The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1877, Page 6

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Gold was quoted at 102%, at the open- ing and close, with @ decline in the interim to 10253. Government bonds were steady, States higher and railroads weak. Money on call lent at 7 per cent. Tae Cunan Pxace Rumors are emphatically denied at Havana. AccorpinG to the Department of Agriculture the cotton crop is as large as that of last year. Tue Granp Army or tHE Reruptic cele- brated its eleventh anniversary in Philadelphia yesterday, SeveRAL of the Brooklyn street railroad com- panies have been authorized to use steam on their lines. Turre Was a Larce Sa.e of unimproved property yesterday, for which very fair prices were obtained. Statistics or PresbyrerranisM in this State, as presented to the Synod now in session, show an encouraging condition of affairs. Ar FLeetwoop Park yesterday the racing was excellent and the attendance the largest of the season. The prizes were unusually large. Senator Morton, according to the latest despatches, is very much better, and there is a prospect that he may be able to be in Wash- ington in a short time. The Sra ® Men has thus far been conducted in a pertectly lawful and unob- jectionable manner, which shows the good sense of those participating in it. A speedy adjust- ment of the trouble seems probable. Sin ¥ ¢ Hatronp, who possesses his share of British plu intimates that our riflemen will soon re a challenge to shoot at Wim- bledon. There can be no doubt, of course, that a team will be found to, again compete on British soil, A Cusovs Cuancey Ross story comes from Richmond. Two gypsies who stole the adopted child of a wealthy Quaker declared, when cap- tured in Southern Ohio, that they believed the and had been in correspondence with his father on the subject for a long time. ‘Their representations are probably false. Business Mr RALLY will find in the deliberations of the Tanners’ Convention some valuable ideas and suggestions. The necessity of foreign markets seems to be particularly felt by this important branch of trade, and we know dd by other heavy manufacturing inte A conference of the different industries affected in this way might aid in securing whatever legislation is needed. that a similar want is experie sts, Tue Wearnrer.—The rapid and remarkable development of the depression from the south- West is the main feature of the meteorological conditions now observable in the United States, This disturbance gave certain indications of its approach on the 14th, when it was duly an- nounced by the Hrnatp as among the probae bilities for this week. that date it has been gradually extending in, a northeasterly Since direction into the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, and now influences the weather from Buffap to Galveston and from the d_ to Colorado. which were united Alleghany Mountains wes The aveas of high pressure in advance of the depression, have been sepa- rated by it on the line indicated by the Heats of Wednesday. The northern zone of high pressure now extends over Canada, the | upper Iakes ane the regions west of the Mis- souri River, while the southern zone pre- sents a great pocket on its northern margin, in which the depression is moving | tustward. Hence the advance of the 1 fren attendant on the storm is likely to bring it over the Middle and South Atlantic States, and when it reaches the ocean it will move ra northeastward toward Newfoundland, + will unite with that of the depression passing enstward from that locality. The heaviest rains have fallen in the Lower Mississippi Valley and st. West of the Missis- ature has fallen quite low, converting the rain at Cheyenne into snow yes- terday morning. Eastward from the great river the temperature rises toward the Alleghanies, whence it falls again tothe ocean, Except in the Northwest and West the winds are moder- on the Texas o sippi the temp ute, the atmospheric inflow being generally to- | ward the depression in the Lower Mississippi Valley. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be Warm and cloudy, with NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, The President's Aims. To tell the plain truth, the President ap- pears to be engaged in an enterprise con- trary to Scripture. We have been watching him for some time very carefully, and we are reluctantly forced to the conclusion that he is trying to put new wine into old bot- tles, Mr. Hayes is a faithful republican. ‘Those who talk of his “Johnsonizing” do not know him. Not only has he never been anything else but a republican, but he has, we suspect, a kind of moral antipathy to the democrats, which reinforces his natural and habitual allegiance to his own side. He isa republican pure and simple; believes that organization to be the ‘party of great moral ideas,” and even if he were not, as its choice to the highest office in tho land, gratefully bound to it, it would still never occnt to him to be anything but a member of that party, faithful and zealous for its future. But being also a patriotic man, » man who loves his country as well as party, Mr. Hayes would like to serve both. Many cir- cumstances show that his aim is not, as some of his opponents foolishly say, to break with his party, but to purify it. He believes in the old and somewhat stale watchword of “reform within the party.” He sees with grief that under Mr, Johnson and General Grant the pure, high minded republican party fell into bad habits, got tipsy, gambled for high stakes and finally landed in a very dirty gutter. He sees that year after year its respectable friends aban- doned it, or ut least gave it the cold shoulder, and that by the time General Grant ceased to rule the party had got to be asort of political black sheep. His hope is to reclaim it, to persuade it toa bath, to give ita clean suit of clothes and a decent hat, to get it to go to Sunday school and to abandon the tippling shop, and to re- introduce it into respectable society. In short, he hopes to reform the republican party, and his first difficulty is that it re- fuses to be reformed, and with muttered curses threatens to leave him. We suspect the amiable exhortations of the President to the party leaders to “‘stop off” will not do him or them’ much good. ‘They are by no means tired of their suits. They regard him asa sort of “goody” who would reduce them to a bread and milk diet, and their rebellious stomachs aré long accustomed to strong meat. The Presi- dent’s notions give Messrs. Blaine, Conk- ling, Robeson, Chandler, Cameron and the rest a sort of intellectual dyspepsia. Mr. Hayes’ most just and most cherished ideas appear to these more vigorous statesmen mere Sunday school twaddle ; they do not conceal their contempt and dislike. That the President should wish to reform and rehabilitate his party is natural and praiseworthy. But that he should expect to carry with him the old leaders, the men who have so long and so badly mismanaged the machine; that he should call on these to join him and hope to persuade them to lead in the new paths—this appears to us a plunder, an amiable mistake. Whether ‘‘re- form within the party” is possible is a ques- tion about which men differ. We will not dis- cuss it; we should be glad to see the repub- lican party “born again,” to use a Scrip- tural phrase, and, sloughing off the vices and the stupidities it has contracted, appear as the exponent of new policies and live ideas. It would be a good thing for the country in many ways. But whether ‘re- form within the party” be possible or not leaders is impossible. If the republican party is to be purified and made new by the President’s efforts it is logically and mor- ally necessary thut he shall give it a new set of leaders. Toa certain extent he saw this when he chose for his Cabinet, not the men whom the party leaders would have imposed on him, but a set of men who, while with perhaps one exception they represented the new ideas and new policies which he had at heart, were yet 80 hateful to the party leaders that these, in their first rage and disappointment, even plotted to reject them in the Senate. If any one had advised Mr, Hayes to carry out his Southern and civil service reform poli- cies with the help of such men as Cameron, Robeson, ‘Taft and rightly have rejected the suggestion as absurd. He would have said, ‘I dare not put new wine into these old bottles.” But he ought to see that what was thus true of of his party. He cannot hope to reform his party and at the same time hold the friendship and count on the support of its old leaders, His enterprise is a most landable one ; every good citizen, every republican zealous for the future success of his party must wish him success. But unless he looks all the elements of the problem in the face; unless he sees that for the new work the old tools are of no use; unless he has courage to face their opposition, and wis- dom to bring forward new men as leadors, he will fail and fail miserably. It is use- less for him to invite them to repentance and good works with the promise of speedy reward if they will submit. It is worse than useless for him to cry ‘peace, peac when there can be no peace, to try by careful, and, as he to think, judicious expediency, to win over this or that man of the old set. We givehim all possible credit, not only for good inten- | tions, but for firm and honest determina- | tion, He seems to us to have the courago to do right, but to do it only by driblets. He pulls the string of the shower bath, but with so gentle a hand that it is evident he does not like the idea of a shower. He fully means to cut off the dog’s tail, but he hates | the thought of giving pain to the ‘animal, and he has accordingly been all the summer cutting it off half an inch at a time, and when the dog growls he pats him 6n the back and tells him it is for his eventual good. zs A new policy requires new men; we fancy that by and by it will be found to have been a mistake of the President to try to get on with the old hands in so many parts | of the ship. He began with a new Oabinet and there stopped to preach a,sermon to the mass of the office-holders on repentance and good works. He had certainly an j attentive audience, but he has converted or seems one thing is certain—reform under the old | Chandler he would | his Cabinet is equally true of all the leaders | nobody so far. The more he pressed them to what the Methodist brethren call ‘‘con- viction” the more they replicd that they were already saints—who had been serving the devil for a while} to be sure, but had after all cheated him in the Lord’s interest all the time, ™Did he mean to reform the civil service? Oh, yes; but it was already “the best civil service on the pianet,” cried the general.chorus, and in the sacred name | of liberty they all protested against being disturbed. And now, after all, he is slowly routing them out, and, whether he likes it or not, must face the music which he evokes, The repudiican loaders felt very comfort- able under the last administration. They had lost the confidence of the North; but they had at their command the Southern question, with the help of which they were always confident of “firing the Northern heart” and carrying enough States for their purposes, hey have not by any means given up this question ; their President has put it aside, but they mean to revive it if they can. They know how to play upon that one string, and they are furious with the President for offering to deprive them of it. Of what use is it tor him to talk to these men of new questions, new policies, new ways? They do not want them; the old clothes suit them best. He is entirely right when he tells them that the future of the party demands that it shall drop the old and stale issues and take up new and live questions. But he ought to see, and ho will be forced to see by and by, that they are not the men to lead their party into the new paths. ‘They cannot doit; they ara too old—too used to the old ruts. We sincerely wish him success in his efforts at rehabilitating his party, but we say frankly he needs new men te work with. He must be strong enough to impose new leaders on the party; he must know how to call the young men, the fresh men, the men un- trammelled by old policies and unconnected with the old machinery, to the front, Ho has scarcely begun to do this, and yet he stands on the brink of the great battle of his administration. Does he know it? He stands now where General Grant stood in the first month of his administration—and where General Grant broke down and failed. Will President Hayes win the battle which President Grant lost? We hope so, for it is for the country’s good that he should; but we must say it is at least uncertain, Cleopatra’s Needle. Difficulties well nigh insuperable are commonly compared to the labor of tinding a needle in a haymow, but it would appear that some needles are very hard to lose even when cast loose in what seeims a far more hopeless place. Cleopatra’s Needle, re- ported one day as cut adrift in a heavy storm and at a bad place on the rough French coast, is less than a day later re- ported found on the coast of Spain, having driven fair across **the Bay of Biscay O,” and having never, it is reasonably to be hoped, come into collision with the rocky barriers of that part of the world. It seems a won- derful chance that this iron tube, lying so low in the sea and not visible certainly at a great distance, should beso soon espied and brought in, and the fact indicates, at least, how little the great Atlantic is a mere waste of waters. There is, of course, as yet some uncertainty whether or no the hard usage of the storm has left the treasure within the tube unharmed. Perhaps there was not at any time much danger that the tube would go down at sea; but if the sea should have beaten it on the coast for a few hours it might without opening the tube have broken the bearings that held the stone in its place, and thus eventually presented to the eyes of the learned in England the sight of a pulverized obelisk. But the good fortune of the recovery is so great that we may readily trust it reaches yet a little further and touches the condition of.the monument. Had, however, the persons in charge of this removal noted the Heranp's prediction of that storm, which refthed Europe many days in advance of the storm, they could have prevented altogether the exposure of the needle to such dangerous possibilities. the E Transit. At the last session of the Legislature the } Heravp had occasion to call attention to the names of certain New York members of As- | sembly who had disregarded the wishes of the people and the interests of the city by opposing rapid transit and laboring in the service of the horse car railroad companies. It is probable that some of these unfaithiul representatives may again be candidates for the State Senate or Assembly, and the people should in all cases vote against them. | The main difficulties in the way of rapid transit in the courts have, happily, been re- moved by the decision of the Court of Ap- peals declaring the law of 1875 constitu- tional; but bad legislation may embarrass the work und postpone the great public im- provement on which the future progress and welfare of the city so much depend. No Senator or Assemblyman who will sit at Albany as the representative of a horse car corporation rather than of the people of New York should receive support at the polis, Party ties are of little consequence as compered with a question involving the best interests of the city and of its inhab- } itants. es of Rapid Remember An Impo t Issue, A meeting is to be held at Steinway Hall on Bienday evening next to urge upon the people of the city and the State the impor- tance of securing the submission of the pro- | posed constitutional amendments providing for the future management of municipal governments on an honest, efficient and economical basis. The Committee of Ar- rangements is headed by Royal Phelps, and comprises the names of some of the that tho machine politicians, who do not | tearing his victim, but handling it with a wealthiest and most prominent merchants | result shows they were not sufficiently and bankers of the city. here is danger | powerful to influence a mind temporarily desire a well guarded and economical city | lady had been in the habit of taking long and government, will secretly labor to secure a | lonely walks, and a few evenings ago she large vote against these amendments, and | strayed to Central Park. should the friends of retrenchment and re- | were all calculated to strengthen the resolu- form neglect to agitate the question they | tion she appears to have formed betore sho may be defeated by defanlt, although really | set out, and the rest is known, At first it favored by a large majority of the electors of } was supposed that sho had been murdered, é OCTOBER 19, 1877=TRIPLE SHEET. subject should be taken up and brought prominently forward in other parts of the State, Mr. Conkling in Senatorial Undre: We print a lively letter from Washington, containing, among other things, an inter- view with Mr, Garfield, in the ordinary newspaper acceptation of that word, and what is not an interview, though in some respects more interesting than an interview, with Senator Conkling. ‘There is the cus- por series of qhestions and answers be- tween the writer of the letter and Mr. Garfield, but as to Mr. Conkling our corre- spondent merely relates snatches of a free and sarcastically playful conversation be- tween the Senator and a knot of intimate friends who had casually dropped in upon him at his room for a pleasant evening chat. Mr. Garfield, though he likes President Hayes personally and respects his inten- tions, thinks that he has blundered as a politician and that the republican defeat in Ohio is a fruit of his mistakes. Mr. Gar- field thinks the Southern policy cost the purty some votes, though not more than five or ten per cent, but that the civil service order, which ‘de-officered” the republican party, wasa fatal error in strategy. Mr. Gariicla would seem to feel sore over Mr. Hayes’ preference of Stanley Matthews for the Senatorship, but he will make no mischief and do nothing to embarrass tho President. The public will be more entertained with the glimpses which this letter affords of the temper and sentiments of Mr. Conkling. ‘The Senator was in perfect health and ex- cellent spirits, and talked with the light- ness and sportive ease of a man in his hours of relaxation. He wore no war paint, and probably does not intend to put on any—at least for the present. He finds so large a proportion of the republican’ Sen- ators of his own way of thinking that he is justified in dismissing all anxiety lest he should be isolated and regarded as a black sheep in the flock. He, indeed, said nothing on this point, but the fact that Mr, Hayes’ course is generally dis- tastetul to the republican Senators accounts for the sportive buoyancy of Mr. Conkling. He finds that he is floating with the tide and needs to make no special exertions to vindi- cate his attitude toward the President in which he has so much good company. He took up and commented on Mr. Hayes’ Mes- sage with light, playful malice like that of a cat toying with a mouse, not velvet touch, without protruding his claws. It strikes us that Mr. Conkling’s criticisms of the Message are mere cavils, They are of no value except as illustrations of hfs hostile end semi-contemptuous feeling tow- ard the President. The Senator is, no doubt, very much relieved, and feels quite at his ease at finding that he has no battle to fight in his own party and that there is a substantial agreement with his own views as to what he regards as the crotchets of the President, Since the other Senators are disposed to do what he had contemplated he would doubt- less more willingly follow than lead in what is likely to be a common and spontaneous movement of the republican Senators. Like all the other machine politicians he doubt- less believes that Mr. Hayes cannot afford to divorce himself from the party that elected him, and that the President will be brought to see this when he finds that he has no stanch defenders among the republicans of either House. How Shall We Elect Our Presidents? Efforts will be made by this Congress to so amend the federal constitution as to avoid in future the dangers which assailed the Republic last winter. A motion has been made in the Senate to appoint a com- mittee of able and experienced men to de- vise and digest a plan, and Mr. Springer, of the House, has already matured a plan of his own which he will soon present. We are glad that the necessity of such amend- mients is generally recognized, but we do not think it expedient to discuss the details of any particularscheme until after the sub- ject shall have been submitted to an able and responsible committee. Mr. Springer's plan, which we priat elsewhere, has plausible fea- tures. Its substance is a direct vote in each State for President and Vice President, and a division of the g¢lectoral votes to which the State is entitled among the candidates in proportion to the number of popular yotes which they may respectively receive. We see no urgent reason for starting this subject in the extra session, and should Senator Morton be able to attend the regu- lar session he ought to be the chairman of the committee, as he has bestowed more study on this question than any other pub- lic man of equal ability. The Central Park Suicide. The particulars of s very sad and distress- ing suicide are printed in our news columns this morning. Mrs. Leroy, the unfortunate lady whose body was found on Wedaesday in one of the lakes at Central Park, belonged to that class of society in which self-de- struction is one of those crimes to be read about in the pages of romance or in the vulgar records of criminal life. ‘Lhere was left it in the way she did, and the mystery of her ending will, in all probability, never be explained. The only reasonable theory of the deed is that she took the fatal plunge while temporarily insane. ‘Trouble and misfortune had come to her recently. Her husband had been unfortunate in business, and there was, in a measure, a loss of that social prestige to which she had been ac- customed, But still there remained to her a Fifth avenue home and a stainless name and the love of children and affectionate kindred. These were certainly strong reasons which should bave hold her back from the awful step she took; but as the weak and unsettled. It seems the deceased The surroundings no reason on earth why she should have | — mitted; but all the facts in. the case go to show that thig supposition is untrne and that it was pure self-destruction. The whole story is the saddest we have been called on to print in a long time. Congress Yesterday. The House was not in session yesterday, and the Senaté was occupied nearly all day on the question of the admission of the Lonisiana Senators, which was finally re- ferred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. The debate did not touch the merits of the question except in a general way, and the speeches on either side were as a rule free from partisan bitterness, Both sides seemed to be reluctant to open up the old story and to be conscious of the fact that the country is sick and tired of the dreary tale. The contest was whether the credentials of Mr, Spofford should be re- ferred to the committee, and that course was decided upon by a strict party vote of 36 to, 33, Mr. Davis, of Illinois, voting with the democrats, Al- though Mr. Christiancy voted for the refer- ence he made the significant declaration that he should be governed entirely by the legal and not the party considerations in- volved in the case. Senators Booth and Matthews also voted with the republican majority, which plainly shows that the Presi- dént has not made the admission of Mr. Spofford an administration question, in which position he will be fully sustained by the good sense of the coyntry. The second / vote, on instructing the committee to report on the first of next month, was perhaps more significant than the first one. If the motion had been sustained it would, of course, have brought the question squarely before the Senate in a short time; but it was defeated by nearly the samo strict party vote, and if the committee is so disposed it can hold Messrs, Spofford and Eustis in their present delightful state of uncertainty until the end of the session, unless, which is not very probable, the Senate should order other- wise. This action looks like an indefinite postponement of the Louisiana question. Did He Ever Say Itt All the American journals reproduced a few days since a recent article in the Lon- don World, purporting to bean interview with General Grant, in which he was repre- sented to have made remarks about the late Commodore Vanderbilt and his son, Mr. William H. Vanderbilt, which are so un- called for and so unjust that we can hardly conceive the possibility of General Grant having made them. It seems a great deal more likely that the reporter of the inter- view misunderstood what: General Grant said, and then in writing out the conversa- tion from recollection exaggerated his own misconception, Had the interview been with some flying European tourist who had just returned from this country it would not have been more absurd than the notions which credulous travellers fre- quently carry home with them ; but General Grant should be too intelligent to fall into such mistakes. It is more probable that an English interviewer, in reciting from mem- ory a conversation which he represented to have lasted several hours, should have got things as badly awry as tourists in this country ofien do in relating what they think they have heard from Americans on this side of the Atlantic. Tammany’s County Nominations. | The Tammany County Conventioz yester- | day made the nomination of Judge Brady jor the Supreme Court unanimous, and thug paid a fitting compliment to a gentle- man who is as much esteemed in private life as he is respected and admired on the bench. Mr. Kelly indulged the Convention | with a sensation and a surprise in nominate ing ex-Judge Frederick W. Loew for, Reg- ister, and the German delegate who rose in bewilderment and stated that, as late as half-past one that afternoon, he had been in- structed by the landers to cast his vote for Mr. Charles E. Loew for that position, only illustrated the astonishment of the majority of the delegates. The secret of Mr. Kelly's coup is said to have been the discovery of the fact that Mr. Shepherd F, Knapp might have carried the Convention as against Mr. Charles E, Loew, and the leader sagaciously abandoned an untenable position to assume one which he has a bet- ter chance to maintain. The renomination of Judges Sinnott and Shea for the Marine Court is in the line of the policy which commends the retention onthe bench of Judges whose records are unassailable. ‘The selections for Aldermen- at-Large—Mr. Samuel A. Lewis, Patrick H. Keenan, William R. Roberts and L. C. Waehner—are purely of a party character, | and scarcely commend themselves to the citizens on any broader grounds, ‘Lhe peo- ple must, of course, await the nominations yet to be made by Tammany's opponents before they can decide which candidates are the most deserving of public confidence and | support. Get Civil How to Service Reform, The, Tammany County Convention yester- day wisely followed the advice tendered by the Heranp and indorsed the republican and anti-Tammany nomination of Judge Brady tor the Supreme Court, thus taking this important judicial office out of poli- tics. Judge Pratt, in Kings county, has received a similar indorsement at the hands of both parties, This disposition to keep good judges on the bench cannot be too highly commended. But why should not the example be followed in regard to all offices that are not of a political character when the nominee is fully acceptable to the people? The fight made over such offices as Sheriff, County Clerk and Register, in the city, or over the subordinate State offices, is one simply for the spoils. It is a struggle for the patronage that pertains to those positions. ‘The most direct and surest road to civil service re- form would be to ignore politics and make unanimous nominations whenever a civil officer is to be chosen whose position has no association with the pplitical principles of opposing parties, leaving the person elected to dispense his patronage with a view sim- ply to the proper discharge of the public business and without reference to the | the State, Tho meeting istimaly, and the that another horrible crime had been com- . yangement would not apply to Congress« men, State legislators and Al@ermen, or to Presidents and Governors who shape and carry out the peculiar principles and policy of the party they represent. It would, howe ever, get rid of a great deal of the political place hunting and patronage which lie at the foundation of our civil service short« comings. As a sound basis of reform wa commend the suggestion to the attention of the civil service reformers. It may receive the serious attention of political parties if the President’s laudable effort to separate the public office-holders from politics should unhappily prove a failure. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Anna Dickingon bas refused two offers of marriage this year. And now, Colonel Ingersoll, did Tom Paine eat fricd beefstenk A ratlway car for people who get drunk Is the latest Suggestion. ‘The cold white clouds float across the autumn sky like ten-cent plates of ice cream, Chills and fever do not leave any joxes ina man when they tacklo him Grico-Roman style, Sir Edward Thornton, whon ho left Washington last spring, intended to retura in December next, The Mobile Register says the naval stores trade of that port supports fully tweaty thousand poople, Liszt smiles when he plays, In this country when a soulful pianist plays it {s tne hearers who smile, H. Howard has resumed his cornection with the British Legation at Washington as one of tho secreta, Tlos. Tho Chicago Tribune thivks that the money ques- tion, and not the President, was the cause of the Ohia defeat. Boston Advertiser:—‘*A showman placed over tho cage of his grizzly bear and her cubs:—‘Bear and four-bear.’ ? Blaine—So far as I am concorned, I assign all my right, title and interest asa republican in Mr, Hayes to the democracy, Richard Grant White’s “Every Day English’’ papers are being republished im England, and are exciting some discussion there, Mr. Thomas A, Hendricks, of Indiana, ought not te open bis mouth much, He might put bis foot in it, He aoes hotter saying nothing. London Court Journal:—“Professors Tyndall, Dar, win and Huxley will spend their autamn holtday in the Trenton Falla, Oneida, United States of America.” Mr. Bergh sighs because ladies share In criminal sports. But, Mr. Bergh, the season when old maids can catch flies on window panes has nearly passed, General McClellan, the next Governor of New Jer- sey, thinks that Chict Joseph conld haye won it ho had only spent his time in digging an artesian well. Mr. Halstead thinks that the democrats will so mis- use their victory that the Congressional elections of next year will go to support the republican administras tion. Evening Telegram:—‘‘A paragraph states that forty years ago a missionary was not allowed to remain on the Fijilsianda, Allof which means that they gens erally diod from the effects ot the eat,’? Bridgeport Standard:—“Now doth the glossy chest- nut jostle the shelly shagbark onthe huckster'’s stall, and the conscientious agricalturist dilutes tho swoet cider for the city market with fresh-laid water from the well.” Garfield has moreto be disgusted with than any’ other.repablican in America, If some ono would only induce him to use bair o:] now he would look less like f dilapidated hayrick, and his sorrows would be smoothed out, Jndgo Sepulveda, of Los. Angeles, belongs to one of tho old Spanish California families, and the democrats of the southern part of tho State insist that he shall go to the United States Senate, It will be romemberod that Bret Harte used the family name of Sepulveda in his novel. General Butler says it is very comfortable to sit. in the Rouse with your hat tall of brickbats. Does the visionary Congressman mean that he goes out daring the evening, and the next day has several bricks ip his bat? If he does a cocktail might do him good. But it ho means that he has something to throw at the President he should remember that the flannel bricks that poor Humpty Dumpty used to throw res bounded without harm, AMUSEMENTS, “DIVORCE” aT WOOD'S THEATRE. The purpose of Mr. George Wood, the manager of Wood's Theatre tn Brooklya, seems to be to offer to tho pubiie entertainments of real valuo and artistio, excellence, and thus far this season he has well proved the possibilities of success. He has already given to the stage formerly occupied by Hooley’s Minstrels o wew and more rop- utable character as an abodo of the moral drama, Ove of the most marked steps in the progress of thts endeavor has boen the eagage- ment of Augustin Daly’s Fifth Avenue Company, who since the beginuing of this week have presented to cultivated audiences characters which could not fail to please and instruct. “The Prinvess Royal’? was last evening succeeded on the boards by the bighly emo- tional drama’ of “Divorce,? and it was played in a commendable manner. Miss May Davenport filed the rdle of Fanny Adriance with a grace, force and fitness of portrayal which promise well for the future of ber career, Her beauty is of that noble yot voluptuous order which fascinates while it awes, and in this respect is lar more adequate for an idealistic sway over her admirers iban that of her more famous gister,, Inthe trying and highly wrought enactment of the anguish of Wively and maternal feeling she showed remarkable power, fineness of uer sympathetic instinct and the consistency with which she pursues her conception of her part to its artistic finish are admirabie. Lu DeWitt was personated by Miss Edith Biande, Her vivucity and impulsiveness well suit the character, to which ler piquant beanty 18 no slight complement, Certainly she plays the wayward aud giddy girl-wife in a fashion which loaves litle to be des sired, When abe bursts torth ina tempest of tpetuosity in the quarrelling scene witb the old husband, and winds ber childixh temper up to the pitch of wilful Anger, the spectators feel that an episode of real life 1s before them, Mr. Fawcett as Jitt,tbe divorce law- yer, and Mr Fisher as Burritt, the detective, are irres sistibly amusing. Mr. Barrymore is not a good actor, and his rendition of Alfred Adriance 1s almost wholly bad, In the last act, however, be somewhat redoema himself and loses tho alfectstion and self- consciougness Which are at other Umes too apparent. Mr. Parkes, whose merit ou the stage may be summed up in the prettivess of his torm and the sleekness of his attire, Was as usual the elegant walk- ing gentieman, but nothing more. Mr. F. Bennett as Judge Kemp was not equat to the possibilities of hia part, although not fagrantiy incompetent, ‘ 00 Monuuy will be revived the melodrama ot ‘Une der the Gaslight.” SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, It the San Francisco Minstrels continue to have such large audiences ag that of Jast evening they will ve forced to extend their borders, Au attractive bill has done its work, and the cosey little theatre is packed to see the novelties, Of Charley Backus, Wambold and Bireh, in the parlor entertainment or sit-around part of the programme, there is nothing new to be said, They are always good. Mr, Backus Las udded piaco playing to bis other accomplish. ments, and is encored nigutly. The new feature of the present performance ts a little skevch called “Helen's Babies,” tu which Mr. Bob Hart plays Mr. Burton, and Messrs. Birch and Backus Toadie and Budgie, respectively. The tun 18 irresistible, as ono can readily imagine. No bettor cure for the blues could be recommended than a sight of this amusing performance, Mr. Habberton woud never recognize the children of his brain, but be would enjoy a good laugh should he see them impersonated vy Charley Backus and Billy Bireyy e A FLORAL DISPLAY, Tt ts\generally conceded that the preseat, tho forty sixth annual exhibition of the Amorican Institute, 1@ superior in many respects to any fair given heretos fore by the association. Notwithstanding the ** hard times”? the attendance has tnys tar been large, Tha exhibition of machinery, esveciaily of household and agricultural implements and in manutacturing pro- cesses, is very notable, Yesterday was a red-letter day (n this season’s tair, it being tho opening of tho ‘second series’’ of the floral show. Tho following were the principal floral extibite:— ‘Table design and basket of flowers, rustic stand and funeral designs, trained (ruit trees, Eucalyptus—anti« fever tree, display of cut flowers, verbenas, dahljas and Wardian case; orchids if bloom, collection of coleas and achyranthes, new geranium, caroations; wid flowers aod autumn leaves, variegated leaved Plants, vight blooming cereus and w specimen ger- aniom, “Happy Tnought;"’ a collection of greenhouse plants, feras and lycopouiams, fhe night blooming Cereus Was a particular object of attention, From aps dividing party line. ‘ Of course this happy and harmonious ar- pourances the pewwis will fully opon withina vergy few hours, ; { | | i | |