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

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 Herap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING yXIBLO'S GARDEN, Bronaway.—Tas TIOKET-OF- LEAVE AN. . GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 24d sh--OPkuA BoorYR—LE PETiT faust. rrr ° WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner 80th #t.—Performances every afternoon and evening, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tue PANTOMIME OF Wee Wye Winnie. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,Janarixr—Dick ‘WE Newenoy. FIFTH AVENUE TREAT anp Wire. 8, Twenty-fourta st.—MaNn BOOTH'S THEATRE, Y5d si, vetwoen Stn and 6tn ave.— Rip Van WINkce. FOURTEENTH STREET TH MARIN SEEBACH AS DF) . rth: (Theatre Franc LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—BARNABY Rupax. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—GRRMAN OvERA—F ust WALLACK’S THEATRE SuRRIDAN'S COMEDY OF ‘ondway and ISth street RAVALS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street. Evening—A GENTLEMAN FROM IRELAND, ternoon and GLOBE THE, 28 Broadway.—Vauinry ENTER TAINMENT—EUN MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK TE As You Like Iv. «, Brooklyn.— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA AOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- RInLY ENTERTAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, 18M, NEGRO ACIS, Xo. 514 Broadway.—Comic Vooat- SAN FRANCISCO MI Ne@no MINSTEELSY, Fa KELLY & LEON'S MINSTR! Tuk Bapiks or tat HOOLEY’S OPERA y oO MuN- eTRELSY, % BROOKLYN OPERA Hi -Wrreu, Hour & Wurre’s BrookuxNn Miss’ AMERICA Rink, Third EXH1BITION.—Ewrree siveet, N a DR. KAHN’S ANATOMIUVAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SOIRNCE AND AX! NEW YORK MUSEUM 0 SCIENCE AND Ant. TRI PLE SH E E T. rOMY, 618 Broadway. New York, Thursday, October 6, 1870. YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTUBER 6, 1870,—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW The Armistice Question—A Fresh Opper- | his absence. This is rather loose business, as The Jerome Park Euces, tunity for Intervention, a malicious deputy may cause the arrest and This morning the silken banners of the The situation as between Prussia and | incarceration of any citizen at his pleasure. | American Jockey Club will be again unfurled France it does appear is misunderstood not | Au example was furnished in the recent case | at Jerome Park for the autumn meeting. only in this country, not only all over Europe, | of Deputy Shine, who got a professional | None who remember the brilliant success of but by the combatants (hemselves, and even | brother locked up in the Tombs on a warrant | the spring season end the halcyon social hours by the representatives of the two rival nation- |.8igned by the Coroner in question. Commit- | then enjoyed will receive this news with alities. The difference of a peace and an | ting magistrates should be more careful in the | unquickened pulses. ‘‘The beauty and the armistice wqymade plain to our readers some | use of their sign manual where the liberty of | chivalry” of New York will make haste to days ago. Because Prussia made certain con- | citizens is invoh seek in the warm sunshine of the ripe October ditions for an armistice—conditions which, mz the glow they incompletely found under the though just enough for an armistice, might AA imperfectly tinted skies of spring. The love- not unjustly have been deemed hard for a liness of field and forest will be richer now peace setilement—most of the newspapers, We have indications to-day of fighting in| than then, and the russet hues of the land- not perceiving the difference, burst into tow- | *!! directions. The Franc-tireurs appear to | scape will be reflected by only a deeper, richer ering passion and denounced the tyranny and have sprung up like the dragon teeth of Cad- light in the eyes of friendship and on the injustice of Prussia. France was unfortunate | ™¥% andin all parts of France the unorganized | cheek of feminive grace. ‘There are some who and downtrodden. Prussia, or, rather, Ger- | Poasantry are attacking the invaders. There | gadly say of autumn— many, was barbarian and brutal. Bismarck | W®* * sharp engagement at Fontainebleau, im- ‘The melancholy days have come, The Situation Throughout That Napoleon Wro sembly of | nent of a n Virgin Pol 4—"That He A Slistory of fis Origin i The Coolie Mer- chants no is Responsibie i What Thes Figures and 5—Tie Murder : Two Murder Cases on Term Day in the Court of Oyer and Terminer; Murder Trial in the Court of Ls Proceedings in the New York Court nation in ew Haven—Financial and Com- nent Announcem | suspension of hostilities. | for the prov 7—Telegrapmie > from all Parts of the World: ‘The Pontifical Debt to be Assured by Victor Emanuel; Garibaldi ne Prom Caprera Sefor Otc to be in League With the Spanien Ri cans; Spread of the Vomito i Spain of Co: Forees Westward 0 Bismark Jacoby 2 of Foreigners on— Yachting jence—Business Notices, 9-A N Selling for the Openi Fair—The National Hight More Deaths The Drivers’ stri priate Asylam—The Tehuantepec Ship Canal : ‘The Government Survey Aition About to Start—Venezuela ‘ire Department Shipping —Intelligence—Arivertise- 11—Advertizements. 12—Advertisement Toe FirreEENTa AMENDM has come up | asa balance of power in Delaware, and the | Jersey democracy are in great peril. After a drought it never rains, bui it pours. SrartinG tim Bart.—The Gold Exchange, ata special meeting terd appropriated two thonsand dollars as a tribution to the fund for the benefit of the sufferers by the recent floods in Virginia. Tue money is to be gent to the care of the Governor of the State. THe “Youne Democracy” of this city have resolved upon a full ticket of candidates for the county, for Congress, the Assembly, school officers and inspeators of This is a bold demand, but the danger is that | in asking too wuck they may get noil election. Tae Pore aS A PEACEMAKER —It fs said that the Pope has written another leiter to King William in behalf of peace. We hope the report is true, for, from the pious tender- ness which marked the answer of King Wil- liam to the first appeal for peace from the Holy Father on the breaking out of the war, we have no doubt that now, in answer to an- other appeal from the Pope, the King would open the way for peace. Aa cnlente cordiale in behalf of peace between the infallible head of the Catholic Church and the head of the viciorious and most powerful Protestant | State of the Continent would be bard to resist. Tue Fatt Execrions, so fay held, show in their results that in the elections yet to come off the republicans do not intend to permit them to go by default. The important elec- tions of Tuesday next for the ucxt Congress, | in Penusylvania, Ohio, Indiana, lowa and | Nebraska, will, however, give us the first posi- tive indications as to the probable strength of | the two pariies in the next House of Repre- sentatives. From present appearances the republicans will not hold their own, but will still bave the House. | which they need. circumstances the great neutral Powers must | was a fiend from the lower regions, Jules | ™édistely in the rear of the German lines of The regaeey Of ie tePEr investment about Paris, on Tuesday; another one occurred near Nibelle-Chambon, between the troops moving against Lyons and the Franc-tireurs ; another occurred near Colmar, a few miles below Strasbourg; a strong fight is reported to have taken place at Epernon, in the province of Eure et Loire, southwest of Paris, and fighting is reported near Orleans. In most of these it is stated that the tireurs were engaged, and as there are really no organized armies of France stationed in the neighborhoods indicated, there seems no reasonable doubt that the tireurs, which are in effect organized bushwhackers, have commenced their operations. Away up at Saverne, almost on the Rhine frontier, they have damaged the Strasbourg Railroad and thus seriously interrupted the Prussian com- munications. This is the legitimate work of the guerilla. The fighting that is reported seems somewhat above the style of fighting to which guerillas have hereto’ore accustomed themselves, The facts, however, indicate that the people of France—the wooden-shoed Jacquerie of revolationary times—have taken to the bush with their rifles, and that the most dreadful phase of war has been inaugurated. There is no incident of interest to report concerning the. siege of Paris, except the removal of King William’s headquarters to Versailles. It is probable that in the contrac- tion of the line of circumvallation the army of the Crown Prince has been pushed toward St. Germain, and he has established his new headquarters there, leaving the old King in possession of the fine quarters at Versailles, The army of Strasbourg is to be used in com- pleting the occupation of Alsace, and the guns used to compel the surrender of that city are already pointed against Metz. Rumored Ocath of Von Moltke. It is rumored that the Prussian General Von Moltke, the chief of staff to King William, is dead, and that his remains were carried through Toul to Berlin in a richly decorated coffin. Even if te rumor should prove true we do not see that its effect upon the success of the Prussian arms would be very material, and certainly not very disas- trous. Von Moltke wasa great military organ- izer. There is no doubt that his genius mapped out the campaign, and did it splendidly, as the whole course of the German armies from victory to victory proves. But when the organization of the plan was complete the organizer's work was done. The generals and the soldiers to whom were committed the operations on the battle fields completed the labor which Von Moltke had designed. His death just at this juncture would, therefore, not very seriously affect the cause of Prussia, Great wars do not depend upon individual talent nor individual heroism, however con- spicuous they may be. We remember that at the outbreak of our war, when our armies were fighting inthe peninsula, rumors of the death of General McClellan were repeatedly circulated; but.did any one believe that the loss of that officer would have militated against the triumph of the North, its govern- ment and its armies over the revolution in the Southern States? Our war was between two peoples—the North and the South—and the loss of an individual could not have affected the result. So with the European war to-day. The people of Prussia it was, and not King William, who made the war in the cause of Germany. It was not the people of France, but the Emperor, who forced on the war in the cause of a dynasty in which, as the condition of affairs in France now shows, the French people had no interest. Sympathizing as we do with the people everywhere, our regrets are for the destruc- tion of buman life, the devastation of provinces once prosperous and beautiful, the desolation that would follow the spread of pestilence in the vast armies of Prussia; but the loss of any one man, even though it be the great Favre was an angel of light. France was all right. Prussia was all wrong. Now, however, that we arein possession of Bismarck’s version of what actually did take place at his interview with Jules Favre, the difference between a peace settlement and an armistice is no longer misunderstood. Nor is it any longer possible to doubt that if Jules Favre had been able to find reason in his un- reasonable colleagues this most unnecessary and destrnetive war would have beon ended at leas! two weeks ago. Bismarck tells us, and tells us plainly, that ‘‘the statement that he refused an armistice is false.” When he met Jules Favre at Ferritres ‘‘it was agreed that an armistice would be possible if France gave Prussia guarantees against delay— agains! destroying the advantages of the posi- tion she had woninthe war.” These guar- antees included the retention of the fortresses on the lines of communication between Ger- many aad fhe advance posts of the German They included also the surrender of certain fortifications in the neighborhood of Paris, so as to prevent the besieged from taking undue advantage of the armistice to gather in supplies and so strengthen their position. On these terms Bismarck was willing to grant an armistice of fifteen or twenty days, thus per- Franee to make her elections and convene her Constituent Assembly and form a responsible government which could say “Yea” or “Nay.” According to Bismarck M. Jules Favre could not bind France to any such »ment; but he promised to consult his gues. Not finding his colleagues ina mood to comply with such terms, Jules Favre wrote a letter to King William, as all our readers know, full of patriotism, but full also of buncombe. With Bismarck’s statement of the case before us, we must repeat that, by the newspaper world generally, the conditions of a peace seltlement and of an armistice have been absurdly confounded ; tbat Prussia had a perivet right in view of armistice to make such conditions, and that the provisional gov- ernment was greatly to blame for not accepting the conditions and agreeing to a temporary It was not unnatural ional government and for France to regard these conditions as hard; but it must also be admitted that the Prussian authorities would have revealed a miserably plentiful lack of that wisdom which has won armies. mitting arrang cole general | them so great success il they had agreed to grant an armistice on terms more easy. Count Bismarek was not the man in any circumstances, least of all when his triumphant legions were knocking loudly at the gates of Paris, to fling away a victory which his people had won at a cost of so much blood and so much treasure, and “| which be himself had made it bis life labor to | accomplish, e | but For poor France we all feel; entiment is not always just, and no man who loves France and loves justice, too, can have any difficulty in endorsing the senti- | meut ‘‘Pity that two weeks ago an armistice vas not agreed to.” The fault clearly was not marck’s. It was not Jules Favre’s. The blame resis with France, aud with France because she has no responsible government. An armistice to-day is more possible and more desirable than ever. The terrific artil- lery of Prussia is pointed and ready to burst upon the doomed city of Paris—a city in the pre’ ation of which, somehow, all the world feels interested. If the Prussian guns do open their mouths and belch forth destruction on the monuments and art treasures of the fairest city of which modern civilization can boast no one can blame Prussia. It will not be the fault of Court Bismarck, or of General Moltke, or of King William, or of the Crown Prince, [t will only be their painful duty—their necessity. hey have no choice ; they cannot help it. It will not, we think, be the fault of Jules Favre or of General Trochu. With unreasoning colleagues they have no choice; they cannot help it. But still we must regret the necessity of the destruction of iF If Prussia has no choice but to pour upon it destruction and death; if the pro- onal government is so feeble that it can neither repel the invader nor become respon- sible for an armistice, there is a loud and im- perative call addressed to the neutral Powers once more to kindly interfere—to persuade if they cannot compel. It is now manifest to all the world that the door for intervention is open ; | that both Prussia and France are willing to listen to reason, if only they are properly Let the great Powers one and all state to France that to suve Paris, to pre- unnecessary humiliation the approached. vent the of | Freach people, and possibly to prevent a dis- memberment f the kingdom, more serious than has yel been contemplated, an armietice on conditions must be accepted. Vigorous, for decided action on the part of the great Powers is all that is necessary to Prussian yisional government the unity and strength If Paris is bombarded in the to a large extent be held responsible, try and succeed, the glory will be theirs, they try and fnil, France, so far as we can now see, must bear the punishment, not alto- gether righteously, but necessarily inflicted. We are willing to hope that intervention will, within a few days, bring about an armistice, and. thus end a war which was never neces- sary, never justifiable, but which is now offen- sive to the common sease of mankind, df they it pears, by his own statement, has been accus- tomed to leave warrants of commitment in blank, to be tiled up by hig deputies dyriug Loose Busisess.—Coroner Flynn, If} ap= | litle importance, which cannot change or obstruct the great issues to be decided by the present war. REPUBLICAN ELECIIONKERING IN THE Sovrn.—A despatch from Washington states that the condition of Alabama has created “grave uneasiness” at the national capital for some time, and was the subject of con- sideration in the Cabinet on Tuesday last. The despatch referred to continues :— As aresult the President has issued orde | ing that the State be constituted a separa | district in the Department of the South, under com- mand of General S. W. Crawford. Ten additional companies of troops have also been ordered into the neral Crawford lett tor Montgomery t companied by Senator Warner, who goc the canvass inthe State. Senator War- ner has been successful in raising considerable money for campaign purposes, and reporis the po- litical prospects in the state to be cheering. ‘That there should be ‘‘grave uneasiness” at Washington on account of the aspect of affairs | in the South—and that aspect is really of a S dircet- military | bring Frence to reason and to give the pro- | happy and encouraging natare—is not at all | sorprising. But why Alabama, a State that } was supposed to have been thoroughly recon- structed, should be singled out for especial | attention is somewhat remarkable. This political campaign lecturer perambulating | Alabama together does not speak well for the ! the mailer, THe “Sorvest” Trine Our.—An unfledged } innocent who conducts « paper in an adjoining precinct of New York undertakes to rasp Tom | Murphy, the Collector of the Port, for levying an assessment upon his employcs for election- | eering purposes. This is decidedly the “softest” thing that has been developed thus {yy jn the pending political campaign, organizer of the campaign, is a matter of | double team of a military commander and a | | sagacity of those who have the managing of | but those who drive out along the Harlem road to-day will find the feeling of the season all the other way. The boasted ‘‘meets” of Britain and France can present no such de- lights of atmosphere and scenery, and cer- tainly the charms and the elegance of our metropolitan dames and demoiselles leave nothing for the ‘‘Derby” or ‘‘ Longchamps” to vaunt for any claim of their superiority. Then, for the practical attractions of the course, the choice, commencing with this day’s work, will range over some of the finest blood and mettle in the country—animals and riders who have won distinction on many a hard-fought field. But apart from all these inducements we cannot feel indifferent to the higher tone of civilization that these races in America denote, especially as they are managed for the élite of the social life of our Empire City by the gallant cavaliers and gentlemen of the ‘Jockey Club.” ‘They are the true Olympic games revived in our day, with a thousand additional refinements, of which “the noblest and wealthiest of the Greeks” never so much as dreamed, Rome had her coarse and bloody gladiato- rial combats, in which captive warriors were butchered to make a holiday, and her shows of the arena, where martyr Christians were cast to the lions and tigers of savage lands, The Middle Ages had their tournaments, the cold-blooded cruelty of which not even the songs of the Minnesingers and the romance of the Troubadours could bide or redeem. In our own time the bull fights of Spain, where even the donzellas of Madrid and Cadiz smile on the mangled forms and dying agonies of man and animal alike; the boxing rings of England and the cockpits of Havana, which are but the ante-rooms of brutal excess and degradation, have been the pet sports of civil- ized nations; and even where the ‘‘turf” has been patronized abroud it was and is defaced by continual rudeness, But here on our favored soil, and ina condition of society to which liberal systems and ideas have given only a higher and more cultured tone, the race course, such as our hosts of readers will see it in these enchanting October hours, will be simply the centre of the most refined and humanizing associations. Up then, and away, ladies fair and merry gentlemen! For youth and hope and beauty, and even for that bright old age which only silvers the locks, but cannot chill the heart, this is one of the golden days to be treasured throughout the year. Werse aud Worse. Worse than the sufferings of France from the German armies of invasion and occupation will be, according to one of our city morning contemporaries, the sufferings of the people of this city from the re-election of Hoffman. Thus we are warned that with Hoffman’s re- election we shall have ‘ta new era of pro- fligacy and corruption, with the Tweedites and Fiskites absolute masters of this island ;” that “the law courts will be open only for the benefit of a gang of profligate adventurers ;” | that “‘the bar will sink lower than ever ;” that “the bench will be more thao ever the scoff of the civilized world;” that if the people ‘‘give a new leage of power to Hoffman, which means Tweed and Fisk, it will be useless for them to complain afterward that their properly is plundered, that swindlers flaunt all sorts of abominable vices in their faces, that the city is given over to lawlessness and ruffiandom, and that the courts of law are turned into dens | of thieves.” This, from a journal which has hitherto | chanted the praises of Tammany in conserva- tive music, is somewhat startling; but it is hardly more so than the present landations of the Wigwam from an erratic democratic moral philosopher who but the other day denounced even the inner temple as a conspiracy of swindlers and robbers. There are two old proverbs which will apply to all such cases— “politics make strange bedfellows,” and “where the carcass is there will the vultures be gathered together,” wrangling and fighting over the fragrant spoils. Tne Yeutow Fever—A Goov Exursit.— The report of Health Officer Carnochan to the Commi-sioners of Quarantine concerning the cases of yellow fever on Governor's Island is very satisfactory, showing, | as it does, the completeness with which | the pestilence was removed from the very | threshold of the city almost the moment its | existence was discovered. So promptly were | the patients removed to the Quarantine Hos- | pital, far off in the lower bay, that not a single | case of the contagion spreading beyond Gov- ernor’s Islané has been reported. It may be regarded as a providential circumstance that | while the disease prevailed on Governor's Island for nearly six weeks it did not reach the city. The course now adopted by Dr. Car- nochan and his assistants at Quarantine, | together with the approaching cool weather, renders all danger impossible. But what a | risk have we escaped, and what a lesson have | we learned as to the necessity of an efficient Health Officer of the Port! | A Srarur or Proresson MORSE IN THE Park.—At the regular meeting of the Com- missioners of Public Parks, on Tuesday, a proposition was accepted to erect in the Cen- | tral Park a statue in honor of Professor } Morse, commemorative of his great inver(ion | world. The artist's model for the statue of the famous inventor of the electro-magnetic telegraph is almost ready for the chisel. intended that the statue shall be a work of the | highest art, that its (oupdation and pedestal shall be laid without delay, and that it shall be unveiled by the President of the United States on Professor Morse’s eightieth birth- day, April 27, 1871. No American citizen is more richly entitled than Professor Morse to so signal an honor, and no site can be found more suitable for such a statue than the New York Central Park. Rumered Chaages in the Cabinet. It is stated that the Cabinet is to be reor- ganized, Messrs. Fish, Cox and Robeson with- drawing for reasons entirely personal, and rumor hag it that Ben Wade will succeed Cox and General Walbridge will succeed one of the others—probably Fish. General Wal- bridge, no doubt, will perform the duties of either office with zeal and ability. As for Ben Wade, it would be simply a shame to bury him in the office of the Interior Department. His stuff is of that stern, aggressive material that will cause too much agitation among the agricultural fossils in that pastoral depart- ment, He would inexorably entangle the dusty details of the Patent Office or the Land Office in less than a week. He would fit about as nicely into them asa fire in a hayrick or a bombshell in church, He would have been a treasure in the State Department at one time. His ultimatum for settling the Alabama claims, ‘‘pay or fight,” tickled the popular ear prodigiously at the time he uttered it, and as events have since shown that England is as chary about doing the one thing as the other, probably his policy was an excellent one to follow. In the Cuban business, too, he displayed a hearty Americanism that was refreshing; but whether his fiery temper would suit the musty operations of the State Department at the present time is a matter of doubt. The place for Wade—for the old vete- ran of the republican party ought to have a place somewhere under the republican admin- istration—is in the Navy Department, Under the ten years Rip Van Winkleism in that department our ships and fleets have gone to rust like the old firelock of the Dutch hunts- man, and it needs the young blood of Old Ben Wade to burnish them up again. He cannot be too fiery or progressive there. Mental bombshell as he is, he could not blow up our and its vast influence on the history of the | It is | present naval system too high; but we can warrant that be would at least blow out some of the cobwebs in the bureau and knock off some of the barnacles on the fleet. Chinese — Lmmigration—Tts and Stimulants. One of the most difficult and important public questions that any country was ever called upon to deal with, is that which is be- ginning to present itself to the government and people of the United States, in the shape of Chinese immigration, or coolie importation, as it is sometimes called. Political dema- gogues will treat it from one point of view; manufacturing and railroad companies and all who employ laborers on a large scale will look upon it as a remedy from the evils of trade combinations and strikes; the industrial classes will regard it as a direct attack upon their means of subsistence, and Christian moralists will see danger to the religion and morality of the people in this insweeping wave of Chinamen, who care nothing for politics, little for religion or morality, but who are patient, industrious and thrifty, and seck only employment and its rewards. For some ten or fifteen years past we have had Chinamen on the Pacific coast, first as adventurous miners, and afterwards as rail- road laborers, agriculturists, factory hands and domestic servants. Since the opening of the Pacific Railroad they have commenced to spread eastward and southward, until now they are found displacing the negroes on Louisiana and Texas plantations, the Sons of St. Crispin in Massaciusetts shoe factories and the ruddy daughters of the green island in New Jersey laundries. We may soon look to see them building our ships and houses, digging our canais, dr.ving our city railroad cars and occupying every department of labor where they can be made available as cheap workmen and as an assurance to capital against trade combinations and strikes. It will thus be seen that the Chinese ques- tion interests all classes of the community and every gradeof society, from the highest to the lowest, because there is absolutely no limit to the supply of Oriental laborers, except the capacity of ships and railroads to trans- port them. The constantly occurring difficul- ties between employers and employed are stimulating, and will continue to stimulate, capitalists to resort to China for laburers that wili be more tractable ond easily managed ; and the inducements held out by agents in China will swell the flood of immigration from that country until Chinamen will be as ubiquitous throughout the United States as the natives of Germany or Ireland. Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse to the country, or whether it will prove to be a litile of both, it will be for time and experience to determine. In the meantime it is well to learn all that we can of the habits, tastes and dispositions of a people that is to form such an important element of our population, With that view we give to-day an extended analysis of a book about to be issued on China and the Chinese, and which embodies the observations made and information acquired by a practical American who has recently returned from that part of the world. It will be found to present an accurate and highly interesting picture of the average Chinaman of the emigrating clase, of his social habits, his religious and moral | ideas, his tastes and dispositions, and of the motives which induce him to seek employ- ment and comparative wealthin the United States. It also shows the origin and develop- ment of the coolie trade or emigration, and furnishes statistical information of the extent to which that trade is growing, the opinion of the author being that it will go on doubling itself every year. As we have said, the subject is « most important one, and the extracts which we give from the book referred to will throw much light upon i A Bap Siex.—They had thirteen deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans on Monday last. We fear that the city is getting dirty again and that it wants another such over- hauling as that which General Butler gave it during the war. He gave it a cleaning whith, followed up from year to year, kept out the yellow fever as an epidemic for seven years. Cleanliness of all things and of all places is Sources the thing needed against pestilenge in our | Southern cities. Shall We Have Nilsson in Opera t=The Academy Stockholders in the Way. It is reported that the only obstruction in the way of a brilliant season of Italian opera, with the charming Nilsson and a first rate company, is with the stockholders of the Academy of Music, It remains for these few persons to say whether the city of New York shallhave or not this most delightful and re- fining of all amusements, with the highest order of talent. How is this? The answer is very simple. Miss Nilsson wishes to appear in opera, She is so gratified by her reception here and with the American people and coun- try that she would be pleased to show her fine ability on a more extended scale than im concert. Mr. Strakosch, the manager, and the members of the Nilsson company desire this also. We are assured, in fact, that we should have opera, for a short season at least, ina style that has rarely been witnessed in this country, and such as we may not have an op- portunity of seeing again for a long time; but it cannot be given unless the stockholders of the Academy surrender their claim to exclusive seats. That is the sine gua non. The question is, thea, will they be so selfish as to deprive New York, as well as themselves, of this rare opportunity for enjoy- ing a brilliant season of opera? Can it be possible that they will stand in the way for the sake of the few dollars that they might have to pay for seats, us the rest of the com- munity pay ? If they should be so mean aa that, and have no more regard for the public and the cultivation of a taste for the highest order of music, their conduct will be severely condemned. The list of names of these Academy stockholders would be long remem- bered as a black list by the community of New York. Miss Nilsson has to return to Europe in March to fulfil her engagementa there. The series of concerts at Steinway Hall will end on Saturday. There are but two more, one on Friday night and a matinéa on Saturday. We might possibly hear thia exquisite singer again in concert after her performances in other cities; but itis in opera where she is most brilliant, and whera we ought to see her, if the Academy stock- holders will permit. It is seldom that such « bright star appears above our horizon or in the world. There has been no exaggeration or clap-trap to influence the public. Every- thing about her appearance, as well as in tha management, is genuine. From the touches of opera which Miss Nilsson has given in the concert ball we can’ well imagine how very charming she must be in full operatic per- formance. Shall we have that? What say the stockholders ? It remains for them to de- cide. THE NEW SATRAP OF CiBA, General Don Fernando-Fernandez de Cai- dova, fs General De Rodas having abandoned the work of reducing the belligerent Cubans to subjection tue Regency of Spain have appointed General Fernando- Fernandez de Cordova Captain General of Cuba, with the hope, doubtless, that what Lersundi, Dulce and de Rodas failed to do he willeffect. The new oficial is an old and prominent character in the military and political history of Spain. Born to Madrid in 1792, he studied at the naiionat military schoo of thatcity, and at the early age ot eighteen en- tered the army. At this time the peninsula was ina blaze of war, and it was no dificult task for a gal- lant, aasping soldier to achieve distinction, .De Cordova possessed the qualities of courage and military ability In an eminent degree, and his dis play of both earned for him rapid promotion through the various grades of his profession. Aftet the close of the war he entered actively into thé Politics of Spain, and in 1841 conspired with General Concha and Diego Leon to over- throw Espurtero. Subsequently he became a leader of the Salamancans, 2 laciion of the pro- gresistas. His party having attainea wo power ha obtained office, holding for a brief while in 1847 the important position of Minister ot War and at a later date the chief command of the Spanish infantry. In 1849 he commanded the Spanish corps sent to Italy to aid in the work of re-establishing the au- thority of the Pope in Rome and the Papal prov- incas. On the 8th of March following (185v) he was appointed Captain General of Cuba. Soon after his arrival on the island in 1851 the fillbustering expe- dition of Crittenden and Lopez leit the United States, Ve Cordova displayed much energy in fras- trating the designs of ilie filipusters, but he gained the excerations of the Cubans and the peopie of this country by che brutai manner in which he treated. the unfortunate men czptured by the Spanish forces, Their hurried trials and executions were by his instructions, without waiting for orders from the home. government. Although approv- ing of his course, the Madrid authorities dured not face the storm of indignation which his ferocity had occasioned. He was accord- ingiy recalled, put only to receive fresh honors from the government, being made Director General of Cavalry. In 1854 he was lustructed by Queen Isabella to form a new Cabinet. He declined the task, but remained faithful to the Queen, and at the outbreak of the revolution commanded the troops. which opened fire upon the insurgents, whose finat triumph, however, forced De Cordova to seek safe! in flight. He went to France, where he remain till 1856, when he returned to his native country and resumed hig. rank of general. In 1864 he became Minister of War, under Narvaez, but soon after re- tired and joined the opposition to tne Bourbor dynasty. He aided Prim 1n effecting the overthrow of Queen Isabella in 1868, but was given no mpor- tant office after the establisnment of the CY. His present appointment as Captain General of vuba will test his capacity as an eaecutive to its iullest extent. We doubt if, at fs advanced age, he will ba able to display the same energy and resolution which marked his earlier years, and nothing less than the same will compass the suppression of the Cuban revo.ution. BOARD OF FORE The American Board of Foreign Missions coutin~ ued their sessions yesterday in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a very large audience being im attendance. After the opening prayer an address was reaa upon the “{indenominational Character of the Board,” reviewing the important changes that had taken place in the constituency. A series of resolutions were 0! d, showing. ti sympatiy of the Board with Presbyteriat branch, now about to withdraw. Letters were read trom Rey. Dr. Thompson, now in Syria, and irom Dr. Henry H. Jessup, of the Syrian mission. Tie secretary introducea a deputation from the London Missionary Society, ali of whom made short ad- dresses. The President of the Board made a speech ot welcome to the London depniation, The meeting then adjourned until the afternoon. At three o'clock @ deeply interesting meeting of the Maternal Associaton was noiden ia Dr. Eday’s: church. Mrs, Marshall O. Roberts presided and oss Wo the large the made a touching and eloquent ad audience upon tre duties of mothers, After Mra. Roverts couciaded a delegate from the Boston Mothers’ Assoctation, real a very interest- and encouraging report. tly addressed ng adjourned ‘Academy of audience. y npson, Kev, ~ The addresses turned prinetpaliy upon (he dismemberment of he board by te witedrawal of the Presbyterian brane, THE LONSON AND EW YORK STEAMSH? LINE, ‘This line has now ceased to run across ine Atlin Uc, the last vessel having left yesterday. The Atalanta, Cella and Bellona, its three finest veasels, will in future be employed m the trade between Great Britain and tudia, This gives a siguificant indication of the ever growing haportance of the Suez Canal, which the tkranp, at the time of tts opening, predicted would peedily prove one of the great commercial events of the century. All the sailing vessels which used to bring ‘The wealth of Ormuz and of Ind, around the Cape of Good Hope to Kurope are being | superseded, even in such heavy freights as cotton and gunny bags, by fast steame And so protit- able has this trafic already become that we have here a steamship company taking its boats from the * Meriva trade to employ them in the md | live commerce verween Kurope and jhe (gr