The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1871, Page 6

soquences ef the Chicago Fire. We pat be once {oF the British press, some of which were published in our issue of Monday, on the probable finapeial cousequeaces of the Chicago fire. On the whole they do not = | express much fisr, and take a hopeful view of .sNe, 90H | the ability of the American people to overcome ~= | soon the grea! disaster, Qn+ jouraal, re- SH USEMENTS THIS AFTERNODA Ati EVERING, markable for its: souad finascial reasoning, LANA RDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 7% Aroadwar, Messor | edtimates the total loss, supposing there be no Craa-Soxye Hs Tus, ’ . | material salvage frown the fire, between « hun- TEMPER A ANC, THEATRES: Twantyouccy strent— | dred millions anda hundred and fitty millions of dollirs. Others make even a lirger esti- N Da) YORK HERALD BKOAVWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PeOPrRIETOR. Poti LANVE....ceeee eee ee Driven OLYYI THRATRE, Broadway. Tus Bacuer Pan. vomiss or Reurre DUMETE, | Matiges at, mate The impression of such a heavy loss at em a 1 SN ed meee! | ae given, no doubt, by the frst exaggerated id ae ae | estimates published in many of the newspapers tae Sus Natlsgatdip- Bae eee OP wta | on this side the Atlantic. We have soid all = afier Ty he mos reful WOOMs 18. 0M, Broadway, conser Sth ¥t Bee along, afier having made ¢l ib on apees atles con oud evemng--Tar Roy Dee. 5 investigatioa a.d comparison of the value.of ! the preperty destroyed with the total vine of | all the propercy in Chicago, that the lose, probably, would be under a hundred willions. + At the best it is a fearful destrection of prop- | erty and entails serious consequences. nia | At first the sock was seriously felt in the | money and stock markets of this country, > ant | particularly in New York, which is the heart ! of the comm: reial and flaancial system of the American Continent. There was considerable ACADEM) OF MUSIC, Fourt et Ovnna--Favve, ont wtreet. “IVALIAN BOUTS RE, [8d ob, ve ie, mae a GUY MaNNt pebween oy ani By aes, STABT Gh Noa, 45 and 47 Bowery Ovens SEASON [ait ‘ BOW? Re Our, NIBLO'S GC Heston rt Bowery, —€ xt wk —T yen GRAN: . cormes of Sth av aac Bid sh Prners as 4 TUKAIRE, opposite City Hall,’ rook!) n—Ow alarm, and stocks-fell rapidly. There was, in SER: 4): “mi OWARS ORDA KLAN 1ueheeid | See eee time some fear of a crisis, Driyoure, y But as the facts became known’ and the worst PNION Sy THEATRE, Foarte : anitrosa | Pealized capitalists, stock operators, banks, way, NTU ay ACTS BUSLESOUR, BAL Matinee 2 i setiwnss ecleietts eealetenk . | insurance companics and business men gener- IaNd, Dicte Act ae. MatinweatS 8S" | ally began to measure the resources at haod qSAN PHAN 1900 MINSTREL HAUL, 585 Broxdway.— with the disaster, and found there wag no AN ERAN Aa eT cause for a general revalsion, Beyond the ABBYANTS Navi MOTSK, 43ta., oetwera 6th | inevitable suspension of a few insurance com- INSTREL panies and a tew failures commercial and PR Tris, BOT EeueES, Ra Mt Bowery. | financial affairs moved on as usual, Stocks bBo ae ADEM OF MUSIC, Montague stree:— | P¢BAN to recover again from the first surprise, pres and gold, which rose only’ two per cent or so, Lin's TS has declined io the average market price pre- NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteoath street. soexRy ON vious to the-Bre,, "Our British contemporaries, wH Ring, Aczou, » Matinee at 244. AMERIVAN INSTITUTE EXAUSITIC end Stxly-third strect,—Opea day and eveatn TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wreduesday, November 1, 1571. in their usual cautious way, sounded a note of warning to be prepared for the worst. It was a question, they suid, how far New York would be affected by the losses and the failure of Chicago to pay this city for goods received, and, again, how far Manchester, Leeds, Lyons and other manufacturing towns in Europe mizht be affected by the difficulties here. They ap- prehended a drain upon England and an un- usual overflow of securities to that country to meet such difficulties. But we suppose there Moeling Bannee, cre eid | will be a bettor feeling in England as capital- Hibmrratetenet Connty Vontic— | ists and manufacturers there learn how tempo- sinocralig Slate Hxecutive comunt- | rary and slizht the effect has been here. By oe a is Bee | this time, no doubt, the telegraph has diffused ure—Yachting—% y ! information of the state of things here and al- ! layed apprebension. Happily this mizbty agent of oar modern civilization arrests finan- cial disasters, equalizes the burdens of any catastrophe and brings speedily aid from-one commercinl commuaity to another, The London 7ties in its comments eon- cludes by saying:—‘‘Still, in the midst of all the confusion and loss, it is necessary to bear in’ mind the vigor and elasticity with which the American people meet and repair every adversity. Ths consequences of the two fires | which within the last thirty-five years have | devastated the business portions of New York | were encountered with a promptitude which | soon effaced their traces, and at a later | period a like visitation at San Francisco j caused a still greater development of indomitable energy. Hence it is some satis- Phird ave nus CONTLATS OF TO-DAWS HsRALU. Kiwy of Spain and fis New Minis. ‘3; ‘Ihe Meaning ol the f hroughout France; Poreigi't ersoual Gossip abd Misceliancous usia: An Old Russian Geueral’s ou the Eastern Question; Miltary of the Empire; The strength gud te of the Army and Navy—The Na- me—Marvellous Madness—A Post- ‘vested lor Dealiug m Counterfeit & Jockey Club; Closing Day of the An- sibg wt Vimlico Course; Fine Auend- é and Capital Racing—Fleetwood Park— at King-ton—Smalipox in Newark— The Frienas of Poor Lo; What the tudian Peace Comunissioners Think of the Ked sien— Al. Saints’ bay—A Shocking Aceident - Tne er Hor.on Case—Aid or the Pire Vic- Department of Parks—Tie Nopoken r—uother Hoboken Squavble—\ us- Zures in Vermont—Proceeding? in we cbured Sik wil. ug Article, “Lhe British Press Lousequences ot tue Citicayo 1 - Sm eft eaenes “nfs, \ —_— aanesy ( Ree ued a a LS gesrartohe ‘awe 5 faction in the midst of the present disaster to 9 V - | predict that whatever may be its magnitude | there will be nothing more astonishing in con- | nection with it than the way in which the sut- lancous Literary Chit 8—The b wt— Business Nouces, : Furwer Reports from the ik. malssioner | in south Carolina; ferers will effect the work of restoration.” coi airs in urens © ty — Me jer irtal lu Kaasas—Tue atieged | How fally this flattering but just picture of Murer in the Nineteeuth Ward—\ellow Vever | the recuperative energy of the American m Charieston—/inancial and Commercial Re peers ports—Ma: and Deaths. people is exhibited to-day in the herculean ny aval and Ary laielligence— efforis now being made at Chicago to restore that city, in the extraordinary subscriptions from all parts for tbe Chicago sufferers and in the elasticity of our financial and other resources! Old Europe begins to understand the facts of our situation, to learn that we have a vast Continent, productive in every- thing to sustain life and that commerce demands, with real, substantial wealth, grow- ing beyond all precedent and faster than our rapidly increasing population, and that no Srxry Mizxs of streets in Chicago burned | people have ever been so distinguished for and laid waste tell the tale of tbat city’s deso- | energy, industry and enterprise. We have lation more fully than all the glowing com- | attained the first position asa nation, and it ments in the world. will not be long before this country will become the commercial and money centre of the world. This destiny, however, may be accelerated or retarded by the legislation and policy of the government. The way we are drifting along at present, losing the commercial advantages tens of the position which nature has given us, does Tar Bonarartist Orricens serving in the | not present as favorable a prospect as might French army are actively engaged in shaping | be desired. The great future of our country, an expression of military sympathy for the | though inevitable, is seen only through the fallen Emperor. An address, signed by those | hazy atmosphere of the present state of things. who served under the empire—men and com- | Eleven years ago we could claim to be the manders—will be forwarded to Ciiselhurst, | rival of the first maritime nation in the world, The free traders of Bagland will not object to | if, indeed, we were not the first. Now where its preseniaticn, do we sland? See what strides England bas made during that period and how far this country bas fallen behind. Her tonnage has 10—The City © ications: Hagerty and Batch | m the Gexeral Sessions; fhe Comittee of Seventy; Around the City Hall ie Phila. delplua = Frauds—Suipping Inteiligence—Ad- ver isements. 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements, GENERAL SuerMan is going to Europe on the United States steamer Wabash next week. He will be a grand old lion among ihe Moltkes and MacMahons. Rapioat Conspirators and explosive bombs and firearms concealed in Barcelona must tend to render Amadeus uneasy in Madrid. The Spanish officers blame the members of the In- ternational. The conspiracy may be national notwithstanding. +uRsRY waxes ae a etic Ey Sean Com- | increased wonderfully, while ours has de- @ im : Cute ay zh Ss, Urging } creased in a greater ratio, Worse than that: ia Areatp “ cisgiaey i petieer” we are going more and more behind in time of ee eee i Tost | peace, and while the nation is fast recovering basco te a eg ely: nebo vance | from all the other disastrous consequences of sere by at ‘a inflicted | the war. Out of all the numerous steamship upon the public dar lines between Europe and America the United A Square Derisirioy. Without distinction | States has not a single vessel. The largest of party, Mr. Evaris defines our present city and most valuable portion of our commerce is and State contest to be a con‘est “in defence | dove by foreigners, and, consequently, the of the property and earnings of the great | profits go abroad. Six years after the war we mass of our people against the rapine and | are relatively in a worse position as a mari- plunder of a greedy combination of rogues in | time nation than we wore when peace was re- office,” which is « very brief statement of the stored. case for a long-winded lawyer. We call attention to this state of things because the surplus or available capital of a nation and the financial power of a nation in the world depend greatly upon commerce. A country may be rich in agriculture, may have the greatest abundance and variety of products of the sofl, and yet be poor with regard to its commercial liabilities and financial standing to other countries, Yes, the richest nation in the world, as far as A Mopxt Parson—Parson Brownlow, who | internal products or resources go, may be kept says, God willing, he will stick to his place in | in debt and iributary to a flourisbing maritime the United States Senate to the end of his | and commercial one with comparatively lim- term, if he has to be carried in and out of the | ited natural resources. This, in fact, is much Senate Chamber, because, as long as he oan, | about the relative position of the United States he is bound to keep out Andy Johnson. Toe and England at the present time, While oar Parson's one great object in life is to disap- | protectionists are intent on fostering certain polat Johnson. lanal and limited interests, such as those of a Aw ImporraytT Capingt MEETING was held yesterday, et which the Ku Klux in the South and the Mormons in Utah were discussed. It was determined to leave the Ku Klux prison- ers to the discretion of Attoraey General Akerman, and to send no more troops to Salt Lake unless things looked more threatening than at present. NEW YORK HEKALD, WEDNESDAY, NUVEMBER 1, 1871. AY TT. ‘Tew manuf sylvania, they lose sight of that which is of far greater importance and national in the broadest sense of the term. Maritime and commercial growth affects all interests. The greater the tonnage and carrying trade of as country’ the larger will be the balance of capital coming to it. A change of a few millions of profits from tbis source out of a trade aggregating hundreds of millions annually will (ura the current of ex- change and tend to give financial supremacy. The first thing, then, that Congress ou tht to tura its att-ntion to is the depressed shipping interest. A remedy for our decayed and still declining commercial marine should be found without delay. .Lot smaller interests, if neces- sary, be sacrificed for that which is paramount to all othora, If we can build abips as cheaply as foreig ers by taking the daties off materials let us apply that remedy. If we cannot then let our merchants and capitalists buy vessels wherever they can get them on the best terms. We can easily recover from any internal dis- aster, however great, even such . a fearful one as the fire at Chicago; but to recover our muritime importance and to make the United States the financial centre of commercial na- tions there must be a radioal change in the policy of the government and wisor legisiation on the snbj-ct. The Recepiion of the Mussina Prince. Should the Grand Duke Alexis arrive withia the period wuich intervenes to election day the reception ceremonies would have to omit the feature of a military display, because, under the laws of the State, no parade of the soldiery may take place during election or during the five days previous thereto. It is to be hoped, therefore; that His Imperial High- ness may be 80 guided by the fate which has 50 long retarded his voyage as to defer his visit for a few days longer, in order that in our reception of him we may add the pageant of a.military procession to the many honors which our people desire to show him. Tho law is so explicit that a parade musi be dis- pensed with until after next Tuesday. The section of the Military Code, as enacted by the Legislature of 1870, says :— No parade or rendezvous of the Nations! Guard shall be ordered on any day during whicn & general or special election shail be held, nor within five days previous to such election, except in case of riot, invasion or insurrection, or of tmmiaent dan- ger thereof, &c., &c. Ia thts connection it may be proper to re- mind the Committee of Reception that no pro- vision has been made for the payment of the bands of music which are to accompany the regiments whenever the parad: comes off. The militia, in turning out at this busy season eurers of New Wuginad and Peune wb Tale? Gr Pehdeas wath SHKrr. —TKIPLE arny Practice ef Pretended Reformers. In his letter deolining the nomination of the democratic reformers for Assemblyman Charles O’Conor advises all honest citizens thronghout'the State to lay aside party in- terests and affiliations and, with singleness of purpose, to devote themselves at the ensuing election to the choice ef sound lawgivers as the only peaceful remedy for existing or im- pending evils, “A corrupt majority. in our Legislature possesses vastly more power than the English Parliament,” says Mr. O’Conor; “few, feeble and utterly inefficient agaiast robbery of | energetic, and -that when the time comes the public treasure are the restraints of our | it . will be) found. that. the imperial fundamental law, and such a majority can | fovernment has studied woll the lessons of reuder practically powerless.the judiciary and | the pxst. Frot the general tenor of the cor- the Executive.” If the warning: should be | respondence it would seem that Russia is heeded and the advice followed we might | preparing, and preparing enorgetically, too, hope for a return to the days when the Van | for war. How it is to be brought about ts Burens, Marcy, Wright, Bouck avd Young | another question. It ie scarcely necessary to were the leading politicians of the State; for, | refer to the Hohenzolléra affair at Ems to as Charles O’Conor truly séys, “if for even a | call to mind the deadly conflict in which single year a majority of incorruptible men | France and Germany wore so recently en- | could be elected to the Legislature effectual | gaged. Without any very great stretch of measures of relief might. be. initinted, | the imagination one'oan perceive how another and sucha beginning =would be - the | Prince. of the House of Hohenzollern might dawn of a ‘hope for our city and for the | kindle a flame which would set all Europe cherished institutions of our,republic.” Buf, | ablaze, Be'this'as it may, Russia is arming unfortunately, selfighness aid corraption have | to the teeth, and in'a shor time will be ready so eaten into our political system that the: | for any emergency, “" people cannot expect honest aid in reform A little reflection will ‘call to mind that for from any existing party organization, The | long years: previous to 1870 Prussia was cry raised occasionally against official dis-.| quietly pursuing « peaceful policy towards the empire of the Czar are startling and fre- quent. The correspondent quotes freely from ® pamphlet published by General Fadejow at the close of the Austrian campaign, whose object evidently is to show: that for years back Russia has been watchful and honesty is cauzbt up and echoed by all the {wll her neighbors, Under this mild struggling cliques aud fictions that have their | garb her | statesmen and her generals own interests to promote and their own | were close observers of the events schemes to carry out, and, in thy end those earnest men who have sincerely desired to effect a reformation in the governmest find themselves detached from one set of political knaves only to be fastened to. the chariot wheels of another. The present movement against our city peculators is a case in point, The people, startled and indignant at the conclusive evidences. of the unfaithfulnvas of some of their public officers, were ripe for such a political revolution as might have awept the dishonest officials from power. But the popu- lar uprising was hampered and checked by | the intrigues of polilicians, and soon degen- erated into a mere scramble of outside cliques, ward clubs and individual adventurers for office. There was no direct honesty of pur- | pose in the movement—no desire to bring the guilty to a speedy accounting. The object of those who managed to control it was to raise | as much excitement as possible and to feed \ and changes going on’ all over the world. The Schleswig-Holstein und Ausirian’ affairs were but slight evidences of what Prussia would eventually undertake and successfally accomplish, . The time at last arrived, France cast down the gauntlet and Prussia, acceptiag the challenge, took it up, How thoroughly the little kingdom was prepared the world bas already ascertained, The policy of Russia since the Crimean war furnishes us with a somewhat similar parallel. When we consider the vast extent of the Czar's dominions, the immense difficulties of transporting troops from the frozen regions of the north to the shores of the Black Sea, we can readily realize the force of the assertion that | the Russian soldiers were beaten long before they reached the Crimea. From that day to the present—now nearly twenty years— Russia has been quietly pursuing a vigorous policy towards the internal development of the country. An immense network of railroads, ofthe year, feel that they contribute enough when they sacrifice their. valuable time, with- out being subjected to the heavy expenses attending the provision of music for their sev- eral regiments. Women’s Kightsa in the Feur Parties ef Museachusetts. ‘There are four parties in the field in Massn- chusetts—the republican party, the democratic, the labor reform and the prohibition or teeto- total temperance party. Mr. Washburn, the republican candidate for Governor, has a de- cided leaaing towards women’s riguts, though he bas not as yet defined exactly his position on the subject. Mr. John Quincy Adams, the democratic candidate, as to his position on “woman suffrage,” says, ‘You may, perhaps, gather all the information which you require from a bold stat2ment that Iam, after care- ful thought and some study, unequivocally op- posed to woman suffrage, and I shall feel it my duty, in the very improbable contingency of my ever occupying any considerable public office, to stand by the old immemorial division of activities and functions which seem to me to lie at ths foundation of society.” Very good. Judge Pitman, the liquor prohibition candi- date, goes for woman suffrage, and is sorry it is not in his party platform; but he says to the women’s rights women, ‘Your greatest, I might say your only serious obstacle, is the in- difference of woman herself to your move- ment;” and this is a fact ‘which nobody can deny.” Mr. Chamberlin, the labor reformer, says that he is ‘in favor of woman suffrage, which is in the platform I stand on;” and so Chamberlin, after all, is the regular out-and- out woman suffrage candidate. It is possible, moreover, with these two strings to his bow— labor reform and women’s rights—ihat he may poll a pretty stout vote in the State election of Tuesday next, inasmuch as General butler was strongly inclined for some time to go in with the labor reformers and women’s rights women on 8 ‘‘new departure.” At all events, we look for some curious resulta in this coming Massachusetts election. Largest From Great Satt Laxg.—Our latest advices show that the excitement and consterna- tion among the Saints of Utah, raised by the vigorous war of the United States authorities upon Mormon polygamy and Mormon murders, has subsided, and that the spirit of entire sub- mission to the law prevails among the Saints. The case of another polygamist, William Clay- ton, will come up before the Court to-day on the appeal of bis ninth wife for alimony and divorce. The defence will enter a demurrer against the jurisdiction of the United States Court, and before this Court, it is conteaded, this divorce suit cannot be maintained. It is probable, however, that for adultery, or ‘lewd and las- civious conduct” the aforesaid William Clay - ton can and will be brought to grief by Mrs. Clayton number nine, who is doubtless sv far disgusted with the saintly abominations of Clayton's harem as to be resolved to break it up. It will require only a few such examples as this in the official exposure of the reeking vices of Mormon polyzamy to bring the great nuisance to a speedy dissolution. Tur Hate Has Nor Been Toxp, 1 would appear, of the extent of the human sufferings resulting from those Western forest fires, The Chicago Tribune, in an appeal to the country and the charitable world in behalf of those sufferers, says that ‘probably fifty thousand persone in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan alone have been stripped of every earthly by these fires.” This report from the ruins of Chicago is surely entitled to respect. Ir Appears the Canadians don't want the | can be of little mom Horton restored to them. They see at once that the gallant Gloucester captain has tied her up tighter then their eourts could have | de’ done, constructed in a manner to suit military operations, is. spread all over the empire. These liges ate rua right up to the frontiers, and by these means troops can be transported as rapidly as,occasion may require, In this way one of the great difficulties encountered by the Russians in 1854 is surmounted. Regarding the Russian army we find that many improvements have been introduced into its management, Needed reforms have exer: cised a wholesome effect on it, and although in many respects it might be further improved, yet it is to-day in a bigher state of efficiency than | at any other period inils history. According to the figures furnished by the HzRatp corre- spondent Russia could at the present time bring an effective force of eight hundred and thirty thousand men into the ficld. This is independent of the force in the Caucasian provinces, which foots up the respectable figure of two hnndred thousand. Then the number of troops in Orenberg, Siberia and Turkistan count one hundred thousand more, so that really, from the fig- ures thus furnished, Russia is ready to put over a million of men in arms. Referring to a special despatch to the Heratp published afew days ago, we find that by a ‘general order of the Russian War Office, duly approved by His Majesty the Czar, the entire and complete reorganization of the imperial army and the calling and training to arms of the whole adult male population of the country” is directed to be put in force. This will swell the figure to still larger proportions. The equip- ment of this immense army must not be forgotten. The most approved patterns of breech-loaders are now in the hands of Russian soldiers, The figures show that six hundred and sixty-nine thousand of the Berdan, Kruka, Carre and Brancon rifles are in use. Four handred mitrailleases also: find a place in the service. From what we have said and from, the figures given it is plain that Russia is preparing for a struggle onan enormous scale, Nearly twenty years of peace have given the empire an opportn- nity which evidently has not been neglected, and when the time comes—and_ it may not be far distant. The indications are that Russia has profited well by the lessons she has set before her both at home and abroad. Tar Srrvation tx Mextco.—A HERratp special telegram from Matamoros, which we publish to-day, reports the situation of affairs which existed in the Mexican republic on the 284 of October. Juarezis chuse was more hopeful, and the current of events in favor of his government. Porfirio Diaz was not in the field. Mexico city remained quiet. Many of the State Governors—a majority of the whole—forwarded their felicitations to the chief of the nation, congratulating him on the the pasvlic with sensational accounts, day after day, until after election, The only offices | having any direct bearing upon the New York | municipal question are. the: Judgeship of the Supreme Coutt, the Senatorships and the Mem- bers of Assembly. For the former of these the reformers overlooked the names of the many ewinent jurists and distinguished | citizens who were at their command, and put | in nomination a respectable lawyer who had | enlisted in the cause, it is alleged, in consid- eration of a heavy fee, and who, no doubt, | hoped to be further rewarded with the prize he has obtained. For legislative offices we find the reformers trading and bargaining with all the factions notorious in the several districts; and while some good nominations have been made, enough of the vile element of the ward politician and the professional office-seeker has crept in to taint the whole batch of nominees. A party that | unfurls the banner of legislative reform should ! not allow itself to uphold a single questiona- ble candidate for Senate or Assembly; yet we | find the Committee of Seventy the open sup- porters of ex-Sheriff O’Brien, the original or- ganizer of the repeaters, and, probably, the most unscrupulous politician in the length and breadth of New York, not cven excepting | Tweed. The same tampering with corrupt men is found throughout the State on the part of the organization alleged to be opposed to Tam- many, and the advice given by Mr. O'Conor is unheeded. At one end, in Chautauqua county, M. P. Bemus, whose record is noto- rious, receives the republican nomination for Assembly, and at the other end, in Queens county, L. B. Prince, an eld member of the Assembly grinding committee, the most mon- strous instrament of legislative corruption, is supported by republicans for Assembly, although his opponent, Edward A. Lawrence, has been known all his public life as a relentless enemy of Tammany. The trath is, there is no choice between the present political organi- zations ; one is as corrupt, unreliable and ras- cally as the other. Both are under the con- trol of dishonest men, who make politics a profession for the sake of the profits they may realize by unscrupulousness and peculation. The loudest political denouncers of Tammany to-day have their price, and would become allies of the “Ring” to-morrow if that much denounced circle would regard them as worth buying. There is only one hope for the thorough purification of our body politic and the return of parties to the integrity and pe- cuniary honesty that existed before the days of Fernando Wood, and that is in the entire wiping out of all the old organizations, to- gether with the political hacks who have fas- | tened themselves upon them, and the forma- tion of a new party upon broad, liberal and enlightened principles, with the watchword of reform inscribed on their banners, and the determination to support none but honest men for office engraved on their hearts. A Strange Cask or Mapness has appeared in Yonkers. Two young men, inseparable companions, have been attacked with what seems to be hydropbobia, but which a physi- cian says is not. One of them was bitten by ‘a man with whom he quarrelled some weeks j ago, and in one of bis paroxysms bit his friend, who is now afflicted like himself. The case is @ remarkable one, and, notwitbstand- ing the declaration of the physician, it hardly seems probable that it is aught else than hydrophobia, Canons in the important military divisions of the Union and ia the commanders thereof are known to be under discussion by the Pres- ident, Secretary of War aud General Sher- man, It is noi known just what they are, and except to the commanders themselves, they ent. The country.is at such profound peace, except in Utah and the South, that the changing of the geographical finitions of military distriots cannot affect its peace or accarity. dignitaries tendered also his services in aid af the government effort for the suppression of the Monterey pronunciamento, The assertion that Saltillo had capitulated was denied in the capital. Revolutionists were still in arms, however. The avenues of communication be- tween the border territory and Monterey were held by the oppositionists of Juarez’srule. It may be said, indeed, that the people of Mexico atill remain 9 divided family, although it is apparent that order is more respected in the household, and its citizen head becoming stronger in the assertion of his. authority. Privog Gorronakorr az Bgetin.—Presh. dent Thiers is smart, and so.is Karl Granville ; but Gortchakoff, as most men now know, is a match for either. Bismarck is his only real rival in Burope. At this time Bismarck and Gortchakoff must meet. It remains to be seen whether Gortchakoff can heat Bismarek aa he not long since beat Granville. Ia any case we must soon know whether the Eastern and Salzburg Confexences mean war or peace. The presence of Gortchakoff at the Court of Berlin must know the renault aspect of affairs. Each one of the provincial | — ite gee tlons than therepublic of Mexico, Italian opera Stlongitn ban » fair chauce of success and pt Obtaining s long lease of life, Although ia the years gone by we have had the best lyric wre ots Earope or America could furnish, times @ constellation of yet mever before were ne aoa anxious and williag to lend « helping hand ¢ the lyric drama as they are. this fall. Sinoe the present season opened the of Music bas been thronged with the éitfe of metropolitan fashion and intelligence, and each representation has had as brilliant aa audience as could be brought together in any opera house in the world. Never before during the administrations of Ullmann, Grau or Maretzck, was such & warm interest in the opera manifested by the New York public as there is at present, When we look back to the various seasons during which Grisi, Sontag, Piccolomini, Bosio, Lagrange, Col- son, Patti, Kellogg, Medori and Zuoohi flourished, and in nearly every oase met with but stinted patronage from the people of New York, the present operatic situation is encouraging in the highest sense of the word, It may be remembered that many years ago the ‘seasons were 80 unprofitable that the artists had frequently to form themselves into « managerial association. Even the best Italian Opera Company that has ever appeared in this city—the Havana troupe, of which Bosie and Steffanone were members—failed to cover expenses, Therefore Mlle. Nilsson has every reason to.congratulate herself on the triumyle she has gained daring tho first season Of her operatic career in New York. The Swedish Nightingale is the main cause of this success. Although she gained laurets, and enduring ones, too, in the concert room and made hereelf respected in the field ‘of oratorio, yet her genius found for the first time here full scope in opera. Her histrioni¢ abilities have never been excelled and rarely equalled on the stage of the lyric drama. She leut new charms to the Bride of Lammer- moor and invested the Lady of Camelias with a grace and tenderness that Dumas fils never: dreameé of and that the traditional Violette entirely ignores. A voice of the ut most purity of tone and susceptible of every shade of expression and @ charming, naive manner on the stage makes the Casta Diva of opera nowadays a creature of poetry and tenderness. To- night she appears in her greatest réle, Mar- guerite, in Gounod’s “Faust.” It is-the veri- table Gretchen of Goethe—such an imper- sonation of the poor German peassnt girlas has never been before presented on the stage. On Friday, the sixth subscription night, Mile. Nilsson will essay the coquettish réle of Zerliui in Mozart's chef @oeuore,, ‘Dom Giovanni,” and she is now studying the great, réle of Leonora in Beethoven’s ‘‘Fidelio.” As for those two characters she has cre- ated—that of Mignon and that of Ophelia— in Ambroise Thomas’ operas, the universal voice of the Europ2an press has been enthusl- asticin its praise. We trust that the man- agement will give our public a chance to hear this incomparable artiste in the character of Gilda, the best of Verdi's numerous heroines. Miss Annie Louise Cary, the contralto of the troupe, has one of those lovely, sympa- thetic voices that are always heard with pleas- ure, and that give the music of each réle she undertakes new charms, Signor Brignoli is in. better voice than ever before, and the term ‘‘golden-toned” can. be ap plied to him now in the fallest sense of the word. M. Victor Capoul achieved: such a success on Monday night as Alfred. Germont in “Traviata” as rarely falls to the lot of any tenor. Heis a perfect lady killer: in his love scones and evidently set about the conquest of the female heart with an. earneat- ness that is irresistible. Mlle. Leon Duval is. very pretty and engaging, and as Donna Elvira on Friday night she cannot fail to make- an. impression .on the susceptible hearts present. M. Jamet has a fine, sonorous bass voice, and as he plays one of the most important. parts in opera to-night, that of, Mephistopheles in ‘‘Faust,” we may look. fora really grand impersonation. In the chorus and orchestra this.company is particularly strong. Both of these important departments show evidence of thorough and careful trafning, Here we have the weak points. of preceding seasons, The chorus and orchestra have been the disgrace of opera ab the Academy heretofore. Now they. are the most commendable features of the opera. Sixty singers represent the former and fifty instrumentalists the latter. In ‘Lucia,”’ “Martha” and ‘‘Traviata” they did. their duty: nobly. In ‘‘Faust” we may expeot still greater: things from them. It must be admitted that Italian opera is: the only species of amusement tht draws, forth the créme de la créme of fashion in this city. Hitherto, it has been a standing re- proach to the metropolis of America, but now, with such a transcendent genius as Nilssoa, it bids fair to become permanent and artistically respectable. At all events, our public. will not be backward in giving it encouragement, and we trust that not only: daring this season but alzo in the noxt, when Pauline-Lucca makes hor début at the Academy, Italism opera will. occupy the position to whieh it is. entitled—first of all amnsements. A Lont, Festival. ‘Alk Hallow Eve is a loat festival im our buayr, and practical world. It passed over us last, nigbs, with’ hardly @ thought of ita presenee.; The. jolly enjoyment of the smap apple, . the. dives in the tub of water-after apples,,, the aut cracking, the Hluminated turnips, the practical and harmless jokes, seemed to have no piace in ‘a community beset by Tammany frauds, bothered with @ bewildering multipli- cily of sensations, on the exe of an important election, amd generally eugaged in the moat sternly practical duties of a busy life, It is unfortunate that it should be 6o, Wo can take | no better recreation from the constant labors really means business, In 9 few hour wal and anxioties that wear upon ouy minds and physical frames than by a night of such jollity in the home circle as a hearty celebration of Ail Hallow Evo represents. It refreshes far more than billiards, or the play, or a sum, mer at fashionable watering places, oF 1a crushing experienco of grand balla, It “makes vou a child again, just for tonight,”