The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1877, Page 8

» is , — , “gd fall of the Cumberland River of six t "sight inebes within the last twenty-four hours is ~ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. "JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. 0 that: Pelee ex atches must yeddromsed New Ye bapa Ley ‘not gored " uid be property seated. lone wilt ‘not be retarned. ——2—_———- TA OF FICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH OFFICE OF THE KEW YORK HERALD— 30 PERE SrREET. se SEE DE Oreste, aed bide E—NO. 7 STRADA PACE, ‘and advertixements will be received and may: Fee sume terms as in New York. aa VOLUME XIN "AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. UNION SQUARE THEATRE.—Miss Muttor, NIBLO’S GARDEN.—Anor NO, 28 BOWERY THEATRE.—inx Two Onrnass. SERMANIA THEATRE,—Cextewmarscuoanes. ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Stan or tmx Nonrs. PARK THEATRE.—Ovzx Bo. WALLACK'S THEATRE.—A11 ron Hun. BROADWAY THEATRE.—Unxcir Tow’s Casts, STEINWAY HALL.—Gaan: HELLER'S THEATRE.—Px EGYPTIAN HALL. —Sxxsai GILMOKE’S GARDEN.—Grann Equesraian Festivat. PARISIAN VARIETIES. THEATRE OUMIQUE.—Vanixry. NEW YORK AQUARIUM paw ll teat : NOTICE 10 COUNTRY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company run a special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, jeaving Jerscy City at a quarter past four (&. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition ofthe Heraup as far West as Harrisburg and South to Wasbington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past #ix A. M. and Washington at one P. M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York today will be colder and clear or partly cloudy, followed, per- haps, by rising temperature and light rain. Wau Srrert Yesterpay.—Gold opened and closed at 1061g, with sales meanwhile at 10614. Money on call was supplied at 3, 4 and 5 per cent. Stocks were active and lower, a sharp bear movement having prevailed. The transac- tions aggregated 209,000 shares. Government and railway bonds were generally firm. The bank statement shows an increase in the surplus reservo of about $51 000, Let Us Have Wana Peer in the horse cars, , ae well asin the steam cars, steamboats, thea- ‘tres and hotels. We Posie To-Day a strange inatory of family complications under oy caption, “Ro- amance of Compo.” Sreampoars on the river, even when crowded, are heated by steam in the winter time without danger to the health of the travelling public. Why not the street cars? Sr. Tony's ¢ Guip makes a detailed statement of provisions purchased and distributed within a fortnight, the average cost reaching very near | the estimates of probable requirements—to wit, @ thousand dollars per day. PROFESEORS ‘O'GUNTSTER A asp Von REILLY should be constituted the new Board of Health, assisted by the horse car presidents, now that the Legislature is about to abolish Chandler & means busi- ness. His “Cireular No. 1,” which we reprint, will make all responsible officers hasten to follow the example of ex-Comptroller Green, by refus- ing payments not fully provided for by appro- Tar Country Writ Breatae more freely after learning trom the Herarp of to-day that the mysterious “Skull and Bones” Society rooms at New Haven are as-destitute of anything un- pleasant as many a savage theologian is of personal malice. Tue Avvent of General Woodford as United States Distriet Attorney is frightening the crooked whiskey people into confession. Such penitence is as worthless as last week's news- papers. Heap on the fines, and in the prisons let there be room enough for all. ‘Tue Spreracce of a Board of Assessors going to Ludlow Street Jail would be a depressing one to patriots with political aspirations ; but such a sensation is to be provided within thirty days unless the members of a certain board fulfil their duty toward an aggrieved citizen. See court reports. New York Martarssin more than one way the proud title of ‘the Empire State.” During 1876 she lost by fire more property than all three of the States that rank next to her in wealth and population. And yet insurance com- panies sre unpstriotic enough to wish that we might waive the honor. Avrnover “Fase Wericuts axp MEAsuREs are an abomination unto the Lord” they are ex- tremely popular with certain New York dealers, It is, therefore, gratifying to learn that the Su- preme Court has at last decided who are the legally appointed inspectors of weights and measures, ‘Tar Latest Evwence in the case of alleged Plackmailing of contractors who did work upon the Third District Court Honse tends to relieve the architects of any complicity in the exactions really made, and the public will be glad of such | further evidence as may make this exculpation falland absolute. ‘Tar Wratnen.—The depression which moved over the lake region on Friday passed off the coast of Nova Scotia yesterday, causing light ‘snow in the Northeastern districts and cloudiness over the eastern lake region und the northern part of the New England States. The highest pressure is in the Lower Mississippi Valley, ‘where clear and partly clondy weather prevails. A depression is moving sontheastward over Dakota, with partial cloudiness in that region. With the above exceptions clear weather prevails westward of the Alleghanies. The has risen so decidedly in the Mis- / eiasippi Valley and Western country that we for # break up of the ice and in the Missouri aud the rivers, Such an — occurrence be attended with danger, becunse , Mississippi is steadily rising. The however, continues falling very rapid recorded at Nashville, Tenn, The weather in New’ York {oday will be colder and clear or dondy, followed, perhaps, by a rise of and light rain, The Position of Mexico. One gentleman, who is nominally Presi- dent of Mexico, is a fugitive, perhaps at Panama; another, who regards himself as the constitutionally designated occupant of that office, is at San Francisco; and ‘the lucky soldier,” the character of the drama who comes up in all conceivable national complications, and has done so from time immemorial, makes himself at home in the Mexican capital, wields an absolute author- ity with humane moderation, and pays to the forms of constitutional government the compliment of desiring that they should seem to béstow upon him that right to rule his country which he has wrested by the sword from all opposing forces. Mr. Iglesias’ position from his own point of view and as stated briefly by himself is given in our columns to-day, and it indi- cates necessarily his view of the positions respectively of his opponent, who has at least a presentable appearance of right, as well as of him who has the artillery. It this were a case in which it was of much practi- cal consequence who was right it might be important to say that the title to the Mexi- can Presidency is constitutionally in the Chief Justice, who is now safe in San Francisco, but does not seem wise enough to stay there ; though this leaves out of view all the extra constitutional occasions which arise in disordered States, Constitutions, like compasses, are good to steer by on smooth seas or stormy ones; but the case sometimes arises when the fidelity of the needle to the pole is varied by the effect of some nearer magnetic influence, and when obedience to the needle wrecks the ship; and adherence to the letter of the law is sometimes equally disastrous. Our own history is in evidence on this point. If con- stitutions are of more consequence than the nations for whose advantage they are made they are to be the unchanging rule of action in every crisis, not other- wise; and for this reason Lerdo or Diaz, if they cared to do s0, might give reasons for their political acts as cogent at least as the constitutional reason given for his by Iglesias. Every one will notice that the current events of Mexican history give us the same old story with new names. It is not a story peculiar to that country. It is the oldest story in political history. Some writers in Europe who fancy they are satirists are wont to picture this Mexican drama as the last stage of republican politics, but it is equally the last stage of all other politics-—royal, im- perial or even pontifical. Whether the drama of a nation’s progress be ‘tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, histori- cal-pastoral, scene .individable or poem unlimited,” this situation occurs again and again in the course of the play. He that is in authority, by no matter what title or name, finds his authority disputed. Ina monarchy it is declared that he is not the true heir; in a hierarchical State that some defiling fact in his career invalidates his election; in arepublic that the votes have been falsely counted. In all, therefore, that the constitution has been violated. On this hint discontent deems itself ab- solved from obedience. All the elements of opposition unite on a defeated candidate, another heir or a constitutional successor, and civil war follows. Victory declares for one side or the other, and the leaders of the beaten party are killed or save themselves by flight. Thereupon the triumphant candi- date comes forward to seize the crown or the curule chair, and is just in time to see his ardently desired treasure appropriated by the general who had commanded the armies. Greece, Rome, Egypt, Assyria, India, Russia, Italy, France, have been filled with this; and Mexico herself, that now again witnesses the same old piece, saw it a thousand times before Cortez came, in the fierce wars of 1ival races, the Toltecs, | Chichimecs, Tepemecs, Aztecs and Acol- huis. There are, however, variations due to race, climate and other attendant circum- stances, and there is a large number of characteristic facts in operation in the neighboring Republic. There is a Roman | Catholic Church that was at one time in full accord with the ‘‘principles of eighty-nine,” as these were applied in Mexico; and that was a very peculiar institution, whose ac- tivity accounts for a great part of recent Mexican history. Another fact not without precedent, but always remarkable in the history of a nation, is that the vast mass of the population is undisturbed, in- different, in the presence of ever-recur- ring revolutions; continues its small indus. tries with sturdy patience, almost unaware that part of the population is constantly making new governments, new constitu- tions, new wars and new peaces, stirred | only from time to time when the new tax- ations come too close together. There are | less than two million people of the Spanish race and upward of seven millions of the | descendants of the people ‘the Spaniards fonnd in the country. And these hardy, capable, vigorous, but over patient seven millions labor on stolidly and permit a hand- fulof bombastic, vain, pugnacious Spaniards living on them like parasites, to tear the | country to pieces in their battles with one another. But perhaps the most notable characteristic of politics in Mexico is the | extremity to which the people indulge themselves in what our British forefathers called “the right of resistance.” Every | other man feels ready at any moment to resist on his own account, and without any | great hesitation will issue a pronuncia- mento, appoint a ministry and call out | troops. The troops do not always come; but they do come in so many cases that the difficulty is not simply one of divided authority, but of authority in- finitely divided. In the present crisis the division is marvellously simple; but this is @ great exception, and probably will not | continue. Diaz dominancy will give place to-disputes, and a half dozen ora dozen of those who have now saved their lives by silence will presently pronounce in as many | States. In the United States there havo been twenty-five Presidential successions in eighty-nine years, the only extraordinary changes being in consequence of the death of the occupant, of which, however, one was due to assassination. In Mexico | there have been forty-eight Presidential suc- | again cessions in filty years, making the averago of a Presidential term but a few days over a year, From the time of the conquest. Mexico was governed with savage oppression by Spain; and though the Mexican nobles were treated with some consideration tho people were dealt with like cattle. No con- querors ever cut so deeply the gulf between themselves and the conquered’ people ; and this policy was not even excusable on the plea that it was necessary to insure the safety of the conquest. Great as was this blunder the Spanish government possessed the capacity to make one still greater— which was the assimilation of men of Spanish race born in Mexico to the legal condition of the Mexicans proper. This led to a deep and fierce antipathy between Spaniards born in the country and those from Spain, and in this arose the primary discontent with the provincial condition. That fire might have smouldered for centuries but for a favor- able occasion. Ourown war of indepen- dence naturally affected a people subject like usto an oppressive government be- yond the Atlantic. But the occurrence of the French Revolution and its wars, and the great discussion on the relations of peoples to rulers, with which the world was filled at that time, raised ; the temper of this excitable people to fever heat, and when Napoleon upset the Spanish throne the Mexicans seized the occasion to make themselves free. ‘They were put down again, butcouldnot be keptdown. Although between the first revolt and the conquest of their freedom there passed sixteen years of alternate peace and war they were so little agreed on primary political ideasthat in the first two years of their independence they alternated from an emperor to a president. And that has been the trouble ever since, and incapacity to agree among themselves as to primary ideas and an alternation from extremely conservative to extremely liberal notions, which produces discord and war whenever personal ambitions foment the dis- content which one extreme feels over the temporary triumph of the other. Probably the solution of all the troubles of the neighboring Republic lies in the de- velopment of the Mexican people proper— the eventual overwhelming of the Spanish by the Aztec element. Upon the accession of the Indian Juarez to the Presidency there seemed some promise of the initiation ofa policy in that direction, but it came to noth- ing, and it is scarcely probable that Diaz will try it; yet if he is ambitious to found a dynasty it is his only hope. Our London and Paris Cable Letters, We suppose the truth about the impend- ing retirement of Prince Gortschakoff will be found somewhere between the dif- fering but not wholly irreconcilable accounts furnished by our London and Paris correspondents in the admirable letters which we publish this morning. The London man says it is because the aged Chancellor is so sick that he cannot hold on any longer to the post he has clutched for the past twenty years, while the Paris man says it is because the old man is angry that the Czar will not march on Tur- key at the double quick. One may be wrong, but by adopting the plan which Mr. | Potts unfolded to Mr. Pickwick, both may be right. It will be recollected that the Potts plan for arriving at a full com- prehension of Chinese metaphysics was for one of his young men to read all in the Encyclopedia under the letter. C, while the other read all under ‘the letter M, and then “to combine their information.” This process will give us an imperial old Chancellor, who is both sick and belligerent. Q. E. &. Like Gortschakoff’s, ‘only more so,” are the rumors that have agitated the Catholic world about the health of Pope Pius, whom every correspondent in the world has brought to death’s door a dozen times. In his case the Heraup correspondent at Rome came to the rescue of the Hzratp correspondent at Paris, and as a result we have a cough-cured and strain-free Holy Father looking benignly out of our columns this morning. They combined their infor- mation. While Gladstone is uttering thunders against the Turk, and the Times is grumbling over the growth of American trade after a dinner on American beef, the London critics are throwing themselves at the feet of English actresses—and admiring them. The French critics are examining M. Sar- dou’s “Dora” and finding her like Dumas’ “Foreign Woman” in certain particulars. Queen Victoria has been reminded of the march of years by the coming of nge of her grandson, a future Kaiser of Germany if present arrangements hold ; but it will make a good many ancient dames feel young to think that Mme _ Alboni, who sung when they were little girls, was not too old to marry last week. With art, music, Arctic lime juice, mild weather and epizootic the letters bring us many items that will delight our readers, Post t Office Temptations, If Mr. Abram 8. Hewitt had been a politi- cal friend of the New York Postmaster there might be a suspicion that the indis- creet charge he brought against the New York Post Office had been artfully designed to draw out the story of its admirable man- agement. The committee charged with the investigation of the letter opening canard | reported yesterday, and the report pays as high and probably as well merited a tribute to Mr. James’ efficiency as was ever awarded by Congress to any public officer. Some singular facts in relation to the carelessness of individuals in sending valuable pack- ages through the mails came out in the course 6f the inquiry. Letters containing large amounts of money are often prepared for transtaission more carelessly than ordi- nary letters, and it is remarkable that bankers are frequently the most remiss. Two packages of bank bills containing over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars sent from a California to a New York bank were reccived in the New York office with the seals broken and the single thickness of brown paper in which they were enclosed so worn in the passage through the mails that the bills were exposed. ‘Lhis careless- noss is really reprehensible, since it holds out temptations and causes risks that should be avoided, | stead of hiding or hanging NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1877.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. ; OD dhs ie cee ance eat tien "See eis 2s AE se cae f SIA ENE Ne ARS ee bene EEE illustrate the good management of the Post | the South can afford no parallel. And then, | afiss Kellogg has organized isso good that Office generally, and to prove the public | as if to show that law in that region | it is to be regretted that. the operas are not advantage of keeping the New York office in its present hands. The City Debt. In his communication to the Legislature, on the proposition to restrict the city debt of New York to one hundred and fifty mill- ions, Comptroiler Kelly points out the evils of reckless legislation at Albany, by which the city authorities are not only authorized but often required to issue bonds for pur- poses not approved by the taxpayers, and thus to add to tho debt involuntarily. This naturally suggests the idea that all such laws, which do not leave the question as to whether the bonds shall or shall not be issued to the decision of the city authorities responsible to the people, should be repealed or so amended as to leave the issue depend- ént on the vote of: the Board of Apportion- ment and the approval of the Mayor and Comptroller. In striving to prevent the in- crease of the city debt we should be careful that we do not prohibit ourselves from making necessary and remunerative improvements. It would be very shortsighted policy to place a growing metropolis like New York in a atrait-waistcoat, which would cripple her movements and compel her to lie powerless on her back. At the same time it is desir- able that we should relieve property i in these depressed times from an excessive burden of taxation, and should guard strictly against any increase of the public debt through improvident or inexpedient ex- penditures. We can prevent the unnecessary increase of the debt without tying up our hands by placing the issue of new bonds wholly within the power“and at the responsibility of the proper city authorities, who are di- rectly answerable to the people. But in addition to this we need new legisla- tion in regard to local improvements. No new streets or avenues should be opened until asked for by a majority or two-thirds of the owners inter- ested, and then no portion of the expense should be assessed on the city, but the whole amount should be paid by the property directly benefited. There should be no possibility of vacating assessments made for improvements. This would remove one important cause of the increase of the city debt. There should also be a complete change in our assessment policy. If we are to continue the objectionable system of tax- ing personal property our city assessors should be careful to assess none of a doubt- ful character, We .have, unfortunately, been anxious to increase the personal assess- ment rolls, while real estate has been depre- ciating, for the purpose of keeping down the rate of taxation. The result has been an enormous tax deficiency year after year, which not only makes the unexpended amounts of appropriations mere paper balances, but leaves us short of the amount actually needed fos the year’s expenses. The amount of money estimated as to be received from the general fund and the amount raised by taxation in each year are made to balance the amount appropriated for the yeur for the expense of governing the city and for State taxes, in- terest on the debt and other annual ex- penditures, with the addition of a small percentage for errois. If at the end of the year we find it has not been necessary to spend as much as we appropriated at the beginning by the amount of one million dollars we ought to have that sum on hand. But if we have failed to collect two million dollars of the year’s taxes we have actually a cash deficit of one million. Without ref- erence to these particular figures such has really been the result for years. We have, through non-collection of taxes, had a deficiency against us cach year, and as this has not been met by direct taxation, but has been by some unknown process covered up and “bridged over,” it must be made in the end an addition to the debt. The evil has arisen mainly through assessment of personal property, and this should be stopped at once. The first step toward putting the city financially straight should be to ascertain just what our actual debt is. Revenue bonds and assessment bonds that will come back to us are not debt. But that portion of the assessment bonds that either by vacation proceedings or from any other cause will not come back to us is a part of the funded debt, and should be there placed. Any deficiency from uncollected taxes and un- paid claims for which no appropriation exists also belongs to and should be added to the funded debt. When the exact amount has been ascertained we believe that a proposition to issue long five per cent bonds for the whole debt would bring back to us by far the greater portion of our short six and seven per cent bonds for exchange, and so greatly decrease the annual amount of interest now paid by the city. The issue of long bonds would relieve the present taxpayers and givo the accumulating sink- ing fund a chance to pay. off the whole debt. Those Jersey Heathen Again. The latest developments regarding the brutal treatment of Mrs. Shepherd at Rock Mills, N. J., last week emphasize the Henraip's remarks upon the moral darkness of certain communities, Some of the scoun- drels who assisted in the outrage were on, their way to the house of the minister to take part in the pious pranks ofa donation party, and one of them testifies that a woman hired the party to do the deed, payment to be made in money and rum. Another participator characterized the out- rage as “fin” and invited his friends to take part in it, Obeying an instinct peculiar to Indians and other cowardly savages the ruffians painted their ‘faces so that they might be disguised. Most inen who give way to bestial impulses become the prey of remorse after their foul complished, but these fellows, — in- themselves, the most business-like man- and gave their fair called in ner for their pay, employer no peace until she had settled | with them. They burst into the Shepherd home atter the manner which has mgde the Southern rowdy abhorred of the whole world, and drove a sick, almost nude woman barefooted along an icy road—a deed. for The facts, however, serve to | which the wildest “outrage” reports from indiscriminating | deeds are ac- | is as worthless as humanity, a jus- tice admitted the villains to bail in the sum being demanded from one of the gang for the comparatively trifling offence of threatening a man with a gun! We repeat our assertion of last week, that if bullets and Bibles can reform the heathen, they should straightway be hurried into New Jersey. If this ontrage had occurred in the South half the politicians and philanthro- pists in the country would be almost frantic | over it. Reformation, like charity, should begin at home, and self-appointed custodi- ans of the public morality will find the Neshanic Mountains an equally appropriate and for more convenient field of labor than the Southern wilds toward which they have heretofore cast longing eyes. Bull-Dozing tho Aidermen. It will be remembered that when the Hxnawp exposed the Harlem fists nuisance and caused a salutary reform to be adopted there were found self-styled scientific ex- perts in abundance to testify that the exba- lations from the garbage dumped on the flats were not only innocuous, but with a little stretch of the imagination might be com- pared to the aroma of eau de Cologne, the ottar of roses or any other odoriferous per- fume. Eyen the profound Professor Dis- becker depicted the garbage heaps ond the reeking mounds of filth in such glowing colors as would make one almost think they were monuments of healthfulness and mod- els of sanitary excellence. The Board of Health, too, was a long time finding out the magnitude of the evil, and it was only when the police surgeons reported the mat- ter as an unmitigated nuisance that any corrective was applied. Then a simple, cheap, but we fear only a temporary remedy was adopted. The area was disinfected, and since then no offensive or unwholesome odors arising from the flats have been com- plained of. So now we have another display of deep hygienic knowledge in the action of the very disinterested opponents of the movement to render our street cars comfortable in cold weather, especially sq far as the feet of the passengers are concerned. It is unnecessary to tell even a child that cold feet are extremely unpleasant and unhealth- ful, and that when the weather is at freezing temperature two things are es- sential to produce warmth in the feet--viz., vigorous bodily exercise by walking or the application of artificial heat to the extremi- ties. When one is going to his businessin the morning or returning homeward at night he cannot afford to walk from the Battery to Harlem Bridge merely in order to keep his. feet warm. He must ride, and if he does so on a bitter, blustering day, cooped up in a crowded car, his feet will be cold, no matter how full the car may be. This difficulty is remedied in steam railroad cars by the use of stoves, steam pipes or small furnaces. In the horse cars in other cities outside of New York heat is also supplied by small fur- naces or other sources of heat arranged beneath the flooring of the cars. In the cities referred to the heating appliances in the street cars work satisfactorily, which is a sufficient answer to the sophistries of the car owners here in opposition to any heating apparatus in or under the cars‘at all. It is quite unnecessary for men of the scientific calibre of Professor O’Guntster ana Profes- sor Von Reilly to launch into puerile theo- ries on this subject after the fashion of Pro- fessor Disbecker in the matter of the Harlem flats nuisance, Everybody knows that if one his feet to keep them warm. And as to the \ objection raised about artificial heat in the | cars being prejudicial to health, the follow- -ing from the World of yesterday will tend to remove such an impression from the minds of those who may entertain it:— Every frequenter of our travelling poison vans ought to know that the gravest disadvantage of a crowded trip in cold weather lies in the instinctive desire of the passengers to economize their animal heat by exclud- ing fresh air as far as possible. Ventilators aro closed, a growl arises whenever the rear door is opened for in- gress or egress, vnd thirty or forty mieguideu mortals, pair of lungs, devote themscives to mutual asphyxi- ation. It the interior atmosphere were artificially warmed by altnost any of the contrivances which eo been suggesicd the inmates would tolerate open venti- lators and door, aod acertain amount of ventilation would be established by natural laws. Our intelligent contemporary suggests as a remedy for these aptly termed *‘travelling poison vans” and as a means of getting rid of them altogether the substitution of rapid transit by elevated railroads. But it unfor- tunately seems to forget that we may not have rapid transit for some time yet, and in the meantime the public have a right to de- mand that they shall be made comfortable while travelling in the ordinary cars. Boe- sides, there will always be considerable pat- ronage extended to the street cars by people travelling only short distances. Let us hope, therefore, that the Aldermen will not be bull-dozed by the wealthy car owners into a belief of the sincerity of their professions of solicitude about the public health in connection with this subject, or misled by the equally silly talk that the winter is nearly over, and, therefore, the companies should not be put to needless expense. Let us have atest of the plans proposed upon half a dozen cars imme- ‘diately. The stove plan, however, is ob- jectionable, and would not answer. But let there be tried without delay some good, sensible method by which the heating ap- paratus will be placed under and not inside the cars and the caloric so distributed that the feet and not alone the heads of the pas- | sengers may be kept warm and comfortable, English Opera in New York. It is probable that the hard times and the anxiety caused by the political situation have had something to do with the more than usual interest our public has taken in | music this winter. Music igalways a con- soler. When Saul was troubled in spirit he | called for the harp of David, and when | Hamlet had proved the guilt of Claudius his first demand was for the recorders. Kellogg English Opera Company came to us at a period of depression, yet it has never had greater success. The Academy of Music has been crowded at each performance, and the brief season will continue during the present week, when ‘‘Martha,” ‘Phe Star of the North” and “The Flying Dutchman” will bo performed. The company which is sitting in the cold he must have heat to | pent ima space of insufficient cubic capacity tor one | The | better mounted. The scenery at the Academy of Music was beautiful years ago, | sun of two hundred ‘dollars each, a larger | but the equipments of the stage, unlike wine and wisdom, do‘not improve with age. Strange things have been seen upon its stage, marvellous asthe snow in June or roses in December--lakes of Como in Afri- can deserts and Grecian ruins in modern cities. Wagner would not like to see his operas produced under such conditions, aud, while we do not expect the scenic per- fection of his theatre at Baireuth, we desire less anachronism and more consistency. Music, however, paints pictures of its own like rainbows in the air, and we are for tunate in having the works of Gounod, Auber, Flotow, Meyerbeer and Wagner so charmingly presented. King Carnival. Comus and his rout and their cevelry in the woods by night were not more mirthfal than King Carnival has been of late years in the gay city of New Orleans. Our de- scription to-day of his annual festival will be read with more interest from the fact that his Royal Nibs will soon appear in our own streets with his motley court. Mardi Gras, heard of so often, will at last be seen in the metropolis. Our amiable cone temporary the Evening Telegram (price two cents, and delivered by careful carriers to all parts of the city) deserves the honor of introducing His Majesty to New York.. It has urged for a long time the value to the business community of a great carnival, in which not only our German, French, Span- ish and Italian citizens will take part, but in which native Americans may escape from their Puritanic habits. Colonel St. Martins, ono of the ablest and most devoted members of the court, hasappreciated the importance of the elegram’s suggestion and, with the aid of the. merchants of the city, is now organizing a carnival which, it is believed, will equal in gayety and splendor even the festivities of New Orleans. We have not holidays enough. The Americans are a hard-working people, who have had to conquer the forest and establish on savage ground a civilization of theirown. During the period of work they found no time to play, but now we need more red letter days in the calendar of the year. On Easter Monday, when King Carnival lands at the Battery, we trust he will be received by hundreds of thousands of his new subjects, and that from morn till noon, from noon till dewy eve the city will be surrendered to innocent mirth and useful recreation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Generai Benjamin F. Butler is at tho Fifth Avenue What price valentine do you think you will send } her? Said Logan:—"I thought they’d deal a jack, but they gave me the deuce.” Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, arrived at the St, James yesterday from Washington. Servant girls in Germany have combined with the purpose of not entering the service of ladies who lock up the butter and the sugar. When you see on Broadway a young man with a red necktie and a brace of car muffs, be always puts down his cane as if he wore trying to sink au artesian well, Evenng Telegram:—‘“Orton, the ‘hghtuing cal cnlator,’ bas added up the sam of existence and-de- ducted himself (rom the total population of tho globe,” Amanon Park row was saying to another man yesterday, “Let us stand as the needle to the pole,’? Then he sat down on the ice and waved his right leg in the air. General Miles, the Indian fighter, was, in 1862, a clerk 1» « Boston crockery store, He would bave con- quered the Indians long ago if he could have got Sitting Bull ina china shop. Petroleum V. Nasby (resolved):—1. That the dimoo risy select a strikly, representative dimocrat, and the republikins a strikly representative republikin, with two umpires and ono bottle holder, wich shel be me. A lady 1n a coupé on Broadway was addrossed by a person, who said, ‘Madam, I am very poor, These are hard times’? ‘But, woman,” said tho fair one, “the times can’t be so hard, Caramels have not come down.” Norwich Bulletin:—‘‘When aman fallson another man’s property down town he gets up and goos off just as serious and thoughtiul as if the ice wasn’t a foot and a half thick on the sidewalk in front ot bis own house.” Senator Frelinghuysen went out one morning, and looking at a beel-cow remarked to the New Jersey Legislature that Goothe thought history advanced up- ward spirally, tho. last little circle resting on the broadest, He was not re-elected. Brooklyn Argus:—“Sealskin sacques for poodles ate coming into fashion. A lady carrying a canine pet thus attired called yésterday to comfort 4 poor wo- man who had lost two children by starvation. The sacque was cut pompadour.”? Worcestor Press: —'*A young lady of Norfolk was so agitated while dancing with the Grand Duke that she fainted in his arms. The scion of nobility mercly passod her over to one of the old ladies with the re- mark, ‘Toodamthinoviteh,’ and secured another partner.” The Shaugbraua Club of Washington, composed of Irish literary gentlemen of that city, bave elected Coloucl Lubey president, Hon. George H. Butler secretary and Colonel James R. Young treasurer, The Executive Committee comprises Messrs, Copeland, Ramsdell and Brooks, Boston Herald:—‘A gentleman met a citizon of Somerville recently, and said to bim, ‘Your home is in Somerville, 1 believe?’ ‘No,’ replied the Somer. ville man, ‘my home is in Heaven.’ ‘Let me give You a l:ttle advice,’ said the gentleman. ‘You hurry and get a postal card and write your foiks that you are never coming home.’?? ‘Thiers does not like that President MacMahon should be addicted to the sports of the field, The President of France 18 not a studious man, but a soldior and ¢ sportsman, who takes lightly and gayly toamusemonta, enjoys billiards and 1s pipe with his children about him, aud is content over a game at cards with his wift afterward, New York Graphic ;—‘Senator Christiancy will bi have to rise toa personal explanation inthe Senate. A paragraph bas been going the rounds of the press tor several weeks to the eflect that his recent wedlock hag been blessed with an offspring. Tho sex of the child, the weight and even the name bayo been mentioned by painstaking and accurate paragraphers, The friends of Mr. and Mrs, Christiancy are writing their con gratulations; baby clothing is being sent with tender messages from ail parts of the land, and gifts of the orthodox sort on such occasions are showering in upon the Christiancy family. Now, Senator Christiancy ts an honest, sincere man; while be appreciates the thoughtfulness of his friends he feels that he is very undeserving of these kindnesses, aud fears that when the troth is known be may be accused of securing | these gifts under false pretences. Mrs, Cnristiancy | has no need of buby clothes, neither has Senator Chris+ | tiancy, nor have either of them need of toys anv trifles of gold and silver, cups and spoons, that are being sent them. The fuct is that they havo been mis- represented betore the public by a wicked and mon. ductous press. They have no baby at their house and | bave not had one, Senator Coristiancy’s oldest child was torn twelve years ago, The present Mrs. Chrise Haney hus never been a mother, They are very grave- fal tor the Kindness of their irionds, but it’s u deleato * matter and if worst comes to worst and the newspapers keep up this talk the Senator will riso in his scat in the Senate chamber somo day and denounce the nows- | Papera,””