The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1872, Page 6

Ma! - See NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI... ceesseeseseseessessNOs 18 [| ——__ ..__ —__ ——- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WAULACK'S TH: Souk Ganon. EATRE, Broadway ani 13th strest. — NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brondway, bet ‘Houston strects.—BLAcK Cnous” ipo ela ROM ERy THEATER, Bowerv—Rv'Ganps or CALARIA— aT. JAMES" THEATRE, Ywent way ALDI etohth street and Broad- ‘Tus BALLET Pan- Ks COUPER, 72) Broadway.—Orema BOOTH’S THEA’ yea sPQOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third at, corner Sixth av. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. = ‘No Tuokovaurans, ~ recragepnipler sna FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Tweaty- - ‘Tux New Drama or Divouor. Soy enrea aire WOOD'S MUSLUM, Broadwoy, corner 38th st. —Perform- ‘ances afternoon and evening, Liste RED HIDING HOOD. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROO! = pate F 8, CONWA KLYN THEATRE. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteon! street.—G: \wovnron Conorry. wi ati THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comro 16M8, NEGRO pcre aG-WarTe Croox, fi Yoh UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- ay.—NeoRo AcTs—buriesqur, BALLET, 40, { STEINWAY HALL, Fot ey 2 olen L, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con: TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. No. 201 B nee ‘NeeRo EcorntRicitizs, BURLESQUES, rie ites BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 at, @nd 7th ava.—BRYANT'S MINSTRELS, reirean SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, B — ‘Tox San FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, bshoninaein’ ST. PETER'S HAL! ‘Twent atreet.—, Vauier's Wax Wouxs’ bi ie nea tee NEW YORK OIROUS, Fourtoentn sireet.—SozNgs 1 ux RING, AcrowATs, £0. |, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bommnor anp Ant, LEAVITT ART ROOMS, No. 817 Broadway.— - ‘TION OF PAINTINGS, : ore isan ata aad TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, January 18, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, = Advertisement Q—Aaverusements 3—Bos Americanus ! The Imperial Sporting Party at Cae? Alexis; Victory and Triumphal Re- turn; Grand Powwow and Indian War Dance; The Sioux Warriors and Heroes, Red, White, Black, Green or Any Uther Bears; Mr.. and Miss Bpaeed Tail; Miss Spctied Tatl's Beauty arallng the Grand Duke, Sheridan and the Whole Party; Galiant Rivalry for a Kiss; Custer Wins It; The Chiefs at a Banquet; The Indian Council; Speeches Ol Spotted Tail and General Sneridan; De- pepare of the Hunting Party from Red Wil- low Creek and Arrival in Denver—Franklin: Unveiling of the Statue of the Greatest of American Printers; Banquet at Delmonivo’s— Slate Legislatures. @—Smallpox: Terribie Increase of the Disease in the City; Tne Virus All Qver the World; Low to Treat, Prevent and Kill tue Loathsome Pes- Ulonce; OMicial Statements of Health Onicers; Dreadiul Condition of the Smallpox Hospital; Opposition of the German Population to Vaccl- nation; Where the Bpiemic Is; How the Street Cars Generate Infection—Life in Leip- sic: A Glauce of Life ana Customs in the Old Saxon City—Our New Japanese Visitors—A Utica Murderess—Public — Instruction—Post Ofice Frauds in New Jersey, 6—The State Capital: Victors in the Fight Strug- ling for the Spoils; Who Shall Govern New York? Comptrolier Green Claiming Belligerent Rights im the Legislature; He Denounces Van Nort, Palmer, John Cochrane and Pinckney; Supreme Power Demanded by the Comptrol- ler; He will Aid the Murphy Republicans in New York; Formation of a New Ring; The Tammany ‘‘Benevulent” Socicty To Be Over. hauled—The Custom House Committee: im- portant Communication from the Ocean Steam- ship Companies; Further Damaging Expo- sures of the Custom House King; The Agent of the Cunard Line Under Examination for Taree Hours, G—Editoriais: Leading Article, “Our Navy and Shipping Incereats—A Curious Proposivion in Congress"’— Amusement Announcements, ¥—Editorials (Continued from sixth Page)—Mex- * feo: Juarez’s Despatch Coniirming the Cap- ture of Uaxaca and Flight of Diaz—More Victories for Juarez; Iuterview of a HeRaLp Corresponuent with the Revo- lationist Commander Quiroga—European Cable Telegrams—The Sandwich Islands: Great Gale and Destruction of Property—The Japancse Ambassadors—Armusemen s— Quix oe Comicalities: Bergh's Commandments— The Latest ‘rom Albany—The Sal Lake Saints—Miscellancous Telegrams—Business Notices. 8—Co! : Sumner and Frelingliuysen on Am- net and Civil Righty; the Labor inquiry Bin Amended by the Senate; Sulphur, Plate Glass and Coruncum ; Departmental inquiries ; the Executive, Legislative aud Judicial Appro- rations ; $17,000,000 Wunted—Mra, Wharton: ine Thirty-seventh Day of the Poisoning Trial; Gaping, Excited and Cynical Balti- moreans ip Court; Summing Up to the Jury; Ap) nee and Alttitade of the Ac- cused; the State Attorney’s Denunciatton and the Eulogy and Eloquence o1 Mr, Hagner; Courteous Compitment to Miss Neille—The Alleged Harbor Master srauds—Convert NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. 1872.—rKIPLE SHEET, Our Navy and Shipping Intereste—A Curi- ous Proposition in Congress. The bill submitted to Congress by Mr. Dwight Townsend and referred to the Com- mittee on Commerce, ‘‘to authorize the sale of unserviceable vessels and materials in the United States Navy Department, and to pro- vide for the construction of twenty iron sea- going steamships,” is a curiosity in legislative propositions. No doubt there is a great deal of useless material—useless vessels, old hulke, scrap iron and so forth—belonging to the Navy Department that it would be well to turn into money and apply to some useful purpose. Perhaps there is more than twenty mil- lions’ worth, But to build steamships with such money for private individuals and for commercial purposes, even under the pretext of making such steamships available for war purposes and having them commanded by naval officers, would be an extraordinary proceeding, The money realized in this way would be government money just as much as if it were drawn out of the Treasury from the proceeds of customs or the internal revenue. It would be just as reasonable to ask Congress to authorize the Treasury to advance money to carry on the newspaper business or any manufacturing establishment. The government cannot be connected thus with private enterprises, The proposition bas all the appearance of a stupendous job. The only way to revive our shipping interests is to give free scope to private enterprise; to take the duties off shipbuilding ma- terials; to pay a fair, or even a liberal, sum for mail service, and, above all, to suspend or repeal the Registry law, so as to enable our capitalists to go to the Clyde or elsewhere to buy vessels where they can get them cheapest and best, Any other policy will fail, Spasmodic efforts to effect a radical change in our depressed and constantly declin- ing commercial marine will prove unavailing. We can never regain the position we occupied previous to the war by little measures, having in view chiefly some local interest or some job at the expense of the Treasury, Let vessels bought and owned by Americans, wherever built, be admitted to registry as American vessels, and our tonnage would soon increase, and our merchants would become the success- ful rivals of those of England in the carrying trade of the world, Then, again, it is absurd to think of con- necting the navy with commercial business, Vessels cannot be built to answer both pur- poses efficiently, Those for naval purposes must be constracted especially for the service they have to perform, Those that should compete in speed and in accommodation for freight and passengers with foreign steam- ship§ could not at the same time be made efficient war ships. In time of war merchant vessels may be used as transports and auxil- iary to the navy in some respocts, but they can always be chartered or bought when needed for such a purpose, The navy, how- ever, must be something entirely distinct, and absolutely under government control. Our navy needs building up as well as the shipping interests of the country, for it does not corre- spond with the greatness of the nation or the exigencies of the service; but if the proposi- tion to make the commercial marine answer the purpose of war ships be admitted the naval strength we have would soon be frittered away. And, bere, while we are on the subject of the navy and naval efficiency, let us say that a growing nation like ours requires certain protection, both from foreign aggressions and from internal strife, All the Powers that have existed since the era of civilization have experienced this want, and to their greatest endeavor have supplied it, forno nation exists to-day that does not possess an army and a navy. If these branches of the government are nseless that fact would have been dis- covered long ago; but in the opinion of states- men they are necessary, and, if so, they ought to be fostered and cared for, When our civil war closed we had nearly a million of men in the field, They enlisted to serve during the rebellion, aad when peace once more reigned they returned to their peaceful pursuits. The governments of Europe were amazed to see all this accomplished without the loss of one drop of blood; for their maxim is that war the licathen: Annual Meeting of the Woman's Unlon Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands—General Railroad Conven- tion—The Manitov; rLament— Fire 1m Cans ton Street, Brook! Michigan State Bonds— Affairs Around + ty Hall. P—The Besieged Kank: Ihe Tuira Avenue Savings Bank Run—bolsierug Uv Rotts—The Tenth Avenue Yire—Arre.t-d for Arson—More Mys stery—An Alleged Perjury Case—The Brookiyn Board of A sossors—The peath of Hugh Wilson Not a Homicide—Forgeries Brought to Light in Trenton, N. J. the Jury— Towing Caual oats by si wer—Finan- ciat and Commercial 4—Domestic ' EMMA THE Aes Deaths, ‘ashington: The Annual Appropriatios oir $00,000,000; Frelinghuysen Flowery Over Ane nesty and Civii Rights; Debate on Corundum; Uneivilized Snapps on Civil Service Bowery “hoy” Rnetoric in the He t " and Liabtiities of National Banks; Karly Ad- jomroment To Be Deciied On—The Grand Army of the Republic—shipping Intelugence— Advertisement<, W—Tne Courts: Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts; The Ernie LAtigations Still in Court: Libel in Admiralty; Calender, the Bank Examiner, Held tor Trial: Alleged Fraudulent Bankraptcy; A Post Office Case; Mutiny at Sea; Seizure ot lilicit Whiskey; Busmess 0: the Gencral Ses- gions—Private Piers, Slips and Buikheads: The Dock Commissioners ana Their Proposed Improvements o1 Our City Water Fronts; Run- ning @ Muck of Private Property Owners and What the Lutter sre Going to Do Anout It; cee on od bagi. J Oto! to Have the jatter ght; Proceedtugs Bétore Jud, Barrett —Advertisements, . hi 19—Adveriisements. ao NOTICE TO 1H¢ PUBLIC. Copies of Sunpay’s Henarp, containing the Fisk-Mansfield letters, can be had on application at the counter of the publication office. Srorm, Froops anp Fire in Tar SANpwion {sLanps.—Heratp special advices from the Hawaiian Islands, dated in Honolulu on the 27th of December, have reached us by way of San Francisco and telegraph overland, The people of the islands suffered from a very se- vere, but not altogether unusual visitation. It came in the shape of a sweeping gale from the south, the storm being followed by heavy rains and flood and preceded by a farm fire, The Wahbee and East Maui plantations lost their threshing houses, The sugar cane was injured to @ greater or less extent on all the planta- tions, Trees were tora up and dwellings un- roofed on Kaui Island and portions of the shattered houses carried out to sea, Heavy Fains and floods succeeded the gale, Rice Belds were swamped and “washed out ;” but, po far, our reporter had not heard of any loss bf life, is disorganizing; but our countrymen dis- played to the world that they could fight when fighting was necessary, and that they could with the same facility and ease retwn to the anvil, the spindle and the plongh, Itis admitted that the navy of the United States has, from its formation to the present time, performed its duty as a navy in every particular, Congress has from time to time passed such laws as were thought neces- sary for its government and guidance, and from a few gunboats during the War of Inde- pendence it bas increased (from that time to 1812) to several frigates and corvettes, Dur- ing the second war with the mother country our navy became prominent, Its deeds were appreciated, and our countrymen rested with the certainty that no foreign foe could enter our ports with impunity. After the war of 1812 the navy was increased very slowly, and promotions were 80 gradual that to be- come ® commander the frost of more than fifty years had to pass over one’s head, Post captain was the highest rank, and whena venerable old post captain commanded a squadron he was by courtesy called a com- modore, This state existed all through the war with Mexico and up to the first year of the rebellion. Our country has seemed to be afraid of conferring high rank upon prominent military officers, and both in the army and navy it was held back until it was found im- poasible to have fleets and armies properly commanded unless rank was conferred. In the navy a title unknown to any other nation was invented for officers commanding fleets—that of flag officer, It corresponded to nothing in the army or navy of this or any other country, and was, perforce, soon dropped and substituted by the recognized grade of rear admiral. The grade of com- modore followed, and then we had a complete assimilation between the army and navy, rear admiral with major general, commo- dore with brigadier general, captain with colonel, and so on down to the lowest officers, As the war progressed officers in both branches of the service became prominent, and the present Executive was created a lieutenant general and our herolo de- ceased. Farragut @ vice admiral, The equality of . the agtades. was mata. tained and soon the Liéutenant General was promoted to full General, and our dear old Admiral went hand in hand with him to the full admiral’s stars. This is the way affairs stand now. The navy has an admiral and the army has a general; Grant is President, Farragut is dead; Porter is Admiral, Sherman is General; and the same grades extend and assimilate down from those high officers to the lowest. Whenever the two branches of the service are thrown together they know exactly who they rank with and how they stand. The system is good, and experience has proved it so; but our poor, poverty- stricken country calls for retrenchment, and where does the blow first fall? Not in the places where extortion and fraud have long been known to exist, not where the barrel is actually leaking at the bung, but upon the poor grade of commodore in the navy. There the blow falls, and the wisdom of the assembled representatives of the people has had under discussion this grave subject, and when the bill passes, as it probably will, to let the grades of admiral, vice admiral and commodore lapse or die out, the country will be safe, The saving to the government will be some seventy or eighty thousand dollars per year, and still the bung-hole is wide open, Congress Yesterday—A Tarif Skirmish in the House-Thke Negro Paince Cer Bill in the Senate. The House of Representatives yesterday furnished another illustration of the facility with which important discussions are extem- porized in that body on the very slightest provocation, A bill was reported from the Committee of Ways and Means permitting the importation, free of duty, of certain machinery for the use of a sulphur-mining company in Louisiana, and of a plate-glass manufactory in Indiana, the provision in regard to the latter being, however, general in its operation and applying to all such manufactures. It wasa risky proposition to be reported by a protec- tionist—Mr, Maynard, of Tennessee—and to be supported by the champion of protection in the House—Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania—and that fact was pretty clearly exposed in the argument of another member of the com- mittee—Mr. Finkelnburg, of Missouri—who pressed, with great logio and force, the idea that what was good for the interests subserved by the bill was good for all the other manu- facturing interests of the country, just as the proposed relief of the shipbuilding interest by the remission of duty on iron, copper, cordage, &c., would also be a relief to all other con- sumers of those products, and as the remission of duty on house-building materials in Chicago would be an equally welcome boon in every village and town and city in the West. The bill was clearly an introduction of the Wooden Horse within the fortified city of Protection, Mr. Dawes, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, realized that fact, and made a speech from which it would be very difficult to fix his position on the great questions of revenue and tariff; in fact, the whole speech was a confession of unsettled convictions—of @ decided lack of faith in any creed of political economy. He described his wavering state of mind pretty feliciteusly when he declared his intention to endeavor to protect American interests against protection as well as against free trade. Mr. Dawes, if not a man of strong convictions, is a bighly conscientious man, and as he is evidently studying the great questions before his committee with a determination to find such a solution for the problem as will be most advantageous to the country at large, we will give him credit for his good intentions and hopefully await their fructification, Another interesting discussion sprang up In the House in a still more unexpected manner. Mr. Poland, of Vermont, rose to a personal explanation, and repelled a suggestion, made in a Washington paper, imputing an improper and interested motive for a resolution which he had offered some days before, fatended to check the innumerable calls on the depart- ments for information which is often already in possession of the House. Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, chairman of the Committee on Appropria- tions, endorsed the good sense of Mr. Poland’s proposition, and called attention to the enor- mous expense of the public printing of the government, largely increased by such means, the estimate for the next fiscal year being over two millions of dollars. He presented some curious illustrations of the mass of public documents annually printed at the Govern- ment Printing Office, stating, for example, that the quantity of ink purchased for it every year was sufficient to float the largest man-of- war in the navy. Mr. Scofield, of Pennsyl- vania, prescribed as a cure for the evil the abolition of the franking privilege, to which Garfield cordially assented, Two of the demo- cratic members, however—Randall, of Penn- sylvania, and Eldridge, of Wisconsin—ima- gined that they discovered in this zeal of Gar- field to uphold Mr. Poland’s proposition an attempt to cover up the frauds of corrupt officials by preventing calls for information. We can very readily understand the propriety of putting a stop to these promiscuous de- mands upon the departments without imputing any such improper motives as those gentle- men insinuated, The proceedings of the Senate yesterday were tame and devoid of interest. Mr. Sumner’s Palace Car bill for negroes occupied the attention of that body during most of the day's session, and no business of a public cbaracter was transacted. Tag Frawxuin Stator in Printing House square was inaugurated yesterday with all the ceremony due to the memory of the great tan whose virtues it will commemorate. The site chosen is certainly appropriate, and aspir- ing typos and wandering bohemians will have constantly before them en example of what may be achieved by industry and integrity. We hope the time fs not far distant when the virtues of other great men of our nation will be worthily commemorated by the sculps tors’ art, Te More Anovr tne Perstan FAMINE. ——The latest information from the East tells, no. more hopeful tale of the famine in Persia; Not- withstanding the praiseworthy activity and energy displayed by the British agents who have undertaken the Christian work of relief to ald the sufferers there are deaths occarring daily from that most terrible of all causes-~ starvation, The backward state of Persia, without railroads or even decent roads over whigh to transmit food to the interior, readers it Impossible to be able to afford adequate relief in time, Even if sufficient food to meet all the exigencies of the times were close to the frontier it would be impossible to do more than what bas already been done for the famine-stricken Persians. Relief, however, is afforded the sufferers as rapidly as the poor means of travel through the country will admit of, The Grand Duke, L! Phil, Bill, and Spotted Tail and Company Among the Bisons. The Lag Bos amertcanus, innabita the interior of North America, pspecialty the great plains between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. | 1¢18 popularly called tne buffalo, but the true buffalo pelo! to the Eastern Continent, and to @ different subdivision of the genus bos, ‘The bison is @ large, wild animal, with thick body and stout Lega; short, black anrns, rapidly taper- ing, and with hair much more thick and shaggy in winter than in summer. It is most nearly related to the aurochs of Central Kurope oss is, Central Russla), and the two species have been referred to @ commion genus.—Dana, “Avnto the Indings ail around, 0 They raised a little earthquake as ‘they thundered o’er the grouad.—Anon, And the Grand Duke, with ‘Little Phil” and ‘Baffalo Bill,” and Spotted Tail and com- pany—white men and red men—has had a tilt with Bos Americanus, and a glorious time, lacking only the presence of Mr, Bergh to give it the highest flavor of enjoyment. Our special despatches from Red Willow Creek, on the prairies of Nebraska, descriptive of the arrangements, the preparations, the extra- ordinary company, the encampment, the equipments, and all the accessories and details of this grand imperial buffalo bunt, provided by General Sheridan, we are quite sure have been enjoyed by our readers as the most deli- cious side dishes they have had even from the Heratp for many a long day. And, com- pared with this tournament among the bisons, what are all the receptions and processions, and balls and dinners and excursions we have given the Grand Duke? Mere child’s play. We have read Gerard's thrill- ing exploits among the lions of Algeria, and Gordon Cumming's high sport in the hunters’ paradise of South Africa, and Sir Samuel Baker's glorious fun among the big elephants of Abyssinia, with his Arab sword hunters; and “The Wild Scenes in South America” of Paez; and we have been inspired by the en- thusiasm of an old whaler in his narration of some grand onslaught upon ‘‘a school” of whales in the Arctic Ocean, ‘from which we got tive hundred barrels of oil, but lost five good sailors;” but as a neat, complete, unique, romantic and delightful hunting ex- cursion, we know of nothing in all these other adventures that can be compared with our Russian Grand Duke’s buffalo hunt in Ne- braska, ag detailed by our special reporter. Isaw him buta moment, But methinks I see him now, the handsome young Prince, in his ‘‘nobby” hunting suit, and his rosy Russians gathered around him; and our tough and trasty rider, ‘Little Phil,” and his officers, in their neat army uniform; and the famous “Buffalo Bill,” in his gorgeous frontier trappings; and the stout old chief Spotted Tail and his braves, in their elaborate Indian costumes, all grouped together on their horses awaiting the signal for the start, Next we see them dashing among the shaggy bisons, and the Grand Duke, by a flank movement, right royally bringing down his Bos Americanus; and Sheridan, right and left, laying out the mon- archs of the prairie; and then we see old Spotted Tail and his young warriors in another herd in the horizon making greater havoc with their simple bows and arrows than the Ameri- cans or Russians with their choicest rifles, Our city sportsman, who knows from the ex- perience of a day's trouting or snipe shooting on Long Island the luxury of a good appe- tite, will understand how Sheridan and his fellow hunters enjoyed their champagne, their buffalo steaks, short cake and hot coffee after their day’s rough riding and bunting of forty miles on the snow-covered hills and in the wild canyons of Nebraska. And then followed the Indian powwow, after which they witnessed a wild aboriginal kick-up in the shape of a war dance to the melancholy music of our Indian tum-tum, amid the shrill approval of the squaws, who were looking on the pride of their gentle hearts. Next comes the story of La Belle Sauvage in the flirtations of our army officers, young and old, with Miss Spotted Tail, the Indian belle of the prairies, the presents of General Sheridan to her happy old govergor and to bis braves and his tribe, gathered in hundreds on the ground, and the liberal presents of the Grand Duke, and. then the speeches of peace and good will between General Sheridan and Spotted Tail, embodied in the graphic and highly interesting special report of the evening's proceedings which we publish this morning. It beats Hiawatha and Minnehaha; it reads like a fairy tale, and the poet and the painter will find in the scenes and strangely blended characters here depicted subjects upon which may profitably be devoted their highest talents and skill. It will be remarked, moreover, that while Spotted Tail comprehends the obligations of treaties he relies upon his Great Father to listen to the wants of bis red children, and that he has learned something, moreover, of the advantages of free trade, His white brothers have the choice of many traders, and Spotted Tail thinks that the same privilege would be a good thing for him; and we think so too. But it is a8 a peace meeting of Americans and Russians, and of white men and red men that this strange and fascinating festival on the prairies of Nebraska is partiou- larly entitled to the attention of the statesman and the philosopher, No doubt the Czar in St, Petersburg, before they were through with that festival on Red Willow Creek, knew all about it, and wished himself among the happy hunters, whatever he may have said to Gortgchakof, Admiral Possiet, it appears, did not go out with the bison killers, but remained in camp to answer despatches he had received from the Emperor, This important little fact makes {t all right in reference to our relations with Russia. Admiral Possiet’s despatches of this buffalo hust will completely oullify the wrath of Gortschakoff; and Sheridan’s wild Western hospitalities to the Grand Duke will neutralize the terrible lecture of Mr, Fish to the unlucky Catacazy. This buffalo hunt, in short, dis- poses of the Fish and Gortechakoff quar- rel, and we shall probably next hear from St. Petersburg that our Minister, Mr. Ourtin, has been invited to a aulet dinner wih the Bmreror, with the understanding that His Majesty desires free conversation with Mr. Curtin about Nebraska and thoge bisons, and Generals Sheridan and Custer, and Buffalo Bill, and Spotted Tail and his Indians, At all events we shall stake the peace diplomacy of Sheridan and Spotted Tail with the Grand Duke against all the bellicose diplomatic notes that have passed, or that are likely to pass, between Mr, Fish and Prince Gortsechakoff on the Catacazy bagatelle and upon the opinion that Sheridan, the Grand Duke and Spotted Tail have settled the busi- ness. After all the rare enjoyments of this magnificent buffalo hunt, we hold that Bos Americanus wins the day, and that while the Grand Duke and his father retain their memory of this raid among the bisons of Nebraska, whatever may be done with Fish, Gortschakoff and Catacazy, there will be no war between Russia and the United States. Moral—General Sheridan is a better diplomat than Mr. Fish, on General Grant's great idea, “Let us have peace.” The World of Amusements. Fully a score of theatres and music halls are thrown open every evoning to accommo- date the vast crowd of amusement seekers in this. clty, and, with very few exceptions, the twenty managers have no reason to complain of lukewarmness on the part of the public, It would be difficult to match the present theatrical and musical season in point of bril- liancy in the a'tractions offered and liberality as far as patronage is concerned, Take, for instance, the admirable representation of “John Garth,” given every night at Wallack’s. For six weeks this charming play of Brougbam’s has attracted the largest houses ever known at Wallack’s, and it has now set- tled down to a steady, prosperous run, which may carry it even to the Easter holidays, if the manager will permit. The mag- nificent acting of Mr. Lester Wallack aud Mr. Fisher will account, to a great extent, for the popularity of ‘John Garth.” Then the fasci- nating little Aimée, at her bijou theatre, has revived all the pristine attractiveness of opéra bouffe, and, despite the unfavorable location of the establishment, she receives a more than ordinary share of public patronage. This suc- cess may be ascribed to Mile, Aimée’s talents in the Offenbachian art and her well-directed efforts to present each opera in as complete a manner as possible. Madame Fabbri and her company have inaugurated a brilliant season of German opera at the Stadt Theater, and on the first representation of ‘‘L’Africaine” the dilapidated old building was thronged from parquet to dome. Shakspeare is enthroned in his chosen temple, Booth’s, and one hun- dred and fifty nights of crowded houses at the Fifth Avenue Theatre testify to the suc- cess of Daly's “Divorce.” The Florences close their engagement at the Grand Opera House this week, and Mr. Mackaye proposes to disouss ‘‘Marriage” in a dramatic form at the St. James on Monday. Pantomime and spectacle reign in all the glory of tinsel, red fire and transformations at the Olympic and Niblo's, and will probably mo- nopolize the boards of both theatres for weeks to come. The minor theatres are also well supported, whether the attractions are in the shape of burlesque, negro minstrelsy or eques- trianiem, A characteristic feature of this season is the liberal and artistic style in which plays are brought out, not only in respect to the princi- pal artists engaged, but in the scenery and appointments. A manager is obliged to ex- pend more money upon one play nowadays than he would upon a half dozen formerly, and the result is a perfection of ensemble that in past seasons would scarcely be considered attainable, The pernicious star system, thanks to the good example shown by our two comedy theatres, shows symptoms of de- cline. It will be the dawn of a new life for the drama when the majority of those itinerant nuisances that afflict the provinces every year with trashy plays, written especially for them, disappear from the boards, They now find their proper level in this city, where they are consigned to their proper sphere in the do- main of peanuts and bootblacks, The operatic outlook is full of promise. We sball have another season of English opera, with Madame Parepa-Rosa and her excellent company, now strengthened by the accession of Santley, the prince of baritones, and also an Easter season of Italian opera by the same troupe. Between these seasons come the farewell nights of Mlle. Nilsson, M. Capoul and their assistants, when the long- promised opera of “Hamlet” will be pro- duced for the first time in America. The financial success of the last forty nights of Italian opera season has been of such an unequivocal nature that all doubts as to the possibility of establishing the lyric drama on & permanent basis in this city are removed. Under proper management the success of a first class opera company in New York can be regarded as a foregone conclusion, Tur Revo.vrionists 1s Mexico are losing ground, to judge from our special despatch from Matamoros, The re of Oaxaca by the government troopa and the rout of Diaz seem to have infused new courage into Juarez and his adherents, In Northern Mexico the revolutionists have so far been invariably vic- torious; but if the report that five thousand government troops are being hurried forward to the frontier prove true, the revolutionists will have s hard if not hopeless struggle to maintain themselves against such superior numbers, On the other hand, General Quiroga, one of the insurgent commanders, with whom 8 HeraLp correspondent had an interview at Mier, appears to be perfectly confident of the ultimate success of the revo- lution, General Quiroga is looked upon as one of the most capable commanders in Mexico, and his utterances apparently merit as much credit as those of any other Mexican general, Tar Bartimore American predicts that Maine will send an uabroken delegation to the Republican Convention in favor of the re- nomination of Grant and Colfax. Blaine is therefore out of the way, But where Is Forney ? TimMANN oN Tammany.—Senator Tiemann has introduced a bill into the Btate Senate pro- viding for an overhauling of the doings of the Tammany Society under {ts charter as a charitable institution, The developments will, no doubt, be quite qurious and interesting, How Jurors Can Remedy the Obstacie. The vexatious exclusion from a jury box of intelligent newspaper readers again challenges public attention. Our Albany Solons are dis- cussing the Bedford and Hackett bill in- tended to alleviate the evil. But, after all, a. partial remedy remains with each citizen, So, long as the law is expounded as it has been, the candidate for the jury box should schaol himself to refrain not only from forming,er expressing an opinion as to the guilt or inno- cence of a notorious criminal, but even from allowing an impression about it to enter or remain upon bis mind, Those accustomed to Court proceedings have observed how glibly a juror avows that he has an impression or opinion on the subject of the pending trial. He does this obviously to escape the busi- ness {inconvenience or personal snnoyance of being a juryman. The kaw is 60 liberal on the matter that even with- out an easy conscience the juror may 60 answer as to escape service. Reform in the jury box becomes now as important as reform at the polls was last. November. Tens of thousands of electors who usually found aa excuse for voting a straight ticket or for en~ tirely absenting themselves from tho ballot boxes then rallied for reform, The large number of newspaper readers who usually escape jury duty now have it in their power to accomplish by their own deter- mination nearly all which a statute can. There {s no reason why a juror should make up an opinion or even receive an impression upon the absolute guilt or innocence of a burglar, a forger, or a man. slayer whose arrest he may baye read about, And there is still less reason why jurors in the box, who, as triers prelimi- narily, pass upon the fitness of their fellows, should err in liberality toward a prisoner. All classes seem to forget that the people possesa rights in the matter, and that while innocence should be protected, brazen-faced guilt ought not to be petted nor the immunity of.the pub- lic, through example, disregarded. The present absurd rule of this State belongs to an age when there were no news- papers, Usually when the reason of a law ceases the latter also loses validity. Indeed, this isa maxim. In the olden time, whenever a man living near where the crime was com- mitted had formed or expressed an opinion, or derived an impression about the criminal, it was 80 because the matter had come under taproom or wayside discussion and through hearsay or colored facts. These old times village talks were apt to engender partisan- ship and prejudice. Such discussions were probably few, and not caloulated to interfere proportionally with the entire number of jurors summoned, But now that the newspaper visits every household, and all the incidents of crime are published. to every citizen, this, ancient rule takes absurd application; and unless jurors themselves cut the Gordian knot of this absurdity by resolving not to easily fall into the trap laid by some lawyers, who manufacture technicalilies and frenzy defences as readily as their clients sometimes invent interviews of innocence, this city will become yet more the scoff of her neighbors, especially when we see that the new law ig only to take application six months hence, Opintos Incrense of Smallpox. The report of the meeting of the Board of Health, which we publish elsewhere, together with the Sanitary Inspector’s report on the question of the terrible malady in our midst, will bring to the public the necessity incumbent on them of using every known precaution to prevent its further spread. The cases of smallpox in this city have increased in the past week from sixty- eight to eighty-three and the dispersion of the localities in which they have ocourred show that they are confined to no one section, The house-to-house visitation for the purpose of vaccinating is progressing, and it is stated that, owing to ignorance and stupid prejudice, the lower classes of Ger- mans are almost the only ones refusing to be vaccinated. It is well to observe on this point that among these misguided people the diséase is making the most marked ravages. We call special attention, therefore, to the precautions laid down to be taken, and as a measure of good to the whole community the heads of families should see that they are adopted, The condition of the Smallpox Hospital ig said to be most deplorable, and utterly incapable of accommodating the sufferers, This must be seen to at once, The contagion seems to have taken root all over the civilized world, and it is only by great vigilance that we can escape worse horrors than we now endure. The street cars, in their present filthy state, are denounced as perfect breeding grounds of the disease. If the greedy corporations who con- trol them will not see that they are cleansed and purified the law should take the matter in its own hands. Salt and Coal. The United States Senate has recommitted the tariff amendments of Senator Sherman and committed itself to old fogy tariff notions, This is partly because of the antagonism of many Senators to Senator Trumbull and others of the revenue reform party, who appear to be the leaders in opposing the delay policy of the Finance Committee, and are alao looked upon as inimical to the administration, The significance of the vote, therefore, really re- lates more to Grant than to the tariff, Will the Senate please to recollect that the people, through their representatives, have voted to remove the duty from salt and coal—two of the prime necessities of life? And will it also bear in mind that chartered corporations are absorbing the coal lands of the country? The Reading, the Delaware and Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley and the New Jersey Cen- tral railroads and the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company are buying up all the anthra- cite coal lands of Pennsylvania, The monster monopoly is throwing its coils around this branch of industry and production, and the United States Senate is playing directly into the maw of the monster by keep- ing any duty on coal, an article which, of all others, should be legislated to the lowest pos- sible cost, regardless of but one rule, “‘the greatest relief to the greatest number," It is time the people of the country spoke out through their organ, tho press, to the