The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —_—_—_. All business or news letters and telegraphic desyatches must be addressed New Yoru Heap. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. HE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be in- serted in the WEEKLY Heratp and the European Edition. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- typing ana Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. a Fourteenth street.—Tranian Orena—First grand Lucca Matinee, L'Arnicaie, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, BOOTH'’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Arnau-Na-PoGue.—Matinec. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth etreet— Diamonps—Matince at 14. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ern; or, Burore Tur AmeENDMENTS—New York Burctan. 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CHARLEY @nd Third ay. 17S OPERA HOUSE, Thirty-fourth st. ety ENTERTAINMENT. BAILEY'S GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot Of Houston strect, Eust River, AMERICAN INSTITUTE 64th streeta, AIR, Third av., between 634 . DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Art ano ENCE, NEW YORK MU: SEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broad way.— Aetence anv Ant, New York, Saturday, Oct. 5, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Meraid. LEADING EDITORIAL: “THE MAYORALTY QUES- TION—ARE WE TO HAVE RE. IN THE CITY GOVERNMENT ¢"'—Sixt Page. CABLE TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE—THE JAPANESE EMBASSY TROUBLE—NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—SEVENTH PAGE. MADAME LUCCA VISITS THE INDIANS—MISS KELLOGG IN ITALIAN OPERA—PERSONAL— STANLEY AND THE OMAHA PRESS— SEVENTH PAGE. WHAT THE LEADERS SAY ABOUT THE PENN- SYLVANIA CANVASS—THE RECENT SOL- DIERS' CONVENTION—Firti PaGE. GREAT GRANT GATHERING AND SPEECH OF SENATOR CONKLING, IN BROOKLYN—W, BUTLER DUNCAN ENDORSED FOR MAYOR— THIRD PaGE, IMPORTANT EVIDENCE IN 1HE PATENBURG RIOT [INQUIRY—FIRES IN NEW YORK CIty AND PATERSON, N. J.—SUICIDE—Firra PaGE. BLEEDING ARKANSAS: THE INCEPTION AND PROGRESS OF THE POPE COUNTY RUF- FIANISM—THE DEAN RICHMOND _IN- QUIRY—THE NATIONAL GAME—Fovrra Paar. FAST TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD—JEROME PARK RACES—INDIAN ATROCITY IN HONDURAS : SURPRISE AND PILLAGE OF A BRITISH CAMP—Fourri Pace. AWE WHEELER EXPEDITION: THE ROUTE AND THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED —ERIE'S BROAD GAUGE—JERSEY SOLDIERS’ OR- PHANS’ HOME—SHIPPING—Tentui PAGE, NIAGARA FALLS, SOCIAL! RALLY: AND LORD DUFFERIN \—HANG ING OF AN OHIO MURD DETAILS OF THE CRIME—LIBERAL MASS MEET- ING—TuikD Pace. THE OPERATIONS, QUOTATIONS AND RUMORS ON 'CHANGE—NINTH PAGE. THE REMOVAL OF THE “RING” INDICTMENTS— THE NEWLY APPOINTED SUPERVISORS ASTROUS SCARCITY OF COAL IN ENG- LAND—TWELITH PAGE. Tue Conroyen’s Ticker.—Some reform is needed in the Coroners’ department, and Tam- many will do well to look to it. There are poveral played-out politicians after the nomina- tion. Leaving these out of tho contest the tace will be between Mr. Richard Croker, Mr. Henry Woltman and Dr. John ©. Hannan. The successful prosecution of the highest frade of criminal offences often depends upon tho intelligence and public integrity of the Coroner, and none but a man entirely Rnimpeachable in this respect should ever get the nomination of any party. We await the Brand political inquest to be held on Monday uext for the coming Coroner. Tuy Japaxzse Drevomats who have been living in Washington experienced, it appears, some personal official difficulties among them- Belves which impeded their treaty-making pro- Gress. Iwakura blames Mori as the cause of @ official lapsus, and it is suid that Uyeno been appointed successor to the last- named gentleman, The Mikado will come to {earn new trouble from the management of his executive representation with the outer world, (alent sad Warrep—For immediate uso in Ponneyl- ¥ania, a grand republican howl over the al- ged outrages upon the negroes in Georgia at fhe late election, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, UUTOBER 5, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, Tne Mayoralty Question—Are We To Have Real Reform in the City Gove ernment t Many of the most prominent and worthy members of the original Committee of Seventy have proclaimed, through the columns of the Henan, their appreciation of the high personal character of William Butler Duncan, the pro- posed candidate for Mayor of New York, and of his eminent qualifications for the position. Some of them, whose political attachments are evidently stronger than their affection for reform, object at present to pledge themselves to support him by their votes, indicating that they may go with the political machine if it should require them to declare for any other candidate; but all agree that Mr. Duncan is a gentleman whose election is desirable, and that it would be a good omen for the city should such a nomination be made by a powerful po- litical organization. This being admitted, we think all our readers will give us credit for honesty of purpose in earnestly pressing the name of Mr. Duncan upon the democratic party for its acceptance. In so doing we have but one object in view—to secure at this event- ful crisis in the career of the city a chief magistrate whose integrity is unquestionable, whose capacity is admitted, and whose char- acter and position would insure the harmony, efficiency and honesty of all the municipal departments. The Heratp commenced tly: discussion of the Mayoralty question some months ago, when the attention of party journals was con- centrated on the management of political con- ventions and the chances of Presidential tickets. We entered the field thus early in order that the people might have ample oppor- tunity to canvass the merits of the names from time to time suggested for nomination, to reflect upon the importance of the interests involved, and to obtain an insight into the designs and intrigues of the several cliques, factions and individuals who would be cer- tain to contend for the prize. We resolved that we would do our best to defeat the schemes of the political wire-pullers, who were evidently anxious to postpone the Mayoralty nominations till the eleveuth hour, in the hope of depriving the people of the power to suc- cessfully oppose any candidates forced upon them through corrupt bargains or selected through eyil influences. In carrying out this policy we have been careful to ignore all per- sonal considerations, We suggested and urged the name of John Grenville Kane, ono of the lepresent Dock Commissioners, for the office, because we knew him to be a gentleman of education, integrity, good social position and remarkable executive capacity, and we should have been gratified if either of the great political parties had seen fit to adopt him as its candidate. But we put forward also a number of other names, all supposed to be unobjectionable, and should readily have given our support to any acceptable nominee who might have entered the field with a foir prospect of success, Later on in the campaign, however, the danger of dissersions in one party and of corrupt trading and bargaining in the other began to loom up in the distance, and it became evident that the people were likely to be used as shuttlecocks, to be tossed to and fro from one political battledore to the other. We then recognized the necessity of concentrating upon some candidate whose name would command attention and respect — acandidate who could not fail to eulist all honest reformers and all good citizens in his support. William Butler Duncan was pre- ewinently such a man, and his availability was the greater because of his well-known democratic principles. The democracy is ad- mittedly tho strongest party in the city, and ean only be defeated by its own fatuity in making improper nominations or through corrupt bargains and fraudulent voting under cover of national election laws of doubtful expediency. With honest candidates in the field and a fair expression of the people's will the democratic majority in New York is un- questionably many thousands. We should support Mr. Duncan just as readily on a republican or reform as on a democratic ticket, for with the Hrnary, as an independent journal, men are everything and parties noth- ing. Nevertheless, we recognize the propriety, all things being equal, of the election of a Mayor in political accord with the large ma- jority of the people of the city. Not to do so would be to ignore and outrage popular sover- eignty. Mr. Duncan being honest and capa- ble is the more acceptable because he is a dem- ocrat, and hence we urged his selection upon the leaders of the democracy. For some time the nomination was absolutely refused, but there is now, we understand, a prospect of Mr, Duncan's acceptance in the interest of the city, not of the politicians, and we call upon the reformed democratic party to give evidence of its regeneration by placing his name before the people as their next Mayor. The republican partisan organs, as a matter of course, object to the endorsement of Mr. Duncan by the reform associations; but the fact that they are republican organs—that their columns are filled daily with fierce and bitter partisan attacks upon all who are politically their opponents, that they denounce all demo- crats and liberals indiscriminately and would refuse to accept any candidate not of their own political stripe—should preclude any sin- cere and honest reform organization from heeding their counsel, Such journals are not disinterested in their advocacy of reform; they seek only to turn the reform movement to their own party advantage, They know that Messrs. Tilden, Belmont, O’Conor, Schell, Kelly and other democrats now ruling the organization were thé means of carrying the city in the cause of reform last year; that the unfaithful and corrupt officials were crimi- nally indicted through the fidelity of a democratic Judge; that the democratic Dis- trict Attorney pushed the prosecutions with a vigor that called forth the encomium of the Grand Jurors, who had narrowly watched his action for forty or fifty days, and the endorse- ment of a legislative commitice raised to in- vestigate his official conduct. Nevertheless they desire to shut the door of reform agninst any person who will not give open support or secret aid to their own political party, and insist | with cool effrontery that no democratic candi- | date, however unexceptionable, shall be ac- cepted by the reformers of the city, who em- | brace members of all parties. They endeavor | to raise prejudice against the democratic or- fantzation by selecting the names of meme snpposed to bé objectionable, and holding | them up as fair specimens of thé regenerated has bad men in its ‘ranks, and the dominant organization in a city is certain to be well supplied with the offensive element. In Philadelphia the thieves, rowdies and re- peaters are the especial property of the repub- licans; and in this city there are many bad characters in both parties outside those who are daily denounced by the partisan organs as thieves, liars, swindlers and felons. When such an excellent nomination as that of Wil- liam Butler Duncan is made by a political organization it is a proof that the bad element therein is powerless and that the influence of good and honest men prevails, Standing aloof from political parties, having no interest or concern in the intrigues of this or that clique or faction, indifferent whether Grant or Greeley be President or whether Kernan or Dix be Governor, anxious only for the progress and prosperity of the city, the Heratp claims the right to speak in the cause of true reform. Our interest in the city is at least as great as that of any other business establishment within its limits. We depend not upon parties, but upon the people; we look not to the interests of parties, but to the interests of the people, The growth of the city—of its population, ils commerce and its wealth—is ._ our growth. Our advertising columns and _ circulation, swelling steadily year after year, aro un- mistakable evidence of the fact. Whilea party organ may depend for its very existence upon the success of its political candidates, and may be the more prosperous in proportion to the unscrupulousness of its friends in power, the Heraup finds its security and profit in the good government of the city. It is on this account that we demand at the hands of political parties and reform parties a genuine reform in the municipal government, and in- sist that the people shall no longer be de- frauded by political traders and schemers who make a false pretence of virtue to hide their selfish designs, In advocating William Butler Duncan as the nominee of the democracy we do so because we know him to be honest and capable, and we know that the great democratic vote insures his election. No truthful man will pretend that Mr, Duncan could be beaten with a democratic nomination and a reform endorsement. That being the case, if he is an acceptable reform candidate it is clearly the duty of all reformers to endorse him. The Committee of Seventy admit him to be strictly honest and capable, only some of them prefer Mr. Havemeyer. Mr. Havemeyer will not be nominated by the democrats and Mr. Duncan will be, Is it the duty of sinceré reformers to split their party and risk the defeat of both reform candidates? We do not believe Mr. Havemeyer could be elected. Very few people besides himself imagine he could escape defeat. Ifhe insists on making himself the candidate of the committee to which he be- longs, the best he can do is to eleét James O'Brien, Well, if James O’Brien should prove a successful Mayor Mr. Havemeyer will be entitled to the credit of his administration as having been the cause of his election. If, on the other hand, O'Brien's Mayoralty should provea failure, then Mr. Havemeyer will be held responsible for all itsacts, and the Committee of Seventy will be set down as a body of in- triguing amateur political wire-workers, who have been using the cry of reform only as a means of carrying out their own selfiaa objects or of gratifying their own offensive vanity. The Bank of England Patting on the Screws. The announcement that the Bank of Eng- land had raised the rate of discount from four anda half to five per cent has created little surprise. The tendency to a considerabz out- flow of specie from that institution of late has caused the managers to raise the rate of dis- count several times, and now, with a decrease _of over half a million sterling during the past week, it has been deemed necessary to put on the screws again in order to check this drain. The Bank has now made the rate of discount five per cent, which is uncommonly high and approaches the rate during war times or dur- ing an extraordinary commercial or monetary crisis. Still, as there is no such crisis at pres- ent or any apprehension, apparently, of one, it is evident there are other causes operating to induce such action on the part of the bank. One of these, we suppose, is the demand for specie to pay the drafts of France for the war indemnity to Germany. Then there has been of latea considerable flow of specic into the Bank of France, in consequence of the large export, fa- vorable and healthy, trade of the French. Another, and, perhaps, the most effective cause, is the vast amount of capital that is being transferred to the United States, to- gether with the prospect of large exportations from this country of cotton and other prod- ucts. The tendency of capital to flow to the United States, where there are such splendid opportunities for investment and a high rate of interest, may be temporarily checked by such action of the Bank of England, but it can only be temporary. The financial centre of the world is gradually and certainly being transferred to New York. Capital will neces- sarily seek the country where it is most needed and affords the greatest profit. It must follow the progressive and astonishing devel- opment of a country so full of resources and with such a promise of unparalleled prosper- ity in the future. This law of progress will soon prove more powerful than the Bank of England, and it will not be many years be- fore the United States must become inde- pendent of its influence in financial mat- ters. A Nexpress Atanm.—The administration journals have, it appears, made the astounding discovery that the Greeley leaders are prepar- ing at Washington a tremendous bombshell, filled with all sorts of destructive combustibles, against the administration, and that it is to be exploded upon the republican party on or be- fore Monday next, with the idea of surprising and scattering the administration forces right and left in Tuesday's elections, Well, for the last half century, in every Presidential cam- paign, we have had these alarms, and these electioneering “Roorbachs,"’ as they are called, but we do not remember that in any case they have done any damage to cither side, When the minds of the people are made up, one way or the other, they are not going to be deceived on the eve of election day or on the morning | of the battle by paper scarecrows or by Chinese fongs and fiery dragons, The scheming poli- ticians are the only parties fooled in these silly democracy, But every political arty! experiments upon an intelligent people Thiers and the Permanency of the French Republic. If we may credit the telegraphic despatches, M. Thiers is about to return to his first love and appear as the confessed supporter of the Republic. Since the 4th of December, when the republicans seized the reins of power from the paralyzed imperialists, the government of France has been provisoire. It has been essentially a government of compromise, in which nothing was certain. The temper of the army, the fears of the people, conjured np by the spectre of the Oommune, militated against the hearty acceptance of the Republic by the French nation. But the experiment that France has made of governing herself under the guidance of Thiers has been attended with so much success that the veteran statesman is of opinion that the provisional condition of the Republic may safely be brought to an end. Under the popular government crime has been punished with a rigor almost unknown under the Empire, and the people have been made to understand that order and liberty can be maintained without the interposition of a Cwsar. This has been the severest blow administered to the mon- archists. So long as the bourgeois and peas- ants could be persuaded that the Republic was synonymous with rapine and disorder they could be relied upon to support a Bourbon or a Napoleon indifferently, if only he would secure to them their beloved order. Now that by practical experience they know that equal security can be obtained under a government which extends to them a larger amount of per- sonal liberty than they have hitherto enjoyed, the enthusiasm of these classes for royalty has been sensibly diminished. On the other hand, the republicans, for the first time in many years, are at liberty to advocate their opinions, and the elections held from time to time show clearly that they are gaining rapidly in popular favor. While all other parties in the State aro losing in- fluence with the people, the position of the republicans becomes stronger day by day. The monarchists find that the tables are turned on them and that the immense con- servative neutral party in France, that always supports the existing government, has trans- ferred its allegiance to the Republic. It is now the monarchists who are the intriguers, conspirators and disturbers of that sacred “order” about which they were wont to talk so glibly. The Republic is the emblem of peace, and those who wish to overthrow it are the party that invoke civil war. In presence of the sacredness which the imperialists in- voked for accomplished facts, they find it diffi- cult to attempt the overthrow of the Republic. Tho royalist chambers have completely lost in- fluence with a country they have long ceased to represent. They are rather the semblance of a representative assembly than a reality, and M. Thiers thinks the moment opportune to declare the permanence of the Republic. In this the old statesman displays his accustomed shrewdness, Any attempt to change the government of France would end in civil war, while all parties are likely to acquiesce in the continuance of the Republic. The army, which was the chief danger, has been reconciled to the change, and will now shoot down imperialists or royalists with the sume good will it displayed in its support of the Empire. We in America will wish the experiment suc- cess, because we believe that in the adoption of a truly liberal and representative govern- ment the French nation will find the surest safeguards against those political paroxysms which have earned for France an unenviable notoriety. The Dean Richmond Investigation: From the testimony of the engineer of the Dean Richmond we learn that it is a common thing for steamboat boilers to burst. He tells usalso that the iron. where the fracture oc- curred, was only one-sixteenth of aninch thick. Nearly a year before the explosion the boiler had been inspected, since which time the steamer had been for several months laid up. In his opinion boilers are more apt to rust when not used than when kept running. He thought rust weakened and thinned the iron and caused the bursting on this occasion, A fireman testified that he was cautioned just before the explosion not to put the slice bar through the boiler iron when he sliced the fire. The testimony showed that boilers are expected on the Hudson River boats to stand for ten years. The one which cracked was seven years old and had been extensively re- paired, the legs having ‘‘soft patches.’’ Cap- tain Christopher said the Richmond had a wonderful safeguard in a recording gauge, which was out of order. It was not shown whether the fireman actually induced the rup- ture of the boiler by piercing it with the slice bar, When the iron was so thin it was cer- tainly considerate in the cautious engineer to give instructions to handle it gently. After reading the evidence passengers will wonder that such boilers do not explode on every trip, and give due credit to the officers who carry them without disaster amid such thronging dangers, Tre Prestpext ann THe Bourson Drmo- crats,—We hear from Washington that the President places a high estimate on the nomi- nations of the Louisville Convention, O’Conor and Adams, and that, from the Bourbon dem- ocratic movement in their support, he would not be surprised if Kentucky were carried by the republicans, because he is advised that the Bourbon element in that State is very strong and will not vote for Greeley. General Grant has received similar reports from Virginia, especially from the old State rights democratic tide-water counties. In our judgment, how- ever, the Presidential issue hinges upon these impending October State elections, and we dare say that after Tuesday next the Bour- bon Presidential ticket will quietly disappear, and that the Bourbons will be divided between Grant and Greeley. On all sides it is cheerfully admitted that Charles O’ Conor and John Quincy Adams are men eminently qualified for Prosi- dent and Vice President ; but the great battle is between Grant and Greeley ; and men of all parties and factions, Bourbons and all, are taking their positions accordingly. New York Crry, nothwithstanding the hue and cry to the contrary, has had during the last thirty years many good Mayors ; but, with- j out injustice to the best of them, not one of thom asa candidate came before the people with a better record or better qualifications for the office than those possessed by William | Butlor Duncan, Ee Horse Racing in America=The Jerome | A Retrospective Glance at Opera in Park Meeting. The Fall meeting at Jerome Park, which opened so auspiciously on Wednesday last, will hold its second festival to-day. As the world of fashion has decided that this is one of the occasions where it is not ‘the thing’’ to be missed, we feel assured thet it will pour out its thousands according to its wont, and make the beautiful grounds that enclose the track more beautiful still. Nature in its loveliness must be supplemented by humanity to make even horse racing enjoyable, and the refining influence of the fairer sex can be spared least of all. On Wednesday the racing was of the finest and the weather all of glad sunshine, mild breezes and blue sky that the most dainty could desire. The attendance was very fair, and, with the history of that day of enjoyment already recorded, it will need the most threatening weather and the flight of all gallantry from the bosom of man to hinder lovely woman, in all the warm glory of the Autumn modes, from gracing the piazza of the Club House and the raised benches of the Grand Stand. The weather will scarcely dare to frown to-day, and America in its Man is happy in his courtesy, so that we look forward to chronicling a joyous, brilliant throng and a slashing day of sport in a perfect roll of felicitous phrasings. The American Jockey Club, which is the medium through which the gods dispense their equine favors in the present case, is in a flourishing condition, with a roll of fifteen hundred members, this year’s additions numbering one hundred and forty. It is gratifying to note how the patrons of the turf unite in their endeavors to to make it as popular as it deserves. Such gentlemen as Messrs. Belmont, Travers and Jerome have done much to place it thus favor- ably before the public, and, in providing a chance for city-bound humanity to breathe pure air while catching a dash of exhilaration ‘as the fleet coursers stretch for the goal, havo earned a claim on our recognition. A view of their work, although one in which interest may not be so general, is the perfec- tion being reached in the breeding and train- ing of blooded horses. A slight consideration of how this reacts to improve the breed of horses throughout the land would at once point its importance; but our business now is more with the racing generally than the racers, and we are content merely to mention it, Horse racing on this Continent was once one of the great sports of the South, where the wealthy planters thought as much of a blooded horse as a small plantation. It was banishod along with others of the games which en- livened Southern life when the war burst forth. The blooded horse was wanted then for other work, as if turning back to the fabled time when, at the call of Mars, the horse, with flashing eyes, distended nostrils, streaming mane and smoking flanks, camo bounding from the earth, an emblem of the blasting fields of war. And heavily did the hoofs of those Southern chargers under Southern leaders sweeping around our legions tell us where the North was at a disad- vantage in the poorly bred horses it had brought into the field. Since the war has closed horse racing in the Northern States has been steadily gaining in favor, and right glad we are to say that in the crushed and broken South the sport of tho turf is once more holding up its head, It is a noble sport and well worthy the attention of the people to-day, as it has fasci- nated men and women for thousands of years, How the horse in his strength and speed and symmetry was admired by the ancients we need but refer to the fine description of the heavenly coursers of Achilles, over which Homer fairly gloats as ho sings their praises in his sounding lines. We can still see in fancy the five-mile four-horse chariot races of the Olympic games upon the plain of Elis, with the half- clad Greeks guiding the rushing steeds in their giddy flight, while all Greece stood looking on, and waking the echoes of the sacred wood where stood tho temple of the Olympian Jove. Or can we not sce the youth of Rome hurry from their luxurious ease in the baths of Caracalla to watch or join the charioteers in the excitement of the curriculum, with the wealth and beauty of the Eternal City sharing its fiercer joy and making the glittering scene more gor- geous still? All this has passed away, but Rome to-day, not all forgetful of its equine glory, yet shows its race of riderless horses in bright trappings among the dying splen- dors of the carnival as they dash magnifi- cently along the Corso. If the sport was neglected in the Middle Ages it was only because the horso was almost made ao portion of the stately knight who used him in grim sport at the tourney and who in the Crusades only learned to value the Arab blood because the Moslem horsemen swooped down on them in whirlwind force and showed them their heels so swiftly when it was dangerous to stay. Europe to- day has revived the “turf,” and the gather- ings of Epsom, Doncaster and Goodwood in England are vied with in the assemblies at Chantilly, Vincennes or Baden Baden. At Jerome Park to-day the sport will be of a high class, and, as it is within easy reach by rail, will draw thousands who cannot spare the time or money to enjoy the rond. If there is anything wanting in these races it is a space where the admission prices would be lower than the present rates, and where the masses might come to enjoy a day of innocent pleasure and good sport without a sacrifice. Let Phoebus, then, look kindly from his fiery chariot in the skies to-day, Crime iN Inetanp anv tnx Home Prr- PLEXITIES OF THE InisH.—Ireland is again excited by the opposing agencies which have produced so much grief and misery to her people during very many years—agrarian out- rage and political agitation for local legisla- tion. Connaught moves for tho “wild justice of revenge;’’ Munster is agitated for the pur- pose of obtaining an alteration of the constitu- tion of the British Kingdom. Several land. owners have just been shot at and other gross outrages perpetrated in the county of Mayo. In Limerick Mr, Isaac Butt proposes ogain his project for achange in the Act of Union with England. The material and industrial home interests of the Green Isle suffer severely between the extremes, and that, too, as the moment for the opening of the session of the Imperial Parliament approaches, The Irish still suffer in Ireland, so the ¢ migrant exodus rush to America is still a national and almost natural movements America. " Tho change that has taken place in the cone dition of music here since the time when the Whitehall boatmen rested on their oars be- neath the windows of the brilliant Castle Garden and listened to the magic voice of Lind or Grisi, is remarkable and encouraging. During these twenty years the operatic stage presents a history almost as varied and kaleidoscopic. as that of Mexico, Whon we look back to that magnificent troupe fromt Havana, which numbered in its ranks such artists as Bosio, Steffanone, Bertucca, Salvi, De Vries, Beneventano, Lorini and Marini, it seems incredible that such a company should not bea financial success. We find these artists in the Spring of 1852 divided into hostile bands, one styling itself a ‘Protective Union" ond hurling defiance from Niblo’s Garden at their late manager Maretzek, who entrenched himself with the faithful few at the Astor Place Opera House. The natural consequence of such blind opposition came in the shape of an empty treasury on both sides. Two bright luminaries of the lyric stage, Alboni and Sontag, shone for o season before the opening of the Academy of Music under Mr. James Hackett’s management, with Grisi and Mario as the attractions. Lagrange, Frezzolini, Vestvali and Castellan were the novelties of the season following, and to them succeeded Parodi, D’Angri and Gassier. When Ullmann brought out Piccolomini in 1858 it was thought that the sensational announcements made by the indefatigable little manager would carry the season through in triumph; but the public refused to be hoodwinked. Maurice Stra- kosch next took the reins of management, depending upon Gazzaniga and Golson as attractions, but the season resulted unfavor- ably, Adelina Patti made her début in opera with this company in 1859, and saved the season. Maretzek at that time had possession of the Winter Garden Theatre, with Gassier and Fabbri as tho principal features of his company. Another ‘‘Artists’ Association’’ was obliged to take up the waning cause of opera at the Academy of Music, and appointed Muzio as director.. In 1861 the principal feature of interest was the début of Miss Kel- logg. Then followed during the succeeding years Medori, Zucchi, Parepa Rosa, Peralta and Minnie Hauck, under the management of Maretzek; and Noel Guidi, Boschetti and Cash Pollini, under Grau’s direction. Tho destruction of the Academy of Music by fire on the night of May 21, 1866, compelled a temporary change of locale to the Winter Garden Theatre. Since théfirst season after the opening of the new Opera House Italian opera languished so as to excite the gravest doubts of the possibility of revival, until the brilliant Nilsson season again gave it new life and strength. Tho present season has opened so auspis ciously, and the prestige of the rare abilities of Mme. Lucca is so potent, that one may safely predict a long and prosperous career for Italian opera in this city. When we look back at the seasons during which the artists we have mentioned above made their appearance we find a sorry spectacle of managerial wrecks. The unapproach- able troupe from Havana failed most lamentably even to make expenses, although they charged but ‘fifty cents’’ for aticket. An impresario, nowadays, might be assured of a crowded house every night at four or five dol- lars a seat, had he but one of that unexampled combination of artists. The reason of this change is obvious. Music has since that time become a necessity to the household; conser- vatories and schools have multiplied and brought forth abundant fruit; and charlatan- ism and needless speculation in operatic mat- ters have given way to a wise, liberal and ear- nest management. Italian opera bids fair to take firm root this time and to flourish, not as an exotic, but an evergreen. We have an un- failing supply of rich talent for the lyrio stage in the undeveloped resources of American vocalists, many of whom have won their lau- rels in Europe against all competitors, Whon the fair Lucca is obliged to leave us and to quit the shores on which she has received such a hearty welcome, we are promised, in the re- turn of Adelina Patti, another operatic sensa- tion. Thus, year after year, the public interest in Italian opera may be kept up until New York will rival London and St. Petersburg as a centre of art and musical attractions. People that have been instructed in the highest and best works of the classical masters by such competent and faithful teachers as Theodore Thomas and his orchestra, the Philharmonic Society and numerous organizations of chamber music, may be regarded as intelli- gent and discriminating judges of all that pertains to art. Hence the interest and atten- tion with which the teachings of Rubinstein and Wieniawski are received and the liberality of spirit shown towards the opera. Ten years more will bring forth changes in the condi- tion of music in this country that will astonish even the most sanguine, Arrams In Japan.—Our latest news from Washington regarding the state of affairs in Japan leaves us still in doubt and difficulty, Minister Mori puts a good face on things—tho best face possible perhaps. Itis evident, how- ever, that Minister Mori is as much afraid as we are that things are not as he would like them to be in Japan. It is well to tell us that the Tannois anxious toconciliate the old party, and that all the interruption of business is the result of a slight change in the Japan- ese Cabinet. We aro most anxious to think that Minister Mori is giving us a fair and full view of the case, but we cannot got rid of the conviction that he is de sirous to get homo because it is no longer agreeable to represent in Washington o policy which is no longer sustained at headquarters. We wish well for Japan; but we fear that reform in that country is not to be so much of a world’s wonder after all. The sudden trans- formation of Japan was a miracle; but tho age of miracles is past. zi Posrmastan Gmnenan Onnswert haa res turned to Washington from a political recon- noissance ‘out West,’’ with the opinion that in Ohio the republican State ticket will be elected on Tuesday next by a handsome majority. Mr. Greeley, from his reeent prospecting tour through that State, speaking for Greeley and Brown, says, ‘Ohio is with us.’’ Who shall | decide when such doctors disagree? The peox t ple, and we await their judgment i