The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, THE DAILY HERALD, puduishea every aay tn the tear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Price $12. Volume XXXV.. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Rroadway.—Orzza BourFE— LIrtLe Fauer, Matinee at 2. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—GuaNnp NILSe0N Concert. BOOTHS THEATRE, wd st, vetwoen Sth and 6tn ave,— Rir V. ram WINKLE. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—BLax Ex' BSuztng—CamILLe. ss NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tnk New Domxstio Dnawa or Huanr’s East. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor ner 30th st.—Performances every afternoon and evening. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and %d st —URIELLA, DEMON OF THE NiGuT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rony OF TAR HILLe— JAOK LONG. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th street—-GRanp OPERATIO Cononrr. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—MaN anp Wirz, NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Granp GRRMAN OPERA—FIDELIO. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PAKK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Rip VAN WINKLE. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- RIBTY ENTERTAINMENT. Matinec at 2)¢. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comic VooaL- 18M, NEGO AcTS, ac. Matinee at 2). SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, £85 Broadway.— Ne@no MinsTeewsy, Fanons, BuR.rsqurs, £0. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS. No. 806 Broadway.— THE Babiks OF THE PERIOD--THz ONLY LEON. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brovklyn.—NeGno MLN- STRELSY, BUKLESQUES, 40. AMERICAN INSTI TE LIBITION.—Emvine RINK, Third avenue and Sixty-t! street. LEEDS’ ART GALL! EXHIBITION OF PAINTIN NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIRNGF AND AET. DR. KATN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — SOIENOE AND Aur. TRIPLE SHEET. New Yerk, Wednesday, September 21, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Paes. 1— Advertisements, ‘2—Advertisements. 3—The War: Severe Fighting Around Parls—En- gagemencs Near Voissons, Joinville and at Fort Mont Valerien; A Series of French Suc- cesses Reported; The People of Strasbourg Vote to Defend the City to the Last; Hopes of Peace from Jules Favre’s Mission; Prussia Ready to Recognize a Stable Government; Probable Movement Further South of the French Seat of Government; Departuce of the French Steamer Lafayette for France—Aid tor the Wounded, 4—Fleetwood Park: Opening Day of the September ‘Trotung Meeting—Trotting at Beacon Park, Mass.—The Odd Fellows: The Session of the Grand Lodge in Baltimore—Long_ Branch: Visitors to the President—Fiskiana Fisticutfs: Colusion at the Grand Opera House Be- tween Prince Jim Jubilee and the Im- resario—New York City and Brooklyn tems—News from Cuba—The Brooklyn Census—The Grand Park—More Gas—Morris and Essex Railroad Troubles—The Scannel Vendetta and Particulars of the Eighteenth Ward Tragedy—Personal Intelligence—Naval Intelligence. 5—New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Board of Health—Quarantine Affairs—‘‘Netta” Not Net- tled—The Moran Tragedy—Financial and Com- mercial Reports, G—Editorials: Leading Article on tne War in France, Peace Projects Not Yet Abandoned, What 1s to Follow ?—Amusements—Announce- ments, als—Telegraphic News from All Parts of e World: Rome Besieged by the Italians; Nativist Agitation in China—News trom Wasn- ington—Political Intelligence—The Bloomfield Poisoners—Business Notices. S—Wall Street Financiering—Court of Appeals Calendar—Advertisements. 9—Advertisements. 10—The War (continued from third page)—Tne Public vs. Tolegraph Monopolists—sbipping Intelligenco—Aavertisements. ‘11—advertisements, 12—Advertisements. Sometmne New Unper tae Sun—The attitude of the young democracy against re- peaters and ballot stuffers at the polls, and false counting of the election returns. This looks like war. Prize Fiauttya has been introduced as a Novelty in the musical world, and we may therefore expect an unusually lively season. When an operatic manager and the leader of the orchestra make a hit even before the com- mencement of the season may it be consid- ered as an augury of success with the public? The account of an unpleasantness at the Grand Opera House, published in another column, will explain this new feature in amusements. Tue Democracy at Rochester to-day are expected to proclaim something better than the Tammany platform of 1868, which carried them up Salt river; but they seem to think that Hoffman will do. . Tue Siece or Roms, instead of its peaceful Occupation, appears to be imminent. The foreign legions which have been serving in the army of the Pope insist upon resisting the Italians to the last, notwithstanding the con- cessions that the good old man is anxious to make in the interests of peace. The Italians therefore are preparing to besiege the city, and the sight is thus reserved to the present decade of the simultaneous siege of the two -most grandly historic cities of the world— Paris and Rome. Tue RePuBiicaN Demonstration tn Lon- pon.—On Monday night, according to our special despatches, there took place in London such a demonstration as London has not wit- nessed in some years. If there was not so much humbug in London demonstrations gen- erally we should have more faith in this latest. But we have not forgotten the yet recent demonstrations in Hyde Park. We have not forgotten the grand Chartist demonstrations, in which the now imprisoned Emperor of the French figured as a special policeman, Eng- lish radicals are, after all, very cautious. They know the limit of the law, and they are singularly careful never to transgress it, Like many other big shows of the past this latest is ended. Some uew Beazly has had a hear- ing, and has begun to hope that yet he may shine within the walls of St. Stephens, and that is the end of it, Why will not republi- pan Englishinen show more pluck? ‘Tho War im France—Poace Projects Net, Yet Abandened—What is to Follow? While the German armies are gathering around and hemming in the city and fortifica- tions of Paris, without pause or delay, the hope of inducing the King of Prussia to grant an armistice and to enter into peace nezotia- tions is still entertained by the provisional government of France; and we are informed from London that King William had consented to grant an interview to Jules Favre at Rheims either yesterday or to-day. But we are also informed that the King is not disposed to con- sent to an armistice, insisting that if peace is to be made it must be done immediately. We also learn now that M. Thiers has not set off for St. Petersburg, but was at Tours yester- day, and that instead of his mission to Lon- don having been a failure, as was stated in such precise and positive terms, the English government received his explanations favor- ably, and was prepared to act conjointly with Russia and Austria if those Powers would also accept the proposition. With such totally con- fradictory statements chasing each other by telegraph across the Atlantic it ia impossible to separate fact from fiction, We expect to be informed to-morrow that no interview between Favre and King William has taken place or been thought of, and that consequently 9 Sreaty of peace is a remote event, which may take place at some time in the future. nace Our special correspondent in London, speaking of the imterview referred to, says it is expected that the conditions of peace will be fixed simultaneously with the cessation of hostilities, and gives it out as a matter of official knowledge that the King is prepared to receive proposals of peace from or to make them to the executive government authorities who now hold possession of power in Paris, but that, in any event, the German troops are to hold and occupy the French territory and capital until the terms of the treaty of settle- ment have been duly ratified by a Parliamen- tary Chamber, elected by the people of france. There is great significance in that little “but.” Assuming that the result of the siege or of negotiation will be the occupation of Paris by the Germans, what will then follow? Will the King of Prussia treat with the repub- lican government, or will he summon the Rezency, the Senate and the Corps Législa tif, and treat with them as the regularly consti- tuted authorities of the country, or.will he undertake to reinstate Napoleon as the head of the government and dictate terms to him? These are questions which suggest themselves to every one that forecasts the situation, but which can be answered satisfactorily by none ; for Count Bismarck characterizes as romances all those stories told by newspaper correspon- dents of his outgivings on the subject. He says he listens to the remarks and suggestions and inquiries of thése gentlemen, and lets them interpret his manner, his silence or his equivocal response as may suit their own pre- conceived ideas. According to Bismarck, therefore, there has been no foregone conclu- sion arrived at. The King and his generals will decide the question when it becomes a practical one—that is, when they are in mili- tary occupation of Paris. The most amusing outgiving on the subject is a despatch from Berlin, which gravely informs us that the German States are willing to recognize the French republic in provinces not held by the German armies, but mustrecognize the empire wherever they hold military possession. It may be, too, that the King of Prussia may not feel himself called upon to show any particular haste in deciding the question. It may be that the same difficulties under which he is at present said to be laboring in that respect may only be increased when Paris is in his hands and when the military power of France is lying crushed at his feet. He may then be more than ever convinced that the provisional government is but the creation of the ‘gutter democracy” of Paris, and that the idea of forcing a Bonaparte or a Bourbon on the French people is not to be entertained for a moment. Or the Parliamentary Chamber may reject the terms of the settlement. And in that dilemma “he may find himself called upon to extend to France for an indefinite space of time the benefits of German civiliza- tion, and to allow her to enter into the North German Confederation, which might then assume another name—for instance, the Empire of the West. Who can say that such an idea has not found a lurking place in the mind of the King of Prussia or of his astute and far-seeing adviser, Count Bismarck? If the first Napoleon, with all Europe coalesced against him, could assume the crown of Italy and place his brothers and relatives on the thrones of Spain and Naples and Hol- land, what is to prevent the con- stitutional President of the North German Confederation, with an army more powerful and better organized than any which the great Napoleon ever led to conquest, and without any coalition against him, but with Russia sending congratulations on the great victories of his army and with the other Powers declining to interfere, from adding France to the confederacy? If such be his royal will and pleasure, what is there to prevent its being carried out while the Ger- man troops hold and occupy, as the programme is, the French territory and capital? Nothing whatever. In that event the King of Prussia will be master of the situation, and may make such disposition of France as he may deem fit. It is not extremely improbable, either, that Count Bismarck has views of his own to foster and carry out. Sagacious and far-seeing as he is he must be conscfous that the fall of the empire in France is big with consequences to ail Europe, and that the new order of things must be based on the principle of popular government as developed in the United States. He reads the signs of the times well enough to know that the days of monarchy and aris- tocracy are numbered, and that the nations of Europe are in the future to be organized as republican States. He may, therefore, let things drag along according to the King of Prussia’s ideas until he him- self is able to direct them into the channel of republicanism. He has shown consummate skill in managing the South German States and the North German Confederation, and the task of fusing them all, including France, Spain and Italy, into an all-embracing federa- tion of republics, with himself as President, ia not beyond his transcendent powers, Neighboring kingdoms, politically separate and often hostile, are an anachronism at this day. They belong to the past, when intercom- munication was difficalt and tedious, But now, with space annihilated and barriers broken down by telegraph and steam, with nations drawn Into closer vicinage and more familiar intercourse with each other than the various cities and provinces of the same king- dom were in the last generation, and with all “the dogmas of divine right exploded and the principle of popular government almost uni- versally accepted, there is noreason why those various nationalities should not combine into one great republican confederation, to be known collectively as the United States of Europe, and to exercise separately their own State and municipal governmental powers. If the present war shall be instrumental in hastening that good day of universal brother- hood and peace the sacrifices which it shall have caused will not have been entirely in vain. The Fall Campaign in Wall Street. The reports from all the various departments of trade are most favorable to an active busi- ness this fall. The wharves and the railway depots and the streets and sidewalks in the business sections of the city are crowded with boxes and bales en route for East, North, South and West. The hotels are filled with merchants from the interior, whose purchases will continue to swell the tide of outward bound merchandise for months to come. It is very natural therefore, that with this legiti- mate activity all around them, the traders in the commodities which are the merchandise of Wall street should bestir themselves to take advantage of the general activity in business. Hence we find the current of dealings at the Stock Exchange undergoing a very sensi- ble agitation. The ‘‘bulls” and “bears” have certainly had a plentiful lack of business the past summer, Hundreds of brokers failed to make enough to pay office rent and expenses. Such a stagnant period has seldom been known in the street. The record of sales at the Stock Exchange since last spring comprises only a beggarly showing of business, despite the fact that the present Board is the consolidation of three former organizations, viz.:—the ‘“‘regu- lar,” “‘open” and government boards.- Hap- pily, however, for the brokers the gencral revival of business promises to bring them a return of the pristine days of the stock market. The enormous expansion of the industries of the country, the more frequent interchange of visits between the different cities and different sections of the Union by persons interested in various undertakings, the elas- ticity and prosperity of the people and the gradual enhancement of our national credit sre combining influences whose effect are be- ginning to be visible in the buoyancy they im- part to railway and other corporate works which are the vehicles in the great circle of wealth-producing and wealth-exchanging en- terprises. Values in Wall street have their rise and fall like the ebb and flow of the ocean. There was a heavy ebb after the terrible panic of last year, when the gold conspirators, in fighting against the relentless march of the country to resumption, were overwhelmed by the current, which had gathered all the more force from their temporary obstruction of its movement: There has been an ebb and flow of minor dimensions since the stream reversed its direction, but only of transient existence. The war in Europe paralyzed the boldest of the capitalists who make Wall street the field of their enterprise. But now that the war is supposed to have lost its power to injure investments this side of the Atlantic, and that English capital is slowly drifting hither for a more profitable market than is offered elsewhere, we find the tide rising again in Wall street and the markets there undergoing that preliminary agitation which is the forerunner of activity and excite- ment. The speculative combinations are quick to see what is coming, and the enormous dealings of the past few days are the result of their efforts to be beforehand of the public. Where a buyer consummates a purchase there is of necessity a seller. So we find a diversity of views which is likely to render the financial movements of the ensuing season unusually interesting. The ‘‘buils” have taken the field under the banner of easy and abundant money and increased prosperity on the part of the corporations whose shares they are buying. The “bears,” on the other hand, are entrenched behind the position of watered stocks and inflated values, which they hope to explode under the feet of their advancing enemies, The clgsh of the two armies this fall will be an imposing tableau, The Democratic State Convention. The Democratic State Convention assembles in Rochester to-day. There is but very little doubt in regard to the ticket that will be pre- sented. Governor Hoffman will be renomi- nated by acclamation, and the balance of the ticket will be filled to the satisfaction of the delegates, and no doubt it will receive the endorsement of the democracy of the State on the 8th of November next. It is expected that the rough and ready democracy of'the city will attempt to make a demonstration in the Convention or outside of it. This will impart spice to the proceedings. What would democratic convention amount to unless there was & row of some sort? And the assemblage to-day will belie the democratic record unless some sort of rampage turns up. Mr. Samuel J. Tilden and Mr. Joseph Coburn will both be there. Mr. Tilden will represent the exotics of the Manhattan Club and Mr. Coburn will represent the cultivated bulrushes of the rank and file. Hénce we may antici- pate a very pleasant gathering—with what result remains to be seen. The democracy of the Empire State have a fair field before them if they behave properly. Tae ATTEMPT OF THE REPUBLICAN ComMIt- 78E in Washington to force assessments from the clerks in the departments has come to grief. Secretary Cox, being called on to en- courage the collection of the assessments in the Department of the Interior, has declined to do 0, and intimates that much harm has already been done the republican party by such an unseemly mode of raising funds, Thereupon the com- mittee denounce Cox as disloyal, and would even have gone so far as to callhim a Johnson man, but that they got into a row among themselves and wandered from the subject, ‘The Foreiga Press on the Coliapse of the Freach Empire. By our latest mails from Europe we receive the first opinions of the British and Conti- nental press with reference to the surrender at Sedan and the general collapse of the Na- poleonic system. The London Times, whose opinion is still cited as most important, although in actual news the press of New York has left it far behind during the remark- ably rapid progress of the existing war, uses highly figarative language in the first gush of its astonishment. Under date of September 5 it says :—‘‘The volcano has burst! The sur- render of the Emperor and the capitulation of MacMahon’s army could not stand alone. Such tidings would make the earth open, and the earth has opened at Paris.” ‘‘So soon as the intelligence of the Emperor's captivity was published the empire was at anend.” Farther on, after sketching the facts of the movement in the French capital and the uprising of the republic, it adds:—‘It must, by this time, be evident, even In France, that, under the present conditions of the fight, France is overmatched. The fault may be attributed to the bad man- agement of the army both during the war and before it, and not to any inherent inequality in the military powers of the two nations; and it is quite unnecessary aud would be even inde- fensible to continue the war simply to show that Frenchmen are among the best soldiers of the world.” On the keynote thus sounded the other lead- ng journals of the United Kingdom sing much the same strain. A continuance of so fright- fully bloody a conflict is deprecated for the sake of common humanity and progress, and King William is most earnestly recommended to let well enough alone and not to push the French people to the alternative of a general appeal to the radical revolution. Here and there the tory papers cannot help showing their teeth at the republic, and all the old stale sneers and slanders of a class of writers who are nothing if not servile and reactionary are dished up again in the same sauce antique. It is the liberal Irish press that gives the young republic of France the warmest, heartiest, most | whole-souled welcome, and we remark, not without some glimmerings of an early political conjunction of fortunate planets in still another republi- can sky, that mention of “the banner of stars” occurs more than once in their eulogies upon the Gallic tri-color. No bad accom- paniment for the hours that precede the re- arising of the ‘‘Sunburst” and the ‘‘Oriflamme,” and those who comprehend the word “‘repub- lio” on a white banner borne through the streets of London on Monday evening last will not mistake the symbols. The Dutch and Belgian press, dated to the 7th instant, have 6ome in, and their articles are full of patriotic emotion at the possible imminence of danger in the direction of Prus- sia. The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, a well conducted, long established and highly influential business organ of the great com- mercial centre of Rotterdam, unites with its able contemporary, the Algemeen Handels- blad of Amsterdam, in expressing the proud determination of the Netherlands to defend their independence as their fathers of the old Dutch republic defended it in other days, and at the same time .in offer- ing the most earnest prayers for the cessation of the war, the relief of the sorely tried French people and the peaceful maintenance of the new form of government in France. These are kind and cheering words from a sturdy people, who have a fine navy yet ‘and one hundred thousand as brave troops under arms as ever fought for right and liberty. The Belgian papers are more reserved, the ministerial journals of Brussels confining themselves to graphic letters and to condolence for the slaughter on both sides. The Indépendance Belge frankly espouses the cause of the provisional govern- ment, and says of those who compose it:— “They are most honorable and intelligent men, each and all distinguished by an immense majority of votes cast in their favor by the capital and by the most enlightened centres of France.” They are the men, too, ‘‘who, for ten, nay, for fifteen years, combated the faults, all the excesses and all the sinister resolves of the imperial government.”’ In France the journals of the Northern departments speak pityingly of the fallen empire, but with enthusiasm of the republic. There appears to be, indeed, no dissenting voice on the latter point. As for Paris, wo might fill columns with the warm utterances of its press on every phase of the situation. The papers recently dynastic give the new govern- ment a clever welcome. The Irance, the Patrie and the Constitutionnel rally to it with- out reserve. The Débuts hums and haws and mumbles in its sleep just as it always does after a repast on any unaccustomed dish. The Peuple Francais and Le Public— fearful misnomers, as the reader will perceive, since they were the watchdogs of ‘‘the Right” or majority in the late’ Chambers—snarl viciously at the new régime, and the Migaro has actually been mobbed for its foolhardy dia- tribes. The Sitcle, the Opinion Nationale, the Gaulois and the Liberté, and, of course, the Journal Officiel, are all of one mind on the matter. This criterion, indeed, may be followed throughout, that everything fresb, brilliant, kindly, sincere and hopeful in me- tropolitan journalism goes heart and hand for the republic, while all the soured, dlas¢, scep- tical, purchasable organs suggest sneaking doubts and difficulties. We have for this oc- casion but few words to add. Adopting the great idea of the age, that the newspaper press, conducted as it should be, is the voice of the time and of the people, and heeding the press of Europe, from the Highlands of Scotia to the Sicilian shore, and from the Atlantic eastward to the Neva, we must believe that the mind of Europe is fully aroused; that the blood of the toiling millions is up, and that France, their exemplar, for the moment stricken down because of her imperial palsy or political King’s evil, is arising again, “clothed and in her right mind,” to lead on a new array of States marching in a new path, with new words blazoned on an ensign, new in its combination, but in its principles of trath and justice ancient as the everlasting hills. rete Toe New Unitep States SENATOR FROM Orgcon.—Colonel J. F. Kelly has been elected United States Senator by the Legisla- ture of Oregon. The gelection of Colonel ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBSK 21, 1870.—-TKIPLE SHEET, Kelly was somewhat unexpected, General Joo Lane was supposed to be the favorite of the democracy of Oregon for theplace. Sena- tor Kelly will occupy im 1871 the seat now filled by Senator George H. Williams—a change from a republican to a democrat. Senator Kelly is one of the old Jacksonian de- mocracy. He will carry into the Senate a man much wanted there—one of inflexible in- tegrity and possessing untiring energy in everything that pertains to the prosperity of the republic and the. progress of republican liberty, Enforcement of, the Neutrality Laws Agalust Frenchmen. Considerable excitement was caused here yesterday by the action of the federal author- Ities in regard to the passengers on board the French steamship Lafayette. It seems that on this vessel, bound for Brest and Havre, a large number of Frenchmen had taken pas- sage for the purpose of offering their military services to their country in the hour of its utmost need. Those who had means to enable them to do so paid their own expenses, and those who had not were probably aided by the French Consul at this port, or by their more affluent countrymen, It seems, however, that the Consul of the North German Confedera- tion made an. affidavit before a United States Commissioner that many of these Frenchmen were enlisted to serve against Germany in the present war, in violation of the neutrality laws of the United States. Armed with a warrant issued on this affidavit the United States Marshal yesterday went on board the Lafayette, anda large number of passengers having been pointed out as coming under the terms of the neutrality laws were placed in arrest and taken on shore, but were subse- quently set at liberty and the vessel was allowed to proceed with the reat of its pas- sengera, Of course, if the affidavit of the North German Consul can be substantiated by proof that these Frenchmen were enlisted or were hired to go beyond the seas to be enlisted in the service of a belligerent, they were liable to arrest and punishment under the neutrality laws, and the person so enlisting or hiring or retaining them to be enlisted is also amonable to thepenalty. But if they were voluntary emigrants, seeking to return to their native land, even with the intention of joining the army, and were simply aided pecuniarily by the French Consul or by their countrymen to carry out their intention, we fail to see that their case would come either legally or logi- cally within the sweep of the law, and their arrest apd detention would be simply an exer- cise of arbitrary power not authorized by the law or by the President's neutrality proclama- tion of the 22d of August last. The Yeliow Fever i Coming close on the discovery made on’ board the brig H. G. Berry, which arrived in this port on the 17th inst., we have the an- nouncement by cable from Havana that for the week ending Saturday, the 17th, the num- ber of deaths by yellow fever in that city num- bered five hundred and sixty. When we con- sider the amount of trade between this city and Havana, not to say anything of the num- ber of vessels which almost daily arrive here from infected ports, our quarantine authorities cannot exercise too close a vigilance to guard the city fromthe causes which may result in an epidemic. With the yellow fever raging in Havana, as well as in other Southera ports, there is every reason why scrutiny of the closest kind should be adopted. The conduct of those on board the brig H. G. Berry was, to say the least of it, culpable. The plea that the body of the captain underwent the process of embalming previous to its being placed on board the brig is no excuse whatever for the act. There was also an attempt apparently at concealment, for the body was stowed away among boxes of sugar in the hold. Sugar, it is well known, will retain the infectidus gases and substances with which it is brought in con- tact for a longtime. What results might have followed, therefore, had the Berry succeeded in eluding the Quarantine authorities, come up to this city and bad landed her cargo, it is un- pleasant to conjecture. The very fact of the captain dying of an infectious disease (cholera) should have been sufficient cause to suggest the strictest caution to those on board the vessel, yet little or no heed was taken of the matter. It is a subject worthy of comment that for the first time since the late war yeliow fever has broken out badly in New Orleans. Almost one of the first things General Butler did when he took charge of the city was to subject it to a thorough cleansing. This had the desired effect, and the dreadful scourge, which up to that time had been an annual visitor, kept away. We believe that if the cause for the present visita- tion is traced to its proper source it will be found to result from‘ imperfect sanitary regula- tions. In fact negligence in cleanliness is the cause why many Southern cities are subject to these plagues. Havana is one of the dirtiest cities in the world. Imperfect drainage, worse sewerage and disgraceful sanitary regu- lations are the primary causes for its un- healthiness during certain seasons of the year. We hope that recent developments and late reports from the tropics will impress upon the Health Officer and his assistants the necessity of the closest scrutiny on all vessels coming from infected ports. We feel satisfied that the authorities will do their duty, and such being the case we rest assured that through no lack of energy on their part will disease be brought into the city. CoMMUNICATION WITH PARIS AND THE Con- TINENT.—It will be seen from a circular in our advertising columns that Yankee enterprise has undertaken to keep open communication between the outer world and the beleaguered city of Paris, as well as with the Continent in general, pending the present interruption of the usual channels of intercourse. Messrs. Bowles Brothers & Co., the American bank- ers, announce that all letters or remittances addressed to them here or to their English branch in London will be forwarded by the promptest means and route within their reach to their destination within the disturbed regions of Europe. Their Paris office will remain open under Consular protection for the benefit of those who cannot leave the city during tho glege- ae ‘The Musical and Theatrical Sensen. It is just at. this period of the year, when the luxurious. foliage of summer is about to puton its many-colored costume; to await in the most gorgeous robes of nature the fiat of “dread winter,” that consigns its beauty, leat by leaf, to the dust; when chilly nights and sobbing winds at noon and eve warn the sum- mer swallows of fashion that the time is com- ing to abandon their sylvan haunts and saline atmosphere, and seek city comforts, recrea- tion and @ little dissipation—of course in a modest and moderate way—it is just now that. the qrestion becomes important, what are we to have in the way of musical and theatrieat amusements for.the season which is just opon- ing? fi Nature has toned herself with such gentle charity to the delicate lambs of society that no sooner can she no longer clothe them in sunshine and salt water than she yields to art the authority to take care of them in the whirling fascinations of a metropolitan season, We can predict such a season as we have not enjoyed for a long time. Managers seem to have waked up to the fact that while sensa- tions more or less demoralizing in their effect may pay fora time an intelligent public soon weary of them. The common sense of the people, the minds trained to thought in the study and the library, and learning in the broad highways of life to distinguish what is good from bad in dramatic art, as well as in the realities of life, ignore the counterfeits which our stage has so long presented for public approbation, The programmes of the different theatres, we are glad to see, have assumed a better shape this season than usual. The force of example tells with happy effect upon nearly all of them. With such artistes as Nilsson, who has already, by one grand coup, been enthroned in the hearts of the New York public; and Marie Secbach, the interpreter of the highest faculties of the tragic art known to the German stage, wha makes her first appearance at the Fourteenth street theatre to-morrow night, under the same able management which gave us a Ristori, whose successful career in America will never be @orgotten—with these, artists we cannot complain of poverty in good material. Then comes the opéra bouffe at the Grand Opera House, which is to be revived on a scale of spectacular splendor never known before even at this extraordinary spectacular establishment. Here we are threatened with “one hundred persons,” all dramatic and lyrio celebrities. “Le Petit Faust.” and Lea Silly, fresh and blooming from ¢ atmosphere of the Palais-Royal and the Varle- ties in Paris, lead the galaxy of the ‘‘one hun- dred,” who are to furnish the public with such charming morceaux ag_‘‘Les Brigands,” “La Princesse de Trébizond” and a full bouquet of other attractive pieces. German opera, at the Stadt theatre, its natu raf resort, will undoubtedly draw large audi- ences, The English opera, which is not half as well patronized as it ought to be, will occupy the boards of Niblo’s next month, under the management of Hesse. English tragedy, represented by the German artiste Janauschek, who has made the English lan- guage a study—as we are told Kossuth did in his prison, from the pages of Shake- peare—in order to afford her fine talents all opportunity of development, opens the season at the Academy of Music. Surely here is novelty enough. But there is @ good deal more in store. At the Fifth Avenue theatre there is some probability of a new play by Oakey Hall, great as a jurist, a litterateur, a politician, a mayor and a playwright—fruitfal in all capacities and a failure in none. Wal- lack’s does not descend from its high standard ; therefore the drama, pure and elevated, shorn of all its dross, redolent of the genius of Sheridan and Goldsmith and other legitimate dramatists, a study and a delight for all who witness it, will retain its exalted place on these boards. Some changes on the pro- gramme at Booth’s will occur when Joe Jefferson wakes from that Rip Van Winkle sleep which holds the audience almost as much enthralled as the actor. ‘A Winter's Tale” is promised when Rip relinquishes the boards. The other theatres have equally attractive programmes. It is not a wholesome feature, however, the promised reproduction of ‘Black Crook” at Niblo’s and the blonde burlesques at Wood’s theatre. It may be a mistaken ex- periment to revive this class of entertain- ment; but at the same time it may be safely left to the improved taste of the public to decide whether it shall be encouraged or not. It may be said that people saw the attractions of these performances not ‘‘through a glass,” but through ‘‘gauze darkly;” but we think that the public comprehends them now ina brighter light, and will shun the demoralizing influence which breathes from them like deadly miasma from fetid swamps. As we have said, the musical and theatrical season promises to bea brilliant one. With Nilason and Seebach, the lyric and the tragic queens, leading off the list, and the probability that Nilsson will appear soon in opera, sup- ported by a choice company, and the better class of representations which the theatres generally offer, there is a season of some promise before us which the public, no doubt, will appreciate. Miles. Celine -Montaland from the The Attitude of Prussia. It turns out that, after all, Prussia is not un- willing to treat with France and make peace. Our latest news from King William and from Bismarck, his grand henchman, shows that Prussia has been placed in serious difficulty by the change of goverament in France, ‘The government de facto is not the government de jure ; the government that speaks for France is not a government chosen by France. Prus- sia, in consequence, knows not what to do. If she deals with the government de facto France may repudiate. If she deals with the government de jure France may repudiate. The one government is without power—the other government is without right. Re- pudiation under either is more than a possibility, And then Germany has a@ painful remembrance of treaties con- cluded in circumstances so doubtful, This is the first time in many centuries that Germany has been a unit; and the Madrid treaty of Charles the Fifth of Germany and Francis the First of France has not yet been wholly for- gotten, The presumption to-day is that The season opens on Monday with .