The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1872, Page 6

Hee ee eee nee MARIE cae eee Oral NEW YORK HERALD ——_-—__—_ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. a GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. pes iat SL All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henavp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. Volame XXXVIL......6.c:sesesrcceree-NOe 326 AMUSEMENTS: THIS EVENING. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Kina or Car- Rors. BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third strect, corner Sixth @venuc.—Romeo any JULIET. on 24 FaeaTeR, E. Bowery —Pirsun’ Rustic Re- cams Soy HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Ror Canor: UNION aquane THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets.—Acns. QERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third ay.—Das STIPTUNGSPEST. p IC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Becker se ALapbiN Tate SECOND. 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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— EciENCE AND Ast, TRIPLE SHEET. New Yerk, Thursday, Nov. 21, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. : ee To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE ORISIS IN FRANCE!—EDITORIAL LEAD- ER—SixTH Pace. BIG FIRE IN JERSEY CITY! AN ENTIRE BLOCK BURNED! A BLUNDER IN THE ALARM: ROUT OF THIEVES: STUBBORN FURY OF THE FIRE FIEND—FirtH PGE. A THIRD FIRE IN BOSTON! A QUARTER OF A MILLION CONSUMED—AMUSEMENTS—PER- SONAL PARAGRAPHS—S&VENTH Pack, TWO MEN KILLED BY FALLING WALLS AT THE BKOOKLYN FIRE! THE FOUNDA- TION SINKS! A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE— LARGE MALT HOUSE IN WILLIAMSBURG PARTIALLY DESTROYED—Firra Paces. UROPE! THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY TO REPLY TO THIERS: TEXT OF HIS MESSAGE: MacMAHON WILL NOT ACCEPT THE PRESI- DENCY: HUNGARIAN CABINET CRISIS: THE DEMOCRACY MOVING—SEVENTH PaGE, XCITED TAXPAYERS! EXPECTED RIOT IN GREENVILLE, N. J.! THE CITIZENS BE- SIEGE THE STREET COMMISSIONERS: AN ATTACK DEFERRED—NiNTH PGs, 4 WEALTHY MERCHANT MISSING! ANOTHER MYSTERY FOR POLICE SOLUTION: MUR- DER AND ROBBERY: TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN MONEY AND VALUABLES ON THE VICTIM: HIS PERSONAL APPEAR- ANCE: THE PROPERTY—THIRD Pace. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON! WORK FOR THE NEXT CONGRESS: THE NEW INTERNAL REVENUE BILL: CIVIL SERVICE REFORM: THE CENSUS—Tuixp Page. THE WOOL RING AND THE BOSTON FIRE! THE AMOUNT OF WOOL IN THE COUNTRY: SPECULATORS RUNNING UP PRICES— MARINE NEWS—TENTH Pace. @HE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE—WEATHER RE- PORTS—FUNERAL OF 0O’NEILL—HEALTH OFFICER COCHRANE—THIRD PaGE. ENGLISH RAUF MEETINGS! MAGNIFICENT CON- TEST FOR THE LIVERPOOL CUP: STEEPLECHASING: THE ATTENDANCE— TENTH Page. THE LEGAL TRIBUNALS! THE BROADWAY WIDENING: MARITIME DECISION: STOKES’ DEFENCE: KING'S CHILDREN; ROSEN- ZWEIG DISCHARGED FRUM PRISON— Fourta Page. SUNSHINE IN WALL STREET! MONEY RE- LAXES, GOLD DECLINES AND STOCKS AD- VANCE: RISE IN GOVERNMENTS AND ERIES IN LONDON: GOVERNMENT PUR- CHASES TWO MILLIONS BONDS—E:cuTa Pace. VIEWS OF SCIENTISTS ON THE PREVENTION OF CONFLAGRATIONS ! GAS PIPES IN- CREASING THE DANGER: USING SALT WATER—INSURANCE BUSINESS—Firta Pace. NEW STEAMSHIP LINE BETWEEN NEW YORK AND THE NETHERLANDS—THE CAPRON AND THE JAPANESE NAVY—Firtn PaGE. COLONIZING AFRICA ! CITIZENS FOR THE LI- BERIAN REPUBLIC: SLAVE TRADE SUP- PRESSION—LOCAL PARAGRAPHS—PROB- ABLE FATALITY—Firtu Paces. EXPRESSION OF PAPULAR OPINION ON THE RECENT TERRIBLE CRIMES IN NEW YORK: LAWLESSNESS ABOUNDING—NistH Pace. SESSION OF THE SENATORIAL IMPEACHMENT COURT FOR THE TRIAL OF JUDGES PRIN- DLE AND CURTIS—AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR—MYSTERIOUS POISONING—Fovrra Page. REPORTS OF THE HEALTH BUREAUS—THE COUNTY CANVASS ALMOST COMPLETE— BEARING FALSE WITNESS—Nistu Pace, Tax Kino or Tar Srayiarps, who bas been some time past, is just now invalided in Madrid by » painful attack of rheumatism and fever, His Majesty passed a ‘bad night’ from; Tuesday evening to. yesterday morning. The ‘announcement of this fact, by official medical bulletin, is not calculated to allay the agitation which prevails in many of the provinces of Spain, and which will, no doubt, be rendered still more prevalent and intense if the Spaniards receive news of the existence of any very general popular excitement in France, | soldier, The Crisis in France. The rumor that President Thiers had re- signed and that Marshal MacMahon had been appointed in his place, which was circulated yesterday afternoon, proves fortunately to have been without foundation. In all proba- bility it was set afloat for stock jobbing purposes by some unscrupulous parties: in- terested in the funds, So far as is at present known the only fact which could have sug- gested this story was the election of one of the opposition to reply to President Thiers’ message to the Assembly, which incident was looked upon as being unfavorable to the existing government, The excitement that followed the announcement of President Thiers’ resigna- tion furnishes proof how important it is to the interests and prosperity of France that no dis- turbance should be permitted in the order of things which at present exists, No oneis better aware of the want in which France stands of a well-assured government than the present head of the Executive. In his message to the Assembly ho particularly insists on the danger that must arise to the peace and progressive development of France should any party in the State unwisely endeavor to alter the form of government that has retrieved, if not the for- tunes, at least the credit of France. So care- ful is he that he will not even venture to disturb the present repose of the public mind by proclaiming the permanence of the Repub- lic, although he asserts his belief that only through its agency can the happiness and prosperity of the nation be secured. With such ideas it is impossible for Presi- dent Thiers voluntarily to retire from the high position to which the confidence of the French people has raised him without sacrificing all claim to the gratitude, not alone of the French nation, but of all who value the cause of liberty and progress, which he has un- doubtedly earned by the admirable manner in which he has reconciled the contending inter- ests of factions and rendered them subservient to the service of the country. His has been no easy task. Surrounded by monarchical intriguers and obstructed by the unwise zeal of theoretic and visionary republicans, he has had to depend for the preservation of order and the safety of his government on an army whose traditions are strongly imperialistic. Well might a man in the prime of life, and aided by a strong and devoted party, shrink from the responsibilities of so delicate a posi- tion. It is due to President Thiers to say that his successes have been peculiarly his own, for except that unstable support, the public opinion of the French people, he has had nothing to rely upon but his own strong will and an almost fanatic belief in the soundness of his own views. Such a character must al- ways command attention, but there are mo- ments when too pronounced an opinion in his own infallibility becomes in a statesman dan- gerous to the best interests of a nation. It is the fear that this obstinacy of character may one day impel President Thiers to accept a conflict with the Assembly, from which no issue but his resignation would be possible, that gave force to the rumor which yesterday caused general uneasiness. Had the resigna- tion taken place and been followed by the elevation of MacMahon to the control of the government the results could scarcely have failed to be disastrous to France. We believe that among all the soldiers of the | Empire not one enjoys a tenth of the respect or confidence reposed in MacMahon by the French people, but his elevation to the Presidency would be regarded by the republican party as a threat against the life of the Repubtic. The ghost of imperialism would be conjured up to affright the ardent imaginations of the youth of France, all confidence in the future would dis- appear, and the young men would in all probability descend into the streets to save liberty before the chains could be riveted. All the benefits that have been conferred on France woyld be swept away, and anarchy and bloodshed replace the peace and indus- trial progress which are now earning for the | nation the admiration and respect of the civilized world. Nothing more fatal to the best interests of France could happen. It would be to renew the stupid error the Assem- bly made at Bordeaux in appointing to the command of Paris a man who had reddened his hands in the blood of the people in Napoleon’s December massacre. The at- tempt to disarm the National Guards aroused the suspicions of the republicans, and tho unwise appointment of General Vinoy to the command of the Army of Paris confirmed thei fears for the safety of the Republic, and precipitated, if it did not cause, the struggle of the Commune, which deluged the capital in blood and left an indeli- ble stain on the honor of France. Had the Assembly acted with prudence and forbear- ance humanity might have been spared the horrors of that fratricidal struggle, which was rendered almost inevitable by the heartless intrigues of the monarchical and imperial factions even in the hour of their country’s agony. MacMahon, recognizing the peril of the situation like a disinterested and patriotic at once announced that even should President Thiers resign he would not consent to be his successor. No doubt he justly estimates the evils to which his eleva- tion would be likely to give rise, and he is | resolved to do nothing which could jeopardize the future of his country. The overthrow of the Republic by the Bor- deaux Assembly was not only possible, but at | one time was seriously contemplated. Adhe- rents of the Bourbons made no secret of their hopes, and if no attempt has been made in this direction it is because the terrible earnest- | nessof the Commune thoroughly frightened | the shop-keeping element of the nation. The peasants who had fought loyally for their country learned in the army that a republic was not the terrible thing they had been taught to believe it. And the protection and prosperity they have enjoyed since the procla- mation of peace have completely dissipated the carefully nourished illusion that only under some form of despotism could they find security for their property and the free enjoyment of their religion. With these prej- udices swept away the peasant begins to desire the continuance of the Republic, which he perceives is the only form of government that can protect fiim from ever-recurring revolutions. Hence we see the republican candidates elected all over France, even Brit- tany, the stronghold of Bourbonism, return. ing republican Deputies, All men who wish to see the people advance towards self-govern- | ment and the exercise of indepondent thought must rejoice in the decay of political super- stition among the French peasants, for it is to this class of the community that o well- ordered government can always look for sup- port in the hour of danger. Any change that could be made at present would be for the worse, What France needs is profound re- pose, and whatever is calculated to agitate the public mind or arouse the latent passions of parties ought to be carefully avoided. For this reason wo emphatically approve of Presi- dent Thiers’ policy of maintaining the status quo. Every hour of peace and order consoli- dates the Republic and strengthens its founda- tion. Those rash advocates who urge the formal proclamation of the Republic as the definite form of government are the most dangerous enemies to the permanence of popular institu- tions, They are not content to let good enough alone, but must needs force the people to swallow their constitutional pills whether they will or not. They are not satisfied with reality, but must strive to grasp the shadow. Some of these men are in earnest, but unfortu- nately popular institutions ‘have found a num- berof unexpected, not tosay doubtful, advocates. who display all the inconsiderate seal that dis- tinguishes new converts, It remains to be seen whether these new-fledged defenders of popular rights are sinoore in their professions. We are inclined with Gambetta to look on’ them with suspicion. Knowing how much the party of despotism has to gain from disorder, we would not be surprised to see them put on the garb of republicanism the better to work upon popular feeling and incite to anarchy, in which lies their best hope of restoration to power. If they could only prove that under a republic order was impossible it would bo easy to convince the people that their only refuge was in royalty or imperialism. “ In view of the danger “which, ‘must arise from unsettling the public mind, we cannot look with much favor on the bearing of Gam- betta towards President Thiers. We are sure the republican lawyer is too able a man not to clearly perceive the advantage which the enemies of the popular cause would unfail- ingly derive from any disturbance of the pub- lic peace. It may be that, blinded by the pas- sion of political strife, he is not able to weigh events so carefully os those further removed from the scene, or that he considers the necessity of encouraging the republicans to develop their growing strength as paramount |. ' to all others. But one thing is certain, the agitation his addresses created has reacted un- favorably on the republican cause. Not that he has said anything very radical, but he has spoken some truths that would have been as well unsaid. It is neither the desire nor the interest of Gambetta to sub- vert the power of President Thiers, for were the present government overthrown by a new revolution in all probability the army would proclaim the Empire and establish @ regency, with MacMahon as the principal figure. Napoleon could scarcely be restored, but would in reality rule during the minority of his son. But even this could only be ac- complished after a terrific internecine struggle, which would result in the complete prostra- tion and ruin of the country. To avoid such a disaster France has only to accept loyally the conservative Republic which President Thiers represents until such time as the political education of the people has been improved so as to fit them for more extended freedom. The experiment of France ruling herself has been attended with such brilliant and unexpected success that we do not think the people will ever again consider a master necessary, and the only source from which danger is to be apprehended is the reactionary feeling of the army. We are inclined to think, however, that the spirit of patriotism is sufficiently strong among the ‘soldiers to prevent them turning their arms against the Assembly, unless demoralized by disorder. Nor is there any reason to apprehend serious disturbances so long as the present govern- ment continues to observe the strict neutrality between parties which has enabled it to suc- ceed so well in the past. The overthrow of Thiers’ government would not alone be a mis- fortune for France, but would be a severe blow to the cause of republicanism in Europe. Itis an experiment of popular rule under the most trying circumstances, and the eyes of the peo- ples of Europe are turned anxiously to France watching the result. Should the experiment succeed in spite of the adverse prophecies of those who wished to see it fail the influence it will exert in the spread of republican opin- ions will be practically boundless. As Ameri- can freemen who enjoy ourselves all the benefits of freedom, we heartily wish success to the French people in their efforts to con- solidate the Republic, for we regard the cause of republicanism as the cause of liberty and humanity. The Royal Italian Government and the Roman Democracy, The Prefect of Police in Rome has forbidden an assemblage of the people, in the Italian capital, which was called in support of an agitation for the advancement of the principle of universal suffrage. The royalist official undertakes to say that the summons for the meeting is used merely as a pretext to cover designs of the opposition against the govern- ment of His Majesty King Victor Emmanuel. This proceeding is, as it appears to us here in America, of an exceedingly summary char- acter. It smacks, also, of a crown suspicion directed against the loyalty of a portion of the Roman population, while it savors, at the very same moment, strongly of pretension to a lay power infallibility. A free government based on the national will, as is claimed for Italy, should be very chary in permitting a policeman to interfere with the expression of a popular demand for an extension of the citi- zen franchise, while it is certainly not con- stitutional, nor in accordance with the personal sentiment of El Re Gualantuomo, to utter a suspicion of covert treason against any number, éven a fraction, of the Italian people. It is to be hoped that King Victor Emmanuel will permit the Roman population to say its citizen wants freely, and that he will not at- tempt to play the part of a Canute by defining the limit of the wave swell of democracy in the words, ‘‘thus far shalt thou come, and no farther.” Brrorz anp Arrer.—Who can explain how it is that so many politicians who opposed Mr. Havemeyer's election as Mayor are now so ferociously in his favor after he is elected? This little conundrum can probably be solved by those who know bow such things bapyen, NEW YORK HEBALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. aoe The Committee of Seventy and the Fature Government of the City— Tue White Elephant of the Repub- Mean Party. The Committee of Seventy has determined not to abandon its organization, but to re- main in existence as an auxiliary of the Moyor elect in his efforts to secure an efficient, honest, non-partisan government for the city of New York. Following out its original object of placing good men in office, the Com- mittee has already, with unexampled generos- ity, given up some of its most valuable mem- bers to the public service and transferred them from private life to places of profit and patronage. It has supplied the State with an Attorney General, the Courts with several Judges, the city with a Comptroller, a Com- missioner of Public Parks and a Mayor, be- sides a number of less important officials, and itis no doubt prepared to yield yet more of its number to the public necessities. Indeed, there is no reason to suspect that any indi- vidual on the Committee would hesitate to serve the public, for a fair consider- ation, in any position in which patriotism, cations; and we have no doubt that the-people of New York may be afforded the privilege next year of voting for some of the famous committeemen for Sheriff, County Clerk and all other positions that may then be in the political market, just as this year they en- joyed the opportunity of voting for its chair- man for Mayor of the city and for several of his associates for less important offices. But in declaring itself still a living body the Commit- tee has in view a work prior to the labor "of the next Fall election, That work is to help its ex-President, tho Mayor elect, in the reorganization of the municipal govern- ment on a strictly non-partisan basis, and to this end it is prepared to supply us with anew Commissioner of Public Works in the person of Mr. John Wheeler, one of its most efficient and active members, and with full Boards of Police Commissioners, Health Commissioners and all other commissioners known to our municipal system. Such disinterestedness speaks well for the honesty of the Committee and will no doubt be fully appreciated by the citizens of New York. There appears, however, to be one difficulty in the way. The State Legislature is republi- can bya very decided majority, and as the politicians of that organization insist that they have elected all the successful candidates— President, Governor and Mayor—they put forward a claim to a monopoly of the spoils, and will look to the representatives at Albany to back them up in their demand. Their or- gans have already foreshadowed a contem- plated attempt on their part to force upon the Legislature a return to the old caucus system by which individuals were accustomed to be drilled into obedience to the behests of tho leaders of a party, and were forced under the party lash to yield their own convictions to the will of the majority of their political asso- ciates, seldom honestly expressed. If they succeed in this they hope to shape legislation at Albany next Winter in such a manner as to give them entire control of the city govern- ment in all its important departments, and to build up a new republican Ring as powerful, if not as unscrupulous, as that famous Tammany Ring which they have recently succeeded in destroying. The Mayor elect, who threatens now to be a white elephant on their hands, will be ignored in this political family arrangement, and it is probable that Comptroller Green, who might be a stumbling block in the way of a partisan municipal government, may be disposed of in summary manner. The city offices hold out & prospect of a patronage and power not to be overlooked, and with ex-Surveyor Cornell in the Speaker's chair of the Assembly and Lieutenant Governor Robinson presiding over the Senate, while James Wood and Tweed hold seats in the circle, the chances of carrying to success a scheme for seizing upon every de- partment of the city government and render- ing the Mayor a nullity certainly do not ap- pear to be entirely hopeless. Indeed, the new Ring count with confidence upon victory, and have already broken ground in the campaign by agitating the inconsistency of plurality office-holding under a reform government, with the view of ousting Mr. Green from the Comptrollership and leaving him in possession of the Park Commissionership, which he still holds in addition to the former office. It is evident that these intrigues of the poli- ticians are not to be suffered to succeed without a vigorous opposition on the part of Mayor Havemeyer. That gentleman, in re- signing the Chairmanship of the Committee of Seventy, has taken occasion to advise the Committee not to disband, but to lend him its active co-operation in the difficult task of securing a harmonious and well balanced city government, wholly independent of party politics. In his letter the Mayor elect recog- nizes the public opinion which the Committee represents as the basis of his election, and, hence, gives in his adhesion to the cause of reform instead of to the republican party. In this action he evinces a proper sense of the popular sentiment, and wisely follows in the footsteps of General Grant. The latter has already given unmistakable evidence of his intention to cut loose from the Politicians and to conduct the next four years of his administration in the interests of the people and not of political cliques and factions. Mayor Have- meyer cannot take to himself a better model, and if he remains firm in his resolve to raise the municipal government above partisan in- trigues, to give us public officers who will study the welfare of the city before the welfare of party, to hold the ‘‘peace, security and comfort of the whole people” above all politi- cal consideration, he will establish for himself & reputation as enviable as that which will be enjoyed by President Grant himself on his final retirement from office, The Mayor elect has the situation in his own hands, and, according to all accounts, he has the courage and stamina necessary to retain its mastership. Governor Dix is » democrat of his own school. Comptroller Green is of the same sturdy, honest stripe of political opinion. In this re- spect they are all in sympathy with President Grant, and hence the task of defeating the schemes. of the republican Ring at Albany may be, after all, comparatively easy. The men who desire to unite the city patronage in one magnificent combina- tion with the Federal and State patronage may find themselves without power either at Wash- dnaten or Albpny. At all eyenta. tha duty which Mayor Havemeyer has assumed, if faith- fully performed, will entitle him to the respect and gratitude of the citizens of New York; and if he should find himself involved in @ severe battle with the Custom Ring at Albany next Winter he may rest assured that the people will be on his side and that all the friends of good government will heartily wish him success. Italian Opera in New York. Every season of Italian opera in New York brings complaints of bad management on tho one hand and the want of resources and facilitiea on the other. We hear of the im- possibility of organizing o perfect chorus and orchestra, of the scarcity of great or even passable singers and of the necessity of sub- ventions. While it is plain that our operatic seasons are generally failures, the excuses for failure are mostly of no great merit, The talk about subventions was always idle, because if subventions are necessary to success opera in New York is impossible, Our subventions are in the subscriptions of the generous and culti- vated people of the city, and these are better than larger sums of money poured into the tweasury of the opera house from the public funds. Neither aré the prices of admission so far below the prices in other cities as to excuse a thoroughly bad chorus and orchestra and but two or three meritorious: artists for a whole operatic season. Nor does it fallow that if o secured seat was sold at five instead of four dollars the would be an overflowing treasury. In London, where the price of admission is a guinea, operatic enterprises have invariably ended in disaster. In England, as in this country, the reasons of failure are deducible from the same causes. Opera has no per- manency either in London or New York, and both cities are victimized year after year by glowing promises and unworthy performances. Acting on the hypothesis that a prima donna is sufficient to insure the success of a season, managers have not cared to perfect the minor details of the ensemble, and they have naturally met the fate of business men acting on un- business-like principles. Operatic manage- ment is controlled by the laws which govern every other business enterprise, and success- ful managers must travel in the same pathway that is trodden by successful merchants and manufacturers. Looking back over the history of opera in New York, we see little to give us hope for the future. The past shows only disaster and dis- appointment, the triumphs of great artists like Jenny Lind, Alboni, Sontag, Grisi and Nilason only adding to the general gloom. Like the drive from the Central Park to the High Bridge, it isa broad boulevard with a few splendid equipages, perfect in all things as well as in speed, but strewn with the wrecks of hired carriages and made dangerous by the racking steps of untrained horses. Failure has always come because, with the exception of the prima donna, the chorus and orchestra have been hastily gathered together and the tenors selected with regard only to their cheap- ness. The latter are the untrained animals which go galloping over the road, running into the livery soaches and market wagons that for want of a proper regard for the use of nouns in the English language are sometimes called the orchestra and chorus of the grand opera. We might. forgive the one if the others were not past forgiveness; but Mr. Maretzek and his champions, who write to the Henatp, expect pardon for his shortcomings on a hun- dred untenable and illogical grounds, and yet are unwilling to confess the faults of which we complain, It is not pleasant to contemplate the present condition of Italian opera in New York. After a quarter of a century we are no further ad- vanced than when we began. We have had great singers, it is true, but they left only memories behind them. We have an excellent opera house, but it has developed nothing be- yond quack management and consequent dis- aster. For this there never was any excuse but the customary excuses of quackery. New York is a city full of musical talent seeking out ways to make itself felt. Amateur per- formances of oratorio and the music of some of the most difficult operas are often success- fully attempted. The Philharmonic Society is about giving its thirty-first season of classical concerts, and Mr, Theodore Thomas has held his orchestra together so many years that the symphonies of Beethoven are to him no longer a difficult or doubtful undertaking. The in- telligence and care thus strikingly exhibited in two different quarters would have given the Academy of Music a chorus and orchestra unsurpassed by any opera house in the world. There is no good reason why we should be behind Berlin even in this respect. Until we get them in something like perfection Italian opera will continue to bea failure. With them managers would not dare put upon the stage tenors who would be out- rivalled by the singing sweeps in a farmhouse chimney. Opera would at last become both permanent and excellent, and the days of dis- aster would be over. A contributor to the Herarp admitted this the other day by implication in lamenting the annual changes in both band and chorus, but he failed to see in it any responsibility of the managers. With them the real responsi- bility rests. Like birds of passage, the man- agers of our opera house have come and gone, and none of them ever went to work with the settled purpose of making operatic enterprises the business of life. Had this been their in- tention they would have begun with the chorus and orchestra, and not have first hired expen- sive prime donne to sing and act in a Babel of discord, A Menctrut Dispensation or THE §v- PREME Covrt—But Way?—The Court of General Sessions has done efficient ser- vice in years past in the prompt con- viction and severe punishment inflicted upon offenders, and eminently so in the cases of “Dutch Heinrich’ and “Jacob Rosen- zweig."’ There was no question of their guilt, and this community breathed a prayer of thankfulness when they learned that the extreme penalty .of the law had been meted out to each. Bunt it seems that the Supreme Court, at its General Term lately, upon some technical points presented by the counsel for the prisoners, reversed the convictions and ordered a new trial in each case without assigning any reason or giving any opinion. Heinrich and Rosenzweig will bless the Supreme Court as the friend of the oppressed, and the community, with a sigh at the pros- Rect of the rejura to theis midst of mon SE whose érimes should en‘itte thom to imprisons ment for life, not being superior to ordinary, curiosity, will wonder for what cause the Supreme Court should have reversed their several convictions when guilt was so thor- oughly established, Mr. Stanley’s Arrival in New Yorke Among the passengers on tho steamship Cuba, which arrived in the bay yesterday afternoon, was Henry M. Stanley, the Henarp correspondent, who discovered Doctor Living- stone at Ujiji, in the heart of Africa, in November, 1871, after a painful and toilsoma journey, beset with difficulty and danger. The teiumphs which were accorded to him in Europe are familiar to the public. From royalty down he hag been recognized as the instrument under Providence which preserved to the world at large the life and the labor of ono of the greatest travellers and philanthropists that Fame has written in her annals, Certain scientists, from what motive it would now be invidious to inquire, ventured to ox- press doubts of the reality of Mr. Stanley's achievement; but these shrewd gentlemen found in the end, from indisputable evidence, that the young American's story was true,’ and gave the meed of certified orodit whero it was due, It was, perhaps, fortunate that this indispositon to accept Mr. Stanley's ipse dizit made itself apparent in certain quarters, as its effect was simply the forth in overwhelming masses of such to.timony Ad Convinogll the most incredu-' lous, and secured to thé Hzratp correspond.’ ent the immediate recognition of his serviced to humanity and scienoe—a recognition which Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller and discov- erer of tho Blue Nile, did not receive while he lived, : On the arrival of the Cuba in the Lower Bay a steamer bearing the personal friends of Mr. Stanley received that gentleman and welcomed him on his return to his: native shore. Greeted in a simple and informal manner, his friends escorted him to the city,’ where he begins his career as & lecturer on the 3d of December, next at Steinway Hall. His subject,” of course, will be the narrative of his journey from Zanzibar to Ujiji, where he met the great traveller, Livingstone. The book on’ which he has been engaged for some time in’ London, ‘How I Found _ Livingstone,” although only aweek or two bef gine Eng lish public, has already sold two is still inactive demand. It is fortunate at thig stage to announce that the good fruit of Mr. Stanley’s work does not end with the honors to himself in Europe, nor with those in prospect for him on Ameri- can soil. It is now certain that David Living- stone will be no longer left to the fates. The success of the American has stimulated the enterprise of savans all over Europe.’ Two English expeditions, having the foots, which Mr. Stanley brought to civilization. from the store of Doctor Livingstone’ before them, are about to penetrate Africa—one’ from Mombas, on the East Coast, to map oué the series of lakes or the lacustrine river, | now called Victoria Nyanza; the other from’ the West Coast, to ascend the River Congo and! settle the question of its source. Six German expeditions are also in progress, and will! cover between them all the central region of Africa. The great movement towards’ the suppression of the East African slava’ trade, with all its horrors and inhumani-' ties, is, perhaps at present, the greatest and’ most direct benefit civilization will reap from’ the journey of Mr. Stanley. It is, indeed, a gratifying thought that everything has pros- pered so brightly with this man of undaunted heart and untiring pertinacity in a good cause. The long lost was found and comforted, science enriched and civilization taught a way to make itself more worthy the name. This is the proud record with which Mr. Stanley re turns to America after a prolonged absence. More of the President’s New Depare ture—Civil Law, Peace and Progress. We learn from Washington, in confirmation of the reports we have already given our readers of the new Southern policy of the adminis- tration, that, in answer to an application from the United States District Attorney and the’ United States Marshal at New Orleans for the use of troops in the enforcement of the laws of Congress concerning elections, the Depart-' ment Commander, General Emory, replied,/ under positive instructions from the Presi- dent, that no troops would be furnished ag circumstances then stood, but that the officials’ concerned must proceed according to the laws’ themselves in the prosecution and punishment of persons charged with their violation. In other words, General Grant has determined that henceforth the maintenance of law and! order in the South shall be left to the civil authorities, and that martial law, which indi- cates a state of war, shall no longer be tha prevailing law of the reconstructed Southern! States. This, too, is an important movement in tha right direction. It means that Georgia and Alpbama, restored to their normal relations bd States of the Union, are to have the same! jurisdiction over their local affairs as New, York and New Jersey. In this simple state, ment of the case it will be perceived how far, this new policy of 1 recognizing, North and! South, the equality of the several States ag! members of the Union, is calculated to recon-' cile the South. Under the continuance of a military supervision, after the States con-' cerned have fulfilled all the conditions of restoration imposed upon them, and after their restoration under these conditions, there! can be no reconciliation. But General onan in removing his troops from the government: of the local affairs of the reconstructed States, removes the most serious impediment to the; re-establishment of law and order therein, ; As suspicion creates distrust, so confidence: begets loyalty, and, while no government has: ever gained anything by policy based on picion, so no government has ever lost any-» _ thing in a policy of generous confidence in itat people. A general amnesty covers the same ground. We cannot fully restore the lately rebellious States without fully restoring their lately rebellious people to the common rights and equalities of members of the Union. There may be but a hundred or so, or less than @ dozen if you please, of ex-rebels who excepted from the benefits of amnesty; but, many or few, these exceptions make a dis Simotign hetwoon Pennaylyauia and