The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1872, Page 6

6 ————————— ee NEW YORK HERALD|" ADWAY AND ANN STREET. &. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ES THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street and pioiawey-Mackvor's New Hinedsivox. Matince at2. ~ BOWERY THEATRE, BOWERY.—Searcning tHe Pertas—Souox Suixore. ! OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadw: pow ov Humery Dumery. Ma‘ y.—Twe Bauer Pax ec at2, * ‘ BOOTH'S iy al Twenty-thitd street, corner Sisth v.—Riouanp III, OK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— WALLA’ I AssURANCE, THEATRE COMIQU! ; Necuo Acta, Fe E, B14 Broadway'—Comre Vocat- Matinee St EATRE, Fourteenth st, and Broad- SHG SQUARE TUE ATI, Fone (4 una RDWINS THEATRE, 720 Brontw: « pr Love. —Tae Powsn GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth av. and 23d ot.— Lia Rooxa, NIBLO'S' GARDEN, Broadway, Between Prince and Mouston sia.—Brace Farway. i‘ ‘Broad corner 89th sf.—Per- Fusnnoce afernoou ant evesing’—Sintowe FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-Fourth street— fs a7. STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery. —Gunyan Orena— Jurve. ee ae \EMRS. F. B, CONWAYS' BROOKLYN THEATRE.< Twixt Axx axy Oxown. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklya.— |SPRRANCE, bic TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. #1 Bowery.— jaguo Ecountricites, Burvesques, £0. NEW YORK HEKALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET, We have sometimes regarded General Grant as o pationt and muoch-enduring man. We directnoss of purpose sometimes resemble im- pulse, especially when hoe does suddenly what no one expects him to do. When we urgo upon him that new departure which seoms necessary to the success of his administration in the coming canvass wo feel that we appeal ton judgment in many respects formed; for General Grant is a man of too much ability not to see that the rising publio opinion, which has found expression in many forms and is now ¢#ystallizing at Cinciniati, requires him to take some new step to meet and counteract it. When the General commanded the armies of the Potomac and sot out upon his campaigns against Richmond his favorite military ex- pedient was to flank Lee. His march to Rich- mond was 4 series of flank marches. ._When his army had taken position and Leo shifted into line in front, and a battle seemed inevita- ble with advantage, Grant quietly shifted his regiments and forced the rebel commander back, and in time he captured the Confederate capital. He has shown this tendency in his civil administration. When he made Mr. Stewart Secretary of tho Treasury, and the politicians, under the lead of Mr. Sumner, rose tn mutiny, dreading the advent of an able and experienced merchant disposed to mandgo the Treasury upon business principles, he quietly flanked thom by withdrawing Mr. Stewart's name and sending that of Mr. Boutwell. When SAN FRANCISCO HALL, 585 Broadway.—Vanisty Pen. MANORS. T NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— (RNOK AND ART. (TRIPLE New York, Wed: CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. ete ‘pace. ham Advert ements, 2—Advertisements. cet @=—(incinnati: The Day Bofors the Battle; Davia the Bone of Contention; His F nd Foes ina White Heat of Partisan Fury; hargea of PeReery and pcnaery Tn- uence; Adams Stock Weak, Brown killed ir; bull Quietly Strong and Greele; dily tothe Front; Will the Con- vention Break vp in a Row? 4—The peventy's Sedan—Veto of the Charter by Governor Hoffman; Cumulative Voting a Pre- mium on Bribery; The Folly of the The Governor's Vi Stokes: Settlement of the Bill of Exceptions— The Special Sessions Convictions: The Prison. ers All to be Tried Over Again—The Board of mig te ae inst the Board of Education—Liberality of the Police Com- missioners—Midnight Raid on a Third Avenue Car—The Bogus Sports—The Assets of tho Cit Being Hunted Up—Payments by the Comp- . troller, GA Filthy City: mentee d Condition of All the Streets and Avenues; Dirt, Garbage and Pes- tilential Vapors Scattered All Around; An SHEE inesday, May 1, 1872, Judge ; Trom Forging Steas easure ; Epidemic Encouraged ; What the Street Clean- | ing Contractors are, Not Doing; Important Action of the Police Board ; Results of a Street to Street Inspection—An Ingenious Robbery— Marriages and Deaths, @—Eilitorials: Leading Article, “The New Depart- ure—General Grant Must Make a Flank Move- ment’ — Amusements — Franz Abt—Futher Burke and the Colored People—Fire at Penn Yan—Amusement Announcements. Oe %—Spain : The Carlist fistrrecNon Against Ama- deus Said To Be Extending Rapidly—The Ala- banta Claims—The Atalantas—Cable Telegrams from England, France, Rome and Germany— Miscellaneous ‘Telegraph—The Cass County Cutthroats—Mexican ughs in Texas—The Mormon OCrisis—The Republican Central Com- mittee—Chickasaw Jockey Club: Second Day of the Pyne Meeling; The Favorites Beaten + mors ices—Louisiana State Falr—Business jotices, — 8—Financial and Commercial: Money Easy; Gold Dull; Stocks Weak; Pacific Mail Lively—Do- mestic Markets—Advertisements, Gm Advertisements. OmThe State Capital: Rejoicings and Lamenta- tions on the Charter Veto; A Commission to Make a Charter; Proceedings of the Judi Committee and Prospects of the Juages. from Washlugtoun—The Excise Mone Trial of Libble Havana Markets. vertisements, Advertisements, 2—Advertisemen ts, as he rabrant—European and Shipping Lntellgep¢e—Aa- Tar Seventy’s Cuanrer received {ts quietus t the hands of the Governor yesterday. The veto Message of His Excellency will be found 4n another column. Jupce Aurert Canpozo has, it seems, re- eo not to await the action of the Court of peachment in his case. Our Albany corre- fpondents inform us that he has already laced his resignation in the hands of the sed of State. , 4 In THE Case or Epwanp 8, Sroxes, indicted for the murder of James Fisk, Jr., Judge Car- | ozo, sitting in Oyer and Terminer, yesterday Accided that the indictment found against him rwas legaland that he must be tried upon the same. Time was given him to plead to the indictment, and the probability therefore is that Stokes will be brought up for trial during Ahe present term of the Court. Tue Rarw Transtr of Vanderbilt's Fourth Avenne Railroad bill in the Assembly was half speed compared to its run through the Senate yesterday. The Governor seems inclined to squelch the Beach pneumatic swindle, and it is to be hoped he will deal as decisively with the Vanderbilt job. All these schemes, if car- ‘ried out, would prove complete nuisances—in- Sonvenient, insufficient and dangerous, We Fant viaduct roads, built by the city, with the eve money and for the citi. pus, Tax Fucut gr tue Soxasvens,—The good ship Cuba bears away with her to-day as precious a freight as ever left these shores, Nearly all the sweet songsters who have Wlelighted the New York public for the past season, which has been of unprecedented prilliancy and duration, take their leave of us to-day. Nilsson, the Swedish nightingale, and the principal members of her troupe, also Madame Parepa-Rosa, Miss Clara Doria, Mr and Mrs. Aynsley Cook, Castle, Tom Karl, and Managers Carl Rosa, Henry Jarrett and ‘Max Maretzek, with a number of lesser lights, start for Europe at noon. Wachtel remains but one day later, leaving on Thursday. There is nothing so sad in life as the word adieu, when uttered for the last time in presence of a Hear triend ora great artist, the magnetism of whose genius has endeared him or her to the Soul of every one who has sat within the charmed circle of that genius, More especially now does the word fall with a sad cadence on Yhe ear of the New York opera goer, as the bright vision of the Past season at the Academy bf Music fades from sight, And yet a feeling Of pride and hopefulness must be mingled with Sadness, pride in the realization of the jost sanguine hopes of every lover of musi ] ic and hopefulness in the future. Never before, ndeod, in the entire history of fn assemblage of talent been the deck of an ocean steamer sented on the Cuba to-day, music has such congregated on 4 will be pre. | riends | ‘eto Sustained—Edward §S. | the opposition to St. Domingo, fanned by | Sumner and Soburz into a flame that menaced the pence of the party and tho safety. of the ad- 0 ‘ming, Grant made a flank march and threw the whole question upon Congress. When Mr, Trumbull and his allies opened their campaign against patronage and office-holding, and the bestowal of offices like booty and prize money upon 4 successful army, Grant flanked them by suddenly calling into life a civil service system, more radical and far-reaching’ in its effects than anything | proposed by Mr. Trumbull. These several acts were performed suddenly, almost, as it | seemed, by impulse. But upon looking over | his whole career we see that what seemed to | be impulse was really the fruit of a care- ful and well-considered policy. Something | of the same character we saw in his relations with his Cabinet. No man stood | higher, apparently, in his esteem than Judge | Hoar, then Attorney Gencral. He was a | man of education and experience and high | character, But he made an unfortunate im- | pression upon the members of the House | and Senate in the transaction of the | public business."% New to official life, impatient with the necessities and complai- 4 sances of politics, so ungracious and offensive that when nominated to the Supreme Bench | the Senafé, although strongly urged by the | President, declined to confirm him, he became | an encumbrance to the administration. But one | morning he was suddenly asked to resign from a place which he had no thought of leaving | the day before. In the career of Mr. Akerman, | his successor, we had an almost parallel case. | | Mr. Akerman was appointed in the hope that | he might be a peace-offering to the foyal | men in the South. The intention was good, but Mr, Akerman was in time found to be of | no use to any one in the North or the South. | country? to be seen that Mr. Fish, like many able and How can General Grant answer this to the Is thero any answer? It is plain great men before him—like the most gifted ministers that over satin the English Cabinet— has lost the confidence of the country. We do not say this is a fault, but it is certainly a misfortune, and in states- manship misfortunes must be regarded as faulta. Mr. Fish should cheerfully ac- cept the situation by asking per- mission to retire from the Oabinet. He may haye done what he deomed to be best; but it is not what tho country deems best, and the country is the master of us all. Let the President send Mr. Fish to England ; that compliment is due to his character and services. But let us have a fresh, indopen- dent, resolute man in the State Department, who will give confidence to the coun- try; and in looking for a man of this kind the mind turns instinotively to that Minister whoso career abroad gave honor to the Ameri- can name, and compelled the admiration of his country and mankind, to Elihu B, Wash- burno. Hero is a statesman skilled in politics as well as in diplomacy, the trusted friend of Grant, his friend when days wore dark and honors were few, and whose career in France is marked with a far-seeing and cour- ageous sagacity. Mr. Washburne was General Grant's political chief of staff in the great campaign of 1868. We are about to enter into ® still greater campaign, one that will be fought with uncxanipled bitterness and jn- tensity. Mr. Washburne is not needed in France, while his services at home would bo of incalculable advantage to the President, the party and the country. ee MO omy So we say to our patient and much-enduring Prplient Mate Uy bas some to abe 8 new departure, to make a flank movement against the enemy aid prepare for this tremen- dous and uncertain campaign. Mr. Fish, we are confident, will be the last man to stand in the way of his chief. If the sacrifice of his office will strengthen Grant it will be gladly made. Nor is there any time to be lost. We who support Grant and believo in him, and will gladly feel it a duty to bear a large share of the heat and burden of the fight, insist that we go into battle with- out any of the impedimenta of the army, with generals who will compel the popular con- fidence. When Grant took command of the Army of the Potomac he removed all of the generals who had failed, and sending West he selected an obscure officer and put him in command of the cavalry, and made him the right arm of his campaign. The achievements of Philip H. Sheridan justified that choice. Let him imitate his ownexam- ple—begin this political campaign by sending away the men who have failed to win the peo- ple’s confidence, and, in making Elihn B, Washburne his political right arm, appoint a statesman to the head of his Cabinet whose achievements in peace will be as brilliant and decisive as the achievements of Sheridan in war. | And so one day he was unexpectedly requested to resign, and a successor appointed who was © more in harmony with the party and a repre- | sentative as well of a great and growing sec- | | tion of the country. When Mr. Cox began to | | nurse troubles and worry the President and annoy the administration he went out of the | Cabinet as suddenly as Mr. Akerman and Mr. Hoar. All these things seemed to be impulsive on the part of the President. But there was no impulse. The President was observing events as | | carefully as he observed Lee when command- ing the army. He saw when the time for | | change had arrived, and he made a flank | march, | If the President has carefully observed this movement in Cincinnati he must see that the | time has come fora flank march, for some- | | thing more than a march, perhaps, brilliant | strategy, and the fiercest battle ever known | in our political history. However much we | may condemn the Cincinnati movement and | despise the men who lead it, and denounce | their chicanery and intrigue, we must see , behind it a public opinion which cannot be despised. We can clect General Grant, we | are confident, against any ticket. But to do | so many things are necessary, He can not be | specifications of the street cleaning contract | work necessary to be done immediately. At | The Filth of the Streets and the Street Cleaning Contract, The intolerable condition of the streets, fraught with its fearful promise of disease in the approaching hot weather, is a subject for anxious consideration by every citizen of New | York. In another part of the Heratp will be found the result of a thorough examination of the streets of the city by our reporters, which presents an alarming array of facts | for the student of hygiene. It has been conceded on all hands that appeals to the dirt contractor are of no avail. Fatted on the spoils of filth, that astute individual believes in doing nothing with the broom he can possi- bly avoid. As will be seen by our report, the are of the laxest nature, and could not prevent the streets from being left to the aggregation of poisonous garbage from last November to a week or two ago. atrife, disappointmont, misunderstanding, have | into the United States this season will be | to reinforce our ‘ prover mip sy igen equal, if it does not surpass, that of other | and revenge themselves for their fancied England by presenting our case, we propose | seasons. to invite her contempt by withdrawing it, or by see evidences of this character in his present | 80 amending it under a menace that it becomes attitude towards the country. His silence and | @ withdrawal, and we are in tho position of having made an unconditional surrender. The Spanish Inserrectionary Move- ment—A Sharp Battle and Serious Defeat of the Onriists. We are specially informed by telegram from London that advices have been received in the British capital from Spain which report that the Carlist insurrection against Amadeus is extending rapidly in the kingdom, and that disaffection to the royalist cause bas made its appearance in the ranks of the regular army. Tho armed Carlists are till in the field and in con- siderable strength, and have been again in contact with the royalists at certain points. Despatches dated in Madrid yesterday evening announce that a severe battle was fought be- tween the troops of the Crown and the in- surgents at Tudela, in Navarre, and that the Carlista:were defeated, with heavy loss. It is said that three hundred men of the revolution- ary army wore killed and wounded. The severity of the ‘conflict may be taken, per- haps, os an attestation of the sincerity of the vanquished in the cause of the invader. It does not seem, however, that the move- ment, to any dangerous extent, commands the sympathy of the Spanish people, although we know that a very heavy fall in the value of se- curities has taken place in the Spanish Bourse. We have no contradiction of the news that Catalonia has been declared ina state of siege, and that insurrectionary forces are concen- trated in large numbers in Navarre, Guipuzcoa and Biscay. But the general tone of the intel- ligence encourages the belief that Spain is not in sympathy with a movement which is essen- tially reactionary, and that the insurrection, Buch gg itis, will be hort lived, The appear. ance of the govérrifhent troops is for the flight of the insurgents ; and Ser- rano, ina dongraiulatory proclamation to his troops, claims that the people in the disturbed districts stand by the government. It, # 8 to ke raves bat the railroad and tele- btaphic éoinni dation, which was inter- rupted, hag been ro-gstablished betweerl Ba- yonne and Madrid, It is also deserving of at- tention that Don Qarlos has not yet had the temerity to trust himself personally to his gallant adherents on Spanish soil. Why, if the insurrection be on so grand a scale as some would have us believe, does not the champion of legitimacy and divine right show faith in his own cause and share the fortune of his friends, instead of speaking of such action ? It was for a time believed that the re- publicans, to serve their own cause and to advance their own interests, would join the insurgents, taking advantage of the absence of the regular troops from the large cities to make the large cities their own. It was also expected, and even confidently stated, that the radical section of the progresistas now under the lead of ZorrilJa, and since last year alien- ated from their former associates, would swell the republican ranks and give character as well as impetus to the revolution. It was ugyer gur opinion that the republicans, who have only to wait to win, would disgracé their cause by entering into an unholly alli- | ance with the representatives of legitimacy and divine right—their natural and hereditary ene- mies. It was inconceivable that a high-souled ; man like Castellar could sanction so unright- eous a compact, and we find that he | has been repudiated by the extremists of | his party for his adhesion to the cause of the Crown. As little conld we believe of Prim, the master spirit of the progresistas when the progresistas were as yet disunited, would, because of his difference with Sagasta, go back on the nominee of his unfortunate chief. Our cable reports show that our opinions were well founded, for everywhere throughout Spain the republicans and the progresistas are rallying to the support of the government, and Zorrilla has accepted an appointment from the King and at the head of a column of gov- ernment troops has set out for Navarre. The appointment of Zorrilla, it is said, has had the happiest effect, It has made an end of doubt- ing, and, in spite of the disaffection of certain extreme republicans and certain extreme radi- In the last fortnight a feeble make-believe has | been inaugurated in the cleaning direction, | which, however, is wholly inadequate to the | the present rate the city would be swept | through about next December. A glance at the enormous prices paid for not doing the work will open’ the eyes of the taxpayers. | | _ we admit, Levigns kotweem the tro Coyntries. Anger, | prosgnt indications the Gigrman emigration | | elected by default. There is no chance for a | Last year the receipts of the con- | | series of soul-inspiring victories, like those of | tractor reached eight hundred and thirty. | Sherman in Georgia and Sheridan in the Val- | eight thousand dollars. It is alleged | ley, which revived the dormant patriotism of | that a great part of this was divided among the people and virtually re-clected Abraham | the maguates of the defunct ring. From what | Lincoln in 1864. But there are mistakes that can | we have seen lately there seems to be a de- | be corrected, burdens that can be removed and termination on the part of the civic govern- | vietories of peace that may be achieved as ‘ ment to do what they can towards having this splendid as any victories of war. Above ell | danger and nuisance abated ; but the root lies | things, we need a new foreign policy. In this | detper than they have yet reached. We are | convinced that jt can only be achieved | is our essential weakness, We might criticise | the Treasury management, but it happens that | through a total abrogatloa of thé present | | Mr. Boutwell's clumsy handling of the debt | contract. The street cleaning commissioners | and the Syndicate scandals are forgotten in| in whom the authority is vested (if any such | the one generally acceptable and popular cir- | exists) to accomplish it, have a duty to per- | | cumstance that the debt has been largely paid. | form in this regard from which they cannot | This one fact, which to our mind means nothing | honestly flinch. It is said that the present | and proves nothing, and does not relieve the | contractor is anxious tosell his contract cheap. Secretary from the severest criticism, happens | The citizens would be glad to get rid of him at to be grateful to the people, and will, strangely any cost; but if the Street Commissioners | enough, be a strong force in the canvass. But | do their duty we think that he can be got | itis in the foreign department where-we are yid of for nothing. We call on Mayor Hall to | weak, With all respect for Mr. Fish, and every | Jook at the interests of the city and propose this appreciation of his character and patriotism, sweeping reform. It has been delayed long | we seo that the of results of our diplomacy our enough ; yet we shall hall its acegnplishment foreign relations make a meagre display. With even now with a feeling of hisaiilsihee and | muany opportunities for brilliant and wise states- pleasure which every citizen who yalues exist- | manship we look in vain for any exhibition of it, ence would share with us. St. Domingo, Cuba, Mexico, England, Russia, all combine to make a succession of failures which it will be very difficult to explain to the people, In the case of Russia, our noble and mighty friend and almost our ally, we saw | | Emigration From Germany.—The flow of emigrants from the Fatherland continues steadily to increase with the growth of spring. | ; The consolidation of Germany under the em. | how the quarrel of the Secretary with | pire does not tend to stay the outpouring of | a Russian Minister led to such a her children, German unity fails to check | treatment of the Duke Alexis as has emigration to the United States. In a greater | wounded the feelings of the Czar. And ' and more free and prosperous land Hans And | the Catacazy business, in itself trivial, was Gretchen prefer to speak of the far-off Father- permitted to become a source of irrita- land rather than enjoy at home those beauties tion to Russia. The English treaty was, we of which they speak so enthusiastically abroad. a triumph, and we honored Mr. Fish | It would seem, indeed, that distance lends | for the achievement, and felt that he had enchantment to the view, and “The Watch on | crowned his career with one consummate act the Rhine’ is sung with a gusto on the shores | of statesmanship, But the treaty has fallen; | of the Hudson greater than can be expe- all its fruits have turned to ashes, Bitterness | rienced in the Fatherland itself, From | viving the bondage of the Middle Ages, we | | cannot wish it success, cals who rebel against Castellar and Zorrilla, the feeling is general that the cause of Don Carlos is hopeless. In connection with the general question it is interesting to notice the attitude assumed | by the government of President Thiers towards | the Spanish insurrection, The President of the French republic has given the world good reason to believe that he is not opposed ‘to republican institutions. President Thiers, however, knows that the cause represented by | Don Carlos has nothing in common with the | progressive liberalism of the age; he knows that the insurrection in Spain, if successful in | the sense in which its original promoters wish | it to be successful, cannot do good, but evil; | and hence the official decree prohibiting | Frenchmen, under heavy penalties, from taking any part in the Spanish insurrection. It is | gratifying also to know that so enthusiastic a | representative of the divine right principle as | Colonel Charette, formerly in the service of the 1 Pope, has engaged to pfevent the Pontifical troops now in France taking any part in the Spanish struggle. Our news is thus tolera- | bly convincing that in Spain the insurrection | is not rich with promise, and that out of Spain | it commands but little sympathy. As it is not | a fight for liberty, but for the purpose of re- | | | | The Special Sessions Convictions=Judge | Brady's Opinion, The hopes of the two hundred and thirty- | four criminals in the Penitentiary and the House of Refuge that the recently promulgated | opinion of the Court of Appeals as to the un- constitutionality of the Court of Special Ses- sions, in which they were tried and convicted, | would have the effect of freeing them from restraint to prey upon society, were yesterday | dashed to the ground. The decision on the application of their counsel to discharge the entire number of offenders against the peace, } on the ground of the irregularity of the Court | that decreed their incarceration, was rendered by Judge Brady in the Supreme Court yester- | day. It will be found elsewhere in full, and the soundness of its law will be as gratifying to the bar as its conclusions will be to the com- | munity at large. . It saves us from a calamity little worse than the smallpox; for it is an effectual estoppage to a spawning from the that Zorrilla, the friend and private secretary | already too numoerotis Wrongs on law-abiding citizens. We shall have no general jail delivery, as was foared when the Court of Appeals declared the con- stitution of the Special Sessions illegal. ‘The jail birds will still have to wear the plumage and peck at the cages provided for them by the State; for, by the decision of Judge Brady, who, while he bows to the superior authority ofthe Court of Appeals, and recognizes the fact that the Special Sessions was not legafly constituted, goes back to the common law, the criminals sought to be liberated on habeas Corpus are remanded to the City Prison to be tried again. They will, in fact, have to go through the unpleasant but salutary process which first aroused their indignation against the forms and force of law. But while the Judge is properly inexorable in his application of the law as against the re- lease of the criminals, he leaves » loophole for their escape from further punishment by pros- ecution. Those persons applying for leave to withdraw their applications for discharge he will permit to serve out their unexpired terms of imprisonment, and in the case of a hew trial and conviction he suggests that the term syhich haa, already been served shall be cred- ited to éach. It is truly a matter for congratu- lation that the city and State are spared by this decision the terrors which the discharge of so great a number of prisoners from the Peniten- tiary would inflict. The Indian Massacres and the Mis- sourl Lynchings, When the first news of the terrible fight at Going Snake Court House, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, arrived here we pointed to the moral which it taught—namely, that the experiment of 4 Séini-civilized tribal govern- meni for Indiaié Was @ failure. The late mur- der of the United States marsuats bv the In- dions is only the more notable from a hundred othér outrages jn its extent and_barbarity. The sdme forces have been producing similar results for’ years, but it was necessary to havea wholesale butchery on record before pub- lie opinion coujd be moyed to inyostigate. the iiattex” The “Polley tinder which this ex- periment was first tried must be applauded for its humanity. It stretched out a hand to save the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws and other tribes from the inevitable annihilation which awaited them, and they were given an immense tract and special advantagés, to the end that they migh' gradually come up toa standard of civilization which would fit them for mingling with white men by the time that the expansion of population sent its wave over their borders. It is undoubtedly true that some progress has been made; but it has never had a sound foundation. Their isolation was sufficient to retain the savagery of their hearts, and, while letting in a mild Sunday school type of religious feeling, gave space to the worst scum of white civilization to ooze through, bringing whiskey and murder as its twin brothers. As a corrective to the crude state of morals thus engendered a slipshod system of jurisprudence was erected, which as the council of the Indian savage, with all this is consideréd the Going Snake slaughter will not appear ‘very surprising. The elements had long been prepared, even \nothing but a judgé and juty'added. When | AMUSEMENTS. of Music. Those who witnessed the aconos at the Academy of Music last night will not soon forget them, Noveé perhaps in the history of opera was such ontiet stam displayed. Long before tho doors were Open crowds of people had congre. gated anxious to obtain an entrance, As 8008 as an admittance was possible the public poured ia ina constant stream, until there was not left any space where spectators could be accommodated: By eight o'clock the sale of tickets had to be stopped, as the house was crammed to its utmost capacity. If any proof were wanting of the readt- ness of the people of New York to support gooa opera it was furnished last night beyone cavil Certainly the programme was unusi tempting, and the near departure of the celobratea combination company contributed to give im- creased interest to last night's performance, Probably it was the last time that the four great artists who formed the chief strength of the com- pany will ever sing together, The programme also was calculated to present all the artista at their best. one had won well-deserved laurela in the scenes selected for representation, and high as were the by ‘the tc , rut erpecianane formed publ het were justified by the event. Lt ta ti that the over ovine sntic were no’ ‘ainpased to be critical, {vy ible tt @ glance. looks beamed on all faces, and it was evident frou the first moment that the came not to ox- toate rear a er ha ee been af od, “rhe . already well Porn included bir fivet ‘net of «Bon bragea when saat a Moe ne one whiel captul the hearts of the German tion of the mmunity; the second act of « Bohemian Girl; the second act of “I vatore," conolnding with the fourth act of the “ jonota,'? ‘aghtel’s binging of the whip song put the ati 6 co in the best fgmor, and it is uly juatiog to him to say ¢! t he sang it im hf He was in éxcellent voice and ely bea ate we ; nis raing to th leave resaion as 9 on the Ris heatoee rough the ria fosee ta at but his great triumph was achieved in the aria, from “Trovatore”’ “De luella Pira.”’ By one of those magnificent efforts in which he loves to indulge he electrified the house and cured @ rapturous recall which was re} over and again, le, Santley was Anished and effective than ever. His mi 4 vocalization and the quality of tenderness and ° ing which belongs to his singing were never digs layed with so much force and charm. His “4 halen del suorriso” has obtained so great a that it 19, almost necdieas to sav tl it was given in a manner beyond all praise, But it “Waa ia the ct ng of Wallace’s delightful ball “The Heart Bowed Down,” that Santley achiev his great sudcess last By ie The enthusiasm of house wag thoroughly arot and the audienod Ansisted on hig appearing beforg ¢ guitain haifa lozen times. “in tie same ogra Maing Parepay qivaa made a decided hit in the renucting us “Marble Halls,” which she sang with brillancy and exquisite feeling. She exhausted all the re- gow ‘og8 Of her unequalled powers of vocall- ‘ation, and in answer to an enthual astlc recall, sang “The Star Spangled Ban‘ ner,’’ which wwecured for her an ovation, Miss lips here to eavantnge in the rendering “Stride la Vampa”’ which she sings with a force an expressiveness few prime donne can equal. | Carl sang with artistic finish finish and sweetne: in the “Bohemian in the role of Thaddeus Girl.” ee who are conversant with the capabili-’ ties of the combination company will understand how admirably the selections were made to pre- sent each artist at his, or her, best, and the result was such a performance as has rarely, if ever, bee witnessed on this Continent. At the close Carl Rosa was called before the curtain and presented with @ handsome gold mounted tvory baton, Hav- ing bowed his acknowledgements he was about te retire, but was recalled ve the audience and re- turned thanks for the kind and generous support which had been extended to him by the Americaa public and expressing @ hope that’ he would s00m return to America, Union League Theatre—Organ Matinee.’ Mr. Engel gave the second of his interesting organ matinées yesterday, at the Union League Theatre, before a very large and fashionable audience. The Engel organ has now become an institution, not only on account of its inherent merits, but also, and, perhaps, particularly, by the artistic playing of the inventor, The following programme, with a few explanations, will give an idea of the range and the pers ower of fhe instrament and the ability of rmer:—Agnus Dei,” first Mass, Mozart; “Men- | uet,” from the Symphony in E flat, on the j sll organ, Mozart; ‘Echo du Coeur,” pecans le | ene wonderful fect of the Eup! hone Stop in the ginning of this nocturne, is the result of @ néumatic ston, vatented by E. P. Needham; | to blowing the furnace, of hate of thé white | man to a white heat, by the “border | ruffiang’’ whose orimes thereby éscaped pun- | ishment in their refuge with the tribes. With in some bloodless way is called for. march of the railroads cannot be stayed. The increase of demand for transportation will require that Territory to be pierced in two or three directions, and the government must | see that it can be done with safety. If the Territory is to remain intact it must be taken more strongly in hand, and this senti- mental, compromise civilization be put a stop to, Let the Indians feel something of the vigor of our life and be made to conform to its | usages in something more than the very thin form which has hitherto characterized their notions of it. To this end it should be taken | the grasp of jobbers, and a stern code of justice mercilessly dealt out to the ‘border ruffians."’ In ot comments on the ever-receding bor- der land which lies between civilization and barbarism on this Continent we referred to the phases of white and Indian savagery and lawlessness which moved along the line of | this discouraging state of affairs before us the | | necessity of providing for an imminent change | The | | in hand by the United States, kept out of | he echo ¢ifect ‘and the malleability of ex- Pression go necessary in the fender passages of | Jhis plece, cah only be obtained by the e | patented combination of the actions, NG attoalde | March.’ Engel. This mareli, played for the first | time in London, at a party, pleased Garibaldi, wha was brag 80 much, that he asked Mr. Engel to | give it to him for his troops, who, he sald, would ba more encouraged to march by the “inspired strains of this composition.” This is the reason why the | pach ds called “Garibaldi March.” “Home, Sweet | Home," Varié, Engel. The florid variations on | this popular theme are absolutely impossible ow | any ay om without the percussion stop and reeds, which have been made to speak so freely and in- stantaneously, ‘Nocturne,’ Chopin. “A Oon- versation Between a Scotchman and a French Lady,” illustrated on the piano-organ, Engel. One day, when dining with the Duke of Sutherland, in London, Mr. Engel observed the Duke's piper going continually round the house, playing on zealously, until suddenly he stopped for the sake of @ little conversation with the Duchess’ French’ | maid, after which he resumed his playing. This incident is musically illustrated by the above men- Honed piace. S) Mr. Engel es uoes atone from the organ whicl one would think an impossibility on any instrument | without pipes. The percussion effects are extraor- dinary, and seldom has such a full, round, equal | tone been heard on a reed instrument, . In the frst — of the matinée Mr. Engel made some tnterest- ing remarks on the origin of organs. “Organon’® was the name the Greeks gave to every keyed in- | Strument, just as the Jews called every stringed in- | piromens #,“Kinnor.”’ This seems to lead she | supposition that the guitar is really the first in t | line. The first mention In the Bible of an instru- ment Js the kivra, and called in Arabic kitra, This | was Introduced in Spain oy the Moors under the name of kitara. Hence the modern name, guitar., The gypsies brought one of these Instruments inte Hungary, and it was called ‘zither,” where it is@ favorite at the present time. The third and last | matinée takes place on May 7. construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, | FRANZ ABI, | do his whole duty in the matter. future these phases of border life will offer many curious {llustrations; but to the people of our day they present a problem: worthy of | much greater attention than it receives, and on our treatment of which posterity may be called upon some day to pass a verdict the reverse of complimentary to our humanity and | sagacity, command of the Tuscaroca, at Portsmouth Navy and which now threatens to be repeated on the | Northern Pacific. We are glad to notice that | the Sixth United States infantry has been | ordered for duty along the line, and hope they | will prove as formidable to the white despera- | does as to the threatening bands of the Sioux warriors. The “Lynch law'' epoch, which is the sec- ond sinister presentment of advancing civili- zation among us, furnishes us a story of hor- | ror from Missouri, a State long since believed to have passed this fever period. The shoot- | ings of the Cass county bond ‘‘ring”’ are replete with cold-blooded horrors and without any excuse. Civillzation will look to Governor Gratz Brown to have this blot on the fair fame of thé Puke State wiped out in the punishment of the itderers | of Stevenson, Cline and Dutro, who, miscreaitts | as they may have been, were innocent in the | eye of the law, being untried for any offence, We have no doubt that Governor Brown will In a free | government, with the law courts at hand, the | | | red-handed settlement of crime, of whatever | character, is something to be resisted by every one who values the amenities of civilization. In a State like Missouri the lynching of a bond “ring’’ is capable of tar less apology than the | murder of a marshal's posse by the semi-civil- | ized Cherokees or the bloody interference of the Sioux Indians with a railroad which will drive the buffalo from their hunting grounds. To the student of manners and morals in the | | | i | NAVAL ORDERS. Commander Belknap has been ordered to the Regus of w despermty chase, ceady and cager | Yard aud avea tuto commiation on Ug L6th tual, | Standard needed for freedom. | Church in regard t Pit The Reception Arrangements. The Committee of Arrangements of the New York Allgemeine Saengerbund for the reception of Franz Abt, in a conference with Mr. William Steim-, Way yesterday, determined that the torchlight pro-; ceasion and the serenade shall come off on Friday night. The serenade will be given at the Belvidere pets corner of Fifteenth street and adi pieces where the compéser will lodge as the guest of the | Llederkranz Society, The other reception festivi- tles, a xorg pas concert and a “Commers,” will come off at the Saengerbund headquartess, at the Germania Assembly Rooms, we ec gtghe PATHER BURKE AND THE COLORED PEOPLE, ) ‘The Very Rey. Father Burke lectured last evening in 8t, Stephen's church, Twenty-eighth street, om the “Catholic Church as the True Emancipator.” The lecture was in Father Burke's best style and was at times very eloquent. It was an_ histo sketch, to an extent of the position the Churcls bears toward the slave, and an explanation of tl duties of the Church toward those whom she wi disenthr: ho have been disenthralled. Father Burke emipiatically said that the tine for b =a: " pation had not conic 1n ret ‘ime, i Q@ducated up to the. ¢plored people had uot beew ie telah Mase? val lore on the sul Enno ie Societe watery but the lecturer en- t the fact that preparatory education before the war for freedom, should have proved a failure even as an at tirely for down Bont necessarily tempt. FIRE AT PENN YAN, ) ‘The Lower Portion of the Village Nearly’ ‘4 Destroyed. , i Rocuesrer, N. Y,, April 30, 1872/ A very destructive fire broke out in the village of, Penn Yan to-day, Steamers were ordered froug’ Elmira and Canandaigua to suppress the flames, ‘The fire started in a furnace at three o'clock, Ther lower part of the village is badly burned. Over! twenty dwelling houses and about.thirteen stores? mills and machine shops were destroyed, Nearly} every house on Jacob street, up to the back part of Main street, is burned, The fire steamers front Canandaigna arrived in forty-five minutes after ti fire broke out, and did much towards extingu! the flames. ‘The losses are very heavy, but it impossible at this late hour to ascertain their exe tent, THE PACIFIC COAST, SAN FRANCISCO, April 20, 187% The Committee of One Hundred, in executtve; session, is considering the proposition of the St., Louis delegation with reference to building a ratte road on the thirty-fifth paratiel, > The State Board of Harbor Commissioners an- nounce the reduction of harbor ducs, w! i and dockage at Sau Francisco by one-half, as TO~ commended # year ago by (he Chamber of Com PAREGy Paerepa-Rosa’s Farewell at the Acadomy |