The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1870, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Rejected communications will not be re- ‘MENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, BOWERY 1UNATRE, Bowery.—Matgera.-Tus Deus 1 Ll. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street.— Lost at 58a. ROOTH’S THEATRE, 2 Eowtn Booru as HAML » detween Sth and din avs, — GRAND OPERA HOUSK, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘Sid st.—Tae LW rive TEMPrarions. pOUIMPIC THEATRE, Broaayay.—New Vansion or Pi i AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FROU NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—INNISPALLEN; O08, Tag MEN iN GUE Gar. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, roadway, cor- ner Thirtieth at.—-Mutinee daily. Perlurmadce every evening MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— Taw Nigur's ix a BawRnoos, TONY PAS Vooatiss, THEATRE CO 18M, Nraxo Avid, BRYANTS BL —BRYANT'S i SAN FRANCI. MINSIRELS, 585 Broa ‘way. Crit Pian MINSTEFLST, Neauo Aors, 40.—13 Taurrs tions. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, ‘4 M Broadway.— Eruto- FIAN MINSTRELSEY, Neouo Acts, RA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth NEW FORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth ign —EQurereian AND GYMNASTIO PERVORMANOES, & HOOLEY'S 0 A HOU: Brooklya.--UoouRy's MINSTRELS—HUNrseY Dumrsry, 40, v APOLLO HALL, coraer 26th street and Lrondway.— Tun New Hic 001 ew YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— OB AND AKT. TRIP LE “conrevts OF TO-DAVS HERALD. | nts, The Butler Demonstration; Gene- field's Keport on the Gold Conspiracy; al Telegraph Bill—The State Capital: Discussion on the Canal Question e Assembly; The Assembly Atter the Erte the City Markets—The Tammany Kend: ‘The Factions Stilt in Councll—The Propesed Ma- sonic Temple—Matrimontal Troubles im Jer- gey—Provadie Homicide In Hudson City—In- fanticide in Newark—A New Dodge—Gypsies in Trouble—Capture of an Escaped Convict. 4@~—The Fashious: Dress Costumes and High Life in Europe and America; Washington Beauty atthe White House and Citizens’ Ball; Latest Fasbionabie Sensation in Paris; Amencan Matrimonial Angling in Rome—A Colossal Caisson for the Kast River Bridge—Proceed- ings in the New York City and Brooklyn Courts—The * Sheridan Tragedy—The Fifth Avenue Pavement. 4 SEurope: The National Agitation in Spain; Rome, The Syllabus and the Pontifical Ana- thema; Ferl Granviile’s Speech on the British Policy Towards Canada—Religious Intelll- gence--An Old Matter Revived—fhe Newark ¥olice Commission—West Point—Bellevue Hospital Medical College. 6—Editor eading Article on the HetaLp and Modern Progress, fhe Pioneer Preacher on the New Dispeusation—Amusement Annownce- ments. ‘FeTelegraplic News from Ali Parts of the Worla: Napoleon's Cabinet DiMicuities from French Legisiative Independence; Cariism and Con. stitutionalism m Spain—Raillroad Slaughter: Passenger Train Wrecked on the Mississippi Central Ra‘iroad; Twenty-three Persons Kuled and a Large Number Mangled—The Missing Steamehips City of Boston and Smidt—Under Broadway: The Great Bore Explored—Pro- gress in Education—The Alleged Guttenburg Brewery frauds—A Melancholy Disaster— Deaf Toms Panel Dodge—Serious Stabbing Affravs—Business Notices. 8—Rents in New York: Highly Interesting Real Estate aud Rental Reminiscences of the Knickerbocker Times—Financial and Com- mercial Report—Meeting of tne Quarantine Commsstoners—Brooklyn City News—Marine ‘Transfers—Marriages and Deaths. 9—Advertise meats. 10—New York City News—Personal Intelligence— The Keception of Mr. Seward—Revels oa the Jee—A Connecticut Murder—Grand Army of titutlon—Amusements—Musical Re- view—Rules on Betting of the National Trot- ting Assoclation—The Blonde War in Chi- ‘cago—Lynch Law in iltnois—Shipping Intelii- gonce— Advertisements, 41 —Advertisements. 12—Adverti+ ‘habe NOTICE TO cae ty nee tee al We will esteem it a sia “it our readers will inform us, by letter addressed to this oflice, of on the part of the carriers of any dereli the Heravp, either in furnishing the paper late, substituting other city papers, or leaving spoiled sheots. A Larce was held J the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation to forward the education of young men of indnstry. Addresses were made by James W. Gerard and William M. Evaris. Tur Revr Marker, so far, remains firm under the fallin gold. Landlords hold on to high terms. Some valuable information in regard {o this subject will be found in another column. The remedy is for tenants to remain firm also. Tas Managers or tHe Dear AND Domb Insmitution at Albany are to give an exbibi- tion of their pupils in the Assembly Chamber. In view of the vaporing discussion between two of the / ublymen yesterday the exhibi- tion seems likely to havea good effect. Tue Misstxa Sreamsniy City of Boston is exciting uneasy interest on both sides of the Atlantic. The agents in Liverpool have sent the steamship City of Durham to crnise off the Madeira Islands ia search of her. It is gene- rally believed among old sailors that she is disabled and is making for soine port under sail. A Tenia Raigoap Horror is reported | from Oxford, Miss, The regular mail train on the Mississippi Central crashed through a trestle bridge and four passenger cars were demolished. ‘Twenty-three persons so fur are known to have been killed and a large number wounded. We have had a long lull in railroad disasters of late, and the Southern roads, strangely enough, considering their supposed generally wretched condition, have been here- tofore remarkably free of them. But this Dowsor bresks the lull. NEW YORK HERALD, SE meni ae The Herald and ModerayyPregree—The Pioneer Preacher of the Now Disponsa~ oa. It has been the privilege of the Hmratp to chronicle and encourage many great reforms, We say it with modesty, but we say it, that no great newspaper, either in the Old World or the New, has’ so perseveringly devoted itself to the cause of human progress. Our success is universally admitted, and our success has been our reward. Since thirty yeara how changed is the face of the globe, and how changed is the face of society! Within that space of time the world has made more sub- stantial progress than previously it was wont to make in centuries. Steam has worked its wonders—bridging oceans, piercing the ever- lasting hills, making nations rich and man at once more powerful and more happy. The electric forces of nature have been caught, tamed and made the obedient servants of human thought, The newspaper, aided by every known force and by every swift messenger, has worked its way into many “arcana,” disclosed many mysteries, demolished many idols, broken down many prejudices and created a healthful public sentiment, which is now a more potent con- troller of human affairs than kings or armies or religions. With the triumphs of these last thirty years the New York Hxrarp will be lastingly and honorably associated. Not resting (rom our numerous other efforts, we have seen a field for our usefulness among the churches. Hence our editorials on reli- gious subjects and our miscellaneous religious intelligence in onr Sunday issue; and hence, too, ouf reports of the sermons and our photo- graphs of the churches in the Heratp of Monday. It is gratifying to us to learn from so many sources that our efforts in this new direction are so heartily appreciated. The clergy are deligited because their lights are no longer to be hid under a bushel. On Mon- day every conscientious pulpiteer who finds a place in our columns is amply rewarded for the anxious hours and laborious efforts of the pre- vious week, ‘The people are delighted ; for not only are they no longer compelled to rest contented with the wit, the genius and the eloquence of one divine, but they find themselves feasting on the fat things of all the best. The pious and the godly are delighted, because they see and feel in the Hrratp a mighty and effective preacher of righteousness. The philosophers are de- lighted, because, understanding the broad plat- form of the Hrratp, and looking forward to the result in the not distant future, they see an end to the reign of prejudice and error, We are not dissatisfied with the expression of opinion and with the high hopes which have been formed, and we assure our readers that itis our intention to go on in executing the duties of our high mission. We have already seen some fruit since this new thing was commenced. ‘The fruit has been satisfactory euough, but we look for a richer anda larger, It is undeniable that in matters of religion prejudice has reigned too long, and that no sufficient means have yet been employed to break down the stupid barriers which still separate men who can walk together on all days of the week but one and who can sit together anywhere but in the house of Gud. The reproducing of the Sunday sermons in the Monday’s Heratp cannot fail to havea powerful effect in breaking down those ridiculous prejudices and in making men feel that there is good in all creeds, in all confessions and in most forms of worship. Catholics, Protestants, .Unitarians, Trinita- rians, Baptists, Methodists, Jews and all the rest will meet face to face, and in spite of names will find themselves brothers. Unity in matters religious and in a sense never before thought possible will become a characteristic of the human race, Against the powers of darkness, and no longer against each other, their forces will be directed. This is one good result, but it is not the only. It has long been ® growing characteristic of these later times that the world was departing from the Church—that the Church was comparatively powerless because the world could not be reached. By large and growing masses of men the power of the eloquent sermon was never felt, This will no longer be possible ; for our plan bridges the gulf, and the reader of the newspaper will have no choice but come under the preacher's power. The Hrratp will thus not only be a preacher itself, but it will help to create a liking for sacred scenes and services and for the worship of the temple. On preachers themselves our Monday reports will exercise a healihful influence. The able and the industrious will be honored; mere talk will find its proper level; and the success of the deserving will force talent of the right stamp iato the pulpit. We shall be greatly disappointed if we do not succeed in stimulating the pulpiteers whom we have. We shall be equally disap- pointed if we do not fll the pulpits in time with a higher class of men. In all the churches we shall seek out and do honor to genuine ability. There is no good reason why our divines should not rise to the highest level ever attained in all the past or in any land. The general character of the services shall be as carefully attended to as the thought and styleof the preacher. Itis our aim to give material aid to the cause of all true religion; and it will surprise us if in all the directions just indi- cated we do not soon convince the world that our self-imposed task has proved no failure. Our example, we are well aware, will be extensively imitated; it is 80 already; but this will only convince us of the wisdom of our course and hasten forward the joy and the triumph. We welcome and encourage all fellow laborers. The field is large and the laborers are yet few. With the hearty co-operation of all we shall find ourselves in the midst of millennial blessings. Religious resources will no longer be wasted by religious rivalry. In all the holy mountain nothing will hurt or destroy. ‘The highest happiness will be the property not of the few but of the many. In one great unity, which shall know no difference in re- ligion, in language, in politics, the human race, controlled by a healthful moral sentiment, will realize the vision of the poet, “The parliament of man, the federation of the world.” “Heaps 1 Wis, Tatts You Loss.”—One of the model city politicians, who some cight or ten years since was city administrator, ran sway adefaulter, The city had to make up the money he stole from widows and orphans, » and then the city sued: bia bondamen. * Judg-' ment was given for the city in the sult, but the money has never yet been collected, and now it is moved to sot the judgment aslde. Both the bondsmen ‘are city politicians, and so it seems a foregone conclusion that their motion will prevail and that the money will at last come out of the taxpayers. The Corporation Counsel says that every judgment in favor of tho city is set aside in the same way. That Colored Senater-Ne Fear of Negro Rules A great fuss has been nfide over the admission of Revels, the colored man, a8 United States Senator from the State of Mis- sissippi. It is unquestionably an extraordi- nary revolution in our political and social life to see a negro seated in that high assembly of the republic. But there need be no fear of the negroes coming in numbers to Congress or into any other important position. Occasionally an exceptional case may be seen where some. negro shows uncommon talents and where the constituency is composed mostly of his race, The white man—the man of the superior race—will always have the ascen- dancy. The principle of political equality and the rights of all men to equal privileges or chances being established there will be no desire to elevate the colored man beyond the point where nature has placed him, The morbid pro-negro sentiment that grew out of the war and the abolition agitation pre- viously will die out now. It has nothing to feed upon, The negro will take the place nature has assigned him under this republic, of which nine-tenths or more are white people, and we shall see few of that race in Congress or occupying prominent political po- sitions. We recommend the old pro-Southern and pro-slavery democrats, therefore, to dry up their tears, Negroes will never be our rulers. Exit Leg Drama, At length the last stronghold of the leg drama—Tammany—has surrendered at dis- eretion to the indignation of an outraged public and has given up the ghost. Its last essay at nude burlesque was too much for even the indulgence of theatre-goers, and the result was a timely dissolution. Every lover of art will rejoice at the removal of the in- tolerable nuisance which has so long disgraced our stage, to the exclusion of all that is good and pure in music and the drama, The inun- dation of bleached blondes which burat upon ng two seasons ago inflicted more damage upon art than many are aware of. First, one of the leading theatres of the city was monopo- lized by them, and night after night its stage formed a sort of rostrum for the declamation of childish nonsense, double entendres and jokes, which the poorest comic paper would be ashamed of, and became an exhibition hall for unclad beauties and extensively padded limbs, Again the music publishers caught the infection, and threw aside works of genuine merit to make way for nursery rhymes and the offscourings of London concert saloons. The “Biack Crook” was the avant courrier of this vitiaied taste of the public, and its successor, the “White Fawn,” only served to strengthen it; but the blondes brought matters to a climax, and the natural result is a revulsion of feeling on the part of theatre-goers. They looked around for some thing respectable and artistic, and found it iu the magnificent temple erected by Edwin Booth. There we find Shakspeare enthroned in all the splendor and glory that 9 refined taste and liberality could furnish, and the spec- tacalar drama beaten on its own ground. Neither the ‘Black Crook” nor ‘‘White Fawn” can compare with ‘‘Hamlet” in stage pictures and accessories. Daly's little bijou theatre of comedy and Wallack’s standard establishment also aided in the good work of weaning the public from the nauseous dramatic fare they had so long been fed with at the expense of taste and morality. The change from leg to legitimate drama was not effected in a mo- ment. It was a gradnal process, but it attained its object nevertheless. The treasury of a theatre is the surest siga of the feelings of the public towards it, and the returns made by Booth’s each month far surpassed anything the leg drama ever dreamed of. The demise of Tammany may therefore’be taken as an em- phatic declaration of opinion on the part of the public that they want no more black crooks, white fawns or bleached blondes. All future efforts in that line can only be spasmodic and result in the financial ruin of those who under- take them. The public are very positive in their likes and dislikes, and it is useless to fight against them on the stage. Le Rot est mort! Vivele Roif All hail to the revival of art, genins and merit in music and the drama on the metropolitan boards! i “Quite Invorr xv” From PaRraguay.— The despatch published this morning from Lisbon, relative to the Paraguayan war, differs little from previous despatches through the game channel and on the same subject; yet we are‘told that ‘‘the news from the seat of war is quite important.” The information states that Lopez has had to evacuate one town, fall back toward another, and that Count D’En was moving so as to intercept him. Now, this is ali very fine; but we have had so many storios of a similar character that no reliance can be placed on this “quite im- portant” information. Tux Posta, TsLecrapn. —Mr. Hubbard made an able argument before the Postal Committee yesterday in favor of the postal telegraph system, and overthrew all Mr. Orton’s glittering generalities by the incontro- vertible logic of facts and figures. He showed not only that under the system as adopted in Europe the cost of telegraphing was cheaper for the people and as remunerative for the government, but that the cost of the govern- mental fines would be less to the government than the price at which the Western Union Company fix their mater’ Tax ComMIssIONeRs OF QUARANTINE at their meeting yesterdny received a wrathy letter from Dr. Swinburne, the ex-Health Officer, denying that he had ever extoried unlawful money from ship captains or detained vessels beyond the authorized time. As soon as his communication was filed another was received from prominent merchants again com- plaining of these unjust charges and proposing reforms, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Fashions in. Washiugton=The Ladiew Day at the Whito hee eaten ttroageh an redo of te on of tele stat, The ribands, Se emia ned ta tne ‘The lace, the pant and warlike That make up ail thelr Cowley. The memorable 22d of February was the ladies’ day at the White House a most appro- priate and charming celebration. We pub- lish this morning from a special correspondent an interesting account of it and of the Wash- ington citizens’ ball, which closed in the na- tional capital the mild and genial festivities of the day. It isa curious fact that the unpre- tending Galena tanner, the rough looking Mis- souri wood hauler, the plain, Kossuth-hatted, sunburnt, cigar-smoking subjugator of five hundred thousand men in battle array, should turn out the pink of perfection as the leader of the gay world at Washington. But so it is. It was said at Long Branch last summer that an afternoon ride of forty miles or so behind a pair of spanking bays and a good cigar was the General’s highest enjoyment of all the good things of this wicked world. But at Washing- ton, in the official atmosphere of feminine grace, youth and beauty, he has ceased to be the country squire and has become town gentleman. And Mrs. Grant, too, in her quiet way, while transformed from the plain Western Methodist in her costume to the rustling robes of queen of our republican court, still maintains her natu- ral amiability and simplicity, In her ‘‘black velvot, with satin and lace trimmings,” she is the same in the eyes and heart of his Excel- lency that she was to the honest woodsman in her cheap barege—an example to womankind, and a crown of glory to her lord and servant. And how Mrs. Grant, on this aforesaid de- lightful ladies’ day at the White House, including Mra. General McClellan, was sur- rounded by bevies of beauties of every variety and in every style, it is needless here to repeat. Our ‘veteran observer” on the ground may be trugted, sag gD his enjoyable dotaila we are drawn to this céticlusion, that the administration of General Grant, whatever it may turn out to be in other things, is destined to be long remembered in the gay world of fashion as a great and luminous suc- cess. Who could have thought this of the rustic victor of Vicksburg? But poor Ophelia says most truly, “We kaow what we are, but we know not what we may be.” The Prince Im- perial may some day bea school teacher at Omaha, and some ‘‘dark complected” beauty, now of Chihuahua, may live to take the place of Mrs. General Grant. Why not, when a “gemmen ob color” now smiles in the Senatorial seat left vacant by the frowning Jeff Davis? Tbe fashions! Who can tell what will next be the order of the day in Washington? Gayety and dress, and fun and flirtations were, we may say, first introduced in full bloom in the White House by the bewitching and vivacious Dolly Madison. The next revival was under that impressible and gallant backwoodsman, Old Hickory; but the fashionable ladies of his cabinet circie got him into a world of trouble, resuliing, among other things, in a complete cabinet reconstruction. From Jackson’s time there was not much of Parisian fashionable enjoyments in the Executive Mansion until the return of the happy Captain Tyler from his honeymoon excursion with his beantiful young bride and his old umbrella, Then there were cotillons and walizes in the East Room things hardly remembered at the time by the oldest* dandy of Pennsylvania avenue among the gay things of the past. And it was Tyler who introduced the music of the Marine Band in the President’s grounds and in those of the Capitol at the close of tlie long summer afternoons of Wednesday and Saturday a cus- tom retained to this day. Under Polk fashionable life at Washiagton was comparatively cold and precise; under Taylor (Betty Bliss presiding) it was warm and genial; under Fillmore it was stately and dignified; under Pierce it began to be de- cidely democratic; under the gay old bachelor Buchanan it was gay and elegant, and under Lincoln it was eaid the ‘“‘White House is overrun with the rag, tag and bobtail of backwoodsmen, prairie men and carpet-buggers.” But, even with the rebels beleaguering Washington, Mrs. Lth- eoln, to cheer the Union cause, got up some elegant receptions. Old Ben Wade, however, did not admire them; for, when asked to take a turn in a hop at one of these gay parties, he grufily said, ‘‘No; I cannot dance in a city under siege.” But Lincoln’s administration is highly important, socially, as marking the dis- appearance of the ruling fascinating ladies of the Southern slaveholding cotton oligarchy and the substitution of a mixed commission from the North, regarded by the secesh citi- zeus as an invasion of the Goths and Vandals, Under General Grant the new social era of a reunion of the North and South, with the East and West—whites, niggers, Indians and all—is inaugurated; and surely such a reign of fashion will follow in Washington, and of “liberty, equality and fraternity,” as was never dreamed of by Captain Tyler, Old Zack Taylor, Old Hickory or Old Tom Jefferson. . Siac STARE Ben Burier's Frrenps are presuming too much on his great ‘‘shoo, fly,” achievements in the House. They held a meeting at Union League Hall, in Washington, last night, and one of the speakers, who, we presume, was carried entirely away by his enthusiasm, went so far as to say that the movement was the beginning of what would lead Ben to the Presi- dency. Afterwards the Basex statesman was serenaded by a colored band at his house, and although of course ‘taken by surprise at the unexpected honor, he managed to appear in a dress suit and make a short speech, in which he dampened the ardor of his sable friends by reminding them of the taxes and other unpleasant concomitants of freedom. Ben will never get to the Presidency in this way. He should tell these zealous friends not to “bodder” him. Aip For THE CaNats.—In the Assembly yesterday Mr. Alvord, Mr. Fields and Mr. Littlejohn discussed the proposition asking that the federal government help pay the canal debt, in order that the tolls may be reduced, The discussion was quite animated, and showed pretty plainly, what wo have heretofore urged, that unless tho canals become more general highways by a reduction of tolls and a removal of the political machinery attached to them the great grain trade of the West will filter away into other channels, The bill, however, was almost substantially defeated, being referred to the Canal Committee. The Murder Mania. It is favorite idea with the optimists that if advancement is slow it is yet sure, and that the mind once acquainted with. improvement leaves ignorance and crime continually further behind, But history and the silent evidence of the desert refute this, Nations have been rebarbarized, and plains once filled with the music of human life now echo only with the warwhoop and shouts of madmen. In Massa- chusetts, among our own States, which plumes itself on its special condition of civilization, some of the’most cold-blooded and ingenious murders which have atained the criminal records of late years have been perpetrated, That most charming writer, Charles Lamb, whose humor was always subservient to his humanity, ina letter to a Quaker friend, de- clares, between fun and philosophy, that he looks on the five fingers of each hand with which nature has furnished him with a certaip degree of horror when he reflects on their strange and mysterious adaptation to the purposes of crime, and he concludes with a pathetic admonition to the Quaker banker to take thought and know himself and stay his fingers in good time. Many readers of Lamb doubtless fancy this a joke; but Lamb meant something by every- thing, and his meaning here was deep and serious. The moral of his jest is that no disci- pline makes sin impossible; that thore is a strength of latent mischief in the hearts of men, nay, in their very fingers, which can break through all the bulwarks raised by education and to which even’ the murus ahenous of religion opposes no impregnable ‘bar- rier. To evil natures to whom “good is a forced motion,” to use the language of Lord Bacon, return is ever quicker than progression, A’well-bred Irish genYeman will read in the pages of Strabo Without composure concerning his fathers—the contemporaries “of the historian—who were cannibals; and yet, if he turn historian himself, and take all periods, with their respective features, into his philosophical contemplation, there is some room for discomposure about the condition of humiaf life in his country just now. Even in the highest state of civilization man is but the old savage tamed, and if the brute is in the breast he breathes. a In commenting on this murder mania, which seems for the moment to have seized society here, and which, like any other baleful dis- ease, appears to have its seasons of visitation and ther pass away, the foreign journals seem desirous tu attribute it in a large degree to the publicity given to acts of crime by the press of this country in all their circumstantial details, and to argue that such exhibition of vice, however loaded with chains of popular execra- tion, does not assist morality, Even with ourselves, when some fiendish act of savage crime appeals to the minds of the community, and makes even the most sangnine of us grow faint-heurted about the state of our society, the press, instead of being encouraged to place the matter before the public in such a startling manner as even to rouse the attention of the dullest intellect or most steeled heart, is accused by a certain shallow class of people of “pandering to vulgar tastes by indelicate dis- closures”—of chuckling over prurient details and such like. Both such classes entirely mistake the genius and what we may term the philosophy of our institutions. With us the whole people, not a special class, are the conservators of order, the protectors of life and property, the punishers of crime, When the Hxratp, with its vast circulation permeating every vein of this huge country, carries through the length and breadth of the land the details down to the smallest particulars of one of those murders which have recently disfigured the face of society, every citizen at once becomes a constable, and the criminal in reality finds a policeman in every. bush. We live in acountry where bad as well as good is made so transparent that it can be seen by all, and in such sight all find a remedy. What constitutes the cancer of European society is that the sores which fester at its heart and gnaw away its vitality are carefully tied up and concealed by triple-edged feudal bands. The comparative order which reigns there is nothing but that delicious state of quietude to which Louis Philippe once go wit- tily referred with respect to Warsaw, there is a little French milliner behind the screen. Indeed, whatever detractors of our free in- stitutions may say, or whatever old European ladies, frightened by transient catastrophes, may think, history will record the fact that we have borne hitherto the luxuries of indepen- dence and disenthralment from feudal or mo- narchical fetters with wondrous moderation, and if it had not been for the audacity of Buro- pean governments in sending us so many of their subjects without the previous educational preparation to bear our free institutions, many- of the scars that disfigure our society would not exist. We may even go go far as to assert that in monarchical societies where intellect is not so universally developed there may be less crime, because there is less mental ac- tivity, Our inventors are as daring as our criminals are revolting ; our navigators as full of audacity as our burglars are of pluck, So let us calmly pursue our path of progress. This murder mania will coon, like other ghastly visitants, res away. Spanisu ‘Guspoar Viattanor.—President Cespedes recently appointed General Quesada and Colonel Varona to an important foreign mission. The fact that Cuba was encircled by a line of Spanish gunboats appears to have given them little or no concern. They quietly embarked, pushed their way through the vigilant cruisers, and are now on American soil. If the Spanish navy cannot guard the Cuban coast better than this it might as well be at the other side of the Atlantic. Whataro the thirty gunboats doing ? Gop Stitt Gone Dowx.—Gold went down to 1153 yesterday, WitheOiir bonds and provi- sions and cotton going over to Europe in ex- change for dry goods, &c., gold, in fact, is getting to be a drug in the market; and all our people, of all professions and pursuits, of all sections and parties and classes, must prepare for the general reconstruction that is at hand of a lower séalo of prices all round gnd in everything. High Life and Dress Fashious in Pare ‘American Aristocracy aud Beauty in Rome. By special correspondence from Paris and Rome published in our columns to-day we report the latest style and make-up of the fashionable dress costume prevailing in the French capital, with the doings and dining and wining and matrimonial strategy which were enjoyed by and exercised among the members of the American community in Rome. Our Paris correspondent has to speak in the very outset of a coup d'état or revolutionary move- ment even in the matters of clothing and dress ornamentation among the Parisians, leading almost to the inferenco that the French people, in their unconquergble love of change, will come at no distant date to put on their everyday robes with the inside turned out, somewhat after the style of their illustrious Hiberno-Celtic cousin, Brian O’Lyon. The era was brilliant, how- ever, in the meantime. The Empress Eugénio was ‘‘out” in fur trimmings on tulle. Patti was “decorated” by the Czar Alexander ia St. Petersburg and gpoke to her friends in Paris of brilliants and diamonds and gold in such pro- fusion, and language so artistic, that it is quite enough to render the bones of old Suwarrow— who drilled the Empress Catherine's Cos- sacks dressed merely in his shirt-tail— uneasy in the grave. The Sultan, with other sovereigns, paid tribute to the diva also, so that ft remains perfectly true that “music hath charms” equally in every land and among all sorts of people. Aristocratic balls were still in order in Paris. The English Marchioness of Hastings looked quite interest- ing in mourning. Madame E, Oliivier, the Marquise de = aan the Marquise de Gal- lifet, Madame la Mar¢chale Canrobert, with other leaders of the French ton, were radiant .| in velveta, diamonds, silks, new hats, smiles and happy anticipations of spring. American beauty produced quite a sensa- tion ig Rome. It was fresh and inaplrit, ing in its transatlantic sweetness and stood a chance of revolutionizing the Vatican and repealing one at least of the canon law rules of the Ancient Church. We regret to say, however, that its natural force and power wero vastly marred by greenbacks and the greedy calculations of a shoddy parental aristocracy which had got mixed up on the matters of Italian titles, maccargni, Horace, salt her- rings Rnd Falernian wine; so that the young ladies were vastly hampered and interrupted. Of the European special fashions correspon- dence of the Hxraxp it is enough to say in its praise that it is just now moving even the cop- perhead organ of this city in the matter of dress. Our special description of the Prince of Wales’ new overcoat, given in the HeRatp last Sunday, was editorially rehashed in that journal on Wednesday, thus:—‘‘The Prince of Wales has acquired a new title to the reverence of the British’ nation by bringing into fashion a surtout of more than clerical ugliness, It is a garment of immense length, and, since O'Connell's horseman’s coat, with its myriad capes, faded from the gaze of men." The copperhead organ is wrong again. Tho great Trish agitator did not wear an overcoat. He never rode on horseback. He had an old navy blue boat cloak for many years. That cloak had only one cape, a very diminutive one at that. The copperhead organ was sure to make @ mistake about fashionable clothing. Like the boa constrictor in the menagerie, its writers are rolled in a blanket— an old and well worn one—and don’t compre- hend stylish overcoats. Their democracy is just that way. ‘Sam Slick” says :—‘‘Some ‘on them democrats puts on a clean shirt and never takes it off till its worn out.” The copperhead organ may in the end acquire correct notions about dress from the special fashions of the Hexap, perhaps. Our Special European Correspondence— Spain, Rowe, Germauy and the Canadian Question. By special correspondence and mail reports from Europe we are enabled to present to the readers of the Hgraxp to-day an interesting and important news exhibit in elaboration of our cable telegrams to the 26th of February. Our special writer in Madrid intimates the prefatory movement towards the Carlist inva- sion of which the submarine wires now speak. Our report of the Spanish legislative debates on the question of the Church estimates places native constitutionalism side by side with the obstruction which impedes its progress, 80 that® the American people can easily comprehend the grand difficulty which still stands in the path of patriotic executive effort in that coun- try. The Papal anathema, or anatheme, of the Syllabus is reported. The Heratp read- ers will consequently be able to form a pretty accurate judgment as to how they stand here, aa well as of their chances hereafter, on this glorious Sabbath morning. If the anathema staggers them any there is nothing so good for a restorative as a smart walk in the Park. Earl Granville’s speech in the British Houso of Lords on the subject of the general colonial policy of England and the exact tone of the re- lations of the mother country towards Canada is of much interest, if only for the matronly encouragement which it holds out to the Canadians to walk alone if they find themselves able, or hold on to the parent apron string if they are still timid, or afraid; but, and above all things, to cease crying out without good reason, France tells us again of radicalism and fanaticism in politics, and crime, outrage and industrial losses as the consequences. Germany moves toward the United States solidly, quietly and economically, and with Fatherland and hope for the future in the hearts of her children. Thus does the Huatp cbronicle the Old World as it is aud bid wol- come to its exiles as they are. A Coty Snav ano Pienty oF Ice.—It is fortunately one of the points in the chemistry of nature that there is no limit to the applica- tion of her forces. One terrifically cold night is almost as good for the ice men asa loag cold winter. Already in our little cold snap the Hudson is frozen so that teams cross near Albany and ice makers are busy. Tv Szems tuat Butrer, of Tennessee, is to be the next victim of the cadetship investizga- tion. He is said to have disposed of his pur- chase money for political purposes, whereas the unfortunate Whittemore gave his to the oor. It now remains to be seen if politics cover a greater pultitade of sins than charity. }