The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERAL “BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published seer day in the year Sundays excluded), ‘Ten dollars per Free conts per Cory ve dollar per mouth ior any pari iene ‘or five dollars tor six mouths, Sunday adition inc! WEERL wee. ; 2E TO SUBSCRIBERS.—In ortor to insure atten Cece ters wishing thelr address changed must givo Abeir old « 1 ryt wend packaves sould be properly aos st dj eommunications will not be retarued. — PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HBRALD— NO, 46 FLELT STREET. os VENUE DE LIOPERA 7 STRATA PACE, ‘ertinements will be received and rms usin New York. AND OPBRA HOLS! BOWERY THEATRE. MBLO’S GARDEN—Mass. PARK THEATRI-C: TMEATRE COMIQUE INION SQUARE TH KEW YORK AQUAR BAGLE THEATRE FERMANIA THEATRE. Pigust. MHEATRE FRANCAIS—N BILMORE'S DOLUMBLA OFERA NOU. 1G STAR. Dominos, JAN FRANCISCO MI IGYPTIAN HALL. PUBTRY AND M&CHANICS. SHEET. Important Novick to Apvertisers.—Zo insure the proper classification of advertisements Mt is absolutely necessary that they be handed in before eight o'clock every evening. From our‘reports (his morning the probabilities tre (hut the weather in New York and its vicinity lo-day will be cooler and partly cloudy or clear, Watt Street Yesrerpay.—-The stock mar- ket was without any specially interesting feature except a strong close at three P. M. Gold was somewhat weaker at 1025g. Government bonds were steady and States neglected, while ruil- touds were stronger. Money on call was casy atGa7a5 per cent. Presipesr Haves bas issued his first na- tional Thanksgiving proclamation. A Day Has ar Lasr been fixed for the trial of the silk smugglers—next Thursday. The Caxan Sratistics this month show a large increase in business over this time last year. Tur Sea Cure Camp Ground Association have unfortunately passed into the hands of an earthly receiver. Havaya Has Been Trnown into something like a panic by the discovery in that city of au agent of the Cuban insurgents. nator Morton ing, and his friends are seri- ive in regard to his condition. ously apprehe: Cier Orvic Idaho, in an interview elsewh of the steamer e printed, bears strony testimony to the accura shore of the Henan’ 's weather pi Tne Cigar Maxuracturers having professed a willingness to listen to the complaints of the employés the true policy for both parties is to submit the whole question to a board of arbitra- tors. SCANDINAVIA AND SWITZERLAND have be- come the principal Mormon recruiting grounds, the exposu the infamy of the Salt Lake Saints not having yet extended to those coun- tries. Jupce Donouve has ve the application for a struck jury in the Connolly trial. Mr. Orton and Mr. 8. D. Babcock have been appointed, as disinterested p es, to per- form that duty. properly granted Morton, of the Philadelphia street railway, and his coconspirators were placed on trial yesterday. They did not know whether they were guilty or not, and the Judge considerately eve them twenty-four hours in which to make up their minds, B SWINDLED Devosrrors of the broken Danks all overthe country will be oar favor of the passage of the bill jusp din the House by Mr. Tipton, of lilinois, providing for savings depositories in connection with the Post Office Department. Ti Lanrapor Inptans iw seizing and carry- ing into the woods a Canadian magistrate who made some unjust decisions against them have bet an excellent example to their brethren out West. If our Indian agents were treated in this way it would possibly stop the thievery on the Plains. Ex-Sexavox Hannis flatly contradicts the tes‘imony that be was guilty of corruption while Commissioner of the Capitol Building at Al- buny. Bridgetord, the Superintendent, on the other hand, swears that he was; so thut one or the other mnst be guil like perju The investigation rluy threat. ened several times to end in « ght. pat A States artil- lery is marching home to ton from Wilkesbarre by a voad over which a military organization has not travelled for a hundred years, One would suppose that the hallowed aud patriotic associations of the 1 vas bigh- way would arouse all the enthusiasm in their patie, but, strange to say, they do not, and they are denouncing the economy which denies them a palace car. Tun Wearn The storm urea which was In the Jake district on Sunday night has moved to the mouth of the St. Lawrene Very heavy weather was experienced on the lakes during yesterday's storm, and it is feared many | shipping disasters have ovcurred. behind the storm rises rapidly, indiea the energy of the disturbance will be main- tained into the Atlantic. ‘Che barometer is high- | estin the northwestern district, but is also tively high on the Atlantic coast, though falli toward the Gulf. The pressure ny that is Rain has been general within the © influenced by the storm, and has also fallen in the Southern States, The temperature is high on the Atlantic coust and Jow in the western districts, where cold, northwesterly winds prevail. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cooler | and partly cloudy or fair, ; tenden, Speaker Randall’s Committees, The Speaker of the House of Representa- tives is chosen by the majority of the House ; he represents in fact the majority of that majority, and upon him thereupon falls the task of selecting the committees who are to prepare business for the House. At all times the committees to whom the business coming before a legislative body is thus re- ferred are of great importance, because upon their report often depends the favor of the whole body and the fortune of a measure ; but under the evil practice which has grown up in the national House of Representatives it may easily happen that he who selects the committees controls the whole legisla- tion of the House, ‘The prectice we speak of is not only to refer measures to the proper committees, but to allow each committee to control and monopolize the debate in open House on its reports, and thus to practi- cally exclude in the majority of cases from the discussion all other members, no matter how well fitted they are by study or information to shed light on the subject. ‘This was not always the custom of the House. If any one will look into the Congressional reports of u quarter of a century ago he will dis- cover that the committees then played a minor part in the work of legislation; measures were prepared and reported by them; but when they came thus before the House they were, if of sufficient interest and importance, referred to the committee of the whole House and there became the subject of general debate, in which any members who chose took part, and which was not cut short after a few hours as has been the practice since, by moving tho “previous question.” In those days fewer laws were enacted and much more time was spent in debate than has been the case in more recent years. Buta legislative body is never so usefully employed as when it is discussing measures; a great and able debate, which must necessarily be of con- siderable duration, informs the country, attracts its attention and enables it to exer- cise a reflex influence on Congress which is always wholesome. ‘lhe ‘previous ques- tion,” as it has long been used in the House, is only a gag law, useful mainly to advance jobs and legislation which would not bear discussion, h Parties are so nearly balanced in the present House that there is likely to be an uncommon tendency to debate, and we havo examined Mr, Randall's committees with some curiosity, not only to see in what di- rection they seem to favor legislation, but also, if possible, to see if he has framed them with any desire that they shall encourage rather than cut off debate on their reports. It seems to us that while the important committees have a sufliciently positive character to show what the Speaker means by them and what are his ideas of the re- quirements of the country, he has still, wisely, as we think, so framed many of them, at least, that ifthe abler members of both parties desire it they can easily bring back into the House the old and good cus- tom of thorough discussion in committee of the whole, The Committee of Ways and Means is considered the most important in the House. In making Mr. Fernando Wood its chair- man the Speaker has in the first place given this important position to a New Yorker. It is, so far as we remember, the first time a representative of the commercial metropolis has held this position; and yet this committee regu- lates the foreign commerce of the country. Mr. Randall has chosen well. Mr. Wood hus served long and ably in Congress ; he understands the needs of our commerce; he is industrious and faithful ; and though in his long political career he has made some strong enmities we are certain that his sclec- tion will approve itself to both parties i the House and to all who know his ability and who have watched his Congressional career. ‘he committee has several new members; we are glad to see Mr. Randall Gibson's name for one, It is easy to see that the preponderance of sentiment in tho committee strongly favors a revision of the tariff and a simplification of duties ; in fact, it favors, as it ought, a revival of our for- eign commerce. Most of the members, re- publicans as well as democrats, on it are strong men, and the majority are clearly in favor of the much needed revision and sim- plification of the duties. The Banking and Currency Committce has uless decided look, Mr. Randall ap- pears to us to have given all currency opin- ions a pretty fair representation, with the hope, perhaps, that this question shall in the end besettled, not by the report of the committee, but by thorough discussion in the House. If we are correct in this view he has done well. Mr. Buckner, the new | chairman, is, we believe, a man of Western views, but in moderation ; he favors, unless we mistake him, legal tenders as against national bank notes ; but he is not an ex- tremist, and notan inflationist. Mx, Ewing, of Ohio, as the representative of the ex- treme inflationists, has of right a place on the committee. On the other hand, we notice a sufficient number of hard inoney men, chief among them, perhaps, Mr. Chit- We suspect there will be some lively discussions in this committee, ‘The Appropriations Committee is, it seems to us, one of the most positive of all. The Speaker said, on taking the chair, that “extravagance in public expenditures at this time is a crime,” and unless we are greatly mistaken he has taken good care that the Appropriations Committee, which revises the estimates and to a large extent controls the expenditures of the govern- ment, shall be made up of men determined on economy. ‘Che chairman, Mr. Atkins, , is known to favor rigid econ- omy; Mr, Hewitt will bring his inquisitive disposition to bear in the same direction, and we suspect Mr. Durham, who comes newly to the committee, has an ambition to rival Mr. Holman’s fame in the last Con- gress as “tho great objector” to jobs of all kinds, On the Judiciary Committee the Speaker has evidently tried to place as many as he could of tiie most eminent lawyers inthe House, ‘Lhe Committee on Military Affairs, of which Mr. Banning is again chairman, means, we suspect, that the army shall not be inereased beyond the actual necessities of the frontier and Indian service, We are glad to see Mr. Swann once more at the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee; this assures a friendly anderstanding with the State Department, and no extreme or dis- turbing reports on our foreign relations. Mr. Schleicher, of Texas, will be an ac- quisition to this committee. We are glad to see, too, that the Speaker has put a number of strong men on the Committee on the District of Columbia, which will have some important work. Mr. Williams, of Michigan, its chairman, has long been familiar with the management of Detroit, which is one of the best governed cities in the country. if the Speaker has shown himself any- where politic it is in forming the committee on Pacific railroads. ‘To make Mr. Clarkson Potter its chairman was an admirable thought; he is the country’s sufficient se- curity aguinst jobbery of any kind, and that is a good deal. But, unless we err, the democrats on the committee, excind- ing the chairman, are balanced, while of the republican members a majority are for the subsidy. However that may be tho subsidy, it is believed, has no hope of pass- ing the House ; a pretty close count fails to show more than about eighty-five members in favor of it, The Committee on Indian Af- fairs, whose chairman is Mr. Scales, of North Carolina, shows that the Speaker still favors the transfer of the Indian to the War Department, of which we are glad. Yor the rest this committee has, we hope, the proper material to help the present Secretary of the Interior reform the Indian service. We cannot say that the last committee distin- guished itself, The Naval Committee, of which Mr. Whitthorne, of ‘Tennessee, is again chair- man, loses some members which it could well do without, Its chairman can be de- pended on for a thorough investigation of the deficiencies in the Navy Depart- ment, about which the country would like to know something. The Committee on War Claims Mr. Randall has evidently made upas an adjunct to the Appropria- tions Committee and in the same spirit. It looks honest and inclined to scrutinize very closely any claims brought before it, We notice that Mr. E. W. Robertson is made chairman of the Committee on Mississippi Levees ; it is a good selection and gives us reason to hope from this committee for a thoroughly considered plan for a compre- hensive and enduring levee system, with a rejection of mere tinkering and jobbing, wasteiul of the public money and of only teraporary advantage to the river States, On the whole we think Mr. Randall has done well. His committees mean economy and sound legislation, with needed reform of bad laws. He seems to us to have dealt very fairly with the republicans, and while some capable men of both parties are un- placed, or rather not placed to the best advantage, the traditions of the House which give preference to old over new mem- bers have probably stood in the Speaker's way. The committees fairly represent the best spirit of the House and give a promise of useful legislation. What Is a Cumedy? In onother column will be found a start. ling piece of merriment from Mr. Dion Boucicault. He returns to his meal on the critics. He cranched them well in the North American Review, aud now he stirs them up to see if there is any life left in the lot or to find a bone here and there not thoroughly picked on which he may again’ polish his terrible teeth. He calls this *\good humor” in the ghastly spirit of the heroes in all the Irish dramas, tragedies, comedies or farces, when, for “a little pastime” or “to keep their blood in circulation,” they fracture the skulls of eight or ten men of less imag- inative nationalities. He proposes to prove the incompetency, incapucity, ignorance, conceit, impertinence and duplicity of all the so-called dramatic critics by daring them to define the word “comedy.” They draw salaries on the assump- tion that they possess the precious j and recondite sort of knowledge that one must have to do this, yet he declares they do not possess it and are consequently cheats. hey cannot ‘tell what a comedy is,” nor ‘describe its component parts.” Now all the world, except the dramatic critics, knows that the “component parts” of a comedy are one French play and a large pir of scissors. ‘hese are the ele- ments, as it were, the combination and correlation of which have produced all the comedies of modern times and made the fortunes of several original writers. If the dramatic critics are, as Mr. Boucicault alleges, ignorant on a point of such familiar knowledge, they deserve the splendid scorn and severity of his ‘good humor.” We give them upto him. In fact, we give up tohim everybody that does not know as much as he does and that does not fully accept without mental reservation all the opinions he has hitherto declared or may be pleased to declare hereafter, But there is one point omitted in the challenge to the critics—a point which we respectfully and diffidently submit is worthy attention: Who is to be the judge? ‘Ihe critics are defied to define a word or to give an account of a kind of a play, but it is not said who is to determine whether they have defined the word accurately or shown that they compre- hend the nature, quality and form of comedy. knows all about this exeept Mr. Boucicault, and naturally he should be the judge, but as he is the prosecutor his familiarity with the law will enable him to see the impro- pricty of such a dicephalous relationship to this important case. It would be well also before the case comes on to have it under- stood whether the conception of comedy is to be taken trom any particular period in the history of the stage and at what period in the great range from Aristophanes to Boucicault. The Portuguese Geographers Stanley. We give elsewhere the manly, earnest and graceful epistle of the Geographical Society of Lisbon to Henry M, Stanley, expressing its congratulations on his success and its admiration of his achievement. Documents of this nature are apt to be strained, arti- ficial and hollow in tone and spirit. From the nature of the case this is almost inevit- There is nobody, of course, who, j able, for a learned body voting that an ad- dress shall be sent may do this with sin- cerity and enthusiasm, but all that follows is mere formality and the drudgery of some factotum. Because it is so different in this respect the epistle before us seems one of the happiest efforts of this kind we have seen. It proudly re- calls the fact that the little kingdom so comparatively unseen in the great activities of our time was one of the earliest in the field in those great labors of discovery to which the world is indebted for allits prog- ress; and the reader of this reference can- not but remember the wonderful results that flowed trom the great discovery of Vasco de Gama and those only less wonderful of several others of his countrymen. For the geographers of that nation to send “their most enthusiastic greeting” is o tribute of no mean value, The Tammany Ratification Meeting. Tammany Hall last evening was filled, crowded, jammed, and the space in Four- teenth street, between Third and Fourth avenues, though neither jammed nor crowded, nor even filled, contained a great multitude of people, probably outnumber- ing those who came early enough to gain admission tothe hall, ‘he outside crowd was addressed by several speakers, who got such attention as they could from a mass of people who hung around to look rather than to listen, Music.and rockets and a brill- inant illumination of the street, with the occasional arrival of democratic organiza- tions in uniform, made an attractive dis- play, and the meeting, both in the hall and the street, was a decided success. But such meetings prove nothing. Tammany was equally successful in this kind of display two years ago, when it got so badly beaten in the election. ‘Vhe faithful democracy of the city has a great proclivity to noisy demonstrations, and there are always multitudes of indifferent people who are willing to pass an idle evening in wit- nessing this kind of entertainment. ‘They goas thoy do tolook at fireworks on the Fourth of July, or as they line the strects for miles to see a passing procession. The election is to be won by quiet, diligent, hard work, such as Mr. Morrissey is doing, and asthe Tammany politicians will also devote themselves to for the ensuing week, ‘The tone of feeling on Saturday or Monday next will be a better criterion of the strength of parties in the city than in the frothy en- thusiasm of great meetings, The principal speech of the evening was made by Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer. It was clear, able, dignified, and not too long. We are sorry that we cannot say that we think it entirely candid. A gentleman of Mr. Dorsheimer's opportunities should have learned by this time that a speaker gains nothing in real weight, even in his own party, by statements broader than. the facts or by any kind of exaggeration. How, for example, can Mr. Dorsheimer justity himself for having made such a statement as this respecting the disfranchising consti- tutional amendment ?—‘‘There is nothing in the amendment preventing the Legislature from investing the Board of Finance with complete power over all the affairs of the city.” ‘his statement is not true, and a public man does not strengthen himself by such violations of candor. The amendment, in truth, carefully takes away from the Legislature all authority to in- crease the powers which it proposes to con- fer upon the Board of Finance by this ex- plicit prohibition:—‘‘No power shall be con- ferred by the Legislature on the Board of Finance except the powers conferred by this constitution or such as may be neces- sary to carry them into effect.” ‘The amend- ment is so certain to be rejected that there is no need of misrepreseuting it to secure its defeat, and nothing so tends to undermine confidence in our public men as the bad practice, which a man of Mr. Dorsheimer’s talents should disdain to follow, of distort- ing the truth for party effect. The Charch Congress. A congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the fourth of its kind in the United States, will assemble here this morning for religious services in Trinity Chapel and this evening in Chickering Hall for business, Bishop Potter, of this diocese, will preside, and several other bishops of the Church and other clergymen and prominent laymen will read valuable papers or take part in the dis- cussions, These gatherings of churchmen within the Church to discuss questions re- | lating to the life and doctrines of the Church were strongly opposed at first, be- cause it was feared that the members com- posing the Congress would take too radical views of such matters, and perbaps bring into this conservative ecclesiastical body dis- cordant elements. But atter three years’ trial it has been seen that nothing but good has come from them, and now they may be con- sidered permanent institutions in the Church, though in no sense a legal part of the Church machinery. Important papers will be. read or addresses delivered by Bishops Littlejohn, Whipple, Lay, Clark and other prelates, and by Drs. Ewer, H. M. Thompson, Courtenay, Schenck, H. C, Pot- ter and other ministers, Our Indian pol- icy, the relation of the press to Chris- tianity and of popular amusements to Chris- tianity, the administration of charity and such subjects as bear practically upon the religious and social life of the people of this land will be discussed, We are sure that the present Congress will not bo inferior in any respect to its predecessors, and that not only the Church, but the community, will be greatly benefited by a free interchange of thought on such vital subjects. Mr. Vanderbilt and the Stock Market, In the letter which we publish Mr. Van- derbilt makes an explicit and emphatic de- nial of the stories which have been circu- lated on the street, and have found their way from the street into the newspapers, connecting his name with stock operations. He has never been in consultation with any party or parties, at his own house or else- where, relating to stock movements; he has never, since he came into his present official position, bought or sold stocks for the purpose of influencing the market; he has employed no broker or other person to make such purchases or sales for him; in short, he has not NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. j dealt at all in the stocks of the roads in which he is interested except to purchase them as investments. He regards himself as holding a position of trust in re- lation to those roads and would think it a violation of his trust to speculate in their stocks. He gives all his time to his official duties and justly resents the mischievous gossip set afloat by persons who are not friendly to the interests which it is his duty to protect. It is to be hoped that Mr. Van- derbilt’s comprehensive denial will put an end, if not to the invention, at ‘least to the circulation of such truthless and malicious stories, ; General Grant and French Inter- viewers. General Grant has opened his doors to the interviewers of the Paris press; and an account of the success that twoof them have had in drawing him out will be found in our cable despatches. It will be seen that the General had too nice a perception of the proprieties of his position as a visitor to -express any opinion on French politics. Our anticipation that he would be reticent on that topic is thus verified. Indeed, since to express such an opinion would be so evidently to supply material for party uses, and therefore to abuse a generous hospi- tality, we are astonished that the writers for the Paris press should be found so impolite as to put questions that they know the gentleman whom they visit could not with propricty answer. In this country the interview is used as a means of giving distinguished visitors an opportunity of putting before the public whatever they may desire to say ; but there is a scrupulousness, a delicacy and a dip- lomatic tact in the consideration for the stranger that the Parisians would do well tostudy. Evidently the General was in a happily sportive mood when he assured the Higaro man that MacMabon and himself were ‘not made to understand one another,” because one could not ‘‘parleyvoo” nor the other expand in the desperate difficulties of our sibilant speech. Next Saturday's Great Race. It is not much to expect that between fifty and one hundred thousand people will witness the great race between ‘I'en Broeck and Parole at Jerome Park next Saturday. The American Jockey Club has entered’ into the spirit of this contest with something more than its usual vim and liberality. ‘The great Western horse, Ten Broeck, who sustained a defeat at the heels of the Eastern’ horse, Parole, will seck to recover his great prestige. A remarkable animal in every way, Ten Broeck is brought East with the air of one bound to win. We shall see. His previous performances are a warrant for much of this feeling, but he was beaten once and he may be beaten again. It has been freely stated that in his Baltimore race with Parole and Ochiltree he was out of sorts, and we hear certain defiant notes from the West which seem to say that now he is once more in condition he will beat anything that corsa before him. We do not wish to be understood as the champions of any section of the United States, and shall, doubtless, be satisfied with the result, whichever side wins, for such an exhibition of running horseflesh is not likely te come our way often. But, despite the achievements of Ten Broeck, his magnificent form and sweeping stride, we confess to.a hankering desire to see Parole somewhere prominent, when of that hot two miles and a half there remains a furlong to be run. Besides the great match there will be two other free to all purse races and 2 steeplechase. The other West- ern cracks, Vera Cruz and King Faro, will contest the running races, Lieutenant Jerome. Inour correspondence from the cainp of the Indian Commission will be found a racy letter on a subject with reference to which no one has hitherto had much reason to be gay. But in this pleasant bit of correspond- ence the last battle with the Nez Pereés is “fought over again” in the lighter mood of the historic muse, and some incidents and phases of the fight are given which make up a picture filled with the finer spirit of war rather than with its horror and misery, of which we have lately had a surfeit. Once onatime our literature dealt very largely with Indian fights as a staple element of the romantic; but the generation that has seen a great war seldom regards any war from the romantic standpoint, and least of all can the American people of the present time regard these horrible, murderous, blundering struggles with savages as in any way related to those displays of the knightly spirit that make ambition virtue. In the chronicle of the adventures and observations of Lieuten- ant Jerome the reader will get a glimpse of Indian war in that phase in which it touched the fancy of Cooper. Lieutenant Jerome, a New Yorker and the son of a well zen, comes in very handsomely, as the chronicle runs, for a fair share of the glory of the combat, which his comrades in arms will not begrudge him, while his happy account of what he saw in Joseph’s camp, and how it seemed to be held asa hostage for Joseph’s safe returp, will charm all readers. Congress Yesterday. Inthe House of Representatives yester- day a perfect Niagara of bills and resolu- tions broke over the Speaker's desk and tumbled into the caverns of the committce rooms, where, fortunately, they will be lost and buried forever. There were eight hun- dred and fifty in all, which is perhaps the largest number ever introduced in a single day. Almost every imaginable subject in the heavens above and on the earth beneath was covered by them, Many are old and familiar friends, having made their ap- pearance at the beginning of every session for a dozen years and then passed into the tomb until the resur- rection day of o new Congress. ‘he roully important measures may be counted on the fingers of one hand. Among them were those relating to the repeal of the Re- sumption act; of the Tenure of Office law; a bill providing for the establishment of postal savings banks, which ought to be passed as soon as possible; bills amending the Bank- rupt act, and a resolution in regard to our trade with some of the South American countries, At last the end came, and then Mr. Randall announced the list of standing committees, which are elsewhere printed. The Senate was only thirty minutes in opaz session, but in thattime managed to give the government printing office a pretty faiz day’s work. ‘he real business of the session may-now be said to have begun. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘The Slav jg a natural adventurer, Bustles are going to be worn again. Heller 1s exposing Spiritualism in Boston, Shellbark overcoats will soon be in fashion, Many lumber vessels are arriving at Chicago, Congressman Foster, of Obto, has black eyes, Victor Hugo cannot write without biue paper, Alexander HB. Stephens wears patent leathers, Tho Czar Nicholas put bis faith in German generals, Postmaster General Key looks at you with half-shut eyes. Oliver Wendell Holmes is writing a memento oj Motley, Russian officers aro charged with being naturally corrupt Colonel T. W. Higginson wiil not go to Europe until next spring, Governor McCreary, of Kentucky, is at the Arkansas Hot Springs. Prosident Eliot, of Harvard College, will be married to Miss Hopkinson to-day. M. D. Conway accuses Genoral Grant with showing bad tuste in his Stratford speoch, M. Bertrand knows the character of a night cabman of Paris by the sound of bis whip, Aspeaker says thore 1s no puro whiskey, baven’t we any Bourbon among us? An English journal says that torgod bank notes are as common as genuine ones in Russia. ‘The Graphic says that a dry moon takes two horns after it is full, O you limb—of the moon! General Banks und Dr, Loring, of Massachusetts, aro the haudsomest men in the House. ' Congressman Wright, of Pennsylvania, ts the hand somest Representative from tho Middie States, Geueral lguatiell is said to be a man who not infre quently discounts the truth at the rato of 100 pe cent. General Kotzebuo said at the beginning of the war that Russia would need to put 600,000 men into the field. The Kussian peasant {s no longer the slave of a noble but of lus commune, and there is no intellectual movement with him, * Belinda’? writes tothe Boston Globe that young ladies who go shopping should not permit clerks to try shoes on for them. It scems that the alloged joke in this column about off years'tor presidents of banks must have been struck by otber papers about the same time it struck here. Well, forgivo us, for once. Evening Jelegram :—*Tho baseball bat in the hands of lovely woman, and her name it is Louisa A, Bowen, bas knocked a burglar into the left eld of etermty. Miss Bowen 18 a ‘blue stocking.’ * Beautitul young ladies are walking under the stripped trees, where the ground is all crimson and golden with autumn sadness, and are wondering whether Eve over turned over a new leat, We learn trom the wrotch of the New Orleans Pica yune that baseballs will next year be pitched from @ smail canpoo and that the catchers will be iron-vlad, Some of those catchers may get a fly blister, Somevody says that every lailure is a step to suce cess. From which we fancy that the ‘funny’ cole umn of the Chicago Zines will some day contain @ joke that is not more than two months old. The English papers are criticising the headlines o1 American newspapers. No doubt that ono of those days the Chicago Times will put over the account of hanging a mau the twisted announcement, “Stranded,” Here is one of Miss Corson’s bilig of fare for siz poor people tor one day :— Breaklast, broth and bread ten ceuts; dinner, baked beans, ten cents; supper’ macaropi, with chcese, twelve cents, ‘Total, thirty. two cents, > A London judgo has decided that a servant who in- sisted on having her “Sunday out” when there was sickness in the house was not entitled to pay for the part of the month up tothe time of the “out,” whem sho was discharged, i “Mart.?’--Providence has about one hundred thou- sand inhabitants. Even if it falls slightly sbort of that you would be morally correct in calling ita ‘*huns dred thousand city,” If you mean this as a docision in betting you may be wrong. We are not anxious to decide bets. A NEW ART ASSOCIATION. It has been for some time expected tnat the younger American ‘painters would form a society of their own and hold an extra exhibition in New York during tho “season.”” Such a society has now bees formed uuder the name of “The American Art Asso ciation,” and with the following oflicers:—President, Waiter Shirlaw; Vice Presideut, Augustus St. Gaudeng, Sceretary, Wyatt Eaton; Treasurer, Louis C. Tiffany; It will bo seen by this list of names that the new society starts on a broad foundation, and is not the outgrowth of any cliquo or school. At a meeting of the association, held last eveutng, it was distinctly plated that the movement is not in opposition to, though independent of, the National Academy. Some of tho leading mombors of the association are academt. cans and associate academicaus, and provably all of the mombers of the wssociation expect to be acadomicians one of these days. 1t 18, howover, believed that there is plenty of work for a new association, and that it is in the ipterests of artin general and of artists in general tbat there should be more than one important exhi- bition of American paintings during the winter. We understand that the movement has already obtained a strong foothold both tm this country and in Eu. rope, and that the prospects are good for a very i toresting display of Americana puinting aad sculptui at the first exhibition of the association, und place for this exbibition hi nounced, but it will probably be beld betore t! Acadomy exhibition and at one of the best and most central galleries in tho city. SALE OF AUTOGRAPHS, “What's in a name?” sang the immortal bard, a question which, if we answor, looking upon it as a matter of dollars and cents, and judging by the gale of names at Bangs’ yesterday, we should say that there wis “millions in it.” The collection of auto. graphs sold was that of Professor Charles E, Anthon, one of the best known colicctors, and the following aro some of the prices fotched. Theatrical performers were the first on the list: —sdwin Booth’s signature, $2.50; a letter written by Agnes Ethol roe lating to her divorce, 10 cents; William E, Bur~ ton, autograph letter signed, $0 cents; Marie Seebach, 60 cents. Then came the musical composers—Auber, 20 cents; Rossini, $1 40, Sphor, 10 centa; Meyerbecr, 80 conts, Royalty did botter; Charies IL. of England, warrant to the keeper of Woodstock Park for the de+ livery of *oue [gt doe,” $7 40; Quoen Anne, count signed by the Earl of Oxiord, $5; Georgo IL, $2 document signed by George 11, King’s warrant to pay Sir Petor Warren and Bolan £185,619 25, for the Province of Massactu: Bay, $11 60; Kathe. rine de Medici, $150; Louty XIV., $4. Among miscellaneous autographs, a letter written by Benedict Arnold tiiteen days betore the cap. turo of Andre, $22 50; iismarck, $4; Jerome Bona. parte (King of Westpualia), relating to the funeral of his siter laulino, $6; Joseph Bovaparte, $2 25; the Empress Josephine. a fine letter, $10; another same price, while # scrap of Napoleon’s handwriting only brougbt $3; some documonts signed by Napoleon brought $10; Aaron Burr, $2; Davy Crocket, $3 50% Jeflorson Davis, $2; Dumas pere, $1 30; Dumas fille, $1; Robespierre, $4; aleticr from Benjamin Frank: lin to Jefferson relating to peace, $11 50; Francis Lightfoot Lee, $12 60; John Adams, §10 50; Zacuury Taylor, $9; Abrabam Lincoln, $8; Grant, $1 40; Paul Jones, $13'50, The sale will be continued to-day. & BRIC-A-BRAC, Mr. Frederic Vors last evoning at Chickering Hall delivered an interesting lecture on bric-’-brac, The proceeds of the entertainment were for the benefit of the Metropolitan Throut Hospital, The lecturer, who, although ho speaks the very best English, was brought up and educated in Paris, asserted his nationality by beginuing his lecture by a quotation in French trom a speech of Adolphe Thiers, “Le luze est un indice de la civilisation’ —~laxury indicates civilization—and said that nowhere could theso words find a moro forcible Application than in America, where civilization, espes cluily in art matters, bad advanced very rapidly. Alter somo allusions to the Cesnoia collection, the Art Mu- scum, the andirons of our grandfathers, and the tea cups of our grandmothers, tho lecturer gave the etymolozy of bric-a-brac, It originated, according te his statement, as a cuphonic counterpart to tho old Freuch expression de bric et de broc, moaning from hither and thither, from right and from lett, The Jecture, Which was delivered in an easy conversational Tanver, Was most profusely illustrated, and treated principally of articles of yirtn made im metal aud ducoruted with enamel,