The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1876, Page 7

CABLE NEWS From All Parts of the Old World. THE EASTERN ARMISTICE The Sultan Accepts Russia’s Terms of Peace, THE LAST BATTLE “Servia at the Feet of Russia and at the Mercy of Turkey.” W.. SOMMERARD'S REPUDIATION. The French Commissioner Prints a Disclaimer in the Figaro. THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT Lonpon, Oct. 31, 1876, Peace is now possible. Turkey, now thoroughly master of the situation within her own dominions, has been approached by Russia with terms which England has urged her to accept. The Sultan has ynelded. The HERALD’s Constantinople correspondent telegraphs that ata private audience which the Sultan granted to General Ignatieff yesterday, the Turkish Sovereign formally accepted Russia’s pro- position for a six weeks’ armistice. Servia is thor- oughly humbled, and there is no doubt but that the armistice is obtained by Russia at the direct solicitation of Prince Milan's govern- ment. Before daylight on yesterday morn- ing M. Kartzof, at the request of Prince Milan, sent a telegram to Livadia asking that General Ignatieff should be instructed to obtain a six weeks’ armistice; or, in case he fails, that Russia should intervene on behalf of Servia Servia’s defiance has. ended in smoke. Tchernayeff, beaten on every hand, has lost the confidence of the army. SATURDAY’S BATTLE. Partioulars of the battle bowween the Turks and Berviens, on Saturday, state that the Turks attacked the heights of Djunis. The Ser- vian artillery, irritated at Generhl Tcher- nayeff's deprecatory manner, rofused to fight and abandoned their positions, despite the efforts of the Russian officers A body of Russian volunteers delended the heights desperatoly, balf of their mumber being killed. The Turks carried their positions, thus cuttiug the Servian army intwo, After the fall of Djumis, General Tcber- nayeff, with his staff and part of the army, retreated to Ragauj, but have since returned to the neighbor- hood of Detigrad. General Horvatovich’s corps, fought some time but wore finally completely beaten and driven back upon Kruchevatz The Deligrad positions are now antenable. Last night patrols went through the streets of Belgrade, summoning sojourn- mg Russian officcrs to proceed to the Ministry of ‘War, whence they were despatched to the fromt Prince Milan leit forthe army to-day escorted by a body of Russians. The Prince bad « long conference yesterday with M. Kartsoff, tho resident Russian dip- lomatic agent. SUNDAY’S FIGHTING. A battle was fought on Sunday in which the Tarks frove the Servians from Dijunis after a crushing de- leat. Techornayeff's army Js cut in two, and com- pletely “demoralized. Horvatovitch’s command has retired om Krachevatz A great panic prevails at Bel- trade, THE TURKS’ SUCCESS. The Turks captured ten cannon and a large quantity of muskets and ammoanition in their last battle at Djuniv. The same paper's speciay from Belgrade does not single out the artillery as the most prominent in defection on that occasion, but states that the Servian army, which was reduced to such a condition that the men were hardly ablo to srawl, openly dociared it would fight no longer and abandoned its positions en masse, Tchernayef tele- grapned to Prioce Milan imploring him to come and prevent the army from crumbiing en- Mrely to pieces, The Princo conferred with M. Kartzof five times during the night It is impossible to make a stand at Cuprijia, At Deligrad, Rajavjand Paratchin and all along the road the wildest confusion prevails. The wounded, the wagons, the stafland deserters are mixed up in an inextricable mags. The Circassians have appeared be fore Rajanj. The Belgrade official journal published yesterday an eager appeal to Russia for immediate aid. Food, arms, men—anything! Starvation, defeat, depopulation! A DESPBRATE SITUATION. i It is bigh time that Servia saw the real situation. There is no longer any delusion. Servia is now at tho feet of Russia or the mercy of Turkey. Some officers are under orders to proceed to Kragojevatz, which is the arsenal of Servia, The Turks, however, will probably have passed Kragojevatz before reinforce- ments can arrive there, If they delay turthor rosist- ance by the Rusasin volunteers is probable. Intelligence however, has been received from Russian officers that tne Tarks have received reinforcements to the amount of 20,000 men and some batteries of artiilery, The Circassian cavalry are burning villages near Paratchin and Ouprijia ‘THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT, The German Reichstag (Imperial Parliament of the whole Empire) opened yesterday. The Emperor's speech was read by Horr Hoffman, His Majesty being absent on account of indisposition. The imperial speech mentions the general depression of trade and {ndustry in Germany and throughout the world, and states that the obyect of the government’s commer- cial policy will be the protection of German in- dustry from the prejadicial cffocts of one-sided custom regulations im other countries, This object will be kept specially in view in impending ne- fotiations for the renewal of commercial treatica. Germany's torcign relations, notwithstanding the aifM- culties of the present political situation, are fully ac- cordant with the Emperor's pacific policy. His con- stant endeavor 1s to preserve friendly relations with all Powers, especially those connected with Germany by tes of neighborhood and history, and, as far as poace may be endangered amoug such, to preserve it by friendly mediation. Whatever the fature may have in storo, Germany may rest assured tbat the diood of her sons will be sacrificed or risked only for jhe protection of her own honor and interests. THK PANDORS’S RETURN. ‘The last particle of hope in regara to the Arcticexpe- dit'on has been extinguished. It had been ardently hoped that, finding her mission unnecessary, tho Pan- dora would push oa into Peel Strait and there winter, 1p the expectation of being able to get through the northwest passage on the breaking up of the'ice in the spring, Thus the Pandora might have accomplished something reatly remarkabie in its way and have left this year’s work imperishabie upon the record. This the has not done, but is now in the English Channel, bound for Portamouth, She passed Crookhaven, Ire- land, yesterday forenoon, and signaliod that all were wellon board. She burned her lights off the Scilly Islands less than an hour ago, as a special telegram in- forms me. She will, therefore, reach Portsmouth to- day, before noon. ‘THE FRENCH CONGRESS ‘The session ef the Chambers was opened at Ver- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1876.-TRIPLE SHEET. sailles yesterday. There was no speech by President MacMahon, The Senate adjourned until November 6 and the Chamber of Deputies until the 3d prox. NORTHERN SPAIN UXQUIET. A telegram from Bilbao reports that small bands of insurgents recently appeared in the neighborhood of Encartaciones, Dut they have been dispersed. FIRE 1% LIVERPOOL. The mills of the Mersey Seed Crushing Company wore destroyed by fire to-day. The loss is $100,000, and over 300 hands are thrown out of employment. ‘THE GRAIN TRADE. “There has been better weather during the past week,” says the Mark Lane Express in its usual weekly review of the erain trade, ‘and in the North the remains of the outstanding crops have been mostly gathered. The condition is deplorable. In many dis- tricts barley and-oats were hardly worth carting, and the grass was so sodden as to have lost much of its nourishing properties, Reports of ihe potato blight are gloomy. Tho disease, as yet, is confined to a few Eoglish and Scotch districts, bus it is feared it will extend to Ireland. Fine dry weather is greally Beeded for potatoes and for sowing wheat, a con- siderable acreage of which has been sown during the past week Holders of wheat remain very firm and millers buy reluctantly, but they are by no means satisfied that an advance in prices is improbable. Local trade nas been quiescent, and with a moderate consumptive demand wheat has with difficulty main- tained previous prices. Maize flour and feeding stuffs are unchanged. Arrivals off the coast have been very limited. Californian cargoes on passage have declined slightly from the highest point, but a firmer feeling has been shown latterly. STOCK EXCHANGE FAILURES. Yesterday was the last day of tho usual fortnightly settlement on the Stock Exchange. Three failures were announced, resulting from the recent fluctua- but the liabilities of the suspended parties important, Silver was quoted at 53 }¢d. hi M. SOMMERARD'S DENIAL. THE FRENCH COMMISSIONER EMPHATICALLY DISCLAIMS «ALL ENOWLEDGE OF THE LETTER LIBELLING AMERICANS. [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE, ] Paris, Oct. 80, 1876. M. du Sommerard has met the letter published in the Figaro by a fat denial of its authorship. He prints a card in the Figaro this morning in which he declares that the libellous epistle which appeared in that journal on Friday last, over his signature, was a base forgery, and that it was neither written nor authorized to be written by him. Further, he declares that he does not even sympathize with the sentiments expressed in the communication. : EMPHATIC REPUDIATION. He puts his denial in unequivocal language throughout; but, apparently fearing that a mere disclaimer will not be satisfactory, M. du Sommerard concludes his defence by saying:—“If my emphatic denial of all connection, direct or indirect, with the letter attributed to me be not adequate enough to satisfy all, 1am fortunately so situated that I can establish by documentary proof the truthfulness of my disclaimer.?? ° HARDLY SATISFACTORY. Iam very sorry to be compelled to state that the general opinion among both Frenchmen and Ameri- cans in Paris is that the letter partakes very much of the character of denials made by certain his- torical politicians regarding the of Crédit Mobilier stock or Union Pacific bonds. It reads, the Americans say, very much like the letters “branding the allegations as an in- famous outrage upon private character” which were so common at a time within the memory of all living men. There seems to be little doubt but that the Duke Decazes will insist upon some proof, although, of course, Minister Washburne will accept the letter of denial as setting his nation right, and will regard the apology as futtytiade, Here, tt ts to be hoped, the subject will be dropped. A PLAIN STATEMENT OF THE ACTUAL FACTS IN THE ALLEGED GRIEVANCES IN THE DU SOM- MERARD LETTER—CAPTAIN AUFRYE AND THE MISINFORMATION HE RBECEIVED—A LETTER FROM M. COUBERT. Paitapetrata, Oct, 30, 1876, Having bad conversations to-day with Director General Goshorn, the chiefs of the bureaa of transpor- tation of tbe Centennial Terminal Agency Company and other officers, as well as with the representatives of the French Commission and exhibitors, I now con- dense for the readers of tho Hsratp the information gleaned at these various interviows, M. Du Sommerard was from the first ill-disposed toward the Philadelphia Exhibition, his displeasure at so many Frenchmen taking part in it was scarcely concealed, and both bis letters and conversations held with gentlemen now here prove that he did not desire it to turn outa suc- cess. His not coming to Philadelphia in person suffi- ciently indicated bis feelings in the matter, His first delegate to Philadelphia, M. Roullaux Dugage, was scarcely fitted, either by personal qualifieations or by other circumstances, for the position of representative of agreat nation. His impetuosity and, probably, exaggerated ideas of the importance attaching to his position often led him into difficulties when hero, but he left in August last, ap- parently on the most friendly terms with the Centen- nial Commission, ho being specially entertained at din- ner by the Director General just before his departure, His successor, Captain Aufrye, of the French Legation at Washington, has always, it would seem, been on perfectly friendly terms with the Director General and Colonel ‘Moyer Asch, and being about to marry an American lady, credence may readily be given to his statement and that of his fellow deputy commissioner, M. le Comte de Diesbach, that they are not responsi- bie tor the infamous calumnies on American women. As regards, however, the Centennial guards, Captain Aufrye seems constantly to have been at loggerheads with them, and to have felt his dignity offended by their, republican way of treating everybody alike, Thus, for instance, on the occasion of the Gre in Shanty- town, ne was refused egress from the Main Buildin; simply because tho guards bac erders to keep the | doors closed, and if the rule held good for onett necessarily held good for all. He acknowledges to have reflected im strong terms in his reports on the honesty of the officials, and jastifics this by a robbery which took place in the French ae- partment, and for which the Centennial guard on duty ‘was tried. It so happens, however, that the man was | acquitted, the charge being proved to be utterly un- founded and tho man in question having an excellent character. Captain Aufrye seems to have been totally misintormed as to the char- acter of the Centennial guards, who are, for the mest part, men who have formerly occupred a superior Position and who have been specially chosen for their good records. Indeed, it is only trom the French Com- Mission that complaints against the guards havo arisen, the oi\ber Commissioners constantly speaking in high terms of the men, their obligingvess and wil- lingness to assist. Captain Aufrye bas again been erro- neously informed that a company of the Centennial guards was disbanded in consequence of the conduct iro at Lauber’s restaurant. A duction of the force having been previously deter- mined on, anumber of men were draited trom one company into another. With regard to the tire of the 26th of August, by which a t number xhibitors’ cases wore destroyed, Captain Aulrye acknowledges having in his report stated that 1 was ant justifies this by alleg- ing that the Director General told bim the day follow. ing that this was undoubtedly the cas This, how. ever, is A most palpable misapprehension w would be totally impossible jor the Director G & positive tion into the cause of official report fire bears date five on the Ist of 7 digtinetly militates agar the idea of the fire being the work of an incendiary, It shows that i broke out far im the interior of one of the sheds and among the American cases, penetrating sul uently to the Epglsh and Freoch cases, One of the watchmen, who 18 un old and experienced fireman, states that the bine light which marked the commencement of the fro indicated =the burning of @ substance other than wood. Had it been an incendiary’s work it could, therefore, have been accomplished 8: tha report possession | explosive ball being thrown into the interior ed, which, with the efficient watch maintained, ig utterly improbable. The opivion of competent Jadges is, on the contrary, that the fire was caused by the spontaneous combustion of the oucloth aud other residue of packing materials left by the exhibitors ip their cases when depositing them with the Centennial agency. Wherever such matter was discovered by tho auborities it was thrown into a poo! of water hard b the shed, but, owing to their allowing exhibitors, wit! aview to saving the cost of storage, to pack the smalie! cases in the larger, it was impossible, with mass of cases sent, to open and search each ene. This bypothesis of spontaneous combustion is contirmed by the fact of a glass jar containing chemical refuse hav- Red ignited by the action of the san’s rays sowe time fore. As regards the results of the fire, by which, acoord- ing to published statements, it would appear that the French exhibitors had been the sole sufferers, the fol- lowing official figures of the destruction effected will speak sufficiently for themsel Number of Cases Countries Suffering. Foes be orway. Spain. 12 Germany. 162 Mexico. 29 United ‘81 1,447 France..... 1,851 Tt will thus that Gi ig very nearly as large a sufferer as France, and thatto the United States fall the heaviest losses of all, more especially a3 among the 1,447 cases burned are 431 from the art gal- lery, which, ag will be readily understood, w: le of all. The French Commissi police force of ten men tn the building, ree M. du Sommerard or either of his dcle- @ tree to entertain their own opinio! conduct of the Exhibition authorities opinions, however, must not be considered as com- promising their countrymen in the United States, there isabundant evidence, A LETTER FROM M. COUBRRT. Here is a letter addressed to-day by M. Coubert, dele- ‘ate of the Society of French Axricuiturists at the Ex- ibition, to the Courier des Htats-Unis, and which, as it represents the views of the majority of his fellow countrymen in Philadeiphia, is not without import- ance:— “PHtLapEteniA, Oct. 30, 1876. “On my arrival this morning trom California I had communicated to me a letter inserted in the Figaro, and attributed to M. du Sommerard. Asa Frenchman, until I sball have received proof to the contrary, it does pot appear to me possible that this letter could ve authentic, It might be reasonablo to suppose that an opponent could conceive the idea of such a letter, especially after the cordial demonstrations, both at New York at the inauguration of the Lafayette statue, and at Philadelphia at the Bartholdi banquet. But I do bope that it will not be contirmed that Frenchman, and, above all, the Commission Republic at the Philadeiphia Exhibdi g beom prosent, should have allowed Lo bim- self to make so grave an imputation against the American Commission. If such, however, uid be the case, I am convinced from all that I bave seen during my six months’ residence in the United States that the American people would not be justified in holding the French nation responsible for an act already universally condemned by publ:c opinion.” THE FRENCH COMMISFIONER’S COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE MANAGEMENT OF THE EXHIBI- TION, Puitapsirata, Oct. 30, 1876, While Captain Anfrye, the French Centeanial Com- missioner tn charge at the Exhibition, in the interview with the Hzmasp correspondent in yesterday’s paper, desired to disavow all belief in the outrageous and in- sulting letter attributed to the Chief Commissioner, M Du Sommorard, he yet mentioned many serious breaches of etiquette and acts of annoyance at the hands of some of the subordinates of the American Comaiis- sion, which he had reported to his chief, and which might have been the basis fora sharp letter of com- plaint, These complaints were alluded to in the Cap- tain’s statement in Sanday’s Herawp, but I have since got them more in detail, and the following, from Cap- tain Anirye, will show that he had many just grounds of dissatisfaction :— THE CRUTEENIAL GUARD, “I have this complaint to mako to the Commission- ers:—Myselt and my exhibitors have many times been insultea by members of the Centennial Guard, and I have never been able to get any redress. I have never said that they were all thieves, but I have said that many were. On the day of the fire outside the build- ng it was necessary that I should go out to see what danger there was, because if the wind had changed the Main Building would nave been sure to go. A sergeant of the guard refused me permission to leave, in the most insult- ing manner, and finally, when tho fire was over, said, ‘Now, you French Commissioner, get out.’ A fre in or near these groands is something in which every ex- hibitor is immediately interested, use nO one knows where it will stop among so many frame build- togs. The salvation of ali our goods might have de- pended on my getting oul to take precautions. 1 com- plained about the insolence of this guard and was kept waiting from day to day for a week, when I went to see Captain Hoyt I was fiaally told by an attaché of General Goshorn’s office that tho man-had been dis- charged. This was A DELIBERATE LIE PROM THR AMERICAN COMMISSION, for the man is still a sergeant in Company B, and you ed him as you approached the foot of these stairs. Un the night Lauber’s restaurant was burned my foreman tried to get in to bo prepared to save our Property. Ho & pass, but wi refused, while mombers of the Centennial Guard, iustead of putting the fire out, sacked the cellars and drank the wine, orgies that took place there that night show of wh rial this Centenalal Guard is composed of, as docs also the fact that a com- pany was recently disbanded for mutiny. 1 have sel- dom got redress upon complaining of incivility from the guards. ‘THAT MANY OF THEM ARE Taives ig alsoafact. At half-past tour o’clock on the morning ot ten ber of September a private watchman in the Frei saw a Centennial Guard case of jut down, xhibitor came and reported that his case had been opened and several articios taken the man told what he had seen. The guard was tried before a jury in one of your courts and acquitted, because he swore toa deliberate Ite, in insisting that he was noton bia post that night This man was immediately roinstated at the samo post, and began biustering and bally- ing threatening the man whose goods he had stolen with arrest, and so on. He made such an excitement among the exhibitors that, at their request, I visited Director General Goshorn and showed him that, even sf the man had pot stolen the goods, he had sworn to a breach of discipline, justifying a discharge. I was told that that was the ‘American Commission’s affair. Finally, upon my in- sisting that at least the man should be removed to another place he was transterred. ‘These things I reported to my chief and telegrapted next day after the fire, for a detachment of Paris lice officers to protect our goods, reporting that if a rgo fire was to break out I was periectly convinced that there would be A GENERAL PLUNDER, and thatthe members of the Centennial Guard would be among the plunderors, Theso trusty men, to the number of ten from the Paris municipal police, have now arrived. To what I have said in my official despatches I still adhero, and that is, that in case of fire no dependen: could be placed on the Centennial guards, but that a conflagration would be the kot for a frightful plun- der, and I considered that without a special force of police the French exhibitors were constantly in danger. M. Du Sommerara has always considered that we could rely upon the Centennial guard, but I pomted out to him that other foreign countries had their special officers, England having twenty-five, Spain twent; and Belgium twelve. I never said that there was collusion ve- tween the ji would be ab- surd. Neither did lever assert that the Americans themselves set fire to the building with the packing cases in with the hope of burning the French exbibite The shed where the cases are stored is outside the ground, a quarter of a mile trom any of our gooda =I did report to M. Sommerard, however, on the authority of Genera! Goshorn, that the fire was incendiary, and was started in both ends of the bulldmg atonce, and aiso that $6,000 worth of flue art cases alone, belonging to France, bad been destroyed, and that the contractor im charge of these cases, Mr. Baird, Teiused to pay us one cent for the loss, I wrote to my government asking if I should press this de- mand, but was told to keep quiet, and that the French government would have new cases made at its own ex- pense, This bas been dove, and the now cases sailed from Havre on Saturday, f. Baird had $15,000 insar- ance on bis empty boxes—much tore than their valuc. The fire was mecndiary. Another source of if lou: trouble to us has been® the Custom officials. 1 wisn to ~—s compa to American government of a man known as Deputy Collector Jacobs; his men have been insolent to my exhibitors to the last degree. and have pushed around heir cases, turned everything in confusion, threatened ym with arrest, and treated them as if they were smuggiers. Jacobs and many others have never remembered ti ag the guests of the tation, not as adventurers MR. JACOBS’ TEMPER, The maker of the finest enainel work in France the received some on which this am charged thirty-five, forty and forty-five rer cent duty on the same kind of is T. Please, teil mo which fo that may know how to 0 only answer he could ever get was, “Mr, Jacobs don’t like to be contradicted.’? 1 have en obliged to write to the Secretary of the Treasury about this Jacobs, These petty oflicers pave iright- ened my exhibitors with threats of arrest, for ap arrest is a very serious matior in France; it 1s not here, but it is there; and to threateu a Frenchman with arrest will frighten him, POINTING A PISTOL. Poor Mr. Vordier, the proprietor of the Trois-Fréres Provengaux, was driven into a court at the pointoi @ pistol, at the hands of an til-bred court officiai, be- causo Mr. Verdier dia not understand English, and di@ not know that he had been sued by a contractor, in French exhibitor bere who will be ever likely to come by expressing his gratifica- rench have rece! at ike jon, It in bands of the American people and the Commi: is only the subordinates who have forgotsen the couriesy due to the guests of the nation. AMUSEMENTS. BOOTH’S THEATRE. Last night Signor Masengno introduced some new features into the grand Italian ballet, of which Byron’s celebrated play, “Sardanapalus,” forms a part, at Booth’s. The very full audience was good natured and appreciative, and rewarded the fair dancers with un- stinted applause. The opening march was very effec, tively performed by the supes who compose the cook’s guard and attendants of the Assyrian monarch, aad, from the little imps carrying bottles to the stalwart soldiers with battle axes, to say nothiug of the scant skirted Amazons, each one strove to keep the step with | commendable exactness. But the regular ballet woich followed the evolutions of the kitchen guard was the great feature of the evening. Signor Mascagno, it appears, has all bi exbausted h inven: tive genius on witnessing readily believe the st The bailet opens with den cloud of m s covers the stage with the rapidity of acycione. From the midst of this vapor- ous-looking screen, which, by the way, completely ob- hotm, Senta; Miss Cooney, Maria; Signor Bacesi, Erik; Herr Blum, Dutchman. MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER. HIS BEADING OF HIS OWN WORKS AT CHICKER- ING HALL—A KIND RECEPTION BUT 4 POOB SUCCESS. Seven hundred people ins house are a box office fall of money. For at seventy-five cents a head it would be $525. One audience in s bush {ts better than two rolling birds gathering moss. Justas a cere needle in the hand ts better than a mote in the eye. But un intermission ts an opportunity that ts not often neglected. When Mr. Martin Farquhar Tupper appeared on the platform of Chickering Hall last night the audience beheld a dapper, neat, little old gentleman in black, with spectacles, white hair, white whiskers and a sprightly manner. He mounted the reading desk with the rapidity of canary, and, with very little preface, began the reading of his compositions. The curiosity to see Mr. Tupper Was great, and soon gratified Ho isthe image of his own poetry, and “Proverbial Philosopny’ is persont> fied in bis mild apd moral appearance. To quote from “Weicome,” one of the pieces he read !ast night, The fae that is honest is known at a glance, And nee! uot be studied tor years scures the King and bis courtiers, thoumerable lega flash about like forked lightning during a storm. Pale fires and ruddy giares cast their changing lights on the scene, commingling their rainbow hues in such a man- ner that a coryphee can be seen at one moment with poa green legs or violot body and a blood red face and neck. But the pas de siz and the pas de Auit burst on the astopished gaze of the audience with a suddenness apa effect that are really startling, During these pas- s and in the pas de deus by Mascagno and Pretty Bartoletti—now words will rhyme— maitre de ballet kes several almost successiul attempts io stand the premicre danseuse assoluta ou her heat This gympastic ieat So it is with l.e own fnce. To see Mr, Tupper ts to un- derstand at once the mystery of his pcetry. Goodness beamed from every feature, a8 morality shines in every verse, and be was truly the ‘guide philosopher and friend’ of those who bave learned to despise the immorality of Byron, the wildness of Edgar Poe and who rejoice in am expurgated edition of Shakespeara Thore is nothing of this kind in Mr. Tupper’s song; it is poured outlike the stream from a hydrant, and, as never tailed io olicit the loudest applause. the style ncing adds very much to the general effect. Now one of the premieres bounds on the stage with the in- effable grace of a Nebraska grasshopper, pauses in her career just long enough to Indicate with her left toe the position of t rand gaselier over the auditorium and then traverses the stage as if stepping over invis- wble cotton bales until she reaches the footlights, The&smilingly she retreats on tip-toc to the back of the stage, where she waves a farewell to the audience with her right foot raised to the level of her eye. The flower dance is exceedingly graceful in ite composition and performance, but is too leggy altogether. Poor Sardanupalus looked awfully bored while the intermin- able cavorting and what the general of the army calls scooting around was in progress, But what does Byron ‘amount to alongside of Mascagno? What is the drama to the ballet? KELLOGG ENGLISH OPERA, The two weeks’ season of the Kellogg Eng- leh Opera Company, which has just closed in Philadel. phia wasaremarkable one. The receipts for eight performances reached the high figure of $22,300, of which the ‘Bohemian Girl’ may be credited with $3,500 and the “North Star” with $3,000. The com- pany played last night im Albany, and their route for the coming weeks is as follows:—Syracuse, November 1; Rochester, November 3; Suffalo, November 4; Cieveland, November 6, five nights; Detroit, November 13, five nights; Chicago, November 20, two weeks, The company will appear in New York late in the sea- son. DR, LINDE’S SHAKESPERIAN READINGS, At Steinway Hall yesterday evening Dr. Herrmann Linde recited ‘“‘Macbeth,’? in Schlegel and Tiock’s translation, tos large and select audience, composed mainlyof Germans. His recitation was well received, ag the frequent applause testified. His manner of read- ing the drama fully harmonizes with ite spirit. He characterized the dramatis persone: with great skill, and ‘was successful in bringing a full, living picture to the mind of the listener, On Friday aext Dr. Linde will read ‘Coriolanua.” “ADAM AND EVE” AT THE PARE. The one-act comedy announecd to precede “Tom Cobb” atthe Park Theatroand which was produced last night, turned out to be a-farce elight in fabric and almost coloriess, Imaginea scene in tho lobby of a theatre, where awife discovers her husband in the company of alady who io the wife of her escort—in other wordstwo husbands and two wives changing places and meeting by accident, with the constorna- Vion of such meeting rather weakly portrayod and wo Dave a pretty complete picture of ‘Adam and Eve,” as twas done on its first roprosentation. It is a kind- eas to th: ‘tists not to speak of their acting in dotail, for bavi thing to portray they portrayed notuing. OLYMPIC THEATER. The performance was entirely changed at this house last night from that of last week, A full variety Dill, with the domestic drama of *‘Rosina; or, the Tempta- tions of City Life,’’ to conclude in tho place of the drama of, (Lattle Nell’? Tho variety perform. ance opened with “The Skeleton Witness,”? a very amusing littic teh in which Pete Lee ap} ud 5 Sam Pevere entertained the audience with his sonys, banjo solos and sayings; Schoolcrait and Coes brought forth hearty laugbter im their Ethio) interlude of “Mrs. Didimus’ Party,” and Professor Parker's tran dogs performed some astounding feats. There many other attractive features in the night's bill, all of which seemed to be relished by the audience, TONY PAsTOR’s. Thore was a crowded house here last evening to wit- ness the performance, which was an exceedingly good one. Tony Pastor, as usual, met with a genuine wel- come, and hearty encores caused him to return and repeat his songs. Jobn Hart, in his tunny sketch of “Wanted, a Nurse,” provoked s good deal of laughter; Miss Jennie Morgan —— sweetly one of her tavor- ite Seotch ballads, and Harry and John Kernell, in their North of Ireland dialect conversations, good as they are, ought to freshen up their jokes and sayings. On the programme iast evening were Mr. Harry Wat. son and Charles T. Eilts, who appeared for the first time here in a Dutch act. They are good performers, and they met with a well deserved welcome. The afterpiece of *‘A Weil Abased Dutchman’’ concluded the evening's entertainment. WOOD’s MUSEUM. “Escaped {rom Sing Sing” was the attraction at this house last night, As it was the occasion of a com- plimentary benefit to Mr. Barnes, the stage manager, the drama ot “Tho Adopted Child” was given in ada tion. Both pieces were well played by the stock com- pany, aided by Mr. C. A. Barry and J. B. Studley in the | Ing chars rs of the play. T! ramatic situ- ations of both dramas were loudly applauded. BROOKLYN THEATRE—‘“‘SANE EYRE.” Charlotte Bronté’s novel is ono of the most fascinat- ing of its class of the late school of fiction. Mme Birch Pieiffer, aGerman writer, adapted 1 for tho stage, and Miss Charlotte Thompson appeared last night in “Jano Eyre,” @ translation and adaptation from the German. It 1s a singular feature in the drama of to-day that an English novel should come to the Amorican stage through the medium of a German translation, Miss Thompson’s characteri- zation of the noblest of the heraines of the Bronté sisters’ works 1s 80 well known, especially in connection with her last season at the Union Square Theatre, New York, that it is only necessary nere to say that last evening the impersonation was as marked, ‘as impressive and as grand as ever. Mr. W. E. Sheri- dan ably supported her in the difficult and ungrateful character of Lord Roche Miss Maude Harrison brought to the part ady Georgina Ingram all the piqaant beauty, pértness of manner, combined with an air of aristocratic hauteu the character calls for. Mra. Farren w: adequate representative of thi Sarah Reed, and Mr. BE. Lamb was an impossible toot- man, who was inordinately inclined toward buriesque. The reat of the cast was respectably filled d there was lit oy jt with on the 1 gontiomen intrusted with the minor charac- 186 Thompson has a benefit on Friday night that MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Mme. Essipof, the Russian pianist, sailed trom Havre on the steamship Labrador on October 21, and is expected to arrive at this port on Wednesday nex Mme. Essipoff will stop at the Clarendon Hotel. Mile, Henriette Corradi, a highly accomplished artist, has been engaged for the oratorio of “Elijah,” which will be shortly given at Steinway Hall jer the direction of Dr, Damroseh. “ Max Strakosch gives a fortnight’s season of Italian opera at McVicker’s heatre, Chicago, the first per- formanco of whieh took place last night The com- pany comprises the following artists:—Mme, Palmieri, Mme. Brignoll, Mme, Frida de Gebelo, Mile. Persiania, Signor Brignoli, Messrs. Palmieri, Hall and Barili. Theodore Thomas commences the iast series of Cen- tennial musical festival concerts to-night at the Phila- delphia Academy of Music. His own orchestra will bo assisted by a chorus of 400 voices and soloists, among whom are Mra. H. M. Smith, Miss Emma C, Taursby, Mr. Myron W. Whitney and the Swedish ladies’ quartet, ‘Messrs. Shook & Palmer have sent usan cmphatic donial of the report that Miss Kate Claxton will with- draw trom the Two Orpnans’ the Union Square Theatre, or that she has severed her connection with that establishment On the contrary, these changes, they say, Were not made nor were they even thought of. “The Flying Datenman,”’ by Wagner, will be given for ® business dispute aboat the price of his build- pS But tor the kindness of +Mr. Childs, who went his bail, Mr. Vordier would be now i Prison. Altogether it is safe to say that there is not the first ti jn America at the Pniladetphia Academy of Music on November 6 under the direction of Mr. Carlberg, tho cast being the foliowing:—Mme, Pappen,, | ‘was illustrated last night, that pure stroam might say thas Men may come and men may go, But | go om \orever. Mr. Tupper read fifteen selections from bis own works last evening, with the following titles:—"Wel" come,” “Railway Times,’ “Love,” “Cecil's Choice,” “‘Marrioge,”” “Adventure,” ‘‘Washington,” ‘Home,’ “The Early Gallop,’ ‘Beauty,’ “The Atlantic Teley graph,” “The First Exhibition, 1851," The Starry Heavens,” “To the Union” and ‘Never Gi All were read in the same style and with no eflect, except in one instance. Poe once temporary poet, “Mr. Channing calls thi we should ‘very much like to sing it" Mr. Tupper entities ‘Washngton” a drama ana we should like to see bim act it AN of his charecters spoke tn similar tones, and Benjamin Fradklin is mado to ascribe the origin of tho American flag to Washington's coat of arms, a discovery which Mr, Tupper himself made when be saw the arms on the fireplace at Mount Ver- non a quarter of acentury ago. ‘Love’ was a selection from “Proverbial Philosophy,” which Mr. Tupper wrote five-and-forty years ago, and which be said, wittily, be might read with safety now. It told what love is, what love is not and what love should be, in a learned man- | ner and with great gravity. The young ladies hung upon his reverend lips like bees on flowore, and doubt- less derived important information on that delicate subject, But when the bard spoke of *Marriage,’” he caused great alarm by his tremendous description of its responsibilities, and so almost completely de- stroyed the eflect of his beautiful picture of love, Lovers who had leaned to each other, as rose to rose upon a parent stem, while “Love” was roa drew asunder like ‘riven rocks when the awtul duties of ‘‘Marriage” were revealed. No longer did ‘the eye of sincerity sparkle like ”? for the | frown o1 picion quenched the s js of the forehead. ‘‘Adventure”’ dispelled this gloom.’ This poem !s adescription of the poet's own passionate song and hear him osophy” and London, the poet wishes come the “hermit hunter of therefore, mounted on a nodle ont the flerce bison on his With breathless attention the audience Tupper’s accounts of bis. various fights with leo buffaloes and other beasts, but when with great matic force he exclaimed, “Hist! O his pointed out a grizzly bear in the Chickering organ, the excitement became extreme. Grasping in one band his knife and inthe other his rifle the grizzly phil opher grappled the grizzly bear, The struggle wai not hers but fierce; soon the hermit hunter plunged his knife into the iron heart of the bear, and the bear, who could bear no more, went to that bourne from whieh no bore comes back. This was of all the readings the most impressive, we congratulate Mr. Tupper on his escape. So intense was the impression that during the intermission many of the peopie present went home with the expreas purpose of read- ing the poem again. Asa poet Mr. Tupper may be a great Scot butasa reader he 18 not. is style is monotonous, his encn- ciation not always clear, and his poems are too good tu be dramatic. If he could introduce a little spice of immorality into his readings they would be more pop- ular, but this he will not do, © never will write a word that would bring a tear to the eye of sensibility or a blush to the cheek of innocence. He was kindly received last evening, bat numbers of the audience leit the hall berore the end of the entertainment, ~~ OBITUARY. to be- the wild, and toed, seeks CAPTAIN JUSTE MARIUS SURMONT, On the 18th tnst, all the steamers of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique and all tho other vessels in the port of Havre, France, displayed their flags at half-mast as a tribute of respect to the memory of the veteran Capta'n Juste Marius Surmont, tor many years commander of the stdamships Washington, Ville de Paris and Ville du Havre, of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, plying between Havre and this port. His death, which occurred on the previous day, was of a somewhat that while loox- ing out of one of tl house, on the Place du Commerce, tacked with an apopleptio fit across the room, but heavily to the floor, shortly afte red. The deceased, who came ot a sailor’s family, was bor Honfleur io 1822, and wont to sea as a cabin boy when he was fifteen years old, and gradually worked his way up in his profession till he commanded the smail sailing crait the Beaujou, then the Constantin, and later a large vessel hail- ing from Bordeaux, In 1867 he took com- mand of the Transatlantic steamship Washing- ton, then of the Ville de Paris, and lastly the ill-fated Ville du Havre, which was run into by tho British ship Locn-Earn, on the 23d of November, 1873, when over 200 human beings were lost. Tho Frerch Admiralty subsequently investigated the matter and found, on the 4th of January, 1874, a8 follows:—‘The conduct of Capta'n Surmont and crew was irreproach- able, The collision was wholly due to the Loch-Esrn.’ The catastrophe, nowever, mado a terrible im- pression upon Surmont, and he became a changed man. . He made a few trips out to this port and then went on the reserve list at home. In the year 1866, on account of having saved several ship- wrocked crews under most disadvantageous circum. stances, he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.’ By the residents of Havre and its sailors Surmont was greatly beloved as an honest and good man, and in this city he leaves numerous friends to mourn bis loss. WILLIAM P, IRVING. * William P. Irving, grain merchant and President of he East Albany Banking, Loan and Trust Company, died at his residence yesterday of fever contracted while on a visit to Jen: Exposition. MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. War Drrartusyt, Orvice ov THE Carer SicxaL Orricen, Wasninetos, Oct 31—1 A, M. For the South Atlantic States, higher barometer, easterly to southerly winds, stationary or rising tem- perature and clear or partly cloudy weather. . bP bor Tennessee and tue Obio Valley, rising barome- tor, warm southerly winds, veering to cooler westerly, and gonerally clear weather, For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missourt val- loys, rising barometer, winds mosily from north to west, colder and genoraily clear weather, succeeding occasional rains im tho former. For the upper lake region, rising barometer, warm southerly winds, shitting to colder southwest and northwest, and occasional light rains, succeeded by partly cloudy weather, longing for a savage lite. Weary of ‘Proverbial Phil- | 4. For the lower lake region, falling and stationary followed by rising barometer, soatherly winds voering to westerly, higher temperature than on Monday, and clear or partly cloudy weath For the Middie States, falling barometer, winds veering to southerly and westerly, rising temperature and gen Lang 4 ciear woather. For New Engiand, rising followed by falling ba , Winds shifting to southwesterly aud southerly, temperature and clear or partly cloudy weather, Obio River and the Mississippi at Cairo will con- tinue to rise slowly. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes In the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com. parison with the corresponding date of Inst year, as in- dicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, HepaLp a — 1874, 1875, 1876. 37 3:30 PL + 6 63 oT 6 P.M. “0 419 P.M. “a 49 12 P.M. 47 Average temperature yesterday... oo bt Average tempe! ire for corresponding date last STEAMER ARRIVAL, The steamer Greece (Uapiain Andrews), of the National line, from arrived as this ae ne, London, port early | HOTEL ARRIVALS. Congressman Elias W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse, it at tne St Nicholas Hotel. Commodore & K. Hughes, United States Navy, is at the Astor House, Congress man Josiah G. Abbott and Leopold Morse, of Boston, Commander R. L. Phythian, United States Navy; ex- Governor Alexander R. 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