The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1870, Page 6

6 : ' NEW ‘The Darien hip Canal Projeot—Adverso Reporte from the Survey—Advapiasce of the Nicaragua Route. We have had various unfavorable roports from the United States Surveying Expedition ee NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news leiter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. H Rejected communications will not be re- turned. in search of a route for a ship canal between the two oceans, but we have still entertained a hope that a feasible route in that quarter would be discovered, It appears, however, that Captain Selfridge in recent despatch saya:—"We have finished surveying the Darien and found it impracticable for a ship canal, Iam now at work on the line from the Gulf of San Blas, about eighty miles east of Aspinwall, with better prospects‘of success, 1 expect to get through so that the expedition can return to {he United States about the middle of June.” This may be considered as settling the question against the isthmus route of Darien proper, and we are not very san- guine that a route will be found, in the neigh- borhood of San Blas more feasible than that of the Aspinwall and Panama Railroad, The little Gulf of San Blas is about eighty miles down the Atlantic coast from Aspinwall, and between that gulf and the great Bay of Panama on the Pacific we have the narrowest part of the isthmus (abont thirty-six miles across), which divides North from South America. Several small streams from the backbone of the Continent deseend into the Gulf of San Blas, and it may be that some one of them interlocks with the river Chepo, which flows In the opposite direction from the dividing ridge into Panama Bay. This river Chepo is a considerable stream, and is at several points within fifteen miles of the Atlantic coast, so that itis probable that some stream may be found on this side which opens a way, with a very little cutting, through to the Chepo, and by its channel to the Pacific, Hence, we pre- sume Captain Selfridge’s prospects of success in this quarter, We are, however, prepared for adverse reports, even from San Blas, be- cause the mouth of the river Chepo is so con- venient to the old city of Panama that we thiuk if, by following the course of that river, an easy oatlet might be found through to the Gulf of San Blas, the early Spanish settlers of Panama would have found it. In any event this exploring expedition of Captain Selfridge will be very valuable to the civilized world in settling all geographical doubts os to the feasibility or impracticability of a ship canal at any point on the Darien isthmus between the mouth of the Atrato river and Aspinwall, a distance along the Atlantic coast of some three hundred miles. We think it possible that a feasible canal route will be discovered from the Gulf of San Blas; but we apprehend, from the reason suggested, that the backbone of the Continent in this narrow isthmus will be found not to present anywhere the required depression for a through ticket by steamship without such » labor of locks and dams as to render the canal too costiy and tedious to pay. Assuming that such will be the result of the explorations of Captain Selfridge’s competent engineers, we shall be compelled to come northward to the Nicaragua route for our interoceanic ship canal. Nor do we thiok that a route exists for a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific that has a fifth part of the advantages of this route, and especially for the United States, Krom New York to San Francisco it will be THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the gear. Four cents per copy. Annudl subscription price $12. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five CENTS per copy. Annual subscription price:— One Copy... :) Three Copies. Five Copies. Any larger number addressed to names of sub seribers $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten, Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, and any larger number at same price, An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty, These ratesmake the WEEKLY HERALD the cheapest pud- dication in the country, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE, 14th at, and 6th av.—SHAK- SPEABY’S TRAGEDY OF HAMLET. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Etghth avenue and ‘Bd s.—THk TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. 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Setentee Ave tn ing vessels, from the calms and baffliag winds France—The Tar: Spring Mectine of the Prospect Falr Grounds Assoviati n - New York Cty New. —Army and Naval Inteiligence— The HERALD in th: District of Colum ta. 4=E.rope: The G rman Zoli Parl'ament, Its ™- tent, Jurisdiction and Leislation: the Social Condition of England, Marriage and Clerical Morait'y— t: The Relations to Torkey; Ex- troordina-y ‘al Accident in the 8nez Cmal- Mormo+sm: Forticth Annnal Conference the Church of Jews Christ of Latter Day Sints—The Vovage of the City of Brussels— ConMict of Jurisd’etion in New Orleans, G—Pet'terat Pyrotec!inics: The Goo Time Com- ing; Cl se of the American Woman Suffrage Convention—Proccedings in the New York Co rts—The New Reézi we—The Eastern One: tion: Ki ssian Exhibit of the Question “’Or.ent &: 1 Presen 8 To Dav—Samana: Meeting for ‘Trety Ratification at Coo er Institu'e—The Annivers vies—Fight ng fora F rinne: Further Proce @ ngs in the Burk -Gardener Will Cave— A Scrap of Romince—The Commonipaw Aba tior—Singular Death of a Newark Police mon—The range, N. allot Tmnnrities — Ca ious Case of Klope —Base Ball Notes. G—Eilicor aie: Lead nv Arti The Dirten Ship Can .1 Proec’,, Adverse Repor's from the Sir- vey, Advanta-e: ef the Nicaragua Route— Amneemnt Annoncements, Y—Telogray hic News from All Parts of the World: Tho French Cap'tal verfectly Tranquil at Two o’Clock this Morning; Marshal Canrobert to the Army tn Paris; N’p leon and the Fimpress Eugenie at the Scene of the Riots: The Wo- man’s Suftrage Bill Defeated in the Engish Parltament: Fearfnl Railread Slaughter in Missouri: Nineteen Persons Killed and Twenty Wounded—Ya htng: English Feeling at the Resuit of the In‘ernational Con‘est. S—Girdiing the Eath: Opening of the West Indies and’ South America to Telerraphic Communi- cat'on—An Extraiition Case—The Sherlock Mystery—A Fighting Ed) or—Real Estate Mat- ters—F nincial and Commercial Keports— Marriag s and Deaths. @=—B Ils Sivne! by the Governor—Aavertisements, 10—City Politics—The Registry—Brooklyn and Staten Eland Politics—The Gollision in the Harbor—Cost of Royalty in Engiard and France—sanquet to General Jordan—The Cuban Learne—Broo'lyn City News—The Phrenoeinian Society—Wanha'tans Liqu r Stores—Ki'led on the Ratlrord—Personal Jn- ba = gama ta Intetligence—advertise- ments. 1—Advertisemen's. —Adveriisemen: which prevail about Panama, it will be the saving of at least a month in the voyage. We have heretofore had occasion to quote from the book of Commander Bedford Pim, of the Brilish Navy, on ‘“‘The Gate of the Paci- fie,” some of his opinions and estimates of a ship canal by the Nicaragua ronte, and, in the hope of drawiag the attention of our govern- ment to this route, we will draw again upon this English explorer. He estimates the cost of a ship canal from ocean to ocean, one hun- dred and niaety-one miles, by the Nicaragua route, substantially as follows :— From the Atlantic, by canat along the fiver San Juan to the Lake Ntcaragaa, ..£2,500,000 From the west side of tae Lake aud to the ~ ead of a tanuel, or cut on the Pacitic Descent to the P a1— 1,509,000 600,000 24,600,000 or twenty-two ions, five hundred thousand dollars, The level of Lake Nicaragua above the ocean on either side isjabout three hun- dred feet, which will have to be overcome by locks; but ualess a lower depression is found beiween San Blas and Panama Bay than three hundred feet or two hundred, this elevation of Lake Nicaragua, taken into the estimate, will noi disturb the great advantages of this route over any other one. The present Emperor Napoleon, in a pam- phlet oa this Nicarauga route for a ship canal, wrilten in 1847, says of it:—“‘There exists in the New World a State as admirably adapted as Constantinople, and, we inust say, up tothe present time as ‘uselessly occupied (far the ‘| control of the world’s commerce, he means). We allude to the State of Nicaragua, As Constantinople is the centre of the ancient world, so is the town of Leon, or rather Massaya (in Nicaragua) the centre of the new; andif the tonguo of land (Afteen miles) which separates its two lakes from the Pacific Ocean were cut through (he means that the San Juan river, up iuio Lake Nicara- gua, as it is, would answer for the time being), Ser To Mvsio—The Tammany ticket as endorsed by Mozart. Tar Woman's Surrrace bill was virtually Aefeated by postponemont in the English House of Commons yesterday by a majority of one hundred and twenty-s:x against the second feading. It may appear ungallant. It may te accepted asa fresh proof of British conser- | she would command, by “her céttral position, vatism, A resolution tided — tempo- | the entire coast of North and South America, rusily. Like Constantinople, Massaya is situated be- tween two extensive natural harbors (the two lakes) capable of giving shelter to the largest fleets, safe from attack. The State of Nicaragua can become, better thaa Constantinople, the ne- cessary route for the great commerce of the world,” and much more to the same effect. In the event, then, of the failure to discover any available route at the Darien isthmus fora sbip canal, we would urge upon General Grant an active movement in behalf of a canal over the Nicaragua route as the only available in- teroceanic canal route on the Continent, andas the route which, from its geographical posi- tion, is the best of all routes for the United States, * Veinom—Aut 13 Qvirt.—Our despaichos from Paris this morning reveal nothing new or particularly interesting. Crowds continue to aneke an appearance at nightfall, the troops and > police are always at hand, and the troops sud pelice find but little difficulty in preserv- dng the peace without bloodshed. It is now generuly admitted that danger is past. The ‘terial changes are not to take place until .e verification of the plebiscite by the Chambers, vg Easrern Question, the really important es. wnost attractive and interesting Oid World ucstion of the day, is. specially analyzed in ‘'r correspondence from St. Petersburg pub- lished this morning. Our special writer pre- sents the Russian with the Austrian and other Gorman views of the subject, as they were atated to him by a learned and unprejudiced Russian, who rejoiced in the opportunity of Making the Muscovite opinion known to the American people through our columps. Tne Empzror aNp Empress or Franog drove out in Paris yesterday. They visited the quarters of the metropolis which were disturbed by riot during four days past. Their Majesties were in an open carriage, Courage and beauty allied have ever had influence— power over the minds of the people, of the explorations of the Isthmus of Darien | YURK HERALD PF Congrese—@ao New Army Bilt~Tho Ques tion of Subsidies. The Army biil is fairly under way ‘ia the Senate and was disoussed with on apparent intention of business yesterday, Several im- portant amendments were made with loss talk than usuilly characterizes some patent right bills or bills to eroot plors or establish a coua- try post road. The first aection, reducing the army to twenty-five thousand mea, was amended so as to mako the numbor thirty thousand; another section, providing for tho retirement of incapacitated offiocra, was amended 90 as to except those who received injuries by wounds or disease in tho line of duty, and the new pay schedule was stricken out altogether. Tho bill is a complete substi- tute for Logan’s bill, passed some time ago in the House, and although there are many ob- jeotions to it, still it is much preferable to the other, It reduces the army too much, but with our recuperative volunteer system we are not likely to suffer for agldiers in caso of any more critical juncture than Indian raids. The pay of the officers is not re- duced, and the disabled officers are not ungenerously thrust out into the cold, and in that much, at least, it is better than Logan's sweeping bill, One amendment, however, was adopted which we cannot favor. It probibiis army officers, whether on active service or re- tired, from holding civil offices, and the result, in one instance of the amendment, will be to compel Minister Sickles, who lost leg in the war, to retura from Spain next June, when the year's leave of absence by which he acquired the right to go as Minister to that country shall have expired, or else withdraw from the army. In this, as in numerous o'her cases, the amond- ment will work injuriously. Retired army offi- cers, by virtue of education and patriotic ser- vice, are generally especially fit for civil offices, and it is as wrong to compel them to remain idle in the army whon they can perform civil service as io drive thom from it because there is more pleasant work than quelling re- bellions to be done, The bill to revive the shipping interests was the main topic in the House. It proposes to revive American commerce mainly by a system of subsidies and bounties, which is at least not the very best way to bring about a good end. The bill was discussed up to the morning hour, when it weat over under the rules until Tuesday next, Mr. Lynch, who takes charge of the bill, seems inclined to discuss it fairly, and we hope it will be thoroughly debated, in order that we may have the sense of the House on the best way in which to regain our mari- time prominence. Some discussion ensued on the delay occasioned by the slow considera- tion of the Tariff bill, and Mr. Wood demanded to know if it was the Intention to work at the same rate throngh all of it, when there was little or no probability of its ever passing, Mr. Schenck insisted on going on with it; and it will probably be continued until its number- less sections ave all amended and revised ont of shape. é Ao RD) 20 5 RR NT AD le Sala Tho British Chaunel Yacht Race. The Grst channel race between the Eng- lish yacht Cambria and the American yacht Sappho having resulted inthe defeat of Mr. Ashbury's boat the socond race comes off to-. day. Sixty milos to windward and return was too much for the English yacht, and sbe gave up the race without running the course. Nautical minds are speculating upon the reason why she was beaten, as the lawyers would say, by defnult. They think that as the wind was too strong ehe Gould not carry cénvas enough to compete with the immense stretch of sail which the American yacht spread, and per- haps they are right. In addition to ber regu- lnr fore and aft sails the Sappho mounted a mafatopm st etoysail und flying jib, an im- mense pressure aloft aud forward, which not only gave her a.great advantage, but proved her capacity to carry a heavy load. of canvas in a stout breaze with perfect safety. Under these circumstances what could the Oam- bria do but give ap the race? These are the yiews of nautical and practical minds, but those who look at all contests for victory as a matter of profit and loss—of gambling, in fact—inoline to the opinion that the Cambria was “playing possum,” and that Mr. Ashbury meant to lose the first race in order to make high stakes on the other two, The facts, how- ever, do not bear out this idea; On the con- trary, all reports show that the Cambria did not win the race simply because she could not carry eail enough to compete favorably with her adversary. We must be content with this solution of the question, If she wins the other races—sailing under better cireum- stances—wo shall be content also, But the American publio will wateh her ocean race in July next with fealings of deeper and more Tue Proposed Telegraph Cable Betwoon America and China, Judging from the interest Congress is taking in the project to establish telegraphic commu- nication between the western shores of this Gontinent and China and Japan, there is reason to hope we shall see in the course of a few years, at latest, this important object accom- plished. We notice that Mr. Cyrus W. Field was before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Tuesday, for the purpose of giving information as to the practicability of laying telegraph cables under the Pacific Ocean and the best route for them. There have been two routes proposed. Tae firat was that of Mr. Perry McD. Collins, by the way of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, who has had a bill before Congress for nearly two years. The other is a new one proposed by Mr. Oyrus W. Field by the way of the Sand- wich Islands, Both these routes are regarded practicable by Mr. Field, it is reported, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. It appears, indeed, that Mr. Field rather favors the route and plans of Mr. Collins by way of the Aleutian Ielands, this route being shorter and having a number of landing places for cables which would overcome the difficulties of laying and operating cables of thousands of miles in length under the vast ocean. At the same time he claims that the Sandwich Islands route has a commercial im- portance the other has not, The committee is carefully considering the whole subject. It is a very important matter. Telegraphic com- munication with China and Japan will com- plete the circuit of the globe, and we shall indeed realize Shakspeare’s poetic and pro- phetic idea of putting a girdle round the earth in forty minutes. This line would connect the western shores of America with Europe by the way of Russia and India. Being already connected with Europe the other way by the Atlantic cable, the girdle would be complete. ‘The value of such a connection with China, Japan and the East generally to the commerce of the United States and to the cause and pro- gress of civilization cannot well be over-esti- mated, We hope Congress will take a broad view of this matter, and will not let rival schemes or speculators retard the great work. Let the best project and route be ‘adopted, and let Congress foster the enterprise in every legitimate way possible. The next great work in this age of marvels should be the telegraph between China and America, Art in France. By a special correspondence from Paris, dated on the 29th of April, we are enubled to anticipate the opening ceremonial of the an- nual Artistic Exhibition of France, which was to take place in the national capital the next following Sunday. Our special writer de- seribes the official arrangements which had been made for the management of the exhi- bition and for its conduct tothe close, He writes of a grand and civilizing evont—the iaspiration of the gospel of popular refine- ment, the undying glory of the spark which was in the beginning, lighting up the human intellect to-day for the elevation of humanity. Over three thousand works of art had been already classified. They are the productions of painters and sculptors. Giraud illustrates or recalls everyday life as it existed in its simplicity two thousand years since in & gorgeous painting representing a bird charmer of that age exhibiting his tricks in public. Robert Fleury is effec- tive in a fine painting in which he portrays the sacking of ancient Corinth by the Romans, These two efforts give great hope of the bril- liant future of the modern Freach school of art. Wyld shows forth a portion of the city of Venice reposing in a blaze of noonday sun- light. Asacompanion work the samo master presents a fine landscape of Tivoli, an Italian sunset reverie enjoyed near the antique tem- ple and the soothingly murmuring stream, and amid luxuriant verdure. Vibert gives a moat amusing Gulliver, and Bougnereau, May, Bruné, De Beaumont, Taintin, Giraud the elder, Lambini, Pasini, with a host of others, teach France and the world what has been and what weare, Nature in its infancy and in age, in peace and in war, the beginning, the life march and the end. Trémict contributed some magnificent pieces of sculpture. Our special Paris correspondence on att is thus at once critical, exhaustive and instructive. Tue Spawna Kinuwe Season on THE Raitroaps.—To-day we give the par- ticulars of a butchery by collision on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, another of the horrifying stories of which we are apparently never to hear the last. Spring always brings a multitude of these painful re- citals, There are various reasons why rail- road accidenis should be especially numerous at that time. Generally these reasons relate to the bad construction of the roads. Freshets undermine the ties, the thaw of the hitherto frozen ground changes the level and the weight of a train snaps an unsupported rail, &c. An- other series of causes is related to the increas- ing business that comes with spring and the necessity of puiting on new or extra trains— trains that have no regular place in the time tables, The accident by which eighteen lives have just been lost in Missouri appears to have been of this class. It occurred through collision of an ‘“‘extra freight train,” anda misnoderstanding of orders—that is, through bad management on the part of the railroad authoritied: Forpixa tau Posts DaBt.—Secretary Bout- well’'s Fanding bill is virally dead, but it seems the scheme of funding the public debt willbe accomplished upon terms midte favor- able to our government than the defunct bill proposed, A prominent Parisian banker was before the Ways'and Means Committee yester- day and made a statement showing that the entire twelve hundred millions of our public debt could be funded in Europe at four per cent upon bonds having forty years to run. Congress, however, is opposed to issuing long bonds, as our financial condition will enable us to pay off our obligations within thirty years, even with material reduction of the present oppressive rate of taxation. The Ways and Means Committee have wisely determined to report in favor of but one class of bonds for the whole amount to be bonded with four per cent interest. Gustave Fiovrens is not “wanted” by Napoleonfrom London. The Emperor appears to be perfectly willing that that gentleman Tne Housk Bankina aNp Cunneycy Com- mirtre has decided to reject all amendments to the bill reported a few days singe to secure additional banking ficllities ta to redisiribute the banking circulation, this bill, which pro- vides for retiring ninety miNiona of three per cent certificates and greenbacks and sitbstitut- ing national bank notes therefor, is so mant- festly in the faterest ofthe national banks that it has scarcely a ghost of a chance of becom- ing law. Business in Congresa is sufficiently behindhand without the House occupying its time with measures so universally condemned by the people that a majority of members have | not the courage to record their votes in its favor. Ix tag Exrrapition+COase of Thomas Johnson, @ British seaman, who killed his méSsmate at the masthead of the British bark Morning Light at sea, Commissioner Osborn ruled yesterday that as the killing was only manslaughter he could not be extradited under the terms of the treaty, He was thereupon discharged from custody. Such a ruling may be according to the letter of tle law, but we think ‘that some principle of equity should insure a trial and punishment of the man thus guilty of manslaughter, The law is plainly defective, or he would be lable to trial some- where. Tur Enaxise Newsparges accgpt tho re- sult of the international yacht race “in good part.” Areal good sign, Joho Bull's natu- ral disposition vindicating itself despite poli- tlos and projudicg, Liberty with frateraliy, as he pleases, UDAY, MAY 13, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEKT, should continue to enjoy the hospitalities and | dated at two o'clock this morning. Our cable freedom of the ‘‘sacrod aoil of Britain” just as | telegrams of that bour report the city per- The Muy Anniversarics. Tho annual season of grace--the May euni- versaries—whioh frequently opens amid spring showers or chronio rainy weather, commenced this year under slightly more stimulating au3- pices, to wit—gip and milk, The anniversary season was inaugurated on Sunday before last. On that day the Rev. Mr. Smyth, having invited a leaky reporter to partake of some refresh- mente after his (the reyerend’s) usual piquant aermon, tho aforesaid reporter made o supplemental report thereon, in which he portrayed the divine at a feast in a restau- rant, at which “gin and milk” werd tho prin- elpal features of the bill of fare, With so stimulating an inauguration it was reasonable to suppose that the anniversaries would pro- ceed without cfd water being injected. into them, And it scems that the deacons of the offending clergyman's church helped to this canglusion by, as it were, pitching their un- fortunate pastor. out of s cauldron of boiling Presbyterian brimstone and landing him high and dry upon the cold siab of an wusymps- thizing, anti-gio-and-milk-drinking congrega- tion, Even with this spirited start it is difloult to discern whither the enthusiasm which usually | attonded these May anniversaries in times gone by has taken its flight, The HeRaup report- ers have given ample and comprehensive de- scriptions of the various anniversary meetings thus far held, but they all are barren, ‘“‘siale, flat and unprofitable,” so far as the exhibit in the grand old causo of Christian progress is concerned. The Rev. Boss Smyth’s weakness for gin and milk has given way to a sort of milk and water arrangement all round the re- ligious Santedrims of the current year. What's the matter? What's the cause of this depression in one of the most holy of causes, the mogf sanotified of occasions? We will endeavor to explain :—It is bocause @ morbid and diabolical sentiment of free love and un- cleanly affiniiies in the flesh has been allowed to creep into the community to the doemoralization of Christian and to the annihilation of domestio ties and affections. It is because a wicked and unseru- p-lous press, the organs of Beelzebub in his most wrathful moods, has spread upon its bat- winged messengers of thought the most devil- ish, the most atrocious dogmas that ever cursed civilized society and sent it headlong to perdition, It is because our fashionable church worshippers think more of ‘‘style,” of silks and satins, of diamonds and rubies, and of bird of paradise feathers, than they do of a paradise of eternal peace, loveliness and purity, ‘‘where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.” It is because our | rulers are corrupt and corrupting; that money changers have crept back into the tabernacle of the law, whence they were once | driven by an outraged public opinion, and that general social demoralization and rottenuess are allowed to exist without the Caristian Church plunging in “a sharp, incisive” knife and cutting out the cancer at once. Thus to gin and milk cocktails for cler- gymen, milk and water sermons for con- gregations and « wretched and infamous press that advocates or screens the commis- sion of criminal commerce between parties bound together by all laws, human and divine, may we attribute the existing lukewarmness inthe May anniversaries thus far the present year. Between free love, lax morals, corrupt officials and gin and milk there is no wonder there’ should bea subsidence in tho spirit which hitherto has led our Christian fellow citizens to remember the poor heathen, to clothe, instruct and educate him, and, taking an African turn, remember, in the words of the lamented Mungo Park :— He hid no mother to bring him gin and milk, No wie to briug him corn, Amen, It appears that wo are to have another sbort spell of Italian opera, and in the Academy of Music at that. Thero are many shadows of non-success hanging over that iostitution, but we hope that they will be broken by the bright aunsbine of this new enterprise. A long geason at this time of the year would, of course, be most unwise, and certainly unpro- fitable; therefore the manager, Signor Albites, promises only three nights, and one matince of opera, Tho artists are known to the public for their excellent reputation on the lyric stage, and wil bo all the more welcome because We are prepared to enjoy a class of talent whose merit cannot be disputed. Madame Giazzaniga, Miss Kollogg and Brignoli are good names.to guaranteo a fair bill of opera, beginning on Monday night with “Il Trovatore,”* Gazasniga singing the contralio park gf Aauténa and Miss Kellogg for tbe first time undertak'ag the character of Leonora, - There is a novelty about this cast which must attract attention, and will be worth a litile curious criticism, For the other performances we notice that “Martha” and “Lucia” are selected. In the former a débu- tante, Miss Clara Perl, is announced, This brief spurt of Italian opera is probably but a prelude to a full winter season which is to follow. Italian opera has not paid in this oity—neither the managers nor the public having reaped any advantage from it—but the reason ig very plain. The management was wretched and the stock!olders wore voracious, We trust that the attempt to give us an early summer taste of opera will be encouraging enough to induce some competent managér té organize an acceptable company for a good winter season. Meantime the song birds, whon the coming week’s work is over, will betake themselves to the fashionable watering places, there to delight the ears of the loungers by sea shore and spa with their delectable melody. We wish the undertaking of Signor Albites and his company all success, He has secured admirable artists, and with proper atiention to the orchestra and chorus can hardly fail to give satisfaction. The Speculative Excitement in Wall Stroet. The old adage that ‘‘every dog wiil have his day” is we!l exemplified in Wail street where tho “bulls” and “bears” have their alternate ups and downs with recurring con- stancy. Yesterday there was great excite- ment at the Stock Exchange over a contest which resulted in a decided victory for the “bears,” who had been long kept down by the “‘bulls”—ia fact, for several months, or, to go back farther, since the last great ‘‘bear” victory—the panic of September, It had been a profitable spring with the ‘‘bulls,” who put prices up utterly regardless of their enemies and made Wall street so couleur de rose that the hizh road to fortune seemed to con- sist in buying anything on the stock list, Yesterday the infatuated outsiders who are really the victims and their money the spoils of the contests between the rival animals of Wall street, were taught anotier severe lesson concerning the uncertainty of human affairs in general and of Wall street projects in par- ticular. The stock market underwent a sharp decline and caught the speculators busy build- ing their financial air castles like a thunder shower overtaking a summer picnic party. Speculation has taken hold of so many people that fresh victims are ever ready to furnish new material for the plans of the combinations who rule the prices of stocks irrespective of merit and intrinsic value. So that when the smoke of yesterday's struggle between the “bulls” and ‘‘bears” has cleared away a fresh campaign will be begun. Fives in the Woods. The recent extensive and damaging fires in the woods had not all the same origin. Some appear to have been due to the recklessness of people who burn the woods for some advantage they thereby have in the huckleberry crop— and some to a merely devilish love of so- called “fun.” But a great many appear to have originated in the communication of fire to the lght, dry grass and dead leaves by sparks from passing locomotives. In the weather we had for some days previous to the last week of rain the dead grass on the moun- tain sides was like so much tinder, and a flying spark dropped in this would be fanned to a flame by the lightest breeze in a few minutes. Thousands of these sparks started flames at differeat points, and hence the widely extended ravages of the conflagrations. This is one of the penalties the people pay for the great boon of railroads—and they must apparently take the good and bad-together in considering the result. It is certainly worthy the thought of the people whether some general policy in re- gard to clearing land within a certain distance from each side of the railways should not be adopted to avert the ruin of these fires. This might be done with due regard to the conser- vation of a sufficient growth of wood in the widely wooded districts in which this trouble oceurs. : Tug Foxny Fisk.—Fisk keeps the peo- ple laughing and we trust enjoys it. Sometimes we wonder a little whether the Erie stockholders laugh with the rest. Here have gone against the company in the great State of New Jersey several suits, the aggregate damages in which were the mere beggar’s fee of four thonsand dollars. The suits went by default. Fisk would not put in an appearance forsuchasum. The mere sight of him is worth more than that, especially at the head of the Ninth regiment. Doubtless it was a parade or something of that sort that kept him away. Versatile and volatile as is this astonishing tumbler in the railroad ring he has not yet found out how to be in two places atonce, He cannot train with the Ninth regi- ment and defend at the samo time the suits brought against the company 23 & consequence of his domineering arrogance. And which shall he neglect? Not the regiment and his military glory, of course, so let the dull stook- holders pay. RerorMs is Great Briraty.—Reform goes on in Great Britain. How she has changed! How rapidly she changes! Disraeli’s Reform bill wasa big thing. But how much more wonderful have been the fruits of that bill, It gave birth to the Irish Church Reform move- meni, to the Irish Land bill, to the Scottish Education bill, to the English Education bill, and latterly to the introduction of a bill by the party now in power in favor of vote by bal- lot, The movements in France have been of such a character that we have almost lost sight of Great Britain. But the quiet reforms ac- complished by Parliamentary action in the British Istes have been even more sweeping than those effected by the imperial will in France. All over intelligence grows. Allover the people speak out, All over governments yield. Thus it is that the nations march on to ety ela ets Our Evropgan Srgo1at CoRRESPONDENCE, which appears in apother column, embraces letters from our writers in Berlin and London, They speak of the commercial and social eco- nomies of the day; of trade, of marriage and public morality. The marriage law question engages the attention of the English Parlia- ment; the Zoli Parliament of Germany look to a Teutonic Panslavism by international traffic, while tho immoralities are set forth— pretty much as with ourselyes—by the appear- ance of an English cassock ina London law court. Tax Very Latest News From Panis is Tae Crresratep Burke-Garvever case is up again—tbis time in a civil suit before the Surrogate. Mrs. Burke, the daughter of tie deceased Captain Alexander, who so rago- lutely kept up her search for the murderers of her father, is apparently not yet hopeless. It appears from the proceedings yesterday that four thousand dollars more of the dead Cap- tain'’s money has been recovered, making twelve thousand dollars in all, and his cour ageous daughter certainly deserves to recover the whole of it. Tur “Hus” Wittina.—The Boston Trav- eUer of the 9th instant says:—‘‘ Hundreds of men in this city are seeking in vain for employment. Although business is tolerably good, the work here is insufficient for the workingmen. Many boys between fifteen and eighteen years of age are idle for this reason.” And the authorities have just exhibite] a dis- ‘position to deprive another class from “‘plying their avocation.” Between the two, what will become of the pretentious moral city of the East? Sir Jony Youne opened the Dominion Par- liament yesterday with the usual address from the throne. He stated that the Red River expedition would continue onite way, notwith- standing the rumors of peace with the Mani- tobians, though all fears of the Fonians were about allayed, and suggested that the Canadian fisherieg would be fully protected. footly tranquil wud loyal, Good.