The New York Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1870, Page 6

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KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRE rondway.—Kieito- PIAM MINBTRELONY, NEGRO A ? NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourte Fquearacan AND GYMNASTIO PRRFORMANC! c. HOOLEY’S OPERA HO! Brook’ yn, Hoo.eys MINSTRELS—HUMPSEY DUMPSEY, &¢ APOLLO HALL, Tus New Higa’ NEW YORK MI" SCLENOK AND ART. ner 28th street and Broadway. - M OF ANATOMY, #18 Broadway.— ‘w York, Monday, February 28, 1570. CONTRITS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pags. "ae agree Ws 1—Advertisements. Advertisements, —Religious: The Array of Purple aud Fine Lanen” and the Meekness of Sackclotn in Worship; the Christian Creeds as Represented by Their Followers in the Palaces and the Siums of the Metropolis; Church Services in New York, Brooklyn and Elsewhere Yesterday. A—Keligious Services (continued)—How to Pre- vent Accidents and Annoyances on City Rat!- road Cars. %—Washington Gossip: The Week in Congress; Bribery and Corruption; Railroad Jobs and Land Subsidies—Cubda: it the Assassin of Greenwaith be Punished; Keasons for Spanish Opposition to American Annexation of St. Domingo—Custom House Pecullariues—The Curling Season—Proposed Immediate Pxto- guishment of Near Three-fourths of the City Debt—Important Bill to Reguiate Injunc- tions—The British Aristocracy—The House of the Good Shepherd—Jourvalistic Notes—The New Jersey Home for Disabied Solaiers—An Important Railroad Case Decided. @—Editoriais: Leading Article on Kattroada and * Railroad Kings, the New Power in the World— Amusement Announcements. 9—Telegraphic News from All Paris of the World: A Mysterious Bishop in the Papal Council; Paris Tranquil on Carnival Day—The Posta! Telegraph System: rhe Monopoly Arguing Against Monoply—The Charter Imbroglio— News from Washington—Tie New Hampshire Campaign: Mr. Dawes’ Openigg Speech at Nashua—Arrest of an Alleged Forger in New- ark—Superintendent of the Assay Office in this City—A Premeditated Suicide—shipping Intel- ligence—Business Notices. —Europe? Premier Gladstone's Treatment of the irish Land Question; The American Party in the Papal Council—Egypt: International Con- suiar Jurisdiction; Fashion on the Nile—Ger- man Immigration—Southern Sports—Servant (ial-isui: How Jobs are Put Up—Political Noves— ald Upon Gamblers. 9—Washington Pleasures: Receptions ana Balls Last Week—Financial and Comercial Re. ports—Keal Estate Matrers—The Leonard Street Burglaries—Court Calendars for To- day—Marriazes and Deaths. 40—Yachiing: Tne Proposed International Yacht Race, with Map of Course to be Sailed; Cor- respoudence Between Mr. Ashbury, Owner of the British Yacht Camoria, and Mr. Douglas, Owner of the American Yacht Sappno—New York City News—Personal Intelligence—Mr. Seward ab the Astor House-—Brooklyn News— Weaith of Massachusetts—Advertisementa, ¥1—The Bewitching Brokers: Opinions of a Lady Philosopner—The Winnipeg Rebellion—The Newark Convicte— Advertisements. 42—adyerlisements, Tre Lecistarore.—More than haif the time allowed by the constitution for our Legislature to sit has passed, and yet comparatively noth- ing has been done beyond changing the names of afew religious societies, authorizing the construction of one or two bridges over creeks and legalizing the acts of some country squire. It is time for the mémbers to give up their bickerings and go to work. Much remains to be done. Axotuee RAILROAD AcoiwENT.—The latest horror seems to be a story of rotten timber— the slow decay of an old trestle—that the smallest care on the part of the managers of the road, the slightest inspection of the state of the road from time to time, should have guarded against. But for want of that care a car load of people are smashed. How much more will i¢ cost to pay for the passengers thus butchered than it would to have built a new bridge and kept them alive ? ReNTs.—It would be pleasant to the people to be able to hope that rents in the city were doomed, like pride, to have a fall, and the thought that because they went up with gold they must go down with it is seductive. But the consideration of the relation of rents to gold is only one point in the case, and not, perhaps, the mogt important point, The great impulse that the war gave to the growth of the city as the financial capital of the nation has come to keep up the prices that were first sent up by the change in money, and it is very doubtful if now the supply of houses is so much greater than the demand as to lead to a fall in rents. Tae Treasury Programme FoR Maron.— Secretary Boutwell has directed that the sales of gold and purchase of bonds he con- tinued for March—one million of gold to be sold and one million of bonds to be purchased each alternate week, on accovfht of the sinking fund, or a sale of two millions of gold in all. He also directs the purchase of a million of bonds on each alternate week for the special fund. The sales of gold ordered are some- what less than the usual amount, but they will serve, no doubt, to keep gold either at its present low ebb or send it even lower, if only on account of indicating the intention of the ‘Treasury to keep up its previous policy in tho matter. o NEW XYURK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. and Railroad Kings—The New| The Combria and the Sappho-Preposed Pewer tn the World. The time is rapidly approaching when tho federal government will be compelled either to take charge of the great railroad lines of the country or to control their management by law. We foresaw this some time ago, and have on several occasions given our views to the public. Wo notice that the British press begins to look at the matter in the same light with reference to both the railroad system of England and the United States. The London Times has an editorial on the subject, by way of comment on its correspondence from America, showing the gigantic strides of this new power in the world and the dangers of it. Tho writer admits that in England there is danger as wellas in this country from the growing power of railway corporations, and that they have felt there some of the incon- veniences of allowing ceatain companies to acquire too great authority, ‘‘They have,” he says, “‘divided the country between them ; they have become a power in Parliament, and they cannot be gaid to have raised the tono of either house. But with us they have never advanced to a point at which thoy could bo considered dangerous.” But in the United States, he remarks, higher destinies have awaited the railway magnates; and then he goes on to show that Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Fisk and Jay Gould, John Edgar Thomson, Thomas A. Scott, John W. Garrett, and perhaps a few other monarchs of the railways, have power to control State Legislatures, judges, politicians, Congress, as well as the vast material interests of the country, and that it may be questioned if some of them have not as much power as President Grant himself. The public does not always see the power of the gigantic railroad corporations or of the individuals who manage them. When the managers aro bold, speculative aud un- scrupulous they sometimes show their hands. Sometimes, too, the power of rail- road monopolies presses go directly on the people that a cry is raised, though unavailing, against them. The Camden and Amboy Rail- road monopoly affords us a case in poiut. We have seen how the vast power of the Erie Railroad, in the hands of Fisk and Gould, can be used to the injury of the public. But there are other and still more powerful railway companies and combinations, the operations of which are not so generally known nor so di- rectly felt at present, but which are advancing rapidly to a dangerous control over the in- terests and destinies of the country. The Pennysivania Railroad, which had originally only the three hundred and sixty miles from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, now rules two thousand seven hundred miles of different rail- ways. Most of this enormous extension has been acquired within a year or two. It is stretching out Its arms now to embrace Omaha, the terminns of the Pacific Railroad, over thirteen hundred miles west of Philadelphia. ‘The New York Central, with its connections and the other railroads under the control of Mr. Vanderbilt, represents, perhaps, five thousand miles of road and over three hundred millions of capital. If this railway king should get control of the Erie, as it is believed he will, he will control the most stupendous rail - Cuannel Race. Elsewhere we give a correspondence in re- ference to « yachting match between Mr, Ash- bury, owner of the English yacht Cambria, and Mr, Douglas, owner of the American yacht Sappho. With the letters we also give @ diagram showing the course named by Mr. Ashbury as the only one over which he will make a race against the Sappho. It will be observed that Mr. Ashbury by his tone seems to weary of the discussion of races by corres- pondencs. Through whose fault, then, has the nearly interminable correspondence on several races been brought about if not through his? He challenges the world to several races. Challenging the world was always an American prerogative, and when this ambitious gentle- man ventured upon our national ground it was but natural that he should be taken up from many points. He soon saw the necessity of limiting some of his challenges, and hence the many letters of which he now wearios. As to the course indicated for the latest proposed race, this is the primary fact— it is an eminently unfair one to test the merits of an American yacht. At the same time it fs a course pecullarly fitted to give play to certain of the greater excellences of yachta of the English style. Tho very presence of the lighthouses—the fact that the first stretch of the course is drawn between two of these indicators—tells a story of the difficulties of navigation in that water, and not of tho legitimate difficulties of navigation which it is the sailor’s greatest glory to contend against, but of the treacherous, hiddon, annoying per- plexities of sands and shoals, With such dif- ficulties in the way it is obvious that there must be great advantage for the deep, eharp, narrow craft of fine lines that best answers to her helia in sudden changes of course, and just this is the character of the English yachts ap contradistinguished from the American yachts, which are better with greater sea room. The course, then, is a proper one to test one poiat of excellence in boatsa—namely, the readiness with which they can be brought about. If this were a most important point, or if it were just now specially at issue, this would be a good course; but as other points of far more ac- count overbalance it, as, in fact, the most generally seaworthy boat, and the fastest, may, in this triangular race, be beaten by the handiest, which is neither good nor fast, the course is partial and unfalr, and not fitted to test the point at issue between these yachts, which is their speed ona fair ooursé equally suited to the merits of each. Why, then, does Mr, Ashbury name sucha course and declare that it is his ‘‘ultimatum"— nay, not only declare that he will race over no other course, but that he will not-race over this unless the owner of the Sappho will give him ‘9 start of fifteen or twenty minutes on account of the greater size of the Sappho, though from the nature of the course it is not quite certain that greater size is not a disad- vantage? Simply because he doos not want any race with the Sappho, He hus beaten her once, and does not want to risk the honor so won by giving her any chance to beat him. Therefore he names conditions that are impos- sible, or nearly so, On the other hand, Mr. Douglas is eager for a match, and perhaps the road system in the world, and one that will |. more eager as he perceives the disposition on comprise nearly all the roads that centre in and radiate from the great metropolis of the United States. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road is also one of these stupendous mo- nopolies. It has a line of connection fifteen hundred miles, with numerous branches, Then there are the Illinois Central, extending through the rich States of the Mississippi Valley, and the Pacific Railroad, which con- trols the whole trade of the western side of the Continent, A few (five or six) cor- porations, controlled by about as many indi- viduals, hold property estimated at nearly a thousand millions of dollars, and impose whatever tariff or restrictions they please upon the travel and interior commerce of the country. Nothing else than legislation by Congress can reach the growing power of railroad cor- porations and managers, can prevent a far greater consolidation of their interests and save the people from the fatal consequences, The tendency to consolidation increases every day, and we can hardly imagine to what ex- tent it may be carried, for the railroad compa- nies only study their own interests. The whole of the railroads, under a general system of combination or consolidation, may be con- trolled by half a dozen men or a less number. Of course this would destroy all competition and place the entire public at the mercy of hese men. What is to hinder these railroad managers from watering the stock of their companies three or four times over, and making the people pay double or treble rates for pas- sage and freight in order to get dividends on such watered stock? We have seen this watering process carried out on several of our great lines, and we can imagine how far it might be practised. If the capital stock of these companies amounted only to the cost of their roads good dividends could be earned by a much reduced tariff of fares and freight than is now charged. So we see the public suffer in the end. The State Legislatures are too much under the influence of great railroad corporatiotts to provide a remedy. Congress must doit. The evil is growing to snch a magnitude that if there were no power origi- nally given to the federal government to inter- pose it would be necessary to assume the power, But Congress has the power, beyond all doubt, to control the railroads. The consti- the other side to avoid it. It is a lawin sport also, as well as in commerce, that is stated in the commercial phrase ‘‘the buyer must pay.” Mr. Douglas must take some disadvantage to secure a race from man whois not only in- different, but averse, to a new trial of the boats, notwithstanding his oft-asserted readi- ness. In such a relation of rival sportsmen the eager man is very aptto be tempted into a hopeless contest, and to make a match in which he cannot possibly win. Mr. Douglas, we are glad to note, is not likely to fall into this error, as he positively refuses to give time over this course; and since he positively refuses this, and Mr. Ashbury as positively declares he will not sail without it, there is not much likelihood that a match will be made. International Jurisdiction in Egypt—The Consalar Reform Commission. Tho special correspondence from Egypt, dated at Cairo on the 28th of January, which appears in our columns to-day, supplies matier which interests the commerce and citizens’ rights of the American people ina very pointed manner, and consequently affects the cause of civilization all over the world in its present intercourse with the inhabitants and executive of the land of the Pharaohs. The Herarp writer reports the organization and progress of the International Consular Commission assembled in that city with the view of regu- lating and straightening out the complex claims of franchise and duty due to and by foreigners in the country. President Grant's commission authorizing Consul General Charles Hale to act on behalf of the people and govern- ment of the United States during the conference and tho report which was adopted by the com- mission are also given, This paper is of a very satisfactory character; so that it is to be hoped that Egypt will be again completely on the square with the outside world at an early day. Of the incongruities and national medley difficulties of the present system, it is enough to say that during the investigation of a recent case of homicide in the British Consular Court at Cairo “Bull Run” Russell—after hav- ing mistaken and misrepresented he Sphinxes—drew forth his LL, D. parch- mont and appeared for the prisoner. Another Irishman conducted the prosecution, tution of the United States, section eight, clause three, declares that Congress shall havo power to regulate commerce with foreign | nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes, The railroads, which run from one State to another and through all the States, making a perfect network of com- Mmunication, carry on commerce among the soveral States, In fact, nearly all the com- merce among the States is carried on and controlled by the railroads. Congress has not only the power, therefore, to regulate this, but itis aduty todo so. Let us have a general law, then, and, if necessary, a board of control as well, to restrain the excesses, exorbi- tant charges, dangerons combinations ‘and mismanagement of tho railroads, and let the public and commerce be protected. It must come to that in the end, and the sooner Congress goes to work abont the matter the better. the jury was chiefly of Scotehmen, the pri- soner was a Maltese and the judge an Dng- lishman. This was certainly the capstone of the “modern Babel. ‘Bull Run” was surg to be there. The noise did not surprise him, after the Black Horse Cavalry affair of Vir- ginia, We hope, however, for the sake of the peaceloving people of the world that it has beea brought to a close. Graxp Prosprots For AMERICA IN Rowg.—- The Archbishop of Baltimore has formed a “third party” in the Ecumenicai Council in Rome, As will be seen by our special corres- pondence from the Eternal City, Archbishop Spalding thus heads an American episcopal force intermediary between the extremists of Italy and Germany on tho infallibility question and other vexed subjects. An intermediary or balancing party is always @ powerful ono, ‘The Amorican prelates may thus carry off the greater number of the vacant scarlet hats, If thoy do—as it is to be hoped they will—the The Churches ‘Yesterday. Italians will be taught the force of the English adage of The lion and the untoorn fighting for the crowa, Up comes the litte dog and knocks them both down, Archbishop Spalding is a wise and prudent man, Let the hatters of Baltimore, New York and Cincinnati look out for new patterns, Tho Postal Telegraph Bill—The Argument ef Mr. Orten. Mr. Orton, President of the Western Union Telegraph monopoly, continued his speech in opposition to the Postal Tefégraph bill before the Senate Committee on Post Offices on Saturdsy. He claimed that it was unjust to reduce the rates of telegraphy in this country to the basis of rates where the wires are under governmental control in Europe, and held that as the telegraph was ‘‘essential” only to. the fow here, legislation could be better directed to lowering the prices of food and clothing for the many. As te European governments assuming control of the wires, he claimed that the system of government in Europe gave privileges to the people rather to keep them quiet and in subjection than to extend any benefit to them; and as ours fs not a paternal government wo should leave it to the people not only to govern them- selves, but to promote in their own way everything requisite for social intercourse or business interests, As to the proposed consolidation of competing lines, he held it tobethe true policy of Congress to favor competition and thereby encourage cheap rates, rather than to control all the wires itself by the proposed postal system. Mr. Orton's speech is somewhat lengthy, but we reprint it elsewhere, and refer at present to his main arguments, which we have summarized above, It is merely begging the question to say that reducing the price of food and clothing for the many should be the object of Congres- sional legislation rather than reducing tho rates of felegraphy for the few. Congress can very easily attend to both matters without rushing its business. The one is a question merely ‘of tariff, and is always affected by prices in Europe and the duties imposed on imports, in order either .to protect our own manufacturers or to obtain a revenue for the government. But the rates of internal tele- graphing are not affected by imports, and are not at present a source of much government revenue. In the event of government taking control of the wires, how- ever, they will become a source of revenue at auch reduced rates as will make them accessible, as they are already essential, to the many. As to Mr. Orton’s idea that we should leave the people to promote their own social and business intercourse, it is a true and good one, but it is his own monopoly which prevents their carrying out the idea. Our government is a government of the peo- ple, and while they could promote their own business and social intercourse through the government telegraph, they are debarred from doing so through his monopoly. The imperial autocrat of France, to whom Mr. Orton refers as extending only the minor privileges of cheap telegraphy to the people, while he is held upon his throne by the bayonets of his soldiery, is prototyped here not by our gov- ernment, but by such monopolies as the Wost- ern Union, except that the latter doos not extend even such a privilege to the people. But Napoleon finds this very privilege of cheap telegraphy the deadliest weapon against his soldiers’ bayonets, and the Western Union seem morning. No sectarian need turn aside be- cause of his or her sect being neglected. Wo cannot, in fact, recall to mind any Christian denomination which held divine service in this city, Brooklyn and adjacent places yesterday, which is not reported elsewhere in our columns. - Thus it is that the broad catholicism of the Herarp takes within its fold all religious faiths, putting to shame those publications which catch glimpses of heaven through sectarian telescopes, and would bar the road {o Para- dise with toll gates guarded by angels repre- senting particular denominations. At Plymouth church Mr. Beecher preached eloquently on the necessity for ‘‘a timely ‘preparation to meet God in the other life,” and some of his hearers must have thought that they had been rather delayed in this work by those gentlemen who stood at the door of the tabernacle crying out ‘Only pewholders allowed to enter at present.” Silently ani we trust, with Christian resignatfon, these ui happy mortals who had been unablo to bid in & pew atood by while the elect, some of whom, we fear, imagined that that they had paida price for the first consideration of the Lord, entered attired in silks and satins which rustled even as angels’ wings, although the angels within them were somewhat of the earth earthy, These anxious supplicators for divine grace were no sooner sented than some of them engaged in pious conversations about sociables and the price of gold, probably under the impression that because the last home of the wicked is paved with good inten- tions the walls of the spiritual resting-place of the righteous are covered with fushion plates and stock quotations, If such was their idea we earnestly conjure them to read the sermon of Rey. Henry Powers, who preached at the Brooklyn Elm Place Congregational church on “True Independence.” “The congregation of this clergyman was large and fashionable, and the sermon was able and witty. He de- nounced the fashion and extravagance of the day, and declared that the demands of women for dress upon their husbands and fathers compelled these to work harder and longer than they should, and in many cases reduced them to poverty. Thereverend gen- tleman quite forgot that even this pecuniary ruin might be frequently effected from purely religious motives. Doubtless many extrava- gant ladies bear in mind that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, and so they reduce their male protectors to poverty for their salvation’s sake. Appear- ances are often deceiving; there- fore, plead for the women. extent .on the same subject Dr. Chapin preached at the Church of the Divine Pater- nity. He said that life does not consist in out- ward pretensions, or in shows of dress and display,.at which we fear some of the sterner sex groaned inwardly and pray®d that their wives and daughters could be brought to hold tho same opinion before starffog on a shopping tour. It is singular how popular the subjects of dress and wealth are with clergymen whose congregations are of the wealthiest and~ mos fashionable in the country. Yesterday there were but two aristocratic churches where these were not referred to.. One was Grace church, at which Dr. Potter preached on the authority and observance of the Sabbath, wo, To some | ™ | his want of success. about. He has dnch ». slodge-hammor way of We recommend to our many thousands of | putting things that he keeps all hands on roaders a osreful and earnest perusal of the | their good behavior, and especially those craw- religious intelligence which we publish this | fishing old fogies of the Cabinet who pretend that the young blood of America is afraid of Spain. A Loaf from the History of the Metro politan Stage. Among the majority of theatre-goers thera are very few who have any idea of the kaleido- scopio nature of the stage in everything con- nected with it. It is not alone when the cur- tain is rung up and the footlights flash on the parti-colored costumes of histrionic magaates and thelr satellites th&t the constantly varying and chameleon character of the stage fs re- vealed. The box office and the managerial sanctum tell similar story, and oftimes the grim Cerberus of the stage door, who expires only with the establishment itself, is bewildered to know who ‘“‘the powers that be” are and what the fate of their predecessors may have been. But seldom or never in tho history of any stage has such a sweeping revolution taken place as that which commenced with the Quixotic crusade of those chiefs of the buskin brigade, the Managers’ Association, against the Heraxp and ended with their dis- astrous defeat. War is proverbially prolific of changes in the political and social world, and the stage is no exception to thé rule. Since peace was declared a new order of things has sprung up. We miss many of the old faces, and the fira king has obliterated some of the old dramatic landmarks, New theatres, new managers, new companies, and even new entertainments, are in the field in such num- bers and variety that the oldest theatre-goer, who keeps the memories of the Park and Hamblin as green spots in his mind, becomes bewildered and shakes his head dubiously at these new-fangled notions of music and the drama. Among those who were led away by tho treacherous advice of sycophantic Bohemians to wage war against fearless and independent criticism Maretzek is, beyond doubt, the most unfortunate. Acting on the snggestions ofthe needy penny-a-liners who formed his body guard while he had a dollar in his pocket, he incautiously went too far, and became out- lawed in consequence of his disregard of the rules of honorable warfare. Then, too late, he discovered the mistake, which he would have given anything to oblitorate, but the record was against him in indelible characters. The consequences of his insane folly soon be- came apparent. From the moment he penned the fatal document affairs began to assume & shaky appearance with him, and it was not long before a crisis was reached, Bankruptcy stared him in the face, and after a fow spas- dic efforts his star sank into oblivion. Since then he~has made many abortive attempts to give it light once more, but onty succeeded in producing a fitful glimmer each time. Mark the results now of placing oonft- dence in unscrupulous Bohemians, The vory journal that led him to commit the folly of quarrelling with one of the best and most con- acientious friends of art he could find, and that proclaimed itself his champion, now comes forward, Job comforterlike, and blames him for It sneers at his artiste and is liberal in its transparent sympathy, while it completely ignores the fact that to its Upas influence the unfortunate impresario may ascribe his ruin. The question of the non-succoss of Italian denouncing those foreigners who come among | opera in this city has been discussed ad us from Continental Europe, bringing with | ™@useam. It only requires a competent them a kind of heathenish observance of the | Public-spirited manager and a liberal, enter- sacred day. The other was the Church of the | Pfising corporation, instead of the narrow- Messiah, where the attendance was small, | Minded clique that rule the destinies of the to think it equally deadly against their mono- poly. As to the fostering of consolidation by the purchase of the wires for the “use of the government, Mr. Orton, as President of the Western Union Company, can certainly owing, probably, to the absence of Rev. Mr. Hepworth. His place was filled by a Boston clergyman, Rey. Mr. Cudworth, who informed the congregation that he had heard much about their singing and desired to ascertain for himself if they could do as well as his congregation at the Hub. Thus challenged, the worshippers struck up “Far from mortal cares retreating,” with an energy and a lustiness that must have been gratifying to the challenger, and, we pray, acceptable to Him in whose praise it was sung. This ex- hibition of vocal power over, the congregation, serenely conscious of its triumph over the Bos- ton singers, attentively listened to a sermon. The match was, we feel assured, worthy of the metropolis, Elsewhere the attendance was good and the sermons excellent. At the Church of the Strangers Dr. Deems preached on the parable of the lost sheep. At Lyric Hall the Rev. Mr. Frothingham delivered a sermon on religion, which word, he said, has three deflnitions—-one “to read over,” a second ‘‘to bind again,” and a third ‘‘to loosen.” He believed in the third definition, and we should have thought in the second algo, from the facility in which one was bound again recently whom the reverend gen- tleman considered ‘‘loosened.” At St. Fran- cis Xavier's, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Ste- phen’s and the other Roman Catholic churches the services were udusually grand and im- pressive in view of approaching Lent. The sermons, too, were allappropriate to the occa- sion. Lent formed also the subject for an ablo discourse by Rev. Thomas Gallaudet at St. Ann’s Episcopal church, where in the after- noon the sign-langnage gervice for the deaf mutes was delivered, At the Quaker’s church, in Rutherford place, a very fashionably dressed and demure-tountenanced congrega- tion assembled and listened to words of wis- dom from those brothers who were moved by the spirit to preach. Last, though not least of the places of worshiy that we shall refer to here by name, is the Zion Colored Church, where the sable aristycracy of New York in- dulge in prayer. It was noticeable that the dresses worn by the lalies were principally of subdued colors, such ss deep purple silk and black satin, occasionally heightened by a dia- mond pin or ear-dropa, although, as regards the latter, we would havo supposed that the jewels wero principally jet. We have here mentioned but a fow of the churches reported this morning in the Heratp. We refer) the reader to another enter no just protest. He cannot seriously argue against it on the grounds of monopoly in the same breath in which ho says.that his company would be able to get control even of the governmental organization proposed in one of the postal telegraph bills. His company has been regularly in the habit of buying up smaller lines and weaker companies, and now own three-fourths or more of all the lines, They will admit of no healthful competition. A monopoly of telegraphing by the govern- ment would be a people’s monopoly, if ono at all, like the present postal system, cheap and efficient, and not what it is under the Western Union, essential to the few and inaccessible to the people at large. Tho Opening of the Campaige in New Hampshire. The Hon, Henry L, Dawes, the great econo- mical agitator in Congress, opened the poli- tical campaign in New Hampshire on Saturday night by aspeech at Nashua. He reviewed only in a general way the political records of the opposing parties, but went deeply into the figures of the administration. He claimed with Speaker Blaine that Grant had expended sixty million dollars less than Johnson in a corresponding time, and, as the result of Dawes’ economy agitation, intended to keep it up. The exposure of the exorbitant esti- mates called for by the department bureaus, which Mr. Dawes said, by the way, were mostly inherited from Johnson, had brought the administration to a Sharp sense of their duty, and President Grant had told him per- sonally to tell the people of New Hampshire that the future years of his administration would show no ascending scale of ex- penditures. Congress and the Executive were now both working in harmony ear- nestly and ardently to cut down every extra dollar of expenditure. We must say good for Mr. Dawes. He has shown Butler and a good many others how to be independent even as a partisan, and, more than that, has proven that a party does better in discussing and curing its own deformities than in trying merely to hide them from the peoplé, If he has secured the ardent aid of the President and Congress in his economical reforms, he is a treasure to the republican party even if he should fail to carry New ¥ , Hampshire. Tae Copperngzap Organ Lerr Ovr IN THR Corp.—During the negotiations for the pur- pose of effecting a compromise between the two Academy, to make Italian opera as greata success here as any other kind of entertain- ment. There is no fear that the public will be backward in their patronage of true art. They reject humbug and broken promises, but when merit and fidelity to art appeal to them they are ever ready to lend a willing ear to. ita claims, They cannot be expected to sustain the emasculated affair which is here termed Italian opera, in which if by chance a real gem appears it is so obscured by the wretched surroundings that all its brilliancy is lost. Give them*an ensemble, in artists, chorus, orchestra and scenery, equal to that of the dramatic stage, and they will respond liberally to the outlay. Who wants to hear an aris, no matter how divinely sung, in a scene more fitted for a tenement house than an opera, when Booth’s, Wallack’s, Daly’s or Niblo’s offers such artistic pictures tothe eye? A manager cannot please one sense atthe expense of another. Har- mony is the first law on the stage, and the public of the metropolis have learned to respect it and demand it, We urged it in the name of the public a few years since, and thus pro-~ voked managerial wrath. But the public soon convinced the buskin heroes of their mistake, and now all, save the Italian opera, have ac- cepted the fiat of their patrons, and have inau- gurated the new régime of harmony and excel- lence “in everything as far as lies in their power, Tho one exception is a lamentable ex- ample to all theatrical and musical managers. Hard Facts for the Telegraph Monopoly. The following facts were presented by Mr. Hubbard as showing the greater advantages for the people of the system in which the gov- ernment manages the telegraph :—In twenty- one States of Europe 394,793. miles of wire have cost $41,300,597 gold, or $47,000,000 currency. In this country 104,584 miles of wire have cost the Westen Union Telegraph Company $48,000,000. Four miles under the governmental system cost no more than one mile under the corporate. In twenty-one States in Europe 29,338,000 messages were transmitted at a cost of $11,596,000 gold, or $13,567,300 currency. In this country 8,400,770 messages were sent for $5, 737,627. Average rates abroad, forty-five cents; in this country, seventy-one cents per message. The whole reason of the difference between the United States and Europe is that.in Europe the government takes charge of the telegraphs ; here they are managed by a monopoly that-has no object in commow with the people. The page, where he will fiscovor that yesterday | wostern Union Company replies that the rates the good work of salyation was energetically | pore are cheaper “per mile” than in Europe. persevered in, and tht in this city, so full of | This is the secret of their ohicanery. leo sin and wickedness, esrnest prayer for pardon tricity takes no account of miles. It gooa a democratic factions no consideration whatever was given to the Manhattan Club copperhead organ of this city. That concern is therefore left out in the cold, with no party to back it, and redemption went up to the throne of God. | thousand miles as cheaply as it would go fifty Op Ben Wapg.—We are glad Old Ben | miles; but tho monopoly, instead of charging Wade is in Washington again, Woe always | according to actual expense, makes a con« fool gurer of the eduiniatration when be is | atruotive gharge according te distance. no friends and no patronage except a few auction advertising contracts which it ripped from the dead carcass of tho old Courter and Einqutror. ”