The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1877, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, JAMES te year. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day én ‘Three cents per Ton datare 4 copy ‘Sundays excluded), rate of one doliar per monta tor any period ha, or Ove dollars for six monins, Sunder RS,—In order to insure atten- ib ir address changed must give address All ba: 8, thers or telegraphic despatches must be addressed S Hwnatp. Letters and pack: hould ve ‘7 sealed, Kejectet comm: turned. —— Ly 55 Saghipd OPFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDOS OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-- LEE 3 AVENLE DE L'OPERA 7 STRATA PACE. i) be received and AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. sh ie EES GILMORE’S CONCERT GARDEN—Scwxer Conceas, PARK THEATRE—Cntsunp Tiaaupiax. UNION SQUARE THEATEI RUCK Olle BAGLE THEATRE—Micury Douwar. WALLACK’S THEAT! NEW YORK AQUAR BROADWAY THBATRE: GERMANIA THEATRE GRAND OPERA MOUS BOWERY THEATRE— NIBLO’S GARDEN—T BRYANTS OPERA HO: TIVOLI THEATRE—Vanuer THEATRE COMIQUE—Vanu AMERICAN INSTITU TONY PASTOR'S—Vaxi OLYMPIC THEATRE. SAN FRANCISCO Mz IRVING HALL —Vanixi EGYPTIAN HALL—Vauiery, COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE—Vanury. TRIPL Important Notice to Apvertisers.—Zo insure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely necessary that they be handed in defore eight o'clock every evening. Troricat Frsnes, Macsovaixe, & Lanes ons TAGES, NITES, “Aeesaens. OF TH LAND RELSY. ~~ 177 From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and cloudy or partly cloudy, possibly with light showers and followed by clear- ing weather. Watt Streer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was active and strong at the close. Gold opened at 103, advanced to 1031g and closed at 102%. Government bonds were firm, States higher and railroads strong. Moncy on call was active at 7 per cent, with afew loans at 6 per cent. * ‘Tue Latest Ovrrace on the flag is its seizure for a board bill. See law proceedings. Two New Bisuorrics have been created in Mlinois by the Episcopalian Convention. Tue Frrry-Dotar Nore of the Central Bank of this city has been counterfeited. Aw Opinion of considerable importance to landlords and tenants will be found in our court reports. Tne Large Arcunisuor Bayiry’s Witt gives no idea of the amount of his property. It has all been left to the Church. Parenrson, N. J., in indicting two or three of her delinquent bank officials, has seta good ex- ampie to other portions of the country. Tus Latest Revorts from Senator Morton do not strengthen the expectation that he will be able to immediately attend the coming ses- sion of Congress. A Futter Licut is thrown on the Louisiana Returning Board business in our New Orleans despatches. An explanation from Mr. Tilden’s friends is in order. No Furrner Dirricuiry should be expe- rienced in building good docks and sea walls around New York. The portable coffer dam tested yesterday proved a complete success. Tue Late Cyctoye, it is to be feared, caused @ large loss of life and property at sea. Several wrecks are reported by one of the German steamers plying between Bremen and New Orleaus. Tammany Haut has issued its political black- mail circular, The people will auxiously wateh to see how many heads of departments will have the courage to imitate the Firé Commissioners and forbid the official robbery of their employés. P 8 Tue AMERICAN irvT® was founded half a century ago. The fact that in seasons of ad- Versity as well as prosperity its annual fair has always been held was pointed to with pardona- ble pride at the anniversary celebration last evening. A Story Wortuy or tir Dark Acrs comes from Waterford, Pa. ‘The sale of a woman for & few bushels of grain by one brother to another and the fierce barbarity of tarring and feathering are happily erimes of rence, even in the most un Senious Cuarces against the Sailor Boarding House Commissioners are elsewhere printed. Without undertaking to say whether the accusa- tions are true or false it cannot be denied that a Jarge number of the places in question are as bad as they can be, and the agitation of the question will, it isto be hoped, lead to a much needed reform. Tue Wear The depression which had moved into Canada on Wednesday has now ad- vanced soutieastwardly into New York and the New England States, with a slight increase of pressure at its centre. Rains continue to prevail within the low area, and high to winds along its margins, particular northwest. wugerous rom the The depression in the Northwest has made some progress eastward and is at present central in Western Dakota. The marginal winds from the southward, on the eastern side of this low area, are also very heay but no rains as yet attend the disturbance. } tween the two depressions, and extending from the lakes to the Gulf, lies the area of high pressure whence tho wind currents flow toward the low barometers. The relative positions of the high aud low pressures therefore cause west- erly winds on the Middle Atlantic, easterly on the North Atlantic and northeasterly on the South Atlantic coasts, northerly winds ou the Gulf coast, southeasterly winds in the Mississippi and Missouri vaileys and variable winds in the lake region. The temperature con- tinues comparatively low on the Atlantic coast, but has risen somewhat in the West and Southwest. It is probable that the disturbance now approaching the New England coast will prove dangerous. That in the Northwest cer- tainly presents indications of more than ordinary energy. The great storm of the 4th has already reached the North Earopeancoasts. The weather in New York and its vicinity towlay will be cool and cloudy or partly cloudy, possibly with light showers and followed by clearing weather, NEW YORK | “Hall to the Chief: His name, we regret to say, is not O'Kelly, nor even Fitz-Kelly, but plain Kelly, nor was he christened Patrick, but John. But in spite of these disadvantages—so superior is the man to his accidents—he ‘‘in triumph advances,” his brow crowned with ever green shamrock. Whether he is ‘‘moored j in the rifted rock, proof to the tempest’s shock,” rooting himself more firmly in proportion to the violence of assailing winds, or is only a “sapling sown by the fountain,” to be stripped of his foliage by autumn blasts, remains to be seer. Mean- while his devoted vassals are faithful, though a trifle turbulent; but they will need to put forth all their strength to sup- port him in the triumphant réle in which he newly appears. In the position where Mr. Kelly now is there is o strong current of public sentiment which tends to bear him down stream, and there will be It is the nature of new dynasties to be more or less insecure for a while after their accession, inasmuch as the elements over which they triumph are apt to nurse their smothered wrath and await a favorable op- portunity to strike. Apparently Mr, Kelly’s great triumph at Albany made him master of the democratio organization of the State and the city; but many of the foes left prostrate on the field of battle will recover from their wounds and collect their scat- tered followers, After the election is over there will come a reckoning. Mr. Tilden, on whom this great affront was put in his absence, will ‘return, and when his skilful hand is again put upon the helm the drift- ing ship may recover her course. Mr. Kelly is as yet an apprentice as compared with that veteran strategist. Mr. Tilden out- Mmancuvred Mr. Kelly in all the contests, both here and at St. Louis, wherein the latter undertook to prevent the great reformer’s nomination, and a triumph over his friends when they lacked his guidance proves noth- ing as to Mr. Kelly's power when he re- ‘turns. Mr. Kelly is an infant in manip- ulating the rural democracy in comparison with the experienced leader who knows them so well, and who did not expect that his own State would turn against him dur- ing his absence from the country. When “this foot is on his native heath” and he has surveyed the situation he will not be inac- tive, and Mr. Kelly may again find that he is overmatched, as he found he was last year, both in the State Convention and at St. Louis. Governor Robinson also, who has more than two years to serve and is greatly respected by the State democracy, will lend his assistance in clipping the wings of the new party chief. Governor Robinson and the Tilden party fell into an ambush, but though defeated for the moment they will ‘not give it up so.” With Tilden back a State convention cannot again be taken by surprise, that wary old political fox not being easily en- trapped by the ‘still hunt” method, whose secrets he understands so well. Even in this city, where Mr. Kelly is a great deal more at home, he may find himself in very hot water before the end of another year. Here, where he is not Mayor, although he claims to be master, he can accomplish but little practically without Mr, Ely’s con- sent. He can no doubt elect an obedient Board of Aldermen _ this fall to serve during the remaining year of Mayor Ely’s term; but the Mayor has a veto on their action, and although they can reject his nominations, that provi- sion of the charter by which heads of de- partments hold over until their successors are qualified will prevent the Aldermen from bringing any branch of the city gov- ernment to a deadlock. While, therefore, Mr. Kelly can put forth his powerful hand to shake the tree he cannot gather the fruit without Mayor Ely’s consent. Next year the Tammany chief may not come back from the State Convention in such high feather as he has this year in Mr. Tilden’s absence. ‘Row, vassals, row!” is a command which he will have constant oc- casion to give to those who are in the same boat with him when he comes to deal with Mr. Tilden, by whom he has been so often foiled. We counsel him against waving his shamrock too proudly at this stage of the contest, and to remember that his name is not O'Kelly, but plain Kelly. But for the present Kelly, even without the O’, is a pretty formidable name—a name to conjure with, and one that will starta spirit as soon as Tilden’s, at least while Tilden is beyond ‘the vasty deep.” Kelly without an O’ is just now entitled to hold his head pretty high; but the malicious demon which is envious of all brill- iant success, and “stoops his pinions’ shadowy sway” to darken the laurels of victors, «already hovers over the triumphant Tammany chieftain. What ire and disappointment must have clouded his serenity when he learned of Alderman Purroy’s pugilistic exploit in the Nyack Senatorial Convention! Had Purroy been one of John Morrissey’s pets, instead of one of John Kelly's, his free use of his jaw- breaking fist upon a fellow delegate, in the midst of the deliberations, would not have brought a blush, but a smile to the broad, placid face of the master of the Albany Con- vention. But Purroy is not Morrissey’s man, but Kelly’s. He is one of Kelly's Al- dermen; he is Kelly's President of the L-ard, entitled to represent the dignity of | the metropolis as its Mayor in case of any accident to Mr, Ely ; he is Kelly's favorite | candidate forthe important office of Polico oner. Had he been a protégé of Morrissey's would have dis- owned him after such a performance in such a presence. Morrissey ceased to be a pugilist while he was quite young and be- fore he had powerfn! friends whom his con- duct could mortify; and even when he was devoted to “the noble and manly art” he fought according to the rules and observed all the courtesies of the prize ring. Even in those days he would have disowned Pur- roy as a disciple. But Mr. Kelly does not disown him, and we may yetsee this urbane gentleman, who so forgot himself at Nyack, sneering at Morrissey as an ex-prize-fighter. | the dark wing of the envious ‘‘demon of perpetual need of the cry, ‘Row, vas- | row!” until the chief who in triumph advances gets into smoother ie Morrissey HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. the night” has touched the wictorious chief | replenish his purse as a highwayman on a tender epot. The same malignant, shadowy demon who | horse. would trust to his arms and his His generosity was as eccentric hovers over victors to damp their joy has | as it waa often noble. He would help the given another evidence of spite, Having | first put it into the minds of many people to charge that Keliy is using Tweed’s serial ex- amination by the Aldermen to annoy and frighten political opponents and subjugate tainted men to his purposes, the same shadowy demon, by a tip of his wing, has caused the bottom to suddenly drop out of. that huge scandal bucket and spill all its | contents. Since the publication of Tweed’s confession the public knows the whole length and breadth of what. he was holding in reserve. The examinations have no longer a dark and mysterious back- Ground that can be turned to politi- cal use as an instrument of terror or torture. Hereafter no peccant politician will awake in the morning after troubled dreams in mortal dread of what Tweed may say about him in that day’s examina- tion. The whole story is known, and a hotrible nightmare has been raised from many abreast. This political engine hav- ing been destroyed it only remains for the new employers of Tweed to fulfil their promises to him—if they can. No Attorney General will release him against the inter- dict of Governor Robinson, who is in no mood to grant personal favors to the people who triumphed over him in the Convention, We do not see that the men who have been tryipg to use Tweed have gained either honor or advan- tage from this new alliance, When Mr. Tilden returns to rectify the matters that have gone awry in his absence we do not see that it will help Mr. Kelly to have it said that he vainly attempted to get Tweed out of the prison where Mr, Tilden was chiefly instrumental in lodging him. We do not know that Mr. Kelly has inspired these examinations or made any promises in con- nection with them; but the fact that it has been so widely charged, and that if true the design has miscarried, will not aid the Tam- many chief in a contest with Mr. Tilden for the control of the democratic organization. In spite of these mishaps and drawbacks Mr. Kelly is strong and powerful to-day, and if he were only sagacious enough to cut loose from bad associations and to use his augmented influence for purposes to which Mr. Tilden could take no just excep- tion, he might hold the position he has gained and advance to new conquests, As he has always been our favorite local states- man we are entitled to give him good ad- vice, and we only regret that it transcends our limited authority to prefix the coveted O’ to his respectable name. Echoes from the East. The most important news from the war this morning is that of the revictualling of Plevna by Chetket Pacha. This beleaguered town is likely to become as famous in the history of the war as Nicsics, the hungry fortress of Herzegovina. From Russian official sources comes the statement that a Turkish monitor has been blown up off the Sulina mouth of the Danube by a tor- pedo. The Turks do not acknowledge the loss, The bridge thrown across the Danube by the Turks near Silistria has been de- stroyed and the attempt to enter Rou- mania abandoned. It was~an_ ill-timed effort anyhow. From Armenia comes the news that an indecisive battle was fought eastward of Kars on Wednesday, both sides losing heavily. It is evident the Turks have lost some ground during the past week in the several engagements re- ported. The object of the Russians is to outflank the Turkish left and throw it south- eastward, and so cut off Moukhtar Pacha from Kars, As the fighting will probably be renewed some bloody battles may be fought in this region before winter calls a truce. A correspondent at Bucharest states that the Russians have now two hundred and thirty thousand men in Bulgaria, but that their losses by sickness and exposure are enormous, Henry Meiggs. The reported death of Henry Meiggs, which is said to have occurred last month at Lima, Peru, recalls public attention to » the extraordinary career of that remarkable man, whose story reads more like the pages of a romance than a tale of real life. The name of the great contractor has been so often before the public that little that is new can be said about him now that he has passed away. The public press has ona score of occasions when he has been thrust prominently forward, either for good or evil, exhausted the stock of anecdote with which gossip associates him, and told and retold the many wonderful things he has done and the changes of fortune he hes known. From the time when he com- menced life in Boston as a contractor, through his grandly successful speculations in lumber in New York, his bankruptey in 1837, his realization of another fortune, his second failure, his striking and brilliant Californian career, his reckless crimes when the crash of 1854 came upon him in the Pacific State, his disgraceful flight from his country, his magnificent successes in Chili and Peru, whore his genius made itself con- spicuous, down to his later and once more ; clonded days, the people of the United | States have followed his history with curious interest, The grand works he accomplished in South America gained him a world-wide reputation, while the brilliancy of his life at Santiago and Lima and the stories of his fabulous wealth and princely generosity won for him the fame of a Monte Cristo. There are many who will be inclined to believe that the story of Henry Meiggs’ life has in it more of evil than ot good. With splendid abilities and remarkable power he was destitute of moral sense, reckless, audacious and unscrupulons. His business career reminds one involuntarily of the acts of a Dick Turpin ora Claude Duval. He was indifferent as to what means he used to accomplish his ends. He would hire the corrupt and debauch the pure with equal nonchaiance. When trouble came upon him he did not hesitate to stamp upon himself the brand of a forger in his desperate but hopeless effort to redeem his fortunes, He threw money about him with prodigality, and seemed to have no thought or care for the future, trusting to’ his genins to poor, and glory in doing some unexpected act of princely liberality to an old friend or to one he had wronged. Many incidents of his life suggest the sentiment which made the highwayman of the olden times plunder a prince or a bishop and give half the proceeds of the robbery to the needy. such a life afford a good or an evi! example to the youth of a nation? That is a ques- tion that many will probably be dis- posed toask, even as the Peruvian people— to whom Henry Meiggs, with his genius and his strength, brought so many practi- cal advantages—are now asking whether he has not been rather a calamity than a bless- ing to their country. The report of his death needs confirma- tion, although his sickness, already known, renders it probable that it is well founded. If he has really passed away without hav- ing accomplished the wish that is believed to have been nearest to his heart for many years—namely, to return to his native coun- try and be at peace—no one will be disposed to remember his faults, while all will be ready to do honor to his unquestionable good and generous qualities and to his splendid genius. Tweed’s Serial, It is a modern practice of writers of enter- taining stories to publish them by instal- ments in weekly or monthly periodicals, getting well paid for these fragmentary issues, with a copyright interest when the completed work is given to the world in book form. If the story is a good one this method enables the author to keep the curi- osity of his readers long in suspense and excite their wonder as to the strange vicis- situdes through which the hero or hero- ine will be conducted in the develop- ment of the plot. But if the au- thor has the completed work in his desk before he begins its publication as a serial and has neglected to protect himself by a copyright a sudden stop will be put to further instalments in a magazine if some enterprising person gets hold of his manu- script and issues it as a book. Something like this has happened to Tweed’s interest-- ing serial, which he has been communicat- ing through the vehicle of the Aldermanic examinations, Unluckily for Tweed he had no copyright, and anybody was at liberty to publish his whole story if it could be obtained. We shall be sorry if we have spoiled any profits which might have ac- crued tothe author, but there will be no further interest in his examinations now that his whole story is known. The examination yesterday was a mere pottering over the statements of the written confession. Mr, Cole was not present to perform his usual part as a questioner, and the examination, such as it was, drifted with- out aim or guidance. Tweed denied that he had furnished the written statement, and expressed regret at its publication, because of its tendency to do injury to innocent per. sons. It would have been more pertinent to have explained why he paraded the names of innocent persons, in such bad company. Was it his intention to injure them in the estimation of the Attorney Gen- eral? Tweed virtually confesses that his confession was calculated to have that effect by his affected regret that it would make that impression on the public. What did he think he was doing when he put into a statement which was offered to the Attorney General as a confession of his crimes a list of checks and payments which related only to innocent business transactions? What possible relevance or pertinence had they there? Tweed’s design is obvious enough ; he meant to produce on the mind of the Attorney General the impression that vast sums of money might be recoy- ered to the city, and he was tempted to swell the list and make it look large asa means of proving the value of his testi- mony. If this parade of innocent men’s names and checks was not made for that purpose it was made for no intelligible or pertinent purpose whatever. This trick was as deceitful and scoundrelly as any part of this infamous felon's career. The public may judge from this specimen whether the Attorney General was not fully justified in refusing to give this champion thief his liberty in exchange for a document padded with implied accusations of the in- nocent. A Welcome Convert. The president of the Third Avenue Rail- road Company has just returned home from a European trip, made with the object of examining into the subject of rapid transit as practically presented in cities where steam roads are in operation. We are glad to say that he comes back to us a welcome convert, Indeed, he is a hopeful and eager convert, and, like all new disciples of a faith they have before condemned, he rushes into the fight with a zeal that is likely to leave all the old rapid transit legion far in the rear. The Third Avenue Railroad Com- pany, he assures us will, after his report is made, be in ‘‘dead earnest” in their de- termination to give to the people of New York rapid transit, ‘‘as substantial and thorough as the undergrourd railway ef London,” so that the working classes may be able “to move up and down, from and to the upper part of the island as quickly as they do in London, and as cheaply as they now do on the horse cars.” But this is not the most re. markable feature of the conversion. The president of the road which has hitherto been the associate of the Sixth Avenue Com- pany in its fuctious fight against rapid transit now declares that, ‘‘so far as the property owners are concerned, his investi- gations abroad lead him to state emphati- cally that a sate and good rapid transit road can be built without injury to property owners.” “Glory to God and to the Empress, Is- mail’s ours!” We have captured a great horse car railroad, and from the hands of its directors we are to look for a rapid tran- sit road that will be swiftand cheap, and will ‘‘meet with universal approbation.” This is, indeed, good news, and the people of New York will bless the steamer that carried away the president of the Third Avenue Railroad on his voyage Does | of investigation and the steamer that brought him safely back. Certainly if the Third Avenue Railroad directors and managers wit] give us rapid transit they can do s0, as their experience and business ability, and the large wealth they have realized out of their horse car business render them especially qualified for the work. But then the people have been 80 outrageously deceived and so bitterly op- posed by these horse car corporations that they will no doubt require some pledge to insure the completion of the much needed work by its new champions, Why should not the Third Avenue Railroad Company assign its present charter to the city in return for the mght to build a rapid transit road; the same to be reconveyed to the com- pany as <oon as the road shall be completed, but to be forfeited in case the road is not constructed, the company, of,.course, to continue to operate and to receive the money for their horse car line the same as usual, until the forfeit of the chatter should’ be complete? If the company is in ‘dead earnest,” as its president says, it could.not object to such an arrangement. Du Chaillu on the Stanley Explora- tions. One of the most pleasing features of Stan- ley's successful exploration is that it is huiled by all his fellow travellers in Africa as the accomplishment of the task to which each in turn set himself and to which all have contribyted their share. The experi- ences recorded by his predecessors have undoubtedly been of immense advantage to Stanley, for they prepared his mind to overcome difficulties which otherwise would have come upon him without warning. The most trivial obstacles to ordinary travel in civilized countries become magnified into insurmountable barriers when encoun- tered in the African wilds, where the ordi- nary conveniences of life are as far beyond the traveller's reach as the greatest luxuries. It is only those adventurous men who have braved the dangers of the African forests and jungles in search of knowledge who can properly appreciate the grandeur of Stanley’s undertaking and the complete- ness of its success. Among these, dis- tinguished for courage, perseverance and skill in exploration, Du Chaillu ranks ‘prominently, and it is from such a man that praise of Stanley's work can be accepted withoutia fear that it may be influenced by ignorant? -‘~--*'- -*"n the long list of emin ¥ %,---evr's who have trod the regions of Equal 1 Africa no name occurs better calculated ‘to evoke universal esteem than that of Livingstone. Yet it was to rescue this old hero that Stanley plunged into the African wilds when he commenced the jour- neys that have now been crowned with suc- cess, We present this morning M. Du Chaillu’s letter on the Stanley explorations. It will be read with the interest which this eminent traveller's writings never fail to awaken, and while tendering a graceful compliment to the Hzraup’s representative it also conveys such information as will be found useful in studying his achievements. As a preface to this communication we also publish a despatch from Washington containing the latest information received by the Department of State from the com- mercial agent of the United States at the Gaboon concerning Stanley’s arrival on the west coast of Africa, The reader cannot fail to be deeply touched by the expressions of gratitude poured out in Stanley's letter to the generous white residents at Emboma who rescued his party from death by starva- tion. None but those who have suffered the extremity of hunger can realize what that timely aid meant to the famishing travellers. Truly the wonderful endur- ance of Stanley and bis people may well cause as much astonishment as the success of the great work which he undertook in the face of the most appalling difficulties and dangers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Toy balloons in Paris are decorated with portraits of Thiers, Mr. George M. Robeson, of New Jersoy, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. William Beach Lawrence, of Rhode Island, is at the Albemarle Hotel. Ear! Russell is so old and feebio that ho Is lifted into and out of his carriage. Congressman Morse, of Massachusetts, is called a rough-and-ready business man. Harvard boys who do not go to church receive cen- sure marks for twenty-four bours, Mr. Grogoire de Willamov, Secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington, is at the Everett House, ‘The superstition about the influence of tho evil eye Increases among the common people of Scotland, Chicago Tribune ; The popular air of the Now York democrats is, ‘Shall We Gather at the Canal?’ Sons of pachas are usually sent into government offices, whero fora few years they do work without ay. "i Senator James G. Biaine, of Maino, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday, on his way to Wash- ington, Sir John Lubbock says that flies fertilize dull colored and strong smelling flowers, while bees love the brill- jant ones. ‘The planters of Madagascar who have recently taken a rage for coffee planting are opposed to a liberation of the slaves. Two Teanessee men swapped wives the other day and were well pleased, bat oflicers of the law broke up the arrangement. Sir Henry Havelock, who i visiting the Russian army, rides about with a large Cossack escort, fur- nisbed by the Czar, A French establishment for selling ladies’ goods fends to subscribers an album containing pictures. of dresses and otber articles, The Archbishop ot York recently said that it isa part of a clergyiman’s duty to play cricket, and that he purposes to join a rowing club. n P It is nice on Sunday afternoon to walk to church over in a neighboring town and bring home your coat tail pockets fall of chestnuts. The question was recently aske: man’s restaurant?” and the ans where men do not go to cat with their hats on.” A Minnesota widower went to church to marry a second wife, but forgot to take trom his hat the mourning band (hat be was wearing tor his first wire, Count Dillon, of Paris, and Colouel tho Hon, Will- Jam Henry Feliding, of England, atrived from Europe in the steamship Labrador yesterday wad are the Hotel Brunswick ‘The harvesters near Rome prefor vinegar and wator to the wine they get. Ina row they can throw their seythes with a8 much precisioa as a democrat can throw a brick. Martini, the Hungarian rifle inventor, founded his idea upon an American invention, Henry, who made a combination (or the English, was the Edinburgh gan- maker, The Turks use the Martini-Henry rifle. Colonel Ruckle, a printer of Indianapolis, wi cred Sheriff as a workingman, and by saving and specul ing he made a quarter of a miliion dollars, Reverses cume, and now he i foreman of the Journal job rooms, According to the Columbus (Ga,) Enquirer one of the 18.0 gentle. place a eS strangest (hings fn the world te to ind Southern plact. ors buying tons of Northern bay, while she beavy and Gricvous task tho whole year roand is to keep the fields clear of grass, tp the Bosnian hot springs men and women sit dressed together up to their shoulders im the seething waters; then dropping acoin into the water, which the priest of the next village fishes out for himself, they gallop round a mound close by till they have dried themselvee and their apparel, AMUSEMENTS. GILMORE'S BENEFIT. One of the highest compliments ever paid to a meme ber of the musica! profession was paid to Mr. P, s, uilmore last aight, on the oce: 8 of bis annual ben. edt concert, The building was literally packed with the best elements of New York society. Grafulia, Dodworth, Downing aad Gilmore himself ap. peared in their full dress uniforms, and all wero received with an enthusiasm chat proved their individual popularity. The members of the bands themselves, numbering about one hundred and fifty musicians, appeared in citizens?’ dress and layed as one band,througbout the e br vas ing we Mise Emma T Proch’s air apd varjations as Miss Thursby only can sing tt e per.ection of bel acc to is amazing, The eminent , came in for his fuii share of the luurelsof the evening. Tag. Kapietra was eminently successiul to an arta from “Don Carioa,”’ aud ime Teressa Carreno made the Piano heard’ throughout the vast building, whilo Arbuckle won jause in the familiar By and By.” Butthe tional feature of th ening was production of which all the ‘New York Choral Union, and string orchestra, the the forces were com! th 350 voices, ali the druin corpa of the ored brigade of anvil beaters, The peared in what they called Arad costume, coi of scarlet blouses and blue zouave cape with tassels, Mr. Gilmore has wisely concluded to repeat the “Anvil Chorus" to-night with the other strong leatures of the programme, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Mr. Josepb Proctor, a favorite actor, appears on Munday evening, at Niblo’s Garden, as Jibbenainosay in “Nick of the Woods. "? “Married and Not Married,’ acomedy drama by Leiss, in four acts, will be performed at the Academy of Music on Saturday evening. Cl Fechter will appear in due time in his new play, ‘‘Satan’s Diary,” at the Broadway Theatre, ar- rangements to this end having been completed by Mr, James Duff, The tirst concert in the Theodoré Thomas series place on Weduesday evening, October 17. The Swedish Ladies’ Vocal Quartet, and Master Leopold Lechtenberg, a violin virtuoso, will be among the attractions. Miss Emma Abbott sang at New Haven on Wednes- day evening toa large audience. It is possible that sho will sing at Gilmore’s Garden on Saturday even- ing, when Mr. Arbuckle, the celebrated cornet artist, will enjoy the compliment of a benefit, Owens will iustrate his characterizations of Solon Shingle and Mayor Wellington de Boots at the Brook- lyn Park Theatre to-night Although the public are familiar with them it wil) be long belore they will have become obsolete, On Monday Lester Wallack, tn “My Awful Dad,” will bogin an engagement of one week. The Edwin Adams benefit, which takes place this atternoon at one o’clock at the Academy of Music, wiil probably attract the largest and most fashionable audience that has been seen in New York for several years. All the available have beon secured, with the exception of some @ boxes, that aro wisely withheld by the mana ent for those who, unowill- ing to doal with the speculatora, may walt until the last moment. It is said that one party has offered $8,500 ior the receipts of the house, Orchestra seata are selling at $10 and $12, The Berlin police have followed the example given by the Hamburg authorities im forbidding Adéle Spitzeder, a former actress, who committed gigantic and wholesale frauds on poor, ignorant people in Bavaria, from a public reappearance on the stage. An enterprising manager had engaged her at a conside~ able salary to represent Maria Stuart and other tragical parts on the byards of his theatre, Placards had already been posted announcing her performance, and an overflowing house was expected, when the governmont, in the interest of public morality, fro. bibited the public acting of this noted criminal, only lately dischurged from a penitentiary on the expira- ton of a long term of imprisonment, 4 ART AT THE UNION LEAGUE. OPENING MONTHLY ALT RECEPTION AT THE CLUB. ‘The first of this season’s monthly art receptions af the Union League Club last evening drew togethers sentative assemblage of club memberi and of artists whose pictures formed part of the ex hibition tn tho gallery of theclub, These, as usual, ‘were sent tn response to an invitation sent by the Ari Committee of the club, Messrs, Richard Butler, East man Johnson, George A. Baker, J. Q. A. Ward, Thomas Hicks, Frank Waller and George C. Mugoun There were also a few foreign pictures loaned by theit owners, club members. Many well known namo were absent from the usual list of contrivutors, tor many artists have not yet roturned to their studioa, ‘and the collection was not what it will be at the next monthly reception. The banging, in goneral, was rather judicious, and the room mado a very good ap- pearance, The collection comprised some filty pictures and five or six examples im black and white, Prominent on the line hung that splendid canvas by George Innees, one of the first and most poetic of our landscape painters, ‘Near Pompton, N. J.,’? before crit cised in these columns, Not far from it was a fine ex- ample of David Jonoson, called ;*Evening,’’ cows in tho water, by great oaks, a magnificent cloud effect; throughout rich aod strong in color, in style some« what like a Constable. Next was noticed a piensing J. B. Bristol, a Jake 1a the Southern Adiroudacks, By this was Indian Falls, near Could Springs, N. Y., by Her Fuchsel, ana along the line Arihut Parton's large Academy picture, “Sycamores on the Old Snokan.” the Farm Slopes of the Mohawk,” « large cunvas by Edward Gay, next attracted attention, und near it was one of J. W. Cropsey’s characteristic autumn scenes, “On the Wawaganda, Orange Couaty, N. Y.,” lull of the brilliancy of the dying year, By this was J. H. Dolph’s ine Academy dog picture, “fhe Antechamber.”’ A large aud fine female igure py William Morgan, called ‘Reverie,’ 1s very pleas- ing J. Fitch was represented by a couplo of nice jaudscupes, one of “A Mountain Brook,” nicely ng picture vy Arthur Quarticy hung near ‘‘Reverie,” an alternoon alter a storm in Narragansett Bay, with the pier avd a tew sloops olf Au Pept | tel sky and excalient waterscape, strongly treated, A William Hart, ey ‘Cattle at a Brook in Berkshire County, hung by toe door to the left om eutering, a pleasing canvas, rich io color and painted with tat miniature-like finish Mr, Hart loves so well Next to this was a portrait of Lady Helen Blackwood, a young daughter of Lord Dulleriu, Governor General of Can- ada, sitting by a table, by Frost Johns imairable in m gement and tn general tone, Oue ot Shiriaw’s 8" , graceiul, iitle cunvases was next noticod—a littie Bavarian girl with a picturesque, old-time, flut- tug luce bonne Above this Wasa Huut litte Magrath, “The Friend of the Family,’ a fat little donkey, in a peusunt courtyard, A warm lite vit of Egyptian color, “Palms vo the Nile,” by Frank Wailer, hung on the line near, A, R, Wyant had a couple of his sugyestive ‘little pictures, a moor- land with sheep and @ larger jundscape. Une ot T. Addison Richards’ canvas was uoticed, und below {t a Julian Scott with many figures, a coutnen- tal scene, B. F, Rojnbardv’s pleasing single figure jeco Autumn’? was on the line, and pear it Winsiow omer’s *‘Adwrondack Camp,” H. A. Loop contrivuted a portrait of w ebild, and Jon G, Chapman, an Ameri. cau artist, long resident abroad aud now on a visit here, a ture of a Sabiue giriona mule, A litte piciure by H. Huinpbroy Moore, a Mourish irregular sharpening bis;scunitur, with a cruel, anticipatory Jook, was pleasing and rich iv color. Lawrie, the por- trait painter, Was represented by a pair of crayon heads, portraits of ladies very grucetully treated. J. Hopkinson Smith's strong water color landscu was pleasing, Atnong the other paintings not a dying Jay, a fine little cauvas, by Albert B an Adirondack scene, by Homer D, Martin; gust Morning,” a marine, by De silva vited Guest,’ by Holberten; a cou and quaint conceits, by F. 8. Church, Buster” and “ihe Rehear: 3. Reinhardt; ‘His Only Friend;" a neat Huie crayon head, by J. Pope; a portrait of Jouquin Miller, vy Miranda, and “A Cloudy Day,” by Cuarles H, Miller. Among the foreigu pictures were u large canvas at- tributed to Fra Bart d the young girl abo “Spring Devotions,’’ George Hoesselio, was a charming, carefully Hulo one figure picture, and there wasa Fromentin, Bedoutns mounted, Altogether it was quitea pleasing and creditable |ittle exbibition for thus early im tho art season, Among tho arilsts present were noticed Messra. Bierstadi, Inness, J. G, Brown, George F, Baker, Walter Shitlaw, Winsiow Homer, Frost Jona. son, J. H, Dolph, Humphrey Moore, Frank Waller, Chapman, of Rome; Miranda and Carter,