The New York Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD Tr ae and the Administra- | . BROADWAY ‘AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, E DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. cent er my Candiys snctudedy” Ten dolincs’ yor yor at erate vf one dollar per month for any period lesa ‘months, of five dollars Jor six imonths, Sunday ‘pestace. HERALD.—One dollar per year, tree of post- ‘TO SUBSCRIBERS.—In order to insure atten- subscribers wishing their address changed must give Bee Nae cetera enone mt 5 tel a eee Rejected com = roperty sealed. Ye returned. 212 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— PARis OFFIGE-AVENUR DE LOPERA NAPLES OPFICE—NO. 7 31) PAC nettles atiacrbadey rau ELPHIA OFFICE—NO. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. WALLACK’S THEATRI ‘Sravex Ou, GERMANIA THEATRE—Die Loxws pss Tacks, EAGLE THEATRE—May Copy. STEINWAY HALL—Tuow. AMERICAN INSTITUTE— CHICKERING HALL—Sinaiw’ Skawe, TONY PASTOR'S—Vauerr. OLYMPIC THEATRE—Vanierty. BAN PRANCISCO MINSTRELS, EGYPTIAN HALL—Vaniery. COLUMBIA OPERA NO BRYANT’S OPERA HOU een ons =Vau OQ usec TRIPLE SHEET. OBER 17, 1877, Iuprortant Norice to Abvertisers.—Zo insure the proper clussification of advertisements it 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 cooler and fair or partly cloudy, fol- lowed by increasing cloudiness toward night, Watt Srrert Yestenvay.—The stock market was fairly dctive, and stocks were as a rule feverish. Gold fell from 1031 to 102%. Government bonds were lower, States dull and railroads generally higher. Money on call was in good demand at 6 per cent, advancing during the afternoon to 7 aud closing at 5 a 6 per cent. Tne Deatu Kare is, fortunately, decreasing. Asorner AbVANcE in West-bound freight has Deen ordered. Pretty Goop Trak was made on the Fleet wood track yesterday. Tur Horn or tHe Huntsman will be heard tn Queens county to-day. San Francisco has added another to the long list of broken Ruroerrs Coie it appears from our de- spatches, will be without a graduating class in As79. ‘Two or Cuicaco’s absconding bankers have sousiderately returned to help unravel their rascality. Two Boys, each only seven years old, were found in a hopeless state of intoxication on the streets yesterday. Rocer Wituaxs’ Sratve "was yesterday hbruded over to the authorities of Providence with all the appropriate formalities, Liverroot’s RoyaL Insurance Company has generously given five hundred dollars toward the Seventh regiment armory fund. Now Tat Work has been resumed in all the coal mines it is to be hoped the operators will make an advance in wages as soon as possi- ble. Neary Tex Tuousanp cigarmakers are now on strike, and the number is increasing daily. The manufacturers will probably soon put up prices. JeRsky’s CHANCELLOR hus decided that the title of the State in the Stevens battery is valid and unconditional, The victory is a doubt- ful one. In tHE Orrnion of the Corporation Counsel she proposed ordinance against conceuled weapons is entirely proper. It ought to be passed at once. Tne Proczepines of the Convention of the {International Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers, which meets in Boston to-day, will be watched with interest. Tue Learner Trave, at least in the Eastern States, shares in the general business depression. Reciprocity with Canada is one of the measures of relief suggested by the Convention now in session. ‘Tue Crosrxe of the Fall River Print Works, the largest in the country, und the reported financial embarrassment of a similar establish- ment iu Philadelphia, look rather bad for that branch of business. Turn News From Srrrinc is encourag- ing. It will be seen by our special despatches that he has gone into a Canadian fort to await the arrival of the commission, which is march- ing as rapidly as possible to meet him. The prospects of u satisfuctory settlement are ex- cellent. Tun Weatur The depression which on Monday was north of Lake Superior has moved suutheastward across the St. Lawrence Valley and the New England States, onthe line which we indicated it would follow. Rains continue to attend this disturbance, but the winds have not yet increased force to any considerable dv- gree, In the Southwest the depression which we also predicted would be developed has en- | tered the Lower Mississippi Valley States, with attendant rains, which extend northward to the Red River Valley. This depression will very probably develop into a storm of considera- ble ene as it advances eastward. It has already exercised «4 marked — in- fluence on the ares of high pressure in advance of it, and may divide the latter in two on a Jine parallel with the Ohio Valley, and through the outlet so formed pass toward the Middle Atlantic coast. Light raits have fallen through the Missouri and Upper Mississippi val- leys, and variable winds und cloudiness prevail over that section. The highest pressures are at present in Manitoba and the South Atlantie Statea, The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be covler and fair or partly cloudy, followed by inereasing cloudiness toward even- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1877—TRIPLE SHEET. Message—The Dem- tion. The Message sent in yesterday affords lit- tle scope for comment, It is brief, direct, businesslike, and is so strictly confined to the few subjects which rendered the extra session necessary as to raise no questions on which there can be a reasonable difference of opinion. Nobody disputes that the army ought to be paid. The ground on which the appropriation for paying it was with- held by the last House of Representatives has entirely disappeared. The army appro- priation failed in the last Congress because the democratic House inserted a proviso, which the republican Senate refused to accept, forbidding the use of troops to set up or to pull down State governments in the South, The wise and gencrous South- ern policy of President Hayes has rendered such a precaution superfluous, Nobody doubts his sincerity, and there can be no further democratic objection to passing the Army Appropriation bill in its usual form. Every Southern State has now a democratic Governor and a democratic Legislature, and there will be no more bogus applications for federal assistance in suppressing domes- tic violence, The army asit now exists is authorized by law, and the men who have been legally en- listed ought to be promptly relieved from him an absolute power of removal at his pleasure. From a democratic point of view it would be attended with the advantage of permitting the dem- ocratic President, if a democrat should be elected in 1880, tomake ao clean sweep of the republican employés of the government and fill their places with democrats. But we doubt whether the democratic members will be controlled by this consideration. A repeal of the Tenure of Office law would make the President independent, not only of his own party, but independent of the democrats. They will probably prefer to retain such control over him as they possess, Under the Tenure of Office law he can only suspend officers, but cannot remove them without the consent of the Senate. The democrats are strong enough in the Senate to insure such consentin every case when they approve of the action of the President, and they will probably prefer to keep him in a condition of dependence on their votes instead of giving him a curte blanche power to remove officers at his pleasure. They do not expect any serious differences between a democratic President and a demoeratic Senate and will prefer to keep the hold they have on President Hayes in his dependence on them for the success of his removals, The Republican Majority in France. Some disposition to put interpretations the inconvenience and suffering entailed by ‘on, thé. neanlta of alechions..is. to.,be,found long postponement of their pay. ‘The President recommends an immediate ap- propriation sufficient to pay the army on the present scale for the remainder of the fiscal year, without waiting to determine what the future size of the army shall be. If Congress should hereafter de- cide to reduce the army there would be an unexpended balance of the appropriation left in the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year. IfCongress should decide to increase the army it can then appropriate more money. So long as the army remains fixed by low at its present maximum its support should be provided for on that basis, This recommendation of the President is so plain a dictate of common sense and com- mon justice that it should encounter no opposition. The President also recom- mends appropriations to supply deficiencies in the Navy and the Department of Justice, and also small appropriations to enable our citizens to take part in the Paris Inter- national Exposition and the International Prison Congress at Stockholm. Action on the two last is recommended now in order to afford adequate time for preparation. As there is no topic in the Message which can be made a party question we trust Congress will act promptly without consuming time in idle debate. On these non-partisan subjects, at least, Mr. Hayes deserves the cordial support of his political opponents. The indications from Washington tend to show that while the democratic members will stand by their party they will make no factious opposition to President Hayes, They will steadily support his Southern policy®and will give nojaid to the republi- can opponents of his civil service policy. His treatment of the South is precisely the same that would have been adopted by Mr. Tilden, and is more successful than it could have been under a democratic Presi- dent. Had Mr. Tilden been elected, and had he taken precisely the same steps, the whole republican party would have assailed him, but Mr. Hayes has prac- tically nullified the republican opposition to a liberal Southern policy by carrying a majority of his party with him and reducing the opposition to a mere fight of factions within the republican lines, Adding Mr. Hayes’ republican supporters to the citi- zens who voted for Mr. Tilden there is ot least a three-fourths majority of the people of the Northern States which approves of the pacific pojicy of the President. It is probable that more than four-fifths of the voting population of the United States are pleased with, or at least acquiesce in, Mr. Hayes’ Southern policy. With so powerful a support it can never be reversed. Nothing is more completely cer- tain than the success of the President's Southern policy. Three years hence it will be a matter of wonder that any republican leader who claimed rank as a statesman should have been so blind as to oppose it, Mr. Hayes’ attempt to reform the civil service will also receive the nearly unani- mous support of the democrats in both houses, though not, we fear, from mo- tives so generous and disinterested. The effect of prohibiting the great army of federal office-holders from any active part in politics is to put the democratic party, though out of power in the federal administration, on precisely the same level as the republican party, | which is in power. It would be a calamity to the democrats to have this policy broken down by republican opposition. It Mr. Hayes is upheld in it and perseveres in it until the Presidential election of 1880 the democratic party will not have to fight against the powerful and colossal patronage of the federal government. The civil ser- several hundred thousand votes to the dem- ocratic party in the next Prosidential con- ‘not force him to abandon it. It is to be presumed that the democratic Senators are not so blind to opportunities as to permit the President to be worsted in a contest with his own party on the civil service order, The democrats, who do not control the federal patronage, are the chief party in interest in nullifying it as a makeweight in national polities. Unless they are po- litically demented the democratic Senators will not permit President Hayes to come to grief in his dificulty with his own party about the civil service order. They will, doubtless, vote to confirm all his appoint- ments if the men are respectable and compe- tent, and he is too prudent to nominate any who would not make good officers. It has been suggested that the democrats in Congress would do a shrewd thing if they would repeal the Tenure of Office law. ‘They could easily carry a repeal bill throngh the House, where they have a majority, and the President has republican friends enough in the Senate to carry the repeal through that body with the democratic votes. A repeal of the Tenure of Office law would completely [ untie the hands of the President by giving taking | vice policy of President Hayes will be worth | test if tne republicans in Congress should | wherever the national will consulted in that way disappoints any one’s expectations; and the endeavor of the French administration to soften its fall by reference to the dimin- ished number of members returned by the republicans is only natural in the cireum- stances, and what is usually seen. It will be a very satisfactory effect of this kind of small vanity if in the case before us it af- fords a suflicient salve to the damaged dig- nity of the reactionary coalition to induce the Ministry to pretend to be satisfied with the result. It is as good tactics now as it ever was to build a golden bridge for the retreat of a dangerous enemy ; and if the enemies of the Republic are inspired to begin their retreat by creeping through so small a hole as this it will be a great ad- vantage practically and morally. Itis, how- ever, a delusion to count the gains against the republicans as they are counted by the adherents of the coalition. The republi- cans have lost a certain number of arron- dissements which they previously held, and have gained some others, but they have lost-a larger number than they have gained. These seats are” the ones whose ten- ure was made somewhat uncertain by the changed relations between Marshal MacMahon and the republican party. The former republican majority was somewhat deceptive on account of those relations. Certain districts, not strictly republican on a fair vote for or against the Republic, were represented by republicans who were under, stood to be in sympathy with the Marshal and disposed to support his policy. This, of course, was before his policy appeared in the light in which it has been seen since the 16th of May, In the elections of 1876 many republican candidates commended themselves to voters by declaring them- selves favorable to the Marshal, and thus obtained the prestige almost of official candi- dates. It was altogether uncertain to how great a degree this fact invalidated the supposition that France was really re- publican. Undoubtedly the faith that a large number of districts had’ sent repub- lican Deputies, not from their love of the Republic, but because the Deputies had been covered with the prestige of the Mar- shal’s name, was an important factor in MacMahon’s delusion as to the state of opin- ion, He was encouraged by his flatterers to believe that the use of his name had elected about three hundred members. But with the Marshal’s name fairly set on one side and the Republic on the other it is found that there are changes both ways, and that as a net result there are about forty districts less for the Republic than previously ap- peared. That is the simple explanation of the reduction in the republican majority, which is still amply large. Ghazi Mouvkhtar’s Defeat. The flanking movement by the Russians against the Turkish lines east of Kars has at length proved successful. After the aban- donment of his advanced position at Kizil Tepe, which was necessitated by the mass- ing of large Russian forces ‘against his lett wing, Moukhtar Pacha retired to a strong position on the Aladja Dagh, a range of hills overlooking the plains which extend be- tween the rivers Arpe-Chi and the Kars- Chi, the scene of the recent heavy fighting, In this position, and in more compact formation than when he held the Kizil Tepe line, the ‘Turkish commander awaited developments. These came in the shape of a powerful assault on his lines by the Russians, which resulted in his complete defeat, with the loss of many guns and his camp, Our special despatch from near the scene of the battle, published this morning, gives the details of the engagement. Moukhtar’s broken army must now depend on its legs to reach Kars in safety; but there is a prob- ability that the Cossacks may get there first | and spoil the Turkish plans. The turning point of the campaign in Armenia seems to have been reached, and we are fully sus- | tained by late events in the views we have | expressed as to i Regi: To-day is the second day for registration in this city. The number registered on the first day this year showed a very great falle ing off from 1876, and was co: smaller than in the preceding year, It is to be hoped that there will be a more liberal attendance at the registration places to-day, since it is very desirable that there should be a pretty full vote in the next election. There are no very valuable local offices to be filled, it is true, and the interest felt in the election by the politicians is therefore moderate. But the people are concerned in the selection of good men for the positions of legislators and Aldermen, and the better class of citizens should not by their indif- ference or neglect suffer these important offices to fall into bad hands. While we have machine politicians and men of no position or responsibility in the Board of Aldermen on the municipal departments. There is but little power now left in the Common Council* of the city, but the Aldermen can yet be useful in investigating and correcting departmental abuses, and the President of the Board is a member of the Board of Ap- portionment. Our Cable Storm Warnings. All successes are won after struggles, more or less severe, against moral or physical op- position, which is not, however, always dis- sipated by accomplished facts. Positive demonstration has still to battle for su- premacy of influence against doubt and in- credulity for a long time after its unanswer- able logic has been employed to settle ques- tions. It 1s not the fault of the demonstra- tion, but of the jealousy or perversity of disposition, which combats truth for the mere sake of opposition. We all remember how clearly it was proved to the satisfaction of the essayist that a vessel propelled by steam machinery could never be built to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The arguments, based on quasi-scientific ideas, appeared to be sound, at least to the ignorant, and the proposition to construct an ocean steamship was received with scoffs and “learned” ridi- eule, We do not suppose that the Henatp system of storm warnings by cable is likely to be accepted as being as sound and re- liable in principle as it has proved success- ful in practice without undergoing a course of captions criticism in England. The warnings come from America, and are therefore to be,regarded with suspicion, no matter how completely they may be ful- filled, A correspondent of the London Times, whose communication was printed in that journal on last Saturday, makes a state- ment, as related in our special cable de- spatch this morning, which another cor- respondent, writing from Edinburgh, for- mulates as follows :—That ‘‘cable messages from the United States forewarning of the probable impact of a cyclone on the British shores are altogether illusive and not worthy of serious attention.” Reading this pro- found opinion we are reminded of the case of the lawyer who, when consulted by an incarcerated client as to the best way of getting out of the trouble, told him, ‘(My man, they dare not put you in prison; it would be wholly illegal.” The poor client could only reply, ‘‘But I am in prison.” “The Hunatp cannot send reliable warn- ings,” says the correspondent of the Times. But the Hzraxp has sent them, replies an- other writer, who got the warning a week in advance of the storm, which he describes as striking exactly on the day predicted. It is sufficient, we presume, for all the practical purposes of such warnings that they are ful- filled to the letter. Life is too short, as the saying goes, to argue against the stupidity that will not recognize facts. If we were ad- vancing atheory only as to the feasibility of doing that which we have already done we should endeavor to remove doubts by argu- ments founded on the principles of the laws governing the movement of the at- mosphere. But we have reduced theory to successful practice and are applying the latter to the benefit of commerce and navi gation in a manner so entirely satisfactory to the intelligent majority that we can afiérd to let the ignorant minority hold to their opinions and express them if they please. ‘he late M. Le Verrier, one of the most distinguished scientists of the century, not only indorsed our work as successful but took steps before his last illness to co- operate with us in the most effective man- ner. The principles on which we have founded the system of storm warnings were accepted by him as eutirely satisfactory, and we purpose to continue to pursue them with the complete success that has hitherto attended us. In taking the initiative in this important work the Henaup has instituted a very thorough system of oceanic observa- tions, conducted in connection with our weather service by the able commanders and officers of the principal transatlantic and coast steamship lines. By means of the data collected in this and other ways we are enabled to predict the arrival of storms and the attendant conditions on the Euro- pean coast many days ahead, and thus give shipmasters and others a timely warning to prepare for the approaching danger, The Activity Among the Oarsmen. The quiet which prevailed among the oarsmen early in the season, made the more marked by the absence, for the first time in many years, of a national university race, has given way recently to unparalleled ac- tivity, especially among the very best oars. Courtney, Riley and Plaisted at Saratoga; Johnson and Ten Eyck at Owasco Lake, the recent fall meeting on the Harlem, Morris’ summary disposal of Luther, Han- lon’s suspiciously easy work on Monday with so good a man as Ross, Higgins’ sweeping victory over Boyd, the English champion— these make it plain that the prospect for good rowing in the future, particularly among the professional scullers, is far brighter than ever before. If the weather proves fair to-day two very interesting meetings will take place—namely, that onthe Susquehanna at Owego, and that of the Metropolitan As- sociation of Amateurs on the Kill von Kull, off Staten Island. At Owego Courtney is to have the pleasure of suddenly facing Hanlon and Morris, both flushed with recent victories, while good men like Riley and Johnson stand ready to fight hard for second place. It is just possible that Courtney's Waterloo has come, especiully it he is not in good condition. For the Metropolitan meet- ing the Atalanta, Nautilus, Columbia Col- lege, Nassau, Dauntless and Carman clubs, of this city; the Nereid, of Brooklyn, aud Tritons, of Newark; the Neptunes and Hespers, of Staten Island, and the Argo- nautas, of Bergen Point, are all entered, and each of the six events promises especial in- terest. It is pleasant to know that the fine distinction which makes one a profes- sional oarsman who happens once to have caught a few more trout than he could use and to hae sold them, has outlived its use- fulness, and that many ofthe first clubs in our land are having the courage to say so, and to hold that a professional oar is, sub- stantially, one who rows match races for money, or who gets his living as a water- man, not he who rows simply because he loves to, all the prize he asks being a few it is impossible to hold any salutary check | inches of ribbon, Ocean Travel. ‘rne steamers are hurrying home with the remnants of the American wayfarers who have been doing the cathedrals and the boulevards. The season, so far as our tavern keeping friends at Carlsbad ond Baden-Baden are concerned, has not been as profitable as in years past. The Tam- many statesman and the shoddy prince have not been seen as frequently as in the days of Tweed and Fisk. Most of the stdtesmon are in jail and most of the princes are in bankruptcy, and the Americans who have honored the ancient lands with their free and independent presence are, as a general thing, sensible people who go for the good things to be seen and known in Europe, and leave the eagle at home. We are glad to note that our fellow citizens re- turn in fine health and spirits, ready for the serious work of life. We hear also fair accounts. of sea travel and sea service. In no branch of modern achievement has Mr. Darwin's theory of evolution found a more admirable illustration that in sea travel. The progress of tho science which evolves man as he is out of the ape, whose main pleasure in life was swinging through the trees, is tame and dull compared with the evolution which has converted the craft of Columbus into the ocean-bound Bothnia or Germanic. The ferror of the sea has be- come the pleasure of the sea, And now that the Hznarp has made an alliance offensive and defensive with Old Probabilities of the Weather Bureau there is no reason why the traveller should not have his cyclones if he wants them. The truth about a cyclone is that while it has an’ ominous sound our modern steamers laugh at it. The serious, sensible traveller rejoices in his storm as the husbandman in the rain. It brings sunshine into his eyes and life into his cheeks, It is only. millimers and grand- mothers who crave “the painted ship on the painted ocean.” ‘Science fears nothing now but the iceberg and the fog, just as the brave man cares for no enemy that he can see, Even the iceberg and the fog only require care. This care is shown by such lines as the Cunard, who in the season of ice run below the line of ice and over a course where fogs are less frequent than in the North. The Cunard line adds another season of good fortune to the many years that have gone before. ‘Tennyson gavo it as the greatest honor of Wellington that he had ‘gained a hundred fights nor ever lost an English gun.” Inthe same spirit , wo may say of the Cunards that in all the many years of their service, their thousands of trips over the stormiest of seas, they have never lost a letter or a passenger. In giving this praise we give what has been fairly won. Nor must itbe understood as in any way dis- paraging the other lines. It would be hard | to improve upon the White Starline for in- stance, the ships of which aro as luxurious as a palaceand as safe as a‘house on the rock, or the Inman, the German lines and the others. Thegcienceand the discipline which have done so much for the pioneer Cunard line have not been lost upon those who have comeafter to share with them the trade car- rying of theseas. The truth is, there is, no trip so safe as that from New York to Liver- pool. It has its dangers, of course, but there are dangers in crossing the Brooklyn ferry and in walking down Broadway. The chances of danger are less on the ocean than in any other form of travel. We have to thank the bold and skilful men who make the steamers and sail them for having achieved this complete comforting measure of safety, and as Christian people we have also to thank Divine Providence that the season now ending has been one of unvary- ing success, leaving no tale of disaster to mar sunny memories of European lands. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts, is at the Astor House. ‘Twenty-four button buckwheat cakes will bo much worn this winter, ‘The Atlanta Constitution says that the Obio result iso triumph for Hayes, ‘The Czar is knee deop in mud, and McClellan says, “Now he knows how it ta himself.’” Sefor Dou Manuel M, Peralta, Minister trom Costa Rica at Washington, is at the Westminster Hotel. “The great effects of advertising on a large scale are shown,” says tho Elmira Advertiser, “by tho fact that G. W. Childs’ goodness is universally known,”’ Whenever the Shah of Persia wishes to change the color of his soldiers unilorms, which are made of cot- ton, he has them put into the dye tub for a few hours, From Zruth:—'*Talk, indeed, of the cost of pheas- ant shooting! Astaras 1 couldmake oat, every stag shot in tho Highlands costs, one way or anothen about £50,"” St. Louw Journal:—“Clara Louise Kellogg says it takes her fully « year to leat an opera, but then she gives herself dead away by saying she knows and can sing torly operas.” rom Tyuth:—“I suppose that I ought to bavo known it, but I contess that 1 was surprised to dis- cover, that, In Scotland, a forest means an extent of country where there are no treos, Worcester /’ress:—“King Kalakaua practises on mu_ sical instraments and tsa free thinker. It must te a great comfort toan amateur musician to be able to disbeligve in the existence of abell,” Philadelphia Bulletrn:—"*Mr. Tweed once gave a bootblack five cents, and thinks of exposing him.’—P. I Man. No, uo, P. 1. Man, you're all wrong. Iv’s the men that uaod to lick his boots that he is showing up.” From Truln:—“A lady, residing in Bloomsbury, approves of ‘the British Museum site’ for Cleopatra’s Neodle, and writes, suggesting that an ‘illuminated clock should be Inserted in the eye of the needle, to make it useful as well as ornamental |"? Chicago Journal :—“Drive out with a horse and be will switeh his tail 160 times a rod, to force away troublesome flies, but let him once get his tail over a line and the old quadruped will wander on for miles without thipking of the flies which revel unmolested in bis living gore. What a horse loves above all things ja to do the driving himself.” Who vas dot mon vat valks der ednreed, Und pows mit efry von he mecd, Und shakes iit sefen oud of eigut? Vy! pless you, dot’s der candidate.—Joston Bost. Yoh! who's dot man kits in ter sbair, Und kivs you sooch a tunny shtare, Und for vour hours he makes you vait? Dot feller vos vons a candidate, From Zruth:—"Uniess the wind ts in the right quarter the possessor of a deer jorest in Scotland hus to con- fine himsell to watching the deer in his forest through & telescope, I went down last week to see a friend with a forest, The wind was always in the north, so there was no deerstalkiag, 1 cor that 1 was not absolutely sorry for this, because 1 came away with- out proving mysell a bad shot by missing a deer.” Boston Bulletin;—A lady reader of the Bulletin asks:—‘Were you not mistaken when you iniormed the public, through your paper, that ‘“‘Abrabam was the first auctioneer when he put Isaac up for a sacrifice?” if | remember right some two thousand yours previous to that occurrence Cain assumed the rdle of auc- toneer whon heknocked down Abel’’’ The Heratp has positive tatormation that Evo was tho first auc- tioneer when she put ap Adam and sold bim with | an applo, i AMUSEMENTS. “LA GRANDE DUCHESSE” —DROADWAY THEATRE. Bince the celebrated season of 1867, when Bateman made America acquainted with the drablerie and paughtiness of opéra bouffe, “La Grands Duchesse” has held its own as the principal favorite in the Offenbachion seragiio. First came Fostée, suggesting everything that the Mephistopheles of tua und mischief could coavey in voice, action and man- ner, Even Hortense Schneider did not excel her in the breadth of her vivacious illustration of the character of the gay Duchess, while the reekless- ness with which she trod on debateable ground, was something that occassionally made her friends tremble for tha result though they admired. Mile, Aimeé in the interpretation of the part last night was refined if pot equally artistic; she was also 0! ively, humorous and iptelligent. There is a naiveté 1p nearly everything done by Aimed, but this b leaive 1s probably more highly developed in ry range Duchesse”? than in any other opera in bor scarcely a phrase which, bined with clever action, does not bold .the attention of the audience, and there is just enough of the cancan to stir the pulse and make ope wish for more, In short, the opera ia the essence of moderately adulterated deviltry from beginning toend. And this is what the public like. The leading roles night, next to Aimee, were flied Kd Mollard, Jouard and Mezieres, who in tho respective characters of Fritz, Ge | Boum and Baron Puck performed admirably. lured, the tenor, for the first time during his present engagement, seemed to feel and look nis part, and faciully and physically made a success, Jouard, the baritone, always conscientious as a singer and ag an actor, was superb, while Meziéres was fully up to the reputation ho bas ac- quired of being one of the best buffo artists on the stage. Le Gros sang as Prince Paul, Saivator ua Baron Grog, and Maile, Gueymard as Wanda—all ac. ceptably. ‘The opera was handsomely mounted and ray smoothly, the costumes were elegant, the din. monds of the Duchess as dazzling 48 so many little guns, and the audience woro ove and all apparentiy leased, The opera will be repeated to-morrow oven. ing. To-night and on Friday Giroflé-Girofla will be performed, THEATRE YRANCAISE. “Los Petits Oiseaux,” played at the Theatre Fran. gals last evening, rehearses the adventures of two brothers, Bilandinet (M. Chamouin) ts all credulity and beneficence, while Frangois (M,. Bouteloup) it proportionately crabbed and distrustiul of humanity, Blandinet, however, is happy tn his faith in mankind, while Francois is wretched. But the doctrines pro- pounded by the latter soon gain influence over Blandinet, and while ne acquires, as ho thinks, a knowledge of the world, fruits of bitterncss and distrust. His wile, bis: sou, his nephew and his few tenants all become objects of aversion, and at the close of the second act, when he has reached the conclusion that Frangols’ barsh maxima are true, he'realizaz, too, that izuorance {¢ often bliss, and regrets his earlier folly and happinesa, In due season, of course, he i reconverted, and bis kindly and charitable instincts assume their sway, waile Frangois discov through tho exp * gon—Tibusce, acted by M. Murtai—that and suspicion are not always attended by ts. Bonteloup’s performance was certatoly ‘of the evening aud tull of originality aod dry humor; M. Martal was also excoedingly good, and M: Chamouin portrayed Blandinet respectably’ but somewhat sluggishly, The play is a comédic vaudeville rather than-a comedy, ai with the exception of the briskly and presents sov- aadience laughed at the BRYAN1'S OPERA HOUSE, Tho entertaiument at the pretty little opera house Nos, 728 and 730 Broadway, under the careful and ox- perlenced management of Mr. Net! Bryant, improves by age, and this week shows an advance in enjoyable programme over those which have preceded ite ,Sfart- ing With tho idea that the old time minstrelsy, ia which talent, fun and purity woke distinguisbing foa- tures, such genuine artists as Cool White, Hughey Dougherty, Littie Mac, Dave Reed, Adams, Chaton and Harley are engaged in giving songs and sketches; Mackin and Wilson and Lee nua Adams in specialtiea and wclever company of auxiliaries in general acta, 1t 48 one of the amusement charms of the city, ARRIVAL OF MR. JEFFERSON. Mr. Joseph Jefferson arrived in town last evening, having been a passengor ou board the sicamer Aby# sinia, He 1s accompanied by his daughter and ber husband, Mr, Farjeon, the novelist. Mr. Jefferson will make his first appearance im tbis city in turee yeurs on the 29th instant, at Booth’s Theatre, in big famous character of Rip Van Winkle. Ho will be sup. ported by Mr. Daly’s old Vilth Avenue Theatre com pany. “, BENEFIT FOR HUMPTY DUMETY.™ To rux Epitor oy Tus HeraLp:— Under the above announcement a communication appeared in the columus of one of your morning con- temporaries recently. If there 1s an actor living who richly deserves such a compliment that ono is George L. Fox, It is seemingly but yesterday that the quiz zical face of ‘America’s groatest clown and pantomim- ist”? was syaopymous with merriment and laughter, Night atter night, for 1,001, this wonderful performer delighted the theatre-goers of New York. Artistic and natural, it scomed as it he distilled the very quin- tesseace of tun out of everything be attempted, foe peer, and indeed the superior of any of the once famous Rave! family, who will be bis successor? fue Joyful recollections of the grotesque antics of G. L. wud C.K, Fox, in thoi respective réles of clown und pantaloon, are now clouded over with sorrow, and we but recail their memory to reulize that one has gone to that bourne whence ud trayoller returns, while the other lingers on ita bor- ders. smiles take tho place of tears, Nature bas changed the chalky white of Humpty Dampty’s face, and the pallor of disease needs Lo artist’s Hand to pro- duce a marble hue. He who bad such command ovor his facial powers is now powerless to change the sad expression which suifering has ineflaceably stamped upon his countenance. While not denied tho balm of Joving hands and sympatbetic bh 2 40 watch over and administer to bis wants, his purse has ever been two accessible to the wauts of the needy not to leave him without pecuniary embarrassment, ‘With this regurd’’ jet the great public, with whom be bas so long been a favorite, come forth and substantially tes- tly their sympathy for the poor ,clown, the memory of the music of whose tinkling folly vells vibrates mournfully upon tho future time to come, a ONE WHO NEEDS A BENEFIT. To THE Epitor oy THE HeRALD:— Please allow me to iuiringe upon your columns to say afew words, knowing that the people of this great metropolis are very good in lending a helping hand to those in need. I do not think it would be saying too much if 1 sbouid ask them to look back to years gone by, when a taiented aud gentlemanly looking man stood beiore them on the stuge of sume of our theatres, doing bis utmost to make them huppy. Now that thie genticunan js 1o embarrassed circumstances and on 119 ed, would it not be proper for all of us to do our tomake him happy? — Lis Lust appearance was on the stage of Booth’s Lheatre, where uis queer ac tions soon convinced his puysician that he was insane, Something should be done immediately to help wim and bis family, ‘The gentleman \ refer ea the “Great Grimaldi,” George L. Fox. Yours, tral FRIEND TO THE SL AGE. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Camille Urso will probably starton a concert tour about the 27th of this month. The demand for advance seats at the Fifth Avenue Theatre yesterday was something unusual “Tho ight’s Dream’? promises to be one of the of the season. Frida de Gevele, a contralto of superior mu: cal attainments, achieved quite a flattering success last week in Philadelphia as Obud in “Lohengrin,” pertormed there by the Wagner combination. Mr. E. A. Sothern has generously offered to carry tho Park Theatre company to Philadelphia at his owa expense and play the “Crushed Tragedian”’ for the benefit of Edwin Adams, The offer has been accepted, and tho performance will take place at the Wulnut Stroct Theatre October 27 or 28, Theodore Thomas’ Arst grand popular concert takes place to-night at Steinway Hall, While the orchestra will be composed of the leading instrumentalists of tbe York Philharmonic Society and the old mem- bers of the Thgmas Orchestra, the features of the evening will doubtless be the warblings of the Swedish lady vocal quartet, who make thoir first ap- pearance in America, Master Leopold Lichtenberg, a young violinist who bas just returned trom his atudies abroad, 18 also among tho attractions, ACADEMY OF USEFUL ARTS, At ao meeting of the Academy of Useful Arts, held 1n room 24 Cooper Union Jast evening, the Chairman, Professor 4, A. Whitney, read a paper on impressions formed on @ tour to England, from which ho has re- cently returned. He gave a hasty account of mis short stay in Liverpovi, and devoted the most of his time to experiences in London, He was greatly struck with the idea of strengtu and solidity with which nearly everything impressed an American, the Englishman building even the most emphomeral thing as if it wae intended to lust one hundred years. This idewot solidity was especially in their bulla railroads and pavemet enco aflorded by the these velicles would not on the plan ot New York. ‘the er also gave ao account of his visit to the London Museum, Zoological | Erte and the Patent Office. Later 10 the evening, Protessor Vandeweyde gave some account of the new uses of Lodia rabbers he soon reaps the . eee