The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR —eerrrr All business or news letter and telegraphic _Meapatches must be addressed New Your Letters and packages should be properly ecaled. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, YMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Houmrrr Du! p Fi New FEeatTvaes. ie Peres BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tam Naw DeaMa or Lauran. GARDEN, Broadway—BaTeMan’a OPrRa }ARBE BLEUE. NIBLO'S Bourr:—B. ' WALLACK'S THRATRE. -Brosdway and Ih strest— siren BEBNARD—DEARER THAN tie. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—& Daux Hous Be Pou Dat—Forns? oF Bonpy, yORRMAN STaDT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 7 Bowery.— TLLIAM TELL. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—LasT NicuTs oF Pour Pay. y '\ BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth Greet.—ETHIOPiAN MiNSTBRELSY, £0., LUGBETIA BORGLA. ‘Y & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ETH10- @ian MInsTRELSY, BURLESQUE, £0.—BARBER BLU. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETuto- wlan ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &c. TONY PASTOR'S QPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Con1o VooaLiam, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &e. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Tu® GREAT OnI- @inaL LINGARD AND ‘AUDEVILLE COMPANY. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. DODWORTH HALL, 06 Broadway.—Ta® CELEBRATED 6iaNox Buitz, PIKE'S MUSIC HAL! venus —MoEvor's Hix: CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh Toomas' PoruLas GaxvEN Conoger. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Przagn0—Biack Erp S06an. ’ Lela corner of Eighth avenue.—Tuno. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, _Brooklyn.—HooLEr's MineTRELE—MAS8A-NIELLO, O8 THE BLACK Fourst, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— GormNox AND Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, October 2, 1868. —s EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, October 1. Queen Isabella of Spain was formally deposed by @he provisional junta of government, a national woilitia called out and great financial and commer- fial confidence exhibited in the new order of afairs. Prim and Serrano werg expected in Madrid, Nothing definite had been arranged as to the future ruler or plan of government, with ‘he exception of the “denunciation” of a republic. ‘The ex-Queen is to be sheltered in the castle of Pau Dy Napoleon, The London journals intimated that Victor Emanuel’s second son may be called to the throne of Spain. Some of the French journals an- ticipate # civil war in Spain. Pope Pius the Ninth invites ali dissenting religious ‘Dodies to “rejoin” the church during the Council in Rome. The North German exploring vessel Germa- nia returned to Bergen, Norway, fromthe Arctic re- gions. Four persons were killed by a railroad acci- Gent tn Engiand. The life of the Viceroy of Egypt was attempted by @n assassin in Cairo, Consols 94'%, money. Five-twenties, 73% in Lon- don and 764 in Frankfort. Paris Bourse firm. Cotton firmer, with middling uplands at 104. ‘Hreadstats heavy. Provisions quiet. MISCELLANEOUS. The steamer Missouri, Captain Palmer, from Ha vana, September 26, arrived at this port yesterday. ¢ intelligence of the progress of the Spanish revo- tion was furnished oficially by Minister Concha to he Captain General, who had furnisned the favora- bie despatches to the city press for publication, some- ening never done before, Other despatches, supposed leo be not so favorable, were suppressed. Much dis- patisfaction is reported to exist among the Spanish wavy officers at Havana. Our Mexico city letter is dated September 15. Gen- ‘ Cauto, who is accused of murdering General ®Patoni, throws the responsibility upon his superior Moers, General Corona or the officials of the War ent. He claims to have had private orders the shooting and demands atrial by Congress, f# rumored that an attempt had been made to Ortega, Patoni’s fellow prisoner. The trou- es with Lozada, the Jalisco chief, are still brewing. zade recently reviewed 15,000 men. Corresponden@® and mail advices from Hayti, St. ingo and the British Antilles are received. Sal- ave had issued @ lengthy proclamation to the citi- and soldiers of Hayti offering amnesty to all the isaffected who returned to their sllegiance, and his army on their late victories, Yabral, of St. Domingo, had arrived at Kingston, jamaica, Bees was atill pursuing his vindictive icy. An Atlantic cable despatch states that Don Do- ningo Sarmiento, the new President of the Argentine lrepublic, had proposed negotiations for peace be- Brazil and Paraguay. The Argentine republic, will be remembered, is one of the Powers allied Brazil in the war against Paraguay. ) an apparently widespread system of fraud in natu- foreigners has been exposed in Philadelphia, man named Devine was arrested on Wednesday might, having in hig possession twelve certificates of eaturalization sigued by Prothonotary Snowden, ‘with the court seal upon them, a blank being left for ames. James A, Watson, 8 voucher on nearly one ‘hundred naturalization papers, has also been ar- rested. It is shown by the court records that thou- sands of papers have been issued without giving the Pesidences of the vouchers. {| Senator Cragin and Fernando Wood came together poocidentally at Scranton, Pa., on Wednesday night, Oragin was serenaded and replied to # previous speech of Wood, in which he characterized the fail of Adam and the landing of the Piigrime aa the two greatest curses that God had visited upon the earth. ‘Wood was afterwards serenaded and replied to Cragin. In the Lower House of the Georgia Legislature a ‘vill to prevent colored persons from being elected to office and s common carrier bill were lost. A bill pre- soribing an oath for voters at the Presidential elec- ion was passed. Mr. Bryent (a republican member) 4s about being ousted because he holds an office ‘ander the general government, which, it is claimed, disqualifies him from holding a seat in the House. In the Louisiana House of Representatives yester- day two members from Baton Rouge were ousted and their seats were given to negroes, sithough a majority report of the Committee on Elections con- @rmed the white members in their right to the weate, The new Board of Police for New Orleans, under the new law, bave commenced their duties and » number of the old members of the force have resigned. ‘The Alabama Legislatare have passed a registra- ‘vion bill, butit is thought that there is now hardly time to complete the registration in the State before the Presidential @lection comes of. The republican members still favor the casting of the electoral vote Of the State by the Legisiature. Governor Wells, of Virginia, last Night respited two fnen, one white and the other colored, were to ‘have been hanged at Norfolk to-day for an outrage on @ white woman. They hed received the secrament AW ho ae) and the gallows had been erected when the respite came by telegraph. The people are indignant at this exercise of clemency on the part of the Gov- ernor, ‘The grand convention of the “boys in bine’? assem- bled in Philadelphia yesterday, The delegations were received and welcomed by Mayor McMichael ‘at Independence square. r A despatch states that a body of Missourians en- tered Arkansas some days ago, arrested four men who were engaged in the murder of Captain Mason, Superintendent of Registration in that State, and, after trial by @ vigilance committee, hanged them. ‘The Louisiana Democratic Convention, assembled in New Orleans, have adopted resolutions to nomli- nate no person who is not eligible under the exist ing laws. On the strength of this five members of the electoral ticket who wore ineligible have re- algned. ’ Rey. Thomas Hill has resigned the Presidency of Harvard Col! ‘HE OITz. from Street Commissioner MoLean, asking for the appointment by the Chamber of one arbitrator to agaist in examining the books and accounts of the Street Department, in order that the dispute be- tween that department and the Citizens’ Assooia- tion may be put at rest, was received. The letter was commented upon in very unfavorable terms and referred to the Executive Committee. : The Protestant Episcopal Diocesan Convention Eo py: Second day’s proceedings st St. Paul's church, im this olty, yesterday, Bishop Potter presided ‘and read his auynual address. A report was made on the proj separate episcopacy for Northern New York and th lishment of a Fede- rate Counell, in compiiance with @ resolution passed at the Jast annual Convention, Debate ensued upon it, and the Convention adjourned till this morning, ‘Tho. Roman Catholic Synod in this city have en- acted that no absolution gust be given to Froe ma- sons and that marriages must take place in church. A motion to prohibit absolution to Fenians was lost. There were 364 foreigners naturalized in this city yesterday. ’ In the Court pf Appeals yesterday the appeal of General B, ¥, Butler from the decision of the Su- preme Court of the First Judicial district, which affirms a decision of Surrogate Tacker ordering But- ler, as executor of the estate of his brother, A. J. Butler, to return an inventory .of effect® situate in other States than New York, was taken up and argued. The Court reserved its decision. In the Westchester county Court of Oyer and Ter- miner yesterday the trial of John Doran as an acces- sory to the murder, on the 1st of August, 1966, of Ellen Hicks, was resumed. Alexander Elliott, cousin of the murdered girl, and her aunt, Mrs. Eliott, were the only witnesses examined. The case will be continued to-day. Thomas Baxter, who pleaded guljty to manslaughter in the fourth degree for the killing, at. Peekskill, in June, 1807, of one James Cooney, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in the county jail. The steamship Hermann, for Bremen and South- ampton, takes out $6,974 in specie. The Internal. Revenue case was resumed before Commissioner Guttman yesterday. The defence examined Mr. E. T. Wood, who testified that Mo- Henry, upon whose representations the charges were made, had been refused a revenue sppoint- -| ment by Deputy Commissioner Harland because of very damaging reports of his previous connection with the department, McHenry on hearing that he had been refused the office said he wonld get square with Mr. Harland. Mr. Lincoln, of the Board of Health, :teatifed that McHenry's character was bad and that he would want a “pretty large margin on his oath’ before he could be believed. Mr. Loab, who is represented by McHenry to have paid sums of money*to Harland and Rollins, also testified, stat- ing positively that he never gave either of them any- thing. He saw them for the purpose of obtaining the release of certain distilleries and spirits which had been seized, but the result of his efforts was that all were condemned. The Court at this point adjourned until Tuesday. The steamstup City of Antwerp, Captain Mire- house, of the Inman line, will leave pier 46 North river at 3 P. M., on Saturday, $d instant, for L.iver- pool via Queenstown. The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. to-morrow. The National line steamship Erin, Captain Web- ster, will leave pier 47 North river to-morrow (Satur- day) at three P. M. for Liverpool, calling at Queens- town to land passengers, The Anchor line steamship Hibernia, Captain Mun- ro, will sail from pier 20 North river at twelve M. to- morrow (Saturday) for Glasgow, touching at London- derry to land passengers. Toe steamship St. Laurent, Captain Bocande, will jeave pier 60 North river at eight A. M. to-morrow for Brest and Havre. The French mail will close at the Post Office at 6 A. M. on the 3d instant. The steamship Sherman, Captain Henry, of the Merchants’ line, will sail from pier No. 12 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 3d instant, for New Orleans direct. The Black Star Independent line steamship Mar- mion, Captain Faircloth, will leave pier 13 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 3d inst., for Sa- vannah, Ga. ‘The stock Market was, on the whole, strong yester- day. Government securities closed strong. Goid closed weak at 130% 9 130%. Prominent Arrivais. Congressman J. V. L. Pruyn, of Albany; Judge Bigelow, of Boston, and General Bartlett, of the United States Army, are at the Brevoort House, Count J. F. de Alfaro, of Havana; Howell Cobb, of Georgia, and Judge J, P. Suilivan, of New Orleans, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. bi 0. B, Matteson, of Utica, is at the Astor House. Dr. W. Ciendenin, of Cincinnati, and Dr. R. P. Taylor, of Philadeiphia, are at the Hoffman House. Mayor M. T. Mills, of Detroit, is at the St. Nicholas Hotei : ‘The Republican Party and its Mission— General Grant. “No further extension of slavery” was the grand issue upon which the republican party came into power, and the first definite expres- sion of this grand idea was given by the Buffalo Free Soll Convention of 1848, upon which Mar- tin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams were placed in the field as the Presidential ticket of the ffee soil party. The object of Van Buren, which was achieved, was the de- feat of Cass in requital for the pro-slavery jaggling of the regular democratic conventions of 1844 and 1848, by which “Little Van” was cut out of what he considered his vested right, in another chance for a second term in the regu- lar democratic line of succession. Thus the Southern slaveholding oligarchy, in engineer- ing his rejection in "44, and again in ‘48, at Baltimore, made of Van Buren « revengeful Samson, who, with his arme about ite main enpporting pillars, pulled their temple of Dagon down about their ears. Down to the year 1848 Northern opposition to Southern slavery was too violent, impracti- cable and revolutionary in its demands to make much headway. In denouncing the Union with the ‘‘slave power” as “a league with death” and the constitution as ‘‘a covenant with hell,” and in demanding « separation of the Union in ordey to rid the North of the sin end scandal of slavery, the original abolition party of Gar- rison, Tappan, Phillips and their associates and followers, repelled alike the lovers of the Union and the devoteca © of law and order in the North, while» fur- nishing all the. capital required by Calhoun and his disciples for the founding of a secession and Southern confederacy party in the South, But Martin Van Buren, in 1848, upon his practi- cal and attractive platform that thenceforward slavery should be shut out of the Territories of the United States, introduced the wedge which split the democratic varty in twain at the NEW YORK HERALD, "ay] " : FRIDAY, Charleston Convention of 1860, and precipi- tated by fire and sword tle extinction ‘of the domineering Southern oligarchy with their “peculiar institution.” ‘aie The grand idea, we say, then, upon which the republican party was organized in 1854 first came ina positive, practical and impres- sive shape from Martin Van Buren as an inde- pendent Presidential candidate in 1848, The great compromise measures of Henry Clay in 1850 gave s cheok to this free soil agitation, whioh enabled poor Pierce to walk over the Presidential course in 1852; but in his gepeal of the Missouri Compromise, which was a part of Clay's adjustment of 1850, poor Pierce reopened the box of Pandora-and the door for the re- vival in infinitely. greater strength of Van Buren’s free soil movement. Thus, upon the platform of ‘no farther extension of slavery,” Fremont would have been over- whelmingly elected President in 1856 but for the third party movement of Fillmore,:which orippled the republican organization in all the free States and assisted in suppressing it by terrorism in all the South, In 1860, however, this order of things was reversed by the Charleston Convention. The democratio-party was torn to pieces, and from its Northern frag- ments and the floating materials of the dis- banded Know Nothing party the republican party of 1860 came into power as on a Northern whirlwind, the free ‘soil platform of Lincoln, like that of Fremont, being precisely the Van Buren platform of 1848—‘‘no further extension of slavery.” The original mission of the republican party, then, was simply to hold gldvery to the ground which it occupied and to provide that no more slave Territories or slave States should exist in the Union.’ Hence’ the rebellion upon the heel’of Lincoln’s, election, The South Carolina chivalry were armed and ready for it in 1851, after the admission, in 1850, of Cali- fornia as a free State, which broke the Southern balance of power in the Senate; but South Carolina was induced to wait for the co-opera- tion of the other,cotton States, and she got them in 1860 and 1861. From this point the origjnal idea of the republican party—a check against the extension of slayery—rapidly ripened under the war into Lincoln's emanci- pation proclamation—a military act which in the outset he thought would’ be as futile as “the Pope's bull against the comet.” Since then, with the suppression of the rebellion, we have had the absolute abolition of slavery and an interdict against its revival engrafted upon the constitution itself. Here, then, one would think the mission of the re-‘ publican party atanend. But with the final extinction of slavery and the Southern slave- holding oligarchy this new party of the North assumed a new mission in the work of recon- struction, The programme adopted for the work in 1866 was that of the constitutional amendment, article fourteen. Upon this plat- form they swept the North, from ocean to ocean, against the policy of Andy Johnson. But the Southern States proving refractory under the encouragements of Johnson, the radicals of Congress in 1867 proceeded to a harsher plan, involving Southern military gov- ernments and a system of reconstruction based upon universal negro suffrage. The Northern elections of 1867 betrayed a heavy popular re- action against this system, and in the eight rebel States thus reconstructed there is no more peace to-day than in the three which re- main ‘out in the cold.” How is this business to be settled? General Grant will be triumphantly elected in conse- quence of the stupidity of the democracy in fighting their battle of 1868 upon their platform of 1864. But what will be the policy of Gen- eral Grant? In adhering strictly to the con- stitutional amendment fourteen he, will leave the reconstructed States to settle this disturb- ing question of negro suffrage for themselves; and if so, within a year or two, by the law of gravitation, the vote of the black laborers will be in the hands of their white employers from Virginia to Texas, But this amendment says that Congress shall have the power by appro- priate legislation to enforce its provisions, and the Congress elected with Grant may thus undertake the reconstruction over again of the States reconstructed and which are now sup- posed to stand on the same footing as New York and New Jersey. What thon? Then we may look for a reconstruction of parties, beginning with the clashing and disintegration of the diverse elements of the republican party in Congress and ending with the restoration of the democratic party to power on a new and substantial foundation. At all events, we expect that the mission of the republican party will be ended with Grant's administration, and that after him a new party will come to the front, and that the present radical faction will disappear among the things of the past. = Another Nitro-Glvcerine Explesion. The terrific nitro-glycerine explosion which occurred on @ train of cars near Urbana, in Ohio, last Tuesday, destroying the train, injuring the engineer and fireman and demol- ishing a house # quarter of a mile distant from the railway, is but another warning against the danger involved in the careless transpor- tation of explosive materials. The horrible accidents occasioned by nitro-glycerine very properly led not long ago to the introduction in Congress of an act to regulate its use and transportation. It is certainly high time that legislation should be enforced to prevent the recurrence of such incidents, In due time, doubtless, it will become possible to make nitro-glycerine as valuable and a« safe an agent as many other equally “good servants and bad masters.” On the Pacific Railroad it has contributed very efficiently towards has- toning the progress of « grand national enter- prise of incalculable prospective advantages ; But until science shall hate discovered some meane of safely storing and transporting nitro- glycerine, the most rigid legislation will be requisite to prohibit ite being ‘‘smuggled” into storehouses, or, ae is alleged to have been the case in the present instance, on hoard of Biooxrxe THe SteeKts.—Who has authority to prevent people who are bullding or repairing houses from blocking up the streets with bricks and mortar, obstructing the sidewalks and rendering the passage of carriages and wagons dangerous, if not impossible? Is it the Mayor or the Street Commissioner? Whoever it is who permits this nuisance 16 exist is highly reprehensible and deserves to be brought to account for gross goglect of duty + room i sti ¥ Vi Aj) OGTOBER 2, 1868—TRIPLH SHEET. qe Spanish Bovolation. ce - gevolution, so fer as cone, anntead x23 ab One lesson—that the cause of Queen Isab2!l® byron Aad Perhaps it is safe to add w i Mod- perished the last hope of the Boai.<™4 rid still remains quiet—a fact proves above all others the intensity of which WHA weeks since by the conversion “calls” of John Allen and Tommy in S4den here in New York, which embrace everybody~usssonters, Catho- los, irreligtous, “no religion, and 2° °° 4° to the “‘wickedest” persons, all of who. °°” have achance and no questions asked. A», the Roman lotter specifies ‘‘religious” bodies been has set in against the Queen. As we have Kit Burns is again ruled out, said before, there is not the shadow of a chance for a republic, The Junta which we knew yesterday had been formed has already i. " the idea. Prim and anxiously expected in the capital, and much will depend on what they may suggest. Mean- while we learn that the Queen is in France and is to be the guest of Napoleon, It is very strange to find Napoleon acting as the protector of the monarch who was the last and the most unwilling to recognize him as the ruler of France. Time does, {ndeed, work wonders as well as secure TO venge. The prospect is as dark as ever, One thing only is clearly manifest—that Napoleon has chance of giving expression to his favorite idea about the Iberian peninsula. The opportunity seems to have come at last. If Spain will not declare herself in favor of a republic the next best'thing for Spain to do is to invite the King of Portugal to take charge of the entire peninsula, As Prince Napoleon is brother-in-law of the Portuguese monarch the presumption is that the entire Bonaparte interest will tend in this direction. As tho house of Braganza has a good record there is no substantial reason why Spain, who seeks her proper place among the nations of Europe, which wishes peace and prosperity, should object. That this would be a very de- sirable arrangement no one can doubt; although the mind of England turns towards the selec- tion of the Dake of Aosta, second son of Victor Emannel, a8 an available candidate for the vacant throne. If Napoleon can effect either it will give him almost absolute control of the South of Europe, or what is perhaps more to his purpose, of the Latin race. But the chances are many, and speculation as yet is full of hazard. Who Owns the Streets? There is a popular opinion that the people own the highways of the city. They pay their taxes to keep them in repair, and one would suppose that they are entitled to free transit in pursuance of their business or pleasure in the streets. But it appears that a few individuals have the privilege of crowding the community off the sidewalks by unsightly piles of eld bricks, blinding them with lime dust, hustling them aside by squadrons of hod carriers and otherwise usurping the right of way. Cannot we build houses, as they do in other cities, without piling up these obstructions? In Paris or London no such nuisance would be tolerated. Is it not the dufy of the police to insist that they shall be removed? The law forbids placing obstructions in the streets, and proba- bly the policeman reports their existence when they come within his beat, but with his report atthe station house the matter ends. No pro- ceedings are taken to enforce the law. The nuisance is permitted to remain. How is this ? There must be power invested somewhere to keep the streets open for the ordinary traffic of the public. There are streets in the city to-day so blocked by the dédris of buildings at either side as to render the passage of vehicles im- possible, and ‘‘no thoroughfare” has become the order of the day. Now the question is, who owns tho streets? The Decline im Gold ‘and the Stringency. Gold declined yesterday afternoon to 139}, a lower point than it has touched for several months past, and the bears are predicting a still lower price for that fluctuating standard of values. The rapidity of the recent decline is due to sales of coin by the Treasury and the operations of the speculators, nearly all of whom are at present in the bear interest. It is somewhat remarkable, not to say suspicious, that the government should have had no gold to sell when the price was 150 and money was abundant, and that it should be « seller now at much lower figures in the midst of artificial monetary stringency engineered by the bears in gold, government securities and railway shares. Wall street openly accuses certain high Treasury officials of being parties to the movement to lock up greenbacks for the par- pose of forcing » decline in market values; and the latter cannot complain, under the circumstances, of the opinion in which they are held. These sales of coin are made secretly, so that the public has no means of knowing their extent, and the Assis- tant Treasurer refuses to give the necessary information, so that the bears are enabled to magnify their amount to suit their own pur- poses. The practice of the Treasury in selling gold and bonds secretly through brokers is 9 gtave abuse, the correction of which is de- manded by the public interests. It only dis- turbs values for gold to decline rapidly under speculative influences ; for it is certain to react upward again, and the speculators are the only gainers by these fluctuations. The artificial pressure for money caused loans to be made in some instances yesterday et seven per cent in gold; but the holders of stocks resisted it very successfully, and both government securities and railway shares ad- vanced materially in the face of it, the market for securities of all kinds closing strong. The indications now are that this disgraceful movement to create panic by interfering with the circulation will prove bar- ren of resulte on the Stock Exchange, and that the anscrupulous brokers, bank officers and others connected with it will be signally defeated. It is, however, to be regretted that there is no law to punish them ae they deserve to be punished. But for the efforts of these fnen the money market would have continued easy at four and five per cent, and into this condition of ease it will subside again after the ond of the present week, by which time the returns of the national benke will have been practically completed and the con- spirators will be powerless for farther evil. Prevailing Pore Prvs tax Nunta ANTioIPATRD.—Pope Pius the Ninth hae addressed an apostolic letter to the non-Catholic religious bodies all over the world, informing the members of the coming Council in Rome, and urging them to seize the opportunity of joining—‘‘rejoining,” he calls it—-the Oburch. In this, as in many | Europe in this respect, and at ao distant othor matters, his Holiness ig behind the age, Our Americna Prime Donne—The New Gchoel of Artists. Serrano were | Italy has had the honor for a long time of supplying the world with operatic artists. The tenors, sopranos, baritones, ocontraltos and bassos of that country have monopolized the opera houses and concert halls of all countries. They have spread as far and have been al- most 98 numerous as that other class of Italian artists, the itinerant and ubiquitous organ grinders, Occasionally there has been a Swedish nightingale, a German linnet, on English lark, or a French canary, but these are rare exceptions; almost all the sweet warblers come from sunny Italy. Under its bright skies and in its transparent atmosphere the sweetest and richest voices have been produced. The people of all civilised nations have been greatly indebted to that country for the refined and exquisite pleasure of hear- ing the finest singers in opera. This great gift to the Italians has led also to the highest cultivation of music in Italy, and, ap & conse- quence, that country has produced the best composers and teachers. But Italy must now look jealously to her laurels, for America threatens to eclipse her in supplying the operatio worid with singers. Within the last few years our prime donne have not only held the first position in opera here, but have become the favorites in Barope ge.well. Wemay mention the great success and popularity of Miss Kellogg abroad, Mrs. Van Zandt (Madame Vanzani), who was offered an engagement by Mapleson in his proposed grand operatic campaign in this country ; Miss Harris, who created a sensation in London, and whom ihe London Times puaised highly; Miss MoCulloch, who, with her Jich, fresh voice and personal beauty, was she star at the Aondemy one. season; Minnie ‘suck, who has been engaged by Strakosch 4 take the place of Patti for a gonerad European campaign, and the Queen of Song, Patti herself, who is also an American and who acquired her voice and education here, though born of Italian parents. Many others might be’ named who are coming into favorable notice, but these have already ac- quired fame. In fact, we have any number of the finest singers in this city and throughout the country, nightingales, canaries and all sorts of warblers. It is not uncommon to hear in private life ladies with the richest voices and best musical education who are not infe- rior to the first professional artists. It is.only lately that operatic managers and music masters have turned their attention to | the fine voices and musical wealth found in this country, and the discovery seems to be as surprising as the finding of gold in California. There is, too, in several cases, eomething quite romantic in the development of our American prime donne, For example, Minnie Hauck, who seems destined to take the place of Patti, was a year or two ago a poor little girl living ina garret in Stanton street, unknown and little dreaming of the future before her. Her parents were poor and her father a mechanic. Her parents were residing in New Orleans during the war, when a lady of wealth and musical taste there, hearing Minnie sing, was #o struck with her voice that she kindly under- took to give the child lessons. the family returned to New York and wl living» in Stanton street some one passing the house heard the young girl singing and mentioned the circumstance to Mr. Jackson, a music teacher and organist at Christ church, in this city. It so happened that the congregation of Christ church wanted at that time a soprano voice for the choir. Miss Hauck was requested to goto the church to let the congregation judge of her vocal ability. The result was she was engaged immediately, and the poor girl, in her delight at such unexpected good fortune and at the prospect of being able to help her parents in their struggle for « living, exclaimed fondly, ‘‘Now, father, we shall be able to get along!” The organist was delighted with her and did all he could to improve her musical education. Subse- quently she took lessons from Italian singing masters, and then, step by step, from the church choir to the concert room, and from there to the opera, she acquired the reputation which has placed her in the front position as » prima donna, Miss Hauck, like Miss loch and Miss Harris, is very young and sesses the charm of youth, beauty and fresh- ness.’ Indeed, it may be said that ip all our American singers known to the public there is, besides a sweet and silvery tone of voice, & remarkable freshness, naturalness of manner and bearing, refinement and beauty of » charm- ing and delicate order. With such qualities as these and a universal love of music we are forming « now school of artiste—a school that is already rivalling and promising to eclipse the Italisn. For this we are indebted to nature more than to art, for in art we are yet behind Italy and some other countries in Europe. The climate and trans- parent atmosphere of America, particdlarly of the Southern and Middle States, are similar to those of Italy, and undoubtedly produce s similar effect apon the vocal organs. if American voices do not have quite the fulness, strength or robustness of the Italian they up for that in sweetness, clearness, delicacy and rich silvery tones. We speak now espe- cially of female voices, for we have yet but few male public singers. The men of Am: turn their attention to business more than to the cultivation of the voice or music, though there are, no doubt, as many fine male as female voices, [n all probability this country will be looked to hereafter by music masters and opera menagers for leading artiste. Ital- fan, German and French composers, teachers and managers should emigrate to America,, for they will find abundance of materials and'em- ployment here and will be better rewarded than in the Old World, New York, the wealthy, beautiful, great and rapidly growing metropolis of this Continent, must become the home of art as well as the centre of commerce. It will rival Paris and the other capitals of | period will surpass them all The Street Commissioner and thd Clizead Association. Gtrect Commissioner MeLean, undaunted by the attacks of the Ciises’ Association—thas mysterious body which rides 1.*° Print upon the back of the venerable Peter Coops: as a Mother Googe rode upon her broomstick—hai talon up the gaunilet again and boldly enters the lists in defence of dirty streets, obstruc- tons of the highway, patched up wharves and plas and the thousand other nufsances from which $he community has to suffer. isaving already repicd to the documents published under the signattix® of Peter Cooper, Mr. McLean disdains to make any farther answer to the Citizens’ Asgociation,: which he de nounces as an institution under the control aman of straw named Sands, that excellent philanthropist, Peter Cooper, being merely the nomen et preverea néhis of the establishment, Consequently the Street Commissioner e@- dresses his Iast communicetion to the members of the Chamber of Commarce, He evidently thinks that any farther comtroversy, with the Citizens’ Association would be only waste’ot time, type and paper; so he appeals tothe representatives of the commeroitl community for judgment. Mr. McLean proposes that the Chamber of Commerce shall appoint s contpetent person te investigate this whole matter of alleged fraud and imposture in the mansgement of the wharves snd piers and the reckless expendi- ture of money supposed to be used in keeping them in repair. He proposes that, this dele+' gated commissioner shall act in concert with « person appointed. by himself to enter upon the investigation. This is all very well; but it in.e very pretty piece of business. The remedy, after alf, for the nuisance which the wharves ‘and piers are as they now exist is to remove the whole of them and substitute good stone piers along our entire water front, suitable to the requirements of @ great maritime city like New York. ‘The New Magneto-Electric Light. We published yesterday a very interesting account of the new magneto-electric light used on board the New York and Havre mail steam- ship, the St. Laurent, This splendid light is almost as brilliant as that of the sun. It will penetrate the densest fog a distance of fwo or more miles, and its rays can be seen at night, through an ordinary atmosphere and at a suff 4} ciex altitude, for thirty or forty miles. The electr’-magnetic batteries, manufactured by ° the Compagne I’Allisnoe of Paris, which are used on the St. Laurent, have this improve- ment over all others, that the light produced is conginuous. Until this machine for the gene- ration of electricity was invented o similar brilliant light could be obtained,’ but no de- could be placed on it. Now, how- ever, continuousness has been ‘obtained, and as much sq 88 from gas or any other illuminat- ing proces’. Experiments were made om Toesday night with tho light on board the French steamstip for the gratification of the curious and scientific, As the beautiful mov- ing reflector was Dyhted up the river and the shores’ of New Jersey were made as clear almost as under the solar rays. The whole cost of manufacturing. the battery and its ap- purtenances is said fo be only about four thousand dollars, while the current cost of the materials used is insignificant. Why should not every ship at sea be provided with this light? It would save numbers of lives anda vast amount of property by preventing collisions and wrecks, Why should not all our lighthouses use it? Why, indeed, should not our cities be illuminated by it instead of with’ gas? It would furnish @ cheaper and far more brilliant light. If it shoald be too intense for lighting cities, no doubt svientific men will be able to tone it down or regulate it. It seoma to us that this new invention is destined to revolutionize the present moda: of ilumina- tion, and we call the attention of ov scientific men and government authorities to the subj oot! Flanking tho Radicale—Johuson ad the Recenstraction Muddle. AY Johnson and his Secretary of War seem $o be mafeuvring very prettily on the great flok® of reconstruction. There was @ rowin Georgia the other day, and it was su} some- body might be to blame, so the Governor ang a committee of the Legislature travelled all the way to Washington to ask the President to keep the peace. What could the President do? Send fresh troops down to frighten the peopla ‘and control the elections in favor of the radi- cals, or stand still and be accused of com nivance with a riotous spirit? He very suc~ cessfully did neither. He received the pe- tition Of the Georgia men and wrote on the back of it, “Referred to the Secretary of War,” informing them that the Secretary War was named Schofield. Schofield quently received the document, and he wrote om the back, ‘Referred to General Meade,” in~' forming the Georgia men that this Meade was the commander of the United States forces im their neighborhood. So theg travelled all the! way to Washington to find out that they ought’, to see Meade. The matiwuvre that pute » “sound demo- crat” side by side with that roaring radical im Tennesseo—Old Brownlow—is not less full of the happiest inspiration to provoking malice. There is a court martial to be held in Washing~ ton to try an officer named Dyer—not to punish him—for the statute of limitation would prevent that—but to give his good name the benefit of an investigation, The Secretary of War named) CrP; Gl ietat Aoewes ao a Dyer, and the President convened the martial, flanking Thomas out of the position he so splendidly held against Hood. He have a successof, and the President pute im that place Gordon Granger; and the Tennes+' see people, who wanted s new commander, exchanged King Log for King Stork. If Joha~ son plays all his little games thus nicely there' will be no more impeachment muddles. Dana .Fixtxa. Tarxes ror Grant Sun, who does not like Pomeroy'’s orgea his tone, grinds an organ.of his own in quaint ways, He is just now very busy grinds! ing Greeley out of the country and Grant's administration with @ full roll of men. He makes « great many and they all agree on the one point of Groeley go to England as American This is so constant @ refrain that it must have, taken s very firm hold of Dana's fanoy, and (€ must he that his games will not play in ang