The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1877, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD |*" **" ™*™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY published every day tn the yer. ‘Three ond Sasindeay” ren ao ° month tor an; eas naa OF at & ‘one dollar per Sees or Give dollars for six months, Sunday pa. LY NERALD.2Ove dollar Der year, tree of post- 'SOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS,—In order to insure atten- Mion subscribers wishing poser ly changed must give their old.ns well as their new address. basiness, news le:ters or telegraphic despatches must bs Por and RES be property sealed. on! Rejected communications will not be returned. citi dt acca PUILADELPHIa OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HBRALD- NO. 46 FLEET STREET. FARIS OFFICE AVENUE DE LOPERA A OFFIGE—NO, 7 STRATA PACE. Bul 18 and advertixements will be recetved and forwarded on the same terms asin New York. VOLUME XUI....-.0+0+ ernie NO dll AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. PARK THEATRE—Cxvsnx Tracepian. THEATRE PRANOAIS- Tux Lavy Buancas. GILMORE'S GARDEN—Lonvon Cincur amp Muxacenis, WALLACK’S THEATRE - Maxniacs. BOOTH’S THEATRE—Rir Van Wixxin, BROADWAY THEATRE—Bnvnui. GRAND OPERA HOUSK—Uncix Tom’s Caste ENGuisH Ores. AMERICAN INSTITU1E—Inpustar anp Mucnantos. YHE NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM—Cumosrrins, COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE—V 4 BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE—Mrvernzzsr. IVOLI THEATRE—Vaauerr. OLYMPIO THRATRE—Vanrery. TONY PASTOR'S—Vasiery._ MEADE’S MIDGETS HALL—Tux Mipcets. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7,187 Important Notice To ApveRtisens.—Zo insure the proper classification of advertisements i is'absolutely necessary that they be handed in before eight o'clock every evening. From our reports this morning the probabilsties Gre that the weather in New York and its vicinity today will be cold and fair. Tuer Stare Is Democratic by about fifteen thousand ; the Legislature republican. Massacuusetts.—Fifteen thousand majority is claimed for Governor Rice and the President's policy. New Jersry.—‘Little Mac” goes marching through Jersey with about thirteen thousand majority. Orp Virernta.—No republican ticket was in the field. For the democratic majority see the sumber of white men in the census. Mr. Morton's Successox.—The choice has fallen upon Mr. Voorhees, who was yesterday commissioned by Governor Williams. Mr. ‘Voorhees will hardly decline. Incrrsout 1x Luck.—A despatch from Colonel Robert M. Ingersoll’s home says he has been offered the mission to Germany, and is now on his way to Washington to see about it. Trains rm THE Arr.—There was a collision on the Elevated Railroad yesterday afternoon, which fortunately resulted in injury only to the rolling stock. The brakes were out of order. Tennesser’s Lecistature has been called to- gether to discuss a proposition to refund its debt, and the prevailing opinion is that it will be honest enough to accept the proposition of the creditors. Tue Keystone Sratr.—Pennsylvania appears to havo undergone a complete political revolu- tion. Republican losses are reported at nearly every point, and the republican majority of a year ago has been transferred to the democratio column. A Hrxt to Sparn.—Sweden, in pursuance of the vote of its inhabitants, has retroceded St. Bartholemy, one of the islands of the Antilles, toFrance. Let Spain take a vote in Cuba and see how it would come out. Soutn Canorina’s STATESMEN are getting along pretty well. Whittemore, of cadetship fame, has been indicted; ex-CongressmangSmalls has been let off by the Grand Jury, while the jury who have Cardozo’s fate in their hands are still out and it is thought will disagree. Mr. Joun Brovenam is so seriously ill that he has been compelled to leave the West, where he was playing, and is now on his way home. Mr. Brougham’s gloomy anticipation that he is returning to die will, it is to be hoped, prove to be unfounded. Tue Tanivy.—Mr. Fernando Wood's notice that he will at an early day begin the work of a revision of the tariff will create a lively sensa- tion in New England, Pennsylvania and other points. No portion of the statute books more sadly needs a r 5 Att Work anp No Pay.—A large number of the officers and soldiers who have been doing all the hard fighting on the Plains have not been paid for nearly nine months, while those in the pleasant Eastern forts and stations have re- coived their stipends regularly. Where are the paymasters and what is the trouble ? Cuerer’s Moxument.—Miss Clara Morris has generously undertaken to give a performance to-morrow evening for the benefit of the Custer monument. She gives not only her own services but also the expenses, which form no small amount. Mr. Wallack, who shares her patriot- fam and enthusiasm, gives the use of his theatre, #0 that the absolute receipts will go to the memorial fand. We trust the admirers of the gallant Custer will second tho efforts of Miss Morris and Mr. Wallack. Tre Waatnen.—During yesterday the move- ment of the storm off tho poast was much slower than its progress overland, At mid- night on Monday the storm centre was near Portland, Me., attended by rains and snow which oxtended over the lower lake region and’ the Middle and East Atlantic Btates. Last. evening the storm was passing | it NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1877—TRIPLE SHEET. Speaks in the Elec- tion. The election passed off in » quiet and or- derly manner in the city yesterday, and although in some districts, especially in that in which the contest between Mr. Mor- rissey and Mr. Schell was waged, much per- sonal feeling was manifested by the par- parted less tisans of the candidates, there were not so many disturbances of the peace as are ususl on election day. The threat- ened storm was fortunately postponed and the weather was clear and bright, although a keen wind served to remind those whose duty kept them at the polls of the approach of winter. As a rule there was little or no excitement in the vicinity of the polling places, the voter walking quietly up to deposit his ballot with ap- parent indifference as to the result, Throughout the city there were evident in- dications of the advantage realized by Tam- many in the discipline of its organization, the men on that side working efficiently and the arrangements for ballots and booths being admirable. On the other side the lack of organization was illustrated by the fact that in the lower districts of the city anti-Tammany ballots could not be ob- tained. The result in the State, in accordance with general expectation, has been a demo- cratic victory. The utter demoralization of the republican party after the Rochester /| Convention was too evident to render the defeat of the ticket problematical. It was, indeed, anticipated that the democratic majority would be much larger than it is, and such probably would have been the case but for the disaffection manifested at Albany. No doubt an attempt will be made to fasten on Mr. Conkling the stigma of having lost the State through his antagonism to the national administration. But this cannot fairly be done since New York has been democratic since 1874 and cast a much larger majority against Hayes, comparatively with the total vote, last year, than it casts against Conkling now. Besides, the administration republicans who denounced the Rochester platform and speeches indorsed the State ticket and therefore precluded themselves from charg- ing the defeat it has encountered to Senator Conkling’s account. Either they were insincere in indorsing the Rochester ticket or are as much responsible for its defeat as Mr. Conkling is. The democrats mmy, perhaps, find that they have drawn a white elephant in the lottery which has given them the prize of victory. The influences which brought about the nomination of the successful State ticket are supposed to be inimical to Gover- nor Tilden and his State policy ag being con- tinued under Governor Robinson. The State officers elect will speedily have to choose whether they will work in harmony with Governor Robinson’s administration or will array themselves against his policy. If they adopt the former course they must certainly disappoint the elements that placed them in power. If the latter, they will array against themselves the best por- tion of the democracy of the State. Tho returns thus far received indicate that the Senate is very close. A tie in that body seems not improbable and the majority either way will be small, with the chances now favoring the democrats. The repub- licans have carried the Assembly by a small majority. This is a great mis- fortune to the State, as it will no doubt insure the continuance of the par- tisan and disgraceful obstruction of tho reapportionment demanded by the consti- tution. It will also cripple and em- barrass Governor Robinson’s excellent administration. The republicans will, however, through this undeserved suc- cess, find themselves compelled to show their hands on the proposed amendment to the constitution curtailing the elective fran- chise, and this will be a severe political em- barrassment to many of their number. Their hands will be tied by the Governor's veto power, and we need not therefore anti- cipate any harmful legislation, The local result in the city is in its politi- eal aspect undecisive, the Tammany de- mocracy having probably lost more than they have gained by it. The prominent figure in the canvass has been John Mor- rissey, and he was made so by the voluntary act of the Tammany leaders. There was no roason why the Register should not have been put forward as the repre- sentative office on which the issue of Tammany or anti-Tammany was to be fought out. The Register runs thronghout the city, while Mr. Morrissey ran only in a Senatorial district. Yet Tammany chose to make its principal fight against John Mor- rissey, and as his defeat was the main object sought to be achieved by the rank and file and most imperiously demanded by the leaders, so his success will be regarded as the special discomfiture of Tammany, and will overshadow the more substantial county victory. There is no reason why this should have been so, except that the leaders chose to identify the policy of the party with their own per- sonal feelings and wishes, The tri- umph of Mr. Morrissey is as complete as itis surprising, and he stands conspicu- ously forward now as the leader of the anti- Tammany democracy, which has heretofore been hydra-headed. He had to contend against Tammany and against what has hitherto been regarded as a very important wing of the anti-Tammany forces—- namely, the party that follows the fortunes of ex-Sheriff O’Brien. He was destined to encounter a_ fiorce storm of personal denunciation, which was supposed would drive from his side the respectable voters of the dis- trict, especially in the republican ranks, northeastward from Newfoundland and a great | He was able to overcome all this, and even area of high pressure extended over all the ter- | to beat Mr. Kelly in his own election dis- ritory of the United States and Canada, except the region of the Northwest cast of the Rocky Mountains) ‘The depression now moving into Dakota and Montana trom the Territory of Utah is advancing tnpidly, and the indications are threatening in tho Northwest; but we do not believe the effects of the storm will be severely felt very far to the southward, as tho in that direction rises rapidly. The ure attending the depression is rola tively high, the lowest being the lake region and trict. This certainly must be the gratify- ing event of Mr. Morrissey’s life, for it proves that by a manly, upright course he has lived down an objectionable early record, and that his fellow citizens have confidence in tho honesty of his pres- ent professions. In Mr. Schell he met one whose social character and high reputation | made him a formidable opponent, and one whose election would havo dono honor to central districts. To-day the weather in New | any constituency. York and its vicinity will bo cold and fair Mr. Loew's success will give general 4 satisfaction, As the Registership was the | challenge be accepted and arrangements | in finding consolation in trifles while the principal county office in dispute Mr. Loew's election would, under ordinary circum- stances, be regarded as winning for Tam- many the laurel wreath of victory. But his majority is small in a city so strongly democratic as New York, and, as we have said, the Tammany leaders elected to make their party fight on Mr. Schell rather than on their candidate for Register. Mr. Loew owes his success more to his popularity with the people than to the mere machinery of his party. His op- ponent made an excellent run, under dis- couraging circumstances, and proved that his strength was not to be despised. But Mr. Leew had served faithfully on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas and had a reputation among the members of the Bar which did him good service in yesterday’s contest. It would have been singular if such a candi- date had failed to receive the indorsement of his fellow citizens for such an office as that of Register. Tammany succeeds in again securing the Board of Aldermen, and this destroys the hopes that have been entertained of a sort of checkmate to that organization through the Common Council. We shall not have Mr. Andrew H. Green for President of the Board of Aldermen and a member of the Board of Apportionment—a deprivation to which the city will submit with as good a grace as possible. We congratulate Tammany on the victory it has won, and coun- sel the organization to take warning by the slenderness of its majority. The people are resolved to have efficient and honest local government, and if they do not made for the organization ofan international rifle match at Paris during the exposition season of next year. The Silver Folly. Although the great and surprising ad- vantage of the champions of silver was won bya trick, there is no likelihood that the bad bill which was passed by the House on Monday and sent to the Senate will be recalled. Mr. Frye exposed the trick in the House yesterday and charged it upon its author, Mr, Bland; but he prudently for- bore to propose any action on the subject, which would have been promptly voted down by the triumphant inflationists, who have proved that they havea majority of a full House and would have gained a new victory if Mr. Frye had bronght the matter to a vote yesterday. It is certain that the Silver bill cannot be recalled from the Senate, and certain that, even if it were recalled, its supporters in the House are strong enough to repass it, even if all its opponents who have gone home to attend the State elections were present in their seats, The hope of defeating this lies first in the Senate, where the contest will be animated and the vote close, but secondly and mainly in the voto of Presi- dent Hayes. We rely with unfaltering confidence on the President to interpose his constitu- tional negative if this silver bill should pass the Senate, It is inconceivable that Mr, Hayes can ever sign a bill which would prostrate the national credit and make it impossible for the government ever to | sell another bond in Europe. President receive it from the present administration they will assuredly depose it and elect another in its place. The strong fight made by the opposition this year without organization, means or concentration of effort shows what the people may do when they are in earnest as to a change of local rulers. A Great Banquet to Grant. { If Paris is the place where good Ameri- cans go after death it is, all the same, oa good place for great Americans to go during’ life. The magnificent banquet tendered last evening in the gay capital to General Grant by the resident Americans is a proof of the latter. The three hundred and fifty Americans who greeted our great soldier so handsomely, one and all, thought so. As for the General himself, he has had so many courtesies from occasional kings and nobles that he must have felt a thrill of pleasure pass through him as he found himself face to face with a company in which every man was a sovereign. As for the ladies, God bless them, they are queens everywhere, Among those beside the General at last night’s banquet were men who carried the names, dear to all patriotic Americans, of Rochambeau and Lafayette. Thus did old France look kindly through the eyes of hor descendants upon the children of the Republic of the West which her blood and treasure did so much to found. Had it not been for the overwhelming compliments poured upon him like precious perfumed unguents by General Noyes and rubbed in by the applause of his beaming compatriots, the General would, doubtless, have touched upon this pleasant piece of international suggestiveness, for to the foremost Ameri- can soldier of our.age what could be more gratifying than the recognition of the great French names that shone in the galaxy around the Father of ourCountry? Happily M. de Lafayette brought this period before the minds of the banqucters in a graceful and telling manne. In every respect the banquet was a success and a fitting honor to our ex-President abroad. An International Rifle Match at Paris Next Year. Onur friends of the Irish rifle team are evidently dissatisfied with the results of the matches shot with the American cham- pions, and are anxious to win back if pos- sible the laurels lost at Creedmoor and Dol- lymount. In the expression of this desire they evince a praiseworthy pluck and per- sistency of purpose to win which re- flects credit upon them as riflemen. Our special cable despatch from Dublin an- nounces that the Irish team has sent a chal- lenge to the Americans to meet them next year at or near Paris and contest two matches—one for the famous Centen- nial trophy and one for the “glory of the thing”—between Ireland and America. We do not see why this challenge should not be accepted by our marksmen in the spirit in which it is sent. Perhaps the only obstacle in the way of ar- ranging the proposed matches may arise out of conditions governing contests for the Centennial trophy, and in case the British National Rifle Association should demand the right to compete in order to exclude Scotland and Ireland. But, as we under- stand it, the British team so-called proposes an entirely new basis of competition be- tween itself and the American team, leaving the Americans free to receive teams desiring to compete for the Centennial trophy from any country claiming a distinct nationality. Ifthe American National Rifle Association is willing to accept the Irish challenge to shoot next year at Paris we hope a Scottish team will also take part in the match for the Centennial trophy. The Scottish riflemen have exhibited an independence of spirit with regard to the arrogance of the rulidg powers at Wimbledon that certainly de- serves praise. As the British team at Creedmoor last September was only saved from ignominious defeat by the good shoot- ing of the Irish and Scottish members we would suggest to John Bull that he must learn how to shoot before he undertakes to dictate the terms of matches between riflemen. As many, if not all, of the American marks- men who have so gallantly and successfully defended the ‘‘Palma” at Creedmoor will visit Paris next year, a splendid rifle tour- nament can be organized with the co-opera- tion of Irish, Scotch and possibly French, Belgian, Austrian, German and _ Italian teams. None of the representatives of the countries named need feel ashamed of de« feat at the hands of an American team, and if our marksmen fail at Paris their repu- tation cannot suffer after past triumphs. By all means, therefore, let this plucky Hayes is not expected to take President Grant for his model in many re- spects, but Grant’s veto of the in- flation bill in April, 1874, was his wisest and most courageous act. Mr. Hayes more than any other citizen has reason to appreciate the value of that veto, for with- out it he would never have been President of the United States. Grant's veto of the ~inflation bill made Hayes the republican candidate for Governor of Ohio and caused the canvass to turn on the hard money issue. Hayes’ election as Governor was a signal hard money triumph in a State which is the chief nest of the inflation heresies, and it was that hard-won victory over the ‘rag baby” that made him the republican candi- date for the Presidency. Mr. Hayes is more irretrievably committed to sound views of the currency than any other public man in the United States, It is inconceivable that he should ‘turn his back upon him- self” and sign a repudiation bill which is infinitely more mischievous than the one which President Grant vetoed in 1874. The inflation bill of that year did not touch the public debt and the national credit. It merely contemplated an expansion of our paper currency, leaving the principal and interest of the national bonds to be paid in gold and the customs revenue to be cole lected in gold to furnish the means of pay- ment. But this infamous silver bill is a di- r@t assault on the public debt and the na- tional credit. If it should become a law all duties would be paid at the custom housés in silver, and the principal and interest of the government bonds would be paid in this same silver received from the importers of foreign merchandise. It is im- ‘possible that President Hayes should sign such a bill. The grand fiscal success to which his administration aspires is the re~ funding of the public debt at a low rate of interest, This implies the selling of new bonds to the amount of nearly a thousand million dollars. No European capitalist will touch a bond of the United States payable in silver. Weshall continue to be burdened with the heavy rate of six por cent interest on nearly one half of the national debt if this dishonest, repudiating silver bill should become a law. Weare confident that President Hayes will stand between the national credit and such a prostrating blow. If, which we do not be- lieve, this swindling bill should pass the Senate, it will be by a slender majority. Certain it is that it could not be repassed over the President’s veto. The country may therefore rely upon him as the efficient bulwark of the public credit. The value of a silver dollar is about ninety-two cents. The passage of the silver bill would therefore cheat the government out of eight per cent of its revenue from customs; would cheat the holders of govern- ment bonds out of eight per cent of their interest and principal; would cheat all pri- vate creditors out of the difference between the value of greenbacks and silver, which is about five percent. This infamous bill ought to be labelled ‘A short and easy method of cheating creditors.” It would be equally disastrous to the rich and the poor. The latter have something like fifteen hun- dred million dollars deposited in the savings banks of the country, and this swindling silver bill would cost these de- positors more than a hundred million dol- lars. We do not cease to-hope that it may be defeated in the Senate, but if this hope should be disappointed it would be a re- proach to President Hayes to doubt that he will use his constitational negative to up- hold the public credit and maintain the sanctity of national obligations. Results in the States. The result of the elections in the several States will probably be accepted at Wash- ington, if not with satisfaction, at least with a feeling that it might have been much worse than it is. New York's democratic victory will afford a sort of gratification, since it will be @egarded as the defeat of Senator Conkling and o rebuke of the spirit that animated the State Con- yention. ‘The defeat of the republicans in Pennsylvania cannot fail to be discomfit- ing, since the party gave an indorsement of the national administration which, although of about as much value as a servant's writ- ten character, was still an indorsement. It will, however, be claimed: that a defeat was anticipated in Pennsylvania, and no doubt the result was largely influenced by the Ohio election, the two States being more in political sympathy than any other two States of the Union. ‘Lhe repub- lican victory in Massachusetts comes in as a partial compensation for New York and Pennsylvania ; nevertheless it must be a hard mattor for an administration to persist leading States of the Union are falling one after another from its side. The republicans elect their Governor in Wisconsin and Minnesota and are success- ful in Kansas and Nebraska, although in all cases being compelled to accept reduced majorities. The democrats carry the State of New Jersey.and are successful also in Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia. In the two latter States there was no contest. In Connecticut the legislative election does not much change the political com- plexion of the State. On the whole, the elections have been highly encouraging tothe democracy, and, but for the hope- fulness of the administration, might be re- garded as discouraging to the President and his friends. The Capture of Erzeroum. One of the chief objects of the Russian campaign in Armenia is accomplished. Erzeroum, the capital of the province, is in the hands of Melikoff’s army, and Ghazi Moukhtar is retreating , west- ward, unable to hold his ground, This event is, without exception, the most important of the war, because by its occurrence the Russian army of invasion is placed in possession of secure winter quarters and in readiness to resume a vigorous offensive should the weather put an end to active operations during the winter season. Kars, closely in- vested and cut off by the capture of Erzeroum from any assistance, must now surrender, for a further defence of the fortress must prove absolutely useless and entail only an unnecessary loss of life. The completeness of Moukhtar’s overthrow at Alaja Dagh may be judged from the fact that he has been unable to ‘make any stand whatever for the defence of Erzeroum. The tide of Russian success after that fatal battle rolled his shattered army westward, giy- ing it no resting place wheréon to recover itsorganization. Heymann, Tergukasoffand Lasareff followed swiftly in pursuit of the Turks, while the Russian detachments from Ardahan were thrown between Artvin and Olti to hold in check any Turkish forces ascending the Valley of the Tchuruk Su to Moukhtar’s relief. The combinations of the Russians were, therefore, entirely success- fal, as can be seen by a perusal of the de- spatches from Erzeroum published this morn- ing. Whether the Russians will be satisfied with this success in Armenia this year de- pends on the Turkish movements, Tocom- plete the conquest of the province Trebizond and Batoum must be captured, but as these seacoast towns are commanded by the Turkish fleet it is un- likely that any serious attempt will be made against them for the present. They will, however, cease to be ports of supply for the Turkish army in Asia Minor, for the Russians will certainly closely blockade them on the land side, The occu- pation of Eszeroum will hg followed by the complete fortification of the city against the Turks, for Melikoff will hold tenaciously to his dearly purchased conquest. Moukhtar having ‘‘gone west” to ‘‘prepare his revenge” will probably be recalled and sacrificed to the passion of dis- appointment and alarm that must now fill the populace of Constantinople. ~ Making Peace in Europe, It is whispered in London that Lord Beaconsfield will again attend: the Lord Mayor's dinner, and in answer to the Min- isterial toast again treat the world to an Oriental sensation. As the news agents are in possession of the precise point with which he intends to deal it is to be presumed that they have had excellent sources of informa- tion, The Premier, it appears, is to put his foot down against the admission through the Dardanelles of Russian or other men- of-war. From the fact that the Premier deals in this way with this point at this particular time it seems to follow that the point is a source of division just now between the Cabinets, that it is under discussion, and this could only be the case if such entry of Russian ships was one of the conditions of a treaty of peace, But Disraeli’s course seems to in- volve further implications. It not only implies that a serious attempt is,on foot to make peace, and that the Russians insist on the freedom of the Dardanelles, but in addi- tion that the Porte is so likely to yield that a demonstration in London to strengthen the Ottoman backbone is thought necessary and timely. Consequently the British Pre- mier proposes to repeat the action by which - last year the Porte was induced to reject the acts of the Conference, in the hope that now it will reject a peace one of whose condi- tions appears to be unsavory in London, Congress Yesterday. The Senate was in session for forty minutes yesterday, and inthat time bills sufficient to occupy months and months of debate and legislation were presented. Among the important measures ina business way was one providing for the appointment of a com- mission to confer with a similar commission to be appointed by Mexico for the purpose of arranging a reciprocal commercial treaty between the two countries, This is a very important subject if we wish to extend our markets and find an outlet for our surplus productions, Mr. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill providing for a long four per cent bond for the investment of savings, which is a sort of a compromise on the postal savings bank proposition, In the House the debate on the anti-Resumption bill was begun by Mr. Phillips, of Kansas, who went over the old ad captandum argu- ments which are so familiar on the Western stump. Altogether the day was o profitless one in the two houses, Freedom of the Press. Within a day or two it bas been found necessary that a distriet attorney should in- form a counsellor in court that the freedom of the press is a national institution in this country. It is to be feared that some of the changes that have been made in regard to admission to the Bar have not been alto-~ gether in the nature of improvements, Formerly it was made an imperative condi- tion of the privilege to practise before the courts that » man should be of sound mind and possessed of average intelligence. fessional attributes than upon these cardinal points of intellectual operations. But the world of lawyers has been shunted from that original line. It has recently been de- manded that they should know the law, even at the expense of their knowing enough to go in when it mins. They must now know the law as taught in the schools and as prac- tised in the courts, and even know all the devious ways of pigeonhole science, as taught in the lawyers’ offices; but that men may know all this and be without common sense is shown by some conspicuous exam- ples; yet, for admission to the Bar, it seema that the elements of common sense are no longer demanded. Fancy o man in a court of justice in this city in these days and asking the Judge to make a rule in regard to how the news. papers shall report certain law cases! This was the fancy of an advocate who ap- peared for certain persons charged with smuggling. He wanted his cases reported verbatim, in order, perhaps, that his elo- quence might included; or, failing that, he wanted published a report that the opposing counsel should agree upon. Fail- ing both, he was prepared, no doubt, to invite the Judge to fulminate against the newspapers all the theatrical thunder of contempt of court. But the Court knew itself better and softly snubbed the learn: counsel into discreet silence. i sete * The French Ministry, |" |!‘ The Duke de Broglie and his accomplices of the 16th of May are still in office, on the day when the now Chamber micets. It seems, however, that it is not their fault, for the project of the Pouyer-Quertier Ministry is an evident indication of their desire to get out of the way and of their recognition that this could not be done without some device for covering their retreat. That Ministry had no other basis for its pro-’ posed existence than the conviction of the men now in power that their game had failed, but that they must keep up an appearance of battle, lest the whole conservative fabric should go to pieces in a stampede, and the Septennate itself be carried away with the rest. Pouyer- Quertier, Vogué, Delsol, and the others were to face the Chamber as champions of the same policy that De Broglie had pur- sued, with the certainty that they would be bowled out on the first vote, but with the hope that this ignominious fate might seem less disastrous to ‘‘conservative” interest in falling upon men comparatively obscure than if it had fallen upon the great leaders in the conflict. But the men put down for this convenient sacrifice did not like it, per= haps; or it may be that the Marshal himself objected toa plan which seemed to leave him in the lurch with a handful of nobodies, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Tho melancholy days, Old maids are prim roses, The silver men sing in bars, McClellan and Skobeleff like white kids, ft you lie about a man you always think less of yourselt. ‘ } Flies have gone and the mirror is covered with an early frost. No man goes home at twoin the morning through ‘beerings straights, Morton had very small eyes, but very bright ones, and women loved him, It will be noticed that this colamn is printed a good deal in the shape of an obelisk. A scientist asks, “Can fishescry?’? Yes; but we don’t give bread with one fish bawl. Newark has lost its mosquitoes, hut will solace itself during she winter witn a brasg band. After all, Sunset Cox bas not been treatea as a first class statesman by the democratic party, Senator George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on his way to Washington. Obio farmers aro planting musbroom spawn, and hope to raise a crop of oflice-soekers by the first of the year. A society woman of Chicago invited Miss Kollogg to, a ladies’ lunch. Miss Kellogg was asked to sing, and, like a true artist, refused. A correspondont wishes to know at what age a girl sboald no longer be kissed by hor male frienas. A lady suggests the age when she puts on long dresses, Dr, Reafleld writes to the Cincinnat! Commercial that the solid South adds Ohio to her list of victories, ‘and that the ultimate victory of the solid in the Union 18 oply a matter of moments, The correspondent of the Philadelphia Star, who ta not likely to say what he does not know, writes that Mr. Binine has gone home a vory sick man, with the warning from his physicians that caretulness alone ‘oan prevent danger of life, “Botter to be a boggar with raga and a happy heart, Than a king, in bis palace moping, and acting atyrant’s part,” Better to shoot a tomoat on the top of the uttermost fence, Than to squeeze a gentle lemon a year or so from hence, AMUSEMENTS, THEATRE FRANCAIS, ‘ “ile, De La Seigliéro,” a comedy in four acte,guy Emile Augier and Jules Saudeau, was produced at the Théatro Frangais la ening. This is one of the best known and most popular plays of the Paris Théatre Frangais. The scene is laid ip the time of Napoleon and the incidents have reference, to the political and social situation. Bernard, played by M. Voniot, is the son of a farmer, and falls in love with Héline, Mile, Leblanc, who is destined by her father for Raoul de Vaubert, M. Henriot, whom she does not love. Bernard has given up nis property, and it was thought that he had died, and others 100k possession; but De Fournelies, toe. avocat, played by M. Chamomin, insisted that ne should be reinstated, and everything ends happily, All the acting was good and unusaally equal, that of M. Chamomin being, huwever, the best. The dress. ing for the parts was hardly in keeping, the costu of tho firas and second Empires, being some mixed, iy MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES. The late Edwin Adams had a talent for writing verse, Ristori, Lander and Agnes Eth@l are jiving in Parte, Jerome Hopkins has completed his new opera, “Dumb Love.” The Florences aro mecting with success in their prosent tour, The Fryer company this week are at Pike's Opora House, Cincinnati, Miss Fanny Davenport has began an engagement at the Grand Opera House, Cincinnath “Mile. Bouligny will give a concert at Chickering Hall under the anspicos of several of the fashionable ladies of New York, Mr. Joseph Watson, of Nowport, will probably de liver his Jocturo on Shakespeare and his characters ig this city next month. A Boston critic doubts whother ‘Marriage’ has legs enough to anable it to mount upon the shelf where the so-called legitimate comedies are arranged for future use, Pappenheim has had a brilliant success in Boston during the past week, especially in “Trovatere,’ “Fidelio,” “Lohengria’” and “Los Hoguenots,” The local oritics likewise praise hor for prosonting a thor oughly artistic and in some rospects original portrait ure of Gretchen in “aust.” Mr. B. le Farjoon, the English novelist, and son-im Jaw of Mr. Joe Joflerson, occupied a box at tho Fifth Avenue Theatro last evening and evinced not a little interest in th exeitemont of the audienco ovor the election returns, which were posted conspicuoasly ia tho Jobby of tho thoatre and were choored by gontle men of various parties botwoon the acts of the merry Rather less stross was laid upon strictly pro- | “Onimes of Normandy.”