The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1867, Page 6

6 v¥ YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, AR JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yons Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. dosotating the capital and destroying two hundred lives. ‘The Haytien authorities Lave anoulled the treaty with St. Domingo and recalled their Minister, Tbe Domini- can forces are reported already on the Haytien frontier, Ubarieg Dickens arrived at Halifax in the steamer Cubs yesterday, and will arrive in Boston this afters noon, Thes f t.ckets to his readings commenced in Boston at an early hour yesterday, the crowd of appli- cants being so great that a large force of police was ne- cessary to eulorce order. In the Jladama Convention yesterday, tne suffrage question was the main topic of debate, It appears that the convention is going entirely too fast for the radicals in Washington, and telegrams are received by Generals Pope and Swayne every day urging them to moderate the zeal of the majority, Bingham and Griffin, the howover, refuse to be moderated, and urge that min the State is dead uniess a sweeping ‘dis- Rejected communications will not be re- turned. | | | THE DAILY HERALD, published Four couts per copy. Annual subseriy Vol SEEEE...........05 TS THIS EVENING, Bowery.—Tux FLowsas oF Ta BOWERY THEATRE, Fonest, & NIBLO'S GARDE. av. —-Biack ORroon, New York Hotel.— Broadway.—-A = Mipsumuer : z, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— si®-Dss Unruacnee's Hur. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Ticker or Leave Man, FRENCH Towerre, THEATRE, Fourteenth strect.—Manie Ax- BAN way and .)PERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM. Broad- ¢ eth street.—-Devit's AUCTION, . Lis by eon Fourteenth street. —Graxasrics sm, dc. 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The nows report by the Atlantic cable Is dated yes- ferday oveung, November 18, Napo'eon upened the session of the French Logisla- ture with a speech from the throne, in which he eaid that his government “no longer objects” to German unity and consolidation, The Viceroy of Egypt pormits the return of the American «missionaries and native Christians exited from the country, Consols closed at 94 7-16 for money in London, Five- twenties were at 702¢ in London and at 76 in Frankfort. Liverpool cotton iarket was steady, with mid at 87-16d, Breadsteffy stightly higner, cod a slight decl.ne, ached to Garibaldi’s furnishes by mail 'y tateresti g reports of tbe condition and mora’e of the force» under comand of the Goneral at and subdse- quent to (26 recent baitles, calling attention at the same time toa ¢eration of the politica! advisability aad economy movoment as dndortaken at the moment, THE CITY Richard | Gorman, Corporation Counsel of the city and count New York, haying writen a letter to the Citizens’ £8 o¢ ation, accepiing and thanking them fora renomination to the post he now holds, the Association takes ceca-ion tn answering to charge him with neglect of daly, @xtraragacce, pattonare to friends at the ex- ponse of the Cty treasury, aivising against obedience to the law, siding with local officials in schemes damaging to the city, and other maiters of similar import, accom. panying ‘ho charges with dotailed specifications and demanding an ex 100. The Board of Alder tion rescinding the resolution Bank see was lat over, The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and adopted an ordinance requiring ferry companies to place gates | on the iandivgs, eo pri vent pa sepgers from jump- ing on or off the boats until they are secured to the slips, The siraacgely complicated l'etersen abandonment case ‘was up again before Justice Manstield yesterday. Two ‘witnesses (e-tilied to an acquainiance with the defend. ant, one baving known bim to be in Chicago in Novem: ber, 1867. It ts charged by the prosecution that he ‘was marijed to the plaintif' in Montreal om the Ist of that month The iriat of John . Braine, charged with the pirati- | cai seizure of ihe steamer Chrsepeake and marder, in the month of December, 1863, was brought up In the United Siates (trout (oart, Eastern “district, before Judge Benedict, yesterday morning for trial. On ap- Plication of counsel the case was postponed and finaily Dred for trial on Monday next. ‘ The stock market declined yesterday. Goternment securities were steaty, Gold closmd at 139%, Business yosierday was moderate jn all branches of trade, and prices of almost all commod ties favored the buger. Coffee wie quiet, but steady, Cotton was active at unchanged prices. On “Change flour was steady, though some lots were sold a! a reduction 6f 10c, & 15¢, per bbi, Wheat was le. Jower at the close, while corn and Oats were in fair demand and Crm. Pork was dull and almost nomoal. eof and lard were steady, Fre ights were firmer. Naval stores were dull and unchanged, | while petroleum closed firm at an advance of fuily Ke per gaiion. Under a moderate supply and an active demand prices | of beef cattic yesterday were Yo ® Me. per pound Bigher, extra low celing at 1650 a 1%¢,, prime 16%c, a 160,, fret qualiy Myc a 15\ye, far to good 13%. a Jdc., ordinary ide. #18, aod inferior 100, alle, The umber ov sale was about 1,500 head, of whch the avorage wat good) Mich cows were rather Scarce aud firmor, at prices ranging a! from $60 to $139, ‘Veal caves were steady and ot 12igc. for extra, 120. a met yesterday. The resolu. to permit the Park for prime, ile @ ile for ordinary aod com- mon and 10. & 10jg0 for inferior, Sheep and lambs were depressed by the liberal ofertngs and prices were in buyers’ favor; t) were we, bout 6,000 We quote extra to good 4¢, a be. o 636. aod inferior | as active and prices ‘were about fe. per ib. higher. Heavy prime corn fed | felling at To, a THe; fair to good, O°e“K O%c., and | common and rough @Ye. a Oye. Thetoral receipts were 6,200 boeves, 73 muleh) cows, 1,170 veal calves, 35,160 | sheep and iambs and 82,765 swine, © XNISCELLANEOUS., By our special telegrams over the Cuban cable jatelll- gence from Mexico is received that the body of Maxi- milian hes been dolivered to Admiral Tegethoff, and was frarchisement clause is passed, Swayne hopes to be United States Senator from the State, The resolution to pay tor the services of those beld in slavery since Janu- ary, 1863, will probably be quashed in committee, To tue Constitutional Convention yesterday, a proposi- | tion toinsure the submission of the suffrage question as a | separate issue to the peopte was laid upon the table. Attorney General Stanbery, in his card denying the publication of @ recem$ opinion declaring the coming session of Congress unconstitutional, says that if he was solicited by the President to give an opinion ‘to order’’ be would immediately resign. Chief Justice Chase will deliver the charge to the jury on the 25th inst, at the commencoment of tho trial of Joi Davis, but he will not remain throughout the ses sion, Davis will be tried on the old indictment, General Sherman is coming to Washington, it is enid, to perform the duties of General im Chiof during General Grant's incumbency of the secretaryship. General Mower has again removed Sheriff Hayes and appointed Mr, Avery, a surgeon in a negro regiment, to the position, Gencral Imboden, @ rebel brigadier, filed an applica- ton for a writ of mandamus ia the United States Cir- cult Court yesterday forbidding General Schofield and ail other persons from interfering with him im casting his vote at any clection. The Convention election in North Carolina commences today. The negroes and conservatives are in some instances co-operating, aud in one county @ negro can- didate figures on the conservative ticket, It is now stated officially thas Jeff Davis will bo tried ‘on tho present indictment, ‘thers is Do prospect of an carly trial of Joho H. Sur- Tatt until January or February, Two more heavy @nancial failures are réported in Phitadelphia, A number of promiaent citizens in Boston have peti- tioued the Governor for the pardon of all persons con- vicied under the prohibatory liquor law, The statue of Everett was unveiled in Boston yester- day. There were no public services. Guvernor Andrew was to have deliverod the address, The citizens of Charieston have requested General Caaby to lower the taxes, and ic is probapie he will s00n issue a new order bearing On ihe sudject, ‘The court of inquiry in the case of Colonel Rose con- vened at Richmond yesierday, General Stoneman pre- siding. ‘Tho Fiorida election has been carried by a decided majority for the convention, very few whites having voted at all, The Georgia papers advocate a conservative organiza- tion of forces to detcat the forthcoming constitution, The suit of the State of California against the steamer Moses Taylor fur $760,000 has beon decided against the State. 2 The China mail steamship Great Republic was three days overdue at San Francisco on the 17h Thomas Waleb, who was recently convicted in News ark of the murder of Patrick Tormey, on (he last 4th of July, was yesterday sen:ouced to be hanged on the 24 of January, 1868. A fire occurred in Montreal yesterday, bye which a man named Shaw, his wife and two little children were burned to death, Shephard, the Worcester wife murderer, has fOoally been captured. Tho Charter Election—The Municipal Muddle é Clearing Up. A few months ago, when radicalism received asudden and unexpected check in Connecti- cut by the defeat of the republican State tickel, we were told that the result was attributable only to. the nomination of a notoriously unfit candidate for Congress, and did not imply any real loss of strength and popularity by the party. Shortly aflerwards, when Californi&’ elected a conservative Siater ticket, and Maine followed with a loss of some forty thousand from the radical majority of the previous year,.we were informed that these results were merely accidents, arising in one instance from local differences, and in the other from the apathy of an over-confident organization. But when Pennsylvania and Ohio arrayed themselves against radicalism, it began to be seen .that the great change in public sentiment was not thus to be explained away, and it became evident that the conserva- tive strength of the country was aroused and prepared to take the power from the handg of the violent men who had been for the last twelve months doing their best to plunge us into another revolution. The State election in New York toilowed, sind completed’ the work commenced in Connecticut by a general union ot the con ervative element, all over the State upon the democratic ticket, and the sweeping away of the radieal candidates by a magnifi- cent majority of over fifty thousand. The country had arrived at that point at which it was necessary that some change should be made. The folly of the radical Congreis had forced upon the South a military despotism repugnant to all our republican ideas of free- dom, and to be maintained only at an enor- mous cost to the nation. The radical leaders had compelled their party to adopt the policy of negro supremacy in the ex-rebel States in order to bring thom into the Union as republican bodies, and had thus declared in favor of reducing an important section of the country toa condition ofAfrican barbar- ism, The negroes, newly freed from slavery, were held as political machines at the expense of the general government, and were deterred, by promises of confiscation and proprietor ship, from leaving politics alone and quietly settling down to labor, The financial pros- pects of the country were growing gloomier | every day, and the people found themselves ground down by ruinous taxation, while a pampered bank oligarchy was drawing thirty million dollars « year out ot the Treasury. The conservative elements united against the party tiat bad brought all these evils upoa us, and by the overwhelming vote of New York, with its large interest in the prosperity of the coun- try, the radicals have been {inaily disposed of and their organization destroyed. From the appearance of the pending contest which contro}led the State eiection are to pre- gouerally united against the radical party in the State for the purpose of destroying an organization that had abused its power, so they time the question of the Mayoralty was in a stale of suspeuse and confusion enough to seemed (o rally about him all the Irish whi<k«y expected at Vera Crue about the end of the*month. Baroy Magnos, Coloaes Quevedo, Kioin, "e Tate secretary, and Prince saim-Seftm hed arrived at Havana on ru! (or Barope, A harri:aus swept over st, Domingo on the Oh 9th and German lager beer interests usually dis. rings insisted on demanded a different standard bearer. The respec'able citizens were sto. unite on Some good candidate against both Wood and Hoffman, The radical cxtromists declared with bantam ferocity that they would nominal? an out and out, dyed in the wool, negro supre- macy, national bank radical for Mayor, and mb other. But matters have now seitled down, Darling, 2 conservative republican, bas been put fn nomination, and will receive a few highly respectable vo‘es; and with this exception the whole political element seems likely to be divided between the two wings of the democratic party, Mozart and Tammany, with the prospect of the success of Mozart and Fernando Wood by an immense majority. As we have said, this result naturally follows the great political revolution “in the State. Tammany has been the party of corruption and heavy taxation here, as the radical Con- gresshas been in the nation. Wood will be supported, not on account of his great honesty, but because Hoffman, as the representative of the Tammany rings, bas suffered the expendi- tures of the city government to run up under his administration to the enormous amount of twenty-four miltion deliars sycar. Wood will be supported, not because he is a democrat, but because he is a Mozart democrat, and his elec ion will smash the arbitrary, close cor- poration Tammany machine, and clear the way for a new deal in the political cards all around the board. Hoffman, as Mayor, would control all patronage here and elsewhere for the special inside ring of Tammany, and keep the democracy in the old rut. Wood, as Mayor, will be a figurehead as respectable in appear- ance as the famous old captain in Greenwood Cemetery, and will stand guard over the grave of the old rut Tammany democracy. He will clear tho road for the great conservative move- ment of noxt year, and his success will break up and sweep away the old Tammany ma- chine in this city, ag the recent election broke up and swept away the radioal machine in the State. Both these. elections—the State and muni- cipal—will be nothing more thaa the avant- courriers ot the great revolution in national politica which is certain to take place next year, and which will sweep the radicals from power and elevate Grant to the Presidency. They will be followed spesdily by a grand meeting in this city, independent of all the old political party lines, to nominate General Grant upon the simple platform of the people’s confi- dence in the man. The Times-and the Tribune, by the abandonment of their own party, are both unwittingly aiding in this very movement. The Tribune has so far a knowledge of the re- sultas thatit is sonsible that the success of Wood will kill off the old rut Tammany democ- racy, but the Times blunders into it in igno- rance of its ultimate effect. We have already seen that the majority of fifty thousand in the State oguinst the radicals has brought a large proportion of that party ‘to their senses, and prepared them to abandon their organization and to unite in the great .Grant' movement of 1868. In like manner a majority of twenty thousand against Tammany in this city will broak up the close corporation ring of that organization, and bring the rank and file over to the side of the conservative uprising. No- vember wound up the Jacobin radicals; De- cember will wind up the Jacobin democrats. Let the people of New York in their charter election complete the work they have com- menced of smashing all the old corrupt party machines, and: then for Grant, retrenchment and retorm. Negre Mieco cccleag Ramnatunes of the Went Indies. There is now scarcely a telegram that reaches us from the West Indies that does not tell ofhorrible atrocities and servile outbreaks by the black sons of Africa—outbronks dig- nified by the name of revolutions, Yesterday we announced a new rebellion in Jamaica, and the fact that in one parish alone four bundred negroes were ready for revolt. The island is in panic, the white population seriously menaced, trade and commerce stagnant, and civiliza- tion buried still deeper under a load of barbar ism. Hayti presents the-same sad and revolt- ing pictare of a movement in the direction of . barbarism. On the 12th of October the scen: in the legislative chambers was very violent Even the negro President, Salnave, “bocamey so audacious as to incite a rabble of women and boys to attack the House of Assembly. This they did amid loud vivas for Salnave, and “cries of ‘Dowg with the Assembly !’ hurling, at | the same time, bricks, bottles, sticks, &c. The dwellings of many were vigorousiy stoned. “The American Consul was fired at, but escaped unhurt.” These are the pictures of negro rule, of negro independence, of negro suffrage. These are the pictures of a country governed by the blood of Afri¢a. In Jamaica more than @ generation has passed since the negroes were thrown to the front and forced to make an effort to maintain themselves at the level of the white man. How well they have succeeded let the present troubles demonstrate, They have not only been going on from bad to worse, but civilization itself has been dying out even where it existed among tho whites, The blacks, instead of rising to the level of the white population, have gradually lowered the whites to the basest standar! of morality and intelligence, until we have the picture of a magnificent West India island sinking to the fearful barbarism of Central Africa. If Jamaica presents this in one light, Hayti and St. Domingo presen! it in still bolder relief. Here we have the full focus of negro efforts at civilization, First a war against the whites, then » war betwoen blacks and mulatioes, then what may be denominated a kaleidoscopic war, in which color bas warred azainst color in ali the endless changes, forming magnificent revolutionary combinations, very beautiful to look at at a distance, but death to partici- in the city it seems that the same influences | pate in. In drawing the picture of Hayti, St. Do- | vail in our charter clection. As the people | mingo and Jamaica we ar@ only photographing upon the American mind in advance the pic- ture that Congress is trying to impress upon the United States by false and barbaric legis will unile against the Tammany party in the | lation.» Radical rale as exposed to-day moans city to accomplish a similar resuit, For come | down with the white man! up with the negro ! Down with intelligence! up with ignorance! Down with civilization! up with barbarism! dromhead, wonld burst under the blows. might swamp intelli try to throtile by voluntarily lick hand of Africa at its throat. Never did statesmen before descend to the dregs of hu- manity to bathe their hands in its worst filth that they might besmear with itsuch a civiliza- tion as we have reached in 1867. »Bu! they aro nol statesmen ; they are mad de! who, to prolong political power, would will- ingly pluaze the nation into fifty years of civil strife, They must be overturned befofe they effect our national ruin. The people, the common sense of the country, must stand be- tween them and the ruin towards which they drive, It is not yet too late; but foar years more of such legislation would ruin any coun- try, though it had ten times the backbone of | by no on? knows huw many philosophers and the United Siates. Dickens’ Farewell English Dinner. The London journals give ful! descriptions of the farewell dinner to Charles Dickens at the Freemasons’ Tavern, in London, on the 2d of November. This dinner was a very tolera- ble imitation, it appears, of the ovation which Mr. Dickens received on his first visit to this country, twenty-five years ago, in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other American cities, Twenty-five years ago the English, although tickled to laughter by the humorous adventures of Mr. Pickwick,and his compan- ions, bad not learned to appreciate the genius of the author of the Pickwick Papers—a genius which was destined to bring to light an en- tirely new world of human intorest out of the Never did a nation | that the best thoughts of the best minds should placing the | be directed. It concerns the true welfare.of man, the best interests of society. Social science is yet in its infancy. We cannot say that ifhas done much to justify its mission; but this hes been due less to the objects and aimsof the science itself than to the means by which these objects and aims have been sought to be accomplished. In the programme of the proceedings of the meeting to be held to-day we have a fair illus- tration of the manner in which the work is done. The Association sits only for three days, yet in these three days the questions of educa- tion, of public health, of trade and finance and of jurispradenes, are all to be discussed, and divines, A little more concentration of effort, little less individual display, or 9 longer seasion must be pronounced necessary to do justice to the subjects we have mentioned. It is well, however, that the Empire City should have a visit from the savans of the republic. General Grant and the Politicians. We to-day publish a number of extracts from leading journals in various parts of the coun- try respecting General Grant’s status on poli- tical questions, It seems, however, a rather difficult problem to solve, one set of politicans claiming him as a radical—“good enough radical tor them ”—others as a conservative republican, others again as a thorough democrat, and finally as an old line whig. In the midst. of these conflicting partisan depths of low life in England. Th» genius of | opinions it is refreshing to notice looming Mr. Dickens received in this country, where his readers have always far outnumbered his readers in England, its first spontaneous and hearty public recognition. To be sure, the generation which, as he intimates in his reply to Lord Lytton’s speech at the recent London dinner, has almost wholly passed away, did not exactly know how to express its admira- tion for the novelist who had just discovered a new mine in fictitious literature. But although the American admirers of Dickens sometimes cut queer capers and made fools of them- selves gencrally in .their eagerness to do him honor, yet underlying all the ridiculous toadyism of his reception was a deep and sincere and intelligent apprecistion of the genius which he had dlready exhibited. The Awmericans proved themselves, as Dickens him- self gratefully acknowledges, “a kind, large- hearted, generous and great people.” Perhaps they scarcely merited such a dis:groable re- turn for the welcome extended by them as the sweeping criticisms of the “ American Notes.” However, almost everybody 1s deud wio was so thin-skinned os to suffer from the mo:quito bites that foreign tourists were in the habit of inflicting, after the style of Parson Fiddler, and Mra. Trollope. As Mr. Dickens says in his dinner speech, “a vast, entirely new genera- tion bas- arisen in the Unit-d States” aince he was hers. Very sew of this present g*neration have ever cared to read the “ Americ .n Notes,” and the pains taken by Mr. D:ckens and his friends to ward off by anticipation any retalia- tory ill-focling which they fear may have been provoked by his unflatier.ng ca:icatares of American society in the “Notes,” and in “Martin Chazzlewit,’ are quite superfuous, except so far as thay indica‘e the total change which bas come over the ‘spirit of English students of our institutions, our and. our ways. This change is to be aliributed not merely to their somowhat tardy recognition of the fact attested in the most torcivle manner by the results of our recent eivil war, that the United States must be ranked among the greatest and most powerfal nations of the earth, but also to the fact that American influences have wonderfully hastened the political and social revolution which is now in progress in Great Britain. These two facts sufficiently account at once for the apologiss and the culo- gies which the oraters at Mr. Dickens’ dinner were careful to substitate for the snecrs that used to bé elicited in Enzland by allusious to America. _ Obviously our old English enemies have “changed their base.” They have raised ® flag of trace. Lord Lytton in his speech invests Charles Dickens with iull powers to contract a new treaty of friendship between the two nation, “Out of all Engiand,” he says, “we could not have selected an envoy more calculated to allay irntation and pro- pitiate good will.” Lord Lytton may exag- gerate somewhat the diplomatic importance of his envoy extraordinary, who, atter all, will probab'y be satisfied with a successful lecvur- ing tour in this country, even if bis visit should not effect any miraculous changes in the inter- national. relations of toe United States and Great Britain. = ¢ Among the guests at the Dickens’ dinner in London were one or two Am>ricans who mus! have been amused at hearing Lord Lytton repeat the same boneyed compliments which they heard twenty-five years ago at th» Dickens dinners’ in New York, Boston and Philadel- phia. Nearly all the fine phrases about the genius of Dickens, the affinities of the giant family of the Uniied States with the Anzlo- Saxon race, notwithsianding the differences of origin due to German and Dutch and Celtic, as well as Engiish, forsiathers, and the cement- ing of these diff-rences of ancestral orig'n by the azency of one language in common, wud 60 forth, and so forth, might have been culied from the Heraio’s sreports of the sp-eches at those American ovations to Dickens twenty- five years ago, of which the late London ova- tion was but an imitation. Thus, in apprecia- ting and in feasting Dickens we got the start of his sluggish countrymea by a quarter of a centary. The genius of Dickens, like that of Malibran and many other Euvopvan celebri- ties, was first recognized and honored on this side of the Atlantic. ‘The Social Science Association, This society commences its filth general meeting in this city this day at ten A. M, at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, 161 Fifth avenue. A goodly number of | toEurope who become attractions at the lead- fs aod divines are announced to take part in the proceedinzs. Social science is elarge and interesiing field of study. Man, as man is known in this sublunar sphere; his relation to the material universe ; the influences, | thrown open 40 the public in this city. Mr. up in many parts of the country a movement of the people, who, discarding politics altoge- ther, are taking up Grant as the leader who will carry us safely through our political and financial troubles, diffuse a spirit of peace and fraternal love whore the demon of discord and atrile now prevails, reduce the burdens of tax- ation, and finally plant the entire republic onee more upon its career of general and per- manent prosperity. In, the meantime let our readers gather the information about General Grani’s views and political status con- tained in the varied extracts we furnish in other columns, What Will the Legisiatare Dot The popular reaction against the radicats and tho‘r fanatical 98 in this State is the most remarkable of the political events ot the day. It puts an end to the reign of radi- calism and inaugurates a new epoch in our national, State and city affairaa We have a new Legislature, in which the conservative ele- ments have the control, and from such a Legis- lature we have the right to expect some@rhole- somo laws for this metropolis. What will this Legislatare do for us to lighten our corpora- tion faxes, expenditures and spoliations? We are not sanguine of any very extensive mea- sures of relief, and yet nothing is easier. We want a new city charter, in which the Mayor will stand as the controlling and responsible officer inthe management of our city govern- ment. A new charter, placing all the city de- partments, including the oxisting commissions, under the executive control of the Mayor, and holding him responsible for all corruptions and mismanagements in every department, will at once bring all these rings of spoilsmen and plundorers fairly before the public eye, There will be no mors shi‘tings of the burden of responsibility from Dick to Tom and from Tom to Harry, as under our present mixed system, which is only a convenient labyrinth for the robbers of the city treasury. And then we want a law under which some révenue will be drawn by the city from the numerous street railway companies. Surely they sre making money enough to assist in paying the city’s expenses. There are likewise some other monopolies and franchises that ought to be called to account. be The field for legislative reforms in our city affairs is plainly visible ; but the qnestion here may be interposed, of whatavail will be any of these suggestive reforms from a conserva- tive Legislature if they are to be killed off by the veto of a radical Governor? We answer that if this conservative Legislature shall pass for the relief of this metropolis from its present hordes of plundcrers such measures as will meet the approval of honest'men of both par ties, our radical Governor will not dare to veto them. At all cvents, let the Legislatere do its duty, and let the Governor take the con- sequefices, yea or nay. It is better, we guess, in view of genuine retorms, that the Governor should repres-nt one political party and the Lezislatare another; for this arrangement mate- tially smpples the cliques of spoilsmen who ran the lobby. Italian Opera in America. About the middle of the next month the gcandest and most cliborately finished opera house on the American Continent will be Pike, whose name it bears, has spared.mo ex~ pense or trouble in completing this lyric temple and making it worthy of the metropolis. Tue first season of opera in the new est blish- ment will also be interesting, Madame La Grange returns to the scene of her early triumphs, and her brilliant voice and superb acting, which have already made « hit im Chicago and Boston, will soon grace the opvra house of the metropolis. Brignoli is the tenor of the troupe which, under the: management of Strakosch, will iake possession of the nuw temple of the muses next month, We shall then have two opera houses in this city, and the Academy may derive some benefit from its younger competitor, There will be a great rivalry between both establishments, and the consequent pubite excitement will give the Fourteenth street house a chance of retrieving ts shattered fortunca. Pike’s opera house will have one material advantage in being under ‘the management of ono man and free from the narrow-minded policy of a corporation. There fs one very singular feature about Malian opera in this city. We send over prime donne fng opera houses. Patti and Harrisio in Paris, Vaorsni in Milan, and Signorina Kellogi and Morenzi in London (we must Italianize all when they cross the Atlantic), are the features of the present season. We bave consequently physical, moral and intellectual, amid whigh | drained the metropolis of artistes of the prima he lives and moves and has his being ; the rela- | donna calibre, and Signotina Hauckio fs the. tion of the one to the many and of the many | only Juliet available for Gounod’s Opera at dency to deteriorate or improve the species, puzzle the brains of the shrewdest politician. And they ring all the changes on the skull of | to the one; bis capacities ; whatever haea ten- | the Academy. The opening of the grand opera, Fernando Wood appeared in the fiel, and | the negro which, were it not as tough asa house on Eighth avenue with sach artistes as to decrease or increase the sum of human | La Grange and Brignoli will undoubtedly have Never bas such miserable logislation fallen to | happiness—such, in brief, is social science, No | the effect of stirring up an excitement and posed to cling to Tammany, The Tammany tho lot of any nation, Never in the most de- | greater or more important study can engage the | rousing our impresarii to redoubled exertions their champion, | graded days of Roman history did they descend | attention of the human mind ; nor is there any | on bobalf of Italian opera, ‘Then our Ast Hofman, while the reak ond fle of the pariy | to forcing barbariom (0 the quringe that M4! beapok of polence to which it is eo desienble ' clase artistes will be encoursged to resmia in their native country and not be compelled sook very gratifying for them to achieve triumphs ota © satralargpagaden 67 prefer to keep a few of tition between both opera houses in this city must have the same beneficial effect on Italian opera that the inauguration of the rival estab- lishments of Gye and Mapleson did ia London. There competition brought the opera to ite present high standard. All lovers of the lyric drama will hope for the same results here. te in other lands. It may be here to ourselves. The compe- Immediate Specie Payments. Since the question of paying the national debt in legal tenders, with ‘other financial measures have begun to attract public atten tion, the bondholders and their organs cry out more lustily for immediate specie payments. These parties, who gave only forty or fifty per cent in currency for the bonds and have since been drawing six per. cent intercst in gold,. now clamor for specie payments in order that they may get the full amount of their bonds im gold. Shylock-like, they must have their pound of flesh though the country bleed to death. under the operation. They do not want to be aid in the same moncy they gave for the bonds, but demand forty or fifty percentmore. They believe their interest lies in the perpetuation of the debt, and do not wish tosee it extinguished 5 and their policy, if carried out, would assuredly fasten it upon the country as perpetually aa the debt of England is fastened upon the British people. Seeing the growth of public opinion against contraction of the currency and forcing specie payments, and in favor of paying the debt while money is plentiful, they have become alarmed for their anticipated. cent per cent profit, Tr The monstrous fallacy of the bondholders* organs is that wecan reach specie payments at once, and while the debt rem.ins undimin- ished. It took England years to reach that after the prolonged war in Europe ended in 1816, and then she only reached it through alarming revalsions and universal distress. Forcing specie payments there resulted im frightful disasters, in burdening the people with an enormous debt which can never be paid, and, while it erected a bloated bondhold- © ing oligarchy, in reducing the mss ‘of the laboriig populasion to pauperism. Yet this ix the example we are urged tofollow. We might possibly come to the same result in the course of a fow years if Mr. McCulloch’s ruinous policy of contraction were to be carried out. But who besides the bondholders and their - organs desire this? These senseless on- to-specie payment theorists imagine’ that we can jump at once to a specie basis by the fiat of the Secretary of the Treasury. They have but one idea, and, like all insane people, ‘can see nothing except through that. They learm nothing from history or actual experience. They lose sight of the taxpayers and the fature in their eagerness to benefit the bondholders. Itis neither practicable nor desirable to force specie payments now. The first thing to be done is to pay off the bulk of the debt while money is abundant and the currency depre- ciated. The bondholders pretend to call this repudiation. It is, in fact, the way to prevent repudiation; for if the people of this country continued to be weighed down by an enormous debt and oppressive taxation they would soom elect a Congress that would take off the burdens: in one way or another. But the proper an@ shortest way to arrive at specie payments is to reduce the debt. Suppose the three hundred millions of national bank currency were with- drawn and legal tenders issued in their place, and with these three hundred millions of the interest bearing debt were to be bought up and cancelled, would not that tend to bring down the premium on gold? Suppose Mr. McCulloch were to pay off two hundred millions more wit that amount of surplus money whjch he has al? the time lying idle in the Treasury, thus re- the interest bearing debt five hundred millions in all, would not that bring down geld still further? Then, again, with economy and” @ proper administration of the revenue laws a hundred millions a year could be applied to the liquidation of the debt. Thus, in five years 8 thousand millions, or about half the interest bearing debt could be paid. Who can doubt the effect of this upon the market value of specie? It is the enormous debt which hinders us from returning to specie payments. The rapid liquidation of it in the manner suggested would soon bring down gold and restore a specie currency. No other course can be pur> sued without producing frightful revulsions and distress and saddling the country with ea vast and perpetual debt. ALONG THE HUDSON. was arrested, of rumors tk Sa ans republ; candidate, rity. The frieads of David Warser, the i 3 i i - i i : B=