The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1877, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. HE DAILY HERALD, published nae Tarea conta per copy toundiys excluded)” ‘eu Gollard per er ss. ‘or at a rate of one dollar per month for any period less x'monthe, or five doliars lor six months, Sunday OWREKLY REMALD.One dollar per your, tre0 of post: JOTICE TO SUASCRIBERS.—In order to inaure atten, bers wishing shat Addrocs changed tut give ‘ vor elegrapble despatches must fasta tiers and packaces should be properly sealed. ‘communications will not be rocurned. A Se eo acdc PORADELPHIa OFFICE-NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH They OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— wEaCk STREET. Ais UE DE LiOPERA, TO-NIGHT, AIBLO’S GARDEN—Massamix.vo. AMUSEMENTS PARK THEATRE—Causinn Thackoun. THEATRE COMIQUE—Down Broapway. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. MBADE'S MIDGETS HALL SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREI BGYPTIAN HALL—Vamur: AMERICAN INSTITUT THE NEW AMERICA BRYANT’S OPERA HOU. TIVOLI THEATRE—Vanu OLEMRIG THEATRE—V an YEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMDER 5, 1877, Importaxr Novick 10 ADVERTISERS.— Zo ineure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely necessury that they be handed in Defore eight o'clock every evening. | From our reports this morning the probabilities @re that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy or fair followed by increasing cloudsness and rain, Tur PourricaL Canvass in Pennsylvania has been exceedingly dull, particularly on the re publican side, and it is thought the democrats stand a moni chance of carrying the State. SENATOR Morrow's death will compel a reor- ganization of the committees of the Senate. A new head will have to be selected for the Com- mittee on Privileges and Elections, which has become doubly important because of the Louisi- ana contests and the relative strength of both parties in the Senate. Tux Hanp Ties seem to have a stimulating tffect on our inventors. During October the re- ceipts of the Patent Office were, with two excep- tions, larger than those of any month since the establishment of the bureau. The fact, perhaps, Mustrates the truth of the old proverb that necessity is the mother of invention. A Report of one of the departments of the Post Office shows that the extraordinary num ber of nearly four and one-half million letters were registered during the past year, or about one letter for every ten persons. ‘The record shows that only one in every five thousand of these letters bas been lost, and of ,the number that disappeared a large portion wis recovered. Waite tur Late War lasted the. Bahama Islands were in a flourishing condition, but since Its close their importance commercially and politically has declined. ‘They did an immense business in blockade running, but now their main reliance is on pineapples, the exports of which to this country amount to about one hun- The Anti-Tammany Coalttion—Will Victory Perch on Its Banners? Machine politicians are often as purblind as they are zealous, seeking present success at the expense of future power, and ready to kill the fowl that lays the golden eggs. This lack of political foresight and breadth is strikingly exhibited in this city canvass, wherein the democratic leaders are fighting to uphold Tammany, which is the curse and opprobrium of their party, and the republican leaders are straining every nerve to destroy an organization which is the source of what- ever influence they may have in city poli- tics. If Tammany were disbanded, reliev- ing the democratic party of the city from a despotic centralism, the republic- ans would lose those constant opportunities to form coalitions which, whenever the com- bination is successful, give them a consider- able share of the local offices, although they are in a permanent and hopeless mi- nority in the city. Tammany is the prolitic mother of these intestine dissensions which keep the city democracy in perpetual hot water and always furnish a mutinous con- tingent to reinforce the otherwise powerless republicans. Looking at politics in the ordinary vulgar sense of a scramble for office and spoils, it is the interest of the republicans to desire long life for Taminany which maintains a constant line of change in the democratic party which they can utilize, and the interest of the democrats to have that organization dissolved, which would insure them an easy victory in overy city election. The cost of this city election to the demo- cratic party in money, effort, turmoil and anxiety will be enormous; but with Tam- ‘ many out of the way the democratic candi- dates in-every election might walk over the coutse.... If this intolerant and domincering organization were abolished all tho ambi- tiona men of the party would stand on the same footing and have an equal chance. They would freely compete with one an- other for the nominations, as democratic leaders do in the rural districts, and when the nominating conventions had acted all hands would turn in and give a united sup- port to the candidates. If the organization of the party here were what it is everywhero else the local candidates would receive the same uniform supportas the State candi- dates, and the present enormous election expenses would be reduced to the mere cost of printing end distributing the tickets. But Tammany has not the slightest inten- tion of abandoning its organization, and is now fighting for its existence with as much resolute vigor as if the fate of the democratic party were staked on the result. The anti- Tammany democrats are maintaining their side of the contest with equal zeal, encour- aged by the hope that if Tammany is beaten now it will be a fatal blow to that irrespon- sible oligarchy. ‘heir alliance with the republicans gives them great strength in this. canvass, and they are willing to pay any price in city offices if they can teach the next State Convention that it is mot safe to snub and humiliate the demoérati¢ opi- ponents of Tammany as it did at Albany. Tho whole contest in this city hinges on Tammany. To be sure thero are little per- sonal eddies here and there in the Assembly districts and the Aldermanic districts, and a strong personal eddy in tho Seventh Sena- torial district, but the main sweep of the two grand political currents which will come into conflict and dash each other into foam to-morrow is pro-‘Tammany on the one side and anti-Tammany on the other. Tam- many is the key of the political situation in this contest. Tammany is like a height which commands a besieged town; if car- ried by the enemy the whole town is defenceless, but the occupants are se- cure so long as they can hold it. If ‘Tammany carries this election its control of dred thousand dollars a year. ‘Those not in the trade will be surprised to hear that there is an almost prohibitory tariff on the article. Accord- ing to the reports to the State Department thero is a chance to extend our trade in a small way with those islands, and we know that every lit- tle helps. ‘Tre Sermons yesterday covered a wide relig. fous field and were unusually practical, elo- quent and able. » Mr. Beecher preached on the immortality of the soul, Dr. Armitage on the lesson of the Passover, the Rey. Mr. Willis on political aud religious intolerance and Dr. Hep- worth on the three ideals of mankind in history. Dr. Frothingham advanced his peculiar opinions under the title of “The Business:ot Religion,” which he declared to be the most universal on the face of the earth. He told his hearers, with the utmost confidence in his own infallibility, that the Catholic and the Protestant churches are alike doomed. One has almost gone, and the other is rapidly following it, If they would only they would become the greatest religious bodies the world ever saw. Mr. Froth- ingham ought to be made Pope. Tux Weatuy! which developed its ward of the Mississipy yelonic storm, tiver, arose from condi- tions which originated to the westward of this continent. These were modified cousiderably while influenced by the topography of the Rocky Mountain regions, but, nevertheless, presented amarked continuity throughout the transcon- tinental movement. Similar conditions now combine to produce a similar result, and we find another disturbance advancing into the Missis- sippi Valley from the same district whence the recent storm cume—namely, the region between the thirty-ifth and forty-tifth parallels east of the mountains, ‘These depressions develop into | storms when they occur in deep curvatures of the zone of high pressure. It invariably hap | pens that they increase in energy when the | ijsobars of mean pressure before and behind the depression run north and south, as was the case | when the late storm entered the Mississippi | Valley as on elongated barometric trough. When, however, the area of pressure below the mean increases by reason of what may be termed the straightening out of the goue of bigh pressure { east to west, the euergy of the storm diminishes in proportion. The storm now approaching will probably enter the lower lake region trom the Ohio Valley and pase northeastward through the St. Lawrence Valley, but it is possible that its energy will diminish as it approaches tho Atlan Rain and snow precedo the disturban from Mawitoba to the Gulf, the temperature also rising in front of the storm and falling | behind it. The weather in New Yoyk and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy or fair, followed by increasing cloudiness and rain. The weather bere on election day will probably be rainy. | men-at-Large afford | voting for judicial officers, city politics is insured for some time to come; if Tammany loses this election it will be so crippled and shattered that its enemies will have strong hopes of toppling the whole organization into o shapeless mass of ruins. The defeat or success of Tammany is the one predominant, over- shadowing issue in this canvass, an issue which dwarfs all personal preferences, which impels many republicans to waive their rooted dislike of John Morrissey and reconciles many democrats to re- publican candidates for whom they eare nothing personally and with whom ‘they wonld not consent to act politi- cally except for once with a view to a special end. Mere spectators of the contest, who hold all selfish factions in equal contempt, ate more indifferent than, perhaps, they ought to be as to the result. Still, there are prob- ably enough of these indifferent or cynical citizens toturn the scale in so close a con- test as the present, Such citizens, who stand scornfully aloof from the squabbles of spoils-hunting politicians, and try to spy out candidates fit to be voted for on grounds of personal capacity and integrity, and who think :t is always safe to support capable, honest men, will survey the ground and try to give their suffrages for proper men, A few thousand, and perhaps a few hundred, of such discriminating voters may be able to turn the scale in favor of the candidates they prefer. The office of Register is the one upon which the vote will be the most accurate test of the anti-Tammany strength because, at that particular point, the canvass is less complicated with extraneous considerations. The Assembly districts, and even the Sena- torial districts, are mere fractions of the city, and the success or failure of candi- dates in them will be no criterion of the strength of parties in the city ut large. Nor will the vote on the Alder- such a criterion, because, the principle of minority repre- sentation being established with reference to them, their election does not present a clean and square party issue, The vote for judges will be no test, asa large portion of our citizens pay little regard to party polities in ‘Lhere is ac- cordingly in this election but one office--that of Register—in filling which the Tammany and anti-Tammany forces will be brought into direct conflict throughout the whole line of battle. ‘The vote for Register will be the chief test of the Tammany and anti- Tammany strength, but even this will be acietienk tik and by cack’ oonsidern- tions. In so close a contest the small body of voters who look only to personal qualifica- tions may possibly control the result, and this class of voters will be likely to prefer Judge Loew to Mr. Hess. They have no reason to doubt that Mr. Hess is an honora- ble and worthy man, but they do not per- ceive that his pursuits and training have fitted him to discharge the duties of the oftice for which he is running. Mr. Hess is merely a successful business man in Washington Market, whereas his competi- tor is a man whose education as a lawyer and his experience as 4 judge in one of our most important courts have made him familiar with the nature of such official duties as he will have to per- form if he should be elected Register. His standing in this community and his tried ability and integrity in a position of high public trust are grounds of confidence with citizens whose party prodilections are not very strong. As a mere questionof personal fitness we suppose there could be little hesi- tation in deciding between the qualifications of these two gentlemen. Whether the dis- like of Tammany may be widely enough diffused to override the question of personal fitness remains to be seen. Mr. Hess has not been selected for his qualifications so much as because his German birth is ex- pected to recommend him to citizens of that nationality. But Judge Loew is also of German descent, and his rival has no great advantage of him in this respect. It may be doubted whether a wholesale capture of German votes can be made by a republican coalition in the present state of the liquor question. Our German citizens are practically unani- mous in their detestation of prohibition laws, and since the decision of the Court of Appeals, a few months since, it has become a matter of’ urgency to securo a fair and lib- eral license law. Such a law can be expected only from the democratic party, and while the liquor law remains in its present unsat- isfactory state the hope of divorcing the whole German vote from the democrats seems a little sanguine if not chimerical. The French Ministry. Announcement is wade in Paris of the names of the men who are to succeed the present Ministry on Tuesday next; but the announcement is not official, and the names have perhaps been permitted to become public in order to feel ao little the pressure of public opinion, There may therefore be some changes of names ere the critical hour arrives; but the same wrong-headed obstinacy that has made this Ministry—that has prevented an honest acceptance of the decision of the country—will also prevent any change likely to be regarded as satisfac- tory to the majority. There is not a name in the new Ministry that can be regarded otherwise than as an impertinence in the circumstances, There are two functionaries of the present government, two Senators of the Right and a former Minister scarcely less hostile to the policy of the republican party than the men now in power. It is a makeshift Ministry, that will serve to get the present Ministers out of office, but will not stand an hour before the Chamber. These Ministers have not assailed the Re- public as have those whose places they take, and will only not excite the same sentiment of acrimony on that ac- count. But their appointment in view of the result of the elections is an insult, an expression of contempt for the popular ver- dict, and will be resented as such. For what reason is achange of Ministry neces- sary? Because the country has declared against the purposes and policy of the Ministry of the 16th of May. Change is necessary, therefore, to harmonize the Ministry with the organs of the known national opinion. It is absurd, then, to make any change that does not accomplish this. Yet that is the sort of change actually made. This isa change that again palters with the vital principle of free government. It pretends to accept the national decision ‘by the retirement of those who were op- posed to the party that has the majority of voices, yet does not honestly accept that decision, because it appoints in their places men of the samo or nearly the same con- victions, illness Secret Negotiations. A singular report comes from Washington that certain republican Senators, in their anxiety to defeat Mr. Hayes’ nominations, are intriguing with democratic Senators with the object of getting enough of these to join them to assure the success of this plot. It is an open secret in political cireles that such a scheme was tried last March to deteat the new President's Cabinet nomina- tions, It failed then. Will it fail again? We should suppose so were it not tora ramor, which one of our Washington corre- spondents reports, that Messrs. Spofford and Eustis, the democratic Senators from Louis- iana, now asking for the seats to which they are undoubtedly entitled, have been made to understand that they can be seated at once by the action and votes of republican Senators opposed tothe President if they can bring enough democratic votes over to these to defeat the President’s nominations. Our correspondent sends this only as a'ru- mor, but we should think it not unlikely to be well founded. The administration re- publicans have not so far shown any desire or intention to seat Messrs. Spofford and Eustis ; they have remained silent, and, so far as is known, are ready to vote for Mr. Kellogg rather than Mr, Spofford. It would not be unnatural, under the circumstances, if the Lousiana democratic Senators should listen to propositions from the opponents of the President, and the President's friends in the Senate would have only themselves to blame if they should wake up some morning in executive session and find that a coalition had been formed against them strong enough to defeat them, We do not advise any democrats to join such a coalition ; on the contrary, we trust the democratic Senators will take the true and honest ground, that all nominations of a proper character ought to be confirmed, But if the administration should meet with astinging defeat in the Senate we must say that its friends there will have only them- selves to blame. Why have they not seated Messrs, Spofford and Eustis? Spain and the United States. An uncommonly full and free expression will be found in another column of the views of the Spanish Minister of State on the several topics that are of common inter- est between his country and ours. These opinions are given in conversation with a Henatp correspondent who had waited on the Minister to got some light on the en- tanglement of our relations with Spain in regard to tonnage duties, By section 4,219 of the Laws of the United States it is pro- vided that a duty of thirty cents per ton shall be collected on the vessels of friendly nations with whom our people trade, “provided that the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of any foreign nation to which such vessels belong, so far as they operate to the disad- vantage of the United States, have been abolished.” Otherwise the duty is eighty cents per ton instead of thirty. In the case of Spain, as the public is now informed, the President was not thus satisfied, and this retaliatory possibility of the law was brought out; all of which was due to the negligence of the Spanish authorities. ‘This has, no doubt, been made clear at Madrid ere this, and the money collected on Spanish commerce in the necessary dischargo of a legal formality will be refunded. ‘The incident -emphasizes the point to which our correspondent refer- red—the importance of having the trade be- tween two such countries regulated by o commercial treaty. It is, for instance, especially provided in the above section of the laws that their operation in this respect shall not impair any treaty rights or privi- leges. It is urged by the Spanish Minister that the great obstacle to the formation ofa commercial treaty is a Spanish prejudice— the notion, namely, that the treaty would lead to a great increase of commercial trans- actions between the United States and Cuba, and that this increased intercourse would induce on either side an aspiration for the abolition of all obstacles to com- merce—in short, to the annexation of the island to this country. This may be true; but if Cuba can only be preserved to Spain by a policy which moves directly toward the crippling and destruction of trade with that island of what value will it ultimately be to preserve it? The Seventh Senatorial District. The brunt of the battle in this great con- flict between Tammany and anti-Tammany happens to fall in the Seventh Senatorial district. Mr. Morrissey, whose indomitable pluck deserves recognition, decided, after the door of the Albany Convention was slammed in his face, to beard John Kelly in his own district, and declining o nomination in the Fourth, which he could easily have carried, he sought and obtained one in the Seventh, thus “carrying the war into Africa,” like Scipio of old. Whether, like the renowned Scipio Africanus, he is to achieve a success com- mensurate with his courage, will remain a doubtful point until the votes shall havo been counted to-morrow night ; but in any event the’ gallantry and vigor which trans- ferred the war into the enemy’s territory will always be o brilliant featherin Mr. Mor- rissey's political cap. At the time he made that courageous de- cision he did not know against whom he would havetorun, Before Tammany ap- preciated the truly formidable strength of its antagonist in that district it put up a stock candidate, whom it afterward com- pelled to withdraw. It had great difficulty in finding a substitute willing to take the field against the defiant prowess of Morrissey. The nomination was of- fered in succession to some half a dozen prominent gentlemen, who did not think the chances of success justified them in accepting it, and in this crisis Mr. Schell was prevailed upon to put himself in “the deadly and imminent breach.” Mr. Schell cares nothing for the Senatorship ; it is an office which he would not think of accepting under any ordinary circumstances, If he had been certain of an election by ® unanimous vote of the district he would have respectfully but decidedly refused the use of his name. With his business relations and engagements he can ill afford to give two long winters to his party in Albany. But Tommany can as little afford to be beaten by John Morrissey in Mr. Kelly's own district. In point of chivalry Mr. Schell and Mr. Morrissey stand on an equally honorable footing. ‘Tho friends of each are doing their level best, and as things look to-day there is o preponderance of chances in favor of Mr. Schell. But the beaten candidate, whichever he may be, will have the credit of public spirit and gallantry. If it should be Mr. Morrissey, he will also deserve the credit of having treated his antagonist with generous cour- tesy, for he has made no personal attack on Mr. Schell and has rested his opposition solely on the ground that Mr. Schell is ao Tepresentative of detested Tammany and an ally of John Kelly, Mr, Morrissey, though beaten, will be a gainer by his gal- lant and manly contest. Having turned his republican defamers into eulogists ho can retire from politics for a season, if such should be the fortune of the battle, with a larger measure of respect than he has ever before enjoyed in this community. Perils of the Coast, On Friday last Long Branch had one of those annual visitations, ‘“‘the soverest storm that has been known on tho Jorsoy coast in many years,” each succeeding tem- pest having invariably that peculiar quality. Of course a great amount of damage has been done to the blufts at Long Branch, where there is very little protection against the destroying force of the waves when they are driven in by a southeasterly gale from the brond bosom of the Atlantic. It isa little surprising, considering the value of the land along the Long Branch shore, that no efficient protection against the inroads of the sea has been se- cured. Year after year propositions for such o safeguard have been agitated, but the discussion has led to no practical re- sults, and the cliffs have been bitten off mouthful by mouthful, until the fine drive from the East End to the West End Hotel is in danger of destruction, Buta far more gapouene man seems to have been neg- lected. The life-saving stations along the Jersey coast are not manned until November 15, and experience proves that many severe storms occur in October and early in No- vember, No life-saving car or mortar is ready for use, and the fishing boats, which alone aro available at this time, would have been valueless in a storm like that of Fri- day. Had a vessel gone ashore in the recent gale there would have been but a very meagre probability of saving a single life. The coast stations should certainly be put into full working order by the: firat week in October, The Earthquake. The districts of Northern New York and the States of Vermont, New Hamp- shire, Massachusetts and Connecticut and through the St. Lawrence Valley were severely shaken by an carthquake on yesterday morning. Accounts from various points along the line of dis- turbance agree as to its oecurrence about two o'clock, but the places af- fected seem to have experienced the shock in o lesser degree in proportion to their dis- tance to the southward of a line generally parallel to the St. Lawrence River. Of course it is difficult to define the line of greatest disturbance, on account of the absence of accurate data and the ten- dency of observers to exaggerate their ex- periences; but enough is known to indi- cate that the earthquake wave passed from west to east over a considerable area of territory with extraordinary rapidity. Terrestrial disturbances of this character are happily rare in these Northern latitudes. hey are more fre- quent in countries where volcanic moun- tain systems represent the points of outlet for the subterranean pressures that cause what are known as earthquakes. We are satisfied that investigation will prove that all earthquake shocks follow lines connecting points on tho earth's surface marked by volcanoes, And further, that the severity of the shocks increases in proportion as tho surface indications such as volcanoes repre- sent give evidence of a high or low degree of permanent disturbance. We can easily imagine the existence of great subterranean fissures connecting volcanic centres, and that the axes of these are the lines of disturbance. Now, tracing aline through the St. Lawrence Valley, its prolongation at either end would lead to a volcanic region. Southwesterly it would terminate at the northern end of the Mexi- can volcanic range. Northeasterly it would terminate at Mount Hecla in Iceland, a noted volcano. It will be remembered that when the news of the arrival of earth- quake waves on the west coast of this continent was announced recently we stated that the course of tho dis- turbance was from Japan through the Sandwich Islands to the South American coast. Later reports from these regions have verified our surmise. There is no doubt that this latest shaking of the earth is duo to causes similar to those that produced tho great disturbance that traversed the Pacific Ocean and ruined several South American cities. A Great Day for the American Turf. The races at Jerome Park to-morrow, in- cluding the meeting of the monarchs of the turf, Parole and Ten Broeck, will divide the publio interest with the race between the candidates for office, and, with fair weather, will no doubt attract one of the largest crowds ever gathered at that popular track, It was predicted at the Baltimore races last week that the election, which was held on one of the days of the meeting, would inter- fero with the attendance, but there were more people at the track on that day than on either of the others. No political excite- ment will prevent any person who can pos- sibly get out to Jerome Park to-morrow from witnessing one of the most interesting contests that has evor occurred there since the first race was started. Indeed, to judge from the number of people who visited the grounds yesterday to see the horses now preparing for the different events of tho day, and to hear the gossip as to chances of the various stables, one would suppose that greater interest is felt in the Parale and Ten Broeck raco than in the Senatorial race in the Seventh district. The betting on the quadrupeds is fully as heavy as on the bipeds, and no doubt thousands will “take in” both events by voting early and witnessing the start and finish at Jerome Park in the afternoon, the time for the great race being fixed at half-past three, It is gratifying to learn that the horses are all in good condition and fully recovered from the fatigue of their work at Baltimore. Fast running may therefore be anticipated, as excellent fields are already assured, although the entries for the mile and a quarter, the mile and a half and the steeple- chase do not close until this afternoon. To-morrow’s meeting is one of those exhibi- tions of spirit and enterprise which give character, tone and interest to the turf, and the preparations made for the accommoda- tion of a multitude of people within the grounds will not be labor thrown away. The Silver Swindle. The project to resurrect “the dollar of our daddies” and make it a full legal tender for tho discharge of all private debts and o | medium for paying principal and interest of the national bondsis a little toosteep. Silver, as a commodity, has fluctuated in value to the enormous extent of twenty-one per cent within the last three years. Until it shall have recovered ao settled value and main- tained it for a period of at least five years it would be o flight of financial lunacy to confer upon it the legal attributes sought to be given it by the silver cham- pions in Congress, The fundamental requi- site for a standard of value is that it shall be stable, but theré is hardly.a commodity which has been bought and sold in the mar- kets of the world for the last three years that has undergone such extreme mutations in price as silver. Its price began to decline in 1874, but it was not till May, 1875, that the change became so marked as to attract general attention. For forty years previous to 1874 the average price of silver in London was 60d, per ounce, never rising more than 3d. above that averago nor falling more than 1-2d. below it, But in July, 1876, its price had declined to 47d. per ounce, The price of silver has since risen, but the ‘dollar of our daddies” is atill below the value of a gold dollar. It may sink again when that “big bonanza," the Comstock lode, is worked to its full capacity of production, Itsowners have the strongest of possible motives for holding back and not flooding the silver market while their powerful lobby is ine triguing to get a dishonest silver bill passed through Congress. They are in search of a vast market, and will do nothing meanwhile to forfeit the gigantic stake tor which they are playing. A commodity which has fluc« tuated to the enormous extent of twenty-one per cent within the last three years cannot ‘| honestly be made a medium for the diss charge of debts, either public or private, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The following Americans are registered at'the Parts: bureau of the Hezarp J. A, Davis, Now Jersey. W. D, Baldwin, New York, Hotel Splendide, A. B, Denny, Boston, No, 3 Rue du Dauphine, Gorton W. Allen, New York, Hotel Splenaide, Mrs, J, P, Weaver, Brookiyn, Hotel du Louvre. Charles YP, Choate, Brooklyn, HOtol de l’Athénée, Professor Henry Givon, Florida, Hotel du Louvre, Louis Windmuller, New York, Hotel du Parlemeng 8. A. Gouldschmidt, New York, Hotel au Pariemom, Mrs. Matthow Bird and Mias Bird, New York, Grand Hotel. G. T. Denny and wife, Boston, No 3 Rue du Dam phine, Dr. Richard Thomas, Philadelphia, No, 26 Rue Am. sterdam, Gardner Colby, wife and daughter, Boston, Hotel’ Splendide, When Tennyson was in Paris two porters refused te permit him to loave bis room because they thought he was a lunatic, Tbe Marquis do Chambran, of France, \s at the Astor House, Senator Roscoe Conkling, of Ute, and ex-Senator Lyman frambull, of Illinois, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel, The editor of the Rochester Democrat does not think that the stovepipe is @ pipe of peace. Did he get a piece of her mina? ‘ ‘Tramps have signs for all ideas, A chalked cross on the fence shows that tho hostess puts only three lumps of sugar into the cofloe, This is too moan, Tho enemies of General Mo Clellan accuse him of saying to the German voters of Newark, ‘*Forward—shtop a leedie.’’ Tne Post and the Tribune, of Detroit, have com, solidated. The cross is a very fair ono, and the half. breed seems to resemble its father most, The law makes a witness swear that he will tell the whole truth, so help him, and then it imposes rulea ot evidence by which he is not permitted to toll it. New Orleans Picayune :—“The ola Ten Command ments were 80 personal that modern reformers have been obliged to set up new rules on a different alley.” ‘That Boston girl Belinda, who writes to the Globe, says that when she seos a shoemaker’s clerk trying on a pair of shoes for a young lady it jast makes her crawl, When General Butler asks a Rhode Island girl to marry bim she replies, ‘‘General, I respect your com- plimont, put I do not want to be a grandmether by proxy.’’ “Give us good pavements,”’—Ngw York HxRaup. ‘Be patients and you shall some day Lave them—al made of good intentions, 100,”’—Louisville Courier Journal, Minister Stoughton walked across from the Post Office yestorday in a though}ful, slow way, and his boots did not shine as they ought, Sti, he nasn’s begun to get the salary yet. President Hayes became acouainted with his present Socretary of State while the latter was called to Ohia to conduct a law case, It was then that Mr. Hayes, as Junior counsel, became influeacod by Mr. Evarts.... London Punch :—“'Mainma—'You’re a very naughty boy, Tommy, and I shall have to buy a whip and give you a good whipping. - Now, will you be good? ‘Tommy (with hesitatton)—‘Snall I be allowed to keog the whip after, Mammy?” Worceater Press:—‘‘ At the recent baby show im Boston the nearest approach to the line between baby- hood and nothingness was exemplified in an infant which weighed only a poundanda half, Thisinfantile prodigy exhibited by a South Acton mother, and when it squalls sbe has to spank 1 with a tace-ham mer.” ~ AMUSEMENTS, — FRANCIS XAVIER'S CHURCH—SACRED AND SELECT CONCERT, Under the direction of Mr. P. S. Gilmore and Dr, William Berge a grand sacred and select concert was given last night In St. Francis Xavier’s Church, on Sixteenth street, for the purpose of aiding the Jesuit futhers to complete tho new edifice that is now ST, in courso of rection. Gilmore’s band was present in full force, although not appear. img to ‘ts usual advantage on account of the inconvenient arrangement of the orchestral gal- lery, aud performed the overtures ‘‘Semiramide” and “Willtam ‘fell,’ by Rossini; a nocture roligioso, **Mon- aatery Bells; scloctions from various operas by Meyerbeer, and a grand coronation march {rom the “Prophet,” im which the full effect of the organ was introduced. Dr. Borge, the well known organist of vho church, also performed some of the dolightiul ex- temporizations for which he is famous, and which unlortunately have never found a place on paper, while Misses ‘Teresa and Mary Werneke and Signor Tamaro supplied vocal music of a high order and fully in keeping with the superb reputation of the choir, Mr. B, U. Bent played a fantasie briliante on the corne a Mr. F. Bracht in a flute solo was accompantod by the band while he im terpreted a favorite theme by Nicolai, The audience was large and appreciative, and it is catimated thal upward of $1,000 were realized in ald of the building fund. Tho entertainment was ono of the best of the kind that bas taken place at this church for many years, and tho director and bis coaijutors deserve not a litte praise for the artistic manner in which they of the occasion, contributed to the succe: MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. J. Rapier, a well known tenor robuste, makes hig appearance at Bryant’s Minstrels this evening. Janauschek, the tragedienne, opens this ovening at the Broadway Theatre in the “Song of Niebelungon.’! Robson and Crane are still playing at the Walnut Street Thoatre, Philadelphia, appearing this week in “Our Bachelors,” which is announced as a now plece, Aimée and her company open at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, this wook, Her farewoll Sua. day concert last night at tho Broadway was weil attended, Owing to the unusual demand for subscription tickets to the public rencarsals of Theodore Thomas a series of six extra public rehearsals ure to be given, the pare ticulars of which will be shortly announced, “Much Ado About Nothing” is to be revived thia week at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, ‘The reproduction of this fae comedy of Shakespeare is to be given with much elaboration and care, The “Chimes of Normandy’’ have mado such ade cided hit at the Fitth Avenue Theatre that the mam agement has determinod to keep this beautiful opert on the boards during the entire week, Mise Moliville has introduced soverul new songs. General Mite and Minnie Obom, the Midgets, will be exhibited this afternoon, from two to five P. M., om the oorner of Fourteonth street and Fifth avenue. ‘They weigh respectively nine and ten pounds Little hs less than five pounds, ta expected Max Adler's play has had a wook’s run at the Chest.’ ut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, where it was hand. somely placed on the stage and excellently played, “Her Second Husband” is a three act comedy, if Mr, Boueicault will kindly permit the word, but it ts tarci- cal aod bas not much plot. The serious parts of the play are weak and it 18 poorly constractod; but the dialogue ts lignt and witty in some of the scenes, The cast ot the ‘Lady of Lyons,” with which the dramatic season at the Filth Avenue Theatre opens ‘on the 12th, on the occasion of the New York début of Miss Mary Anderson, the young tragedienne, will probably include Messra Kben Plympton, J. B. Stud. Joy, Milnes Levick, Fred Robinson, F. 0. Smith and Edwin Marble, Mr. George Vandonhoff has volunteered 0 play with Miss Anderson during hor cogagemens ‘