The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1874, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS. wore MUSEUM. ba ad Afternoon at2, ne TICKET. na LEAVE TH, Mite DE ROGHEFUCCAULD, IN THE CELEBRATED PARISIAN CANCAN Ahd all the Metropolitan favorites. MATINEE WEONESDAY AND SATURDAY AT 2 PpPHEATRE COMIQUE, MR. JOSH HART... Miss SOPHIE WORKELL, Mise JENNIE ENG 5M BROADWAY, Tie sien MEE iss) LL, Mr'ntau ray, the burie-que THE KING UF CAKROTS, Mr. FRANK DONALDSON eee was taken Ir NEW YORK HERALD of November 9, pe of the ote eS ANIMALS AT CENTRAL PARK. First week of Mr GEOSGE FREDRICKS, Me. WIL Mr, WM. g NOONAN and Miss ALICE BATEMAN, Reappearance ot Miss KITTY 07 First Ume of the ne OUD drama. Ok Walt ATINEE ¥ A THs VERDICT, WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY, LOBE THEATR CAMPBELL & \ GRAND REC SettON TOT N ui Lig thea) ROOM ONLY. H. ular than ever, Mra J Lloyd ny oe ee JENNIE wUG ities ae nse hit GENEVIEVE" ND t THE Senpa and the ever wet Ene ‘Gtarps, Managers “ARS. Second week ot the great Joos ixtr vaganza, TRIPS 10 THE. On, SOCIETY IN 1974 In which 100 young ladies will appear in the Grand ‘Tunarian March and the latest sensation, THE BIZARRE YOLKA, . RAND OPERA HOUSE, G*ileacey BRotnens Man: POPULAR ‘The Ameri ‘rainty —— never belo — anything so BEWiLDER-| | — INGLY WatGut AND | THOUSAND — BEAUTIFUL as the pres | ——— — ent offering of the impe-| | —— pacar rialspectacle, the BLACK | PEOPLE — CROOK, in the elegant — PRICES =| GRAND OPERA HOUnK, ee The GRAND BALLET UF | HAVE TUREK WUNDRED BEAUTIES, the ‘again | armors of ‘the superbly | ALREADY costumed Amazons, the; = —— tmagmiticent scenery, de-| = —— licious music and novel} SEE: form an at. eg IH specialties traction the metropolis PREVAILING. | cannot dupicate. ADMISSION, PIETY CENTS maerret seats 25 cents, 3 an extra, rs on Twenty-fourth stree). THIRTY CENT! eee LYMPIC THEATRE, Mz, JOMN F, POOL HE TALK OF THE “What every! body says mi THE ENTERTAINMENT A IS THE BEST IN 17. The best Burlesque ever eo in New York, BLAC THE CROOK, THE bier i CROOK, THE OOK, with the OLYMPIO HEMALE BALLET TROUPES 13 del pate. goshing and captivating pope Seeeres: rep PBRIOK TO ANYTHING YE a SEES. Bece: 7 crowded ouses Wil! eal upon peal of FAUGHTER and APPLAUSE. sii First dete of the masters of Son one and Dance, Messrs. WAYNE and LOVE ‘The Madrid Wonder—the * “man without bones,” Signor BARVOLLL, The celebrated Concertina Soloist, Mr. LYNTON GRAHA “ new and beautitul bthiopian Shsten, payed A DA Y's DEKAM OF MINSTRELSY, introducing full band of olden time une serenaders {SOL SMITH RUSSELL) ur. °Gus WILLIAMS, iss EMMA DAY, Messrs, SANFORD and WILSON, Miss ALICE HARRI- BON, Mr. Thos Granger, Mr. Wm. Courtright, Mr. Wm. Grey, Mr. W. B. Cahill, Mr. James Vinceut, Mr. E. D. Gooding and the Great Company of Comedians. Maunees WEUNESDAY and SATURDAY, at ACCABE.—ROBINSON HALL.—MACUABE. EVERY EVENING AT EIGHT O'CLOCK, in a Revised Edition of ms Entertaiument, SHEGONE DULL CAME." comprising, with countless additions, the sa REPERTOIRE OF MIMICAL ODDITIES, as prevented by Mr. MACCABE during his iate season of TY NiGé at Steinway Hall The New Frocramnee will include an entirely Original, one act and a nalt, entitied VLAND THE RUFF-UN; ABE, by @ peculiar contrivance of dress, will perso two characters at once (male and tewale), ining daring the final scene upon the stage, in tull sight of the audience, ROBINSON HALL bus been redecorated and ele- Fantly furnished. ‘and can ve safely pronounced one of Wnost comioriable and beautituisalons in the city. Admission. 5c. Reserved Seats, We. e: ‘Ticket Office, Robinson Hail, open dally 1 trom 9 till 5, aN FRARCINCO MINSTRELS’ EW OPERA HOUSE, monde corner Twenty-ninth street, FIRST APPEARANCE OF a oie ming Ba So 4DD RMAs 3 BURLESQUE TeeruRE, MACKIN ana WILSON in or 4 Dances, THE GREAT RICARDO. NEW 0: BOL, MUDOLPH, TREMANE AND PELUAML BIRCH and BACKUS, in Funny Acts, Screct onze may be ordered $10, Sehis secured. | Moral— y MATINER SATURDAY AE 2, ERMANIA. THEATRE, Seika peepsks: by aD. NEUENDO! MONDAY. December r 8, DIE BEZAEUMTE Petes: Seton, by shaxspeare. Box Office open, “ait in 8% till 4 o’clock, W PARK THEATRE. LAMB. os seeee Manager , and during the week. . W. A. MESTAYER in THE HOODLUM d Sere THEATRE, WaM- Fighth street, m Secoud and Third aven THIS ony EV. ENING DURING itis wae THe MUST GORGEOUSLY FITTED UP Pan TOMI THE SEVEN DWARFA BERT BUTLER .CLOWN. FANTER, NTALOON. 10K SAND ARLE: ve BLLE C. OLUM! oq AMAZONIAN MARCHES. MEW TRICKS. ipa ted SCENE, KALOSPINTE CHROMA RE NE. whole under the management of ONS. ORNS. REMEMBER! die: _ oe oTae BEST FAMILY RESORT. BEMEMBER ‘i pitt TIVvOLL THEATRE is the cheapest place of amusement in the Admission we. Heverve, We. Boxes, $4 wee ILLIARDS,—GRAND CHAMPION MATCH $1, mT MAURICE VIGNAUX, Champion CYRILLE DION, ac MMANY mavESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 8, 1874 $09 points up, Frenet: played ona W. H. Grimth aCe tants io) with the wire cush: Doors op Or. M.; game comencesat7 P. M. Tickets $L Reserved Seats, $1 £0. Ladies free. A To TONE PPro, OPAL HOU! EVE! v3 SE The ladies admitted free. Treat nar. sages i RY VAL OF THE ‘OB of heme > GARDEN T FEMALE BATHERS., cm tines co -day at 2 o'clock, J. N. meme RVENINGS Witt THE GREAT MUSICL Fifth Lecture with Pianoforte Recitals, “a day evening, December & waniect “Mozart. kets, $1. RAND TRIUMPH! THE PHSAW. GURAUN!! BY ONE BOOSEY-CALL'D!!t TO BE PROVUCKD IMMEDIATELY Itt! SBOCIATION HALL.—VANDENHOFE, Quast MATINEE but one THURSVAY. December 10, 1130 A. ¥. RICHARD HL THE HISIORY AND THE PLAY, Tickets at Pond’s, 39 Union square, and at Guriey’s, ‘ander hall. RAND a the Phsaw-ghratn!! by one Boosey call’d!t! to be produced iramediately 111! MATEUK MUSICIANS—BRKASS AND STRING, TO band Rare by hing and pleasure, with amateur box 176 beraid office. J GOULD! THE COMING SENSATION !! (PRE GRAND re. Aa rae ros 's Progress wit exhibited on jay anc reenertay, sys i on sg 8 ana 9% atthe iy rch ii fourth sti Srenue, at¥o'civek. “Admission, Soe enlidrens Ware a” Guu; the coming sensation !! BAND TRIUMPH! BY oe HAW .GHRAUN it & BOOSEY-CALL'Ditt To BE PRODUCED IMMEDIATELY ITT Qu AVENUE Cars 3 BVERY HaLy | ub Ny anal MINUTE MATIN bb VO-DAY, BAND ORUAN CONCERT—cuUROH oO Holy Trinity, Madison avenue nd vPouty-second sireet, Wednesday, Deceniber 9, 1874, at . Organ. fie Henry Carter, of Trinity churcn’ ‘New York; vee fot, Mra J, Dl. BAVidsOn, Contralo. Admission, zoe. Print ee tickets $2, Wo be bad at ali masic store: at the church. Jez am @OULDI To TERRA THE COMING SENSATION! gr eecilectin PUBLISHED—" ‘Just PUMLISHED—“DANKS’ (3) ANTHE M SERVICES.” IF quartet OF a choirs This work ah od Fete | s woop's. br BROADWAK ‘Manager | LSUIND | BRUNCHAU' | ALFRED, Chtiperic’s Pet Page J. HARRY 5 “BECKE!T, Mr. Bows ARD ABXorr Mr.’ J. W PO iss BLAI= SBE LL also in the ca: LINA MA ee NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. AMUSEMENTS. ARK THEATRE, THIRTEENTH WEEK MR JOHN ® RAYMOND COLONEL MULBERRY SELLERS, the Speculative Her, IN MARK TWAI'S D. oy avoid thecrush . Secure seats in ad BIGHTYFIFTH eaavor MANOR, TUESDAY, DEG B NO: ULONEL SELLERS EVERY b ail ‘ant SATURDAY MATINER, SPECIAL. Mr. STUART has pleasure in announcing vast he has made arrangemen nthe cele THAUMATUR PROFESSOR TOBIN of the Loudon Polytechnic. Fecent wonders of science, Cable, at the Saturday ‘Madrigal Music of Sir Boney Bishop, by « quartet, Commence at 8 o’elock. rice nis; children and schools, 25 cents. OOTH'S THEATRE, CLARKE'S LAST WEEK Three Hours of UPROARIOUS FUN EVERY NIGHT. JARRETT & PALMER respectfully ask giantios to | the limit of the prosperous engagement of Great | comedian, Mr, JOHN S. CLARKE, whose appearances cannot be continued after the pres- — bes 4 excessive hilarity created by his ‘iniper- ee or REDMOND Tae in H. J. Byron's serio-comic dra- matic aketch, and of MAJOR WELLINGTON. OE BOOTS, in Stirling Oo) ne * eT spmesy. ig taken as an expression of popular acceptance, and the same excellent bill will, therefore, be continued. FAREWELL MATIN! NEXT SATURDAY at 1:30. OOTH’S THEATRE, BER 14. first night of pie new, tacular and historical drama, HERO tor ‘Boot! ig by M. PAUL Motto.”’ and adapted to KGE PAWCETT KOWK, author of “The Geneva Cross. ‘The production will be distinguished for MAGNIFI- visions of Cast, wnd perfection in all its divi Music. age mies Meskaniem ac, written expressly FEVAL, author of the “Duke the American stawe by Mr. G will be begun on THURSDAY MORNING next, at eight o'clock. beg | THEA SOLDENE, | M. GRAU and oh sear ss id oo ENGLISH OPRA SORE COMPANY, EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY MATINEE, | THIS (TUESDAY) EVENIN' performance of TO-MOBRO' (We DNESDAY) EVEN NING, FIRST TIME IN AMERICA, HE ENGIASH VERSION ot Herve's o neatiat Opera, | which will be aah with new Scenery, new Cos) mber % tumes and sd Appomnimente and the following Cast:— CHILPE King of the Gauls,.Miss EMILY SOLDENE SENNA, Goure Physician Mr. &. MAKSEALL LA eee Peasant.. Mr. H. LACRENT a Peasant @ Spanish Sigibert’ 's Wite. 7LODOMIK, a Noble. LEUCASTE, a Nobie. Misses Roberts, Brooke, aumont, —— Lottus, Clarley, Gray. ‘willains: 3 Richolls, Beil and Carnia: Seonuberte, Druids, Druide: tis ilies, &c, La FIRST CHILPERIO MATIN Seats secured six days in ad ALLAC! Proprietor a and nd anager EA WALLACK EVERY-EVENING AND SATURDAY MATINEE, ima new and original Irish play, entitled MONTAGUES Mee SouN GILBERT, be 4 OLL. ABD, Mr. uD N, tise ADA DYAR Miss, DeEFRyS aE Wis. i Mme. M. 1ON BURKE, Mra. SEFTON and Miss st. ordered at 10:40 Seats secured Carriages may be three weeks in advance. EW YORK STADI THEATRE, 45 AND 47 BOWERY. AD, NEUENDORF! SAGEMENT OF Lia Mavic the favorite of Gerwany in opera DURCHURGANGENE W Enh tui rtzing. Comed, aeyen %e ANNI Box office | occa hd Sensational, Double Voicical Melodrama, in | BRYANI'S MI Missiket. Br G HoUsr. ad ne THIS EVEMIN SG GOULD! gs \ RYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, phot ran STREET. Every night at § and saturday Matti CHANG OF BILL TWO HOURS FUN, af Wiles: Concert.Tinpanonion, ND OUT OF PLACE. otome where my love lies dreaming”? .. 1 RELS, BRYANDS MINSTRELS A BRYANT'S MUNSTRELS. = COUSIN JOK’S VISIT, “You never miss the water till the well runs dry. Mr. Bob Hart's laughable sketch, A SLIPPE Dan Bryant, seymour, Reed, Rice, Brockway, xc. Box office open trom 9 A. M. to 10 Seaw secured. Bryant's Matinee every Saturday avd, yeah PA>sTOR'S ocr RA HOUSE, THE E COMIC CAWTHORNES, MATINER LOPEZ FAMILY. Gymnasts MATINEE Miss ELLA MAYO, Serio Comic. MATINEE LA BELL, iE ae a a TO-DAY. THE MUSICAL MUKE, Wi LADIES HARRY whe ey Pamtomnim ee aly Comic Pantom! ROBERI MACAIRE, ‘HIS TONY Pai Bros COMIC SUNGS, EVENIN a. All the troupe to-day. IERRACE GARDEN TH TR Fitty-eighth street, naeee Third and Lexington | ‘avenues. THE GREA! SeNSATIONS, and THE CANCAN st MATINEE TU-DAY AT 2 O'CLOOK ‘an O-NIGHT A‘ 8 O'CLOCK, Grand Sacred Concert next Sunday evening. gece TRIUMPH! THE PABA GH RAD BY ONE BOOSEY CAL! TO BE PRODUCED TMM ADIATELY 1111 YOUR WIVES, MOTHE! SISTERS, GHTERS TO TONY PASTOR'S OPERA RAND TRIUMPH! The Phsaw-ghraun!! by one Boosey call’!!! to be produced immediately 1111 -eighth street, nei iad” ind avenue. we pune TO Day. 201 BOWERY. INEE TO-DAY. ape GARDEN THEAT! Mente | - HREE HOURS’ FUN AT THE MA’ TONY PASTOR'S OFERA oe Everybody and his wife will be there. THE COMING SENSATION}! BGYLE BROOMS SPST Ay oe tly AND Sgn 9 O'CLOCK. MaTINER EVERY SPECIA! rye APTERNOON, COMMENCING AT 8 StOLOG om Pog GOULD! the coming sensation !! oo DESPATOHES FROM WASHINGTON | IN THE EVENING TELEGRAM. SAW. CARA! Leet CALL'DI! MEDIATELY ttt APTERNOON 1OR'S OPEKA goose RE IN FULL @ ms ZO c=} i=] = g iS @ | Bee {UN WITHOUT Pay THI 1 TONY Pas THE LADIES WILL BE THE! CO aiataas peoteh nantes st aS N HALL, Vb 3 (IUESDAY, bog 2io Pitch i EVENIN oe GOULD! the coming sensation !! Mites MUSIC AND MIMICRY:—DR. J. J. LEKS, Apariesa } ere = je A bmigted A al IWEGPTH REGL way, Wednesday evening, De ber % Tickets a as mory and music stores. aad GOULD! 2H O CHARGE FOR LADIES THIS EVENING, TONY PASTOR'S OPEKA HOUsE, THE CUEAPEsT SHOW IN THE Wi RAND TRIUMPH! The Phaw-ghraun!! by one Boosey call’d li! to be ‘produced immediately ttt JARTIER'S MASQUERADE SOL BEETHOVEN HALL, h sti THIS (TUESDAY) | EVENING." eet, ames Ci CHD cae bar iar ena ATINEE Mt 2 O'CLOCK. od GOULD! caNCAn, ryonations in scenes from Shakespeare's ira, oot and Fourth avenue. URLEY’., und 76 cents, OTICE To SHOWMEN AND THEATRE MAW. N agers—A metal Model of the city of Haris, as it was previous to the Franco-Prussian war, will low it applied box 120 | te erald ott OSTERS, PROGRAMMES, DISTRIBUTION BILLS, Circulars, iy th Cum, | Lito: raphic Lin dyes ol eatrical irint- | ire prompuy, jon t the MT eO- Poliran Puts Herald Busid- “A MERICAN instITUrE, ROF, JUDD | is now performing the ‘ardcows task of walking 500 miles within six and ft days. Promenade concerts at- ternoon an Admission yy Gilmore's Hani JRAND TRIUMF! i PHSAW-GHRAUN it vo al pide dee ABELL eat vho will exhibit some of the | cluding the romance of the ARK TUEATRE every afveraoon, save hemes sand Managers Ht | evening, and at Irving Hall every Saturday from 8 to | of fine second hand ‘Mr. fa WALLACE | | A 4 Jpcetsinen aT 130 | ce, @: i improvement sacritte | rent. AMUSEMENTs. are WORLD-RENOWNED M Et TRE BNAGERL | FETE aT PEKIN FETE At PEKIN FETE AT PEKIN Pere AT ERIN MARVEL OF SPECTACU TACULAR PAGEANTRY! INDIAN LIFE INDIAN LIFE INDIAN Like INDIAN LIFE THE WONDER OF EQUESTRIANISM! JACKLEY PAMILY SACKLEY FAMILY WORLD'S CHAMPION ATHLETES! CHARIOT RACES! HURDLE ChARIOT RAC HURDLE RACES! TADIES! FLAT RACHSt LALIES' FLAT RACES! ED LADY RIDERS! ADY ATTACHES! ED, ARABIAN HORSES! RED ENGLISH RUNNERS! TWO MONSTER BLACK HHTNOCEROSEST TWO MONSTER BLAGK RHINOCEKOSES! THE LARGEST EVER CAPIURED! Doors open atl and 6:3, Perormances at 220 and & Wild animais ted at the close ef atternoon entertain- ment. Box office open trom ¥ to days in advance, dren under ten, 25 cent: preparation for the hol 5TH AVENUE THEATRE, Proprietor and anager... BVERY NIGHT af 8, YORIGK! Seats secured ENN -Miss SA! EIT ‘NELLIS: oRTIMER A YORICK MATINEE SATURDAY, AT 13. Carriages may be ordered for 10:3, M's BROOKLYN THEATRE. MONDAY, at ya EVERY » VENING DURING ATURBAY 3 MATINEE At 2, MISS CHARLOTT! Giga arte, as JANE EYRB. AFTERNOON ae Rennes aT LOCK RACK GARDEN RTMGAT, SAUSE'S SOL DANSANTES; MASONIC HALL; ig and 116 East ‘Thirteenth street this Tuesday PIANOFORTES, ¢ FINE ASSORTMENT OF NEW AND HAND Pianos to rent, ut HAINES BROTHER» Piano Rooms, 27 Union square. New Pianos on instalments or tome Te cash; two Manos, been used a little, very low for cas! —FOR RENT, UPRIGHT, SQUARE AND GRAND AL. Pianos of oir own make; also tor sale, a uuinber anos, i perfect order, WiLLIAM KNABE & t CO., No. 112 Fittn avenue, above MAGNIFICENT. STEINWAY & SONS FOUR round corners 73¢ octave agraffe Piano: cost | for less than halt. RARKAUE Soe ;Bowery, near Third street, first Hoor. GREAT CHANCE,—700 PIANOS, HALF PRIC order administrator G. Barmore’s Estate, 363 Bicecker strect: indorsed by all the great living artists; d Pianos cheap, {WOOD PIANO AND STOOL, $100; BEAU. Ai A. tat overstrang bass fulliorn frame Pianatorte, $: anos to rent, 35 per month : instalments recei 1’S, 26 Bleecker street, near Bow L ROSEWOOD PIANO, $110; 7) . carved legs, overstrung, every uae 3 ty $3. enty-third street, corner Rixth aehues NIFT !'7% OCTA—E PIANOFORTE, FOUR soe corners, carved case. Gi ied bass. patent e; eclebraied maker; cost $85), $20, East 2th street, near Broadway.” N ELEGANT UAZELTON PIANOFORTE, FOUR round corners, richly carved legs, overstrung. every tor cash or instal ir to J. BIUDL#, 18 Waverley place, near Broadway. SOHMER & CU,’S, 149 EAST FOURTEENTH jest T T | A sees corner Thivd” svenus--Several very fine | | Pianos, « short tune used, of different makers, at extra | low figures; also Pianos to rent. modern’ improve $250; T 28 WEST NTY-THIRD STREET, A POWER ful, brillant sound Bradbury Pianotorte; has all nts: overstrung bass; cost $976, tor Stool, Cover; in use since April N. BL at private Tesidence, Rival darkies. | ZED “ior | modern improvements, carved legs and case, cost $0 NaGirs Kips, | cash: for $200; also Durham 7% octave Finnotorte for Yeas than halt cost; stool, | sipping. “Call private Fesiaence 12) W 201 BOWERY | perfect order; sweet, powertul tone. near Bower, LADIES ADMITTED FREE | One SQUARE AND UPXIGHT PI Caled roe ren 87 stop Organ, | sold at less than bi ninth street STREKT. DANSANTS MUsICAL RTERTALKSENY EVERY ‘EVENING, SouNENCING } prices for cash Gountey aus aS betore offered in Waters’ trated catalogue mailed; great inducements t i a jatge ‘discount to teachers, ministers, chars schools, &c, pireet -Clamens every. Monday and Thursday. THE COMING SENSATION!! | ow BOWERY. | - THE COMING SENSATION! | JANNY F, TAVERNER GRAHAM'S DRAMATIC IM. | * Mace deen P'tormignt, at Association Hall, corner of Twenty. ovtained at be sold for atonce. Address CLIY OF PAKIS, | price, maker, nud whe PRIVATE FAMILY WILL SEI,L THEIR ELEGAN tour round Decker & Bros.’ Piano forte at a saci fice; « brilliant toned 74 octave, richly carved rosewood | case, fuli ayratte overstrung piano, baving ai improv inents; printed guarantee, Dili of sa: 255 Swol, Cov Dox ior ahiopins Gall ior twe days i West ‘Twenty-first street. FAMILY WILL SELL THEIR PRIL- 4 chambers tail agraffe Pianotorte, all PRIVATE Mant toned Cover, Music Cabinet; box tor Bd . near MAGNIFICENT GRAND SQUARE 7 OCTAVE, four round corners, rosewood Pianoforte, all modern. improvements, patent’ agraffe, bridiant tone, nearly new, cost $1,200, for $275; stool, Cover; box for shipping: alot Parlor, Chamber Furniture; a sacrifice. Reside | 103 West Twenty-eighth street, near sixth avenue. A® EL GANT PIANO, $10; A BUAUTIFUL FOUR round corner Plano, carved Jegs, petatte treble, tay ta great bargain. KEK & 5ON. 1/'Clinton place (sighth street), near Broadway. ADY WILL SELL FOR $10 A MODERN dikckoring & Sons’ Pianotorte, pi eae Bogs —FOR THE HOLIDAYS— ORGANS, Burdett. For the holidays. Organs. Burdett. Elegant new cases. Organs. Buraett. Easy instalinents taken. oe Burdett Parlor Organs, $50 and upward. Org: Burdett. Seconthand insiruinents very cheap. organs ‘ADS. Fine new Pianos, only. MMeLINGs & WHEELOCK, li ‘Bast Fourteentn street. ORAM FLUTE GTERLING SILVER), AS GOO As new; must be sold cheap. Address 81 Last | eighth street. ARGAING THIS, MONTH.—A LARGE STOOK OF Pianos, from Sto 8 yable trom $5 to $15 upwa arerooms, 783 Broadway, corner street. Sipwiias jupry ae ae Raves and Organs to rent, 7 octave overstrung Pian: 150; rei i $85. <4 Gi ON « BON, hen 18 East Fourteenth street OR SALE—A VERY HANDSOME ROSEWOOD Piano; double round; fine tune: first class; will be its cost. apply at 100 West Forty ANUFACTURERS OF PIANOFORTES WILL FIND it to their interest to obtain estimates from the METROPOLITAN PKINIING ESTABLISHMENT, 18 | Broadway, before having their printing done elsewhere. $29 FOR BEST NEW i, OCTAVE PIANOS; 7 Car octave, new, $225, used a little for less, rowiara mailed. U.S. Pl PIANO Go., $10 Broadway, N. ¥, 50 PIANOS AWD ORGANS—NEW AND SECOND hand, of first class makers, will be sold at lower or on instalments, ‘or for rent, in city oF these bard times and the Holidays, by RS & SON, 41 Broadway, than over New York, Agents hit wo. fait jew Scale Fianos, and Concerto Org Othe uadei loages, ___ DANCING | _ACADEMIES, J, SAUSE'S DANCING ACADEMIES. -Obasens + at Masonic Hall, 114 East Thirteenth street Foort Hall 1o4 ast Finy-ourin surest: PRIVAT Lis: ONS at any hour, CIRCULARS ay private academy, 212 Bast Eleveuth street, A —DODWURTH'S PRIVATE CLASSES FOR DANG- « ing, No. 212 Fifth avenue, corner of Twenty-sixth ireet, open tor the seaso Morning aud afternoon classes for laqies and children. me a. Send jor a circular N@Q ACADEMY, pa ag AAS intersection ‘Stuyvesant and ornate 4 Evening classes 101 —CARTIER'S DANCI « Building, lessons in Gide Waltz a specialty. Reception Dai Thureday evening. ROOKES’ DANCING ACADEMY, 361 BROOME ST.— All the alae A Dances in one course of lessons, Afternoon classes for ladies and chiliren; evenings for | gentlemen, PRIVATE INSIRUCTION at all hours. BoE MASTER DUMAR'S DANCING ACADEMY, % West Fourth street.—Classes open. All dances ught perlectly in one quarter. Six insuiomable dauces A wa . HLA! ing, 1.44 Broadway.—Morning filemon for ladies and children; evening classes jeme: R. TRENOR’S ACADEMY OF DANUING, Lyric Wall, 723 Sixth avenue, Reservoir square, ae Da jneente every sian evening. and afternoon CTURE EVERY “MIGHT o'clock, Bro aay, bétween Houston aud Bleecker streets, T AW Books Soe aud Cowen & Hill’s Report. hand.” Address, staung price, Us TANTED TO PURCHAS Hait Interest in one; also Barbour; second Lox 4,402 Post offi Ottice. ANTED—A FIRST CLASS MAHOGANY _ SIDE- A‘ldress with price, pre hew or seoond hand, « Nerald Uptown Branch ofiice. TANTED—OUEAP FOR CA TO TAKE WEST, Jo» Lots of Ury Goods, Carpets, Moots and Shoes, | ents Notions, Jewelry, | nything thatis in guod condiuom, Adaress | Hardware, Mu-teal Tustray vileraia oltice, WaANtsH. mA SE feet high. is, box cwn be seen. ILL BXCHANGE—B3.00 WoRit OF Dky GOODS jor First Morigax i, hear by, (ree and clear, fgrmerenandiae: Fer gas nae Br a pc BARNUM'S GREAT HIPPODROME AND SAOKLEY FAMILY JACKLEY FAMILY Racks! PRES! Ls! SIX LLAMAS! General, admission. 3 cents, Chil. Extraordinary attractions in -Mr, AUGUSTIN DALY TRANSIT OF VENUS. The Event to Begin 'To-Day. The First Transit Observed by a Young English Astronomer. ANOTHER AMERICAN STATION CHANGED, Professor Parkhurst on the Advent of the Grand Phenomenon. At filty minutes past eight o'clock this evening the long and eagerly sought phenomenon of the = Sea z | watch Resl- | ‘tion was ACADEMY FOR DANC- for gon- AL Ly AT 8 atthe New York Mascum of Anatomy, 618 NDELL & “JOUNSON'S OFFICE OR ave constant work tor it Address full particulars to PUBLISHER, box 191 Herald OND. “HAND SAFE ABOUT PIVE | terest ior a S7 Post office; stating transit of Venus will begin, The planet will steal forward toward the eastern aca upper portion of the sun’s rim, come in contact with it and then push ita way slowly across the sun’s face, on which it will appear projected like @ small black speck. Venus willoccupy jour hours and three-quarters in journeying across, and at half-past one o’clock A. M. on to-morrow morning the planet will pass away Irom the disc leaving no track behind. Few could believe that little though the velocity of the planet appears, it nevertheless fies through space at the rate of 77,200 miles per nour, or 1,290 miles @ minute. Though it looks a tiny spot when viewed with the nakea eye, it 8, nevertheless, almost as large as our own earth, The sun will have set upon our shores when the transit commences, but while our portion of the globe will be turned from the great luminary other sections will be illumined by bis rays, and in these regions he will be ob- served as the planet crosses by thousands of astronomers throughout the world. During the transit of 1769 the occurrence was visible on every part of this continent, but now it 18 our turn to lose sight of the appearance. In 1882 we shall enjoy the javor of being enveloped in Gaylight during the occurrence of the transit that is to take place in that year. AS the nature and results of the eventful cir- cumstance and the history of the expeditions, past o8 well as present, havé already been exten- sively detailed in the HERALD of November 30 and December 7, it 1s needless to revert to them here, It may be well, however, to recall to the reader’s memory the extraordinary and romantic circum- stances under which the first transit of Venus was observed. Transivs have, of course, occurred four times every 243 years since the creation, and no doubt exists of tae ancients having noticed some of them, as they were accustomed to the constantly shiiting positions of morning and evenmg stars. There are evidences of these observations still extant. On an earthen vessel in the British Mu- seum are carved the movements of the planet ‘Venus during @ period extending back to the sixth century before the Cnrisuan era. Still there i9 uo transit pictured thereon, The first Well authenticated observation of a transit of the | Venus was made in 1639 by Rev. Jonn Horrox, a young English curate of an obscure village near Liverpool, A transit had taken place eight years previously in accordance with the prediction of Kepler; but it was night time in Europe when it occurred, and consequently it was not observed by apy persons known to nistory. One of the strange facts connected with HorroxX’s observa- that he was not aware of the uses that could be made of the observations. Halley had not then propounded the celebrated method of ascertaining tue sun's distance, nor had Deitsie existed. Kepler predicted the transit O1 1639, but his estimate of the moment at which the transit would begin was some hours wide of the mark. In 1633 young Horrox was placed in | Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he soon gave and astronomical | evidences of mathematical genius. When he reached his eighteenth year he had mastered all the problems Of mathematics as the science then existed, ang betouk himself to the study of the movements of tne heavenly spheres. Being of a religious tura of mind, he found im the vasty regions of the stellar universe, the most glorious aud sublime display of the Creator's | majesty, believing, like maay others, that the blest abodes were fixed beyond the stars. He re- viewed Kepler’s calculations of the date of the | transit and found them slightly erroneous, He communicated his discovery to two intimate Iriends, and whea the month of December came | Yound he made ready to verily his predictions by ‘watching the sun throughout the day. The morn- ing of the 4th of December dawned; Garkened his litle room and admittea the son’s ruys through a lens, which projected an image of the sun’s disk on & white sheet of paper. It was the Sabbath day and tne sky was bright, the sun beaming calmly down upon the screen of the young astronomer, From the rising of the sun until pine o'clock he watched tne image, but no planet appeared. While he was on the tiptoe of expectation the Dealing of the church bell called nim away. He | hesitated for a moment, overcome with conflicting emotions, and he knew not whether he would honor his Creator more by repairing to His house of worship or by verifying the beneficent and im- mutable laws according to whicn He made the celestial orbs revolve. He decided, however, to visit his flock in church. At tem o’clock he re. | yurned to his house, but found no speck dotting the surface of the sun’s image “I ob- served the sun,” said Horrox, ‘irom sun- rise to mine ovclock; again a little before ten o’ciock, and lastly at noon and from | one to two o'clock, the rest of the day being de- voted to higher studies.” in the afternoon clouds rolled sullenty by, obscuring the image on the wcreen, Finally the skies grew clear, and lo! young Horrox beheld the pitchy shadow of Venus crawling forward upon tbe solar disk. The rap- turous emotion with which he suddenly viewed the touching incident overpowered him for a while, but ultimately recovering himself, he pro- ceeded to make measurements of tue planet’s po- sition on the screen, which paved the way for the brilliant calculations of more modern times, Horrox spent the hours subsequent to the transit in writing to his friends the ecstatic convictious that glowed in his enthusiastic brain, Few years elapsed before the career thus brightly begun was brought to @ speedy close. Horrox died at the age of twenty-two, leaving a void in the scientific world that was universally regretted, Could he have beheld during bis last moments the varied appliances and the gigantic preparations of modern scientists for the observation of the same phenomenon, not merely in darkened rooms throughout England, but irom observatories in the four quarters of the giobe’he might have quitted the spliere of his earthiy existence with one pang less than those which the agonies of Geath sent through bis frame, ANOTHER CHANGE IN TUE AMERICAN STATIONS, A special despatch recentiy received from friends of the parties attached to the New Zealand expedition states that Dr. Peters, of Hamilton | Coliege, who ls in charge of the expedition, has changed the location (rom Biutf Harbor to Huen! town, 120 miles in the interior, south Jatitude 45 degrees, West longtitude 163 degrees 40 minutes, elevation 1,200 feet above the level of the sea. ‘This change Was made owing to the poor prospect of clear weather at Biull Harbor, PROFESSOR PARKHURST’S VIEWS. To Tug EpiTor OF THE HeraALD:— As the critical moment approaches to which as tronomers have looked torward with 80 much in- Of our sister planet and the uses to be made ot it increases day by day. Reierring your readers to | the article published in the HRRALD of last Mon- day (or & general explanation of the phenomena Of She traBait and of the principles by Which it Horrox | century the desire on the part of tne | | Intelligent public to kKuow more avout the transit may be used to give us the distance of the sun, I shall dwell only upon particular points which may be considered from a different point of view. Apparent motion depends, first and chiegy, upon distance, and secondly, upon velocity, Many of the stars are so distant that all the observa. | tions of astronomers have not yet determined | even the direction of their apparent mo- tion, ‘The most rapidly moving and there- fore probably the nearest stars, are the com- ponents of the binary star 61 Cygni, which moves over a space equal to the sun’s diameter in about three centuries. The most distant planet of the solar system, Neptune, moves over the same space in abouta year. The nearest planet, Venus,tn its transit moves over the same space in about eight hours. The moon, abundred times nearer, moves over the same space tn an hour, The earth, tue centre of which 18 sixty times nearer to us than the moon, moves | over the same space in about two minutes, a8 may be seen by watcning the western horizon at sun- set, as it rises and covers the comparatively sta- Uonary disk of the sun. As the diferent celestial bodies pass over each other in their motions they produce the pbengmena styled transits and occultationa. When the nearer body is apparently the larger of the two the more | distant body is occulted. Asthe sun isso brill- jantasto prevent our seeing any other body be- yond it, in immediate contact with it, and as the disks of the planets are so smal, and their motions comparatively slow, occu tations are almost exclusively of the and planets by the moon, When the nearer body is apparently the smaller of the two, it produces a transit of the smaller body over disk of the larger. Lunar eclipses, as shown in the HERALD of October 2%, belong to a different class of phenomena, and the same is true of the eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter. In solar eclipses the light of the sun is so opscurea that whether the apparent size of the moon is smaller or greater the phenomenon {a not called a transit or an occultation; but solar eclipses, or even the daily setting of the sun, obscuring ita light by the interposition of the body of the earth, may be re- garded as phenomena of the same class with the transit of Venus, a class of phenomena too common t0 attract attention. The astronomers of the world to-morrow, if the sky shall be suMciently clear, will see, at first, near the centre of the disk of the sua, two small spots. Measurements at different hours will show | that they are moving slowly toward the west, but the most careful measurements, made in Siberia and in Oceanica, will fail to detect any difference in their position upon the sun’s disk as seen from these widely separated stations, These spots, therefore, belong upon the sun itself. Then there will appear, at about nine o'clock P. M., of New York time, a larger spot, circular, and moving more rapidly, | also toward the west. This will be the planet Venus in its transit. In less than five hours Venus will have crossed the disk and passed away from view. The smaller spots, meanwhile, will have moved toward the west, from the rotation of the sun upon its axis, only about one-fortieth part of the sun’s diameter, The astronomers will pack up their instruments and return home, no wiser than they went; but they will bring with them materials which, when properly compared and reduced, wil, give, more accurately than it is now known, the | distance of the sun from the earth, and, therefore, | the scale by which we may compute the distances of the planets and even of the nearer fixed stars. During the eventful hours when the Eastern Hemisphere will bristle with hundreds of paraliel | | | telescopes, and when thousands of eager eyes will be watching the transit, no thought will arise as to the practical use of the phenomenon, any more than looking at a beautiful painting or in listen- ing to strains of delightful music we attempt to calculate in what way it will yield money to our purse. A miilion dollars 1s not too mucn to spend for so important an advance in scientific knowl- edge. But lest, by and by, when we are to havea transit of our own, and shall want further appropri- ations, 1t should be said that we have spent enough jor mere intellectual amusement, yielding no re- turn, let me try to explain one of the ways in ‘Which the observation of the transit of Venus will immediately repay, in money, many times the out- lay. It has been already shown that, essentially, we observe the transit of Venus to obtain the distance of Venus, because we can obtain it relatively with four times the accuracy that would attend ob- servations upon the parallax of the sun directly at four times the distance, and because, by the aid of Kepler’s law, from the distance of Venus we can obtain with the same relative accuracy the | aistance of the sun. By having this fulcrum, or Btepping stone, we thus increase by four times the accuracy of the determination of the san’s dis- tance, leaving out of view the peculiar advantages, already shown, which will enable ug to determine the parallax of Venus witha less margin of error than in the case of the sun. ‘The same advantages which Venus possesses our moon possesses in &@ Much greater degree. Con- sequently, the distance of the moon from the earth ia known, from direct observations of its parallax, sixty times as accurately as the distance | of the sun. We Fnow also the average effect of the attraction of the sun upon the motion of the moon in its orbit, This effect varies with the position of the moon in its orbit, the sun’s attraction being greater at new moon, when the moon is nearer to the sun than ‘the earth 1s, and less at fall moon, when the moon is further from the sun. Ii the sun were, as for- merly taught, 400 times as far from the earth as the moon, its distance irom the new moon would be 399, and from the iull moon 40L Asthe attrac- ‘ion varies with the square of the distance, the attraction at Now moon would he to that at full moon as the square Of 401 to the square of 309; that 18, about one-hundredth part greater. But if the sun ig only 880 times the distance of the moon, more neatly corresponding to later determina- tions, its attraction of the new moon is about one Dinety-filth part greater than of the fuli moon. For it must be remembered tpatin reducing the distance of the sun from 96,000,000 to 92,000,000 miles atronomers have not re. duced the moon’s distance by a single | mile, that having been obtained from entirely independent observations and computations, It isevident that we cannot know with accuracy how much the moon's position is varied by the attraction of the sun in different parts of its orbit until we know with accuracy the distance o1 the sun. Pursuing the opposite course, Hansen, from the effect of the attraction of the sun upon the moon’s position in different parts of its orbit, came to the conclusion that the distance of tne sun must be not far from ninety-two millions of miles, agreeing with that obtained /rom observa- | tions of the parailax of Mars and in other modes, and now adopted in the Almanac.” It ls upon the knowledge of the exact position “American Nautical ‘ | moon, predicted in the “Naut! ‘mn uae pellese 0 DI - int she CHAR Neal APanee | at the North Pole could generate heat sufic! three years in advance, that the navigator must necessarily rely jor ty from bidden rocks and dangerous coasts. The increased safety in navi- gation, not only with regard to life, of which we think #0 little, but with regard to money, of | which, ag @ commercial people, we think so | much, will amply repay all the expen- | diture upon the transit expeditions of | 1874, and all that can be asked for in | 1882, When we shall have our turn; Jor it is a for- tupste circumstance in these transiva, which occur only twice in a century, that thee is always | an interval ofseven hours in June and of eleven hours in December, 60 that nearly the whole world can witness either one or the other of the two transits, which are separated by an interval of eight years, In a jew days we shall have telegraphic an- nouncements from some of the stations; in afew montns the expeditions will be returning home. We shail soon have conjectures and estimates with regard to the,resuit; putit is not expected that tie final result will be reached in less than two years, As the problem has been explained so clearly, being substantially only the measurement Of @ triangle, the diameter of the earth forming the base line and the displacement of the disk of ‘Venus being the angie at Venus, the solution of Which can be accompiished in five minutes by the: aid of trigouometrioul tables, the question wil paturally ay what the asteocomare | will be avout, Ido not speak with authority. I have not been in consultation with them, and, in- deed, I hardly think there has been much consul- tation with regard to the reduction of the observa- tions; but I think I can make some suggestions which will satisfactory account for much of the delay. It must be remembered that in explaining the Principles of the transit, for the sake of clearness all disturbing elements were carefully eliminated and leit out of view. Imaginary observers have been located at all conceivable places, from the North Pole to the Soutn Pole, and even at the cen- tre of the eartn and centre of the sun. The earth has been imagined to stop its rotation upon its axis, Astronomers have been expected to meas ure by @ two-foot rule the distance of the several Stations, as seen from the centre of the sun, upon 4 line drawu through the centre of the earth. A8to such slight performances as inducing clocks to keep | absolutely perfect time, inducing observers to re- cord with absolute precision phenomena which they may impertectly see, and inducing Venus her- | self to take the position and to walk the preciso track marked out for her by the «Nautical Alma nac,’’ they were, of course, not worth mentioning. But when our American observers come home with their figures and their photographs they will have a far different problem to deal with, They must determine the longitute of the diferent sta- tions, and reduce all their observations to Wash- ington time. Tuey must determine the effect of the rotation of the earth at the time of each ob servation and make allowance for tt, as well as [oF the several positions, They must apply correc: tions for personal equation of ovservers, for errors of different instruments of observatigp and for tne error of the aifferent clocks and chronometers., In some of the observations, such as the measure- ment of the distance of the centre of Venus from the centre of the sun, at alow altitude, the differ. ence of refraction must be allowed for. Tne photographs must be measured and reduced to the form of figures. Alter these and other preliminary. corrections have been applied the observations themselves must determine the error of the Nautical Almanac posal. tion of Venus, the error of its motion in right ascension and in declination and the error of its apparent diameter, and, if not otherwise determined, also the corresponding errors of the sun’s place, motion and diameter. These correo- tuons will be combined with the effect of the dimer. ence of parallax of Venus and the sun, while the latter will affect each observation differentiy. After eliminating all possible sources of error there will remain especially those depending upon the positions of Venus and upon the parallax, and all these undetermined quantities must be reduced to equations of condition, the coeficients of which must be determined for each separate observation, Then by the method of least squares these equa- tions of condition must be solved, giving the best Tepresentation possible of the observations. But these ‘results will only be provisional The astronomers of other countries will, I presume, independently to a great extent, parsue a simil course, and each will arrive at provisional results from their own observations, Upon comparison of the results reached by different nations there will be found discrepancies in all the elements, Then will come the last great work, combining all. New values of all the une Getermined quantities will be selected, guided by the several results, and with those values the theoretic time of each observation will be com puted and compared with the observed time. All the observations of all nations will be reduced, either singly or in groups, to a symmetrical form, for the final equations of condition, to eliminate, as far as possible, the remaining dis | crepanctes between computation and opserva- tion. It is not until these finalequations of cone dition shall have been solved by the method of least squares that the final determNnation can be said to have been reached. Whether the general plan which I have roughly outlined shdil be followed or a widely diferent plan there is no royal road py which the labor can be saved; and I think it will be tound that I have underrated rather than exaggerated the aificuities, We may ‘hope in a tew months to know whether the observations of the transit will sustain the modern de termination of the sun’s distance, ninety-two Millions of miles, or the former determination, ninety-five millions; although, after the rediscu® sion of the observations o1 1769, the latter seems hardly possible. Shouid the observations every- where be successiul, little would seem to be leit jor the next transit; but it 1s by no means certain that the experience in these observations may develop new methods, so that, eagerly as the transit of to-morrow has been anticipated, it may be that astronomers, the world over, will, with uaabated interest and zeal, look forward tothe transit of December 6, 1882. HENRY M. PARKHURST. New Yor«, Dec. 7, 1874. THE AROTIO i0_ EXPLORATION. To Tux Epiror oF THE HERALD:— Several days ago you published an inveresting article upon the forthcoming British expedition to the North Pole. Perhaps it is possible for an bumble individual like myself to suggest that ‘which vill be of value.to those who are engaged in organizing the expedition. An Englishman by the name of Smith, one of the inventors of the screw-propeller, has recently adopted an arrangement whereby the instrument Of propulsien is thoroughly protected: he places the screw-propeller in a tunnel, An Englishman by the name of Ewbank, an eminent byarwuilc engineer who passed the latter portion of his tie in this Republic, demonstrated tnat the exbatst steam from engine cylinders could be made t¢ yield much of its potential en. ergy beneath otaer pistons connected with the game shalt, Thats to say, he condensed the ex. haust steam in those other cylindera—ne utilized the atmcspheric pressure—and ob tained twenty-five per cent more powel irom @ given quanlity of steam than cag now be ovtained with the best type of compound engine, the motor nosrest to perfection, His engine required more spice than the compound, but less than the old atyle wide lever engine. Oa an Arctic exploring expedition each grain of fuel becomes more valuable than gold. Jonathan has maay ideas and a first class stook ofnotions, He aas a “iightning saw” that can cuta ship canal through ice ten teet thick; a portable blower, with hose and noagle, to agitate suriace water in the canal an prevent its freezing up too soon; @ perforated pipe to place along either side of the sbip’s keel, w blow air bubbies up along her hull, and in that way pre vent bis terrible lowness from hugging hier toa much; @ Metood of blowing new dry snow from decks, boats, rigging, &¢.; 8 sell-regiiating wind mill can do ail und ‘much more than has been mentioned. He hasa good manual power muitr pher, whirling tavle and system of pipes of to) per filled with linseed oil, the whole athir to be slung on to the man’s back Tike @ SCiNBOx. grinder’s machine, With this combination La to ‘warm lils nose and toes, coffee und steak. He hag what he calls “the lighthouse gang.” Four or more locomotive-engine head-lights send their combined rays up a vertical tube three inches io Olameter to the tov of the ligithouse. There the tube is capped witn cowl and lens, rotated by a train Of clock Work in the Ae ot veo . The raya are proe jected parallel, or they ut to jocus far, far uway from the cowl. any last notion ligots up an approaching iceberg and yet retains below deck @ portion of the hest emitted by the Names, Witn two Lubes Of nan construciion be can stand on deck at midnight and criticaly examine each square inch of hull below the water line, ‘The tn- strument is not complicated. The electric or other intense light i# sent down one of the tubes to @ mirror, thence to the hull to another mirror, and through the other tube to tue eye of the observer, ‘twenty-five years ago this instrument was thoroughly Tested and rendered invaiuabie assistance. He can manufacture uge mouth ani ear trumpets out OL Waterprvol paper, to be dragged upon vod- runners Of the same material. Tiese will permit conversation between parties that have become widely separated, aud inay detect open sea when all otber means tave failed, Courier bailoons can be constructed out of thin sheet copper, With the Message stamped into the metal envelope. Field telegraph equipments he nas in large vanety. He can build a wooden barge that wiil tow very easily while paying out a submarine telegraph through it bottom, ‘This crait stiould carry oe of Joun’a traction engines, that have india rabber tres on the wheels, An engine of that description, placed Upon the smoothest ice, with @ small quantity of ashes paid in irout of the driving Wueels, re bad | the entire feet, against moderate wind and Bry miles a day, und consume less pose one toe ton on el ery Tons, Dee % 184,