The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1877, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, . PROPRIETOR, THE DA! RALD, published every the year. ‘Three cents eae (Sundays excluded), Reo Gol dollars per yar, or at a rate of one dollar per month tor any period less Tas etx six months, or five dollars tor six months, Sunday led. oe OT RERLY HERALD. One do dollar per year, free of post- age. Pa TO he bans BERS.—In orter to insure atten- Jou celncribore Sddrese changed mast give eae old ne well = nh address. All esiness, ne wr telegraphic despatches must sorters nod p ud be property sealed. a comm will not be returned. ————— be 5 ease OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON 07 mee OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— ARTS OFFICE AVENUR DE OPERA OPFIOE—KO. 7 STRATA FACE. adve: ron recotved and VOLUME XLII. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. GRAND OPERA HOUSK—Tnx Daxirza, BOWBRY THEATRE—Txxax Avexouna NIBLO'S GARDEN—-Tux Law or tHe Lara GILMORE’S CONCERT GARDEN—Sumnxe Concent PARK THEKATRE—Crvsurp Teackpian. ' BR BREW YORK AQUARIUM—Troricat Fisves, NEW PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN—Oca Bors. TONY PASTOR'S—Vanisty. OLYMPIC THEATRE—Vanixty. WITH SUPPLEMENT, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 1877, Iarortant Novice 10 AbVERTISERS.—To insure the proper classification of advertisements & is absolutely necessary that they be handed in Before eight o'clock every evening. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be slightly warmer and cloudy or partly cloudy, with rain toward night. Tue YeLuow Fever is unfortunately on tho increase at Port Royal. MaxrruanpD, which feels slighted by the Presi- dent and Cabinet, will be soothed this week by 8 Presidential visit. A Temperance Society in the District of Columbia wants the whiskey punch adopted there. It must be contemplating the payment of the national debt. * Concress will assemble this day week. The deserted capital is already beginning to fill up, particularly with candidates for the handful of offices in the gift of the now House. The local- ity argument in the selection of doorkeepers is one of the amusing features of the contest. WorkMEN have been endeavoring to raise the wrecked steamer Massachusetts for the last twenty-four hours, but the result of their labors thus far leaves it in doubt whether their efforts will be successful or not. With favorable weather she may possibly be saved, but in tho event of a storm her total destruction would be inevitable. Tue Sermons YESTERDAY wero of a varied and interesting character and entirely free from sectarian bias or animosity. Mr. Beecher ap- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1877. —WI1TH SUPPLEMENT. One-man Power in the City Gov- ernment. The unexpected success of Mr. Kelly in getting all the anti-Tammany delegates and the irregular Tammany delegates excluded from the State Convention brings a real, though it may prove to be a transient, addi- tion to his power, prestige and influence. In the city election this fall Mr. Kelly will dictate the tickets, and the offices to be filled this year being unimportant the candidates whom he selects or sanctions will doubtless be chosen. Besides the Aldermen who are elected annually there is no political officer connected with the city gov- ernment to be chosen except s Reg- ister in place of Patrick H. Jones, republican, This lucrative office will go to a democrat and be given to some friend of Mr. Kelly. Two Justices of the Marine Court are to be chosen in place of Judges Shea and Sinnott, and a Judge of the Su- preme Conrt (which is not a city office at all) for the First Judicial district, the term of Judge Brady expiring with the close of the present year. Judge Brady will cer- tainly be renominated by the democrats, aud he is so esteemed and popular that the republicans would do a graceful thing if they should nominate him too and make his election unanimous. An excellent exam- ple has lately been set in the Second Judicial district, where Judge Pratt, of Brooklyn, is to be supported for re-election without distinction of party. Certain it is that Mr, Kelly will make no attempt to thwart the popular will in the case of Judge Brady, against whom he has no grudge or grievance. Besides, Mr. Kelly got so mortifying a rebuff last year when he attempted to prevent the re-election of a popular judge that he will be in no haste to get his fingers burned again in the same fire. The judgeships of the Marine Court are not important enough to provoke much of a’ con- test, and if Mr. Kelly has preferences as to candidates he will be able to indulge them without serious opposi- tion. Everything that happens in con- nection with the approaching city elec- tion will therefore tend to confirm the impression that Mr. Kelly's signal vic- tory at Albany has made him master of the city. But if the same offices were to be filled in the city election of 1877 that will be filled by the election of 1878 it might not be in the power of Mr. Kelly to walk over the course, When the time comes for the elec- tion of anew Mayor and other important city officers Mr. Kelly will have his own way only on condition that he respects public opinion and defers to the popular judgment. As soon ashe is brought face to face with an important city election the press will become a potential factor in municipal politics ; and although Mr. Kelly may propose the public judgment as uttered unless through the press will dispose, what he proposes accords with the popular sense of fitness. The press of the metropolis is growing every year more and more independent of party affilia- tions in respect to city affairs, and of all the numorous city journals, whether printed in English, German or French, there is but one on which Mr. Kelly can rely for a thick- and-thin support. If the city journals do not exert their power in this year’s clection it is only because they do not deem this election important, the Aldermen having no authority in the city government except over peared for the first time since the close of his vacation, and Dr. Hepworth preached on tho experiences of is European trip. All the churches were well filled, and our readers will find in other columns reports of the discourses in some of the principal pulpits belonging to different denominations. LrevTenant GENERAL SHERIDAN reports that the troubles in El Paso county, Texas, are en- tirely confined to Mexicans living there, and that the Mexicans proper are in no way con- cerned in them. If this be the case the out- break is, of course, stripped of all international complications, and no apprehensions need be en- tertained ofa foreign difficulty. Mr. Forster, a member of the firm in this city who own the salt works, confirms in another column ourdespatches printed yesterday in regard to the origin of the disturbances. Tax Porice Commisstoners will fail in their duty to the public and to the respectable men on the force if they neglect to investigate the brutal case of clubbing elsewhere reported. Mink, the “guilty officer, if the opinion of those who know him is to be relied on, is not fit to wear the uni- form. The Justice before whom he appeared with his prisoners told him so, adding that he trembled whenever he saw him in court. This is severe condemnation, especially so as it comes from a magistrate who is necessarily familiar ‘with the rougher and darker side of criminal life. Itis to be hoped the Commissioners will not allow the charges against this very inhuman so-called guardian of the peace to be smothered. Tne Weatner.—From the Mississippi Valley eastward the pressure rises very rapidly to the area of highest barometer over the Middle and New England coast States. Yesterday morning the pressure attained to over 30.50 inches, which is among the highest records for the year. Two small depressions moved eastward and northeastward from Nebraska and Texas re- spectively, and are now united in the Miasis- _sippi Valley, forming a shallow barometric trough, which extends from the upper lakes to the Gulf. This depression may de- ‘velop into a storm of some energy. - Rain attended both depressions during their progress and now prevails along the whole eastern margin of the area of low barometer. The Texas depression was the most energetic " end now dominates that of Nebraska within the ) area. It was accompanied by a thunder storm in | tho Southwest. Owing to the relative positions of the areas of high and low barometer the ‘winds prevailing in all the districts east of the Mississippi sre southeasterly and ‘easterly, with cloudiness extending to the , northern Middle States and the lower lake | gegion. The following winds behind the low area are horthwesterly, with clear or fair weather. _ The drift of the area of high pressure is north- easterly, in the track of Thursday’s great storm, which it follows as a natural consequence. From this fact we expect that heavy gales from ‘the northwest to the southwest are pre- | wailing in the Atlantic immediately after _the storm, and which will do much damage ‘on the European coasts. The temperature ‘throughout tho country is comparatively low, ‘put bas risen slightly in the Eastern and far : Western districts. ‘The weather in New York i ) tnt vicinity to-day will be slightly warmer _ and cloudy or partly cloudy, probably with rain ) goward night. petty matters. We warn Mr. Kelly in ad- vance that no political machine can control the politics of this city against the vigorous opposition of the city press. If his will is uncontested in the trivial election of this year it will not be safe for him to infer that the conductors of the public journals acquiesce in his supremacy. Their present position is one of armed neutrality. They stand in an atti- tude of expectation awaiting the use he may-make of his increased influence in the democratic organization, They are as ready to applaud as to condemn, and whether they give him support or censure depends on himself. It is one thing to capture a State Convention of a few hun- dred members by skilful manipulation and quite another thing to silence the batteries of the press in a great metropolitan city. But even this latter and more difficult feat may be done if attempted by the right method. All that is neces. sary is sagacity to perceive and public spirit to promote the true interests of the city. For our part, we have no objection to a one-man power in the city if the power is intelligently exerted for the public good. Indeed, there are large spheres of action in which one-man power is beneficial and almost indispensable. Our grent railrond corporations furnish one set of portinent examples. Mr. Vanderbilt's control of the New York Central and Hudson, Colonel Scott’s of the Pennsylvania Central, and Mr. Garrett's of the Baltimore and Ohio has been invaluable to their respective roads and a great advantage to the stockholders, A sound, clear head, supported by great executive energy, is ® combination so rare that any large business undertaking is for- tunate when it can get the services of a first class man of this description. Such men hold their ascendancy by the sheer force of their abilities. The great rail- road corporations elect their officers an- nually, but Messrs. Vanderbilt, Scott and Garrett are certain of perpetual ro-clection as long as they will consent to serve, They could be ousted at the end of any year, and they are so strongly intrenched in their places, not by arts of intrigue exerted upon the stockholders, but by an enforced, and abiding sense of the value of their services, It is a one-man power like that of the skil- tul captain of a steamship of which he is not the owner, or the accomplished scientific head of an expedition to observe the transit of Venus, resting solely on the personal ca- pacity of the man. It would bens absurd to complain of it as it would be to object to the authority of a surgeon who permits no in- terference with his judgment in perform- ing delicate and dangerous operation. There is nothing equal to one-man power if the one man is capable, trustworthy and every way equal to his responsibility. If we had for Mayor of this city 1 man as able in his functions as the late Commodore Van- | derbilt was as a railroad president it would w Pee eer be aii to give him all the tt for carrying out his policy. But if there is to be a one-man power in the city government it should be lodged in the hands of the Mayor, whom the law makes responsible for the success of the municipal administration. Nothing can be very well managed when the power is exer- cised by one man and the responsibility belongs to another. We do not object to the government of the city by Mr. Kelly if he can govern it well; but if he is to assume this function he ought to be in the Mayor's office, where he could be called to account. He has no right to attempt to reduce the Mayor, elected by the people, to a mere figurehead and to exercise powers with which the charter has not clothed him. If Mr. Kelly can govern the city for its advantage let him present himself as a candidate for tho Mayoralty at the next election. Ifthe peo- ple indorse his claims he would at least be a powerful, and, we should hope, a useful incumbent of the office. But we object to having the power and responsibility in dif- ferent hands; Commodore Vanderbilt was useful and respectable as the president of his railroad, but he would have made a poor figure as an intriguer among the stock- holders and the leader of a ring to con- trol the road by overriding the influence of its regular officers. If Mr. Kelly is to rule the city in fact we prefer to seo him rule it in form. The sense of responsibility which the Mayor cannot escape would have a stendying and chastening effect on his action which can never attend it if heisa trespasser on a legitimate officer's preroga- tive. The grent recent success of Mr. Kelly in strengthening his influence renders the position of Mayor Ely more difficult, and should call forth all his latent vigor and sagacity. If all that Mr. Kelly desires and proposes should coincide with the Mayor's own judgment the city administration will be doubly strong. But a difference between them would lead to serious complications, The Mayor, however, has nothing to fear if his own policy should be so clearly right as to secure public approval. A man of sagacity and vigor, who has been elected by the people of this city as their chief magistrate, cannot be shaken by the powerful leader of a clique if he is true to himself and his constituents. If he is clearly right he will not be left to main- tain his just authority alone. He may rely with perfect confidence on the general sup- port of the press, and if, a year hence, Mayor Ely should be found in a position of antagonism to Mr, Kelly in maintaining the dignity and just authority of his office, and in pushing measures obviously conducive to the public welfare, the press of the city will be almost unanimously on his side and will enable him to fight his battle with no doubtful result. But Mayor Ely cannot expect this powerful support unless he does something to deserve it. The mere pleasure of opposing Mr. Kelly is not a mo- tive which can influence independent jour- nals. If, in the controversies which may arise, he should happen to be in the right and the Mayor in the wrong, men of sense will prefer to see Mr. Kelly ina position where tho strongest personal and the high- est official influence will operate together and makeastrong city government, But we have ‘such confidence in the purity of Mayor Ely’s motives and the instinctive justness of his views that if he will only exhibit a little more energy and self-asser- tion than official exigencies have hitherto called for he may safely defy all the efforts of a victorious party chief to overshadow him. Right and justice, supported by the authority of his office, by unbending vigor of will and by a prédominant public opin- ion, finding voice in a dozen influential journals, cannot be worsted in an encoun- ter with any political machine, Is the City in Danger? At an early hour yesterday morning the sky on the east side of the city was reddened by the reflection of what was evidently a large fire, and many persons who happened to see it concluded thatit wasin the city, and were almost panic stricken by the apprehension that it might turn out to be another Chicago calamity. It proved to be on the other side of the river; but the fear it excited wasa novel thing in New York, where we have heretofore had confidence that our excel- lent Fire Department could at all times secure us against the disastrous spread of aconflagration. Tho alarm was due to the knowledge that our water supply is wholly inadequate to the suppression of a fire that might once take a firm hold in any of the combustible portions of the city. As they watched the glare in the sky men thought of the thin stream of water that comes dribbling through the pipes in the second stories of buildings, and dreaded a fate for a great part of New York similar to that which has attended Boston and Chicago. We are in o most dangerous position in regard to our water supply, and to trifle with the situation now is to court a calamity. It is outrageous that a city like New York should be left in such a condi- tion, when a comparatively trifling expendi- ture would insure us water enough for a population of two or three millions and enable us, with an active, efficient Fire Department, to render the sproad of a fire almost impossible. Our citizens probably have but little idea of the danger they are now in. In order to get anything likea good force into the mains it would be necessary to use pumps at the reservoir, and then there is the risk that the pipes might not stand such @ pressure as would be applied to them. The inconvenience experienced by the insufficient flow is only asmall part of the evil. There is the dan- ger of sickness from the want of a proper washing out of the drains and waste pipes. Above all, there is the peril of fire. The engineers of the Fire Department have long since warned us that there is not a sufficiently strong supply in some of the most hazardous districts to give the depart- ment a chance of struggling successfully with a fire if the flames should once get the mastery, especially if a storm should prevail atthetime. We are now in a much worse cons dition than we were when this warning was uttered. It is o picnyune and may bo a fatal economy to hesitate about placing the ann beyond the risk of u water ‘Genin, no "athan what may be the cost, We can draw our supply from three or four sources if we are wise enough to do so, and then we shall not have to depend on any single source of questionable capacity. The subject is not one to be trifled with, and the Board of Aldermen, the Mayor and the Commissioner of Publio Works should unite promptly and earnestly in an effort to rescue the city from its present perilous position. The Three French Manifestoes, As the day for the French elections ap- proaches anxiety for the result naturally rises high in France. The leaders on both sides have spoken. The dictatorial address of the Marshal-President was answered from the grave, as it were, in the clear and logical address of Thiers, and now the foremost republicnn of France, Léon Gambetta, addresses the electors. The brief cable summary which we publish elsewhere of course fails to do justice to the splendid rhetoric in which that master of debate clothes his arguments ; but we have enough to show that his cour- age and devotion are unshaken by the prose- cutions and persecutions which the Ministry have aimed at him. The address of Marshal MacMahon, which curiously opened by saying that he would leave Frenchmen free to vote as they pleased, wound up in aseries of threats which meant that if they did not choose his candidates he would rule France in his own way and throngh his own instru- ments in spite of the people. To the famous phrase of Gambetta at Lille that the Marshal must ‘‘submit or resign” the latter plainly replied that he would do neither. At last, then, the issue was joined. Everything that full control of the elective machinery, of the government patronage, of the courts, of the press censorship could bring to the’aid of the government candi- dates has been used with relentlessness and vigor. It is questionable, however, whether these engines of power will accomplish their object. The pitiless logio of Thiers, which holds up the enemies of the Re- publio—the legitimists, Orleanists, Bona- partists and clericals—as a “happy family” ready to fall at each other's throats, if the decision of the future of France bo left to them, will probably go further with the French mind. ‘France has not perished,” says M. Thiers, ‘‘but three monarchies have perished.” Well up to the standard of the address of Thiers is that of Gambetta. As the time is shorter, the conflict nearer and the man younger, its tone is sharper, its language bolder than that of the late ex-President. It offers no compromise, It looks the gloomy future which De Broglie and Fourtou are preparing full in the face, It will be noted especially that Gambetta reiterates what he said at Lille, what he was prosecuted and convicted for saying and what the Marshal wrote his address to answer— namely, that when France has spoken there will be no alternative but to “submit or resign.” ‘Terribly in ,earnest, he says that “the country shall knOw how to make its will prevail over a powerless and incorrigi- ble minority.” Between the threats of the Marshal and the unyielding confidence of tho republican leader there are gloomy possibil- ities ahead. It is evident that the republi- cans are taking the buttons off their foils, A National Law for Railway Mobs. Asthe great American debating society will soon convene the suggestion of topics for discussion may now be considered in order. We suggest that some of the amiable gentlemen who charge themselves with ar- ranging work for Congress introduce a bill to punish obstructors of railroads. A bill to repress railway mobs will be an excellent subject for debate in Congress, be- cause almost every member can air his pet views. Constitutional lawyers can read long citations; the protectionists and free trade men can bring forward the paternal and the non-interference theories of govern- ment; the State rights men will find all their old speeches come in use; subsidy hunters and land grant grabbers can spread themselves upon the great topic of our rail- way system and the duty of government to foster and protect it. In short, everybody can have something to say when this bill comes up in Committee of the Whole. One great speech against the bill will be that what the American people want upon business matters is not more laws, but fewer and better ones. This is sound doc- trine, but the friends of the bill will turn it to their advantage, for they will show that there are at present probably thirty odd systems of State laws upon this subject of obstructing railronds. A law of Congress would dispense with all of these, would sub- stitute one uniform code applicable to the whole country in place of a confused variety of laws which now exist. Take the caso of a railway train which leaves Now York city for the West. It runs, perhaps, for a fow hours in New York State and under the pro- tection of the law of New York. That isa good law; it gave the State peace and safety in Inst summer's troubles, and our people are proud of it and of its en- forcement, But its influence expires at the State line, The train will run onward into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and at each invisible boundary line it will come under a new system of law for protecting it from violence. A railroad trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific runs under a dozen systems of law, unless, perhaps, some of the States through which it runs may have no law at all in its behalf. Now, there is no reason nor use for such @ com- plex, heterogeneous condition of things. One law and a better one is precisely what the bill in Congress would accomplish. Moreover, the experiences of the summer have shown that for the enforcement of the law, whether State or national, the depend- ence of the people in any extended emer- gency is upon the federal authorities and forces. A United States law would receive prompt and uniform enforcement by tho power of the United States directly, with- out being dependent so much upon the varying temper and views of State authori- ties. Another great speech against the bill will be that it is an unconstitutional invasion of State rights. But here, again, the friends of the bill will have the best of the argument. among the States. Now, railway transpor- tation is commerce, equally with carriage by vessels. Commerce, moreover, is not traffic alone; it includes intercourse. The safe transit of passengers is as much within Congressional regulation as is that of mer- chandise, These points are fully estab- lished by decisions of the Supreme Court. And the Court has also held that the power is not confined to regulating what is done on the water, or in the course of naviga- tion, but extends to anything done on land which obstructs commerce among the States; and any offence which obstructs commerce, although committed on the land, may be punished by Congress. These principles clearly warrant Con- gressional protection of railroads and their trains against mob violence; for as the railroad traffic is now organized and con- ducted it is eminently the means and mode of traffic and intercourse among the States. Moreover, Congress has passed laws involving these principles : the law of 1866, punishing negligent transportation of nitro- glycerine, and the law of 1873, punishing neglect and cruel treatment of live stock in course of railroad transportation. It is too late to say that railroads cannot have the protection of a federal law against mobs, excepting, indeed, such roads as may be, in all their business, wholly isolated within a single State and unconnected with any transportation from one State to another. Open discussion is good for the souls of Congressmen. It arouses the mental powers, quickens the circulation, stirs the liver, enlivens the spirits, gives the report- ers employment and makes the common people think that, after all, something is really about to be done, Oh, by all means, let us have a debate upon the project of national protection for our railroads. Figures Worth Studying. The story published in to-day'’s Hznarp in relation to the fees of the New York coroners will renew the regret generally felt by our citizens at the failure in the Executive Chamber of the bill passed by the Legislature last winter regulating the Coroners’ office and reducing its expenses, It seems to be quite unnecessary that the business done by four coroners should cost the city ninety thousand dollars a year. Aside from this there are ocvidences of very loose and irregular manage- ment in the office, The coroners are paid by fees, and it is remarkable that every year the number of inquests upon which payment is made by the Comp- troller exceeds the number duly registered and reported by the Board of Health by from two to five hundred, with the single exception of the year 1874 That year Comptroller Green caused every inquest which the coroners claimed to have held to be investigated, and the consequence is that in that year and that alone the number re- turned by the Board of Health agreed with the number paid by the Comptroller. It is significant, too, that the expense of the of- fice has swelled from fifty-five thousand dollars in 1868 to nearly ninety thousand dollars in 1876, Massachusetts last year abolished the office of coroner, and the example might very well be followed in this State. There is a strong suspicion that exorbitant fees are not the only or the most objectionable feature of that office as it exists in New York. This suspicion may be unjust, but, at least, the office has too little responsi- bility and is too free from check as it now exists, There can be no objec- tion on the part of honest officials, in that or any other position, to have wholesome safeguards thrown about their duties, and certainly there ought to be no question as to the advisability of re- ducing the expenses of an office which pays tour incumbents ninety thousand dollars a year for comparatively light services which could be at least as satisfactorily performed for o third of that amount. It is to be hoped that the figures given in our columns will be accepted as proving the necessity for the passage, at the next legislative ses- sion, of o bill regulating the Coroners’ office and for the Executive approval of the law. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The following Americans registered at bah Herayp Bureau in Paris on Saturday :— F. CG Cosby and family, New York, Hotel du Palais Royal, Bonry Hotssonbuttel and family, San Francisco, Grand Hotel. H. M. Houston and wile, Providence, R. L, No 51 Ruo Monceau, W. 8, Carpenter, New York, Hotel du Palais Royal, Dr. C. N. Hoagland and family, San Francisco, Hotel Athenée, William B. Moore, United States Navy, New York, Hovel du Palais Royal. Miss Emma Howard, Columbas, Ubio, No, 52 Boule- yard Haussmann. W. B. Hollins, Brooklyn, Splendide Hotel. C. 8. Brainerd and wife, San Francisco, Hotel Ath- onde. Miss Fannie Smith, Brooklyn, No, 52 Boulevard Haussmann. J. H. Cowen, Natchez, Miss, No, 9 Rue Castiglione, E, 0. Perrin, Brooklyn, Hotel du Louvre. A. P, Merrill, Hotel Brighton, E, Willard Roby, Brooklyn, No, 21 Rue Luxeme boarg. James Bovoridge and wife, San Francisco, Hotel Athenée, Dr. W. G, Wallach, Brooklyn, Hotel do France, Tweed once said that ho stolo nothing, and people belleved that he did. Now he says ho was an awtul thief and thero are people whe belicvo that he was not. Florida people aro eating wild tarxeys, Gali Hamilton has almost rested herself, Goode 1s going to talk in the Obio campaign, The Post Office weathercock seems to bo fickle, Jn North Carolina apples are two cents a bushel, Nebraska City has a postmaster named Schmincke, Conkling did not accuse Curtis of wearing a chomt- loon. English military recruits aro hereafter to bo taught cooking. Wondor if there is any yellow fever in tho Florida exchanges ? Chief Justice Waite was in the city yesterday, on his way to Washington. Ex-Cadet Fiipper is corrugating the hearts of the dusky maidens of Atianta, Sefior Don J. M. Mata, Mexican Minister at Wash- ington, is at the Everett House, Dr. Pelagallo was dismissed by the Pope for telling about the cordition ef His Holiness’ health, Jersey is still dealing justice. If you commit man- slaughter you are sent to jail for ninety days. Now Orleans Picayune :—"Amusing exercise is good im its way, but you can’t carn bread with one foot- ball.” London Athenaum:—“It seems that In some Wor Man schools a day is granted each week to the older boys to be devoted to their own special studies, There thia Of course our schoolboys would devote the day to cricket.” Woe learn from an exchange that the Massachusetts democrats have got the inside this time, Yes, inside of half the votes, Norristown Herald:—“ ‘The punctuating proof reader is the man of the period.’—Nsw Yorn Haraup, That ts comma @ faut,” Mr. Alvey A. Adee, recently United States Chargé @Affaires at Madrid, arrived trom Europe in the stcamship Germanic, and is at the Coleman House, Here is a description by Miss Poarson of a temale medical student with the Russian army :—‘'The gentie- men with her were surgeons on their way to join someambulance, * * © Thelady wore her hair short and parted on one side; spectacies with gold rims; a black tanic belted tn round the waist and a short black skirt. She smoked cigars and seemed hall fellow woll mot with ail her companions.”” a’ ”? New Jersey girl of fourteon read novols, She ay from bome, lived in Brooklyn, dined at Fulton Market and was captured through the means of a letter which she wrote, Charity pulls down the cur- tain, but wisdom meditates om tho subject of some of the conditions of thought concerning high school girl, one of whom can run away, hoping to join a variety troupe, call herself “Edna C. Lemezz’’ and have the knowledge of life which led her (however jestingly) to write that sho bad met ‘a married man with lots of tin.” Teachers should find ont what ts being thought ‘an well as what ts being learned by their high school girls, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Max Marotzok has been playing to handsome houses in Baltimore, Lawrenco Barrett, the tragodian, has wom quite a success in Louisville, Ky. W. T. Carloton bas been singing wish success in Bal- timore, and next week goes to New England on a tour, Tho lant days of “The Danites’’ aro at hand, Those who desire to see what a poet-dramatist can do must go to the Grand Opera House, Stanley McKenna, the author of “Our Oddities,” has im preparation another play, entitled ‘Basoment Bells’—an excellent title, and suggostive of a good dea! of fun, Miss Mary Anderson is to mako her first appearance fn Philadelphia at the Walnut Strect Theatro this woek, in “ Kvadne,” “Ingomar,’? ‘Ion’ and ** Romeo and Juliet,” Mr, F. F, Mackay, an old New York favorite, now one of the managers of the Chestnut Street Theatro, Philadelphia, makes a hit as a Bohemian Jew in just returned from Troy, N. ¥., where he gavea recital, making bis selections from Liszt, Chopin ana Schumann. By request he played also his own barcarole, On Monday, the 15th October, the Fifth Avenue Theatre will be opened with the Hess Operatic troupe at the front, First class music is promised that will attract the music loving people of New York. A correspondent very properly suggests for the Denefit of the English reading public that the argu- meant (not the text) of the plot of opéra bouffe, or any other foreign matter, shall bo published in English om tbe programme. Cazeneuve, the magician, appears in Philadelphia at Concert Hall this week. He will expose the tricks of she spiritual mediums, in which Philadelphia is much interested at present, apropos of the ponding trial of Bliss, the bogus materializer, A very proper German critic, commenting on Wag. ner, says‘—“I regard melody as the art of music to which harmony bears the relation of sauce to roast meat. Music is the mightiest of all arts and by itself alone can fill the soul that is susceptible.” The Saturday symphony concert matinees an- nonnced by Dr. L, Damroseh are promised to be among the musical evonte of the winter, It is said that the musicians engaged are mostly young artists, but also include some of Tho! orchestra, Aunt Poliy Bassett’s “Singin’ Skew!” will assembio in “ye publick assemblie room known to ye towg folke as Chickering Hall, in ye towne of Yorke, on ye evening of Monday, fifteenth day of Uctober, Ye price tow enter will bo three and a halt dimes,’” Tho Emma Abbott concert troape will leave Now ‘York for a six months’ tour on the 15th of the current month, The company embraces Arbuckle, the cornot soloist; W. H. Stanley, the tenor soloist, formerly of the Kellogg troupe, and Signor Pictro Ferranti, the buffo singer. The directors of the Philnarmonic Society announce six evening concerts at the Academy of Music, under the direction of Theodore Thomas. The orchestra ts said to be selected from the best resident talont. The public rehearsals will not commence until Friday afternoon, November 23. As soon as “La Marjolaino”’ has finished its attrac tion, it 1s the purpose of M. Grau and Mr. Duff to pro. duee “Girofle-Girofla,” “La Perichole,” “La Grande Duchesse,” and ‘La Vio Parisienne,” ‘Barbe Bleu," “Le Potit Faust,’ and ‘Les Conts Viergos,” are alsa on the programme, “La Marjolaine,” howover, with Aimée, Dupare, Mezteres, Jouard, Duplanand Mollard, is one of the sucvesses of the season, Full houses at test the fact. The Florences open in Robinson’s Opsra House, Cincinnati, on Octobor 15, from which place thoy pro- coed to Louisville, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Philadelphia and cities in the Eastern States, Thoy carry with them an excelicnt company. It is a tribute to the geverosity otf Mr. Florence and his care for brother actors that, notwithstanding his disappoinment and pecuniary loss, resulting from a sudden dissolutiog of contract and from circumstances over which ho had no control, he undertakes to maintain his engage- ments with his own people and give them employ- meat “on the road.” ‘Hon. Bardwell Slote” and “Bob Brierly” will always find a welcoma, Regarding Mme. Adelina Patti’s future movements the foilowing is said to be authoritative :—During Octo ber sho will undertake a provincial tour under the direction of Mr. Pyatt, who has also engaged Mr. Sima Reeves and Mr. Santley. Mme. Patti will sing again in Vienna in the spring, prior to her return to London in May, to re appear at the Royal Italian Opera. The most pleasant part connected with her ro-engsgoment. at Covent Warden is that the lady has stipulated for an increase to her reducea répertoire of late years, and there is a probability of her adding to the characters ot Dinorah and Valontine in Meyerbeer’s operas those ot Alice in “Robert il Diavolo” and Selika in the “tAfricaino.”” The cloventh season of tho Thomas’ symphony con. corts will begin on Saturday evening, Nov. 3, 1877, at Steinway Hall The public rehearsals will be given on the Tharsday aiternoons previous to the concerts on the following dates:—Thursday alternoon, Nov. 1, 1877; Wednosday afternoon (to avoid Thanksgiving day), Nov. 28, 1877; Tharsday alternoon, Jan. 3, 1878; Thursday afternoon, Jan. 31, 1878; Thursday afternoon, Feb, 28, 1878; Thursday afternoon, April 11, 1878 The symphony concerts will take place on Saturday ovoning, Nov. 3, 1877; Saturday evening, Doe, 1, 1877; Saturday evening, Jap, 5, 1878; Saturday evening, Fob, 2, 1878; Saturday evening, March 2, 1878; Satur- day evening, April 13, 1878. The English Opera Bouffe Company engaged to sup- port Mra, James A. Oates for the season of 1877 and 1878 ‘8 now complete, and comprises the following artists:—Alice Oates, Miss Elma Delaro, Miss Jeannio Winston, Mra, Clara Fisher Maeder, Miss Chappello, Miss Saenger, Miss Livingston, Miss Florence, Miss Richardson, Miss Campion, Miss Sylvio, Miss Tamm, Mr. Hon Laarant, Mr. Gustavus F, Hall, Mr, Harry Allen, Mr. Arthur H. Beil, Mr. Seymour, Mr. Leciore, Mr, Cotta, Mr. Decker, Mr. Paront, Mr, Nichols, Mr, Mills Hall, Mr. Kremer, The oporas will be solected from the following répertowe:—“‘ La Grande Duch- osse,"” ** Barbe Blouse,” “La Porichole” (first time in English), ‘La Fille de Madame Angot,” “Ia Marjoe » (first timo in English], “La JolieParfumeuse,”* netic and Jeannetton”? (first tim nglish), “Girofle-Girofla,”’ ‘*Kosiki” (fest time in Boglish), «Madame L’Archiduc,” “ La Dragon de Villars”? (Orst time in English), ‘La Princesse de Trebizonde,”” Les Bavards” and “La Petite Maries” (first time in English) Mustcal director ana eonductor, A, Prodigam, THE TELEPHONE, At the end of tho regular concert at Gilmore's Garden last night Mr. E. H. Johason repéated his telephone experiment betwecn there and the Western Union Building, Chestnut street, Philadelphia, The exhibition was quite eptisfactory, M te B, Taylor, soprano, of the Rov. Mf. Sweet’s church choir, den, N. J., oi a the “Sweet By and By," M William Northeots playing thi cornet solo and Mr. William A. Brisco, Stephen’s Church choir, Phtjadeiphia, Exilo’s Lamont.” Tho instru ats wero x the jn excellent Congress has power to regulate commerce | can be no better sign of a healthy lore of work than | order and the transmission of the tyncs |