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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic Ccspatchos must be addressed New York Herary. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. f Letters and packages shoula be properly eenled, MEP RS THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the gecr, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription io ‘Iee 812, & Wolume XXXVI, .= = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and ® icecker sts. —H uncusack, \ UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- centh and Fourteenth streets,—Acnrs. \ WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway Gireet—Keniuworrn, @IFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth strect.— Wramonns \. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Tw @v.—Ror Canort. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway. —Vaniety INTRRTAIN MENT. BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth @Venue.—ARRaw-wa-Pocur. | BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Frexcu Srr—Loan oF & Loven—Tom Onincix. _ WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadwa: Cnow-Cnow. 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YACHTING: THE FINEST SLOOP RACE OF THE REASON; AN EXCITING STRUGGLE BE- @WEEN THE MAUD AND DAVIDS—THE CRICKETERS—SHIPPING—TENTH PAGE. @REELEY IN THE HOOSIER STATE: KISSED BY WHE GIRLS AND LIONIZED BY THE BOYS—CABLE TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE—SeveNTH Pace. "CHANGE: PREMONITIONS OF A STORM; GOLD UP, STOCKS DOWN—FirtH Pace. HE POWWOW OF THE ABORIGINAL “REDS:” SPEECHES BY LEADING ORATORS; THE BRAVES MUST FARM OR FIGHT—LITE- RARY CHIT-CHAT—FirtH Pace. WHE DETAILS AN) MEANING OF THE MEETING OF THE GERMAN, RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN EMPERORS—INTERESTING NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—SEVENTH PAGE, AMUSEMENTS—PERSONAL—SIXTH. PAGE. QHE REFORM MASS MEETING AT COOPER INSTITUTE: THE SPEECHES AND RESO- LUTION3--GERMAN ENDORSEMENT OF CITY JUDGE BEDFORD—Tuirp Pace. WORRESTER : ABANDONMENT OF THE NATHAN MURDER CHARGE—OCURTIN DECLARES FOR GREELEY—ENTHUSIASTIC RECEP- SION OF CARL SCHURZ AT PITTSBURG— TaiRD Pace. ON GamperTa AND THE Frencu Repvsiic.— ome time ago we were led to understand that on the 4th of September, this present year of our Lord, the republicans in France would pooke e# grand demonstration. Later we Scarned that this did not find favor with Presi- @ent Thiers; and then we were told that Gambetta had concluded that the anniversary of the founding of the French Republic should Gate from the 22d of September, 1732, and not from the 4th of September, 1870. Gam- Cotta was to make a grand speech in one of the provincial towns. To this also President "Thiers objected; and n8w Gambetta has given up all idea of celebrating the anniversary of the first Republic. Whatever the reason, the ex-dictator is a good subject of President Thiers. But why should France be so much wfraid of the name of the Republic? Massacuuserrs’ Procramme.—Boutwell to he made United States Senator if Wilson is elected Vice President; Butler to be made Governor in 1873 and Senator, vice Sumner, in 1875. But what does Dr. Loring say to all this? Tue Evrorean Crowns aNd THE INTERNA- WIONALIST ConGress.—The Cabinet Ministers of the King of Holland have assured the members of the States General that the foreign Powers jhad not forwarded a single complaint to the Department of State relative to the recent | assemblage of the Internationalists in Congress etThe Hague. The Minister of Justice ex- plained that the open character of the meet- ing took away all ground for objection to the proceedings on the part of the monarchs. Exactly 60, Forewarned—forearmed. The royalties were posted as to the radical rile; hence no necessity for a waste of red tape. In Bap Taste.—An evening contemporary, ‘usually courteous and gentlemanly, calls upon & morning journal to revive the record made against a United States Senator when the lat- ter was charged with grand larceny and com- auitted to the common jail asa thief. Again, the same paper speaks of a “Professor of Journalism’ as becoming a “most audacious coiner of falsehoods.’ On Sunday a New York weekly made a disgraceful statement about President Grant, which is set at rest by ® letter from Hon. Nehemiah Perry, ex-mem- ber of Congress, published in the Heratp fo-day. When will the partisan journals ccase to omploy this coarseness of language #nd the era of journalistic amenities be re- vived? The whole thing is in extremely bad taste and unworthy the spirit of journalism in pho prosynt enlightened azer «t NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. v Presidential Prospect —T: A vention in Pennsylvania. The Keystone | ment public will shortly include the bulk of | nificant attestation of the force and power of | the andue exuberance of the orchi ra, and some Proaching State Elections—The Im- portant Conflict in Pennsylvania. It is a fair summing up of the political situation at the present moment to state that the choice of the next President of the United States depends almost entirely upon the result of the approaching election in Pennsylvania. From the beginning of the year to this day, im none of the States—except North Caro- lina—which have spoken has there been a break effected of any consequence in the ad- ministration lines. New Hampshire, Connec- ticut and Oregon in the Spring and Summer, and Vermont and Maine, in the opening of the State battles of Autumn, tel) substantially the same story, of the unity, discipline, activity and confidence of the administration party. So far the reinforcements to the general oppo- sition camp expected from the fusion of the democratic party with the liberal or anti-Grant republicans on their Cincinnati ticket and platform, have not appeared at the hour of trial in any State, except, perhaps, North Carolina, where the first test of the actual strength of Mr. Grecley as the democratic and liberal republican standard bearer was made under all the favoring conditions of a new sensation. With the failure of the opposition alliance to elect their candidate for Governor in North Carolina, the idea which had immediately followed Mr. Greeley’s nomination at Balti- more, of a great impending political revo- lution, was greatly shaken, and _ the politicians and their followers in the cause of Mr. Greeley at once recognized the despe- rate and doubtful character of their bold en- terprise. But they might make a telling impression upon Vermont; and they certainly entertained high hopes of a decisive check to the crowing of the Grant republicans in Maine. Vermont, however, proved too closely bound to her idols to be shaken, and even Maine, in behalf of the administration and its supporters, did better than they had expected. The anti-Grant republicans had developed no material strength in the election, and the local issue of whiskey and beer was over- whelmed by the main question of Grant or Greoley. And so, from New Hampshire in March to Maine in September, the State elec- tions have indicated anything but a promising break to the opposition in the lines of the administration party. So far, too, this power- ful array of leading republican bolters from General Grant, including Greeley and Brown, Sumner, Trumbull, Schurz, Banks, Fenton, McClure and a host of others, has given no evidence of any considerable body of fol- lowers. In short, the important first essential to the Greeley coalition of a promising opening in the republican lines has not yet been made, and if not gained in the coming October State elections they will settle the question of the national November election against Mr. Gree- ley beyond a doubt. The State elections, therefore, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Towa and Nebraska, of the 8th of October, will be fought as practically determining the Presi- dential issue. From the result in North Caro- lina on the Governor it is evident that the Southern States will be divided as between Grant and Greeley; from the results in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont and Maine, it is apparent that there is hardly a ghost of a chance for Mr. Greeley in New England; and from the latest elections in Oregon and California he has not much to expect from the Pacific Coast. He must, therefore, break the administration lines in the Central States or in the great Western States, between Pitts- burg and St. Louis, on the 8th of October, or his case from that day will be hopeless. Nor, for these October skirmishes, does there appear to be a favorable point of attack for the opposition alliance supporting Mr. Gree- ley outside of Pennsylvania and Indiana. At all events, as in the Presidential contest of 1856, between Buchanan and Fremont, this contest of 1872, between Grant and Greeley, hangs upon the October State battles of Penn- sylvania and Indiana, and mainly upon Penn- sylvania. It will be remembered that in 1856 the September Maine election was carried as by a whirlwind for Fremont, but that in October the tide was turned in Pennsylvania. There were then three Presidential parties in the field, the democratic, the republican and the Ameri- can parties. Buchanan was the democratic, Fremont the republican, and Fillmore the American candidate. For the October election in Pennsylvania there was a fasion between the republicans and Americans, but there were sufficient disaffections among them to give the State to the democrats by the slender majority of two thousand on a popular vote of half a million. Indiana was carried in the same way against the opposition parties, and these two States thus secured to Buchanan in October ‘by the skin of his teeth,’’ were uni- versally accepted as settling, as they did settle, the Presidential issue of November in his favor. What is now the political situation in Penn- sylvania? It is mixed, doubtful and perplex- ing. There are two cliques in the republican camp of that State, each of which aspires to rule the party. One of these cliques was suc- cessful in naming the party State ticket for this October contest against the remonstrances of the other, and of course this offended clique is working to defeat this State ticket, while contending that its overthrow will not affect the success of General Grant in Novem- ber. And here is the opening through which the opposition alliance may possibly carry Pennsylvania in October. The Grant man- agers should never have given such an opening to the opposition. They should have removed all cause of division and presented an un- broken front to the liberal democratic cohorts. A failure to carry their State at such acritical moment may be fraught with more disastrous consequences than the triumph or defeat of a merely local clique. Ounce set in motion the ball of reaction, and it may keep on rolling until it rolls President Grant ont, and his philosophical opponent into, the White House. On the other hand, the Greeley coalition is menaced with that disturbing element—the straight, or Bourbon, or anti-Greeley faction of the democratic camp. These Bourbon democrats may be few and far between ; but, under the Louisville Bourbon banner of O'Conor and Adams, State rights, &e., they have in Indiana set up a State ticket and a Presidential electoral ticket, and | they have appointed the 3d of October for a Convention at Albany for similar nominations for New York. They are moving in the sam direction in other States; but they have not yet, we believe, named a day for a State Con- Bourbons have apparently concluded, before taking any definite action in behalf of O’Conor and Adams, that they will await the results of their State election, particularly as they have rather a liking for Buckalew, the popular dem- ocratic candidate for Governor, which is stronger than their objections to an apparent support of Greeley in October. The actual situation of the opposing parties in Pennsylvania, then, is this: The republi- cans are not united in support of their State ticket, while the democrats, liberals and Bour- bons and the liberal republicans are united in support of the democratic State ticket. This is the most favorable condition of things offered anywhere for a telling Greeley victory in October. His supporters know, too, that they must carry Pennsylvania in this approach- ing State contest or give up all hopes of carrying Mr. Greeley in November. Hence we may safely assume that as the key, tho Malakoff, to the national victory of November the opposition alliance will henceforth devote all their available strength and resources to secure Pennsylvania in October on the vote for Governor. This is so manifestly their plan of operations that we cannot doubt they will pursue it, unless they have concluded, from the results in Vermont and Maine, to make no more heavy expenditures of time, labor and money to change the current of this Presiden- tial campaign. Collapse of the Forrester Prosecution— The Nathan Murder a Mystery Yet. The result of the examination held in the Court of Special Sessions yesterday regarding the felon Forrester will not surprise a great many. It was generally surmised that the astute detectives ‘protested too much,” and could not keep their word. We heard a good deal of these acute gentlemen of the dark manner of doing things staking their reputations, whatever they may be worth, upon their ability to connect the fugi- tive criminal they captured with the crime. We are sorry for them if they meant what they are reported to have said. Forrester, after great exertions, was captured and brought on from Washington with almost the pomp of an olden conqueror having a captive king at his chariot wheels. A lady was produced who swore in a very conscientious manner that she saw Forrester at the door of the Nathan mansion before the murder with something hard up his sleeve. There may be more evi- dence, but its weight must be judged by its non-production, The end—namely, a with- drawal of the charge—followed yesterday. The detectives and the authorities fall back upon their “moral convictions” and a requi- sition from the Governor of Illinois for For- rester's body. The latter's counsel hereupon sues out a writ of habeas corpus, and the mat- ter stands thus with the chances strongly in favor of Forrester serving thirteen years in the Joliet Penitentiary, unless he takes it into his head to get over the wall early some morning and give the detectives more work. It is regrettable that matters stand as they do ; but there is a consolation in it. We cannot jump toany unwarranted and therefore unjust conclusion regarding the prisoner's connec- tion with the Nathan murder; but we can with certainty say that in handing that worthy over to thirteen years of seclusion the detectives have wrought some good, for which we are thankful. If they baited fora shark they landed at least a devil-fish. But of that murder, now hugging half its ghastly secret to itself since the July morning two years ago, when the mangled remains of an old man, lying in a pool of blood, told their fearful moiety of the tale, what light has been thrown upon its darker side? Does the work of the detective end with the disappearance of Forrester from among us? We have promise that it will not, and in- deed it should not. Detectives are often blamed by an impatient public for the ob- stinacy with which they cling to their “theory.” That this leads them frequently into error is true; but after all it is a certain trained course of reasoning which developes their ‘‘theory,’’ and as such, while doubtless throwing them occasionally upon the wrong scent, will be pertinaciously and profession- ally adhered to. As success is the only crite- rion, we greatly regret that the detectives are brought to such a dead halt. They do not, however, give up the Forrester faith, and it is announced that they will continue plaiting a rope for him during his incarceration in Illinois. They have thereby given themselves thirteen years for the task. It is a miserable ending toso much flourish, and the mystery still remains unsolved. A Constellation of Stars in New York, The metropolis of the Western World is bril- liant now with the choicest musical and dra- matic talent of Europe, united to a very hand- some cluster of gems of our own. Last night witnessed the first appearance of Rubinstein, the king of modern pianists, before whom all our previous experiences in that line, even with the favorite Thalberg, must necessarily pale. With this remarkable chiid of genius appeared the violinist, Wieniawski, whose graceful, elegant style of playing won at onco the sympathies of the audience. At Booth’s were seen the ever popular Mr. and Mrs, Bou- cicault, who many years ago established them- selves in the affections of the metropolitan public. Their reception last evening showed | that their long absence only endeared them the more to the New York people. To-night we shall hear the last notes of the veteran of a score of operatic campaigns, Mario, and the bird-like tones of Carlotta Patti. Next week will be ushered in by the American début of Mme. Pauline Lucca and the opening night of what promises to be the most brilliant opera season ever known in this city. Theodore Thomas promises to revive those classical soirées that | once gave an elevated tone to orchestral music here, and Mr. Wallack announces the open- ing of his regular dramatic season at an early date with the last of the London burlesques, “Pygmalion and Galatea.’ There is no European capital can show such an array of talent in one season, and the people nobly respond to the enterprise of the varions managers. The bugbear of a Presidential election has lost its terrors on the stage, and | the theatres pursue the even tenor of their | way, undismayed by the struggle among poli- ticians for the occupancy of the White House. The subscriptions for the opera are daily in- creasing, and a glance on an evening at the principal theatres will show that the amuse- the population of the city. With such an ex- isting state of affairs who will not say that New York must be considered as one of the art centres of the world? Iomail Pacha and Sir Nile Expedition. In the very interesting report which we pub- lished yesterday, from a Heznaup corre- spondent at Cairo, of a lengthy conversation between him and Ismail Pacha, the enlight- ened and progressive Viceroy of Egypt, there are some allusions to Sir Samuel Baker's Nile expedition which, we think, are entitled to special attention. Our correspondent (just returned from his expedition up the White Nile to Gondokoro) was asked by the Viceroy for @e last news of Baker. Our commissioner answered, ‘When I left the White Nile I heard that Sir Samuel had reached the Lake Albert Nyanza, with a small force. The intel- gence is not certain. It was passed down the White Nile through all the tribes that the white Pacha (Baker) had left Gondokoro and had reached the junction with the Lake Albert Nyanza.’’ The Viceroy did not credit the news. Our correspondent believed, however, that Baker had reached the lake, and re- marked that notwithstanding all the obstacles in his way Baker was a man of ready re- sources, ‘and will, I believe, surprise Your Highness in the end.” The reply of the Viceroy to this remark very broadly discloses his disappointment with the results of Baker's expedition. He said that ‘‘Samuel Baker went to the White Nile to create and not to destroy commerce;"’ that “instead of increasing our trade there he has nearly destroyed it;’’ that ‘travelling is not safe along the line of the river;’’ that ‘the tribes are in hostility to the government,’’ and that ‘‘we find our dominion under his war of conquest unsafe, unsounder than if he had not gone there at all;’’ that ‘formerly our empire extended to Gondokoro and beyond;’’ that “it is not increased by any annexation by Samuel Baker,’’ and that ‘‘you observed, perhaps, that commerce was dead there.’’ Our correspondent replied in the affirmative, when the Viceroy enlarged upon the destruc- tion of trade in that quarter; and then he went on to say that peace, and not war, was his true policy with those wild tribes, and that he regretted what Sir Samuel Baker had done, “because it implants in their rude, untaught minds the idea that Egypt is their enemy.’’ As this annexation expedition of Sir Samuel, however (though doubtless adopted from the force of his arguments in its favor), was equipped and despatched under the Viceroy’s instructions, we have no fear that Baker will be otherwise than generously treated on his return from his perilous enterprise. But it appears that, when last heard from, he was in a critical position; that the boats sent up to his succor had returned with great mortality; that they could not proceed beyond the Sobat River, near the Bahr-el-Ghazal, that arm of the Upper Nile which Livingstone believes is the outlet of this great chain of beautiful lakes and their immense drainage. Baker, there- fore, is unquestionably in a critical position. Completely cut off from his base of supplies, he is also, we apprehend, from the diminution of his men, boats and animals, cut off from a retreat down the river. His only alternative, then, would be to push forward, in hope of a junction with Livingstone, south of the Lake Albert Nyanza, and in hope of reaching the seacoast over the route from Ujiji to Zanzibar, now familiar to the world from the travels of Burton, Speke and Grant, Livingstone and Stanley. It would be another event for universal con- gratulation it Baker should come out from the dangers and weary trials of his daring Nile expedition at the point on the sea coast from which Stanley set out in his search for Living- stone, especially if he should bring with him the “old white man’’ of Ujiji, together with the complete solution between them of the sources and the drainage of the mighty Nile. And this, we hope, will be the crowning reward to Baker and Livingstone, and to Ismail Pacha and to science and civilization, of Sir Samuel's Nile expedition. el Baker’s Purport of the Imperial Conference. In another column of to-day’s Herarp will be found an interesting letter from our Berlin correspondent on the visit of the Emperors of Russia and Austria to the German capital. The extraordinary conference of the three monarchs has excited general remark, and no little speculation has been expended on its objects and its probable effects. Best informed observers, however, agree that the amicable meeting is a guarantee to Europe that, for the present, no war will be permitted. Aus- tria, in the fraternal embrace of Kaiser William, forgets the defeat of Sadowa. Rus- sia no longer broods over the events of the Crimean struggle. France is to receive no encouragement from either towards a war of revenge against Germany. No further rectifi- cation of frontiers is to be allowed, except by the assent of the three imperial Cabinets. As neither empire is just now ready for military operations each mutually agrees to sheath the sword and see that none of its neighbors disturb the peace. Furthermore, the three empires are to frown and, if need be, to stamp upon all efforts of a revolutionary character. These conclusions and such as these were settled at Berlin, amid all the festivities and rejoicings of the recent visit. For once a congress of sovereigns promises peace. God grant no meeting with the contrary intent may socn occur ! Russian Profession of Imperial Friend- ship to France, Imperial Russia has gracefully condescended to officially reassure the French Republic of the good will of the St. Petersburg govern- ment, and, in a negative way, to be sure, to leave it to be inferred that the recent congress of the sovereigns in Berlin was not by any means a royalist conspiracy against the cause of de- mocracy in Europe. His Excellency Count Orloff, Russian Minister to France, attended a reception which was held by M. Thiers in the Palace of the Elysée yesterday. The Russian statesman took occasion to assure the French President that he had been commanded by the Emperor Alexander to state that His Majesty the Czar ‘would not have attended any meeting the object of which was hostility to France.’ An Orloff delivering a royal Russian explanation to an aged, plain- living, simple-minded Frenchman, the head of a vast political radicalism, and that, too, in the people's will even in the Old World, and actually places France in the position of the defender of the cause of progress. Count Orloff didnot, of course, say what was the intent of the monarchical assemblage. As it had no reference to France, had it any object beyond the interchange of military uniforms, crosses and ribbons? It may have had. The question of the East still remains, And then the Emperor of Austrian was present. The wise men may have been looking to the Orient. Frencn Payment or Inpgmnrry To Prvs- sts.—The French government paid fifty-seven millions of francs to the Prussians yesterday. M. Thiers has thus discharged the fifth half milliard due to Germany on the war indem- nity bond. The noble action of the French people with respect to their treatment of this terrible foreign impost goes to prove the won- derful recuperative and industrial productive power which France possesses as a nation, while the honest manliness of their rulers in their endeavor to efface the grievance will rec- ommend their country and themselves still more to the sympathy of the world. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Brick Pomeroy is rusticating among the Buck- eyes, Sir John Ham, of Canada, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ©. J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, is at the New York Hotel. Charlotte Cushman is doing a driving business at Newport. G, W. Griffin, United States Consul at Copenhagen, is in Cincinnati, Father Gavazzi yesterday returned to his apart- ments at the New York Hotel, Homer A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, ex-Secretary of State, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel J. C, Lewis, of the United States Army, has taken quarters at the Astor House. George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, yes- terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. John H. Davis, of Wall street, returned yesterday in the Atlantic from a Summer trip to Europe. United States Senator J. R. West, of Louisiana, is again in town, stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Albert J. Dowell, Jr., of Washington, has ac- cepted the post of editor of a republican journal in Nashville. Baron G. Von Lingere, of Germany, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Whether or not he will linger long about the city is not known. State Senator John R. Tompkins, of Alabama, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Tompkins is among the most eminent of the members of the Order of Odd-Fellows, Rey. E, F, Brooks, of New York, died at Elgin, Ti., on Sunday last, while on a visit to friends. The reverend gentleman had been in ill health for some time, John J. Knox, Comptroller of the Currency, and his wife and daughter, have returned to Washing- ton from Rye Beach, where the two latter have spent the Summer. Mr. Russell Gurney, the British member of the British-American Claims Commission, yesterday came to this city from Newport. He is now at the Brevoort House. The Countess de Dion, of Paris, yesterday ar- rived atthe Clarendon Hotel. There are now a& couple of dyin’ persons at the Clarendon, yet both are lively as crickets. Strange, isn’t it? Mrs. Anna S. Dimick, a pleasing correspondent of the Boston Globe and an authoress of high liter- ary attainments, has returned to her prairie home in Milford, Seward county, Neb., after an extended tour throngh the White and Green Mountains, Canada, &c. The Boston Transcript mentions the fact that the Rev. Increase Mather, D. D., President of Harvard College, was one of the most impressive preachers of his time. He prepared his sermons with great care, but never, it is said, took a manuscript or even a memorandum into the pulpit. Sher Campbell, the basso, while lately at Aix-les- Bains, France, sang at a charity concert. His part- ner in a duo, during the performance, was a Russian princess, who Is said to possess a magnificent voice. Astrange story is told of the marvellous change in this gentleman's voice by one of his old colleagues in the minstrel profession. While very young he joined a troupe of minstrels in a New England town. He travelled with them for some time, con- tributing by the use ofa fine alto voice greatly to the success of his company’s entortainment. But one morning, while in California, he awakened as the possessor Of a full, rich baritone. The wonder at the change was great, as his voice had given no evidences of gradual mutation, and he himself had never alluded to its variation ifhe knew that it was occurring. RUBINSTEIN. First Appearance of the Pinno King in America. Steinway Hall was the scene of a remarkable musical event last night. It was the first ap- pearance of an artist who, with Liszt and Wagner, forms the climax of art in Europe. The audience itself was an interesting feature. Artists of foreign and local celebrity fringed the hall, not only on the floor but in both galleries, and litterateurs were there by the score. It was a very attentive andi- dence, too. The great pianist and his associates had willing listeners. There was no indis- criminate applause, but a severe,: critical spirit seemed to have taken possession of the house, to be broken only by the efforts of genius. As for the local pianists, and we may add pianomakers, their name was Legion. The lobby at the entrance dur- ing the intermission became a noisy lycenm of declamation, and every one obtruded his particu- lar opinion about music in general and Rubinstein in particular. The pianist has associates in his concerts, but they are all lesser lights, lost in the effulgence of his genius. The programme had only one fault—it was too long. The following will show what its component parts were:— Overture, “Oberon,” Weber, Orchestra ; Concerto, D minor, No. 4, Anton Rubinstein, piano, with or- chestra accompaniment, Anton Rubinstein; Aria, “Cenerentola,” Rossini, Mlle, Louise Ormeny; Concerto for Violin, in E Minor, Mendelssohn, Henry Wieniawski; Scena et Aria, “Wie Nahte mir der Schlummer’’ (Softly Sighs), “Freischutz,” Weber, Mile. Lonise Lievhart; Air and Variations, D minor, Handel; Rondo, A minor, Mozart; March, from “The Ruins of Athens,” Beethove' Anton Rubinstein, Duet, “Sul Aria,” Mozart Miles, Liebhart and Ormeny. Etudes Symphoniques, Schumaagn, An- ton Rubinstein; Ballad, “Little Bird so Sweetly Singing,” G. B, Allen,’ Mile, Louise Liebhart; Flute Obligato, Mr. Rietzel, a Legende, } airs Russes, H, Wienlawski, Henri Wientawski; Atia “Capnlettl & Montecchi,” Bellini, Mile. Louise Ormeny; Barca- role, G major, melodie, F major, Valse, vaprice, Anton Rubinstein, Anton Rubinstein. Carl Rergmann led the orchertra and had a thankless task, for there were rioters in its ranks who would like to have inaugurated a musical Com- mune, The reappearance of Rubinstein was heartily greeted—no claque either, but a sound, well-meant expression of welcome. The rugged face, with its Tartar features and its frame of long, un- combed hair, and the ungainly form, which bowed repeatedly in response to the avalanche of applause, attracted and centred upon itself the deepest atten- tion of two thousand auditors, The orchestra com- menced the introdnction to the concerto—a work, by the way, which Miss Krebs attempted to play at one of the Philharmonic concerts some time since, A solemn, Wagnerish movement it was, ushering ina full chorded maestoso piece of declamation on the piano. New subjects were then introduced by the composer and player with a rich background of instrumentation, and the work grew more massive and more replete with rich thoughts as it proceeded. Now and then there came a piano cadenza which seemed like a piece of orchestration in its rugged grandeur, and the finale of the movement was a whirlwind in its impetuosity and power, calling forth from the piano a perfect Thesaurus of sound, which surged above even the blatant instruments that surrounded the inspired player. The second movement was a lovely Andante, opening with a rich melo which became still more beautiful in the kal ropic changes of treatment which tt unde nt. Here the Titan was transformed into a Titania, and the storm of the previous movement was julled into a cantavue calm, in which the singing qualities of the iano were brought out to their fullest extent, the Palace of the Elysée, presents a most sig- | Row ann then the delicious melody was marred by of the best efforts of the pianist suffered in quence. In the last movement Rubinstein gave evidence of extraordinar; er. Commencing with an allegro tempo, he soon increased it to & and in the pauses of the orchestra were hea in octaves and passages tat often where we woes a notes 23 cemuns fe- re’ 3 is some ‘on ‘and in Rubinstein’s grasp on a ot. ‘ith a impetuosity and nervous strength everything intntelligibie and well defined, small details. A handful of chords is te. lowest bees ives @ clear, well-defined idea of eac particular note.’ The pare is his obedient slave end tl it like # and responds to his being instinct with life. The second work played by him, the air and variations by Hai one of those quaint and fine old reminiscences of a great school, exhibited a new phase im his p! . He wage ofpirasing stpolutely woudertu., Ths tendec ness ofp! absolut e nder little morceau of Mozart showed that the pianist could interpret true poetry as well aa the stormy cadences of the modern schools, In the march from “The Ruling of Athens,” he gave @ perfect specimen of a dimin- uendo effect on the plano. Schamann’s grand work, with its enormous difficulties, was rendered with a massiveness and ¢lan eclipsing even the performance of the concerto. In speaking of this eat pianist it may be well to allude to @ leserved rebuke which he gave last night to that crying nuisance in the concert hall, the extrava- als and ridiculous presentation of baskets of lowers from the hands of unseemely ushers. Wreaths and flowers were alike spurned by Rubin- stein, who showed a stu! independence and a contempt for these small tricks of the profession. Wientawski created @ sensation of no ordinary kind, The Mendelssohn concerto {s an old favorite here, and every violinist essays it sooner or later. The characteristics of the playing of the Polish violinist consist principally of an _ elegance and finish of style and ‘a remarkably pure, well shaded, if not sympathetic tone. bis own works he showed freedom, almost a) roaching abandon, which was not perceptible inthe work of Mendelssohn. Soul, that desirable element in a great violinist, seems to be subservi- ent in Wieniawski’s case to piegauce of manner, and his phrasing, well rounded and distinct, is more important to him than mere sentiment. He is the most accomplished artist we have had here for many years; but even in the perfection of his chuique and his keen appreniation of the thoughts of a composer there is alack of that warmth and feeling that we Pagenint once such a potent ma- gician ovér the minds of his hearers. Mile, Liebhart was suffering from a cold, and @ vail of hoarseness marred the lower notes of her voice in the scena from “Der Freischutz,"’ but she invested the beautiful selection from Weber with much dramatic fire and expression. Mile, Orment was the victim of nervotsness or stage fright in the “Non pu mesta’”’? from “Cenerentola,” bu recovered from it suficiently to execute the flort passages of the aria with commendable spirit and finish, But the feature of the troupe is Rubinstein, and he is the first pianist here that can draw the effect, coloring and variety of sentiment of an or- chestra from the keyboard of a piano. The nexs concert takes place on Wednesday evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE. The Boucicaults in “Arrah Na Pogue.” After years of absence Dion Boucicault and his wife, née Agnes Robertson, reappeared on the Ameri can stage last night. The warm welcome extended to these artists gave evidence of the deep impres- sion they had made on the public mind something more than a decade ago. There was no mistaking the heartiness of the reception accorded by a large and intelligent audience. It was spontaneous and real, not requiring the organized efforts of the claqueurs, who are rapidly becoming part of tne organization of every well appointed theatre. Time has dealt gently with the charming Agnes Robert- son, who, as the Colleen Bawn, won her way to all hearts, Her form has lost some of its lightness and elasticity, and the features have acquired a certain firmness of outline. These changes indicate the march of time without in anything detracting from the lady’s power to interest her audience, With Dion time has not been so merciful but the changes wrought are not visible on the stage. After the serious infliction of society playa from which we have suffered, it is quite refreshin, to find ourselves in company with real men an women, with passions, syrapecnieg and weak- nesses. We have a right to be obliged to Mr. Boucicault for an escape from ciaw- hammer coats and worthless toilets into the region of flesh and blood; but, most of all, for an introduction into a pure atmosphere, where there are no dawdling men and fashionable, silly women, whose main business in life ls ta break the seventh commandment. No douot the class. who support the society play, with its ‘contemporary effects,’ will be dis- gusted with the picture of peasant life that contrasts so favorably with the hollow and in- sincere society of to-day. It is true that the pic- ture 1s not altogether a pleasant one. The weak, the violent and the vicious sides of the Irish character are laid bare with as unspar- ing a hand as if it had been done by an im- plucable enemy. Only a man deeply conversant with every phrase of Irish life and thought could have sketched the virtues and the failings of that people as Dion Boucicault has done. Fortunately “Arrah Na Pogue” ts not true asa picture of con- temporary life in the ruder and more repulsive details, but there can be little ques- that he has depicted Irish _ life the close of the eighteenth century with fidelity. He shows us the people such as ages of brutal penal laws condemning them to ignorance and barbarism had made them, with the inherent genius and generosity of the race struggli through. The characters are full of pathos an humor—light of heart, yet le of a de- votion almost heroic; but the whole so mingled and disordered that it is dificult for a foreigner to know whether the speakers are serioug or not. We are not quite sure that the full force of this play can be recognized by those who are not conversant with Ireland and her peo- le. The dialogue, which is picturesque, humorous and witty, is full of pointed litical allusion, which for the most part will be ost on an American audience, The tribute the British government paid to its value in virtually suppressing it in 1865 as a dangerous appeal to the passions of the people is the best tribute that could be offered to its emotional worth. Some of tha assages are of idyllic tenderness, and, though the language is always that of the peasantry, there runs through ita vein of poetry that is not often’ found in more pretentious non The play has some of the defects that seem inherent in the romantic drama. There is a tendency to sen-- sationalism that shocks the admirer of the “legitimate” drama; but in the present case “the effects” are kept within the bounds of possibility, and this is all we have aright toexact. The way in which the piece has been put upon the stage ia beyond all praise so far as the scenery ts concerned. ‘Two scenes especially deserve notice—the openin, one, “Glendalough by moonlight,” and the ‘wate tower, with the coast view” in the last act, These are simply admirable, and we should be nig- ard indeed if we refused to accord to them out est praise, With the exeeption of Mra. Koucl- cault, Mr. Boucicault and Mr. Shiel Barry, the cast ig remarkably weak. Indeed, if we except Misa Mary Wells, who found herself quite at home in the character of a vulgar Irishwoman, there was not one actor who acquitted himself in @ manner to deserve mention. People have become so much accustomed to tha stupid supernumeraries who are expected to da actors’ work at this theatre that they submit with @ hopeless kind of resignation. It isto be re- gretted, however, that the interest of the play ig seriously compromised by the incapacity of those filling Important roles, Among the gentlemen whose first erpcarance Was ahnounced on the bill we think Wé fécognized the familiar faca of Mr. Fenno—possibly this was Intended ff & grim joke by the very clever managers, th the ex- ception of Shiel Barry it was alfogéther too much honor to announce the other débutants. It te quite unnecessary to enter into any criticism of tha merits of Mrs, and Mr. Boucicault in their rdles. SuMice it to say that the same expresston, naturalness and verve which made then favorites twelve years ajo still exist in all their force, with the added experience they have gained in their long and successful dramatic career. Of Mr. Barry's acting it would be dificult to speak with full ae without run- ning the danger of being considered extravagant. The picture of abject cowardice, meannes# and venomous malignity which he draws hag never been excelled on the ge Every shade of the baser human passions is sketched rapidly but firmly with a master hand. There not a phase of feeling suggested by the diferent situations in which the wretched informer finds himself but are reflected with marvellous vividness in the facial expression or the esture of this artist, He has lifted the character of Feeny out of the common rut, and made ita dramatic personality that will deserve to live as long as the drama exists, as a reflection of the weaknesses, passions and crimes of men, The audience were not long in discovering Mr. Barry's talent, and gave frequent evidence of their appreciation, He is already accepted as a popular favorite. PAULINE LUCCA. Another long and arduous rehearsal of “1 Afri- caine,” at the Academy of Music, took up the greater part of the time of the far prima donna yesterday. The choyns 1s being carefully trained, under the direction of Signor Santi; Mr. Maretzek is diligently at work with the orchestra; and the principal artists in the cast have many an hovr of hard rehearsal in the green room. Seflor Avrugnedo, Spanish tenor di Jorza, who will make his début on Monday night as Vasco di Gama, will likely create a sensation, as his voice is even more brillant than that of Mazzolent in his palmy dava. The same may be satd of Moriami, who wid unde: take the role of Nelusko. But t highest antict pations of the public are centred upon Mme. uucca, whose Selika is said to be without a rival ‘The rate was written for her specially by Meyerbeer, and it 18 the one in which she Las wou ler greatest Wiumphs, §