The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York ANTHON MEMORIAL CHURCH.—Rev. Baxsamin B. Suits, Morning. ae BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.— Nowing-Rey. J. , BanTuoLoMEW. “vening—BEv. Dx “LEE. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rxv. W. Porz Yza- wan, Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.—Morning—RBv. W. Barammo. Evening—Rev. Dr, WARREN. CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Rnv. G. T. Br wait, Morning and evening. CHRIST CHURCH.—Rey. Henry A. Negty, D. D. Hy ening. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH.—Rey. Strraen H. TrxG, Je. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, Madison avenue and Worty-second street.—Morning and afternoon. CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION.—Rev. W. J. Kir, B.D. Evening. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH.—Rev. G, F. ROTEL, Moraing and evening EVERETT ROOMS.—SrimITUALISTS. M28. ALLYN. Morning and evening — FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Morning and rvening. FORTIETH STREET CHURCH.—Rxv. O. B. Frorainc- MAM. Morning. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Rey. Dx. Scorr. Morning and evening. ORIAL CHURCH OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT.— Morning—Bisuov oF ViRMowT. Evening—BIsuor OF TEN: OSE. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE.—SuNDaY ScHOOL IxeTRUO- TION. Afternoon. SEVENTEENTH STRE! P.Coneit, Morning and (4 E. CHURCH.—Rev. W. | ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH.—R: Ww. ‘H, BrsseuL. After- oon. ST. ANN’S CHURCH, Brooklyn.—Morning, afternoon and evening. ST. ANN’S FREE CHURCH-Morning, afternoon and evening. UNIVERSITY—Washington square.—REv. 8. 8, SNOW. Afternoon. = New York, Sunday, October 18, 1868. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, October 17. French reports state that an attempt had been made to assassinate General Prim in Madrid. Mar- whal Serrana and ACmitral Topete had a triumphal wéception in Saragossa. Seflor Rosas de Olanais ap- pointed Captain General of Cuba, General Dulce hay- Ing declined the office. The currency system of Spain will be assimilated to that of France. City riots occurred again in Dresden. A Fenian Outrage 1s reported from Ireland. Consols, 04%, money. Five-twenties, 72% in Lon- don, and 78% in Frankfort. Paris Bourse firm. Cotton firmer in Liverpool. Breadstuits unchanged. Provisions upward. By steamship at this port we have interesting mail details of our cable telegrams to the 6th of October, embracing @ continuance of the historical narrative of the progress of the Spanish revolution. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The proposed democratic manceuvre in the with- drawal of the leaders has been completely quashed, The unterrified have determined to fight it out on the original line, and curses loud and deep are showered upon the New York organ that proposed the change, thereby exposing @ paralyzing want of copfidence in the party’s success, General Blair addressed a sere- naling party at St. Louis on Friday night. He de- nied that the democratic candidates had declined to run, but expressed himself willing to make any sac- rifice that might be demanded of him. He said he was undismayed and unterrified and believed de- mocracy would win, ‘The weather turned bitter cold yesterday, the mercury falling as low aa 38 degrees at midnight. Snow fell in Yorkville and a biting breeze prevailed ali day in this city, Snow also fell in Bangor, Me.; Concord, N, H.; Rochester, Buffalo and even as far south as Philadelphia. In Worcester, Mase, a regular snow storm raged, while at Owen Sound, Canada, the ground was covered to the depth of four inches. ‘The thirty-eghth semi-annual Conference of the Latter Day Saints commenced in the new Mormon tabernacie at Salt Lake City on the Sth inst. Brig- ham Young presided. Elder Orson fyde delivered an address, tn which he said that the completion of the Pacific Raliroad through Salt Lake City would be the saving of the Saints, and Elder 0. Pratt made a@ speech, In which he denounced the gentiles in their midst and urged the Saints to have no dealings with them. The contract for removing obstructions at Hell Gate is to be awarded to 8. F. Shelbourne, as te low- est bidder, he agreeing to remove the Frying Pan Tor $24,000 and Pot Rock for $14,000, The proceedings of the Protestant Episcopal Gen- eral Convention yesterday—the tenth day of the e@ession—were of general importance. An interest- ing report was received on the state of the Church, Resolutions were introduced looking to the estab lishment of grammar schools in connection with parish churches; to missionary schoois; to a train ing school in each diovese for the education of teaching deacons, and to the creation of a “slater hood” of female teachers, to assist at these schools. The bishops resolved to admit clergymen of the Church of Engiand in Canada to all the rights and privileges of their brethren of the Church in the United States. The ‘Tyng canon” was amended by a more liberal provision with very littie debate, According to Speaker Colfax there will probably be no session of Congress in November, inthe Broadway theatre shooting affair the defence entered on their evidence yesterday before Judge Shandiey, of the Essex Market Police Court. After taking the testimony of one witness @ motion was made to dismiss the complaint against Deputy Sheriffs Tracy, Ward and Quinn. The Judge an- nounced that he would give his decision on this mo- tion a week from to-morrow, to which time the case was adjourned. Sherif O'Brien will be the next witness examined. Mrs. Annie Fitzpatrick, aged 108, died in Brooklyn yesterday” ‘The stock market was irregular yesterday. Gov- ernment securities were stroug. Gold closed at 196% @ Lit. With but few exceptions the markets wore ex. | tremely quiet yesterday, Coffee was duli but firmly held. Cotton was in fair demand and firm, closing fat 25 4c. for middling upland. Calcutta linseed wae in good demand, but 1c. a 2c. lower, selling on the spot and to arrive at $2 15, gold, duty paid. Ou *Change four was quiet but steady. Wheat was dull and nominally unchanged. Corn was only mode- rately active and about 1c, lower, while oata were in @ e demand (chiefly speculative) at steady prices. Pork was moderately dealt in and a trifle lower, beef was dull but steady, while lard was + quiet and heavy. Petroleum was slow of sale at 15 \4¢. for crud: 1d 204c. for refined. Naval stores ady. were quiet but 8 Freigits, though dull, were firm. Prominent Arrivals in the City, W. S. Campbell, United States Consul at Dresden, Saxony; Dr. Norton Folsom, of Cambridge, Mass Colonel Hildt, of West Point, and Captain ©. B. Davis, of the United States Army, are at the Hott man House. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. Davis, of the United States Navy, and Dr. William M. White, of Connecticut, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge George T. Bryan, of Charleston, 8. C., is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General James Longstreet, of Virginia, and Cap- tain H. W. Johnson, of Stamford, are at the New York Hotei, Colonel H, P, Curtis, of the United States Army} Dr, Nelson, of Annapolis, and William and R. Hooker Ewart, of Belfast, Ireland, are at the Brevoort House. General John McThayer, of Nebraska; General E. W. Hinks, of the United States Army; L, B. Boomer, of Chicago, and R. H. Pruyn, of Albany, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Protestant Episcopal Convention and Another of the Same Sort. If benefit of clergy, a phrase which once had a meaning, has anything to do with num- bers, New York city during the last two weeks has had no reagon to be ungrateful. We have had the lights of the Unitarian body; we have still in the midst of us the lights of the Epis- copal body. How we ought to have been en- lightened! In darkness, certainly, we ought not to be. From such a concentration of light it would not have been unnatural to look for a baptism of fire. We dare not say that New York did not need such o baptism. But the benefit !—we know not where to find evi- dence of it. Appealing, as we do, to a public which, whatever its faults, has at least some measure of intelligence, we ask whether such miserable trifling in the name of religion, in the name of the Christian religion, has ever been witnessed since councils, synods, assem- blies or conventions had a place in the world? One day in one convention we had men call- ing themselves Christians proposing measures loose enough to admit to communion those of any religion or of no religion. Another day in the same convention we found a brother who had threatened secession so overcome by a little attention, so wrought upon by a bou- quet of flowers which had been knocked down atasale in the holy assembly—we suppose no one remembered the scourge and Him who used it on a not dissimilar occasion—that, yielding to a vanity all too natural, but never beautiful, he smiled again upon his friends and graciously withdrew his secession threat. Of the Unitarian Convention who remembers much beyond the falling away and the restora- tion of Dr. Bellows? How much better has it been with the Pro- testant Episcopal Convention, a Convention which represents a very large proportion of the wealth and culture of the United States? This is the first convention in which the Pro- testant Episcopal Church, South as well as North, has been fairly and fully represented since the close of our late unhappy civil war. How much there was requiring attention! How much there was demanding grave and serious consideration! War has seldom, if ever, been the parent of virtue in the high and holy sense in which we now use that term. It is not to be denied that our civil war has left behind it a large amount of evil which festers and breeds corruption morally and religiously. There are evidences not a few, especially in our large cities, that Satan never had so firm a hold of the American people as he has at the present moment. Look at the daily chronicle of suicides, ‘of murders, of burglaries, and of offences, if possible, worse than any of these. Look at our theatrical amusements and the openly avowed pre- ference of our people for what is undis- guisedly impure. Black Crookism has sown its seed—a seed which is already in luxuriant vegetation and gives fair promise of abundant fruit. The worst that is told of the stage during the Restoration period in England gives but an imperfect idea of the scenes nightly witnessed on the boards of our most fashion- able places of amusement. To stem this growing tide of iniquity would surely have been fitting work for the congregated bishops and their clerical and lay associates. But how have they girt them- selves for the task? What have they done? What evidence have they given that they have any proper notion of the actual condition of society and of their duty in connection with the same? We have had fruitless discussions on the meaning of ‘‘councils” and ‘‘conven- tions.” We have had precious time wasted in determining the question where an Episcopal clergyman might legally preach the free Gos- pel of Jesus Christ. We have seen the Low Church and the High Church parties on the verge of final separation because they could not agree on the subject whether little boys with sweet voices and draped in short surplices could be allowed to take part in the choral service at their morning meetings. We have had manifestations abundant of the spirit of the sixteenth century. We have seen little evidence of the spirit of the nineteenth. We have had everything but the one thing which was specially needful. Was ever such man-millinery, such women's- rights women’s weakness, witnessed in connec- tion with any cause? Of nothing do our Epis- copal friends #0 much remind us as of a story which is told in connection with the name of a celebrated English humorist. On one occa- sion this humorist happened to be in the House of Lorde. While waiting for the assembling of the Peers the bishops, in their lawn sleeves, made their appearance. ‘‘Who are these?” said some stranger in the immediate neigh- borhood of the humorist. ‘‘ These,” said he, ‘are the Peeresses of England in their own right.” Old wify enough in their own right certainly are the bishops and clergy of the Episcopal Charch of the United States, so far, at least, as we are warranted to judge from the proceedings of the Convention now being held in this city. The Episcopal Convention has not yet brought its proceedings to a close. | We are willing, therefore, to hope that we shall have occasion to think better of them before the session is brought to aclose. Mean- while, we beg to remind them of the native simplicities of the Gospel. Let them strive to come nearer the principles and precepts of the Sermon on the Mount. The Church of Christ has a large mission yet to carry out. We must have other light than that which has been furnished by the Convention which is defunct or by the Convention which is still in session before we can be satisfied that eithér | the Unitarian section or the Episcopal section | of that Church has any clear perception of its duty in connection with that mission, The moral elevation of mankind and the salvation of immortal souls have, after all, but little in General J. Kilpatrick, and Colonel James M. Waite, of the United States Army; Paymaster George L. common with the sale of flowers or with boys’ muslin jackets, ‘‘Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,” is now to all appearance a command of subordinate im- portance. City and Suburban Real Estate. There never has been a time in the history of New York when greater activity prevailed in the real estate market in this city than the present, nor in which the interest of our peo- ple was so signally awakened respecting the prospects of future appreciation of real property here, or their enterprise enlisted in developing this result. It is not alone within the area of Manhattan Island that this speculative energy has been manifested, but all around us, in out- lying districts and townships to a dis- tance of from fifteen to twenty miles from the City Hall. Land which a few years ago was regarded as of comparatively trifling value—so inconsiderable as to be seldom the subject of barter—is now anxiously inquired for, and plots of a few square feet eagerly pur- chased for sums that a decade since would have bought farms of many acres. Old estates that have been the property of a single family for a time, whereof the memory of man run- neth not to the contrary, have been parcelled into city lots and disposed of at figures that give fortunes to the lucky heirs. During the week which has just closed real estate to the amount of $1,171,121 was disposed of at pub- lic auction in this city and vicinity, over one million dollars of that sum being for unim- proved property. Besides this there changed hands by private sale property to a much greater amount. The largest sum realized from any single tract was for one hundred and twenty-eight acres at Fort Washington, being a portion of the estate of the late Isaac Dyck- man, which was sold in one hundred and fifty- one plots and brought $621,650—an average of nearly five thousand dollars an acre. The choice location of this land, its superior surround- ings, with other indications of a rapid future appreciation, doubtless contributed to render it thus high priced, not, however, beyond its just mark, this being the fashionable quarter of the metropolis. Less only in rapidly increasing valuation to the above, Brooklyn unimproved property to the amount of $220,824 was also sold under the hammer during the week, comprising lots in East New York, Williamsburg, the neighborhood of Prospect Park and Flatbush, the larger num- ber at the last named place. Large sales of New Jersey villa sites were likewise held, the purchasers in each case being mainly from this city and the prices metropolitan in their figures. In this remarkable activity, sweeping around a circle of many miles, of which New York is the centre, stimulating in relative proportions the value of land about Fort George, in East New York, Brooklyn, Flat- bush and the neighboring towns of New Jersey, we see but evidences of the growth, development and progress of New York city. Its rapid increase of population and of wealth and the magnitude of the numerous interests that radiate from here, while securing for it its present proud position as the commercial capital of the country and mercantile centre, are prescient signs of still greater grandeur and pre-eminence. Wonderful as has been the rapid and high appreciation of real estate in the past, in the city of the future it will be exceeded. With the completion of the Pacific Railroad New York willtake a new departure, and, its commerce increased tenfold, its popu- lation quadrupled, will before long comprise within its built up area those outlying places which we now call suburban, but which will, by means of bridges, railroads, underground and elevated, and pneumatic tubes, be brought into close and rapid connection with the pre- sent metropolis and share in its expanded pros- perity. The Naturalization Treaty With Eugiund. One of our latest telegrams informs us that the protocol of the Anglo-American Naturali- zation treaty proposed by the American Minister will be approved botlt by the English Parliament and by the American Congress. We are not surprised by this announcement of the London News, for a similar announce- ment on even better authority was made some days ago. It has long been known that Lord Stanley, the present Foreign Secretary, was not opposed to the principles embodied in the German-American treaties, and that if a simi- lar treaty were proposed for England he would have little difficulty in signing it. It is not unreasonable to conclude that the naturali- zation difficulty is now.over. The principles already embodied in the German treaties and likely soon to be embodied in the English treaty will, at no distant day, be accepted by the whole of Europe. International law will be greatly simplified by the result. It is not to be denied that the immense strides made in recent years by the great republic of the West towards « controlling power in the world have been influential in bringing about this happy change. The progress of the United States is a progress in the interests of humanity. One Way to Sertie Iv,.—The time is get- ting short. Some of the democracy want a new ticket. How can their wish be satis- fied? The shortest way is for Seymour and Blair to put their heads together and resign in favor of Grant and Colfax. This will throw both parties together, and, in a division of the spoils, will bring about such a confusion of parties ‘at Washington as to be followed speedily by a reconstruction of parties out and out. It will come to this at last, but Seymour and Blair may begin the work now. Is it not probable that for Grant and Colfax this demo- cratic electoral ticket would get more votes than the radical electoral ticket, and thus, after all, elect the next President? Does not this idea suggest a brilliant flank movement ? Asa military man, what says General Blair? Riots 18 German Creies.—We reported by the Atlantic cable, a few days since, the oc- currence of a city riot in Prague. Imme- diately afterwards we were informed of a tumult and riot in Dresden, To-day we are told that the outbreak was repeated in Dros den yesterday. The assemblages were dis. persed and peace restored in every instance, the military acting for the suppression of the movement in the first case in Dresden. Order reigns again in the German cities; but the question of why was it disturbed remains—by unsatisfied democracy, the pressure of the unity of consolidation or from foreign in- fluence? Is the Spanish revolutionary news aa reported from Paris contagious? Troubles of the Pope, the Jesuits and the Church—Their Best Remedy. Is there to be no end to the persecution of the Father of the Faithful? Are bis troubles never to cease? Is he to be condemned to witness all his life the ingratitude and hostility of Catholic princes and peoples? He cannot | say, with the Psalmist, ‘‘ Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine @ vain thing ?” because in his case the heathen are the very nations who have been for countless ages reposing in the very sunshine and glory of Christian truth and Catholic beatitude. But mournfully and truthfully he may exclaim in the further words of the psalm:—‘‘The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” — That is the very experience that the Pope has been having ever since he succeeded to the inheritance of the Fisherman. First, that red-shirted Garibaldi could find no better em- ployment than to stir up the ungrateful popu- lace of Rome declare in favor of a republic and to compel its rightful ruler to seek personal safety in the walls of Civita Vecchia and resto- ration to the Vatican from the artillery of a French army. Then after some years the people of Italy, under the lead of their warrior king, must set to work to break up the happily existing order of things and drive away the Austrian and Bourbon rulers and break up the little principalities and powers that were so friendly to the Church, and even wrest from the benign sway of the Legates some of the Papal provinces, and undertake to form, out of these hitherto disjointed portions, a single unitary government, based upon the heretical notions of civiland religious freedom, popular suffrage and public school education. And ‘‘the most unkindest cut of all” was that in these highly revolutionary and reprehensible proceedings they were aided by the same pious prince that had restored Rome to the Holy Father and had earned for himself the grateful title of ‘* Eldest Son of the Church.” And, as if all this was not enough to rend the tender heart of his Holiness, royal con- spiracies must begntered into for the purpose of destroying the temporal power of the Popes and depriving them of their inheritance in the Eternal City. Fortunate may Pio Nono consider himself if they allow him to end his pontificate in the Vatican, and even then he lives in the assurance, stipulated by treaty, that he is the last of the successors of St. Peter who can be enthroned there. But, though Italy and France thus proved renegade, there were two other friendly Catho- lic Powers on whose devotion to obsolete principles of policy and government he might firmly rely. Austria and Spain were cham- pions of the holy mother Church and believed thoroughly in the device inscribed on its banner, “As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be.” Alae! how uncertain all human calculations, even when backed by dogmatic infallibility! Austria tears up the Concordat, allows her children to be educated and her young men and women to be married without the control or sanction of the clergy ; and Spain, the birthplace of Loyola and the land where the Inquisition flourished longest and hottest (its human burnt offerings being reported at thirty-two thousand), joins the persecutors of the Church, disbands the Jesuits and confiscates the property of that religious order. 4 Need the Church wait for any further proof of hostility on the part of its sons, eldest and youngest? Can Pio Nono reasonably expect any good from that Machiavellian Emperor of the French; from that headstrong Italian son of Mars, who laughs at anathemas and excom- munications ; from that imperial Austrian who had not the courage to stand up against his heretical Prime Minister, Von Beust, or from the Juntas, the Cortes or the Camarillas of revolutionized Spain? Clearly not. It is idle to waste further time or prayers upon them. In worldly phrase, they are past praying for. The measure of their iniquities is full. They will not hear the Church; therefore let them be anathema-maranatha. That psalm of David from which we have already made two quotations, and which appears to be propheti- cally applicable to the case, suggests the course which the Pope and the Church ought to take, in these words :—‘“‘I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the utter- most parts of the earth for thy possession.” Who are the heathen? Clearly those unfor- tunate Protestant peoples who follow the teach- ings of Luther and Calvin and the other lights of the Reformation, but who somehow seem to be recently groping about considerably in the dark and to be veering around to the source of light in all matters spiritual. The ‘‘utter- most parts of the earth” mean, of course, that new world which David, with all his geo- graphical knowledge, knew nothing about, but which a countryman of the Pope's and a pious son of the Church discovered hereabouts some four centuries ago. We doubt whether Dr. Cumming or Bishop Snow can make a clearer application of prophecy than this, The heathen are prepared for the Pope's ad- vent. If he go to the British isles he will find a welcome among the ecclesiastical dignitaries of the Established Church and will have an easy work in bringing all the stray sheep within the fold; and if he come to the New World he will be astonished at the reception which will be given him by the faithful Irish and the heretical Yankee. All denominations of Christians, including the Jews and the Mormons and the Spiritualists, will combine to do him honor. Old Trinity will throw her hospitable doors open to him and will light candles enough on the occasion to dazzle his dear old eyes. His headquarters he may select wherever he thinks best ; ‘The world is all before him where to choose His place of rest; and Providence his guide. If he should choowe, as of course he would, the great commercial metropolis for the future seat of the Church, we can place at his dis- posal a site on Fort Washington, from whence a view of the lordly Hudson flowing at the feet of his palace will obliterate all regrets for the yellow Tiber. If he should prefer the political metropolis of the country, the banks of the Potomac present many fine sites, though none which we should recommend in preference to Arlington, now the headquarters of colored lazzaroni. Congress would willingly make him a free gift of the estate, throwing the expelied Jesuits can find home and welcome in a magnificent college of their order under the rule of Father Maguire, This, then, is the only feasible project for healing the wounds and assuaging the sorrows of the Church, We feel convinced that the General Council which is summoned to con- vene in Rome next year would endorse our recommendation, But {t is needless for the Pope to wait so long. Let him pack up his trunks, turn the key in the door of the Vatican, give his parting benediction to the unwashed Romans, the French troops and the unpaid Papal zouaves, and take an early steamer for New York, where he can hold that General Council in the new Tammany Hall (which will then have no motive of being), or in Pike's new Opera House, the present scene of Tos- tée’s triumphs as the Grande Duchesse. The War of the Opera Houses. The first brief campaign in this furious but bloodless war ended yesterday. Field Marshal Grau, with a more praiseworthy deference to public opinion, as indicated by the press, than was shown by certain military authorities during our late civil war, changed his plan of operations entirely. After a brilliant matinée, General Fritz Carrier was stripped of all his honors and retired with Mlle. Wanda to his native village. General Boum Beckers was ordered to retreat with his army. Prince Paul and Baron Grog, his papa’s envoy, dts. appeared with the entire court of the Grande Duchesse Rose Bell, who herself was con- strained to abdicate. But, after all, Field Marshal Grau only contemplates a skilful flank movement, and on Thursday next, with all his forces on a war footing, he will sur- prise the public with the splendid costumes and scenery and the superb music of ‘‘Gene- vitve de Brabant.” Perhaps it would have been more discreet for him had he left the libretto of this new operetta untranslated ; for then but comparatively few would be aware how far it carries the license claimed by opéra bouffe. This very license, however, may prove a recommendation to the present de- praved appetite of the public for piquancy, even at the expense of purity. Our own im- pression is that the sooner Mr. Grau shall decide to favor us with opéra comique in place of opéra bouffe the better it will be for his own interests and for the credit of the French theatre. While Grau has changed his tactics and is seriously preparing for altogether unexpected conquests, Christopher Columbus Bateman is rejoicing over the new world for opéra bouffe which he thinks he has discovered on Eighth avenue. Encouraged by the hearty ovation offered to the Grande Duchesse Tostée, the incomparable Prince Paul Leduc, the irre- pressible General Boum Duchesne and the inimitable Baron Puck Lagriffeul, he persists in making Pike’s Opera House resound with music which is familiar to every ear, which is thrummed on every piano and echoed by every military band and even ground out by every street organ. Keenly as republican America has appre- ciated the whimsical, satirical picture of court life exhibited by the libretto of the “Grande Duchesse,” and popular as certain airs of the operetta have become, there may be enough even of a good thing; and we only express the growing public feeling when we say that we have already had as much as we want of the “Grande Duchesse.” It seems as if Mile. Tostée, bewitchingly as she still acts, feels bound, the less she sings, the more to com- pensate for the defects of her voice by certain extravagant movements. There is‘even dan- ger that she may lose one of her eyes by a chronic wink; and if she is compelled to con- tinue the réle of the Grande Dachesse much longer and to out-can-canize herself, it may become necessary to import Mlle. Therése, who was the rage at Paris a year or two ago, and to let her sing while Mlle. Tostée makes the gestures and “goes through with the motions.” The rival opera houses have, somewhat injudiciously, we think, challenged comparison between their respective troops by opening the season with the same operetta. The public must render its own verdict. If we are not greatly mistaken this verdict will agree with our opinion that the reign of ‘La Grande Duchesse” is well nigh at an end; that Irma, delicious little Boulette as she is, cannot restore it successfully ; that, as a French contemporary says, while “‘Tostéo plays the part ravishingly Rose Bell sings it like an archangel; Tostée has dazzling costumes, Rose Bell is a beauty.” Leduc is incom- parable as Prince Paul. That Aujac has failed to be the incarnation of Fritz is no dis- credit to him, for he is as admirable in opéru comique as he is unfit for opéra bouffe. Car- rier’s Fritz is superior to his, although Carrier somewhat exaggerates the character. The voice of Carrier is more powerful than that of Aujac, although, to some ears, less agreeable. Duchesne created, for our imagin- ation, the character of the impetuous Boum, and cannot be replaced by Beckers, skilful actor and scientific musician a6 the latter is. Mademoiselle Lambelé is better suited for opéira comique than for opéra bouffe, and her Wanda, although she is not too well got up for it, is more satisfactory than any we have seen. The choruses of Bateman’s troupe are sur- passed by those of Grau, or, at least, seem to be fewer in number and not so pretty or so well dressed on the larger stage at Pike's. The orchestras at Pike's and the French theatre—the one under the direction of Mr. Birgfeld and the other under that of Mr. Stoepel—are both commendable. As for the managers of the rival opera houses very few words will suffice. Mr. Bate- man, indeed, needs none at all; for he says enough, if not too much, for himself. The other night he almost overtaxed the patience of the audience by the speech in which he compared himself to Columbus, Some of the spectators wondered why he had forgotten to supply himself with a wand, in order, like an ordinary showman, to point out each and every figure, “fearfully and wonderfully made,” displayed on the drop curtain; but, as Figaro remarks, ‘‘let that drop.” The public are perfectly willing to admire your energy and to recognize the fact that in the French theatre and even in the more spacious hall at Pike’s—too spacious, we fear, for opéra bouffe—a complete magnetic circle seemed to be established between you, your “Grande more speeches, if you please, Mr. Bateman. Whatever otyer mistakes Mr. Grau may have committed he deserves the credit for never obtruding himsaf upon the public. Not even his extraordinary triumph in the representa- tions ‘of Mme. Risori tempted him to deviate from the modesty which best becomes an able and successful manager, ‘T4e war of the opera houses threatens to be the death of the “Grande Duchesse of Gcrol- stein,” under whatever uame she may claim an allegiance. If in our duty to the public we must sign her death warrant, we shall, nevertheless, long remember how brightly her reign has enlivened the American stage. Grecian Bend=—The Pannier and Ii Ad- vantages. Our fashions correspondent sends word from Paris that what was predicted has come to pass. The ladies are beginning to wear gar- lands of roses, yellow and.red, on the top of the forehead, low shoes and short dresses. After this who can wonder at anything in the way of dress? Without assuming to call any- thing fashionable hideous, it is only tair te admit that this new style is queer. Perhaps we can adda little to the attrac- tions here. Would not all this be a little nearer perfection if pet animal were to accompany the fashionable lady in her walks? Little dogs are out of fashion, it is true, and cats might not be becoming; but what objec- tion can there be to a pet monkey, attached to a string, and hopping in front or comfortably perched on the pannier? Decidedly the pan- nier will not be all it should until the monkey is elevated upon it. It is doubtless true, as our correspondent says, that woman’s vanity—if that be the right word—has much to do with making her con- stantly and universally attractive to man, He gives a funny instance of the way in which certain ladies visiting at a model farm threw themselves with enthusiasm into the special enjoyments of the place and found the cattle yard as much to their taste as the drawing room or the croquet lawn—impartial in their devotion to any object, so long as they can thereby please the men and attract them whem they come in from their field sports or other masculine occupations. Our streets will wear a comical. appearance when these late fashions come in, Whaat a pleasing picture to see the ladies promenade with flower gardens on their heads and a lucid interval between the hem of the skirt and their low cut shoes. We must certainly try to mitigate the coming weather to make this display convenient to the actresses them- selves. If it were of any use to write éseri- ously against the follies of fashion we might join the severe moralists and the weighty mea of science in their constant attacks upom them, We might be specific, like the scien- tific men, or vague, like the professional moralists. But it is not worth while. A good- natured joke is always in season, and, what is more to the point, always in fashion, Aa far as dress is concerned, decoration of some kind, if only tattooing and paint, came in be- fore clothing, and, if our climate would kindly allow, would certainly survive it. In those favored regions where the naked dandy sits in half a calabash and protects himself from raim with the other half he is still careful of his wool, and frizzes and greases it with all the care of a French hairdresser. Rings for the ears or nose, bracelets and bangles, are in demand where further dress is unknown; and, similarly, in our civilized parts of the earth, dress, though generally insisted on, serves pretty much as a foundation for what courtesy calls ornaments. Of course we charge the ladies with most of this devotion to fashion, but they say the charges are all due to their desire to please the gentlemen, who desire them constantly te seek fresh styles by ridiculing any style which is introduced. The injured creatures have been laboring at this unending task for genera- tions and see no hope of peace or a termina- tion of their efforts. They are greatly to be pitied. A constant search for novelties in dress and ornaments must be worse than always rolling up the hill that ‘shameless stone” which always rolled down again when it reached the top. In fact, the only consola-! tion we can offer the fair sex is that the unfair sex has monopoly of making dictionaries— & punishment for their pride which has been boldly stated to be equal in itself to all others together and quite enough for a place worse than purgatory. Just now a large portion of our male friends are also illustrating the truth that the fashions of this world are apt to go out. Their mil- liners were expert if they did not import direct from Paris, and the dress and trimmings fitted the democratic party to perfection so long as each man only looked at his friends, Never was such a triumph. The delight of the first ladies who adopted the Grecian bend was nothing to it. But fate compelled both these fashions to meet other than their own mirrors, and, worse still, critics that had styles of their ' own to puff. No doubt public taste is very bad; the fashionables in both cases say 60. But the public is very wooden-headed, and would rather have its own ideas than any you can offer. Cheer up, all of you. Look over the fashion plates of many years in search of ideas, and then you may come to us for some useful hints. The ladies will receive attention first; the democrats are polite enough to say, ‘‘Place aux dames.” Wade Hampton—“Unconstitutional, Revola- tlonnry and Void.” Wade Hampton's latest effort in the cam- paign is an argument to the Southern negroes that they ought to vote the democratic ticket because the success of the other would ruin the Southern white men, and that the negro must share in that ruin. We do not know how much force this may have in South Carolina, though we can conceive that few things might be more agreeable to the negro than to know thus definitely that ho had it in his power, simply by voting, to assist in slightly ruining the Southern white men generally. If the negro is not a great deal above the white man in his motives—if his human nature is just the same as other every day human nature—that line of argument ought to be a good one for the radi- cal cause. Hampton's arguments are not such as stand examination; and after mach experi- ence of his apeeches we are inclitied to wonder that no democratic authority urges him to lazzaroni in, and on the opposite bank the | Duchesse,” her court and the audience; but no | silence and feelingly inquires if he is not esti