The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1870, Page 6

NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1870.—1'RIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXV.... ce ecececeeceneee ss NOe 7D AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. WALLACK’S Ti ae wee HEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, comer of Eighth avenue and $84 a. —Tox TWELVE TeNrTations. OLYMPIC —l Pend THEATRE, Broaaway.—New VERSION OF FIFTH AVEN! zs FI we UE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRou WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- er Thirtioth st.--Matines daily. Perforimutice every evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tux Drama oF Tn! Buprary Ring. aks ; BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Tur THREE Gi MEN—TRAPEezR ACTS—THS RECLUSE. on ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ldth street.— _ pas Poon. » at ENGLISH OPERA. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 284 st., botween a — & New War ro Pay OLp Despre. en en a MRS. F. B. 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Pace. sr 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—Washington; Rumored Resignation of Com missioner Delano; Statistics of Commerce and Navigation; Demand Upon Spain for Indem- nity—Nava! Intelligence—Bailey, the Great Whiskey Raider; Official Overhauling of His Papers and Effects; His Reported Arrest—The State Capital: Proceedings of the Legislature Yesterday—Riot in Jersey City— Explosion in a Jersey City Factory—St. Pat- rick's Day Frollica—Latest Newark Sensation— National Union League—The Amity street Mys- tery—The Sixty-fifth Street Shooting Affray. 4—Paris Fashions: Lent, but Very Little Sackcloth; A Court Ball and the Newest ‘Totiets—Paris Gossip—The Fine Arts; The San Donato Collec- tion Sale in Paris—Religious Intelligence— ‘Weehawken Wallings: Why the Ferry is Mis- Managed; Candidates for Running it—Rail- road Lobbying—The Emigration Commission— Work Suspended in Cigar Factories—A Leatner- clad Hermit—Singular Case of Assaalt. 6—Financial and Commercial Reports—Rectprocal National Courtesies—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements. @— Editorials; Leading Article on Harmony of Na- ture and Revelation Amusements—An- nouncements, ‘Y—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Prince Pierre Bonaparte’s Trial Before the High Court of Justice of France; Insolence of the English Towards the American Minister to Japan—A Wall Street Flurry—New York City and Brooklyn Courts—A Jersey Mystery— Personal Intelligence—Business Notices, 8—Advertisements. 9—Advertisements. 10—Europe: The Chinese Mission in St, Petersburg and the Burlingaie Succession: English Opinion of the Oneida Disaster—Cock Fight- ing at the South—The Wilkes-Leland Affair— The Slungshot—The ast River Bridge— Violent Assault and Stabbing Affray— Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements. 41—<Adyertisements. 12—Aavertisem: Haytien Misrute.—It was thought that with the death of Salnave an era of peace ‘would be inaugurated in Hayti, but the latest news from that quarter shows that matters are just as bad under the new administration of Saget as they were under that of Salnave. Tue RicuMonp Mvss.—The municipal trou- bles in Richmond are nearly over. Ellyson’s police have been seizing and disarming Cha- hoon’s police, a portion of whom are shut up in one station house, while Ellyson’s men have possession of the city. Mayor Chahoon has finally done what he should have done at first—appealed to the law. An injunction has ‘been served on Mayor Ellyson, and Judge Underwood will hear the argument on Wednes- day. Taz Brooxtyn Navy Yarv.—The last proposition in regard to the Navy Yard is that General Sherman, Admiral Porter and some other specially educated officers of the govern- ment shall choose a site for a new navy yard, with a view to the strategic and other points involved in its safety during war and in its usefulness for the defence of this city. This fs good proposition, and will, it is to be hoped, result in the choice of a position up the Hudson river. Tae DisaPprarance or Coxtector Bat- ry.—The special officers of the Treasury are all at work overhauling the papers and pro- perty left behind by Collector Bailey. No clue to his whereabouts and no cause for his disap- pearance have yet been discovered. It is not even known yet whether he has taken any government money with him or not. But there seems to be but little doubt that he has in some manner laid himself liable to the law and is skulking to avoid the penalties. i Tum Jackson Casz.—It will be the last of ull outrages if the desperate murder com- ynitted by the Deputy Sheriff Jackson should yail of punishment by the criminal slipping shrough the wide meshes of the Jaw. The 1>gal quibble is made in his behalf that a man «annot be indicted twice for the same crime— +3 If the inquest of the Grand Jury were »menable to the same rule as that which pre- vents courts putting a man twice in peril for the game offence, But we believe it has never yet been heard that a grand jury wasa qourt, Harmony of Nature and Revelation. In a former editorial we have shown the importance of the newspaper as an evangel- izing agancy. We have now to treatof it as a medium of ong ing scientific and general truths to the world. The amount of inquiry and of actual scientific knowledge that we find in possession of the masses of eave and America has often caused considerable sur- prise and favorable comment. In acquiring a knowl of, history, travels, biography and general literature. they have little or no time to read books treating of those subjects, but their daily newspaper steps in and supplies them with condensed volumes oneach, Like a huge telescope it reflects all the wonders of the sky and brings the occurrences of remote continents into our homes and places them upon our breakfast tables. The most remote and improbable agencies are seen hurrying through the air and over the sea to deliver their separate tidings to us in our morning paper. A discovery in science in any part of the world is known in the antipodes in a few hours or days through the medium of the tele- graph and the press; and in this way the masses are becoming every day more enlight- ened and educated upon every subject. Upon no other theory can we account for the inte- rest which they display in such abstruse sub- jects as are presented by our scholars and savans. Hence a scientific lecture in New York or London can, upon a few hours’ notice, gather an audience of workingmen capable of filling the largest public hall in either of those cities. Extensive reading leads to habits of thought and inquiry; for a reading people must be or become a thinking people. The first effect of scientific investigation upon the minds of the masses is to materialize thought and to produce a species of insidious infidelity, which denies the existence of a personal Creator and attributes all the changes in nature to a vital power inherent in matter. But as the investi- gation is continued it leads ultimately to the fullest conviction that the most perfect har- mony exists between the truths of nature and those of revelation. They will be further convinced that the God of Nature and the God of the Scriptures is one. During a long series of years Christianity has had to contend against this species of infi- delity. Physical truths have been pitted against spiritual, as if they really antagonized and contradicted each other, The students and professors of theology have been at swords’ points with the students and professors of astronomy, geology, chemistry and natural history upon some presumed discrepancy of fact or statement made by Moses, or Herschel, or Faraday, or some other savant. This religio- acientific war arose from the ignorance or insufficient information of both contending parties and from the dogmatic interpretations given to the Mosaic records’ by theologians who had rarely or never examined the subject for themselves until science-teachers began to propound other doctrines and to draw away men from the faith, Then they investigated and found, according to the testimony of the geologist and the astronomer, that the world was more than six thousand years old, and that the work of creation, which was supposed to have been finished long ago, is still carried on in remotest space. The Darwinian theory of the development of our race, which for a while created such @ dutter in the scientific world, and in the religious, has been so thoroughly ex- ploded by modern scientists that shreds enough of it cannot be gathered together wherewith to convince any intelligent man that his grand- father was a monkey and his great-grandfather atoad. Chemistry, also, in its later devel- opments, upsets the infidel theory that the effect and the cause are identical—that God and nature are one, and that there is nothing greater than matter deserving of our supreme affection and worship. in matter, in each of its forms, for the vital element of nature, but they have failed to find it. the sea saith, It is not with me. and philologists still assert that their sciences teach a plurality of human species, and it must be admitted that they have a consider- able number of believers in their theories. But we know that prejudice of caste has much to do with this belief. The Caucasian race claims superiority over all others, and cannot easily admit that God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth, and hath determined the bounds of their habitations, that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him and find Him. Chemists have sought The depth saith, It is notin me; and Ethnologists But as we become more familiar with the other members or divisions of the human family we shall probably outgrow these false theories also. railroad, the telegraph and the press are rapidly and effectually doing their work. Christian the Eastern hemisphere by England and in the Western by America, is pressing against the great wall of China, and soon the And in this effort the civilization, as represented in Atlantic and Pacific and Indian oceans, the continents of Asia, Africa and South America will be clasped within their Christian embraces and will become one in sentiment, purpose, aim, as well as in origin. Here is the young Giant of the West, less than a century old, teaching that great Asiatic empire, which claims an existence of thousands of years, the true principles of human happiness, both for this world and the next. of Americans and nearly an equal number of Britons are to-day either directly or indirectly making laws for and giving tone and direction Forty millions to the religious, political, commercial and social affairs of nearly one thousand millions of the inhabitants of the earth. God never made nor raised up two such nations of people to cast them down or destroy them while such a mission is before them unfulfilled, and the silly prognosticators of the speedy or remote downfall of either will probably one day dis- cover their error. A nobler race than the Anglo-Saxon-American does not and never did exist. It contains the elements of strength chosen) from other nations, with few of their weaknesses; and its language is similarly constituted, and hence is more fitted to become universal than any other now spoken. Although as nations neither has yet fully realized its great mission among men, yet here and there are individuals who can trace the hand of Providence in all the vicissitudes of Great Britain and America, and who are try- ing to arouse the inhabitants of both to a true sense of the greatness and nobleness of their calling and their position, It is peculiarly the province of the newspaper to aid in this awak- ening, and, it necessary, to lead in the Chris- tian enterprises of the age; for the press not only furnishes mental food, but creates the craving of the appetite for morg, | 0) satisfies inquiry, but = ~ ‘Wage 4 nobler spheres of thought and sentiment, in philosophy, poetry and the fine arts, the objeot at which we aim ought to be an inward one— an @inobiement of the intellect—so in our dealings with mankind we should aim to in- struct rather than to force, to inspire by our own example a reverence in others for God and a love for the pure, the true and the beau- tiful in the soul. The mind’s the measure of the man, Art and Fashion in Europe—The Heraid Special Reports. ‘ Our correspondents in Paris breathe across the Atlantic the divine afflatus of art, with its most elegant modern embodiments, in the shape of a description of the various dress fashions and styles of personal adornment pre- vailing in the French capital. Their special letters, which are published in the HERALD this morning, will tend to refine the public taste by imparting to the mind of the people a still more elevated idea of the civilizing influ- ences of the works of the great masters, both in painting and sculpture. Our readers will also be enabled to estimate how far and how very completely the representatives of fashion in the present day have departed from the cus- toms and costume of the primary models of the artists—those of our first parents, Adam and Eve. The continued sale of the San Donato collection of paintings produced an intense degree of excitement. Enormous sums were being paid for many of the works; millions of money came forward at call. Art amateurs were also present in large num- bers, personally or by adequate representa- tion—a fact which is of much more value to the living, working painters than is even the abundance of cash. A fine painting made for A. T. Stewart, of New York, created quite a sensation. It is an allegorical representa- tion of the Union of the American States, and named ‘The United States of America.” The picture, which is well described by one of our special writers, is of great size, of fine idea and very complete and elegant in finish. Paniers and repentance were in decided conflict in Paris. Ash Wednesday brought the Empress Eugénie and the ex-Queen Isa- bella of Spain to the altar rails of the church, where the priestly admonition of memento quia pulvis es et in pulvere reverteris was spoken in words of clerical, ghostly admonition to each, and itis to be hoped with an excel- lent saving effect both for the preseat and the hereafter. The spiritualities were not omni- potent, however. Our special fashions writer has a good deal to say of the “chestnut series of skirts,” of hoops, of azure blues, of court balls and of the most bewilderingly beautiful toilets. There was a marriage—Hymen vanquishing the good Saint Anthony, as he most generally does. It was an American wedding, that of Miss Field, of this city, who was saluted as the Princess Triggiano-Bran- eaccio, after receiving the blessing of the clergyman in the presence of a brilliant party of American relatives and friends. Court and fancy dress balls wore still in order. The Prince Imperial of France made his début as an actor on an amateur stage—nothing to do with the dynastic one—in the Tuileries. The Empress, his mother, was present in a magni- ficent toilet. Princess Mathilde entertained in fine style. A very enlivening musi- cal soirée is also spoken of. Marriage and giving in marriage, and, consequently, the publication of the banns of marriage, were heard of in the highest circles of French society and in the churches. Crime and want, and misery and suffering were plentiful, not- withstanding all this; but, on the other hand, charity, hope and faith went hand and hand in their relief and correction, so that our special fashions and art advices, even if they are slightly carnal in some respects, will be found, on the whole, to be eminently Christian in spirit and very consoling in intent. Bergh as a Humorist. We hasten to make reparation to Mr. Bergh for a wrong we recently did him. We said he had no humor—that a joke was worse than wasted upon him and only attracted his atten- tion as a demonstration of hostility. In this we were greatly mistaken, as is shown by his graceful and good-natured statement before Judge Dowling of his case against a rather scurrilous piece of newspaper fun. He ob- jects to allusions to his peculiarities of person, because, as he justly observes, these are things he cannot mend. An actor of happy memory was once hissed because he was so ugly in feature, whereupon he assured the audience that it was easier for them to get used to his face than for him to change it. It was voted that his spirit and wit were fair equivalents for beauty, and he was as good as a handsome man for the rest of his life. So when Bergh assurea this public that if he could only reshape his person to his own fancy he would be as handsome as Judge Dowling himself, it must be admitted that he gives us an intellectual equivalent for comeliness and fair proportions, and that his high standard of taste and felicity of statement are worthy his fame as a man of true humanity and indomi- table moral courage. _ Morg Covnrgrrzitina.—In addition to the counterfeiters who make imitations of all sorts of promises to pay, the attention of the police is now invited to the counterfeiters of Worces- tershire sauce. The fact that men can be punished for making a condiment here under the same name as a condiment commonly used in England exhibits a queer state of law. We have a law of copyright for the pro- tection of such a noble piece of literature as the lying label ona bottle of peppery trash, but we cannot afford a law for the protection of the author's property in a good book. MisTaKEN AMES.—General Ames, in com- mand of the national troops, manwuvred his forces so well that he was returned by recon- structed Mississippi as one of her Senators. But a committee of the Senate reports against “his admission, on the ground that he was nota resident of Mississippi at the time of election, We are glad to see that there are some things in reconstruction that the Senate will not swallow. The Tehuantepec Canal Scheme vs. the Darien and Nicaragua Routes. Mr. Fenton submitted the other day, in the United States Senate, the following resolution, which awaits the action of that body :— Whereas the commerce of the world, and more es lly that of the Western hemis) renders it important thas a ship canal should be constructed across rican isthmus; an Aetaah’ esha the privilege of opentug interoceanic conimanication by m: across the Isthmus of ‘fehuantepec, and now pro- pares. aes ene ‘@ concession for @ ship caval, fore Resolved, That if the President of the United States shall obtain the assent of the government of Mexico then the Secretary of War 18 bere! authorized to detail @ corps of engineers to make & survey of the summit of the Isthmus of Tehuante- bec, to ascertain if there be sufficient water at the summit of aaid isthmus for a ship canal; and, if it, should oe found on examination that there is sufl- cient water, then @ survey of the isthmus for a ship canal shail be made, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, together with the complete plans, rofiies aud estimates for the same, under such regu- tions and with such provisions as the Committee on Foreign Relations may recommend. This resolution, we presume, has been offered on the application of the company con- cerned, We apprehend, however, that no corps of engineers will be necessary to estab- lish these two points—first, that on the summit level of the Tehuantepec route there is not sufficient water to supply a ship canal, and second, that, even with sufficient water, the length—nearly two hundred miles—of said canal, and the costs of construction and the lockages of the route, would render the scheme mpracticable. If we are not mistaken these conclusions were reached by President Bu- chanan after a careful examination of the diffi- culties of the route for the purposes of a canal. For our part, of all the proposed American isthmus routes for a ship canal this of Tehuan- tepec we regard as the most impracticable and visionary. We entertain a hope that the United States surveying expedition recently sent out from this port to explore the Isthmus of Darien, in order to find out whether in that quarter there is or is not a short and feasible route for a ship canal between the two oceans, will dis- cover the very route desired. Should the explorations of this expedition, however, result in establishing the fact that there is no practicable route across the Darien isthmus fora ship canal without expensive locks or tunnels, then the favorite route of Louis Napoleon—the Nicaragua route—will, we have no doubt, be the route adopted. We have before us a handsomely printed and illustrated London book, issued in 1863, and entitled “The Gate of the Pacific,” by Commander Bedford Pym, R. N., in which we find a very interesting chapter devoted to the project of a Nicaragua ship canal. Com- mander Pym prefers this route at the Pacific gate for a railroad, but he also makes a strong case for it in favor of a canal. The reader, in turning to the map of Nicaragua, will obsetvé that the continent here in a direct line is not much over a hundred miles wide, but that by the line proposed the canal will be nearly two hundred miles in length from sea tosea. He will observe, however, that the propomd line is that of the San Juan river (a navigable stream for small steamboats most of the way), and through Lake Nicaragua (fally half the size of Lake Ontario) and thence by a canal of some fifteen or eighteen miles to San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific, or the canal from Lake Nicaragua may be con- tinued northward up the connecting river to Lake Managua (another fine body of fresh water) and thence across to Port Realejo, on the Pacific. In a pamphlet written in 1847 Louis Napolean says of a ship canal by this route, and referring to Massaya, a thrifty town between Lakes Nicaragua and Managua, that ‘‘as Constantinople is the centre of the ancient world, so is the town of Leon, or rather Massaya, the centre of the new, and if the tongue of land which separates its two lakes from the Pacific Ocean (fifteen miles) were cut through she would command, by her central position, the entire coasts of North and South America. * * * The State of Nica- ragua can become, better than Constantinople, the necessary route for the great commerce of the world; for it is to the United States the shortest route to China, and for England and the rest of Europe to New Holland, Austra- tralia, Polynesia and the whole western coast of America.” This is Louis Napoleon’s opinion. This canal, too, from the Atlantic side to Lake Nicaragua can be made by dams and locks in the San Juan river. Commander Pym esti- mates the cost of the canal from sea to sea, in- cluding a regular canal slong the bank of the San Juan up to the lake, at four million five hundred thousand pounds, or say twenty-two million five hundred thousand dollars, Com- mander Vanderbilt has proved on this Nicara- gua route that with only the fifteen miles from Lake Nicaragua or Managua to the Pacific cut through with a ship canal Louis Napoleon's opinion of this route would soon be confirmed. We say, then, that should it appear that there is across the Darien isthmus no availa- ble route for a ship canal the Nicaragua route will be the route adopted, and in the saving of six or seven hundred wiles both ways over the Darien route this shorter line, -in any event, will perhaps be the ultimate route for the United States. Prinoe Prerre Bonaparte’s TRiaL.—Prince Pierre Bonaparte will be placed on trial to-mor- row, before the High Court of Justice of France, under indictment charging him with the homicide of the late M. Victor Noir. By cable telegram, published elsewhere, it will be seen that the court convened in the ancient city of Tours yesterday. Intense interest was manifested by the public in the proceedings. In view of this we specially elucidate all the facts connected with the august tribunal, com- mencing by the publication of the decree of the Emperor Napoleon, under which the judges and jury are commissioned, Prince Pierre Bonaparte’s appearance and mode of life in the prison of La Conciergerie. were specially reported from Paris in our pages on the 16th inst. The members of the Noir family, with their friends and legal advisers, were at Tours promptly. The fatal act has been fully accom- plished, The fiat justitia alone remains, Tne Fire Departwent.—A bill was intro- duced in the Assembly yesterday to reorgan- ize the Metropolitan Fire Department. We hope the Legislature willleave the present excellent system alone. If the silk stocking faction are at the bottom of this movement it is for the purpose of enticing some old veterans to their side by the seduotive allure- J ments of ‘Big Six.” Our European Mail Badges. By o special correspondence from St, Petersburg and @ general ¥ comprehensive mail report from other central points of the Old World we have to-day a very interesting news exhibit, in detail of our cable telegrams, to the 8th of March. Our writerin the Russian capital informs us of the continued interest which was manifested by the imperial family in the Burlingame funeral arrangements and of the memoriam of the name and services of the Chinese-American diplomat. Politics was still more animated in France, and the different party leaders becoming more and more decided, not to say vehement, in the ex~- pression of their opinions. Rome was full of piety, fear, joy, argument, contradiction, and apparently at times hope, the shell of the Holy City pre- senting « very fair representation indeed of the bark of Saint. Peter when tossed by the sea storm at Galilee. Pio Nono, as the earthly representative of the great High Priest, did not appear quite so confident as did his Master in the first crisis; for it is pretty plain that his Holiness keeps his eyes open, and is pretty much ‘“‘wide awake” on every occasion. He has faith, certainly, but apparently not just in sufficient amount or strength to endow him with confidence to strike out boldly on the troubled surface of the Ecumenical Council. England has a large amount of crime—murders, forgeries, rob- beries and suicides. The Wicklow, Ireland, peerage claims case, which was being prosecuted before the House of Lords, was sensational, but of interest, in the char- acter of the testimony. The circumstances which attended the Oneida disaster collision were canvassed by a portion” of the London press. Ireland was still agitated on the land question. The Hon. Robert O’Brien, brother to the late Smith O’Brien, fell dead when dressing for dinner. Struggling humanity abroad thus presents its sorrows, sufferings and hopes to the transatlantic democracy, seeking consolation and hopeful inspiration by means of the printing press and the free and independent pens of America. An Arrangement with Canada. The Canadians, with Sir A. T. Galt at their head, continue to demand some commercial arrangement with adjoining countries. They urge it so earnestly that it is plain something is wrong in the New Dominion. In Nova Scotia, a province that has all along evinced unwavering hostility to the Canadian Con- federation, a complaint is heard about the fish~ eries, to the effect that American fishermen are given to encroaching on them. This we can readily believe, for the ayerage Amgrican can- not exist ia peace without encroaching on all contiguous old fogies ; but he need not trespass on Canadian fisheries, for in reality our own fisheries ia Alaska are superior in every respect. Indeed, in everything, institutions, system of government, people, customs, country and wealth, we are so completely ahead of Canada and, therefore, independent of her, that we do not need any commercial arrangement with her, unless it is the annexa- tion arrangement, and in that one we are willing to give her a great deal more than any commercial arrangement will give her. We see that a part of tho bottom in the harbor of St. John, N. B., dropped out, apparently, the other day, leaving deep sea where before was the low beach. This may be typical of a warning to the whole Dominion that the bottom will drop out of the new confederation, unless they come into the Union. Education Reform in England. Friday night’s debate in the British House of Commons on the Education bill for Eng- land, a cable report of which we print this morning, reveals the strongly reforming ten- dencies of the British people. The Education bill, of which Mr. Forster isthe parent, is a wonderfully liberal measure for England. The bill makes education accessible to all and com- pulsory. It leaves religion very much an open question. In districts where the sentiment of the people is opposed to the use of the Bible the system of management is such that the popular desire will find expression and that the Bible will be excluded. In other districts, where the opposite sentiments prevail, the Bible will be used. Mr. Bright, though a member of the Cabinet, insists on @ different arrangement, It was contended on Friday night by those who took Mr. Bright’s view of the sitaation that the system would work irre- gularly, and all over the kingdom be a per- petual source ofstrife. Mr. Forster's bill, if passed into law, will place England education- ally very much in our position, It will trans- plant the school of the United States to Eng- land, and the English people will enter upon the new system with our religious and Bible difficulties in a very exaggerated form. It will be seen from the report of the debate that Mr. Bright’s amendment was withdrawn and that the bill was read a second time. The pre- sumption now is that the bill will pass. It is an onward and an upward step—a reform made necessary by previous reforms. Mr. | Forster when he took office publicly pro- claimed that if England would maintain her position she must educate her children, The support given to the bill by the tory leaders shows how England is changing. CuInA AND JAPAN.—The news by the steamer China, which arrived at San Franoisco yester- day, is of considerable interest, Foreign- ers are again placed under close surveillance in China, and in many cases are assaulted or driven out. Trouble has arisen between Eng- lish merchants and the Chinese in Formosa, The investigation into the Oneida disaster was conducted with a great deal of fnsolence on the part of the English officials towards Minis- ter DeLong, and Captain Eyre was permitted to return to England against our Minister's request, and Gnally his demand that he be arrested and tried on a criminal charge. The bodies of Captain Williams and the ship's car- penter have been recovered. Axp Now Cometh Grzenwicu, Cony., in favor of female suffrage. The Second Con- gregational church, which, if it be a large church, probably contains all there is of the population of Greenwich, has declared in favor of women and even minors voting on church matters. It is to be hoped this tempting allurement will bring all the outlying female and juvenile population of Greenwich into the folde, al Our Theatrical Neatly every European theatre-goer In visite {ng this city remarks the inferiority of the orchestras of our dramatic establishments when compared with every other department con- nected with the stage. In other respects the lead- ing theatres of the metropolis are fully equal, if not superior, to any houses in Europe. Lon- don and Parisian sensations have been brought out here sometimes with better scenery, richer costumes and stronger caste than at the theatres across the ocean where they first saw the light. But the music generally forms a contrast to the rest of the performance. Why does.such a state of things exist in a com- munity a large proportion of which is made up of musicians? We have the richest musical gleanings from Italy, Germany, France and England here, orchestral leaders of unques- tionable ability, and a public of decided taste and proverbial liberality. Yet no theatre in New York can boast of a first class orchestra. The fault lies with the managers and the musicians themselves. Most of the latter belong to a narrow-minded, illiberal monopoly called the Musical Mutual Protective Union, the constitution and bylaws of which seem to be framed especially for the purpose of retarding the progress of art. Ac- cording to this organization orchestral leaders are made the slaves of those over whom they wield the baton. They are not permitted to engage any musician who does not belong to the society, and a not inconsiderable portion of the earnings of poor players goes into the hands of the rapacious harpies who control the monopoly. Then the substitute system—which cannot be classed under any head but that of injustice and unfairness—is the offspring of this soi-disant Protective Union. Suppose a leader wishes to make a certain instrument a feature in his band, and engages a superior player at an advanced salary for the purpose— he cannot count one night in the season upon the attendance of the player. A difficult work is rehearsed and produced after long and care- ful preparation. It is more than likely that on the first night itis played the dismayed con- ductor will look around and find new faces in the orchestra, many of whom have not one idea of the music placed before them. If the leader ventures to remonstrate he is summoned before the Sanhedrim of the “Union,” and perhaps fined. It will be re- membered that a few years ago nearly all the orchestras in the city indulged in a strike be- cause the managers, or rather their leaders, re- fused to accede to their terms. According to the rules of the association no leader is safe in making an engagement, as at a secret meeting the terms agreed upon with the musicians at the inning of the season may be ignored and other figures substituted. The following resolution passed by this ‘‘Protective Union” will give an insight into its real character :— Resolved, That a member bringing @ charge against another member before the Execative Com- mittee shail not be required to appear personaliy to substantiave his charge; the Executive Committee shall notify the defendant to appear before them to defend himself against the charge made, and if found guilty shall be fined pre Should the party accused plead “guilty” the ordinary fine and penalty shall be umposed, but if ne deny the o! rs nae proved, then, in ail cases, the fines shall loubled. Pretty protection, that, to art. One of the uptown theatres engaged three or four instru- mentalists in the orchestra on the express con- dition that they play themselves and send no substitutes, How the leader has managed so far to evade the consequences of his temerity in disobeying the mandates of the ‘‘Protective Union” we are at @ losa to know. ‘ The managers also display the most supreme indifference as to the quality of music they have in their theatres. They sometimes engage a good leader, but they hamper him so effectually with their false ideas of economy and their crude notions on music that they might as well take the baton in hand them- selves, The selections on the programme are often made without the slightest reference to the nature of the performance. If these managers will only assist and encourage the leaders in their endeavors to give good music and oppose the system of substitutes the Musical Mutual Protective Union will soon be< a thing of the pest. They owe it to the public and to themselves. Our theatrical orchestras have become a byword of reproach in this city, and all through the indifference of managers and the illiberality of the musi- cians. It is high time a change should be made. CompLiMents aT ALBANY.—The little chil- dren at Albany have forgotten the admoni- tion of Watts, and have suffered their angry passions to rise in a shocking way, apropos to some little charges of improper propositions from one member to another. There is a peculiar attraction in strong language for the public ear. People listen with great zest for every syllable of personality that passes be- tween public men, and the more piquant the language and the less it regards the decencies of discussion and debate the better they like it, In Mr. Fields’ denunciation of Mr. Ains~ worth, therefore, they find a peculiar flavor, and in Mr. Ainsworth’s charge against Mr. Fields something far daintier and finer than the ordinary diet of Albany reports. We do not see, however, that the debate is likely to exalt our legislators in the respect of the people, and there is but little public profit in it, since it is not possible that such exposure of the way things are done at the State capital will cause them to be done in any other way. Goop Disorering.—There is evidently the best disposition in the Police Commission to keep up the morals of the force by exemplary penalties. Officer Coffee, who will be remem- bered as having a very suspicious relation to a dead man’s gold watch, has been dismissed from the force. Other policemen tempted by watches will be apt to consider whether their places are not worth more than such a piece of plunder. And the officer who arrested the victim in a case of assault and permitted the escape of the assailant is on trial, and his dis- missal will have a good effect against that common abuse. Watt Street is not often victimized by strangers or by persons from the country. It seems, however, that two Englishmen, who have been doing business in Baltimore, came on to New York on Wednesday and manipu- lated over fifty thousand dollars out of bro- kers in Wall street and disappeared. They used forged letters and checks. It seems hard indeed if Wall street cannot have a monopoly other own thigvam bus ia t¢ by “done” even by outsiders,