The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1877, Page 6

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WALLACK'S THEATKI NEW YORK AQUAKIU BROADWAY THEATRE GRAND OPERA HO BOWERY THEATRE ROPLK-CIBOrL A, NCLE Tom's Canin, UKLYN-My Awrut Dap, YN—Puixerss Roa SAN FRANCISCO ML EGYPTIAN HALL—Y. INSTRULSY, PLE SHEE TRI EW YORK MONDAY, _ OCTOBER 1, “1s71. Important Noncr To ApvERTISERS.— Zo Insure the proper classification of advertisements Mis absolutely necessary that they be handed in defore 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 warmer and foie or pare cloudy. Ow1NG To THE Anse: of ieveral republican members the Senate will tind itself nearly a tie when it meets to-day. In a full Senate the re- publicans number thirty-niue and the democrats thirty-three, with the seats of Louisiana con- tested. ConGress MEr: ‘0-Day at noon, but beyond the organization of the House it is not probable that any business of importance will be trans- acted. The culling of the roll and therdiscus- sion over contested seats will probably:occupy the greater portion of the day. Tr Is To Br Hove time in passing the Deficiency bill for the navy. The condition of officers on foreign stations is one of peculiar hardship, and ought not to be permitted to continue longer than is absolutely necessary. This need not interfere with an in- Veatigution into the disposition of the appropria- tion which should have been-applied to this pur- pose under the last administrytion. Oxv-natr or Tan Twenty-two THovsann city -| cigarmakers are on strike, and the revelations they are making in regard to their business ure anything but calculated to bring ubout a revival of the trade. If it be true, as reported, that persons barely recovered from the most con- tagious and dangerous diseases have been em- ployed to bind.up the fragrant weed, it is tine to place cigar manufacture under some sort of legal supervision. Tae Mormon Rrxc have the penetration to see that the death of Brigham Young is likely to have a most important etiect on the tuture of the Church of the Lutter Day Saints, and that to save it from dissolution in the near future it is necessary to introduce reforms which he would have laughed at and © concessions to its misguided members which he would have scorned to yield. These tactics were pursued to some extent at the late conference, and it is hardly to be wondered at that there is some- thing like a reawakening of the tast expiring faith in the superstitions and mumumeries of Mormonism. The change is the strongest sympton of the decline vmd fall of the whole fwbric of fraud and ignorance. Reform, per- haps, delays the end, but-it makes the end cer- tain. ‘Tun Sermons In THK CrurcneEs. yesterday covered a wide range, and were of unusual vigor and excellence. Nearly all of them were marked by the broadest spirit of cutholicity and were wholly free from the blemishes of denominational rancor and biti ess. Mr, Beecher enlarged upon the great need of the time, which, in his opinion, is simple honesty. Dr. Frothingham spoke interestingly and clo- quently on the impertection of man. Mr. Taimage on the annoyances of life, which he illustrated in an apt and suggestive way. Stanley, sitting down on the West Coast of Africa, sick and worn out at the end of his great journey, reading the flippant flings of some of his eri was graphically pointed by him as an illustration of his text. Reports of other sermons equally strong: and eloquent will be found in our columns. Tue Weatner.—The conditions prevailing in the northern and northwestern sections of the Unitéd States and Canada are unfavorable. A series of depressions is now moving rapidly from Montana aud Wyoming toward the mouth of the St. Lawrence, attended by very heavy winds and frequent raius. ‘The upper lake gion is particularly affected iy these storins, which almost invariably increase in evergy when | approaching large areas of water. Thus it hap- pens thut disturbances which were bit compara- tively feeble while crossing the Plains and ing through Canada assume a very dat character when they reach the Atlantic O ‘ Those now in progress through the districts re- ferred to are of that order, and it will be | well if shipmasters bound nortiiward coastwise | or to Europe take precautions accordingly. The tain area now extends from Western Dakota to | Lower Canada, along » narrow zone whose sentre line pusses through the southern part of the upper luke region. In the Southwest, as we aunonneed on Friday, the barometer has fallen sharply over Northern Texas, with rising east- erly to southeasterly winds. Southward of Florida the pressure also falls, with indications ef the approach of another cyclonic storm from the southeastward. The highest pressure is still over the Middle and South Atlantic States, A vory decided rise in temperature has taken plact over the districts cast of the Mississippi. The prevailing winds at present are southerly. The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be warmer wud fair ox partly cloudy. | the service of vohing in their 1 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, UCTOBER 15, 1877.-TRIPLE SHKKr. The Election in France, Returns of elections are not accumulated, systematized, tabulated and published in France with the rapidity that is customary in this country, and even here we do not know the next day the results of a national election. At best we should not have much more than speculations as to the result of the French elections; but a temporary breakdown of the cable connections robs us even of these, Consequently we know noth- ing to-day of the verdict rendered by the French people yesterday, But what is tobe greatly regretted is that, be the wires ever so perfect, satisfactory information will not be in our possession for some days to come, Days or weeks may pass before the issue will be known in its broadest terms save by inference, while the list of persons actually elected to the Assembly cannot certainly be made up for months, and if the division of the country has been close, or if the official functionaries have been able to cloud thé issue in many cases s0 as to pre- sent the appearance of a close division, the result can only be known when it is possi- ble to make up that list. There is but one possible exception to this statement. If the country should go so overwhelmingly with the republicans that there was no opposi- tion that fact would become known; but such a result is not likely. All this delay in returns is a consequence of the paternal spirit that lingers in all possible parts of the administrative machinery. In this country it is recognized that to permit the results of an election to linger in the pigeon holes of official functionaries is to directly tempt and aid those who would tamper with the vote, Consequently it must be countedimmediately and publicly declared. Inthe half dozen or dozen per- sons who constitute the public. where that declaration is made one or more is s reporter or other associate of the newsgathering organization of the press of the country. Such an associate present in every election district in a State or in the whole country telegraphs the result us de- clared, or sends it by the most rapid means of communication to some central point of that neighborhood, and from similar central points in every neighborhood the result is sent to the great cities and published in the newspapers at a day that would be con- sidered wonderfully early in any other country but this, where people are so used toit that they do not esteem it so note- worthy as it really is. But this is the achievement of the newspaper press. In France the newspaper press does not" exist in this sense, andif it did it would be embarrassed and obstructed by the govern- ment, which would not regard with good will any attempt of private enterprise to deal with what is deemed an official prerog- ative—the manipulation of election returns and declaration of the result. It is to be regretted that in France there is not greater rapidity in the publication of the results of elections, This is one of the vital points of the political systems in which the national sovereignty is exercised by universal suffrage. In this country, it is true, with all our rapidity there is fraudulent manipulation of the election re- turns, and the result of the voting is some- times falsified. ‘his only proves, however, that rapidity in this respect is not an abso- lute guarantee. But if scoundrels in office can cheat the people where rapid publica- tion really supplies a public supervision of their acts, what would they not do in that way if they might labor at their will in con- tinued obscurity—if they could delay their count for the convenience of party leaders and repel all public curiosity and in- quiry as an impertinence? In such a system the decision by the will of the people at tho polls would be- come a farcical formality. It is our opinion, moreover, that even here frauds are practised in proportion as it is possible to prevent early publicity. ‘This was shown strikingly in the Louisiana and Texas returns in the last Presidential election; and fraud and delayed returns have been the common tfea- tures of all elections in the carpet-bagged States for years. This scarcely agrees with the views of those who believe that the Tam- many leaders have often falsified the returns in this city on a large scale; butif they could have done that they would never have resorted to the system of repeaters. It will be recalled that when they wanted to count ina man ona famous occasion they sent word to remote points to delay re- turns there in order that fraud practised at those points might make up what was found to be wanting here—an admission in its way of the difficulties of falsification where speedy publicity is certain. But this obscurity that favors fraud covers the acts of all functionaries in France who have to do with the election returns. It was shown a few years ago in a remarkable inquiry set on foot by the National Assem- bly that a singular kind of wholesale falsiti- éation was habitually practised under the kmpire to the advantage of all official can- didates. The functionary who is equivalent to our inspector of election sat at the polls all day with the list before him of the voters of his district. As each one voted his name was checked off, but when night came it was found that many-~often the larger num- ber--had not appeawed at the polls at all, Then the functionary rose to the dignity of the occasion. He read the names of those who had nots voged. He recognized that they were men whom he knew | to be good citizens. What is the impulse of a good citizen? To sup- port the goverment, clearly. Therefore the functionary did all these good citizens nes as he knew they would vote ifthey were there— that is, he ecst all their votes for the official candidates. All that system has been re- vived since tie 16th of May under the spe- cial supervisuon of M. Fourtou, an old im- perial functinnary. Never before was the abominable system of official more flagrantly operated than it has been in this canvass. By comparison with the gov- ernment of Marshal MacMahon the gov- ernment of Louis Napoleon might be re- garded asa punctilious concern on points of political fair play. All the electoral ma- chinery of the country is manipulated by the tools of an utterly unscrupulous Min. istry determined to win, and, therefore, candidates | seurity that can so well cover their iniqui- tous practices. © But if the voice of the country can be made honestly effective in the result there is this great satisfaction—it fully compre- hends the issue before it. France is to de- termine not simply on o form of govern- ment, but on its fateas anation. It might almost be said that the independent exist- ence of the French people is at stake; for where a people is compelled to conform its conduct to the will of a neighbor its inde- pendence ends, and if France does not put down this gigantic papal intrigue that fights all progress and liberty in the name of con- servatism and order ; if it accepts that dic- tation from Rome which its government has accepted it will find itself face to face with Germany and Italy ‘allied in view of this very contingency, and will be compelled to renounce diplomatically before Eu- rope that which it had formally ac- cepted at its own altars by a great electoral act. But the French people will scarcely need an incentive like this to in- duce them to reject the candidates of the coalition. France is republican to the core ; republican in the sense that she will be controlled in her political functions by her own will, and not by the will of any indi- vidual who fancies himself fit to be her master. Every nation that is proud, intel- ligent and self-conscious is and must be republican in this sense. ‘Uhat is the spirit of the nation, and they who would sup- press this spirit recognize at once its ex- istence and strength by pretending that their only desire is to serve it. But it is impossible that the nation can be deceived by this pretence. Its percep- tions are too acute for it toaccept as friends of the constitution and republicans all the fag ends of the parties that have fullen to pieces through the fact of republican suc- cesses, When bishops command services in the churches that the faithful may pray for the success of MacMahon’s candidates, and add that the Pope has decreed certain in- dulgences for whoever takes part in these services, he must be an unusual kind of Frenchman who does not deem it strange that the Pope should take such an extra religious interest in the political ‘fortunes of France. And when M. Rouher is presented as an official candidate and urges the cause of MacMahon people will certainly contemplate Mac- Mahon’s good will toward the Republic in the light of the political company he keeps. It is not possible for the nation to mis- understand the intentions of the adminis- tration, and it is not possible for the ad- ministration to give effect to those intentions unless the popular will is suppressed. Interesting Letters of Deceased States- men, We print elsewhere an interesting collec- tion of private letters written by illustrious men who were prominent in public affairs twenty or more years ago. Among them are several by Abraham Lincoln before his fame had become national ;a long one by Salmon P, Chase so early as 1841, when he was already an ardent foe of slavery ; two or three brief ones by General Scott in the first and second years of the war; one by Henry Clay explaining the absurd charge that he had stolen a negro boy ; and one by Secretary Stanton, intimating to Mr. Chase President Lincoln’s probable intention to appoint him to the Chief Justiceship. These private letters, written in the confidence of friendship, give truer glimpses of character than for- mal productions, prepared for the public eye. They are all honorable to the writers, but those of Mr. Lincoln will be read with most interest. On one point, the Fugitive Slave law, the views which he held will no doubt shock some of his admirers, while others will regard them as a proof of the rugged honesty of his char- acter. So long as the duty of surrendering fugitives from labor was made a duty by the constitution Mr. Lincoln was strongly op- posed to attempts to circumvent that plain constitutional provision either by legal refinements or insidious legis- lation. He did not believe in getting round a positive engagement by any sort of chicanery. The man to whom the country is most indebted for the abolition of slavery, and whose name will be hallowed by the Atrican race while the world lasts, respected the faith of contracts even when the con- tract was condemned by every instinct of humanity. Equal Division of Wealth, The advocates of woman's suffrage are not supposed to be the wisest of mankind, but the members of the Massachusetts Asylum had enough common sense the other day to suppress a resolution which was too insane for even their toleration. Some unhappy person, who had apparently escaped from lis keepers, rose in the asylum and de- nounced the Secretary of the Treasury, on the ground, if we understand his speech, that there should be no Treasury and no Secre- tary, and that Mr. Sherman is, therefore, a gormandizer of the money of the people. ‘These bold opinions were then embodied in a resolution demanding the equal distribu- | tion of wealth immediately, and warning the Rothschilds and Barings for the last time. Alarmed at this radical suggestion the wealthier members directed” the resolution to be locked up in the dark dungeon of the asylum, and a straitjacket, it is said, was placed promi- nently upon the Speaker's table, The production of this familiar article of dress is believed to have silenced the eloquence of many persons who had pecuniary reasons for sustaining the resolution. This is to be regretted, for it would have been interest- ing to learn upon what plan it is proposed that the equal distribution of wealth shall | be made, Thus far the advocates of the scheme want the process to begin at the top and to go on gradually to the bottom till there shall be neither bottom nor top, but nothing but a level, on which wealth shall be equally divided and there- fore shall no longer exist. This plan, how- | bution idea should begin the reform, Let them set the noble example of giving their wealth to persons poorer than themselves. This, weregret to say, they do not appear { there is.gccasion to reoret the delav and ole | diwnosed to da And thia axtrama readie | now started on its ever, does not seem to work, and we sug- | gest that the advocates of the equal distyi- | ness to take and deep reluctance to give almost inclines us to believe that they are not quite so mad as they seem. The Nez Perce Campaign. Further and interesting details of the surrender of Chief Joseph and his Nez Percé braves are furnished by the special de- spatches from the Hznaup correspondent in the field. His graphic story will be found in other columns. By these despatches we gain a clear idea of the importance and com- pleteness of the victory gained by General Miles and learn to appreciate the military skill shown by this remarkable tribe of In- dians. It is also interesting to find General Howard, the “Bible Chief,” as Joseph styles him, on the scene of the surrender. That the Nez Percé chief admires a real good fighter is shown by the distinction he made between General Howard and General Miles on coming in to give himself up as a prisoner. The narrative reads a good deal like a page from a Cooper novel, and for the first time since the Indian troubles began we find a tribe of ‘‘hostiles” who are not wholly savages. The resources possessed by Joseph and the magnificent arms carried by his warriors prove how rapidly the Indian has pro- gressed in the arts of modern warfare, while the engineering skill and military strategy displayed by these Nez Percé braves elicit our admiration. Surely so braveand heroic a tribe of red men deserves honorable treat+ ment at the hands of the government. Though they fought desperately they be- trayed none, of those brutal instincts and practices which have hitherto accompanied the operations of the hostile Indians, These Nez Percé warriors refrained from murder- ing wounded prisoners in their hands, and they even declined to take any scalps from the dead, and the officers and men who fought them express a high appreciation of their foes. Brave men like these can be made good citizens if the government pur- sues & generous course with them. The surrender of Joseph is not only a gratifying end to a troublesome and ex- pensive campaign, but it is important in its influence on the attitude of Sitting Bull. The leader of the rebellious Sioux will doubtless see the futility of any further op- position to the government and speedily imitate the Nez Percé chief in surrendering himself. That the commission appointed to treat with him hold this view is a good sign, and the probabilities are that the en- tire Indian trouble will be settled without further bloodshed. In such an event it behooves the govern- ment to show the Indians that in future they will be fairly treated and that all prom- ises will be strictly carried out. Gain the confidence of the Indian by honest fulfil- ment of all treaties and protect him against the dishonest greed of the traders, and there will be no more wars, While doing all this the government should see that the Indians are prevented in accumulating mili- tary stores and thus remove all temptation to goon the warpath. Prevention, not cure, is what is needed. Shall We Have Relief? There has been a slight increase in the water supply since the recent rains, but the city still suffers from an insufficient flow, and we are dependent on the weather for farther improvement. It is scandalous that a city like New York, with such ample re- sources at her command, should be placed in such a position, The fault lies with those ex- officials who, while squandering or stealing the public money, neglected necessary pub- lic works. The new reservoir, which will be completed by next December, should have been finished years ago. Its capacity is four thousand million gallons, and this reserve is relied upon by the enginecrs of the Croton Bureau as ample to give us a sufficient supply in seasons of drought. If these cal- culations are correct we may hope that the present year will be the last in which any scarcity will be felt. It is contemplated, however, to put another reservoir under contract next spring, which will be com- pleted, under faithful work, in three years, The Commissioner of Public Works contem- plates in addition the supply of the newly annexed territory from the Bronx River, an improvement that could be secured at comparatively small outlay and would afford some relief to the Croton, These measures will probably remove all risk of a repetition of our present annoy- ances and danger and insure us a plentiful supply next year, provided the aqueduct is strengthened so as to render it certain that it will carry the additional volume of water to be supplied through the means of the new reservoir. But the question of the ex- pediency of building a second aqueduct and of drawing on anew source of supply still remains. ‘The cost would be some millions of dollars, it is true, but sound economy would dictate the prompt com- mencement and gradual prosecution of a work that will be one day a necessity. The Housatonic River is looked to by the department as affording the most ready, the most promising and the cheapest new source of supply. It would require the consent of the State of Con- necticut to tap that river, and we should, no doubt, have to pay for the privilege. Even if we should not commence work on this new aqueduct for some years to come it would be wise to take time by the forelock and secure at once the right to use the Housatonic waters whenever we may need them. The Prize Secured. Thanks to the courtesy of the Khedive of Egypt and the liberality and public spirit of a citizen of New York whose name is not yet made known our city has a fair prospect of being before long graced by one of those two famous obelisks which have stood for two thousand years on tho shore of the Levant, and are familiarly known as “Cleopatra's Needles.” One of these inter- esting relics of past ages has long been held in ownership by England, but has only voyage to Lon- don, where it will henceforth gratify the pride of cockneydom and the curiosity of visitors, Its companion has been gencrously offered to New York by the Khedive, and, according to the World, o gentleman of wealth whose name is identified with the commercial areatnasa of the matronolia baa signified his readiness to cut short the ques- tion of the cost by defraying the expense of transportation out of his private purse. The contractors who are transporting the Eng- lish obelisk to London have proposed to de- liver its fellow on our docks for one hun- dred thousand dollars, and, no doubt, bar- ring accidents, they will fulfil their agree- ment. Let us have the obelisk by all means. As the Khedive is willing to part with it no better place could be selected as its future resting place than the metropolis of the American continent. We shall have the satisfaction of securing at least one public monument which will not bear the stain of a job to mar its beauty. Of course there can be no room for deception in the matter. We shall get the real, original article, and there is no danger that some bogus concern will be palmed off on us in its place. It will be one of the most interesting ornaments of the city, and will share with the Central Park and the other attractions of the metropolis the atten- tion and admiration of our visitors. Courtney Beat Wallace Ross at the Sculls? While Courtney has rowed more single scull races than any other man in this coun- try, so far he has never been beaten. There is little doubt that, could he have met Walter Brown, Josh Ward, James Hamill, or, in- deed, any of our best scullers in their palmiest days, he could have rowed them down, and it is still not certain that he will have to cross the Atlantic to find his master at the oar. In the amatéur field he never met a good man as large and strong as him- self. Curtis and Riley are certainly not his equal in this respect. As a professional in open races Courtney has met all the best men we have, save perhaps Luther, of Pitts- burg, whom he can probably whip. He has met no first class man simply because we have none at this time. Butnow he is to be pitted against a man who trains four or five pounds heavier than Courtney, is very large and strong, comes of a rowing family of great reputation on both sides of the Atlan- tic, and is not only a ‘“‘stayer,” but, in his race with Plaisted, was never headed. Court- ney has always had antagonists whom he could afford to give the lead for the first mile, knowing that he could wear them out. But if he finds that Ross can get away faster than any other he has yet met, and can hold his pace, how will he fare then? If in all the races he has rowed hitherto he has done his best when in good condition he is likely now to be beaten. If, on the other hand, the reserve power which seemed to exist the other day at Owasco Lake, at Saratoga, and in all his races last fall on the Schuylkill—and which his un- commonly deliberate style of rowing strongly suggests—is still available, then his measure, as it is said to have been taken by the great English captain, Gul- ston—namely, that he is the best man he ever saw—is doubtless correct, and the American public, which has already been much gratified at his long and brilliant record, has in store still a greater treat in the defeat of an unusually formidable foe. His friends are now reported to be nego- tiating for matches with the best men be- yond the Atlantic, and Courtney may have a chance of rowing against the best men in the world. Can Meeting of Congress To-Day. It is safe to infer that President Hayes desires a short session from the announce- ment that his Message will touch on no topics of general policy and be strictly con- fined to the objects for which the extra session was called. Congress is indeed at liberty to disregard his wishes in this re- spect ; once assembled the two houses can protract the session as long as they think fit, and either House can take up any sub- jects of legislation it pleases. But if Con- gress is prudent it will not go into general questions now. There can be no intelligent legislation without accurate knowledge of the transactions of the year. This infor- mation is furnished at the open- ing of every regular session, in the Annual Message of the President, the annual reports of heads of departments, and the detailed statements of the subordi- nate bureaus: It would be absurd to legis- late without this information, and it would be a serious interruption of the business of the departments for Congress to call for it in fragments, on this subject and on that, at a season when the whole clerical force and the utmost industry of the departmental chiefs are needed for getting up the regular annual reports, Even the briefest session will intertere more or less with this neces- sary labor, and no useful end would be served either by attempts to legislate in the dark or by such constant calls on the de- partments for special information as would interrupt the preparation of their annual reports. It would, therefore, be wise to confine the work of the extra session to matters of urgent necessity. There are political reasons which should operate with equal force to shorten this extra session, Congress neéds to act, not only on the full and accurate information laid before it in the annual reports, but also on a correct estimate of the public opinion of the country. The unexpected result of the Ohio election confuses all judgments on this point. One set of interpreters, with President Hayes at their head, attributes the surprising result in Ohio to local causes peculiar to that State; another set regards the Ohio election as a symptom of general dissatisfaction with the policy of the Presi- dent in his own party. The November elections will determine which of these views is correct, and any opinion formed on the subject in advance will be mere conjecture, When New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and the other November States shall have spoken both political parties will see where they stand. Neither party can take advantage of the po- litical situation until it knows what it is. ‘Lhe result in @ State so peculiarly situated as Ohio is too narrow a basis for a safe judg- ment. Since it is not prudent for either party to take a leap in the dark it is to be presumed that the cautious and sagacious leaders of both will prefer to await the reg- ular session before going into large meas- uras of general legislation, A short extra Sh 2 edad Bi ee SEI oe SED On session is for the true interest of both pare ties and all factions, As President Hayes wishes this session to be short his re« publican supporters will doubtless adopt his view. His republican opponents should naturally prefer to wait until other States have held their elections before deciding how far they will carry their opposition to the new policy. The democrats have powers ful reasons for keeping the currency ques- tion, at least, out of the extra session, The tendency of the great democratic victory in Ohio is to embolden the advocates of the Western financial heresies, and if they are allowed full scope to propose measures now they may ruin their party in the important Eastern States that are to hold elections in November. We are prepared to expect that after time has been had for general consul- tation among party leaders on both sides they will concur with the President as to the expediency of a short session. Besides the army appropriation, which will be the chief topic of the President’s Message, there ‘is one other topic of such urgency that Congress should give it some attention at the extra session. We refer to the troubles on the Rio Grande, a subject which we sincerely hope may not be brought into party politics, Even this question should not be gone into at large. It will suffice for Congress to make it evident that it watches with jealousy and solici- tude events which might lead to a war, and to assert its constitutional au. thority to be the sole and exclusive judga of measures which may tend in that direc. tion. Congress will discharge its whole duty on this subject if it insures a main- tenance of the status quo until the regular session, Even this may, perhaps, best be done by consultations between the Secre- tary of Stute and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and of the House, too, if its committees should be appointed before the close of the extra session. We can think of no other subjects which might not better be postponed until the regulaz session, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The following Americans registered at the HzraLp Bureau in Pari: terday :— J. L, Hatch, New York, Splendide Hotel, F, Fullam, Grand Hotel. W. G. David, Grand Hotel, A. F, Fechteler, Grand Hote V. 8. Nelson, Grand Hotel. G. W. Denfleld, Grand Hotel. F. W. Toppan, Grand Hotel N. J. Halpine, Grand Hotel. F. R, Hewitt, Grand Hotel. Hh. W. Harrison, Grand Hotel. Arthur Beckett, New York, Splendide Hotdl, A. F. Stowe, Massachusetts, Splendide Hotel, J. W. Jones, New York, Hotel de Londres et Now York. F. D. Morton, New York. Louis Le Grand, Massachusetts, Splondide Hotel, Mrs, L, J. Little, Maine, Hotel de Londres ot New York, William Babcock, San Francisco, Splendide:.‘otel. Edward Piggott, Boston, Splendide Hotel, George Little, Maine, Hotel de Londres et New York, W. H. Redington and family, California, Splendide Hotel. A, 8. Tupp and wife, Massachusetts, Hotel de Patbenee. J. E, Chapman, Portland, Me., Hotel de Londres et Now York. George I, Watson, Boston, Hotel de PAtnease. Miss A. F. Carponter, Maino, Hotel de Londres et New York. M. U. Scudder, San Francisco, Splendide Hotel. Secretary Evarts and Senators Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, and Amb E, ssurnside, of Rhode Island, were fellow passengers on the train for Washington last evening. Give the Colorado atone man a chance. The rising politician of Minnesota is a man miller, Mr, Caird regards Englaad, commorcially, as oue great town. At the Vienna theatres no checks are given for per- sons to go out with between acts. ‘There 1g an increasing excess of departures over ar- rivals of Chinese at San Francisco, An English woman, whena tract was banded to her, replied, ‘Thank you, I am already saved.’ “Laughing Sam’? is a Wyoming ruilian, who goes gunning for an enemy and shoots him at sight, It is proposed that trades unions publish statistics and argumeats as social science organizations do, The Denver .Vews, taking a Hxna.p article for a text, argues in favor of abolishing promiscuous hand- shaking. When the Emperor of Germany reviews his troops they do not appear on the ground until fifteen minutes before his arrival. In St Petersburg most of the houses are of six or seven stories, which are higher than those of Paris, and are rented in flats. One of the best routes for autumn tramping is from Graycourt up the Warwick Valley. There are {uir hotels, if oue is not too particular, Graycourt 1s two hours’ ride trom New York, There isa man in Newton county, Georgia, who, dure ing the late civil war, made a vow never to cut bis hair or shave until the indepondence of the Southern Con- federacy was established, He hae kept his vow in- violate, Mr. Nicodemas Barnes still fancies that America may possess an Egyptian obelisk. Mr Barnes’ failure in everything relating to literature outside of labels shouid be a warning to him not totouch art, Pore haps, however, he wishes to see whether 8, T.—1960.X was not carved on the Egyptian shaft, Says an English journal:—"The Crown Princess of Germany and her Imperial husband aro most anxious that their eldest son, Prince William, should have the benelit of a long residence in England, ‘the only country,’ says the amiable Princess, ‘where he learn how to become a gentleman.’ Tho Princ Princess wished their boy to bave quarters at one of the royal palaces, but here difficulties arose, and the result is that the Crown Prince has taken a houso for the lodgings of the future Emperor of Germany.”? MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Mr. W. F. Mills, the pianist, will play at the New Haven Opera House this ovening. Miss Emma C, Thursby will give a grand concert at the Academy of Music on the 29th of October, The first grand concert of Theodore Thomas takeg place on Wednesday ovoniag, at Steinway Hall, Miss Louisa Lessiie, the well known reader and elo cuttoniat, 1s about to enter upon her usaal wintes tour. ‘La Marjolaine”’ gives way to “Girofle-Girofl the Broadway Theatre, to-night This is the last weet but two of the Aimée opera bouffo season, Miss Emma Abbott sings in concert to-night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and will be assisted by Arbuckle, Stanley, Ferranti, ‘reno and Robyn, ‘The Bryant Minstrels p tw large and attractive evening programme. The jats are excellent and the music is fine, Their place at 728 and 730 Broad. way 18 among the most enjoyable in the city. Mile, Venturoli, a premier danseuse who some yoara ago was one of the principal dancers in the “Black Crook,’’ is living iu this city in a state of extrome poverty, wantiog even nutritions food, She is inca- pacitated by paralysis from pursuing her protession and requires prompt aid. The mavagers of the Great London Circus and San- ger’s Brit'sh Meuagerie, which opens at Gilmore's Garden, Monday evening, Octover 22, promise the best and Jargest exhibition ever seen in New York. Thoy say Uhat many of their artists have no living equals, and that their principal artist, Mine. Dockrill, hag never hada rival, They also promise excellence in the way of entertainment never before given by a cir- cus, and confidently anticipate @ season here of the greatest triumola