The New York Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limite? number, wit be in- serted in the WEEKLY HERALD and the European Edition, JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo: typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- culed at (he lowest rater, Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS Tals EVENING, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. — DAMON AND PY THIAS—LOAN OF A Loves: Matinee at 236. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—KELLY & Leon’s MinsTRELS, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—BERTHA, THE SEWING MAOHUNE Gint—THE Buzzards, WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadway, corner 30t¥ st.—Perform - @nces afterucon and evening—A LIPE'S REVENGE. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 284 # between Sth and 6th avs.— LivTLe SELL AND THE M. HIONESS. CENTRAL PARK GAR SUMMER Nicurs’ Concerts. WITH SUPPLEMEN —Tueopors Tuomas’ New York, Wednesday, A t 16, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. #aGeE, 1— Advertisements, 2—Acvertisements, 3—Financial aud Commercial Reports— The Coming Covurn-Mace Miil—A Needed Improvement— Belligerent Petsy—Smatipox—Marriages and dvertisements. Leading Article, ‘Another Crisis in ‘ears Of an Imperial or Orleanist Coup d’Etav’’— Personal Intelligence — ‘the Utah Mines—Amusement Announcements, S—Crisis in France: An Aileged Consptracy for the Re-establisnment of the Empire—Typhoon in Japan—ielegrams from England, Mexico, Cuda and Porto Rico—Yachting—News trom Washingtou—The — Indians- Naval _ Intelii- gence—Phe Pittston Ming Horror—Miscella- neous Telegrams—Locai ltems—Views of the Past—Business Notices. 6—Enrope: The Approaching Meeting Between the Three Emperors; the New Holy Alliance; tie Royal Party in Ireland Entertained by the Knights ol St. Patrick; the Washington Treaty Again; Colonel Rossel's Arraiznment Before a Court-Martiai—Horse Stealing—The Street Car Rowdies—The Saratoga Races—Tue Gothams Gobbled—The Goldie Testamonial—Buried Alive—The Coburn Casc—New York City News—The Fenian Festival—annexation— Ruinea by Ram—Foois All Dead Yet—A Burglarious Baker—Utah: The Potygamusts in Troubie—A Model Teacker, ‘—Aaverilsements. S—Army Intelligence: The Military Peace Estab- lispment of the United States; Stations of Troops in July, 1871—Brooklyn Affairs—Bold Robbery in Orange—Louisiana: The Radical Mudale—Boya of the Period— ceedings m the Courts—The Ferry Fatality: Fifth Day’s Proceedings Before the Coroue! @—The Ferry Fatatity (Continued from Eighth Page)—Scott’s Centenary—Settlement of the Westchester School War—Indlana Affairs. 10—The Jersey City Horror: Two More Bodies Recovered—Ocean Grove Camp Mceting— Western Poilitics—Blackmatling Operation— The Weather—Telegrapulc liems—Newark’s New Convent—Shipping Intelligence—Adver- tusemenys. Canapian Soctery is made happy by the announcement that the Marquis of Lorn and the Princess Louise will soon arrive in the Dominion to remain several months. The Governor General's residence in Ottawa is being prepared for them. Tne Pittston Disasrer.—The bodies of eleven more victims of the ex-plosion in the Pittston, Pa., coal mines were recovered yes- terday. It is believed this calamity is due to the imperfect ventilation of the mines, which have never been examined by the State In- spector. > Tax os Drvipenps.—Secretary Boutwell has decided that the decision of the late Com- missioner Pleasonton exempting taxes due from corporations on interest coupons payable within the last five months of 1870 does not affect the tax on dividends on stock or andi- vided profits of corporations accrued and added to any surplus, contingent or other fand within the period referred to. These taxes will therefore be assessed and collected. Tor Op Dest anp New Loan.—A Wash- ington despatch—the reliability of which is yet in abeyance—states that Mr. Boutwell will, at the end of ninety days after Septem- ber 1, cal! in and cancel forty-five millions of the five-twenties as the preliminary to a direct refunding of the national debt. The story was credited in Wall street yesterday after- noon and occasioned a decline in gold to 112}. If true, it indicates Mr. Boutwell’s intention to bammer the iron while it is hot and keep the ball in motion now that he has it started. Tae Brirish PARLIAMENT bas not yet done with Gladstone’s coup d'état. Another attack was made on the goverament in the House of Commons yesterday for its abolition of the purchase system by warrant. Mr. Gladstone justified the abuse of the ‘‘royal prerogative,” as itwas called, by the usefulness of the measure. The Attorney General made a very significant remark in saying that the Queen had resolved never again to interfere, which is practically a confession on the part of the gov- ernment that it had gone too far in the matter, but thatit would never do 60 again, Toe Emreror Napo.xon has suddenly been brought into the foregrouod. Simultaneously with our special cable report that a rising is being attempted in Paris for the restoration of his dynasty there comes the announcement that His Dethroned Majesty has declined the ‘atldress of welcome presented im by a num. ber of his sympathizers, unless it be ten- dered by the expressed desire of the whole British nation. But what the British nation thinks en the subject could only be ascertained by a plebiscitum, and a plebiscitum in this case may prove quite as fallacious as that which lured the Emperor on to his destruction, Tle English seem to think that there is yet power in store for Napoleon. At any rate, they want to make a sure thing of it. “If the empire should be re-established,” argues Jobo Bull, ‘he mizht stand something handsome all round, So I had better be civil to him.” Why noi? An address of welcome only costs the paper whereon it is written and the loss of a little breath ip the reading of it, ? HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1871.—W1TH SUPPLEMENT, Another Crisis to Fraoce—Fears of an Imperial or Orleanist Coup d’Etat. Our special cable advices upon French affairs which we submit to our readers this morning are extremely interesting. They disclose the important fact that ‘poor France” is on the verge of another crisis and another revolution. Paris is excited. The situation is menacing. Trouble is threatened from several sources. Yesterday, Napoleon's Séte day, the air was full of ramors of an im- pending revolt of the army against the Ver- sailles government and of the proclaiming of Maishal MacMahon as Regent in behalf of the empire. People were leaving Paris in a sort of stampede. Some believed that the schemes of the Orleanists for a coup @état were ripe, that these schemes have been hurried up by the movement in the Assembly to make M. Thiers permanent Executive of the nation, and by the fear that his government would head off the Bourbons. Worst of all, it appears that the venerable Thiers, in trying to con- ciliate all parties, has arrayed them all against him—republicans, imperialists and Bourbons. This is an ominous condition of things, from which the outlook for the French republic is anything but cheering. The trouble with the Thiers government is that it no longer satisfies anybody. It is republican only in name, and even of the name it seems to be half ashamed. It has cultivated the good-will and .co-opera- tion of the Bourbons only to betray them. It has gone out of its way to give the cold shoul- der to the Bonapartes, and it has forfeited the sympathies of the Church and the Church party in refusing to intervene in behalf of the restoration to the Pope of his temporal king- dom. The services which M. Thiers has ren- dered to France since the surrender of Paris to the Germans have been vaiuable beyond all calculation. In rescuing the country—first, from the wild and visionary Gambetta and his impracticable and reckless government of the national defence ; next, in coming down to the best terms of peace that could be obtained from Prince Bismarck, thus relieving France from the complete prostration and destruction otherwise threatened her by the German armies, and then, in his decisive settlement with the Paris Commune, President Thiers may be called a providential dispensation to France. But having escaped the disastrous conse- quences threatened—first, by the wild ex- cesses of Gambetta and Company, and next by the diabolisms of the Paris Commune— and having provided the ways and means for the removal of the German armies from their soil, in pursuance of their peace treaty stipu- lations, the French people are impatient for the establishment of their national govern- mentina permanent form. President Thiers and his Nutional Assembly occupy a position very much resembling that of Marshal Ser- rano and his Provisional Cortes while Gen- eral Prim was casting about for a King for Spain. The parallel may be extended in com- paring the present position of Marshal Mac- Mahon with that of General Prim, as the actual master of the provisional government concerned. In the case of Spain Serrano held the Cortes as within the palm of his hand, while Prim, with the army at his back, could do what he liked, though his patriotic loyalty to Serrano and the Cortes was illus- trated to the last. In the case of France all parties in the Assembly so far bave recog- nized the necessity of supporting the views and continuing the supreme,authority of Presi- dent Thiers, and the loyalty of Marshal Mac- Mahon to Thiers and his Assembly has been as remarkable as that of Prim to Serrano and his Cortes. But here the parallel ends. Prim had no exiled Speniard’s claims constantly before him, lenging his sympathies gs 9 soldier and a servant, under a dynasty displaced by the misfortunes of war. MacMahon, who ey bis military elevation and fame and positon to Louis Napoleon, on the other hand, can hardly forget the favora showered upon ‘him by his late imperial master, the gracious friendship of the Empress and the victories with the imperial army in the field which made the distinguished soldier a Mar- shal of the empire and the Duke of Magenta. Hence these rumors in Paris of a meditated revolt of the French army—mostly made up of soldiers of the empire—and hence the popular suspicion that the army contemplated the elevation of MacMahon as Regent in behalf of the restoration of the empire. In truth, with all the power possessed in his day by General Monk ina similar emergency he had neither the temptation of the past nor the indace- ments of the future that invite MacMahon toa coup d'état in behalf of the recall of his exiled Emperor. Nor can we doubt, after the refusal of Pre- sident Thiers to complicate the foreign rela- tions of France by active intervention in be- half of the Pope, that the French Caourch and Church party are ready to co-operate in behalf of the restoration of the Bonapartes, The eighteen years during which the Pope was held secure in his temporalities by Napo- leon are forgotten neither by the Holy Father nor his faithful children in France. It may be said, however, that the Bourbons are the dominant party in the Assembly, and that Thiers is with the Bour- bons, if we reduce the question involved to an issue between the Bourbons and the Bona- partes. On the other hand, however, it must not be forgotten that the disasters of the em- pire to France and the wild excesses and humiliating follies and blunders of the republic of Gambetta were fresh in the minds of the French people when this Assembly was elected, and that in its prevailing sentiments it now represents a transitional state of public feeling which has passed away. This is evident in the manifest decline of the sudden popularity of M. Thiers in connection with the election of this Assembly. Thiers, while still recognized ag a necessity, finds himself without a party in the Assembly, and the Assembly itself, it may next appear, has become as tedious to Mac- Mabon as the Long Parliament became to Cromwell when he had no further use for it, After the events of the last twelve months in France we are prepared for anything in the reconstruetion of that government—for the Bourbons, or the Bonapartes, or the republic, A distinguished French writer, however, has remarked that a republic in France is impos- sible, because in France, in the true sense of the word, there are no xepublicang, Freggh- men are Bourbons, or Bonapartists, or moder- ate republicans of a royalist type, or repub- licans of the order of the Paris Commune or the International. We can only await the issue of events in Paris and Versailles, It would appear, from the stampede of the people from Paris, that they expect some violent con- flict of a revolutionary character, some coup @état from the Assembly in the proclamation of a Bourbon king, or a revolution from the army in the cause of the empire, which may involve some more blood-letting among the ruins left behind by the incendiaries of the terrible Commune. It is apparent that all parties in France are getting tired of the pro- visional dictatorship of President Thiers and of the present Assembly, which really, as a representative body, belongs to the past. The wisest course for all parties, for the present, would, perhaps, be to fix for the government of Thiers a short term of exist- ence and to appoint an early day for the election by the French people of a new National Assembly, to be charged with the determination of the form and character of the future permanent government of the nation. The alternative of a coup d'état by Bourbons or Bonapartists may bring upon ‘‘poor France” the chaos of a civil war, involving citles and provinces, Bourbons, imperialists, republicans, Communists and Jacobins. The United States Revenue Marine. We publish to-day the revised regulations for the government of the United States Reve- nue Marine. This new system abolishes abso- lutely the one grand feature that formerly marked this arm of the service—that it was an organization to provide sinecure positions for political friends. Among many mistakes Secretary Boutwell, when he retires, may at least cite this measure asa wise and much needed effort of executive purity. Entrance to the service is now only to be secured by the passage of a vigorous examination as to the fitness—physical, moral and intellectual— of the candidate. In almost every clause of the new regulations, too, we see a firm pur- pose to eliminate what is known as ‘‘political influence” from the service. Officers are rigorously charged to at once obey orders, and are specially directed not to shilly- shally along in the execution of their duty until a revocation of the original instruc- tion is procured. This, by the way, casts a rather melancholy species of reflected light upon the practice in the past. Another section provides that whenever a merchant vessel is assisted in distress by a government revenue cutter the owners shall be required to indemnify the United States for the value of the service. This is but feir, and we have often mentally remarked upon the coolness with which shipowners and other classes of the public demand the aid of United States troops or United States steamers, or anything else that belongs to Uncle Sam, as occasion requires. It is well to remind such “persons that an individual taxpayer is not the entire government. Presents to officers, whether swords or plate, and all votes of praise or censure upon commanding officers, are also unequivocally forbidden. “New brooms sweep clean;” but we think the revenue marine, now thoroughly reformed, will never be likely to again easily fall into the shameful state of maladministration that hitherto has so conspicuously distinguished it. Another department of the public employ is purged of the evil of ‘‘political influence,” and we almost begin to believe that in another hundred years or so we shall have outlived that barbarous motto ‘“‘to the victors belong the spoils,” and shall have an effective, re- spectable and responsible civil service. Istropvctory to the multiplied suits likely to be brought against the Staten Island Ferry Company on account of deaths suffered and injuries sustained at the late explosion on board the Westfield, an application was made yesterday before Judge Sutherland, of the Su- preme Court, on behalf of Miss Esther Wright, one of the victims of the disaster, to have her father appointed guardian, ad litem, for the purpose of enabling her to bring suit against the company to recover damages for the inju- ries she sustained. The Court promptly granted the application. This is probably but the beginning of a series of litigations to be directed againat the company through this dis- aster, and from this terrible harvest of death and maiming there is likely to result a rich harvest for the lawyers. Afterall, or as the result may show, the question arises, cui bono? AFrairs IN Watt Srreet are pretty lively, considering that most of the leading spirits of the Stock Exchange are rusticating at the summer resorts, or junketing it, like Mr. Van- derbilt, in pleasure parties over the country. The problem of a reaction from the stagnation of the earlier portion of the summer seems to have been solved for many of the speculative stocks, and the brokers look quite cheerful for dogday time. The speculative fraternity seem determined to take advantage of the latest developments in the marketing of the new loan, especially as the heretofore sluggish movement thereof was one principal obstacle to financial activity. The various ‘‘syndi- cates” are alive to the opportunities of the hour and a lively fall is in prospect, Tne CHorera IN Lonvoy.—A case of Asiatic cholera has made its appearance in London. The news comes to us by Atlantic cable. Only a few days ago the English au- thorities were congratulating themselves on their security, and, with praiseworthy energy, were adopting all necessary precautions to meet the deadly enemy should it appear. If the cable speaks truly the foe, weak, it is true, is among them. No one knows what a day may bring forth, and it behooves us at this side of the Atlantic to lack no energy in pre- paring for the cholera, which is now on its route through Europe, Wasutxeton City has ever been noted for the free-and-easy manner in which its officials conducted municipal affairs, and it appears its unenviable reputation is not un- deserved. A committee appointed by the House of Delegates of the District to investi- gate the affairs of the Police Court reports that all the officers of the court, save the Judge and Clerk, have been guilty of acts of extortion, blackmailing and bribery, and ns {me only effectual remedy for such a serious scandal recopmgpd the gbolitign of the Caps, The Scett Centenary in New York. Only two years ago, on the same day of the same month when the centenary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott was celebrated, was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the greatest conqueror the world has ever seen. But the life of the Great Napoleon left behind it no remembrances to stir the hearts of man- kind like the simpler achievements of the Scottish bard and novelist. In London a man so renowned as Lord Lytton honored himself in honoring the memory of Scott; while in New York our most distinguished men of letters were foremost in celebrating the many triumphs of the Wizard of the North. ghe universality of genius finds itself no more clearly marked anywhere than in this metro- politan city. The stranger here would have been leas surprised yesterday if he had been told that this city was New Caledonia than at being informed that he was in New York. Tartan and plaid, the pibroch and the thistle, were lifted above all other devices, and for the day held undisputed reign. In the Cen- tral Park the corner stone of the Scott monu- ment was laid, with fitting ceremonies, and the festivities of the day closed with a grand banquet at Delmonico’s, in which many of our best known literary men participated. The occasion redounds greatly to the credit of American culture and reflects something of the glory of the Bard of Abbotsford upon his many transatlantic admirers. But in some things the hand of death made the banquet a painful and feeble exhibition. Irving and Cooper and Hawthorne—indeed, all of our masters of the art in which Scott was so truly great, did not live to assist in proclaiming his glories. We had no Lord Lytton to give éclat to the occasion and were compelled to be con- tent with such literary distinction as could be hastily gathered together. We gave of the best we had, and in doing the best that was possible under all the circumstances we showed to the world that we were ever ready to recognize genius and award all honor to distinguished merit. Our monument is a tes- timonial to the sincere regard of the American people for the Scottish bard, and will long stand in witness of the pleasure his writings have afforded to a new people, in a land far distant from the scenes which his pen de- picted. Princk BisMAROK AND THE CATHOLIO Cuurom IN GeRMANY.—On Sunday last we printed a most important piece of news, to the effect that the North German government, which, after all, means the government of united Germany, has abandoned the double religious bureau system. It was found con- venient to have two religious bureaus—one for the Protestant and another for the Catholic Church. The Chancellor of the North German Bund has abolished the double system; and henceforth North Germany is to have only one religious bureau. Infallibilily and the Syllabus have, according to Bismarck, virtually created an imperium ik imperio, and as Bismarck will have no overshadowing or rival power in Germany he has so arranged matters that the State must be first and the Church second. Count Von Arnim, as we see by later news, has in- formed Cardinal Antonelli of the determination of his master. We do not say whether Bis- marck is wrong or right. All that we do say is, that the most powerful government in Europe to-day has set its foot on the preten- sions of Rome, and in a manner not to be mistaken has declared itself opposed to the decrees of the late Council of the Vatican. This is a new feature of the great religious fight ; and we are willing to await results. Tar TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION IN JERSEY Crry, which resulted in the death of five per- sons, calls for a rigid application of Jeyey justice. At ten minutes after midnight two explosions, following each other in rapid suc- cession, from the cellar of a liquor store, swept away the lower floor and a portion of the sidewalk. In less than five minutes after- wards the building and the frame structures adjoining were in a sheet of flame. The rapidity with which the fire spread was most extraordinary and suggests the question, what caused the explo- sion? Durancey and McGee, the pro- prietors of the store, are missing, and it is believed that they perished in the ruins, There seems to be no doubt that the building was fired for the purpose of obtaining the heavy insurance thereon; and yet it is the prevailing impression that the explosion was premature, and that the two bodies recovered yesterday are those of the missing proprietors, whose business relations have not been of a pleasant character recently. Bap News From tHE East.—We publish to-day another telegram filled with evil tidings from the far East. © Yesterday we learned that about four weeks ago a tidal wave, caused by a volcanic eruption, swept over the little island of Tagolanda and drowned four hundred and sixteen persons, To-day we hear that just within a few days of the same time, Kobe, in Japan, was visited by a terrific typhoon, which in various ways caused four hundred deaths and wrecked a number of vessels. We cannot but think that there is some connection between the two disasters. The two places will probably prove to be in the same line of climatic or meteorological disturbance. It will be remembered that at the time of the last great South American earthquake Chile and Peru on one side of the Pacific and New Zea- land and Australia on the other were affected within about twenty-four hours by a similar disturbance of natural forces. Generat Ewino’s FinanctaL Portoy, a8 expressed in his recent speech in Columbus, Ohio, meets with little favor among the West- ern democracy, and is denounced by promin- ent party organs in MIllinois. The General steals a plank from the labor reform platform and attempts to palm it off as a genuine old- fashioned democratic production. Labor Reform Convention in Cincinnati Mr. Ewing's policy was anticipated, and the prom- inent feature of the platform adopted was re- demption of five-twenties in greenbacks and the issue of fifteen hundred millions addi- tional national currency, convertible into three per cent bonds. Dim visions of hard money still haunt the unterrified in the West, and return to specie payments is still a favorite hobby with the party in that section. Gene- ral Ewing will find it a difficult task to per- guade even his party in Ohio to adopt his eur- rency system, and the further West he goes phe fewer will pe foupd hja followers At the late | | Opening of tho Amusoment Sensou=Prom | pects for the Whater. ‘The opening of the present dramatic season has been without any of the éclat which ordi- narily atteads an annual event of so much sig- nificance, The temples of the legitimate drama are given over to burlesque and sou- brette comedy, while the chosen seats of the velvet-voiced and bare-legged d¢butantes have been kept sedulously closed. Lotta was compelled to go to Booth’s for the crowds who delight in the child-like and faithful Little Nell and the dirty-fingered Marchioness, and Lydia Thompson must of needs exhibit the many wives of the much-married and mur- dercus ‘Blue Beard” at Wallack’s. There has been much holy horror expressed and many idle tears have been shed at this change in the conditions of the drama in New York; but as we have never joined the noble army of dra- matic Jeremiahs, who lament the decay of the drama ‘in our midst,” we fail to see any danger in either of these engagements, Art is art, and it is never degraded so long as it pretends not to be what it isnot. Neither Miss Thompson nor Miss Lotta can do any injury to the noble theatres whose boards are for the present given over to the school of act- ing which they respectively represent, and those who enjoy the grand impersonations of Charlotte Cushman or the delightful render- ings of old English comedy, which Mr. Wal- lack has so long furnished, will not: enjoy the one or the other any the less because “iow comedy” was for a brief period presented where “‘high art” generally reigns supreme. It is noticeable that in all the plaas for our winter's amusements French opera of the school of Offenbach and Hervé is dropped en- tirely. Last year the same thing was true of Italian opera, As the music which combiues melody and buffoonery declines the higher and nobler forms of musical art spring into renewed life. Miss Nilsson and _ the strong company which has been formed to assist her will give us ‘‘Mignon” and “Hamlet,” never yet sung in New York, and Madame Rosa is ready to delight us with the old favorites of the ope- ratic stage, not rendered into English only, but sung by the roundest and purest and sweetest of English voices. And then the ladies who are loudest in proclaiming woman's fitness for all kinds of work may show their faith by their acts in pushing the prospects of the Vienna Ladies’ Orchestra. Taking our promised musical season as a whole, it is the most brilliant that has ever been arranged for this city, and we can only trust that it will prove as glorious in performance as it is in promise. ft isa mere waste of breath to declare that the New York public will not support first class musical entertainments, The fact is that everything which has gone before has been first class only in name. People do not care to be defrauded more than once by the same trick, and the history of opéra bouffe shows that, however vitiated may be the tastes of many of our playgoers, a poor performance is in the end certaia to ruin its projector. When “La Grande Duchesse” was first introduced here Tostée, if not a great singer, had at least the power to please, and accordingly Mr. Bate- man prospered. Montaland not only could not sing, but she failed to captivate, and so Mr. Fisk had empty houses. Miss Nilsson will draw full houses, not because she is Miss Nils- son, but primarily for the reason that she is a great artist, and, in the second place, because she always shows a sincere desire to please, Madame Rosa has always been. en rapport with her andiences, and this is the secret of all her successes. An artist who has not the personal magnetism which only an honest heart and an earnest purpose can give may as well stay away from this metropolis, for the ob- stacles in the way of success will prove insur- mountable, We are often satisfied with little, but we do not wanta crust and a growl at the same time. It is a mistake into which many persons have fallen to believe that scenic effects and stage machinery will do away with the neces- sity for artistic perfections, ‘Les Brigands” was splendidly mounted last year at the Grand Opera House, but it failed because the piece was produced with no other merits than those which the scene painter's brush and the stage carpenter's handicraft exhibited, Bandmann, at the same theatre, will not fail this winter if the artist’s perfections are at all seconded by the mechanician’s skill. Bat Booth himself, even in his own theatre, might recede in popu- lar favor if he should forego his well known care in matters of detail. A slovenly per- formance at the Academy of Music, with Miss Nilsson in the leading part, is not an assured success. What we want are both artistic and scenic perfections, and only the manager who can combine these will be rewarded with popular applause and popular support. In all of our musical endeavors heretofore there has been some glaring and inexcusable fault. The scenery or the chorus or the orchestra or the support of the leading artist was bad—in some part of the performance there was something to mar the whole. Mr. Wallack could not have succeeded had the same policy been pur- sued at his theatre. Mr. Booth’s ‘‘Hamlet” would be a poor performance if there was nothing but ‘‘Hamlet” in the play. Miss Nilsson alone cannot fill the Academy or make Ambroise Thomas’ ‘‘Hamlet” successful for many nights. The only thing which can assure a complete triumph is completeness in erery department, We are especially anxious that the musical and dramatic season this winter shall be a great success. We want to see our theatres and opera houses prosper as they have never prospered before. The New York public want a great and brilliant series of entertainments, If there is any failure the failure wilt be owing to a careless and niggardly management ang not to a careless and niggardly community, Tne INDIAN Question Ort West has/ been reduced by General Hancock to this sanple alternative: If we hold the Indians to, their reservations and can’t allow them to, roam over the plains after the. buffalo we rsust feed them; and we reckon that feeding our red brethren on domestic beef, with a aily ration of five pounds to each Indian, a's the Indian beef contractor's average of fifty cents o pound, willbe cheaper than ‘allowing the red men to roam the prairies in p arsuit of the buf- falo and of emigrant trairg and droves of domestic cattle. Let us, ‘thea, feed the red and keep hin quiet. “Psychic” Force. Of alf the novel discoveries claiming the sanction of science none is so remarkable as that of “‘psyehic” force. It isa mark of a solid mind and of every true discoverer to challenge scrutiny and court daylight, and not to test his supposed nugget of truth in the secret recesses of the laboratory merely. The advocates of the theory of which we speek boldly assert that by the exercise of the will they are able to influence matter, and, while they disclaim clairvoyance, they affect the belief that’ the human mind, by a subjective act, is capable of working almost miraculous changee,in the ex- ternal world. The discussion of this subject has lately been revived in England, and a certain re- spectability has been given it by the investi- gations of a scientific gentleman, who, while he has not lent his namo to the extravagant pretensions of the theory, is fearlessly exam- ining it, in the spirit of Gamaliel—‘‘If it be of God ye cannot overthrow it; if it be of man it will come to naught.” We have said that this discussion has been revived, for it is not new. But its clumsy propagators have preferred to call an old thing by a new name. We have read of a certain philosopher who had actually philosophized himself into the assurance that there was no no such thing as matter. Doubtless the new champions of ‘‘psychic” force are capable of working themselves up to the pitch of credulity and to the acceptance of their favorite dogma. Unfortunately they have the countenance of some great men in England—it is sad to say of no less a philosopher than Tyndall, although the latter has not yet given them his ipse dizit. Whea such a man as Tyndall can tell us that “not alone the more ignoble forms of animal-- cular and animal life, not alone the nobler forms of the horse and lion, not alone the exqnisite and wonderful mechanism of the buman body, but the human mind itself—emotion, intellect, will and all their phenomena—were once latent in a fiery cloud,” it is no wonder that scientific antiqua- rians should drag forth this long-scouted fancy of psychic force. If, as Tyndall and his admirers would teach us, all our philosophy, all our poetry, all our science, all our art— Plato, Shakspeare, Newton, Raphael—are potential in the fires of the sun, whence they first emanated, it is not strange that men may be found to reverse the argument and make all matter the creature of mind and under the control of human volition. We do not wish to throw cold water upon the English investigation into the reality and existence of psychic force. We rather rejoice at the opening of the discussion. We should have nothing to lose if, in this am- bitious and energetic age, when so much is demanded of human muscle and sinew, when thousands of looms are to be worked, thou- sands of locomotives and steamships are to be run, the English savans should discover that “psychic” force can take the place of water and steam and. electricity. That will be a grand event in the development of science when the Great Eastern can plough the surface and breast the billows of the Atlantic without using a bushel! of coal, and, by the mere ‘‘sub- jective” energy of her master’s will. Then, if we should have an explosion upon our crowded river boats, it is to be boped the dis- aster would be limited to the narrow work- shop of a siagle individual's brain. But we should not have said so much on this subject if it were not that, in high scientific quarters abroad, the hypothesis alluded to has gained the dignity of being investigated. Let its friends only see to it that they do not disappoint the public by vague and ill-attested experiments ‘done in a corner.” If the operations of the will, by which they put forth psychic energy, are “subjective,” the proofs must be ‘‘objective” and displayed before all men and the sun, Personal Intelligence. Ex-Congressman J. V. L. Pruyn, of Albany, ts at the Brevoort House, Colonel D. E. Buell, of Utah, is residing at the Grand Central. Judge Kobert H. Brown, of Atlanta, Ga., is stay- Ing at the Sz. James. General N. L. Jeffrivs, of Washington, 1s at the. Astor House, General Burns uas returned from the Catskill to the Spingler House. J. D, Burnside, of Belfast, Ireland, is at the Hoff man House. Marcus Flowers, British Consul to Nagasaki, yes» terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue, L, de Potestad, Secretary of the Spanish Legation, has apartments at the Albemarle Hotel. Colonel J, 8. Bates, of New Orieaus, 1s temporarily resiiing at the Astor House. Alfred Pike, of London, 1s domiciled at the Fiftr Avenue. B. B, Smalley, of Vermont, ts sojourning at the St. James Hotel. Kx-United States senator Alexander McDonald, of Arkansas, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas. Joseph K, Emmett (Fritz) isin town, at the New York Hotel. Judge Robert 8. Hale, of Elizabethtown, N.Y., is domiciled at the Hoffman House, Inspector Generai James McQuade, of Goveraor Hotfman’s staff, 18 quartered at the Gilsey House. Captain J. Mucanty, of the steamship China, hag quarters at the New York Hotel. J. Loriero, Portuguese Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, + is among the latest arrivals at the Gilsey House, ) General G. W. Cass, of Pittsburg, is a& Awaller ab the St, Nicholas Hotel. General James HU. Ledile, of Chicago,.13, a late arrival at the Giisey House, Countess de Gibacoa and party are sojourning at the New York Hotel. General Hunter of the United States. Army has taken up his quarters at the St. Nicholas, Colonel James HB. House, of Chicago, ista resident of the St. Nicholas, William Prescott Smith, of Battlmow, is among tho late arrivals at the St. Nicholas. Judge John D. Finney, of St. Louls,/Is stopping at the Grand Central. John Watts Kearny, of Louisville, Ky., sun of the late gallant General Phil Kearny, yesterday arrived atthe Gitsey Hoase. Governor Hoifman came up.from Newport yester- day morning, bat returned in, the eveuing, having, remained during his stay atthe Clarendon Hotel. THE UTAH MINES, Receipt of Silver Bars in Salt Lake City Discovery of a Silver Cave ncar Camp Floyd: sau Lake Crry, August 15, 1971. Ex-Vice President Hamlin was among the axrivals here last night. ‘The first silver buliion from the first railln the Bast Canyon, owned by Walker Brothers, was re- ceived here yesterday, It consists of tour bars, vaitied at $4,300. Acave has been found in the Whive Cloud Mine, Camp Ployd, with large quantities of Horn siiver and rich chloride. ‘Three hundred tons of ore are lytyg at the depot for shipment bi They are hot forwarded on account of iu nt. Drscovertts ot urea, galena are re- ported to-day ‘rom Loa gotwaty, Southern Utah, im the nelgaba: oud Q Vast ovosits of Iwogg