The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1871, Page 6

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New York, Sunday, October 29, 1871. es CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pace, 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—City Politics: _ Condition of the Canvass Throughout New York County—New York State Politics—Funeral of the Late Ex-Secre- tary Ewing—The Russian Duke—Matcn Race Between the Yachts Sappho and Dread- qaugtl—Railroad Matters—Life on the Bor- 4—Religious Intelligence—Festivities in Halifax— Maryland Jockey Club: Second Day of tne Autumn Meeting—Ludiow Street Jail: Have We Still a “Debtor's Jail” in Our Midst—The Relief Subscripuons—Saved from the Gal- lows. S—The Doom of Rosenzweig: Conclusion of the ‘Trial Yesterday; Charge of Recorder Hackett; Verdict ana Sentence—Proceedings in tne Courts—Jersey’s Judge Dowling—The Suictde of Bertha Smith—Financial and Commercial— Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. G—Editorials: Leading Article, “Highly Interest- Ing News trom Great Salt Lake—Tnhe Flight of the Mormon Mohammed—The Great ‘Tribula. ton Among the ‘saints’—A Word to President Grant—Amusement Announcements. 9—Engiand’s Condition: Premier Gladstone Re- views the Nauional Situation Before His Con- stituents—News from Spain, Germany, Rome, France, Belgium and Ireland—Tribuiations of the Saints: Terrorism Among the Mormons; Brigham Young a Fugitive: A _Compro- mise Proposed; Reformation Promised; Arrest of Heads of tne Church on the Charge of Murder; Hawkins sentenced to the Penitentiary for Tnree Years—Mexico: Saltillo Capitulated and Surrendered to Tre- vino—News from Washington—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Busiuess Notices. S—Advertisements. 9— Advertisements. 10—‘The Tweed Troubles: What Does the Arrest of Bill Tweed Mean? The Lull After the Storm; The Boss Yesterday; His Bondsmen—Weather cee emipping Intelligence — Advertuse- en mi 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertsements, Tuer Trap Strme Movement is extending to an alarming proportion in some parts of Germany and Belgium, as will be seen by our cable reports to-day. AyotHER BLow aT Po.yGawy.—Sali Lake City was in a ferment yesterday; there was trembling among the Saints, and fear fell upon households. Thomas Hawkins, found guilty, ander the Territorial laws, of adultery, was sentenced to three years’ hard labor in the Penitentiary and to pay a fine of five hundred dollars. Loptow Street Jair will soon lose its ter- Tors as well as most of its unfortunate occu- pants, Acting upon the principle that a debtor is not a criminal our city Judges have determined to investigate the cases of the debtors confined in the Ludlow Street Jail, and accordingly an order has been issued by which they will have a hearing before Judge Barnard to-morrow. Tae Week in Watt Srreet was a quiet one in contrast to the excited ten days follow- ing the Chicago fire. The speculative ele- ments are in a rather chaotic state as yet, and “bulls” and “‘bears” have done nothing more important than change places. The bank statement, on which so much attention had been bestowed, proved an unimportant affair after all. Gold fell to 111}, but recovered to 112. New Yorkers are supposed to have greater cause for thanksgiving than have residents of other States ; at least this year they have two opportunities for expressing their gratitude for the many blessings a kind Providence has bestowed upon them. Governor Hoffman has appointed Thursday, November 23, as Thanks- giving Day in this State, and yesterday President Grant issued a proclamation appoint. ing Thursday, November 30, a8 a day for thanksgiving and praise throughout the United States. Justice Vixpicatep.—Many as have been the criminals convicted in this city no verdict ‘was ever rendered which gives greater satis- faction than that of the jury in the case of Rosenzweig, which yesterday afternoon returned a verdict of guilty. The heinous mature of Rosenzweig’s crime admitted of no palliation, and the measures he adopted to conceal his offence evinced such coolness and depravity that it roused public indignation and created greater interest in the result of his trial, His sentence, the heaviest penalty that can be inflicted by law for such crimes, will strike terror to villains of his class, and perhaps drive many from the practice of their nefa- rious profession. A remarkable feature of the verdict, however, is the recommendation by the jury of the prisoner to the mercy of the Court. The facts of the case were too plain to be refuted, and the crime and the circum- stances under which it was committed were so singularly atrocious that it seems remarkable that an intelligent jury could couple its ver- ict with such » recommendation, pe NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1871~TRIPLE SHEET. Highly Interesting News from Great Sait Lake—Brigham Young Charged with Mur- der—The Flight ef the Mermen Mo- bammed—The Great Tribulation Among the “Sainte”—A Werd te President Grant. Fifteen years ago, in the platform of the first National Convention of the present republican party, it was declared that “‘it is both the right and the duty of Congress to probibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery.” We have travelled a long way since that modest proclamation was made. Not only has slayery been prohibited in the Territories, but it has been abolished in the States, and the negro who wasa slave or an outcast, having ‘‘no rights which a white man was bound to respect,” is nowa citizen anda voter. But the ‘‘twin relic,” polygamy, has still con- tinued to flourish in Utah, although now it is becoming apparent that its extirpation will be among the achievements of General Grant's administration. From our special despatches which we publish this morning from Great Salt Lake City it will be seen that the United States judicial authorities of Utah, in pushing the saintly polygamists into a corner from which the only outlet ap- pears to lead into the iron door of a prison, have creited a panic among the Saints; that their Prophet, Brigham, abandoning the saintly de- lights of his harem, has left for parts unknown, charged with murder; that his Congressional Delegate, Hooper, has gone to Washington to see President Grant, in order, if possible, to patch up some compromise whereby the national authorities in Utah may be restrained from their present prosecutions against the Mormon polygamists or removed from the Territory. Our correspondent says that the Church at Salt Lake is in a great ferment; that something mysterious is in the wind; that an ominous silence reigns in the Mormon quarters; thdt in the absence of the Prophet and other Mormon chiefs Mayor Wells is practically the head of the community, and that the coming days will be full of interest to the community, We have no doubt of it, for we bave no doubt that General Grant has made up his mind and bas deliberately entered upon the work of putting an end to Mormon polygamy. We suspect that Brigham Young is at last convinced upon this point, and that he does not intend to risk a trial for adultery or ‘‘lewd and lascivious conduct,” which may consign him to a prison. Brigham is charged with the murder of a man named Richard Yates. Hawkins, one of his disciples, a man of only three wives, has been tried and convicted upon a charge under which he may be imprisoned to the end of his life; and if a ‘‘Gentile” judge and jury deal so remorselessly with Hawkins, what mercy can be expected from the same tribunal by the justly frightened Brigham? We presume it is the intention of the President to push these prosecutions against the adulterous Mormons until there is an end of them, unless in the meantime Congress shall interpose in some measure of legislation which will remove the evil of polygamy, and at the same time make some provision for the maintenance of the Rumerous poor women and children, who will otherwise be thrown as outcasts defenceless and destitute upon the world. And here we may say something for the Mormons. ‘Their religion is a ridiculous fraud—the founder of it, Jo Smith, w%s an ignorant loafer and a charlatan ; his successor is a shrewd and unscrupulous impostor, and his revelations confirming the institution of polygamy are a horrible nuisance; but for all this these Mormons ‘“‘have done the State some service,” and so much that we cannot overlook it. They had been driven by a mob of “border ruffians” out of Missouri; they had been driven by a mob from their enticing pos- sessions at Nauvoo, Ill, and they were encamped on the plains near Conncil Bluffs, Iowa, when the grand idea seized Brigham Young (the anointed successor of Jo Smith) of founding a new settlement at Great Salt Lake. That lake had been discovered by Fremont only two years before, and he and his exploring party are the first recorded white men who penetrated those previously unknown regions. Fremont’s reports of the desert and desolate character of those strange lands were anything but inviting to the emi- grant, Salt Lake was thena thousand miles from the frontier white settlements east, and well on to a thousand miles from the whites of the Pacific Slope. It was in the midst ofa great desert, and its approaches from every side were over vast sterile plains, immense chains of difficult mountains and frightful wastes of sand, volcanic ashes and sage brush. But these repelling impediments to the Mormon emigrant were the special attractions which drew Brigham Young and his Mormon community to the Great Salt Lake. There they supposed for hundreds of years they would be beyond the reach of the Gentiles, There was nothing in the general desert char- acter of Utah Territory to attract the greedy Gentiles and everything in its difficult approaches to repel them. There was no danger of arailroad of two thousand miles over those sterile plains, mountains and deserts from the Missouri to the Pacific, because money enough could not be raised to build it, and because there never could be any inducement for such a stupid undertaking. The Mormons then removed to Great Salt Lake under the belief that there, completely isolated from the far away outside world, they could build up a prosperous and power- ful community and enjoy the blessings of polygamy without disturbance from the dis- tant frontier Gentiles, and that from their strength they could extort their own condi- tions from Congress, They first sent forward an exploring party to Great Salt Lake in 1846, and in 1847 Brigham Young, with a large body of the able- bodied men of the community went out, making bridges, cutting and stacking hay, and even planting corn at different points along their route and leaving men behind to gather it and house it for the subsistence of the main emigration, which, with the women and chil- dren, was next to follow. But with all these trials of this pioneer corps they were yet called upon in their journey to meet a requisition from the United States for five hundred men to serve io the war against Mex- ico. Within three days the men were supplied and sent off; but though seriously weakened by this draft the Mormon pioneer columa pushed on to Great Salt Lake, and got there in time to provide there for the winter. They were nearly starved before the winter ended, but in the spring they set to work for them- selves and the main body of their people for the next winter. This main body went out in 1848, and their sufferings and endurance on the way are among the most remarkable events in the history of any people. They built up a prosperous community in the oases of the Utah desert. Their Salt Lake settlement was the half-way victualling station of our overland pioneers to the California gold and the Nevada silver mines; and Brigham Young and the Mormons, though much against their wishes and their pecullar interests, did good service in the building of the Pacific Railroad. Now, in consideration of these and other services to the country, and having been tolerated so long in their polygamy by the gov- ernment, we think that justice to the Mormons should be tempered with mercy. What still we do with them? Some eight or ten years ago an adventurous Virginian, a sailor, of the name of Gibson, who had had some rough but romantic experience in the island of Java, went out to the Sandwich Islands as an ambassador, we believe, from Brigham Young, to negotiate for the purchase of one or two of those islands. The idea with Gibson was that a group of tropical or semi-tropical islands in the Pacific Ocean was the manifest destiny of the Mormons, because it was only in some such destination that they could live, prosper and be recognized by the civilized world as an independent State with their polygamy, to the fullest enjoyment thereof, If Brigham Young were in his prime we might look for some such exodus as this from Utah; but now it would be too much for him. His community is too cumbersome to be shipped off, and there is no place for it but Utah, Let Mormon polygamy be abolished; but let President Grant, while pursuing the ends of justice and morality, prepare for such recommendations to Congress at the coming sessign as will meet the ends of humanity in the needful provision for those Mormon wives and children who, in the simple enforcement of the law as it stands, will be left not only widows and orphans, but penniless vagrants. The aim, then, and the object of this article, is to call the attention of the President to the question of humanity touching these Mormons and to the propriety and expediency of recommending to Congress some special legislation on this subject. We throw out this suggestion, too, because we know that General Grant is a humane man, and seeks, in his administration of justice, to spare the innocent while punishing the guilty. Mr. Gladstone on the Condition of Eng- land. The Premier of Great Britain addressed his Parliamentary constituents on Blackheath Common, near Greenwich, yesterday. The assemblage was multitudinous; his reception by the people enthusiastic. Mr, Gladstone’s address, as we have its main points reported by cable, purported to present a review of the present situation of the English nation. It was really a defence of his own administration and its policy in the past, while pro- nouncing promises of reforms for the future. These reforms contemplate changes constitutional and changes electoral. The economic discipline of the government with regard to the savings which were lately effected in the naval yards was defended in such a manner as to soothe the ruffled feelings of the working democracy of the country. The Premier eulogized the Queen. He held out a finger of warning to the House of Lords. In this he wished doubtless to inti- mate that the Crown will remain intact and secure, even if its hereditary aristocratic props should be swept away by the wif of the people. The ‘House of Lords might need reform.” Such words spoken from such a source may come to be regarded as the de- lenda of feudalism and of the law of first entail in property in England. They, at the least, point out a subject for future “agitation, an agitation perhaps of the most formidable character which Britain has yet experienced. The Ballot bill will be brought forward again. Ireland has been conciliated. The abolition of the system of purchase of army commissions is a source of congratulation. The public health will be cared for by the passage of revised sanitary laws. Premier Gladstone has, on the whole, made avery able Ministerial exposition. This ex- position may have a considerable effect in in- ducing his retention in office, always pro- vided that no British radical of note bids higher for the voice of the people or that Disraeli will not resolve to lead a British movement for the accomplishment of a con- stitutional revolution of a more sweeping character than that which is contemplated by the present Cabinet. The Pope and His Troubles. Pius the Ninth, as he grows older, is not finding that the world is coming round, to his way of thinking. He feels his end approach- ing and he is desirous to make all proper arrangements for his successor. A meeting of the Cardinals he deems desirable; but Rome being as it is, and Italy being in the hands of a ruler who is a heretic, the Holy Father wishes to make his last will and testament some- where out of the Eternal City. He cannot get over the loss of his temporalities. Sbould the Holy Father succeed in obtaining the con- sent of all the great Powers who are at all interested in the affairs of the Papacy toa meeting of the Cardinals in France, and should the Cardinals meet in France, as we are told to-day that they will, it will not be so much of a novelty as some people imagine. Popes have lived in France and Popes have been elected outside of Italy. The Holy Father, it seems, bas pronounced another allocution. The allocu- tion does not show that he has in any essen- tial particular changed his mind. He recog nizes the bishops appointed by the Italian government. This he could not help without éncouraging schism. But he will not accept Italy's ‘‘guarantices,” and he protests against the invasion of the Holy See, He is hard also on Dillinger and all his followers. In spite of all bis troubles, which'day after day are multiplying, the good old Pope believes in the Master, in himself, in infallibility and in the Vatican Council. The Holy Father may well be anxious about the Conclave, for the next Pope is bound to have trouble, Mexican Uutrages on American Citizens, We have become #0 used to suffer patiently outrage at the hands of our Mexican neigh- bors that the news of an insult offered to the American Consul at Monterey scarcely at- tracted serious attention. No doubt the mag- nitude of the offence is lost in the insignifi- cance of the offender; at the same time it is a matter for careful consideration how far we may carry our patience without injury to our national interests. Had such an outrage as that offered to our flag at Monterey been perpetrated in any other country than chronically revolutionary Mexico, public opinion would have at once called for prompt reparation, That we should permit our dignity to be insulted with impunity by Mexicans, while we exhibit extreme sensi- tiveness in our communications with other peoples, is one of those unaccountable contra- dictions to be found in the lives of nations as of individuals, But there must be a limit to forbearance, and the Mexicans seem bent on pusbing us to that point where we can no longer suffer passively the injuries inflicted on us. For some time an organized system of brigandage has flourished on the Texan border, bands of armed men crossing the Rio Grande and plundering American citizens, while the Mexican authorities connive at the outrage and refuse all redress to the complaints of the victims. No doubt these raids bave not the sanction of the Mexican government, which in the wild northern district exercises but little control ; but it must still be held accountable for them. If itbe not equal to the task of restraining plunderers and marauders on the frontier it fails in one of the essential duties as the ex- ecutive of a civilized nation. Indeed, the conduct of Mexican citizens in levying war contributions on the representatives of a friendly nation makes their claim to be considered civilized somewhat doubtful. For whatever may be thouzht of the morality of robbing the natives under the pretence of raising war contributions, there can only be one opinion about men who plunder foreigners and tram- ple under foot the rights of hospitality and the respect due to the flag of a friendly nation. The complaints of our government will probably be met by expressions of regret by the Mexican authorities; but the time has come when some more solid satisfaction must be exacted than can be found in diplomatic phrases. The Washington government owes it to the nation to see that ample compensation be given to such of our citizens as have been vic- timized, whether by the plundering revolu- tionists or the border brigands, If Mexicans will continue to amuse themselves with revo- lutions and pronunciamentos they must do so at their own expense, and every party in that unhappy country must be taught that they can- not with impunity offer insult to our flag or to the meanest of our citizens. It is impossible that a self-respecting people can quietly suffer such insult as was offered to our nation in the person of our Consul at Monterey. That he acted with the spirit which becomes the repre- sentative of a free people gives him the stronger claim to the support of the govern- ment. In answer to the demands of Trevino for a large war contribution, Mr. Ulrich claimed the protection of his character as Consal and took refuge under his flag. Only to avoid the indignity of being cast into prison did he consent, under pro- test, to pay the money demanded. Such a deliberate breach of the rights of nations could only take place in Mexico; but it should not be allowed to pass without exacting full and ample satisfaction. At this moment, when a protracted civil war may be expected, it is of the first importance to the interest of our citi- zens in Mexico that our government should take such steps as will convince all parties that we are both able and resolved to protect our citizens from all wrong. The Episcopal Convention. As we predicted last week the Triennial Convention has taken what is practically a middle course on the crucial question of Rituslism. The pastoral letter of the bishops, read in open session on Thursday night, fairly states this policy. While at the outset it makes a feint of valiantly grappling with ritualistic practices and the doctrines they are intended to express, it soon wanders into the rhetoric of compromise and conciliation. The only thing it attacks with vigor is mariolatry ; probably because the intercession of the Vir- gin and the saints is held only by the smallest minority of the followers of Pusey. ‘‘The bare suggestion” of such a doctrine, say the bishops, “is an indignity to the one only Mediator and Intercessor,” &c. The practice of auricu- lar confession is also strongly condemned, although private confession in cases of ex- ceptional guilt is commended. But that part of the letter which deals with ‘high views” about transubstantiation is far more uncertain in tone. For instance, what can be more con- ciliatory than this passage: — To argue that the spiritual presence of our dear Lord in the boly communion for the nurture of the faithtul is such a presence as allows worship to Him thus and there present 18, to say the very least, to be wise above that which is written in God’s Holy Word, For the objects of this holy sacrament, as therein re- vealed, are first, the memorial before God of the one sacrifice for sins forever; and secondly, the strength- ening and refreshing of the souls of the fatthiul. Moreover, no one can fail to see that it is impossible for the common mind to draw the line between the ‘worship of such an undefined and mysterious pres- ence and the awiul error of adoring we elements themseives. This policy, however, though clearly open to charges of cowardice and trimming, has at, leagt the advantage of keeping the Church united. Tux Faors developed in the case of ex-Con- gressman Stokes, charged with defrauding the government in obtaining pay and bounty for men who never performed military service, show how easily even the most infamous jobs can be pushed through Congress. So plainly fraudulent was the claim upon which Stokes his funds that Washington agents would have nothing to do with it ; still, with a little skilful engineering it was made to evade the scrutiny of the military committees of both Houses of Congress, and the bill for ite payment passed without much opposition, From Mi we have specisl Hgratp telegrams w report the surrender of the Juarist forces in Saltillo to the revolationary command of General Trevino, Trevino found a considerable amoant of war material in the place, Escobedo is prepared to defend Nuevo Leon against the revolutionists, Review ef the Religious Press. The following is » copy of a note we have just received :— country, Why ni try. Why lonally, at te bar line from some of A si thom t Prat “yale ordain LS, tor of Baptist Monroe meth 5 wend church, Brockport, Brother Mills is correct. It is well known that the Baptists are among the largest reli- gious sects in the country. They stick to each other as no other religious sect does, saving the Roman Catholics. Let a Baptist clergyman be accused of any crime and the whole host—from Dan to Beersheba—from the Aroostook to the Rio Grande—strike the alarm and a granite wall of protection is cast around him. The Baptists are positively a great power in the land. Let Brother Mills send in his papers, The Golden Age bends its bow for a shot at “Mr, Greeley’s Blow at Marriage.” This is only a makeshift. Tilton is bringing the holy marriage relation down to the common stand- ard of sales at horse markets or public pounds for the disposal of cattle found astray. But the Golden Age wants to be advertised, and it is a very cheap way of obtaining notoriety to have itself talked about. The Independent speaks in an independent way about ‘General Butler and the Treaty of Washington,” in the course of which it says — We do not intend to discuss the provisions of the treaty. They are fair; the three rules according to which the Alabama claims are to be adjusted are @ concession and a virtual acknowledgment that our interpretation of international law was right. Tuey cannot be altered nor modified except by an improbable consent of the two partics, and after great pains and delay. The awards are final, and, if resisted, must bring about a worse state of feel- ing than followed the rejection of the Clarendon- Jol a treaty. The Independent also discusses a subject in connection with the ‘Pastor of the Broad- way Tabernacle,” in which certain interesting reminiscences are introduced. There is, how- ever, one omission, and that is the neglect to mention some of the abolition meetings, in which the famous Captain Isaiah Rynders was wont to figure conspicuously. The Hvangelist—Presbyterian—has an arti- cle on “Catholic Reform in Germany.” The argument may be ascertained from the follow- ing introductory paragraph :— The rapidity with which what is now known as the “old Catholic’ movement in Germany has cul- minated in the ‘Congress’? at Munich 13 almost un- precedented in the history of Church reformation. ‘Thousands of the more intelligent members of the Roman communion, who a few months ago little dreamed of the possibility of their coming into con- flict with the Papacy, have now actually declared war against it, denying it any hierarchical sove- reignty, and maintaining the equal Episcopal rights of all the bishops of the Church—rights which the infallipility dogma logically annihilates. And with the annexed concluding sen- tences :— Luther had his Caristadt and Munzer. Cranmer had his radicals. The Puritans of the Common- wealth pertod had their Fifth Monarchy men and impracticable fanatics; and until it is seen what internal antagonisms the new reform movement in Germany will develop it will be impossible to deter- mine the final shaping and direction of the forces that have been brought into play. We anticipate @ more radical movement than any that has appeared as yet. It ts not for leaders like Dillinger to set bounds to the zeal of their young admirers. Referring to the resignation of the Rev. Df. Joseph P. Thompson as pastor of the Broad- way Tabernacle, the Hvangelist remarks :— The Christian public will learn with surprise and a of the sudden resignation by Rev, Dr. Joseph . Thompson of his office as pastor of the Broad- way Tabernacle chureh, with which he has been connected for nearly twenty-seven years. His long residence in this city, lis ability, learning and elo- quence have made him familiar to al! our charches, He stands in Lue front rank of our city pastors. Secretary Boutwell in the Lecture Room— His View of Questions Affecting Pablic Prosperity. Our Secretary of the Treasury is ambitious, evidently, to enlighten the public on questions of national finance and political economy, for he has gone into the lecturing business with that objectin view. There is no reason why a Cabinet officer should not lecture as well as any other person, if he be capable and un- derstands his subject, though many may think Mr. Boutwell might find enough to do in managing the Treasury Department. How- ever, he is from New England, where lectur- ing has become a mania and the measure of one’s intellectual status. Mr. Boutwell could have made a better party political speech than @ lecture on financial and economical ques- tions. He has much to learn on these. How- ever, in the lecture he delivered at Boston on Thursday and again in this city Friday @ven- ing on ‘Present Questions Affecting Public Prosperity,” he expressed some good ideas, as well as some favoring a policy which is neither useful nor practicable. Mr. Boutwell sticks to his notion of raising a large revenue in order to pay off the national debt. He is opposed to postponing the pay- ment, and attacks capitalists for endeavoring to shirk, as he assumes, their share of this burden. It is not the capitalist alone who bears the burden of heavy taxation. Indeed, he feels it leas than others. It isthe mass of the people—the indostrious classes, upon whom the burden presses most heavily. Nearly all that they eat, drink, wear or use is taxed. High prices for everything is the consequence. The industry of the nation is shackled, and the development of our, resources retarded by burdensome and unnecessary taxation. The nation has borne a crushing weight during the war and in the adjustment since of the finances and the obligations growing out of the war which called for immediate settlement. There is no necessity to pay now the principal of the adjusted or consolidated debt, in order to establish the credit of the government or to facilitate specie payments. The sinking fund is sufficient for the present to keep liquidation going on gradually, and to sustain the idea of & final payment of the debt, and that is all that should be required of this generation, which has borne the brunt and cost of the war. Mr. Boutwell’s hit at the capitalists arose, proba- bly, from his disappointment that they have not aided him in his funding and financial schemes. As to reaching specie payments, the best policy to pursue is the very opposite of that which Mr. Boutwell advocates. Re- duction of taxation to the lowest figure, and, as @ consequence, lower prices and greater in- dustrial development, will bring us to specie payments sooner than an enormous revenue raised by oppressive taxes for the pretended purpose of paying the debt and keeping the Treasury full of unprofitable capital. We gladly endorse all the Secretary says about regulating the railroads so as to cheapen freight and passage, and to prevent this vast Raleommerce, His remarks, too, relative to the wretchod condition of our shipping‘ inter- ests and the importance of remedying the evil re good; but, unfortunately, he cannot give up the taxes on materials which enter into shipbuilding, because this would lead to reduction of other taxes and limit the enor- mous revenue he wishes to cling to still. He seems to have an idea of what is needed, but will not accept the only means possible to effect the object. The truth is, Mr, Boutwell is trammelled by his New England protective policy. He wants high duties and taxes, not only for the purpose of paying the debt, but to protect the manufacturers as well. Let him recommend té Congress at the approach- ing session to take offa hundred millions of taxes at least, to abolish all duties on ship- building materials and to allow our merchants to buy ships in the cheapest market, and the country will soon bound forward in prospority, the carrying trade would be restored, our tonnage would increase, high prices would come down and we should approximate specie payments without a financial disturbance, and more rapidly than by any other policy. The Departure of Prince Napoleon from Corsica, Prince Napoleon has resigned his seat in the Council General of Corsica and has taken his departure from the island and gone to Italy. Disgusted, probably, with the result of the elec- tions in a place which he considered the strong- hold of the Bonapartes, Plon Plon deserted the islanders for the more congenial clime of Italy. But after all he may only have gone to Corsica for the purpose of making a speech, and having ‘had his say out,” he may be able to render more effective service to the imperial cause in other localities. Plon Plon’s elo- quence will find its way throngh the news- papers into France, and will be read there with curiosity if not eagerness, and will be also circulated industriously by agents throughout the republic. The fallen empire is not without sympathizers, and they are on the increase. No better evidence of this fact can be adduced than by consulting the retarns of the last elections. Immedi- ately after the war there were few persons in France so poor as to express any degree of reverence for the ill-fated Bona- partes. Now we find the nucleus of a small party of out and out imperialists, who take no pains to disguise their sentiments or conceal their convictions in favor of the dethroned dynasty. How this party will develop itself it will be interesting to watch. Prince Napo- leon’s resignation in the Council General of Corsica and his departure from the island are not, we think, done without an object, though they have the appearance of haste, pottishness and disappointment on its face. AMUSEMENTS. Italian Opcra—“Martha.”” ‘The third subscription night of the opéra seasom& drewa very fine audience on Friday night, which rivalled in numbers and brilliancy that of the first performance. Every scat was taken, and fashion was in the ascendant. Flotow’s sparkling work, “Martha,” was presented, with tne following cast:— Lady Henrietta, Mile. Christine Nilsson; Nancy Miss Cary; Lionel, Mr. Capoul; Plunkett, Mr. Ja- met; Count Tristan, Mr. Uoletti; The sheriff, Mr. Lyall, The presence of Nilsson was the great attraction that crowded the house, and in the due role of this ever popular work she gained another triumph, As the aristocratic lady sbe was dignity and grace themselves, while during the mad frolic in which Lady Henrietta is entrapped at Richmond Fair she played the coquette to periection. Then in the love acenes with Lionel there was mingied passion and maldenly timidity that lent cach well- known number of the opera @ new charm. Never on our boards before did ‘The Last Rose of Sum- mer” receive such a simple, tender, we might say, spirituelle, reudering, and in the sparkling spin- ning-wheel quartet her voice rang out in merry tones of laughter that were absolutely contagious, It was not probably as comic a Martha as the metro- politan public have been accustomed to, but it had the great merit of being @ consistent and thoroughly artistic Impersonation. Never for a mo- ment did Mile. Nilsson forget in her peasant dress that she was the high born lady. There wasa finish and brilliancy in everything sne sang in this opera that gave the music a fresh interest, and every note of her voice ern with warmth and expression, Miss Cary’s beautiful contralto voice was shown to advantage in the réle of Nancy, but her acting lacked the animation and sparkle that are necessary for this réle, We cannot place ner in comparisoa with either Miss Adelaide Philips or Mrs. Edward Seguin, whose rendering of this coquettish rdve 1s so weil known. More fire is required for such @ part than we deem Miss Cary possessed of. Then to come to the tenor, On Wednesday, on account of the sudden change of the opera, due allowance was made for the shortcomings of Mr. Capoul in the role of almaviva; but on Friday evening he iNete sented himself for the first time before the New York public as a fair subject of criticism. In hia opening ana—so/o profugo—he gave oe | ota successful rendering of the character, that, unhap. pily, was not fulfilled, Whether it 1s natural or superinduced by a cold, nis voice had a disagree- able, hoarse tone and an unevenness that completely nullified the lyric part of tne character, Even the M’appari, that piece dé resistance of all tenors, was ineffective in his hands, It was evidently an efort of no common kind for bim to sing this aria with the passion and fire it requires. Better would it have been for the management to have committed the role to Signor Brignoli, who has frequenuly made @ genuine suc- cess tn it. Mr. Capoul’s acting is of too prononce @ French character and abounds too much in un- necessary gesticulations Co satisfy one wio has seen @ score Of celebrated tenors in role. The new Mr. Jamet, is almost @ counterpart im voice and acting of Antonucci, who’ will be remembered as a singer at tne Academy during the Maretaek régime. i@ nas a@ fine, sonorous, well cultivated voce, which gave a zest and spirit to the magnificent drinking song that commences the third act, His stage presence 1s also good and imposing, bot his acting, like that of Antonucct, 13 devoid ol heartiness aud dramatic power. It will be remem- bered that Antonucci after he left here went to one of the Lonaon opera houses and tailed to create the linpression expected by his aumirers at the Irving Place upera House. Mr. Jamet is to be the Mephistopheles when ‘Faust’? is produced, and as that 1s a test rile for a basso, we may be able to speak more definitely of him then. ie Plunkets of Cari Formes, when he was the Formes, | pros cluues, to any one who witnessed it, the possibility of speaking in terms of high commendation ot Mr. Jamet’s impersonation on Friday night, jor Messrs, Coletti and Lyall, we have spoken of them betore, and we do not Wish tw have to undergo that task ain, Two notable successes were among the concerted pieces, the spinning wheel quartet and the lonely mezza notte. Tey were given admirably, thanks to the ruling spirit o€ each quartet, Mle. Nilsson. In the fair whick, by the way, iacked the bustling int at entertaining features that were brougnt 1 =} by the English Opera Company, & most extraordinary and unwarrantable innovation was ma eit Rg shape of @ ballet, It should have been in the third act, when the ladies of the Again, i 2 in hunting costumes, & lew were, aressea ‘in a velvet and the jority looking calico dresses, thodid sever ave Eee ie anaes on the stage. exact demted with this ‘opera since the Academy was Gay oa args deninite. The com ry sowly ob ‘Mile, Nilsson, aud the enly really artistic meuiber to support her is Signor oll. The rest are 80-80 , bad and indifferent, such as we have been accustomed to and such as we have written about for years. As for a thorough, com- well-balanced and satisfactory troupe, the lete, iormances of the season have fers, Spon perormnnee of i ema, bane parable Swed: gale in the title rdle, ish nightin: was re| at the matinee Nilsson was again the great self at the opening formance. On Monday even- ing she appears the first time as Violetts in “Traviata,” one or her very best roles, and the one in which she first made her reat triumph in Paris and London. It is not e Re @ aux ee pee oe verass bed a grand 01 personation e fair victim Ttaplaced affections and crue: destiny. On Wednes- day we are to have her crowning success, the Gretchen of Goothe, or, lyrically speaking, the Mar- guerite of Gounod's “Faust.” It wil be $ perform. in the annals of New esterday, and Mile. iste she proved her- ance to be rei Yosk Academy of