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

NEW YORK HERALD BRroaDway AND ANN STRELT. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AD business or news letter and telegraphic cna most be addressed New Youk y Letters and packages chould be properly Bealed. g Rejected communications will not be re- 3 AMUSEGONTS TWS AFTERHOON AMD EVENINO. WALLACK’S TREAT! Bi sirect— Jan Bzn1005 Faurr. sselhashionttadhanete a) ‘MINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—ALADDIN— Buaox Erep Susan. ee \UNTRLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Enarisu Ormna— ‘Oszuox GRAND @PERA HOUSE, co He a was—bs Vere Pavan 1 Cnet OF Eighth avenso an OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.— Wee Witits Wiskre. Matince at 2 n Panromman oy ! woon's MUSEUM Brostway, corner vob st,—Perform- Bnces every aftornoon and even! BOWENY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dorr—Taw Gaur— Qoox ov vue Wi.psENKss. YIFPA AVENUE THEATRE, Twonty-tourty t—Maw au Woe ‘ BOOTHS THEATRE, 234 st., botween 6th ans Gin avs.— Bar Vax Wincin * FOURTEENTH STREBT THT-ATRE (Theatre Francais)— Bursanera, Quean oF ENOLAsy. 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Paris: Probable Failure of the Peace Negotlations Through Engiand’s Interference; King Wil- Mam’s First Proposition for an armistice; Re- lection Up Sees of the ‘Terms; Con- ercuos Between Napoieon, Kugénic and Ba- waine at Wilhelmshole; A Bonapartist Demon- Btration on'a Grand Scale Expected; Procla- mation of M. Gambetta to the French Armies; Rumored Resiguation of Generat Bonrbakt; Farther Parucniars of the Surrender of Hetz} Exodus of Americans from Paris—Base Ball— The Wheel of Fortune—Lectares Last Night— Brooklyn Olty News—A Buckeye Biue Bear @—The Now Election Law: Tho Constitutionallty of the Act Attacked and Defeated—The Pub- uc Pe eee of the East— An uili- cial Outrage—Oollision in the —New York Uistorical Boctety—Miiltary Chit-Chat Steam on the Cansis—Ooliisions on the Rond—Yach! ing—Trotting at Fleetwood Park—Naval In’ ligence—Stal to Death—Water Meters, S=—The Late Cyclone: Experience on Board the United States Steamer Shenandoah; Terrible Buffeting of the Ship—Cuba: Addi.onal De- tails of the Dam: of the Hurricane of the 19th of October; the Insurrection—A ing Steamship: Fears Entertained for the fety of the Propeller Varuna—Ameriean Institute Fair—Iucendiary Fire at liackettstow®, N. J.— Sudden Death of a Prominent Jerseyman— Proceedings in the New York Estate Matters—New York Cliy News—State Prigon Monthly Record—Laying a Corner Stoue—Mari aud Deaths, G—Eudiltorials: riages Leading Article, Rassta and the £astern Question, the Rumored Secret 'freaty— Amusement Ce ade nw es V—Hi:torial (continued from Page! le- piiio Sowa from all Parts of the World: fie Situation in China, Indecision and Anxi- ety; Murders by Italian Brigands; Crimo in Treland; Shipment of Haglish Monks for Bos- ton—Obiiusry—News from Washington— Amusomenta—Personal Intelligence —Business Notices, 8=—Tho Public Debt Statement—Serious Row Among Students—Female Alghway Ropbers— Our Marine Interests—Financial and Commer- cial Peporta—The Recent Boiler Explosion Near Newark—Advertisemenis, 9— Advertisements. 40—Politics: The Republicans and Young Demo racy Repudiate Each Other—New York Med! cal College for Women—Orushed and Fallen— NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1870,-TRIPLE SHEET, Russia and the Kastern Quostion—Tho Ra- | Rusaia may not march to Constantinople, but mored Secret Treaty. she can if she chooses. It is our firm belief The ramor of asecrot treaty between Russla | that if she does show any signs of carrying and Prussia, destined, if true, to be known as | out her established and well kaown purpose the Wiesbaden treaty, has lont @ new and | Great Britain will immediately take possession somewhat lively interest to the European sity- | of Egypt, ‘ae ation, The burden of the rumored troaty is | How doimplotely in three short months war to tho effect that Russia was consulted before | has desiroyed the balanco ef power! How the war was commenced, and that while Ruasla | the schemes of statesmen have been bafiled! bound herself to hold off for a reasonable | In how many respects will it be found that tho length of timo during the continuance of the | present war has defeated its purpose! If Rus- war, she was bound, in the event of Prussian | ela does attempt to carry out her traditional defeat, to step forth and forbid Prussian, or | policy wo may have 4 conflagration which will rather German, dismemborment. Prussia, on | envelop Europe—a destructive war which the other hand, in the event of victory, bound | will leave Europe a comparative desert and horself to stand by Russia in any attempt she | which will put the destruction of the Roman might make to force tho annulment of tho | empire completely inthe shade. The fall of obnoxious clauses of the treaty of Paris, Tho | tho Papacy, the deportation of the Sultan, the French paper in London, La Situation, re-establishment of the German empiro and inspired by the imporlalists, admits the-oxist- the restoration of the Christian empire of the ence of the treaty. That such a treaty has | East may make the year 1870 as memorable been signed by Russia and Prassia may or | for lis groat events in the East as for those may not be true. It is undeniable, however, } which are convulsing Western Europe, that the arrangement fits in most admirably with the events and necessities of tho hour, We are not disposed to regard it as a mere The Progress of the War. A number of Americans released from Paris rumor. The action of the Russlan govern- by Minister Washburne's exertions have ar- mont, hitherto inexplicable, now begins to be rived in London, and we chall soon be favored, fatelligible. Since the Crimean war Russia | 2° doubt, with more extended details.of the has beea peaceful, Russia, in fact, so far as | inside workings of the sisge than any we havo the government was concerued, practically yethad, The bombardment kas not yet com- ceased to be a Europoan Power. Internal im- | ™enced, but it is stated that two hundred and provements, the emancipation of the serfs, the | Sty guns are ready to open upon the city. construction of railroads, the strengthening of | Inside there ere eaid to be plenty of pro- her pesition in the East, eooupled the attention | Visions and a deicrmined spirit of resistance. and, to all outward seeming, satisfled the am- | The French gunners aim their pieces with bition of Russian statesmen. To watchful and | STeateffect. It is said that sickness prevails knowing observers it was apparent that Russia | © such an extent in the German camps that was making good use of her qnietude and two thonsand deaths are reported daily. Lyons leisure; and such persons felt satisfied that Russia waa preparing for eventualities after such a fashion that, when the eventualities came, she would be ready to make war in the East or in the West, as was most convenient, In other words, it was the coaviction of many persons well qualified to judgo that Russia was wailing her opportunity. If the Russian government now thinks that the desired oppor- tunity has arrived few will say she has mis- calculated. From a Russian standpoint lot us look at the situation. Since the days of Peter the Great Russian ambition has been directed towards Constantinople. It has been—it still is—her bolief that she has been commissioned by Pro- vidence to restore the Greck empire, and to make an end of the work which the temporiz- ing policy of the Western Powers has left uufinisbed, by driving the turbaned Turk out of Europe. In the pursuance of this policy the late Emperor Nicholas moved a little too fast. He badly chose his time. A now man is preparing for a stout resistance to tho forces that are slowly advancing down the Vosges Mountains and the River Rhone to invest it. General Bourbaki has resigned his command of the Army of the North on account of a strong feeling prevalent among the people and soldiers thore connecting him with the alleged treachery of Bazaine. The French fleet, with aheavy force of soldiers on board fer laud service, is operating about Cuxhaven, and has frightened the peoplo into preparing for a sturdy defence. Gambetta continues to issue wordy proclamations depicting the Infamy of Bonaparte and the treason of Bazaine. A most sinister looking conference is about to be held of the paroled French Marshals at Oassol, andan important and extraordinary confer- ence has already been held between Napoleon, Eugénie and Baznine. On the part of all the present divisions of the French peoplo talking seems to be the only effective weapon, excopt in Paris, where the essence of all the frivolity of France seem to be at present the only earnest, determined workers of the Slupping Intelilgonce—Adavertisements. 1—Advertisements. Advertisements, Frrnanpo Woop has told an interviewer that his opponent for Congress in the Ninth district (General Hillyer) wonld poll about one hundred votes, That is hard on Hillyer, who, ps one of the only two survivors of General Grant’s war staff, was supposed te have more than that number of personal ponsioners in the istrict. ‘ MoManon is young and handsome and can afford to wait. Presipent Grant has issued another of his sffective electioneering documentsa—‘‘Rednc- tion of the public debt in October, $5,128,296.” Tae ReaisTRaTION was completed yester- ay and sums up a total of 142,666 votersa—a flecreaso of 17,719 as compared with tho pegistry at the charter election last winter. Phere appears to be no doubt, judging from this, that the United States marshals and in- ppeotors are vigilant and that tho threatened flood of repeaters has been effectually turned sido, The lists are yot to be revised and ey bo considerably reduced by the discovery bf frauds and errors, ACarnorto Prmst is about to sail from Oxford, England, accompanied by thirty monks, with the intention of founding a mo- jpastery in America, The party will land in Boston. We recommend them to remain in Ehat city. Coming from England they will be ‘able to see ot once that the Pilgrim Fathers are almost ‘‘played out” in the Hub. ; : ” Mayor Hatt, Judge Hilton, Fernando Wood, Thomas C. Fields, Horace Greeley and distinguished citizens, it sezms, have invited to speak before the Brennan at Lion Park this evening on the sub- city improvements generally. Now, the subject of the physical improve- of the city is discussed, why not have a grord or two to say about the moral improve- fment of all olasses—‘ho high and the low, the fich and the poor? ‘The oloquent party bove mentioned could throw on amasing pmount of light upon the subject we suggest, and, without doubt produce a “heap” of ood. with a great name had acquired the control of the Treasury and the armies of France. Tho | WHdle. Crimean war was singularly convenient for | Rugenie at Wiliclmshohe—Very Iniportaut Napoleon, It cost France much, but it made News if Trac. Napoleon the Third secure on the French | Wohave the newsthat the Empross Eugénio throne. Great Britain, which had destroyed | was last Sunday at Wilhelmshdhe, on a visit to the first French empire, through Napoleonic Napoleon; that Napoleon, Eugénie and Ba- cunning strangely lent a helping hand to build | yaing had had a confidential conference, and up the second. The treaty of Paris, 1856, | that o messenger, savod Turkey and humbled Russia, by driving near, was awailing tl her war ships outof the Black Sea. Ruasia folt then what she remembers now—that she was | william at Versailles. Now, if there Is any beaten down by a foolish, if not iniquitous, alli- | truth in these reports, the surronder by ance of the two greatest military Powers of the | Bazaine of his army of one hundred and fifty West. Great Britain alone, France alone, | thonsand men losos much of its mystery, and gould not have taken Sebastopol; but Groat | there iss pretty good foundation for the sus- Britain and France combined were too many picions and conjectures that have been accu- for Russia single-handed. Russia bowed to mulating since the mysterious mission of fate—the fate of the hour—but she bowed | pourbaki from Metz to England in reference most unwillingly, “Not yet, but another | t 9 restoration of the Bonapartes. King time,” was the sentiment of the Russian gov- William, with the consent of the neutral ernment and the Russian people when Sebas- Powers, may perhaps find in this scheme a topol was dismantled and when the treaty of | way to peace; but it will involve a remark- Paris was signed. Since 1856 Russia has been | apig change from the programme of the Holy waiting and watching. Solong as Napoleon | aijjance of 1814 and 1815 for the dethrone- seemed a power the time was not yet. Even | mont of the Bonapartes, and a change quite Napoleonic overtures to undo the treaty of | ay remarkable from the original purpose of Paris could not drive Russia from her waiting | thig war on the part of Prussia, The crisis in and watchful attitude. After her Crimean ex- | France, however, is such that something must perience sho was not willing to trust the Turk | goon po dono for pence; and in this light we even when bringing gifts, But the time has | ;now not what a day may bring forth. come at last. No Napoleonic cunning, no French and English alliance, can hinder her The New Electoral Law in Court. marching across the Pruth or hurrying her A full and interesting report of the anxiously war ships to the Golden Horn. Itmay bo that | anticipated encountér between the legal lumi- the Czar Alexander’s known love of pence | naries on the constitutionality of the new and universally recognized honesty of purpose | Election law of Congress, which came off yes- will prevent Russia from availing herself of | terday in the United States Circuit Court her opportanity; but no one can deny that | before Judges Woodruff, of the Circuit, and Rusala’s opportunity has come, It is sald, | Blatchford, of the District Court, will be found indeed, that Russian agents have beon to | in another column, and is well worthy of Tours, sounding the French government as to | perusal at this time. Tho citizens at large the feasibility of a sale of the national flect to | have manifested great interest in the operation the Czar, but that they have had no success in | of this new law, which some eminent lawyers— this direction to the present moment, We are | backed, of course, by the more interested poll- told that the Russians offered France certain | ticians—have declared unconstitutional and “political inducements,” as well as a money | void. The arrest of several citizens, some of payment for the vessels, There may be some- | them of influential standing in the com- thing in this statement. If the Czar be really | munity, and their subscquent indictment intent on “‘going to the East,” it is good | for alleged violations of the law, brought policy to have as powerfal a navy as possible. | the feeling entertained by the stick- It would also be a very astute diplomacy to | lors of the law and its opponents to a disarm France at sea by a purchase of her | culminating point. Yesterday wag fixed upon meantime conveniently he result of this confer- ence in order to communicate it to King iron-clads, for the arraignment of the accused he bar If Russia were to order her armies across of justice. Of couree shies connse! were om the Pruth to-morrow what Power in Europey pe teAnehafond th ‘ on could hinder their triumphant march to Con- sce stantinople? We know of none, Great” Britain would protest, might fight; but Grest Britain alone could not arrest the conquerer’s | « 5 march. Russia in the Black Sea, Russia ia)» « Constantinople, means Russia in tho Medi- | terranean; but Russia in the Mediterran: an} would destroy the policy of centuries, Grost x Britain, as we have said, alone could uo! arrest the march of Russia southward; but Great Britain, trembling for her naval supers | ; macy, might seck strength from the oiler! European Powers. Where could sho ‘nd | allies? If this Wiesbaden treaty be not a) | mere rumor it is evident that she could | PB’. count on Prussia, Franco is out of tha} se question. Spain{s powerless. Italy, growing | °" {nto possible greatness, has already too much on hand, Allies for Great Britain in ench contest there would be none; for although »» Denmark and Sweden and Holland might be induced to do something, their co-operation ” would not be more than a straw {a the bal- | ence, Russia could easily buy up Austria by); « giving her the Danubian principalities, Is 1%) impossible that, after all, Great Britain, ylelding to tho necessity of the situation, \ “f may consent to the enthronement of tho Wir Don's J ms Fox Czar in Constantinople on condition that abe is | rotires trou ‘he Cox Lory 1 bas in the allowed to take possession of the Innd of the Fourth district, make @ clean breast of it, asa BL0RE Con ‘ome out rward for Roosey i, the Pharaohs, This treaty docs indeod gives 4 Mo xiguniniee # ; peculiar complezion to the Busopeas ’ rs x ot 7 The Rumored Attompt to Assassinate King William, The ramor that an attempt was made on Monday at Versailles to assassinate King William—which, happily, turns out to be un- founded—calls to mind the numerous attempts during the past thirty years to assassinate personages of royal or princely rank. Such an attempt was made in 1843 against Queen Victoria; in 1852 against the Queen of Spain; in 1860, successfully, against Prince Dacielo of Montenegro; in 1861, at Baden Baden, against Kingz William of Prussia; in 1862, at Warsaw, against the Grand Duke Constantine, and in 1866 against tho Emperor of Austria. In 1867 a plot in Hanover to assassinate the King of Prussia and Count Bismarck was discovered. In 1867, also, an attempt was made in Paris to assassinate the Ozar of Russia. In 1868 the King and Queen of Portugal and the Viceroy of Egypt were objects of a similar attempt, and Prince Michel of Servia was assassinated, But of all European monarchs the ox- Emperor Napoleon has been the principal target of the assassin. The special object of the wrath of the Carbonari, who wera supposed to be bound by an oath to inflict death on him as a recroant membor of their secret socicty, it is not surprising that such names as Pianorl, Orain! and Picrri should figure conspicuously on the list of those who have tried to assassi- nate him. The first attempt against his lifo wos made in 1855, and a socond in 1858, A third was planaed by Italian conspi- rators ia 1864; a fourth in 1865; a fifth in 1867; o sixth in 1870, and a soventh has been rumored since his downfall at Sedan and his imprisonment at Wilhelmshdhe. Almost all of theso attempts at assassina- tion failed in fact, and all of them failed in the ultimate purposes which they contemplated, They have done nothing but maltiply examples of the unquestionable truth that from the as- sassination of Julius Cesar down to Abraham Lincoln the most signal political murders, in- cluding those of Henry the Fourth and William the Silent, have been blunders as well as crimes, If, then, any Frenchman, exasperated by his nation’s woes, were cvon actually to kill old King William, the very means used by the assassin to attain his ulterior ends would doubtless defeat them. Moreover, the pistol of the political assassin seems almost always to miss fire in Europe, if not in America. On this side of the Atlantic, In murder, as in everything else, thero appears to be a surcr adaptation of means to ends than on the other. Nevertholess, at Washington, as at Rome, at Paris, atthe Hague, at Madrid, at St. Petere- burg, everywhere, in fine, the samo fatal law was exemplified and the pistol aimed at the heart of the nation through that of President Lincoln really hit very wide of its mark, showing anow that political assassination is as foolish as it is crimiual. Death of tho Governor of Utah—Appoint- ment of His Successor. The death of Governor Shaffer is a most unfortunate occurrence in view of the present position of affairs in Utah, The Gentiles will deeply regret his being cut off just at the time when the line of policy which he inaugurated and which he intended to pur- sue with vigor was beginning to convince the Mormons that the government of the United States was determined that the federal au- thority could no longer be ignored by them as it had been formerly. Doubtless the most fanatical and superstitious among the Mormons will look upon his death as a judgment of Je- hovah, because ho was opposed to their “‘pecu- liar institution” of polygamy and to their whole system of theocracy, the existence of which in the heart of the republic is a remarkable anomaly. Governor Shaffer had extensive political experience, was a careful observer of events and their tendencies, and knew very well the proper course to pursue, in the exercise of his office, with reference to the Mormons. Former Governors had al- lowed the laws of Congress to remain as dead letters on the statute books, but Governor Shaffer had made up his mind that, whether any new enactments were passed or not, he would see that the existing laws were executed. Hence he had become popular with the Gentile residents and obnoxious to the saints—as every officer will be who attempts to assert the supremacy of the United States govern- ment in Utah ovor that of Brigham Young and his apostles. Lieutenant General Wells may now fondly but vainly hope to muster his militia, The Mormons may as well distinctly understand that the timo has passed when they can have complete control of matters in the Territory as they practically have had for nearly a quarter of acentury. Public opinion in the United Siates is opposed to the con- tinued domination of Brigham Young's hior- archy; and we feel assured that the new Governor will be a man who will see that the laws of Congress touching Utah Territory are executed—kindly but effectually. The gentle- man selected for that office is reported as be- ing Mr. Vernoa H. Vaughan, ef Alabama, and as Southern gentlemen are not apt to be over partial to religious or socialistic vagaries, we may take it for granted that, under the new ‘Jodministration, the laws for the suppression of polygamy will be firmly enforced. In Orposrrioy to Golden Pen Foley's plat- form of “‘through in fifteen minutes,” ex- Speaker Hitchman proposes to raise the “standard ot “through by daylight,” and go ‘ali lengths, for the sake of the democracy, from one end of the country to the other. ‘Hitchman knows the ways of Albany, and ' Foley. does not seem to appreciate the Scrip- {tural injunction, tbat ‘‘the way of the trans- gressor is hard.” | Exzven Persons Have Beex Murperrp by Italian brigands in the province of Naples, A gentleman who endeavored to develop the agricultural resources of Ireland has been shot and wounded by assassins in the presence of a’ / number of workmen, who refused to go to his aid; and we learn by the cable that the for- eigners who are still resident in Chiaa remain excited and undecided as to their future course, in the face of reports of a contem- ')) plated assassination of all foreigners, What | is the cause of and whence the impulse to these criminal outbreaks among the Latins and Mongolians? defective education or ethnological deficiency ? —_—_—_—______. Serve O'Brms having gone over to Tammany, ‘hook and line, bob and sinker,” what is thore for the Young Democracy to be 19a with? The Breakup of the Alliaiée Against Tammany. Party managers cannot always direct the views and opinions of their more humble parti- sans, and puppets sometimes will not jump just the way the wire is pulled, They can call spirits very nicely, but the spirits will not alwayscome. And this was the trogble with the Republican General Committeo last night, When met together it was discovered that only one man in the party was willing to vote for the Young Demooracy, and so they vomited forth that callow organization as the fittest aot of purification, Simultaneously with this cleansing process of the republicans a scene having a similar object in view ocourred in the Young Demo- cratio Committee. The wortby spirits who have been ber to “run o muck” against Tammany evidently found themselves in dan- ger of isolation outside of the Tammany fold, ond cach one scrambled for the honor of throwing over the republican ally which was at that moment unani- mously throwing them over, They did finally throw it over, taking occasion very gracefully and neatly to fix upon General Woodford’s alleged fellowship with an African slave trader as the principal reason for desert- ing a combination which they saw’ ‘couldn't win.” And thus ends the alliance against Tammany, The Manacement of Central Park. Every citizen of New York, and almost every visitor who comes to the metropolis, hes learned to appreciate the beauties of our grand Park. There is perhaps nothing in the world to excel it, and, considering that itis the growth of only a few years, it may bo regarded as a marvel of good taste and good management on the part of those entrusted with its care. It seems curious, therefore, to find any portion of the public pross assailing the managemont of the Park at this time, if it were not lamentably apparent that the attacks are inspired by that very small spirit of partisanship which s0 often leads reason and truth astray, even in respectablo quarters, in the excitement of an approaching election. Thus, the charges fn a republican paper that a shocking outrage had been committed upon a fomale in the Park recently, and that, In consequence, no lady was safe from insult within the Park limits, proves to be a mere political canard. Tho closest investigation, made by Judge Hilton, vice president and treasurer of the Commission of Public Parks, in conjunction with the captain of the Park police, fails to show that any such outrage was committed. Nothing of the kind came to the notice of the police entrusted wlth the care of the Park. No such charge appears upon the books of the Police office at the Park. In fact, we aro con- strained to believe, from the statement of Judge Hilton, that no such crime was com- mitted as publicly alleged, and that it is purely 8 flotion got up for electioneering purposes, Several other vague charges of mismanage- ment have been laid at the doors of the Park Commissioners; but they seem to be all traceable to the same cause—namely, political bitterness, and no doubt they are all worthy of about as much credit as this sensation story which Judge Hilton has exploded by a plain statement of facte, The public know very well what a magnificent attribute of the greatness which the city of New York can boast of isthe Central Park, They know also how it has grown under the skilful management of the Commissioners, some of whom, such as Robert J. Dillon fer instance, designed some of its most eminently beautiful forms, and watched the progress of art and nature from year to year, until the rocky ‘tract which had few inviting features about it fifteen years ago has grown to be “‘a thing of beauty and a joy forever” to the American Continent, If there is anything of which the citizens of New York may be justly proud it is the Central Park. If there is any public work with the management of which they may be satisfied, certainly it is this same institution, our grand Park. If any testimony were wanted to prove tho care and skill and exquisite taste bestowed upon it, a visit to it to-day, in’all the splendor of its autumnal beauty, would suffice to show how art has been made to interwoave with nature in the production of an incomparable public park that any city in the world may be proud of. Charges of mismanagement, then, we tbink, must be regarded as mere pretences got up for electfoneering purposes, Jopex Lzpwimn’s Vorg as the anti-Tam- many candidate for Mayor will, no doubt, be very respectable, He isa worthy man and popular among all classes. But what will all this amount to against Oakey Hall’s certainty of sixty thousand majority? Arrams IN Cupa.—The recent dreadful gales which have swept over Cuba have left evidences of their violence everywhere on the island, In the interior as well as on the coast they have been felt; the crops as well as thé shipping have suffered; country as well as city has experienced disaster. The suffering is general and extends to all classes. In the Central Department the insurgents have again commenced operations. Bembetta, the well known Cuban leader, is becoming ex- ceedingly troublesome, and in a recent fight with the Spanish troops he was victorious. The skirmish—for it scarcely amounted to more—was in the neighborhood of Santi Espi- rita. Reports are current that the Central Department will be the scene of some hardy encounters between the Spaniards and tho Cubans during the next few months. How true this may prove time alone oan tell. “Frerzen Minutes To Hariem River.”— That’s a very good idea, Mr. Foley. But are you not eomething like one Glendower, who “called spirits from the vasty deep?” Yet did they appear? AN OPENING FoR THE DEPARTMENT OF Pustio Dooxs—The early construction of a pier and publio dock at the foot of Ninety- sixth street, North river. This will prove a great relief to the pressure upon the down town piers and a lasting improvement to the city at large. Toe Next Leaw.ature will be composed of an unusual number of members—provided all the candidates before the people be elected, ag each professes himself certain tobe, ‘All things right now, Captatn—five hundred ma- jority sure!” is the burden of the happy song Of many expectantay The First Steamer to Now York from Shanghae by Way of tho Suez Canal, Among our {tems of ship news we have the report that the steamship Magdala, Osptala Davidson, left Shanghae for New York on the 16th of ; arrived at Hong Kong on the 20th to coal; loft on the 21st; arrived at Sings pore on the 29th and left on the 80th; arrived at Galle (island of Ceylon) September 8 and lef on the 9th; arrived at Aden (south end of thé Bed Sea) on the 22d and left on tho 23d, and arrived af Sues (north end of the Red Sea) October 8, It will thus be seen that the ship had a favorable passage up to Adon; but, en- countering very severe weather in the Red Sea, she was sixteen days in reaching Suex instead of five or six days. She left Port Said (at the Mediterranean entrance to the Suez Canal) on the 14th of October, and, wind and weather permitting, sho may reach this port within the next ten days. In this event she will haye made the trip from Shanghae, by ‘way of the Red Sen and the Suez Ganal to New York, inside of ninety days, The ship has apparently made no effort for a quick trip; but she promises an immense gain on the clr- cuitons passage around the stormy Cape of Good Hope. Let us suppose, however, that we havea ship canal across the Isthmus of Nicaragua, and that two steamers have started on the same day from Shanghae, one by way of the Sues Canal and the other on the Nicaragua route what then? The ship by way of Nicaragua will reach New York in forty-five days and the other will hardly arrive inside of seventy-five days. Tea from China or Japan, by way of the Pacific Railroad, can now bo brought here inside of forty days; but the overland trans portation of three thousand miles makes it ex- pensive, Give us a ship canal, say by the Nicaragua route—which an experienced British engineer has estimated will cost less than half the money required to open the Suez Canal— and we grasp at once the lion’s share of the great trade of Eastern Asia, A ship canal over somo one of the isthmus passages of the long and narrow waist of this Oontinont is, therefore, the greatest enterprise for our gov- ernment and commercial men of any that can be proposed. We hope, accordingly, that the new United States surveying expedition to the isthmus routes of Contral America will not return without fixing upon somo route fora ship canal, and it seoms to us that Nature has best adapted the Nicaragua route for this very purpose, A Managerial Harvest—Moro Reapers Wanted. Without losing any of our intense characters {stio energy we have become an eminently philosophical people, A glance at the theatri-~ cal record of the metropolis for the first two months of this season will explain, About twenty-five places of amusement of all kinds are open and in general well patronized. No other city in the world can make such an exhibit this season. London can boast of a greater namber of theatres ; but the half of them might as well be closed for all the patronage they receive, Other European capitals tell the same story, while there is not a manager in New York but receives some encouragement from the public. Again, other species of amusement—yachting, horse racing, base ball, dancing and billiards—find thousands of enthu- siastio admirers here, and have become a necessity to a very large proportion of our citizens. The philosophy of this consists in the belief of the metropolitan public in the old adage—All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” They combine business with plea- sure, and love the almighty dollar only for the pleasure they derive in spending it, This is a long progressive step from the time that the aforesaid dollar monopolized a man’s thoughts and actions from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof, with a similar oyole of the moon included. But there is an important distinction te be made between music and the drama on the score of success, While the latter is flourishing in every possible phase of its oxtensive sphere, music has but one great representative here, in the person of Nilsson, She has given sufficient evi- dence of the appreciation of the public for trae art in her line. and her success has exe ceeded the fondest hopes of her manager. The brief season of English opera at Niblo’s also has so far shown the same desire on the part of the public for good music, Why, then, cannot some of our enterprising musical cater~ ers take advantage of the prepared state of the public mind and the splendid opportunity now open to them to en- gage first olass talent in Europe and give us opera as it should be presented? The un- happy condition of France leaves the artists of the Grand Opera and the Opéra Comique idle and ready for the offor of any responsible American manager. We have two opera houses in this city which can challenge compe- tition with any others in Europe or America— the Academy of Musio and the Grand Opera House, The one is closed and silent, and the other is disgraced by a worthless, indecent ex- hibition, which the many patrons of Grau and Bateman’s enterprises would hardly recognize as opéra bouffe. Now, here is a fine opporta- nity for some widc-awake managers to avail themselves of the immense supply of talent lying idle in Europe and present opera in its highest form to the American. public, Grand opera at the Academy, say, and opéra comique at the Grand Opera House, would meet with a patronage such as the most san- guine smpresario would hardly look for. The experiment is worth the trial. A Srormy Avromn.—After our long dry: summer we have had a remarkably stormy autumn. Octobos, in this respect, has proved the most digastrous month of the year. It bas been marked not only by a succession of de- structive hurricanes in Cuba and other Weat India islands, by ruinous floods in Virginia, and by heavy gales on our Northern lakes, but by unusually severe and disastrous storms in and around the British islands, involving on the north coast of Ireland the lamentable foundering, with the loss of all on board but one man, of the steamship Cambria, Mean- time, the valloy of the Moselle, and the river valleys of France generally, have been flooded by heavy and continuous ratios. Within the last few days, however, we have had reports of snow storms in the White Mountains, and at various pointe from the Beoky Mouataing weatward, which