, Daxcun ‘Buacesquas.—Tar Bis ‘Coon—lurugiat Jarancss Trovre. 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SUNDAY (THIS) at St, Awrnonr’s TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, May 5, 1867. EVENING.—Graxp Sacezp Concert HURCH, Sullivan street, near Prince. = REMOVAL. The Naw Yore Heraup establishment is now “Mocated in the new Hxaatp Building, Broadway @nd Ann street. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, Advertisers will please bear in mind that in @rder to have their advertisements properly clagsj- Ged they should be sent in before half-past eight ‘o'clock in the evening. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- Gerday, May 4 ‘The preparations for the great open air reform de- @nonstration which isto be held in London to-morrow (Produced a very uneasy feeling in the city. Government Gakes “oxtraordinary precautions’’ to guard against riot, ‘Dut serious apprehensions prevail, and the stock market was Gbnsiderably depressed at the close, . Consols closed at 91 for money in London. United Btates five-twenties were at 71% in London, and 76% in Frankfort. | fhe Liverpool cotton market closed firm, with mid- Gling uplands at 113d. Breadstuffs quiet. Pro- wisions frm. Our special correspondents ia Paris, dating to the 19th Of Apni, furnish very interesting reports of the progress of the Exhibition undertaking, noting @ gratifying advance in the way of arrangement and classification of ‘tho contents of the building. The writers describe the condition of the American department and review the Gepartments of science, agriculture and clothing, treating lass twonty-seven of the latter, which embraces cotton ‘yarn and cotton tissues. THE CITY. Cases of unjustifiable use of the club and revolver are ‘again becoming frequent among the police. A prisoner ‘was brought into the Essex Market Police Court yester- day whose bead was horribly mangied by a club in the hands of officer Baker, of the Thirteenth precinct, who had him in custody. After using him so roughly the officer had no charge whatever to enter against him, and he was liberated. A man named Brown was brought Defore Justice Dodge by officer Conard, of the Eigh- ‘Seonth precinct, on a charge of u foul and threatening Aanguage towards him, but the compiaint was dismissed, ‘all the witnesses, neariy twenty, testifying that Uonard had delibderateiy shot Brown in the face while he was ‘making a good-humored reply to # question of the former. His face was dreadfully mutilated, his noso Hoing completely destroved. In this condition it ts @arther stated he was taken to the station house, and Gocked up without the privilege of medical attendance, @von at his own expense. ‘There were four hundred and twenty-nine deaths in ‘this city during the woek just onded, a large proportion of which occurred in tenement houses and among little children. ‘The sub-committee appointed on Monday last by the ex-officio Commissioners of Quarantine to examine Coney ‘and Barron Islands to select sites for the erection of » ‘boarding and landing station on the former and for tem- porary detention hospitals on the latter, visited those places yesterday. Having carefully inspected the various locations, they selected all the land on Coney Island to the west of a line drawn north-northeast from ex-Mayor Gunther's house on Bath beach to a wreck on the southerly shore of Coney Island. On Barren Island they selected about one handred acres on the south and west sides of the island Coroner Schirmer yesterday morning held an inquest ‘@t the Ninth precinct station house on the late Catha- rine Miller, or Mary Catharine Throop, who died at No, 31 Perry street, under suspicion of having had an aborton prodeced on ber, The jury rendered a verdict confirm- fing thie suspicion, and alieging that the operation was performed by a physician at the office of Dr. Gray, om A motion was made in the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, before Judge Barnard, to set aside the injune- The stock market was firm yesterday, Gola closed ar 196, ‘Thore was but little activity 12 commercial circies yes. terday, yet a moderate business was consummated.and at ull prices, though in some instances slight concessions wore granted. Coffee ruled quict but firm. Cotton was without decided change, On ‘Change flour advanced 100. 0 ho. ; wheat le. « 20., while corn declined 20. a 30. fomained steady. Pork was dull and « shade eadier. Beef remained unchanged. Lard was « shade Freights continued quiet, = Whis- unchanged. Naval stores erceed- was without animation, though ahite, | The only foar wo entertain is that we shall | not find room for the millions of emigrants who MISCELLANEOUS. ¢ Our letters from Matamoros, Mexico, dated the 24th ult,, say that the liberals are so placed about Mexico City and Puebla that Marquez finds himeelf confronted bya body of them in whichever direction he moves, An emissary from Maximilian, bearing letters to Mar- quez, with the information that Querétaro could hold out no longer, was captured and executed. The sup- plies of arms issued to the lower classes by the impe- rialists bad been withdrawn. Juares had issued a decree withdrawing all privileges from citizens of any Buropean countries which recognized the empire, and abviishing all treaty stipulations with those Powers. Large qcanti- ties of government stores, apparently intended for the United States troops along the Rio Grande, have been arriving recently at Brazos Santiago. There are only one thousand men stationed in that neighborhood, and the quantity of stores being in such great disproportion to the force for whom it is ostensibly intended, excites the query, What does it mean ? By the Atlantic Cable we have dates from Rio Janeiro via London to the 8th of April, The Emperor of Brazil had issued a decree declaring all slaves free, the man- date to take effect within twenty years, and all children of slaves born hereafter to be free from their birth. The statement of the Public Debt for May shows the total to be $2,668,875,098, and the amount of coin and currency in the Treasury $148,089,002 By comparing ‘this with the April statement an increase in the total debt is shown of $5,161,724, ‘Mr. Seward gave a State dinner to the Japanese Com- missioners and areception to the members of the diplo- matic corps last evening. At the latter the presence of Madame Juarez, wife of the President of Mexico, excited some attention. Robert Toombs, ex-Senator from Georgia, who exiled himself at the downfall of the rebellion, writes that no true patriot will forsake his native land and express his willingness to accept the reconstructed situation. Advices from the neighborhood of the seat of warin the Indian country state that the Kiowas had agreed to behave themselves and be peaceable, Gen. Hancock was to go south toconfer with the Comanches and Ara- Pahoes, after which he would devote bis attention to the punishment of the Stoux and Cheyennes, A massacre by the Indians in Arizona was reported, in which three white men were killed and two wounded. General Sheridan has abolished all Boards of Levee Commissioners in Louisiana, and made appointments to such offices to suit himself, in order, as he says, to relieve Louisiana from the incubus of the quarrel existing between the Governor and the Legislature as to which political party shall have the disbursement of the four millions of Levee bonds authorized by the last Legisla- t The report that a writ of habeas corpus had been issued for the release of Jeff Davis is current in Vir- ginia, The officers of the garrison at Fortress Monroe do not know anything about it. The New Jersey prohibitory liquor law will be carried into effect in Jersey City to-day, and on Sundays in future, ‘The exploded coal pits at Dover Hill, Virginia, were Opened yesterday. Twelve fect of water were found in them, but no dead bodies have yet been recovered. No disturbances oscurred among the eight hour atrik- ers, either at St, Louis or Chicago, yesterday. The de- monstrations in both cities passed off without any infraction of the laws, A negro woman left her two little children locked up in her room in Philadelphia, and the following chapter of accidents ensued:—The children set fre to the room while playing with matches, and they were both suffo- cated to death; a fireman, while endeavoring to extin- guish the flames, was struck on the head with an tron hook and killed, and the house of Dr. Clintepk, in the vicinity, caught fire from a spark of a steam fire engine at work on the first fire and was almost entirely de- stroyed. John Leighton, a mining stock operator, was.arrested in Boston last night at the instance of New York par- ties, and almost immediately afterwards a warrant was served upon him at the instance of a Boston mining company, on the grounds of alleged embezzlement, The claims of the New York parties are believed to be con- nected with recent speculations in the Corydon Gold and other mining companies. A terrific prize fight took place near New Orleans on Monday last between Jim Turner, an Englishman, and Andy Duffy, an Irishman, for wo hundred dollars, One hundred and seventy-six rounds were fought in two hours and fifty-seven minutes, and ended in a complete victory for Turner. A party of soldiers who attempted to arrest the mur- derers of negroes at Nicholasville, on Friday night, were resisted by @ party of citizens and driven off. The lieu- tenant commanding the squad and a private wore wounded, the officer in three places, Whither De We Drift ¢ In the great social revolution through which we are now passing it does not require a wise man to see the germ of a new and still more prosperous future for the nation. The negro has ever been the great incubus we have car- ried upon our backs. Slavery has been our curse ; it has stultified our growth, provented emigration from foreign countries, and in the South has competed with foreign bone and muscle. In short, it has been the immediate cause of all our sufferings, arrayed one section against another and created the bitter jeal- ousies that culminated in the rebellion. This incubus has been removed, and the great question whereon we still differ is the social position the emancipated blacks are to assume. Congress declares they shall be admitted to full citizenship, and what Congress says at this time must be submitted to. After all, there can be no great danger in giving the blacks fall righis enjoyed by other classes of the community. “This is a white man’s gov- ernment,” say the South, “and we want it pre- served toour children.” This argument is obao- lete. Unerring destiny points to the gradual absorption of the negro population by the Anglo-Saxon, and ere many years pass the blacks will have become insignificant in nume- Tical strength. For a few years they may exer- cise some political influence in the nation, and & fow may be raised to responsible positions; but it will be for a brief period only. Time will solve the problem of political supremacy and leave the nation in the hands of the whites. For the present we must submit. But there are some important ficts bearing upon this subject that it would be well to bear in mind. The Old World is rapidly becoming republicanized and revolutionized. We have satisfactorily demonstrated to the republican masses of Europe that « government founded on republican principles can withstand alike the shocks of outside pressure and internal strife. Now, what is likely to be the result? Clearly an enormous influx of emigrants from Europe to this hemisphere, which must of necessity become the receptacle for the strug: gling millions who now groan under tho oppressions of monarchial institutions and are turning their eyes westward in search of homes where they can enjoy the freedom denied to them in Europe. The next half century will see the Old World emptied into the New, our Western prairies filled with sinewy and industrious the wild untutored savages pressed back upon the Pacific to make room for the millions of Germans, Swiss, Norwegians and Hibernians, who are republicans before they touch our soil. With such a class of persons filling up our waste territory, who can donbt the stability of our government? With fifty years of peace we can pay off the national debt, people the country between here and the Pacific, and by the aid of the telegraph and railways shake hands across a continent, pour in upon us, and ere a century rolls by it may be necessary for a successor of Secretary Seward to purchase Mexico, the Kingdom of Canada, and » part of South America, for the purpose of accommodating the swarming m: - lions who seek homes in the Western world. This is no visionary paper picture. Judging from the progress we have made in this century, with all the disadvantages under which we labored, the children of many now living may see all this and more accomplished. In this important work the South, if they will forget the pastand smother their preju- dices, can play @ conspicuous and honorable part and reap the golden fruits, They are now impoverished, crushed and despondent, with- owt capital to develop their mineral and agri- cultural regources. Let them gracefully accept the terms offered them by Congress, welcome Northern capitalists and laborers «mong them, convince capitalists that they have forever abandoned the heresies of secession and that the investment will be safe, and from the asht$ of their desolated homes will spring into life cotton factories and machine shops innumer- able. The producer of the raw material will no longer be robbed by shipping it to Massa- chusetts to be manufactured and returned to him at a cost of fifty per cent above what it could be manufastured for in his own parish. At present it is the Eastera manufacturer who. Teaps the harvest at the expense of the pro- ducer. By 0 the investment of capital in the South they would tum the tables upon Massachusetts; attract to the South the laboring masses, who give impulse to trade; the coal and gold mines that remain unworked would give up their hidden treasures; the value of real estate would be doubled; the banks of the Tennessee, Mississippi, Congaree, Wateree, Catawba, Cape Fear and James would become dotted with small manufacturing towns, while those streams would swarm with the merchant marine of the South. In less than one hundred years the South would be richer than New Eng- land, and Charleston, Richmond, New Orleans, Mobile and Savannah stepping upon the heels of New York. Let the South ponder upon these suggestions. They have two alternatives—re- main in antagonism to Congress and the great united party of the North that stands behind it, and see your property confiscated and your homes deserted, or gracefully submit to the march of ideas, secure your old places in the Union and rebuild your ruined fortunes. You have the ball at your feet. Will you raise it? The Herald Special Cable News trom Brazil— ‘The Abolition of Slavery. — A special cable despatch to the Hzratp from Rio Janeiro, by way of London, published to-day, brings us the important and interesting intelligence that slavery has been abolished in the empire of Brazil by an imperial decree of Dom Pedro IL The decree provides that all -children born within the limits of the empire after the 8th day of April last “shall be abso- lutely free, by birth, and that in a period of twenty years thereafter slavery and involuntary servitude shall forever ease. Dom Pedro has always evinced » sympathy for free labor, and has given it practical application in two instances—once in regulating by his imperial authority the working hours of slaves, and again by prohibiting the importation of slaves into Brazil. The overthrow of slavery in the United States through the Southern rebellion ‘has, by its moral influence, no doubt, contributed to this last and grandest act of the Emperor; but it has probably been precipitated by another result of our war. A large number of our unreconstructable South- erners bave recently left the States for Brazil with the remnants of their worldly possessions, intending to settle in that slavery blessed em- pire. Dom Pedro, who is a shrewd politician, has properly appreciated the character of the restless chivairy of the South, and has forescen that they may in time give him as much trouble as they gave the government of the United States, and probably be the instruments of dis- turbing the friendly relations between Brazil and our republic. He has therefore headed them off by this decree of emancipation, and given them a polite hint that they must seek a permanent resting place for their divine insti- tution elsewhere than within the limits of his empire. Reform in England. The great open air reform demonstration, which has been arranged by the leaders of the English League to take place in London on Monday, promises to give a vast impetus to the popular cause. Its organizers evidently iniend to exhibit the moral power of the peo- ple in demanding their franchise rights peace- ably under the constitution, but supported by the immense physical force which they com- mand. critical. Weare informed by the cable that “serious apprehensions” are telt in the city as to the issue, and that the Stock Exchange closed “considerably depressed” under the influence of the anxiety on Saturday. The Cabinet is embarrassed and hesitates, precautions” are being taken to guard against “riotous demonstrations.” the defeat of the Ministry on the amendment to the Reform bill carried by the liberals in Parliament would indicate that they are Prepared to make any concessions rather than quit office. We are not informed what the precise character of this amendment was; but that it was of importance we may judge by the course of the Home Secretary in reference to the outdoor demonstration. When it was first advertised a distinct intimation was given by the government that it would not be permitted to be held in Hyde Park. After the Cabinet defeat on the amendment referred to the pro- moters of it were informed that the prohibition was withdrawn. Now the meeting is to be watched. The tories were so many years out of office that they will do almost anything sooner than yield their places to their oppo- nents, Besides, they must feel that if they do not puta stop to the agitation that is now threatening the peace of the country there will soon be nothing left them worth fighting for. They have but the option of practical concession or revolution. In this viow the agitation becomes “ Extraordinary Yet the result of ‘The Special Qua: Comminsion. It will be seen from the report published in today’s Hmnatp that the special commission- ers appointed by the Legislature on matters relating to quarantine visited Coney Island and Barren Island yesterday in the discharge of that duty, and had o ver} lively trip and Performed some important work. They located 8 landing and boarding station for quarantine st Coney Island, and the house for the tem- porary detention of passengers who have been exposed to contagion at the south and wost end of Barren Island, in an isolated spot, where the verdure is fine and the air pure and bracing. The report of the proceedings of the commission will be reed with much interest, ff clade ‘Tho Approachi:g Religious Anniversaries. In spite of the smallness and obscurity of its origin, the fierce and ruthless persecutions to which in earlier times it was subjected, and notwithstanding in later year's the irony of a Voltaire, the sneers of a Gibbon, the subtlety of a Hume, the indecent assaults of a Paine, the searching, soulless criticism of a Strauss, the refined sentimental rationalism of » Rénan, not to speak of the less open but not perhaps less mischievous attacks of the author of “Ecce Homo,” and others—in spite, we say, of all that has been and is still being done to defeat {ts influence and sap its very foundation, Christianity has grown, and is now indis- putably the mightiest and most aggressive power in human affairs, Wherever life, activity, energy, enterprise most reveal themselves; wherever heroism, nobleness, self-sacrifice are dominant characteristics; wherever real, genuine progress is most distinctly visible, Christianity is found to be there, and is to be credited with the result. Wherever, on the other hand, life is reduced’ tothe last point of dulness; wherever selfishness. rules and public spirit is wanting; wherever progress reveals itself by a backward and not by a Sarward movement, Christianity is either not theré, or is s0 over jaid and mixed up-with human devices and so cramped in its. energies that it is practically dead. In no country in the world, either in past or present times, has Christianity had so fair a field (all the more fair that it has not been fa- vored) as she has had in the United States; and in no other country has her energizing and life- giving power been more distinctly or more fully felt The American republic was the firat, on a large scale at least, not only to see but to correct the error of Constantine; and as the result the republic has not only been spared the envy and jealousy and strife from which other and older nations have suf fered, and from which they must suffer more and more, but has reaped in substantial form the precious fruits of a wiser policy. A State church is consistent on no other principle than on that of uniformity of faith and practice. But uniformity is inconsistent alike with the spirit and mind of man and with the genius of Chris- tianity itself. No two minds are precisely the same. No two disciples ever received a sys- tem of doctrines in precisely the same sense, formulated them in precisely the same words, or reduced them to practice in precisely the same manner. The thing is impossible. What- ever may have been done in the name of Chris- tianity—and much certainly has been done which had better been left undone—it is not her mission, as it was not the object of her founder, to accomplish the impossible. The spirit of Christianity is doubtless one, but that unity is not violated by diversity of form, and even by large divergence in minor matters of detail. A State church overlooks or disre- gards these fundamental principles. In this have consisted, and still consist, the error and the weakness of ® church esteblished by law, endorsed by and identified with the govern- ment of the nation ; and it is this which renders the existence of all such institutions incompati- ble with an enlightened spirit 6f independence and with the intellectual growth of the race. Church establishments are doomed; and though in old communities, where they are interwoven with the whole framework of government, the struggle may be long and severe, nothing can save them. It is a cause of gratitude to every citizen of this great and growing republic that from all the evils insepatable from such insti- tations we have ever been happily free. No- where is the wisdom of the framers of the con- stitution more distinctly revealed than where it is declared that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or pro- hibiting the free exercise thereof ;” and for few things in the constitution will successive generations of the American people have more occasion to be lastingly grateful. In the free soil of the republic Christianity has firmly fixed its roots. In her free atmos- phere and under her bracing winds and genial sunshine it has shot up and become a goodly tree. The branches are many; some of them are larger, some of them are smaller, but all of them are healthful, vigorous and fruitbear- ing, according to their measure. The month of May is the harvest season when the fruit is looked for. This week will make it plain to the world what that frait is—whether it is larger or smaller than in previous years. We wish the anniversary meetings all success. We shall be glad to learn that congregations have been multiplied, that large accessions have been made to the different memberships, that contributions larger than ever have been poured into the treasury, that stipends have been augmented, and that vice and immorality have proportionately decreased. We shall be glad to hear good reports of the brethren, whether in solemn council assembled or visit- ing and thspecting the lions of the Empire City. Prosperity and a pure record are nota bad wish in any circumstances, and we heartily express it, not merely for all the Christian societies whose annual meeting will be held this week in this city, but for all other Chris- tian organizations which are accomplishing good work throughout the United States. The Injunction Cases Betore the Sapreme Court. We published yesterday, as part of the his- torical record of Southern reconstruction, the argument of Robert J. Walker on the Missis- sippi injunction case before the Supreme Court, and we leave the intelligent reader to consider it at his leisure. It is the old South Carolina | chop logic of State rights somewhat diluted, but still the “perilous stuff” of which they made the late so-called Southern Confederacy. The Attorney General, in behalf of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of War and Generals Grant and Pope, will close up the debate on Monday next; but a week or so may then elapse before the decision of the court is proclaimed. What it will be is a matter of conjecture. Sharkey and Walker are confident of success in an injunction against Congress; but the prevailing opinion is that the court will throw out these bills on the ground of no jurisdiction. Upon the decision of the court will depend the settlement of the question whether there will or will not bes session of Congress in July, and as this question covers the matter of impeachment we shall await with some interest the judgment of the court upon these injunction cases. ee Iurortawt, 1 Tavs.—The ramor that the Japanese ambassadors have come to exchange a few islands producing tea fora few iren- ‘To Whom it May Concern. According to a telegram from our special correspondent there has been a great deal of excitement and indignation among the people of Chicago because an indifferent operatic manager from New York, without notice or apology, unceremoniousiy broke an engage- ment to play in that sensational city, We do not think our Western friends should take the disappointment so much to heart. They have the recollection of the enjoyment afforded them last season by a really good opera to console them, and they should let that suffice them until Grau or Strakosch, or some other spirited and enterprising manager brings a well selected troupe to their city, with Patti asthe prima donna. The fact is, as operas and theatres are now managed, the masses of the people pay very little attention to them and care very little about them. In this city, after a hard struggle, the Hzrarp managed to build up the opera into a success ; but it has gradually been de- constra as badly as Southern States or the muntelpal goverment of New York, The Bohemians of the press strive to puff it into public favor; but the Bo- hemian is now understood and has lost his power. The subscribers attend the perform- ances‘as much to show their dresses and their jewels and to criticise the fashions of their neighbors as to listen to the music. All this does not make a success. It is the people that canalone be relied upon to give real vitality to all enterprises, whether operas, theatres, newspapers, hotels, dry goods establishments or any other description of business or amuse- ment. There is a moral in this which no person en- gaged in any public enterprise, whether in New York or Chicago or anywhere else, should overlook. We have operas and theatres and newspapers in this city which are runon the mutual admiration and self-laudation plan, and whose business it is to glorify themselves and one another. A stranger might be cajoled into the belief that they are all great successes, but the truth is they are very poor concerns, because they have not got the substance of the people behind them. An enterprise that com- mands by its own merits the support of the public can alone stand the test of time and achieve substantial success. The Heratp, for instance, published as it is for the masses and watchful of their interests, is built on a foun- dation that no storms can shake. So of the theatres, When a great artist like Ristori ap- pears among us she commands a grand suc- cess, Jealous managers may sneer and scribble criticisms upon her acting, but the people stand solidly bebind her and push her on to fortune. We remember an incident related to us some years since which bears directly upon this sub- ject, A servant girl went to a leading dry goods house in this city to purchase 9 cloak, ‘The clerk who waited upon her, after dis- playing one or two patterns, rudely refused to show her any more, and she left the tore. The facts came to the knowledge of her employer, who communicated them to the propr:etor of the establishment. This led to an interview between the parties, and the ‘Offending clerk was pointed out by the girl and instantly dismissed by his employer. “I want you and all in my employ to understand,” said the dry goods millionnairé, “that a servant girl who comes into my store to purchase goods is of as much importance to me as the richest lady in the city. The people are my customers, and it is to their support that I owe my business success.” We commend the moral of these remarks to all business men, and especially to the man- agers of our theatres and operas here and else- where. We have handsome and commodious places of public amusement in this city, and we believe Chicago owns a good opera house. All that is needed to ensure them substantial success is to put them into the hands of good managers, who will take care to put good artists on the stage. Then the people will stand at their backs and enable them to bid defiance to unreliable managers, hungry Bohe- mians and all the other evils and annoyances to which theatrical life is heir. The City Comptroller, the Public Markets and the Board of Aldermen. The condition of the public markets of New York has long been a scandal to the city. With every facility for enjoying the most varied and best supply of every article of consamp- tion, meats, poultry, fish, vegetables, fruits, and all the necessaries and luxuries of life, our public markets have been insufficient, dirty, unhealthy and dear. There has been but one underlying cause for all these evils. The man- agement of the markets has been corrupt. They have been in the hands of “ring” politicians who have made fortunes out of them, neglected their cleanliness and improvement, and so heavily taxed the dealers as to compel them, in their turn, to impose upon their customers, The Legislature failed to make any change in the public market system, because a set of specu- lators, jobbers and lobbymen, taking advan- tage of the present mismanagement, only en- deavored, under the false cry of reform, to transfer the placer from one set of plunderers to another. Comptroller Connolly has, we are glad to see, now taken the matter into his own hands, and has resolved to set to work in earnest to make thorough revolution in the public mar- kets. This is precisely what is needed. The present system is;good enough, if honestly ad- ministered, and the Comptroller is determined that it shall be 60. He has removed s number of improper and incompetent officials from positions of authority in the markets and filled to public markets. They have openly declared war against the Comptroller, and it is a war he need not fear, and in which he is certain in the Spring and its Fashions. Spring opens with more than usual promise for every branch of industry. The working classes have not only fall occupation, but are imposing their conditions upon the employer. Those who are disposed to take a despondent view of our commercial prospects are merely the croakers, who, like Mark Tapley, are happy only when they are miserable. There has not been a season within our recollection when people of every class have had more reason to be satisfied with their con- dition. Some few of our largest houses may not find their returns as heavy as during the war, but the smaller firms are in general doing better. Our taxes are large, to be sure, but somehow people do not appear to feel the bur- den. The fact is, the wealth of the country is more generally diffused, and there is com- paratively but little destitution, except in those portions of the South where the ravages of war have been most severely felt, One has but to take a walk through Broad- promenaders by which the street itself is daily filled between the hours of twelve and five, and say whether, in the style and richness of their costumes, you find any material difference with those that throng the thoroughfares of the European capitals. If anything, the advantage in point of elegance and extravagance is with our own people. This ascendancy of fashion has from one cause or another altered very materially of late. Adozen years ago it took us at least twelve months to get at and bring out here the latest Paris and London styles. Now, thanks to the cable and the increased speed of steam- ships, it need take but eight or ten days. For example, a modiste or dressmaker, reading our Paris fashions letter in to-day’s Heratp, cam send out her orders by the cable for the par- ticular models which she desires, and receive them within a couple of weeks. By and by it is not improbable that in the curious revo- lutions which are continually taking place, we may ourselves supply the European capitals with the fashions. American originality in dress is becoming very much admired there, and our pre-eminence in it is te be looked for, though we think we should reat content with supplying the Europeans with modals of iron-clads, steamers, pleasure yachts and agricultural implements, without. entering inte -egmapetition with them in this particular line. Such, however, will probably be the result, whether we care for it or not, of the revolution effected by the ocean telegraph. is banking houses transmit money by it, why should not manufacturing houses transmit descriptions, and, by the improvements that are now being effected in the system, perhaps even sketches of their models? One effect it will certainly have, and that is to do away entirely with the commission and brokerage businesses. The buyers and sellers on both sides will be brought into direct communication with each other, just as they are brought face to face here by the comprehensive and admirably classified advertising system of the Hmratp. The Nicholson Pavement Jeb. We received two communications yesterday in relation to the Nicholson pavement, which the Common Council are endeavoring to have laid down in several of the streets of the city. One is from parties interested in the patent, and the other from the secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The first informs us that the pavement is well adapted to all our streets, except Broadway, and is offered at the moderate cost of four dol- lars and sevepty-five cents per square yard, “which amount will include grading and all necessary materialsand labor.” Precisely 80; but as the streets where the pavement is pro- posed to be laid are already graded; and as “all necessary materials and labor” are gen- erally supplied by those who contract to lay a pavement; and as four dollars and seventy- five cents a square yard is nearly twice as much as the cost of better pavement, and affords a wide margin for pro- fits; and as the pavement is said not to last more than three years; and as the whole affair is a notorious job, we fail to be convinced ef the propriety of favoring the attempted raid upon the taxpayers. The other communication encloses a puff for the Nicholson pavement from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. We beg to advise the officers of that society to devote their time and energies to the comfort of the turtle and to the study of an easy mode of death for chickens, and not to dirty their fingers with the corrupt jobs of the Common Council. If they neglect this advice we shall insist upon the formation of a new society for the prevention of cruelty to taxpayers, and The Growth and Progress of Breeklya. We publish to-day an interesting account of the growth, prosperity, business and beauties of our twin sister, Brooklyn, Before many years pass away the two cities will be prac- tically one, and the Bast river, spanned by bridges, will divide them no more than the ‘Thames separates the two parte of London. To be sure, the Thames is a very small affair when i rivers now do with ditches and trout streams of Old present, with nothing. but ferry- boat communication, Brooklyn is the great suburb of New York. The progress of the two cities must be simultaneous, We are one and the same people, so closely identjfied with each other that our interests are identical, and g z i