The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1870, Page 6

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Page. i—Advertisements. ‘2—Advertisements, 3—Paris: re Engagement Before the Capital on Friday; French Assault on the Prussian Position South of the City; Their Repulse with Heavy Loss After Three Hours’ Fighting; ‘The RERALD Special Report from Versailles Giv- ing the Details; Operations of the Germans in Various Paris of France; Members of the French Constituent Assembly to be Elected on the 16th inst.; News Direct from Paris to Friday Last; Provisions Enough tn the City to Last Six Months; German Reports of Move- ments to Kestore the Bonaparte Dynasty; General Bourbaki Escaped from Metz and in England with the Empress; Disappointment with the Result of the British Cabinet Councll— New York City News. 4—State and City Politics : The Political Horosco} Forecasting Republican Disaster—Paris Fash- fons—The Negro Murder—An Alderman Stabbed—Fashlonable Divorce Case—Doing the Magnificent: Seizure of Silks and Satins from the Ville de Paris—The “Grand Rounds- men” abolished—The Ticket Speculators— Naval Intelligence, $—Fraud as a Fine Art: Latest Particulars of the Newest Forgery Case—The Courts—Financlal re and Deaths—Advertise- ments. 6—Editorials: Leading Article on the Isolated Position of France, No Helping Hand from + Monarclis—Amusement Announcements. Y—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World— Fearful Ravages of the Vomito in Spain— The Virginia Fioods: Fearful Scenes ana Loss of Life—The Public Debt Statement—Marie Seebach—Obituary— Public Education—Move- ments of the President—Yachting Affairs—The Overmeiler Ratlroad Murder—Army Intelll- gence—Business Notices. 8—Adveitisements. Q—Advertisements, 10—News from Washington—Personal Intelli- gence—The Cheap Transit Problem—The Dead Admiral’ Obsequies—Mystic Park Race Course. e Defiaut Fat Melters—Shipplug Intelligence—Advertisements. ¥1—Advertisements. i2—Advertisements. The Chinese for War. Advices from Tientsin report that the Chi- nese Mave refused the ultimatum of the French and @re preparing for war. It is added that the French are awaiting orders from the home goverument before proceeding to extremities. This anuouncement reminds one of Charles Lamb's humorous letter to a correspondent at the antipodes who could not be expected to receive it until the logic of events had changed all its true statements into lies. What French naval officer in the Chinese waters would not be inclined to disbelieve the first news of the marvellous changes which the fate of war has wrought in France during the last few weeks? Nevertheless it cannot be doubted that patriot- ism will compel all the officers of the French navy in those remote regions of the globe to obey with alacrity the instructions of the home government, whether it be imperial or republi- can. Moreover, the conflict which is thus challenged by the Chinese might afford a capi- tal opportunity for the British government and the French government, which is a government de facto and by necessity, if not de jure, to unite in defending their common interests and the interests of universal civilization, against the inordinate and cruel self-conceit of the Chinese. Tur Pousiic Desr.—General Grant uses the pame tactics in the business of reducing the public debt that he used in the business of re- ducing Richmond—persistent hammering. The statement for October knocks off another chip of nine millions from the huge total. Our Paris FasHions CorresPONDENT far- pishes us with an interesting letter from that once gay, beautiful and brilliant capital. But what changes have taken place, and transferred, as if with the touch of the magician’s wand, scenes of gayety and pleasure into those of sad- ness and mourning! Yet, surrounded as Paris is, by hordes of German soldiery, who long to march in triumph through the boulevards so prized and loved by Parisians, the people are hopeful and determined, and having cast aside frivolities for the time being they now await the approach of the enemy. As might be ex- pected, amid all the preparations going on, fashion in dress is lost sight of, and we have but to chronicle the last modes edicted before tha fall af the empire. | French republic. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1870,.-TRIPLE SHEET, The Isolated Position of France—No Help- ing Hand from Monarchs. * The result of M. Thiers’ mission to the great Powers of Europe has ended as we antici- pated. A cold shoulder was held out to him everywhere. The Russian government, the last one he approached, refused to recognize him in any official character whatever, and the Czar positively declined to see him. France—., republican France—has no friend among the monarchs and aristocracies of the Old World. They both bate and dread the republio, and will de all in their power to suppress it.and to check the progress of republican sentiments. The Prussian monarch is their champion, and they could not find a better representative of absolutism or a greater enemy of republican- ism among all the crowned heads. They may fear his power and would like to see Germany -| kept within safe bounds, probably, so as not to become dangerous to themselves, but they are more afraid of republicanism. Herein we see the canse of M. Thiers’ failure to enlist the sympathy or aid of Russia, England and Aus- tria in behalf of France. It is very convenient, therofore, for these Powers to say there 13 no government in France that they can recoguize. How soon they would recognize the government of any monarchical or imperial usurper! How ready they would be to do that if another Napoleon or any of the royal pretenders made a coup @état and seized the powers of government ; yes, though such a government might be erected upon the blood of the French people and against the wish of the nation! There are examples enough of this. There was no such hesitation when Louis Napoleon usurped the imperial authority. No! It is the republic that the crowned heads will not recognize, and the assertion that there is no government in France is a pretext only. This assertion is not true. The provisional government is acknowledged and obeyed from one end of French territory to the other. The whole na- tion is rising to defend the country under the direction of that government. It is the only one existing or possible just now. It has all the elements and power of a de facto govern- ment. It sprung legitimately from circum- stances and the situation in which France was placed by the defeat and capture of the Empe- ror and by the flight of the Regency. It was a necessity, and the French people every- where, are rallying to support it. As to the reports that Bazaine, shut up in Metz, does not recognize any other au- thority than that of the Emperor, they are very doubtful ; but if even he has assumed such a ridiculous position he has no right to speak for France, and is powerless to determine the form of government. Then, again, the pre- tended news that is concocted and spread abroad by monarchical agents about the “reds,” social disorder and imperialist proclivities in France, is utterly unreliable. On the contrary, we do know that, with the exception of a few such men as Cluseret, who have no influence over the mass of the people, the whole population is united in sustaining the de facto government in the present terrible struggle. But thé repub- lican provisional government has been recog- nized by several nations, and by the United States, which is one of the firat Powers of the world. The Duke of Argyle, one of the British Ministry, ata cabinet meeting in London on Friday called attention to this fact. He is re- ported to have said ‘‘the French republic had been formally recognized by the United States, and that it would be a sort of constructive dis- courtesy to this country to assume that a government which existed sufficient!y, and with a sufficient warrant to command American re- cognition, had no sufficient standing in fact to justify England in treating with and through it for so great an object as the settlement of Europe.” These autocratic and aristocratic govern- ments of Europe may yet find that they have made a mistake in attempting to crush the French republic and in making war on the republican ideas of the age. In this ‘‘irre- pressible conflict,” which has been stimulated by the war republicanism has mado a bound that defies the power of absolutism. The peo- ple of Europe have become too enlightened to be driven back to the state of things that existed in the Middle Ages gr even fifty years ago. The quickening and educating power of the modern agents of progress, the public press, the magnetic telegraph, railroads and other agencies, must prove superior to political and military despotism and to the statecraft of monarchs. The world cannot go back. Even the King of Prussia finds a powerful demo- cratic sentiment rising in Germany, and he has consequently commenced to make war on that while fighting the French. The liberal leaders of Germany, who have ventured to express their ideas, have been arrested. With all the service King William has rendered in uniting Germany and developing its power, he will not be tolerated in making war upon the liberal and progrossive ideas of the age even by the Germans themselves. Public sen- timent everywhere is growing strong against him for this. It is hardly likely he can set up any other government in France than that of the republic—neither the defunct and fugitive imperial government nor any other—but he could help to establish the republican government on a firm ‘basis and obtain reasonable conditions of peace from it. Any other course may place his own throne in immediate danger as well as those of his brother monarchs, The French nation cannot be extinguished; it begins to show a great deal of vigor and determination; and the longer the war continues the more will the sympathy of the masses everywhere be with the French, The réle England has taken with regard to France is contemptible. A few of her leading statesmen, it is truo, have advised the recog- nition of the republic and friendly interven- tion. We have quoted the language of the Duke of Argyle, and we have seen what Sir Henry Bulwer and others have said on this matier; but the evil influence of the men In power and the aristocracy have overruled both the views of these statesmen and public sentiment. Intensely selfish in her policy always, England can only be friendly to France when her owa interests call for that. ‘And looking at the sinister movements of Russia, which are not intended for the German border, as some of the European correspon- dents intimate, but for the East, England may yet find it necessary to make a friend of the Combplications are thicken- ing every day as the war continues, and, if we | The mistake not, the longer it lasts the greater chance there is for republicanism in Europe. American Jockey Club—Racing at Jerome Park. He would be a wise prophet who could The people are too enlightened in this age to | designate, at this day, the winners of the submit long to be slaughtered like cattle for the ambitious designs of a few abtoerats, reign- ing families or unscrupuloys statesmem Peace might serve the monarchies for a time ; longer war will, probably, hasten their fall. The Situation About Paris. Our special correspondent at Versailles gives an account of a determined assault on the Prussian line of investment which was made by the French on Friday in front of Versailles. The intention evidently was to prevent the completion of formidable earth- works which the Prussians at that point are throwing up; but the effort proved vain, the French being compelled to withdraw in great disorder after two hours’ hot fighting. The balloon mail appears to be quite a suc- cess. M. Tissander, the aeronaut, has arrived at Tours fresh from the besieged city, laden with a heavy mail and full of news items about the condition of affairs inside. Provisions are plenty, he says, with the exception of butter and fruits, and fresh meat is likely tobe scarce ere long. Five hundred thousand troops are inside, well armed and*eager. M. Gambetta has stated in a proclamation that the Prussians had been routed and Vincennes and Versailles had been retaken ; but this is disproved by M. Tissander himself, who says that he saw the Prussians in great numbers at Versailles, hav- ing established an entrenched campthere. The Prussian General, it is vaguely reported, had announced his intention of starving out the city. Taking these reports together we may conclude that the Prussians, wisely abandon- ing the idea of a grand assault, have deter- mined to invest the place as closely as possible, cutting off all communication, and await the slow process of hunger to achieve what seems impossible to achieve by bombardment or attack. In the meantime the German ublans have appeared ina new direction, as we predicted afew days ago. They occupy Beauvais, in the province of Oise, about forty miles north of Paris, and have threatened Rouen, about sixty miles to the northeast, where a skirmish ensued in which the ublans were worsted. Pithiviers, in the direction of Orleans, has also been oc- cupied by these scouts, and probably another movement against Tours is impending. The Hxrap special correspondent at Ber- lin stages that Bazaine is believed to have agreed to surrender provided the Prussians will second his efforts to replace Napoleon on the throne, and that the proposition was favor- ably received by the French officers in his command, and would probably be entertained by the leaders of the investing force. We hardly think it would be entertained by Bis- marck, however, and ho is the important per- sorfage to be consulted in the matter. Who is the Special? There is a great fuss going on just now among some of the city papers as to which of them is entitled tothe credit of furnishing “special” despatches from the seat of war. Politeness forms no part of the controversy. The old established 7’ribune method of con- ducting argument with the single words ‘‘ you lie!” is extensively adopted on this occasion. But what does all this fuss amount to? One | paper charges that another steals its war de- spatches from the Pall Mall Gazette. In this case there is no necessity for literary larceny, for it is the simplest thing in the world for two papers, at different sides of the Atlantic, to contract with one correspondent to furnish news to each, under such difficulties as we kuow foreign correspondents have been labor- ing since the war began. Again, another journal charges its neighbor with concocting its foreign despatches in the office, and so- forth, not in language over elegant or edifying. Now what do the public care about all this bantering? What do they care who is the “special,” or how the news comes, so they get it, and can swallow it with their break- fast? We publish five or six columns of war despatches every morning, fresh from the fountainheads of intelligence— as witness our correspondent’s fine description of Strasbourg after the capitulation, in yester- day’s Hrrarp—and we do not make any par- ticular fuss about it. The people want the news, and we presume they know by this time where to get it, It is not worth while for the smaller papers to be wrangling and using bad words about the way it gets into their col- umns. The Roman Question—7he Pope. Once and again in his famous novel of Lothair does Disraeli, through Catesby or the Jeromes or Cardinal Grandison, inform us that the Ecumenical Council would rectify all that was wrong in the European body politic. Disraeli echoed the sentiments of the Catholic Church when he so wrote. The Catesby and the Jeromes and the Cardinal are all repre- sentative characters. Disracli kaew them; we all know them. But the Ecumenical Council has come; it has declared the Pope infallible; and yet, through some mysterious influence, affairs have grown worse and worse and worse. To- day the Roman temporal power, founded by Charlemagne and threatened oft, is dead. The Pope as a temporal prince is homeless, He has -not an inch of territory, mot a cubic foot of stone and line, that he can call his own. It isa serious question whether he can continue to live in Rome. In many respects it is desirable that he should ; but there are some serious diffi- culties in the way. A Pope and a King in the same city—we cannot well comprehend such a situation, Victor Emanwel has got the lion’s share of a big burden. Look at France, at Austria, at every Catholic Power, great and small, Where is the Catholic Power in Europe that cares to protect the Holy Father? After all, would it not be well for the Pope to come to America? Here he would have a home. Here he might convene a more successful ecu- menical council. From the standpoint which he might find in the New World, he might suc- numerous sweepstakes to be run for at the fall meeting at Jerome Park, Of the twelve en- tries for the Handicap Sweepstakes, one mile and a quarter, to be run for the first day (6th of October), one-half have declared out. The six remaining in are Niagara, four years, 103 pounds ; Nellie James, three years, 86 pounds ; Folicity, three years, 86 pounds; Corsican, five years, 111 pounds; Mozart, three years, 88 pounds, and Sanford, five years, 109 pounds, Glenelg, four years, at the top weight, 112 pounds, had been mentioned as a favorite, but his being declared out leaves the prophets in the dark. Nellie James, from the same stable, remaining in, must have the good opinion of her trainer, and will be backed to some extent. Felicity’s immense speed would make her a favorite but for the recollection that she has failed to stay even in shorter races. Should Corsican’s condition improve, however, we predict that be will be ‘“‘there or thereabouts,” and as his companion, Mozart, remains in the stable he may be said to possess the best chance. For the Champion Stakes, mile heats, same day, forty-nine entries, there will probably be ten or a dozen starters, prominent among which will be one or two from Mr. Belmont’s stable (selected from Nellie James, Telegram, Finesse and Kingfisher), Colonel McDaniel’s colt (brother to Red Dick), Chilicothe, one from Mr. Sanford’s stable (probably the sister to Merrill), Mr. Morris’ sister to Ruthless, Mr. O’Donnell’s Haric and Mr. Doswell’s Midday. This ought to be a betting race, but if the horses in the stable of the president of the club do not go amiss we think he has the best of it. The Nursery Stakes, one mile, for two-year- olds, same day (sixty entries), will bring to the post a splendid lot. Mr. O’Donnell’s gray filly by Lightning, one of the Eclipses from Mr. Morris’ stable, one or two from Mr. Je- rome’s string of Kentucky fillies, Colonel McDaniel’s Lexington colt out of Canary Bird, Mr. Sanford’s Madam Dudley, one or two from Mr. L. G. Morris’ stable, Mr. Withers’ Leam- ington filly out of Glenelg’s dam, Major Thomas’ Aurcola, and a half a dozen others are likely to start. Colonel McDaniel’s colt will undoubtedly be the favorite, and should he succeed in defeating the splendid lot he is to meet he will deserve the admiration already accorded to him. Of the nineteen fillies entered for the Jerome Sweepstakes, second day, half a dozen or more will certainly start, and the most prominent in the betting will probably be Nellie James, Re- morseless, Lady Petry and Grecian Bend; yet it is by no means certain that either will win. The starters for the Maturity Stakes, for four-year-olds, three miles, will not be very numerous, although there are nineteen entries. Helmbold will be a hot favorite (should he continue well), and Vespucius, Niagara, Gle- nelg and Legatee will probably be his only competitors. On the third day the sport will begin with the Grand National Handicap, all ages, two and a quarter miles, for which Niagara, four years, 108 pounds; Glenelg, four years, 112 pounds; Cavalier, three years, 86 pounds; Mozart, three years, 87 pounds, and Sanford, five years, 109 pounds, will probably run. Glenelg, with the top weight, has now the post of honor; but handicaps render results very uncertain, and all the contestants will have their backers, For the Champagne Stakes, for two-year- olds, one mile, same day, there are eleven entered, all in training and all about level on the score of reputation. It is prudent to wait until the race is over before attempting to designate which of the young things is the lucky one. The Annual Sweepstakes, for three-year- olds, two miles, same day, is to be a very important event, there being twenty-six entries at $500 éach, half forfeit, with $1,000 added by the Club, Telegram, Kingfisher, Stamps, Preakness, Remorseless, Haric, Lady Petry, Foster and McClosky (the last. two being Captain Moore’s pets) are among the probable starters. Mr. Belmont's entries, condition being equal, would, undoubtedly, have the call; but Haric will have his back- ers, and it is hinted that Captain Moore is in a very good humor with his pets. On the same day the little Sweepstakes of $25 each, play or pay, with $300 added, three-quarters of a mile, will almost certainly be carried off by Mr. Morris’ Felicity, the only other entries being His Lordship, Glengarry and Zinga. On the fourth day there are to be six races, the only one of which now closed is a match between Messrs. Denison & Crawford's bay colt by Censor, out of The Gloamin’, and Mr. Belmont’s chestnut colt By The Sea, by Thor- manby, out of Bernice—both two years old. The match is for $1,000 each, half forfeit, and, as their chances are considered about equal, the race will probably be run. Among the races of the fifth day are two important sweepstakes events. The first is for two-year-olds, $200 each, half forfeit, with $500 added. The distance is a mile and an eighth, and there are nine- teen entries, all in training. As a number of the finest colts in the race have not yet shown in public it is difficult to predict a winner. The stables of Mr. Sanford, Mr. Belmont, Messrs. Denison & Crawford, Mr. Littell, Mr. Withers, Mr. Jerome, Mr. Pennock, Mr. Francis Morris and Mr. Crouse are repre- sented in the race, the latter having purchased Lilly Harness. Mr. Littell’s filly Rattan won the Flash Stakes, half a mile, at Saratoga, carrying 97 pounds, on a heavy track, beating six others, which may give her prominence ; but there are others in the race quite as likely to become favorites. We predict that Mr. Jerome's filly by Kentucky, out of Cyclone, will improve upon her late performances; and the entries of Mr. Sanford and Mv. F, Morris should attract attention. The last of the sweepstakes, already closed, and the most important event of the meeting, will be the Lambard Stakes, two miles for three year olds, tive hundred dollars entrance, half ceed in correcting or eradicating the defects of forfeit, with three thousand dollars added by OC. the Old. As things now are, however, it is difficult to resist the conviction that Cardinal Grandison has failed; that the Ecumenical Council was intended to be a slap in the face of modern society, and that modera society has treated it accordingly. A. Lambard, a spirited member of the club, There are twenty-three entries, including nearly all the prominent colts and fillies entered in the other stakes, besides Hamburg and Maggie B. B., distinguished winners, and others worthy of notice. Ten or more will probably start, and a oapital race may be expected. Hamburg should be ® favorite, notwithstanding his late misfortunes; while Maggie B. B., Stamps, Telegram, Nellie James, Hilarity, Remorseloss, Midday and Foster deserve liberal backing. Colonel O'Fallon’s entries are algo decidedly dangerous. For the steeple chases and hurdle races a number of horses are in training, including several that have never yet gone over the hur- dies, The old favorites Oysterman, Jr., Lobe- lia, Sir Joseph and Biddy Malone are doing remarkably well. The various purse races will of course secure spirited contests, there beiag so many fine horses in preparation for them. The Great Flood in Virginia. The details which wo publish this morning of the great and disastrous flood in Virginia, resulting from the late heavy and far-extend- ing easterly storm, are painful to con- template. This storm, which, according to a theory formed from numerous ob- servations, doubtless came in upon the land in its full strength from the Gulf Stream at Cape Hatteras, appears to have discharged the bulk of its enormous mass of water among the Alleghany mountains of Vir- ginia and West Virginia, from the sources of the Roanoke to the mingled headwaters of the Potomac and the Monongahela. The losses of property of all descriptions have no doubt been heaviest along the valley of the James river, and especially between the cities of Lynchburg and Richmond; but the disastrous consequences of the flood have more or less been felt in the valleys of all the riyers and on both sides of the Alleghanics, from North Carolina into the heart of Pennsylvania. From Pennsylvania to Nova Scotia the storm was liberal in its outpourings of the welcome rain, but so far, over all this range of country, no destructive inundations are reported, We had on the 17th of September an equi- noctial nor’easter which swept the Atlantic coast from the Carolinas to the Canadas; but this of Thursday and Friday last is without a known precedent in its overwhelming flooding of the streams which flow from the Virginia mountains. The losses of property along the James, the Rappahannock, Potomac and other rivers, from these inundations, will perhaps amount to millions of dollars; but still to the country at large, and even to Virginia to a great extent, there is the compensation of the rain from which rivers, springs, wells, forests, fields and gardens over half the Union were suffering. Seobach aud Her Saccess. This grand artiste opened a new page in her répertoire during the past week, when she as- sumed the duplicate phases of deeply touching drama and comedy on the same night, in Scribe's play of ‘‘Valerie,” the blind orphan, and the little comedietta, ‘“‘A Cup of Tea.” We had thus an opportunity of judging of Seebach’s versatility of genius. It was this characteristic, perhaps, as much as the gran- deur with which she clothes the deeper trage- dies of Schiller, and Goethe, and Shakspeare that obtained for her so wide a fame in Europe. We have seen her already in ‘‘Marie Stuart,” and we know how superbly she rose out of the conventionalities of the actress into the reality ofsorrow and misfortune and humble pride and defiant womanhood and martyrdom in all the later gloomy days of the poor Queen of Scots. We are glad that the public can enjoy that wondrous piece of acting again to-morrow night. It has, perhaps, never been equalled upon the American stage. To say that in many passages of this part Seebach excels Ristori, is praise great indeed, but yet it is not undeserved. Apart from the pleasure which the success of Seebach affords to the attractions of the theatrical season the effect in exalting the taste for high dramatic art is more important. The presence of great artists gives life to public taste and moulds it into a wholesome shape. Big Six on His Travels. The great Tammany Sachem, William M. Tweed, it appears, is gone towards the setting sun. A splendid drawing room car has whirled him in the direction of the Omahas, the Ogallalas, and the land of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, accompanied by a few more braves of Tammany. But he had to pass many great cities in his way; and as he is familiar, just a little, with the government of a big city, perhaps his mission is to teach the country ‘‘young idea how to shoot”—to show them how big cities can be governed on the approved principle of making the city magnifi- cent and the taxes on its people light, so light, indeed, that it is possible people expect to see taxation by and by established on the mutual system. Why not? The system of tax levying and tax paying ought to be co-~ operative. Perhaps Mr. Tweed has gone to the West to extend the Tammany system. Probably, for aught we know, he means to make contracts for laying out the streets and avenues of the Western cities, No man knows better how to befriend our Western neigh- bors in this respect. His skill, valuable as it is at home, would be priceless in the new cities from here to San Francisco. Whatever may be his mission—whether it be to Haussmannize the Western cities or to do a little paving on the road towards the White House for a democratic candidate in 1872—T weed is just the man to push things along. Repvuotion oF Car Fare on THE City Roaps.—The city railroad companies, in re- ducing the rate of fare from six to five cents, while acknowledging the force of the law to which they had to bow, appear before the public almost in forma pauperis, The presidents of some of the companies endeavor to show by figures that their losses must be immense, in- deed almost ruinous to the financial interests of those companies, under the new scale of prices. Can it be that this plea of poverty is put in only to prepare the public for a decrease of the pre- sent very poor accommodations which the city railroad companies now supply—for ranuing a less number of cars and at longer intervals? If the figures presented by the different roads be even moderately correct, then the lines must be run in future at a disastrous cost to the humane companies. Can they stand it? Assuming that these figures are “little jokers,” we think they can. Probably Mr. Bergh will be required to keep his eyes upon the poor horses employed by the rajlroad companies, It is not unlikely that they will be the first victims of the enforced economy, aud the present ill- paid employés the next. What the Theatres Are Doing. ) ‘The managers of the leading theatres evince a desire to do better than they have done for, Many seasons past. They aim at a higher and purer standard of amusements, in accordance with the improved taste of their patrons. The concerts of the distinguished cantatrice, Chria~ tine Nilsson, have been a pecuniary as well as artistic success so far, and the wealth and fashion of the metropolis may be found each evening at Steinway Hall when the Swedish Nightingale appears. Mile, Nilsson has not created the same furor that marked the visit of her fair compatriot, Jenny Lind; but the musical taste of the American people has been very much changed for the better since that time. Our public now give an artist a respect- ful and even enthusiastic reception, without that questionable and unreasoning tumult of feeling that is akin to humbug, and that no true artist can value asa proper recognition of his or her talents. No humbug or exhibitor of monstrosities can deal with art as witha woolly horse or a Feejee mermaid, and no in- sane hatter can successfully advertise his busl- ness by being the first at the box office of a great artist. Mlle. Nilsson has achieved a triumph fully equal to that of her distinguished predecessor, without the element of humbug that attended the first sea- son of Jenny Lind. We trust now that, independent of the pleasure derived from hearing such an accomplished, conscientious artist, her visit to this city will be pro- ductive of good in other respects. {f our vocal societies are roused from their Rip Van Winkle lethargy and prove themselves capable of performing some of the magniloquent pro- mises set forth in their circulars; if music teachers cease their pernicious efforts to ruin some of our young, fresh American voices, which in other hands would bloom forth as rare flowers in the garden of vocalism ; if musical managers cater to the legitimate taste of their audience, and trash be forever banished from the domain of music, then the visit of Nilsson to America will bring forth good fruit. The Philharmonic Society, since it lost the valuable direction of Professor Doremus as president, seems to have sunk into its old lethargy, and so far shows no signs of life. Our numerous vocal societics are silent, although the season may now be con- sidered at its height. In the dramatic world we. have some rare entertainments. Tho three leading houses—Booth’s, Fifth Avenue and Wallack’s—have opened with prospects more favorable than ever signalized the com- mencement of aseason before. Mme. See- bach is reviving all the enthusiasm of the Ristori season at the Fourteenth Street theatre by her superb delineation of classical. réles, and next week the well known Janauschek makes her débiit in English tragedy at tho Academy of Music—a line in which she pro- mises to achieve as great a success as that which attended her on the German stage. George Fox commences this week a panto- mime season at the Olympic, and the little sprite, Lotta, still occupies the boards of Niblo’s. Miss I%ina Edwin has met with suc- cess in her attempt to establish vaudeville and respectable burlesque at her new theatre, and even Wood’s Museum has contributed to the general revival by the engagement of Mrs. Scott-Siddons in legitimate drama. But there is a serlous drawback to all this artistic spirit shown at our leading theatres. The Grand Opera House, which should be one of the fore- most in this revival, has inaugurated a season of opéra bouf’e which for vulgarity, indecency and demoralization exceeds even the pranks of the blonde burlesquers. We regrot this exceedingly, as opéra bouffe, properly con- ducted, may be made an enjoyable and lucra- tive business, as Bateman proved in his first season in this city. The music of ‘‘ Le Petit Faust,” when given in its entirety, is charm- ing, but when it is mutilated and superseded by words and actions reprehensible in the highest degree the American public will very soon teach the management that they will not tolerate such an insult. The smaller theatres boast of a larger patronage than ever they enjoyed before, and Brooklyn has caught the spirit of reform and in its solitary theatre the legitimate flourishes successfully. New York may now, in its theatres, compare favorably with any of the European capitals. A Prompt Remedy—The City Saved from Pestilence. We are indebted for our safety from imminent danger of the spread of pestilence to the in- stant removal of the yellow fever patients from Governor's Island to the Quarantine at lower bay. No sooner did Dr. Carno- chan, Dr. Morris and Dr. Ceccarini ascertain that the cases of sjckness on the island were unmistakably yellow fever than Dr. Carno- chan sent the whole batch of sufferers out of reach of the city. During the entire summer we remember that Dr. Carnochan was assailed by certain news- papers and others for his praiseworthy vigi- lance in exercising a strict quarantine upon all vessels arriving from ports where infectious disease existed. He was abused unsparingly as a despot and ‘‘a pirate of the bay,” and in other strong terms, because he set himself up manfully in the exercise of his duty against all violators of the law of quarantine. His assail- ants are now too glad to acknowledge that but for his wise precautions and his energy in carrying out the dictates of his own judgment the city might have been laid waste by the ter- rible scourge of pestilence. The disease on Governor's Island undoubtedly came from ves- sels which evaded quarantine and made their way to the city by Perth Amboy. Had they passed through Dr. Carnochan’s hands we have reason to believe that not a floating char- nel house among them would have been per- mitted to bring the seeds of death to the city. Tae Vomiro Stitt Rages IN Spar, and the greatest consternation prevails, especially among the people of the province bordering on the Mediterranean coast. Our correspon- dent in Madrid telegraphs us specially that the inhabitants are flying by the thousand from the plague stricken city of Barcelona. Already one hundred and twenty thousand of the people have taken refuge without the walls. The authorities are actively at work and are doing all in their power to lessen the horrors of this severe visitation.