The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1872, Page 7

hhero:— You ste, sir, the society is a mighty corporation. It gives you a medal and & dinner -up stairs, although you ere an American and found Livingstone. Walk up first, but bear carefully. in mind that itis only for once, and that the society is a mighty corporation."’ The manner in which Sir Henry Rawlinson expressed the tender of Aovbe bygones, It did not need any oblique thrown on it, after the manner in which the butler at a gentleman's table vilifies this. master's guests in the servants’ hall. Like his prototype, the reviewer does not stick #ta falsehood in evoking the wonder of so- ciety’s French cooks, scullions and chamber- ‘-gonids. His statement that Mr. Stanley ‘went + shout complaining” of the society “for not \' finflioting this odious patronage on himself” has the proper mendacious smack for an oracle below stairs. “ ‘When it superserviceably enters the question ‘between Sir Henry Rawlinson and Mr. Stanley, which has already been ‘‘amicably settled,’’ it thastens to take new ground as follows: —“‘It is Fidiculous to suppose that people in this pountry were bound to give implicit credence toan unsuthenticated telegram from an un- known newspaper correspondent.’ Posi- *fdon is everything; and a young American journalist accomplishing the geacue of @ sadly-neglected explorer must jhave his telegrams authenticated (a curious process) and be himself known before he can be implicitly credited. The same young jour- nalist, however, in the service of the Hzrap, wwhen sending the news of the fall of Magdala and the death of Theodorus, some few years back, neither required his telegrams to be marked, ‘Used by the Queen and Royal Fam- Aly,” like a patent sauce, or to be himself * personally known to every reviewer and boot- ‘lack in the United Kingdom. ‘In order still further to put in an unkind ‘word for Mr. Stanley it alludes to the English intrigue in Berlin touching the San Juan arbitration, a report of which reached us by yen@able, as a “‘ailly falsehood.”” Like the Lon- “*@on Times on the same point it does well to »eonfine itself to generalities and nothing More, . We have only to say that the Hzrarp . despatch cut the intrigue in two in whatever vistage it then was, and no matter how high it reached. c \e'Yo can'lot the rest of the roviewer's tirade ‘» Go by, English Search Expedition, probabili- ties for Lieutenant Dawson and all. They are ‘only brought in as the tail of the reviewer's Kite to make it fly better. Dr. Living- stone was rescued os a man belonging to all the world, not as the subject of any- body or the appanage of any society. The suppression of the East African slave trade has been brought nearer in time, none but Livingstone, ‘dying on his feet’? when met at Ujiji, can tell how much, by the Hznarp expedition. The vicious talk of the butler of the Review, amid the clatter of the dinner plates in process of being washed after the ban- quet to Stanley, cannot bate one iota of these services to science and humanity. The Women of the Stage. The prospects of lyric and dramatic art in ‘Néw York are so flattering that this city is fast the artistic centre of the world. A London journal, in referring to Miss Neilson’s last appearance in the English capital previous to her departure for America, of her as Boing to the lucky country which steals every English favorite. This is not only true of England, but of all Europe, and from Lind to Lucca we have had nearly every really great > pinger of the last quarter of a century. The seme thing is true of the great actresses of the European capitals, for no lyric or dramatic artist of great power has been content without ; to Old World triumphs a successful season in New York. The result of all this has been to make this city the chief place of ‘interest to play-goers as well as to actors and singers. Every year brings great artists to the Academy of Music and the leading theatres. Loca sings with as great acceptance in the new Academy as Grisi sung in that which she dedicated to lyric art, Her Marguerite, her two Zerlinas, so like and so unlike, and her Leonora are the delight of the cultivated people who have done so much for opera in New York. Miss Kellogg, our American prima donna, sagas wuch to the pleasure of the representations at the Academy; and near by is Agnes Ethel, another American, whose act- in: “Agnes” has raised the Union Square Theatre to a front rank among our places of ‘amusement. Since Matilda Heron clothed the'part of Camille with such a wonderful, subtle and sorrowful power as to make it one Of the long-remembered triumphs of thé stage | no actress, except Miss Ethel, has beon her | ‘equal in depicting trustful and grief-stricken | womanhood. Not only actors like Mr. Lester | Wallack, but artists like these ladies, so excel- | lent in their own ficlds, show the greatness and perfection of American art. Turning from these we find at other theatres attractions equally great. - Mrs. Boucicault, as Jessie Brown, has renewed the triumphs of Miss Agnes Robertson in the same part at Wal- ilack’s fifteen years ago, and when she quits the boards at Booth’s for a short time she will be succeeded by Miss Neilson, in whom we | may expect to find a Juliet such as has not been seen in New York for many seasons. Romeos we have had both in Mr. Booth and | Mr. Fechter, and it will now be our turn to | look upon the other side of the picture in | Shakspeare’s love tragedy. Later in the sea- son Miss Bateman opens the Globe with h< three great characters, Leah, Medea and Mary Warner. Her acting in these parts is well known to New York play-goers, but as yet her popularity has not euffered any diminution. Thus it will be seen that, apart from. the regular businoss at other houses, we have special attractions sufficient to gratify every taste, end at the same time show by their sue- ccss that art fails not of its merited apprecia- tion. No other city in the world can point to the array of talent which comprises the New fictresses now on the () speak, Mrs. Boucicault gives. a far different, but not a less striking or characteristio, picture of womanly qualities. With Juliet and Medea added to the list of female impersonations our thea- tres this Winter will give us pictures unsur- passed in the history of dramatic art for a single year. The season so auspiciously be- gan at Wallack’s by the wakefulness of a cold statue into the knowledge and wonder of what it is to'live and be a woman, beautiful, loving and sorrowful, finds and is to find interpreta- tion as glowing as that of the artist who draws inspiration and passion froma marble effigy. The great actresses now on the New York stage, or shortly to appear upon it, pic- ture woman in all her moods, and. lift up art by the greatness of their powers, showing at the same time the appreciation which follows their work, and proving that New York is the: home of the drama. The Mexican Presidential Blection— Peace and a Better Prospect. The election of Lerdo de Tejada for Presi- dent of Mexico by a vote almost unanimous, there being, as the report says, only a few scattering votes against him, and the sub- mission of Porfirio Diaz to the now regular and constitutionally chosen authority, bring peace and a better prospect to the neighboring Republic. Lerdo is, no doubt, the ablest statesman in Mexico, and has had great ex- perience in public affairs, He is, too, like the late President Juarez, a civilian, and that has its significance in a country which has hereto- fore done so much military hero worship, and where there have been constantly ambitious generals jumping up to claim the right or privilege of governing the Mexicans and making civil war for that purpose. The sad experience of many years of war smong the Mexicans themselves, and against the foreigner who invaded the country and usurped the government, seems to have made the people more sensible and practical. There appears to be no cause or pretext for, revolutionary movements in Mexico now. Lerdo is fairly, constitutionally and almost, unanimously elected. He is libe- ral, capable and patriotic, and his announce- ment that in governing he will have ‘little politics and much administration’ may, we think, be relied on. Mexico has never had, probably, a betier prospect of peace and good government than at the present time, Mr. Lerdo feels himself strong enough ‘to forgive the leading rebel generals, Diaz and Trevifio, and to restore them to their rank.’ He is about.) to propose reforms in the laws and service of the country, and to promote railroad enterprise and other improvements, Pe If we may judgefrom the past history and liberal views of the new President, there is reason to believe a policy will be inaugutated to, bring Mexico and the United States in closer relations with each other. While Mexico was torn by civil war and there seemed to be little hope of peace, we urged our govern- ment to assume a protectorate over that country, with a view to annexation ultimately. But if the Mexicans can govern themselves and be good neighbors we gladly say God speed to their efforts. Not but that we think still it would be a great advantage to Mexico and add to our own trade and prosperity if that country were annexed and placed under the powerful nd, government of the United States. The Mexi- cans may learn to understand thisin time, and may desire such a union. By liberal and free intercourse, commercially and other- wise, their prejudices of race or nationality may be removed, and they may learn to appre- ciate the benefit and honor of becoming citi- zens of this great Republic. We wish Mr. Lerdo may live long to be a blessing to” his country and to maintain peace; but heis not @ young man, and there are yet chronic ele- ments of disorder. There is, too, that want of progressive energy which characterizes the United States and other civilized countries, The surest remedy for those defects would be an American protectorate or annexation. Mr. Lerdo having large views of the defects and wants of Mexico, of the people, government and institutions of the United States, and, of the surprising developments of the age, may see the necessity, or advantage, at least, of preparing his country for a higher destiny in connection with the mighty Republic of North America. For the present, however, he has the best wishes of the people of the United States in his endeavor to establish peace, in Mexico and to give that country good gov- ernment. The Dissipation of the ease=-The Elements Come Rescue. The long agony of the horses is promised an early relief by the same medium through which their sorrows came, The pestilence has been distinctly traced to the torrential descent upon all Eastern America of that immense current of frigid northeasterly wind from the Greenland seas that is so apt to set in ofter the | Autumnal equinox. The Signal Office reports of Thursday night indicated in advance the setting in of avery different class of winds, and show that in the Northwest and over the lakes the great continental winds, with their | pure and vitalizing influence, are now moving in one grand band across the whole country, from the Upper Mississippi River to the | Atlantic seaboard. If this air stratum is cold it is chemically healthy, and, as the most emi- nent medical geographers maintain, is a cor- rective both of the malarial southerly winds from the Gulf of Mexico and of the northeast- erly winds from Canada and the western basin of the North Atlantic. The ushering in of this refreshing and delicious atmosphere is due to the violent tempest which has just Horse Dis- to the passed over the regions north of the lakes, and | verifies the poet's conception— Not more propitious the Favontan breeze To cature’e health than purifying storms, In 1780 the sugar disease, which raged in the West Indies, was suddenly terminated by the movement of a torrid hurricane. An English historian tells us that the worst visita- tion of the fatal sweating sickness ever known in England was removed by a strong tempest, LIGINT—CYSL . YORK HERALD, 5 and thus, to the joy of the whole nation, the epidemic was swept away without leaving a trace behind; and an Almighty arm accom- plished what man had signally failed, with all his appliances, to overcome. The northwestern winds of our Continent, which, in Summer and in Winter, are equally sanitary and delicious, come to us through that vast and open gateway from the high north, stretching over the plains of Dakota and Minnésota—the true home of the invalid debilitated by Southern malaria and often the resort of the consumptive—and are free from humidity and the carbon of decayed Autumnal vegetation. Tho present change in the me- teorological or chemical conditions of the air will be hailed with gratitude by man and beast, To the horses the change will be ‘as good news from a far country.’’ What is Wanted of the Government end Dominant Party. One of our city contemporaries has for- malized the issues which should be kept in view the next four years, and which the gov- ernment, and dominant party should be held to. These are—no centralization; no exten- sion of the functions of the federal govern- ment; Congress and the President to be de- prived of all excessive and unauthorized powers assumed during and since the war and to be brought back within’ the limits of the constitution; the States to control their own affairs, and especially their elections; reform of the civil-service; restoration of specie pay- ments; revenue reform—all internal taxes to be abolished and the tariff to be put on a revenue basis; only one term for the President, and no re-election of Gen- eral Grant, This is not a bad programme. Wo agree with our contemporary as to most of it. Tho President and his party have obtained such overwhelming majorities in the elections that they can do as they please both in the federal and State governments. There is no power to obstruct their action. The people, therefore, will hold them responsible. If the reforms needed be carried out the republicans can secure a long lease of power; but if the confidence of the people be betrayed and their hopes disappointed the party will be repudi- ated in future elections, The successful re- publicans should remember that there is but a short time intervening between one election and another, and that the public mind is quick to..perceive the merits Or shortcomings of those entrusted with power. Tho war has beon ended long enough to abandon the policy growing out of it. We wanta peace policy for times of peace both in the political and finan- cial administration of the government. Will the dominant party understand its responsi- bility and opportunity ? Wantep to Know—If there is any truth in the rumors that Mr. Boutwell is to be suc- ceeded by Henry Clews or E. D. Morgan as Seoretary of the Treasury? Oh, General Grant, be magnanimous in the hour of vic- tory! PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A “motionless tortest”’—Greeley’s tidal wave. General G. P. Estes, of Washington, is at the Astor House. Marshal Leboeuf, Napoleon’s Minister of War, is said have become insane. Congressman William Williams, of Buffalo, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain McMicken, ot the steamship Calabria, is at the New York Hotel. The democrats in Brooklyn stuck to Schumaker to the last on Tuesday. ‘One vote elected a republican over a democrat in Lawrence, Mass., last Tuesday. Congressman S. W. Kellogg, of Connecticut, is stopping at the Grend Central Hotel. Ex-Commissioner David A. Wells, of Norwich, Conn., is staying at the Albemarle Hotel. Congressman George F, Hoar, of Massachusetts, is among yesterday's arrivais ai the Futh Avenue Hotel. “ The Vnivers is growing original as well as better, It calis Prince Bismarck “‘one of the hortis of the devil,” There was but one Greeley and Brown vote cast in Groton, Mass, (the home of Secretary Boutwell), last Tuesday. Lord Westminster denounces as absurd and un- true the assertion that the ceiling in onc of the rooms of Holland House cost £32,000, Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, will probably give his attention vo bele-letire litera- ture after the lettre de cachet of Tuesday. The Boston Journal avers that Roscoe Conkling will undoubtedly be re-elected to the United States Senate from New York. “To the victors belong the spoils.”” Mr. Manton Marble, of the World, after the sub- sidence of the fitful fever of the political campaign, has, we are happy to see, like Mr. Greeley, returned to his regular journalistic labors. Mr. Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commer. ciat—one of the ablest papers in the West—will probably hereafter conduct his paper upon the in- dependent principle. Welcome! After serving jorty-three ministers as Central Cashier in the French Ministry of the Interior, M. Marie is dea’. He wrote verses and was the senior of the singing club called the Caveau. The St. Bartholomew church members of this city feel aggrieved that any fun should be mace of their pew sales, which they earnestly submit wasa highly decorous and pious aifair, We are sorry for it. Mr. Frederick Billings, of Vermont, arrived at the Brevoort House last evening. He has just re- turned from surveying the completed sections of the Northern Pacific Railroad, in company with General Cass. Caleb Cushing came on from Washington yester- day and is now at the Astor House. He will prob- ably go to his home in Massachusetts to-day, which he has not been able to visit since his return from Europe. Mr. Henry Watterson, of the racy Louisville Courter-Journal, has probably realized the fact that the race is not always to the strong, even in a State where he hag had such commanding poiiti- cal influence. Greeley’s “tidal wave" {s described by an ex- change as only one of those “babbling Brooks" that was seen meandering through the valleys of Pennaylvania on Tuesday last. A fall of 125,000 feet beats Niagara. Henry L. Dawes, of Massachusetts, will be the father of the next House of Representatives, hav- ing been elected for the ninth time from the Berk- shire district, The Berkshire people like to honor a faithful public servant. Mr. Horace White, of the Chicago Tritvune, will probably have ascertained by this time that true journalism does not lie in bitter partisan rancor. We cordially weloome Mr. White into the fold of independent journalism. Queen Victoria's taundry at Richmond is to be fully supplied with water, notwithstanding the recent refusal of the Vestry to allow Her Majesty's solicitoy permission to have the requisite pipes laid across certain streets, The spirit of peace and compromise has brought this threatened trouble to a happy termination. BALTIMORE'S +POLITIOAL ASSASSINATIONS, Meeting ef the Coroner's Jury—The Shooting Opened by a NegromThe Fir- ing Entirely Unprovoked. BALTIMORE, Nov. 8, 1872. A Coroner's jury met to-night and proceeded to investigate the facts attending the political riot at the Sixth ward polls last evening. Several witnesses testified that the first shot was fired by a negro, Without concluding the examt- nation he investigation was journed until to- morrow. No arrests have yet made. The evidence -~ ay Fano that the firing was un Rae attributable to bitter political CHOLERA. Herald Special Report from Dres- ‘den by Way of London. Six Cases of the Complaint Treated in the Saxon Capital. Three Deaths, with Two Ameri- cans Among the Dead. Pesth a Point of Malarious Propagation. ATORDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. SPAIN. Conspiracy Against the Crown Among Govern- ment Workmen Near Cadiz. Press Publication of the Design and Plan of Project—Internationalism Accused of Fo- menting Internecine Hatred— Quiet After Capture. ‘TELEGRAMS TO THE_NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Nov. 8, 1872. The Zpoca (newspaper) of this city, im its issue to-day, publishes a letter from Cadiz reporting the discovery of a conspiracy to inaugurate an insur- rectton among the employés,at La Carraca, the royal dock yard and arsenal, situated about six miles from Caais, THE PLOT IN SERIOUS PREPARATION. The movement was of a serioua Character and Municipal Classification of the Visitation in | activety fostered vy the Internationalists, Abatement of the Alarm, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. PROMPT ARRESTS AND PRESENT PBAOE. Upon the discovery of the plot a largé number of persona were arrested, and it is bélleved the Would-be insurrectionists will make no further The following special report to the HERALD | efforts to carry out their design, has been received from our correspondent in the capital of Saxony by way of London: — Lonpon, Nov. 8, 1872. A Henaxp special telegram from Saxony re- ports the appearance of cholera in Dresden, and that from the first ocourrence of the dis- ease—quite Intely—to ‘Sunday, the 3d inst., six cases of the complaint had been treated by the physicians, TWO AMERICANS ON THE DEATH ROLL. Three cases were fatal to the lives of the patients. ~ Of these two were Americans—one a child, the other a young lady. THE POINT OF PROPAGATION. The first case of the visitation came from Pesth, and it is said that cholera has been more or less active on’ the right bank of the Danube during some time. POLICE SANITARY CLASSIFICATION. The police of Dresden announce that the disease is merely cholera morbus, not Asiatic. cholera. ITALY AND ENGLAND. British Citizen Relief Movement in Aid of the Afflicted Population on the Line of the Po. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Jonny, Nov, §, 18%: An active charitable movement has beefi under- taken, and is now in progress in this city, With the view of collecting funds and forwarding medhs or Fellef fo the Italians who are just now suffering so sévérely in consequence of the disas- trous floods which have been produced in the northern portion of the Kingdom by the sudden inundation of the Po, and aiso from the effect of the whirlwind which followed the riverine visi- tation. Subscriptions have been opened here in the me- tropolis, and quite a large sum of money has been already received by the committee of man- agement. ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. International Arbitration Adopted for Mutual Colonial Settlement. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Nov. 9—6 A. M. A colonial question having arisen between Eng- land and Portugal, both parties have agreed to re- sort to arbitration for its settlement, and have se- lected President Thiers as arbitrator. GLADSTONE AND GUILDHALL The British Premier Unable to Partake of the Metropolitan Hospitality. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Nov. 9—6 A. M. Mr. Gladstone will be unable to be present at the Lord Mayor's banquet this year. Lord Granville will probably respond to the toast to Her Majesty's government. FRANCE. Specie in Flow to the Bank. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Panis, Nov. 8, 1872. SPROIE IN PLOW TO THE BANKS. ‘The specte in the Bank of France has increased 1,000,000 francs during the past week. SAXONY. rn Royal Matrimonial Anniversary and Loyalist and Friendly Congratulations on Its Near Advent. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, DRESDEN, Nov. 8, 1872. The city of Dresden is made a scene of continu- ous rejoicing in consequence of the observance of ceremonies connected with the celebration of the golden wedding /éte of the King and Queen, His Majesty King John of Saxony was married to Amelia Augusta, daughter of Maximilian, King of Bavaria, on the 21st ‘of November, In the year 1822, 80 that it may be said that his subjects are exuber- ; ant in their loyalty, and his many triends quite early in their anticipation of the moment for a full expression of the words of good will. Be this as it may, there have been held already, in the capital, religious ceremomes of an imposing character at the church and State performances in | the Opera House, at which all the imperial and titled guests now assembled here were peesent. PEALTY UNFALTERING. Deputations from the army, the city government and tne diplomatic corps to-day waited on the royal pair and tendered their congratulations, The people testify their loyalty and afection by sending magnificent glits from all parts of the country. ~ OUBA- Military Commanders Recalled—Trouble Fe- tween the Merchants and the Spanish Bank. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. HAVANA, Via Key West, N' }, 1872, Generals Ampudia and Menduina, commanding the military districts of Holquin and Bayamo, have received orders to return to Spain, The Spanish Bank has made a loan of $500,000 to the city of Havana, ‘The merchants complain that the bank is doingan exchange business, Which is prohibited by ite oharter. CAPTAIN GENERAL'S COMMAND IN CATALONIA. General Gaminde has been relieved of his com- mand as Captain General of Catatonia and General Balericti appointed his successor. AMUSEMENTS. Italian Opera—“The Ma: go of Figaro” at the Academy Last Night. Mozart's lovely work, in which all the tenderness and gentle grace that characterized the mind of the amiable composer are set forth as in a mirror of melody, is as trying a test of the strength of an operatic company as “Don Giovanni.’’ No role in either opera is insignificant; and to fill the cast, in order to give a smooth, agreeable performance, demands such @n assemblage of artists as few companies can boast of. Susanna, the intriguing matd, has had many representatives from the highost walks of lyric art. Persian, Bosio and Piccolomini might be mentioned among them. It is as trying, al- though in an entirely diferent line, for @ prima donna as many of those tragic rdles which artists say rend the voice to pieces. Not that it lies out- side of reasonable vocal limits, but it demands a thorough knowledge of music, a keen appreciation of and entire sympathy with the pure, elegant school of the most genial of composers and a self- possession, resulting from an intimate acquaint- ance with Mozart's music, The rdle of the Countess also makes a large levy on the experience and musical education of the artist entrusted with tt. ‘Then for the most fascinating of all Mozart's rdles, the provoking, delightful little page, Cherubino, we look for @ comédienne as well as singer who can give the part all the sparkle and brilliancy which ia its due. Around these three ladies are grouped a number of characters that call for great histrionic as well as vocal excellence. ‘The concerted music must be sung without a blomish, gisg it be mes yuintelligible, Rossini and Mozart have iitustrated the amusm? story of Begumar- chais cach in his peculiar manuer, and the Ger- man composer has made his work the masterpiece of comic opera, Seville and the chateau of Aguas Frescas will be remembered while music sways the human mind. The Cherubino of Mme. Lucca more than ful filled the high expectations formed of tt. In the escapades of the tantalizing page she revealed @ wealth of comic power for which her tmpersona- tions of the two Zerlinas had partly prepared her admirers. With the most fascinating humor and. gayety she united the grace and iimish of the ac- complished artist. Her singing was still more attractive than even her acting. It is very doubt- fal if evér the well known ‘Voi che sapete’’ re- ceived such a delightful rendering in this country; before. Again, in the atia, “Non so pik cosa son,” ofthe first act, and in the duet with Susanna, “Aprite, questo aprite,"! Madame Lucca crowned herself with fresh laurels. She was called out repeatedly, eéveh whe! she @xpe- | tlenced considerable = di@iculfy in leaving her dressing room in presentahle attire. Miss Keliogg is entitled to high praise for her intelligent and spirited rendering of the rdle ot Susanna, She was enthusiastically encored tn the aria, “Deh vient, non tardar,” and in the letter duet with the Countess. With the memory of great and commanding representatives of this role in our mind, we must say that Miss Kellogg filled all its requirements, jadame Leveille was a very pene representa- tive of the Countess. Her acting and singing evi- dence an experienced and tried artist. however, shows the inevitable signs of be- ing overworked in the operatic harness—not this season to be sure, but in former years. One result of this is an unfortunate tendency to sing fat, which marred her otherwise beautiful rendering of the aria, “Porgi amor.” After the ladies there is little to be said of the rest of the cast. Sparapani did better as the Count than in any other rol he has yet appeared in, and if he would only cease forcing his voice and thereby singing sharp he would be a welcome addition to any of the casts of the present season. Moriami failed to give anything like a correct idea of the role of Figaro, and it became a nul- lity in his hands. The others are not worth speaking of in detail, Mr. Carlberg conducted the orchestra, and he seems to have taken a salutary lesson from our previous remarks on his leader- | | | thoroughly able to sustain her past reputation with | ship, for there was a marked improvement over the performance of ‘Don Giovanni.” In some instances, however, he hurled the entire force of the orchestra, inst the singers on the sti com- pletely extinguishing thier voices. In one ance this mode of procedure was judicious. In the cele- brated sestet the music was entirely beyond the reach of the singers, and it was perhaps as weil that the orchestra covered up minor deficiencies. The operas of Mozart are too exacting in their demands for fiulsh in every vocal detail for the Italian opera companies of the present day, So that when there is @ predominance of what is really good in a repre- sentation we suppose it is necessary to be con- tented, “La Favorita,” the opera in which Madame Lucca made her most marked impres- sion this season, will be repeated at the matinée to-day. The Union Sqaare Theatre—Act Third in “Agnes.” The representation of ‘Agnes’? at the Union Square Theatre has passed its fiftieth performance, but ft does not seem as yet to have reached the zenith of its popularity. As a play it is open to some very serious objections; the moral lesson it | enforces is the French notion of teaching morality and the weakness of the offence it exposes is even more hateful than its wickedness. But | while men become infatuated by Dallet- | dancers and forsake constancy and truth- | fulness to worship a debasing selfishness there is no good reason to exclude the picture from the stage, Aside from all this, and apart, too, | from the splendid setting Of the picce, this play has mie rits which will coutinue to fll the house to the | hundredth night of its performance, The third act alone is sufficient to carry it through. In this act Mr. Mackay, as the Sitar of police, shows rare qualities, and contributes to make the interview with Agnes an exquisite bit of acting. Her black dress assumed the occasion #0 singularly harmonizes with Miss Ethel's beauty as to adorn @ scene Wholly dependent on the power of the actors and make it like Alexander Smith's de- scription of @ poem “round and perfect as a star.’ And it is in this act that Miss Ethel shows to the full the peculiar charm of her acting—a charm made even more potent by the ex- | celience of the support she receives from Mr. Mac- | kay. The office of & police captain, in which there | are but two persons, & Man used to hearing the re- citais of crime and & woman intent on savingan erring husband, is made one of the most dramatic situations ever seen on the stage. The climax of this fine effect is where the prefect, finding the error of bis first supposition, craves the pardon of the faithiul, loving wife before him; it is an effect which is a complete triumph in dramatic art, and the highesi praise which can be bestowed on Miss | Ethel’s acting is the acknowledgment that she is | suck dificult Laie for any one but a true artist. “Agnes is now in its waning days, but Miss Ethel’s Agnes will long be talked of as among the gems of the stage. The Park Theatre, Brooklyn. The short engagement of Mr. Florence at this theatre has proved eminently successful. This actor isso well known to the American pubiic as the exponent of Irish peasant character that it is almost neediess to say he 1 Aivgaty Seveath Her voice, | 7 . : i G@atisfaction of the audience. Bryan Is the old, familiar, good-natured, witty, stage Irishman with whom we are all well acquainted, and the role suits Mr. Florence admirably; He oo pathy with the character he portrays, and ta the firgt element ofhistrtonic success. The like, moas of Fatconer’s, or rather O’Rourke’s ( oh never could understand why the man should not write his own name after his work§), productions, ts some- what_yerbose, and send wants gpapmaeshnese and tnesas wi he rey’ of Dion’ boucieaut, hi meats rish drama. Mr. Florence was well supported in the Irish business by Miss Jenny Lee, who was as bright and pert as she is wont to be. Miss Mary Griswold to role of Elleen Oge acted with the sweetness grace which has already won her a Nek pee affection, alone é part is not owing to the unskilful way in which the s sicuations are arranged, Miss Griswold imparted to it am ab- ani enor uaa hbo cual ag ae Ullzed the tew opportda ities alfordod t6 net with the artistic instinet of a refined nature. The most striking, because they are so rare, features of od, Secure for her a. brilliant fature on the dramatic stage. Miss Imogene Fowler, as Nora O'Donnell, acquitted herself well of a very small part. Mr. Florence's engagement will close te night, when Eileen Oge wiil be performed jor the. last time, Musical and Theatrical Notes. Wo have heard of many singular reasons for complimentary benefits, but Wilkesbarre ts ahead of all others in “tendering” one to the Palace of Truth combination on account of “the ungentie- manly conduct” of thé manager, who decamped with the funds, Apart from the regular matinées to-day will be &@ popular concert by Mrs. Imogene Brown and Ms. M, W. Whitney at Association Hall, and this even- ing the Twenty-second regiment gives the first promenade concert of the season at the armory, on Fourteenth street. The lovers of classical music will not overlook the fact that the first symphony concért by Théodore Thomas’ orchestra will, be given this evening at Steinway Hall, A perfect interpretation of one of Beethoven’s symphonies ts a memory for @ life- time, and this evening “the music of the futare’* is to be still further illustrated by a selection frons Wagner's unpublished opera, “Die Walkuren.”” LOSS OF THE STEAMER KATIE, The Latest Particulars—The Passemgers All Saved—She Strikes the Wreck the Lucy Holcomb. New ORLEANS, La., Nov. 8, 1872. ‘The steamer Katie (not Kate), before reported lost at Helens, struck the wreck of the Lucy Hol- com> and sank in ten feet of water. It faa 400 bales of cotton and 150 passengers, No lives were lost. The Katie was about two years old and cost $193,000, It was insured for $40,000 In Cincinnath and $20,000 here, and was owned by Miles Owen, of Memphis. FIRE IN TWENTY-SIXTH STREET. A fire broke out last night about half-past eight o'clock 1n the picture frame manufactory Nos. 34% and 351 West Twenty-sixth street, that causea & damage to the stock of about $15,000 and to the building of $7,500, The place was occupied by what is known as the Macher Manufacturing Company and was the property of that firm. There was na insurance on either the stock or building, The fre originated m the boiler and fs supposed ta have started in some shavings that lay close to the boiler in the engine room. A fire oc- curred in the same house on the 12th of last June.’ The locality is & dangerous one, as tenement houses are On all sides of the frame factory, and considerable alarm was felt by the cr tants of those houses last night, The flre extended to 350 West Twenty-seventh street, ovcupied by J.) L. Hamilton as a carpenter shop, and dam the building to theextent of $500 and the stock, 3300; Insured. The flames alsg reached the car- ee pt West Tawa monn vt od. nil 348 ‘ek aha plamaged the buttdl to the Amount of $500’ and the Kook 40 the expen of $000. ‘The building 353 West Twen! Rt os street, the property of John Holigan, was jure: ¢ vy fire and water to the amount of $200. A TENNESSEE TRAGEDY, A Wite Takes Up a Husband’s Quarrel and Kills the Offender. NASHVILLE, NOV. 8 2872p Near Anderson depot, on the Nashville anaunat tanooga Railroad, on Wednesday, an altereation occurred between James Eslett and a manaamed Shafer. During the melé Shafler’s wife stabbed ‘slett with @ knife, The wounded 1 om LT Rg lesale by drugyists’ sundry men every~ ArrFo a First Class Dress or iaeTTy HAT go direct to the manufacturer, ESPENSCHEID, U8 Nassau sircet. at agate A.—Herald Branch Office, Brooklya, corner of Fulton avenue and Boeram streak, 0 M. 108 P. Moi A.—Herring’s Patent CHAMPION SAVES, 251 and 252 Broadway, corner of Marray stroét. 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