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Year: 1870

REPUBLICAN ELEoTI0NEERING IN THE
SoUTH.-A despatch from Washington states
that the condition of Alabama has created
grave uneasiness" at the national capital
for some time, and was the subject Of con-
sideration in the Cabinet ON Tuesday last
The despatch referred to continues =


As result the President has issued orders direct
Ing that the state he constituted a separate military
district in the Department OF the South, under com
inand Of General s. w. Craw FORD. Ten additional
companies Of troops have also been ordered into
State. General Crawford left Tor M MOntgomery to-
night accompanied by Senator warner, who goes
to resume the canvass In Inc State Senator War
ner mas been successful in raising considerable
money for campaign purposes, and reports the po
litical prospects in the state 10 be cheering.


That there should be grave uneasiness" at
Washington on account of the aspect Of affairs
in the Southland that aspect is really Of
happy and encouraging nature-is not at all
surprising. But why Alabama, State that
was supposed to have been thoroughly recon-
structed, should be singled out for especial
attention is somewhat remarkable. This
double team Of a military commander and a
political campaign lecturer perambulating
Alabama together does not speak well for the
sagacity of those who have the managing OF
the matter.
Year: 1870

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.
Year: 1870

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.
Year: 1870

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
Year: 1870

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.
Year: 1870

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
Year: 1870

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
Year: 1870

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.
Year: 1870

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.
Year: 1870

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.
Year: 1870

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.
Year: 1870

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
Year: 1870

The weekly statement OF The associated banks pre-
septs no important feature except. perhaps in the
item OF deposits which have increased about two
mi lions OF dollars There is a tIning gam In specie
and legal tenders. The gain In specie, despite the


customs payments OF the week, Is due to the coin
disbursements of the Sub treasury in payment OF
the March interest the ten-iortles. The last two
Year: 1870

Mr. David Dudley Field lectured last even
ing upon the very interesting subject of the
'Probabe Changes in International Law Con-
sequent Upon the Franco-Prussian War" 1t
is evident from the summary abrogation Of
treaties which have already grown out of the
war that at its conclusion the subject of inter-
national law will have to be thoroughly dis
will have to be greatly revised. The treaties
of Paris and of London are already used
as paper pellets by the aggressive Powers of
Prussia and Russia The war in France goes
on with no basis of mutual humanitarian
policy marked out between the combatants,
national law of the present day, have the right
to suggest and enforce humanity, are them
selves nervous and agitated with the impend-
ing evil of a general contest


Mr.. Field makes three excellent suggestions
in his lecture. If war cannot be altogether
prevented its horrors, its frequency and its
long duration can be lessened. The list of
contraband articles should be greatly enlarged,
not only that neutral nations may thereby
avoid the great temptation Of profting COM
mercially by their neighbors disasters, but
that less fuel may be added to the flame and
the contestants come sooner to the end of
their resources. The most prominent point
however, is his proposition to apply to the
sovereign nations Of the world the system OF
arbitration set forth in the constitution of the
4nl Cto%oe I,,x ,o1, 4 .1a:,.
individual State against the central govern
ment are decided by the Supreme Court
Let there be permanent tribunal Of the
nations to arbitrate upon International quar-
rels before the last desolating arbitrament Of
the sword be resorted to. If Napoleon had
laid statement Of his grievances against
Prussia before the nations of Europe and
invited their friendly offices he would have
received the reparation he required, if his
charges were true, or else the aggressive
nation beginning the war would have found all
the other signatory Powers arrayed
against it. This Of itself would rem
der war less frequent, not only on
account of the peaceable mode of settle
ment actually indicated, but on account of the
great muster Of force so sure to march upon the
aggressor. A supreme court of the nations
a permanent arbitrator for peace-with the
several armies Of the world to back it, may
possibly be one Of the grand improvements in
the future code of international law, which
the war in France may bring forth-a war
which so fitly illustrates with its horrors and
cruelties how imperfect is the international
law Of the present.
Year: 1870




The proceedings in Congress yesterday can
not be said to have been either important or
interesting. The Senate spent much of the
day in discussing the responsibility Of the
government for property Of loyal citizens
taken or destroyed during the war, and
adjourned without coming to vote on the
question.


In the House the usual miscellany of q
Mondays session was disposed Of, in the shape
of the introduction and reference of bills, none
of which probably will ever be heard of again
during this Congress. The question of the
repeal of the income tax presented itself in
the form of resolution, offered by Mr.. Kel-
logg, Of Connecticut, instructng the Com
mittee of Ways and Means to report bill for
that purpose, but the proposition did not COM
mand a majority Of votes, much less the two
thirds required for its adoption under a
suspension of the rules, and it went over
for future action. 1t is worthy of
remark that this question is, more
than perhaps any other, a sectional one. The
members from the Eastern and Middle States
are, as general thing, in favor Of the abolition
of the income tax, while those from the West
ern and Southern States are just as generally
in favor OF its retention, the reason being that,
while it falls so heavily on the merchants and
manufacturers and wealthy classes of the
Northern cities and towns, the agricultural
classes Of the West and South are,
for the most part, exempt from tax
alton under it therefore the members
who represent chiefly poor agricultural COM
munities are invariably to be found voting
against the repeal Of the income tax, while
those who represent mercantile and manufac-
turing communities are to be found favoring
its repeal. The vote yesterday was sixty -four
in favor of the resolution to seventy -one
against it.


The only other noteworthy incident in the
House proceedings Of yesterday was the in
PRODUCTION, by Kentucky democrat (Mr.
Jones), Of very silly preamble and resolu-
ton, excusing, if not justifying, the rebellion,
and extending general amnesty to all con-
cerned. The thing was SO untimely and i'll
judged that even the democratic members,
with the exception of only a dozen ora so,
voted against it or declined voting at all.
They were ready to support the resolution,
but the preamble was more than they were
prepared for. The only effect Of it could be-
and probably will be, to weaken the chances
Of Mr.. Farnsworth's substitute for Mr.. Buffers
Amnesty bill, on which the vote is to be taken
to-day.


In addition to these. miscellaneous matters
in the House the Pension bill, appropriating
about thirty millions, was passed. and some
progress was made on the Legislative Appro-
priation BILL
Year: 1870

and you may carry the vote Of the West In the
same direction tomorrow. The success of
Carl Schurz in Missouri is revolutionary sign
in that quarter of bad omen; for Schurz is
aptly defined in Bismarcks expressive allu-
sion to those revolutionary sans culottes Of
France as 'those gentlemen of the pavement. !"
We have finished the work Of great revolu-
ton, but now the reaction is upon us. Andy
johnson, in his last annual message to Con-
gress, in. plumply proposing reputation, had
glimmering of this, only he was
little too fast. But he picked out the
arrow which may still strike the vulnerable
heel of Achilles. If the administration party,
pledged to the public debt, is broken up, the
elements pledged among themselves to repu-
diation will take its place. This is the simple
logic of the question. Then, indeed, shall we
have something like the blessed bankruptcy,
anarchy and universal decentralization Of
Mexico in full blast. Look at it. Twenty
five hundred millions of debt is heavy
BURDEN but it may be wiped out with
sponge There is the danger-the sponge.
Schurz has none of these national bonds, they
say, to look after, and so the course is clear
for him against Grant; but Fenton and
Sumner are among the bloated bondholders,
and their folly is amazing. But, OH it may
be said, these horrid foreshadowings are
absurd So it was thought Of the warnings Of
the late rebellion. We are sure of nothing in
this age of startling events, and nothing revo-
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fore, another prediction. Let these mutinous
leaders of the republican party continue
their mscbievous work against the admin
istration, so as to make in 1871 General
Grants retirement from the Presidential


field or his defeat foregone conclusion, and
by the year 1872 such distrust and fear will
come upon our national securities and such
depreciation that reputation will become the
ruling condition Of the Presidential election.
Year: 1870

No CAUSE FOR THE RISE IN CoaI.-Accord-
ing to the latest official reports there are now
in market nearly six hundred thousand tons of
Pennsylvania coal, more than at the same
period last year. Therefore the increase in
the price of coal to actual consumers is
altogether unwarranted, and those dealers
who demand the increased rate are little better
than common violaters OF the law against
petty larceny.
Year: 1870

TaR REPoRTED DEFALcATToNs among
guartermasters' and commissary clerks at
Fortress Monroe afford another instance of the
necessity Of reform in our governmental
service. The young men implicated are the
friends or relatives OF politicians or army
officers. and the principal offender is said to be
the son Of q general. There is no doubt that
they were all appointed to The positions which
they have thus abused without any examiua-
ton whatever as TO their honesty or capacity,
and only because they had influence or in
finentiai backing
Year: 1870

RECORDER HAoKETT in his charge to the
Grand Jury yesterday suggested that the
builder or owner of the buildings in Thirty
fifth street which fell recently, killing four
persons, should be indicted for manslaughter


Certainly, if killing in fit Of passion is man
slaughter. killing In cit of ecouomv is as bad.
Year: 1870

TEE CAPTURE OF NUITs by the German
forces is a severe blow to the Garibaldans.
who made the place, in some respects, their
base OF operations. This reminds us that we
have been repeatedly told of successes by the
forces under Garibaldi and his sons but some
how nothing is ever said as to the places where
The fighting took place.
Year: 1870

Ii BEGINS TO Look AS IF THE OPERATIONS of
General Fdidherbe in the north of France were
Of more Importance than was at first supposed.
The evacuation of Amiens by the Germans
and their movement in the direction Of Faid-
herbe's forces indicate that he was getting un-
comfortably near to their line of communica-
ton. 1t will be remembered that he commands
the Twenty-second French corps, which re-
Gently recaptured ST. Quentin and Ham,


AT last accounts he had advanced beyond
Amiens, but it is doubtful if he viii be able to
continue his march in the presence Of General
Manteuifers army, which is stated to number
sixty thousand men, and to be now on his
track But whether or not he is compelled to
retreat northward again, it is certain that his
demonstrations have not been barren of result
Year: 1870

Ii THE FRENCH outworks have been pushed
forward with such success as 10 put Versailles
in danger from their guns we cannot see why
Trochu does not continue pushing them. He
would finally compel the Germans to extend
sage through would be comparatively easy
work