The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1877, Page 6

B Sn TESTER REERRRREARRERRT UOT raat renner aetna cers anaes NEW YORK HERALD;"WEDNESDAY, UCTOBER 24, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD |*™* Proposed Disfranchising Amend- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published ‘Three cents per copy (Sundays excluded. or at arate of one dollar per mouth for any period less dollars tor six months, syoday tn the year, Shh Goltars per th six months. or & ‘edition Inciuded. tree ut postaze. WEEKLY HERALD. —One dollar per year, tree of post- age. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS,—In order to insnre atten- tion subscribers wishing their address changed must give their old as well as their new ress. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches mast be addressed New Youk Hrmatn. ‘Letters and packages should be property seaiod. Rejected communications will pot be returned. ENCE DE L’OPERA T STRATA PACE. d advertisements will bo received tert an New York. and UNION SQUARE THEAT TRUCK O1L. EAGLE THEATRE—ALLATooN AMERICAN INSTITUT! ipuUSTRY AND MECRANICS. WALLAGK'S THEATE WAGK. BROADWAY THEATR: Faust. GRAND OPERA nol ‘om’s Canin, BOWERY THEATRI! GERMANIA THEATRE. CHICKERING HALL— NIBLO’S GARDEN—J1 BRYANT'S OPERA H TIVOLI THEATRE—' THEATRE COMIQUE—Tux Rinixa SAn ONY PASTORWS—Va rik’ NEW YORK AQUARI OLYMPIC THEATR: BAN FRANCISCO MIN GILMORE’S GARDE: EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanixry. COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE-Vantery, RIPLE SHEET. OCLOBER 2. 1877, Important Norice 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 inorning the probabilities are Uitthe weather in New York and its vicinity To. ApvERTIsERS.—7o to-day will'be warmer partly cloudy. Watt Srreer —The stock mar- ket was active and feverish. Gold was steady all day at 102%. Government bonds were strong, States generally steady and railroads quiet. Money on call was easy all day at 6 a7 per cent, Recorper Hacketr has justly imposed the full sentence of the law (ten years) on a child stealer, Tue Maxcurster Savincs Bank, of Alle- gheny City, has, been added to the long roll of banks that ure no more. IrIs ANNOUNCED from Washington that the Custom House appointments were finally agreed upon yesterday by the Cabinet. Coman, the ex-Court House Commissioner, has escuped, and a pensive public is looking to Attorney General Barlow to see what he will do next. Ar Frerxanpina the y w fever has unfor-. tunately broken out agai? and threatens to sweep away the whole colored population of the place. ‘Tuk Extraonrpisary Number of eighty-seven vessels, laden with two aud a half million bush- els of grain, have arrived at Buffalo within the lust forty-eight hours. Ex-Governor KuLtoce has had a hearing before the Senate Committee, aud Mr. Spotford will be ulliowed to present his case to-day. A report ought to be ready within a week at the outside, Representatives of the Union and Central Pacific Railroad companies ure in Washington urging the government to accept their offer of a compromise for the money advanced by it to build the roads, AgMonry Property, it will be seen by our re- ports, is the only real estate which, in the opin- ion ut least of its owners, has not depreciated in value. They naturally want the rents of the good old days of King rule. Now tuar tite Excursion Season is at an end it has been discovered by the authorities that the police have the power to detain over- crowded steamboats. ‘his decision will, of coarse, be forgotten long before the next season comes around. Tne Brewers are unhappy this year—tirst, because Canadian burley has lost its. bright um- ber color, which will make the ule darker, and second, because of the growth of the temper- unee movement. The outlook for them is at ounce black aud blue. Turre Was A I yy Run on the Union Dime Savings Bunk yesterday, when the sixty-day rule was finally applicd. The official statement ot its condition aud interviews with its officials elsewhere rinted will materially aid in enabling stel to get at the exact situation, ATION has arisen in the Sprague baukruptey cause which places some members of the family and firm in a rather unfavorable light. Suits in equity have been brought by the grandchildren, who allege they have been unjustly dealt with in the manage- mont of the business. ACCORDING TO SVanisit advices imperial forces have captured the President of. the Republic, the Secretary of the Chamber of Representatives and several members of that bouy. It was feported u short time ago that these officials had been surprised and had fallen into the hands of the enemy, but the despatch printed this morning is the tirst official informa | tion on the subject. ‘Tum Weatrer.—Fine clear weather has sue- eceded the recent storm in nearly all parts of the United States cast of the Rocky Mountains. ‘The movemeut of high pressure from th ward and westward toward the Atlant is progressing as we indicated yesterday, amd | the late storm is now well olf the vontinent. In the Northwestern district the preasure is fulling | slowly with the eastward advance of the area of relatively low baroieter, and southerly winds prevail over the country west of the Alleghany Mountains. The temperature has also risen through the Mississippi and Lower Ohio Valley regions. In the Southwest the pressure is falling, eansing winds from the north- eastward and eastward along the Gulf coast. The wiuds on the Atlantic seaboard are still westerly and northwesterly, but are nowhere above'the scale of moderate. A change of wind to southerly, however, may be expected during to-day along the coust trom Sandy Hook south- ward as far as the Carolinas. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer aud clear x partly cloudy. | some mont. The large and respectable meeting held on Monday evening calls fresh attention to a question which the politicians of both parties are disposed to ignore, We believe that public discussion is always wholesome, and are glad that the property holders of | the city, who are restive under the heavy | burden of our local taxes, have taken the | subject in hand and are determined that the proposed amendment shall not be lost by default. We suspect, however, that they are fighting in cause which is already lost. There is so much that is excellent in the municipal amendment that we are sorry it is destined to failure by the indissoluble con- nection of its good features with one that is so unpopular that no person well acquainted with public sentiment can believe that a majority of the people will vote to ratify it. We heartily approve of the spring election, of the full power of appointment proposed to. be given'to the Mayor, of the Board ‘of Finance which it is proposed to establish, and we might. perhaps favor the election of this Board by a restricted suffrage if the voters of the State would consent to it, But nothing is more certain than that they will give no such consent, and we should there- fore prefer, in the interest of municipal change, to see this abortive amendment defeated in the next Legislature instead of blocking the way for another year. The foregone certainty of its defeat rests on very simple and intelligible grounds. It cannot bo adopted without a large vote in its favor by the very class of people whom it is intended to disfranchise. Atatime when recent unfortunate events have rendered the great body of the laboring classes morbidly sensitive and jealous they will not consent to diminish their own power and confer new prerogatives upon property. During and since the lamentable July riots ‘they have been filling the air with clamors against the oppressive tyranny of capital. No period could be more ill-selected and inopportune than the present for asking nfen without property to surrender any part of their legal rights and increase the power of the owners of capital. Even if the poorer classes wore as tranquil and contented as they are in prosperous times they would not be likely to vote away any part of their title to exercise the elective franchise. It is certain that they will not do so in their present state of smothered passion and resentment, They have learned how dangerous it is to express their hostility to capital by riots and vio- lence, but they know it is perfectly safe to give it expression through the ballot box, and they would vote as one man against such a constitutional amendment as was re- ported by Governor ‘Tilden’s Municipal Commission. This amendment passed the last Legislature by republican votes, but the late Republican State Convontion de- clined to indorse it after the inflammatory oceurrences of the summer. Knowing that the fate of the amendment was decided they were unwilling to array the laboring classes against their own party for an impracticable object, They may not have been wise enough to think so far, but it is inexpedient to supply at this time new fuel to the labor agitation by attempting to confer a new privilege upon Property. The sentiment in favor of universal suffrage has taken such deep root in the popular mind that it will, require a great deal of bitter experience to eradicate it, If the practical effect of the proposed amend. ment would be only to disfranchise the vicious and dangerous classes there would be no strong opposition to it; but it would really disfranchise a larger number of de- serving citizens than of ‘vagabonds and miscreants. It proposes to put munici- pal governments under the control of a class of voters ‘who have for two years next proceding the election paid an annual tax on property of a value not less than $500, or shall have actually paid during the same period a rent for premises for business or dwelling of not less than $250.” When this comes to bo sifted and examined it will be found to be a great deal Yess liberal than it looks on the surface. We will first scrutinize the property quali- fication and then the rent qualification, The property qualification alone would operate as a wholesale distranchisement, It might as well have been put at $5,000 asat $500. Indeed, most of our citizens who pay taxes at all do so on a much higher valuation than $5,000. There are very few lots in the city with buildings on them which are worth less than $10,000, and very few people pay a tax on personal property unless they also own real estate. People who pay acity tax on so low lector’s books, Setting the limit at $500 is therefore deceptive, as tending to conceal the extent of the distranchisement. ‘Those whose property does not rise pretty well up into the thousands do not pay taxes in this city in sufficient numbers to make any show | in an election, It is sought to extend the proposed suf- frage beyond so narrow a limit by admit- | ting persons who have paid an annual rent of $250 for two years, This indeed extends the other, it is far from being us liberal as it looks, It would exclude a much greater number of honest than of dis. reputable citwens. Mr, Simon Sterne, in his able speech at the recent meeting, gave the following description of the classes he wishes to exclude:—‘‘All that we have in- sisted upon and do now insist upon is that barrier shall be permanently fixed which shall prevent the incorrigible bum- and the hopeless pauper from being an integral part of the financial administration | of our great and growing cities. We leave even to this bummer and this pauper all | their civic rightsand more.” Let us test | | | | the correctness of this description, by finding who these ‘“bummers” and “pau- pers” are whose right to vote on municipal questions is denied, ‘The amendment exe cludes the unmarried sons of our respect- able and virtuous families, most of whom pay neither taxes nor rent, and of the few | who do it fixes the voting age at twenty- | three instead of twenty-one, since the taxes | or rent must have been paid ior two years, | Itexelndes with equal rigor all students Lot law, divinity or medicine whose the basis very considerably, but still, like | P| ! nominally. a value as $5,000 hardly appear on the col- | | attitude expenses are peid by their families; | Senator Morton and the President, all young professional men who have not yet made their way to a remunerative prac- tice ; a majority of the clerks in our mercan- tile, banking and insurance establishments ; all the conductors and drivers on our street railroads ; all of our common day laborers anda majority of our industrious mechanics. Either Mr. Sterne does not see the scope of the sumendmeat, or in the heat of advocacy he loses his sense of justice when he de- clares that all he insists upon is the exclu- sion of ‘the incorrigible bummer” and ‘‘the hopeless pauper” from a voice in municipal affairs, The amendment would disfran- chise a large share of the most deserving men in the community, but it would disfranchise no keeper of a grogshop, no keeper of a gambling hell, no proprietor of a bawdy house—all of whom pay at least $250 annual rent, if they do not pay taxes. ‘There is in this city many a genteel gam- bler, many a well dressed blackleg, who would be entitled to voté under this amend- ment, which would exclude the greater portion of young lawyers, physicians, clergymen and most unmarried sons of good families between the ages of twenty- one and twenty-seven. It will not quite do to stigmatize citizens of this respectable type as incorrigible bummers or hopeless paupers. Mr, Sterne, by this intemperance of statement, virtually admits, without per- ceiving it, that a true description of the dis- franchised classes would turn the public mind against the amendment. Eyen if the amendment could be adopted it would perhaps disappoint the expecta- tions of its champions. The owners of property are divided by the same political lines as the rest of the community, and the nominations would continue to be made by the same political machinery as at present, The effective part of politics is done in the caucus and the nominating convention, and these would continue to be run by the same class of wirepullers. You cannot compel a caucus to adopt a property quali- fication. When nominations have been made by party machinery the voter is re duced to a choice between the different sets of candidates. So long as King Caucus is otr inevitable ruler the remedy for bad ad- ministration must be sought, by some other method than a partial curtailment of uni- versal suffrage. The proposed Board of Finance would be swept along with the gen- eral political current. But it is idle to speculate on so purely hypothetical a case, the defeat of this amendment being regarded as certain by all good judges of tho drift of popular sentiment. . General Grant's Visit to Paris, The delay attending General Grant's visit to the French capital, and which was caused by his desire to avoid any demonstrations of respect which. might prove embarrassing during the recent delicate condition of French politics, has, as our special cable despatches announce, come to an end, and the General finds himself free to accept the hospitality of Paris. The arrival there of the ox-President and most distinguished soldier of the United States, bent on enjoy- ing a well desorved rest after long years of arduous duty, is ah event of unusual interest. It will doubtless strike the French people very directly that a marked distinction must still exist between republican ideas and in- stitutions on this side of the Atlantic and those that prevail and govern the situation in France, Here our President is sur- rounded and sustained by a united people, There turbulent factions array themselves in almost battle line and authority sustains itself with bayonets. Here President and people are united in furthering the pros- perity of a common country. There the masses are hostile, passively, it is true, to the recognized ruler, and regard with distrust his most solemn assuranszes of honesty of purpose. The simple soldier who saved this Union from anarchy and goy- erned it with credit will meet men who long to see in France a republic unshadowed by a military autocracy, who demand the sub- stance and reject the shadow. He will re- ceive a lesson in politics from what he sees in France that will bring him back to the United States more confirmed, if possible, than ever, in his loyalty to a government based upon the national will. Taurus the Squatter, One of our correspondents ‘‘on the spot,” or on some spot not more than a thousand miles distant, sends us the above designa- tion as a happier statement of the concep- tion on which is framed the name Sitting Bull; and we can heartily say, ‘for this re- lief much thanks.” If we cannot have done with this particular savage in any other way it would be pleasant to have done with him In such a nameas “Young- Man-Atraid-of-His-Horses” there is a kind of rude picture—such an attempt in rhetoric as the Indian picture writing is in art. In Touch-the-Clouds we can perceive an Indian laugh at the grandilo- quent little fellow so styled, In Crazy Horse there is a notion of rude, irrational, yet splendid rage. In short, in nearly all the Indian names there is some salt of reflec- tion or veracity; but this one name of | Sitting Bull has seemed always very unsatis- factory, for this Indian's nature, combined of fox and wolf, seemed utterly unbull-like, and all that is known of attempts to get hold of him rather strengthen tho fancy that he never sat down in his life. But the bappy variation of “Bull that Squats” is charac- teristic and tolerable by comparison with the moro usual name. ‘Chis desig- nation of o man by his habitual at a time when thero was little else about him to designate than that attitude and a stolid tenacious character is in the way of the thoughts of aboriginal life, But it remains to be seen whether he will be much of a squatter over the line, There is one feature of the story of the negotiations that will excite the most teariul distress throughout this Republic, and that is the declared intention of the savage to inflict himself upon our dear cousin John Bull, But this may be only a hasty fancy! on the part of tho Indian excited from sympathy with our cousin on account of the posses sion of the same family name; and it may be thut the savage meant to deceive us. But if he docs squat over the line we can at least offer our British cousins the services to deal with him of all our Indian agents, of which we shall have little further need. ‘The invalid Indiana Senator shows him- self as dexterous in the art of administer- ing friendly advice as if he had been bred a diplomatist. The editorial article in the Indianapolis Journal which was telegraphed all over the country in advance of its pub- lication, with Senator Morton's indorse- ment, is ostensibly a piece of advice to the republicans in Congress, but really a delicate | intimation to President Hayes that he must meet the dissatisfied Congressmen rather more than half way in the advances toward reconciliation which the Senator regards as the common duty of both. He counsels the Congressmen to respect Mr. Hayes’ motives, patriotism and party fidelity, telling them, but also reminding him, that ‘he was elected as a republican, and it is impossible for him, with the present organization of parties, even “if he should desire, to be other than a republican President.” Mr. Morton would seem equally to regret the inconsid- erate remarks which some republicans ‘have made about the President and the assump- tion of independence of the party which some indiscreet friends have ascribed to Mr. Hayes. The restoration of harmony, which is indispensable, will not be promoted either by intemperance of speech on the one sjde or by assumed airs of indifference to party censure on the other. Senator Morton tells the republicans that the Southern policy. of the Presi- dent, “having been once adopted, is irreversible »o long as the South behaves itself ; but he adds that ‘when these States fail to maintain the law and protect the eqaal rights of all classes we shall expect the peace policy 1o be abandoned by the administration and a force policy inau- gurated.” He gives no intimation that Kellogg ought not to be seated as Senator, nor could he very well, since he prepared a report at the March gession in favor of Kellogg’s admission. If the republican majority shall seat him the President will haye to accept the result, @# the Senate will have to submit to the recognition of Nich- olls as Governor. ‘This question will soon be decided one way or the other, and there will afterward be no practical ground of dif- ference between the President and Con- gress on any branch of the Southern ques- tion. pe On the civil service question Mr. Morton, under a courteous guise of defending the President, counsels him to give up the civil service order asa mistake. What he says on this point isso suggestive and significant that we insert it :— 1t is not likely that the administration can control the action of civil ollicera connected with the detail work of their party, vor do we believe thero 134 ne- cessity for any attempt to do so. Liberty of thought ould bot be abridged because a man hap- pens to be in office, Whenactvil officer performs faitbtully and bépestly the dutics imposed by his dl- fice this is all that should be required apd all that can be'required, and an attempt to dictute which political work aa officer may petiorm for pasty must, of right and necessity, fail, This will be discovered by tho President about as quickly as it will be by Cougress, and it is @ matter of minor tuaportance, upon which it is obildish to make an issue. Congressiouu! patrouaye may bave beeu abused. We have no doubt it been; Presideot or his Cabi- icants for office in { but it is Impossible that net should know all the the several States, or that spould know cven Ono good man for each of the offices to be flied, And wo know of no safer advisers !n reference to such ap- plicants than the Senators and members of Congress who represent the people of the localities wherein the duties of such officers are to be dischurgod. 1t ed Senator of other should prove bimsel! an unsafe ad- viser then the Presidont would be justified in ignoring him and seeking information from other sources, and, 1a fact, he should. seek such information from all sources and judge tor himeel/, with ali the light he. can obtain, as to the fitness of the applicant. The re- pudlicans in Congress should vot embarrass the ad. ministration by any factions opposition to the meas- ures inaugurated or appointments made, and should teek to promote the burmony of the purty, in which none are more interested than the President avd hia Cabinet, und to seeure which main steadiast republicans. The tenor of this advice is that Congress need give itself ho uneasiness about the order forbidding federal officers to take part in politics, because the President is sure to discover ‘his error in issuing such an order and to abandon it himself. Mr. Morton also thinks that the President will discover the necessity of consulting Con- gressmen about his nominations and that it is wise for thom to await the ripening effect of experienco on the President's mind, He closes by reminding all concerned that “pone are more interested to promote the harmony of the party than the President and his Cabinet, and to secure which they have only to remain steadfast republicans,” This advice fs a skilful attempt to pour oil onthe troubled watera by holding out to the Congressmen a prospect that Mr. Hayes, with a little more experience, will come to see that he cannot successfully administer the government without the cordial support of the party that elected him. This wise attempt to re-establish harmony ought to make an impression on both sides, We do not believe that President Hayes will defy his party or decline to make the con- cessions which Senator Morton predicts with so much delicacy and kind feeling. In fact, Mr. Hayes is already beginning to recede. He has explained away the civil service order until it means next to nothing, and is likely to drop the remaining frag- ment of it. The Senate having adopted, aot Mr. Conkling’s instance, a resolution requesting the President to state, in con- nection with every nomination, how the vacancy occurred and, in cases of suspen- sion, the reasons for suspending the officer, Mr. Hayes has readily complied. his will bring what little remains of the civil ser- viee order to a speedy and tranquil gravo, It he assigns a violation of the order as the reason for suspension the Senate will reject the reason and restore the ofticer. But if, as is more hkely, no suspen- sion is reported to the Senate, for that sole reason the order Will die a quict, natural death, No republican willquarrel with the order if the President silently ceases to enforce it But in that case the less his friends say about his unflinching steadi- ness and the abject submission of Congress the better. they have only to re- Sunday Trafic. Liquor dealers over the river in Jersey have hit upon ao line of operations that is cortain to increase very greatly the number of persons who may be rallied in opposi- tion to the execution of the laws under which their establishments are closed on Sunday—a line, therefore, that strengthens their cuse, Hitherto the liquor dealers and proprietors of places of amusement, who are commonly liquor dealers, also, have had to fight the Sunday laws alone, although there were large numbers of other persons interested like themselves in the treedom of Sunday traffic irom Puritanical restraints. because the bearing of the iaw on the sale of other commodities was little heeded by the authorities, Indeed, the authorities heed all parts of these laws equally little, and if they were left to themelseves the enactments would become dead letters. But they are stirred up from time to time by the agitations of the ‘‘unco guid and ower righteons,” to whom the liquor traffic and the Sunday theatres are especial abominations, so that all the fury of these | revived agitations are turned in those two channels, But the liquor dealers of Jersey City have called attention to the fact that, of three hundred establishments open for the transaction of business on Sunday last, only seventy were liquor saloons. In this re- sult the ferries, horse cars, stages and hacks are notcounted. As the law against thesale of liquor on Sunday bears almost equally on the sale of all the commodities offered in this list of two handred and ‘thirty shops, the opponents of the Sunday: laws are increased by the number of the persons who find the comforts dispensed at these places neces- sary to their welfare, ‘This sort of warfare, therefore, enters on a new phase in New Jer- sey and in all other places where the liquor traffic is not exclusively forbidden. Comptroller Kelly’s Debt Statements. Everybody knows’that the Hzranp has no very fond admiration of Mr. Kelly as a -Tammany politician; but we have never discovered a shred of evidence that he is not an upright and faithful officer. His opponents would do better if they would only blame him for things tlint are blame- worthy. His letter to the Chairman of the Steinway Hall meeting, which we print in another part of this impression, is a manly protest against an unjust accusation. “Lhere was no warrant for the statement made in the address adopted at that mecting that the taxpayers are not permitted to know the amount of’the city debt. In August last Comptroller Kelly made tho fullest, clearest and most satisfactory debt -state- ment that we have had for the last fifleen years. The Hzratp gave a copious summary of it at the time, and it was pub- lished in extenso in the City Record, filling the greater part of one of its issues. After a deliberate examination we were con- strained to commend it, and we have never seen any reason to retract anything which we then said. There was no attempt tq juggle with the figures or give them a deceptive coloring, Though we dis- like’ the politician we cannot condemn the officer, and, least of all, on the ground that he has concealed or garbled or dis- torted anything in relation to the city debt, We believe him to be a frank, hon- est, vigilant Comptroller, and are not sur- prised that he is indignant at the unjust aspersions cast on him by the late meet- ing, Party warfare, will be more effective when it shall become more candid and dis- criminating. Another’ Terrible Possibility. People who have observed the rapidity with which doctors, mostly poor ones, are made in our schools, who have counted with dismay the names by the hundred and thousand to which every year the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and half a dozen other establishments in this and neighbor- ing cities, add the qualification indicated by the letters M. D.—this judicious part of the public will learn with horror that it is proposed to organize one more medical schooL Columbia College murmurs this threat. At the bare proposition that Columbia , proposes to set up ao new school for instruction in medicine people would applaud, simply because it would be thought that this famous corporation was inspired with the happy purpose to teach this science more fully to those who had been before badly taught or half taught in other schools. But that is not the project. On the contrary, Columbia herself is ani- mated in this direction in some degree by the very conception that is the bane of all the medical schools actually in existence —~ the. desire to boast the largest number of students. At present the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, the oldest and best of our schools, is called the medical department of Columbia College ; but Columbia wishes to sever the relation that thus exists, be- cause she cannot secure any guarantee from the medical school for the qualifications of graduates who yet bear her name on their diplomas. That isa fair grievance on her part, and there is no doubt that there aro the most substantial grounds for her dis- satisfaction. Rivalry in schools, the desire to have the fallest benches and the appre- hension that the school will be made un- popular with students by even an appear- ance of severity in the examinations—con- siderations like these lead to the graduation as doctors in medicine of men yntit by their acquirements to possess any degree of learning whatever. But how ean Columbia remedy this? Not by imitation, certainly ; not by organizing o new medical school merely, that she may retain among univer- sities a lead in the number of students of whicli the separation of the ‘medical school would deprive her. Register To-Day. Those citizens who intend to vote in the coming election will find it for their com- fort to visit the places of registration to-day and so avoid the press, delay and annoy- ance of the final days. No person can Vote unless his name is registered, last year's registration going tor nothing, although the voter may not have changed his residence. Quiet citizens who dislike a crowd and are impatient of waiting for their turn at the end of a long queue should register to-day. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Th, Nast says thuinbs up. Geaeral Sherman never waltzes. William Allen Butler 18 flity-two. Colonel Sellers neither drinks nor smokes. Colonel I, W. Higginson will winter in Europe. It seems that Gardeld is forgotten, but not gone, Situng Ball contaiws as much grit as « m)nce pie, Chicago bank presidents usually gall in a dug-out. ‘There ia a good deal of fuss about Cleoputra’s darn needio, Genoral Howard wants to know how he could trot ten miles in 2:16, Isn't it timo for Wendell Phillipa to torture himeel! eto another cyclone? 10 Js now definitely known that every oue of Sitting Buil’s command ean Jecture, A Justice recently asked u wife, complaining againat | her drunken husband, whother a house divided against itself could stand? “But, your honor,” sald shey “he's such a tumble flair.” » . Some of the republicun Senators wish that Schurz Were secretary of the exterior, ‘That squaw who spoke to the Indian Commission ~ must have beon a regular squawker, Dake Fleming, of Maysville, Ky., is treepooting I” Mexico, and is deing a good business, Meissonier, 11 is sald, never painted » woman; but @ good many women paint themselves, Jt was not General McClellan to whom Sitting Bull suid, “Go-back, but make haste slowly,” Sulda Clifton man, “Lev's geta cocktail Pye got elephantiasis of the bead this morning.’ New Orleans Jicayune:—*The importer owes a duty 10 hig country which iis customers must pay, General Joseph E. Jobuston, of Virginia, and Mrs, Jefferson Davis are umong the late arrivals at the New York Hotel, ‘ There 18 a complaint that when the commission rose uot ove of the Indians said “How.’? Perhaps it: was Howardly necessary. The Columbus (Miss.) Independent says that if North. ern democrats were not sted by the solid South they would be contemptible vassals. Since that squawt Wife-of-tho-Man-that-Scatters- the-Bear, went tor General Torry Gail Hamiiton’s Vocation has gone bat not forgotten. An old document, written by one of the famous tea- spillers of Boston harbor, says there were present no white peoplo who were disguised us Indians, Detroit ree’ Press: —" ‘Phero is one good thing about Satan,’ remarked a Detroiter the other day—ho never weighs the drivers as he sends out his coal,’” AMUSEMENTS. STEINWAY HALI-—THE FOURTH THOMAS CONe CERT, The fourth and last of the popular concerts of Theo- dore Thomas took place at Steinway Hall last even- ing, and, after what bas been written concerning others of the series, it is scarcely necessary to say that it not only attracted a large audience but was a Pronounced success, Mr. Thomas has so long proved himself a worthy representative of the great masters that it 1s mo longer a matter of wonder that he is able to secure the best musical talent of the metropolis, und to elicit their sympathy and develop by their patient practice the beautiful meaning which under, les the superb compositions which he gives to,the public, Tho programme last ovening embraced jfev- eral now selections, all of which were admirably in- terpreted, and yet tho orchestra, notwithstaading al) Of its training, its purposo and its artistic expression, was compelled to divide honors with the Swedish Ladies’ Quartet and Master Lichtenberg, who aa before illustrated in their own oxquisite way tho charm of pure, soul-exalting music, Remy. WHEATRE FLANOAIS. ‘The audiences who vist our. Theatre Frangais ara certainly appreciative, and !t must be a pleusure to play before them, Last evening “La Jolie do la Maigon,’’ a comedy in throe acts, was played by tha best members of the company and was a most enjoya- ble performance. Even ono who does not understand the French language could almost follow the plot, the acting is so suggestive, It would do some of our more |, ambitious actors good to witness a performance at this little theatre, where thoy wouid see that real acting is as effective as are real horses or real waterfalls or real Jace on the stage. / Mr. Vincent played the part of Hestor Durosuel, the bashiul lover, and M, Bilher that of Georges do Silly, a wayward husband, with great cl ess, The me, de Basmont of Mlle, Borsary was an exceedingly amas- 1ng performance and created shouts of laughter. She was a type of the stage mother-in-law, Mile, Heyman as the aggrieved wife was pleasing, and Mile, Leblanc us Cécile was a capital ingénue. Applause and laughter followod each act. *'Un Visoau de Passage,” a vaui ville in one act, brought a pleasant evening to a close, MUSICAL AND D&AMATIC NOTEF Mr. and Mrs. Harold Power will give the first of their pleasant entortainments at Chickering Hall on Saturday, November 3. Carl Woifsohn, of Chicago, has composod a song, “I Wept Whiie Dreaming.” Did be dream that ho bad to get up and build the fires? ‘Tho dime concerts at the Cooper Institute have been aremarkable success, Large ardicnces have attended, and the periormances are ot a character well calcu: lated to please, : ‘The Park Company, with Mr, Sothern, go to Phila- delphia to-day to play the ‘Crushed: Tragedian’” for the benefit of Edwin Adams, and will return this af- vernoon, A crowded house is expected. Mr. & G. Pratt, the American pianist and composer, makes his first appearance in @ piano recital at Chick- ering Hall on Thursday, at three P. M. He will be as- sisted by Miss Hearietta Beebe, the well known soprano, and Mr, H. A. Bischoff, the tenor, , It may now be formally announced that Miss Clara Morris will give a benefit in behalf of the Custer Monument Fund at Wallack’s Theatre on the 81h of November. ‘This action ds induced not alone by the grent (ricndship existing betwoon herself and tho tam- ily of the dead hero, but'because she dooms it a proper tribute to his memory trom ber profession. A large pumber of army officers will co-operate with the tur artiste on the occasion and iend their presence ta make it as successtul ag It deserves to be, An agrecable entertainmont was given on Monday evening, the 22d inst., at the Union League Bijou Theatre, by Captain Sanchez, of the Spi army, to hig numerous friends. The young captain, who is temporari y in Now York on business connected with the Spanish government, is a passionate amateur of the dark art, and if one may judge trom the wonderful tricks which he performed before a fashionable au- dlence, Le 1s a rival of the great Hermann or the Com- manaear Cazencave. The costly and elegant apparatus which he uses tor the performance of his tricks, aad the fact that the gentlemanly performer went to all this expanse and troable meroly to please bis friends, added much to the enjoyment ot those who wére fore tunate cnough to secure invitations tothe soirée. * NALIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENORS, The annual meeting of tho National Academy of Sciences was begun yesterday in the Chapel of Cotum- bia College, This society was founded in 1863 and is chartered by Congress. it numbers eighty members, ail of whom aro wen who have made a lasting Jamo in the various branches of science. The members pres- ent yesterday were Professor Heury, of the Smithso- nian Insutute, President of the Academy; General | Henry L. Abbots, United States Army ; Professor Alox+ ander Agassiz, Professor Stephen Alexander, of Prince- ton; President B. A. P. Barnard, of Columbia; General J.G@, Barnard, United States Engineer ; O, F, Chandler, of the Columbia College School of Mines; Theodore Gil, of Washington; Julius E, Ailgard, of the Coast Survey; George W. Hill, of Nyack, mathematician; Samuel P, Langley, of Vittsvurg, astronomer; Pro- fessor James Hall, State geologist; Professor Lumis, of New Haven, astronomer; Professor 0, U, Marsh, of New Haven, who will bo remembered by tho Indian Commissioners; Alfred M. Mayer, of the Stevens In- stuuwo; Dr. J. 8. Luberry, of Now York; Raphael Pampelly and Ogden N. Rood, of New York; J. Law- rence Smith, of Louisville; Wilham P, Trowbridge, of New York; Protessor Henry Draper, of Now York; Professor Nowion, of Now Haven. Other members are expected to-day and to-morrow, The meetings vegin at eleven o'clock A. M, and are open to the public, ladies, a# well aa gentlemen, Six papers were read | yesterday--one by Professor Stephen Aloxander on | tae law of extreme distances im the solar system, Io which he aliuded to Mars’ pew moon in a scientifically 3 way, [f un asteroid, he said, with of velocity just equal to the pres- ent satelite came that way he did pot soe any reason why tual asteroid might not bave been ap- propriaied. Sv he concluded, and right in the face of Protessor Hall, that Mars’ new moon is only an aste- roid, Protessur Gill followed, and read a paper on the morphology of the antiers’ of cervidaa Protessor Rood two papers, ove on the construction for the study of the contrast of colors, during the ig of which an aJjnstavle chromatic circle waa sh with the colors arranged upon its ciroumierence aud the mode Ol ascertaining the eflects of contrusts was ex- planed io detail, It was alvo stated that the results obtained by. using this circle corresponded to those woteh had gained by the experience of painters, Professor Kood’s second Paper was ou the photometric comparisons of light and different coors, by a series of experiments in colored disks, their luminosity being compared with that ot vlack and white disks. The problem was solved by combining these dieks with others pa.nted jn complementary Professor Mayer read & Paper on the new an ple method of determining the number of vibratior 1 sonorous boales, and Gen- eral Heury L, Abbott read one on the velocity of trans- missions of shocks caused by the explosion of gan- powder and nitro glycerine compounds through the earthy crust Tho meeting adjourned until this mora- ing without having been tho scone of any such distarb- ance as broke up that scientific investigation of the, society upon the Stanisiaas,