The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1867, Page 6

ca & NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR, MANAGER. STREET. Volume XXXII....... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Bro elreek —Hasr Lexa, o8 TAR Exo} near Broome WORRELL SISTERS’ NEW ite New York Hovel.— YORK THEATRE, oppo. ADDIN anp CINDERELLA. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place,—T. TeovPe oF Jarawasu Antises tn Thisle WoNDERrUe Peay * ona MP0 THEATRE, Broadway.—Taxasvae Trove, a THEATRE, Bowery.—Tae ©. WERY Tae CakeexteR or poten Tu Vain or Mounear- Rogaaes OF tue Heage :INWAY HALL, Fourteoltty, 5 : ED a Musical yoo ‘eet and Fourth, ave- peg ee ~alRNDELSSOUN' 8” ORATORIO BAN FRANOISY’ , wingTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite fhe Metropoll'aD Hiotel—in Tumie Eratorian ees. Daxcinad aNp BuRcuesau EASURE 4 Gow Huntens—Iuremiat Japanese TROUPE. 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Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 2!, oo NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Rroadway.— FAD ayo Ricnt AR OF Propst—Tne Wasnincron 'wins—Wonpers IN NATURAL History, ScieNCE AND ART. Lxcrouxs Dairy. Open from 8 A.M. till UP. M. SHEET. TRIPLE 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. THES NAWs. _ EUROPE. By apecial tetograms through tho Atlantic cable, dated 4n Paris and London yestorday, we have the important “Intolligence that an attempt was made to shoot the Czar din Paris when he was ridiag home with Napotoon from ‘witnessing a grand military review, ‘The assassin wag Out down and arrested, and intense excitement pre- vailed. The press despatch states that the shot was aimed at Napoleon. Tho review on the Champ de Mara was a most bril- Jiant affair, and is specially reported to the Henan, We have also a special cable telegram, dated In Lon- don yesterday, reporting the races at Ascot during the three days which make up the Ascot week of that favorite Eoglish turf meeting. Vauban, Jasper and Lectorer won the thrée great or royal prizes. The Prince of Wales attended on the course in state yester- day. He was received in a quiet and very undemon- #trative manner by the people. The scene on the ground and the road to the course was very brilliaot. The nows report by the cable is dated June 6, evening. It 1s confirmed that the insurgent Cretans have been victorious at all points over Umar Pasha, and that the Turkish army in the island has been badly beaten. ‘The Bulgarians and Servians have, it is said, risen in arms against Turkey. The Fenians arrested lately on the shore at Dungarvia, Ireland, repors that they came from Boston, Aass. Consols closed ot 9415 for money, in London. Five- twenties were at 73 in London and 77% in Frankfort. Tho Liverpool coyon market closed quiet, with mid- dling uplands at 11344. Breadstuffs quiet. THE CITY. At the meoting of the Board of Aldermon yesterday correspondence between the Corporation Council and the Comptroller contained some of the claims for judgments against the city amounting to $414,269 87. A resolution was adopted inquiring what action has ‘oon taken in the matter of prosecuting the sureties of the late Public Administrator. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday. Resolutions horetofore presented, appropriating $20,000 for the colebration of the national anniversary, wera lost for ‘want of a constitutional vote and subsequently iaid over, A resolution was adopted repealing the chapter of the Fovised ordinances relating to the redemption of the city debt, by which the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund are vested with almost unlimited power, and di- recting the Clerk of the Common Council to apply to the next Legislature for the passage of an act ratifying their action was adopted. In the Chamber of Commerce, yestorday, a resolution was passed to place the rooms of the Chamber at the @iaposal of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fand, for the purpose of holding a public meeting to consider the fubjoct of selling thegpubtic piers, and a cominittee ap- pointed to co-operate with the Commissiouers in the matter. Tho Board of Hoalth met yesterday. A resolution was adopted requiring coroners to make certain reports. A special committee reported in favor of bringing suits Against about fifty prominent individuals for disregard. ing the orders of the Board in relation to"the sanitary condition of premises, The weekly report of tenement house mapections was read. The disinfecting corps were busy yesterday disinfecting a tenement house, This is the first case in which the Board of Health has done such work when the owner has failed to do it, Tho Japaneso Commissioners are in the city. Their Dasiness with the government having been concluded they will eat! for Japan on the 11th inst, They visited thoir joggling countrymen @s the Academy of Musio on ‘Wodnesday, Tho Santiago do Cuba was got afloat yesterday, and, being only slightly damaged, was towed up the river to hor shipyard. The American Metitate of Homeopathy reassembled yesterday. An exciting debate took place on the appli- cation of a female physician of Boston for membership, Dut it was finally denied by a vote of sixty-eight to Atty-six, Tho Tone Yacht Club held its second annual regatta yesterday, Six gloops and a catboat started, represent- fing three classes, and @ piece of handsomely chased Tescued in each case. The sloop Uncle Ben came of the general and second class prizes. The sicop Namelers and catboat Jonnie were the winners of the frst and third class prizes respectively, all the other Contestants having met with an accident or withdrawn Defore the race was concluded. There was a large attendance of citizens at the room of the Board of Underwriters, on Broadway, yesterday, examining the numerous plans for the new Post Office building which have been submitted by tho architects, ‘Tho case of Alexandre ¢ al. va. The Sun Marine Insur- ance Company came up yesterday in the Supreme Court, General Term, on ap appeal from @ judgment in favor of the plaintiff apon a policy of insurance issued by defend. ant on tho brig B. F. Newton for $5,000, Tho vessel was Cimaged on the voyage from Belize, and was put back %> that port for temporary repairs, and was finally re. poired im this port. The total cost of repairs amounted to ovarly $14,000, and @ verdict was given for plaintit for the amount in excess of- the policy which bad boon previowsly paid. Decision reserved, Av appeal by Benjamin F, Butier from @ docree of the Surrogate directing the Appellant to make ® further re. ‘turn aa executor of the assets in Massachusetts, Louisi. ong California, of his brother Andrew J, Butler, do- - yesterday, In the inventory filed by Benjamin F. Butier, on the 234 day of August, 1865, i appears that the assets were $76,891 04, whereas is had been ad- mitted that the estate was worth $200,000, and the assets of the testator in the above named States were not included in the appraisement, Decision reserved. In the Court of Common Pieas yesterday, before Judge Cardozo, a motion was made in the case of Thomas Barron va, John Lynch for the discharge from arrest of she defendant, who is held to bail in the sum of $5,000. The action ia instituted for the recovery of the value of & $5,000 United States seven-thirty bond, stolen from Rufus L, Lord at the time of the Lord bond robbery, and which was subsequently found in defendant's pos- session, he claiming it to have been received by bim in © business transaction, Decision reserved, Tn the Common Pleas, Chambers, a motion was made yesterday for the discharge from Blackwell's Island, on habeas corpus, of John Woolford, alias “Frenchy,” on a Semviction for vagrancy. Counsel consented that the ase should be considered as on certiorari, and the Court @ischarged the prisoner, holding that sufficient cause Was not shown for his detention. The stock market was firm yesterday. Gold closed at Imported merchandise was moderately active, and generally firm, while domestic produce, though im most cases lower, was {n more demand. Coffee was un- changed. Cotton was duil, and fully 34c, lower. On ‘Change flour was more active, but at a deoline of 13c, a 26c, Wheat was dull and nominxl, Corn was un- changed, Oats dectined 1c. a 2c, Pork was lower. Beef ruled steady, while lard continued dull and heavy. Freights and whiskey were unchanged, Naval stores were generally dull. Petroleum was lower, with but little doing, MISCELLANEOUS. Dates from San Louis Potost,+ Mexico, to the 17th \timo, state that Maximilian’s fate still hangs in the balance. Juarez and his ministers had held aconference on the subject of a disposal of him, but the conclusion they arrived at is as yot unknown, In the moantimo tho imperial prisoner was looking well and would proba- bly be taken to San Louis soon, It was thought that Juarez would carry him to the capitol. The capture of Miramon with the rest was confirmed. Mendez, how- ever, was nowhere to bo found. Escobedo had issued an order that every imperial officer who had not sur- rendered within twenty-four hours should bo shot, and another congratulating his troops on their victory. Our Havana lotter gates that the Moxican schooner Amalia, whish was seized by the Mexican imperial schooner Salaaan, hid deen ordered 6 tagve tho wators of Cuba with hor ¢aptor in twenty-four hours, 1 18 believed that if tho British Consul had had a war vessel in port he would hav ordered her to seizo the Amalia and take her to a Mexican port, and (hat if thore had been any American war vessels in port thé Ameri- can Consul would have tenderad him the use of them for that purpose. Mr, Hoffman, the liberal agont at Havana, had been ordered to leave the territory within twelve days, after paying a fine of $50. The dates from Greytown, Nicaragua, are to the 3ist ult, The Rivas Porvenir says that the mission of ex- Prosident Martinez to England is only for the purpose of incorporating Mosquitia with Nicaragua, but believes that the payment of claims against the United States for the ravages of Walker and his fliibusters and tho bom- bardment of Greytown may be made to result from it. To substantiate these claims it saya it is only noces- sary to take Mr. Soward’s correspondence with England on the Alabama question, Our correspondent in British Honduras, dating from Belize on the 16th of May, says:—The Colonial Execu- tive Council, having a great dread of tho Indians, now propose to make a treaty with them, This is tio Inst | move, and will oring the English government in coili- sion with that of Mexico on the subject of existing trea- Another Attempt onthe Lite of the Czar. Imperialism has bad a warning and the people of the Old World a sad alarm by one of those cowardly and feeble attempts at popular vindication, as it has been termed, by the murder of the exeoutive, which have frequently prevented the consummation of Great events, and from whioh no public benefit can ever, of course, flow. We are informed by epecial telegram through the Atlantic cable that an attempt was made yesterday in Paris to shoot the Ozar Alexander of Russia when riding to the Tuileries, in com- pany with bis two sons and the Emporor Na- poleon, after witnessing a grand review in tho Champ de Mars. Fortunately the pistol ex- ploded, wounding the hand of the assassin, who was out down and arrested by the impe- rial escort, amid the most intense popular excitement. It is intimated that the murderer is a Pole, as cries of “Vive le Pologne!” were heard at dii- ferent points in the crowd just before the pistol was aimed at the carriage. serfs that the man intended to shoot Napoleon, but our special reporter is positive that he sought the life of the Czar. This sad event will disturb the equanimity of the congregated sovereigns vastly, and must be particularly distressing to the Em- peror of Russia, it being the second murder- ous attempt which has been made against his person within a short apace of time. It may, indeed, havé the pffoct of preventing the com- pletion of the congregation of sovereigns in Paris by keeping away the Sultan, the Em- peror of Austria and the King of Italy, each of whom rules over populations in which are to be found reactionary rebels just as fanatic as are to be had in Poland, and equally malignant. Such a result would be peculiarly unforta- nate. Napoleon is on the point of the fruition ol, evidentiy, a really grand idea looking to a sett t of the Eastern question, the Polish question, and the German and Northern diffi- , which, if fully perfected, may ensure te peace of the world for a very lengthened period. e arm of this assassin may have dissi- pried it, and if 60 no more heavy blow has boon dealt against progress and civilization since the martyrdom of Abraham Lincoln. culti toa, Perhaps Mexico may not be able to take her own part; but she may, and this aot will likely make the wedge which will be the means of carrying out the Mon- roe doctrine and making Mexico and the colony of fHon- duras part of the United Slates, Tho Constitutional Convention reassemblod at the usual hour yesterday, when the President announced several appointments as doorkeepers, librarian, secre- taries, clerks, &¢,, and committees on rules, publishing and the best practical method of procedure to revise the constitution. The last named committes consists of sixteon members. The Convention, after acting upon several unimportant propositions, adjourned until this morning. ‘The Presidential party arrived at Chapel Hill, N.C, yesterday afternoon, where they wore received with the usual ceremonials by Dr. Swayne, of tho University. The Prosident, in reply to the speech of welcome, made an address of some length. The party remained at the University to attend the commencement exorcisos, The republicans of Washington held a mass meeting last night to colebrate their triumph at the polls in the recent election in the District. Mr. John F. Cook, colored man, was elected chairman. Spoeches were de liverod by Senator Nye, of Nevada, and others, and a significant letter was read from Benjamin F. Butler, regreting his inability to be present, and stating among other things that the republican vic- tory was peculiarty well timed, because the President was even now about to hinder the operations of the Reconstructicn law by declaring the provisional govern- ments of the South to be supreme, and that the Southern military commanders have no authority to remove civil officers of the State, Judge W. D. Kelley was serenaded at his nome in Philadelphia last night by his political friends, In ro- sponding to the compliment Judge Kelloy took occasion to refer to bis iate experience at Mobile, and said that the riots were not chargeable as much to the citizens or the disloyal authorities of that piace as they were to Andrew Johnson, who had appointed to & post of profit there a recreant Northerner, who provoked the disturbance by inflammatory statements in the public journals days before his arrival. The riots, he said, were premeditated, and were not brought on by any words of his own, General Sheridan has appointed Benj. F. Flanders Goveruor of Louisiana, in place of Thomas J. Durant, declined. Goueral Sickles has fasued a general order requiring all civil officers in North and South Carolina charged with the maintenance of the public peace to report to the Provost Marshals of their respective districts, Judge Busteed made a speech in Montgomery, Ala., on Wodnesday night, in which he cordially endorsed the recent republican convention which declined to invite him to participate in its proceedings. A frightful accident occurred in Philadelphia yesterday afternoon. The boiler in a sash factory exploded, com- pletely demolishing the five story building, which fell and buried twenty-five porsons in the ruina, Thirteen of them were taken out soon after, but eight of them were dead and the remainder were terribly crushed. Twelve others are supposed to be still under tho ruins, General Sherman has determined to disiribute his forces along the stage, railroad and telegraph routes in Nebraska leading to Colorado, Montana and Utah, The citizens in the neighborhood of Cottonwood aro com- pelled to remain at home for their own protection. The Paterson races closed yesterday with a fine hurdle face, which was won by Blackbird; two flascos, which coufd hardly be termed races at all, and amile anda quarter dash for the Consolation premium, which was won by the bay filly Dot. A new island has been discovered in the North Pacific Ocean, directly in the path of vessels plying between San Francisco and China A company has been or- ganized In San Francisco to take possession and survey it, and the government has despatched a vessel to locate ts position. Tho wreck of the sh!p Canton, which left Sitka in 1816 and was never afterwards heard from, was rocently dis- covered near Siberia Island. Governor Harriman, of New Hampshire, was inaugu- rated at Concord yesterday, and sent in bis message to the Legislature. Two Congressional excursion partios are enjoying themselves on tho Western Piaina, Sonator Wade's party aro at Omaha, ands party composed of Ropre- sentatives Niblack, Van Wyck, Henderson and others aro at Junction City, Kansas, en rouée to Fort Harker. ‘The United States Circuit Coart at Raleigh opened yesterday, with Chief Justice Chase on the bench. Edward A. Poliard, of Richmond, bas commenced suit for bis property in Washington sold by confiscation. Tur Coyvouty-Kexyepr Dirricucty.—The contest between the Police Justice and the Police Superintendent is epded, and our citi- zona can’ breathe freely. Dr. Cumming says that we are within « year of the end of the world, and this time we are inclined to place faith in his assertion; for assaredly nothing bat the millennium could bave brought about the reconcilement of this dreedfal quarrel. Genoral Grant the Next President. We foresaw some time since that the only way to bring peace, harmony, and prosperity to the country, and at thesame timo to break up the old corrupt machinery of political parties, would be by making General Grant the next President of the republic. Acting upon this view of our situation we occasionally and from time to time brought him prominently forward for this bigh office. We cast our bread upon the waers to see if it would appear after many days. Silenily and quietly the leavon worked; for the thought was in the hearts of the people. We struck a chord that vibrated from one end of the nation to the other. Tho millions of soldiers and their conrections throughout every city, town and village felt the impulse, and they now stand ready to vote for the man who may properly be called the Saviour of the Country, and every conservative citizen, North and South, East and West, is Prepared to do the same. For awhile the partisan politicians, rival aa- Pirants for the Presidency, and the wire pull- ers, who always want to work up the matter themselves and to make their bargains through the old corrupt system of caucuses and conven- tions, were dumb. Naming Grant for Presi- dent fell like a bombshell among them. They were afraid to assail a name enshrined in the hearts of the people and ao impregnable as his. But at last a few violent and impracticable radicals have ventured to show their teeth. They could not resirain their disappointment and anger any longer. Knowing that the nomi- nation of this great general and hero will be tantamount to his election, and that Dis elec- tion will be the death of radicalism and the in- auguration of an era of patriotic conservatism, they have become alarmed. They have dared to bravo popular sentiment and to speak dis- paragingly of a man who saved the republic in the hour of its greatest peril—all from the in- sane desire to make a President of their own disorganizing and revolutionary faction. Thus they have opened tho Presidential campaign in earnest. The newspaper extracts which wo publish to-day in another part of the Hsratp show that, although the election will not take place for eighteen months to come, the cam- pign is fairly opened. It is well, perhaps, that it should be s0;for all the momentous questions, political and financial, in which tho country is involved, will be swallowed up and turn upon the Presidential election. We ac- cept, then, the issue raised by the radicals, having no fear of the result with the name of Grant before the people. It is said General Grant does not wish to bo & candidate, and we think it may boso; for he is as modest as he is great, and he has a splendid position, both in his office of general-in-chief and in history. The labor, cares and danger to one’s reputation in being the chief magis- trate of this republic, might well cause a man of his fame and ardent patriotism not to desire the office. Certainly he is not, like the radical candidate, Chief Justice Chase, and others, working or plotting for it. But ho loves his country too well, and bas too much regard for the will of the people to decline the responsi- bility, if laidupon him. Never, probably, since Washington was President, has there been a man more eminently fitted for the station, and never was there one better adapted to the cir- cumstances of the time. He has shown won- derful powers of combination and tact, a sur- prising breadth of comprehension, great cour- age and vigor, remarkable firmness and tenacity of purpose, and the most ardent pa triotism; yet withal he is extremely cautious, carefal, modest and conservative. It would be hard to find@ moro simple minded and pure republican, notwithstanding his superior position and qualities, He is, in trot, one of the best representatives of Amerioan republe A cible despatch of.the Associated Press a- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY JUNE 7, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. ee ee Te) ee ee, canism and character we ever know. It has been said he is inexperienced in political affairs. We are not sure that this is not a recommen- dation, rather than an objection, looking at the miserable failures of our mere political Presi- dents. But no one, we suppose, will presume to say that General Grant does not understand the political affairs of tho country; and as to our foreign relations, he is the very man to make the United States respected abroad. How absurd to talk of inexperience or capa- city in one who has displayed through his whole career so much sagacity and ability! No; no one doubts that he would prove both 8 safe and an able President, though the poli- ticians, for partisan purposes, pretend to say 8 much. Tho radicals object to him because he is not 8 partisan politician, and will not consent to be their tool. He can very well be the candidate of both the conservative republicans and the democrats. Neither will be compromised, nor will he bo the party representative, strictly, of either. He and his administration would be the rallying point for that new and great con- sorvative party which the country now needs 80 diuch and is looking for. The radicals are essentially revolutionary—they brought on the war, and now keep the republic agitated and disorganized. Their chiet and candidate, Mr. Chase, represents both them and the infamous national bank system, through the combined organigation and power of which he expects to reach the White House. General Grant, on the contrary, is inexorably opposed to monop- oly—to oppressing the mass of the people for the benefit of a few, and he desires the imme- diate restoration and harmony of the country. He has no ambition or object to serve but the wolfare of the republic. The early nomination of General Grant di- rectly by the people would effectually check- mate the schemes, plots and tricks of the poli- ticians and trading President makers. It would break up the odious and corrupt caucus and convention systems, and restore the power of making the President to the people them- selves. The campaign, as we said, is fairly opened. The citizens of every town, village and locality should assemble together, regard- less of politicians, and nominate Grant at once. The conservative and business men of the cities should lead off in this movement, With such a spontaneous burst of popular sentiment and determination the corrupt and irresponsible convention system would be killed beyond the power of resurrection. If even the conven- tions were to meet they would not dare to oppose the will of the people, but would fall in with it, By such timely action the elections preceding that of the President would be carried upon the came platform of policy. We should have General Grant for Chief Magis- trate, with a conservative Congress to support him. This, and this only, is the solution of our sectional and political troubles. We call upon the people to act at once and npminate General Grant for the next President. As to his eleo- tion there can be no question. It is as certain as that the sun shines in a clear sky at noon- day. Demeralization of the American Stage—Tho Modern Newspaper a Substitute for tho Drama, We have often had occasion to lament the demoralization of the American stage. The splendid success of Ristori, during her recent tour in the United States under the thoughtful management of Mr. Grau, is but an exception which proves the general rule. It even renders more palpable than ever, by way of contrast, the gloom and degradation into which our Bar- numized stage has fallen. Tho occasional praiseworthy efforts of a few such intelligent managers as Mr. Stuart, for instance—whose “Shakspeare revivals,” at least eo far as cos- tume and scenic effects are concerned, were superior to anything of the kind since those which were so successful years azo at the Prin- cess’ theatre, in London—have failed to raise the drama from its fallen condition. Managers generally persist in making concessions to the whim and folly of the hour. In fact, they are directly responsible for having done all they could to oreats the low, morbid tastes to which they shamelessly pander. The Black Crook, at a Broadway theatre, has been held up as a model exhibition until its vilest features have boen copied and made familiar in all the prin- cipal cities of the Union. Incaloulable injury has thus been done, not only to the public taste, but to tho public morals. That a higher idval of dtamatic art exists in the American mind than would seem to be the case if we judged only by the multitudes who have been allured to such vile shows, was abundantly proved by the universal enthusiasm with which the American people responded to the appeal of the legitimate drama in the person of Ristori. Even a foreign language oould not prevent that appeal from being intuitively understood, eloquently interpreted as it was by the eye, the hand, the countenance, tho statuesque attitudes and the thrilling tones of Ristori. The universal passion for stage representa- tions is shared by the American people. But it has rarely been excited or gratified toa eatis- factory degree. Indeed, it is dificult to con- ceive, in the present condition of things, how tho drama can ever exercise in this country 80 powerful an influence as it unquestionably has wielded in other countries and other times, In every country except China its origin was more or less closely allied to religion. The Greek tragedies were originally rcligious solemnities, and the Greek stage retained a certain religious character long after the deeds of heroes had been substituted for the great actions of the gods, and bad in their turn been succeeded by scenes of great emotion and great passion, taken from real life. It had a religious hold upon the Greek mind until the glorious dramatic era of Aschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes was over. The Hindoo plays were acted only on solemn occasions. The modern European drama orig- inated in the solemnitics of the Church in me- diwval Italy, France, Spain and England. In the faiter dountry the semi-religious represen- tations which the monks framed from biblical history and the lives of the saints, intermingled with allegorical fantasies, were called myste- ries and moralitics. From these in due time were developed the masterpieces of Shak- speare end his contemporaries, and even the age of the comio drama, with which the name of Dryden is linked, and the golden reign of the Kembles. From the same remote origin came Corneille and Racine and thelr snocessors to the present day in France, Lope de Voga and Calderon in Spain, Ariosto, Taso, Goldonl }: ‘ and Alfieri in Italy, Leasing, Schiller and Goethe in Germany. In all these countries, even after the drama had lost its religious hold on the imagination, it exerted a prodigious educational influence, It has moulded, as well 4s reflected, national opinions, manners and character, and has sometimes directly affected national destinies, All this and more is done in our day and country by the agency of the press. The modern newspaper has replaced the stage as @ mirror of the times and a mighty engine of in- fluence. Perhaps this fact will partly account for the comparative indifference of the Ameri- can people to the present plentiful lack of pro- vision for their higher dramatic tastes. The newspaper has grown astonishingly from its obscure and imperfect beginnings in Rome, where it appeared, as it were, in embryo, under the gove:nment of the Emperors, in peri- odical notices of passing events (acla diurna); it reappeared at Venice in occasional sheots of daily intelligence during the war of 1563 against the Turks, and ina monthly manuscript issued by the State, the first regular paper ever pub- lished; it took the shape of “Extraordinary Gazettes,” published in England by authority during the apprehensions caused by the Spanish Armada ; it was transformed into the Mercuries and Intelligencers of the civil wars, the first regu- lar English papers; as the Gazette de France it supplied in 1631 .the antetype of the modern journals whose name is legion in every civilized country, in 1867; and as the New Yore Henatp, it now daily offers to its readers such a worldwide spectacle of contemporary events as no dramatist ever dreamed of representing in the vastest amphitheatre of ancient Rome. Tragedy, comedy and farce, the everyday life of the world, is vividly represented by the modern newspaper with greater than dramatic power. Spain and the Now World. By the cable we have had news that Spain {s about to increase her fleet in the Pacific. From Cuba, also, our correspondent has stated that there is,a great activity among the Spanish men- of-war; that the vessels already at Carthagena are to be sirengthened by others which have siiled to join them, and that the Navas de Tolosa will sail for the Pacific, This looks like an active campaign and the spiteful bombard- ment and destruction of more of the Pacific ports. It is not very strange that Spain clings to this last straw while she sinks out of sight as @ nation desiring to advance with our century. Since 1810, when the Bonaparte invasion of the Peninsula resuited in the loss of her colonies, the efforts of Spanish rulers have been unceasing in the attempt. to regain a little of the colonial territory which gave her tho silver harvest that in the time of Charles V. domi- nated Europe. Seeing no hope of life and vigor from the internal elements of her pricst- ridden nationality, she leans entirely on the New World. Cuba, young, vigorous and pro- ductive, farnishes the nucleus of all her New World efforts, and supplies all the wealth for the enterprises against tho Spanish-American republics, From Havana was supplied the fleet that landed the Spanish contingent in tho Mexican intervention, and, as we have lately seen, Admiral Nuiiez was obliged to make a circuit of South America and get cash from Cuba for bia new expedition to the Pacific. Not satisfied with this West Indian treasure house, Spain makes a dash on Santo Domingo—fails; then a dash on Mexico to restore at one blow a Spanish monarchy and Church and State— again eho fails; another trial: she seizes the Chincha Islands without provocation, and tests the strength of Pera—another failure; she bullies the proud little republic of Chile, com- mits one of her mogt noted acts of barbarism in the New World by bombarding the finest South American port on the Paciflo—and again tails to gain « foothold in the coveted territory of her old colonies. Poor, almost the despised of nations, and the pest of the Spanish-American republics, the time is rapidly approaching when the United States must tell her that she must cease to interfere with repub- lican progress on this continent; for we are all marching together, and a blow at one of us is a blow at the whole. Tho most vulnerable point of Spain is Cuba, and it is hero that the South Amorican repub- lics should aim st her. They should imme- diately hold a general congress and appro- priate a fund to arm and set afloat some fast steamers from the Caribbean ports to destrpy the Spanish-West Indian commerce. A few iron-clads, well handled, will, in tess than a year, teach Spain a lesson never to be forgotten ; and, if a strong effort be made, Caba itself may be revolutionized. It is notorious that Cuba ia already rapidly gravitating towards repub- licanism and that a little outside pressure brought to bear would overthrow the present colonial government. Cuba might then live for herself instead of living for a worn and cor- rupt old monarchy that now crushes out her treasure and impedes her advancement. Tho gailing of the Spanish men-of-war for the Southern Caribbean indicates that such a move- ment is really feared ; but if the republics will, as in their war of independence, make a united effort, they may very soon rid themselves of their detested enemy, and at the same time crown their war with the freedom of the last colonial possession of Spain in the New World. Chile, Peru, Ecuador, New Granada and Ven- eguela should no longer defer their proposed congress—they should lay aside their petty differences, discard home revolutions—which have thus far prevented unity of action—and consider that when they remove Spain from their path they remove one of the principal barriers to their progress. The Northwestern Railroad. A special telegram to the Heratn from Chi- cago informs us that the election for the Board of Directors of the Northwestern Railroad Com- pany for the ensuing twelve months was held yesterday, and that the old Board was re- elected by a vote representing twenty-four millions of stock against the opposition, which only mustered about six millions. The oppo- sition ticket was known as the Wall street com- bination, and was composed of directors of other companies, railroad presidents and su- perintendents, with a sprinkling of bank officers, who sought to get control of the Nortli- western Company for objects, it has been stated, that would have proved detrimental to the Interests of a large majority of the stock- holders, Tho Western men were in high glee over their victory, and the Wall street mani- pulators were sont home with their proxigs on borrowed stock, if not happier, cousidgrably than when they went Musical Feativals. We have not as yet learned how to get up “musical festivals,” in the European senso of the term. Everything of the kind that has been attempted here has been on so small a scale and so inefficiently managed that it has neither been satisfactory to the public nor to lis pro- moters, The so-called festival which is at pre- sent being held in this city is no improvemont on the general character of these enterprisos. It is poverty-stricken in its arrangements, includes but few first class performers, and is but indifferently attended. There is a great deal of musical taste in our community, and whenever anything really good is offered to it, it is sure to be appreciated. It resents, however, imposition, and cannot be seduced into attending performances which offer no guarantee of excellence. The time has passed by when third rate fiddlers and small music teachers can undertake to humbug us with their attempts at management. There is now sufficient musical cultivation among us to enable us to discriminate in such matters. Those managers, and they are but few, whe appreciate this fact, command the confidence of the public, and will always get together good audiences. Mr. Grau, for instance, never ‘announces anything that is not sure to be patronized, because he never abuses the trust reposed in him. His first care is to satisfy the public, his next to satisfy hia artists, and his last to take care of himself. With the other clags of managers the order of things is reversed. They are bent upon. making money whether they please the public or not, and the conse- quence is that in nine cases ont of ten they fail in their object. If one of these men had had Ristori to manage, the probabilities are that in spite of her magnificent talents he would have made a fiasco with her. The very names of some of these theatrical and operatic under takers are sufficient to kill the artists engaged by them before they have a chance of being seen or heard. In regard to musical festivals, there are but few persons in this country who are competent to get them up. That they weuld be liberally patronized if they were properly managed there isno room to doubt, When they fulfil even moderately the conditions which we have a right to look for we will guarantee that there willbe no cause of complaint on the part of their projectors. ‘The Action of the Convention on the Death of Hiscock. Few will read the speeches made in the Con- vention at Albany, on Wednesday, on the death of Mr. Hiscock, without recognizing the bad taste which characterized them. It seems to us that the simple announcement pro forma of that gentleman’s demise would have been more appropriate to the occasion than the language indulged in, both by those who eulogized the victim as well as those who prejudged the case of the principal actor in the acene. When the matter comes be.~ «he courts the cause and the results of the «tragedy will doubtless be well weighed. At present we are in ignorance of the facts which led to it except as elucidated , by an ex parte statement. It is evident that the perpetrator expects to be fully justified for the act, and probably committed it with that eon- viotion strong im his mind. It may be, also, that ‘these very gentlemen, who, in their speeches dealt ao harshly with the manslayer, would be among those to justify him if they bad to adjudicate upon the case. As far as the public know, it is a very doubtful question as to justification, no proofs having been yet fur nished of the commission of the crime alleged against the deceased. The frenzy of Mr. Cole may have beon the result of mere suspicion acting upon a sensitive and jealous mind ; and it would be a dangerous precedent to establish should a jealous man be justified in taking another's life under such circumstances. The conduct of the prisoner towards his wife before and since the homicide is, to say the least, in- explicable under the circumstances alleged. It would be more discreet, therefore, to avoid passing judgment until a legal investigation can be had. Change of Flags in Walrussla. Our correspondent informs us that Russian commissioners are to proceed at once to Sitka to go through the formalities of turning over our new posszssions to Yankee Doodle. The icy cold colors of Russia will give place to the Stars and Stripes, and Walrussia will henoe- forth become the north star of the republic. Our government must immediately appoint commissioners to meet those already solected. It would be a good plan to appoint Sherman and Campbell, who could this time proceed overland, provided they have with them a good Heravp correspondent to show them the way. The hoisting of the Stars and Stripes will be a great event for Walrussia, She will launch into new life. All the Esquimaux will be at the gathering; the Common Council of Sitka will make an appropriation to celebrate the occasion ; roast walrus, boiled walrus, fried walrus, walrus @ la mode, whale scraps, whale blubber and whale oil will be served up in abundance the choicest wines from the Arctic vineyards will be furnished; the Esquimaux girls willbe in at the first national ball; all around the harbor of Sitka the seals, the*polar bears and the walruses will turn out en masse tosee what's up, and finding that it is the American flag and Brother Jonathan, will join {m the general jubilee. Thus we nationalise our new purchase of real estate. Where is the next slice, Mr. Seward? ‘The Progress of German Cousolidation—The Now Zdilvercin. Our cable despatches of yesterday made us aware that one of the members of the South German Confederation had resolved to cast in her lot with the Northern Confederation, of which Prussia is the acknowledged head. The transaction, it is true, is not yet completed; but the voice of the Chamber of Deputies may be accepted as decisive in the matter. Under the present arrangement Hesse is divided, part having become tneorporated with Prussia at the close ofthe late war. If the decision come to by the Chamber of Deputies be sanctioned by the other branch of the legislature and by the Executive, Hease will be restored to herself, the Northern Confederation will be proportion- ately strengthened, and another point will have been attained in the progress of German unification. Baden, Wtirtemberg and Bavaria, the only other members of the Southern Bund, may be expected to follow in due time. Nor is this all. The Zollvercin which was dostroy- ed by the late war is to be renewed and is to include the whole of Germany with tho excep- ton of the German States, Commeroially, | } a