The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1877, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. than six months, or five dollars for six mon! yunday tuded. tree of pestaxe. LLRLY HERALD.2One dollar per year, tsee of post- “tNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—In orler to insure atten- tion subscribers wishing thelr address changed must give their old as well as their new address. All pasiness, pew letters or telegraphic despatches must "stiete and packeres should bo properly sealed. Rejected communications will not erevurved- Keane wi town din omauabeay PRRRAREDP: HIa OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HBRALD— PLEKT STREET. é CECAVENUR DE LOPERA FI STRATA PACK. tn will be received and York. = NO, 208 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. XCLE Tom's Canin. BOWERY THEATRE-Lirx ox tux Boxpxa, NIBLO’S GARDEN—Jumaxwainosay. Louws pis Ts ses, EAGLE THEATRE—MaY Cov AMERICAN INSTITCTE—Invusrry anp Mucnaxics, STEINWAY HALL—Tuowas’ BROADWAY THEATRE—La Journ Panrownvse. THEATRE PRANCAIS—Lx Cuarxau pu Paiur p’Itaue SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS EGYPTIAN HALL-V. COLUMBIA OPERA NOUS: BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE—! TIVOLI TAEATRE—Vannery. TONY PASTOR’S—Vanixry. NEW YORK AQUARIUM OLYMPIC THHATRE. WITH SUPPLEMENT. RW Yt Y. OCTOBER Important Notice To ADveRTISERS.—Zo insure the proper classification 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 warm and cloudy, with heavy rains. Watt Srrert Yesterpay.—The.stock market ‘was active and strong until the, close, when there was aslight decline. Goldiadvaneed from 102% to 102%. Government bonds were weak, States dull and railroads strong. Money on cull lent at 7 per cent, with a.few loans at 4 a 5 per cent. Tre Home Savincs Bank, of Elgin, Il., has inhospitably closed its d d ‘crs, of Paterson, was arraigned yesterday on acharge of conspiracy to unlawfully transfer the securities of a trust company. AT THE °aLE or BLoovep horned cattle yes- terday belonging to the estate of the late Alvin Adams, of Boston, the attendance-of well known stock men was very lurge. Average prices were obtained. NINETEEN. Persons aro reported at Police Headquarters as misssing. They average all the way from tive to seventy-six years old, and have disappeared sinee the beginning of the month. Nine of them appear to be children, who have probably run away from school. Whe THE Sunscriprioxs to the Seventh Regiment Armory fund have reached a very hundsome figure a large amount is still needed to finish the building. The committees ap- pointed for the purpose of raising the balance among our business men will, it is to be hoped, de successful. Tue OveRators AND Brokers in Wall strect are becoming decidedly belligerent, and accord- ing to the reports elsewhere printed a pitched battle may occur there at any moment. The bulla and bears should not let their angry pas- sions rise in this way. If somebody must be shot every time somebody else is cheated it will be a perpetual slaughter from one end of the year to the other. Tue Viotators or Tue Excise Law need not expect any favors at the hands of Recorder Hackett. In sentencing some of the guilty deal- | ers yesterduy he approved the objects of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, and de- clared that the full penalty of the law would be inflicted upon a second conviction. Hackett always keeps his word. Recorder Concress Yesterpay.—In the Senate, which was the only branch of Congress in session, there was a short debate on the motion of Mr. Thurman to discharge the committee from the consideration of the credentials of Mr. Eustis as Senator from Louisiana, which was finally ended by the withdrawal of the motion. The credentials of all three contestants—Spofford, Kellogg and Eustis—are now before the proper committee, and 4 report is promised at an early day. ‘ annie Tue Wearner.—We can now fairly claim the fulfilment of our prediction of the 14th regarding the storm progressing toward the Aulntic coast through the Ohio Valley. The separation of the two areas of high pressure which were in contact is now complete, and an opening for the storm toward the Atlantic along a line of least resistance is eff conditions of the weather follows:—The depression w e i advanced isobars in Texas has moved slowly northeastward over the Mississippi Valley and is now central in the Ohio Valley, south of Lake Erie. The pressure at the eentre is not remarkably low, but is de- ereasing as the storm advances. An extremely heavy rainfall weeurs along the northern and eastern margins, and the rain area attending the storm extends from the Upper Missouri Valley to the South Atlautic States and from New Eng land to the Lower Mississippi Valley. On the northwestern and southeastern sides of the de- pression the barometer is high, the pressure in the former direction being unusually so, Hence gales prevail at many pointe westward of Buffalo, blowing trom the northwest and northcust toward the centre of lowest pressure. The movement of the storm will bring its centre over New York and the New England States, and it is probable that great freshets may oceur in the latter section if the rains con- tinue as heavy as they ave in the lower lake district. In any case precautions should be taken at once ugainst accidents along the river valloys of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The rainfall of the past iorty-eight hours cannot fail to cause ‘a rise in the Mississippi and its tribu- taries fur above the ordinary levels. When on the coast the storm will be followed by a heavy northwesterly gale. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and cloudy, with probably heavy rains. | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1877~-WITH SUPPLEMENT. True Reason of Russia’s Failures= Luck of Good Geueralship. The unaccountable folly and sloth of the Turkish government at the beginning of the war offered to the Russian army an oOppor- tunity to finish, by a single season’s cam- paign, the work it had undertaken; but this chance has been almost hopelessly lost by bad generalship and mismanagement, and the Russian situation, although improved by the victory in Armenia and tho perilous position of Osman Pacha at Plevna, is by no means a satisfactory one. Added to the severity of a winter already commenced, and to the depletion of battalions smarting under reverses, lies the graver question of future supplies, should any serious interruption ocour to the operation of the Roumanian railroads, the transit across the Danube, or the wagon roads become impassable in Bul- garia, It may be, however, that the Turks will be as unfortunate in this yespect as their enemy, and that the war may drag its weary length through the winter in the dif- ficult transportation of supplies to be con- sumed by ill-fed soldiers holding present positions. The Russian soldier has proved his great marching powers, his stolid courage and his admirable discipline to the satisfaction of his warmest admirers, but the Russian generajs have displayed incapacities such as their most bitter critics would hardly have dared to predict, The war has failed to produce on the Russian side many general officers who would have been deemed fit to com- mand a brigade in any of the late great wars of the world, and the heroism of the fighting soldier has been neutralized by the inefficiency of the generals. The position is yet far from desperate, but a continuance of such generalship as the Czar's lieutenants have displayed must result either in defeat or in a victory won by gigantic brute force against a constantly weakening army—a speetacle not calculated to retain for Russia the respect of her present sympathizers, wyOd wy] H It is painful to contemplate the resul of defeat to Russia. Not alone on account of the restored and strengthened arrogance of the Turk, sure to be most displayed toward his Christian vassals; not alone on account of the humiliation to Russia in seeing her lately budding civilization checked and her usefulness paralyzed, but also in the political chaos sure to arise in such international policies as are now based upon a decided, if only a tem- porary, balance of power. Indeed, one promise for Russia's ultimate success in the struggle lies in the fact’ that the political complexion of Europe can hardly. allow such changes as Russia's defeat would en- tail. It is idle for Great Britain to fancy that European peace would be strength- ened were Russia to failin the present war. Germany, released from apprehensions of interference from Russia, would bethe freer to realize her astute Chancellor's desire to again see France crushed and humiliated, and France herself might at any hour fur- nish the pretext. Should this or any other important strife be among the indirect se- Grand Dukes, next in order come the further removed scions of imperiality, then scions of the lesser nobility, until aristocracy fur- nishes almost the sole qualification. That there- are other generals of high grade is true, but they are mostly valetudinarians, or men who have been lucky enough to attract the imperial notice. Briefly, merit is no criterion for promotion in the higher positions, As these nobles have not thus far in the war evinced high soldierly talents, and as no one dare con- tradict them, it is only necessary to add the jealousy governing the subordinate generals to see how a great and valiant army may be so ill led as to have its best efforts made futile. The passage of tho Danube was eulogized as a great military feat, as it would have been with a powerful and alert enemy to oppose it. Since that event no generalship has been claimed and no grand tactics dis- played which might not have originated with a corporal of Cossacks; and had the Turks furnished on all occasions as good leadership as has exceptionally been shown on their side the crossing of the Danube would of necessity have been repeated. With the lessons of the American civil war and those of the Franco-Prussian war before her eyes Russia has erred grievously, and her error has been in allowing preju- dices of birth to stand in the way of the promotion of her skilled officers of talent, for such she must have amid the hundreds of highly educated soldiers in her army. Her military success can only be assured by a radical change in her present vicious sys- tem of appointing and promoting her gen- erals ; her political success can only result from the dovetailed position of European politics which can ill risk one piece of the_ puzzle becoming seriously displaced. Repeal the Bankrupt Law, By unanimous consent Senator McCreery has introduced a bill for the repeal of the Bankrupt law passed eleven years ago. That law has proved during this too long trial to be a prolific source of recklessness and fraud, It ought to be repealed with the least possible delay. A bill for repealing it passed the House nearly two years ago, but was buried ina committee of the Senate amid a mass of unfinished business. If on examination that same bill should prove to be a good one, it would perhaps expedite busi- ness for the Senate to revive and pass it and send it tothe new House for concur- rence. The evils of the present unjust Bankrupt law are felt throughout the country, but nowhere is their pressure so great as in this city. It is proper that Congress should know that this mercantile community is urgent and unanimous for the speedy repeal of alaw whose operation they have found to be so iniquitous. It is a law which was passed in the interest of the debtor class from an im- pulse, of humanity, If all men who con- tract debts were prudent and honest the effect. of this law would-not have been very mischievous. But experience proves that there are multitudes of men who. contract debts recklessly quences of disaster to Russia it would be nearly impossible to exclude the clerical question, now more than ever a smouldering fire amid the passions and prejudices of Europe. 9 Russia is to-day a far more important factor in European politics than is gener- ally believed either in Great Britain or in this country. Germany is the military ar- biter of Europe; but even Germany must consider Russia's power and position before deciding too arbitrarily on any question concerning her neighbors. One. proof of this, were proof needed, lies in the coquetting of France with Russia ever since the Franco-Prussian war; an- other, in the frequent colloquies of the in- spired agents of the three empires of Ger- many, Austria and Russia on subjects, perhaps, passing beyond the strict boun- daries of the ‘‘Eastern question.” It can- not be doubted that Russia in entering upon the present war acted with the sanction of, if not, indeed, by the direct inspiration of Germany, and the existence of a secret treaty between Russia and Austria in the same direction is credited by some of the best informed statesmen of Europe. How- ever this may be, it is more than doubtful if Europe can allow Russia to fail utterly, | even though inefficient generals may make failure almost acertainty. English: prejus dices would be gratifiet. and English fears for those very shadowy properties called ‘British interests” would’ be calmed, but Europe at large cannot afford to witness Bussia’s defeat or dishonoring peace. The finances of Russia have a much slighter bearing on the present conflict than is usually the case in wars, The army ean be fed, clad and nearly armed trom Russian products, and the only pressing exterior necessity is for some eighty mill- ion dollars payable annually abroad in coin as interest upon the foreign debt. Within the Empire paper currency will continue to be perfectly acceptable ‘to the masses at its face value. The average Russian would think it impiety to question the printed statement in the imperial name as to the value of the paper. He has no other standard by which to measure values, and in a country where the conditions of life are so simple it should take a long time for the importing merchant's views to react upon the general public, Moreover, cus- toms duties, under a very high tariff, are by a ukase now payable in gold, and the rey- enue thus derived from what may be called the necessary luxuries of the aristocratic classes makes a handsome addition to the volume of gold and silver mined by and for the government. With a population of eighty millions of people, cultivating a soil which yields all the necessaries of their common life, with factories und established industries sufti- cient by economy tor her needs, Russia should not have to ask outside aid, either material or moral, to conquer ‘T'urkey ; but while the policy of the Kmpire has been to foster the army at the expense of every other department of government, to make almost every gentleman an officer and prospectively every peasant a soldier, the aristocratic court element is fatal to mili- tary genius and destractive to proper mili+ tary promotion above the grade of colonel. The highest grades are monopolized by the and then dishonestly evade them under the protection of a Bankrupt law which oper- ates as a premium toswindlers. At present & man may contract debts which he will never be able to pay without incurring any risk., When by reckless trading or extrava- gant:living he finds himself unable to meet his obligations he has only to take advan- tage of the Bankrupt law to cancel all his débts, set himself free to begin a new career and victimize a fresh set of creditors. Such a law has a demoralizing effect on the com- munity. It dispenses men from the neces- sity of that caution and prudence which they would Observe if they knew that in contracting debts they could not pay they would incur the heavy pen- alty of never getting another start in the world. Morally, it makes little difference whether a man steals ten thousand dollars or incurs a debt to that amoant which he has no reasonable expectation of discharg- ing. The present Bankrupt law encourages this species of theft. But, aside from the criminal aspect, and considered as a mere question of risk, it is equitable that all the risk should not be on the side of the man who gives credit to purchasers on their own representations. ‘The mercantile commu- nity of the whole country, and especially the mercantile community of this metropolis, have been. so swindled and have suffered so much injustice by: the operation of the Bank- rupt law that.they unanimously demand its repeal, Salivatory. According to Punch a cook, being asked the question, ‘‘How do you expect to rate?” made reply, ‘‘As a spitter.” It is annoying to observe how many of our masculine travelling public also thus expectorate and in the sweet enjoyment of the time-honored and objectionable habit drown all expostu- lation. The possession of glands which secrete saliva is so proud a boon to eur everyday fellow citizen that he hastens to parade unnecessarily and with an injudi- cious liberality the product of these ever working organs, and the floors of car, | omnibus and ferryboat attest his dampen- ing vigor, while convinced humanity shud- ders a-tiptoe or gathers its skirts and seeks an unsallied patch of flooring, Justly priding ourselves upon our polite- ness to women in travelling we seem to | adhere viciously to one loathsome practice which delighted our satirists a generation ago, and which to-day is more annoying to the female sex than would be any stolid rudeness. ‘Lobaéeo chewing is dying out among our more cultivated classes, and the foreign ele- ment in our midst rarely adopts it, so that this provocative of saliva is hardly an ex- tenuating excuse for sullying public floors, but our non-tobacco chewing youth seem to glory as much in an ability to spit need- lessly as did our sires in the perfection of a science which enabled them to “squirt in a fly's eye at ten paces.” It is proposed to have spitting cars, ex- pectorating saloons and salivary omnibuses for our principal lines of travel, and to con- fine to these compartments those who must so recreate as to disgust gentlemen, to defile ladies and to accommodate only a small never-weary class of male bipeds, whose best excuse ia that ‘they don’t know any better,” | The Grant-Sumner-Phillips-Fish Con- troversy. General Grant's, blunt conversation with a Henaxp correspondent in Scotland touch- ing the relations of the late Senator Sumner and the late ex-Minister Motley to the late administration hasstirred up bad blood. Mr. Wendell Phillips has made it the pretext for a fierce assault on Grant, which he de- livered while defending the memory of Sumner, Mr. Hamilton Fish now replies to Mr. Phillips, and we are told many things concerning the progress of the quarre}] between the great republican Senator and Grant and his cabinet of clerks. It is, of course, desirable in the interests of veracious history that doubts should be cleared up where possible on points in the careers of great men; but the process, where the parties to one side of a dispute are in their graves, must bea painful one, Sumner and Motley are not likely to want for defenders, but the zeal of the latter seems more directed to counter attack than to the vindication of their friends, When General Grant gave his opinion of Sumner and his reasons for the recall of Motley, he gave proof more of the stolid fixity of his dislikes than of any- thing discreditable to the memory of either. Similarly, in the story that Mr. Phillips told the Young Men’s Christian Association of Newton Centre about General Grant's ‘‘sul- len silence” at the White House, while Mr. Sumner was addressing him on the St. Domingo treaty, and the alcoholic construc- tion which ‘‘a gentieman present” put upon that ‘sullen silence,” we seem rather to have proof of Mr. Phillips’ general dislike of Grant’s administration than to get at anything valuable to the historian. Mr. Fish does not, we fear, help history very much in the matter either. Whether Charles Sumner gave a quasi-sup- port to the St. Domingo treaty when he had only heard one side of the sub- ject is of ‘very little importance’ be- side the fact that Whe finally gave the best of reasons for opposing it, and had the whole country, outside of a narrow and, in part at least, corrupt administration clique, with him. Sumner's victory in this has been and is a sore point with General Grant, who is emphatically a man of griev- ances, and such men are not apt to let ob- trusive facts alter their view of the objects of their dislike. Thus Sumner’s memory does not need serious defence from what was obviously the chance expression of a morbid feeling. r It is not a little amusing to note that Mr. Fish confesses to have offered the English mission ‘incautiously” to Mr. Sumner, for ‘why not go as Minister?” is from the Sec- retary of State as good asan offer. After the admission that the wily—we had almost written ‘foxy”—-ex-Seeretary could do any- thing “‘incautiously,” we are almost prepared to belicve what'each party to this quarrel says of the other. We can imagine Sum- ner’s disgust when Mr. Fish threw cold water on his own proposition and, like Artemus Ward's generosity toward his wife's relations, turned the Senator over to the distant hospitality of the Duke of Argyll. An Impo at Last. The Tweed examination has been so de- void of interest since the Hznaxp’s publica- tion of the original ‘‘confession” of that eminent thief that very few have cared to attend the sessions of the Aldermanic com- mittee or to read the account of the pro- ceedings. Buta fact was developed, unin- tentionally, no doubt, at the last meeting, which promises to open up a new and possi- bly o useful inquiry. Tweed has put on record a schedule professing to show (1) what moneys he received between the au- tumn of 1871 and the end of 1875, a period of about four years; and (2) how he dis- posed of these moneys. ‘The account shows that he realized since 1871 on real estate $806,000, nnd from the net proceeds of the sale of ‘stocks, personal property of every name and nature, including mortgages, jewelry, &c., about $650,000,” making to- gether a total of $1,456,000, This enormous amount of property was sold after Tweed's crimes had been discoy- ered and exposed, and while he was under bail on criminal indictments or confined in jail. It was of course all justly the property of the city, having been purchased with the money stolen from the public treasury. It is therefore important to know :— (1) By whom the'several sales were made. (2) Who were the purchasers? (3) What sum was paid for each separate piece or parcél of real estate or personal property that was sold, and what was the real value of each at the time of sale. It is important that the fullest informa- tion on all these points be secured, since it may possibly lead to the recovery of some of the money out of which the city has been robbed, the law now giving the people extraordinary power to follow and secure their own property. It is essential to dis- cover what persons sold the several pieces of property and what persons purchased them, and whether they sold and purchased knowing them to be dishonestly come by. The prices pnid in each case will be pretty conclusive evidence on this point. If a jewelry store should be robbed, and the stolen articles should be sold secretly and for prices considerably under their value, the purchasers would be liable to arrest on the primé facie evidence that they were receivers of stolen goods. It is possible that the salés made by ‘weed or his agents of property purchased by him with the money of which he robbed the city may not have had about them anything secret, suspicions or illegal. But the peo- ple have a right to be satisfied on that point, and now that the fact of these large sales has been elicited the counsel who is con- ducting the examination and the committee before whom it is held are bound to insist on the fullest details. A Spanish Fass. Our Madrid despatch chronicles the ex- citement created in Spanish commercial circles at the apprehension of the effect that will be produced by the enforcement of the law imposing a heavy discriminating duty on Spanish tonnage in American ports, and gives a glimpse of the annihilat- ing spirit of Spanish rhetoric in its declar- done in return. A people engaged in such a war as has occupied the Spanish at- tention in Cuba for. so many years is ina somewhat anomalous intellectual condition. It is oblivious of every possible effect of its acts except the one it’intends, There isa somewhat musty anecdote of an Irishman who, intending to strike a salmon with the spike on the end of his scythe handle, failed to observe that in handling his implement in that way the blade of his scythe must inevitably reach his own neck before the spike reached the salmon, and who consequently decapitated himself with the blow aimed at his game. Equally in- tent on the purpose aimed at by certain foolish administrative measures of their own government the Spaniards have not per- ceived that those measures might have an- other effect, and it will be a salutary opera- tion of our discrimination that they will have their attention directly called to the occasion that gave rise to it. An International Interest. In the effort to extend the sphere of use- fulness of his department, General Myer, Chief, Signal Officer of the Army, has suc- ceeded in securing the co-operation of the Navy Department. By this arrangement the officers of all national vessels, in all parts of the world, are required to make regular meteorological observations at such times during the day or night as will correspond with the regular 7:30 A. M. observation at Washington. Thus mn enormous amount of valuable data can be secured and forwarded to the Chief Signal Office for study by its officers. We are pleased to learn that this useful work is about to be shared by the officers of some of the foreign navies, and that in, a little time a most extensive system of observations at sea will’ be made. ‘Our Washington de- spatches announce that the Spanish, Portu- guese and Dutch navies have signi- fied their. intention to. co-operate with the Chief Signal Officer. e Henaup has persistently advocated the organi- zation of such a system. Indeed, we have had for some time such a one in openyion in connection with the Hxnanp weather ser- vice, and can earnestly recognmend it as the most practical means of securing meteorolo- gical data at sea, The fact must be recog- nized that-all nations have an equal interest in the success of such enterprises as those inaugurated by the Hzrarp and the Chief Signal Officer, and that every possible aid should be extended to both the national and the Hznaup weather bureaus in the work they have undertaken. By extending the system of synchronous observations, so as to embrace all the countries and oceans of the northern hemisphere between the Equa- tor and the sixtieth degree of latitude, it is certain that the most trifling disturbance could not arrive at any point within the area of observation without being announced several days in advance. If we estimatethe advantages of such a system correctly, it is worth all the time, trouble and money that it will cost to perfect. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘Tenafly is full of boautitul black cats. ‘There is 9 cashier whose name is Death. Count Dilloa, of Paris, is at the Everett House. Some ono thinks that the telephone is only in its A Babe. Mr. Murat Halstead,-of Cincinoati; teat the Brevoort House. ‘The toper’s song:—‘Over the still to the poor- house.” Pompton is the love of the artists and the home of Marian Herland Jim Blaine, of whom we speak thus familiarly, will pot ran for President untt! 1884, Who is the man who wrote the hymn, ‘Gone to grasp a Poker in the Promised Lend?” Nature would havo put wings on Stanley Matthews, bat 1¢ couldn’t find the small of bis back. The Primary Teacher is a littie magazine published by Bicknell, of Boston, and it 18 very valuable, Youths are now stealing appies, aod the farmers, quoting Dickens, aro asking about Dutheboys haul. An exchange says that General Buticr ts again luok- ing toward the Presidency. Over which shoulder? There wa: slight shock of earthquake yesterday morning. Aman at Ruthertord was just having o chill : Tarner’s Falls Reporter:—‘‘There aro at least one thousand village newspapers too many tn the United States.” Texas has such a beautiful atmosphere that people who livo there forgot that if you plant a gbip it grows up a barroom. The man who bas been looking for a sea serpent all summer has returned aud 1s looking for an oyster ina church fair stew. " Tho Comte de Paris looks lixe « man who is earnest about himself and bas opinions on most subjecis— especially on art and bhimeelf. ‘The Western papers are so mixed up that wo believe it was not Senator McDonald bul’ Dr; Mary Walker who offered to pair with Morton. It appears that even lady spiritaal. mediums drink something besides water, We reac that one of them, ated Eve in tights, many men should not think that imvalid, He will be strong enough before election to give them a split—in the head. Siade 1s on thecurpet at Brussels, with bis exposi- tions, If be is making money he ought to let the spirits play ou a better accordeon than that old one. Senator Thorman, don’t you be tooled by anytning. Promises butter no parsoips, David Davis has really made nothing, and you may have your troubie for your paine. 5 The soul stirring question in Now Jersey is whether, when General McCiclian is away from home, he rogis- ters being {rom Now York. Even it be does he wiil be elected. Danbury News:—“Grapes are healthy, Taken in- wardly they quicken tho digestive organs; stepped on with the bare foot in the early dawn they quicken the mental powers,’” A contributor sonds us a joke with the threat that if we do not use it on Sunday he will give 1t to some other paper for Monday. We shall auxiously ‘wait for one of our contemporaries to print it ou Moa- day. _ Cork soles are very good for keeping out water, even whew you are og land. When you tall into the drink (which is Jersey tor river) the soles float on the sur- Jace, keeping the water out, but keeping your head down, Prince Louis Napoleon seems to be one who has rosolution, but whether that resolution goes beyond a good string at billiards appears doubtiul. Ho hss enough warm Spanish soddenness with his French name. As Judkins opened the front door the other after. ‘noon he ted back in amazement, exclaiming, “There must be an awful riot in the house, Great heavens! the servant girl must have two or three Fenian beaus the kitchen, and they are makinga fearful row.’’ “Never mind, my dear,’ said his wile, “we are only boiling codfiab.”” jo of obituary:—“He was an open. hearted, high-minded man, generous in his impulses, warm in his babits and moble wherever ho found o afriend in necd. He was a whole-souled man, and selfishness was foreign to bis glorious nature. Of late yonrs ho has been 10 feoble health, so that his friends feared that tho beautifal nature which made thoir hives ploasant would mut be always for (his coarse world, On Thursday, at eleven A. M., he lingorod lightly and then fell into the arms of Death, ho having ations of the terrible things that will be | peon tor wo weeks o victim of delirium tremens,” AMUSEMENTS. STEINWAY HALL—THE SECOND OF THOMAS’ POPULAR CONCERTS. ‘The second 1n the series of Theodore Thomas’ popu- lar concerts was given last night at Steinway Hall. As on the first occusion, a large and fashionable audience attended, and were charmed by a vrograimme the per- formance of which evinced the bigh art and superb ‘taste of tho maestro and bis orchestra, Theodore Thomas is peculiar in the fact that he leaves fort unemployed to produce the best instrumental effects, carries with bim at all times the sympathy and en- thusiasm of tne artiste over whom he wields the baton, The result is, perfection of disci. pline, purity of expression,. barmonious emphasis and the delicate lights and shades that go so far in making a mental picture, He 1s fortunate in being aided and surrounded by an intelligence which not only quickly seizes the purpose of the composer, but obeys the taste with which the chief executor would have that composer illustrated before the public, ‘To criticise under such circumstances |s almost im- possible One can simply praise, Notwithstanding the beauty of the orchestral work, however exhibited in the interpretation of Hoffmann, Rossini, Hamerick and Massonet, much of the interest of the evening was concentrated om the performances of the Swediah Ladies’ Vocal Quartet, who, as on the frat occasion. elicited great applause by their marvellous Singing. Without instramental accompaniment, self. reliant, dependent alone on the actightful harmony of hoir own voices, singing as if they suog for their own pleasure aloue, and apparently forget{ul of the silent audienco before them, making music that at times is ventriloquial in character, 1t seems so fur away, yet always sweet und attractive, these four buxom young foreign girls have secured possession of the great masical heart of New York and made a reputa, tion for themselv tly be obliterated, Master Lichtenberg, jawski,”? again astonished the audience by his wonderfui handling of tho violin, Itis not enougt to say that he is precos cious, Holsa genius, Given an ill fitting frock coat, spindle like legs, round shoulders, arms that seem ta ewing on hinges, a face on which oven a smile would play truwnt, hair combed back and resting ou his shoul ders ssvo where a lock or two now and then comes to the frontto seo what the violin 1s doing when the player gets too emotional, an eye that reats on tho au- dience dreamily and apparently secs nothing out ‘the music of the spheres,” and a general manner at once careless atid unconcerned, and the reader wilt bavea fair idea ot the young Califoroian who has started out to make himself heard around the World, Th: Leopold Lichtenborg has within him the mai the making of a very groat artist is an already ac knowledged fact, aud so far lis modesty shows that he has pot been spoiled, At the request of many patrons Theodore Thomas will give @ fourth wand the last pepolar concert on Tuesday evening next. A matinee will take placo tbis afternoon, To-day 1a the lust opportunity to t id subscribers to the concerts to secure thoir se the sale to the general pablic witl commence on Mond: 1 FIFTH AVZNUE THEATRE—‘‘THE BOHEMIAN om,” When e# manager announces “The Bohemian Girl’? he 1s perfectly sure of a large audience. Although this opera has beon sung threadbare 1t appeals to the great mass of the community, and people who would yawn through “Loheugrin” aro roused to the high. est pitch of enjoyment ovor the music of Balfe’s opera and the romantic history of the stolen cbild. Last evening the ever-popular ‘Bohemian Girl’? wat sung at the Fifth Avenue Theatre by the Hess English Opera Company, and before a full house, Miss Emily Molville, the new prima donna of this com. pany, essayed the rdle of Arline to the evident satis- faction of the bulk of her hearers, Sne certainly looked well and acted the part with spirit and gruce. In that favorite song, ‘I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Mar- ble Halls,” she was not: heard to advantage, as-there was a decided disagreement between hor manner of singing tt and the accompaniment ol tho orchestra, she taking the music in much quicker time yhan the inétraments, and roally making nothing of the good ~ points in which the song abounds, ‘I'he audience, howéver, wera pleased and demanded a repotition of the song. In Sir Henry Bishop's “Le, Hoar the Gentle Lark,” tn- troduced in the second act, bias Molville redeemed herself. She sang that brilliant song in a manner which displayed her dexterous execution, .and gave scope to tho best uotes of her volves. The song wat wildly applauded, as it deserved tobe. Of Mrs. Seguin’t Gypay Queon there is little to say, save that in it sh¢ was tho finished artist we always find ber and that her rich voice and fine style ware to the musician the most agroeable part of the eveniag’s performance. Mr. Castio’s Thaddeus has long been a favorite with the public, and while bis voice bas lost some of itt youthtgi sweetness there is still the samo picturesque stage presence to charm romantic young ladies, Mr, Henry Peakes attempted ‘tho réle of Count Arnheim for the first time, und while Le acted 1t impressively he cun hardly be said to meet the requirements of the Edward Soguin acted part in hope he ‘ iy @ popu- acted advisediy, for his voice, 4 of voice, is overlooked by an in- dulgent publi rho admire him as an actor rather than asasinger. Mr. Tom Whiffen, who was espo- Cully engaged for the réle of Florestein, scarcely did Justice to his reputation as acomedian, and was not up in hig part. The chorus, though not large, sang well and dressed prettily. Altogether the opera ran smoothly aud pleased a large audience, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, “Marriago” is said to be drawing good houses im Philadelphia, ‘Tony Pastor 1 accredited as a lessee of the Alhambra Paiace, Philadelphia, an Upera Troupe, under the management Fryer, have enjoyed a success in Pdllm delpbia. Kellogg 18 reported tobe making a musical senga tion in Sau Francisco. She appeared on Thursday night in “Aida,” Brignoli is in Boston, singing, as the papers say, better than ever. At the last grand festival concert there was a chorus of 1,300 singers and an orchestra of seventy-five periormers. Mr. Rignola made his six huadredth appearance in America in the charactor of Henry V. in Washington last night, the occasion being his beneft. The house was packed, mauy distinguished persons being pres- ent. Lester Wallack is making a sensation in Brooklyn im “My Awful Dad.” His portraiture of the dashing rake js a marvel of finish and elegance. His good natured audacity and the childish beartiness with which he enters into all the situations are as tuony exhibitions of artistic acting as have appeared on tho stage for a long time, A cable despatch has just been received by Alfred Joel, business manager for Mr, Max Strakosch, from Colonel Mapleson, informing him that Mme, Marte Roze had signed her contract with Mr. Max Strakosch for his ensuing opera season, Marie Roze was spe- cially engaged by Colonel Mapleson to fill the place of the lamented Ter Titiens during her last illness, She will sing ‘Norma,’ aguenots,’? Ortrad, in “Lobengrin;” Pamina, In *Magte Flute,” &c, Marie Koze will eal for tnis country early in December. ‘A number of letters bave been received at tuis office from members of tho theatrical profession and others enclosing monoy and making inquiries concerning Milo, Ventaroll, & Fepreggptative of the Hi DB found bor in the rear of No, 125 East Fourth street. Paralyzed in both arms and on one side of the face, unablo to enunciate distinctly, speaking, infact, chiely with her great browm Italian eyes, and dependent on the almost tutile efforts of an old mother for the litle that sustains tife—such is tne condition of a woman who ten years ago was. a premier danseuse and one of the pots of the publio, Sbe tacks nutritious food and decent clothing, and wore it not for the occasional re- membrauce of somo of her protossional friends she would endure extremo misfortune, It’s a sad, sad case, Miss Mary Moss, a young lady of American birth, but European education, bas rocently returned to her native iand, She brings with her the highest vesti- monials from ber master, the celovrated Dr. Frederick Hiller, of the Consorvatory of Cologne, where she studied. She sang in London with Antoinette Ster- Nog, under the di jon of Sir Jul Benedict, Last winter Miss Mo: in oratorio in Amsterdam, Cologno, Brussels, Aix-la-Chapelle, Frankfort, Bingen, Cassel and elsewhere in Germany, und she wor ons tuustastic approval whorever she appeared, ‘The Ger- Mans claim for her a clear, sympathetic soprano, The Guide Musicalle, of Brasaols, affirms that she possesses every quality that is requis for @ most successful concert singer, She is to appear in Thomas’ fret symphony concert, vut it is unfortunate that the sty! of the entertainment precludes the introduction of a solo that would afford the public # more distinet pes ception of her musical qualities,