The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1872, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. YHE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the ‘year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription AMUSEMENTS T0-nORROW EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Dyxie. Afternoon and ra FIFTH AVENUE THEA aT Evenvaopy's . Twenty-fourth street.— WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ana ‘hirteent! street.—Oun Axenican Cousi ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street.—Tratiay Orxna—Don Giovanat. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, S8th st., between Lex- Jngton and 34 avs.—Orena—lt. Trovarors. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway,.—Kinu or Car- mors. ‘ BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, coraer Sixth savenue.—Romuro anv JULU BOWERS THEATRE, Bower ry.—Pireiss’ grrat—t. 0. U. | GRAND OPERA I10UsI jav.—RorCanorrr, UNION SQUARE THEAT! feenth and Fourteenth stre OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadw Jana Bleecker sts.—ALADDIN THe SECON MRS F. B CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. 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IS THE REPUBLIC TO BE SHORN OF HER PHYSICAL GLORY?” — LEADER — E1cuTH ‘ Paar. BERIOUS CONSEQUENCES BY THE EUROPEAN GALES! ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR VES- SELS WRECKED! HEAVY 1088S OF LIFE! HURRICANE IN DENMARK! AN ISLAND SUBMERGED AND ALL ITS INHABITANTS DROWNED—NintH Paar. THE FIRST SNOW STORM OF THE SEASON!—NO NEWS OF THE ARIZONA—AMUSEMENTS— WASHINGTON—NINTH PaGeE. )GERMANY DISCOURAGING EMIGRATION! IM- PERIAL ORDER DIRECTING FULL FARES ON RAILWAYS AND NO BAGGAGE F! A SPECIAL POLICE TO CHECK THE STRE. AM AT THE FOUNTAIN HEAD—NINTH PAGE. ‘a HORRIBLE BURGLARY! AN ENTIRE FAMILY MANACLED AND THEIR HOUSE FIRED! ONE VICTIM BADLY BURNED! NO CLEW TO THE RUFFIANS—FirtH Pace. /SRAND POLICE RAID! CONCERT SALOONS CLEANED OUT! HOW IT WAS DONE: SCENES IN THE SALOONS AND AT THE STATIONS: THE ARRESTS—FirtH PAGE. BOSTON REBUILDING! NO MORE TINDER- TOPPED EDIFICES! INSURANCE COM- PANIES DOOMED: WHAT HAS BEEN DONE WITH THEIR RECEIPTS? HAR- VARD'S LOSSES—TWELFTH PAGE. EFFECTS OF THE BOSTON FIRE ON THE INSURANCE INTERESTS ! LES LEARNED—FIRE UNDERWRITERS—i. DR. SMITH’S TAKING OFF: HIS WwIDow AND DAUGHTER RELEASED—FIirTH Pace. ‘EUROPEAN CABLE NEWS! SPANISH REVOLU- TIONARY AGITATIONS : OUR WAR SHIPS ABROAD: EUGENIE’S FETE : AMADEUS PASSES A “BAD NIGHT”: BISMARCK RE- COVERING—NINTH Pace. FIGHTING FIRE! A UNITED STATES ENGINEER ON THE “BLOWING UP’? PROCESS: GIANT POWDER AND DUALIN AS SAFEGUARDS— TENTH PaGE. BRITISH OPINION OF THE HORRORS OF THE EAST AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE—A CHILD MURDERESS—TenTH Pace. THE DROPSICAL CONDITION OF THE HORSES! ACONITE THE CAUSE: VALUABLE STOCK DEFUNCT—HIPPOGRAPHS—ELEVENTH PaGeE. PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS! SUIT BY AN APPOINTEE OF “OLD HICKORY: POS- TAGE STAMPS AS PROPERTY: ROSA M’CABE’S SANITY: BLOOD UP: LAGRAVE, THE ALLEGED SWINDLER: DECISION: THE SuxTH Pace. BUSINESS AND QUOTATIONS IN THR WALL STREET MARKETS! FAIR HANK STATE- MENT: FIVE-TWENTIES LOWER IN LON. DON: GOLD AND STOCKS FIRM—ELEVENTH Pace. ITALIAN OPERA IN THE METROPOLIS !—LUCCA'S MARGUERITE: OTHER NUTED IMPERSONA- TIONS OF THE ROLE: TRUTH ABOUT MUSIC: MANAGERIAL TROULLES—SEVENTH PacE. DOINGS OF THE LITERATI—THE DERBY-EVRARD ART COLLECTIO! MISSOURI—FIENDISH EFFORTS TO THROW A TRAIN FROM THE TRACK—THE COLCHI- CUM POISONING—SrventH Pace. THE NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN CANVASSES— MISSIONS ! SOUTHERN NEGROE 3 CATHOLIC—SECURING EFFIC NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT : INERS APPOINTED—TENTH Pace. HERALD RELIGIOUS RECORD! SERVICE GRAMME FOR THE DEVOUT: EPISTLES ; PRO- POLEMICAL PRESBYTERIAN TERCENTE- NARY: CLERICAL CHANGES—THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE—THIRTEENTH PAGE. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT—THE JERSEY | CITY MURDER—LOCAL ELEVENTH Pace. PARAGRAPHS — ‘Tae Weer 1x Wau Srreet was remarkable for the tapering down of the excitement that followed the Boston fire to a dulness greater than that of the preceding week. Stocks un- derwent a smart rally from the ‘break’ of Monday, and left off nearly as they closed the before the fire. Gold wasstrong and closed at 113§. Money was active and tight all the week, but was casicr at the close, have ceased to be perennial. REAL ESTATE | “RING” INDICTMENTS— | country is beginning to excite attention abroad in connection with the natural advantages that the United States will offer to future immi- gration, Our Madrid correspondent writes in a recent letter that “Spain now suffers from the want of wood, which was recklessly cut down, and Madrid owes its eminence, as the most unhealthy city in Europe, to the removal of the glorious forests which once surrounded it.” A London contemporary, in commenting upon the tremendous ravages of the sottler's axe in America, compares this wholesale strip- ping the Republic's soil of its timber to Delilah’s robbing Samson of the secret of his strength. The idea is not a bad one, espe- cially if we consider what science has now demonstrated, that there is a close connection between the extent of forests and the amount of rainfall, and that the tiny raindrop itself represents an amount of force which beggars the ancient giant's. The average annual rain- fall of Great Britain is about twenty-five inches; yet it is computed by all scien- tists that the force-equivalent of all the coal mised at the present yield in the English coal mines for a thousand years would not be sufficient, if converted into heat, to produce England's rain supply for single year. ‘To produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of snow which a child could carry demands, says Tyndall, an exertion of energy competent to gather up the largest stone ava- lanche and pitch it to twice the Alpine height from which it fell; and, in this view, the removal of trees may be regarded as beyond the power of expression, exhaustive and fatal to the agricultural life of the country. We are not unaware that a few scientific writes have disputed the proposition that the vegetation of @ country affects its climate. But the facts strongly confirm it. It is certain that within the historic period many climatic changes, ex- plicable in no other way, have occurred. In Italy the modern clearing of the Apennines is universally believed to have altered the climate of the rich Po valley, where now the scirocco, unknown 1. the armies of ancient Rome, breathes its deadly breath of flame over the right bank of that classic stream, in the terri- tory of Parma. The later removal of the pine forests near Ravenna, the ‘immemorial wood’ in which Dante roamed, induced the blighting ravages of this wind until the wood had been allowed to grow again, when the evil was abated. The destruction of the Vosges forests was observed to sensibly deteriorate the famous fertility of Alsace; and it is also an historic fact that the deforesting of the Cevennes, in the reign of Augustus, left the large and rich tracts near the mouth of the Rhone exposed to the before unheard-of mis- tral, or northwest wind, before which the area of olive culture retreated many leagues, and that of the orange culture became restricted and profitless, even where it had formerly been most prolific. The present physical con- dition of the classic countries around the Mediterranean shores unquestionably belies the glowing descriptions given by ancient geographers and historians of their pristine verdure and fertility. Rivers famous in song and story have shrunk to insignificant stream- lets, and many of these celebrated watercourses Indeed, it can hardly be doubted, even if we had no satisfac- tory explanation of the fact, that this disrob- ing of the earth} if allowed to go on, will, in the lapse of years, reduce its fair and salu- brious bosom to the aspect of a South American ano, to borrow the fine figure of Humboldt, **dead and rigid, like the stony crust of a des- olated planet.’’ The necessity of forests, to prevent the rapid evaporation from the soil and its consequent hardening and baking, is obvious. This all-important end is ac- complished by retarding the winds, which desiccate the land, while the leafy canopy condenses the floating vapors and causes | them to descend in fertilizing showers, so that all hyetal charts show that wooded re- gions have more and more equally distributed moisture than the prairies. We know that mountains act as condensers, partly by tilting | or deflecting upward the passing vapor-laden air current into a higher region, where it can more freely radiate its heat into space and be condensed, and partly by the direct agency of their chilly brows. Why should not the trees act in producing a similar result? We know that in sections of rainless country, as in Egypt, the planting of trees has been rewarded by unexpected and before unknown rainfall. In this last mentioned land of a former great- ness, in 1798 and '99, during the French occu- pation, for sixteen months not a drop of rain fell, but since Mohammed Ali has covered the vast bed of sand with millions of fig and orange trees it is now no longer dependent on | constantly impending in Europe—and to the Nile irrigation, but is blessed and fructi- | fied with an annual rainfall of several inches. This question certainly assumes national im- portance in this country when we look at the rapid strides of the emigrant march to the West and the great Territories of the extreme Northwest. The white pine is the most valu- able lumber tree of America, and yet the an- nual receipts of it at Chicago alone exceed eight hundred million feet. It is estimated by careful statisticians that the railways require, annually, at least twelve million feet of hardwood timber for ties alone. Others have computed the annual clearance in the United States to be over two million five hundred and fifty-five thousand acres, and the locomotive consump- tion at seven million cords of logs im a year, which is the product of five hundred acres per day. Enormous as such estimates are, they are small compared with what they may be in the next twenty years. Pliny said, ‘“The begin- nings of a river are insignificant and its in- fancy frivolous.’’ ease with the greatest rivers of our Continent and those of South America. The head waters of the Amazon, high up amid the snowy sum- | mits of the Andes, would scarcely run our mills ; the fountains of our great Ohio, Colum- bia, Missouri and ‘‘the Father of Waters” are feeble rills, scarcely distinguishable to the explorer. Is it impossible that many of our now noble streams—not less valuable to our people than the gold-laden waters of the Pac- tolus, that ran down on the plains of Sardis— may be dwarfed or dried up? If the pro- cess of deforesting continues at its present accelerated rates a quarter of a century longer, what is to hinder the land from enter- Such is emphatically the } ing upon a long era of physical degeneracy and climatic deterioration that must sap its industrial and even its intellectual energies? It is even now almost too late to retrieve the early follies of precipitate and reckless denu- dation of the virgin soil. Fortunately for the country, especially in the far Northwest and in the portions of Ore- gon and Washington Territory west of the coast range, there yet remain vast seas of forest—lignite, fir, oak and the mighty pine— from which may be hewn spars fit . To be the mast Of some great ammiral: and soon this whole section must loom up as the timber and lumber trade centre of the Continent. Fortunately, too, the authorities of the Northern Pacific Railway have saga- ciously instituted a system of planting new trees and economizing old ones along its whole line through the Northwest. Some of the States, also, have wisely legislated in the same direction. But, unless there can be ex- cited a national interest in this subject, it must become evident to the most unobservant, as it has long been to the thoughtful physicist, that the vast interior of the United States must part with its mag- nificent agricultural prosperity and ex- perience @ deterioration of climate not less to be dreaded than that of the Spanish penin- sula around Madrid—subject to those exces- sive and morbific variations of temperature which make man “feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes.’’ As we have intimated, it is not too late for national legislation to throw its egis over the noble forests of our great Northwestern and Pacific Territories, now rapidly opening up, and to encourage the planting of trees on an extensive scale. It is neither from sentiment nor from the mere leadings of scientific theory that we make this appeal for these venerable and true aborigines of the soil, Whose boughs are mossea with age, And high tops bald with dry andlautty: But we press it upon the people as a measure of prevention, to avert the menacing evils of climatal and physical degeneracy, agricultural prostration and eventual national decadence. Are we willing actually to bequeath to pos- terity a realization of that figment of the poet’s imagination, a terra damnata ? Government Emigration. It will be seen by our special cable telegram published in another column that the govern- ment at Berlin has issued a decree, signed by the Minister of Commerce, commanding the railway companies of Germany to discontinue the practice of transporting emigrant passen- gers at a reduced rate of fare. It seems that the practice had been to carry the emigrants from the interior provinces to the seaboard at very low rates, and their baggage free, which had a tendency, of course, to encourage emigration. This arbitrary decree requiring the railway companies to eharge full rates of The German Checking fare for persons and baggage is evi- dently intended as an obstruction to emigration, for it increases the cost and difficulties of reaching the seaboard. Emperor William does not like to lose the bone and sinew of Germany. He needs a great deal of it for his enormous army and to enable him to consolidate his new Empire against possible enemies abroad and the grow- ing republican spirit at home. He needs those stalwart Germans to keep the French intimi- dated, to uphold dynastic rule and privileges, to strengthen imperialism and to promote the material interests of the Fatherland. From these considerations he would naturally oppose emigration from Germany to any country on the globe; but he, like all his crowned brethren, cannot look with favor upon the constant and steady accession which European emigration brings to the American Republic, and consequently to the progress of republican ideas generally. He and his brother monarchs, and the aristocracies of Europe, know very well that the seed of republicanism thus sown bya con- tinual stream of emigration to the United States reacts powerfully upon the different countries of Europe. England, as we have seen, endeavors through her emigration com- missioners and other agencies, and often by misrepresentation of the United States, to divert her emigrating population to the colo- nies or other countries. Though more liberal than the German government as regards the freedom of action of the people, she is not less jealous of the growing power and influence of republican America, The action of the Em- peror of Germany, as stated in the despatch referred to, may check the emigration of the poorer class for a time, but will prove futile upon those who have more means. We doubt if it will have much effect in lessening the number of emigrants. The Germans desire to escape from military service and despot- ism—from the wrath to come of dy- nastic and ambitious wars which are better their condition in this land of freedom, equality and cheap lands. While we admire the brave old German Emperor for many noble qualities and for his resolve to enlarge the municipal liberties of his people against the opposition of the Prussian aristocracy, we think he has made a serious mistake in this autocratic decree to stop emigration. It is warring against the inevitable as well as against the most sacred right of the people to choose their own domicile and to improve | their condition. Tue Frexcu Govenyaent is honorably and efficiently active in the discharge of its neutral obligations towards the Spanish Crown and the contending faction of the Carlists which seeks to operate against Amadeus from the soil of the Republic. This fact is made still more apparent by the contents of our cuble despatch from Paris. Tue Pore ann tae Kino or Irary.—His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth remains firm in his declaration of the non possumus against Italy, as well in her Treasury as her general diplomatic national policy. Signor Sella, Min- ister of Finance in the Cabinet of Victor Em- manuel, has just informed the Pontiff officially that the State guarantees the payment of the annuity voted to him by the Parliament. Car- dinal Antonelli replied that the Pope ‘de- clines to receive the annuity.” The Pope, by his action in this instance, snstains the princi- ple of a free Church in a free State, and his refusal to take a large sum of money which has been raised from the Italian people by direct taxation is, no matter what may be his inflencing motive, creditable to him as a pricat and a patriot, HEKALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Important Londom Meeting om the East African Slave Trade—Speeches ef the Lerd Mayor, the Bishop of ‘Winchester, Mr. Stanley and Others. We commend to the special attention of our readers the interesting report which we pub- lish this morning of the speeches and proceed- ings of the recent large and influential public meeting in the city of London “with the.view to aid in the mitigation and eventually the entire suppression of the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa.” The Lord Mayor pre- sided on the occasion, and, after stating the object of the meeting, he expressed his grati- fication that the government had taken up the question and had placed it in the hands of the fittest man that could be found for the work— Sir Bartle Frere. He regretted, however, the existence of that unwise treaty with the Sultan of Zanzibar, which was a disgrace to the coun- try, from which it appears that England is by treaty stipulations a confederate in this East African traffic ; and he feared that to get rid of this unholy compact it would be necessary to recompense the Sultan, or, in plainer terms, to buy him off. Still, the Lord Mayor had great hopes of the success of Sir Bartle Frere’s mission. The Bishop of Winchester next offered the first resolution of the evening, to wit—‘‘That the same imperative duty which rested upon Great Britain to suppress the West African slave trade binds her to the suppression of that on the East Coast;” and in this connec- tion the gloomy picture which ho presents us of the extent and the horrors of this abomi- nable traffic may wellbe called a burning shame to England asa pioneer of Christian civiliza- tion. The Bishop of Winchester, however, did not confine himself to the details of the terrible evil, but had some remedial measures to offer. And we concur with him in his sug- gestion that the Sultan of Zanzibar should be compelled to put an end to this traffic, and the proposition of establishing the liberated slaves in a colony or colonies, under England's pro- tection, on the Continent near Zanzibar, is a good one. In _ its support we may here mention the success of the Ameri- can colony of liberated slaves on the West Coast, which has ripened into the pros- perous black Republic of Liberia, When the negro slavery system of our Southern States was at the height of its Power, when there appeared to be ‘no other way of reaching the evil, the African Colonization Society was formed, with Liberia as its base of operations. That greatest of American statesmen of his time, Henry Clay, was for many years the especial guide and director of this society, and so fully did he believe in its ultimate success that he looked hopefully forward to the day when the republic of Liberia, composed mainly of enlightened Christian freedmen fron; the United States, would uot only furnish a solu- tion for American slavery in the increasing removal of our blacks to Africa from year to year, but would, from its material advantages and moral power, be the redemption and re- generation of the African Continent. Mr. Clay’s ideas on this subject we can now perceive were somewhat visionary; but he was fully up with the front rank of the philan- thropists of his time. Indeed, so late as 1862, and in the midst of our Southern rebellion, on this very question of African slavery Presi- dent Lincoln could find nothing better to recommend to Congress than a scheme of gradual emancipation, whereby slavery in the United States would be abolished by the year 1900. The pressure of the war for the life of the nation brought him to the shorter process of his emancipation proclamation in 1863 ; but it was because public opinion had ripened to this tremendous alternative. But Mr. Clay’s African colonization scheme, as now developed in the prosperous independent black Republic of Liberia, still stands the encouraging example to England for this pro- posed colony or these colonies of freedmen on the East African coast. But let us return to this London meeting. Mr. H. M. Stanley, who was received with loud and prolonged cheers, followed the Bishop of Winchester with his text of the second resolution, ‘that all those who desire to promote the abolition of the East African slave trade should make its enormities as widely known as possible.’’ This was pre- cisely the idea for Mr. Stanley, tor he declared that it was for this purpose he was present. His speech upon this point is full of interest- ing facts gathered from actual observation. Nor did he beat about the bush in reference to the criminal complicity and responsibility of England in this East African slave traffic, but disclosed the stubborn fact, that with all its professions of philanthropy, the “English government had been selling slaves and taking money for them.” ‘He would give the names of persons who had taken slaves from ships at so much a head.’’ Of course it would be said that this was only hiring out, but it was slavery, ‘‘and if England wished to be called the champion of slaves she must have nothing to do with the accursed thing.” Stan- ley, fortified by his own observations and by the abounding testimony of Livingstone, “spoke as one having authority;’’ and his expositions of the guilt of Her Majesty’s gov- ernment in this buying and selling of the kidnapped blacks of Central Africa made, evi- dently, a profound impression upon the mem- bers of Parliament around him. Lord Harrowby followed next upon the third resolution, pledging the meeting to “promote all constitutional means for the abolition of the East African slave trade,’’ and he was gratified that his government had at last taken up this matter in a thoughtful and earnest spirit. Mr. Otway, in second- ing the motion, referred to Mr. Stanley as one who had done a great work, who had put his hand to the plough and had not looked back. Lord Harrowby'’s main point, however, was the abrogation of the obnoxious slave trade treaty with the Sultan of Zanzibar. Sir Bartle Frere, who followed next in the dis- cussion, was of the opinion thatat the time those engagements were made with the semi-bar- barous tribes of Africa they were made with the most perfect conviction that they went as far at that time as it was possible to go; and as this opinion is supported by our references to Henry Clay and President Lincoln we will not attempt to refute it. It will suffice that in her relations with this East African slave trade England has fallen far behind the ad- vanced and advancing spirit of the age. Sir Bartle Frere earnestly advocated the proposed colonies in East Africa of emanci- pated blacks as nuclei from which not only Qbristian tsutb, but freedom and civilization his important mission to the East African coast. And here, dismissing the other speak- ers of the evening, we may diverge to a few concluding remarks upon the services of Mr. Stanley in bringing the attention of the Queen of England and her government to active measures for the suppression of this horrible slave trade of East Africa, the ramifications of which extend through Abyssinia and the whole valley of the Nile, and through all those re- gions around the Nile sources south of the Equator explored by Dr. Livingstone. Enterprising and adventurous men, in their boldest enterprises, have often achieved won- ders which they dreamed not of in the outset. Thus Columbus, in his adventure for a western passage to the East Indies, stumbled upon a new world. Thus ‘Old John Brown,” in his insane raid upon Harper's Ferry, rekindled our slavery agitation into a revolutionary fire, in which slavery in this country was con- sumed. Thus Brigham Young, in planting his Mormon community at Great Salt Lake, though never dreaming of such a thing, opened the way for our pioneer Pacific Rail- road, Thus Stanley, the Henarp Commis- sioner, detailed to the heart of Africa to find Dr. Livingstone, comes back from his perilous but successful adventure with such revelations of the savage atrocities of the East African slave trade that the British Queen and the British government are brought at once to active measures for its extirpation. That heroic old Christian philan- nthropist, Livingstone, has said, but in the voice of despair, that he would rather be rec- ognized in the future as an instrument in the hands of Divine Providence, through whom this African slave trade was abolished, than as the discoverer of the sources of the Nile, and now it is probable that with his re- turn to civilization he will find hig dearest dream in progress of fulélment and himself chief among the heroes of this great emancipa- tion. Thus often apparently the ablest instru- ments achieve in the purposes of Omnipo- tence His greatest designs. It is impossible now, with all this accumulated testimony against it, from Livingstone, Stanley, Burton, Speke, Grant, and from that king of African explorers, Baker, and from hundreds of other witnesses, that this East African slave trade can much longer survive. But it is to the ap- pealing voice of Livingstone, the voice as of one risen from the grave, that the civilized world is most indebted for these active Eng- lish emancipation movements; and in this view the New York Heraxp recognizes a great and enduring reward far transcending its high- est anticipations from its Livingstone Search Expedition. The Storms of November in Europe and America. While New York is looking at its first snow storm of the season we receive details from Europe of the terrific tempest which swept over the northern portions of the Continent, working ruin and disaster along the southern shore of the Baltic, among the islands of the Danish archipelago and far out upon the German Ocean, Storms in the month of November are things that the coasting pop- ulation of Scandinavia have justly learned to dread. Rushing down from the north they drive the waves before them, and, in addition to the shipping dashed by their force upon the lee shore to the south, all the low-lying islands and the coast of the Conti- nent are visited with inundation. Nine years ago in this same month a similar storm de- stroyed hundreds of vessels then afloat in the North Sea, and year after year the November storms in that wide northern region count their hundreds of victims by sea and land. The storm of Wednesday last must have been unusually severe. The town of Stralsund, we learn, suffered terribly from inundation and damage to buildings by the fury of the wind. In the neighboring islands of Daro, Zingst and Hiddense the loss of life was very great, and to those surviving the horrors of hunger, thirst and exposure were reserved. The smacks of the island fishermen were broken to pieces; the wind and rising waves tore down their dwellings; even the wells on which they depended for fresh water were flooded with water from the sea. The larger island ef Rugen also suffered from the in- undation. It is gratifying to observe that the Prussian government, with commendable promptitude, has despatched steamers laden with creature comforts to the unfortunates visited by this calamity. Along the serrated coast of Denmark andits islands the storm has also flung destruction broadcast. The town of Presto, in the island of Seeland, was badly inundated, and the small island of Botoe completely submerged fora time, all the inhabitants being drowned. This sad array of disasters does not cover the extent of the misfortune. Reports of losses to shipping reach us in increasing numbers, and for a week at least we shall be unable to compute the full loss. The War of the Opera—Not a War of the Roses. The triplet of essays on Italian Opera in New York, which we published on this day week, have bronght forth a similar number which we publish to-day. The great interest which the public has taken in the subject will be our excuse, apart from the value of the communications themselves. That they dis- agree, and on many points radically, is no cri- terion by which to judge their merit or the justness of their respective causes. ‘Viator’ proceeds methodically with his statistical exhi- bition, demonstrating to his own satisfaction that the ‘star system is an incurable evil, and that the being unjust enough to expect “the support”’ to rival in excellence the stellar apex of the operatic pyramid has no idea of the ratio between the salable price of seats and the purchasable price of a perfect com- pany, from prima donna down to big drum. It is, however, on the excellence of certain ladies in certain réles that the combatants cross swords in earnest. Disagreeable as it may be to those goddesses of the lyric temple to find their singing and acting wrangled over, they will find some compensation in the devotedness of their adherents. ‘‘Musicus,’"’ who kneels in esthetic adgratiop before the ‘“‘voung. boiling Referring to “Free Lance’ s’’ letter of last week, both “‘Musicus” and “Viator” oddly enough compare him to the notoriety-seeking individ- ual who ‘fired the Ephesian dome.”’ If “‘Mu- sicus’’ must have his idol, “Fair Play’’ insists on his, Native talent is this correspondent’s divinity. He defends ‘Free Lance’ as he would himself, and avers that Miss Kellogg does not sing en dessous—that being, he ocon- tends, the most unjust musical objection that could be urged against this American lady. Into the mysteries of Rubinstein, Wieniawski and the music of the future we do not here pro- pose to follow them. So, with the gentle ad- monition to ‘keep cool,’ we commit their communications to each other's gaze ‘and thas of our readers. A Word to Pecksnitf, We recently called the partisan press to ac- count for its unseemly conduct during the late campaign. That European journals of monarchical instincts will hail our revelations with delight and point to them as proof of the rottenness of republics we do not doubt. From the days of the Garden of Eden—whem Adam preferred to blame Eve rather than’ confess his own wrong-doing—to the present time, it has always been easier to pluck the mote from a neighbor's eye than to remove the beam from one’s own. When, with be- coming humility, we cross the water for those lessons in the habits of good society which, the Old World is so ready to give the New, wa find the Univers, of France, calling Bismarck “one of the horns of the devil;”’ a grave English reviewer denouncing Daniel Webster as ‘‘dis- honest’’ and James Buchanan ‘a cheat;’” the English journals referring to the liberal republican movement as a ‘“‘aqueezed lemon,”", “pricked bladder,” ‘rocket stick’? and ‘gnominious failure," while the immacu- late London Times fouls its own nest by branding Mr. Greeley, a brother journalist, as “an ignorant, presumptuous and ambitious, pamphleteer,”” and calls the opposition to Grant's re-election ‘‘an audacious intrigue.’” And we remember how, not quite a year ago, the English press exhausted the eognag®, of invective in denouncing Sir Charles Dilke and the radicals because the courageous mem- ber for Chelsea ventured, in imitation of Lord Brougham, to inquire into the expenditure of the civil list. Sir Charles was a “catspaw’ baronet,”’ “a new-sprung sprig of hothouse aristocracy,’’ who belonged to a party that “paid no taxes except on beer and gin,’’ whose friends were “roughs’’ and “yelping curs.’” Sir Charles was ‘‘vulgar,” ‘‘conceited,” ‘“un- manly,’’ ‘“‘upgenilemanly” and ‘‘disloyal.’’ He was ‘‘in league with jail-birds.” ‘No Dilkes would have been tolerated in English society thirty years ago,’’ and “‘reformers” wrote to the pers pr to kick ‘the de- famer of the Queen” ont of the clubs and the company of gentlemen. Odger was a “crack-brained cordwainer,”’ Bradlaugh ‘a drummed out life guardsman,” and every- body who thought the Ministry responsible to the people for the people’s money was: branded as ‘‘traitor.”” Recollection of the past is not profitable as a business, but it is sometimes convenient to checkmate am opponent by playing his game and routing him before he has begun his attack. While we are in the.mood of reminiscence we should like to remind monarchical mem- ories of the riots that have lately occurred in England on account of the new licensing act, of the tumultuous election at Preston, and ask them to recall one disturb- ance throughout the length and breadth of our Republic during the late animated Presi- dential and State elections. We lay noclaim to the possession of all the cardinal virtues, but rather than receive moral lectures from Peck- sniff we give that highly respectable gentle- man warning. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General Fremont is in Paris. General R. L. Gibson, of New Orleans, is at the* New York Hotel. Judge W. H. Davis, of Albany, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Commodore ©. P. Lowell, of the United States Navy, is staying at the Astor House. Commodore Clark, of the United States Navy, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman William Williams, of Buffalo, yester- day arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General James H. Carleton, of the United States Army, bas quarters at the St, James Hotel. G. F. Wilson, financial agent of the Costa Rica Railroad Company, is at the Grand Central Hotel, The Count de Paris is, with the Duc d’Aumale, at Chantilly, and designs to remain there until the end of the year. Sefior Garcia, the Argentine Minister at Washing ton, and Sefior Manuel Lamey, an attaché of his Legation, sailed for Europe yesterday. The two Kaisers—William and Francis Joseph— are to meet again towards the end of this month; but this time the Czar is not invited. The Duc d’Aumale has given 10,000 francs to the society for assisting the natives of Alsace and Lor- raine who have chosen to retain their French na- tionality. The Rev. Dr. Norman McLeod's former congrega- tion in Glasgow intend to erect a monument to his memory, but have not yet decided where it shall be placed. Monsignor Consseau’s resignation of the Bishop- ric of Angouléme has been accepted by the Pope, and the eminent Prelate has taken up his residence at Poitiers. Sir Anthony Barclay yesterday arrived at the Astor House from Canada, Sir Anthony was, some years ago, before he was titled, the British Consub in this city, where he has yet many warm friends, Mr. Spurgeon’s sister is preaching at Willingham, Cambridgeshire, England, with such success that the police authorities there have expressed their thanks to her for effecting a decrease in ea num- ber of criminal cases. The venerable Dr. Lang, founder of the presuy- terian Church in Australia, known in the literary World a8 a historian of distinction, has just retired from the pastorate of the Scots church at Sy Iney, after a ministerial career of exactly fifty years. The Pope replied to the request of the fathers of the Prince Guilio Borghese and the Princess Tor- lonia to officiate at the marriage of that couple that the Vatican had been a place of mourning where a joyous ceremony would be ill-placed, However, His Holiness congratulated the young people and sent them rich presents. The Sultan of Turkey has been reported to desire to overthrow the old system of succession to the throne and secure the accession of his son when he (Abdul Aziz) shall have become Abdul as isn't. He had given his boy, Prince Youssouf Izzedin, every opportunity to gain the affections of the troops and the people, it is said, with this object in view. Now, however, as the Prince has resigned his post of Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard and Tetired into privacy, the project seems abandoned. “What was the Youssouf trying to get t idea, Ipacdip 1" was tye disappointed parent's remark.