The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1869, Page 6

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THEATRE anv Livi CENTRAL Beth sts.—Poous., SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—vnto- PIAN ENTRGIALSMENTS—TAREK STRINGS 10 ONE Bow. E, Tammany Building, Mth BLST, &C. TONY PASTOR'S OP! 201 Bowery.—Comte Vocauism, Noro MINSTRI NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. —Risicy's JAPANESE Trocr HOOLEY’S | OP: MINSTRELS —THE Rrookiva.—Hoo.er's ERA Wh Bi DReAM. L Powter’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BCURNOR AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. ers Teagueaenen May 13, 1869. New York, THE NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated May 12. Reverdy Johnson will have an audience with Queen Victoria to-day for the purpose of taking for- mal leave of her Majesty. Mr. B. Moran will assume the duties of Charge d’Affaires until Minister Motley arrives. Jolin Jay, Minister elect to Austria, arrived tn London yesterday. The eleciton excitement rages in arts, public meetuigs were disperséd by ihe police. Political discontent is rife in Portugal, and serious digorders Nave occurred in Lisbon, A conspiracy against the government has been discovere General Priua approves of the proposit regency under Marshal Serrano. sir Jol Cramp- ton, the British Miister, has been recailed to Eng- Four land. ‘The bill for the payment of de sto the North German deen rej Premier of the Italian Ministry, 1 favor of Count Carmbray Digus. Persia. Information of a dreadful conflict berween two re- ne streets of Teheran, was received It is sald 500 persons were Advices v the At- lantic cavie is u strong poattion in the fl men and forty guas, The aliies were about marching against lim. Caba. Additional Spanish reports of the fight at Alta- gracta Bt: hat the insurgenta lost one or two thousand men killed and wounded, and cannol pos- sibly raise another force of 2.000 men. We priut a large patch of interesting letter Cuba and the other West India Islands to-day Beiusit steamer Salvador has got off safely from Key West, bound for Sagua la Grand, and is crowded p eluded the Spanish officials, efully watening her. A revolution of ude is reported to have broken out in ral British suen-of-war were mov- quadron was vont the Gulf, and the beiwe inc «1. The HeRa.ps arriving recently in Havana hi ron seized by the authorities, Hayti. By way of St. Thomas we learn that the Galutca Was sent to bour ) ult, She ran agrenud t place and sustained some in- juries, wiich competied her return to Port an Prince for repairs. Salaave himeelf had returned to his capital, a much depressed at Wie condi- tion of affairs, Provisions were more abundant, but still commanded nigh prices. St. Domingo. Advices by way of St. Thomas state that the revo- lation in St. Domingo under Cabral 1s gathering force. Engagements bad taken place on the 13th and 23d, in which the forces of Baez were defeated, with the loss of General Garcia, The revolutionary movement under Lupeson and Pimental was losiug ground, Miscellancons. ‘The despatch in a New York paper of yester- day, stating that an alliance against the United States was being formed between England, France and Spain, is not believed in diplomatic circles in Washington. Jt is not nsual to communicate such matters to foreigu representatives, and the tenor of the despatch i considered highly improbabie. Secretary Fish says Kngiand has a8 much cause to complain of Spain as we have, and President Grant las not decided upon any foreign Policy that can be obnoxious to any of the great Powers. But, In case the alliance were formed, Ireland would take care of England, Bismarck of France, ttussia would settle up the Mastern question withous opposition, a genera! war would ensue in Furope, and Spain would lose Cava in just three days. General George B. MeCielian had au interview with Presiient Grant yesterday on matters cc with Stevens’ ‘oating battery, of New Jer He was accompanied by Governor Kandolp: rhe ine terview was very cordial and culminated In an interesting exchange of gossip about war matters and the friendly smoking of numerous cigars. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury now states that it 18 not bis intention to put recovered bonds upon the Market again. His Object ik to reduce both the Principat and interest of the pubiie devt, and ar. Pangements are being made to estaviis a sinking fund, in conformity with the act of 1 ‘The munictpal election ia Providenr a Gay resulted in the election of the Brown & Ive didate by @ majority of 1,420 over tiy vote for the other combined It 8 proposed \ ‘eruea lo Washington to get up a real English dinner to Keverdy Jounson when he returns, Mayor Shurtle® and other Boston gentlemen waited upon the Mf nt yesterday and invited him and bis Cabinet and General Sherman to ve Qresept Uurog tue Peace Jubilee im Gosia, The | | NEW YORK HERALD President said he would be pleased to attend if the public business vould permit, and the olner gentle- men replied in about che same strain. SX steamboats tying wt the wharf im Cincinnati Were destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The fire originated in the upsetting of a coal ott lamp on the steamer Clifton, and fourteen kegs of guapowder on the Che enne having exploded, the flames were driven to the remaining boats, [tts reported that several lives were lost, The total lost is $235,000, ‘The steamship Jamata, plying between New Or- leans, Havana and Phitadelpma, waa seized by the revenue authorities at the latter city yesterday for alleged smuggiing. Ben Wade has been appointed one of the Pacific Railroad Commissioners, The City. ‘The steamer Quaker City, which still hes at the foot of Twelfth strece, Kast river, was searched by three or four United States Deputy Marshals, but nothing contravand was found upon her, Her name has been changed to the Columbia, and her destina- uon is supposed Lo be Rio Janeiro. A meeting of the Pacific Slopers in this city was heid at the Astor House yesterday, for the purpose of congratulating one anowber on the com- pletion of the Pacifle Railroad, Senator Nye presided, and among those present were Governor Vrice, who took possession of Califor- nia for the United States; Captain Edward Higgins, who raised the American fag at that time, and J, W. Gregory, who brought the first gold by express to New York, carrying it ($4,000) across the istumus tn @ bag on lus ba A child tive ‘4 of age died at its parents’ resi- dence, on Fast Bleventh street, yesterday, from drinking whiskey lett madveriently i its reach by is father, A clergy in was arrested in Westchester yeater- day for ing Mis way into the houses of respect- able ladies and tmsniting them. He pleaded guilty, said the devil had ied him astray, but that he was a gentveman of influence in the city. He was locked up. Buckley, one of tue robbers who attempted to run away with an express wagon at the corner of Peart street and Brosdway on the 3d inst., was sentenced yesterday to fifteen years’ imprisonment at nard labor. ‘The North German Lloyd's steamship Hermann, Captain Wenke, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. ‘The mails Will close at the Post Ofice at tweive M. The steamship Eagle, Captain M, R. Greene, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three P.M. to-day for Havana. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong and buoy- ant, Gold was weaker, declining to 197%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General George Stannard, of Vermont; John De Camp, of the United States Army; A. L. Gibbs, of Washington, and Colonel J. C. Pierce, of Albany, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, George W. Childs, of the Philadephia Ledyer; Dr. W. H. Taylor, of Richmond, and W. H. Seward, Jr., of Auburn, are at the St. Nicholaa Hotel. Major Steve Dunn, of Saratoga, and Dr. L. G. DeForrest, of Cleveland, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Professor Thomas H. Kennedy, of Covington, Ky.; M.S. Jackson and Mr. GriMth, of Liverpool, Eng- land, are at the Maltby House. Captain Moodie, of steamer Guba, is at the New York Hotel, ‘ Dr. Brink, Upited States Consul to Mexico, and R. G. Hazard, of Rhode Istand, are at the St. Denis Hotel. General Franklin, of the United States Army, is at the Hofuaa House. Bemus, of Mayville; George 0. Jones, of Horace Maynard, of Tennessee; Senator Henry Wrison, of Massachusetts; George Peabouy Rus of Salem, Muss.; General Tyler and Con- gre D. McCarthy, of New York, are at the Vitth Avenue Uotel, Prominent Departures, ‘atin, for Vermont; William McPherson, for wall Pepoon, Robert Nichols and C, Reform and Revolution in Great Britain. Never, perhaps, were British statesmen more completely at their wits’ end than they are at the present moment. The situation, truly, is peculiar, we think unexampled. A great work of reform has been accomplished, and the most aristocratic and exclusive of governments has been compelled so to extend the franchise privilege or right—it matters little which we call it—that the British empire has virtually become a democracy. Another great work of reform has been underiaken. The Protestant Episcopal Church in Ireland has for two and a half centuries, at least, been working mischief and breeding all kinds of mis There has arisen a class of states- men who have the bardihood to look evils in the face, and who have besides the pluck and daring to make an effort to remove them. The disestublishment and disendowment of what is known as the Irish Church is settled so far as the House of Commons is concerned. The House of Lords, which is Tory to the back- bone, may kick against this measure, and it doubtless will kick ; but the House of Lords is Ina few weeks or months the Irish Church bill will have passed into law, and the greatest and most radical of Irish grievances will have ceased to exist. The revolutionary spirit in Great Britain has demanded and has obtained thus much; but the revolutionary spirit, which is by no means local, refuses yet to be satisfied. This is its hour and power of triumph, and it seems de- termined to go on conquering and to conquer. The late reform in the eleetoral franchise has mightily increased the power of the,people and the power of the people's House of Parlia- ment. The people have begun to look on the Lords as a simple obstruction to be got out of the way as soon as possible. The Lords them- selves, feeling how weak and helpless and useless they are, have begun to cry out for reform. They are not ia harmony with—they are not equal to—the times. With a praise- worthy foresight they have set about improv- ing their order. It is not easy to multiply the titled aristocracy, for the titled aristocracy must have wealth if not lands; but if men of property and large wealth cannot be found in sient numbers, men of brains are surely fo be had. The idea of life peerages has come to the rescue, and one of the most aristocratic members of one of the most aristocratic fami lies has successfully introduced a bill into the House of Lords giving shape aud character to this ides, Democracy hag thus forced its way into the Holy of Holies of the aristocracy of England; and when this bill is passed the House of Lords will be an aris- tocratic assembly no longer. Some of the old leaven for a time will remain; but henceforth the most exclusive of assemblies will be reduced to the level of the Senate of France or the Senate of the United States. The people, the Lords no longer, will rule the British empire. This, however, is not all. The spirit of revolution is insatiable, It is not enough that the aristocracy are on their knees and that they have given up so much. The cry is still for more, and more must be conceded, It was Mr. Gladstone's hope that the removal of the great ecclesiastical griev- ance would tonch the frish heart and call forth Irish sympathies, Mr, Gladstone's opponents said Ghat thug to yigld to Lrish dewaads would ry. powerless to resist. ouly whet the Irish appetite and intensify {risk hunger, The result has sproved that Mr. Gladstone's opponents were right and that he was wrong. The ery of hunger has become louder and more desperate. Mayors of Irish cities glory in disloyalty and make heroes of assassins. It was a noble deed, they say, of O'Farrel to shoot Prince Alfred. It will not be wonderful if another O’Farrel, catching inspiration from the Mayor of Cork, should make an end of Prince Arthur, now on a tour in the Emerald Isle. Agrarian violence has burst out afresh, and Ireland, to judge from all outward appearances, is at once more discontented and more disloyal than ever. Meanwhile the government contemplates an additional reform. Land tenure in Ireland is said to be a bigger grievance than the domi- nant aud favored Church. Land tenure, it is said, is to command the immediate attention of Parliament. Revolution and reform thus go hand in hand. What we said at the outset we repeat-—the situation i3 peculiar and embarrassing. Bri- tish institutions are becoming more and more Americanized; levelling principles are at work; the people are rising above the oli- garchy ; but the progress of reform does not quiet, it rather encourages the spirit of revo- lution. In view of important outstanding questions the situation in the Brifish Isles is ally serious. In the event of a war with this country Ireland to a dead certainty would be upin rebellion. The forces required in Ireland would thus rob Great Britain of much of her offensive and defensive strength, A war with any European Power woultl beget similar results. While this is true in regard to Ireland's share in the great question it ought not to be forgotten that in the other portions of the United Kingdom the crown and the government have serious difficulties to contend with. We have no desire to see the world shaken by horrid war. We know well that for all offensive and defen, sive purposes Great Britain is yet mighty and dangerous. A great foreign war might for a time stifle domestic discon- tent and give to the discordant elements a temporary unity. Nothing, however, can permanently check the progress of reform. The guif that separates the people from the aristocracy narrows day by day. The late Reform bill was a mighty leveller. The Irish Church bill is a step in the same direction. The Life Peerages bill is a march to quicker and more revolutionary music. Improvement of land -tenure in Ireland will follow. The game laws all over the three kingdoms are doomed. The law of entail is not, perhaps, worth ten years’ purchase. Fifty years hence in England ‘‘the claims of long descent” may be of as little account as the claims of the latest parvenu. Meanwhile the ‘revolution goes on, and it is for us, as spectators, to watch and note its progress. The Rhode Island ElectionmKam and Greenbucks. The municipal election for Mayor of Provi- dence, Rhode Island, was opened yesterday morning amid a scene of excitement un- equalled, perhaps unknown, at any popular contest hitherto held in the little State. ‘If the inhabitants of the other, happier world, are at all cognizant of ter- resirial transactions just present the shade of Roger Williams must have been agonized to know that rum ran in even more than Bull run quantity down the throats of the electors since Saturday night. The spirit was free and without price. Cash was also used freely in support of the different candidates, so that the voters went to the ballot boxes spiritedly and with well-lined pockets. Mr. Thomas A. Doyle, who has filled the office of chief magistrate of the city during the past five years, and was the nominee of the Sprague interest, retired at the last moment, leaving the struggle between George L. Clarke, who represents the Brown & Ives party, and Nicholas Van Slyck, who is said to champion democracy. The streets were thronged during the day, and wordy dis- cussions of the merits of the respective menran very high. After the polls closed it was found that the Brown & Ives candidate had tri- umphed, Mr. Clarke being elected, receiving three thousand five hundred and ninety-five votes to eight hundred and twenty-four cast for Van Slyck. Many people insisted on voting for Mr. Doyle, notwithstanding his withdrawal, and one thousand three hundred and forty-one ballots were thus wasted, Whiskey, calico and true religion held the town. The two first appear to have tri- umphed. AGITATION IN Parts.—The near approach of election day in France excites the Parisian public seriously. The capital was very gene- rally disturbed yesterday, four political meet- ings having been forcibly dispersed by the police in various parts of the city. Is the empire peace ? Gann.—The men in Washington who are very eager to hurry the St. Domingo job are showing a letter from Professor Gabb declar- ing that he has “prospected two hundred square miles of gold-bearing territory surpass- ing in richness any known portion of Califor- nia or Australia.” Gabb's gold discovertes will be better understood by those who read a letter we give elsewhere from our St. Domingo correspondent. Avxorngr Goop Irem.—We hail with espe- clal applause that fifty thousand dollars in the tux levy for the establishment of free floating athe on the East and Hudson rivers, Ti Onn Worty EMaraowe tie Naw. Our correspondent on the ground says that the si of the laying of “the last rail” on the Pacific Railroad ‘was a grasay valley ona mountain which divides the north end of Great Salt Lake into two bays, far away from all signs of civilization except such as surround the two railroad camps. A chosen party of skilled Chinese levelled the ground and laid the last few ties, and the last pair of raila were placed and spiked to all but the last tie,” re- served for the final ceremony of the junetion of the two ends of the mighty road, Here, then, at the Great Sait Lake, the Dead Sea of America, in the heart of the Continent (the City of the Latter Day Saints being at the other end of the lake)—here we have, in the joint labors of Chinese and American work- men, Asia and America hand in hand, or the Old World embracing the New— moat inte- resting aad suggestive incident, late ee ee , THURSDAY, MAY from Cuba Inaia Istnuds. It will be seen by the full and very interest- ing correspondeuce which we publish to-day in another column that movements of a revo- lutionary, diplomatic and political character are operating with vigor throughout our American Mediterranean, and if Secretary Fish persists in his antiquated policy of wait- ing to learn what England thinks and will do he will find himself in the position of the sleeping hare, which was beaten by the tortoise. From Cuba we learn that the revolution is very far from being put down in the several districts of the island, while the silence of the government in relation to the great campaign to re-estab- lish communications with Puerto Principe is not very promising in that direction. On the other hand, General Dulce is informed from Spain that he can have few more men and no money ; in fact, that the colonial government must fight it out on its own hook; while the wealthy Spaniards in Havana are becoming alarmed and seriously contemplate sending a commission to New York to confer with Seior Morales Lemus, the agent of Cespedes. To assist in making matters no better an expedition bas got off on a fast steamer from Key West to look in upon Cuba. At The the same time the British Commodore on the West India station has ordered several ships to Havana and arrived there himself to inquire into the proceedings of the Spanish officers in seizing the Mary Lowell and landing on a British island to pu? sue Cuban refugees. In Porto Rico a rising is reported, though the statement requires con- firmation. The movement in St. Domingo against President Baez is having varying suc- cess, but the mendacity of both parties is so great that only the final result can be relied on, taking a well considered but firm policy in these American questions that are developing along our Southern coast, and to lend the moral power of our government to assist in shaping events as the interests of the country require. Riov tn Lisson.—Portugal remains divided and distracted by internal discontent. Lis- bon remains unquiet, and law and order were set at defiance by the citizens yesterday. A conspiracy against the existing government, embracing a plan for tampering with the alle- giance of the military, was discovered about the same moment. Ibero-peninsular unity appears a long way off. PREPARING FOR THE Quakers—The Indians of the West in resuming the warpath. Skoretary Boutwett's Porcaase oF Five- TWENTIES. —The government purchased yester- day one million of its bonds. The prices paid were a fraction below the average of the mar- ket. The transaction was, therefore, a success for the government. The announcement from Washington that the Secretary of the Treasury would not cancel the bonds, but hold them and save the interest, kept the speculetors from the market. The total amount offered was only three million four hundred thousand dollars, which is rather small, when it is remembered that the total amount of five-twenties is one billion six hundred million dollars. “Danpy” JoHnson at Court.—Ex-Minister Reverdy Johnson takes leave of Queen Victoria at some one or other of the royal palaces of Eng- land to-day. Mr. Johuson has become punc- tilious. He forwarded a letter to her Majesty requesting her to name a convenient time for the leave-taking. His missive was received yesterday, and the Queen fixed the period at an hour to-day. Short notice to make ready. Mr. Johnaon will present Mr. B. Moran, Secre- tary of the United States Legation, who will act as Chargé pending the arrival of Mr. Motley in London. We have no doubt that it will be a “dandy” affair all through. Crry Hosprrats.—In Paris there are vast public hospitals—the Hotel Dieu, the St. Louis, the Charité, the Lariborsiere, and many others. London, Vienna and the great European cities generally are well provided with similar establishments for the benefit of the people. But here, where everything is for the people, we have oyly Bellevue, quite inadequate to our necessities. Now, in this comparative absence of any great public provision for the sick poor, it is a startling thing to find that, exclusive of the provision for Bellevue, the city tax levy has in it $252,000 for hospital purposes. We are taxed for hospitals, but have none. A great deal of this money is frittered away in small donations to innumerable dispensaries— gotten up for the private advantage of doctors and then foisted on the public purse by petition or by the influence of some convenient legisla- tor, Here is chance for reform. Sorry, sur No Herp vor It.—The first in- voice of tea (Japanese) via the Pacific Railroad was shipped at San Francisco (May 10) for St. Louis, It should have been shipped through to New York. Oury tHe Laws.—Governor Hoffman, it appears, has already signed over eight bun- dred and fifty bills, leaving some thirty more to receive his signature. Obey the laws, we say. If you don’t know what they are, call on the Governor. He knows all about them, or ought to—throwing out the laws he vetoed, about which he seems to have known a little more than lobby jobbers found palatable. Missionaries Waxren.—-A religious faction riot has taken place in the streets of Teheran, Persia, during the progress of which three hundred men were killed, but our cable re- port does not state which side won in the way of conversions. An excellent opportunity for our anniversary men and misgionarica, Don't all speak at once. The Case of the Colored Printer ig Wash ington, {t seems that the introduction of a colored compositor into the Government Printing Office in Washington meets with opposition from the Printers’ Union, This is quite natural; but how will the matter result? Ia former times—and probably the same. thing exists at the present time--there was searcely a printing office in the South that had not # negro, and a slave at that, attached to it, either in'the capacity of pressman, roller boy or something similar, But the department of the compositor is altogether different. It requires « high order of {utelligenoe, a thorough 13, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. and Other West | We advise Mr. Fish not to wait longer in | knowledge of current events, a fair fami- liarity with foreign and general scientific phrases and topics, as well as a good know- ledge of grammar, geography, history, and all’the other elements of a good English edu- cation, to become, as a rule, a perfect com- Positor. If perfection be not reached in cer- tain cases it does not conflict with the rule ; they are the exceptions, not the rule. There- fore, if the negro can enter the composing room and command both attention and respect for his ability to conform to this rule, it is a question for the Printers’ Union—a very influ- ential organization among the craft—to decide whetker they will so recognize him. It is altogether quite an interesting point, and the decision of the Union upon it will be regarded with interest, both as affecting the occupation of the printers as well as that of others from which the colored man is peremptorily ex- cluded. The American Anti-Slavery Socicty—Wen- dell Phillips Kejoices. Thirty-six years ago the American Anti- Slavery Society was started in this city for the abolition of Southern slavery—a project which at that day and for twenty years afterwards was considered as involving the abolition of the Southern States. In fact, the ruling ideas of the society were to cut off the slave States in order that we might have “no union with slaveholders,” and to abolish the constitution as “a league with Death and a covenant with Hell.” It was a blind, headlong, fanatical, revolutionary, abolition movement, and its first notable effect was the creation of an equal fanatical disunion movement in the South fe the security of slavery. Thus between th disunion abolitionists of the North and the dis- union pro-slavery fire-eaters of the South, for twenty odd years, on the slavery agitation, our political parties, North and South, were knocked about like shuttlecocks, till the famous year 1860, which sounded the death- knell of slavery and the Southern slavehold- ing oligarchy, with the Charleston collapse of the democratic party. Now, after thirty-six years since its christen- ing, this Anti-Slavery Society meets to find that its work of abolition and equal rights is so thoroughly accomplished that its leaders have nothing left to talk about but the preju- dice of color. Hence, with nothing else to abolish, they have now undertaken the task of abolishing this prejudice. This will last them some time—that is, until Barnum’s nigger turning white shall have completely changed his skin to the fashionable tint. The society this year in their resolutions declare :— 1. Their profound grativude for the progress of rty. 2, That the fifteenth amendment ts the capatone of equal rights, 4 That President Grant, in ignoring color, ts up to the mark of his high calli 4. That the povecnmens ts Still too slow in putting @ stop to bloodshed down South, 5. ‘That the prevailing prejudice against color in the New York hotels is very 6. That itis, nevertheless, se of especial sat- isfaction that the black Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana has been courteously received in New york ihat they expect to see this inhuman prejudice of color subdued without the aid of the churches, 8, That Southern reconstruction rests on education and the division of the lands into small lots. 9 That the eereapey to cheat the freedmen of the District of Columbia out of their voice in its govern- ment 14 periectly outrageous, 10. That aboiitionists must still keep up the fire for all the rights of all numun beings. Compare these with the society's string of resolutions of, say ten years ago, and mark the change. Then the detail of living out- rages on human rights was the fugitive slave law, Soutbern bloodhounds and Northern slave-catching mercenaries, the slave auction- block, the slaveholder’s lash, the slave's wounds and manacles and chains, the sepa- ration of the slave's family to different pur- chasers, the Southern roastings of negroes, Southern vigilance committees, the banging and tarring and feathering of Northern men charged with abolition Yankee no- tions, and Northern pro-slavery spies, acting in concert in the catching of abolitionists with Southern committees, and all in obe- dience to the cotton oligarchy ruling the ad- ministration of the courts up to the Supreme Court, and the army and the navy. Then, too, the announcement of Wendell Phillips as the speaker at one of these abolition meetings in New York was a signal for a democratic shower of turnips, parsnips, onions and rotten eggs. Now, of all this frightful schedule of atrocities nothing is left but the prejudice of color. Even in the absence of the iuspiration of a howling mob Phillips is out of his element, and in applauding instead of denouncing the administration he becomes comparatively flat and commonplace. There is really nothing left for him to do in the motley coterie of queer looking people, men and women, black, white and yellow, of the Anti-Slavery Society, and nothing for that society itself. Everything being abolished which the society in its blind end blundering way undertook to abolish, Master Phillips ought to abolish the society itself. He is beginning to mix up different things, and the reformer who tries this experi- ment always fails. Itis the single great idea that changes dynasties and systems of govern- ment. The equal rights of the black man with the white man, the great idea upon which our second revolution has been carried out, has served its purpose. Now let the powerful Phillips devote his attention to the great idea of women’s rights ‘unmixed with baser mat- ter,” and his second crowning victory may be greater than his first. Who knows? Goovuy, O1p Frrenp.-—One item of &&- pense in the tax levy is for converting the City Hall Park into a plaz. . Tak Broken Rau, Aearn.—Another rail road accident is reported, but without loss of life. The supposed cause ig a broken rail, Half the railroad accidents are due to broken rails. Can uo provision be made against this prolific source of haman misery ? Tax Tax Levy.—Thanks to Mayor Hall the tax levy is aa interesting list of proposed city improvements, ‘meeaisemnbemteseaapenines® Wat tik Propne aim For. —A scene ocourred at (he Anti-Slavery anniversary that well illustrates the arrogant intolerance of the inore extreme radical leaders. Admirers of Wendell Phillips were present in strong force and wanted to boar him; consequently they called for him, He at once informed them, with a style becoming the men who used to flourish whips in cotton fields, that it was his will, not theira, that must govern—that they “must Haten.” This is radicalism pure and simple, ‘The leaders are to do what they like aad the people are ta listen, The St. Domingo Movement. A good deal of noise is being made at Waah- ington and claewhere about the movement fur the annexation of St. Domingo, and we are flooded with letters, communications and tele- grams.on the subject, the principal feature of which is the immonse capacity for lying ex- hibited by both parties—those for and those against the movement. So completely have they succeeded in betogging the subject that a question which would be most acceptable to the American people and their government, if properly presented, is in a fair way to encoun- ter complete failure trom the incapacity of those who have it in hand. The facts are these :— The Dominican republic, comprising a terri- tory of seventeen thousand square miles dnd very nearly two hundred thousand inhabitants, has for several years been acceptably governed by President Buenaventura Baez. He has maintained the public peace, fostered agricul- ture and trade and endeayored to establish the permanent welfare of the country. Opposed to him are a set of political agitators who have been driven out of the republic and have teken refuge in Hayti and the neighboring islands, From their places of refuge they carry on constant machinations against the govern- ment, and those in Hayti make frequent cattle raids into the contiguous districts—all of which they proclaim is done in the name of: liberty and from their hatred of tyranny, The mea- sures necessary to keep these disorders under exhaust the scanty revenues of the govern- ment and prevent it from devoting its meana and attention to other objects. For the pur- pose of securing to his country the benofits of a permanent government President Baex has sought the admission of St. Domingo as a State in the American Union. His only mistake has been in employing agents who were incompetent for the work. They began it by endeavoring to set the key- stone of the arch before they had built the pillars to support it. Instead of further en- deavors to force this method of construction to certain failure by all manner of lies and inven- tion, we advise them to go to work properly in the matter, and before Christmas comes they will meet success. Let them make with the Secretary of State a treaty for the admission of St. Domingo, in which ail the rights and interests of the Dominican people shall be fully recognized and protected and the princi- ple of self-government as a State be secured under the powers of our general government. This document they should take to St. Domingo and have ratified by the Executive and Con- gress of that republic. When they return they may feel assured that not one vote in Congress will be cast against its ratification by us. Should they take this sensible course they will have no need to spend more money in Wash- ington for lobby agents, nor to ‘flood the country with inventions of Professor Gabb's discoveries in the imaginary gold fields of the Niqua. The true gold fields of St. Damingo are its fertile soil, healthy climate and excel- lent harbors. cst War We Wanr.—There are ten thousand dollars in the tax levy that, properly handled, will do great good. This money is to be spent by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction in the establishment of a public intelligence office for the benefit of the poor. This will close up an infinite number of swindling places. Warxer.—lIt is an ancient observation that the worst of the fiends were the fallen angels, and it is pretty well known to the police that when lovely womau stoops to folly or vice she carries that folly or that vice to greater extremes than man ever does. We are evi+ dently to see this same feminine intensity coming into play in public life under the in fluence of the ‘“‘woman's rights” agitation. We are to have public, political, office-hunting women more shamelessly indecorons than the most shameless man. Such is the indication of the scene reported between Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker and the Postmaster General of the United States. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. Miss Eliza Newton, late of Brougham's theatre, has been tendered a beneficiary performance at the Freuch theatre on the Lith by a number of her friends, and many of the theatrical fraternity have volunteered their services for the occasion. “The Forty Thieves” at Niblo’s, like ordinary thieves, are meeting with tneir deserts (crowded houses and iberal applause), and are fast approaching the end of their famous carecr, ‘They will tickle the town but for two weeks longer with their songs, puns and jigs, at the end of which time they must “vamose” to make way for the jolly “Sinbad ye Satior,” a new specta- cular burlesque, which is to be brought out at Niblo’s Garden on the 26th inst. on a “scale of magnt- ficence never before atvempted in this country."" effects will be novel and entirely new, and the Lydia ‘Thompson troupe, with new additions, will appear in the piece. Madame Parepa-Rosa will appear in the oratorio of the “Messiah” on Friday night, at Steinway lal. She will be assisted by the Harmonia Society and several distinguished solo artists, Ata mecting of. tne frieuds of the late Mr, 0. 0. B. seymour, held at Irving Hall, it was resolved that A grand memorial concert be given at an early date at Steinway Hall for the benefit of his family. Mrs. Scott-Siddons commenced a short engage- tment in Washington on Monday evening and {s cre- ating quite a faror. This evening she (amp Julia tn the “Hunchback,” and to-morrow evening she takes: a benefii, upon which occasion she appears in “Much Ado About Nothing.”? Mr, Gran’s opera bouffera Nave almoat crazed the fov4 people of Porkopolis with the cancan and other upe fourishes. The com will remain in Gin- cinnatt aw present , aiter which they will sing for three nights in Pittsburg, and will cen return to their headquarters at the TheAfry Frangats in this city, where they open for the simmer season on Monday, the 24th inst., with “Chilperic,” one of Herve's bast operas. HISTRIONIG LEAVE=TAKINGS. Mr. John Lester Wailack, proprietor and manager of Wallack’s theatre, left for Europe yesterday om the Scotia, Mrs, Wallack (sister of Mr, Millais, the eminent Englieh painter), Misa Florence Watiack and Mr. Wailack’s two younger son’ also took passage in the same steamer, The immediate object of Nr. Wallack’s visit to Europe ta the rostoration of his wite’s health, This depar- ‘ure gives us a fresh opportumty for repeat ine our testimony to the high —eatima- tion in which =Mr, =Wallack is held as & manager and as an actor, He has done al! that lay in his power to sustato the legitimate drama and to establish a& sehoo! of actors qualiticd to embody the creations of classical writers of older and later dates. His faithfal and perslatent efforts have met with due acknowledgment on the part of the most highly enltivated classes of New York #o- ciety. The occasion of his departure was improved by @ host of more intimate profes- stonal and literary associates, who aniad the steamship down the Narbor. Am hose present were Messra. William Stuart ‘Theodore Mo 84, Joho Glibert, George Holland, H. Ob 4 HH. Palmer, ©. W. Tayleuro, J. Knowl James Schonberg, B. T. Ringgold, J. &. Stoddart an many others, including @ number of ladies, A col- lation wi erved, ace r oe, the deservedly popular comedian, also left tor Burope by the Scotia, A atou chartered for the urpose, conveyed & select coterie of dist ny nushed gentiomen and 8, personal friends of Mr. Pore! down the aoe gos bod arta hg J & cordial ox ton of ot will o1 ie part of the company who had as wetabied 9 Wish lit don voyage. .