The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1877, Page 6

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BROADWAY THEATR xpx Ducurssz, GRAND OPERA HO © Tow’s Canix, BOWERY THEATRE -Lirk on Tux Boupen, NIBLO’S GARDEN—Jine: SAY. FIFTH AVENUE TH NGLtsit OPERA PARK 1HEATRE-Crvsuip Tracenian UNION SQUARE THEA ri GERMANIA THEATRE EAGLE THEATRE— AMERICAN INSTITUT CHICKERING HALL—Si WALLACK’S THEATRE. OLYMPIC THEATRE. BAN FRANCISCO MIN EGYPTIAN UALL—Vaniery, COLUMBIA OPERA NOUSE—Vanmrr BRYANT'S OPERA HO MINSTRELS TIVOLI THBATRE—Vaniety. THEATRE COMIQUE—Vamiuty, TONY Pasto: Variety. N 0. 201 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1877, W YORK. Important Notice .10 ApveERTISERS.— To insure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely necessary thal 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 cool and cloudy or partly cloudy, fol- lowed by rising temperature and rain. Watt Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was excited and showed a general decline. Gold fell off to 102%, against 1027, at the opening. Government bonds were higher, States dull but steady, and railroads irregular. Money on call was active at 6 a 7 per cent. Ar tHe Recent Races at Leicester, England, the very unusual occurrence of a dead heat of three was witnessed. Tne Court Rerorrs this morning form a sad record of matrimonial intelicity. Divorce law- yers must be doi business. THE Sate of the Empire Transportation line to the Pennsylvania Railroad has been effected, the consideration being uearly four and three- quarter million dollars. Recorper Hac 's interpretation of the Ex- cise law has simplified the liquor cases and made it easy work all around. Six violators dispensed with the formality of a trial gesterday. AccorDING TO A Paper read at the Presby- terian Synod there are at present five hundred unemployed pastors of that denomination and more than five hundred churches seeking shep- herds. Tue Sremke or THe CiGaRrmakers is the only one of any magnitude in the country at present, and is gathering strength daily. No signs of a compromise have thus far been given by the em- ployers. Tue Errorts to Save the Massachusetts have fortunately proved successful. She has been safely floated, and her injuries do not appear to be as serious as it was feared they would prove to be. aASUrers Are feasance in offic red by the Jersey authorities a fev $s ago, has made no effort to obtain bail. If he shall, as he promises, make a full confession, it will probably lead to the arrest of other ex-oflicials who have thus far escaped, suri JupGr Giivers to the crim- inal classes, in a jory charge yesterday, is ex- ceedingly timely, and, it is to be hoped, will have the desired effect. Marked crimes against the person have not been very numerous lately, but it is just as well to remind those likely to com- mit them that the courts are awake, and that in every case the full penalty of the law will be meted out to its transgressors. ARNING Cuter Artuur’s Appress to the locomotive engineers is full of sensible advice, not only to the class of workingmen to whom he particularly speaks, but to the great army of labor gener- ally. It is so sound in most of its positions that itis a pity it should have been marred by the introduction of matter hardly relevant, which is liable to misconstruction. His repudia- tion of Communism will be approved by every yensible per: Fox Hunting is undoubtedly destined to be- come one of our most popular sports. The meet- ing yesterday shows conclusively that it will require only a little time to place it in the fore- most rank of our fuyorite amusements. There ’ r field than on any day since tl dd, in addition, several ladies gave zest and charm to the occasion by their pre enee, and supplied the only element of intere: and picturesqueness that was lacking at the earlicr meetings. Mr. Prom ant accompaniment of a hb 8 SUSPENSION, with the unpleas- vy defuleation, created, of course, a sensation in business cir- eles yesterday, although the street was in a measure prepared for the event by the rumors of theday before. Fortunately, the tives of Mr, Piuwe will be the principal sufferers, and it is equally fortunate that the loss to them will not be so heavy that they cannot bear it. Mr. held so high a social posi- ll the greater, WEATHE Tun depression which on Monday was centr stern Texas ad- vanced to the Northeast into the Ohio Valley and the lake dividing the area of high pressur f it in the manner we sug- gested in yesterday’s Heratp, Rains prevail over the lake district, the Upper Mississippi | Valley and the Northwest, and fell quite heavily in Texas’ yesterday forenoon, A marked fall of temperature occurred alon the Atlantic coast, but we may expect a ri during to-day with the approach of the low barometer. The depression on the Nova Scotia coust is now moving toward Newfoundland, and entering upon its transoceanie path. The winds ut all points are very moderate. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and cloudy or partly cloudy, followed by rising temperature and rains and | The General Drift of Polities—Dece | the strifes and contentions that have fatally adence ef the Republican Party. ‘The new administration has made its first appearance before Congress, and it may be expected that the season of ‘rest and performance will give way to a season of ex- planation and defence. The party’s conven- tions have spoken. In many States the people have spoken through the ballot box. We have had a Presidential progress. We have had declarations of opinion from leading men of all parties—from Robert Toombs and Wendell Phillips, from Blaine and Hamp- ton, Conkling and Lamar. We can there- fore form an approximate idea of the politi- cal condition of the country and of the pos- sibilities of coming political events. Our first thought is that the republican party is in a state of dissolution. It is with regret that we notice certain peculiar inva- riable signs of disintegration in this party, one of the greatest that has ever existed un- der a legislative government. Every coun- try blessed with a free government looks with pride upon its parties. They are the best expression of free thought, and next to the pride with which freemen regard those who have saved or served the nation they regard those who formed or tulminated great political ideas, ‘The English tory glories in the fame of Pittand Peel and Stanley, while the English whig reveres the names of Somers and Fox and Grey. The French re- publican rejoices in the virtue of Ro- land, the elegance of Verginaud, the austere genius of Carnot, while the French royalist pays a homage no less sincere to the memory of Neckar and Chateaubriand and Berryer. In the United States party government and party fealty have taken a wider range because, yn- like England, we have not been burdened by a privileged class and a royal system, and, unlike France, we have not had to con- tend against those three enemies of freedom and national development—an empire based upon force, a standing army and an estab- lished Church, We have had parties repre- senting ideas, parties representing mere passion. They differ in their growth as the rank fungus shooting up from the poisonous swamp differs from the life-giving fruits of the field. We have had Jacobinism, anti- Masonry, Know Nothingism, nullification, anti-rentism, greenbackism and secession, These have swept over the country like the malarial fevers which we see at times in the low alluvial regions of the South Atlantic coast. Springing from passion and in many cases degenerating into crime, they died out as soon as the people came to know their enormity and shame. The real parties of our history have had a different career. The federal and republican, the whig and the democratic, the demo- cratic and the republican, are the three political generations of our first hun- dred years. The federal and republican represent the rivalries of Hamilton and Jef- ferson; the democratic and whig those of Jackson and Clay. ‘They were to a great ex- tent personal parties in this, that they scarcely survived their founders. Federal- ism had only a faint life after the pistol of Burr laid its leader low under the shadows of the Palisades. Republicanism, as it was known in the earlier days, ended with Jef- ferson. The whig party, galled into life by the genius of Henry Clay, fell into a decline when death put its seal upon his gracious, winning lips, while the democracy of Jackson only resembles in name the democracy which arose out of the perfidy of the Nebraska bill and swept the country into civil war. But these parties were great in their day, and their memories are cherished as tenderly as Englishmen cherish the memories of whig and tory. Our political literature is eloquent with their trials and triumphs. Old politicians— erans of many an almost forgotten fight—like Goldsmith’s veteran, shoulder their crutches and show how fields were won. They speak of famous campaigns, of Hickory and Little Van, of Tippecanoe and Tyler too, of Harry of the West, of the Little Giant and the Rail Splitter, with the same earnest, affectionate, garrulous pleasure that the village pen- sioner, leaning over the stove in the corner grocery, tells how he charged at Buena Vista, under Taylor, or drove Lee into Appomattox, under Sheridan and Grant. The greatest party in our history is the re- publican. Its career can only be compared to that of the whigs of the Revolution, who began by resistance to an arrogant Ministry and ended by founding one of the dominant governments of the earth. If the whigs of the Revolution founded the nation the re- publicans saved it, To the republicans we owe our existence not merely as a free peo- ple, but as a self-respecting and world- respected people. If the democracy had con- tinued in power as it existed in Buchanan's days we should now cither be one of several rival confederacies, as hopelessly divided as the fantastic republics in South Americaand governed by European consuls and ships-of- war, or we should be under the slave oli- garchy, which, in fulfilment of the prophecy of Tvombs, would be calling the roll of its slaves on Bunker Hill. ‘That we have es- | caped these degrading alternatives we owe to the republican party, and we can never be too grateful for that achievement. Be- cause of this gratitude we regret the symp- toms of disintegration now manifest. In the South there is not even a republican organ- | ization. Inthe West its conventions can- not make up ¢heir minds as to whether it is honest or not to pay one’s debts. In Penn- sylvania its existence is dependent upon the will of speculators in railways and the ambition of the House of Cameron. In Maine it is the personal property of Mr, Blaine and responds to the necessities of that shifty and necessitous statesman. In New York it is rent in twain by the rivalry of Evarts and Conk- ling. Wherever we look we see the party in trouble. Old leaders are abandon- ing it. The ancient enthusiasm has died away. Rings here and rings there mar its discipline. Thetremendous personality of Grant, which was to its organization what Murlborough was to parties under Queen Anne, or what Wellington was to parties under George IV., no longer sways it, and where Cwsar was master yesterday twenty bastard Cwsars are struggling for his sceptre and his crown, So far as New York is concerned we see the beginning of the end, While we regret | wounded the republican party in this State we still more regret that the leader in the revolt should be Roscoe Conkling. Those have not advised Mr. Conkling well who have advised him to descend from the lofty position he held last spring, when he gave peace to the nation and performed one of the greatest public services ever achieved by a Senator or a citizen—descend into the arena with Curtis ang become the wrangler in a State Convention over the wrongs of tidewaiters and assessors of revenue. The country sees that while Mr, Conkling re- fuses to be comforted because Mr. Cornell cannot eat his cake and keep it the man whom Mr. Conkling made President is pacifying the country, healing up old sores, soothing long burning passions, assuaging hatred, moving on toward resumption, peace, financial safety. This is of far more consequence to the country than whether Mr. Evarts rules the republican party from the State Department or Mr. Conkling from the Senate Chamber. The sympathy of the people will go rather with the President, who has done a noble and difficult work, than with those, however illustrious and esteemed, who use their rare powers to un- dermine and sap the administration, know- ing that if it falls the republican party must be buried in its ruins. The Turkish Defeat. Calamitously beaten in the open country, his army cut up, a great part of it sur- rendered with its artillery, Moukhtar, the conqueror, is a fugitive who has tempo- rarily taken refuge within the lines of Kars. Apparently the battle in Armenia is the most decisive conflict of the war. It puts the whole Turkish army in that region almost hors de combat and leaves the Rus- sians masters of the open country and at liberty to return, almost unmolested, to the siege of Kars. Is it yet possible for them to take proper advan- tage of this victory? With the season so advanced, the roads so bad, the means of transporting stores so ineflicient, it is not possible to move an army far into an enemy's country; and, therefore, so far as can be understood at this distance, the vic- tory is likely to prove barren as to strictly military results ; but in its moral aspects it is for the Ottomansa crushing blow. Itwill discourage every part of their army ; and with the force in Armenia thus cut up, with Osman’s hundred thousand starving, and Suleiman’s disheartened with inactivity, it is possible that the minds of fhe men at Constantinople may be disposed to accept terms of peace. Opinions of Stanley's Achievement. Evidences continue to accumulate indi- cating that in all parts of the civilized world men of science, who have given special at- tention to the solution of the great geo- graphical problems, regard Stanley’s voyage down the Congo as one of tho greatest ex- ploits chronicled in all the annals of geo- graphical discovery. From the Austrian Finance Minister Hoffman, who is president of the African Association and vice presi- dent of the Austrian Geographical Society, comes the declaration that Stanley has fur- nished ‘the most important and most in- teresting knowledge of all modern geo- graphical discoveries.” This unqualified praise comes from men competent to judge in facts of this nature. Hoffman’s opinion is communicated by Jules Devaux, secre- tary to the King of Belgium, who himself enthusiastically applauds Stanley’s success. A Hundred Years Ago. The Schuylerville celebration in com- memoration of the final surrender of Gen- eral Burgoyne, an account of which is | published elsewhere, was a perfect success. The weather yesterday was unusually pro- pitious, and the day was one which will long be remembered in Saratoga county as a festival in more ways than one. The addresses of Seymour and Curtis and the poetry of Street afforded a splendid literary repast. The military display was a feast for the eyes. ‘The Masonic ceremonies and the brilliant crowds gave a zest to the appetite for enjoyment. Young and old were in a state of high-pressure excite- ment and delight from the roar of the first gun which ushered in the proceedings of the day until the last sound of the de- parting bands expired on the air, The scene was that of a general jubilee. Curiosities of Tweed’s Examination. The farce of ‘T'weed’s so-called examina- tion was continued yesterday, and served to further illustrate the real object with which it was started. Much of the time was occupied in political fencing between the republican member of the committee and the Assistant Corporation Counsel ; but the witn remembered nothing of inter- est and was remarkably oblivious of the names and services of the old ‘lammany hacks who had clustered around him in the days of his glory and are still shin- ing lights of the Wigwam. In a written statement ‘weed set forth how much money he had received since the exposure of his felonies and how it had been spent. With the most consummate effrontery he admits to the receipt of just upon one million and a half dollars since the autumn of 1871, and proceeds to show how he ex- pended this stolen money. While the people he had plundered are still suffering from the effect of his robberies this impudent | thief coolly sets down the expenses of his family for a little over four years at two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, or nearly a quarter of a million. The re- mainder he pretends to have paid mainly to his fellow thieves, his counsel and for his attempted escape, and then having, as he asserts, nothing lett, he asks for his liberty. One carious feature of this expense ac- count will strike every reader, How was it that Tweed was enabled to dispose of real estate, mortgages, bonds, jewelry and other property to theslarge amount of one million and a half dollars after his crimes had been discovered and when the law was supposed to have spread its meshes over him? Would it not be pertinent to inquire who assisted him in these financial operations—who sold for himand who bought of him—so that the whole story of how the city was defrauded of restitution after, 'I'weed's robberies were knuwa may be placed before the people? Due de Broglie’s View. Z Marshal MacMahon will probably not issue any more manifestoes immediately ; but the views of the Duc de Broglie, as given in our despatches to-day, indicate that his overwhelming defeat has not altogether opened the eyes of the Premier as to the tem- per of the country. He seems to fancy that a judicious use of rhodomontade may bully the Chamber into acting as if the judgment of the country had been in favor of the Min- istry instead of against it, and the absurd notion he possesses of the ‘concessions” that should be acceptable to the triumphant party would be laughable if it were not a melancholy sight to observe the tranquillity of a great country depend- ing, though only for atime, on the will of a man either without political common sense or so wickedly disposed to deny the first principles of parliamentary govern- ment. If Marshal MacMahon had proposed after Sedan that the Germans should sur- render to him for the sake of peace his proposition would scarcely have been more ridiculous than that of the Duc de Broglie, who “concedes” that the Left Centre may now “come over” and support the gov- ernment if it will agree not to demand the removal of the prefects appointed since the 16th of May. In the insane impudence of this fancy and in the ignorance of practical politics with which it is supported there is to be found this instrus- tion—the government intends to en- deavor to divide the republicans and to hold its position through sucha division; to corrupt and seduce in one direction and domineer and threaten in the other, It will offer the Left Centre two minor places in the Ministry on condition that it will make no demands as to the composition of the administrative machinery, and will for this small price support the reaction by its votes. With this poor temptation held out as a lure to one group of republicans it simply proposes to intimidate the others by threatening another dissolution if they stir hand or foot. If they propose impeachment, or if they annul elections for bribery or undue official influence or other irregularities, it will decree another dissolution and put the whole country un- der martiallaw. ‘The government is so used to finding the Senate submissive and sub- serviont that it never takes into considera- tion that that body may have a will of its own. Dissolution without the Senate is not possible, and the Senate will not ignore the response of the country even if the Ministry does. All this about dissolution is therefore mere vaporing. It isa pity for France that places so high are open to men so paltry. What Are General Terry’s Instruc- tions t According to the despatches from Gen- eral, Terry's camp, received from the Henawp’s special correspondent and pub- lished yesterday, the expedition was, on October 13, one hundred and three miles from Fort Walsh, Canada, where Sitting Bull it was expected would be willing to await its coming. It is, therefore, probable that by this time General ‘erry has met tho Sioux Chief and submitted to him what- ever propositions the Commission is author- ized to make. The Commission’s instruc- tions have been kept secret; but if they are based on what common sense points out as the only efficient policy in regard to the treatment of the Indians the expedition may not be fruitless of good results. There would be no great difficulty about the Indian question if there were not hid- den behind it masses of selfish intrigue, cor- ruption and plunder. So long asthe Indian bureau exists the government will be robbed and the Indians wronged and driven to revengeful acts. here should be no longer an excuse for supplying the Indians with arms and ammunition, nominally for hunting, but in reality for war and massacre. The interesting letters recently written by General Sherman show how the buffaloes are disappearing, and that the Indians can no longersubsist by hunting. They will not starve if they can get food, even if they have to fight and kill for it. The clear way out of the difficulty is to place them on reserva- tions, surround them with military posts, supply them liberally with cattle and let them go into the stock raising business, which is nearest akin to their pursuits and fancies, They cannot at once be made agri- culturists; but a taste for agriculture and its study should be encouraged among them by the award of premiums for farming skill and products. If the offers to be made to Sitting Bull have this direction they may result in practical good. Such a policy as we hint at would paralyze the arm of plun- der, but it would promote the cause of peaco and humanity. Preparing for the Battle. The republicans and the anti-T'ammany democrats both held their county conven- tions last evening and both paid a tribute to judicial purity and ability by nominating Judge John R. Brady for re-election to the Supreme Court bench. No other nomina- tions were made by either convention, but committees were appointed to confer with all the opponents of the ‘fammauy democ- racy with regard to the remainder ‘of the ticket. ‘The Tammany County Convention meets to-day, and it cannot do better than to lay aside partisanship and iadorse the republican and anti-Tammany nominee, Judge Brady, for the Supreme Court. By this action New York will follow Kings county in the commendable determination to raise the judiciary ont of the mire of politics and to give a united support to a good Judge. The Tammany Convention will no doubt make its entire ticket to-day, and it is ru- mored that the nominee for Register will be ex-County Clerk Charles E. Loew. ‘Lhere was reason to suppose that Mr. Shepherd F, Knapp would receive this nomination trom Tammany, and the selection would have been gratifying to all respectable citizens. Should Mr. Knapp be rejected by Tam- many the opposition would have the oppor- tunity to greatly strengthen themselves by placing his name atthe head ofthe inde- pendent ticket. That the Tammany party needs the prestige of thoroughly good nominations to-day is evidenced by the fact that somo influential members of the or. _ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. ganization, including Mr. Edward Cooper, have withdrawn from the General Commit- tee in advance of the ‘County Convention, mistrustful of its action. Congress Yesterday. Louisiana's representation in Congress was the principal subject before Congress yesterday. In the House of Representa- tives Messrs. Elam and Robertson, demo- erats, were admitted by strict party votes, Mr. Pacheco was admitted from California, and the discussion of the Colorado case was begun but not ended, In the Senate Mr. Thurman, apparently to the surprise of Mr. Edmunds and others, presented the credentials of Mr. Spofford, which led to a short debate on the rules, when, finally, the subject was post- poned until to-day. A resolution offered by Mr. Edmunds for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the state of the law regulating Presidential elections was laid over at the request of Mr. Bayard, who wishes to be heard on the subject. In the House there will be no legislative business until next week. Let It Be Settled. The cigarmakers’ strike has assumed large proportions, and will throw ont of employment a great number of persons who have no means of support save the little money they earn from day to day or from: week to week, The Henratp has always in- sisted that labor has the right to strike when dissatisfied with the compensation it receives, and as the cigarmakers appear to have held themsolves strictly within the law and to have relied upon argument and not on force to draw all their fellow work- men into the movement nothing can be said against their action except on the ground of its inexpediency. If they feel that they are not paid a fair, honest price for a fair, honest day’s work, they are en- titled to demand more, and to endeavor to enforce their demand by striking and striv- ing to induce all their fellow workmen to do the same. But it must be remembered that by this step they entail idleness, at least temporarily, on many thousands of men and women who have not a dollar to fall back upon, and who must, until again employed, be a tax on the hard earnings of other workmen, Such a condition of affairs cannot be too speedily ended. For the sake both of em- ployerand employed a speedy settlement of their differences should be made. The em- ployers by their readiness to concede some increase on the present rates of compen- sation admit that the workmen have hereto- fore been paid toolittle. They will do well to stretch their liberality nnd make a fair step forward to meet the employés. The latter, on their part, should be careful not to be too exacting in their demands at this time, when business is only just on the turn of the scale in improvement, and when a few weeks’ idleness will entail upon them and their families serious loss and much suffer- ing. Let both sides show a disposition to meet half way and the difficulty may soon be ended to their mutual advantage. The Metropolitan Amateur Oarsmen et Yesterday. At the opening meeting of the newly formed Metropolitan Association of Ama- teur Oarsmen yesterday afternoon on the Kill von Kull the Columbia College four scored another victory, leading the Argo- nautas only by a part of a length ; Eustis and Downs won the pairs away from Levien and Walsh, and the Carmansyille Club made good work of it in the gigs, while at the senior sculls Lee led Fearon, of Yonk- ers, by only threo feet. The presence of of large tows passing through the Kill and turning up just when least wanted gave our oarsmen a sample of what English rowers have to con- tend with on the busy Thames, and called for sudden judgment and action which are not known on clear courses, and which availed Eustis and his mate greatly yesterday, they going over the rope between asteamer and its tow, while their antag- onists took the long route around the tow. The very careless running down of Eustis’ pair by the steamboat Peter Crary after their race, and the narrow escape of the rowers after swimming under the steamer’s bottom, and the sinking of one tug by another while chasing one of the races, show the urgent need of placing all accompanying steam craft under one head and assigning them positions from which they must in no ordinary event depart. . CEES Discreet Retirements. Mr. Woodin has retired from the Senato- rial canvass in the T'wenty-fifth district. He has acted wisely in declining a contest which was as unjust to his constituents as it would have been damaging to himself. Ih the last Senatorial election, when rumor alone asso- ciated his name with the old Tammany transactions, he ran down a handsome re- publican majority to a mere plurality of three hundred and eighty, secured through defection or corruption in democratic dis- tricts. ‘Lhis was sufficient evidence that the moral sense of his party was opposed to his candidacy, and the ‘I'weed developments must certainly have intensified this feel- ing. Even if Mr. Woodin is in his own heart conscious of his freedom from any im- proper association with the old corruptions it would scarcely have been just to leave his party in the dilemma in which they were placed by his candidacy in the absence of explicit proof of his innocence. On the democratic side we have a scarcely less dis- tinguished withdrawal in the case of Alder- man Purroy. Mr. Woodin withdraws out of respect tor his constituents ; Mr, Purroy out of respect for himself. An unfortunate and hasty act placed’ the latter in a false position, and his positive refusal to be a can- didate for office in the present election is a manly acknowledgment of the error. A Way Out. The Fire Department appears to be in some trouble in relation to a number of men who, having been illegally removed by the Commissioners, were reinstated by the courts, and are now likely to recover their back pay. The department finds that it has on its hands more men than the appropria- tions warrant, and that it would be short of funds fifty thousand dollars if it should be -ealled upon to pay the restored men their back salaries. There is a short way out of one of the difficulties. The men were re= moved in violation of the law because their places were wanted by the Commis« sioners for their friends. There is no doubt that the desire to make vacancies so as to divide the patronage up among the Commis- sioners was the secret underlying the re« movals, As theiraction was either in disres gard or ignorance of the law the Commis. sioners and not the people ought to suffer, The appointments made in place of the men illegally removed were in their turn illegal, because no vacancies existed. It follows that all the men appointed in place of these who have been restored by the courta should be at once displaced and the num. ber of firemen brought down to the neces« sary and authorized figures, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, 8. S. Cox, “Why—we laugh.” General Rosecrans is in California, 8. 8. Cox is a funnier man than old Randall, Ann Eliza 18 only a step-widow. She stepped out, General Howard is Old-Mag-not-Afraid-of-His-Amen, There was no nonsense in the style of the President’a Message, Mr. Jacob Thompson, of Tennessee, is at the New York Hotel, M. Outrey, French Minister at Washington, Is at the Claredon Hotel. It was Tom Ewing as Richelieu who eaid to Obio, “T will make thee a bishop.” The Raw-chester Democrat does not like the dea of nominating *Endficks and 7111, Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow, of Kentucky, is at tho Windsor Hotel, Washington Repudlican:—‘‘Miles has the advantage of Mrs. Potiphar, He cuptured Joseph.” The tramp now approaches the back door and says, “Have you begun with buckwheats yet ?”” General Sherman went behind the scenes at the Calilornia Theatre, and kissed Alice Harrison. Some ono says that Randall is an enthusiast in astronomy. Then he must believe in his lucky star. Miss Emma Abbott, the sweet singer, will go to Newark, where even the mosquitoes will relinquish their rights to her for once, Stanley Matthews is strong in the consciousness of his own integrity, and believes that he wears a plate glass window pane over his soul, Sir Henry St. John Halford, of England, return»: .o the city last ovening from an extended tour in .ue West, and is atthe Filth Avenue Hotel, AMUSEMENTS. STEINWAY HALL—THEODORE THOMAS’ POPULAR CONCERT. Theodoro Thomas had reason last night to congratus late himself upon tho successful inauguration of his musical season, Steinway Hall has rarely been filled by a larger, more fashionable or appreciative audience than were present to enjoy the firat FIRSD in bis seriea of popular concerts, and they likewise had reason to thank the maestro for the charming manner in which he contributed to their entertainment, The orchestra consisted of the leading members of the New York Philharmonio Society and of the former Thomas’ Gr- chestra, These make a combination of which it may bo safely said that it has not an equal of its kind in this country and notasuperior anywhere, It repro. sents an amount of talent of which New York may justly focl proud, aud the manner in which the performance was received was a warm and weil deserved tribute trom the music loving public. The programme was admirably selected and aflorded opportunity lor the production of the best string effects, and the display of the admirable dis- cipline and high art of the performers, Probably the most exquisite and certainly the moat enjoyed of the morceaue ot the evening, for it called ior an encore, was the tminuet by Boccherini, ar- ranged for strings alone, and so bdeautifuliy played that one could almost fancy that the spirits of statoly old French dames and their be- powdered gallants Were gliding through tho air. Aus other feature was the appearance of the Swedish Ladies’ Vocal Quartet, of which it has been truly said it bas had its imitutors, but no equals, ‘These ladies, while studying at the Conservatory at Stockholm, were found to possess Voices whicn, blending in wou- derful harmony aod richness of expression, enabled them to fnterprot with unique and sometimes marvel- lous power the swectest mnclodies that huve been writ. ten, ‘The success of tne Ia ‘was pronounced from the outset, and their modest recognition of approval last evening was as graceful as their art was refined, Syll another attraction was the reappearance io America of a youtntul prodigy, Leopold Lichtenberg, who astonished we I ence vy his performance on the violli was born in San Francisco ia 1861 and at ten yi age appeared in concert, In 1874 Wienawski proposed to take him to Europe to complete his studtes, bah misiortune preventing the consummation of this kin purpose, he was sent abroad as the protégé of a wealthy New York banker, there became the pupil of Wienawe ski and at a competition for prises of the Royal Con. servatory of Music, in Brussels, was awarded the lirst, u rare distinction lor a boy of but tourteen years of age, In personal appearance and manner he would puss fora miniature Rubenstein, while in tho treedom, breadth, expression and boauty of bis style of playing obe recognizes the influence of the great master whose name has been mentioned. A brilliant luture {3 be- fore young Lichtenberg, aod Mr, Thomas will nave the thanks of the public for introducing him, as well as the Ladies’ Qaurtet, to New York. The lateness © of the bour forbids 4 more extended review of the ree spective performances of the evening. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Edwin Adams’ condition remains about the sama, His physicians have decided that it is dangerous to allow visitors to call upon bim, Concerning the performance of the “Crushed Tra. gedian’”’? in Philadelphia next Wednesday afternoon for the benefit of Mr. Adams, it should be stated, in justice to all parties, that Manager Goodwin, of the ‘Walnat Street Theatre, generously gives the use of his establishment, free of all expense, upon that occas sion, while Mr. Sothern will bring over tho entire company of the Park Theatre at his own personal cost Atthe Fifth Avenue Theatre, “A Summer Night's Dream’? will be sung for the last time to-night, and the ever popular “Bohemian Girl” will be revived to- morrow, with Miss Emelio Melville, for the first time here, as Arline; Mr, Peakes as the Count, Mr. Castle as Thaddeus and a strong cast throughout, There is great curiosity to hear Miss Melville in sach a test part. On Monday next “Tho Chimes of Normandy,” the latest and brightest opera comique from Paris, will positively be proauced. OBITUARY, DUNCAN R. MACKENZIE. The offices of tpe National Steamship Company in this city were closed yesterday on account of the death, in New Jersey, of Mr. Duncan K, Mackenzie, a well known apd highly respected officer of the com- pany, who was in charge vf the treighting depart. ment, ‘The deceased was for ten years in the National Steamship service, and for sx years previously was counected with the Canard Steamship Company. Mr Mackenzio was a native of Stornoway, im Scotiend, and was thirty-nine years of age. Ho leaves a widow wod four children, JOHN G. ANTHONY. Jonn G, Avthony, the eminent conchologist, an ine timate iriend of the late Louis Agassiz, died at bis rege idence, corner of Franklin and Magazine streets, Cum- vriago Mass., on Tuesday atternoon, after a sickness of five weeks. Tho deceased, who’ was a cousin of Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, was born in Provdence, R. 1, May 17, 1804, and at the tume vf bis death was theretore aged seventy. three years and five months, Mr Anthony resided in Cincinnati for thirty-four years, and was there enguged in different business pursuits, While in business he hud time to make quite @ collection of shells, abd be Was the recognized authority, especially on fresh water shells At one period he was quite blind for five or six years, and even then could tell =the ature of every shelhwrought him by tho feeling better thaa most people with their sight. From bis youth he had a fondness for this science, and at one time, whon ite young, he travelled on foot throuzh Kentucky, essee und Georgia to indulge in i, He. resided years in South Carolina, JAMES P. COWARDIN. James P, Cowardin, son of the proprietor of the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, died on Tuesday night, 16ta inst, in Richmond. A journalist, like bis futher, he was lor years the most facetious reporter of negro sayings and doings in the South, Ha also made an extensive lecturing tour through tho States some years ago, bis subject being “The Humors of the Colored Race,” tlustrated with very laaghabio imitations of darky ways and conversation. In this line be was inunitavle. He @trip around the world in tho United States steamer Yuntic, us amanuensis to the Captain, and brought back with 1im a host of interesting reminia cences, Ho had much talent, In Ricumond, wheré he was boro, be was greatly beloved.