The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, ee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore HeRatp. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- AMUSEMENTS THIS E ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteonth street.—Itallan L'Avmicains. Matinee at 1—Mzpxa. —SoLon SuincLe—THRER BOWERY THEATRE, vor Linx, Fast Men or New Yous: NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Brace Croog. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. Fanouon, uw Caicx xt. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Niemr’s Dasax. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Uanay Dovvan GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Manis Stuant. Broadway.—A MipsuMMER BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Inssavocue— ‘Turicn Manaizp. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—Tuz Graxp Dvcuxss. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, way and Thirtieth street.—Devit's Avctiox, Broad- | | lower. | was quiet, but steady, at former prices, Wheat was NEW YORK CIRCUS. Fourteenth street.—Gruxastics, Equastaianis, Ac. Matinee at 235. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 2 reg 4 West 24th street.— Survoce—Cinpeeeita. Matinee a! THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Wuits, Corrox 4& Smanrcer's Minstaxis. . SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ermio- run RTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING aND BURLESQUES. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 rece —Sonca, Danexgs, Eccestaicitizs, Burcesques, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comte Vocatism, Nucno Minstegisy, 4c. Matinee at 24. EIGHTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, corner Thirty-fourth street. —Minstaxtsy, Fakcus, &c. BUTLER’S AMERICAN THEATRE, 473 Broadway.— Bawuar, Farce, Pantomime, 40. BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tax Puorm. DODWORTH'S HALL.—Apventunes or Mas. Brown. HOOLEY'’S OPERA #0 Brooklya.—Eraioriax Muneraaisy, BALLADS AND BuRLEsaues, BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, Willlamsburg.—Unper tax Gastigur. FINE ART GALLERIES, 845 Broadway,—Exuipition oF Paurrings. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Scrmnca any Aur. Now York, Wednesday, O TRIPLE SHEET THE NEWS. EUROPE. By special telegram through the Atlantic cable from Rome, Italy, Franve aud spain, and the latest news reports, we learn that the Itato-Roman revolutionary movement was in rapid progress, under Garibaldi, to an immediate issue, which promises to be one of great national importauce. Garibaldi bad advanced to the outer fortifications of Rome? having about twelve thou- ‘sand men under his cominand. Pius the Ninth retired from the Vatican and was sheltered in the castle of San Angelo, Ten thousand French troops had arrived at Toulon from Alger, and the fleet of iron-clads was lying off the harbor waiting the preseuce of a second imperial oxpeditiouary squadron which was preparing to leave the port. The French fleet at Cherbourg had been ordered for service, King Victor Emanuel bas issued @ prociamation denouncing the Garibaldian movement, and calling on all hws subjects in arms against the Pope to return home and save Italy from a “‘fratricidal’’ war with France, The King says that France and Italy will take practical measures to settle the Roman question Garibaldi had some severe en- gagements with the Papal soldiers, in which the revola- tonists were, for the most part, victorious, The Pope’s troops fougut well. The most intense excitement prevailed ctober 30, 1867. inside of Rome, as’ an atiack on the city was looked for | hourly. Paris was deeply agitated and the Bourse made uneasy by political rumors and canards, =pain has de- cited to join in any action which the other Catholic Powers may take for the defence of the Pope’s authority. ‘The Pope has issued an encyclical letter to the bishops of the Church on the dangers of the crisis. General Lersundi has accepted the post of Captain General of Cuba. The races at Vincennes, France, were attended by great crowds, and the turf contests were _ quite exciting. The latest financial and commercial reports from Eardpe by the Atiantic cable are given in our columns. The Cunard steamship Russia, from Queenstown on the 20th of October, reached this port at an early hour this morning. Tne Russia brings our files and special correspondence in detail of our cable despatches to the 19th inst, THE CITY. ‘The storm which began on Monday has effected con- siderable damage in this city and throughout the neigh- Doring country, The celiars and basements along the river fronts were inundated by the swollen tide, nu- were toppled over by the wind, the ferryboat ying the Hudson and East rivers expe- rienced great difficulty im navigating. The water rose to the sitting room in some of the ferry houses, and in others inundated the bridges, A sloop was capsized off Hoboken and one man was drowned. A large building was blown down in Hackensack, N. J. Of the results om the coast we have yet to hear, and no doubt the account will teem with wrecks and disasters. ‘The Board of Heaith held « special meeting yesterday afternoon, at which the report of the counsel to the Board on the power of the Board to issue proclamations at gortain seasons, concerning the quarantising of ves- wela, was presented, and a resolution giving power to the attorney to commonce suits against forty-three tene- ment house owners, who refuse to comply with the tenement house law, was passed. The Board of Excise beld their regular weekly mect- ing yesterday, and disposed of « calendar of thirty-four cases, Several licenses were revoked. The investigation into the circumstances attending the collision of the Vanderbilt and Dean Richmond was continued yesterday, and some important evidence wae produced, The testimony of the engineer appears to contradict the evidence of some of the former wit nesses, as be differs not only as to the time of the col- lision, but also deposes that the Vanderbilt was Bull go- ing ahead when she struck the other vessel. According to the last weokly mortality report there ‘wore 386 deaths in this city, and 167 in Brooklyn during that period. Dr. Harris says the weck appears to have Deen more favorable to life than any corresponding week in the past five yoara A-target company, styled the Voorbecs Guards, while on an excursion to the Bellevue Garden, on Monday, became riotous, and, according to the police, broke strost lamps, catted stores, and assaulted car drivers and conductors without being interfered with by the of- ficers of that preciact. A Mass meeting in favor of the Sunday and Excise law was hold last evening at the Cooper Institute. Ad. dreasen wore delivered by Horace Gresiey aud several ministers of the Gospel. ‘The caso of the United States against Theophilus C. Callicott, ox-Cotlector of Internal Revenue in the Second diswiet, and five others, charged with conspiracy to efrand the United States government, is set down for trial im the United States Circuit Court, Eastern district, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. Our Coast Line=The Terrible Southwestern | rules, We have gone backward; civilization ailing a letter from the 2 General Post office. A motion for stay of judgment was argued. Decision was reserved and the prisioner was remanded to jail. ‘The stock market was dull yesterday. Government securities closed strong, and five-twenties of 1865 were i particularly active demand, with sales at nes Gold Was dull and closed at 142 In view of the inclemency of the weather, the markets generally wore characterized by extreme quietude, In prices there were mapy important changea Coffee was steady, Cotton was rather more active, but a shade Woo! was dull and heavy. On "Change flour dulland lower. Corn was dull, but unchanged, while oats were firmer, but quiet, Pork was in fair demand and better, Beef and lard were more active—the latter was firmer. Freights were less active and not so firm. Whiskey was unchanged, Naval stores were generally active, while petroleum was dull, and 3c. 8 lo. lower. MISCELLANEOUS. - Several prominent Southerners bave recently expressed to the President their conviction that a general outbreak among the negroes is imminent, They say nearly every negro man in the South is well armed, while the whites are almost entirely without means of defence, The im- peachment of the President is believed to be the time determined upon for a rising. These gentlemen strongly urge upon the President an increase in the military force now distributed through that section. The electien for a convention commenced in Georgia yestorday, and so far has passed off without disturbance, The negroes had matters all their own way, very few ‘whites, eithor radical or conservative, taking any part in it, The chances for a convention are, consequently, favorable, Governor Fenton has published his proclamation naming the 28th day of November next as a day of gen- eral thankegiving and praise, Secretary Seward has concocted another secret mis- mon scheme. Rev, Mr. Hawley, a Presbyterian minister at Auburn, isto be sent out to foreign countries for about four months on some mysterious business, The case of lawyer Bradley, who was dismissed from the bar by Judge Fisher during the Surratt trial, and who subsequently challenged the Judge, was before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in Washing- ton, yesterday, An order for Bradley to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt was en- tered, and he was suspended from practice until the Ona! disposition of the case. An investigation into a horse stealing transaction§in Jamaica, L. I, has disclosed the fact that the loft of the Episcopal church in the village of Little Neck has for nearly two years been the den of a gang‘of thieves, who have committed nume! depredatiens in that commu- nity. They lately mi mneral descent on the pub- lic schools, and while w organ was in process of erection in the church they stole the pipe and bellows and used them for melting silver. About $15,000 worth of stolen goods has been discovered. Indications in the loft leave the impression that one of the gang was a female. ‘The subsidy to a line of steamers from Jamaica to New Orleans, which the colonial government of Jamaica proposed to give, has been vetoed by instructions from England, The bark Patmos, which was bound for Chile with a cargo of war material, has again been embargoed at St, Thomas, and it was probable that the ship Sarah New- man, with a doubtful cargo, would be served the same way, ‘On the 13th inst, Porto Rico experienced a severe hur- ricane which destroyed several vessels and caused the rivers to overflow, inundating the country very gener- ally. In St. Domingo the money crisis still prevails. The government is without funds, Despatches from Havana dated the 28th state that a severe hurricane and rain storm wag provailing in the Gulf. General Sheridan left Portland, Me., yesterday and went to Augusta, All along the route and as the State capital he received the usual demonstrations of wel- come. Last night he proceeded to Concord, N. H. Tom Kelly, of Philadelphia, and Bill Parkinson, of Pottsville, fought at Aquia Creek yesterday for $2,000. Onty fourteen rounds were fought, lasting only half an hour. In the second round both parties were so terribly battered that their friends had to pick themup. The game was finally accorded to Kelly for a ‘*foul,” but the friends of Parkinson claim that the decision is wrong and intend to contest it, , A ship carpenters’ strike prevails at Quebec, and all the sbipyards are closed, as the disaffected workmen threaten vengeance on any of their craft who go to work at the present rates. A mob of them got together yesterday and it was deemed necessary to call out the military to prevent a riot. There were eleven deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans yesterday, among them Lieutenant George Lee, of General Mowers’s staff. There were two deaths in Mobile, Weston, the pedestrian, who is walking from Portland, a to Chicago, Ill., on a wager, passed through Saco, esterday, thirty-five minutes ahead of time and g fresh. The report of serious illness among the Yale College students is flatly contradicted by President Woolsey. ‘The exercises will not be suspended. Hunnicutt made a speech tn Richmond last night, in which, referring to threats made against him, he said that when he was killed more than one white man would fall, which sentiment was warmly seconded by his gable audience, The Ri mn Questien. Our special cable and news despatches from Florence, London and the other centres, and dated up to the latest, show that the situation inand around Rome has become critical in the extreme. The sentiment in favor of national unity spreads over the entire penin- sula and permeates all ranks and classes of the people. The cry for Rome as the capital of the kingdom has become lopd and general. A severe struggle had taken placo at Monte Rotondo, and although the Papal troops fought with great bravery, the volunteers, with Garibaldi at their head, were in the end completely suc- cessful. According to latest accounts Gari- baldi, with a force of some twelve thousand men, had reached the outer fortifications of pe Rome was in a state of the most in- tense excitement, and the Pope had fled from the Vatican and taken refuge in the Castle of St. Angelo. As the first act of the Ministry organized under General Menabrea, Victor Emanuel had issued a proclamation declaring his government to be in perfect accord with that of the Emperor Napoleon, denouncing Garibaldi and calling upon the revolutionary bands under his command to return to their homes. The proclamation concludes with an assurance that France and Italy will concert measures for a satisfactory settlement of the question. The situation ie still further com- plicated when it is borne in mind that by this time the troops sent from Toulon are in all likelihood landed on the Pontifical territory, and are probably even now in collision with the Garibaldians. The case is now so far cleared up that we know what the Italian government means and what it intends to do. In this case, however, it is difficult to ssy how far intention can be backed up with power.- The Menabrea Min- istry has evidently been got together with very great difficulty, and it is now manifest from this, its first act, that it docs not represent ths national mind and will, Will the Italian people bow to what they consider the inevitable, or will they rise in rebellion against their rolers? It has for some time been unmistakably manifest that Italian soldiers could not be trusted in any anti-Garibaldi movement. Will it be safe wo November 11, prox, Judge Nelson will proside, Judge | trust them now? This is the difficulty in which Benedict assisting, The hearing of this important case is looked forward to with great Interest. In the United States Circuit Cours yesterday, Judge Benedict presiding, the jary brought im a verdici of gullly against Boojamio F, Oakey, charged with embes- | Victor Emanuel and his Cabinet find them- selves. How events will issue it is extremely difficalt to determine. It would not surprise us to learn that this proclamation had been accepted all over the peninsula as the signal for revolution, and that it was followed by a general uprising of the people and a serious defection of the army. The result of such a step could only be civil war, and civil war would be the ruin of Italy. The French occupation of Rome would expand itself over the peninsula and the Italian people would be made more the debtors of Napoleon than ever. If Victor Emanuel had placed bimself at the head of the national movement he might have commanded the sympathy of Europe and been able to defy France. As it is, there is too much reason to fear that the game is lost for the present. By this time, perhaps, Garibaldi is in Rome, but it is difficult to see how he will be able to hold it against the power of France. Tf, however, the Roman question can be satisfactorily setiled and Italy saved from revolution, the world will be grateful. Our City Politice—The County and Municipal Oftces. , When the people of New York ordered 5 convention for the revision of the State consti- tution they desired and believed that a system of government for municipalities would be laid down ‘in the organic law which would secure to this metropolis an efficient and economical administration ‘of its local affairs, and work a thorough reform in our.city poli- tics, The imbecility, dishonesty and cowardice of the radical majority in the convention de- feated the object of the people, and left us in a greater muddle than ever before, each fac- tion struggling to obtain something or other out of the general scramble, in the apprehen- sion that it may be the last chance they will have at the public plunder. Thus we see for each of the county and legislative offices from four to half a dozen aspirants—regular and irregular democrats, radical and conservative republicans, people’s candidates, independ- ents, and all manner of soreheaded patriots; and the probability is that a similar state of things will prevail at the charter election in December. ThiS heated contest over the local spoils will be the means of drawing out a tremendous vote in this city next week. On Friday and Saturday, the Ist and 2d of November, an un- precedented number of votes will be registered, and we should not be surprised if the total registration this year were to reach one hun- dred and forty thousand. So far as the local offices are concerned, alihough they are the inciting motive with a great number of the voters, it is of very little consequence what the result may be. It is merely a question whether one set of men or another shall enjoy the profits of a handful of places and secure the rich drippings from the Sheriff's, County Clerk’s and otber offices. The great mass of the people care little about them. The Tammany ticket, being the regularly nominated demo- cratic concern, will be likely to take the bulk of the democratic voters, with the exception, probably, of the candidate for County Clerk, who is notoriously unfit for the office. The re- publican nominees would be well supported, as representing the soldiers of the war, if it were not for the fact that they also represent negro barbarism in its most repulsive form, as well as all the sumptuary legislation of the fanatical Sunday law radicals. The irregular demo- crates will combine the several soreheaded and disappointed politicians in the city, and their chance of success depends upon how many of such dissatisfied spirits they can mus- ter. But,as we have said, the result of the greedy scramble is of no matter of consequence “to the people at large. It is material, however, that the city of New York, with its enormous stake in the peace and prosperity of the nation ani in the pre- servation of the national credit, should give an emphatic rebuke to the violent, revolutionary and desperate men who are striving to make negro barbarism a controlling element in the national government, and whose policy will inevitably bring upon the country a terrible war of races, unless checked at once by the sound sense of the Northern people. The tre- mendous vote that will be drawn out by our local struggle next week will be cast almost solidly—with the exception of the small radi- cal faction—against this party of destructives, and we should not be surprised if the demo cratic State ticket were to receive sixty thou- sand majority in this city alone. This is the only issue in which the masses of the people are interested ; and outside of this they care little who may be Shoriff or District Attorney, Senator or Assemblyman, or what figurehcad without brains may be placed on exhibition for the next two years in the Mayor's office. Hat, Coat, Pantaloons and Socks. This is what the great Indian war comes to. The country knows tolerably well, by the cost, that we had a war this summer, and that the illustrious Sherman was on the war path. Did not the magnificent writer and fighter refuse a trip to the East, led by the greater temptation of service in the West? And did we not have an illimitable number of bulletins, and mas- sacres, and talks, and reports, and soon? Well, the great conflict is at an end and is all settled ona sort of tailoring basis. The horrid Co- manches will not cut our throats any more if we will give them a new suit of clothes all around. Happy thought! Any peaceably disposed fel- low, doubled up on his board with a hot goose at his side, shall in future do the cutting of cavalry heroes—the only cutting necessary to keep the Indians quict. Hat, coat, pantaloons and socks are to stand for armies, and the suits of clothes that we thus give to the Comanches will, perhaps, not cost the country more than a million dollars each. Has not the tailor taken the place of chivalry in thus becoming “the cheap defence of nations?” It is obvious why the Indians are satisfied to make peace Winter is coming on, and they can no longer make war. But when the grass grows again next year, and the hats, coats, pantaloons and socks are worn out, there will be another war. Would it not be a little better to keep the war up now and force peace on our own terms by s vigorous winter campaign? With grass on the ground and game plenty the Ir- dian has food for bis horse and himself any- where, and is hard to catch; but in winter he is « far less formidable foe, and must fall an easy victim. Is this, then, the time to make peace? Mapison AVENvs is 9 central thoroughfare in the Eighth Senatorial district, Terence Farley should see to it that his namesake does his work, or the people may remember the fact on election day Hurricane. We yesterday published an account of the fearful hurricane which swept over South- western Texas and Eastern Mexico. At Mata- moros fifteen hundred houses were blown down and twenty-six persons killed, besides many wounded. At Brownsville, the principal town on our Texas frontier, lying immediately opposite Matamoros, there were ten persons killed and wounded, while the destruction of property was immense. Clarksville, on the Texas side, and Bagdad, on the Mexican side of the river, were levelled with the ground. At Brazos, one of our military stations, twelve persons were killed. Out of the seven steamers on the Rio Grande which, owned by a single company, held a most crushing monopoly of the river trade, but two can be repaired. So terrible @ storm has rarely broken over that coast, which is so famous for its terrific “northers.” This hurricane has been brewing for ® month, and has given due notice of its ap- proach. In Havana it has been blowing hard from the northeast for several weeks. At Charleston it is reported that they have had a northeast gale for fourteen days, On our own coast the northeast wind set in last Friday, and now we have the storm itsclf, although in a very light form, comparatively. In the constant chronicling of the devasta- tions to property on both land and sea we are struck with the almost total lack of the means to prevent many of these disasters. However much theoretical science we may possess, we often fail to make such application of it as will give it a practical value. This is eminently true in applying our knowledge to weaken the effect of storms. There should at once be formed by the United States government a Storm Bureau, whose duty it should be to have constant telegraphic com- munication with every part of the country, and especially of our coast, to report a coming gale of wind. The headquarters of their bureau should be in New York. The most thorough study should be made of the laws which govern storms. The information which such an organization could give to the coun- try, to commerce and to science would be immense. But this is not the only organization we re- quire for our commercial protection. We have to-day a very miserable lighthouse system, entirely supported by our government, while in addition io this we pay to England and some other countries certain tonnage dues to support their lighthouses. On the English coast the lighthouses are so numerous and well arranged that there is little left to be de- sired; for whatever commerce seeks English ports supports them. This is the trae method. Our lighthouse system should be completely reorganized, and, in connection with the Storm Bureau we have suggested, should receive prompt attention, The government should have a coast line telegraph connecting with all the lights, which should each receive a tele- graphic operator. In case of shipwreck the fact might be at once reported to the nearest port, and relief be extended immediately to the vessel. Moreover, each lighthouse would serve as a signal station for the Storm Bureau. Receiving the news by telegraph of an ap- proaching storm from almost any quarter, vessels on the coast might be signalled and warned of the danger. Our power is not great enough to control hurricanes or alter the laws of nature ; but we may, by @ practical application of the knowledge we possess, guird against whatever destroys our pros- perity. The Grading of Madison Avenue. Aremurkuble laxity of good faith and ap- preciation of obligation under contract seems to characterize the parties to whom was awarded the contract for grading Madison avenue. Upwards of one year has now elapsed since the expiration of the time stipulated for the completion of the work, and though the attention of the Street Department has been repeatedly called to this failure no steps have been, or scem about to be, taken. Every day serves only to manifest ina still greater degree the necessity of the completion of the grading and paving of that thoroughfare, and thereby affording another channel for uptown travel. Fifth avenue, at its northerly portion, is at present undergoing great changes in the shape of the erection of magnificent residences for our city merchants, and the roadway is so en- cumbered with brick, stone and building mate- rial that traffic is necessarily impeded, and the urgency of grading Madison avenue will be apparent when the almost utter impossibility bese: Bay a8 @ thoroughfare to the pci the as a lnsbeabidatibi con- tractors, and now that their temissness is placed beyond a doubt, it is time hat the Street Com- missioners should set matters right by rescind- ing the contract, fdMeiting. the bonds of the contractors and awarding the job to parties who will be more faithful in the fulfilment of the work undertaken for the good of the public. Negre Barbariom. During the late terrible storm upon the coast of Texas the little island of Brazos, off the mouth of the Rio Grande del Norte, was almost submerged. It has long been used as 8 port for the valley of the river and has been occupied for several years as a healthy post for a part of the colored troops now stationed on the Mexican frontier. Several families were placed in # most critical condition during the hurricane, and were forced to ask help of the negroes; but this was refused, and instead of rendering aid to the suffering inbabitants, they commenced a barbarous plundering of goods and merchandise. One negro was shot while engaged in the robbery. It is readily seen from this that the negroes, even when trained under military discipline, are not to be trusted at the moment when opportunity presents itself for the action of their base natures. Such little acts only show what may be expected if the negroes, making use of the power given to them by the radicals, commence, en masse, to revel throughout the South in the barbaric tastes which govern them. How fearful an element the negroes may be- come in unprincipled hands is best illustrated by the way they have been swayed in the late elections at Richmond. To-day we have a negro guard stationed in front of the house of one of the radical negro drivers at Richmond ; citizens are forbid to pans the sidewalk; the negro vigilance committee have ordered several citizens to leave (be place. The aezro is at a discount, barbarism at a premium. Let us have ambassadors from Lower Guinea, Caffreland, Soudan, Mozambique and all the rest of the countries bordering Ethiopia. To the latter territory we will send an embassy of civilization to inform them that we are tired of progress ard invite their hearty co-opera- tion in our efforts to return to the primeval condition of man, Tue Croton Agvepccr BoaRrp ought to compel the contractors who have charge of the grading of Madison avenue to immediately proceed with and finish what they have undertaken. The city has been humbugged too long in the matter of this improvement. Recent Boller Explesions. It is not an agroeable thing to live over or in the neighborhood of » mine of gunpowder. It is decidedly more unpleasant and prejudicial to one’s philosophy and equanimity to know that the persons in charge of the mine are in the habit of smoking cigars near the pulverized mass of villanous saltpetre. The same re- marks apply to engine boilers, in view of the recent alarming increase in explosions, We have had to record in New York and vicinity no less than five disasters of this kind within the space of a month or two. The Twenty- eighth street explosion, the destruction of the steam hoisting spparatus on one of the North river piers, two cases in New Jersey, and one at the Erie basin, Brooklyn, are startling warn- ings to us of the danger resulting from the carelessness or itkcompetency of those in care of this terrible engine, whose power may be exercised either for benefit or destruction, and always in the most extreme manner. This is a question of vital interest. We are encompassed onall sides in this busy city by boilers, and the pulsations of the steam giant throb be- neath us as we walk on the streets. It is, therefore, highiy important that we should be assured that the prison wherein the vapor co- loasus is confined is strong and that his jailers are trustworthy. Now, there are laws enough on the point. Congress, the State Legislature, and the Common Council all provide against accidents from this source. Yet in some of the recent cases it was proved that men were placed in charge of engines and boilers who should not be entrusted with the care of a tea kettle. Itis said that firemen and stokers are employed as engineers by some merchants, through mistaken, nay criminal ideas of econo- my. There are cases in which the proprietor is willing to take any man who knows how to start and stop an engine, and put bim in a most responsible position. Now, there is something wrong, either in the administration of the law or in the competency of the inspectors who ap- point men to fill such offices, The law is strict enough in its provisions, and its faithful ad- ministration cannot fail in removing all cause of complaint or danger. The examination of candidates for engineers cannot be too rigid and searching, and it behooves every inepector and every manufacturer to have none but thoroughly competent engineers. More taan a Year nas Exapsep since the ex- piration of the tige during which the grading of Madison avenue was to be completed. Why does not the Corporation Counsel take action against the bondsmen of the delinquent con- tractors? The State Election. It is of no possible cunsequetice how the election in this State shall go, so far as relates to the offices to be filled. But it is of conse- quence that the people of the Empire State should not strengthen the hands of the party of barbarism and nigger domination by giving a decision in its favor. The radical leaders seek only to gain the voice of New York for its effect on the country, as giving them the confidence to push forward their destructive p:ogramme for the annihilation of white power in the Southern States, and through that the ruling of the whole country by nigger votes. Let the people remember, therefore, that a vote against the radicals is a rebuke to those extravagant and dangerous theories; a vote in their favor is so much power given towards the upsetting of our whole social system. The Mineral Wealth of the Pacific Slope. Our Washingion correspondent announces the arrival in the capital of Mr. J. Ross Browne, the Commissioner for the collection of mining statistics. Mr. Browne, with an able corps of scientific and practical assistants, has made an extended tour through the States and Territories of the Pacific coast, and is now busily preparing an official report of his re- searches over the entire mineral region west of the Rocky Mountains, from the borders of Sonora to British Columbia, It has been sug- gested that, in view of the growing importance of our Pacific possessions and the advantage to be derived from a correct knowledge of their resources, Congress will print a large number of the Commissioner’s report in several lan- guages for distribution in Europe. The statistical returns of production of the precious metals are not yet complete, but it is supposed that they will approxi- mate the following figures:—Montana, twelve million dollars; Idabo, six millions and sixty thousand; Oregon, two millions; Colorado, five millions ; Nevada, nineteen millions; Cali- fornia, twenty-five millions; miscellaneous, five millions. If, notwithstanding the Indian ‘disturbances which have retarded the progress of mining operations in Montana and Idaho and nearly put a stop to them in Arizona, and notwithstanding the obstructions of travel and the lack of transportation facilities, and the present sparseness of population, and the actual waste of fifteen millions a year occa- sioned by imperfect methods of extracting the precious metal from the ore, the mineral pro- ductions of the Pacific slope already amount to the annual sum of almost seventy-five million dollars, what will they become when the Pa- cific Railroad, which has now reached within seven miles of the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, shall have been completed and emigration from Europe, from the Northern and Middle and Western and Southern States of the American Union, and, thanks to the opening of steam communication with China, from the swarming countries of Asia, shall have peopled our El Dorado? It is difficult for the imagination to conceive the incalculable wealth and happiness in store beyond the Rocky Mountains for generations yet unborn. Terexce Fantey ought to let his constituents know the reason of the delay in paving Madi- son avenue. Ho is a candidate in the district through which the avenue rune. The Musical Season. New York has no reason to complain of its music this season. Sv far we have had a plethora of artists, some of whom rank first in their line, and few of whom are char- latans. The concert season, inaugurated at Steinway Hall, has been very successful, and nove!ties of a choice character have been in- troduced. The latest works of modern com- posers are brought out nightly in a style fully equal to any of the vaunted institutions of Eu- rope, and preparations are already being made to increase the quality and quantity of the ren- derers, We are in advance of London in opéra comique; for while every one here has heard Offenbach, Mr. Mapleson is only preparing to bring him to England. The music of this Franco-German composer, who commencéd originally in Paris as an ordinary fiddler, has set Paris and Europe crazy and is the very thing for the mercurial American disposition. People here do not want heavy, stupid operas exhumed from the ashes of the past and sung by third rate vocalists. The rattling choruses and sparkling melodies of Offenbach are as palatable to them as champagne, and the ‘Th6Atre Frangais has in consequences become the leading lyric temple of the metropolis. The management, however, need some sound advice. Novelties and completeness are the order of the day, and La Grande Duchesse her- self must yield to the rule. There must be materials requisite for a change of cast as well as opera. One of the most attractive featurcs about the ThéAtre Francais is the absence of stockhoider monopoly that has brought other operatic establishments to the verge of ruin. In these latter houses the stockholders exert a baneful influence on manager and artists, and the public are consequently dis:ppointed. In the ThéAtre Frangais the stockholders encour- age enterprise and endeavor to further the in- terests of the establishment. The American public imperatively demand novelties and the highest order of talent in music, and those managers who cling to the fossilized notions of past seasons had better take warning in time. Tae Sraget- Commissioner should see to it that the contract for the grading of Madison avenue vis fulfilled. The work should have been done a year ago. A New Era tor American Statesmanship. Our late war was but a portion of the grand series of sequences and causes which constitute the revolution through which the American people have been and still are passing toward their predestined fature. When the war closed with the surrender of Lee’s army to Grant near Appomattox Court House, @ new era for American states- manship was opened. It soon began to be apparent that the nation had ontgrown the swaddling clothes and leading strings of its infancy. It must now, in its manhood, gird itself to run the race that is set before it, The “abstractions” of Staie rights have dissolved, leaving behind them but a dim and misty tradition of old conflicting sectional interests. In their turn these mast disappear completely ; while the idea of a vast, consolidated, unified nation arises distinctly before the national mind as the goal of our ambitious hopes. In order to reach this goal we need a higher style of statesmanship than even that which successfully laid the foundations of the repub- lic. To restore internal peace and prosperity, to develop our inexhaus‘ible sources of mate- rial wealth, to apply all the marvellous agencies of modern science and civilization, to educate, refine and elevate the national character, and to maintain among the great Powers of the earth the imperial position to which the United States are summoned by manifest destiny, is a task for the combined energies of the entire American people, directed by the wis- dom and experience of statesmen compared with whom the pigmy politicians of the present day will sink into utter insig- nificance and oblivion. Patriotism must take the place of greediness for official spoils. Broad and generous views of domestic and foreign policy’ must be substituted for narrow and bitter sectional prejudices, Ques- tions of finance and other branches of political and social economy must assert their vital im- portance, and wrangling over dead institutions must cease. The art of governing must no longer be reckoned among the lost arts. None | of the requisites which such thoughttul writers as Ansaldo Ceba and Henry Taylor, the one in his “Citizen of a. Republic,” and the other in “ The Statesman,” have proved to be indispen- sable in the rulers of a powerful State, should be any longer neglected. The popular mind should be trained to recognize and demand a high standard of excellence in the selection of their leaders, It should become the universal conviction that it is a blessing to have at the head of affairs the most intelligent and capable men that can be found in the country. Intelli- gence and not black ignorance should rule. The insidious attempts of any party whatever to exercise despotic control by the aid of the ignorant and degraded should be indignantly denounced. Nor should that undue jealousy of superiority be imitated which impelled the “fierce democracio” of Athens to ostracize its best and noblest citizens, “A statesman,” we are told, “should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as @ coachman follows his horses ; having firm hold of the reins and guiding them.” Incalculable mischief has been wrought by high placed folly and imbecility . We have suffered enough from mediocrity an: weakness on the part of our Chief Magistrates, and such qualities should no longer recom- mend a candi?ate. Let us not fear to trust the reins of government to a firm hand. The name of Grant heads a long list of heroes who have fought for the unity of the nation. Ignor- ing alike North, East, West and South these men of deeds and not of words have compre- hended and sought the welfare of the whole country. By bringing out the latent forces of & people, unconscious of ite resistless might, and organizing these forces for victory, they crushed the most formidable rebellion which any government ever encountered. If they were to carry into politics the grandeur of views and the energy which they evinced in war they would conspicuously illustrate the new era for American statesmanship. They would be the statesmen of our future. A Brorner, orn Covstx, on NAMESAKE OF Tenexce Fancey bas the contract for the grad- ing ot Madison avenue. Will the candidate for State Senator let us know why the work fs 7 finished ? —_—_—_— uaptoprnar't tb Washington Star has been sold by nate Gh sa Sake tn the ‘eatabit \reantee 80 be mae