The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THKATRY, Bowery.—Lion oy Nunia—Goop FOR NOTHING—TAR RB Daw WALLACK’S THEATR WALUACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th stroe.— pera AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Frov- FRENCH TH aoe EATRE, 14th at. and 6th ay. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Gnanp VaRinrY ENTERTAUNMENT, OLYMPIC THE. 4 — SOLYMPIC THEATRE, Brond.way.—Tux Fare Ox wire GRAND OPRRA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and Sh —THE PWELVE TEMPTATIONS. PLOT AND WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtiech wt,—M .tinee daily. Performance every evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tux Drama oF Mos- aui7o. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street.—Afvernoon and Even- ing—SPLING TINK SINGING FLAsT, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tur Lone 5iuike BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—ITALIAN OPERa— In tRovaToRE. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Couto Vooar- 16M, NERO ACTS, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Vooa.isM, NEGRO MINSTERLBY, £0. RYANT'S OPERA HOUSE. Tammany Building, 14th LBYAN1'S MINSTRELS. Matinee at 2m KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.— Cue Cuow Hi. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—HooLey's MIN- GTRELS—PANORAMA, PROGKESS OF AMERIOA, 40. BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlantic and Clin- ton sts.GRanp CoNOoFRT. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av, between 58th and 56th #l.—THEODORE THOMAS POPULAR CONCERT ae TRIPLE SHEE - ” enna May 19, 1870. New York, Thursday, 8 OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. conn * Page. 4—Advertizemonts. 2—Adver tse. ens. 3—Nasiinxton: Fashionable Wedding Among the Co ored Bon Ton; Continued Discussion on the BN to Force the Fiftee:ta Ameudm nt; P.ossaye of th” Naval Appr priation Bill ia the House; He vy Reduct.on of Officer’ Pay: Debate o the BIl oO Revive te Shipping In- tere.’ —New Jer ey Nationa! Gu ird—Mad ienead to Murder: A W ie Shot by Her Husba.d—The he ure of a Matt mer for Sigg ing—New York Cry News—The Jamaica S howl Expo- sre~A Rema‘ka ie Cise—Probabl> Homi- cide ~M sical . nd Theatr'cat No es—The Cath- ove Prove tory—rh? Cherry Street Fire—How fare Th ev’ Work—Rou River: D parture of Pea JPOOps; yn Aven's Fiting the Indi rt —Suons Min ied O.d Maids—Our Failoa bray 8. S—M d-umme- Ketreats: The Searon of 1970 at Long Bra ‘ch; ihe Hotels. Race Course, Theai- reals, F stitig, Kowin. and Bathing—Meeting of ine Boar] of Reatth—The Fatu e of Amer- cen Women—O thodoxy ad Wowen's Ri¢h's—Proceedin, 8 im the@few York Couris— Volvic 1 sotes—A Sad Story’6 Love and Mad- nes—sin ular Suic le—A Poly tet Parha- bleh ce Transfers—Marrlages and » ans 6—Euttoiials: Leoding Articlc on The Late Elect’on and Its Result, th: City aw te, What Next?—P:r onal Inte li,enoo—Amusement An- no neem ut. Y—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World; The Fr uch Viebtst um Verted by the Parl - met; huparia! and National Opposition to Pop Vfaitvitty; Crime and Outrage in ita.y—The | teruational Yacht Race; Another trumph for the Sp ho—The Sweet In- dian Werwh op; Meetin of the In- dina =Commis ton~The National Game. Oenng Day of the Huison Riv Ama.eur Rowing Association—Coiu abit © Jege Law S-h) l—Lecture by Ed.th 07 man—Obituay—Kin 1s County Bovrd ot pervisors—Dog Fanclers on thelr Mus Evangelical Press Association—Bus ness tives. S=F.na ¢ al and Commercial Reportz—Real Estate Mo tters— \dvertisements, he Revicide Con- Rights Question 68] spindc¥ Pot: The We gud Keligion in England; 5t. Paul's Catedral, Loi don, in Danger from an Undergeound Rad v ‘rhe oe Murder—Fast Lite in Jer- w York City Steets ad Sewers— Larue Fire at Greenp imi—Brookiya Cty News—Pubic Fdaca'ion—The Mo vument to General Steuben—Almost a Ratiroad Catas- troph Sh pplug Jnvelligence — Adveriise- mets. 41—Avvertisements, AQ—Advertisements. A CompretTe Cavina In—That of the cop- perhead organ of the ‘‘young democracy” in its rejoicings over the glorious results of the Jate election. Whatsays Jim Crow ?—‘‘Every time I wheel abont I do j st so.” We Isapverrenrty CHaxceo the Health Board yesterday with refusing to assist Dr. Carnochan, when it was really the Quarantine Commissioners who were guilty. The Health Board, we believe, bas steadily evinced a willingness to perform its duties. Taz Tump Caannet Race.—The Sappho has won, as will be seen by the despatch else- where, the third of the races that were ar- ranged between her and the yacht Cambria. This makes the most emphatic victory con- ceivable, To beat an opponent three times in succession implies the greatest possible superiority in the boat; and what renders such a triumph still more remarkable is the fact that the race was made with a supposed advanta ze to the defeated yacht in regard to the wind. Surely Mr. Ashbury must have greatly mistaken eiiher his own craft or the craft against bim. ae Tue Merrine av Couper Insriture last night, to advocate a pacific course to- wards the JIndiuns, mainly indulged in reading letters and hearing speeches, <A delegation from the Cherokee Natioa was present and explained the working of the governmental system of that tribe. They had been many ye ago placed upon reserva- tions and had th treaties with the government, apparently lies the only peaceable soluion of the Ind question. rei Let all the t $ go upon rvations and keep their tres and there is 10 probability of trouble. Tar FE Mais.—Tbe Furopean mail at this port yest ing details of our c 8th of May. The exuibit appears in our col- umns to-day. It reporis the fearfally fatal results of an explosion of kerosens oil in a od interest- news telegrams to the village in Ireland and the consequent burning | to death of four persons. Caj\ain Cutting, who traded to New York from Liverpool in command of a Williams & Guion steamship, committed suicide by shooting. The details of the French regicide conspiracy plot are interesting. Religion was meking an extraor- dinary progress in England, many eminent State Churchmen threatening to secede to the Greek Church. The world “‘alill moves” and “zoos rund,” ~ NEW YUKK HERALD THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1870.—TRIPLE SHERRY. The Lato Election and ite Resulte—The Ony and the State—What Next? The democrats in the late election made o clean sweep of the city and walked the course over the State. The election went by default. There was no figit on the part of the repub- licans. In this city they polled less than one- half their vote of 1868—or twenty-two thou- sand against nearly forty-eight thousand—and throughout the State the returas show that the “general apathy” of 1870 in the repub- lican camp has exceeded that of 1869, The democrats are jubilant, and regard their over- whelming success in city and State as full of hopeful signs of the future, Tho ropublicaa organs are shocked and disgusted. Greeley says:—‘‘We thank the rufians and blackiegs who are paid to do the voting of Tammany Hail for giving us so perfect a specimen of their handiwork in yesterday's election,” and that the “legal vote of the city was about half polled yesterday ;” but that the ‘illegal was out in all its glory.” The posts of the Post tell us that in this city, in this election, “there was a regular and well es‘ablished scale of prices for repeating, varying, with the urgency of the case, from fifteen doilars to fifty cents for a fraudulent vote,” and that ‘‘one ceader of a gang of rafflans paid off his men opealy, in sigat of the orderly citizens gathered around the polling booth,” and so on to the end of the chapter. But whatever was the extent of the frauds in this election on the one side, and of the apathy, distrust and disgust prevailing on the other side, the established facts are that Tammany is in absolute possession of the city govern- ment in all its departments and all its details, and holds possession of the State. The Tam- many democracy are now clothed with all the powers of the nw Charter for the administra- tion of our municipal affairs, and they are clothed with all the responsibilities attaching to these powers, Mayor Hall is our municipal President, and the two Boirds of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen stand toward him in the relation of the two houses of Congress, while the heads of the several departments may be considered his Cabinet advisers and subordinates. The important matter of dis- posing of the money of the cily treasury rests mainly with the new city councils, They may expand or contract our annual city expendi- tures to the extent of millions if they choose, and while we do not expect much contraction, we have the right to demand, as we do demand, some practical illustrations of respect for the taxpayers in the matter of jobs. We are told that the trustworthy men in both boards of the new corporation lugisla- ture are in a small minority; but if they are over one-fourth the whole namber in either board'in behalf of proper retrenchments and reforms the city will be safe, backed, as we believe ths honest mon will be, by the Mayor. At all events, Tammany, being fully invested with all the powers of our city gov- ernment, {s henceforth responsible for its administration, good or bad, honest or corrupt, and law and order and the tax levy will be the tests upon which she will be judged. The election throughout the State on the State judiciary ticket has gone by default. What does this signify? In connection with the overwhelm'ng democratic vote of the city it signifies that the republicans of the State give up the State; that against the fifty, sixty or seventy thousand democratic majority of the city, as the case may require, there is no use of a republican contest in the rural districts to recover the State. It ix eharged, too, that large detachments of the repubiicaus of the city have become so hopelessly demoralized by the money of Tammany that nothing can be done with them; that, in a word, the four or five millions of dollars which, it is alleged, Tammany appropriates to herself from the tax levy is too mach for the republican party in the city or State to overcome. The State, then, may be considered demo- evatic for an indefinite time to come, This qustion, however, is not yet fairly settled, but will be in our next November election, which will embrace the election, by districts, of the whole House delezation to the next Coagress. This will undoubtedly bring out the full republican vote of the State, and the full strength of Grant’s administration, At the same time the new election and registration law for this city will be brought to. bear upon repeaters and ballot stuff-rs, and as this law is the equivalent demanded of and granted by Tawmany for the azsistance of the republi- cans in passing our new city Charter, the republicans, if honest in this bargain, must calculate upon cutting out a good many thou- sand fraudulent democratic votes under this new election law. The results of the late election, however, in coanection with our State elections of 1869 and 1868, establish the democracy in full pos- session of the city and the State, and place Tammany Hall in an admirable position, not ouly for holding the State, but for the reor- ganization of the democratic party of the Union, and for the control of the Presidential Convention of the party in 1872. ‘The Quarantine Commission—Whe is Health Officer There is a popular notion that Dr. Carno- chan, the distinguished surgeon of the city, was recently appointed Health Officer to this port by his Excellency Governor Hoffman; but there is a Dr. Bell, one of the Quarantine Commissioners, who evidently has a notion that he is really the person charged with the very important duties of the Health Office, and that it is a little impertinent for any other person to take any steps or make any inquiries tending to such a supervision of port affairs as may prevent the importation of disease. The sooner, however, that this gentleman gets over that delusion and discovers that he is only one of anumber of gentlemen charged with the custody of certain State property the better it will be for his dignity in public office and for the health of the cily. The Board of Quaran- tine Commissioners is a clumsy con‘rivance of legisla.ive stupidity. Its principal functions are to have charge of the State property devoted to quarantine purposes and to make or supervise certain contracts. In its prac- tical operations it seems to consider | that it is especially charged with these | functions, in order that it may embar- rass the Health Officer in the discharge of his legitimate duties. It is to be supposed that this body was created to facilitate the labors of the Health OMcer, and to provide him with all the necessiry moans for establishing and maintaining o proper quarantine, in order that his attention might not bo unduly taken from the more strictly prof ssioaal line of his duties. But how do the Commissioaers accomplish this? They furnish nothing, They retard, delay, quibble and promise, And now, at the end of four months’ fumbling at their duties, tuey have furnished no hospital ship; and when this necessity of public safety is de- manded of them by Dr. Carnocha, who sees the peril of their delay, they announce their intention to send down a hulk which, a little while ago, they declared unsafe and unfit for the service. What kind of public officers are these? Our Scandinavian Immigration. Among the many new features that have marked the enormous influx of people from European countries to the United States dur- ing the last three or four years the augmented number of Scandinavians is especially remark- able, The Swedes, indeed, fiyured impor- tantly in the early settlement of Eastern Penn- sylvania, and our aspiring sister, the city of Philadetphia, traces gome of her oldest family stock to Scandinavian origin; but during a whole centary past the” delegation coming to us from the shores of the Skagerack and Cat- tegat, the Sound and the Baltic, had been comparatively feeble until within the last ten or fifteen years, when Danes, Swedes and Nor- wegians began to appear in goodly proportion on the lists at Castle Garden. Quite recently their numbers have increased so rapidly as to morit special remark, the quota coming in dur- ing 1869 amounting, in various channels, to more than twenty thousand, Hitherto Iowa, Wisconsin and, above all, Minnesota have been the States most favored by their choice. The latter beautiful region bas been the particular pet of the Swedes, who find in its noble pine forests, its romantic hills, its rich verdure and its numberless sparkling lakes, enchanting reminders of Sédermania and others of the middle provinces of their own picturesque country. Now the compa- triots of Gustavus Wasa and the descendants ofthe ancient vikings are looking nearer to the sea coast of our Northern States for their new homes, and, as we noted a few days ago, a very considerable colony of Norwegians will this summer settle in Maine. Meanwhile other projects are on foot to bring out hun- dreds of families direct from the Danish poris to New York, and thence convey them west- ward and northward together. A Norwe- gian line of steamers, just started and running from Christiania to Havre, France, willlargely feed this channel of Immigration. Only last week more than one thousand five hundred Swedes and Norwegians landed at this port, and during the summer the aggregate will be raised beyond any previous geasdn. In these facts we find a fresh source of con- gratulation. Throughout Scandinavia, but particularly in Norway, the system of popular education is such that ignorance of the rudi- ments is an exception, and these sturdy Norse- men come to us, not oaly with the hale, hearty constitutions of their northern clime and rugged nurture, but intelligent and well informed mentally ; souad and clear in morals and politically imbued with an unconquerable love of free institutions and manly independ- ence, They are seldom without a fair supply of means for immediate establishment and rarely linger in our great cities, In fine, they are most worthy, desirable and welcome citizens, Beneath skies less stormy than those that inspired the traditions of Thor and Odin they will find a broader development for the solid virtues that have ever distinguished the old Norse race, and no doubt while largely augmenting our material wealth a3 4 nation will discover incentives enough to put forth the same scientific, literary and artistic genius which has made the universities of Lund, Upsala and Copenhagen renowned and has given to modern times a Linneus, an CEhblenschliiger, a Thorwaldsen, the graceful pen of Christian Hans Andersen, and to America the practical skill of Ericsson, the engineer. The Mississippi Valley the Levees. We see the question of reclaiming the fertile flats of the lower valley of the Mississippi is attracting the attention of Congress. It seems that the State of Lonisiana, acting on the recommendation of the Louisville Commercial Convention, has chartered a joint stock com- pany, charged with the duty of reconstructing the embankments of the river, in order to secure this prolific region from overflow. The law incorporating this company gives it an annual revenue for twenty-one years, derived from taxation on the protected lands and their productions, which is to be collected like State taxes and placed in the treasury to the credit of the company. The main idea in the law is to bring to bear on this matter of the levees of Louisiana the energy, thrift and economy of private enterprise. Tn its connection with the cotton supply this work of protecting the rich savannahs of the lower Mississippi becomes a matter of absorb- ing interest. When we consider the immense effort which England has made, especially during the last ten years, to grow cotton throughout the world, we may well regard with favor all enterprises to preserve that monopoly in the plant which our transatlantic friends are trying so hard to wrest from us, It is computed that an efficient system of levees would reclaim and protect from inunda- tion in the State of Louisiana about twelve million acres of land, one-half of which is suitable for sugar growing and the other half adapted to cotton. All the development that this fertile territory needs isto be guarded from the floods of the river. With such pro- tection assured this region is capable of pro- ducing one million five hundred thousand hogsheads of sugar and three miilion bales of cotton. Protect this country from overflow and the labor question will settle itself. In a few years it will become the most densely populated portion of America. We hope Congress will lend a helping hand in this matter. For now over eight years this magnificoat empire—for it is one in its re- sources—has been at the mercy of the Missis- sippi floods, and all who cultivate there have had to do so at their peril. It is not only the duty of Congress, but it is the interest of the government and of the people at large, that every aid should be extended to accomplish this great worse. What Our Navy Is and What It Ought to Be. The Secretary of the Navy in his annual report recommends, as a nucleus for a navy, forty iron-clads or monitors, for coast defence ; ten first class armored vessels, for foreiga service; ten first class wooden steamships, each of three thousand tons; twenty second class steam sloops, of two thousand tons each ; twenty-five third class steam sloops, of one thousand tons, and fifty-five fourth class s‘eam gunboats, averaging six hundred tons, This would make our effective navy one hundred and sixty vessels. Ono hundred and twenty of these would bo employed in foreign squad- rons, one-half at atime, or an appropriation could be made anoually for sixty vessels of fall steam and sail power, the vessels for har- bor defence to be laid up and cared for until they are wanted. This would not be a largo navy for this country; on the contrary, it would be termed in England and France a small one. Still, for want of a better, it would suffice in these times of heavy taxation, and it wonld enable the naval authorities to send respectable squadrons abroad, andawvith the energetic cruising done by our officers we conld manage to have our flag shown in places where it has not been seen for many years. The current Navy Register presents an array of names of vessels,.and to the uninitiated it would appear that we had a sufficient number of ships of war to meet the demands of our com- merce. On close examination of the list, how- ever, it will appear that many of the ponderous names borne on the register belong to vessels that can render no assistance either in peace or war, There are at the present time forty- one wooden vessels in commission and four iron-clads, making an effective force afloat of forty-five vessels of all classes. In addition to these there are eleven vessels on the stocks that can be got ready in a year, seventeen steam vessels capable of being repaired, and fourteen iron-clads that can be got ready for harbor defence in two weoks—in all, eighty- seven vessels that can be made effective in time of war, although even from this total should be deducted five sailing vessels. Of the remaining vessels borne on the register ninety-eight are small tugs, fit only for dock- yard duty, vessels employed in the transporta- tion of stores, hulks, receiving ships, school- ships, practice ships and experimental vessels which have been proved to be worthless, So we have nearly one hundred vessels unfit for war purposes. This is an exhibit not grati- fying to an American heart, and it is these defects in our naval organization that we wish to see remedied, It will require something of an outlay to bring the number of vessels up to the standard required by the Secretary of the Navy's report ; but it must be remembered that this outlay will extend through ey: years—four or five at least; and even then we cannot hope to have the whole number required, unless Congress appropriate from year to year the amount of money asked for, We would recommend that Congress bogin the work at once, as it will take some time to collect the timber and shape the iron for our future war ships, so that at least a year will be lost in making preparations. We would also recommend that all the iron ships and all the engines bo built by contract at some of the private. machine shops in this country, and that outside shipbuilders be invited to offer plans for modelling and buildiag some of the wooden steam vessels, This willinaugurate a zealous competition between our naval con- structors and private shipbuilders. It will infuse new life into our dockyards and machine shops. and it will relieve the public mind, which will feel easy when Congress is seen taking some steps to place the navy in an p- cient condition. Now, what metaber of the Senate or House of Representatives will com- mence this work by offering the proper resolu- tion? Who will take the opportunity that is offered to make himself a name with the American people? © The Election—Signs of the Times. An immense democratic majority on the Aldermanic ticket was, of course, an inevit- able result, as the tickets were prepared; but. why, then, were they not prepared o:herwise ? This is likely to become a point of discussion with the republicams, and the discussion may not be without interest and profit to the people. An eminent merchant whom the republicans named as a candidate declined to run, and said that his party should name honest demo- crats; that they should lay aside party dif- ferences end make a fair effort to give the city ® good government, and this they could only do by making a ticket that would divide the democratic vote. The city republican organ says this was not done because of the corrup- tion of the republican party, It hints of the growth and extension to new purposes of the ring system. The ring system grew up in legislative bodies as a plan of combination against the public purse by men of different parties. They agreed to lay aside their dif- ferences on general topics whenever biils with money in them came up; for however widely at variance they might be on politics they were in full communioa in the matter of filling their pockets. Now, it seems this system has stridden beyond such little places as the Alder- manic Chamber; it is no longer confined to the party men elected to office, but prevails among party leaders even when nominations are made, The heads of a party, we now hear, will not nominate men on principle, will not study the interest of the party or the people, but will nominate with a view to giving the election to their opponents and getting a price from them. Is not this the dry rot of our elective system ? ABLE WeppiNas of the season came off in Washington yesterday. The bride is a @aughter o? a famuus restaurateur of that city, and te groom is a manufacturer and real estate broker doing business in Chicago and Richmond. Some of the prominent men In Washiagton were preseni at the ceremony, including Senator Revels, The presents were something marvellous in their way, All par- ties directly concerned are colored people. A Misston oF Peace.—The British Canadian supply boats en roule to Winnipeg have been allowed to pass through the Sault Saiate Marie Canal on the assurance that their mission is a mission of peace. Thisis according to Grant’s motto—“‘Let us have peace.” He does not want to quarrel, evea wita England. Cougress—The Enforcement of the Fi'tcenth Amendment, the Revival of the Shipping Interests and the Reduction of the Navy. The bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment, which has been the fruitful theme of a great mass of familiar buncombe from Senators lately, was laid aside yesterday, and the House bill on the same subject was taken up, We fear the verbose Senators hoped to make even this slight change @ pretext for another dis- play of garrulousness. There is not enough difference between the two to require a new argument; but Senators have long since got beyond the point when they cared to say any- thing new. They are content—nay, happy— now to say anything. In this particular case they found the pretext not sufficient, and after @ short discussion returned to the original Senate bill and rediscuss:d it all the after- noon, Inthe evening Mr. Cragin had a special benefit tendered him—that is, a special even- ing session ordered for him—and he de- livered a long argument favoring the enti- polygamy bill to the usual appreciative The-bill to revive American navigation and commercial interests reported by Mr. Lynch was ably discussed in the House. Mr. Butler shipping was to reduce the tariff rates on goods brought in American bottoms twenty per cent in wooden and twenty-five per cent in iron ships, He did not fear retaliation, which, he said, would only inure to the profit of the country, Mr. Calkin believed in se- curely protecting the shipbuilding interest and thought a drawback of duty on all shipbuild- ing material would serve the purpose. He thought the profit in building heavy fron ships and the great advantages gained by in- creased employment for mechanics should not belost. The whole question is merely one of competition. Sailing ships have had their day, and as long as iron steamers can be built cheapest on the Clyde they will be built there by American shipowners, The bill went over on the expiration of the morning hour, The Naval Appropriation bill was then taken up in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Eldridge, demo- crat, in the chair. The first paragraph, amended so ag to reduce the pay of officers, was agreed to by yeas 96, nays 20. A pro- position to increase the number of men to ten thousand was rejected. Thus it seems tho House is determined to treat our navy even more scurvily than it did our army. A good and efficent navy is especially necessary to main- tain a proper standing among nations either in war or peace, much more so than a large army. As it is even now our naval officers and our ships of war fail to present the imposing appearance that-the dignity of the nation demands on foreizn stations, especially in monarchical and half-civitized countries, where the pregznge Qf formidable men-of-war is the only protection sometimes 9 citi. zeos.- It must be remembered that out naval officers abroad are the direct supporters of our representatives abroad. The bill was discussed very quickly in committee and passed in the House with these amendments, We look to the Senate, which is more conservative on these matters, to prevent such evil legislation. @ur Revived Italian Opern Season. When people weary of repeated failures it is a luxury to find something like | success, Italian opera for some years past has been a decided failure for reasons not necessary now to repeat. Itis with infuite pleasure, there- fore, that the public welcome the appearance on the boards of the Academy of a company which fulfils all the requirements for an en- joyable season, and which is encouraged by general approbation of its excellegge, to pro~ tong Ths Bilginal eigigement which was an- nounced for only four performances, It ig evi- dent that opera goers will not easily permit the favorite silver-voiced tenor Brignoli to slip away, now that we have got him back again from the slopes of the Pacific and interme- @iate places where he has been charming our semi-civilized neighbors with his sweet tones and gathering a portion of the golden sands of California. Miss Kellogg’s first essay in a tragic part on the lyric stage—as Leonora— which, we may say, she robbed of its most disagreeable tragic characteristics and imparted to the réle a grace, a delicacy of feeling and a beauty of action waich are not traditionary, and which delighted quite as much as they surprised her audience, cannot well be spared for further enjoyment and keener criticism, Isabella McCulloch, a roseate flower from the gardens of South Carolina, about whose history there hangs that charm of romance which belongs more to the inner and domestic life of a girl studying and straggling for success than to the mere glare of stage fame, has made an impression on the public that will not be forgotten. If ever there was an illustration of what industry and careful study, added to fine natural gifis and inspired by a noble ambi- tion, can accomplish, the perfection which Miss McCulloch has reached as an artiste furnishes that example, which may he wisely followedby other students of the divine art. These before mentioned artists and our old favorite, Gazza- niga, are all familiar to us, as are many others of the company. We have heard them and pronomiced judgment upon them before. But in the contraito Mile. Clara Perl, whose mar- vellous voice has charmed the dil/ctanti of Vienna, the critics had something fresh to talk about, and they have written her down an excellent addition to the present company. There has been a long interval in the pro- duction of endurable Italian opera. Bad management and. other contingent circum- stances conspired to ruin the templs of the grand lyric drama allogether, Now that we have a really good company of known and approved artisis, and an apparently seasible management, let us hope thet they may remain for a lengthened spell, and form a nucieus for amore permanent season of Italian opera in the coming winter. Asorngr ATHANTIO SABLE Prosect.—It appears from the Washington news that the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Sonate has had referred to {ft the petition of the American Cable Company for establishing another Jine of telegraphic communication between this country and Europe. The com- pany proposes to lay a cable to the Azores, with branches to Lisbon, London, Havre and Amsterdam or the Hague, There is to be no connection with overland lines, and land cables are to be laid under ground, making tho com- munication direvt and not subject to repe'itfon. Underground cables are coming into fivor ta some parts of Euroye, and especially in Prus+ sia, and this company seems to regard them as best. We have not yet the details of the scheme nor information of what aid is expected from Congress; but there is business enoush for more Atlantic cables, andif this company has a good plan and is responsible wo say God speed, and hope Congress will do what is reasonable to promote the work. Tho Plebiscittum and the Corps Legislatif. The Corps L’gislatif of France y.sterday counted the votes on the plebiscitum and pro- claimed the result. heir counting of the votes did not in the least degree alter the facts which are before the world. The result has been declared, as already reported in our cable telegrams. The announcement was ro- ceived with cheers for the Emperor, and a slight opposition in the Legislature. But it was considerate on the part of the Emperor to make such provision for the action of the lower house. With as little delay as possible a depu- tation from the Corps Législatif will now wait on the Emperor, and formally announce che result of their scratiny. The Emperor's address to the deputies will command the attention of aro the world as well as of France. The plebiscite, from its repeated success in France, is likely to become an institution. Under Napoleon's management it has worked so well that it is safe to presume that it will be used in other lands and by other men, Although not a new name it is a new thing. The plediscitum as it is known ia France has never been known to any other people, not even to the Romans, from whom the word is borrowed. In the early days of the Roman republic, after the fall of the kings, the plebiscitum was a resolution of the Tribes as distinguished from the acis of the Centuries, which were called leges, and from the decrees of the Senate, which were called senatite con- sulta, In those days the Senate was a purely patrician assembly, in which the people found no place. But decrees of the Senate applied to the whole commoawealth. A senat's consultum was, therefore, in no sense the voice of the people, although ~ tho people wera bound to submit to it. The Tribes, on the other hand, represented the people and the people only, and as the people rapidly increased in numbers and in force the Tribes began to rivalthe Senate, so much so that their resolutions or plebiscita applied also to the whole commonwealth. But a plebiscitum, it will thus be seen, was not the expression of the mind of the whole Roman people any more than was a senatiis consultum. Ia later times dictators, decemvirs, triumvirs and Other masters of the hour did not make much of plebiseita, In fact, the word ceases to be used a8 we follow the stream of Roman history. The French plebiscite has thus no coanection but the name with the old Roman plobiscitum, the resolution of the Comitia Tributa. A new thing with an old name, it has nevertheless worked well for Napoleon the Third, It is, besides, as we think, a something pecaliarly adapted to modern times. As a goverament instrument it is sim- ple, direct and effective. It brings the chief of the State into immediate relations with the whole nation. With the agents now at his command a maa like Napoleon caa dis- pense with intermediary agents and speak to every elector and to every man in France. In the growing future, and especially in old monarchical countries, the plebiscite may grow in favor. Whatever may be the future use of the plebiscite, it is undeniable that it bas done Napoleon good service, . We question whether any other European sovereign, excepting perhaps the Emperor of Russia, could have veatured on a similar appeal to the whole body of the people. Npoleon knows how to rule the masses in the nineteenth century. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Prominent Arrivals in Thin City Yesterday. Sir Clinton Murdock, of England; Judge B. R. Curtis, of Boston, and ex-Vongressmaa J. V. L. Pruyn, of Albany, are at the Brevoort House. Colosel J. M. Francis, of the Troy Times; Dr. A. 1. Newton, of Kingston; General R. M. Moore, of Virginia; Colonel C, E, Smita, of Syracuse; Major J. ©. Chamierlin, of Saratoga; @. L, Davis, of the United States Navy: Colonel ©. 8. Wetmore, of Chicago; Capta.n J, M. Thompsoa, of Washington; Cvlon’] C. Cuyler, of Albany; Senator J. W. Kellogg, of Alabama; Z. D. Miller, of Canada, and Colonel J. N. Morris, of Washington, are at the Metropolitan Hote’. W. H. Seward, Jr., ani Major J.N. Knapp, and HP, Ross, of Aadura; 5. B. Judson, of Syracuse; J. H. Ra neay, of Aluany; Columb ©. 1. Backers, of Union Springs; J. 8. Na es aid Genoral R. E. Clarz, of Bosto.; Dr. G. B. Lindeman, of Peansylvacia, and W, P. Sunith, of Baitinore, are at the St. Nicholas Hote!. General A, A. Meredith, of Wisconsin; Thomas P. Cheney, of New Hampshire; A. CG. Mathewson, of Rhoje Island; B. West, of the Cincinaata Commercials A. W. Randall, of kimira; P, J. Ferris and Joseyh Warren, of Buffalo; Jadge E. C. Kattell, of Bingnam- ton, and Colonel C, H. Wells, of Pennsylvania, are at the .Btur House. Judze Spencer, of Syracuse; Colonel W. N, Strong, of Al any; T. ©. Jones, of Liverpovl; Colonel J. A. Green, of Omaha; Henry Wells, of Aurora; M. Cort- nght, of Pennsylvania; Colonel J. L. King, of Spring- field; Judge Ncison, of voughkeepsio; Colonel More, of Baltimore, and N. F. Grabes, of Syracuse, ave at the Fifth Avenue Hotei. Coionel F. C. Newhall, of Phiadelphia, and G. B Farnum, of New Haven, are at te Albemarie Hote. General franklin, of Hartford; J. B. Rumrill, of Sprin: fied, and Alexander Snaw, of Baltimore, are at the Hoffinan Hous», D, Holliday, T. M. Smith and Henry M, Tyson, of Baltimore, and R. 8, Vase, of Newburg, are at tie Coleman House. L.M. Crosby and J. Dunlop, of Ohio; 0. ler, of Texas: H. C. Vaue, of Albion; Roger S. Clark, of New Hampshire; $. F. Sands, of San Franctscos Elgar Moles, of Rochester; E. G, Harris and D. Thomas, of Columpus, Oliv; George EB, Kirkham, of Phiradetphia, and A, G. Dacwin, of New York, are a6 ihe Grand Hotel. Prominent Departures. Thec, Pomeroy and H. M. Doaue, for Washtngtoas Generat Adam Badena, United States Consnt, and Rev. Alexander G. Cummings and filly saued om board tue steamsfiip Scotia for Europe. Personal Notes. ~ Senator Norton, of Minnesota, is visiting Rton+ mont, Va. Joseph Little won the championship silver cue ia the bi Hardt ourdamint at San Francisco. Gop ral She! a Was at Helena, Montana, oa Tuesday, and leaves for Fort Shaw to-day, Mrz, dune G, Aust, of Lowell, tit anthoress, left B ston yesierday tor Fayal, In the Azores, fur her bit? Nennue Bard, of Idaho, is on bis way to Waste ington, [tis stuted he will reign wad retusa te Geo. sta for the purpose Of aiding in deleutiug Gove eruyr Bulyok apd Lis yyliey,