The New York Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘ PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVI.........:::ssereeeseqeesNO, 298 ————————— ¢ AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Rrroctwey. cornet 30 st. —Perform- ences afternoon and evening—' OcTOROON, BOOTHS THEATRE, 234 st, between 5th and 6th avs, — Gur Mawnezine. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Heur—A FAVORITE Face NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince Bouston streets—Loab DuNDREARY. we GRAND Crane HOUSE, corner ot 8th av. ana 234 sh Emery 0G STADT THEATRE, N. Bowery—Orrza BaasowWinktan Teute ‘ycenpiad sa LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE. No. 730 Bi rl nis hg a fo. jroadway.—FRENoi FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, T S - Tuk New Duama or Byooos’ aipnee tate: OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broad ‘TOMIME OF HumPTy Duprr. —Tae Bauer Pan- nee at 2, ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broad- way.—Paima Donna FoR 4 N ae ko. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th stroete— AGGRAVATING Sam—TuE NERVOUS MAN. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—ITALIAN Orzna—Favar. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague street— Loeiing—Bioreranv. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN TUEATRE,— Divonon, PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall = TWA, THE SEWING MACHINE OIRL. i derail ‘ UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- way.—Nroxo AcTs—BuRLESQUE, BALLET, 40. Matince. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comio VooaL- 16M8, NEGRO Acts, £0. Matinee at 2). SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HA! \dway.— Tus $4n FRANCISco MINSTRELS, saa cal at BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUS! . and 7th ave.—Brranrs Mtivermrcs. Benen Se ¢ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Nexo Eoornraicitizs, Bom Esques, ao. ® t PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth st: ween ‘24 and 84 avenues.—EQuesTEIANION, to. isan TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, October 25, 1871. _———————— CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pac. ares 1—Advertisements, 2— Advertisements. 3—Political: Liveiy Times at the Tammany County Convention; ‘The Brennan-Dowling Braves Rampant; Judge Ledwith Nominated for the Supreme Court; Shandiey “To Fight Mit Sigel;” the Workingmen’s Meeting at the Cooper Institute; the Political Tempest in Jersey; the Brooklyn Taxpayers in Council— Colored National Convention. 4—Money Crisis in Europe—National Insurance Convention—Real Estate Matters—Domestic DiMicuities tn Newburg—Preparations for the Reception of Grand Duke Alexis—The Chicago and rorest Fire Funds—The Chapin Home— Father Flattery Explains—Army and Naval Intelligence. S—Mandamus Day: The Departments of Punlic Parks and Do-ks in Court; Opinion of Judge Ingraham—Proceeaings in the Couris—Arrest of an Extensive Forger—More Dollars Astray: How was Old Samuel Belaen When He de His Will’—A Naughty Salt Lake Saint—Fires in Western New York—Fires From Locomotives—brooklyn Affairs. @—Editorials: Leading Article, “France—Her Fi- mancial Difficuities and Dangers’ — Amuse- meuts — Personal Intelligence Amusement Announcements, 7—News from France, England and Corsica—Im- rtamt from Darmstadt—Atlairs in Mexico— Yachting: Race Between the Dauntless and Livonia; the Livonia Deteated— orth Caro- Ina Randitti—The Hornet Dificulty—Amuse- ments — Interesting from Utah—The Fire Fiend — Miscellaneous Telegrams — Business Notices, §8—Financial and Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—City Governmen!—Marriages and Deatns—Advertisements. ®—Advertisements, 30—News from Washington—Maryland Jockey Club -Ald for Michigan--Suipping Lntelligence= Advertisemenis, 11—Adveitisements. 32—Adveriisements. No Stout oy Prinok Auexis or the Rus- sian fleet yet. Longing hearts and straining eyes will probably find their ‘‘hearts’ delight” to-day. ConkLtNG AND Fenton.—They are keeping op their fight in the rural districts, while Andrews attends to Conkling in the city, and eccordingly democratic stock is on the rise, “Aut QuigT ON THE Poromao,” where they are calmly awaiting the expected Russian invasion, well supplied with fixed ammunition, and for the nuptials, too, if called for, between the Russian Bear and the American Eagle. Tae Fires 1x THE Woops in the northwest- ern part of the State are still fiercely raging. Reports of buiidings destroyed and lives lost begin to come in, and most likely the damage already has been immense. Tur Demoorats in the First Assembly istrict of Monroe county have nominated W. W. Marsh and the republicans George A. Goss. The Rochester Democrat intimates that the voters in the district will give the democrats ‘“Goss” on election day, The canvass for Assemblymen is very aclive in the interior counties, “Prergorty Sprenpip,” ‘“‘Dexiciovs,” “never expected anything so beautiful,” “voice, action, figure, expression never sur- passed,” ‘the sweetest Lucia that ever walked the stage” and similar expressions were freely attered all over the house at Nilsson’s first performance in opera at our Academy. But they say that in Marguerite she eclipses ber- selfas Lucia, and she appears as Marguerite this evening. Missovat Repusiicans.—A large gathering of prominent republicans assembled in St. Louis on the 18th inst. for the purpose of re. organizing the republican party upon a basis of harmonious action for the future. It was decided to call a convention, at an early date, of the voters of the State who intend to act for the national republican party in 1872, for the purpose of constituting a Central State Committee, The best and easiest way to re- organize the republican party in Missourt would be to reorganize Carl Schurz. Crvit Service Rerorm.—The Civil Service Commission is now in session in Washington, preparing some plan of reform to be presented to the next Congress. It is stated that Sena- tor Trumbull will introduce a neq bill, more comprehensive than the last. There is a great deal of talk and very little cider about these reform propositions among members of Con- gress. Like the effort to abolish the franking privilege, there was considerable fuss made in cegard to it, but it all ended in smoke, and we feara like result will attend the labors of the Commission now sitting in Washington. Corruption rules the roost in the national capital as well as in the commercial me- tropolis, and to cleanse them both is a work more heroulean than cleansing the Augean qeble, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY. France=Her Finaccial Dangers. Our cable news from day today and the letters of our special correspondents make it abundantly plain that at last a financial crisis has arrived in France. It is not wonderful that it should be so. What nation or people could have passed through the ordeal to which France has been subjected without suffering shipwreck? In spite of her accumulated and rapidly recurring misfortunes, France has revealed a spring and elasticity in matters financial which has surprised and astonished the world. When days were darkest, with how little difficulty did Gambetta get the money he needed! Later, how France, which was supposed to be exhausted, rushed to the rescue when money was wanted to pay the first indemnity! The farseeing, however, were not deceived by these signs of atrength. In the emergency in which France found herself Dimiculties and some show of sympathy; it was as little unnatural for the French people to give some proof of patriotism. In spite of outside eym- pathy, however, and in spite of patriotism, it was manifest that a financial crash sooner or later must come, That it has come we dare not yet affirm. But it is no longer to be denied that the enthusiasm is waning and that the actual situation is being revealed. It is now said that there is great scarcity of money in Paris, and that the crisis is daily increasing in inten- sity. On Monday the Bank of France, in order to relieve the public distress, commenced to issue thirty-five millions of francs in currency of small denominations. There is no mis- taking the meaning of this movement on the part of the government. In this country we know what paper currency means, In our case it has worked well, and we have reason to be proud of it; but we have no reason to conclude that what we could do in our ex- tremity France dare doin hers. Our enormous territory, our rapidly increasing resources, the industry and enterprise of our people—all these made the experiment safe with us. To find a suitable example of the possible, if not probable or certain, result of her new experiment, France had better look back and reflect on her own sad experience in the years that followed her first great Revo- lation, The France of to-day is not the France which the republicans formed in 1789 and subsequent years, Then the national do- mains were large, the real estate of the Charch was enormous, and the property of the heredi- tary landlords amounted to one-half of the entire property of the kingdom. It was easy to seize on the estates of the Church ; it was a simple way of raising money to confiscate the property of the large land owners; nor was it an inconvenient mode of obtaining currency to issue assignsts without limit on the security of the national domains. The Frenchmen of this generation have not forgotten the suffer- ings of their fathers and the complete failure of the schemes of finance introduced by the revolutionists. It is still remembered in France that in 1793-4 the merchant was com- pelled to sell his wares and the farmer his produce for assignats which were positively worth nothing. It is a noteworthy fact that in 1797 the assignats had fallen to a two hun- dred and fiftieth part of their nominal value. The national bankruptcy had in fact existed for several years before it was formally declared by the Directory. ll this, too, in spite of the enormous re- sources of the government, including the property of the Church, the estates of the great nobles, and what once were Crown lands, and in spite of the severe laws which were enacted and enforced to sustain the value of the government money. As we have said, the France of to-day is very different from the France of ninety years ago. There are no Church lands to seize, There are no great land owners to dispossess. France is not by any means without great resources; but the enormous advantages resulting to the govern- ments of the first revolutionary period from seizure and confiscation are totally wanting to the government of to-day. Let us look at the actual condition of France. It is not to be forgotten that, in addition to the demoralizing and weakening influences of a great and humiliating defeat, France has lost a considerable portion of her territory and some millions of the most industrious and enterprising of her population, Then, again, who can calculate how much loss France has sustained in consequence of the war, from the cessation of all industry—agricultural, com- mercial and manufacturing? All this is bad to begin with; but when we begin to look at the actual figures we are filled with alarm, Before the late war the debt of France was more than sufficiently burdensome. Year by year it was found that not less than fourteen millions and a half sterling, or seventy-one and a half millions of dollars were required to pay the interest on the public debt. Since then there have been three loans—that contracted by the empire in the last days of its existence, that contracted by Gambetta, and the more recent loan for the payment of the first portion of the German indemnity. It is calculated that the annual interest on these loans cannot be under forty millions of dollars. It is also calculated that the remainder of the indemnity, if borrowed onthe same terms, will involve an annual charge of forty million dollars more. Eighty millions of dollars have thus to be added to the seventy-one and a half of the previous debt, It is estimated that three millions, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars will be needed to pay the interest due to the Eastern Railway Company. Then one hundred millions of dollars are to be expended in aiding the sufferers in the provinces, and one hundred millions more will be needed to repair roads and canals, and to meet other necessities, The interest on these two hundred millions is set down at slightly under twelve millions of dollars, This latter, with the interest due to the Eastern Railvoad, swells the whole sum to be paid annually by the government, in the shape of in- terest, to one hundred and _ seventy millions of dollars. As near as possible the actual sum which France will have to pay in the future in the shape of interest will be two hundred millions of dollars—an increase due to the war of some eighty-three millions and a half, These are the figures of M. Michel Chevalier, one of the ablest and cer- tainly not the most desponding of the it was not unnatural for the nations to make + financiers of France. A more discouraging exdibit is scarcely conceivable. It would be rash to conclude that France is unequal to the heavy task which is set before her. She has encountered and overcome great trials before. Crushed and weak as she is to-day, she is not without great spirit and high hopes. At the same time it is imposal- ble to refuse to admit that for years to come France will not be dangerous as a war Power in Europe. A great future may yet be before her; butif the French people would avoid national bankruptcy and all its ruinous and demoralizing accompaniments and conse- quences, they will cultivate for some genera- tions to come the arts of peace. Of war and the so-called glory of war they have surely had enough. Let them adopt a new réle and the nation may yet be great. The Mexican Revolution. The latest movement undertaken by the opposing military chiefs of Mexico against the government of President Juarez remains in full revolutionary career in many districts of the republic. The pronunciados are in force at different points along the line of the Rio Grande and at various places in the interior. Telegraphs have been cnt and the mails robbed of their con- tents. A Heratp courier brought news of the latest aspect of the situation to Mata- moros, His despatches have been telegraphed specially to New York and are published in our issue to-diy. General Pedro Martinez has obtained the support of the Governor of Nuevo Leon, and renewed his effort of last year against the existing execulive. Trevino denounced the Juarez rule openly, and soldiers were called on to declare themselves for or against. Monterey was disloyal, as were the smaller cities of the State. Neutrals suffer vastly in their property and by the interruption of their lawful pursuits, The United States Consul at Monterey has been mulcted in a forced loan. An engagement took place between the troops under Martinez and a body of govern- ment soldiers near Buena Vista. Juarez’s men were moving to the relief of Cespada, but the revolutionists succeeded in cutting off their wagons and doing them other injuries. Thus the national embroilment in Mexico appears to be still more general, and foreign commerce is again affrighted from the country by the noise of the conflicting claims of the rival chieftains and the clang of arms of idle soldiers, who strike in battle rather than go to work at honest and, consequently, more honorable pursuits. Mexico, untrue to herself, may become a very dangerous neighbor to the united repub- lic of America, and that at no distant day. The Fire Fiend in Germany—DBarmstadt in Danger and the Court Thedtro Rains. The cable telegram news reports from Darm- stadt which are published in the Hrrarp to- day will bring alarm, pain and anxiety to the minds of a vast number of our readers, with a sense of sincere sorrow to the hearts of the American people at large. Darmstadt city, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse- Darmstadt, is in danger of being rendered desolate by the fire fiend. The old German town, with its treasures of art and science and its valuable capital in machinery, is likely to share the same fate as did new Chicago, with its granaries and fertile sources of giant productive promise. The celebrated Court Theatre of Darmstadt took fire yesterday evening, and the noble pile was completely de- stroyed by eight o'clock, Asin this country during the progress of the late conflagrations, the flame was aided by the wind. A heavy easterly gale fanned it on its course. It com- menced to travel towards the upper town, The arsenal was in danger. It had been evacuated by the troops. Should Darmstadt be destroyed the religious world will grieve, and Protestantism particularly mourn for the calamity which will have befallen its cloisters. Literature will suffer a heavy blow in the destruction of the three hun- dred thousand volumes which fill the shelves of the Grand Ducal Library, in- dependent of the menuscript treasures of many savans, Art will have cause to grieve amid the ruins of celebrated galleries of paint- ings and statuary, of the museum of natural history and of the grand botanic garden, Sol- diers would sorrow for the military academy and extensive armory. The drama will make plaint for the Court Theatre. The Catholics will have to proclaim the loss of a magnificent church, while German commerce will suffer more or less from the loss of the mint. The Theatre-Platz of Darmstadt is adorned with elegant statues of Philip the Generous and George the First. We hope sincerely that the good old German town may come through the fiery ordeal, even with the loss of the Court Theatre; that the city which gave Liebig to the cause of science may be pre- served. AN Honest Orriciar.—City Chamberlain Jobn J. Bradley publishes a card to-day, in which he sets forth the amounts paid over by him to the credit of the city out of the interest on the deposits in his hands as City Chamber- lain and County Treasurer, The total exceeds the large sum of one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, All of this Chamberlain Bradley might legally have put into bis own pocket. But he had before him the precedent on the one side of his immediate predecessor, Peter B, Sweeny, who had paid tbe interest on deposits over to the city, and on the other side of former City Chamberlains, who bad put the interest into their own pockets, He chose to follow the example of the former, and bas thus donated to the city over one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. He deserves all the credit to which such unexampled official magnanimity is entitled. Tur Lovisvi.ie Ledger, by a nice calen- lation, bas discovered that ten democratic voters added to each election precinct in the United States would insure the success of the party in 1872, The Evansville (Ind.) Journal regards this as very likely, but wants to know where are the ten democratic voters to come from? Gotp 111}.—Gold shows the usual weak- ness of the season when our cotton exports and the Treasury disbursements of coin inter- est tell against a high premium, The price closed last night L1H a 11g. OCTOBER 25, 187L—TKIPLE SHEET. The Democracy and the Next Presidency Another “New Departure” Proposed, Bold and Decisive. In a recent article on the perplexities of the democratic party and its manifest weakness against General Grant in reference to the next Presidency, we suggested a new departure, involving the abandonment of the old party ritual and the adoption even of a new name, with a new organization calculated to absorb all the floating materials of the country, as the only plan offering a chance of success. The leading democratic organ of Missouri—the St. Louis Repudlican—proposes substantially the same experiment from the same view of the situation. Thus the democratic party of the Union are recommended to try the experiment for the Presidency of a liberal republican movement, ticket and programme, against the regular radical ticket, the plan whereby the democracy of Missouri have revolutionized that State. Our St. Louis contemporary con- tends that ‘the radical party must be unseated at Washington, just as it was unseated in Mis- souri, by the democrats abstaining from a Presidential nomination, and leaving the nomination of a ticket which they may sup- port to the liboral element of the other pariy.’’ In support of this line of action—the Mis- sourl democratic line—it is argued-that even if aregular democrat, such as Groesbeck, Hancock, Hendricks or Caase, could be elected, it would be a barren victory, because @ radical Congress, which cannot be reached by the democrats for years to coma in the Senate, ‘‘would tie the hands of the demo- cratic President, and give us the history of the Andrew Johnson administration over again.” This is a strong point in favor of the Missouri democratic example of falling back upon a liberal republican bolter from the camp of the administration party; and our Missouri philosopher tinally contends that the election of a liberal republican President by the aid of democratic votes, ‘though not a full demo- cratic triumph, would be an inestimable improvement on the present order of things.” This is according to the old rule that ‘half aloafis better than no bread at all.” We think, too, that not only is the course sug- gested the best course, but that it is the only lan of operations which offers the democratic party the prospect of success in the ne Presidential contest—that is, the plan of abandoning the old democratic position, and of fighting General Grant within the republi- can lines and with his own party weapons, On the division of the spoils alone there are half a dozen republican Senators and a score or two of republican members of the House of Representatives, with a host of other dis- appointed men among the local leadera and managers of the party—here, there and every- where—wao are ready for a bolt with any- thing like a show for a new division of the plunder in 1873 from the election in 1872 of a new President. These disaffected Senators, House members of Congress and local leaders and managers, with a fair open- ing on a bolting republican, could probably carry off from General Grant two or three hundred thousand votes, between New York and Missouri, which would be sufficient for the defeat of General Grant and his party for President and Congress. Tke personal grievances of such men as Sumner, Fenton, Greeley, ‘“‘Rufe Andrews,” Coxe of Ohio, Trumbull, Logan, Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz can be satisfied only with some decisive stroke of revenge against Gene- ral Grant himself. These men and all of their tribe see that they can make nothing and can expect nothing by a bolt to the democracy ; bat if the democracy will only bolt over to them on a liberal republican platform, then Fenton and Greeley can make the fur fly from the back of Collector Murphy. All the elec- tions of the year in the Northern States show that the democrats in 1872, on a democratic ticket and platform against General Grant, have not the ghost of a chance; but in New York, we begin to think, our November elec- tion will show conclusively that the Missouri democratic game of going over to the liberal republicans is full of promise. Senator Fen- ton takes no interest in this election beyond the defeat of Collector Murphy, and Mr, Greeley, with one of the Coll ector’s army hats pulled down over his eyes, is blind to the sing of Tammany Hall. Surely these defections will work to the advantage of the democrats in our impending November State contest. It is probable, indeed, that the consequences will em- brace the election, not only of the democratic State ticket, but of a democratic Legislature. If so, then we may next expect to see the democratic party, on this proposed new de- parture of waiving its own claims and preten- sions to the next Presidency, in a fusion with the liberal republicans on a liberal republican ticket and platform. Then we may look for the call of a liberal Republican National Con- vention and the nomination of some such ticket as Logan and Fenton, or Sumner and Logan, or Gratz Brown and Greeley, or something of that sort, on the liberal platform of free trade, revenue feform, general amnesty andareform in the civil service in a new division of the spoils. This is the new party movement, no doubt, which lies at the bottom of the political reform speeches of Carl Schurz, which started the fire of Greeley against Murphy, of Fenton against Conkling, of Sumner against St. Domingo, and of all the disappointed republican office-seekers against General Grant. No matter. The democrats, in dropping their own organization in 1872 and in inviting the bolting republicans to come to the front—with their ticket and plat- form compounded from the doctrines of Carl Schurz, Trumbull, Sumner, Fenton and Greeley—will be taking the road to victory. Otherwise they will enter the field only to be again defeated in 1872, as in 1864 and 1868, Tne MicnigaNn Firrs.—The report that an extra session of the Michigan Legislature was to be held to take measures to relieve the suf- ferers by the late terrible fires in the State is contradicted, It is stated that Governor Baldwin has carefully considered this ques- tion, and is clearly of opinion that the State constitution so stringently ties up and limits the power of the Legislature that, if it were called together, it could accomplish nothing substantial in the way of relief, This de- cision is not calculated to encourage outside subscriptions, Yet a State that cannot help itself in such a dire emergency is deserving of universal sympathy. The constitution of Michigan sadly needs amendment, The Mandamus Cases—Decisions of Jadge Ingraham. Judge Ingraham yesterday granted the ap- plication for a mandamus to compel Deputy Comptroller Green to pay over to the Depart- ment of Docks the sum of five hundred thous- and dollars for the prosecution of the work commenced by the department on the wharves, piers, bulkheads and slips of the city. This decision settles the question as to the right of the Dock Commissioners to call for the issue of bonds to the amount of three million dol- lars in the course of the year for the purposes of the improvements confided to their hands, and removes the permanent works undertaken by the Board out of the operation of the Two Per Cent act, which is declared to have reference only to the regular annual expenses of the various municipal departments. At the same time Judge Ingraham rendered his de- ciston in the case of the Central Park Com- missioners against thee Comptroller, and granted the mandamus asked for to require the issue of bonds for permanent improvements in the Park. The expenditure for such work, he holds, is not embraced within the scope of the Two Per Cent act. But, so far as the ordinary annual expenses of the parks and publio places are concerned, he decides that the amounts to be expended must be limited to the moneys appropriated therefor by the Board of Apportionment under the said act, andas that amount has been already paid over to the Park Department by the Comp- troller no further sum can be claimed during the present year on that account, It has heretofore, under the régime of Park Commissioner Green, been the custom to expend more than the annnal appropriation for the care and maintenance of the Park and to balance the account the following year under the head of ‘‘Deficiencies.” We presume this practice will be adhered to by the present Board. At all events, it is certain that the Central Park and the other city parks cannot be abandoned, and that the amount necessary for their proper maintenance must be forth- coming from some source or other. It would be absurd to continue the permanent improve- ments of the Park and to discontinue its efficient management and care. Germany, the Papacy and the New Game of Bismarck. Mee ETE Mt ee et The restoration of the German empire under William the First, so far as can be judged from certain recent movements, is not looked upon with disfavor at Rome, Since the com- mencement of the sorrows of the Holy Father, William, as King of Prussia and as Emperor of Germany, has uniformly acted and spoken as if he were a friend of the Holy See. It is not, therefore, wonderful that the Holy Father should look to the Emperor William, now that he finds himself ia a tight place. The empire and the Papacy have always gone together. The Papacy was almost dead when Charlemagne, at the beginning of the ninth century, took it by the hand. Under the patronage of the great Charles the Pope became almost as mighty as the Emperor, After the death of Charles, and when the eme pire was divided among his sons, the Papacy lost its power and sank into contempt. With the rise of the First Otho and the establishment of the German empire, properly so called, rose again from its ashes the ruined Papacy. Under the Second Otho, who lost influence, and who permitted disunion, the Papacy again fell. The Third Otho made Rome the chief city of the empire, and threw around the Pa- pacy all the attractions of imperial splendor, The times of Frederic Barbarossa and the times of Charleg the Fifth gre equally illus- trative of our principle. With the unity of the empire and with a strong secular govern- ment the Papacy, as a rule, has prospered, The first French empire and the second French empire claimed to represent the empire of Charlemagne.. The First Napoleon and the Third for this reason assumed the protectorate of the Papacy. In both cases the protectorate was powerful, but in both cases it was to the Papacy rather a misfortune than a benefit. The fall of France and the rise of Germany, while they have been associated: with the mis- fortunes of the Chair of St. Peter, have given birth to conditions which inspire the Papacy with bope. The ecclesiastical authorities at Rome, always wise in their generation, see in the new German empire, in spite of its Protestant proclivities, a great and permanent Power and a more than possible ally, They see, or think they see, the empire of Charlemagne, of Otho, of Frederic of the Red Beard, of Charles the Fifth, revived. They know Bismarck’s ambition, and they are not wholly ignorant of his secrets, South Germany, already an inte- gral portion of the empire, is Catholic, For South Germany’s sake Berlin needs the sym- pathy and co-operation of the Holy See, Aus- trian Germany must soon become an integral portion of the empire; but Austrian Ger- many, which is Catholic to the backbone, needs to be assured that in becoming part of the new empire which Bismarck has created it will not be either denied its rights or lost to Rome, Then, again, Bismarck has his eyes on Poland, What he contemplates is not the annexation of Poland to the German empire, but the re-establishment of the Polish king- dom and the building up of a powerful national barrier wall between Germany and Rassia, Poland is Roman Catholic, and Bismarck and the Pope are equally well aware that the Chair of St. Peter must not be despised in the proposed reconstruction of the map of Europe, These things being well considered it will not be thought so wonderful that Rome and Ber- lin should be so well agreed. The empire is restored, The Papacy may yet revive. Tue Corvmaia (S, C.) Phenix publishes a letter from @ prominent politician in Minne- apolis, Minnesota, to a friend in Columbia, in which the writer strongly depres cates the idea of Wade Hampton that the Southern democrats should take no part in the next Democratic National Convention. Opinion in the South is still very much divided on the sndject, Pamavetrata reports one hundred and fifty-one deaths in that city from smallpox during the last three weeks, which is large enough for an ordinary epidemic. However, the number is now decreasing, and the Quaker City is pretty well over the worst of her trouble almost before we know there ls any-~ thing af all the matter with her, Fature ov rae Vinrace mv CHAMPAGNE.— Accounts from Rheims state that the vint- age in Champagne is the worst ever remem- bered. The vines were so seriously in- jured during the time of the Prussian occu- pation of the country that the very worst anticipations have been realized. The late frosts in the spring and finally the heavy hail storms also conduced to add to the destruc- tion of the vintage. The evil does not rest even here. It is well that previous to the war there was on hand a large quantity of wines in the cellars and stores of the grape growers. This in itself waa suf- ficient to make up for a deficiency which might result from a small or bad yield, but all this, or the greater portion of it, was “gobbled up” by the Germans, and thus the stock has been diminished beyond any equal in past years. The amount of wines destroyed by the invad- ing soldiers will, it is feared, never be ascer- tained. The consequence of this will be that for some time to come we shall have little or none of the sparkling beverage, and the little that will be supplied will be drawn from reserves at enormously high rates. Ex-Governor Henry 8. Foote has writter a letter on the subject of the proposed new party—‘‘Reunion and Reform”—in which he says that in view of the result of recent politi- cal elections, and the indications of a eimilar result in other States wherein elections are soon to occur, he ‘‘most painfully apprehenda that anything like a democratic triumph in 1872 is an absolute impossibility.” These are certainly not very encouraging words to the Southern democracy; but the ex-Governor ia not always correct in his predictions, INVISIBLE IN THE Foa YEsteRpAY—The yachts off the Hook and the home squadron im search of Alexis. Personal Intelligence. General Thomas W. Sherman, of the United State@ Army, 1s at the Hoffman House. Jonn V. Farwell, of Chicago, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonet Jerome N. Bonaparte, of Newport, is re~ siding at the Hoffman House, Culonel G. E, Hutchinson, of Cleveland, Ohio, ta staying at the Sturtevant House. Baron Goskowski, of Russia, yesterday arrived atthe Brevoort House, =. y Judge J. M. Woolworth, of Omaha, isa sojourner at the St. James Hotel. Bx-Congressman A, D, McCarthy, of Syracuse, la at the Fifth Aventie Hotel, General F. F. Flint, of the United States Army, if quartered at the Grand Central Hotel. Attorney General Marshall B, Champlain Is stay- Ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel C. J. Sprague, of the United States Army, 18 quartered at the New York Hotel. Alabama Claims Commissioner Russell Gurney, Recorder of London, Eng., 18 at ihe Brevoort Houses State Senator D. J. Morrell, of Johustuwn, Pa, ta dwelling at the St. Nicholas Hotel. President A. D, White, of Cornell University, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General H. 8. Briggs, of Pittsfield, stopping at the Hoffman flouse. General Fred. Meyers, Of Buffalu, ts residing a6 the Sturtevant House. Judge Clayton, of Mississippi, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. ‘ Lieutenant Colonel A. Pearson, of England, ycse terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General Norris W. Halsted, of New Jersey, is s0« journing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. . Lieutenants A. Mulian aod inmar, of the Roy. Navy, are residing at the Hortinan House. Judge David McLane, of Cinclanatt, ts registered at the Fifth Avenue flote:. General John G. Hazard, of Providence, ts restaingt at the Albemarle Hotel. General S, E. Marvin, of Albany, 1s among thé late arrivals at the Brevoort House. Mr, H. C. Fahnestock, the New York manager of Jay Cooke & Co., sails on the Scotin to-day fom London. Mass, ts AMUSEMENTS. Parepn-Rosa in Oratorio, The first Oratorio of the season was given lag night at Steinway Hall before u very large aualence, Madame Parepa-Rosa has long ago been crowned: the queen of oratorio, and to-day we know of no arlist that can dispute her sovereignty in this lines In the “Messiah” particularly her grand sonorous voice and thorough school of singing 1s displayed to whe fullest advantage; and in those immortal airs, “Rejoice Greatly,” “Come Unto Him,” and “i Know that My Redeemer Liveth,” she is more a& home tao even im opera or concert. Her voice was in excellent condition last night, despite the wear and tear it has uadergone siuce the opera season opened thiee weeks ago. Mrs. Edward Se guin rendered the beauutul alr “He was despised? with expression and tenderness. Her sympathetic, well-trained contralto vuice is welcome alike ta the oratorio, opera or concert, and a more consciene tious artist It would be dimicult to find. Ayasky Cook was the basso on this occasion and gave addi- tional proof of his versaulity. He made a very favorable impression, George Simpson 1s the recognized oratorio tenor of New York, an® his thorough knowledge of the subject come pensates to @ great degree for the detle ciencies of his vulce, The chorus consisted of nearly two hundred and ii{ty singers belonging to the Mendelssoun Union and @ symphony orchestra of forty instruments, all under the baton of the ablest conductor and most celebrated musician ts America, George F. Bristow. With such a director and good music to start with it was not surprising: that the choruses, which constitute the most im- portant element in the work, went like clock work, and that the greatest of them all, ‘*Hallelajah 1" created @ perfect furor. Both Mme, Parepa-Rosm and Mr. Bristow have reason to congratulate them— selves On the successful performance of the grand~ est of all musical works. Lydia Thompson at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. No fouler musical murder was ever perpetrated: than the untimely taking off in blonde burlesque of Wallace’s chef M@uucre of English opera, the matchless Lurline; put the spectacle of the execu tion never shocks the senses when the volatile an® gyrating Lydia Thompson shakes her bionde lock and says she did it, The fair priestess of nimbi limb and waving hair, who has 80 successful kicked and jaughed herself into popular favor, hu® the happy faculty of making one forget the at ties of @ burlesque in the eB fun an® drollery of the burlesque itself. But Lur- line, a3 adapted to the blonde drama, ts no& devold Of merit; on the contrary, it amuses though It does not satisfy, leaving one to laugh aud wot at the same time, Miss Thompson appeared i night in this overgrown theatre before an audience of average size, and was as brigat, cheerful and. mirth-provoking as she 1s wont to be, The other la- dies and gentlemen of the company fully realized thax Oa eee aside “Lariine” the tnird scene Tron real SUCCCH te this evenings S lause. Beside “ipuebeura was presented with Miss Thompson will take a vene! “Sinbad” being the piece selected. Bowery Theatre. baa Witn Mr, Murphy's “Help” big houses have drawn to the Howery Theatre. ‘This ts singulae from the fact that the piece in which Mr. Murphy plays 1s a most wretched combination of absurdt~ ties, ‘The actor, however, 1s good, and this is tha, cess of the !arge houses. So far as Se ee eenent is concerned nothing has been lefs y ing, scenery and properties are alb aad pat Ne rama itself is miseravie, It ts not 1m) ible to write dramas of the character of “] o ch will possess good, stirring situations, sage ite anne time reveal a consistent and an in=- velligent story; but the reverse seems to be the ruic. if Johnuy Thompson was nota banjo and @ horm player no one possibly would ever lave heard of “On Hand,” and Mr. Morris’ Dutch dialect led bing to suppose that that peculiarity alone would be suf. ficient to render his play of “On the Track’? accepiable to an easily pleased publica But “Heip,” “On the Track” and “On Hand” are too much for gor Dature, and but for the really good acting of Mr. Murphy this last productiow would have proved a failure at this house, As @ dialect actor, especially in the Irish business, Mr. Murpay is good and deserves a better fate. ‘Alt me actresses and actors in the play did what was aa- signed to them acceptably, and the piece, which is DOW 10 its BeCONd Whek. bussed Of lua NIMBUS well