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The New York herald., 1870-10-06
Shall We Have Nilsson in Opera s-Tho
Academy Stockholders in the Way.

Op0rN
Academy Stockholders in the Way.
II Is reported that the only obstruction in
the way OF a brilliant season Of Italian opera,
with the charming Nilsson and first rate
company, is with the stock holders Of the
Academy of Music. 1t remains for these few
persons to say whether the city of New York
shall have or not this most delightful and re-
ining of all amusements, with the highest
order of talent. How is this? The answer is
very simple. Miss Nilsson wishes to appear
in opera. She is so gratifed by her reception
here and with the American people and coun-
try that she would be pleased to show her
fine ability on more extended scale than In
concert Mr.. Strakosch, the manager, and
the members of the Nilsson company desire
this also. We are assured, in fact, that We
should have opera, for a short season at least,
in a style that has rarely been witnessed in this
country, and such as we may not have an OPP
portunity Of seeing again for long time; but
it cannot be given unless the stockholders of
the Academy surrender their claim to
exclusive seats. That is the sine qua
SO selfish as to deprive New York, as well az
themselves, Of this rare opportunity for enjoy
ing brilliant season of opera ? Can it bs
possible that they will stand in the way for
the sake Of the few dollars that they might
have to pay for seats, as the rest of the COM
munity pay Ii they should be so mean aa
that, and have no more regard for the public
and the cultivation Of taste for the highest
order of music, their conduct will be severely
condemned. The list of names of these
Academy stockholders would be long remem-
bered as black list by the community Of
New York. Miss Nilsson has to return to
Europe in March to fulfil her engagements
there. The series of concerts at Steinway
Hall will end on Saturday. There are but
two more, one on Friday night and matinee
on Saturday. We might possibly hear this
exquisite singer again in concert after her
performances in other cities but it is in
opera where she is most brilliant, and where
we ought to see her, if the Academy stock
holders will permit. Ii is seldom that such q
bright star appears above our horizon or in
the world. There has been no exaggeratiou
or clap-trap to influence the public. Every
thing about her appearance, as well as in the
management, is genuine. From the touches
of opera which Miss Nilsson has given in the
concert hall we can well imagine how very
charming she must be in full operate per-
formance. Shall we have that What say
the stockholders 1t remains for them to de-
eide.
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1t is stated that the Cabinet is to be re0r-
drawing for reasons entirely personal, and
rumor has it that Ben Wade will succeed Cox
and General Walbridge will succeed one of
the others-probably Fish. General Wal
bridge, no doubt, will perform the duties of
either office with zeal and ability. AS for Ben
Wade, it would be simply shame to bury
him in the Office Of the Interior Department.
His stuff is of that stern, aggressive material
that will cause too much agitation among the
agricultural fossils in that pastoral depart
ment He would inexorably entangle the
dusty details of the Patent Office or the Land
Office in less than week. He would flt about
as nicely into them as fire in hayrick or a
bombshell in church. He would have been a
treasure in the State Department at
one time. His ultimatum for settling
the Alabama claims, ''pay or fight" tickled
the popular ear prodigiously at the time he
uttered it, and as events have since shown
that England is as chary about doing the one
thing as the other, probably his policy was an
excellent one to follow. In the Cuban business,
too, he displayed hearty Americanism that
was refreshing but whether his fiery temper
would suit the musty operations of the State
Department at the present time is matter of
doubt The place for Wade-for the old vete-
ran Of the republican party ought to have a
place somewhere under the republican admin
istration-is in the Navy Department. Under
the ten years Rip Van Winkleism in that
department our ships and fleets have gone to
rust like the old frelock of the Dutch hunts
man, and it needs the young blood of Old Ben
Wade to burnish them up again He cannot
be too fiery or progressive there. Mental
bombshell as he is he could not blow up our
present naval system too high; but we can
warrant that he would at least blow out some
of the cobwebs in the bureau and knock off
some Of the barnacles on the fleet.
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7 RIP LIE SH f e L .
New York. Thursdny, October q, 1870.
CONTENTS OF TO-DiY'S HERALD.

PAGE
l-Adyertlsements.
2-Advertisemcnts.
3-Paris: England and Austria Moving for an Ar
mlsice: German Territory to be Ceded 10
Russia; Engagement ut EpernOn and Defeat
OF the French; Repulse OF the prusslans Near
Fontainhleau; sorte Every Day by Bazaine's
Army; Preparations Completed FOR an Attack
on Paris; Olcial Denial That Napoleon Wrote
the Manifesto; The Constituent Assembly Of
France 10 Meet at Tours: Treatment OF the
Empress IN EDgland-The Flood IN Virginia.
Political Intelligence.
4--"That Heathen Chinee:'' History OF Ills
Origin and Development; The Coolle Mef-
chants and Their victims; Who is Responsible
for the Asiatic inundation. Habits and Char
In Human Flesh; New England Spiriruasm
Coexisent with the DAYS OF Confucius How
They Bury the dead IN the Fiowery Kingdom;
What They Eat and How They Cook IL; Facts
Figures and Statistics.
S-The Murder Calendar: TWO Murder Cases on
Term Day in the Court OF Oyer and ferininer;
Murder Trial IN The Court OF General Sessions
Proceedings Ill the New York Courts-AssassI-
nation In New Haven-Financia and Com
mercla Reports Marriages and Deaths-Ad-
vertiSemenfs.
6-Edtorials: The Armistice Question. a Fresh
Opportunity for Intervention--The New Satrap
OF CuDa - Board Of Foreign Missions The
London and New York steamship Line
Amusement Announcements.
1-Telegraphic News from all Parts OF the World
The Ponttcal Debt to be Assured by Victor
Emanuel Garibaldi Gone From Caprera
Senor 0lozaga supposed TO be in League
With the Spanish Republicans; spread OF the
Vomito In SPAN Movements OF Cossack
Forces westward OF tle Don; Bl-nark ana
Jacoby: Further AssasSiGations Of Foreigners
I'm China News from Washngton-la lachtng:
The Banquet 10 Mr.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Was This Murder A Fatal Negro Feud-
Personal Intelligence - Army Intelligence
The steamship st. Laurent Disabled At Sea
A Fatal Coincidence Business Notices.
S-Advertisements.
9-Advertsements.
lO.-Narraganset Park Second Day OF the FAN
Trotting Meeting-1rotting at Fleetwood An
Exciting Contest-Jerome Park Races Pool
Selling for the Opening Day--sutfolk County
Falr-The National Game--f elbow Fever !:
Eight More Deaths at Quarantine Aquatic
The Drivers StriKe-New York State Ine-
brate Asyum-The Tehuantepec Snip Canal ::
The Government Survey Expedition About to
Start -YeneZuela-EliZabethF Fire Department
Parade-Shipping Intelligence Advertise
ments.
11-Advertisements.
12-AdverJsements.
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Military Situation
France.
Throughout

France.
We have indications to-day of fighting in
all directions. The Franc -treurs appear to
have sprung up like the dragon teeth of Cad
mus, and in all parts of France the unorganized
peasantry are attacking the invaders. There
was a sharp engagement at Fontainebleau, i'm
mediately in the rear of the German lines of
investment about Paris, on Tuesday; another
one occurred near Nibelle- -Chambon, between
the troops moving against Lyons and the
Franc -tireurs; another occurred near Colmar,
few miles below Strasbourg; strong fight
is reported to have taken place at Epernon,
in the province of Eure ct Loire,
southwest of Paris, and figh ting is reported
near Orleans. In most Of these it is stated
that the tireurs were engaged. and as there
are really no organized armies of France
stationed in the neighborhoods indicated there
seems no reasonable doubt that the tireurs,
which are in effect organized bushwhackers,
have commenced their operations. Away up
at Saverne, almost on the Rhine frontier, they
have damaged the Strasbourg Railroad and
thus seriously interrupted the Prussian COM
munications This is the legitimate work of
the guerilla. The fighting that is reported
seems somewhat above the style of fighting
to which guerillas have hereto ore accustomed
themselves. The facts, however, indicate that
the people of France-the wooden-shocd
Jacquerie of revolutionary times-have taken
to the bush with their rifles, and that the most
dreadful phase of war has been inaugurated.
There is no incident of interest to report
concerning the siege of Paris, except the
removal of King Williams headquarters to
Versailles. It is probable that in the contrac-
ton of the line of decentralization the army of
the Crown Prince has been pushed toward
St. Germain, and he has established his new
headquarters there, leaving the old King in
possession of the fine quarters at Versailles
The army of Strasbourg is to be used in COM
pleting the occupation of Alsace, and the guns
used to compel the surrender of that city are
already pointed against Metz.
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his absence. This is rather loose business, as
q malicious deputy may cause the arrest and
incarceration of any citizen at his pleasure.
An example was furnished in the recent case
of Deputy Shine, who got professional
brother locked up in the Tombs on warrant
signed by the Coroner in question. Commit
ting magistrates should be more careful in the
use Of their sign manual where the liberty Of
citizens is involved
The New York herald., 1870-10-06

This morning the siken banners of the
American Jockey Club will be again unfurled
at Jerome Park for the autumn meeting.
None who remember the brilliant success OF
the spring season end the halcyon social hours
then enjoyed will receive this news with
unquickened pulses. ''The beauty and the
chivalry" of New York will make haste to
seek in the warm sunshine Of the ripe October
the glow they incompletely found under the
imperfectly tinted skies of spring. The love-
liness of field and forest will be richer now
than then, and the russet hues of the land
scape will be reflected by only deeper, richer
light in the eyes Of friendship and on the
cheek of feminine grace. There are some who
sadly say of autumn
The melancholy days have come,
The saddest oil the year;
but those who drive out along the Harlem
road to-day will find the feeling Of the season
all the other way. The boasted ''meets' Of
Britain and France can present no such de-
lights of atmosphere and scenery, and GER
tainly the charms and the elegance Of our
metropolitan danes and demoiselles leave
nothing for the DERBY" or "Longchamps" to
vaunt for any claim of their superiority.
Then, for the practical attractions of the
course, the choice, commencing with this
days work, will range over some of the finest
blood and mettle in the country-animals and
riders who have won distinction on many
hard-fought field. But apart from all these
inducements we cannot feel Indifferent to
the higher tone Of civilization that these
races in America denote, especially as
they are managed for the Elite
of the social life of our Empire
City by the gallant cavaliers and gentlemen of
the 'Jockey Club" They are the true
Olympic games revived in our day, with
thousand additional refinements, of which
''the nobest and wealthiest of the Greeks"
never so much as dreamed.
Rome had her coarse and bloody gladiato-
rial combats, in which captive warriors were
butchered to make holiday, and her shows
of the arena, where martyr Christians were
cast to the lions and tigers of savage lands.
colJ-blooded cruelty of which not even the
songs of the Minnesingers and the romance Of
the Troubadours could hide or redeem. In
our own time the bull fights of Spain, where
even the donzellas Of Madrid and Cadiz smile
on the mangled forms and dying agonies of
man and animal alike; the boxing rings of
England and the cockpits of Havana, which
are but the ante-rooms of brutal excess and
degradation, have been the pet sports of civil
lied nations and even where the ''turf" has
been patronized abroad it was and is defaced by
continual rudeness. But here on our favored
soil, and in condition of society to which
liberal systems and ideas have given only a
higher and more cultured tone, the race
course, such as our hosts of readers will see it
in these enchanting October hours, will be
simply the centre of the most refined and
humanizing associations. Up then, and away,
ladies fair and merry gentlemen! For youth
and hope and beauty, and even for that
bright old age which only silvers the locks,
but cannot chill the heart, this is one of the
golden days to be treasured throughout the
year.
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Worse and Worse.

Worse than the sutferings of France from
the German armies of invasion and occupation
will be, according to one of our city morning
contemporaries, the sufrerings of the people of
this city from the reelection Of Hoffman.
Thus we are warned that with Hoflman's re-
election we shall have "a new era Of pro-
fgacy and corruption, with the Tweedites and
Fiskites absolute masters of this island" that
''the law courts will be open only for the
benefit of gang Of profigate adventurers )"
that ssthe bar will sink lower than ever !" that
''the bench will be more than ever the scoff Of
the civilized world" that if the people ''give
new lease OF power to Hoffman, which
means Tweed and Fisk, it will be useless for
them to complain afterward that their property
is plundered, that swindlers hannt all sorts Of
abominabe vices in their faces, that the city
is given over to lawlessness and ruffandom,
and that the courts OF law are turned into dens
of thieves.
This, from a journal which has hitherto
chanted the praises Of Tammany in conserva-
tive music, is somewhat startling; but it is
hardly more so than the present laudations of
the Wigwam from an erratic democratic moral
philosopher who but the other day denounced
even the inner temple as conspiracy Of
swindlers and robbers. There are two old
proverbs which will apply to all such cases
'poltics make strange bedfellows," and
'where the carcass is there will the vutures
be gathered together, wranging and fighting
over the fragrant spoils.
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STARTING THE BALL.-The Gold Exchange,
at special meeting yesterday, appropriated
two thousand dollars as q contribution TO the
fund for the benefit of the sufla arers by the
recent floods in Virginia. Toe money is TO be
The New York herald., 1870-10-06

THE s'SoFTEsT" THING OUT--An unHedged
innocent who conducts a paper in an adjoining
precinct of New York undertakes to rasp Tom
Murphy, the Collector of the Port, for levying
an assessment upon his employees for election
eering purposes. This is decidedly the
''softest' thing that has been developed thus
fsr in the pendipg political campaign.
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shall be laid without delay, and that 1t shall
be unveiled by the President Of the United
States on Professor Morse's eightieth birth
day, April 81, 1871. No American citizen is
more richly entitled than Professor Morse to
SO signal an honor, and no site can be found
more suitable for such statue than the New
York Central Park
The New York herald., 1870-10-06

THE 'sYoUNG DEMOCRACY" Of this city
have resolved upon full ticket Of candidates
for the county, for Congress, the Assembly,
school officers and inspectors OF election.
This is a bold demand, but the danger ID that
in asking too much they may get nothing.
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11-Advertisements.
12%Advertlsements.

THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT has come up
as balance of power in Delaware, and the
Jersey democracy are IN great peril. After
drought it never rains, but il pours.
The New York herald., 1870-10-06

LOOSE BUSINESS Coroner Flynn, it APP
pears, by his own statement, has been accus-
toned TO leave warrants OF commitment in
blank, to be tiled UP by his deputies during
The New York herald., 1870-10-06

WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor
Both s-Performances afternoon and evening.
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE, of Eighth and
2yd sl-0PEnA BoUFFR-LE PETIT FAUST.
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THE YELLOW FEvER-A Coop EXHIBIT
The report OF Health Officer Carnochan to
the Commi .sioners Of Quarantine concerning
the cases of yellow fever on Governors
Island is very satisfactory. showing,
as it does, the completeness with which
the pestilence was removed from the very
threshold of the city almost the moment it's
existence was discovered. So promptly were
the patients removed to the Quarantine Hos
pita far off in the lower bay, that not a single
case of the contagion spreading beyond Gov
ernor's Island has been reported. 1t may be
regarded as a providential circumstance that
while the disease prevailed on Governors
Island for nearly six weeks it did not reach the
city, The course now adopted by DR.. Car
nochan and his assistants at Quarantine,
together with the approaching cool weather,
renders all danger impossible. But what a
risk have we escaped, and what lesson have
we learned as to the necessity Of an efficient
Health Officer of the Port.
The New York herald., 1870-10-06

THE POPE AS A PEACEMAKER 1t is said
that the Pope has written another letter to
King William in behalf of peace. We hope
the report is true, for, from the pous tender
ness which marked the answer Of King Will
liam to the first appeal for peace from the
Holy Father on the breaking out of the war,
we have no doubt that now, in answer to an
other appeal from the Pope, the King would
open the way for peace. An entente cor"sdtf
in behalf Of peace between the infallible
head Of the Catholic Church and the head of
the victorious and most powerful Protestant
State OF the Continent would be hard to resist.
THE FALL ELECTIONS, so far held, show in
their results that in the elections yet TO come
of the republicans do not intend to permit
them to go by default. The important cleo
tjons of Tuesday next for the next Congress,
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and
Nebraska, will, however, give us the ilFst posi-
tive indications as to the probable strength OF
the two parties in the next House oil hepre-
sentatives. From present appearances 'he
repubIicans will not hold their own, but VIII
still have the House.
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A BAD SIGN.-They had thirteen deaths
from yellow fever in New Orleans on Monday
last. We fear that the city is getting dirty
again and that it wants another such over
hauling as that which General Butler gave 1T
followed up from year to year, kept out the
yellow fever as an epidemic for seven years.
Cleanliness Of all things and of all places is
the thing needed against pestilencs in our
Southern cities.
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner Of Elghth avenue and
WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE. Broadway, cor
ner s0h sPerformances every afternoon and evening.
OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.-TnE PANTomIME OF
WEE WILLIE WINkIE.
BowERY THEATRE, Bowey.-JAnGrISE-DIcK THE
NEWbBoY.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twentytourth st.-MAN
AND WIFE.
BOOTHS THEATRE. 23d ST.. between SIN ana 6h avs
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE crheatre Francais,--
MARIE SEEBAoH As DEBORAH
LIMA EDwIN's THEATRE, 72O Broadway BARSArr
RuDGE.
NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, as Bowery.-GEnMAs
OPERA-FAUsT.
wALLACK's THEATRE, Broadway ana 18th street.
SHERIDAn's COMEDY or THE RIVALS
ACADEMY OF MUSIC 18th street.-Afernoon and
Evenng-A CENT? FROM IRELAND, 40.
GLOBE THEATRE, 72s Broadway.-vArrLry ENTER.
fAiSMkNI-EhNA"L
MRS. Y. B. CoNwAY's PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn
As You LIKE H.
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE, 2ol Bowery.-vA-
RiE1Y ENTERTAISAENT.
THEATRE ooMIoUE 5i4 Broadway.-coMro VOCAL
Ism, MICRO Ac1s &o.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL. 5s5 Broa way
Memo MiNsTeELsY, FAnoFs. BURsEsoUrs &c.
KELLY LEoNs NINsrRELs. No 500 Broadway
THE BABIES or TnE PERIoD-rHn ONLY LEoS.
HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.-NEGRo MIN
sTRELsY, BURLEsouEs, sc.
BROOKLYN OPERA HoUsE--wetoa HUGHES &
WHIqEs BROOKLYN MlSsrRELs.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
RINK Third avenue anu sxty-thrd street
DR.. KAHNS ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 7f5 Broadway
SCIENCE
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATo1y. 61s Broadway
sCHNCE ART.
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A STATUE OF PROFESSOR MORSE IN THE
PARK.-At the regular meeting OF the Com
missioners OF Public Parks, on Tuesday,
proposition was accepted to erect in the Gen.
tral Park statue in honor Of Professor
Morse. commemorative of his great inveri!on
and its vast influence on the history of the
world. The artists model for the statue of
the famous inventor Of the electro magnetic
telegraph is almost ready for the chisel. 1t is
intended that the statue shall be o work OF the
highest art. that its foundation and pedestal
The New York herald., 1870-10-06

sIBLo's GARDEN, Broaaway.-TnE TrcKrr-oF-LnAvr
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OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.-TnE PANToMIME Oh
WEE WILLIE WINKIE
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BowERY THEATRE, Bowery. ruE
EEWSBOY
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FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE CTheatre Francas)
MARIR SEEBACH DEBORAH.
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BOOTHS THEATRE, 23d ST.. between 5th ana q
RIP VAN WINKLE.
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GOVERNMENTS FIRM

GOVERNMENTS FIRM
The steader movement In gold anl the higher
quotations for nve-twcntes In London led TO sharp
reaction IN the government market, and prices as
compared with the price Of gold, have recovered the
old standard. Indeed tle SIS to-day sold one and
half per cent higher than gold. The latest street
prices were foilows:--United States currency
skies, 1104 III; do. skies, 1884, registered, ia
115; do. do, coupon, IFS 1l54; do. 1ve-twen-
ties, registered, May and November, l10is lIo9l;
do. do, 1862. coupon do 1I1A liz; do do, 1864,
do do, 1IoS 11o14; do. do, 1865, do. do, 11oIa
ILL., DO. do, registered, January and July, 1O9al
no. DO. do 1865 coupon, do. 1929 q 1917; do do,
1867 do do, 110]% 11OA; do. do, 1883, 90. do.,
lloH l1o's do. ten-forties, registered. lo7 1879;
do do, coupon, 1914 1o7la
SOUTHERN SECURITIES ACTIVE.
The features Of the Southern list were the vr.
ginas which advanced to ~ for the old ana 10 for
the new bonds the new Tcnnessees which were
unsettled, and the North Carolina special taxes
which were feverish. The general list was steady
and strong, closing as follows:-Tennessee, ex cou-
pom So sex; do, new, 45I 49, do, i've per cent,
Al "A; Virginia. ex coupon u 70; do, new, 691
10; do, registered stock, 81 55 do, registered
1896, 81 62: do, registered, 1861 5S 90; Georgia
skies, 50 80; do. sevens, 92 %;
do. sevens, interest payable Georgia, 81 . 90;
North Carolina, ex coupon, as 451s; do,
new, "a q 24H; do, special tax, 21h
%; Missouri skies, os1l sl; do, Hannibal
and st. Joseph, 90 q o.; Louisiana skies, 73
"a; do. levee sixes, "a 74lE; do do. eights s2h
81; Alabama eights o. q 95; do. fives, 65 . CO;
do skies, sterling so s5;South Carolina skies, 81
So; do., new, 80 so1z; do. registered stock, rs
70; city OF Memphis SKIES. SIX So; city OF At.
lanta eights, s5 81; city OF Savannah sevens, "a
IS; city OF New Orleans consolidated 75a II; do do,
railroad issue, y 70; Mobile and Ohio sterling, "a
20; Do. eghts, 81 . 90; Mississippi Central Rail.
road first mortgage, "a q 70; do. second mortgage,
50 81; Memphis and Charleston nrst mortgage, SO
o 81; do second mortgage, 70 a II; do. stock. AZ
"A; Greenvlile and Columbus Railroad guaranteed,
CT 10; Macon and Brunswick, guaranteed BY State
OF Georgia, so q 50.
TIE CITY BANK STOCKS.
The following were the bids to-day for the city