The New York Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1877, Page 6

| — — ——— ll ha ff NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY MERALD. os ‘Three cente per copy (unduys excluleds ear, or at @ rate of one dollar per month for any period less aw six'months, or Ove dollars for six months, Sunday fn the year. Poe Gollure yet edition inciuded. {1 of tae. WEEKLY HERALD. One dollar per your, tree of post: NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS,—In orier to insure atten- ton aeeeere wishin, 3 Me their address changed must give well as their new ea usiness, news letters or telegraphic despatches must Readdressed New Youx Hxnatn. ters and pack au ejected comm unicati ould be properly sealed will not be returued. PRILADELPHT OFFICE-—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK UEBRALD— DO. 46 FLELT STREET. YARIS OF FICEAVENUE DE L'0 DAPLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRATA 4 Subseriptions and advertisements will be received 0 Sorwarded ou the same terias usin New York NEW ‘YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ¥% 1877—TRIPLE SHEET. newspapers in Kentucky—the only paper in | conclusion which we were enabled to reach | ‘The Silver Schemers at Washington— The Worst Form of Repudiation. ‘There were introduced in the House on Monday not less than thirteen different bills by as many different members for the remonetization of silver. As yet we aro able to judge of these bills oply by their titles, these alone being reported in the Congressional Record, They are as like to one another as peas from the same pod, and as we choose to estimate this bad cargo by sample we select and copy the longest of the titles as we find them officially reported in the Record, from which we make the fol- lowing verbatim transcript :— Mr. Hunter introduced a bill (H. K, No, 443) to au- thoriza the Secrotary of the Troasury to purchase sil- ver bullion, to cause the sume to be corned, as well as silver builion of the citizens of the Coited States, and making said silver dollar when coined a legs! tender for ail debts, public aud private, within the Unitea States, including duties on imports and interest on the public debt, excepting obligations heretofore entered VOLUME XLIL.... AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BROADWAY THEATRE--Banee Scevs GRAND OPERA hO ‘om’s Cancn, BOWERY THEATRE—Ait NLBLO'S GARDEN: Doxtxos. fiw Octopus. ma Resowure Frav. ‘Ansiueric Exwnctsxs, SON Cincus AND MENAGERIE, RIAGK. NEW YORK AQUARIU: EAGLE THEATRE—Muta GERMANIA THEATRE—E THEATRE FRANCAL GILMORE’S GARDE WALLACK’S THEATRI BOOTH’S THEATRE—R. Wives PIVOLI THEATRE—Vanrary. TONY PASTOR'S—Vaniaty, BAN FRANCISCO MI EGYPTIAN UALL—V. AMERICAN INSTITUTE. THE NEW AMERICA: COLUMBIA OPERA liG BRYANT'S OPERA HOL RY AND Mucuaxtcs. TRIPLE W YORK, Sk—Mivsrexesy, Ss Imvortant Notice to Apvertisers.—Zo insure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely necessary that they be handed in defore eight o'elock eve From our reports tis morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and cloudy with rains and increasing easterly winds. Watt Srrerr Yesrerpay.—The stock market was fairly active and closed rather strong. Gold opened and closed ut 102%, advancing in the meanwhile to 10+ Government bonds were steady, while St: » dull and rail- roads stronger. Money on call was easy at Ga 7 per cent, closing at the latter figure. Japan's first success. Three natives wei wounded, ident was a great led and several Tue Costes for the seat of Senator Morton seems to be between Mr. Hendricks and Mr, Voorhees. Ture Persoxs were killed and several slightly wounded by a railroad accident near Harrisburg yes' Tux McCusn estate seems to be in a fair way to be all eaten up by the lawyers and the referees, leaving the widow penniless. Tue Ovtyion of the Appropriations Commit- tee to keep the regular army at its present atrength is the average sentiment of the coun- try. Tur NavTionat Depr on tl t of the month ‘was two thousand and fort, ven million dol- Jars, with a small trifle of four or five hundred thousand dollars additional. Tne Procer sof the Chamber of Com- Merce yesterduy show that the leading mer- chants of this city are unanimously opposed to the repeal of the Bankrupt law. AccorpinG To A Revorr made to the Bank Department the savings banks deposits in this city on the Ist of October were $174,177, and the number of depositors 465,090, which is @ pretty good showing for dull times. who died yesterday, was one of the old bankers whose energy, enterprise and ability have contributed so much toward making the city the financial centre of the coun- try and one of the great business centres of the ‘world. Ir tue Opro: of Mr. Welsh’s confirma- tion as Minister to England cannot find any- thing more damaging against him than his in- dorsemenbof the grandson of Benjamin Rush for a@ government position they had better the contest. Tur Society ror tHe Prevention or Crv- ‘eLry To CHILDREN is sometimes a little too gealous, The arrest of a poor organ grinder who carried a child around and the imposition on | him of a fine of fifty dollars is carrying philan- thropy a little too far. 8 CIGAR MANUFACTURERS persist In carrying out their determination to eject their employés from the tenement houses the strike will assume an uglier phase than it has yet pre- sented. Both sides should make every effort to bring about « compromise as soon as possible. ve up Owe to Api ry absurd in regard to newspapers some difliculty was expe- iene y in obtain a jury to try the silk smugylers. I) wnined were Hinkarp readers, and we objected to be- cause of the influence it exerted on their minda, A good way to escape jury duty is to read our | polumus every mornin Tne Remains or Conumnus, according to a Aespateh to the State Department, are undoubt- | edly in St. Domingo City, and not in Havana, as is generally believed. A subscription 6 | been started to ervet a monument to the great explorer, und outside subscriptions are solicited, The proper thing to do would be to bring the remains to this city, wi will be no | trouble about raising a monument over them. | there ‘Tne Wearnrn.-—A deep depression is adyane- ing toward the coast frum the Obio Valley, | with heavy winds aud rains, From the un- usual distribution of pressures we anti a eevere stom from the barometer. It may be in *to kuow that this depression hus travelled | advancing area of low i that | has lost all confidence in its stability. into und made payable iu gold, such obligations last named to be paid fm gold, und repealing uli acts and parts of acts inconsistent berewith; which was read first aud second time, referred to the Committee ov Coinage, Weights and Measures, when appoiiod, and ordered to be printed. The bill to which the foregoing descrip- tive title is prefixed by its author being a specimen of the whole number as described by their titles we are constrained to oppose and denounce the entire batch. ‘There is not one of tho thirteen which it would not be a national infamy for Congress to pass. We concede that there might be a bill for remonetizing silver which would not be disgraceful. Mr. Evarts hinted at some plan for this purpose without de- fining it in his speech Inst summer at the Chamber of Commerce banquet. But he could have meant nothing similar to any of these disreputable bills which have been introduced in the House. Presi- dent Hayes and Secretary Sherman have given more open encouragement to the re- monetization of silver, but surely they never intended to countenance the most in- sidious and rascally torm of repudiation. The silver men have presumed so much on the favoring hints of the administration, and have been so emboldened to broach projects so fraught with national dishonor, that it is the duty of all honest men to fight their scheme and give it no quarter. The folly of dallying with this subject is demonstrated by the effect of the moderate concession to Western senti- ment made during the autumn by the ad- ministration. To give any countenance to these ’schemers is like playing with fire. A small fire on the hearth of a dwelling may be avery good thing; but when there are maniacs in the house bent on snatching burning embers and flinging them right and left through all the apartments there is no safety but in extinguishing all the fires, The character of the numerous silver bills intro- duced on Monday leaves us nochoice but to insist on the postponement of the whole subject until the advocates of remonetiza- tion shall become more rational,’ We trust they will receive no further countenance from the President and the Secretary of the Treasury. Things have come to such & pass that there must be no more dallying with this subject. ‘Yhere are two fundamental:.and, fatal objections to every one of this batch of sil- ver bills, The first of these objections is that they all contemplate general remone- tization without any change in the standard of the old silver dollar. The fit thing to be said about such a project is that it is a piece of swindling scoundrelism. If silver is to be remonetized beyond the necessity for small change it is the plainest dic- tate of justice and common honesty the coinage law should be so altered as to make the amount of metal in a silver dollar of the same value as the metal ina gold dollar. The silver coin should contain precisely a gold dollar's worth of silver bullion, so that a dollar in either metal would be of precisely the same value, The old silver dollar, or ‘‘the dollar of our fathers,” as these schemers, with o foolish affectation of fondness, are pleased to call it, contains a smaller weight of metal than can be purchased for a gold dollar, whereas in an honest silver dollar the uncoined metal should be precisely equivalent to the uncoined metal which the national Mint puts into a gold dollar. We do not think of contending that the two coins could be kept at par for any length of time, a double or bi-metallic standard being theoretically absurd from the impossibility of keeping two metals al- ways at par with each other. But if an | honest attempt were made to perform this impossible feat the gold and the silver dol- lar should at least be made equivalent at the outset of the experiment. Butall these numer- ous silver bills agree in prescribing a silver | dollar which is worth less than a yold dollar at the present market price of silver, and they are therefore, one and all, cheats and swindles, The first step and indispensable requisite of an honest remonetization of silver is such a change in the silver coinage as would make the gold and the silver dol- lar equivalent. It would not be possible to keep them 60 for any length of time, but not become so great. ‘The other and still more fatal objection to these silver bills is that they all contem. plate the payment of silver for the interest and principal of the public debt. Even if the standard were so changed as to make the silver dollar equal to the gold dollar when the law went into effect the national debt should be explicitly exempted from its operation, ‘Lhe value of silver has been subject to such wide fluctuations within the last five years that the commercial world It refund our rate of in- would publie be impossible to debt at a moderate to the medium of payment. If it were understood by capitalists that our national bonds might be paid in silver, and particu- larly in dishonest and depreciated silver coin such as all these bills offered in the House propose to establish, our government could never seil another bond except at Mlirectly across the continent from the Pacitic coast, and has been attended thronghout by heavy gales, One of these was probably the cause of the recent overturn of the cars on the Utah Railroad. In the northeast the prersure is rising rapidly alter the storm area that passed off the coast in that direc | tion quite recently, The winds on the At- | Inutic const are generally northwesterly, In the eastern Gulf they are northerly, in the ‘western southeasterly to southerly and in the | eentral and lake districts variable. The weather “in New York and its vicinity to-day will bo warmer and cloudy, with rains aud increasing eusterly winds, | ations in the value ot silver, * | on as these graceless schemers propose | which prices which would ~ insure purchasers against the risks incident to the large fluctu- Such leyisla- would put an utter end to all hope of retund- ing the national debt at rates of interest would alleviute its burden and pressure, with honesty at the start the disparity would | terest if there were any uncertainty as | name and credit of the country to resist theso dishonest repudiationists to the ut- most. They must be met on the frontier and driven back. Their motive is thor- oughly bad and disgraceful. The silver scheme, as expounded by its champions, is merely “‘a new way to pay old debts” by cheating creditors out of a considerable part of their dues. This silver scheme, ‘‘con- ceived in sin and born in iniquity,” was not thought of until the price of silver had so for depreciated that the silver dollar was worth less than the green- back dollar, As soon as this was dis- covered all the greenback inflationists “wheeled about and turned about” and be- came allof a sudden the most determined advocates of hard money! The ‘‘rag baby” was forthwith flung into the rubbish heap as soon as it was seen that there was a more adroit method of cheating creditors. When the silver ‘dollar of our fathers” was found to be worth three or four cents less than the greenback dollar a sudden light dawned upon the repudiationists and they bloomed at once into advocates of a metallic currency. ‘There was nothing liko ‘the dollar of our daddies” from the mo- ment it was discovered that it could be made a more potent instrument for repudiating debts and cheating cred- itors than the greenback itself. They have exposed themselves by the dishonest bills with which they have deluged the House, and nothing now remains but for all cit- izens who appreciate the value of an unsul- lied public credit and all who are opposed to the repudiation of private debts to come into close quarters with these hypocritical swindlers and fight for every inch of the ground which they attempt to occupy. Oakey Hall’s Return. The return of Mr. Hall to his country and his home will excite less surprise than his sudden and mysterious flight, but it is nevertheless an event which will cause something of a sensation. The seclusion and reserve which he maintained yesterday made it difficult to learn particulars, but we areable to publish his own rather vague account of his sudden departure and his more explicit statement of the motives which led him to hasten a return which might otherwise have been deferred for a few months longer. He professes to have come back to mect the charges and allega- tions of Tweed. He protests his innocence, and thought it » point of honor, as soon as he learned what ‘weed had testified against him, to revisit the scene of his former activity and put himself within easy reach of the law if its officers should think they have reason to arraign him again after his former acquittal, He regards Tweed’s aspersions as absurd and is ready to meet any steps which prosecuting officers may think it their duty to take in conse- quence of Tweed’s testimony before the committee of Aldermen. It must at least be conceded that Mr. Hall’s prompt return tallies with his professions of innocence. But why then did he abscond? He can- not very well tell himself, His sudden and clandestine flight seems as great a puzzle to him as it was to this whole community at the time. It seems rather a problem for a wise and learned physician than for social connoisseurs. From early youth to tho time of his flight Mr. Hall had been one of the most Inborious men in America, His incessant activity as lawyer, journalist, politician, public officer, wit, club man, theatrical adviser, and finally as playwright and actor, were too much for a constitution of iron, and the accumulated mental strain broke him down. He had ridden his intellect, or rather it had ridden him, with whip and spur until mind and body were alike jaded and spent, and then supervened a state of nervousness and feverish unrest which made him the victim of sudden impulses and hallucinations. His case is one of the numerous warnings in which the history of intellectual men so much abound of the peril of overwork- ing the brain. Rest scems to,have re- stored him to his normal condition, and as soon as he was again himself that intense hunger of the heart which we call homesickness turned his thoughts tow- ard his family and hisold associations, His absence would soon have become unendura- ble, but when he happened to learn of Tweed’s assault upon his character he de- termined to return at once. He seems to have been suffering under a physical mal- ady caused by excessive and protracted men- tal strain, and a period of rest in Europe is probably what his physician would have prescribed, although he would have ordered the manner of it very differently. Some days ago the administration was “in a hole” as to the appointment of a citizen to stroke the mane of the British lion, and everybody wanted to know how it would get out. Now, however, it is the clan Cameron that is in a hole, and the wonder is what they are going to do about it. In that clan they never go for birds witha drum, They do not pursue their purposes with clamor. They are “sly, slow things, with ciroum- spective eyes,” and miss no chances, If they were not the original inventors of the still hunt in politics they practised that sport with greater success years and years ago than has ever been yained by recent imitators, Consequently the public must not fancy they are idle because they make no noise, For whatever else may come to pass of one thing mankind and the Ameri- can people may be sure—the Camerons will have their revenge, ‘Chey can- | not afford not to have it. Having their revenge is the thing for which they are famous. That is the rod they hold over administrations, the means by which they compel attention to their demands; and ifthey should let a great occasion go by without having it the’ example would be lost. There has not been this great while any reason why a Cameron should have an otfice, except if he did not have that he would have his revenge, and noone knew precisely what that might imply and conse- quently avoided the alternative with the common dread of mysterious and unde- fined evils. They preferred Cameron in office to Cameron rampant, roaring and bel- lowing for his revenge—the devil they now the time nas come for the case to be tried the other way. Now Simon is defied to take his revenge, and he must take it or suffer forever the loss of a great prestige, for the eyes of Pennsylvania and the United States and of other large sections of the human race are upon him. It would be terrible if, after all, that great revenge of Simon should prove only a fiction. se tor Morton. Senator Morton died yesterday afternoon at his home in Indianapolis, after a tedious illness, at the early age of fifty-four. Born in Indiana, in 1823; a graduate of ‘Miami University; a’ lawyer by profession; a Circuit Judge by election in his twenty- ninth year; the defeated republican candi- date in the State for Governor in 1856, he was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1860, became Governor almost at once by the transfer of Governor Lane to the Senate; and now found a field for his remarkable administrative and executive abilities in the duties which fell upon him during the war. In 1860 ho was not known outside of his State; but the earlier years of the war made him known to the whole country as a man of untiring activity, of unfaltering determination, quick as well as far-seeing, and of uncom- mon executive capacity. In 1864 he was re- elected Governor, and in the following year he was struck down by paralysis. He gave part of a year to the doctors here and in Europe, but finding that they did not cure him he abandoned them and resumed his executive duties; was elected to the Senate in 1867, and immediately took his place among the leaders of his party in Congress. He was a marvel of restless energy. He accommodated himself with a kind of cynical indifference to his crippled body, as to a house badly out of repair, and dragged it about with him as a snail does his shell. In the Senate, as also while Governor of his State, he excused himself from no duties ; acted as chairman and member of several committees; was never absent from his seat, and was ready for debate at all times. He always spoke sitting, and though he was sometimes able to hobble about with the help of two canes, he was usually carried into and out of the Capitol. Mr. Morton will not take high rank among the statesmen of the country; but he was an energetic, though not always judicious, party leader. The general opinion that he was a bitter partisan does him injustice; he played the game of politics with singular good nature; but he played to win, and ho never hesitated to change his course or his mind. Thus he was by turns an infla- tionist and a hard money man; in fact, he took at different times almost every pos- sible position on the financial question. He was one of the ablest and most vigorous opponents of the policy of giving the fran- chise to the blacks, 4 measure at first very distasteful to the people of his State; but later he became one of the strong- est supporters of this policy. With admirable sagacity he foresaw the danger tothe country from a disputed Presidential election and sought during several sessions to obtain a constitutional amendment which should provide against this peril, urging that in such an emer- gency it was not in human nature that the party in power should yield to its oppo- nents, But when the day of peril came he unhesitatingly opposed the very doctrines he had for several years asserted on this question. He was long the most conspicu- ous and unfaltering ally of the carpet-bag rulers of the South; but he was the first Senator to adhere to the new Southern policy of President Hayes. His most striking quality was the bulldog vigor and pertinacity with which he at- tacked an opponent; but it is the general, and we think correct, opinion that he never showed the larger qualities of leadership. It is greatly to his credit, considering the times in which we live, that in all his public life he was rigidly honest. He lived plainly, and was avaricious of power, not of money. Pulpit and Press. The Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in session in this city devoted the session of Wednesday evening to talking about the newspapers. We find the names of a well known ex-diplomat, of an ex- journalist, of two bishops and an assistant bishop in the reports. As might be ex- pected, Mr. Erastus Brooks expressed the common sense view of the matter, for he is an old editor, as well as a religious man, and knows that the awful picture of the demoralized journalist, as drawn by the “uneo guid,” is as great a caricature upon our profession as the portrait of the Rev. Mr. Stiggins in Pickwick,” who called the elder Weller ‘‘a wesse!l of wrath,” is a libel upon the mass of the clergy. He cham- pioned the general purity of tone of the daily papers, and showed how such journals as the Hgnatp do yeoman’s service for the Gospel in printing columns upon columns of sermons, and s0 carry the good news to millions, whereas without the daily press, or left to the purely religious journals, it would not reach thousands. Mr. John Jay, however, with that air of coming down from the clouds perceptible in certain kid-glove moralists, seemed desirous of starting an association for the conversion of the press. “Great good,” said Mr. Jay, ‘could be accomplished by having wise and good men use their personal influence upon the editors.” We donot wish to speak of this as an alarming prospect, but it certainly opens the door to a profession of wisdom and goodness that would play sad havoc with the little leisure editors now enjoy. It would obviously be composed of men of other professions who write “ex” before their titles, and, having no business of their own, naturally take to the business of others. Parenthetically, we may remark that “wise and good men” of this class are no strangers to the reception rooms of the daily newspapers, betraying, as a rule, more anxiety to have their own little doings laid before the world than to impress godliness upon the editors, Had Mr. Jay forgotten tho parable of the Pharisce when he in- vented his new “Wise and Good Society for the Protection of Editors from Them- selves?” ‘Yhen came the Assistant Bishop of Ken- tucky. . He was very hard upon the popular press. We might assume that he knew dt is the duty of all who value tho goud | ‘knew to the devil they did not know. But |, something about journalism, if there were the State that approaches that character tak- ing its principal life from being published. just across the river from Indiana, Accord- ing to this reverend gentleman the principal aim of the newspaper is “to shatter the young man’s belief in the reality of all moral excellence” and “to gloat over” fallen saints. Then the editors are ‘veiled prophets.” Alas! we have always thought that in saying our earnest word for the good and true, we set tho ‘saints” who howl by the wayside an example of modesty in not parading our individuali- ties. Of such are the slashing critics of the press, lay as well as clerical. Taking the view that they absorb all the moral excel- lence in the world it is not strange that they dispute the claim of such an engine as the press to any share in the undisputed progress of moral ideas; but those who have eyes and ears can see in them also distinct survivals of him who ostentatiously thanked God he was not as this publican. Congress Yesterday. ‘The Resumption bill remains impaled on the rules of the House, and until new tac- tics are adopted, or rather until the whole proceedings in regard to it are begun de novo, it will be impossible to obtain a vote, unless the unanimous consent of the body ora two-thirds majority is found in its fa- vor, two contingencies which are, of course, out of the question. Mr. Ewing’s manage- ment of the bill was a blunder from the very beginning, and it is not likely that the friends of resumption will surrender a single advantage which the inflationists have placed in theirhands. Parliamentary fenc- ing on the subject was the only work of im- portance in the House yesterday, with the result we have stated. A resolution indors- ing the Southern policy of the administra- tion, offered by a Southern democrat, was coldly received by the republican side; ono calling for information on the Mexican ques- tion passed, and an effort to suspend all busi- ness until after the elections was defeated. In the Senate there was a discussion as to what should be done with the public docu- ments that have been accumulating for years, but no one suggested that they be sent to the old paper warehouses, which would be the proper and most useful dispo- sition that could be made of them. To-Morrow’s Great Contests at Jerome Park. To-morrow, at Jerome Park, Ten Broeck, the silken-coated champion ut the West, will once more measure strides with Parole, the great horse of the East that met him and beat him at Baltimore. That will be a con- test worth a long journey to see. To whet the appetite we are to have the mile anda quarter purse race with King Faro, another great Western horse and half brother to Ten Broeck, against the pick of our Eastern stables. Then will come a run of a mileand a half with Vera Cruz, still another West- ern champion, matched against the Eastern blood, bone and bottom, which racers like Virginius, Rhadamonthus and Viceroy em- body. After the great race will come a steeplechase, and they are sending on such ficlders as Deadhead, Coronet, Frederick- town and others to contest it. If Dead- head wins that race he will ‘work his pas- sage.” With such a programme, the entry money reduced to fifty cents, and special trains speeding after each other from half- past twelve till half-past two, we expect to see New York turn out not less than fifly thousand visitors to Jerome Park. The American Jockey Club has done all in its power to make this tournament of the West against the East alive and exciting affuir, and we have no doubt that success will crown its endeavors. Vive le sport! Help tor Tammany. Tammany trembles. It would like to attribute this to ague fits caught in the at- tempt to fill in the malarious districts ; or to nervous prostration due to its exertions in the effort to give the people of this city a good government ; but these silly pretences can’t come it over the people who know that it is fear; that she has lost hope and heart in her struggle in the Seventh district ; that she no longer sees her way to the overthrow of the doughty champion who has come into her dominions. As the friend of our better days, sturdy Jack the Giant Killer, went into the home of the ogre and regained all the stolen property he had stored there and gave the ogre that dreadfal fall whicn caused his death, so has the valiant Morrissey gone up into the home of Tammany in the Seventh, and ‘Tammany knows that she must scratch around lively if she is to pre- serve even some rags and tatters of the faith that her adherents have in her power. This conflict isa beautiful piece of chivalry on one side and of devotion on the other—de- yotion to a tradition and the chivalric asser- tion of an opinion. ‘“I'ammany is only a building,” says Morrissey, and he goes where he can find her at her best and makes a fight to prove that there is nothing of her; and the Tammany men, remembering what she was of old, accept the conflict in the faith that she is still equal to the greatness of other days. But, alas! she trembles, sho totters, she quakes, and comes up groggy every time. Has nobody a cordial? Who has got all the money? French Polit The progress toward a compromise be- tween Marshal MacMahon and the republi- cans is sure if slow. The Duke Decazes al Movements, has already, it is said, handed in his resignation, M. Grévy, the recog. nized head of the republican forces, hus taken a wise step in returning to Paris for the purpose of conferring with the Marshal, hat the Duke d’Audiff- ret-Pasquier is likely to be of the party shows that the republicans will not ask too much, for although the Duke has given his adhesion to the Republic he belongs to that conservative type for whom the word “constitutionalist” was invented, ‘Ihe publication by the Fiyaro of three pages of tho interviews with lead- ing men and journalists cabled to the Herarp on the eve of the election is as much a sign of its own enterprise as a compliment to our own, Probably on reading over these pleasant talks with their great men the Purisians will come to the long since, that these enfants terribles of cles. tion times are only such frightful fellows when they are talking for home consumption, Polit: Assessments. We are glad to learn that there is no truth in the story of arrangements being made by the authorities in the New York Post Office to levy assessments for political objects on the employés. It is one of the signs of the degradation of the public servant to a partisan tool when he is throttled by his superior and forced to pay a percentage to “the party” out of his often meagre salary. When President Hayes resolved to divorce the civil service from politics the abolition of compulsory assess- ments was one of the first steps needed, That Postmaster James has understood and applied the President's order will be a gratification to the honest citizens of all parties, no less than to those whom the old Zach Chandler ‘stand and deliver” system pinched severely. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Grant consumes consommé. Moltke nas beon on a strategical tour, 8. 8, Cox mistook a two-spot for ap ace, Many English women attend revolting trials, General Ben Butler ts getting spooney again. Secretary Evarts and Blind Tom are performing in Virginia, The Commercial thinks that the last fly is notan tay] thing. George Vandenboff returned from England yestere day on the City of Montreal. Dr, Schwoinfarth will return to Africa because he can- not stand the climate of Europe. Evarts says he did not know that his promise to the Pennsylvania delegation was loaded, Mr, J. H. Hegormaun-Lindencrone, Danish Minister ‘at Washington, is at the Albemarle Hotel. Victor Hugo’s vow drink is a plagiarism, It isa cocktail, But what is acocktail, anyway? Right Hon. Lyon Playfair, M. P., of England, arrived at the Windsor Hotel yesterday, from Boston, General Butler has proposed again this week, and he says he has the bunting to wrap tho Jittle baby to, It 1s just like the Courter-Journal to say thatit Tweed had used tobacco he would have stolon the whole United States, Thero 1s acynic in Detroit who thinks that the difference between the dress ofa man and a woman nowadays is in getting over u fence, Tho last girl to whom Butler proposed said:—‘‘Gon- eral, I love you for your piety, but I would not always want to foel that you looked at mo as if I were a sawe buck.’ AMUSEMENTS. STEINWAV HALL—THEODORE THOMAS, Tho first public rebearsa! by Theodore Thomas took place yosterday afternoon in the presence of one of the lurgest and most fashionable audicncesthat evor assem- bled in Steinway Hall. A more brilliant success could not be recorded, The programme consisted of selections trom Mozart, Handel, Becthoven, Wagner and Liszt. In Beethoven's ‘Eroica’” the superb orchestra pro- duced some of its finest offects, especially in the interpretation of the ‘Marcia Funébre,’* The entire symphony, however, was faultlossly rendered, The concerto for string orchestra, with two solo violing und violoncello, by Hundel, portormed by Messrs. H. Brandt, C, Hamm and Fr. Burgner, was also a chief feature of the entertainment and was warmly applauded, Tho imtroduction and quintet h act of “Die Meistersingor Vou Nurnberg”), by or, is one of those severely classical etforts Tequire inore than a single heartug in order to secure a full appresiation of its beauties, Ia fact, Wagner in evorything demands study, untolds bis meaning to the ordinary ear bat slowly, and only fluds a clientele when he is understood, ‘The voices.in this part are secondary, but. sho inatrus mentation is intended to produco grand effects, tor there arg in tho theme lights aod shades of harmony aod a commingling of tenderness and strongth on which the great composer depends for its suc- cesstul presentation, Its rendition by the orchestra yesterday, aided by M May Moss, Miss Antonia Henne, Mr. Theodore dt, Mr. Bersin and srang Remmoertz was purticularly flac, and illustrated the conscientious cure with which all of tho artists en- gaged im their work, The perlormance ended with the well kuown symphonic poem, “Lumonio e Trionto,” by Liszt, in which was again illustrated the delicacy of expression and finish of execu. tion for which this. orchestra have — beco notoworthy, In fact, Mr. Thomas-appears to bi been singularly fortunate in bis choice of members uf the musical profession whose intelligence 1s in sym- pathy with bis own, and whose ambition it 18 to mako their individual performances contribute to the per- fect coloring of @ uatmonious and beautiful picture. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—ANNUAL BENEFIT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ORPHAN ASYLUM. An immenso audience assembled yesterday after: hoon and evening in the Academy of Music to enjoy the annual ecateriainment given for the benefit of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. The several Mavagers of the city having generously per- mitted their artists to voluutoer in the good cause, the performance was varied, unique and attractive, In the alterncon the programmo con: id of three acts of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’’ Gus Williams in his Wuteb characters, Mr. Cuaries Backus 10 hia imi. tations, a recitation of “The Babes in the Wood,” the third uct of “Pink Dominos,” the second act of “Hero,” a lecture by Hugh Dougherty, of Bryaut’s Minstrels, as the modern Demos- thenes; the Happy’ Family, “Bobby Newcowvo,” and the Jubilee Singers, In the evening Mr. Harry Clark appeared in his “irish Geotleman’s Ecceutricities;” the Clarke Brothers, of the Olympic, in their comic music; wierd and Shannon in their Bpeciaitic: larrigan und Hart in their irish sketcu, outitied, @ Bradys,” and Lotta as * Nau, tho Good for Noshing,” “Mr. 8, B, Mills, the ominent pianist, Tony Pastor, Miss Sidney Cowell and others likewise contributed to the pieusure of the large , 2Nd the joint efforts made during the day evening by the parties named doubtiess resulted ja a handsome addition to the funds of the institution, THEATRE FRANCAIS, The play at the French theatre on Twenty-third strect last night was Barridre’s “Les Faux Bonsbom: mos.” The five ‘faux bonshomime,’’ were aumirably acted by MM. Chamouin, Bouteloup, Nerville, dZebrand Karl. The Edgard given by M. Belher re minded one of Fechter, wlthough without suspicion of imitation. Octave, by M. Veniat, was rendered with such vividness as to call out no little applause, espe cially in the er purt of the piece, in which Octave assumes a character opposite to bis nature in order to: gain hig point—namely, the daughter of Peponer Yopouet, by M. Chamouin, and Duiourd, by M. Nore vile, were, perhaps, the most interestiug imporsona- tions, although, Where every aetor, even those taking Uie least important parts, were so excellent, It seeing invidious to make contparisons. The last night, though given, techoicully, without atar,”? wus & most charmiug porforimance trom beginning to cud. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Bryant’s Minstrels uow embrace somo of the best 8 connected with the profession, and their enters tainment is one which nightly attracts large aud ap- prociative audiences. Amoug tho now faces of the present week 1# thatot Mr, Arthur Bont, the cornet solowt, who divided honors with Arbuckle duriog the Gilmore Gurden concerts, On Sunday, November 4, a grand concert will be given at the Church of St. Francis Xavier, in Sixteenth street, for the purpode of raising funds for the con~ struction of anew religious edifice which has beea commenced by the Jesuit Fathors, Among the musl- cal attractions will be Gilmor Band and soveral of the most distingutoned solo artizts in the city, Mr. Jeflerson’s Orst matinége of “Rip Van Winkto” will occur to-morrow, and the indications are that It will be a crush, The evening performance terminater now ata quarter to cleven, and the matinée will be over athulf-past four, giving plenty of time for sub urban visitors to either performance to reach tho a0 commodation trains, fhe entire engagement al Booth’s Theatre promises to be @ brilliant success, Orders for seats pour ta by mail and télegram trom every State in this vicinity, showing that our readert have beard of Mr, JeMors determination to play to no other city this season, and are resolved to see him here at least, while they may. The en- thasiasm = with which he ts welcomed every night and the crowds which attend his periormances demonstrate the marvellons magnetism ‘Of this great artist, and indicate that the spell of the magictan over his audiences is ag potent as ever, Se great bas been the demand tor 3 that the box sheet hus been opened already for his third week, and ina tow days pl may be secured for any night during Ar, Jeiferson’s engagowent