The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Smith, sixteen years of age, who has been lately confined in the Convent of the Good Shepherd, was brought up on habeas corpus to inquire into the rea- sons for her detention. It is alleged that she has recently renounced the Roman Catholic faith and joined the Methodist Church; but the “return” of the Lady Superior to the writ denies that this was the cause of her detention. Further hearing adjourned, The stock market was steady, but quiet, yesterday. Government securities closed strong at a slight ad- All business or news letter and telegraphic | vance. Gold declined at the close to 1403 a 1404. despatches must be addressed New York MISCELLANEOUS. Herp. General Grant's telegram approving of General Buchanan’s course in the late legislative squabble in ; Letters and packages should be properly | Louisiana has been published in a general order by Bealed. the latter. The present State government is declared = provisional, only and entirely under the control of ‘olume General Buchanan. General Grant suggests that the cu oath of oMce prescribed by the new constitution JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. should alone be required of the elect, and this, it is said, will admit many officers who otherwise could not qualify, The registration board have determined to issue a proclamation in accord with these instruc tions and the provisions of the Southern admission bill recently passed by Congress. General Buchanan has declared that the writ of quo warranto against Mayor Conway will not be allowed to take its course. L, H. Chandler, United States District Attorney in Richmond, Va., some time ago declared himself a candidate on the radical ticket for Representative in Congress for that district. Ata radical meeting in Norfolk on Thursday evening a black negro, Dr. Bayne, declared himself also a candidate against Chandler and an advocate of the principle that if a negro may vote he may hold office. He will probably carry the whole negro vote, and the white friends of: Chandler are driven to extremities by this unlooked- for turn of affairs. Our St. Domingo correspondence is dated June 4. Polanco has pronounced against Baez and was sup- ported by Susa and Valerio. The other revolutionists were preparing for active operations. The graduating class of 1868 was finally relieved in orders at ‘the last parade” at West Point yesterday afternoon. A grand hop on board the practice fleet was given by the naval cadets last evening. General John B. Gordon, conservative, of Georgia, declines to allow the use of his name before the Legislature for United States Senator. Twenty-eight persons are in prison in Atlanta charged with complicity in the Ashburn murder. Crop prospects in Georgia are languishing for lack of rain. The trial of Deacon Andrews wil not take place until November. The Grand Jury have inaicted him for wilful murder, Hamill and Coulter tried their sculling over again on the Schuylkill river, at Philadelphia, yesterday. Coulter broke one of his sculls on the third pull, and Hamill passed slowly over the course, being ad- judged the winner. McEttrick, who won the walking match at Boston & day or two ago, is now alleged to have substituted another man in his place for a few hours of the time after dark, ‘The trick was not discovered until his substitute betrayed him. The $1,000 stakes have been given to his opponent. The Canadian Zouaves who joined the Papal army are reported to be enduring great privations. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, * OLYMPIC THEATRE. B cay Matinee at 136. RE. Broadway.—Humrrr Dvpry. NEW STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bi ro @rLL—Ropser’s Wire—Tom ‘AND JERRY) be. Ae { NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taz Wurrs Fawn. Matinee at 1. ‘ eee WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 15:h street.— Wur Lorreny or Lirr. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—A FLASH OF Dionne, Matinee at Ly. fo FRENCH THEATRE.—CoMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT TO Mx. Ina H. Moorr. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ErTH10- @IAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &¢. , sebiabanale KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonaa, OOENTRIOITIES, &c,—La!—BELL—L. N. Matinee at 24. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 1th Bireot.—Erinorran MINSTRELSY, EOUENTRIOITIES, £0. { THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BALLeT, FARoR, Wo. Matinee at 214. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio Vooa.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. Matinee at 2g. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoPULAR GARDEN ConoERt. Matinee at 334. TERRACE GARDEN—Porv.ar GARDEN CoNncERT. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Bouemran GIRL. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Que Fouts o£ 4 NicuT—Gimapa, » HooLRY's OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—BuRLESQuE OpeRA—CINDERELLA. + NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— Ok AND ART. New York, Saturday, June 20, 1868. 2 SEE . THH NEWS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday at midnight, June 19. Queen Victoria will review the British volunteers | Several cases of sunstroke occurred in Montreal fat Windsor to-day, which will occasion a general | Yesterday. hol Austria is becoming more intimate with | _Jtelligence from the Sandwich Islands to the 16th of May is to the effect that steam was still rising The Emperor and Premier of Austria are to from the Mauna Loa volcanoes. Earthquakes and Law damages of very heavy amount “4 rendered against newspapers in England | freshets were occurring. and France. Maximilian’s memory was solemnly | _ The Oregon crops are reported favorable. Men are honored in Paris, the Ex-Empress Carlota and wanted at the fisheries on the Lower Columbia river. Madame Miramon attending the mass. The Western Division of the Pacific Railroad is | The great Powers concede to the Servians the right | 'Pldly progressing, and the contractors are con- of electing the reigning Prince. fident of reaching Salt Lake City by the 4th of July, Consols 91% a 95, money. Five-twenties 731 in | 188%, in advance of the Eastern Division. onion and 77%, a 77% in Frankfort. Paris Bourse SLA arm. The Pressure of the New Revolution—The Cotton active, with middling uplands at 114d. a Commotion Among the Democracy. have be aay Breadstuifs steady, Provisions and produce There is a terrible shaking going on among CONGRESS. the dry bones of the democracy. The agita- In the Senate yesterday Mr, Pomeroy introduced a | tion by the HERALp of the commanding claims Hill to turn over the Indian Bureau to the Freed- | and availability of Chief Justice Chase as the men’s Bar nies putlers eteae| * me a tore | democratic candidate for the next Presidency xporters and alcohol, who vessels laden with rum at Boston and Salem, has thoroughly roused the Sots and file of the bound for Africa, under contracts made be- | party to the perils and necessities of the crisis. Tore the aw of January last was reconsidered and | Among the masses, who look at things as they ie bill was passed, Pending a discussion on the | are and not as they were before the war, this q cerry fytasde gibbons of the Union Pacific | poposition in behalf of Chase is running like a | In the House the bill relative to the carrying of | fire im the prairies: Among the old Bourbons, higrant passengers was passed, The bill for the | who “learn nothing and forget nothing,” it is ‘tension of the woodscrew patents of Thomas W. | regarded with fear and trembling or with jarvey came up as the business of the morning affected contempt or indignation. The agita- jour, and after some further debate the bill was | 4:0) however, bh length “ ain re ed by a vote of 65to 71. The conference tion, however, has at length been reduced to port, siriking out the names of George Houston, of | the simple alternative, Chase against Grant, Alabama, and George W. Jones, of Tennessee, from | with a brilliant prospect of success, or a make- ‘the bill removing political disabilities was read and | shift opposition candidate, with the certainty of & lively disenssion ensued upon it, Finally a vote | gofoat, en on agreeing with the report, which re- The case is clear as crystal. eas to 55 hays, and it was rejected, two- Only look at thirds not favoring it. Mr. Broomall made a motion | jt, Available democratic Presidential timber, to reconsider the vote and to postpone the considera- tion of his motion until Monday, which was agreed ee estat senha ed a to. Numerous Senate amendments to House bilis | Yellow pine, is very scarce. The war has made curred in and the resoiation thanking E. M, | it so, Jobn Van Buren, aman of some sa- ‘a8 passed, gacity, saw this in 1865 and nominated Andrew THE CITY. Johnson as the man for the democracy in 1868. The New York Yacht Club Regatta finally came off | The proposition was regarded, however, by the psicrday, The schooners Magic, Idler, Silvie and | party managers as “one of John’s dry jokes,” ie and White Wing were ; : the only ones of the twelve entries of Wednesday | *20 00 attention was paid to it, In 1866 Mr. Which took part in the race, The schooner Idier | Johnson threw out a feeler in that famous Philadelphia Convention, but from the fact that Mr. Raymond was the chosen orator of the day the democracy could make nothing out of it, and it was a fiasco. In 1867, finding that from his vigorous war with the radi- cals he had so astonished the democratic managers that they were afraid of him, Mr. Johnson began to cast about outside the White ‘t, but she was followed 80 closely by that by the regulation allowance of time was declared the winner. hird annual regatta of the Atlantic Yacht , postponed from Wednesday last, also took ‘erday, Tne Mystic was declared the the schooner race, the Clytie of the first »ps and the Martha the victor of the second ter masons and brick! rs met yesterday at the nics and Trader: hange Rooms, | House for an acceptable candidate for them. No. 51 1 ¥ street. They resolved not toemploy | He sounded General Sherman, but Sherman, any bricklayer who would not be willing to work | like the old fox at the door of the lion's den, be satin al dee da ep aaeA begged off; he tried the fighting General SOLUTION ad after some confusion and excited Gebate appointed a committee to propose a plan of | Thomas, but Thomas bolted; he found in action and to report to an adjourned meeting at the | General Hancock a soldier of the old conti- Baine place at two o'clock P. M. next Monday. nental Washingtonian type, but the Western Coroner's jury m the murder case of Jacob copperheads recalled the hanging of Mrs. Sur- ratt and protested against all epaulettes. Thus the magnanimous efforts of the President in fyfic returned a verdict yesterday cha pith the murder and George Rhe Jesoory. They were both committed. ving his wife hardt as an ac- An inquest conducted by Coroner Keenan was | behalf of the democracy were all in vain. mmmenced yesterday on the victims of the Bowery | They would accept his fat offices, but they did The bodies were inspected, but no evi- rhe was taken, the Inquest being adjourned unt | not want his advice, since he had ceased to onday. John Beard, one of the wounded, died |b @ regular member of the democratic jay. ‘The rest of the wounded are doing weil. | church, and had not as a backslider repented. k Nicholson killed his wife Theresa at an In this exigency the HeraLp, as magnani- mously as Mr. Johnson, came to the rescue, In fact, we had been helping Mr. Johnson, all ls morning by shooting her in the head anding in the hallway of No. 929 Water The motion to continue the injunction in the suit | the way through, in behalf of the forlorn ©f Lombard against the Sioux City and Pacifle Rail | democracy; but here, at a venture, we strack Foal Company was argued in the Supreme Court, | out for Admiral Farragut, the great hero of Serena ay, Lefore Judge Cardozo, and will the navy, as the proper champion for the oppo- On Wednesday an injunction was granted by Judge | Sition against the great leader of the army. Angraham in the Supreme Court, in the case of Howell | We recalled the unparalleled heroism and sne- @ De Veau against the Chicago and Northwestern | cesses of the Union seq king in those tremen- Railway Company, enjoining the company from issu- dous conflicts with the Mississippi forts and fleets below New Orleans and with the rebel forts and iron-clads in Mobile bay, and we presented the glorious old Admiral, lashed fast in the crosstrees of his flagship, enveloped in the glare of bursting bombshells, as a pic- ture which would match in any crowd that of General Grant and his cigar under the Appo- mattox apple tree; but it would notdo. The Sachems of Tammany had seen Admiral Far- ragut coming out of the Union League Club house arm in arm with General Wetmore, and sthat was enough, although he did afterwards visit the Manhattan Club, Sng preferred capital in payment of or as a means of Paying diviaends on the preferred capital stock, as Pately declared. William Heitner and Peter Faiiance were yesterday rraigned in the United States Court for sentence on jonviction of illegally distilling whiskey and dispos- of the same without paying the tax. Heitner ras ordered to pay @ fine of $1,000 and stand com- Mnitted until paid, and im the case of Fallance sen- nce was suspended. cn trial of Sulzberger and others in the United ates Court on an indictment charging thetn with licit distiliation of whiskey was continued yester- ye An important decision has recently been rendered the United States Circuit Court by Judge Blatch- rd, involving the ti xchange place. navy without success, we were compelled to = Ob Sar idas Court, Cypipbors, yesterday, Mary Ana { vast about in wome other quarter for @ dewo- cratic candidate with some show upon his own merits against General Grant. Within the democratic lines identified with the Chicago Peace-at-any-price Convention the schedule was very short and soon used up. Horatio Seymour was the best of these men, but, wisely comprehending the situation, he had withdrawn from the unequal contest. General McClellan had been tried and signally defeated, and so he would not answer. Pendleton had been the deadweight which broke down McClellan, and so he was not the man. Hendricks, of Indiana, would be another Polk or Pierce ex- periment, but of such experiments we had had enough. Frank Blair, junior, an able man, had been an excellent Union soldier, but with him were the kitchen cabinet impediments of old Mr. Blair and all the other Blairs, What, then, could we do? The case” began to look desperate, when, from the radical onslaught upon Chief Justice Chase, in consequence of his admirable course on the impeachment, the very man for the democracy and the crisis loomed up into bold relief like a lighthouse glimmering through the surrounding fog. Here we havehim. Failing in the army, the navy and the general civil list, we find the very man for the democracy and the crisis at the fountainhead of the judiciary—the chief expounder officially of the constitution and the laws—the very man we want. We undertake to present his claims and his strength to the democracy, and the response from the masses comes in from the East and the West and the South like the resounding chorus of a Methodist camp meeting, ‘“Chase— Chase—give us Chase and the day is ours. Glory, hallelujah.” The organs of the rival democratic aspirants, each to head off the other, at first responded to this propo- sition of Chase ; but, finding that the rank and file of the party beyond these little conflicting cliques are in earnest, these hedging party organs are slipping back under their bomb- proofs. But they have raised the whirlwind, and it goes roaring on. The thinking men of the party, from the Albany Regency to the Empire Club, have been roused as from a heavy sleep, and their eyes are open. They see that there has been a deluge and that the whole face of the living world has been changed; that Chase is the true representa- tive of “‘the constitution as it is” against radicalism, and that he commands the balance of power, which otherwise goes to Grant. Here we see the pressure of a new revo- lution afoot, which may be baffled and delayed, but which must ultimately prevail. The ques- tion, then, for the Democratic Convention is simply this, shall we now advance to victory or hold back for another defeat ? Popular Franchise on the Danube. We are informed by cable telegram of yes- terday’s date that the announcement of the accession of Milan the Fourth to the dignity of reigning Prince of Servia, in succession to the murdered Prince Michel, was premature, for a reason which may be accepted as afford- ing most important testimony of the rapid pro- gress and power of public opinion in the East, receiving increased force, no doubt, from the liberal action of the Sultan of Turkey in granting his reform bill. Our cable despatch, published to-day, announces that the great Powers (Turkey, Russia, Austria and France), more immediately interested in the matter have conceded to the inhabitants of Servia the right of choosing their ruler by election, adding that there is no doubt that Milan will be voted for. The telegram does not state whether the voting is to be carried on by the members of the National Assembly, or Skuptchina, in legislative session, or by the people, with universal suffrage. Should the reigning Monarch be chosen by universal suf- frage a most important principle will have been established in the Danubian Principalities— a principle which may soon have a serious application in the larger States in Europe. Tuk News From St. Dominco.—Our latest advices from St. Domingo city state that the partisans of ex-President Cabral are moving with a will to drive General Baez from the Presidential chair. A revolutionary club in Hayti had authorized its agents in St. Thomas and Curagoa to furnish all the aid in their power to the friends of Cabral. The attempt made by Baez to usurp autocratic power and his complicity in speculations in the Treasury have changed the national sentiment in favor of Cabral, and several officers have raised the standard of rebellion. So far the rebel chiefs are among the ablest and most experienced in St. Domingo. The best thing the Dominicans can do is to give this republic a chance to es- tablish a settlement on their soil, from which they can learn the practical exercise and value of peace, law, order and industry. Such was the common sense view of one of their fellow countrymen, as shown in the correspondence between Colonel Macias and Minister Pujol, published some time since in the Heratp. Removine Disapinities From Ex-REBELs.— Two bills, containing the names of some twelve hundred ex-rebels who desire their political disabilities removed by act of Congress, were before the House of Representatives yesterday. They caused quite an animated debate, the democrats opposing them, though favoring a sweeping measure of the same kind. Several radicals also opposed relieving these ex-rebels, who have gone over to their party principally with the hope of being allowed to hold office. The vote being seventy-eight in favor to fifty- five against the bills, and as two-thirds of the members present and voting are required to pass all such measures, the Speaker declared the conference report rejected. Subsequently, however, the vote was reconsidered and the subject postponed until Monday next. During the debate on the motion for reconsideration Mr. Farnsworth declared that “‘if Congress did not remove political disabilities from white men in the Southern States the consequence would be that there would be a white man’s party and a black man’s party there, and the black man’s party would go to the wall.” Coxoress—Great Cry axp Littte Woor.— Radical organs assure us that Congress remains in session from a sense of patriotic devotion to the interests of the country, and Butler de- clares that the interests of the country in Con- gress are not worth @ button, but are all to be saved in the Presidential canvass. From the way Congress twaddles out day after day wo fancy Butler is right and that Congress might ( Wousering. The Bowery Explosion. The coroner's inquest on the terrible explo- sion of Engine No. 9 of the Metropolitan Fire Department, in front of the Bowery theatre, was commenced yesterday at the Bellevue Hospital, but was adjourned until Monday afternoon, when Coroner Keenan will take the evidence of the witnesses. It is hoped that Patrick Hand, the engineer, will have recovered suffi- ciently from his wounds to give his testimony as to the immediate cause of the catastrophe. Hand bears an honorable reputation as a skil- ful engineer and an excellent mechanic. It is said that he had visited the repair shop on the very day of the explosion and urged the speedy completion of the repairs to which the engine usually employed was being subjected, protest- ing energetically against even the temporary use of the old, leaky, dilapidated reserve engine which exploded on Thursday evening. Hand is said to have de- clared that the explosion could not have resulted from the lack of water in the boiler, for there were at least three cocks of water in it, and one alone would have sufficed to guard against the danger of accident from that cause. The probability is that the worn- out condition of the steam engine will be discovered to have occasioned the catas- trophe by which six unfortunates have lost their lives and twenty-one were more or less wounded. The sixth victim, John Beard, died yesterday at two o'clock at the Belle- vue Hospital. All of the wounded under the care of the physicians of the New York Hospital are reported as doing well, except young John Broderick, whose right leg, it is feared, will have to be amputated. The bodies of all the persons killed have been identified except one, who appears to have been a sailor, about thirty-five years old. The large propor- tion of boys among those injured by the explo- sion suggests the duty of increased vigilance on the part of the police, who are required to keep the crowd at a certain distance from the engines as well as the fire. As it is, the efforts of the police to comply with this requirement proba- bly account for the comparatively small num- ber of victims. That, notwithstanding these efforts, there were, unhappily, so many vic- tims is accounted for by the crowd which was pouring out from the Bowery theatre at the moment of the explosion. Death and wounds and mourning in many families are the lamentable consequences of using as a reserve engine one that came indeed from the repair shop, but which had not, it seems, been repaired there. Even if it had been repaired it would still have been unfit for use. No language could be too strong to condemn the fatal, mistaken economy which has led to so shocking a result. The fact that this is the first explosion since the introduction of steam fire engines in the New York department should redouble the precau- tions against the recurrences of so direful a scene as that which was presented in front of the Bowery theatre on Thursday evening. All the steam engines should be regularly and thoroughly and frequently inspected. Increased control over the repair shop should be given to the Chief Engineer, and all persons em- ployed in that shop should be competent and skilful workmen. In fine, no means should be spared to make this the last as it has been the first explosion of a steam fire engine in New York. i Our Foreign Correspondence. In the Heratp of this morning we publish interesting correspondence from different parts of the world. From Abyssinia we have an account of the widespread anarchy which pervades that country and the civil war now being waged by rival chieftains; from London we have accounts of the latest yachting and turf events, with matter of pain- ful interest to the oarsmen and scullers of the world; our Berlin letter tells of the proceed- ings of the Zollverein of the North German Confederation and of Count Bismarck’s failure to make the majority of its members vote in compliance with his policy ; from Con- stantinople our correspondent writes of the praiseworthy measures of reform which the Sultan has inaugurated in Turkey; and last, though not least, we have the tale of plots and anarchy in St. Domingo—a negro republic which, like Hayti, enjoys half a dogen re- bellions a year. All of this news, as set forth by our special corre- spondents, is not merely instructive to the general reader, but strikingly illustrative of the peculiar character of the times and of the new position of modern journalism, which is at once the mirror and the instructor of the age. The world is to be one ina true and proper sense. That has long been the theory of reason and religion. The preachers tried and tried long to enforce this theory, but they were unsuccessful. It was reserved for the newspapers—and for such newspapers as the New York Heratp—to show the world what it was and to teach it what it might be and what it ought to become, Things are not yet right, but we shall bring them round by and by. Tue Evrorran Press AND PowERs OF State.—From England and France simultane- ously, by the Atlantic cable, comes intelligence of prosecutions of the newspaper press before the judiciary of both countries, terminating in very damaging results to the editors, A London penny daily of large circulation has had a verdict of nine hundred and sixty pounds sterling given against it as damages for a libel, and the editor of a Paris journal has been con- demned to pay a fine of one thousand francs and be imprisoned for two months for the pub- lication of an article. The cable reporters do not even intimate the charges or merits of the suits; but when we recollect how easily a libel conviction can be had, under certain circum- stances in Great Britain, and glance at the numerous legal traps for recusant or contu- macious writers which distinguish the new Press law of France, we must say that we regard the news as ominous of the necessity of @ final struggle for the realization of an in- dependently free press under Victoria and Napoleon. Ove Rerations wit SPAtN AND Har Sourn AmertoaN Exemirs.—A memorial was pre- sented in the Senate yesterday requesting Con- gress to declare that our government regards a state of war between foreign Powers at an end when hostilities have ceased for one year. This has reference particularly to the war NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1868-—TRIPLE SH#ET meinorial, For over one Year neither of the belligerents -has struck a bloW % the other, and to all intents and purposes’ the war is virtually at anend. But this fact does not appear to abolish those restrictions on trade which are demanded by the laws of nat,ons between friendly Powers and countries at war" with each other, There is certainly no justi- fication for such interruptions in the business affairs of nations under existing circumstances, and the United States should put a stop to them so far as this Continent is concerned. Remarkable Dramatic Development in tho United States. “This is a great country,” our people are in the habit of saying in a pleasant vein when anything striking occurs, and truly it is invery many things, besides in its vast extent of terri- tory and position as one of the first Powers of the world. We may refer, for example, to the astonishing material development, to the growth of communities and cities out of the wilderness, like Jotah’s gourd, in a remarka- bly short time; to the rapid progress of rail- roads and the telegraph over a vast continent; to the extraordinary intellectual movements and to the strides we are making in the fine arts. As to singers, we are supplying all, the principal opera housesin Europe with prime donne, and we have any quantity of such nightingales, canaries and larks all over the country, to say nothing of blackbirds and black swans in the South. But one of the most remarkable evidences of progress has been in dramatic development within the’ last two years. The drama—legitimate and ille- gitimate, moral and immoral—has grown and thrived beyond all precedent in this or any other country. Ristori, the great tragédienne of the age, has performed over four hundred times and in all the principal cities and towns. She made probably four hundred thousand dollars. She spoke in Italian and few understood her, it is true; but her art was appreciated, and it was fashionable to see her. Our American play- goers felt, no doubt, as Mark Twain did when he saw her. He said he did not understand a word, but he saw she was in great trouble, and that was enough to excite his sympathy and ad- miration. Did itnot show a remarkable taste for dramatic talent when thousands went night after night to hear Ristori in a language of which they did not understand a word? But Ristori showed great skill in management as well as wonderful talent in acting. Everything in regard to her performances was arranged by herself, and that in the most methodical and successful manner. The same remarks will apply to her great rival, Janauschek, in the German drama, who ‘also declaimed in a language which only a part of her audiences understood, and who, when free from her Ma- retzek contract and the old Academy of Music, was very successful as her own manager. And here, in connection with our subject we may notice that at the same time these two great tragédiennes were performing, each in her own language, both the French and Italian operas were in full blast in New York. In no city in the world have there been opera and the drama in so many languages at the same time, and those with such a high order of talent, Another singular development has been the “Black Crook” performances under manager Wheatley. These corrupt and lascivious en- tertainments have put, probably, three hun- dred thousand dollars into the pocket of Mr. Wheatley. He has been instrumental in cre- ating a taste among a certain class of the com- munity for the naked drama, and has been amply rewarded in cash. Side by side with the highest art in tragedy and operatic music we have had the most gorgeous and sensual spectacles, and all equally successful. There has been, however, amidst this semi-barbaric splendor of representation and scenery little realart. The great attraction has been in the largest display of undisguised or uncovered nature in numbers of finely proportioned and pretty women, with their surprisingly suggestive attitudes. We are not astonished that the Ce- lestials of the Chinese Embassy should have been ravished with the spectacle, for even among our own people members of churches, and sometimes the reverend pastors, steal in quietly to enjoy the new sensation. Still another remarkable phase of develop- ment was seen in the way of amusements and dramatic art in the coming of Charles Dickens to this country and his wonderful success. He made in the course of a few months something like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars by reading his own works and acting the char- acters. When Brady, the photographer, wanted Dickens to come to this country for the same purpose a few years ago, and, we believe, made @ contract with him to do so, the famous ‘‘Boz” got alarmed and was afraid to face the American public. Those “Ameri- can Notes” rose up like a spectre before his affrighted vision. But finally that all-power- ful tyrant, pecuniary necessity, urged him to face the people he had abused and satirized, Why should not a Cockney penny-a-liner, whose talents in a certain line had made him famous, read his own productions ? Were not Homer and Herodotus penny-a- liners in their day? And did not they read their works to the public? The idea was old enough, and Dickens showed his tact in reviv- ing it. That the wretched and disgusting characters of the lowest Cockney life—of Smike, Fagin, Squeers and such like—were altogether un-American and had no repre- sentatives in this country was of no con- sequence to prevent Dickens’ success. ‘Boz’ was a sensation, and the more so because he had previously abused and ridiculed Ameri- cans. Being a prince of Bohemians himself, he knew how to flatter and work upon the Bohemians in this country, and the conse- quence was he got universally puffed and re- turned to England stuffed with greenbacks and besmeared with Bohemian adulation. Such are some of the remarkable develop- menta in dramatic art and amusements in this country within the last two years. They are, however, but the beginning. We may expect still more, both in the moral and immoral drama, for there are the greatest variety of tastes and the greatest abundance of currency in this country. In the meantime tho success- fal managers and artists who have made colos- sal fortunes should give way to others and commence a new rive. Dickens should go to | as well adjourn and let the members go elec- | between Spain, Peru and Chile, and it is to be Parliament or be raised to the House of Peers, woped that Congrens wil pay ailendou bs Kav (wad Gian acd Wheatley ghguld rua Sor Cua- \# gress. Graf would represent the lager beer and foreign element generally, and he is well calculated by his oily manners to smooth down the roughness and coarseness of the House of Representatives, Wheatley would be the handsome man in Congress, where one is much wanted—the beau ideal of » fashion- able chevalier—and would represent the pro- gressive taste of the times in matters of art, grace and unadorned nature. The drama, opera and ballet have become great institu- tions with us and should no longer be unre- presented in Congress. This is our epistle on the dramatic events of the day and advice for the future, The Cretans and the Sultan. In another place in this day’s HERALD wa publish an extract from the Paris Patrie which very convincingly shows of what material a Cretan patriot is made up. The correspondent of the Patrie, who writes front Athens, states that the money which is generously subscribed for the benefit of a suffering people is con- verted to the basest of purposes. In the Heratp of Thursday we gave a full account of an audience which the Sultan gave to a deputation composed of the Grand Rabbi of the Jews and of the heads of the different Christian bodies in the empire. The allocu- tion, which was a joint production, and im itself, therefore, a striking symbol of unity, was delivered by the Ecumenical Patri- arch. It breathed a spirit of thankful- ness for the wise and beneficent reforms which the Sultan had introduced, and ex- pressed the hope that the blessing of the King of kings might attend the Sultan, and that he might be spared to see the ‘“‘salubrious fruits” of his policy ‘‘ripened under the rays of wise institutions ;” institutions created under the imperial reform bill which we publish to-day. How much more becoming the conduct of these people than the conduct of the Cretans ii The Cretans, in fact, are a species of Fenians. To the Turkish government they sustain very much the same relations that the Fenians sustain to the government of Great Britain. The more that is done for them the more do they grumble. The greater the kindness which is shown them the less are they thankful. What more would they have than that which the Sultan has shown himself willing to give them? He has already, through the Grand Vizier, made them the objects of special atten- tion and of special favor. In addition to what he has done for them specially he has inaugu- rated reforms for the whole empire, which, in their wide range and in the beneficence of their character, have nothing to compare with them in modern times. As in this country we have Presbyterians, Independents, Methodists, Bap- tists, Catholics, Episcopalians, Unitarians, Mormons, Free Lovers and the rest, none favored, none frowned on, and all living im perfect amity and enjoying full political privi- leges, so in Turkey Mussulmans in their vari- ous subdivisions, Jews, Christians of the Greek, Armenian, Catholic and Protestant persuasions, will be placed in a position of perfect equality in regard to civil and religious rights. This is more than has yet been at- tempted by some of the most advanced gov- ernments of Europe. The Sultan deserves to win, and the chances are largely in his favor. He has shown that he understands the age of steam, of electricity and the printing press. The spectacle which Turkey now presents is one of the grandest which has been witnessed in modern times. It is a brave amd noble work which the Sultam has undertaken. If all these reforms are successfully carried out the government of Turkey will be as near perfection as possible. What do the Cretans want? Mexican Finances. Sefior Romero has sanguine views of the sanguinary republic on behalf of which he comes to borrow money. He says the pros- pects for peace and general prosperity ‘‘were never more encouraging.” As they were never, encouraging in the least degree this compara- tive statement does not commit him very posi- tively. He says “‘no danger is apprehended from any revolutionary movement,” which may merely mean that the nation is so broken down in its morale that it can conceive of no condi- tion so much worse than that it lives in as to excite an emotion akin to fear. Men and nations alike are sometimes out of fortune’s power because she has done her worst with them and has no untried horror left. The envoy also assures us that the financial condi- tion of the country has “improved.” How much? And who knows anything of this im- provement besides the gentleman who has come to borrow money and naturally endeavors to state at the best the accounts of the would-be debtor? There was so much room for improve- ment in the financial condition of Mexico that it might go on improving steadily for ten years and then be far below a point that would jus- tify any trust in her. No one has yet heard of such improvement in the affairs of the republic as will give any value to her bonds, now worth- less here; and the fact is that her Minister simply misstates facts to create confidence. Tue LovistaNa Trouptes.—General Grant has officially approved the course of Brevet Major General Buchanan in the recent State and municipal troubles at New Orleans. Under these circumstances the Registration Board have decided to conform their proclamation to the Omnibus bill. After abusing General Buchanan in unmeasured terms for not per-= mitting the carpet-baggers to get control of the State any sooner than the law allows. the radical newspapers will feel rather mean at the present action of General Grant, their candidate for the Presidency, endorsing the very acts that they so bitterly denounced. THE PARK MUSICAL PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY. Shonid the weather be clear there will be music on the Mall in the Park to-day, commencing at four P.M. The programme ts as annexed:— PROEM MARCI. 1—Overture, “Das Wunderwasser”’. 2—Fanfare, “Les Militaires,’? Grande Duchesse”.... 3—Waltz, “Walnut Grove” -Dodworth PART It. 4—Reminiscences from Bellint, themes from “Norma,” “Romeo and Juliette,” “Som. nambula,” “Il Puritani,”’ “Beatrice di Tenda” and “Ii Pirata’ eo Cold’ 7—March, ‘Citizens’ £ 8—Overture, “Tancredi’ 9—Collocation, ‘Simple Sai 10—Quadrilie, enne”’. . 11—Marep, “4 *