The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1868, Page 6

6 ‘NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. A\l business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be. addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. ‘Rejected communications will not be re- turned. sereeeese NOs 147 Volume XXXII... RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY, BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.— ad Dar K, Lux, on “Tam Panorama or Tux AG&KS.’’ venting. \ BLOOMINGDALE BAPTIST OHURCH, Forty-second -@troct.—Moruing and evening. \ CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH.—Rav. W. 4. Curaszer. Evening. BRIAN OHURCH.—Rev. ening. CANAL STRERT PRES! Davi Mirowmn. Morning a! CENTRAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—Rav. Youn MoOxiroog, D. D. Morning. 0 0 oO ‘1B PURITANS.—Rev. Cranias B. BCT ane “Watre, Fawx aND Tun Pivawia Cos. vanxp.”” Afteraoon and evening. ' CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Ray, Asnorr Buown. Morning and afternoon. CAURCH OF THE STRANGERS, Hail of the Untvor. sity, Wawbington square.—Rev. De. Dasma. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE RESU. OTION. Rey. Das, Face 4p bwore., Morning and cvening, CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS.—Coxcarr 1x Lxnio Hatt.’ Evening. CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION.—Rev, Francis ‘VINTON, BEFORE THR BROTHERHOOD OF THE ANNUNCLATION. Grening. DODWORTH HALL.—Mas. Marnarp, on “Trotn’s Dawn,” and “Racoxstrvction.” Morning and evening. DODWORTH STUDIO BUILDING. Fifth avenue,—Rav. Henne BLANOBARD, ON THR “OPTIMISM OF SCLEXCL.” Alter oon, FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rey. A. B. Bani, Morning, afternooa and evening. FORTY SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCR. Rev. W. A. M. Scorr, on “ PRiLosoray of PuxRasuRE an Revigion.”” Me ning. MASONIC HALL.— SOCIATION OF SPIRITUALISTS. Mx. J, H. Powsun. Mor: ‘and evening. MEMORIAL CHURCH.—Rav, Morgan Dix, S. T. D. Evening. NEW JERUSALEM HOUSE OF Quaunoer Gries, Morning and evening. WORSHIP.—Rev. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Morrisania.— Ruy. Hosaut Wiutiams. Morning and afternoon. SEVENTEENTH STREET M. E. CHURCH.—Rev. Wu. P. Conair, Morning and evening. ST. ANN’S FREE CHURCH.—Rev. Dm Gatcavpsr. ‘Morning and evening. . ST. JOHN'S M. E. CHURCH.—Rey. G. 8. Esrar, ox fae Two Proctamations,” and “FRagMents 4ND BROKEN Ligart."" Morning and evening. ST. MATHEW'S CHURCH (Harvard fall), Forty-second o.reot,—Ruva. S. Ragp. Morning and evening. TRINITY CHAPEL, West Twenty-fifth street.—Cuorat BSanvion any Senuon, Evening. . UNIVERSITY, Washington “Waar Wit Gov Do Wirn m1 re.—Bisnor Sow, ow ‘onLD." Afternoon. UPPER CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION.—Morging aud evening. ZION EPISCOPAL FREE CHAPEL, Ruy. Jamas Murray. Morning and TRIPLE SHEET, Third @venue.— 10g. New York, Si The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, February 15. Tho banquet to Admiral Farragut, in Florence, was a vory grand affair, eliciting many expressions of good feeling towards the United Siates. A rumof of the death of Earl Derby prevailed in London at noon, but Was contradicted iu the evening. The health of the English Premier is improved. The news from Abyssinia is again contradicted ana the despatches from the seat of war, goneraily, said to be unrelisbie, Consols 93.8 933¢ in Lomdon. Five-twenties 717; a 72 ia London and 76 in Frankfort, Rentes firm in Paria, Cotton buoyant, with middling uplands at 85d, 0 6X%d Breadstuflé firmer. Provisions tower. By tho steamship Palmyra, at this port, we have a moail report in detail of our cable despatches to the let of February, additional to the advices of that day rougnt by the French mail steamship St. Laurens, CONGRESS. The Senate was vot in session yesterday. In tho House petitions were presented in bebalf of midshipmen who may bereafter graduate from the Na val Academy, for an adjustment of the revenue laws nd for the removal of the internal revenue tax on manufactures, which were eppropriately roferrea, The consideration of the election case from the second Congrossional district of Kentucky was resumed, and afver remarks by Mr, Smith, who contended that he was entitled to the seat, and by several of tho members, the rosolution declaring Mr. Smith not entitied to the seat was adopted, The Grant-Hancock correspondence called for by resolution yesterday was presented by the Speaker, read and referred. The Consular and Diplo- matic Appropriation bill was then considered, but with- ous disposing of the bill the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate a bill was reported consenting to the Purchase by the United States of lands in Brooklyn for the oolargement of the Navy Yard. Bills were intro- duced to incorporate the Yorkville Sav Bank and authorizing the construetion of a railroad in avenue C aad other streets and avenues in this city, Tn the Assembly a resolution was adopted calling upon the Attorney of the Metropolitan Excise Board for the amount of fees received by bim tor 1866. Bills to amend the Croton Aqueduct Department act and for other purposes were reported favorably. Extra sitting? of tho Committee on Cities wore authorized. Both bouses havo taken & recess until the 25th inst, THE CITY. ‘The Committee of the Board of Aldermen having charge of the extending of Laurens street and Fifth avonue met yesterday and hoard a great many opinions ‘© the propriety of opeving Laurens street in pre- forence to Thompson strect and vice versa, The only new pian offered was by General Viele, to make all that Section of Washington square east of Fifth avenuoa Grand plage, At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen, besides the ordinary routine, « Iarge smeunt of business was transacted. The Comptroller sent io the tables of the oarnings of the #ixth and Eighth Avenue MRaiiroad Companies for the past yoar, showing thove of the former to be $556,680 73 and of the latter $766,261 03. The communication from the Mayor on the Church street opening was largely discussed and then referred te the Committee oo Law, A resolution was introduced appropriating $1,000 tor a portrait of ex-Mayor Guather and another t pay G. W, Roome 6435 for expenses for funeral of e ‘man Reed. yer columa of this morning's Hurato wil! be found a record of important robberies committed during the past six yours in this cliy amd vicinity, together with tho names of the perpetrators, by whom arrested fod the disposition made of them. Of the entire num- ber only five who wore arrested on charges of larceny were prosacnied. Woutléth oflendve robberies oc. Curred, none of the porsons sted boing identified, #ad of the whole uwraber onty Avs wore arrested and tuontified. The Corouor's juty in the ease of the recent oxplosion DO New York and Brovkiya Parafiae Ol Works, in NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1868—TRIPLE SHET. South Brooklyn, where James Brough and Edwin Con- roy were burned to doatb, last night returned a ver- dict that the deceased met their death by the accidental explosion of the still, In the United States District Court yesterday, before Judgo Blatehford, @ motion was made in the matter of Charles G. Patterson to restrain the Sheriff from selling certain property belonging to the bankrupt. The court reserved decision. In the same court the case of Wil- liam Wood ve, the Washington Marine Insurance Com- pany came before the court on motion to show cause why, on petition of Mr, Wood, the company should not be declared bankrupt, The matter was adjourned till the 22d inst, Yesterday morning the steamship Quaker City was sold by the United States Marshal for $18,000, having been libelled on three separate claims, one for seamen’s ‘Wages amounting to $9,000 and two for supplies, the de- mand for thes being $1,145. In the Cour} of Special Sessions yesterday Josoph Pol- lock and Michael Donohoe were arraigned for trial charged with ¢ruelty to animals in overloading one of the cars of theThird Avenue ling The case was ad- Journed, ‘The stock market was strong yesterday. Government securities were frm. Gold closed at 141 a 141%. ‘A fair amount of business was consummated in most kinds of merchandise yesterday, and values wore at least steady, while in some casos holders estab- lished an advance, Groceries wero moderately active and steaay. The cotton market was yery much excited and ruled decidedly higher, clos- ing strong on a basis of 21%c. for middling upland on ’Change, Flour and grain were in moderate domand and firm, Provisions were moderately active. Pork showed an upward tendency, Lard wasa shade easier, Naval stores wore unchanged, Petroleum was quiet but steady. Dry goods were in brisk demand at full prices. Whiskey was dull and nominal, Tne live stock market was quiet. Beef cattle were unchanged. Sheep dull and %{c. a 34c, lower, Swine, being scarce and in demand, were higher, closing at $%c. a 9c, MISCELLANEOUS. Tho !ast mail from Gibraltar brings news of the foun- dering at sea, off Absecom Light, of the schooner Moses Waring, of this city, The cook was washed overboard, andthe mate dying, his starving comrades, in their crazed condition, ate portions of his body, The surviv- ere were rescued by the British bark Minnie Gordo By special telegrams over the Gulf cable we hat id from Cuba, Barbadoes, Nassau, St. Kitts, Jamaica, Trinidad and Berbice, Ia the latter colony the crops and cattle were suffering very much from the severe Grought existing there, The government of St, Kitts had refused a loan of £80,000 fo rpbyild the burned town of Bassaterre, Excessive rains prevailed. Resolations looking to the annexation of British Co- lumbia to the United States were yesterday introduced in the California Legislature. A resolution prohiviting marriage between whites and Diacks was offered in the North Carolina’ Convention yesterday. It was tabled, and this is regardod aa a de- claration of social and political equality. The Florida Convention was yesterday provided with a military guard by request of Governor Walror. A re- conciliation seems probable, Canadian gunboats aro being got ready for aervice on the lakes as soon as navigation shall open, They will be temporarily manned by naval brigades now in com- mission. A large democratic mass meeting was hold in New Orieans Jast night, Resolutions were adopted endorsing President Johnson and afiliating with the Nogthern democracy, Influence of the United States on World. Mr. Anson Burlingame’s appointment as the representative of China in a European confer- ence is a strange fact, falling quite outside the monotony of ordinary political events, It ad- mits thit China can no longer stand utterly aloof from the circle of the nations—that sho is not, when things come to a practical test, the all sufficient centre of everything, as her wise men have thought for some thousands of years, but is and must be more or less depend- ent upon the acts of others; and it admits, moreover, that, ignorant of the world and its ways beyond her own limits, her statesmen are not able to cope with the out ide barbarian in the crafty game of diplomacy. It marks an advanced point in the progress of the age that that jealous, vain and egotistical government should come to the recognition of these facts, since this recognition involves the throwing away of those prejudices on which was based the system that kept the Western World shat out for ages from the richest empire of the East. To have convinced China that this is an age of progress, and that she can no longer with safety refuse to take part in the great drama of nations! life, is to have solved one of the greatest of political problems. And this so- lution is due to the inflaence of the United the States. That wo should have great in- fluence on the destinies of Eastern Asia is a natural consequence of our po- sition on the Pacific, which makes us practically China’s nearest neighbor among the important Powers, renders it almost necessary that the power of the age should act on her through us. But our influence is also in # great measure due to tho different spirit that bas marked our career in the Bast. The Chinese government has come to feol that it can trust us. We do not want colonies. It is otherwise with England, France and Russia. England’s career in India, Russia’s in Central Asia, and that of France im Cochin China are so many constant warnings to the Celestial Kingdom to beware of those Powers. But with the United States it has not this suspicious dread of further consequences. It finds that our approaches have no other object than the legitimate ones of intercourse and trade, that we deal justly and openly, and it meets us half way on fair terms, Complimentary though this be to our national character and to the justice toward others with which our relations have been conducted, significant as it is of our growing influence in the East, yet tho better fact indi- cated is the more general one as to the degree in which ‘the progress of knowledge is throwing down the barriers that ignorance and fear have in other times set up to keep nations parted. Physical science— the application of the lawa of natare to sup- plying social wants—performs its true part as it reduces the world to the government of intellect, as it makes thought the supreme power. In all ages knowledge, even such as there has always been in the world, has been unevenly distributed. At certain pointe thera has been a concentration of intellectual light with all the rest in the darkness of barbarlty. Two or three spots along the Nile and Carthage shine for the whole Continent of Africa ; Athens and Rome are all that is distinctly seen of Europe for centuries; and while Plato and Cicero, representing the high intellectual level of their spheres, discuss the existence of the soul and the nature of the gods, contemporary men along the Arctic shores of the same Con- tinent seem but little different from the seals they hunt. It is the practical purpose of physical science to equalize these extremes and to bring to beat Apot the life of overy human ¢f@iture the highest radiaiée that the century possesses. It is for this that the press is putting forth day by day its vast volume of facts, and that its columns give free play for the brain of the nation, discussing avory- thing, throwiag up before the wind al! that comes to hand, confident that the light aff will be sifted away and the golden grainiof truth fall in their proper place. And it is or this that, like the organs of thought, our electic wires go over every mountain range and undr every sea, annihilating space ; that our steames hunt out the remotest people, and our railroad span all the continents. It is to sweep away the old systems of government by force ant prejudice and to substitute that by thought, in which alone there can be justice. In this new conquest of the world we believe it Is the great destiny of the American people to move in the van, Standing geographically between the two powerful sections of the Old World, the half-way house of European com- merce on its shortest route to the Indies, we command the whole coast looking eastward or westward of the oceans on which the trade and travel of the world must be done for centuries to come; and this, with our vast capabilities @5 a naval power and the character of our government, insures the absolute freedom and safety of those seas, Moreover, the constant intercourse, bringing each extremity nearer day by day, will put before either the wonderful example of what a people may become by the free use of thought in’ all spheres of life; by the “pplication of the most advanced knowledge to trivial detils as to groat necessities, Natioxs canmt afford to stay behind and sand still it view of others pursuing such a career, and overnments, systems, prejudices, all will five way to the development of the peopleunder such influence, And it is through the pres of the country—through the press of this gre# city mainly—that the national brain, compelliig all physical science to its pur- pose, wil make itself felt on the people and throug thom on the world. No other Press can ‘or the present be absolutely free, and ®solute freedom is the prime necessity. london has @ press great in many respecis,Paris a feebler one ; but neither is free, for the >ress of Paris is in political slavery, and thatof London, though politionuy free, is in a state ¢ social servitude, bound ,to silence and subseriency by scores of ancient prejudices toward\ money—toward institu- tions—toward this or that interest—toward mere names ; but th: press of this city alone is absolutely without hackles, and it is only through this great pover that it can ever be fully shown that “thrugh the ages an in- creasing purpose runs.” Real Estate the Wet side—How Buel- ness Crawls Nethward. The prompt and generallyudicious measures of the Central Park Commision in modelling the western tract of the city seems to have given a sudden impulso of tivity to real estate operations in the vicinity of the new Boulevard and throughout the whje length of that prospective Avenue Neuilly of New York. The extent to which this work of Tebodelling and laying out the upper tract, as wil as 9 general digest of the prinoiples and consdera- tions which have governed the commision, has already been discussed in exlenso in or article published in Inst Sunday’s issue, ant has been plagiarized somewhat in extenso, with a map taken from Trow’s Directory or other equally trite and inexpensive source bya copperhead journal long noted for its facility in availing itself of tho enterprise of first class newspapers, The problem which at present puzzles real estate speculators is the determination of the hereafter central points of the upper part of the island—a problem which may as well be solved by the frank admission that there is not probably one square rod of the western tract which will not have tripled in value in the course of the next decade. The most speedily settled, and therefore the most immediately, value for real estate operations will be the lots on the line of the new Boule- vard and along the exterior street, the early development of which will be necessitated by the emphatic commercial wants of the metro- polis and the fact that already the commerce of the city feels the need of room for its proper expansion. Scarcely loss rapid, however, will be the building op and development of the interior streets and avenues, owing to the increasing demand of our millionnaires for future Fifth avenues for future palaces of fashion; and it would not be difficult, by a little study of maps and present centres, to designate the future Murray Hills and Madison squares of the city. While this motamorphosis is going on west of the Park there is every prospect that the demand for villa sites will have wrought an equal augmentation of real estate values on the upper tract, especially about those little centres of tho aristocratic cloister which already dot the map of the whole northern tract from the Park to Spuyten Duyvil creek. The natural needs of the metropolis of a continent can, therefore, hardly fail to triple the value of undeveloped lots on the west side within the next ten or fifteen years. On the east side a less rapid advance may be ex- pected, the development of the east side hav- ing for certain reasons proceeded more rapidly than that of the west, and values having been forced up more nearly to their maximum figure, Besides, the rendering of the west side susceptible of improvement by the fixing of the lines of its future thoronghtares cannot but oreate a diversion of capital to that tract, which will have some tendency to depress values on the east side; though specdily—should the ratio of annual increase continue—we may expect to see the whole island of Manhattan covered with from seven to aine layers of hamanity, story upon story, all paying rents at present Broadway rates—itself an island of seven stories and with seven layers of popu- lation. Tetuanaraisa—Monoror.y Versus Compe- mition.~-The following figures will show the difference that competition makes in the priee of sending messages by telegraph. The prices given are for » message of ton words; and the figures given under the head former rate show the enormous prices charged by the Western Union Company when there wae no opposition, while those gtven under present rate show to what 8 point prices have been foduced by the construction of competing lineq :— Brom New York to Tor Ni, Pram seecesseeses eth soe SS ee Re SA Be se BE Bae Pal eel oa a The Case of the Rev. St H. Tyee The interest which the public have been taking in the case of the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng does not abate as the trial advances. The chapel of St. Peter’s church has been filled from day to day with sympathizing crowds of ladies and gentlemen. If it was Mr, Tyng’s object to acquire notoriety it must be admitted he has beea not a little successful, His name fills the land. Henceforward the reverend gentleman is little likely to have reason to lament the absence of an audience. Mr. Tyng’s is one of those cases which are so inextricably mixed up with sentiment that the real merits are liable to be overlooked. The real merits of the case, however, it is de- sirable that the public should know and under- stand. Mr. Tyng has been accused and brought to trial for violating certain canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church. It is unde- niable that the canons said to be violated form partof the laws of said Church. It has never been pleaded by Mr. Tyng or by Mr. Tyng’s friends—it kas not been pleaded by the defence at the triei—that such canons do notexist. It is written in the statute book of the Church that x0 clergyman shall officiate in the parish of another without consent of the authorities ef said parish. It is also written that certain particular forms shall be attended to in per- formance of the morning service. Whether Mr. Tyng has been guilty of violating this latter canon we know not, butitis undeniable that he violated the former. He did preach in a certain parish and in a Methodist church without con- sent of the proper authorities of said parish. He did not only preach without consent, but after having been formally warned of the risk he was running. ~ Judged, then, by the letter of the law, we have no hesitation in saying Mr. Tyng must be accounted guilty. He knew the law; he broke it and broke it willingly. It will not surprise us if this be the view of the case taken by his ecclesiastical superiors and it Mr. Tyng be condemned accordingly. Condemnation, however, is not necessarily a disgrace. To suffer in 4 righteous cause is alwaya honorable, To the successful resist- ance of obnoxious laws we owe nota tw? of the blessings of which, in this nineteenth cen- tury and in these United States, we have so much cause to be proud. Is there anything in the case of the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng which would justify us, in the event of his being de- prived of hia living and cut off from the Church, in ranking him with the martyrs and reformers of the past? We fear he would look a small man, intellectually, at least, beside such men as Luther and Knox. It is not to be denied, however, that in the course of the trial there was brought out a certain amount of exculpatory evidence. It did appear that the obnoxious canon was not uniformly at- tended to, and that Mr. Tyng was neither the first nor the only transgressor. If Mr. Tyng had reason to regard the canon as practically obso- lete—if, fortified by the example and experience of others, he felt emboldened to ignore its existence—then his conduct is presented to us in on entirely new light. Remembering the higher law, which commands the gospel mes- senger to “go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,” it is extremely Gfficult for us to justify the canon which con- dewns Mr. Tyng for preaching the gospel ina neighboring parish. Justification, in fact, is impossible. The canon smycks too much of tyranny and pride; it revealsthe spirit of the most offensive species of bigohy; it is con- demned by the common sense of every right- thinking man. Conceived in cirwmstances and enacted for purposes which haveno longer @ place in the modern world, its coutinued existence is as unnecessary as it is absuid, and the Church in which so obnoxious and utgcrip- tural a statute remains unrepealed cannit be said to be in harmony with the advanced invlli- gence and liberal sentiments of theage. It was not, therefore, unnatural fora young and enthu- siastic divine, imbued with a love of liberty— and let us hope also with the love of human souls--eager for famo and not unwilling to climb the steep ascent, to ignore the existence of so obnoxious a law, and when he found it pushed into his way to resolve to test its strength. It might have been wiser and more dignified—it would certainly have been more becoming an order-loving churchman—bhad Mr. Tyng obeyed the law and legitimately sought its repeal. This, however, he did not do; and if in the course he has taken he has erred, he has erred in company with many noble and many wise. Tho deposition of Mr. Tying will be no loss, but rather a gain, to him personally. Admir- ing crowds will flock to hear him. A new temple will be raised to his honor, and a new Christian association will probably perpetuate his name. It will be otherwise with the Pro- testant Episcopal Church. Whatever Mr. Tyng will gain, and more than Mr. Tyng will gain, the Church will lose. It will find itself alien- ated from popular sympathy and will have lastingly affixed to it the damaging character- istics of retrograde and intolerant. How the trial shall end we know not. We cannot say that we are disposed to expect great things from Mr. Tyng’s ecclesiastical superiors. The conduct of the court hitherto has not been marked with wisdom. Looking, in fact, at this case as a whole, judging from what has actually taken place in court, and remembering that all these reverend gentlemen claim to hold office by divine appointment, we feel ourselves irre- sistibly impelled to one of two conclusions— either to question their claim or to doubt the wisdom that appointed them. SS OS SO a ee eee Cabs Wanted. Thare is, perhaps, no convenience of metropolitan life the absence of which is so immediately felt in this community ag that of public cabs. They are espe- cially required at the depots of our railroads, and we may add that their ab- sence at those points is only another evi- dence of the indifference of railroad com- panies as to the comfort of their prssengers. Take the New Haven road, for instance, where the train, coming in late at night, deposits its jbuman freight at the tunnel, where the pas- eengers have frequently to wait half an hour or more for a horse car by which to reach the clty. If the raliroad companies studied their own Interests in this matter as they do in other respects where the discomfort of the public is conoerned, they would establish lines of cabs at ovory terminus. They might charge @ dollar to convey a passenger to his hotel or his home, which would be cheerfully paid, if for no other purpose than to avoid the oxtor- fon of the hack system and the josiling, pushing effrontery aod vulgarily which ono } has to submit to frm the hackmen. Here is | float overa fleet of quick sailing and incom- Commodore Vanderbilt, who controls the Harlem, Hudson River and Central Railroads, why does not he inaugurate a system of cabs, which work so well in London and Paris? It would pay him and would be a grand deside- ratum for the public. The Battle ef the Impresarii. Tt sometimes happens that in the first shock of a great battle of modern times the move- ments of the combatants on either side are ob- scured by the smoke of the “ villanous salt- petre.” Such is the case at present in the first engagement of the great operatic war between Peter Stuyvesant Strakosch and Jan Risingh Pike. The battle opened on Wednesday night with a desperate attack made by the intrepid Strakosch at the head of the one hundred and ninety-nine and a half chivalrous stockholders of the Academy of Music. The Van Wycks, Van Dycks and Ten Eycks; the Van Hoffmans, Van Belmonts and Vander Pooles ; the Ten Breecheses and the Tough Breechesos and a host of others were marshalled in battle array at the catacombs by the sturdy trumpeter, Antony Van Corlear Kingsland, who blew a tremendous blast of defiance against the Eighth avenue foe. The flerceness of the sturdy chivalry of Irving place seems to have thrown the enemy’s camp into confusion, for affairs at Pike’s are somewhat muddled at present. On the muster roll of the garrison of the Opera House on the west side we find Italians, Ger- mans, “Black Crook” dancers, and a miscel- laneous array of tenors and managers. Disaf- fection and insubordination prevail amid this chaotic force, and it will require all the Napo- leonic strategy of Pike to reduce them to order. “Watering bis stock,” however, with tenors and dancers is hardly judicious in view of the present state of the operatic market. Stra- kosch presents a solid phalanx in the persons of La Grange, Brignoli, Phillips and Orlandini, although they have not escaped injuryin the first attack. After the commencement of hos: tilities between the two graat houses 9 Spartaa band called the Opera di Camera Obscura Rangers went into the fight on their own hook, entrenching themselves near the Croton reser- voir on Sixth avenue, These soldiers of for- tune will probably in the end be merged into either of the great operatic armies, for the vicinity of the reservoir is a rather limited field for operations in their line. The eloquent Knickerbocker would have a great theme for his epio pen were he to witness the terrible war that has been inaugurated between the rival opera houses. “And now may be seen prodigies of valor unmatched in history or song. Here~is the sturdy Stoffel Brinkerhoff Van Nicolai brandishing his baton like the giant Blanderon his oak tree, and drumming a horrific tune upon the hard heads of the Pike men. There are the Van Belmonts, posted at @ distance like the Locrian archers of yoro, and plying it most potently with the long bow for which they were ao justly renowned. On a rising knoll are gatheed the valiant men of Sing Sing, assisting marvellously in the fight by chanting the great song of the stockhold- ers.” Nor would the eloquent Knickerbocker omit the valiant achievements of Antony Van Corlear Kingsland, wao comes into the battle with no other weapon but his trumpet, and twangs away in the most fearless manner, What plan of battle will be adopted by the undaunted Jan Risingh Pike remains to be seen. Perhaps he will attempt to undermine the citadel of the foe with Bourbon, and achieve another victory like that of General Fritz in the “Grand Duchess.” ‘The coming week is pregnant with great events, for the legions on both sides will then advance, and the result of the battle will be no longer doubtfal. American Commerce—Screw Steamships vs. Sailing Vossels. That foreign bottoms control the carrying trade between Europe and America, and have done so for many years, is too well known to need comment. It is evident that unless the United States desires to yield the supremacy of the seas to foreign countries efforts must at once be made by American merchants and capitalists to resist this monopoly of the ocean tr The United States has not receded in the seience of naval architecture, but quite the reverse. Ship building on this Continent has almost reached its highest point of excellence, and many of the architects are not mete copy- ists or servile imitators of established models, their productions being the results of original conceptions, Our clipper ships stand un- rivalled to this day. They carry more cargo and sail faster than those of any other nation. Harmony and symmetry, elo- ments of beauty and power, are happily com- bined in many of these brave sbips. This is more than evident, as their builders havo frequently become the recipients from foreign Powers of practical acknowledgments of their skill and talent, as has been developed in American ship building. But the maritime commerce of the world is doubtless destined to be carried on in the future, not in splendid clipper ships, but in improved screw propelling steamships, and in this easential particular this country is lament- ably deficient. This should not longer continue, American merchants, representing American interests, should at once so combine as ta use the mechanical and naval skill among us to con- struct improved screw steamers in opposition to the lines lald on by English and German capitalists, that have steadily and wholly forced our sailing ships out of the market, It has been urged by American shippers that, with all their prudence and skili, it is impossible for them to successfully compete with the heavy subsidies bestowed by Great Britain, France and Germany on the steamship companies of those nations. Private enter- prise, they contend, cannot maintain as bigh a standard of speed, clegance and equipment in their vessels as foreign corporations, who, by this adventitious nid, are enabled to drive their vessels ot high speed, regardless of the mount of patronage they receive, The plan of granting subsidies, they urge, is the whole explanation of the suecess of foreign steamships. This system ts repugnant to the spirit of republican institu- parable screw steamships that will not counte- nance avy epposition, The Fashions. , From Parls wo have our usual weekly re- port, light, witw and agreeable, embracing a special chronicls of the latest styles of female toilet prevailing m the French capital, with an artistic exbibit of the most elegant adjuncts in the way of trimmings and ornamentation, with , which the skilful nodistes of that city give perfect finish to the cistly robesworn indoors, on the promenade, in the ballroom and at Court, We are inforned that most of the young ladies “just out” in the fashionable world of France patronize ress materials of a pink color, and that in pinx skirts of striped Chambery gauze, worn over under-pet- ticoats of pink silk, and wth pink sashes and a tuft of pink flovers in their hair, these juvenile beauties sppear “full of promise”—a very pleasing apptarance indeed, and one which, it is to be hoped, they will strictly maintain until its complete realization by each and all of them in the mitronly and refining influence of the domestic circle. Heavy Spanish blonde is again ia yogue, a thick, glossy pattern, being worn over light colored skirts, Tulle skirts are puffed length- wise and worn with cordons of pearls. Chin- chilla, with other fleecy furs, were 4oon on satin material for the evening toilet. Fura were in very general request, and a stomiacher of this material, worn on while satin, was much noticed at one of the late ministerial receptions. The jewelled chatelaine with which Eugénie looped up the left side of her tulle -overtunio at the last imperial ball at the Tuileries created quite a pleas- ing flutter of excitement, which was only allayed by a counterblast from Rome, in the shape of a broad hint from the Pope to the clergy of Paris on the subject of their rather “fast” tendencigg ag exhibited in the manner in which, aa Wolingss bas been duly informed, they loop up their sacerdotal robes in the churches; so, what with the very weighty considerations attaching to the select- ing of color, dress, material, cbignons, pearls, diamonds, underskirle and so forth, the Parig belles are likely to have to endure an addi- tiunal perplexity in the matter of the fold and looping of surplices and stoles, according Pontifical rule, during their moments of devo- tion, This special Paris fashions correspondence is very acceptable to the readers of the Heraxp, and interests numerous classes of the commercial and industrial community in this country ; yet it appears to us, notwithstanding that fashion is not pertectly free in France, and that the goddess, who is an embodiment of change and loves free thought and natural wor- ship, evinces an evident desire to migrate and transfer her shrine to the island of Manhattan, after which we will give, the ton officially and authoritatively to Europe, instead of waiting many days to hear what was worn at an impe- rial reception or ministerial ball. True fashion cannot originate in royal caprice or be handed to the people according to State rule much longer. The Empress Eugénie is a most agree- able visible incarnation of the fashions deity so universally worshipped in the Old World ; but even her Majesty cannot control or direct _ the original invention, delicate taste, elegance of execution and appropriateness of use which are now observable in all matters of dress on all sides—but particularly in New York—in America, wud uuder she inspiration of which American ladies wiil certainly build ah altar around which the devotees of fashion from foreign lands will kneel, in full faith that the goddess left to “float as free as mountain breezes” will reward their patience and per- severance almost daily with an idea of the design of a new hat, or the cut of a new robe, or the trimming of a new petticoat, or some- thing which no one elso ever heard of, and which, consequently, could not have been “worn already” by any of their friends or acquaintances, Let the Outside Southern States be Brought In Without Farther Delay. Under the laws of Congress, on one side or the other and counting all together, a majority of the registered voters of any State concerned is required to make valid a reconstruction election. In the late Alabama constitutional election it seems the total vote cast was less than the majority of the registered voters of the State, because the white opposition party purposely abstained from voting, with very few exceptions, while the radical blacks failed to bring out their full strength. It is under- stood, however, that the election is to be extended in certain counties and voting places where no polis were opened, in order to bring the total vote on the constitution up to the demand of the law. Should this plan fail it is understood that the House bill now pending before the Senate will be pushed through, providing that a majority of the votes actually cast in these elections shall be conclusive. And why not? This, outside of these unrecon- structed States, is the universal law. Why not in those States? Even under the State con- stitations framed to meet the conditions of this Congress the whites entitled to the suffrage and the right to hold office, &c., in every State concerned, if once restored to the status of New York or Tennessee as States of the Union, can within a year or two secure the full con- trol of the State. The whites have all the lands, all the capital, all the manufactures of the State, and if they would only follow the sound advice of General Wade Hampton they would get back into Congress as soon as possible to get these military governments out of the way, and in order to bring their influence to bear upon the blacks in behalf of the common interests of the community of both faces and in behalf of the special interests of the State in Congress. Bui again we say, let those excluded States be brought in at once on any torms which this radical Congress may think proper, beonuse, where is oan be shown that these reconstructed States are under coniitions of negro supremacy fisgrantly. unjust to the whites, the people of the North will have « word to say upon the subject in the approach- tions, and the claim that by this plan alone’) ing eloctioms for the noxt Congress. If in the the United States can regain its lost prestige on tho ocean is very absurd. Let our shipping merchants, such as Grinnell, Minturn & Co., R. S. Forbes & Co, W. M. H. Fogg & Co., A. A. Low & Co, and thousands of others like them, combine with well known capitalists, employ- | ing the sk.ll of our successful machinists and ong admission of these sufficiently badgered Southern States there shall come up to Washington & sprinkling of negro membors of Congress, it will only widen the popular Northern reaction against this whole radio.) negro supremacy system. Therefore we syy, without chaffering upon, this or that express evs, and soon the American flag will condition of the law, let Congress hurry ia the