The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1877, Page 6

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BOWERY THEATRE—Au Sty. NIBLO'S GARDEN—Massaxoxte FIPTit AV PARK THEATRE-U: VHEATRE COMIQUE UNION SQUARE TH NEW YORK AQUARIL BAGLE THEATRE—Mxraw GERMANIA THEATER THEATRE FRANCAI GILMORE’S GARDEN WALLACK STEINWAY HALL—Tu BRYANT'S OPERA HOUs TIVOLI THEATRE —Vantery, TONY cet tusit OrEms, p TRaGeDtAaN, te ReisiNG Stam, ixk Dowtwos. « Octorus oLUTe Frag, Bonsuouugs, Cincus aXD MuNaGRRLy, AMERICAN LN. OLYMPIC THEATRE COLUMBIA OPERA NOUS TRIPLE NE SHEET. NOVEMBER 1, 1877, Important Notice it is absolutely necessary that they be hunded in defore cight o'clock every evening. From our reports this morning the probabilities Gre that the weather in New York ana its vicinity today will be cold and partly cloudy or fair, fol lowed by rising temperature, bay.—The stock market was a little more active, but continues to show signs of weakness. Gold opened at 1025p, ad- vanced to 1027 and closed at 10234. ment bonds were toads steady. WAL Street Yr Jovern- strong and States and rail- Money on call was quoted at 5.07 per cent, the closing rate being 6 per cent, Tite PENNSYLVANIA RAILKO. resolved to pass their next ¢ AD Directors have Tue Lirication over the Singerestate has wen amicably settled, and every one is happy xcept the lawyer Two Wom ers of Char scople of Pr tity. EN who stole the livery of the Sis- to obtain money from the good idence have been arrested in that Sr. Dominco is in a ver, but this is the usual report irom that happy country, Buez appears to be playing the MacMahon réle on a small scale. AMUSE TSS ‘Tne Sranisu Orric: triously figuring out. fi ries over the in- furgents, They are contident that about next May they will have conqueved all opposition. SEVENTEEN Bisnors of the Protestant Epis- topal Chureh took part yesterday in the inter- esting ceremony of consecrating the Rev. Dr. Schereschewsky as missionary bishop for the Chinese Empire. AccorDrInG to the cwaal shipments for the past month, as compared with a year ago, the great Northwest must be Coing a flourishing business. Many of the different articles of shipment have more than doubled in quanti unsettled condition ; yana are indus- Mr. Kane has brought the coaching season of 1577 to a close and thrown down the rib- bons until the Ist of May. Seventeen hundred passengers have been earried and more than five thousand iniles travelled during the past six months, Mr. Hanrer, the owner of ‘len Broeck, gives some interesting poiats about racing and race- horses in another cohunn, His stable consists of nearly fifty horses, many of them very valu- able. Sixty thousand dollars have been r for Ten Broeck. Tue Ocroner Faivres in this city were sixty-one, the largest number in any oue mouth for the year, The a; grregate liabilities were up- ward of three mildon six hundred thousand dollars, or about ose hundred thousand dollars Jess than in Septevaber, used Accorpine To ‘ene TAXPayEns’ ASSOCLATION, of Brooklyn, somm gemilemen of that city nade a pretty good thing out of Prospect Park. They charge that of the ten million dollars expended five hundred thousand dollars have been stolen. An investigation is in order, ALTHOUGH THK Game succeeded in getting away the hunt of the Queens county hounds yesterday was full of excitement. Fifteen hor qmen appeared in the saddle, but before the day closed the majority of them were unhorsed, which added to the interest of the sion, «0 Tue Weatner.—Lhe general rainfall yester- day formed the jef feature of the weather east of the Mississippi River. Westward of that line the skies were clear. Through the Guif, South Atlantic and Middle States and Jake region rain fell at Mobile, Mont- gomery, Augusta Baltimore, Vhiladelplia, New York, Cleveland and Chicago during the forenoon and eurly afternoon, the weather tlearing wt New York about sunset. In the New England States which Jay in the track of the udvuneing area of precipitation the rains con- tinued into the night d this morning. The prevailing winds imo turbance are wester! and northweste and are experienced now along the Atlantic coast as far north as Cape Cod, where they become westerly and southwesterly, The highest pres- pure now extends eastward from the Middle Mississippi Val dividing the territory of the Jakes from that of the Gulf, both ef which Tepresent the regions of comparatively low burometer. ‘The winds along the Gulf coast are consequently from northerly and east erly, while those of the Missouri Valley ave from southerly and westerly points, The Jowest pressure is now in Dakota, attended by Yaing on the northeastern margin of the area, in New York and its vicinity to-day the weather will be cold and partly cloudy or fair, followed by rising temperature, liately behind this dis- | NEW YORK Os RAR ARMIES FE ica tO a ta i _| be none the less evident. If the coin values The Currency In one aspect it is a gratifying sign of returning political health that among the nearly nine hundred bills offered in the House on Monday a larger proportion related to the currency than to any other subject. As a symptom that the everlasting Southern question no longer holds the chief place in the minds of our | national legislators the preponderance of bills on other subjects is matter for congratulation, as being a strong indirect indorsement of the non-interference policy of President Hayes, he country has reason to rejoice at evidence that Congress is dis- posed to bury the corpse of the Southern question and give its attention to matters which concern the business prosperity of the country. It is evident from the House proceedings yesterday that the currency is to be the absorbing question in this Con- gress until that question is settled; but we regret that the Western heresies on this sub- ject seem to have so strong a’support in the House, The bill offered yesterday by Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, for repealing that section of the existing law which fixes the date of resump- tion is very likely to pass the House, as on what is regarded as a test vote it had a ma- jority of 116 against 108 We do not believe that any bill of this character can become a law, though it may pass the House. It will probably be defeated in the Senate, and would in any event encounter the Executive veto. The passage of such a bill by the House would nevertheless be regrettable, because it would weaken the moral influence of the Treasury Department in discharging its duties under the law. But, let the House do what it may, we trust there will be no vacillation on the part of either the Senate or the President in standing by, the Resumption law and carry- ing it into, effect. We are already so near the specie stand- ard that there can be no excuse for declin- ing to take the remaining steps. We are.still fourteen months distant from the date fixed for resumption, and the premium on gold is only two and five-eighths per cent. Any halt or step backward would be deplor- able when weare so near the goal. General | prices are now lower than they will be on the specie basis after a full revival of business, Resumption on January 1, 1879, instead of deranging business, as it might do if there were still a high premium on gold, will hardly be felt as a change, so easy and imperceptible will be this tran- sition if the experiment is permitted to move on without interruption, There would be no commercial shock or con- vulsion if specie payments were to be resumed to-morrow, and with a further period of fourteen months for preparation gold and greenbacks are likely to be at par before the date fixed by law. ‘T’he Senate and the President will be inexcusably recreant if they permit any action by the House to swerve them from a plain duty. . Besides the great advantage which results from the vanishing premium on gold there is another equally opportune and almost as great in the magnificent harvest of this year and the good prices which attend the large foreign demand. The ‘opposition to early resumption has come chiefly from the West on a plea of oppression to the debtor class. But the Western debtors are the very class that profit by the great harvest and the state of the European grain market, They have never been in so favorable a con- dition for meeting their obligations without a sense of burden. The enhancement in the value of their products by the foreign demand is fivefold greater than the present premium on gold, and their profits this year will cancel any loss from specie pay- ments for five years to come. Both the country at large and the West are in most favorable condition for the restoration of the specie standard without any sense of pecuniary hardship. We trust, therefore, that whatever may be done by the House the Senate and the President will stand firm and not permit a repeal of that part of the law which fixes the date of resumption, The West will profit as largely by the re- establishment of a sound currency as any other part of the country. By inspiring con- fidence and setting all the wheels of industry in motion it will increase the ability of our Eastern communities to consume Western products, and wili have the double effect of enlarging the demand for food and cheapen- ing the manufactured goods which Western farmers. have, occasion to purchase. Re- | sumption is the indispensable condition of a general revival of enterprise and prosperity, | and we would fain hope that the debate on this subject in the House may result in the defeat of Mr. Ewing's bill and all similar projects. ‘The test vote yesterday shows | that the anti-resumption majority is not so | large that able argument and the vigorous application of parliamentary tactics may not prevent any such bill from passing even the House. If the intlationists can be voted down and foiled in that citadel of their strength early resumption will thereupon | be accepted by the whole country as an irreversible certainty, and all future busi- ness arrangements will be made on that basis. There is another question relating to the | in this Congress, although it is of subor- | dinate consequence, We refer to the re- | monetization of silver. If there should be | any wild legislation on this subject we rely | with entire confidence on the President's veto to prevent practical mischief. No great harm can be done by any legislation on this subject which stops short of making silver medium for payment of the pal and interest of the national debt. | A bill which went to this length would he such u damaging blow to the public credit that the President would be conipelled to | Veto it, a | prin © most important fiscal opera- tion of the government in the near future is the refunding of the six per cent bonds ata lower rate of interest, and the success of this operation, which would be a great annual saving to the Treasury, is impossible with- out a clear understanding that the public debt is to be regarded hereafter, as it has been heretofore, as a gold obligation, If our silver coin, after remonctization, should be equal in value to the same nominal amount of our gold coin the xpediency of making the public debt vayable only in gold would | jor currency which will also be warmly debated | ‘ard previous to the war, and the country did of the two metals should be equal it would be a matter of indifference to the govern- ment whether it paid gold or silver, but it would make a great difference in the willingness of capitalists to purchase our bonds. We should lose nothing by paying in gold if silver and gold money were at par, but it would be impossible to sell new bonds to advantage if the purchasers were uncertain whether they were to receive full gold value in payment. An act of Con- gress making the national bonds pay- able in silver would be a disastrous blow to the public credit, and we have the most undoubting confidence that the President, armed with a constitutional negative, will not permit any such mischiey- ous bill to become a law. With this cer- tainty that the public crodit will be pro- tected we see no ground of alarm in the probable remonetization of silver. We should preter for the present that silver should bea legal tender for amounts not exceeding twenty dollars; but even if it should be made a legal tender to the same extent that greenbacks now are the evil would be comparatively slight. A double standard is of course theoretically absurd ; but we always had a double stand- not regard it as a very great practical incon- venience. Many of the arguments against it which are most strongly urged aro fallacies. It is said that since gold is the money of tho principal commercial nations of Europe our currency should be conformed to theirs. But when gold is exported to discharge balances it is not its nominal value as coin but its real value as bullion that is esti- mated. We do not export it as money, but as merchandise, and coined silver, even after remonetization, would be exported only as silver bullion, Forall purposes of foreign commerce both metals would continue to stand on the same footing as at present. As we are large producers of both we should continue to export them; but whether coined or uncoined we should receive for them their market price as bullion and nothing more, Their coinage into money is a purely do- mestic question, and it is absurd to argue as if our coinage laws had an important bearing on our foreign trade, We feel little interest in the silver question beyond a sense of the enormous folly of making the public debt payable in silver, and we are so sure that the President will by his veto save the country from that calamity that we aro reconciled in advance to the remonetization of silver for other purposes. Our trade with China, with India, with Russia and other silver countries will afford a market for the produce of our silver mines, but the market will be equally good whether we export in the form of coin or of silver bars, The WareAlarm at Constantinople. Some time ago, when disaster threatened the Russians in Bulgaria and Armenia, we were accustomed to receive glowing accounts from Constantinople of the success of the Turkish armies. Insignificant advantages on the skirmish lines were magnified into great viotories and nothing seemed to delay the complete destruction of the Czar’s troops but the catlike playfulness of the pachas who were amusing themselves with the enemy. Now that the tables have been turned by a series of real Russian victories the Turks suddenly change their tune and issue panicky despatches from Pera, in the hope that England, alarmed at the turn events have taken, will commit herself to an armed intervention. This game, having been played without success at Constantinople before, will probably fail now, for the time is passed when any Euro- pean Power can enter the field singly as an ally of Turkey, The despatch from Pera an- nouncing the rumor prevailing there that the Russians have occupied Orchanie is doubt- less based more on the fear of such a cap- ture than the fact. No statement from tho Russian headquarters confirms it, although it is possible that a movement toward Sofia may have brought the troops of Gourko within striking distance of Orchanie. If it has, then Ghazi Osman’s position at Pleyna becomes hopeless, for the Turkish depots at Orchanie and Sofia.are likely to fall into‘the hands of the Russians or be destroyed, ‘The Pera despatch, also asserts that it is rumored that Chefket Pacha and his army have been captured. ‘This we do not believe, for a line of retreat-was always open to that commander, and the Russians certainly have not men enough so far west of Plevna to surround him and his army. The position of ‘‘Ghazi” Moukhtar at Has- san Kaleh is confronted by the Russians, who must consequently be within a march of Erzeroum. ‘Lhere are just grounds for alarm at Constantinople at present, but the Turk is evidently taking a sly advantage of his own misfortunes in the effort to entrap anally. Fancy the bashi-bazouk shouting “Help! murder! police The Municipal Badget, By the report given in another columu:it will be seen that the great desideratum, a reduction in the public expenditure, has finally been secured—on paper. Last year the total of the municipal budget was thirty million nine hundred thousand dol- lars. ‘This year it is thirty millions, the pocket of the taxpayer being spared to the tune of ten mills ona dollar, or in all rather less than a million dollars. If the public were properly grateful for small favors this one million in thirty would be a feather in the cap of the Comptroller, who, even thongh he is the Tammany Boss, does not extort from the city the utmost possible penny. Does not the fact thar under uni- versal suffr, we get this reduction in ex- penditure prove that the amendments to the constitution are not needed? Congress Westerday, The Senate shows no disposition to origi- nate legislation and is very properly wait ing for the House to send to it the measures for the consideration of which tlie session was specially culled. Several bills were introduced yesterday, but they were of no very general importance, being for the most part purely local. Mr. Burnside seems to think the colored citizens have not wv fair chance in the army and navy, and in- troduced bill making’ the way smooth HERALD; THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, them to exter either branch of, the service. An old billin regard to the establishment of pension districts and the appointment of surgeons to examine appli- cants reappeared, and a petition from some of the victims of the Freedman’s Bank swin- dle was received. Mr. Edmunds was mado the chairman of the Select Committee on the Presidential Question, and after the in- troduction of some bills of a private charac- ter the adjournment took place. In the House the feature of the day was the report from the Banking and Currency Committee in regard to the Resumption act, which is elsewhere discussed. First Blood in the Seventh District. One of the most respectable and satisfac- tory wars of which there is any account is that which determined the doubtful point of supremacy between Rome and Alba, Five men and one woman were the only vic- tims, There might have been millions slain and the point remained doubtful under the ordinary system of the use of armed force, but the early peace societies of Rome exhibited their influence on that oc- casion, and the ordinary plan was set aside. Either the Roman and Alban equivalents of Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips had howled their agitation against the war or the contractors had proved unable to equip an army, or there was some other good rea- son, for it was agreed that supremacy as between the cities should be the stake in a great prize fight to be fought by three on aside, and by this championship sys- tem the slaughter and horrors of a great war were prevented. Our readers will perceive that a leaf has been taken from the Roman history in the conduct of the great issue between Tammany and anti-Tammany in the Seventh district. Tammany and anti- Tammany, like Rome and Alba, are disposed to economize blood and muscle and not put the whole world by the ears. Hence the fierce combat of Haggerty and Lynch, the accepted champions of the two sides. It was understood, of course, that as this combat should go the candidate of one or the other side should be counted in; but alas! the struggle was inde- cisive, This was not the fault of the champions, but of the metropolitan police, which was quite overlooked in the arrange- ments, perhaps because it did not appear in the course of the Roman battle. Dur- ing the conflict the champions threw one another through a glass door, which was not done by either Romans or Albans. Neither did the Romans or Albans snap pistols at one another, which shows that the ancient combat was rather tame by compari- son with the modern. It was the failure of the pistol to respond to the snapping that rendered the battle indecisive, and some in- quiry should be made as to the cause of that failure. Perhaps there was treachery. Either some anti-Tammany emissary had tampered with the caps on Haggerty's pistol or poor ones had been supplied him, and it should be known which was the real cause, Until that point is settled we fear the battle cannot be renewed. Boucicault’s Challenge. An instalment of answers to the inquiry of Mr. Boucicault as to the definition of comedy will be found in to-day’s Hznatp. They are all of interest, and worthy the at- tention of the reader. These correspond- ents write clearly, exhibit the possession of distinct ideas on the important subject touched, and some of them certainly have that useful kind of knowledge which people vaguely describe when they say aman knows “what's what.” But are these writers dra- matic critics? Wedo not know that they are or that they are not ; but wado not perceive in their epistles that sense of just superiority to all the other varieties of humanity by which the critic is commonly known. Therefore we incline to the notion that they are only ordinary mortals. But Mr. Bouci- cault did not say that ordinarv mortals did not understand this subject. His words are:—“I declare there is not in this country, nor in Great Britain, a dramatic critic, who, affecting to sit in judgment on a comedy, can tell me what a comedy is.” There may, by the way, be one or two who can correct the grammar of this sentence. It will be seen by this sweeping challenge thatit is the race of dramatic critics whom the aggrieved author separates from all other mortals as distinguished for their ignorance on a nice point of their science. As to other men’s knowledge of comedy Mr. Boucicault is no doubt satisfied with it as scholarly, practi- eal and remunerative, for his theory evi- dently is that the public taste is just, and that the people, learned or, unlearned, know a comedy when they sce it, but are led astray by the critics, who spoil sport with the insinuation that some famous com- edies are only a kind of literary resurrection pie. It is the critics, then, who are wanted— and where are they? ‘hey are humbled, overwhelmed, crushed, and cannot say ‘‘boo to a goose.” But they will bido their time, and when Boucicault produces another new play, then will they slay him with the sword of Zoilos. Alus for Welsh! Already the course of events at Washing- ton exhibits the accuracy of our prediction that the Clan Cameron would avenge the in- dignity put upon its head by the adminis- tration. It proposes to delay, impede, and, if possible, defeat the confirmation of the man to whose advantage the government turned Welsher. est importance have been made. Welsh, it appears, once wrote a letter. Even in the most ordinary circumstances this is a dam- aging fact. Only this and nothing more has blighted many a rising fortune, for the man who writes a letter and exposes himself to all the possibilities of interpreta- tion ceases to steer his ship and commits her, with her rudder lashed fast, to the god of storms, the lightning and the gale. But if there is folly und danger in such an act in ordinary circumstances how terribly are these elements increased when a letter is writ ten by aman who has given to Old Winne- bago reasons to desire his ruin! But the letter written by Welsh was not a simple, harmless missive; it was one of a most mischievous sort—a letter of a kind prop- erly regarded by all the great leaders as immoral and ruinous. It recommended the President to appoint ton certain offies acortuin man. not because ho was a good 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. republican and “a worker” in the interest of the party, but because he was an honest and capable man. It has been said that the Athanasian creed is like a wildcat ‘‘be- cause of its damnation clause,” and it might similarly be said that this phrase about hon- esty and capacity is in party comprehension equal to a wilderness of wildcats. For in the first place it is clear treason to propose to nominate a man for any but party reasons, and to put forth the virtue of a non-party man is to assume that there is no party man equally virtuous. But there is worse against Welsh than even this letter, if worse be possible. He has actually endowed a chair of litera- ture in a university in Pennsylvania; he has actually attempted to corrupt the youth of that great State by contributing toward the ruin of their natural talents through literature. Such men would, left to them- 'selves, destroy any State and any party. Almost any other offence against the dignity of Pennsylvania would have been endured ‘with more grace than this deliberate move Discoveries of the great: | to turn all the boys into ‘dam literary fel- lows 3’ but it will go hard it this does not put the offender naked and defenceless into the hands of the ruthless Simon, Fish on Sumner, The despatch from Edinburgh reporting an interview with President Grant, which the Hrnatp printed several weeks ago, has caused a great commotion, as we said that it would. Defences and denials continue to re- verberate through the political atmosphere. Mr. John Jay, in the Interndtional Review, makes that part of the interview which re- lated to the late Mr. Motley a subject of animated comment, and we publish this morning a very elaborate justification by ex-Secretary Fish of that part of the in- terview which related to Mr. Charles Sum- ner, A fierce denunciation of General Grant’s remarks by Wendell Phillips was brought to the attention of Mr. Fish during his late visit to Boston, when he stated facts which proved that Mr. Phil- lips had been grossly misinformed, and was utterly mistaken respecting certain things which he asserted to have taken place be- tween Sumner and Fish and between Sum- ner and Grant. The reporter did not quite correctly take Mr. Fish’s meaning on some minor particulars, and since Mr. Fish’s return to his country residence on the Hudson he has written a careful and elaborate letter setting forth the exact facts as he is willing they shall appear in his- tory. This letter was called out bya de- mand made in a Boston journal by Mr. Sumner’s biographer, and our Boston cor- respondent telegraphs the greater part of it. The great distinction of the persons con- cerned will attract general attention to this statement of the late Secretary of State, and few candid readers will doubt that he has divulged the real facts, Mr. Sumner’s passionate nature probably led him astray on that particular occasion, but the fact that Mr. Fish cultivated and valued his friendship for the long period of twenty years isa strong proof of the general up- rightness and amiability of Mr. Sumner's character. Although Mr. Sumner was an impulsive man his failings ‘leaned to virtue’s side,” for, according to Mr. Fish’s showing, it was Mr. Sumner’s zeal for his friend Motley, and zeal for his friend Ashley, that soured his mind toward Presi- dent Grant. Even his friends will not deny that he was habitually extravagant in his antipathies, and this tendency is the source of the mistakes which Mr. Fish has re- luctantly exposed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Simon says thumbs down. Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson 1s fulfilling engage. mentsin the West, “B, Nyack"'—How much will you take to stop send. ing ‘witty’? things? Life is short. Mr. Pumpkin has sued the Cleveland Leader, and expects to knock that paper into pt. Susan B, Anthony says that Eve did not prosent the apple to Adam. She remembers, distinctly. General Ben Butler says nothing about that pro- posal of marriage to Auna Dickinson, Perhaps, alter ail, it was Gail Hamilton who proposed. Betore we can get this into type the Telegram and other papers will probably havo said, apropos of our Minister to Kuglaod, the English of course will like a Welsh appointment, An English erttic writes that the Irish workman to New York would be an honester and better man if be had bo vote to give 1m answer fo appeals to bis worst passions and prejudices, Burlington Mawkeye:—"lt ia dificult for the unre. gencrate paragrapher to tell, at times, wherein the re- ligious papers display the greater zoal and agony of spirit, saving souls or stealing jokes,’”” We dislike to refuse all the ‘jokes’? sent to us, and so we give room for the following elegant and exces- sively fanny one trom a Newark contributor:— ibe best way to remove warts is to cut off your finger.” Richmond Enquerer. The Danville Zimes warns young ladies not to marry stingy men, Very fow Vir- ginia young men can consider this a personal reflec- ton, for as @ class they havo nothing to be stingy with,” Tne Chicago /’mbune thinks that General Howard’s religious profession hurts bim in tne eyes of the sneering people, We at least never abused Howard by speaking of his picty, We have always alluded to him in complimentary terms as a rum old chap, We by no means refuse to read or print a good joke sentto us But out ol a hundred we seldom tind one worth using. They all may be better than our own, but we bave got our jokers engaged, and we hate to turn them out until they have time to look around, A Baltimore man who says he bas plenty of orig {nal nonsense on baud for the P, L, aud wich he pats under the head of “Beans,” gives us tho followiug as. vonishing beau :—Swallow tuil coats for street wear (won't) be all the style for gentiemen tis winter,” Apecac would do our Baltimore triend guod, This is a ‘joke’? sent by another would-be con- tributor to tho P. 1, column. He says he can give us two or three a day and no pay as first:—“When 1s a horse nota horse? Why, when the cart ts before the horse.’” If he will send in his bull wo will pay for that one, but we cannot aflord to buy any moro like it, Auother spetimen of the hundreds of side-splitting ‘jokes’ seul by aixXious coutributors:—"'Bob Brown was coming down gircet yesterday afternoon with a cane under his jef arm, aud a man said to him, ‘Is that your (Cuiu) cane?’ ‘No,’ said Bob, ‘it ts a Bill’s ({Able’s).’"" We hope the writer of the above will have a jong Ife, Here is u specimen of the nundred “jokes” sent from outsiders to the I. L column every duy:—"Li a Gat wad adog are both discovered in your room at night and you get out of bed and pursue them into the back yard, What are you likely to catch iirst? Avus—A cold! i’! ‘Lhe writer of the above threatens to send us “lots like it, and all original, tog,” Let us give another heavy “joke” sent to us by an aupiring contributor to the humorous literature of the day :—"A man on Isroadway yestoraay was going along ata tree-mend-ous ratc, when he was (to be shaken when) over-taken by & man who, stepping up to him with emiling face, saia, Do you belong to a club?’ ‘Certainly,’ says No. 1, ‘to the wrong (rowing!) club.’ The man subsided.’’ Yos; and we hopo our con tributor will subside toa, AMUSEMENTS. “FRA DIAVOLO” AT THE FIFTH AVENUE. Auver’s plcasant and popular opera, “Fra Diavolo,’® ‘was brought out by the Hess company last night im what was, on the whole, a successful manner. & well-filled house, that was gonerous in its applause,” handsomely greeted the old favorites and ex Mberal tended encouragement to the new comer in tho part- of Zerlina—Miss Emoli¢ Melville. This lady still betrays, here io ber acting and there in her singing, traces of her une finished novitiate; but she brings earnestness and a pleasant voice—a good and sympathetic mezzo-so prauo organ—to her aid, and go never fails to please. Her singing of the well-known aria, On yonder roc reclining,” and the solo in the undressing scone of the second act clicited encores. It was announced ag the lady’s first appearance in the purt, and we feel certuin that she will improve, as there were occasional signs of nervousness which will doubtless wear away. Mr. William Castlo’a Fra Diavolo and Mrs. Seguin’s Lady Allcash are too known to need much comment, The formor is a wi preserved piece of conscientious work, and the lat & 7 scharming. The Lord Allcash of Mr. Seguin amusing that we almost forget at ne bas hardly any votco teft, while the extravagance of Mr. Poakes as the bandit, Beppo, creates roars of laughter, The part of Lorenzo taxot Mr. Torver’s powers, but he managed his solo In the thira act with considerable skill, so well indeed that he won an encore which was almost @ cruelty, What is of first rate importance and reflects credit on the direction is that the concerted pieces went without @ hitch, The choruses were fuir and the orchestra wag kopt well in band by Signor Operti, a momentarily re(ractory cornet being the only exception to his com. pita sway. “Fra Diavolo’’ will be repeated this evening. BROADWAY THEATRE—‘‘BARBE BLEUE.” “Barbe Bleue,” which bas not been presented to the New York public for several years, was jected by Mile, Aimée as the attraction of her benefit, which took place last night before one of the largest and most fashionable audiences that has assembled in the Broadway Theatre during the present season, Tha opera was handsomely mounted an: music superbly rendered, Boulotte has always b one of Aimée’s favorite parts, She achieved great success ycurs ago in its interpretation, and last night renewed her early, triumphs. ‘the music is gay, lively and suggestive orbaps more thoroughly repre: ure Uffens an style than any ot of numerous workd of this voluptuous writer, Heretofore one of the chiet difficuities in presenting ‘Barbe Bieue’’ has been in securing a tenor capadie of adapting himself’ to the part of Bluo Beard, but M. Mollard last eveutn; th and exce! lence of his repr Duparc, M. Jouard, Meziéres and Duplan likewise shared th ing. Kncores and floral tributes ation, of a thoroughly sympathetic audience. opera will bo repeated to- night and on Saturday at the matinee and in the even- ing, Friday being set apart for the reproduction of “La Marjolatae,’? THEATRE FRANCAIS. Although our French speaking population wag largely drawn upon last eveuing by the Alméo benefit the Théatre Francais was not neglected. The attrace tion was ‘Un Cnapeau de Palle d’ltalte,”’ a tavorite comédte-vaudoville of tho Palais Royale, The play deals with the search for alost Leghorn hat ‘and abounds in the most amusing situations, Everybody ig playing at cross purposes and the way they get wound upand finally unwound is very clover. Tha character of the play ts not unlike ‘Les Dominog Ro:es’’ and is very popuiar in Paris MM. Martel as the perpexed oridegroom was very amusing and had an opportunity of display: ing the airy graco of his style. Chamomin did a good bit of character acting a8 Nonancourt, and Veniat wag good as Achille. No one of the ladies was notwbly better than the other. All entered into the spirit of the play and were successiul in giving it an amusing interpretation, Aside from the pleasure of the acting thore 1s no better way to get familiarized with tho Fronch lan- guage than by these representations, The Freach spoken is the purest and the language that of every day Paris, This little theatro is becoming the centra of fashionable French-speaking New Yor‘ as well ag native Frenchmen with reason, for everything is dono thoroughly. The people on the stage act as thoy would in a parlor, and one feels aa though ho were looking through his opera glass into a Paris salon, Py ESE aes MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, “Masaniello” is to be repeated this evening at Niblo’s, Theodore Tnomas’ first public rebearsal takes place this afternoon at Steinway Hall, at three o'clock. Dr. Damrosch gives bis Second Symphony matinéa concert on Saturday, November 3, at Steinway Hall. Mme, Janauschek is now io the city, and will a pear on Monday night at the Broadway tn the dramatie zation of the beautiful German liad, Tho Song of the Nibelungon.’? The Young Men’s Christian Association have made arrangements for furnishing the young peoplo with a series of Saturday afternoon ontertainments of an amusing and popular character, which will be under the direction of Mr. Georgo W. Colby, the pianist, ‘The admission ts only Giltecn conta, and the place is Association Hall, coroer of Twenty-third strect and Fourth avenue, The first performance will take place November 3, Tho object 1s to give the little ouesa pleagant and instructive opportunity of spending thelr Saturday afternoon, ‘The late Edwin Adams, at the threshold of bis pros fessional careor, was one of a notable cast that ape peared under the insnagement of Mr. Henry C. Jarrett (now of Jarrett & Palmer), at tho National Theatre, Washington, New Year’s night of 1856. The play wag the “School for Scandul,’’ aud was witnessed by Presie dent Pierce, his entire Cabinet and many other nota. ble public men, The following is the full distribu. tion of parts:— Sir Peter Teazle.. Sir Oliver suriace Charics Surface Joseph Surtace. +oMr. Henry Piacid «Mr Charles Basa ir. James KE, Murdock T. Jumos W. Wallack, Jr. Mr, Joseph Jefferson Mr. Tom Placid r. Edwin Ada ir. J. B. Ho eorge Andre: Joseph Dawson . Dolly Davenport je Weston Davenport Lady Sneerw Maria, Miss ie Westou Davenport is now Mrs, Charles Matthews, George Audrews was a famous Park Thea. tre actor. Miss C, C, Germon was tho mothor of Miss Efe Germon, ot Wallack’s’ Theatre, and Miss Mary Devlin atterward became tho wite of Kdwin Booth. Among the most potable events of the dramatic sca- son ts the Journey made yesterday to Boston by the Park Theatre Company. The purpose, as suggested by Mr, Sothern, was a performance of the “Crushed Tra~ gedian,” to be given for the benellt of Mrs. Edwin Ad- ams. Tho entire theatrical company left tho Park Theatre at midnight, reached Boston at nalf-pust nine o’clock yesterday morning (an hour or more behing time), yet at half-past ton were performing just as thousunds have scen them play in Now York. The aus dience was large and the reception warm. A genuine Boston welcome was accorded, Nearly $2,000 were realized. The party, comprising some flty persons, were met at tho depot by the ‘*Macaronl Club” and conveyed im carriages to the theatre, Tho intention of the hospitable hosts was to give # a forma! breakfast, and plates were spread at the Parker House for 150 people, but owing to the want of time a handsome lunch was made to suffice in the grecnroom of the theatre, Hore artists, Journalists, and some of the best people of Boston mot and illus trated the warm hospitality that belongs to the “Hub Guy.” The reception of the play was enthusiastic, ‘Yo audionce paid liberal tribute in flowers, and the chief actors wero recailed, Tho return to the city was made In tho extraordinary time of five hours and forty-three minutes, and the company played “Tne Crushed’? last night as usual at the Park The: The success of the enterprise, so far us rapid traveb ling 18 concerned, is largely due to the efforts of Mr, Hammond, the general manager of the New York and Boston Air Line; to Mr. Foster and to Mr. Pullman, each of theso gentiomen eutering heartily tuto the benevolent plans of Mr. Sothern and his manager, Mr. Abbey. In past years a trip of this kind, even #0 tar as Philadelphia, was regarded as a subject for unusaal comment, but a trip to Boston and retura—426 miles— and three performances in two cities in less than twenty-eight hours 1s something exceptional A SYATUE TO ‘THIERS, A subscription list Las been opened by the Bien Public, ot Parts, tor the collection of tunds for the ere tion of tue to the lute M, ‘Thiers, M, Menier, the republican deputy for the Department of Seino.ot Marne, is the initiator of the scheme, Subscription lists havo beeu forwarded to this city, as tt 18 believed that many hero wiil desire to contribute to the undor- taking. The statue will bo placud opposite the tate Tesidence of M. Thiers in tho Placy St, Georges. Subs seriptious wili be rocotved tn this city by Mr. K. A, Pratt, at the Now York Freo Trade Club Roo: No, 141 Wort Twenty-first atroet, Lists of the subscribers. pee bo published in the Courser des Ktats Unis, aw Ream Public. ot Paria. end phe Husa,