The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1877, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —— THE DAILY HERALD, puliishet every day in the year. Three cents per copy (tndays exeluded).. ‘Ten dollurs per Jenr, or ut arate of one dollar per month for any period less than’ six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition inciuded. tree « WEEKLY HERALD. age. SROTICK TO SUBSCRIBERS,—In order to insure atten- tion subscribers wishing their address changed must give their old as well as their new address. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches inust be addressed New York Henaty Letters and prekuves should be Rejected communications will Dostaxe. ~One dollar per year, tree of post: DE LOPERA. 0. 7 STRATA PACE: Subseriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on th erms asin New Yt York. VOLUME XLII... AMUSEMENTS 1 ES eae O-NIGHT. PARK THEATRE—Cxri UNION SQUARE THE EAGLE THEATRE—ALLatooNA, AMERICAN INSTITU RY AND MECHANICS. WALLAG . BROADWAY TE vit Faust. THEATRE FRANCAT RETTISM, GRAND OPERA HC ‘o's CaBrN. BOWERY THEATR BROOKLYN PARK THE WOOD'S THEATRE, BROOK GERMANIA THEATR CHICKERING HALL—Siwai MOUNTAINS. mN MARY. NDER THE GASLIGUT. TIVOLI Tit THEATH Tux Risinc Stax, TONY PASTOR'S—Vamery. NEW YORK AQUARIUM — OLYMPIC THEATRE. SAN FRANCISCO MI GILMORE’S GARD. pNDON Circus AND MENAGERIE. EGYPTIAN HALL—Vaniery. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Tne Ocrorvs. NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCLOBER 22, 1877. Imrortanr Novice 1o AvveERTISERS.—Zo insure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely nece y that they be handed in eight o'c very evening. cu" From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and cloudy, with rain, followed by decreasing cloudiness. Tre SumMonine of Mr. Morton's Washington physician to Indianapolis has a bad look, and it is to be feared the condition of the di inguished Senator is by no means as favorable as his friends wish the public to believe. Tue Emrrgon ov Germany's complimentary letter to ex-Minister Washburne accompanying his portrait, in recognition of his the Franco-Pru erly made publ vices during uwar, has been very prop- What Mr. Washburne did during that eventful period has become part of the history of the country, and évery American citizen will feel that he is complimented through an ex-Minister. Jersty Crry is getting, and perhaps de- servedly, a pretty good dose of the blue laws. For some time past her authorities have been un- able or unwilliy to enforce the Excise laws on Sundays. el the tem- perance people, who immediately formed so- cieties to carry out their reformatory ideas. As may be supposed, Jersey's officials are divided in their allegiance, and the result is the adoption of a policy which threatens to stop the street cars as well as the flow of lager beer on the Sabbath, Tue Wire Murpe me STATISTICS quoted at the anee Union yesterday as yuimencs in favor of total abs ing of the Tempe 30 Tu 2) inence are supplemented by the report from Richmond of the brutal killing of an unfortunate woman by ndranken husband under circumstances of | unusual barbarity. If it be true, as stated, that | of the twenty-two wile murderers in this eity dur ing the past five eented the mach ears not asin ery » must be cer- tainly very much worse than the majority of | people believe it to b © man was ex- | A Desraven FROM Wasuinc friends of the oN says the Supreme Court interesti themselves in an effort to obtain m pf the judges while travelling on their circuits. The majority of the public will be sur- | prised to a that th officers are pot included in the law which allows other oilicials their expenses while The tainly no good reason why an exception should in the Giseh of their duties. be wade in their Use, The salaries paid them wre not larg them portion of their official ine nd itis hardly right to toexpend a comes in tr: if their civeuits, with the extension of the country, Lge f over so wide a territory as | | | | | | have become, Tin Sermons Yes very hi our itched ona gh intellectual and moral key, and, as | reports show, were of Mr unusual valine and interest. cher preached upon the subject of “Hereditary Qualities, Their Effect and Relation to Responsibility,” and presented in anew lighta text upon which perhaps more has been said and written than on any other of the Seript Mr. Frothingham | turned aside from his iconoclastic path and was | portion eloquent upon the subject of “Vice, Crime and | in.” Mr spoke timely words on the worship of the Gojden Calf, while Dr. Willis con- | trasted the present with the pas Palma justly striking the balance in favor of the d ys in which we live, bad as we may consider thet to be. Among the other noteworthy sermons were those by Dr. Armitage, Mr. Father Kane, who spoke on himnan opinion and its abuses. | Tue Weatner ercased considerab Hepworth and -Althoug) in energy The high pressure iv slow progress eastward, n nsive area ot uw conformation of the five to the influence of surrounding p felays its movement. Rains have eontin toattend the storm and crossed to the east Mountains, and is ov Jersey. Behind th rise ‘ Southwest and eleariny chiefly to the northy of it whieh Jas 1 the Allegl land and South New eastward centre, slopes of lepression the barometer weather in ing clear in the qui¢ tricts. The barometer is tlling ) west, With rising temperature, but the zone of high pressure extendi over the s. dis trict is gradually ad ing southeastward, eansing cold winds from the northward and slowly clearing = weather. On const the storm will probably — iner in severity, the winds on that of New Eng being northeasterly, and on the Middle Atan coust northwesterly, shifting to southwesterly | as the storm centre moves into the Atluntic Ocean toward the northeast. ‘The weather in New York und its vicinity to-lay will be cold and cloudy, with rain, followed by decreasing ml eeetel bane . NEW YORK HERA President Hayes ane His Party- ‘Yhe relations of Mr. Hayes with his political party are unique. There have been in our history two conspicuous occasions when a_ citizen elected as Vice President and acceding to the Presi- dency by the death of the incumbent has found himself at variance with the party that elected him at the first mecting of Con- gress after his accession, Lut this has never before happened to a President elected as such. ‘Che national convention of a party is sometimes tempted to nomi- nate for the Vice Presidency a candidate who belongs to some outlying region of politics, with a view to cateh outside votes. It was in this view that Andrew Johnson was placed on the same ticket with Mr. Lincoln in 1864, to gain the support of war democrats, and for a similar reason that John 'lyler was made the whig candidate for Vice President in 1840, The position of such officers is very trying both to them- selves and the party that elected them if the death of the President elevates them to the highest station. Every instance of the kind has been followed by a conflict between the accidental President and his party in Con- gress; but until now there has never been a conflict of the kind between a President elected assuchand the political party which brought him into power. This novel phe- nomenon in our politics is as curious as it is unexampled. We do not expect that the difference be- tween Mr. Hayes and the republicans in Congress will be carried to such lengths and result in such an open rupture as happened in the cases of Tyler and Johnson, who avere elected only as Vice Presidents. Lim- iting the comparison to the case of Johnson, which is the more recent, the republican party has no such overwhelming strength in Congress as when it embarked in its mem- orable quarrel with that President. It had then a majority of more than two-thirds in both houses, and being able to override the President’s vetoes it could do whatever it pleased. Moreover, it had as large a major- ity of the people as it had of both branches of Congress, and nothing to fear from a pop- ular reaction, The whole political situa- tion is different now. The republicans have lost the House ; they retain but a slender majority of the Senate ; they are in a minor- ity of more than three hundred thousand in the popular vote of the country. he party would be ruined by such a contest’ with Mr. Hayes as it waged triumphantly against Andrew Johnson. On the other hand, President Hayes cannot very well afford an irreparable breach with the party that elected him, Unlike Tyler and Johnson, he has no democratic antecedents, He has never been anything but a republican since that party existed, and before it was formed he was a whig. While the democrats are glad enough to profit by his policy they hold that he was not honestly elected and has no equitable title to his office. After doing their best to embroil him with his own party they will leave him to his polit- ical fate. He is already beginning to per- ceive that if he gets into an irreconcilable difference with the republicans in Congress he would be in a state of political isolation, Repudiated by one party as a deserter, by the other party as a “freud,” his only sup- port would come from a small personal coterie, which is the most humiliating posi- | tion the Chief Magistrate of a great Repub- lic could occupy. Mr. Hayes cannot desire such a position, nor does his own party de- sire to force him into it. In the natural progress of events a difference will be ad- justed which it is for the obvious inter- est of both sides to get adjusted. Hayes has not really understood the gravity | of the situation until since the meeting of Congress. His extensive tours through the country, in which he was greeted with so much warmth, had not prepared him for what it was inevitable he should meet on the assembling of Congress. Having been a hallucination he has encountered a unde mortifying surprise. Ohio election may have partially opened his eyes, but even that did not reveal the full extent of the opposition he was destined to meet from his own party. Since the meet- ing of Congress he is brought toa dead halt. He causes it to be given out that he will make no fight against the party leaders in Cong ; but how could he make a fight when no republican It is ready to stand forth as his champion ? is to his exeentive duties and leave Congress to pursue its own course wifhout even an appearance of protest. Having thus ‘re- treated behind his fortifications, he makes himself a mere spectator of the action of his party in Congress, which is at least a singular attitude for a President to mein. tain toward the political organization that elected him. Of what advantage is it to the yepublicans to have secured the Presidency if the incumbent of the office severs his connection with them and follows his indi- vidual views without regard to what they may wish or think? An attitude so uiusual and so unnatural cannot long be maintained without leading to irreconcilable estrangement. Mr. Hayes will have to decide whether he will absolve himself from all deference to his party and sunder his relations with it, leaving it in the same position as if it had failed to elect | the President, or else some means must be ring the harmony which has been broken at so early a stage of his ad- ministration. The present discord cannot continue through the winter without lead- found for rest ing to total alienation. treat within his fortifications is the signal for a truce his declining to fight may pave the way to interesting results. Of course, his Southern policy cannot be npset or reversed by anything that the abe But if the publican majority in the Senate should | admit Kellogg and rejeet Spofford it will imny do or leave undone. thereby express its condemnation of the | It) 8 legally elected | policy which it is powerless to change. the Nicholls government wa | in Louisiana Spofford beyond all qnes- tion, entitled to ile be re- jected only on the theory that the republi-+ cans of that State elected the Governor and Legislature as well as the Presidential elec- tors, the clectionof both having been certi+ fied by the same Returning Board. ‘The re- | publicans are strongly tempted to seat his. seat. can Mr.. The result of the | nid that he will confine himself strictly | If Mr. Hayes’ re- | ‘ Kellogg, both as a means of retaining their small and waning majority in the Senate and of maintaining their party consistency in connection with the Louisiana elec- tion. As Mr. Blaine s0 strongly put it in his well known speech, Packard's title rested on precisely the same election returns as that of the Hayes electors, both being equally valid or equally fraudulent. Kellogg may, there- fore, be admitted by the republican Sena- tors on a pretence of fidelity to Mr. Hayes and as a means of vindicating his questioned title. This would be a signal condemnation of his policy; but he could no more reverse it than the Senate can depose Governor Nicholls. ‘fhe Senatorial seat of Kellogg and the Gubernatorial seat of Nicholls would be held by an equally secure tenure, neither the President nor the Senate being able to undo the work of the other, ‘The Senate having thus rebuked the President and got even with him there would be no further practical ground of difference between them on that subject. The quarrel might then be dropped by a mutual accept- ance of accomplished facts. The President would not be defeated, but only censured. The difference between the President and the republican Senators on the civil service question might be brought to a practical termination by a similar method. Mr. Hayes has only to attempt the re- moval of some federal officer on the sole ground of his having meddled with politics to bring this question to a focus. If the Senate refuses to accept this as a proper ground of removal there is an end of the question, There being no law forbidding federal officers to take an active part in politics the President could not insist on making that a ground of removal on a plea that. it is his duty to execute the laws. When the Senate, in atest case, had declined to recognize it as a ground of removal it would be futile for the President to make any futher at- tempt to enforce the order, which would fall by the impossibility of executing it. This would indeed be a defeat as well as a rebuke, but the President would have no remedy. here would be no ground for continuing the quarrel on that subject after ils cause had been removed, and the parties might then act in concert on other ques- tions. It is possible that this may be the upshot of the contest which Mr. Hayes de-! clines to prosecute. Ho retreats within the line of his executive duties, leaving the Senate to act as it pleases uninfluenced by him. Let it award the disputed seats as it will, that controversy ends witb its deci- sion, Let it treat the civil service order as it will, its rejection or acceptance will equally end that controversy and remove all grounds of difference between the party and the President except the personal one relating to the composition of his Cabinet, But if the Senate condemns both the South- ern policy and the civil service order the self-respect of the present Cabinet would probably impel the members to relieve the President trom all embarrassment on their account, The Pope’s Health. “ ‘There is no reason, we suppose, to doubt the accuracy of the news trom Rome given in the London Times, and it is such as to in- dicate that the time is not far distant when another of the remarkable figures of modern European history will pass from the stage. Indeed, the death of the Pope is an event that, however deeply it might move the world, could scarcely have surprised it if it had happened at any time withina few years past. But with a rare vitality the Pontiff has lingered on till reports of his illness have almost been regarded with in- credulity, and he still lingers, though evi- dently in a condition that might make him the victim of any imprudence on the part of his attendants, or even of an exceptionally bad change of weather. It seems probable, however, that his physical functions are to outlive the activity of his intel- lect. His eagerness in regard to the condition of the Church, his interest in all that concerns it, seem to wane, while the strictly bodily functions continue in reasonably good order. It is not unfrequently seen in men who have reached an advanced age that the body seems, as it were, to outlive the mind. In the case of ordinary men whose wills are made ond affairs settled at that age this be- ginning of the end is of no especial mo- ment, but in the case of the Pope it is otherwise ; for, while the bodily existence of the Pontiff prevents the filling of his place or the regular succession of his func- tions, his mental decadence permits those functions to lapse altogether or fall into un- authorized hands; and hence must neces- sarily arise confusions and collisions that cannot add to the influence of the papacy in the world at large. The Every day in the year the police reports give us stories fully as tragic in their nature as the history of the Gilman family, as made known in its latest stage; but there seems aless effective moral, a less deep instruc tion, in these everyday histories, because the past lite of the victims is unknown to Gilman Story. ments of a terrible contrast that make this cuse so exceptional. Here is a father in prison, enduring his striped garb with a certain kind of maudlin penitence, the re- sult of acomplete breakdown of the false pride in which he has lived tor years; the mother is ina lunatic asylum, and three chil- dren are in the hands of relatives who may easily be more considerate of their real wel- fare than their father was. Well, desolated homes, insane mothers, and children dependent upon charity are the com- results of the crimes of fathers; but they are commonly fathers from whom little else is to be looked for, and ihe lot of children dependent upon charity may often be an improvement upon what it was in the home supplied by o drunken or violent father. But it was dif- ferent with the Gilman family ; for but a few months before it was thus made a waste its inmates lived in the possession of com. mon | fort, luxury, elegunce, and seemed guaran- teed by the very refinement of the home lite from all the possible consequences of crim- inal acts, But they lived in a false splon- dor—ina fool's paradise ; and rather than change that—rather than suffer injury in us, or, if known, does not furnish those ele- | ' | his vanities—the foolish father determined to risk a loss far more dreadful than that of £ the fictitious glories of his fashionable style, and, as is always possible when high stakes aro played for, he lost. If men could only be honest with half the courage with which they are dishonest how the number of these stories would be reduced! Sitting Bull Obdurate. The special despatch forwarded by the Heraup correspondent accompanying the Sitting Bull Commission, printed in our news columns to-day, announces that the Commission have failed to bring the Sioux chieftain to terms of peace and amity with the United States gov- ernment, In the terse language of our correspondent, the Commission have met Sitting Bull and the old chief has dismissed it abruptly and disdainfully ; so the expe- dition his accomplished nothing, and must return as it went. This unsatisfactory result was fo be expected, when we consider the obstinate character of the hostile chief, as displayed by him during his campaigns. ‘The fact that he was well treated on Canadian soil seems to have hardened the Indian’s heart instead of softening it, and he refuses to listen to the words of the messengors sent by the President, the White Father. With characteristic gallantry, the old chief pre- fers to remain for the present in the coun- ry of Queen Victoria, the White Mother, and if it was certain that the wily old chief would remain there we could find no ob- jection. The failure of General Terry and his fel- low Commissioners to successfully treat with Sitting Buil is a proof that our Indian policy needs a radical change before we can hope to hold the hostile tribes in subjection or at peace with the white man. Dishonest traders, who victimize the red man, and a policy that permits treaties to be broken, naturally create distrust of the government and its promises; hence it comes that Sitting Bull lends only an in- different ear to the Commission and de- clines to make any terms for his future conduct, But General Terry fully understands the Indian character and will scarcely give up all hope after one conference, He will, no doubt, bide awhile with, the Cana- dian authorities and wait further develop- ments. His offers to the Sioux will be allowed to dwell in their minds, and it may be that they and their | chiefs will see the wisdom of enter- ing into a treaty of peace. The propriety of sending the Commission was seriously “doubted irom the first, and itsnon-suceess is to be regretted, now that the Nez Percés have submitted themselves to the power and au- thority of the government. The Sprague Estate, We print elsewhere an interesting letter from Providence, stating in detail grounds of dissatisfaction on the part of the Sprague creditors and describing the movements they ure making to get the property into a more satisfactgry shape. Had the times been better during the four years that have elapsed since the failure the property might have been retrieved and the creditors satis- fied. Whether grumbling is justifiable or is a mere exhibition of impatience under long delay and disappointment we leave readers to decide after read- ing the interesting statement of facts reported by our correspondent from sources which we have reason to believe trustworthy. The amount for which the Spragues failed was so colossal and their assets were so large that a very wide interest in their affairs has been felt in business circles. Everybody will regret that their recovery has been obstructed by the long prostration of business. We hope that the prospects of the creditors are better than they seem at present toconsider them, The facts contained in this letter have never before appeared in print and were known only to a very limited private circle. Newspapers as Religious Missionaries, Journalism, its aims, scope and influence, has been made during the past week the text of two interesting and thoughtful discourses by two of our leading clergymen, One of them, by Dr. Talmage, we printed in the HenaLp Saturday; the other, by the Rey. Mr. Martyn, we print this morning. Mr. Martyn sees in the modern newspaper a wonderful power for good or evil, and he is candid enongh to acknowledge that as a rule the journal of: to-day, and especially the independent journal, is the greatest of missionaries. ‘The mere partisan sheet, which writes up one party and writes down another, which distorts facts and figures to advance the political fortunes of its friends and injure its enemies, he very properly condemns. Dr. ‘talmage’s interesting lecture is the fairest recognition we have yet seen of the service rendered to the religious public by the secular press in printing sermons, As Dr. Talmage correctly says, ‘tin May, 1866, the New York Henarp began the system- atic Sunday reporting which has now be- come the feature in all our American cities.” The Henary, indeed, has set the example of almost every characteristic feature of Ameri- can journalism. We will not claim that we were impelled by a religious motive {o introduce this practice, and that we have no sectarian motive is attested by the impartiality with which we report the pulpit discourses of all denom- inations alike. We hold it to be the first duty of a newspaper to farnish each morn- ing a complete history of the preceding day, giving to each class of transactions a promi- nence or fulness proportioned to the inter- est which the public should naturally take init. The chief pudlic transactions of the Lord’s Day consisting in the divine worship offered in the various churches no news- paper should ignore what is not only the main feature of the day, but « topic of great interest to the largest, most intelligent and most virtuous portion of the community — that 13 to say, the religious public, The amount of this service rendered by all the newspapers of the country is thus strik- ingly set forth by Dr. 'Talmage:— It is within bounds to say that the Monday morning and evening papers of oar cities put ito the bands of this nation 10,000,000 religious tracts, 10,000,000 dis= courses of God, of the soul, of the Evernal Word; | 10,000,009 attacks upon iniquity; 10,000,000 defences | ofthe wulh, What @ stapeudous echevement, Which | LD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1877.~WITH SUPPLEMENT. i a LEE LL LA LD 1s yet to have Its first public acknowledgment on thi Pt of the Chureb of God, uniess my remarks to-night taken as au acknowledgment metiines eoclexi- asticul courts puss resolations commendatory of some sSectariay organ mnade of scissors and gum arabic, with & circulation of 3,000; but where is the ecclesiastical recognition of these 10,000,000 utterances of every Monday, whieh daring (he course of a year, multe plied vy 52, become 520,000,000 utterances. It is be- Youd ail human calculation or human imagination, ‘The very objection made to it is the argument in favor of such publication. [t is suid that this newspaper habit mixes worldly business and religion, One columa of serméus, the next of monetary report; one column of argu on immortality, the next on a horse race; vne article a defence of the family insti- tution, the next @ miscrabie divorce case. My iriends, What we most need is more mixing up of religion aud business, If Morton had mixed more religion and less water in the Market Street Raslroad stock of Phil- adeiphia there would not have been so many impov- erished people. What will cure this opideinic of fraud, | failures and forgeries? Oniy one thing—Religion ‘The extent of this service might also be illustrated by a comparison of the average attendance at churches in our city with the number of newspaper readers. By the re- ports of sermons the truths of religion are brought under the notice of hundreds of thousands of people who do not habitually attend any church. The newspapers, there- fore, act as missionaries in carrying the Gospel to multitudes whom it otherwise would not reach. hese reports are also a service to the church-going public, who feel «natural interest in knowing what is said in other pulpits than the one on whose minis- trations they attend, Dr. Talmage bears testimony to the gen- eral accuracy of the reports of sermons published in the newspapers. The truth is that we treat: the pulpit as we treat Congress and political conventions, seldom reporting all that is said—for which we have not space and the public could not find time to read— but only giving the salient points. Preach- ers have quite as little reason to complain on this score as Congressmen. Both gain more by having the pith and strong points of their discourses concisely presented than they lose by the suppression of their rhet- oric. We trust the excellent remarks of Dr. Talmage will catise readers to take in- creased interest in the religious part of their Monday newspaper. Following Up the Victory. Tho reports regarding the situation in Armenia are decidedly sensational, but as yet lack confirmation, The advance on Erzeroum by the Russians un- der General Heymann has not been delayed by any fears of serious opposition, and there is a probability that stirring news may soon reach us trom the capital of Armenia. It is reported that Kars is completely invested and that nego- tiations for its surrender have been opened. A telegram, from Constantinople states that reinforcements drawn from the garrison of that city are being sent to Trebisonde for the defence of Erzeroum under the command of Achmet Eyoub Pacha, but these troops cannot possibly reach their objective point in time to save it from the Russians if the advance of the latter is vigorously pushed. We have not underestimated the value of the recent triumph of the Russian army, and with Ghazi Moukhtar ‘‘bottled up” in Kars see no difficulty in the way of the Grand Duke following up his victory. Fox-Hunting as a Metropolitan Pas- time. There is no reason why fox-hunting, with all its exhilarating accompaniments, should not become quite as popular and as success- ful in New York as ever it was or will be in merrie England, in rollicking Ireland or in ourown Southern States. We have good horses, bold riders, a fine country, the best of fox-hunting weather and plenty of foxes. If we have hitherto somewhat neglected the sport here in New York it has been because we have had other things to attend to, both in the way of business and pleasure, and not because the chase does not yield attrac- tions for our people. It has, however, only needed the spirit and entezprise’ necessary to make a start in a novel direction to carry us atany time during these past dozen years, “neck or nothing,” on Reynard’s track, and the splendid runs that have recently been realized with the Queens county hounds prove that our horsemen can go as fast, as far and as boldly over a difficult country as any Leicestershire or Kildare squire who ever wore the buckskins. The difficulty with fox-hunting in the Northern States has principally been the farmers. They have had no idea of en- couraging a sport the votaries of which, when under the excitement of a good chase, have as little respect for standing crops as a modern trustee has for the funds under his charge or as a savings bank direc- tor has for the money of the depositors, There is, however, ample room for fox- hunting without doing damage to the property of the worthy and indus- trious tiliers of the soil, and the spanking run on Saturday from New Cassel Wood along the crest of Wheatley Hill and over seven miles of tempting coun- try, almost within a stone's throw, figur- atively speaking, of the metropolis, is an illustration of this fact. Now that we have got fairly into the exhilarating pastime the spirit of our people will not suffer it to flay, and we may soon expect to witness ‘“nects” at which the foremost of our citizens will be found mounted, and which will not un- frequently be graced by the presence of beauty on side-saddles. What greater ad- vantage could be offered to the people of a | large and crowded city like New York than the opportunity to indulge now and thenin the healthful and invigorating exercise of a day with the hounds? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Is this the equinoctialY Longlellow loves a joke, ‘The best Hungarian horses aro bays, Hol!and wor wear colored shawls, The first thing m a Dutchman’s thoughts is econ- omy. Senator David Davis is thought to be the old whig party. ‘The loafers of Sixth avenue havo a corner in streets just now. Smallpox and Private Dalzell hayo mado their ap: | pearance, Sameet Cox can write tue Lord’s Prayer on a ten- dollar vin. Edwards Pierrepont’s rethignathion hath been acthepted, Ben Butler will not wear his gizzard on his sleeve for Dawes to peck at, : Theodore Parker's rule of life was—potatoes first and paintings afterward, The Presitent says that ho would rather that Gar. fleld did not go to the Senaic, The Philadelphia Bulleten doesn't know why an IV be-IX-iy, not to say X-tatively, one of the Vi-es® Jokes we have read this year. According to the Southern journais Mr, Gramt te regarded us one of the sinners of war. Because Sitting Bull would not treat, the Rawchester Denocr ‘at says “That's the kind of temporance man he is. Pulask! has graded its public schools,--Te’egram. Now iet some Pulaski aldermen have the cbildren curved, Mr. Darwin in his new book will, by way of argue ment, show that goats appeared the week alter bill posters were selected, The Boston Giobe, which is always either pia tureequo or cynical, alludes unkindly to Senator Jones’ “silver advertisement,” The Daily Worcester Press appears in all its old glory, aud, as itis one of the brightest papers in the country, we congfatul.te its editor. We can’t see why Wendell Phillips or Henry Wat: terson should feel i}! because Grant likes rye whiskey. They don’t have to drik the cocktails, It was old Porpora, made famous to modern readerg by Georgo Sand, who said of 4 pianist that he was ¢ good man, because “he never iets his left hand know what his right hand doeth,’? , Punch:—Asthetic Husvand—Just ask him if he’s gottbe same article in peacock blue, Eliza”? Ase thetic Wite—“Avez-vous le meme article en bleu de coq aux petits pols ?”? Astonished Draper—“Pialt-il, Madame??? , Samuel Eliot, a prominent New England teacner, thinks that girls require a different kind of training {rom that of boys, and that proper moral training toa girls is impossible at any boy’s schoo! at such an early age as they would enter, . Morristown Herald:—“The New Yor& Heranp ads Vovates the abolition of promiscuous handshaking. If People would stop drinking whiskey they would hav¢ Steadier nerves, aud consequently, there would be nox only Jess handshaking, but less trembling all over,” AMUSEMENTS. HESS ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY, Tho great attraction to-night in the musical world of the metropolis will be the first production on any stage in an English form of the famous opera by Pianquette, fhe Chimes of Normandy” (1.e8 Clochea de Corueyille), for which extensive preparations have been made vy the Hess English Opera Company at tho Fifth Avepue Theatre for some time past, The music of the ‘Chimes of Normandy,”’ without losing aught og the distinctive charicter of opéras comiques, has moro cutching melodies than may bo found in even “La File de Madame Angot” or *Giroflé-Girofla,” The prins cipal ones, which are whistled, hummed, sung or played ull over Paris ‘at present, and which will undoubtedly gain like populariuy here are the lollowing:—In tho first act Mignonette’s sang, thechant of the cabin boy by Robin Moore, the waltz rondo of the Marquis, the celebrated bell song aud chorus (the leading feature of the opera} and the jinale of the act, In the second act the gran chorus,” “Knights of Old,’? and in the third act Robiu’s rondo, The cgucerted numbers are excoed- togly bright and dainf. ‘Tho opera has ldhg since passed its hundredth performance at Les Folica Dra. matiques, Puris, where it was first produced in April last, Mr; Hess bas broaght all the wardrobe, proper= ties and effects from Paris, and Mr. M. A. Cooney h furnished the Enghsh Hbretto. The chorus and ore chestra have been thoroughly trained by their accom plished director, Signor Opert. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, The Great London Circus at Gilmore’s Garden toy bight. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin’? will be performed during the week at the Grand Opera House, *‘Aunt Polly Bassett’s Singin’ Skew)? will be held at Chickering Hall during the week, ‘The sale of seats for Jefferson’s “Rip Van Winkle’ begins at Booth’s Theatre on Wednesday. The Sun Frangisco Minstréls anuounce nightly repes titions of “Helen’s Babies.” Birch and Backus aro ime menscly funny. The Windsor Dramatic Club will give a performance and reception to-morrow evening at the Lexington Avenue O;;era House, Mr. Joseph Cook, of Boston, will deliver a series of six lectures betore the Young Men's Christian Associa. tion, at Association Hall, beginning Friday evening, November 2. Mr. J. C. Fryer’s Wagner Opera Troupe have been, giving performances in Baltimore with great success. ‘The local journals speak in terms of high praise ot the exceilence of the respective artists. Theodore Thomas will give nis fourth and last popue Jar concert at Steinway Hail to mcrrow eveningy Thoge who have not heard the Swedish Quartet should avail themselves of this opportunity. Strakosch has, it‘is stated, engaged Patti and Nicos lini to sing for sixty representations in Italy and Milan, Pauline Lucca will give a series of performs ances at Madrid daring the season of 1877-78 On Wednesday Mr. Henry Abboy’a Park Theatre company, under the supervision of Mr. Sothero, will go to Philadelphia in a special train, give a “Crushed Tragedian” matinée for the beneflt of Edwin Adams, and return in timo to appear at the usual boar In this city. Tbe Macaroni Actors’ Club, of Boston, at theit dinner yesterday, voted to invite Mr. Sothern and his coinpany toa breakfast at the Parker Heuse, on the oc» cusion of their visit there to take part in the Edwin Adams benedit, A committee was appointed to watt ou Mr. Sotuera in New York and formally extend the invitation, Bartley Campbell’a latest production, “My Foolish Wie,” produced for the first time at the Chestaute Street Theatre, Philadelphia, 13 more of a farce than a comedy, It has very little plot, but is full of amusing situations and bright dialogue, It is handsomely placed upon the stage, a scene at Niagara Fails being particularly interesting, and is excellently played, ‘The play in which Max Adeler (Charles Heber Clarke), the Priladelphia humorist, is to make his maiden dramatic effort, is called her “Secoad Husband.” It is to be produced shortly by Mossrs, Gemmill, Scott & Co,, at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philade!phia, the Wallack’s of the Quaker City, Mr. Clarke’s play 1s a three-act camody which reads weil and Is (ull of inno. cent fun. The regular representations of the Theatre Francais take place tour times a week—every Tuesday, Thure day and Saturday evenings; also Saturday afternoon, The pieces produced are selected from among the best of the French stage, such as '*Le Procts Veauradieux,’* “Mile, de Belie-Isie,” ‘Mile, de Ia Sergitére,” “Leg Dominos Roses” (“ink Dominos,”’) Les Vivacités du Capitaino Tic,” “Les Demoiselle de St. Cyr,” “Led Inutiles,”? **L’Aieule,”? ‘Les Vieux Gargons,”? Monk joye,” “L'Honneur de la Maison,’? “Le Fils de Giboyer,” “Le Chapeau de Paille d’Ltalio,” “Le Partia de Piquet,’? “Lo Voyage & Dieppe,” &c. Mr, Darand’a company is the bost we have ever had in the city. Auber’s great opera, “Massaniello,” will be ropro~ duced this evening at Nibio’s Gardon. Tbe company consists of Signora Estelle Buzzetti, Signori Baccet, Susini, Gotisebalk, Taghapietra, Baceili, Bischoff and Barbert, with a grand chorus and augmented orchestra, under the direct on of Mrs, C. Caciverg, Mile. Lupo ai the Baroucss vou Rodmansdorf, with an excellent corps de ballet, under the supervision of M, Gayant, Everything will be uew—costumes, propore ties, armor andall the paraphernalia incident to the production of the opera in the most complete manner has been provided by Mr. Fleming regardiess of cost. A new feature atthe Uason Square Theatre is tl addition of a farce entitled The Chinese Question,” io Which the Wilitamsons ilustrate the Chinose char. acter to perfection, and elicit roars of laughter, It will be played every evening during the week, in cone nection with “Siruck Oi.’ The Willlamsons con. clude their engagement with the present week, and commence another at the Arch Street Theatre, Philas dolphia, bext Monday evouing, Tne regular company ofthe Union Square Theatre, after an abseuce trom New York of nearly six months, will commence the reguiar season of that house next Monday evoning by a short revival, with a new cust, of the comedy, “Pink Dominos.” Tho cast will compriss Mossrs, Charles Fy Coghlan, J. H. Stoddart, J. B, Polk, Geddons ang Montgomery; Misses Sara Jowett, Linda Dietz, Mary Welle, Roverta Norwood and Anna Wakeman. “Toa Mother's Secret,” now in rehearsal, and the east of which will comprise the whole streagth of ihe coms pany, will follow “Pink Dominos." G. CONDILION, To tm Pruss ayo Poss Mr Fox las been at my house, tn Cambridge, Mass., since the Tt of Aprit last. He has boen well taken care of aud wants for nothing, Dr. Wyman ate tenus tim daily, | His surrounding relatives and friends tool gratefal for the sympathy exprossed by te press, the pablo j and his admirers throughout the country, Wh ver ts needed tor “New York’s favorite” dure ing lis short career in tis world will be most cheare plant should be threc-leaved, This is, speaking fully provided by bis family. G. C. HOWARD,