The New York Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1872, Page 6

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CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Piaxoxns, STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Rusenstein Covoxer. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner 6th av.—Negro Minsteeusy, RNTRICITY, &C, 720 BROADWAY. EMERSON’S MINSTRELS,—Granp Ermiorian Eccentricitixs. . ITE'S ATHENAUM, 585 Broadway.—Nearo MIN- preeisy, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Guanp Vantery Exrertarnwent, & No. 201 Bowery.— \_8T. JAMES THEATRE, corner of 28th st. and Broad ‘wWay.—San Francisco Minstexis 1 Farce, £0. ‘ OHARLEY SHAY’S OPERA HOUSE, Thirty-fourth st. @od Third av.—Vaxiety EXTERTALNMENT. BAILEY'S GREAT C of Houston street, East River. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 634 fend dith streets AND MENAGERIE, foot NEW YORK HEKALD, MUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 187%—TRIPLE The Important State Biections of To- Morrow—The Question of a Political Revolution Involved im the Results. The State elections which take place in Penn- sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and South Carolina are of surpassing importance, inas- much as they may determine the issue of tho Presidential contest of November. We give in another part of this paper a list of the offices, State and national, to be filled in these elec- tions, and of the candidates in the field, from which it will be seen that in the heavy cata- logue of members to be chosep to the next Congress the results may settle the complexion of the first House of Representatives for the Presidential term beginning on the 4th of March next. There are also two United States Senators depending upon these clections—one in Pennsylvania, to succeed Simon Cameron, whose term expires on the 4th of March, and one in Indiana, in place of Oliver P. Morton, whose term also expires with the present Oon- gress. If, then, there were nothing at stake in these impending elections but the members of the two houses of Congress concerned, there would be matter enough involved in reference to our national affairs to bring out a very heavy popular vote, and especially in Penn- sylvania, Ohio and Indiana. But the Congressmen embraced in these elections and the Legislatures are secondary considerations in the presence of the Prosi- dential issue between the administration party and the opposition coalition, which will be the all-absorbing issue to-morrow at the polls from the Delaware River to the Missouri. Tho main question, therefore, in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana will be the popular vote of the States as between Grant and Greeley for President; and hence the main battle in Penn- sylvania and Indiana will be for the Governor, and in Ohio for the State ticket, not as a test of the strength of the immediate candidates, but as atrial which in such case will settle tho question for Grant or Greeley in November. Nay, it is understood on all sides that these State elections of to-morrow will either sottle the question of the Presidential succession in favor of General Grant or, by a popular reac- tion against him, make the interval up to the 6th of November, including the national elec- tion of that day, one of the most exciting, desperate, closely contested and doubtful po- litical struggles in the history of the United States. These Stato elections of the 8th of October, accordingly, may be set down as involving the broad and comprehensive issue of a political revolution, embracing a new administration at Washington and the establishment there in power of the new composite party of demo- crats and liberal republicans in place of Gene- ral Grant and the present dominant republican party.” This isthe grand and all-absorbing is- sue; and what is the prospect? The domocratic party at Baltimore made a radical change of base. Abandoning the dead issues of the war, it accepted the ‘fixed facts’ of the con- stitutional amendments, and upon this repub- lican platform, fusing with the anti-Grant republicans upon an anti-Grant republican candidate for President and Vice President, it stands before the country. This change of base—this new opposition organization—ren- ders our statistics of past elections exceedingly unreliable, although the late results in Maine and Vermont, touching the strength of this new opposition movement, show that in that quarter at least it has not materially shaken the integrity of the administration church. But in Pennsylvania there is a different con- dition of things. Against General Cameron there has been a bolt on the part of such active and experienced party leaders as Curtin, For- ney and McClure, which may be compared with the secession of Mr. Greeley and others DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Art and Scunce. { NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science axp Art. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, Oct. 7, 1872. f ner nn = ~ THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the HMerald. “THE IMPORTANT STATE ELECTIONS OF TO- MORROW ! THE QUESTION OF A POLITI- CAL REVOLUTION INVOLVED IN THE from the original firm of ‘Seward, Weed and Greeley’’ in New York. We know how the war between the Seward and anti-Seward factions has, from time to time, turned over this State to the democrats; and it is just this sort of in- testine war between the Cameron and anti- Cameron republicans of Pennsylvania which holds out to the opposition alliance there the prospect of the election to-morrow of Bucka- lew as Governor. Moreover, General Har- tranft is still somewhat under a cloud of charges of corrupt surroundings, notwith- standing the late extraordinary affidavits in his vindication. He appears to be the weakest man upon his State ticket, when, like Bucka- lew, he should be the strongest. All these RESULT :” LEADING EDITORIAL—Sixta PAGE. THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS: RESUME OF THE CANDIDATES AND OF THE RESULTS LN PREVIOUS STRUGGLES—SEVENTH PaGE. MOST RIGHTEOUS TREATMENT OF REDSKINS IN ARIZONA—NEWS FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS AND AUSTRALASIA—SEVENTA PAGE. THE DARK AND BLOODY DEEDS OF ARKAN- SAS’ OFFICIAL DESPERADOES!—THE IN* DIAN JURSION—TuiRd Page, THE MODE OF CONDUCTING THE GEORGIA ELECTION: MUDDLE AMONG THE COL- ORED REPUBLICANS—THE RECORD OF CHANGES IN SHIPPING—TentH Pas, PENNSYLVANIA'S POLITICAL PERTURBATION! THE CAMERON RING QUAKING—THE BANK ROBBERY IN JERSEY CITY—Tairp Pag. THE TENNESSEE TERNARY AT A CAMP MEET- ING! PARSON BROWNLOW ON THE CAN- VASS: JOHNSON'S LIFE THREATENED— TenTH Paar. THE NEWS FROM WASHINGTON: A BRILLIANT TREASURY COUP—PERSONAL—MUSIC AND THE DRAMA—SEVENTH Pager. THE RETROSPECT FOR THE WEEK IN THE WALL STREET MARKE THE NA- TIONAL TREASURE AND THE CLIQUES— THE COURTS—Firtn PacE, PULPIT POLEMICS: THE SERVICES AT THE VARIOUS CHURCHES—Fovrtn Page. ARCHBISHOP BAYLEY’S FAREWE. AN AF- FECTING SCENE—CHILDRE RECEPTION AT RANDALL'S ISLAND—Fourtu Page. JUDGE BEDFORD ENDORSED BY THE SEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT— AQUATIO ~—Tentu Page. THE SECRET ORGANIZATION OF THE REFORM. ERS—AFFAIRS IN UTAH—THE WEATHER— SEVENTH PAGE, WATERARY CHIT-CHAT—SUICIDE—E1ontu Page. Busmvess Inpicartoxs—Tne Heranp ADvEn- TisemENTS.—The fifty-five solid columns of ad- vertisements in the Hxraup yesterday are the best indications of active business and of a fine prospect for the season now opening. Com- paring this exhibit with that of former years we see that the growth of our business keeps up fully with the growth of the city and tho progress of the country. Such an amount of advertising so early in the Fell season is unpre- oedented and is undoubted evidence of an un- things have operated to unite the opposition elements and to discourage and demoralize the republicans. Under such drawbacks if Har- tranft is carried through to-morrow, even by the narrow margin of a few hundred votes, Pennsylvania may be set down as good for General Grant in November by a handsome majority. Such is the operation of a success of these Pennsylvania October elections in the Presi- dential years. In 1848 the State in October was carried by the whig candidate for Gover- nor by only a few hundred votes, whereas in November it was carried by General Taylor by thirteen thousand over Cass, and by some twenty-two hundred over both Cass and Van Buren. In October, 1856, the democrats, on the test question of Buchanan, carried the State by some two thousand majority, and the result was accepted as the election of Buchanan in November, with the aid of Penn- sylvania, and he was so clected. In October, 1860, the Keystone State foreshadowed a whirlwind in November, and it came with a majority of nearly sixty thousand for Lincoln. In October, 1864 and 1868, Pennsylvania, though less emphatically, very clearly foretold | the fate of McClellan and Seymour. And Hartranft, whatever his status now, has been ® popular man in Pennsylvania, for in 1865 he was elected Auditor General by twenty-two thousand majority. But as all signs of rain fail in a dry season, so all prece- dents fall short as to the strength of Hartranft in this Pennsylvania contest. We can only say that we have had no October election there of equal importance and uncertainty to this since that of 1856, when, it was said, some two hun- dred thousand dollars from New York, judi- ciously applied in behalf of the democracy, turned the scale in their favor. But now the sinews of war appear to be all on the other side, and unity, hard work and republican discords are the reliances of the opposition. In Ohio the democrats and liberal republi- cans are not apparently so sanguine of success, though even there they expect some encourag- ing gains on the State ticket, and are not with- out some hopes, from German and radical ac- usually active trade, cessions, of carrying the State. The republi- 4& majority so heavy in Ohio that the chances ere clearly in their favor, inasmuch as, rain or shine, the fullest vote ever polled in the State may be expected to-morrow. In Indiana, the Opposing faction of the Bourbon democrats having mysteriously disappeared, and Hen- dricks being as popular in that quarter as Buckalew isin Pennsylvania, with liberal demo- cratsand republic: nud with the Bourbons, and Indiana being a ciove and doubtful State under the best conditions for the republicans, the prospect is very encouraging to the oppo- sition. In a word, in behalf of Mr. Greeley, there is a fair ahow for both Pennsylvania and Indiana, and if gained . by him the Presidential battle will be renewed with unparalleled activity and excitement from the centre of the Union to its circumference ; but otherwise the Presidential issue will be settled to-morrow in Pennsylvania and Indians. We are prepared for any results, and have no apprehensions of the ruin of the country in any event, Meantime we cannot avoid some misgivings that the violent, unmeasured and scandalous person- alities which have marked, and still mark, this political campaign, may in these impend- ing élections culminato in scenes of disgrace- fal brutalities, To all parties concerned, therefore, in these elections, we would com- mend the maintenance of law and order. Lot the people speak, let fair play prevail and “let us have peace.”” Disturbances in the Money and Stock Markets—Tho General Financial Sit- uation and Prospect. ‘Tho late disturbance in the money and stock markets proved but temporary, though injuri- ous to business fora time and disastrousto cer- tain firms and individuals. The excitement, therefore, it may be said, is over. Still, there is no feeling of security, but a continual ap- prehension of more ‘‘squeezing’’ operations, While there is a sense of relief under the re- action and comparative quiet that followed, people naturally say another such disturbance may bo caused at any time. It was seen on that occasion, as well as on the famous Black Friday and other such recurring commercial events, that a few men, with only a few mil- lions of capital to work upon, can, by skil- ful combination and preparation, shake the whole framework of business and eredit, The enormous transactions of this city in the money and stock markets, in the produce market and in com- merce and trade generally, amounting sometimes to over a hundred millions of dol- lars a day, are seriously affected, and at times partially paralyzed, by two or three men making what is called a ‘corner’ in money or stocks. Yet the total sum used for this purpose may not exceed three or four millions and rarcly amounts to eight or ten millions—a sum very insignificant compared with the vast trade and interests affected, and the enormous capital held in New York. Disastrous as these cornering operations have proved they are, after all, as insubstantial as the ‘baseless fabric of a vision.’’ Though they cause violent fluctuations temporarily, mercantile failures, a high rate of interest and demoralize foreign exchange, a million or two of gold poured out of the plethoric United States Treasury can break the corner and restore an equilibrium, and what does a million or two of gold amount to compared with the enormous capital and daily business transactions of New York? Yet what an ex- traordinary anomaly it is in our financial condition that such effects should be pro- duced by apparently insignificant causes. One cause of this anomalous state of things is, undoubtedly, the extreme sensitiveness of capital. Though the volume or ameunt of capital here is very large, it is kept so actively employed that a sudden and unusual strain upon a very small percentage of the whole amount causes a disturbance. Ono per cent, or even less, of the total amount involved in business transactions, or in the stock and money markets, when either locked up or used for making a ‘‘corner,"’ may make a difference of three, four or more per cent in the values of other things, may send up the rate of in- terest enormously, may seriously check trade operations, and may plunge a number of finan- cial and commercial houses into bankruptcy. A pebble thrown into a large body of water will disturb every particle of the mass, though in quantity it is relatively insignificant, and our financial condition is similarly elastic and sensitive. It is more or less the same with capital, or that representation of it which we call money, all over the world, and especially in the great financial centres, such as New York or London, and if the disturbance be great and prolonged at the centre the effect extends far and wide over this country and even to other countries, We are, however, from some cause, in a more abnormal condition and more subject to dis- turbances from comparatively slight causes than are the business communities of other countries, and this notwithstanding our vast resources and power of recuperation. In Lon- don the Bank of England has considerable in- fluence in checking the schemes of speculators and excessive trading, and in regulating the money market. It does this by putting up or down the rate of interest. By allowing such action the government has not the desire, op- portunity or pretext to interfere with the busi- ness or monetary transactions of the public, and it never does except under very extraordi- nary and exceptional circumstances, The British Treasury Department does not, as Mr. Boutwell does, enter the market every week or so with a modicum of gold or a bundle of bonds to upset a little clique of stock or money gamblers. France, with all her overwhelming war disasters and enormous drain upon her re- sources, feels no such perturbations as we do. Through her industry and commercial system and the superior management of that grand institution, the Bank of France, she is a credi- tor nation and draws all the specie she needs to herself. With far greater natural resources and wealth than any country on the globe, this great American nation is continually disturbed in its financial affairs, both by foreign influ- ences and the combinations of insignificant, cliques in Wall street. This is a monstrous anomaly and shows that our financial system is not on a sound basis. It is argued by some that the cure for this anomalous state of things and the evil conse- quences to which wo have referred is the re- sumption of specie payments. They have been reiterating this argument, or rather theory, for years, and ever since the war closed. The liberal republican and demo- | cans, however, upon a fyll vote, gouerally poll | cratic candidatg for the Presidency wos jong the leader of this school of theorista, whose dogmatic. motto was, “The way to resume specie payments is to resume.” He, however, has changed his views somewhat, through the responsibilities of the position he now occu- pies and the broader grasp of his mind. He now sees there are difficulties in the way. It will be remembered, too, that Mr. McCulloch, President Johnson's Secretary of the Treasury, the prosent Secretary and a host of our public men held out the expectation and proclaimed the necessity of specie payments. This, wo wore told, must be brought about ; that there must be a contraction of the currency for that purpose, and that then we should be on a solid financial basis, This theory, so full of promise, was not found practicable. “We hear little or nothing now from the Treasury Department or the administration writers and orators about specie payments, In the meantime, and in spite of the want of ability and blunders of the administration in Oongress with regard to the national finances, the premium on gold has declined and we have been approximating a specie standard. The wonderful resources, progress and industry of the country have over- come in a measure bad legislation and the incompetent administration of the Treasury. How long the premium on gold will remain fluctuating botween ten ‘and fifteen no one can tell; but if the national fitances should be better and properly managed the tendency must be downward all along. But will there be better management? Will our financial affairs be so regulated that neither speculators at home nor disturbances abroad could seriously affect our market and the general current of business? No doubt if we could come to a specie basis, and remain there, everything would be more steady, and there would be fower opportunities for such gambling opera- tions in Wall street as frequently occur under the existing state of things. The government might make the effort at least to bring about specie payments. Con- gress and the administration might during the coming Winter prepare the way for such an effort, and then, after the plan should be ready and the public prepared for the change, there would be, probably, little difficulty, When people know they can get specie for notes little specie, comparatively, is really needed, except for small change, because notes are more convenient to carry and use. The gov- ernment has in round numbers three hundred and ninety-seven millions of paper money in circulation, greenbacks and fractional cur- rency included, and the national banks havo within a fraction of three hundred and forty millions. The total paper money of the coun- try is, therefore, about seven hundred and thirty-seven millions. What amount of specie in the hands or under the control of the gov- ernment would be necessary to meet the de- mand of noteholders in the event of resumption cannot easily be determined. The Bank of England usually has an amount of specie in its vaults approximating half the issue of its notes, but the relative proportion of specie held by all the banks of the United Kingdom to the whole volume of paper money in circu- lation would not be, probably, over one-fourth. Could the United States government, with a hundred millions of specie, safely undertake to redeem its three hundred and ninety-seven milltons of paper money? Contraction is out of the question. That has been tried, and the revulsion and alarm among the business com- munity and all classes compelled the govern- ment to stop its “contracting experiment. We do not take into account here the national bank circulation, because the banks would be compelled to redeem their notes either in legal tenders or specie, for these would necessarily be at par if the government resumed specie paymenjs on its own notes. If the govern- ment has not specie enough to resume or to maintain a specie basis after proclaiming re- sumption we must wait till the country grows up to that condition when a paper dollar will be as good as a gold one, taking care in the meantime not to inflate the currency and, most of all, not to enlarge the national bank circulation. It will not be many years before the vast increase of population, wealth and business of our country will absorb and appre- ciate every dollar of the seven hundred and thirty millions of paper money now in circu- lation. If some practical measure could be devised by which United States bonds and currency could be converted and reconverted into each other at any time the money market could be kept steady, neither having too great an abundance of money nora scarcity, and there would be no possibility of Wall street cliques creating a panic or disturbing business. Police in Thieves? It was confidently hoped by the people of Jersey City that when Bumsted was sent to State Prison and the Police Commissioners were sentenced to pay a fine for their male- feasance in office a check was given to what Judge Bedle styled ‘‘prostituting public office to private gain.’ Mr. McWilliams, the Chief of Police, was convicted and sentenced, Are Our League with with the Commissioners, as a partner in crime. He was also indicted for complicity in « bond robbery case. He acted as a ‘“‘go-between’’ for the thieves and demanded from Mr. Noyes, from whom the bonds were stolen, the sum of three thousand dollars, or thereabouts, for the recovery of the stolen property. The money was paid down and the bonds were restored. The Grand Jury thought that McWilliams should have considered it a part of his duty to arrest the thieves, with whom he was on terms of such intimacy; but tho in- dictment was quashed on the ground that the payment of the money by Mr. Noyes was voluntary. Four or five other indictments are pending over the Chief, in common with the Police Commissioners, for malefeasance in office. But the latest charge against him is the most serious of all. That the head of the Police Department of a large and populous city could mot merely consort with thieves and allow them full sway, but could actually organize ai raid upon a wealthy bank and employ the thieves to execute it, is almeat incredible, It has no precedent in this or any other coun- try. The charge is 60 grave that wo shall hesitate to believe it until it is substantiated in a court of justice. Compared with auch a crime the Ring frauds in Jersey City, de- nounced as they were from the Bench, were but trifles, A detective is jointly charged with the crime, but he has this advantage over his alleged fellow conspirator, that he SHEET. duty promptly and vigorously in this matter, and that incorruptible judiciary whioh is the boast of New Jersey will do the rest. Attormey General Gilchrist and District Attorney Gar- retson have already won laurels in tho great work of municipal reform, and they have un- dertaken this case with tho unflinching re- solve to aift it to tho bottom. It is a case fraught with interest not only to Jersey City, but to every municipality in the Union. Tho Sermons Yesterday. Professor Tyndal’s ‘Prayer Test’” has done moro, perhaps, than-any other thing to call attention to prayer, aud to arouse Christen- dom toa defence of the practice of prayer. The discourse of Dr. Bellows yosterday was. ono bearing directly on prayer, encouraging us to pray, and yet assuring us that God will not give us all that weask for. Hoe knows what is best for us aud He will giva as only that. And although the Christian's dosiréa are not answered, he does not think God hard or unjust any more than he would think his earthly father so when he refuses to gratify his little whims and fancies. Nor should we think, when sickness and misfortune come upon us, that God chastises us without cause. These are intended for our good, and as Chris- tians we should accept them as benefits, not as curses, The Rey. T. De Witt Talmage went for Tyndal and Galton unsparingly. He accepts their challenge because he thinks it would be impossible to get any man to go into the prayerless ward of the hospital—not even the proposers of the test. But the ser- mon is made up of small puns and sarcastic witticisms which, we, may imagine, would keep the congregation in roars of laughter. But from beginning to end ‘Jesus and the resurrection,” the central thome and thought of the Gospel, is ignored. Whatever may be said about the ‘Prayer Test,” tho Christian world has given sceptics and scientists sufficient reason to make the proposition whether the experiment be tried ornot, Andif asermon test could be made as well as a prayer test, wo might almost ven- ture to predict that a bushel of such sermons as this would no more save a diseased soul than a bushel of some prayers that we have heard in our lifetime would a diseased body. Pun- stersare not necessarily preachers nor are their puns by any means that Gospel which is the power of God unto salvation. And yet the frequency of the latter in some pulpits would indicate that they are considered in that light. Mr. Frothingham elaborated the idea that evil is an instrument of good in the hands of God, and is intended for discipline. Tho soul of goodness is in evil, he declared, and sin is but the shadow of goodness on the ground. And from this theme Mr. Frothingham branched off to talk about the disfranchised condition of women, which, he declared, is a national and social evil. It is very likely that Miss Susan B. Anthony's return to the city has compelled Mr. Frothingham to show himself still orthodox on the “woman question.’’ Dr. Chapin recom- mended love to our enemies as the highest style of love, and protested against the practice of sordid souls doing their duty as they paid their taxes—cutting down as much as possible and paying out as little as they can. Rev. Dr. Farley preached in the Church of the Messiah on the value of the Lord’s Supper and its position in Christian theology. The mode in which it is administered or received he con. siders of very little importance so long as the spiritual meaning and significance of the act are observed. And its primary meaning is our Lord's great self-sacrifice for our sakes. It is, therefore, not an empty ceremonial, but, as it has been proved to be, the comfort and strength of many a subdued and hearty penitent. Mr. Hepworth opened his Fall campaign in Stein- way Hall yesterday and ministered to a congre- gation as large as could be squeezed into that place on the spirit of the Lamb subduing that of the wolf, or, in other words, the Gospel truth knocking gently at the door of tho worldling’s heart, entering and leaving its teachings and benedictions behind in a spirit of prayer and meekness. The condition of the world at the time of the introduction of Christianity and the progress which the latter has made since were cited in proof of the conquering spirit of the Gospel. The Rev. Father Rogers, of Massachusetts, demonstrated, to his own satisfaction, at least, that the Roman Catholic Church is the true Church, because it ‘‘is one, it is holy, catholic and apostolic.’ It is one in doctrine and in government. ‘As the Church was in the days of the apostles so it is to-day. What her min- isters then taught and advocated the same truths are still propounded’’—and, we add, a great many more. Mr. Beecher attempted to square a circle yesterday by assuring his hearers that half- faiths and half-prayers are as good as wholes, because Christ accepts the halves when he cannot get the whole. The Methodists of Great Neck, L. L., dedicated a church yesterday at which Bishop Simpson preached a sermon on the glory of Christian churches in every land. Archbishop Bayley delivered his farewell dis- course yesterday to his people in the diocese of Newark. Next week he will assume the reins of government over the archiepiscopal diocese of Baltimore. The Pope County War in Arkansas. In another part of to-day’s Hznatp will be found a continuation of the history of the anarchy in Pope county, Arkansas. It is a lamentable state of affairs which exhibits the representatives of the local government out- lawed by the citizens, and, what is worse, with a show of justice on the side of the latter. The details of the assassination of County Clerk Hickox, the terrible wounding of Williams and the escape, at the head of an armed force, of Sheriff Dodson and School Superintendent Stuart, form a ghastly second act in the drama which opened with the mur- der of two prisoners. The ghastliness of the deeds is such as to shock any civilized com- munity, and could scarcely occur to-day in any other State of the Union. Arkansas; with its people educated in laziness and murder, will, we hope, some day not far off, undergo a salutary change in its habits, and will be able to look back to its present miserable social condition as other States can look back to their early days of unsettled society and a reckless, vagabond population, We are glad to loarn that efforts are being made by the State officers to end this bushwhacking war of bloody feuds be- tween natives and carpet-baggers. The approaches the javostigntion with better | Nemesia of the latter clas will overtake antecedents. Let the Grand Jury So their them without fail, but it is not by the bulletorthe bowie knife of the cowardly aseas- sin. An awakened sense of justice all over the Union will bring it about, and that, too, whether the national administration or another the reins of power. Iu any case such deplorable events as those chronicled in the Hznatp to-day should not be allowed longer to disgrace our country. Theatrical Progress in America. When the elder Wallack, some twenty years ago, established an uptown theatre, to ba devoted to the interest -of high art, hia friends looked upon the venture as a rash one. So, indeed, it appeared at the outset; but gradually the public recognized the merit and value of elevated comedy, and tho little uptown house became the temple of art in America which was destined to raise up the popular taste to a higher level than it had yet reached, In thia way it contributed to the growth of that his- trionic taste which promises to grow with the growth of our city until we shall at last reach the most elevated point of Aramatio culture. Could the playgoers of twenty years ago come to life again they would certainly be astonished at the liberal patronage of the stage by thoir successors. It is no longer @ question of adequately supporting one good house, While Wallack’s still maintains its proud position as the leading theatre of the metropolis, numerous rivals have sprung up on every side whose contention for public favor has exorcised a happy influence in improving the qyality of dramatic representations, So that year by year, as the popular patronage of the stage de- veloped, the desire for superior artistic merit became more widespread, until at last a culti- vated and critical public opinion has been created that is rapidly driving from the scene the trashy productions which formerly con- tented American audiences. By giving dignity and character to the stage this same exacting critical spirit has tended more than anything else to widen the influence of the drama by olevating it. It is to this. cause, more than any other, that managers owe the ever-increasing audience that fills nightly some twenty metropolitan houses. Nor is it in the attendance alone that the growing power and popularity of the theatre is manifested. As the pub- lic will no longor be content with the simple deceits practised by our fathers, but must needs ba cheated into a belief of the reality of the scene, the consequent expense. has to be met by increased charge for admis- sion. This in all cases where a superior enter- tainment is furnished is paid ungrudgingly, and there seems to be an increasing tendency to further advance the cost of theatrical amuse- ments, For some years the managers have reaped a rich reward, but this season promises to pro- duce golden results that will surpass the rich- est harvests that have been hitherto gathered. Wherever the state of public taste has been recognized by a skilful management we see nothing but prosperity. Even the Grand Opera House, which has almost always been associated with financial failures, under able management flourishes in a manuer that must astonish even Mr. Daly. There “King Carotte’’ reigns supreme over houses crowded nightly to excess. Under the same management the Fifth Avenue affords the op- portunity to high-toned swelldom of admiring a perfection of millinery that must cause many a heart burning to the fashionable ladies who own to a weakness for “modern society plays.’* We ought not, perhaps, to blame these people too severely, as they are honest enough not to pretend to like something better which might be above their comprehension, and so they es- cape from the sin of hypocrisy, ‘The Union Square,” as the latest aspirant for public favor, gives evidence of a recognition of the new tone of public thought that is making itself felt in all classes of entertainments. The success which has attended the experi- ment made in this theatre of catering to the refined and cultivated classes rather than to the noodles who seek distinction by adopt- ing ‘fast’ habits, and the rowdy ele- ment, will, doubtless, have a happy effect in inducing other theatres to follow a goodexample. After years of absence Dion Boucicault and his clever wife have returned to New York. The magnificent reception ac- corded to them is one of the best proofs of the intelligent appreciation of the publio for histrionio ability of a high order. Night after night the immense auditorium of Booth’s Theatre is crowded by an enthusiastic and admiring audience who show beyond cavil that a good play, well interpreted, will always secure public favor and golden ree ward. ~ The same results were renewed on the opening of Wallack’s for the Fall season; with some twenty theatres doing an unprecedented business it was still found possible to achieve a remarkable suc- cess with a classic comedy which had nothing but its dramatic and literary merits to recome mend it. There were no contemporary effects, no sensation scenes, no questionable morality, to give salt to stupid situations, and no dresses from Worth’s to excite feminine envy; yet, with all these aids to success absent, Wallack’s made a great and decided hit with “Pygmalion and Galatea.’’ Such a thing would have been impossible a very few years ago, and there were those on Tuesday night who believed it a rash experi- ment, but they have since changed their minds. All these events are so many proofs of the satisfactory progress we ara making towards the goal of dramatic excel- lence. We are convinced that before many years have passed New York will stand in the: front rank, if not at the head of’ the patrons of the stage. Hitherto Paris has been looked on ag the most generoud supporter of the theatre ; but we believe that,, at the present rate of progress, only a few years will enable us to leave the French: capital far behind in the race, Not alond gre we increasing the amount of patronage,! but we are demanding higher merit in all the branches of the dra. matic profession, It will no longer suffice for an actor to possess mediocre talent if he wishes to make a figure on the American stage. In this as in every other department of art the taste of the people has reached thal point of cultivation when they must have what is good or nothing. Tho managers have been quick to recognize this. ond the result ig that from all pacts