The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW. YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND AD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, STREET. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yors UpRaLo. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THR DAILY HERALD, published every day in he Annual subscription rear, Four cents per copy, y Saturday, av FIVE KLY HERALD, ev Annual subi Cents per copy. ation price:— + One Copy. ‘Three Copies Five Coptes ‘Yen Copies Volume XXXV.... cece cere eee Ne SVE Rae AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ROOTI'S THEA Rue Vay WINKLE, 1 6tU ays. — dway.—Varrerr ENTER GLOBE TH TAINMENT, £0. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Tae RivALs. siway ana Y5va Aree. —Tur Rarragre 5 OR, LINA EDW AMONG ‘TIE Ros: ¥.—LovE, NKINS. OLYMPIC ‘RE, Broadway.-—-Tus PaNvomime or Wee Wid wooo" orner 20th st. —Perfarm- | unces every noon and ues F, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiya. ~ ONL. NEW YORK STADT GeRMAN OPERA—A Nig) 45 Bowery.—Gnanv SADA. 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B—Russta: Spectat Mission from the Czar Alexan- der to the Sultan; The Russian People Ardent jor War; British Violation of the ‘Ireaty of Paris and Basis of the Russo-German Al- lance; American Chance for Retribution on the Ocean; The English Mission to Versailles and the Prussian Reply to the Envoys; ‘The British Guards Ordered for Active Ser- vice—France: Herala Special Repert from Versatlies; No Chance for an Effective Sortie from Pa ‘ombined Movements of De Pala- dines, Keratry and Pourvaki; Expected Junc- tion of the Duke of Mecklenburg and Pruce Frederick Charjes; A Great Battle Expected | ‘To-Day or To-Morrow; The Restoration of Na- poleon on the Cards; Reported Agreement for an Armistice. Night at Kit Burn’s: A Neat Job by the P ; Thirty-nine Persons Ar- rested—The M« 4—Europe: B: Questiot ville on the War; *Beav’—Overland to Poekskill—An Ortental Canal Boat: Arrival of the Steamship Mag- dala; The First Steamship from China by the Suez Canat Route—American Columbian Society—Army and Navy Intelligence. G@—Centrai anda South America: French Exploits in the South Atlantic Ocean; Another Fight; Suicide of the Secretary of Legation of the Argentine Republi Defeat of Lopez Jor- dan—Proceedings in the Courts—Municipal Atfairs—A Litile Gentle Exercise: Weston at His Work—A Missing Doctor—Political Intelli- gence—Methodist Episcopal Missionary Anm- | versary—Sinking of a Steamer—The Third Avenue Stabbing Affray—Rallway Accident. @-—Editorials : Leading Article, “Senator Sumni on General Grant—The Muddle Among the Republican = Politicjans’’—Amusement An- nouncements. 7—Kaitorials (continued from Sixth Page)—Tele- graphic News from All Parts of the Worla— Almusements—Peace to the Knife—The Lovers’ Feua—Brooklyn Common Council—Personal Inteligence—A “Skin” Game All Around— if S—Trotting at 4 Park and at Union Vourse—The Coming Trotier—Billiards—Jem Mace and Joe Coburn—Thanksgiving in Brook- lyn—Sing Sing and Elmtra—Financial ana Commercial Keports—Real Estate Sales—Mar- riages aud Deaihs. 9—Advertisements. 10—News from Washington—An lncendiary’s Work—A Lexington Avenue Loafer—lil-re- quited Census Marshals—New York City News—Obituary Intelligence—Ad- vertisements. 11—Advertusements. 42—Advertisements. Shupping Government Desparcugs from Great Britain were detained by Spanish authorities in Cuba foriy-cight hours. Mexi00.—Contrary to expectation and against the wishes of Mexico’s best advisers the Mexican Congress has resolved not cooly to continue the Zone, but to extend it. hi Nitsaon iN Brook is charming Swedish cantatrice will make her appearance at the Brooklyn Academy to-morrow night in concert, assisted by the splendid company of first class artists who have aided go well in Her success giving écl*¢ to these concerts. in Boston, from which she has just returned, was something almost unprecedented. grand opera. Joun Butt had his mails detained forty- eight hours by command of the Spanish authorities in Cuba. Johnny Bull’s naval representative in Havana harbor, command- ing one little gunboat, with a twelve-pounder on a swivel and a couple of twenty-four- pounders, thereupon went up to the British Consulate and observed:—“‘Aw! demme, we've not received our mails—aw !—ow’s this? Send me the mails from her Britannic Majesty immediately, or—aw!—I'll blow your fleet-— aw!—out of the water—aw !” Howacg MAYNARD has six hundred and six majority for Congress from Tennessee. What will he do? 17009, TUR THIER: | We hope that the grand oratorio—the ‘‘Messiah”—- in which she is to sing at Steinway Hall, ou Friday night, will prove a stepping stone to NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1870.-TRIPLE SHKET. Senator Sumner on Muddle Among tho cians, When Napoleon set out in July for Berlin he little thought that he would “fetch up” in Sep- tember at Sedan. So our self-conceited poli- ticiams, with their Napoleonic ideas, are al- ways getting inte trouble. Senator Sumner belongs to this class. On his present lecturing tour out West he has been ‘interviewed” by an expert reporter, and has availed himself ef the opportunity te define his pesition in re- ference to General Grant. The Senator ‘has no deubt that General Grant is an honest man and administers the government the best that he knows how.” ‘He has had the best chance conceivable to do great things,” ‘but he den’t know everything, and, unfortunately, he don’t know that he don’t kaow it. Now, Zach Taylor,” continued the learned Senator, “‘was not a brilliant man or a statesman, but he knew it and surrounded himself by men who made up his deficiencies.” Here, then, the old proverb will apply, ‘The fool thinketh himself a wise man, but the wise man know- ; eth himself to be a fool.” This, as near as we can make it out, is Sumner’s parallel be- tween Grant and Taylor. ii further appears that Mr. Sumner is of the opinion that the St, Demingo annexation treaty, with numerous lots staked off along Samana Bay and marked ‘‘Cazeneau” and “Babcock” and ‘‘Baea,” with one or two par= ticularly large ones marked ‘‘Grant,” “twas a bad business ;” that Minister Motley, intensely American and a first rate diplomat, who, after the fashion of Caleb Cushing, wrote out his own instructions, has been removed on the Senator's account, for that General Grant's ' “personal feeling is very bitter in that direc- | tion.” This, too, with Molley’s eulogium on | Grant embodied ia Badeau’s Life of the General, and when Secretary Fish jumped at the plan of Motley writing his ewn instruc- tions, Worst ofall evidently in Mr. Sumner’s | estimation, “Grant's administration seems to gotoo much by personal preferences.” To sum up these views of the disappointed Sena- tor in plain terms, he thinks that General Grant is an honest man, but a fool; that he is doing the best he can, but is doing everything wrong; that he was up to his ears in the St. Dominge speculation ; that Motley was re- ' called because his friend Sumner opposed and defeated the treaty in the Senate, and that Genera! Grant in his appointments prefers his friends to his enemies. But what does all this amount to? It is but the ringing of the changes in the same old story which self-conceited, soured and disap- pointed politicians have raised against every President from Washington down. We do not remember that Mr. Sumner had any better opinion of Lincoln ia the White House than he kas of Grant, and, if we are not mistaken, he was completely taken in at first by Andy Johnson, The Senator's opinions, therefore, of General Grant are of liitle consequence, especially while ‘Motley is his only wear.” But he takes a very shallow vigw of that St. Domingo treaty. What did it signify if a few speculators on the ground had staked off cer- tain lots on Samana Bay, marking among them some for General Grant, if you please? { What did that bagatelle of an objection amount } to when the treaty for some two millions | of money would give us a tropical island | worth forty North Pole Alaskas? Yet we | know that Mr. Sumner warmly supported the | Russian treaty, although numerous lobby birds | shared at least the two hundred thousand over and above the seven millions in gold paid for Alaska. Mr. Sumner, however, is not the only wise man of the East er of the West who has dis covered that General Grant has no sense and is driving his administration and his party to the dogs. Senator Fenton, since the appoint- ment of Honest Tom Murphy as our Collector, , is of the same mind as Sumner. We have seen, too, that accerding to our amiable poets of the Post nothing bas gone right with Gen- eral Grant “ace the appointment of General Sickles to wadrid. Nor have we forgotten the fearful rumpus raised among the Penusylyania party wirepullers when the kind-hearted Mr, | Borie was made Secretary of the Navy. They could not see that the President was in this appointment paying a neat compliment to the Presbyterian Church (Old School) and our American citizens of French descent—killing, you may say, two birds with one stene. As for Carl Schurz, of Missouri, he is of the go- ahead school of George Francis Train, and doubtless thinks that if he is not President he ought to be, and that General Grant was too presuming in acting in his Missouri appoint- ments upon his own judzment. Schurz, after his late services to the democrats in Missouri, called the other day, it appears, to report pro- gress at the White House, but General Grant was engaged. We infer that Schurz is more concerned about Grant than Grant is about Schurz. Ever since that tremendous retreat of Schurz at Chancellorsville we have thought that in tactics and strategy, ho is hardly equal to Grant. Far ahead, however, of all these other re- publican free shooters (‘Der Mreischutz”) is the bold, dasbing and slashing fellow of the Chicago Zribune. Convinced, by hook or by crook, that free soil, free speech, a free press and free men are dead issues, and that the time has come for free trade, or revenue re- form or cheap salt, or something of that sort, he has tried the experiment of moving the republican party in this direction in a balloon (giving General Grant the cold shoulder), and starting at Chicago. In this enterprise John Wentworth, known as *‘Long John,” standing six feet six in his stockings, was brought out as an independent republican candidate in the Chicago district; but as “Long John” came out short in the election the 7ribune is tacking about to see how the land lies before beading again for ‘Cowes and a market.” They do things on the inland seas and boundless prai- ries of the West on # grand scale; they nomi- nate Presidents at Chicago and raffle off Opera Houses there; but the headquarters of the party in power are at Washington, aud Gen- eral Grant is the head of the party and the party newspapers, and the fussy party polili- cians are the tail of the kite. Sixth and lastly, the captain of the ship must be recognized as captain by his crew or the ship will be apt to fall into the hands of the Key West wreckers in attempting to run the’ Gulf Stream. When there are half a dozen or more would-be captains on board Koepublican General Grant—Thke | mutiny and confusion follow, and the ship may Peliti- | be easily boarded and captured by the enemy, or all hands with the sinking hulk may be turned adrift, These wrangling and clashing leaders and organs of the republican party are ina fair way to bring the administration and themselves among the breakers. ‘They would imitate the foo! in the fable who killed the goose that laid his golden eggs; they would play their game of Audy Jobnson with Gen- eral Grant, forgetting that in the next Con- gress Grant, with his veto, will be master of the field. They forget, above all things, that General Grant saved the party in 1868, that he has saved it in 1870, in spite of its feuds and party squabbles, and is the only power that can save it in 1872 against the terrific flying artillery, ‘‘big Indians” and mitrailleuses of Tammany Hall. The War Situation in France. The mevements of armies preliminary to a great struggle are now progressing in the dis- trict about Paris. Rumor has it that General Von Moltke has abandoned the idea of sending expeditions into the interior of the country and is drawing his armies closer round the be- sieged capital of France. General Manteuffel has orders to jois the besieging armies. The Duke of Mecklenburg and Prince Frederick Charles are moving so as to form a junction, with the object of keeping the Army of the Loire occupied, or possibly giving it battle, re- lying upon past achievements and the valor of Germans for victory.. On the French side there is no lack of energy. General Paladines has so fur proved himself an efficient and prudent commander, and may yet do wonders for France. The report that a portion of his troops occupies the attention of the Duke of Mecklenburg, while with the bulk of his army he is moving to a junction with the forces of Bourbaki and Keratry, who are moving towards him from the nerthward, with their united forces te raise the giege of Paris, sounds very well; but we accept all such accounts with a very large grain of allowance. ‘There are ac- tive mevements progressing on both sides pre- paratory to a bloody battle. The movements ef both armies lead to this belief, and the strengthening of the German forces by new troops as well as the throwing up of intrench- ments about Versailles point to the vicinity of that place as the field for the approaching conflict. What Trochu may do it is almost impossible to form any opinion from the contradictory state- menis continually received as te the state of affairs within the walls of Paris. By this time he ought to have a fairly organized army, and if there is any ‘agreed plan of action be- tween him and Paladines, French soldiers and French valor may yet be able to accomplish something worthy of the traditional fame of French arms. A Sprok or War.—Governor Vaughn, of Utah, yesterday ordered the arrest of several officers of the Mormon militia for arming and drilling in violation of the late Governor Shaeffer’s proclamation and engaging in rebel- lion against the United States under the act of Congress of 1862. The saints contend the constitution of the United States guarantees the right of the people to bear arms, and that the action of the federal officials in endeavor- ing to destroy the Mormon mililia organization is consequently both illegal and unjustifiable, ANOTHER CUBAN Execurion.—On the 9th instant a Cuban yeuth of eighteen years of age, named Jos¢ Pestresa, was shot in Trinidad for some alleged or fancied offence, but mosi pro- bably for being a Cuban and loving his coun- try. He died bravely, facing death with the same defiant spirit that animated old General Goicouria, the brothers Aguerro, the gallant Louis Ayesteran and others we might men- tien. The Spaniards ought to have learned by this time that these brutal murders can accom~ plish nothing, and they leave behind them a legacy of bitter remembrance of Spanish ernelty which years cannot efface. Wry Dip Nor tar AMrRICAN ApMIRAL commanding the North Atlantic put the American monitor Saugus between the Spanish iron-clad frigates Isabella and Her- nandez, and threaten to blow them out of water if the despatches from his government were not promptly delivered? John Bull, with three small guns, did better than the entire Ameriean North Atlantic squadron. SALE OF THE vat Sine Sine.— We learn that the proposition to sell the State Prison at Sing Sing, introduced inte the last Legislature, will be renewed at the coming session. This is a wise project. The immense strides New York city and its suburbs are making up the North river naturally suggest that such a valuable site for commercial and other purposes as that now eccupied by the State buildings in Sing Sing should be appro- priated to its more legitimate uses. Won’t Give Him a Coanoe.—A cable tele- gram says that the Pope has ordered that every church in Rome shall remain closed during the time King Victor Emmanuel re- mains in the city. his is terrible. will his Majesty profess his repentance or make restitution to the Holy See? How will the religiously inclined .persons say their prayers? The clergy are likely to enjoy a “Jay off.” GovERNMENT Desparouxs, under sign and seal of the government at Washington, and directed to the Admiral commanding the American North Atlantic squadron, were de- tained one week by order of Spanish an- thorities in Cuba. Curr JusTiog Cnast’s House, at Cleve- land, Obio, has been partially destroyed by fire. The papers have been endeavering to destroy the man himself by fire of another sort, but we believe the venerable Chief Jus- tice “‘still lives.” Ex-Governor Vanox, of North Carolina, is following in the footsteps of Senator Sumner, of Massachusetis, and delivering lectures in his native State. Lecturing has been adopted by some politicians as » method for keeping themselves before the peeple. Vanee expects to be United States Senator fromthe “Old Tar State.” CENTRAL AND Sours Amertoa.—-We furnish our readers in another part of this morning’s Herawp with an interesting budget of news from our correspondents in Brazil, the Argen- tine Republic, Uruguay, Bolivia and Colombia, squadron |} How | ‘The Kustero Question Diplomacy rope—Mouarchical Lmpulecs for War and the Conservation of the Peoples. The cable telegram report, special and jrem other sources, which reached us yester- day from Europe continues the HeraLp narra- tive of the progress and tendency of the Eastern question difficulty as they presented to our cor- respondenis at a late hour of the evening, The despatches convey nothing of a decisive char- acter; scarcely anything which is new. They go toshow that the Old World diplomatists are very insincere towards each other, and thatthe political morality of the statesmea who are supposed to conserve the interests of the crowns and who profess to shape the every day destinies of the peoples is ef an inferior order and likely to induce a very widespread. demoralization in the public mind as its intricacies and shifts become unfolded and are made more patent. ‘The Russian people remained excited for war. The Czar is well prepared for the undertaking of active hostilities. A special envoy from St. Petersburg arrived in Constantinople. From the Turkish capital we are told that the Sultan will agree to a revision of the treaty of Paris. This treaty of Paris still stands forth in its violated condition—mutilated and rent— as a cass belli; bat no one of the Powers who attested and affirmed its integrity in 1856 appears disposed to throw down the gauntlet of war for the purpose or vindicating the faith of treaties. ‘‘So many treaties have been already broken,” say the European statesmen, that where is the necessity to figit about this one? The inclination of opinien is still against Eng- land. Mr, Odo Russell's mission to Bismarck is almost certain to fail. Our special corre- spendent outlines indeed the reply which the Prussian Premier may deliver to the repre- sentative of the Queen’s Ministry. This answer may be summed up in the words, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus. Bismarck will point to John Bull’s sales of arms and armaments to all and every belligerent in the world, and then assure Mr. Russell that Prussia, having an immense stock of such hardware on hand just at present, may go into the same trade’ herself should war break out between England and Russia and Turkey. The English naval precedent which was set up by the fitting ont of the Alabama will tell with fearful effect against Great Britain should war easue. The peace sentiment is likely to prevail, however. The thrones of Europe are jealous and suspicious of each ether. The European peoples are fra- ternal and in good fellowship. The demo~- craeies converse with and salute each other by electricity, Popular messages whirl from land toland and under the ocean by steam and the telegraph wires. ‘The light beams all over i the face of humanity, and the dark guile of the “‘war-making” statesmen ‘“‘comprehendeth it not.” In this is the hope of peace. THE MAG@pALA at this port from Shanghae, via the Suez Canal, marks a new era in American commerce, The Magdala is the pioneer ship of a line of steamers intended to compete with the Pacific Mail line aad the Pacific railroads for the carrying trade of China. If speed in trans- portation be the primary object of importers Toe ARRIVAL OF the Magdala’s experiment is a failure, as merchandise from China can be de- livered in New York by way of San Francisco some days in advance of the canal route ; but it is contended the advantage gained by an earlier delivery is ceunter- balanced by the lower rates and superior order in which the cargoes arrive. The steam- ship Riga, ef the same line as the Magdala, left Port Said on the Sih instaut for New York. Tux AMERIOAN MINISTER IN Maprtp has an opportunity te distinguish himself by de- manding from ihe existing Spanish govern ment an apology for obstructing the American mails ¢7 route to government vessels in the North Atlantic squadron. Coriosivizs OF Poxitics.—Among some of | the curiosities of political campaigning is the singular fact that during the late election nearly all the districts in the State through which the Central Railroad runs went against Hoffman, notwithstanding that he signed that famous bill about which so much talk has been wade, It is said that this can be accounted for by certain intrigues with Woodford on the part of the railroad people whereby certain additional favors were promised in case of his election. However this may be the fact is a curions one, and suggests the question whether railroads, like republics, are not ungrateful, > oy a gee | ‘Une Frecp Mepat, manofactured by order ress in 1867 fer presentation to Cyrus | ield upon completion of the Atlantic | cable, and which was supposed to have been | stolen, was found yesterday in the safe of Mr. H Tuitle, a clerk in the Treasury Department, | where it had been three years, quietly await- ing the coming of Mr. Field. Mr. Tuttle evi- dently takes little interest in affairs outside | his own official duties, or he would have | learned, years ago, that Congress had ap- propriated an extra five thousand dollars to duplicate the medal which he was so carefully guarding. Navan Posrat Inrormavion Exrraorpi- NARY—AIl government despatches and letters intended for the North Atlantic American squadron rendezvousing at Havana should be particularly directed to the care of the ‘‘Cabal- lero De Rodas, Captain General of Cuba,” | Tae Work Gors BravELty On.—Justice is being rigorously meted out to New York thieves and swindlers. Yesterday Judge Bed- ford sentenced six representatives of our dangerous classes to the State Prison for various terms of imprisonment, ranging from one to five years. This is a very fair showing for one day’s work, and it is to be hoped that it will be many times repeated. Tor Quantity oF Fairs, like the quality of mercy, is not strained. Therefore there is no straining in getting a good attendance at the Foundling Mospital Fair, now in progress | in this city. THe Newpern (N, C.) Repueriean wanis | the conservatives ia the North Carolina Legis- lature to send General Joseph G. Abbott back to the United States Senate. When did Gene- ral Abbott make himself worthy of the sympa- thies of the conservatives of North Qgrolina? | don Conference. io Eu-| The Eurepean Situation Reported by Mail, The European mail of the 11th of November, which arrived at this port yesterday evening, supplies some very interesting details of our cable news telegrams. The entertainment given tothe Queen’s Ministers by the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London was a very brilliant affair, Premier Gladstone and Earl Granville delivered after dinner speeches, as we announced at the time by the cable. Mr. Gladstone, as will be seen by our report to-day, is well pleased with the homo situation. The Secre- tary for Foreign Affairs took great credit to the Cabinet for the pleasing and very profitable condition of the foreign re- lations. Great Britain waxes powerful in peace, extends and protects her com- merce, and grows richer hourly. The matter of the Alabama claims was not referred to officially, however. We publish an article from an English newspaper on the subject. It is replete with chop logic and petty inferences, and conveys very slight hope of a cash pay- ment, under present circumstances at least. Earl Granville was quite dolorous over the European war situation and its consequences in France. For the Alabama claims money we must wait, and, if at all possible under the circumstances, pray. Prosperity on tho Plains, The census returns from Kansas show bow rapidly the States west of the Mississippi are advancing in wealth and _ prosperity. A few years ago the progress of Kansas, Arkansas and the other States which include the vast plains stretching towards the Rocky Mountains was rather slow and presented a marked contrast to the States on this side of the great river, which was readily accounted for not only by the sparseness of the population but by the perpetual Indian troubles which kept the settlers in hot water. The present census, however, gives Kansas a good show—a population of three hundred and fifty-five thousand. These people are scattered over the whole area of the State, in- cluding the garrisons of the forts. The peints ofconcentratien and aggregation are to be found in the cities of Leavenworth, Topeka, Law- rence, Lowell and Salina. The value of farms and other property is largely on the increase. The total amount of these values is eighty- three millions, while grazing on the prairie lands are live stock to the amount of twenty- three millions. The product of grain last year was twenty-four million bushels, showing a great increase in the number of acres culti- vated around the principal towns, where the grain lands are excellent. It appears also that game is very plentiful this season—thousands of buffalo, in herds of two and three hundred, covering the prairie for miles, This is good news both for the white settler and the red hunter. There is nothing that keeps the [ndians so peaceable as plenty of buffalo to eat. The animal has been scarce for some seasons past, and hence the youthful warriers were idle, hungry and hard to manage. On the whole Kansas makes a good exhibit in the official census. Tae Eianta AvvicLe oF THE TREATY OF Paris.—The eighth article of the now famous treaty of Paris provides that ‘if there should arise between the Sublime Porte and oneor more of the other signiag Powers any misunderstanding which might endanger the maintenance of their relations, the Sublime Porte and each of such Powers, before having recourse to the use of force, shall afford the other contracting parties an opportunity of preventing such an extremity by means of their mediator.” Among Russia’s many complaints against the treaty of Paris one is that this eighth article has been repeatedly disregarded. Its object was to prevent war. How it has failed of its purpose all the world knows. It was disregarded in 1859 when Napoleon went to war with Austria. It was set aside in 1866 when Prussia rushed upon Ausiria and crushed her at Sadowa. It was respected in 1867 when the Luxembourg trouble led to the Lon- It was set at naught by Na- poleon when he declared war upon Prussia in the present year 1870. The object of the ar- ticle, as we fave said, was unquestionably good, but its practical value has been eqnal to nothing. Asout Timk.—According to a synopsis of the forthcoming report of the Secretary of the Navy, which we publish elsewhere, we are inclined to believe that he will suggest some much needed improvements in the American naval service. Itis about time. The deten- | tion for one week of government despatches, | by order of the Spanish authorities in Cuba, should be sufficient inspiration for some lively action on the part of our naval authorities in Washington, A Victor t GENERAL ForrEst.—We learn that General Forrest's railroad case has been decided by Chancellor Lyon ia Colum- bus, Miss. The legality of the county tax of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to aid the road, as assessed, was fully established. This is a victory in the right direction, and one for which General Forrest should be really proud, .L SrTreeT AND THE Russian QvUxEs- t10N.—The speculators in Wall street have jumped to the conclusion that England and Russia are not to fight. Gold consequently tumbled to 111}. While the feeling ran in favor of a peaceful interpretation of Prince Gortchakofi’s last vote it was supported by the advance in the English funds—a certain index of the political situatiom. Consols in London yesterday advanced about three-quarters per cent on Saturday’s quetations and over one per cent on the lowest produced by the agita- tion of the Russian question. A Cuanor ror Giory Lost—The neglect of the Admiral commanding the American North Atlantic flect in not demanding by guns imme- diate reparation from the Spanish authorities in Cuba for detaining for the space of a week despatches from the American government to its naval commanders. Verpant CountrYMEN, who have been victimized by the swindling counterfeit firm emanating from No, 697 Broadway, may pos- sibly feel a little grim satisfaction upon learn- ing that the members of the firm have found themselves within the meshes of the law at last, and have been committed to prison om gharge of counterfeiting, How to Revive and Naturalize Opera ip New York. At the recent Steinway Hall concerts Chrise tine Nilsson exhibited wonderful power in the scene from ‘‘Hamlet” and the scene from “Faust.” For the nonce all the drawbacks and deficiencies of a concert room were for- gotten, The audience eaught a glimpse of the real scope of her genius, ‘The emotional and lotellectual expression of her face was intense, and her acting was no less superb than the mamagement of her pure, sweet- toned voice was faultless, Each scene was & fine dramatic illusion, A strong desire was at once awakened to see and hear this censum- mate artist in opera, the sphere in which her greatest European triumphs were won. Again, therefore, the public mind is inte- rested in the old prublem—how to revive and naturalize opera in New York. The very first step towards this double object might be taken by the stockholders of the Academy of Music, They would amply justify their claim to be patrons of art if they were temporarily to make a generous conces- sion of their exclusive privileges. Unques- tionably these privileges form a fatal obstacle, to any attempt to revive opera in New York. All managers agree that to accomplish this is impossible so long as they are compelled to sacrifice the nightly product of two hundred and more of the most eligible seats. At five dollars a seat the sacrifice of two hundred seats is equivalent to a nightly loss of one thousand dollars, Add to this loss the pay- ment of two hundred and fifty dollars an even- ingfor rent, and the huge aggregate of ex- penses for administration, fer the salaries of artists and other employ¢s, for costumes, scenery, properties and advertising, and you begin to have an idea of how much it costa to run opera, An experienced treasurer of aa opera house affirms that, even with strict econ- omy, opera given as it should be cannot cost less than two thousand dollarsa night. The nightly expense of opera is fifteen thousand francs, or three thousand dollars, in Paris, and seven hundred and twenty pounds or three thousand six hundred dollars in London. The cost would be less here by importing orchestra and choruses, and by the diminished expenses of administration. A manager in New York can do himself and with a few assistanté what in Europe requires a whole retinue of paid and circumlocutory office-holders. A five dollar greenback for an opera ticket cannot be considered an excessive prico if it is compared with the prices in London, Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg. The prices in Italy are no standard, inasmuch as the condi- tions of opera are there altogether exceptional. Thus at La Scala in Milan many an eminent artist eagerly seizes the opportunity of acquir- ing a stamp of success that shall be recognized from St. Petersburg to Constantinople, and from New York to, Melbourne, demanding little or no other compensation. More- over, opera in Italy has all the advantages of being indigenous, whereas in almost every other country, and particularly in Eng- land and America, it is still an unnaturalized exotic. One hundred and sixty years have elapsed since its first introduction into London, | and now, as in the days of Buononcini and Handel, it flourishes during the London season only under the stimulus of high prices and lofty patronage. In London the price of an orchestra ticket is five dollars in gold; in Paris (en location) three dollars and fifty cents. Even in Berlin, where universal cheapness is the role, it is two dollars, and in St. Poters- burg it is five roubles, or four dollars, Four or five dollars in greenbacks is not too much to pay in New York for an opera ticket, in view of the prices readily paid for other luxuries, and especially in view of the neces- sarily great cost of an entertainment which at present and for a long time to come must mainly rely for support upon a limited number of patrons, belonging to the most highly culti- vated and the wealthiest classes in our com- munity. A second step towards the revival of opera in New York must be a willingness on the part of the public to pay liberal prices for the enjoyment of opera-—that marvellous “work” which splendidly illustrates the cor- relation of the aris. Rousseau said and Wagner has repeated that opera does not mean s0 much a musical work as a musical, poetical and spectacular work all at once. Sutherland Edwards, in his clever ‘‘History of Opera,” cites these authorities and adds that ‘“‘opera,” in fact, is the ‘‘work” par ex cellence to the production of which all the arts are necessary. It is idle to assert that opera must forever be an exotic in our republic. No such politi- cal intolerance exists here as that which com- pelled, during the first French republic such absurd changes in the Wibretté as the substitution of la loi for le roi, &c., and finally closed the doors of the opera house afier having driven several artists te the guillotine or to suicide. The ultimate naturalization of opera in America, as in England, can, indeed, come only from a higher and more general develop- ment of musical taste and talent than has yet been attained in either country. But the time must arrive, sooner or later, when, en- tirely emancipated from Eurepean prece- dents and educated to a full appreciation of music, our people will find opera a necessary amusement, not for the few, but fer the many. Then opera may be played to ‘‘audiences at cheap prices and in frockcoats.” But for the present it must retain a good deal of its origi- nal exclusiveness, and those admitted within its charmed circle must be content to pay the piper well, Great and rapid progress in , musical culture has been made in the United States during the past forty years. The musical proclivities and potentialities of the American people cannot be doubted when we call to mind the en- thusiasm and liberality with which many of the best European artists have been welcomed here, and the facts that in a single year (1866) twenty-five thousand pianos were manufac- tured, at a cost of fifteen million dollars, and sold in the United States; that the depart- ment of the Paris Exposition in which the United States surpassed most other nations was that appropriated to musical instruments; that the most famous opera singer in the world is ‘‘our own Adelina,” and that our electrical atmosphere already promises to rival Italy in producing musical voices of extruor- dinary quality and power, All this should encourage the stockholders of the Arademy to make tha experiment