The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. eee THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Fovrcents per copy. Annual subscription price, G14. Apvserisementa, to@ limited number, will be inserted in the Waeaty Hemaup, the European and California Editions. 2 CORRESPONDENTS ARE PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO SRAL ALL Lerrers auD PACKAGES SENT US. Wo do not return rejected communications. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at he lowest rates, Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEA’ Broadway, TRE, neer Broome street.—Tak Meaney Wives ‘or Winvson. WORRELL SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo- site New York Hotel —Tuxz Euvms—Ompure.ia. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Pourteents street near Sixth grenus.—Searoaes Parewett Pravomuances 1x Auxrica— (EDEA. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Davip Corrzrrixi>— Pocasontas. ACADEMY OF MUSI ‘Tours Or JaPANEsE Irving place.—Tae TxrrataL uy Tamia Wonpearu. Fxats. GERMAN STADT THEATRE. 45 and 47 Bowery.— ‘anus iv Poumxun—Wer Isst Mrv. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, the Metropolitan Hotel—ix turm Ermiortan ENTERTAIN: ENTS, SINGING, DanoinG AND Bunvusquus.—Tux Buace Coox—Inrxniat Jaranuse Thovrs. 535 Broadway, opposite KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, oppo. sitethe New York Hotel.—Ix ruzia Sonus, Danoms, Eco En. ‘FRICITIES, Bugussquas, &0.—Civper-Leon—Mapacascam Baier Teovrs—Tue Jars. AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2nd 4 West ‘Twenty-fourth street.—Guirrie & Onussre’s MINsTRELS.— Ermorian Mivsraxisy, Batuaps, Burieseves, &c.—Tus Boous Jaraxxse Juacusxs—Urren Tex Taovsanp. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Cowrc Vooatisu. Necro Minsrreisy, Buacesquas. Batter Diver- . &C.—Taoe Biox, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Tae Impsriat Jaranuss Trourx Maatinxs. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Ermiorian Min- , BaLLaps ave BURLESQUES.—Tax SrurNx. BUNYAN TABLEAUX. U1 treet Hall. corner of Maaniricent 23 o'elock. = Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 613 Broadway.— Rigar Prot Tae ROR OF @oxnns. wixe—Wonoans ix Navunat. Histont, Screxou ax Ant. RY, Lacrunzs Day. Open from 8 ‘a. ti we. “ NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner of Twenty- street and Fourth avenue.—Exursition or PicroaEs anp Soucrrunns By Living Axtists. New York, Friday, May 17, 1867. TRIPLE SHEET. BEMOVAL. The Naw Yorx Huratp ostablishment is now located in the new Heratp Building, Broadway end Ann street. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fied they should be sent in before half-past eight o’clock in the evening. fH Waws. EUROPE. By special telegrams through the Atlantic cable, dated (m St. Petersburg and London, we have interesting :ntel- ligence from both cities dated to the evening of the 16th of May. The Czar Alexander ratified the Russo-American Oeasion treaty by his signature on Wednosday, and entrusted the paper to M. Bodisco to take to Wash- ington. ‘The reform leagues of England made a grand outside pally against the Derby Reform bill on the 165th inet. in London. Mr, Bright advised a vigorous opposition to Jhe measure at its third reading, and then endeavored bb have the question remitted to the people at large. The cable news report, dated yesterday evening, states Mat the Spanish police and military make numerous arrests of the insurgents in Catalonia and ether parts of the kingdom. Three prominent Fenians are on trial for treason in Dublia. Count Bismarck’s newspaper organ in Berlin states that is will be ditiicult for Prussia to execute the Luxem- burg peace treaty and evacuate the fortress within the time prescribed by the London Congress, aud that the King’s government refuses an extension of the period fixed upon, Consols closed at 924; for money in Londen. Five- twenties were at 723, in London, and United States bonds closed at 77% at Frankfort, The Liverpool cotton market was active, with prices irreguiar, middling uplands closing at 1144. Bread- ufs easier, Provisions generally unchanged. * The German mail steamship Saxonia, from Hamburg ‘May 5, landed eight hundred and cighty-seven passen- Gers at this port about midnight. . THE CITY. ‘The Board of Health met yosterday, when the weekly report of the Superintendent relative to tenement houses ‘was received. The Board then met the Quarantine Com- missioners and the Mayors of New York and Brooklyn, when a certificate addressed to the Governor was drawao up and approved, reciting that they had jointly selected Portions of Barren and Coney Isiands for quarantine stations The Board of Excise held their regular weekly meet- Ing yesterday, when the form of license application was considerably modified. The Councilmanic Committee on Railroads held an- other meeting yesterday, and beard a namber of parties against running steam cars on the Eleventh avenue. No one spoke in favor of it. The Councilmantc Committee on Markets made an inspection of Washington and Spring street markets yes- terday. The Croton Aqueduct Department yesterday awarded @everal contracts for constructing sewers and laying crosswalks. The Broadway srial bridge was finally thrown open to the public yesterday. An inquest was held on the body of Anne McCaffray yesterday, and a verdict was returned that her death wes caused by « pistol shot wound received at the hands Of her husband. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and ‘was committed, Judy Green, a colored woman, died in this city on ‘Tuesday aged one hundred and nine years, Measures are being taken among prominent German Citizens to concentrate the German vote at the next election on an anti-Excise platform, independent of political views, ‘An onder to show cause and injunction granted by Judge George G. Barnard was yostorday served upon the Comptroller and Fernando Wood’s counsel, in the Compiaint of Christopher Pullman against the Mayor ‘and Commonalty, &c., the Comptroller and Fernando ‘Wood, restraining the execution of the lease of Fer- mando Wood's premises, Nor. 115 and 117 Nassau street, ‘The argument on the motion to vacate the mandamus fm the case of the people ex rel. Fernando Wood va, the Comptroller, was yesterday postponed until to-day. An action was: commenced in the Superior Court yes. terday in which Francis MoGahey, as administrator, @ues Eliza Hunter and Edwin B Hunter, for the re. ‘covery of damages for the suffocation, on the 30th of Dooember, 1966, of his mother, aged sixty-seven years, and bis son, aged four years, claiming $5,000 in each caso, This plaintiff and his sister Anna, both of whom ‘were rendered ineensible by the same means, but sub. sequently recovered, also sae the same defendants for porsonal injuries to themselves, claiming $25,000 in oaca case, Cun dofondaata wong tg proprigiocs of 1 KDoWD, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. premises of which the piaintiifs wore cooupants, and asa méans of dtepomossing the latter, who were im arrears for rent, the Hunters bad a dat stone placed in the chimney, obstructing the Que and affording uo ogress for the smoke from ¢he Greplace, Case atill on. In the Superior Court, part one, yesterday, the jury rendered a verdict for $1,600 for the plaintiff in the case of Jane Mooney va. the Hudson River Raitroad Company and the ‘Beit’ City Railroad Company, for personal in- Jaries resulting from @ collision between a locomotive of the former company and a passenger car of the latter, in which the plaintiff, with her daughter, was riding. This is the fourth verdict recovered by this family for inju- ries and loss of services accruing from the same ocour- Teno, the husband having sued for loss of services of his wife and child, and, as guardian of the obiid, recov- ering for personal injuries, A Gecreeof divorce was grauted in the Supreme Court yesterday in the case of Amanda L. Hopkins vs. Iaaac W. Hopkins, awarding thé custody of the child to the plaintiff, ‘The stock market was duil and rather heavy yes terday. Gold closed at 1375;. The movement continued moderate in both foreign and imported merchandise yesterday, and the aggregate business was small. Cotton was firmer but not very active. On 'Changs flour.and wheat were dull and lower, but corn and oats were decidedty higher under an active speculative inquiry. Pork, though quiet, olosed firm. Beef and lard were moderately active and steady. Freights were quict, Whiskey was firm witf more doing, Naval stotes wore quite active, while petroteum was without decided change. MISCELLANEOUS. The Mississippi injunction bil! has been dismissed in the Supreme Court, the motion for an amendment to it being denied. The conatitutionality of the Legal Tender act was affirmed by the same tribunal. Decisions wore also mado recognizing Texas as a State in the Union, and that the State of New York cannot tax Indian reserva- tion lands within her borders, Secretary Seward was examined before tho Judiciary Committee at Washington yesterday on the subject of the President's assassination and the arrest of John Surratt. The Tennessee Radical Congressional Convention met at Nashville yesterday, when a split occurred among the delogates. John Lawrence was nominated by the se- coders and John Trimble by the main body. The negro vote will determine the contest between them. Emerson Etheridge received an ovation on his arrival at Memphis yesterday. Dexter and the Goldsmith mare trotted at'Middletown, N. Y., yesterday, for a purse of $3,000, mile heats, best three in five. The race was won by Dexter in three straight heats, the best time being 2:28. Our Southern letters this morning relate to matters political and social in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and Arkanaas, Wendell Phillips has written a reply to General Rous- seau’s letter of criticism on his recent lecture in Brook- lyn, in which he takes occasion to reiterate his former expressions and in addition to scold Senator Wilson for pairing off on the vote on Rosseau's confirmation, ‘and the State of Iowa for mot returning Grinnell after Rousseau had caned bim. The Missourn Senate has impeached Judge King. Judge Kelley arrived at Montgomery, Ala., yesterday and will address the peeple there to-morrow, General Swayne has gone to Mobile to investigate the riots, Senator Wilson addressed a public meeting in New Orleans last night, and was followed by a colored clergy- man. General Longstreet was one of the vice presi- dents of the meeting. Some apprehension of a riot was folt, and the military were kept under arms, A mass meoting of whiteand black citizens of Mobile fras held in that city tast evening, # which. resolutions were adopted deploring'the recent clots, attributing the disturbance to excitement sad mot to a premeditated purpose, and declaring that Mobile is disposed te allow the free oxerviee of specch te prery.one, Arepublican mecting ef tho various shades was hold ‘at Hampton, Va, on Mowday'night, which was very en- thusiastic. About a thousand colored men were present and many whites, The Soldiers’ Bounty bill was killed 10 the Massachu- setts Legislature yeeterday, * The hotel bars in Boston, and all other public bars for the sale of liquor, are to be closed after Saturday next, Bishop Quintard, in his address to the Episcopal Con- vention at Memphis, urges on the church its duty to freedmen, one of whom he says is a candidate for ordi- pation. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States (new school) assembled in Rochester yesterday. The stockholders of the New York and New Haven railroad hold their annual mooting at New Haven last evening. After an exciting session William D. Bishop, of Bridgeport, was elected President of the Company, and with this exception the old Board of Directors was re-elected. if Judge Waderwood has declined to discnarge the Rich- mond Grand Jury, of which John Minor Botts is fore- man, until they have investiga:ed the internal revenue frauds in that district, A colored confidential messenger in the office of the Comptroller of the Curreacy at Washington was arreste yesterday on the charge of stealing national bank notes from parcels sent out of the office in his care, to the amount of $12,000. The prisoner was bailed in the sum of $10,000. A large quantity of office stationery was found in his house. . The roof of the Union Puddling Mill, at Buffalo, fell in yesterday, burying one hundred workmen under the ruins. Four men were killed and fifteen crushed. The mill was destroyed by fre in December, and had just been rebuilt, A negro speaker in Galveston drew some offensive comparisons between the white and black races at a meeting there recently, when some United States soldiers interrupted him, and indiscriminate shooting took place, the negroes all being apparently well armed. A row occurred among the negro stevedores on the leveo at New Orleana yesterday, in attompting to quell which two policomen were severely injure@. Mayor Heath attempted to address the negroes, but he was greeted with insulting remarks and was compelled to call in the aid of the military. An order was issued soon afterwards forbidding citizens to carry arms openly or secretly. A man named Charnley wds caught in some machinery im a thread factory at Newark yesterday, and was Iterally beaten to a jelly against the floor, Colchester, the spiritual medium, died in Keokuk, Towa, on the 4th inst. More Copies than Wanted. There is no living writer who understands the value of publicity better than Alexander Damas. He rarely utters s smart saying or writes a letterto the newspapers without calcu- lating its effect. Once in a while, however, he gets caught. The other day he entered into Scopartnership (of course literary and dra- matic) with Adah Isaacs Menken, who has fooled more men than any actress on the stage. She got him to go to a Paris photographer’s, where their joint likenesses were taken in a variety of attitudes more loving than dignified. The caricaturists got hold of them and turned them to pungent account. Thereupon Dumas commenced an action against the photo- grapher, contending that the portraits were sold without his permission, being intended for a fancy and not for publication. M. Lieber, the party sued, makes a defence showing that his setters calculated on an ex- tensive circulation of the pictures, and that it was only when their vanity got hurt by the ridicule lavished upon them that they laid the blame on his shoulders. He very justly says that he would not have gone to the trouble and expense which they cost him if be had not counted upon making « profit on bis work. The judgment of the court has not been ren- dered as yet, but there is very little doubt that it will be in the defendant's favor. People who court notoriety should not quarrel with it when it comes in a shape that fs not alto- gether agreeable. Perhaps, if the truth were known, the veteran romancer is “tickled to death” with the idea of his being once more Coupled with @ pretty woman, and takes this Taeed making the thet more gegprelly Our Political Diticultice—The Solution. We begin to realize what a legacy of troubles our civil war has left us in the South. The New Orleans riot, the Memphis riot, the Mobile riot, the Richmond riot, and the dis- turbed elements of society in most of the cities, as well as in some parts of the country, all show a very disordered state of things and point to danger in the future. The only excep- tion is found in the rural and plantation dis- tricts away from the towns, where political agitations have not reached. The cause of all this is found in the struggle for political power. The question at bottom is, what party shall gain the ascendancy or who shall govern the country? The negro vote, therefore, is the object in view ; for that is regarded as an im- portant balance of power. That is what led Wilson, Kelley and other radical orators from the North to the-South. The peace and har- mony of the South, its restoration, the indus- trial and commercial interests of both North and South, are as nothing in the estimation of politicians before this all absorbing object. To obtain that they would foment a war of races, inaugurate over again the dreadful scenes of San Domingo, destrey the productiveness of the South and the commerce of the North, and burden the loyal States with a vast additional debt through the necessity of keeping a large standing army. From our correspondence and other sources of information from all parts of the South it is evident the political agitators are sowing the storm through which we are likely to reap a whirlwind. The negroes would have been quiet, rejoicing in their new-born freedom, and would have gone to work cultivating th: soil and improving their condition, had they been let alone. Now that their passions and cupid- ity have been aroused, they are looking for con- fiscation and a distribution of the lands among them, exemption from labor and elevation to positions they are totally unprepared to occupy. Hostility between the blacks and whites is the natural consequence; hence we see the former congregating in the towns, making violent and armed demonstrations, and the latter alarmed and excited. Can we wonder, then, that such riots as we have referred to occur? Or should we be surprised if worse were to follow? . We saw in the case of Kansas what trouble the rivalry for political ascendancy created ; but the bloody drama there, with all its disturbing conse- quences throughout the rest of the country, was eesmall affair compared with what we may expect to see in the South if a solution be not found for the difficulties of that section. What shouldbe done to neutralize or stop” this agitation for political power, which is fraught with eo much disaster? Settle the question ofthe next Presidential election at stop. Let the-people of the loyal States, yee, of the Southern States, too, sake up this ques- tion in earnest and without delay. . In eighteen months the election will take plice ; in a year the nominating conventions of the different parties and factions will be held ; and next winter Congress will be more occupied with that subject than any other, We call upon the people, then, to head off the rival parties, fac- tions and candidajes, with all their plots and schemes, in and ont of Congress, and take up General Grant. He is the man for the times— a head and shoulders above all others, both in popularity and ability. If the voice of the people could be heard to-day it would be over- whelmingly in favor of him. Competitors in the race with him, if any should be so presump- tuous as to rua, would be left behind far out of sight. Why, then, should the people wait for the action of juggling, irresponsible conven- tions of politicians? The convention system is corrupt, unknown to the laws ond constitution, and ought to be abolished. The way to abolish it effectually and to inaugurate a new and the only proper mode of nomination agreeable to our republican institutions, is for the people primarily to put forward their candidate. Let them do so now, and let that candidate be the man who saved the country in the war, and who, of all.others, is the man to suve it again from the difficulties that surround us. The extreme factions, the radical faction, of which Wendell Phillips ts the avant courrier, and the copperhead faction are already alarmed at the name of Grant. They are denouncing and plotting against him in advance. But that is only kicking against the pricks—that will serve him. The million of soldiers whom he Jed to conquest and glory, and the millions with whom they are connected will make this greatest General and hero of modern times the Presidetit. A grateful country will delight in so rewarding him for his great services. The conservative masses will see in him a safe leader out of our sectional difficulties. With his name early taken up in every town, village and hamlet, the politicians would succumb, the conventions may be dispensed with, a Congress would be elected onthe Grant platform, the executive and legislative branches of the gov- ernment would work harmoniously, full and complete restofation would be accomplished, peace between the North and the South would be established, and an era of unexampled pros- perity would lie before us. By all means, then, let the people take the initiative and nominate General Grant for next President, independent of political parties, factions, caucuses or con- ventions ; for that would be the solution of our political and sectional difficulties. Designe of England om Caba. It is stated by one of our European corre- spondents that in the event of a war taking place between England and Spain the British government intends to seize and keep Cuba. Such » plan may have been suggested, but we do not think that any attempt will be made to carry it out. We Americans are a peaceful people and can stand a great deal, but we would not stand that. Spain can retein Cuba as long as ite people choose to submit to her rule, but when that terminates we will allow no other European interloper to step in and take posscesion of it. When the rebels fired on Fort Sumter, at the outbreak of the war, it stirred up the country from one end to the other. We do not believe that any other event save the seizure of Cuba by the English could reproduce the same scenes of excitement. From the Aroostook to the Rio Grande the coun- try would be in a blaze of enthusiasm, and before a month had elapsed we should have at least a million of men under arms. In the present depressed state of our shipping busi- ness nothing could be more propitious. We would soon have the ocean covered with pri- vateers who would compensate us by their captages for tha inivry done tg our commerce by British pirates sailing under rebel colors. We cannot bring ourselves to believe that the English government is prepared to face such a prospect as this, The Luxemburg question, which has caused it such meatal anxiety, would have been but a small affair oompared with it. The Mobile Riot-What Must Come from Pelitical Campaigning in the South. The Mobile riot is an indication of the future. It points the way events are tending. Many such riots, many instances of savage slaughter in Southern cities must be the consequence of the agitation made by radical oratore—attempts to cram hateful political doctrine down the throsts of the Southern people; those attempts exciting to violent acta, not the réspectable people of the Southern States, but the secesh firebrands, the penniless, reckless remnants of the Southern armies, with nothing to lose, and & natural taste to gratify in tumult, bloodshed and plunder. In the South the republican party already finds another Kansas, Kansas was for several years the theatre on which the factions put their political gladiators to fight out the irre- concilable bittoraess of party hate. The excite- ment of that scene stimulated party life through the whole country and‘kept up a political tury that drove us to the great extreme of the war. Now this agitation is to be .transierred to the Southern States. They are to become the theatre of the same sort of political drama that must be more exciting as the scene is larger, as the passions are more intense, as the results expected must be greater, and as there are more cities to be burned and throats to be cut, before those results can become attainable to either party. It is easy for the North, quietly looking on, spectators of the terrible struggle, to see what must be the inevitable issue. We tie a people down by military law—we tell them that their States have no political existence just now, that they are only free to pursue the ordinary course of business and social life, and must leave the rest alone. They acqui- esce and go on as quietly as heart could wish, eager only to be quiet—grateful for rest from political turmoil and for the chance to cultivate their flelds. But, presto! before the ink of our military laws is dry we let loose on them political missionaries, prepa- gandists, agitators, to start again that very political life that we have said must for the present be extinct. We show them that they may go into politics as much as thoy like, if they will go in on the right side, and we hint broadly that we are ready to’ distribute South- | ern lands freely to she class that will bid highest for them in republican votes. It is useless to cover our eyeo—we may shat Wilgan will do plausibly and diandty the Hay- cavagely, and.even withouts decont attempt ‘Even Judge ai forth on the tail of hiscoat, and he twists the United with which to damage all heads that may come in his way in this @ne faction fight. No one at the North is deceived by such fame—no one here listens with respect to any man’s declara- tion that he will come with the whole United States army behind him, if he cannot otherwise pump republican doctrine into the open ears of the whole South. But these things are heard differently at the places where they are spoken. People who live in the track of Sherman’s army know what such a threat means—though perhaps Judge Kelley does not; and the threat that is meré rhetoric to him is to them a remembrance of ‘a horrible reality and reawakes savage thoughts already soothed into a half sleep by progreasive reconstraction. Such phrases, also, are taken by the blacks for positive promises, and through thenr irritate the whites even more than when fresh from the mouth of the orator. Thus they start bad pas- sions, irritate, annoy, excite even the best dis- posed people; and the worst disposed need only such pretexts. < Our military commanders at the South know how inflammable the bad elements are—how easily strife may be lighted up; and in the aitempt to prevent, rather than have to sup- press revolt, they have sometimes touched upon doubtful powers. Doubtless they would have moral courage enough to act in every case, and prevent utterance where it would probably lead to disturbance. But in many cases the trouble does not so palpably flow from given speeches that they can venture upon inter- ference. Congress should come to the rescue on this point. It should’ certainly assemble in July and take measures to provide political campaigning in districts not politically free, but subject to military law. If it does not we shall see undone all that has hitherto been done toward a restoration of the States. A Perverse Generation. There scems to be a fatality hanging over the South. No matter how much events may shape themselves in favor of that unfortunate section, something is certain to occur to destroy their beneficial operation. When the ‘war was over and the North was nearly a unit in support of a conciliatory and generous policy towards the defeated rebels, the assas sination of Lincoln and the contemplated destruction of Seward and Grant reawakened all the bitter and vindloitve feelings engen- dered by the four years’ war. Now, as soon as Wilson, Greeley, Underwood, Hayward and their associates start on an incendiary political pilgrimage through the Southern States, and do acts that are condemned and deplored by the Northern people and that threaten the destruc- tion of the radical party, a few hot-headed, unre- constructed rebels get up a murderous riot and again turn the tide of popular feeling against themselves. A few more such demonstrations as that at Mobile will 0 incense the Northern mind that conciliation and generosity will be no longer thought of. A New Subject for Barnum. It will be remembered that after the capture of Jeff Davis Barnum advertised as an exhib tion the hoop skirt and hood in which he was taken. The bait tickled people, and we believe some money was. made by it. Now that Davis himself is here we would suggest to the showman to enter into an arrangement with him. He would draw better than the Woolly Horse, the Bearded Lady, or the Feejeo Mermaid. For any other career the ex-Presi- dent of the defunct confederacy is both legally and physically diaqualified. Itis not every dis- carded ruler that can segure such easy quarters ‘and such permarence of notoriety es Barnum gen give hia 4 Ie Mexico Capable of Self-Geveramoat? With the close of the great struggle of the Mexican people sgainst foreign intervention and Church rule, they throw themselves upon the charity of the world and demand that time be given them for a trial of the great princi- ples which so early as 1833 they inscribed upon their banners, and which, after the deso- lating wars that followed, took more tangible form in their great constitution of 1857. They claim that their country has reached that posi- tion where all the principal ‘elements that oppose self-government have disappeared, and that an era of peace will surely follow the downfall of the second attempt at aa imperial government. Mexico to-day stands virtually where she did at the date of the French inter- vention. At that time the liberals had just attained ‘the object of their long years of bloody strife, and were about to apply their principles of government in place of the narrow Church-and-State rule which fettered the whole land. The intervention prevented the trial of the new liberal code, and dealt the country such a staggering blow that to-dey she stands where she did then. Willing as we are to wait a reasonable time, and hoping that she will succeed in the formation of a thriving nationality, we still fear that our hopes are chimerical, and that in the great struggle between Church and State they have held in abeyance policital problems, still pregnant with revolution, which were in existence at the date of Mexican independence, not to mention those to which the rough half-century war storm has given birth. The Mexican constitution and raform laws, of which the educated people of that country may jastly be proud, are well fitted to a gov- ernment which has already been freed from the evils which still cling around the Mexican body politic, and which has by along and wise preparation of its people shaped them, intellectually, to enjoy the great benefits which such a code might confer; but to unite in a civil code all the repyblican wisdom which the study of Grecian, Roman and modern red republicanism could invent, and then to entangle it in a net work woven from the constitution of the United States, was, for Mexico, simply Utopian ; still more Utopian when we consider that Mexican statesmen have to apply those laws toa race that can- not understand them. % The master minds of Mexico have made the mistake not unfrequently made even in the most civilized countries of the world—that of trying to fit the people to the laws instead of fitting the laws to the people. They are demanded. If no other proof existed of the ‘incapacity of the Mexican mind to appreciate fally the demands which the nineteenth century makes upon it, this alone would be problem is that the country is Spanish. If this be, aimply applied to the rulers it ig true ; for some two hundred thousand people of pure Spanish blood form the great element of government, stir the naturally docile and easily guided Indian races to revolution, and kesp the whole country in turmoil. Before this Indian population can be fitted to the new conditions which the theoretical Mexican The Incurrection ta Candia. however, has not frightened the Cretans into submission. Rather than yield, they seem re- solved to fight it to the death. In a recent en- hands. We have no hope at all that the Chris- tians, unaided, will ever be able to drive the Mus- sulmans from the island. It is impossible. The war has been and must be unequal ; and unless aid in some way comes from without, it must but be a war ofextermination. The time, we think, has now come when interference is called for. The struggle has been maintained long enough to entitle the weaker party to something more than sympathy and respect. The Ottoman government has had sufficient time to suppress the insurrection. It has not been able to do so. The civilized Powers of the world would now be perfectly justified im interfering to ee unnecessary bloodshed. The Cretan affair not a boundary question, like that of Luxem- burg. It is a humanity question, and comes home, not to special nations only, but to all hearts in all nations. The voice of the suffer- ing Cretans bas been sounding over thé earth for the last eight or nine months, and while it speaks to us all of suffering nobly endured and sacrifice nobly made, it does at the same time piteously call for help. Has America nothing to say in behalf of the interests ofhumanity? Might she not imitate the example of England, and, by becoming the instrument of settling » grander | than the Luxembarg difficulty, entitle herself to the gratitude, not of the Cretans alone, bus of the whole world? Unless something is promptly done the volcanic elements of Bu » already turbances and bloody riots which baw © taken place in consegwence of the infa tory harangues pe sad Northern radical a, - tors who are now in the South, would it n®& be better for the Republican’ National Com- mittee to pause for awhile and ).% the seeds of reconstruction take root before a.\y more bad feeling is engendered? The bleed: Wg Kanses game cannot be made twice profitab te in & political sense, and we are of the opinio.™ that the republican party will gain more stre: 6 by 4 course tending to harmonize the Southe. people than they would by pursuing a policy calculated to restore the old animosities. Ristori’s Farewelt Appearance. The farewell appearance of Ristori will attract to the French. theatre all thas is most distinguished in the intellectual and the wealthy circles of New York society. Full dress being de rigueur, the most brilliant and fashionable display of the season may be anti- cipated. Socially, as well as professionally an@ — pecuniarily, the career of Ristori in Amerios has proved a complete success. Thé honoss which have been showered upon the great tre- gedienne in public have been only equalled by the hearty welcome extended to Madame Ristori in her private character as an exemplary wife and mother, and as‘a most amiable and acoom- plished woman, by the first families in every city which she has visited. From hor debut, last September, in New York, Ristori bas had an uninterrupted series of successes, and her progress through the United States has been a triumphal tour. We need net add a word more to the unanimous verdict of approval which her genius has won from the American people. Nor need we repeat our conviction that the American stage is indebted to her for the revival of the classical drama. But we must note one praise- worthy feature of her visit to this country, namely, the fact that she has reserved for ite close most of her public acts of charity. If ahe had played at the beginning of her visit fot the benefit of the Dramatic Fund, the Italian schools, the Southern Relief Fund, and foc other similar purposes, there would not have been lacking ill-natured persons who might have snoered at even such splendid acts of charity as she has performed. They might have called them a part of an ingenious system by which she was to puff herself into profitable notoriety. Ag it fs, all must acknowledge that, largely duo to the skill and tact and energy Mr. Grau, a manager who adds to all his sorting to any such “tricks” as have, nately, associated the name of Jenny Lind with thet of a vulgar showman. And he has beer amply rewarded by the splendid results of aa entirely different system of management. The annals of dramatic history have secorded ae JEFF DAVIS. His Presence at the New York Hotei—Scence and Incidents. ‘With an evident desire to avoid.public notice and am equally apparent popular one to-allow the late State prt eoner an unnoticed stay in this city, very tow i At an early hour in the morning large numbers: sonal friends in the: city left their cards, wu placed in Mr. real tel that ae argon and breakfasted, at eleven o'clock, the them wore granted interviews, These were admitted i ! i 3 td Aeeties i ' ‘Brockio. ridge and othere who figured notoriously !n the rebellion. From two o'clock until iste in the afternoon Mr, with no one present but his brother, availed the recuperative advantages of a quiet slumber, and afterwards received his friends and conversed with them as before, The names of the Davis party have teen ny i) |