The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1877, Page 6

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Money on call was easy at 5 a 6 a7 per cent, the last being the closing quotation. Tuk Government four per cent bonds have Gone up in the London market. Tue Missing Steamer Boutvia has been heard from, and will probably arrive this week. Minnesota Regoices in the possession of a NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESD Hayes’ Title-A Mischiev- ous Agitation. The Electoral Commission and its work have passed into history, and the Sun ren- ders a service of some historical value by publishing a private letter of one of its members written at the time. Whatever may be thought of the conduct of the re- ceiver of the letter in sending it to a news- paper withont the consent of the writer, Judge Strong has no reason to blush at its publication, ‘The language of the letter jus- tifies the interpretation put upon it by the Sun, that Judge Strong had no faith in the honesty of the Louisiana Returning Board when he voted to give that State to Hayes ; but we are far enough from indorsing the conclusion of our contemporary that “this fresh and startling evidence imposes a new and solemn duty upon Congress. ‘The House of Representatives should raise a committee to inquire into the legality of the election of Rutherford B. Hayes, This com- mittee should have the customary power to send for persons and papers. With the statement of Judge Strong added to the other accessible evidence it would be settled be- yond cavil in an official proceeding that Mr. Hayes is not and never has been President by right.” That readers may have the whole case before them we insert Judge Strong's letter:— President Waguryatox, Feb, 26, 1877, ‘The Hon. Grorcs W. Joxus:— My Dear Sin—I was a democrat when you and I were together 1» Congress. [ama democrat now. I bold to all the opinions the State rights democrats Dave always hold and which the acknowiedxed ieaders of the party haveavowed up to tue present winter— never more cleurly shan in 1873 to 1875, T do not believe that Congress bas any constitu. tonal right to inquire into State elections for State electors. Congress has of late years interfored quite too much with the States, The Electoral Commission has no more power than Congress has, and I think it would be a most dangerous usurpation were 1b to do what the States aloue havo a rigbt to do, even to cure what 1 fear was a great wrong of the Louisiana Returning Board, T cannot doubt that such will be your opinion when you reflect to what the assertion of such a power Would lead. It would place the right of tho States re- ting the choice of electors at tho mercy of the erul government, and be the greatest stride ever made toward centralization. Better suffer a present evil than open such a door; betier than abanuon all tbe time-honored principles f the a cratic party. sm yours, very respect- fauly, Rie Lin Jourey. STRONG. It is preposterous to contend that this letter furnishes a decent pretext, much less & justification, for reopening the question of President Hayes’ title, If Judge Strong was correct in holding that Congress had no authority to go behind the returns and investigate the election Mr. Hayes’ title is unassailable on any legal ground. We have noticed that Mr. Tilden and his noisy champions are prudently shy of discussing this point, although it is the very hinge ot the controversy. If Judge Strong is right on this point there was no flaw in the action of the Electoral Commission. Why, then, do not the declaimers who spout so much frothy denunciation attempt to refute the principle on which the decision of last Feb- ruary rested? If that principle be the true theory of the constitution the Electoral Commission could not have decided other- wise than it did. Its action admits of a complete defence unless the principle by which its majority was guided can be over- large and first class tox-hunting club, composed mainly of English settlers. Tue Transactions in real estate yesterday Were unusually heavy, aud the prices obtained were above the averago for some time past. Tue Presiventr and several members of the Cabinet were warmly received in Richmond, Va., yesterday. They return to-morrow night. So Many Punsons are arrested from mali- cious motives that the determination of Judge McAdam to insist in all cases on an immediate trial will be generally approved. Tue Maxine Court holds that an American's house is his castle, and that if an intruder will not get out quietly the proprietor has the clear right to make him go the best way he can. Brookryn’s 1L or Revorm has brought serious charges against the Bridge Company. They are accused of violation of the charter, reckless waste of money and of obstructing nav- igation. Go.pemitn Maw has been retired by her owners, leaving the throne of queen of the turf vacant. Her time (2:14) is the fastest on record and her total winnings are upward of a quarter of a million dollars. GovgrNon Wu.tiams, of Indiana, announces that in the event of the death of Mr. Morton he will appoint Mr. Voorhees his successor. ‘The proprietics of official and private life ought to have suggested silence on this point to Mr. Will- iams. ihe Panama prudently employed the machinery of un electoral commission to settle the ques- tion of her disputed Presidency, and one of the contestants, Correoso, has just been declared elected, It is a decided improvement on the old plan of the two fighting it out. ‘Tue Masoniry in the Board of Aldermen think the fifteen thousand dollars a year paid the Commissioner of Jurors and the outra, ously extravagant compensation allowed the Covoners quite reasonable, and have yoted down f proposition looking to a reduction, They per- hups hope to be corone Ives some duy. Tne New Ri Bar was applied for th the ne Court, N gentlemen presented themselves, and having been admitted as attorn were placed on the two yeurs’ roll, where they will remain before they can become counsellors. Lhe elevation of the standard of admission will, in the end, benefit lawyer and elie luting admissions to the tirst time yesterday by ly a score of young Tux Wearuen.—During yesterday a general fall of pressure took place west of the Alleghany Mountains and in the Southern States. The de- pression which moved off the coust toward New foundland still causes fresh northwesterly winds .in the New England States, but these will change to southerly during today in ad- vance of another depression now tering Canada from the lake — region. The low pressure in the Gulf States, which has been attended by ruins, will approach the At lautic coust to-day and be followed by clearing and cooler weather. the area of high pressure in the central dis- tricts may be expected for today, as the Jow barometer in the northern districts gains progress eastward. On the Texas coast strong northerly winds will probably prevail. A re- murkable accident on the Utah Central Railroad was cuused yesterday by the force of a tornado. The cars were lifted from the track and several completely turned over, The ex- traordinary pressure necessary to du this will give the reader an idea of the tersifie violence of these local storms, In New York and its vicinity to-day the weather will be warmer and partly cloudy or fair, fol- Jowed by increasing cloudiness and possibly light rain. A decided displacement of | thrown by legitimate argument. We think it exposed to fewer constitutional and fewer practical,objections than any other theory which has been broached on this difficult subject, The question would not be diflicult if we could divest ourselves of the ideas of this age respecting popular elections, which are so different from those which prevailed at the adoption of the constitution. ‘That was not a period of universal suffrage, and the framers of the constitution had no intention that the President should be elected by a majority of the popular vote. The mode of choosing Presidential electors is not subject to review in any form by the federal govern- ment or by any branch of it. ‘They are to be appointed in each State ‘in such a manner as the Legislature thereof may © di- rect.” It is perfectly constitutional for ao Legislature to appoint them itself without any popular vote at all, and this was, in fact, done by several of the States at first, and one of them—South Carolina—had not relinquished the practice down to the time of the civil war. All the Legislatures could return to that method without violating the constitution, although it would shock and outrage our present ideas of popular rights, It is too clear for dispute that a Presidential election is not invalidated by the fact that tho electors in [any State or any number of States were not chosen by a popular majority. It suffices that they were chosen in such a manner as the Legislature for the time being directed. As to the power of Congress to inquire into and determine the choice of Presi- dential electors, it is clear that no such power is conferred by the constitution, Nobody has ever attempted to prove that it is, except by roundabout and strained in- ferences, ‘Ihere is, indeed, authority to go behind the election returns of a State in relation to certain officers, but all such cases are carefully defined. ‘Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members,” But there is no similar provision relating to Presidential electors. No authority is anywhere given to judge of their elections, returns and qualifications, and the decision of the State authorities thereon is final. Congress has authority to make or alter regulations for the election of Senators and Representatives, but no shadow of authority to prescribe or modify the mode of appoint- ing Presidential electors, this being so en- tirely a State affair that each Legislature is at liberty to prescribe a different manner or to appoint them itself without consulting the popular will. In many States the Leg- islatures are elected biennially, and a Legi: lature two years old might appoint Presi- dential electcrs, although the political com- plexion of the State had changed since its | election, without any violation of the fed. eral constitution. Its framers did not con- template a popular election of the Presi- dent. When no candidate has a majority of the electoral votes the President is chosen by a Honse of Representatives elected two years before and by a method which makes the small population of Oregon equal to the large population of New York. All the truculent declawa- tion about Mr. Tilden's popular majority is silly and irrelevant, unless it can be shown that the constitution requires a pop- ular majority to elect a President and that | Congress can go behind the State returns to ascertain the fact of such a majority. There being nothing of the kind in the constitu- tion all the angry rant about Mr. ‘Tilden’s popular majority is arrant nonsense and crazy demagogism. Congress will have too much political sense to call Mr. Hayes’ title in question, and least of allon any such flimsy pretext as Judge Strong's letter. Such an attempt could not be seriously made without plung- ing the country into the political turmoil from which it has escaped, nor persisted in without danger of civil war. The authors of such an attempt could not get their scheme under headway without exciting alarm and indignation among the business classes and earning the maledictions of all peace-loving citizens. Congress must waste no time in this kind of insane, mischievous folly. It must drop the Southern question until something new occurs in the South and devote itself to such useful legislation as will restore our currency to soundness and revive our industries by securing wider markets for their products. That Terrible English Mission—Now _for War. At last the President has made a nomina- tion for the English mission. It was high time. It had begun to dawn upon the minds of men in Washington that the ad- ministration of this government would be a comparatively easy affair if it were not for the London mission, President Hayes felt this, and every day he looked as ifhe wished that civil service had already acquired such a growth in the country that a President might be relieved from making any changes in office save such as he saw fit to make. All the members of the Cabinet sympathized with the President in all his wishes of this na- ture and appreciated the aversion with which he turned from this dish of humble pie that obstinately remained on the table, War with Mexico and millions of greasers ; war with Joseph and Sitting Bull and several other men of that dingy hue; reconstruction, civil service, the finances, and the other points before the government were so many trifles—mere bagatelles—things that could be handled as easily as the swan's down feather, But war with Simon Cameron and Pennsyl- vania if they did not appoint him, and war with every one else if they did, wero quite other dangers. These were ter- rible alternatives; the rooted sorrows of daily life in the Presidential man- sion that made existence a burden. Could nothing be done with this Simon ?— this Barguest of the seat of government, who howled through all the corridors of the Cap- itol his determination to have at last the only office he never held, and whose voice startled men like an earthquake? It ap- peared not. He dies infrequently and never resigns. Simon himself cannot be removed from a purpose by any process known to politics, and Pennsylvania will not be denied. Some of the politicians of that State are just now desperately enger to have their own way in some schomes, but this cannot be while Simon is there. Hence the warmth with which they urge that he be sent away. There was a faint possibility that if McCracken could be found anywhere he might be of some service. His ingenuity and sticoess in helping the government to get obnoxious Ministers off its hands might be, it was thought, equally effective in the case of obnoxious candidates. But alas! McCracken did not turn up. He could not be found. They went to the home of his childhood and ealled aloud, ‘‘Where is McCracken?” and an echo answered that he had not given his post office address for fear of John Jay. In the absence of McCracken or any other hope the President has fallen upon a des- perate resolve and determined to defy old Winnebago. He has nominated a man, of whom the main thing to be said is that he is not Simon Cameron. In thus delib- erately deciding to defy Simon rather than the whole country the President has again misjudged the strength of the various forces with which he has to deal. He has offended the stronger. The country cares fora moment, but it does not remember; and if the President had nominated the worst possible man it would be a nino days’ wonder and pass away. But Simon never forgets, and is constitutionally incapable of changing his mind. Already the men of the clan Cameron have started the flaming cross over the hills and dales of Pennsyl- vania, and there will be high jinks pres- ently. Mr. Hayes will find that old Win- nebago is no Slubber-Degullion, A New vaty with Mexico. The sinister construction placed upon Sefior Mata’s departure trom Washington is, happily, unwarranted by the facts of the case. Since the advent to power in Mexico of General Porfirio Diaz strenuous efforts have been made by his agents to secure for his government the recognition of the United States. But with unaccountable perversity the lieutenants of Diaz on the Texas frontier have permitted a series of outrages on United States territory by bands of thieving raiders from the border States of Mexico, Secretary Evarts would assuredly be guilty of an act of folly if he advised the President to grant to Diaz the recognition which would give his title respectability while his govern- ment was responsible for repeated viola- tions of international law and honor, It is a most reasonable inference to draw from the repetition of these cattle raids that the authority which cannot prevent them origi- nating in a Mexican State cannot be the supreme authority in the Mexican Re- public, and consequently does not de- serve to be recognized as a gov- ernment. Existing treaties having been deliberately ignored by the Mexicans we must have some guarantee of good faith for the future before recognizing the per- sons, who claim to form the governing body. These guarantees Sefior Mata, as the representative of Diaz, could not give, be- cause his powers were not plenary, and he therefore returns to Mexico. Secretary Evarts wisely insists on o new treaty, one that will défine exactly the responsibility of a Mexican government in its relation to these border raids and also secure protec- tion for the persons and property of United States citizens in Mexico, Our Washington despatches this morning contain outlines of the chief features of this proposed new treaty. AY, OCTOBER General Grant in Paris. If being much {éted brings much pleasure General Grant must’ be in a very happy frame of mind. After the stately round of London festivities which were led off by the magnificent reception at Minister Pierre- pont’s; after becoming a citizen of some twenty-five Scotch burghs; after going to Belgium and dining with kings and such ; after a return to England, which led to tho eating of dinners with some twenty-five fine old English corporations, the imperturbable ex-President took his way to Paris. He who would fight any- thing out on a certain line, if it took him all the four seasons, is not the man you can frighten with a string of dinners. He has that confidence in himselt which says I can eat my way through all the marshals and marquises from Finistére to the Alps. His Scotch. campaign no less than his Eng- lish proved what broadsides of hospitality he can safely withstand. After that he may look forward in comparative serenity to all that is to come. Ifthe menu of thesuperb banquet which Minister Noyes gave on Monday in Paris in honor of our great Union General be a sample of what General Grant is to endure, wo feel certain that there are statesmen left among us who would take his place even though Civil Service Reform had to shift for itself another year. It was surely a goodly sight to see our modest Ulysses standing side by side with the aristocratic French soldier who fought his way upward until from the command of the army he was taken to be head of the nation, as had been Grant himself. Well might the latter look calm when he reflected on the hot war which: the Marshal is waging just now. It probably recalled to his mind various experiences of his own and filled him with commiseration for an honest, obstinate old soldier, doing his best to be a satisfactory President. We hear that General Grant is not talking much at present. If, however, he should have a burst of confidence and the Marshal happened around at the time, there would be a sense of sadness over the Elysée for some days after. He was not President eight years for nothing. Where Are the: Critics? All that portion of the public interested in the solution of great dramatic problems has read, marked, learned and inwardly digested the challenge which we published yesterday from Dion Boucicault to the dramatic critics. That note of defiance has already echoed in all the beer shops, cafés, clubs, parlors, cellars and garrets, and all the dramatic critics have heard it. Yet they are silent, Nota critic inthe whole num- ber raises his voice or poises his fine Gillott. It was our confident anticipa- tion that the first breeze from the Post Office would come to us to-day laden with the clash of arms in preparation for deadly onslaught. But there is not a word. ' Instead of the mail bags coming bulged out with volumipcus attentions to the author of the only eight hundred comedies the world ever saw, they come in their usual condition, bulged out with mere nows and advortisements. Is, then, the age of literary chivalry dead as well as the age of the other kind? Can it be that the cheip defence of nations and the inexpensive plan for keeping a play before the public have passed away together? We trust not; but what else can this silence signify? Perhaps the critics have heard the voice of the ingenious Boucicault with as much terror as they might have heard that the jabberwock, the whangdoodle and the guyascuticus had all broken ‘loose, and have therefore hidden themselves, Tor our part we are convinced that their fears are groundless, and that if they will confidently come up close to the groat author and ‘‘argy this pint” he will roar them as gently as any sucking dove. As the public is awaro and recognizes we know more’ about comedies and’ all other sorts of plays than even Boucicault himself does ; and we are of opinion, as already de- clared, that in posing his problem on the nature and clements of comedy, the author of the “Shaughraun” has ‘‘asked the boys an easy one.” ‘They ought to come up and answer, und we invite them to make use of our columns for the purpose—trusting to their discretion as to the length of their con- tributions. Perhaps it would be well for the proposer of the problem to offer a prize for the most successful answer. We sug- gest that an appropriate prize would be a handsomely bound copy, in one volume, of Boucicault’s comedies and Shakespeare's farces. Mismanagement of the Public In- stitutions. The very serious charges elsewhere printed of the State Board of Charities against the management of the public insti- tutions of the city and county will be read with surprise by the majority of our citi- zens. For years we have been accustomed to look upon the splendid structures on the islands of the East River as model institu- tions in their way, and to every distin- guished stranger who has visited us in re- cent years they have been pointed out by our officials as objects of municipal interest and pride, If the charges that havo just been made be true these pleas- ant illusions must be dispelled, for, according to Mr, Theodore Roosevelt and his associates, they are a disgrace not only to the city but to the whole country. Bellevue Hospital, the Charity Hospital, the Almshouse, the Workhouse, the Lunatic Asylum and the institutions on Randall’s Island, according to the statements of the Board of Charities, are each and all in a most deplorable condition. Bellevue Hos- pital is described as little short of a pest house, the Charity Hospital is very little better; in the Workhouse there is no real discipline, noattempt even at classification, and so on of the other institutions. All the buildings are overcrowded and their moral condition is exceedingly low. These are very serious charges, ond the high character of the gentlemen who make them is a guarantee that they are not with- out good foundation in fact. ‘The Commis- sioners of Charities, in fact, have practically admitted their trath and given as an excuse that the appropriations at their disposal are insufficient, and that no improvement can 31, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. be made unless they get moremoney. While this explanation may be to a certain extent true, still it is difficult to believo that want of money is the sole cause of the horrible condition of affairs which has just been made public. The political machine has, we suspect, a good deal to do with it, and a searching investi- gation should be instituted and the respon- sibility placed where it belongs. Governor Robinson cannot possibly devote himself to a better work than the correction of the grave abuses which, it is alleged, exist, and he should at once take steps to begin an inquiry which will not only point out the evils of the present system, but make their recurrence impossible. Before Erzeroum and Around Plevna, The military situation in Armenia and Bulgaria, -so far as the Russians are con- werned, may be described in thé few words forming the above head line. Two posi- tions held by the Turks mark the real ad- vance of the Russians into the Ottoman ter- ritory. The defeat of “Ghazi” Moukhtar at Alaja Dagh made possible two operations which the Russian commander in Armenia has not been slow to undertake. These are the investment of Kars and the advance on Erzeroum, which is the capital of the province. After Moukhtar’s terrible defeat he retreated rapidly to Kars, but, feeling that he could do more to delay the advance of the enemy in the open field than as the commander of a closely besieged fortress, he turned his face westward and passed beyond the Soughanlu range into the plain which’ extends between these mountains and Erzeroum, Late advices from the Turkish camp place it at Kuprokoi and state that the Russians are only three hours distant. They are, therefore, prac- tically before Erzcroum in overwhelming foree, At Plevna Ghazi Osman finds himself lit- erally ina ‘tight place.” His main line of communication with Orchanie and Sofia, the bases of Turkish supply, is now broken, and instead of the expected and much needed convoys of provisions coming from that direction Osman's scouts can only see the Cossack lances and the guns of the Russians in position. It is claimed that the road to Widdin is still open and that supplies can reach Plevna from that place, but that is a grave error, There is no hope from the direction of Widdin for Ghazi Osman, Indeed, it is not improbable that such an ‘open” road is only a trap into which a commander less wary than Osman might easily fall. To all intents and purposes tho Russian lines surround Plevna, and the Turks must either fight their way out desperately or sureender. It is probable that they will choose the former alternative rather than suffer being cought in toils of their own creation, The advance of Zimmermann’s corps in the Dobrudscha, indicating as it does the strength and confidence of the Russians, is a disaster to the Turks, Fishing with Popguns. The invasion of Staten Island by a band of roystering or oystering actors and their armed friends on Sunday was an extraordi- nary affair, and brought to a timely end by the courage of a constable and the decision of a justice who holds court’ in a lager beer saloon. ‘hey publish a card which says they went innocently fishing with a popgun on Sunday. A likely story, truly! We hesitate to say what we really think of it. We hear nothing in their card of the “Fisherman's Chorus,” from Masanyello, which they sang at the second landing on their arrival under the pretence of giving a sacred concert; they do not state that Mr. Plympton threw a number of handsprings before the Reformed Dutch Church to show how a “walking gentleman” enjoys himself on Sunday; we hear nothing of Mr, Beckett’s double shuffle from the “Forty Thieves,” which he basely told a rural policeman was how David danced before the Ark, and, therefore, a good Sab- bath practice; we do not learn that George Holland asked the Baptist congregation returning. froma sermon on hell the way to Snaggleton and then drove them nearly crazy by pretending not to catch what they wero saying. All these disappear and we are only told that they went fishing with a popgun. Let them tell that to the marines. They doubtless told it to the Spartan Judge, who keeps a trap for sich gunny fish, but he would not believe them. We have our opinion of the Judge and the equally acute —_ constable, but we keep it to ourselves. They have an idea on Staten Island that a Now Yorker is good enough to rob, and, it is alleged, they act on it. But be that as it may, the seven dramatic and literary desperadoes who performed such reprehensible feats near the early home of the late Commodore Vanderbilt had nothing dealt out to them but the retributive justice which they are familiar with in the third acts of Boucicault's comedies. It has been hinted that all they sought was a little adver- tising, ‘They are getting that, there is no mistake We are giving it to them for nothing We thoroughly agree with the quotation from ‘‘Hamlet” which the Spartan Judge addressed to the literary Follin:—‘*You may play upon your popgun, but you cannot play on me under ten dollars.” ‘lo this we may add that “a Follin his money are soon parted.” The moral of this story is to fish with a hook on Sunday. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General James Shiolds is in Chicago. John Habverton is lecturing in Chicago. Spanish wines find their beat market in England. Wendell Phillips speaks of the “acting President.” Liszt isa great mimic, Liszten to the mocking bird, dudge David Davis ts the author of “That arty of Ours.” Terry ts the old-man-who-was-equawed-at-by-a- squaw, The only way to get at Sitting Ball is to annex Canada If Talmage gets hard ap be can put his sermons up the spout, In England tho tramp ts kept down only by a strong Tural police, Harvard will have a tennis club, Why not call it the Tennysonian? Rutgers Cotlege boys are high lads when they get their Dutch up. Coysidering that one can get good board for a woek in Washington for at least $30 Stanloy Matthews io a CD Funning up a bill of $180 in that time must have spent &@ good deal tor hair oil, Mr. B. L, Farjeon, the English novelist, is at tht Westminster Hotel. Patrick Henry did not seem very anxious to com¢ {nto the Union at all, Sor outhern papers recommend boiled oats as & remedy for hog cholera, Mr. Horatio Seymour, of Utica, yesterday arrived at the Now York Hotel, At least four men in this country neither smoke nor drink—Gilman, Tweed, Gould and Coltax, Holmes save that a fino view from a brary window islikely to distract the ideas of ‘the writer, Henry Bergh was kicked at by a colt the other day and immediately exclaimed, “2¢ tu Brute!” Steamed potatoes obtain from the skins a mila “pe. tatoey’* davor that boiled ones do not possess, Murat Halstead insists that Cincionau is the American Paris? When was it inporkorated? General Ben Butler says he will get married if he has to propose to every woman in the United States, Since the London police have been forbidden to wear mustaches Rignold thinks ho will not join the force, The Saturday Review makes the point that Mr Ha: was not an accomplice in the frauds that elected him, The Worcester Press does not like to see a temper. ance map go up to a stand and ask for a schooner of Toasted chestnuts, The Boston Globe thinks that the editor of the Courier-Journal is fond of dogs. We thought it wag tho bair of the dogs. Conkling makes metaphors and Blaine illustrates with stories, It is a pity that these statesmen are not on triendly terms, The papers aro asking for a iarge criminal who has some small vices. Well, thore’s the man who steals for the Glove- Democrat. The regular weokly sale of the Richmond news, Paper establishments will cease. Alter this they will be sold at the regular doliar atores. Attorney Genoral Devens is remarkable for his breadth of shirt collar, 1n fact, you can’t be in Wash. Jngton without boing a remarkable mau. Herbert Spencer, in bis book on sociology, treats of religion betore society, forgetful, according to the Spectator, that society preceded ‘ion, ‘The Washington Hepublican is welcome to copy from this column without credit, We hope that an occas sional reminder will not cause it to hesitate, Tho decrease in the numbor of buffulocs on the Pluing threatens tho trade of the Hadson Bay Company, whose voyageurs foed on buflalo pemmican. s An English writer thinks that in bis country the de Pression in trade has not had its last effect upon the iron and cotton industries or upon the masses. The Black Hills Herald, printed at Central City, comes to uson light brown paper, ‘Tne majority of its advertisements are of “restaurants with a bar.’? “Lucky”? Baldwin, of Sau Francisco, has leased his Great hotel, aud now, if he can only keep out of laws ruits with that carpe: blonde be may be happy yet. In Bulgaria weather which is cold enough to make fitteon inches of ice in the Danube does not vegin before Christmas and docs not last beyond ten con secutive weeks, AMUSEMENTS, STEINWAY HALL—ROSETTE, Mile, Anna Rosetté gave a concert last cvening bo» fore a select and fashiunable audience, assisted by soveral well known artists, amoog whom wero Messrs, Fr. Remmortz, Weickert, Charles Werner, V. Gelder and others, The programme consisted of sciections trom Beethoven, Weber, Verdi, Rubinstein, Chopin, Mondelssohn and Proch. Tho works of those com. posers were admirably illustrated during the evening by the ar above named. Milo Rosetté in her in. torpretations is dramatic—emphatically more so than most of the artists who appear on the concert platform, She-exhibits the intluence of the best training in the German school, and withal possesses the art which epabics her to interpret in an intelligent way tho moaning of the great masters. It is, perhaps, for this reason that sho has been selected as one who could afford to appear individually upon a public platiorm aud undertake the dilflicult tusk of sustaining some of the fine eftvcia of the great musical masters, Praise, how- over, 18 not to bo accorded uloue to Mile. Rosettd, Rommertz, with his superb basso, was in fine yoico aud sung several songs, classical und popular, which called for encore, Veickert, Golder and Charles Werner added not a little to the entertainment by thelr contribution of artistic work. We like to hear these concerts, They educate the poopie, Thomas, Dams Toseh, Gilmore, anybody, overybody who gives the American public the opportunity of mumeal devolop- ment is a benefactor. We necd more of tho poem of life, and it is only when the public come forward that we catch the rhythin. THEATRE FRANCAIS. The performance at the Théitre Francais was une usually good last evening, perliaps for tho roason that the programme was made up of comedy, which finds such clever interpretation by the mombers of M. Durand’s company, The opening piece was a onesact vaudeville, “Le Bea au Couvent,” by Barritrea The dialogue was brilliant und the acting capital. M, Bulner played Paul d’Avenay, the usual Frenchman of the world, who forgets about bis domestic ies uniil his daughter growe up to be a protty young girl; then he is ready to reuounce the flesh and the devil to a certain extent for her sake, Mile, Leblanc played Adrienne the daughter, aud M, Martai Fortuaio d’Iiloy, M. Henriot, Jules de Mericl, aud M. KarlJean, “Nos Alliées,” a comedy tn three acts, by M. Pol Moreau, followed and was as well acted throughout as any comedy wo have ever scon in New York. M. Martal, who i¢ an wousually good light comedian, played’ the rdle of Philippe de Mauri with rare appreciation, and M, Veniat was excellent as Guston do Rech, Murtal, however, carried off the honors of the men’s purts. We sincerely wish that bo was au English speaking actor, and that some of our American theatres uumbered Dim among thels stock. M. Deligne, as the gossiping old man, wat true to the life, und M. Kuri did a small part woll. Of the ladies Mile, Heyman was in many respects the vest, and epoke her linea with greut spirit, Mmeoa, ‘Yhal aud Leblanc were also good, lvughter and ap- plause followed every witty line, and tue curtain was ung up after oach act, THE BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, The San Francisco Minstrels have added another capital bit of fun to their already full bill, in “Tnas Wife of Mine.” Their piepsant theatre was crowded Just evening by au audience that enjoyod everything on ihe programme, Thore was nothing but fun from beginning to end, and toany u tired man of business Jaughed bis cares away last evening over the merry minstrels, ‘“Helou’s Babies’ still continue to draw tears of mirth, and Bob Hart’s “chinning” is as funny as over, and Churicy Backus is worth any dross. maker tn describing a lady’s toilet, The cuckoo song, from “La Marjolaine,’’ must be heard te be up. preciated, end scoig Only can convey any idoa of Charley Backus as Cupid. TONY Pasvor'’s, There was full bouse at Tony Pastor’s last even. ing, and the clever and whimsical doings of his troupe kept every one in @ merry mood until tne cur. tain fell, Among tho many good things at this establishment ure the singing aod dancing of the Allen sisters; the sketch, entitled “acting Mad,” which displays Billy Barry to the best possible the gymnai song and dapee business of ‘Kimersou und Clark wnd the singing of Mile, Hilda Thomaso, In the very midale of the show cowes Mr, Pastor himself, with a bouquot of comic songs hitting olf tho lead.ng events of the day,. Mr, Pastor tolis ail about life on Sixth avenu \- lightons everybody on the Tweed disclosures, and shows how tho Hxgatp “Complaint Hook” is resorted to ug a panacea for all this world’s evils, The pertorin- anco closes with a bilarious variety drama ontitled “Tho Slavo's Dream.” THEATRE COMIQUE—VARIRETY, ‘The bill at the Theatre Vomiquo last evoning was @ pretty long one, embracing an extended list of variety acts and concluding with @ sort of travesty of the “Crusbed Tragedian.” Burlesque, Dutch dialect sketches, clog dancing and comic singing made up the programme of ores 80 familiar on tho boards of the Comique. Tho performance was opened by Messrs. Kerrigan and Gallagher with the croning music of the Lead ay and the brisk tapping of an Irish Jig dancer, r. D, 1. Morris subsequently gave an amusing representation of a confused Dutchman in seurch of a job, In a triple statue clog dance Messrs, Healy and Conway and Miss Elia saunders elicited a good deal of applause, The concluding sketch was ove of a boisterously hitarious sort, which gave the general company an outlet for their ecvens tricities, ACCIDENT AT THE OLYMPIO, Last night, while tho performance was in progresg on the stage of the Olympic Theatre and tho applause of a large audience was mingling with the clash of the orchestra, an accident occurred behind the scenes which may bave @ tragioal result, Ellen Parieo, a young woinan whose sistor was to appear in the pans tomimne, by a misstep fell trom the palotwalk to the floor, a distance of twenty-live icet, and Was #0 #04 riously tojured that It 1s feared she mav dig.