The New York Herald Newspaper, November 10, 1877, Page 4

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Money on call was easy all day at 5 a6 per cent. Monrreat is exporti: eggs to England. Ovr Trabt wir Maytropa has largely in- creased during the past year and is béginning to asstine very respectable proportions. immense quantities of Peru Is Br © feel the loss of the late Henry Meiggs. The public works have been entirely suspended since his death, Tae Latest is put General McClel- lan’s majority at 13,281. In the lower house of the Legislature the democrats will have six majority. Frou tHe Evipi given against Smalls, the member of the South Carolina ring now on trial, it is very probable that he will be sent to join Cardozo. kD Stamm has been awarded nearly twelve thousand dollars for the loss of a foot on the Southern Long Island Railroad, and is now Education and Disease Travel Hand in Hand? The city of New York is justly proud of its public schools, While the municipal government has been subjected often to incapable and sometimes to corrupt man- agement the school system seems, fortu- nately, to have escaped serious contamina- tion, although its path has not been free from dangers. One of the greatest of these has been the long prevailing practice of ap- pointing teachers asa matter of favoritism to influential politicians or Aldermen whose capacity to choose a bartender would “be less questionable than their fitness to select an assistant in a primary department. It is surprising that this prostitution of the schools to political purposes has not seri- ously impaired their efficiency, Yet as far as their instruction and discipline are con- cerned they have been entirely acceptable to the people and have deservedly won public confidence, They have performed their educational functions admirably, The teachers have, us a rule, been faithful, patient and intelligent in the discharge of their trying duties. The complaints of parents, who aro apt to be exacting with those who are set in authority over their children, have been remarkably few. The removal of o teacher on account of misconduct or in- capacity has been a rare occurrence. Last year there were between three and four thousand principals and assistants em- ployed in all the schools under control of the Board of Education, and upon them rested the grave responsibility of training and instructing the average daily number of one hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred;pupils. Whenwe think how much patience, forbearance and endurance it must require to fulfil such a task, and what time and application it must have taken to fit this large corps of instructors to the proper. discharge of such a duty, we may well gongratulate ourselves on the excellence of our common schools as educa- tional institutions and award the teachers the credit they so well deserve. . While the practice to which we have alluded in the appointments is an evil it seems fortunately not to have brought forth what might be looked for as its natural truits. There is no room for complaint when between three and four thousand persons give general satisfac- tion as the instructors of the children of the city, and there is good reason to be proud of the fact that while the number comprises a large proportion of female teachers no breath of scandal has yet attached to any lady connected with our public schools. The people of New York have a right to expect good service in return for the princely liberality with which they con- tribute funds for educational purposes. The budget of the Board of Education for next year called for a total appropriation of four millions and eighty-nine thousand dollars, of which the sum of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars was for build- ings and repairs. The Board of Apportion- ment have fixed the amount at a little over three millions and a half dollats, -This, with the proportion of the State tax for the support of common schools borne by New York, will make the amount expended by the city on the education of the people in 1878 reach nearly five million dollars, For this large sum we are entitled to expect not alone excellent teachers, but a public school gystem that in all its parts shall be as nearly perfect, or, at least. as free from fault as intelligence, diligence villing to trade off the other on the same terms. Tur ANtIrApuinistratTion SkNaTors had the good scnse yesterday to vote for the confirma- tiou of Mr. Welsh as Minister to England. In fact, he encountered noopposition whatever, not even from Mr. Cameron. Tue Late Mas. Merniix’s Revativesaré mak- ing vigorous preparations to contest the will by which she bequeathed three hundred thousand dollars to Cardinal McCloskey. Theirside of the story is presented in other column Lourstaya is following the example of South Carolina in bringing her corrupt ex-otficials to justice. Carr, Speaker of Warmoth’s Legislature, was placed on trial yesterday charged with altering and forging bills of lading to a large amount, Hore Mex asp OTs who are associated m business as partners will be interested ina law case clsewhere given. The Court holds that the renewal of a lease by one partner without the consent of the other is a just ground for damages. Tue Seven Mitrton Dowttar suit against Richard B. Connolly has been set down for the 19th inst. The names of the struck jury se- lected by Mr. Babcock and Mr. Orton are else- where printed. They include some well known citizens. Conoress Is ENDEAvVonING to induce twenty- nine surplus army staff officers to resign by of- fering them a year’s pay and an allowance for five years’ ice, but it is not very prob- able that many of them will accept. Stat¥ duty just now is too pleasant. Banknurrcy Register F11cn compiled a short tine ago some interesting statistics showing how merchants are swindled by traders who purchase goods and then make assignments nominally for the bevefit of their creditors, but really to benefit themselves. A case in point has just been tried in one of the courts, resulting, for a wonder, in a judgment for the plaintift, A. T. Stewart & Co. The trandulent debtor had everything bis own way at the Special Term, before Judge Law renee, At the General Term Judge Lawrence's decision was re and the accused punished as he deserved to b Tae Weratuen storm of Friday has reached the coast of Nova Scotia by a northeast- erly movement from the low Con- tinnous and heavy rains precede the depression and it is followed by lightsnowfalls along the lake district. The rain area at present extends from the British provinces westward and southwest: ward us far 23 Lake Eric and the Middle Ohio Valley aud heavy winds along the lake shores. ‘The marginal winds of the storm itself have dimin- ished in force very considerably, and all danger on the Middle Atlantic coast may now be re- garded as past. Behind the depression and ex- tending over all the region west of the Allegha- nies the pressure is high, but a fall is perceptible in the extreme Northwest. Except in that region aud the Kastern States, where they are south- erly and westerly respectively, the winds are from the northward and the temperature is com- low. During to-day tho weather in orl and its vicinity will be cold and clear. | and fidelity in its management can make it. The taxes come out of the pockets of all the people, rich and poor, in a direct or in- direct form, and the laborer who sends his children to the common school of his dis- trict contributes to the educational fund justas much as the wealthy citizen who gives his sons a collegiate education. He has a right to insist that in addition to good teachers there shall be safe and commodi- ous schoolhouses, with proper protection for the health and lives and proper regard for the comfort of the scholars. Yhere are evils in our public schools beyond the control of those who are in- trusted with the work of education, and which are as perilous and injurious to the teachers as to the pupils. A majority of the buildings are.unfit for the purpose for which they are uscd. Some of them are flimsily constructed and unsafe in case of fire. Others. are wretchedly arranged, whether the. safety or comfort of the chil- dren are ‘considered. Many aro built on small lots, in crowded neighborhoods, and shut in, from light and air on every side. A majority of the schools seem to have been erected without a thought of ventilation. In some the windows are too small, in some they are placed too high and in some too low. ‘The same disregard of the accommodation of light is everywhere observable. Room after room is dingy and gloomy enough to ruin the eyesight of both teacher and scholar. Heaters are supplied in tho winter which produce a suffocating hent, and the remedy is found by opening windows to let in draughts which carry with them colds, fevers, rheumatism, con- sumption, pneumonia and diphtheria. Closets, badly drained and in dangerous proximity to the crowded rooms, vie with the varying heat and cold and the cutting currents of air in spreading malarial diseases among the children. One stews for hours in the foul atmosphere and the sickening heat. Another chances to find his place near an open window, where the chilling draught soon adds his name to the victims of croup in the bills of mortality. In these wretched rooms the poor children are packed in numbers that would make even a bright, well ventilated, well lighted apartment unhealthful, and kept for hours breathing in the seeds of sickness and death. Among them are seventeen or eighteen thousand toddling, lisping mites, between thé ages of four and six years-- little, helpless creatures whose hours should be passed in play, whose shelter should be a loving mother’s arms, Of what good is tho skilful training of the mind if accompanied by the slow and certain undermining of tho benefited whith, while educating its chil- dren, sends them out into the world diseased mon and women, ruined in constitution, broken in health through the cruel process child is seated closs to the heater, where he health of the body? How is the community. of such education? Do the citizens of New York pay annually five millions of dollars toward the public schools to realize such miserable results ? Everybody knows what public school- houses and private schoolhouses, too, ought to be. Buildings with ample means of egress; with spacious, cheerful, well lighted, well ventilated rooms; with halls and stair- ways broad and strongly built; with large surrounding lots to be used as play grounds and to insure a sufficiency of pure air. Of course we cannot get all this in New York, at all events, until we build new school- houses or rebuild our old ones, But we ‘can remedy a great portion of the evils surrounding our existing buildings if we drive ignorance, self-conceit, preju- dice, incapacity and carelessness out of the Board of Education, There are no doubt some excellent men now in the Board, but there can be no excuse whatever for its action as o body in refusing or neglecting to heed the timely warnings and advico of the most capable and eminent members of the medi- cal profession, in regard to the immediate steps demanded for the protection of the imperilled health and lives of the common school children. They are told that the ventilation of the existing schools should be undertaken under skilled direction without any delay ; that one or more medical men of established reputation should be made members of the Board; that in addition there should be a medical inspectorship of public schoolhouses independent of the Board ; that competent men should be set to discover where bad drainage or the ob- jectionable location of closets exists; and should be empowered to forthwith apply the remedy. If the Board of Education were not indifferent on a subject which involves the health and lives of over a hundred thousand children they would assuredly follow this well meant and com- petent advice without a moment's unneces- sary delay. They would even resign their places in a body in order that the Board might be reconstructed in accordance with the suggestion of the medical fraternity. If the Board of Health were not a wretched nonentity such greatly needed sanitary regulations could be forced on the Board of Education despite its indifference or obsti- nate stupidity. As it is wo can only de- mand a reconstruction of the latter Board. With twenty-one capable gentlemen in place of the present members we should soon find the health of the public schools improved and some energetic steps taken to prevent overcrowding and the attendance at the general schools of little creatures barely out of their infancy. With sensible, energetic and earnest men in authority re- forms can be secured without special legis- lation, It is horrible to think that, through ignorance or obstinacy in the management of our public schools, the children of New York must either be suffered to grow up without education or be launched on the world with enfeebled frames and impaired constitutions, Grant in Paris, Despite the clamor of party warfare at the French capital the pleasant demonstrations of welcome to General Grant continue. It is, indeed, a happy characteristic of our fellow republicans on the other side of the water that they never forget their duty as hosts, and though they may sometimes become sufficiently excited over théir domestic concerns to apply to the occupa- tionof the headsman ingenious labor saving machjnery, they at least never become ob- livious to what is polite toward a visitor. There is no city in the world where snch an entertainment as was offered to General Grant at the opera last night can be con- ducted with such brilliant effect asin Paris ; and the imperturbable smoker who lighted his memorable cigar between the acts on Thursday night will be the richer for the enlarged intellectual horizon that such a spectacle opens. MacMahon’s Position. Our Paris despatches give a glimpse of some of the bubblings of the caldron of French politics. Naturally, new Cabinets are the feature of the hour, and there are plenty of adventurous and speculative gen- tlemen who are prepared to sacrifice them- selves by becoming parts of preposterous Ministries. In the sketches of Cabinets presented to the Marshal in these cireum- stances it is hardly surprising to find names that would never be mentioned in such a connection in times when it was sought only to put portfolios in competent hands, It is worthy of note that two generals are named, two military men who after many years of service are less distinguished for achievements in the line of their profession than remarkable for their adhesion to the Bonapartist fatuities, That the Marshal and his friends cannot afford just now to be particular over trifles is seen in the fact that these phantasmagoric Cabinets, sketched by heated imaginations—Cabinets with Can- robert and Vinoy in them—-are designated as formed from the Right of the Sen- ate, But the SBonapartists have no fixed relation to the sides of any House they arein, ‘They are Right, Left or Centre, as occasion serves, and resemble “the little joker” in the characteristic fact ; that you can never tell under which cup they lie. All the schemes projected by the Marshal's so-called friends are so many po- litical nightmares, ‘They ure attempts to save his dignity. Now, the dignity of Mar- shal MacMahon is not worth saving at the price these schemes propose. $0 soon as the dignity of any individual has to bo weighed against the tranquillity and peace of a nation; so soon as it becomes necessary to trample on fa constitution and nullify the ascertained | will of thirty millions to save the bumptious pride of an individual, there cannot possibly be any capable politician or any man of sound judgment on the side of tho indivi- dual, and he falls into the hands of adven- turers and gamblers, who lead him at every step toward the edge of some new abyss. MacMahon's present demand is that some- body shall form a Cabinet that will en- able him to get on without the repre- sentative body of the nation, which possesses in reality those attributes of sovereignty of which only the shadow ap- pertains to his office ; but he requires that NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER .10, 1877.--W1SH- SUPPLEMENT this shall be done without any’ desperate and revolutionary stroke, and 80, of course, he requires what he cannot get, “for what's impossible can't be, and never, never comes to pass,” In fact, this “honest soldier” bids fair to become ridiculous as an Executive who would have put his foot on the nation’s head but for lack of the in- famous kind of courage necessary for such an enterprise. Secretary Sherman on FR mption. The North American Review is becoming, under its new management, a potential force in educating the public thought of the country, For half a century or more that venerable periodical was an eminently solid, respectable and rather slumberous vehicle of public instruction; but in the enterprising hands into which it has fallen it has become as thoroughly wide awake as the most enterprising of our daily journals are ina different sphere. The best of its new features is that it is no organ. It seeks to give the most advanced thought of the period on both sides of all disputed ques- tions; and in carrying out this intention it enlists the ablest pens of representa- tive men in every department of knowledge. The Eastern war is discussed by no less o military critic than General McClellan ; the business interests of the country by David A. Wells ; the psig Commission by Mr, Stoughton on one sido and by the trenchant pen of Judge Black on the other. Every interesting question, in short, whether of art, literature, politics, morals or social science, by some capable expert of recog- nized ability and standing. Kach contrib- utor signs his own.name and is alone responsible for the view he takes, the only responsibility assumed by the Review being that trivial questions shall not be discussed in its pages, and quéstions of real interest never by nobodies, ‘but otily by writers who have a valid claim to attention. In the new number there is an interesting ser'es of articles grouped together after the manner of what an able English periodical callsa “symposium,” relating to the great question of the resumption of specie pay- ments. The strongest champions of infla- tion and of immediate resumption partici- pate in this discussion. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, rep- resent the one side, and ex-Secretary McCul- loch, David A. Wells and Mr. Ropes appear for the other. All their articles were sub- mitted to Secretary Sherman for his criti- cism of their conflicting views, which is also published. We havo not space to follow the arguments on either side, but the responsi- ble position held bY Secretary Sherman gives to his statements a value beyond théir argumentative force. * It is to be pre- sumed that his views are those of the ad- ministration. They have a weight as au- thority beyond those of the other partici- pants in the discussion, who have less power to control the decision. Secretary Sherman stands by the present Resumption law and steadfastly deprecates attempts to replace it by new methods at this advanced stage of the question. Ifthe question were reopened now all the winds of controversy would be let loose and practi- cal resumption would be lost in the clash of conflicting opinions. Mr. Sherman has no doubt of the success of resumption under the existing law. The progress is so steady that he believes our paper cur- rency will be ot par in advance of the prescribed date. He has no objection to the refunding of the surplus greenbacks in four per cent bonds, which is advocated by Messrs. McCulloch and Ropes, but he evidently has no faith that Congress can bo prevailed on to authorize it. He says thata provision to that effect was inserted in the Senate Resumption bill, but was thrown out by the House, ‘There have since been strenuous attempts to get such alaw passed, but without success. He stands so unflinch- ingly by the Resumption act that we are justified in assuming that any attempt to repeal or impair it by this Congress would be vetoed by the President if it should ad- vance far enough to be sent to the President for his approval. The country, therefore, need give itself no uneasiness respecting the repeal bill now pénding in the House. We are sorry to find that Secretary Sher- man is not equally explicit and decided on the silver question. It must be said, how- ever, in extenuation, that at the time he wrote out his views forthe Norlh American Review the absurd and pernicious Bland bill had not been offered in the House. But Mr. Sherman has precluded himself from giving any countenance to the Bland swindle. He says that silver “may be made a most essen- tial aid of resumption if confined either in the amount or the mode of issue or in its an ate as Se ee ‘with Senators for retaining Mr. Sumner in the chairmanship. In that conversation General Grant says that Mr. Curtis repeated Sumner'’s statement that he had left no un- finished business, when Grant immediately asserted the contrary. Mr. Curtis was 80 incredulous that the President sent him to the proper place to procure a record of the facts, and he expressed the utmost astonish- ment on finding how complete was the refu- tation of Mr, Sumner's statement. Mr. Curtis is therefore a most important witness in this branch of the case. Why has Mr. Phillips failed to put him upon the stand? Mr. Curtis was one of Sum- ner's warmest friends and admirers, Had he been applied to to write a letter contradicting the averment of General Grant he would doubtless have complied with alacrity could he have done so in con- sistency with the truth. Did Mr. Phillips apply to Mr. Curtis and get a refusal? We wish he would explain the non-production of so important and so trustworthy a wit- ness, A denial of General Grant's state- ment by Mr. Curtis would be worth all of Mr. Phillips’ smart ani lively dodging. With regard to the other principal point— Mr. Sumner's alleged promise to support the St. Domingo treaty—the letter of Jolonel Forney, written a few days after the fact and while the interview between Grant and Sumner at the latter's house was fresh in his memory, will be, deemed pretty conclusive. Forney stated explicitly that his own impression from what Sumner said was “that he would cheerfully support the treaty,” and he added further, ‘that such is my deep regard for Mr. Sumner thet his indorsement of the treaty went very far to stimulate me in giving it my own sup- port.” This testimony of a witness who was present on the occasion and listened to the conversation with deep interest is not re- futed by Mr. Phillips’ evasive reasoning on the improbability of Mr. Sumner having made such a promise. Earl Beaconstield qu Rusain’s Motives. England has “both hope and patience with respect to the war,” and does not de- spair of an early peace, if the speech of Earl Beaconsfield at tho Lord Mayor's dinner last night may be accepted ns correctly de- claring British opinion. Doubtless this speech will be a disappointment to those who had a fancy some few days since that the Premier was on this occasion to “put down his foot” as to the passage of the Dardanelles. Onthe contrary, the subject of the Dardanelles is not touched at all—and no other subject is touched save in the most gingerly fashion—while, so far from His Lordship putting down his foot, he goes as carefully and softly as dainty pussy picking her way in the wet grass, He evidently ap- preciates that it is not a time to clear his throat like chanticleer, and he purrs softly pleasant phrases in the hope to soothe Russian susceptibilities on the subject of military prestige. It is evidently deemed in the Euglish Cabinet that the great obsta- clo to peace is a moral one—the soreness of the Russians over tho failure to achieve that rapid success they counted upon and the presumed necessity that they should fight on to recover prestige. Perhaps this is true; but for the English Premier to let it be clearly perceived that he takes this rather small view. of the motives and purposes of a great Power is to give one more evidence of that want of tact in diplomacy that has of late years so often awakened unpleasantly the susceptibilities of other governments. Congress Yesterday. The House discussed the Army bill all day yesterday and finally adjourned without action. This was a great mistake. The friends of the measure ought to have held the House to its consideration until the measure had been disposed of. Nothing new can be said on the subject, and to allow the discussion to continue is a mere waste of time and an injustice to both officers and men, the former being compelled to pay large interest and the latter to sacrifico their claims fora more nothing.” The speeches were, with one or two exceptions, free from partisan animosity, and, as a rule, close to the subject under consideration. Among the speeches which marred the debate and should not have been made was that by Mr. Foster, of Ohio, who needlessly referred to the late war and unjustly endeavored to throw a groundless imputation upon the democratic party of the State of New York. The object was of course to stir up the passions and animosi- ties of the past, a performance which was hardly to be expected from Mr. Foster, who has been in recent years a steady friend and advocate of the policy ot reconciliation and legal tender quality.” But the Bland bill provides for an unlimited issue and un- limited legal tender. Of course he cannot favor and the President will not approve the Bland bill. Phiilips Sumner. We print a full report of the address delivered in this city Inst evening by Mr. Phillips. ‘The friends of Senator Sumner have reason to regret that-his de- fence did not fall into different hands. There is no lack of the vituperative smart- ness in which Mr. Phillips excels all his contemporaries, and there is likewise a great deal of dexterous reasoning on proba- bilities and of befogging plain facts by a cloud of ingenious rhetoric. But wo do not perceivé that a single specific state- ment of fact made either by General Grant or Mr. Fish has been shaken by Mr. Phillips. In regard to Mr. Sumner's dila- toriness, the list of treaties furnished by Mr. Fish in his recent letter remains unim- peached. ‘That list includes nine treaties, with the dates when they were sent to the Senate, the dates of their reference to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the dates when they were reported and acted upon, Mr. Phillips is unable to dispute a single date or the correctness of a single particular in the whole list. He merely attempts to explain away the facts and to reconcile them with Mr. Sumner's boast Wendell in Defence of the healing of the wounds of the war. Mr, Hewitt ought to have let it go without on answer, for it scarcely deserved one. It is evident from the discussion and the votes that were taken that the army will be allowed to stand at its present figure, or rather at the figure to which, under the law, it may be recruited. This will meet the approval of the large majority of the people of the country and satisfy all parties. The situation of affairs on the Southern and Western frontiers ia not of a character to justify the sweeping reduction suggested by Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, to fifteen thousand men, and the House did wisely in voting down the amendment to that effect. The bill ought to be passed to-day. Rapid Progre The rapidity with which the Elevated Railroad Company is pushing ahead its work on the east and west sides of the city shows how carnest and determined it is to give the hundreds of thousands of persons who are compelled each week to travel in the horse cars the relief they so much de- sire. 1t also shows that if it had not been for the legal obstructions placed in the way of the company the rapid transit problem would have been solved years ago. For the loss of time, of money and of health which might have been saved our citizens can now seo that the street car mo- nopolists are solely responsible. The Gilbert company is carrying out its promises that he left no unfinished business in his committee. Why did he not procure the testimony of Mr, George William Curtis? General Grant stated in the Edinburgh interview that Mr. Ourtis came’ to him and desired him to exert his influence to the letter and keeping the strictest faith with the public. The foundations of the piers of the now road have been laid for miles and miles, and a large force of men is working day and night, with little or no in- termission. The company is acting. wisely in putting down « double track, thereby providing for the complete accommodation of passengers from the very start, ren+ dering needless delays and verations almost impossible, and at the same time insuring almost absolute safety. Now that the good work has been so fairly started it is to be hoped that no legal ob- stacles will in the future be interposed against its completion. The people, who have been suffering at the hands of the monopolists for so many years, have become incensed against the obstractionists and their subservient tools, as they plainly showed at the last election by remanding some of them to private life. As they re. membered the enemies of rapid transit they will not be very likely to forget its friends, ‘To stop the work now, after all the decisiona in the courts and atthe ballot box in its favor, would be an unpardonable outrage. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, McCle‘lan Pacha, The Ruasians voted for Morrissey. ‘The Khedive has kaleidoscopic wives. ‘Tidal waves are getting dowu to the average, Senator Coukiing speaks of ‘Little Roberts.” Dead-leat brown is trimmed witt -leaf groen. Mixtures of velvet and silk will continue to be worn, This nay be a hard winter for four-year-old spring chickens. At Harvard 189 young men are studying Inw and 212 aro studying medicine, Englishmen pluck live rabbits for their fur, are three crops a yoar. In tho recent Indian famine more women than men diod, and wives are scarce, . In Evgland o company nas been formod to import and caltivaic haricot beans, Intellectual Boston paid Lydia Thompson $16,000, It worships the golden calt, ° Tho Court Journal says that Stoughton is the coun. scl who made Hayes President. ‘ Every stag shot in tho Scottian Highlands coats, one way and another, about $250. A London preacher describing Saul’s desolation said, ‘Saal, in lact, was played out.’”? Hand-mirror, or fan-mirror, signalling by sunlight will be adopted by the English military engineers. Ninety years ago Madeira shipped upward of tem thoasand pipes of winc; now it sbips but seven thou- sand. Charles Lamb loved hot egg flip, and was willing te bot that Milton’s morning bymn tn Paradise was com- posed at midnight, ‘ An Enzlisbman in London followed un elderly lady who within @ short time drank four glasses ot port at two pastrycook shops, If Columbua had known tho quality of bank proal- dents this country was going to produce he would never have discovered it, The Ezaminer shows that it Biaebeard’s wifo had boon true to him in regard to the key ho might have lived happily with her in his old age, Lebrun, who was sentenced to ten years’ imprison. ment in Germany for slapping u German olticer’s fuce, has escaped after being en years a prisoner, Porcelain imitations of flowers, with one side slightly crushed, so as to be laid upon marble tables, are very perfect and very fashionable for the boudoir, In Holland an apothecary ts not permitted to put up an old powerful prescription, What might bave suited a man six months ago may not be good tor him now. Vambery, the groat travollor, says that the Bul- garian does not wish to be independent, and that Europe causes ali the trouble that Turkey ia said to cause. Never hold a religious conforence in an opera baild- ing. Lord Radstock went to take his seat ou the plat- form at Clifton Conterence and immediately disap- peared down the trap. To Sir Samuel Baker’s suggestion that a negro pever tui a wild animal the reply bas veen made that in the Southorn States the negro hag reully — domesticated the coon. AMUSEMEN There EAGLE THEATRE—RICHARD II. Mr. D. H. Harkins appeared last night at the Eagle Theatre in tue character of Richard LiL., it being the occasion of his benefit, A fair audience was in atten- dauce, Mr. Josh Hart played the part ot tho Earl of Richmond with much vigor, This is his frat appearance tor a number of yoars. Tho cast gencrally was well selected, Sir, Harkins bas the advantage of aline voice, although at times it is suggestive of croupiness, “excellent clecution and eloquent gos- ture. But he did not bring all these ele. ments ito the play last evening. The aemands of Shakcs,eare are always severe, @ haadsome man aud actor who has achieved success i loss amoitious parts wakes a dangerous venture when be assumes tho leading réles of the groat author, Mr. Harking is ono Of the most Versatile and pieasing among tho gentlemen of the stage. He has won many victories th the flelds of comedy and melodrama, and there is no reason why be should not conive 013 attention to characters in which he cau represent that which i more ako to bis own nature, THE CUSTER BENEFIT, A GRAND TOTAL OF $1,798 50 FROM 1HE PER- FOUMANCE OF ‘‘JANE EYRE”—A CARD FROM MISS MORRIS. Miss Clara Morris, whose performance of “June Eyro,’’ at Wallack’s Theatre, on Thursday afternoon, was given in ald of the memorial to the brave Custor, sends us the following card, which tells its own goner- ous story :— To tz Boiror oF Tue Henacp:— Enclosed please find my check for $1,798 60, that being the gross receipts of yesterday's porformance of “June Eyre’ at Wallack’s Theatre. Will you please tonder tho above mentioned amount to the gontlemen forming the committee of the Custer Memorial Fund, and 1 crave your permission to publicly thank all thoso who assisted to make yesterday's undertaking so completely succe! 1. First of all, to the papers of Now York, who wi nerous to a de- gree; to Mr. Wulluck, Who gave his theatre, and, what ‘Was nore, bis name, which 1s always a towor of strength ; to Mr. John P, Smito, Mr. Horace Wali, Mr. Baker, Mr. Watiack’s leader of orchestra; Mr. MeKoe Rankio, Mr, J. H. Buraett, Miss Jeunte Carroll, Miss Emily Rigi, Miss Emily Lewis, Miss Gracie Wade, ors, doorkeopers, master carpenter and ticket sellers; to ull these, who, unasked, so hoartily tendered theit services, | offer my siucere aud respectful thanks, ‘The expenses ot the entertainment, which, of course, wore greatly lessencd by the kindness of the above named ladies and gentlemen, | have assumed, so that ery dol passed by the public into the treasury of theat erday goes to swell the amount re. quired to & monument to the memory of our mighty dea With renewed thanks I remain, with groat respect, yours, CLARA. MORRIS “HARDION Wusraixstan Horn, Nov. 9, 1877. THE PARIS EXPOSITION, A petition signed by many of the loading bankers, merchants and mavutacturers of the city, the signers represcnting in the aggregate a capital of nearly 500,000,000, has been forwarded to Hon, Abram S. Hewitt to be Jaid bofore Congress, praying for speody action on the recommendation of President Hayes in relation to the proper representation of American in- dustries at the forthcoming Paris kxposition. The petition says:— ‘The time originally set within which we wore either to accept or dechne tho favitation has tong since passed, but the Freach government bas generously extended it and 18 pow apxiously awaiting our answer. Let it not be said, after the magaificont avd unparalleled display made by us at the Contounias that wo reiuse the invitee ion and that we are unwilling to meet them on their own ground, The adoption of no meusure coming bolore Cougress would meet with such universal ap- Proval by tho people as this, as It appeals to every citizen, without regard to loeality, race, religion of politics, and benefits aliko the manutacturer of the ‘ast, ihe farmer of the West and the planter of tne South. ‘The labor question ts certainly a sal of the great. est intere-t and decpest concern to ty Americano citizen, ‘There isa surplus im every department of in- dustry and one gro jurce ofrolief would be the build- ing up and extension of our foreign commerce, Auother opportunity such as the French Exposition Presents may not occur for many years. Shall we avail ourselves of 11? Tho way ts open; the time Ik Short, Immediate action is necessary. , Among the signers aro August Belmont & Co., Vermilye & 1 Drexel, Morgun & Co,, J, and W. Seligman & Co., 1. G. Stebbins & Son, Bagene Kelly & Co., John J, Visco & Son, Brown Bruthers & Co., Babecek Brothers & Co, i D. Morgan & Uo, A. A. Low & Brothors, Willham P. Clyde & Co., Spofford Brothers & Go., Wells, Fargo & Co., H. B, Clafin & Co., Henry Hilton, Low, man & Co, Storrs Brothers and E. 8, Jaffray & Co, Many other well known names are on the petition,