The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, publishet every day in the year. ‘cents per copy (Sundays excluded), Ten dollars per eur, or at arute of one dollar per month for any period less dban’ six months. or five dollurs for six months, Sanday edition inciuded. free of pustaxe. WEEKLY HERALD. ~One dollar per yeur, tree of posts ‘0 SUBSCRIBERS,--In orier t bing their address chun; their new address. + letters or telegraphic despatches must Re uddressed New Youu hrnato. Letters und packazes should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned, TA PACE. Subseriptions a ments will be received and ‘on the sme terms asin New York AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHD. ! ashamed ;" and he accord: | scheme for scaling down debts as a means PARK THEATRE THEATRE COMIQU UNION SQUARE TI! NEW YORK AQUAKIU RAGLE THE THEATRE FRANCAL GILMORE’S GARDE) WALLACK'S TH BOOTS TI BROADWAY THEATER Buancus. @1ncus 4Np MENAGERIE, Tek Benxvit Marige WiKi BOWERY THEATR: NIBLO’S GARDEN—Ma: FIFTH AY GERMANIA Th EGYPTIAN HAL MEIICAN Tr W AMERICA COLUMBIA OPERA NOU BRYANI’S OPERA HOU: SIVOLE THEATRE—Vat OLYMPIC THEATRE-Vani Waxy Guts OPERA Dik MeMOIKN Des TURFELS,, ‘RY AND WRCHANICS, —Cuniositins, Important “Novick 1o Apvertisers.—7o insure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely necessary that they be handed in before eight o'clock every exeniny, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York and ils vicinity to-day will be warmer and fair or partly cloudy, followed by increasing cloudiness and possibly rain, ‘The stock mar- ket was quiet but lower. Gold opencd at 103, | declined to 10234 closed at 102 Gov- ernment Londs were firm and railroad bonds irregular. Mor vent und clo yon call loaned at 6 a7 per | ti per cent. ew Court Hovsr will soon N Bids for completing the roof have ed. Mx. 'Twrep's be finished. been r Brooktyy’s Ciry Court has properly decided that a citizen who becomes of age on the day of election is entitled to vote. ‘tne Convic Jina’s ex-St; rather cn ring. or Carpozo, South Caro- makes the cutlook | for the other members of the late has some real | ry properly waiting for a rise. d to be to put it down low to ‘Tne Government, estate to sell, is v practice uw some ring Sr. Lovis’ n disappointed. The House Committee on the District of Colum Dia refuses to even consider the subject of the removal of the l stockholders of the y Will be interested re printed, ion. Tur Boxpuoipe Central Railroad of N. which is submitte The MaGnirr it BE vEST of nearly three hundred thousand dollars has been left to Car- dinal McCloskey by the late Mrs. Catherine city. tevening at 1 Society against ywding of the public schools. The Board of Health w Tne RaiLroap Companies took a pretty good slice of the public Iazds during the In round figures the number of ac nt purposes was about tive inillions, of Ww railroads captured uearly cight hundred thou- sand, so Was severely censured. Tue Navat Dericmexcy Bitw has at last been reported to the House. cers to pay interest on the advances they have been compelled to obtain solutely nec ought to be p To oblige the offi- y longer than is ab- It ary is a very rat injustice. eal aut once AN EXTRAORDINARY ‘TRIAL is now taking pl in the eapital of Ms One of the chic justices of the Supreme Bench of the State and one of the district judges are jointly charge With corruption in oflice and bribery. The trial very naturally attractsa great deal of attention, ‘yland, Tun Wearier.—The chief day’s weather conditions we tr » between th ern 8 ms of the territory Mountains. Th day's Henan mi but little though its influence on the weather extends | well into the Lower Mississippi and Ohio val. | leys it kas not ts of pressty t of the Rocky re ter- | le Lal s yet exhibited indications ward of the lake region. ‘The at pr hh was in West Virginia, has moved + ward to the coust | and has wow entered the Atlantic. The area Pounded by the isobar of thirty und one-tenth | A movement sur contre of hig! Whi inches pressure is about two — thousand five hundred miles from west to cast along the fortieth parallel, and fourteen | hundred miles from north to south, thas giv: | ing ar of three anda half millions of square | re of the United State ich clear we wn ius tniles of the sneta nd the | Atlantic within her prevails. We mention this jon of the ime mensity of the atuospheric volumes that move | over the continent and ocoan in obe nature's laws. Suet y always p Wee to u Vast areas of high pr reels and follow gre ss. Light snows and rain attend the western depression, and in the curvature of the south- ern margin of the zone of high pressure in the | Western Gulf a disturbance has been developed | whieh is also attended by light rains. ‘This | will probably unite with the more northern de- jon and form a barometric trough. In the Central, Southern and Atlantic districts the tem- perature is comparatively low. ‘Tle winds, cept in the Western Galf and the regions west of the Missouri, from southerly points. The weather iu } York and its Vicinity to- will be warmer and fair or partly cloudy, fol- Towed by increasing cloudiness and possibly Fmuse | bond payable in silver. | pay | nicious. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMB The Bland Silver B11—A Sponge for Public and Private Debts, Among the parables of the New Testament there is one constructed with such perfect verisimilitude that a part of it is worth quoting on this occasion, We refer to the parable of the ‘unjust steward,” who, hav- ing abused his trust, made a dishonest pro- vision for his future support. “I cannot dig,” said this ancient worthy; ‘to beg I am ly hit upon a} of establishing a claim upon the gratitude and charity of the debtors. He was too shrewd to draw a sponge across the whole amount of any debt and only wiped out ‘what he supposed would be a safe fraction. We insert so much of the parable of the un- just steward as may suffice for giving an idea of his method : 1am resolved what to do, so that when I atm put out of the stewaraship they may receive me into their Nouses, So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto ihe first, How much owest thou my lora? f And he said, a hundred measures of oil, And ho said, Take thy Dill apd sit down quickly and write filty. Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, a bundred meusures of wheat, And be said unto itm, Tuke thy vill and write four Bev! This unjust steward was the prototype of the silver schemers in Congress, who are attempting to curry favor with the debtor class by relieving them from full payment. So venerably ancient is the craft and cun- | ning which attempts to trade on the willing- ness of debtors to evade honest psyment and so true toa bad side of human nature is the representation in this parable. It is not a safe thing for the morals of people to be heavily in debt, as John Kandolph once pointed out, with a great profusion of his- toricul illustrations, running from Catiline’s conspiracy down to Shay’s rebellion, and including instances like Benedict Arnold by way of episode. It was by pandering to the hopes of debtors that Catiline, Shay and their like became formidable leaders, and by the weight of | personal debts that Arnold and men ot his type were tempted to betray their country. 'The silver champions present a milder form of the same pernicious influence, the class | to which they appeal not being desperate | debtors like those who followed Catiline, but only a set of people who, though per- fectly able, do not wish to puy in full, like those tampered with by the unjust steward. If there should ever arise in the West or elsewhere u large class of desperate debtors who were ready to apply the sponge to the whole of their obligations instead of toa part of them, it is probabie that they also | would find a host of demagogues ready to become their leaders and to echo and exag- gerate their sentiments. The silver champions in Congress have placed themselves on ground where none of the arguments in favor of a double standard can be brought into service. There are some able advocates of bi-metalism, although | there is a large preponderance of scientific opinion on the other side. Whatever force there may be in the arguinents of the bi- metalists none of them are available for the support of such a monstrous scheme as that which has passed the House. If an honest and intelligent advocate of double standard had been called upon to draft a bill for remonetizing silver, he would, first of all, have attempted to make the silver bullion in a silver dollar of the same value as the gold bullion in a gold dollar, thus se- curing creditors against fraud by payment in o debased currency. An honest and in- telligent author of a remonetizing law would next have explicitly exempted the principal and interest of the national debt from its operation, because, even if the silver a | and the gold dollar could be maintained at par, the sacred duty of maintaining the public credit untarnished forbids legislation which would cause distrust and unea: in the purchasers of our bonds. This ex- emption would cost nothing to our govern- ment if silver and gold dollars should be of equal value, but if there is to be any risk of depreciation the public creditors have a right to ask that the risk be borne by our- selves, at least in respect to past obligations, With regard to future obligations they would insure themselves against risk by in- sisting upon a high rate of interest and refusing to touch any new bond except at rates which would protect them against fluctuations in the value of silver. It would be bad policy to make silver a tender for the interest and principal of our national debt even if in remonetizing it we should so increase the amount of metal in the dollar as to make it equivalent to gold. Itis a fact known to every capitalist in Europe that within the short period of three years the price of silver has fluctuated to the enormous extent of twenty-one per cent, Until silver shall have regained its old com- ness | parative steadiness, and have maintained it for a period of five or eight years, our gov- | ernment could not sellin Europe a single Nothing is more certain than that if this infamous Bland | bill should become a law an utter stop would be put to the refunding of the public debt, and that shall continue to six per cent interest long r an honest policy would have reduced it to four per cent. Moreover, if our government pays the public debt in dollars | worth only ninety-two cents it will so com. | pletely forfeit its reputation for good faith | and financial honor that a subsequent offer of gold bonds would not restore confidence, because a nation which has deliberately we a cheated its creditors once would be thought | capable of forfeiting its honor a second time and cheating them again. T trictly domestic operation of this repudiating bill, if it should become a law, though not so deplorable as its effect an the national credit abroad, would be very per- Its most immediate effect would be on the revenues of the ment. For dollar now the Custom Howse there would be re- ceived but ninety-two cents, making an annual of twelve millions in that part of the public revenue. The fifteen govern- every paid at loss | hundred million dollars deposited in the savings banks of the country would be re- duced in the same ratio, because the savings banks deposits will soon be as An act of Cong making ninety-two cents | a dollar would t the poor who have de- posited their savings in these institutions out of one hundred and twenty million dol- good as gold, | tor of this State im gh jars. The holders of railroad stocks, of State, city and county bonds, as well as the whole class of ordinary creditors, would suffer in the same proportion. It is the method of the unjust steward in the parable practised on an infinitely larger scale and modernized in accordance with the trick of cheating by wholesale by altering the standard of value. The unjust steward was but a clumsy sharper in comparison with his modern imitators. In that simple age of barter, when debts of oil or wheat were paid in kind, the more refined artitice of paying in debased money did not afford-so ready s means of repudi- ating a portion of debts. If that ancient Fagin had instructed his disciples to call six pints a gallon, and then pay their oil debts in full, he would have made some ap- proach to modern accomplishments in the art of defrauding creditors, It seoms incredible that the Senateshould pass this bill. It was carried through the House with a rush and without debate. In the Senate it will have to pass the ordeal of discussion, and there are men enough in that body who have both the ability and the will to expose its true character. We are aware that there are among tho Senators many advocates of the double standard, and that ap honest attempt to establish it would probably be supported by a majority. But whatever may. be the advantages or dis- advantages of a double standard this Dill is a mere scheme for cheating creditors and prostrating the public credit. The argu- ments for and against bi-metallism have no pertinent application to sobold and bald a measure of repudiation and national dis- honor. But let the Senate do what it will we may safely rely on the President. It is utterly inconceivable that he will ever sign, a bill which would disgrace our government throughout the world, and would prevent his administration from taking another suc- cessful step in reducing the interest on the public debt. The refunding of the five- twenty bonds is the grand fiscal achieve- ment which the country expects of this ad- ministration, and if we can rely upon Mr. Hayes for anything it is for the unflinching use of his veto, if it should be necessary, for protecting the public credit. Another Score for Rapid Transit. Brighter days appear to be in store for rapid transit. The decision of Judge Rob- inson yesterday dissolving the Story in- junction, which sought to restrain the New York Elevated Railroad Company from building their road in front of his premises in Front street, is a very decided victory and should secure both roads from further vexatious obstruction through the courts. In this case the complaint is dismissed, with costs, which will bea lesson to those who invoke the law in the future to prevent the completion of these great public improve- ments without having solid grounds on which to rest their suits. The filing of the Judge’s decision was the signal for the im- mediante recommencement of work on the Elevated road’s extension, and the question of rapid transit on the cast side may now be considered as no longer problemati- eal, The Third Avenue Hotse Car Company has, indeed, made profession of an intention to give the people a wonder- fully efficient and cheap rapid transit road on its own account, and if it felt disposed to take hold of the matter in good faith it could, no doubt, carry out its promise. But the people have not much confidence in the professions of these horse car companies, and would require from the Third avenue corporation pretty stringent bonds binding them to the completion of the promised road, It is gratifying to know that Judge Robinson's decision is likely to insure an east side rapid tfansit line without trusting to the Third avenue corporation's word. The Gilbert road, on West Broadway, is being pushed with much vigor, and work has commenced on Sixth avenue. Indeed, the activity now seems to promise ac- tual results. It is also a matter of congratu- lation that some of the most unscrupulous and dangerous enemies of rapid transit in the last Legislature are this year privileged by their constituencies to return to private life. Menacing Electors, It is alleged that on Monday last, the day before the election, a notice was issued by the Seventh Avenue Railroad Company, signed by James W. Foshay, the president of the company, directing the conductors and drivers employed on that line to get their votes at a certain room in the com- pany's building and of a certain person and not to vote until they had done so, the inter- ests of the company and its employés being identical, The notice added, ‘Every ems ployé is expected to comply with the above.” It is further alleged that a driver and con- ductor who refused to vote in accordance with the d ons of the company were forthwith discharged. ‘Lhis direct attempt to control the votes of the employés of the company in question, tially if accompanied by the discharge of those who refused to submit to the dict tion of their employers, seems to come clearly within the meaning of section 4 of tile 7, chapter 6, part 1, volume 1 of the d Statutes of New York, which pro- follows: — If avy person shall by bribery cher corrupt means or device Whatso espe SKcTION ‘menace’? ‘either ce uny elece Ws lis Vole or bailot,”’ oF dee wine or disturb ur hinder @ of the right of suilrage,”? at Stute hold pursuant to tn 1 be couvicted, such person shalt be adjudged gail ined or imprisoned according yurt before which such cons vielion such tue in ny case to exceed five hundred dollars nor such imprisonment one year Under any circumstances the action of this railroad company would be reprehen- sible. But when it is remembered that it is the act of a corporation which has received the gift of a valuable fran- chise from the people of New York, and which seeks to unduly control legisla- tion by the election of Senators and Assem- blymen who will represent at Albany the interests of the corporation in antagonism to the interests of the city, 1t becomes an out. rage which should excite general indigna- tion and which cannot be too severely de- nounced, The law seems ample to meet and punish the offence, and it is to behoped that the District Attorney will do his duty in the matter and that the extreme penalty of the statate will be enforced. If the alle- attempt to. intl ter bim irom giving the bimin the free exer avy chapter, 0 elecuon wittin aud sali thi | reasons for either congratulation or rogret | gations are true the evidence of menace seems to be too clear to render the convic- tion of the offenders doubtful. Political Effect of Tuesday's Elections. We learn from Washington that President Hayes and his republican friends are very well satisfied with the result of the elec- tions. The administration has doubtless come off a great deal better than its enemies expected, but it is claiming rather more than the facts warrant when it lays down so broad a rule as that the success of the republican party in each State has been in proportion to its indorsement of the President. We do not believe that the republicans lost much in New York or New Jersey by their shabby course toward the administration. They are both democratic States, and in both the democrats have barely held their own. In New Jersey they were lucky in their candidate for Governor, General McClellan’s popularity enabling them to make a much better show than they would have done with one of their stock can- didates. In New York, which gave Mr, Tilden a majority of forty thousand last year, the democrats have carried the State by about half that majority, and have lost both branches of the Legislature, as they did last year, Besides, it must be remembered that the friends of Mr. Hayes, who held a great meeting in this city to protest against the action of the Rochester Convention, cor- dinlly indorsed the State ticket, which re- ceived as united a republican sup- port as it would have done if the Rochester Convention had indorsed the policy of the President. The New York and New Jersey elections afford, no special The by the administration, ‘The republican party, however, is entitled to feel some satistaction that its unfortunate intestine quarrel has not sensibly weakened it in either of these States. The result in Massachusetts may be fairly regarded by the friends of the President as a signal triumph. This is the State in which the Republican Convention gave the new administration the most outspoken and | unequivocal support. In other respects it was heavily handicapped in this canvass. Its candidate for Governor was personally unpopular, and had incurred the special hostility of the prohibitionists, who are powerful in Massachusetts. Morcover, the democratic candidate for Gover- nor is the most popular man in his party and one of the most universally respected citizens of the State. But, in spite of these drawbacks, the republicans have carried Massachusetts by quite as large a majority as they could have reason- ably expected in an off year. Minnesota and Wisconsin, which also indorsed the President, have suffered no apparent loss in consequence. In Connecticut the repub- licans gain strength in the Legisluture and will elect a republican Senator in place of Mr. Barnum. ‘The loss of Penn- sylvania by the republicans is partly due to the previous loss of Ohio, which had a discouraging effect, and partly to aliena- tion of the Cameron influence, which has long been so potent in that State. It will do President Hayes no harm in the country at large to have it known that he is not ad- mired by the crippled Cameron faction. Taking all the elections together it is not apparent that the policy of President Hayes has weakened the republican party, but it is very apparent that they have given him a decided advantage over his republican op- ponents. ¥ Congress Yesterdays The Senate was not in session yesterday, and the House might as well have been at the elections, the races or anywhere else for all the light it threw on the anti-resumption question, which was the only subject under discussion. The debate was opened by Mr. Gardiner, of Ohio, in favor of the bill. Mr. Cox, of Ohio, argued strongly in favor of his own amendment, which provides the machinery of resumption, Mr. Riddle, of ‘Tennessee, and Mr. Price, of Iowa, followed, the former in fayor of the bill of the com- mittee and the latter in opposition to it, There was a tilt between Mr. Price and Mr. Kelley on the subject of the national banks, the mere mention of which has the same effect on the soft money stutesman of Penn- sylvania that the red cloth has on the tradi- tional Spanish bull. Mr. Harrison, of Illi- nois, made some wild remarks about the great Northwest being robbed by the East- ern bondholders, which were unintention- ally very amusing and had the effect of adjourning the House. -Oar. Eagle Spreads His Wings. Mr. Price, of Iowa, observed in the House of Representatives yesterday that this topic of silver,and resumption ‘wanted some light shed upon it,” and he proceeded to shed some. He poured light over it like a bucket of water, He exuded light from all his pores and snapped it in lordly gestures from the ends of his fingers till the topic was covered with it; bathed, saturated, whelmed and lost in the splendors of his eloquence. In fact the topic itself slipped out of sight in the glowing glories of Price’s rhetoric—disappeared as if it had been a pewter pot cast into the great enaldron of incandescent iron over a foun- dry fire. He declared his indifference to all that lad been said before. He ‘did not know anything about the elder Peel's opin- ions and did not care anything about his son’s.” Men who are prepared to favor the world with deluges of light have this disre- gard for ancient prejudices as naturally as chickens have the pip. But Price favored the House with the reason for his indiffer- ence to the opinions of Peel. Peel lived in England. That was what: wiled him. For England is a very little country, a mere geo- graphical pimpleas one might say. Itis clear that it is simple impertinence for people who live in little countries to pretend to opinions, and absurd to assume that opinions which originate in such countries aro of any account in big countries, ‘In England,” says Price, ‘‘you may take a rail- road car in the morning and start out in a straight line and before the sun sets you will ran over the edge;’ an observation which proves at once that they can know nothing about finance over there. There isn’t room. But how different it is with us! j ucts ER 8, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. oka gi (BN: a2 A a aN AEE TEN AE IR RISES SLA SS ns “Step out”—it 1s Price that invites us in these terms—‘‘step out from yonder eastern limit and see the King of Day shaking the water from his wings, He takes his course westward—not six hundred miles only, nor one thousand miles, nor two thousand, nor three thousand miles only, but he has traversed nearly four thousand miles when he sinks to rest behind the golden waves of the Pacific.” There may be some persons not thoroughly convinced by this line of argument, For them there is this further defiance:—‘‘fake your stand up at the frozen north where the Ice King reigns, and follow down through all degrees of latitude till you have reached the land of the orange and the pine, and there you have a country which, for diversity of clime and products, has no equal on the globe.” This is an account of our country that will cause the minions of despotism in foreign parts to quake with wonder. But let them not rashly hope to get up such a country on their own account; for, as Price justly ob- serves, ‘you cannot make such a country anywhere else, for there is no other place to make it in.” We have the exclusive patent right for the country and for one of its grandest products, Price himself. There is nothing like this country elsewhere, and nothing like Price elsewhere, and only two or three like him here. Prisons or Hote’ One of the philanthropies that the world is, perhaps, not much the: better~.for is prison philanthropy. There was good ren- son that much should be done which has, in fact, been accomplished by that hu- manitarian impulse ; but it has gone too far. It has overreached its purpose und pre- pared a reaction that may induce prisoners yet unborn to rue the day that Howard saw the light. In its practical operation prison reform has made the prison a comfortable and satisfactory place of residence for persons who have lost the moral sense, and the result is that society directly and indisputably cultivates crime ; deliberately provides for the growth and increase of those criminal classes that it should do its utmost to reduce to the small- est possible number. Scarcely a day passes but crimes are -chronicled that are commit- ted for no other purpose than that through them the perpetrators may secure a ‘‘sen- tence” to live tolerably well through the winter at the public expense without hurd- ship and often even without labor. The latest of these is the case of “tramp,” who has broken a five hundred dollar window simply to gain from some judge his brevet for a winter's easy quarters in prison. How completely this turns the tables on all the ancient notions and theories of the uses of the prison it is scarcely necessary to point out. Instead of a fear of imprisonment, instead of the existenee of a salutary horror of that’ partictilar deprivation of’ liberty which might induco’ men’ to restrain their vicious “inipulses,'the prison not!énly ex- cites no terror, but “dppears a G&dirable if not'a delightfal: ple." In" fact, Ridugh it be not a place whé¥é @ ‘tai is séttled for six months or a year in a’éushioned arm- chair, with foot warmers and hot punches and pipes, itis pretty near it, and the life of a prisoner well lodged, regularly fed, and guaranteed against the uncertainties of the world is, in its strictly material aspects, better than that of many an industrious and upright laborer. This is wrong.’ “But what is ‘the remedy? "N6 one can propose a re- turn to the barbarities of prisori!fiscipline as it existed a few generations biffte, and public opinion would ‘scout the suggestion of the re-erection of the whipping post. But if prisons cannot be made unpleas- ant in some legitimate way we shall have to build presently many more than we now possess. America and the Paris Exposition. It is to be hoped that the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Repre- sentatives will promptly report a bill ap- propriating the necessary sum fora befit- ting representation of American art and in- dustry at the Paris Exhibition of next year, and that Congress will make it a law with- out delay. There is but little time left for the work of getting the American exhibits into shape, and with the sum named by Mr. Evarts—$225,000—the work can barely be done. There are some cheese-paring ru- mors floating about, among which is a very light one to the effect that Mr. §. S. Cox is to make a speech against an ap- propriation. We have no doubt this humor- ous man is capable of even greater folly than this; but, fortunately, legislation is not leit entirely to the harlequins of politics. The great good done to American industry by the Centennial Exhibition puts the mere question of the profitableness of taking part in such congresses beyond cavil. Above all, at the present time, when the markets of the world, long given over to the prod- of British mills and looms, are beginning to handle American goods, no opportunity should be lost of im- proving our commercial position, It would be a fatal blunder to lose the chance which the Paris Exhibition will give us, and it would be short-sighted economy to make the appropriation too scant for properly fulfilling its object. We have based our approval of American co-opera- tion in the Exhibition on the material ben- efits it would bring to our business, but we none the less believe that on the grounds of our co-operation is advisable. In the tur- moil over the settlement of the Presidential contest in the iast Congress the question of our representation at Paris next year was laid aside. Now that the extra session of the national legislature gives us a chance to repair tho oversight let it be done quickly and sufliciently. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Morrissey knew the ropes, Morrissey wields the bisceptre. Several birds rise before tho lark. John Morrissey says ‘We all did it’? Most paragraphere use one pun no General McClotlan has at last received ro-oaforce- ments, Scheil did not moan to be hit so hard; but he got a paster, Mr, Wendell Phillips, vt Boston, is at the St. Denis Hotel, Sir Peter Coats, of Scotland, is at the Buckingham national dignity and courtesy to an old ally | through the ice on Sundays and make toxts for Sunday school books. Senator Jones thinks the Silver bill will pass she Senate. Murat Halstead makes of the late Senator Mortoa @ truly great man, Sam Bowles woke and said, “Who is electod—Brise tow or Adams?” We are now satisfied that not all the democrats wore killed during tho war, Senator Blaine will return to Washington in a fort- night, His health is better. “Blue Jeans” Willlams soums to have lost all the respect and popularity he had. It 18 currently reported that Mr. Conkling told Mr. Curtis to get him to a bleachery, ‘The Rome Sentinel insists that money is the mias- ing link between a tan and a tailor, Senator Roscoo Conkling arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel last evening from Utica, Prositeot Hayes won a party victory im Wisconsin and a victory for bis policy in New Je ‘The reason Mr, Schell walks with hi cast down is that he hopes to find a hairpin on the siaewmk, The Danbury News, which, swore off after election, soys that when you are thirsty for alcohol drink water copiously. A plate of soup ts algo a great relief, i: we rememember correctly. Detroit Free Press; —‘*Boucicault says there Isn't a dra. matic critic in the world who cin tell what a comedy is, Is ita comedy when you go down cellar with the hired girl'to sce where the leak in the water pipe ts, and the candle blows out and your wile stands on the staire and yells (or a match and makes pungent romarke at the same tine ?”” AMUSEMENTS, EAGLE THEATRE—‘‘OTHELLO.”” “Othello” was thy pay, and Mr, D. H. Harkins the Othello at the Eagle Theatre lust evening. As ou the previous nights during ,his present engagement the Support was indifferent, the cast being with few ex. ceptions rather trying to a motropolitan audience, Sull Mr, Harkins’ performance, though noither of the very highest order nor well set off by a tolcrable sup- port, was im its way very sutisiactory. It discoverod throughout a reasonable sonsivility to the re- quirements of the character of the flerce, suspicious Moor, True, bis acting was at times @ little aggressive in ite style and his voice was ovcasionally pitched in a rather bigh key. This unevenness was most noticeable in the opening scenes, when, to insure a pationt hearing, he should bave seen to it that **hig parts, his title ang his perfect soul shoula manifest him rightly.’ Bui with the progress of the play be advanced tn favor and was at his best in the stormiest 1.3 The’ delicacies of the noted scene with Iago—such an lago as seemed to us villanous enough for any deed —were not as forcibly brought out as they might bave been, thovgh it was with & good natural outburst of rage that the jealously in- furiated Othello flung his ‘honest’? Ancient to the earth at its termination, Further on, when the Moor says of Cussia, **Had all bis huirs beon lives my grest revenge bad stomach for them ail,’? one felt trom Str. Harkins’ portrayal the full truth of the assertion. His was evidently a keen felt, veep seated desire ior vengeance, Miss Augusta De Forrest mado a tolerable Desde ane and the Emihe of Mrs, Holmes was also uccept- able. CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, One of the musical ana art recoptions which are given at the New York Conservatory of Music on the first Wednesday of every month took pluco last even- ing at the rooms of the institution in Fourteenth street, The programme consisted of u trio for violin, violoncello and piano, from Beethoven, which was pertormed by Professors Mollenhauer, Lanzer ané Hallam; one of Chopin’s ballads for the piano, played by Mr. Charles Torriani; Thalberg’s ‘Muette do Por sici.” played by Mr. W. F, Mills; and several artas, which wero sung by lady amateurs, Among thes a tasteful selection trom ‘fhe Crown Diamonds” wag lnterpreted with exquisite r by Miss Kate I'hayer, Miss KE. Mettler and R. Cohon also demonstrated that they were swect singers with promising voices and an urtistic future, During the evening Mr. R. Davey recited with much tervor Mark Antouy’s specch and a strikingly vigorous pocm ontitlod “Among the Dead.”? Several fino pictures were oxe hibited by Mrs. Julia C. Widgery, and ettracted much attention, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. “Rip Van Winkie” continues to draw large aw diences at Booth’s Theatre. t 4 Mr. 8. G. Pratt will give the second of his piand recitals at Chickering Hall this afternoon, Mr. D. H. Harkins will play Richard [11 to-morrow Dight, at the Engle Theatre, on tho occasion of hig benefit. An organ recital was given at Chickering Hall yes terday afternoon, by Mr. 8. B. Whitely, assisted by Miss Josephine Holcombe, soprano, and a quartet of mile voices, Mr. Boucicault’s idea of what a comody is will be only on exhibition for four more nights. These last opportunities should not be missed, The mounting and dressing alone are worth secing. A testimonial concert isto be given at the Théitre Frangais on Friday atternoon for tho benefit of Mr. John Booker, a veteran of the ethiopian school, who bas just recovered from a six months’ illness, M. Jules Verne’s drama of “Ihe Courier of tha Czar” has been prohibited at Prague: In the work there is nothing uncomplimentary to the Czur of Rus- sia, but the consor thought anything Russian toe touchy for the times, The Western journals speak onthusiastically of the young tragedienne, Mise Mary Andersoa, who is to appear on Monday night at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, She ts said to be a genlas, and in some of her pers formances phenomenal. Withal, sbo {s handsome. The first entertainment tn this city by Miss Helen Potter will be given at Chickering Hall on Monday evening next, She will imitate Anna Dickinson, Susan B. Anthony, Charlotte Cushman, John B. Gough and others, Each one’s costume, voice, gesture and mans ner are said to be copied with startling Adelity. ‘This afternoon an attractive entertainment at the Olympic Theatre 1s announced for ube benetit of the suffering danseuso, Mile. Venturoll, All the artists aro volunteers, and the programme is anususlly in- toresting, Mlle, Helene Minzelli will appear in a grand ballet divertissement with Miles, Betty Rigl, Letours nour, Eugenia Lupo and the Blandows«! ballet troupa, wus Wilhams, the Foy sisters and other well knowa actors are also to take part in the performances, ‘The author of “oe Summer,” ‘king of Liszt and his pupils, says:—‘In regard to the stylo of plays ing prevalent tu the Weimar school, and to speak of it quite hastily and superilcialJy, its prominent foatures seemed to be dash, briliancy, individuality and free- dom, On the other band, although the artists bere are mostly fully fledged, there seemed to bo lesa distinctness and tulncss of tone aad faithfulness of ine terpretation than aro the results of the much die cussed, abu misunderstood and enthusiastically admired ‘Stuttgardt jod.? 7" The noble effort by Mis a Morris to tocreaeayh e Custer monument fund will doubtless be rewarded this afternoon, when sho will appear at a matinée Denetit at Waliack’s Theatre in the character of Jane Eyre, To suy nothing of the attraction of the urtist, the purpose for which she appears sbould commend itself to every patriotic man and woman. We learn that the sulo of seats has been large, anu but few re- main to be disposed of. Mr. Lester Wallack has gen- crously tendered the use of his theatre {reo of charge, and if filteon hundred or two thousand dolla: realized tho monument can be begun atonce, In ad~ dition to the ordinary performance, and belore the curtain rises, Miss Laura 8. Webb will read her poom eutitied “Custer’s Immortality,” ‘The success made by Mr, and Mrs. Harold Power at Chickering Hall on Saturday evening last bas attracted, especially tn fashionable circles, unusual attention, ‘The unique character of the eaterthinment, the thor oughly genteel interpretation of pure bumor and the artistic confidence with which a thoroughbred gentles man held and amused bis audience rocalls the time when Dickens, Yates, Thackeray, Mark Lemon and Powor coastituted a galaxy of amateurs and made fun for their London friends. He has come among us as a stranger; he introduces something that Is new; he utters a monologue, some of which was written by W. S. Gilbert, the author of “fhe Wicked World,” and some by himself, and he keeps an appreciative aus dienco inwroar, It being to Americans a novel en. tertainment we make of it something more than a casual notice, and if Mr Power should appear again, as he has been requested to do by some of our best citizens, a large attendance is likely to be the result, JOHN BROUGHAW'S RETURN. John Brougham arrived in this city yesterday even« ing. Mr. Brougham’s health is far from good, and he Hotel. Tho soason will soon be hara whan little bows fall, has been coming to tho city by short stages during the last few days. He went immediately to bis reste dena, Na 6 Irvine. nisom