The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16,. 1877.-TRIPLE NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, P PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY WERALD, published every day in the year. ‘Three cents per copy Cundayy excluded), Fen Goltued yer Jen, oF at race of one dollar per month jor any period less an’ six months, or five dollurs for six mouths, Sunday iow inciuded. free of ae. LRLY NEMALI. One dollar per year, tree of post: 'e “ZOTICE TO SURSORIRERS.—In order to insure atten: son lr address changed must give their new address. we letters or telegraphic despatches must he addrersed New Youx Hunato. ‘Jatters and packages should be properly sealed. ‘ejected communications will not be returned. gsr ew aidan PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH KEE sO LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HBRALD— DO. 46 FLEET 51 ae Fan ad et DE L'OPERA, APLES OF FICE—NO. 7 STRATA PACE. Subseri ety Jorwarded ou the same term: = ‘advertisements will be received and win New York. VOLUME XLU. = ry and Sitting Bull—The Truth About the Rosebud Buttle. One of the most wildly thrilling and darkly picturesque narratives which it ever fell toa newspaper to publish appears in our columns this morning. It would be difficult to find either in history or fiction anything more romuntically tragic in its substance or more graphically vivid in the mode of presentation than,the long and deeply interesting letter from Fort Walsh which oceupies so much of our space. The time which has elapsed since the fall of Custer and his command without a single survivor to tell the tale will soften the im- pression made by a recital which is painful now and would have been torturing while the events were fresh. A mere interview with Sitting Bull, even though it had related to subjects which do not so touch public sensibilities to the WALLACK’S THEATRE—Fa: BOOTH'S THEATRE -Itir Va: BROADWAY THEATRE GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Uw CHICKERING HALL—Recitations: Iurxnsonations, ‘anp's How. AMERICAN LNSTITUT Muy np Mxcuanics, THEATRE COMIQUE: ACADEMY OF MUSIC. (OLt'y CONCERT, OLYMPIC THEATRE—Vanixry. PONY PASTOR’S—Vauery. MEADE'S MIDGETS HALL—Tix Mipasts, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanier THE NEW AMERICAN DOLUMBIA OPERA HOUS KEW YORK AQUARIUM—Tue Octorus. BRYANI'S OPERA HOUSE—Minstauzsy. HLMORHS GARDENSLoxvoN Cincus axp Mzxacenie. NVOLI THEATRE—Vai ‘ TRIPLE | NEW YOR Important Ni To Sil ERTISERS. insure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely necessury thal they be handed in before eight o'clock every evening. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity today will be warm and cloudy, followed by de- creasing clowliness and slowly falling tempera- ture. Watt Srreet YesTeRDAY.—The stock mar ket showed considerable strength and almost all the active stocks advanced. Gold opened and closed at 1025, fulling in the meantime to 1021. Government bonds were fimn, States higher and railroads strong, Money on call was easy at 5 a 6 per cent. Towa is getting bravely over her fanatical ideas about hanging. She lynched a man yes- terday. A Rerorm Comurrer has reported against allowing Congressmen mileage for the extra session. Rerorts from the cotton States indicate a re- @uction ot about four per cent on the aggregate of a year ago. Tux Foreicn Avyarrs Commirrex has deter mined not to go into the cooking busineas at the Paris Exposition. Ax Iowa Member of Congress wants the gov- trnment to build a new railroad from this city bo Council Bluffs. Tux Cootnaven Surcrpk, in Chicago, is still a mystery. The jury have found their way out by alleging temporary insanity. Tue Fixes Larosep on several well known saloon keepers, found guilty yesterday of having violated the Excise law, were rather light. Nepraska anp Iowa had an earthquake all to themselves yesterday. Bells were rung and printers’ cases overturned at different points. Tux Mernopist Cuvurcn, it will be seen by the report of the Missionary Society, is vigor- ously pushing its work in all parts of the world, Tut Present Season of the American Insti- tute fair is said to be thus far the most success- ful ever held—an encouraging sign of the times. Tue Stockuowpers of a Chicago savings bank, the late Fidelity, are amazed at the judicial de- cision that they are responsible to the creditors. Bennincton’s County Jaiter is anxiously looking for the return of three of his guests, who gagged him last evening and unceremoniously left. G8 aguinst William M. Tus Civit Prockypr Tweed came to an end yesterday by his confes- sion of judgment in what is known as the onc nillion suit. Pexnsytvania claims that the late consolida- tion of the telegraph companies is unconstitu- tional, and arguments will be heard on the sub- ject next Thursday in one of her courts. Sea Captains will find in our ship news the notice of the placing of a busy in the main channel of the harbor at the point where the schooner Alexander Young was sunk by the City of Brussels on Wednesday morning. A Teraiptz Mone Accivent is reported at Keranton, Pa., by which, it is to be feared, sev- eral persons will lose their lives, At the depth of several hundred feet a fire damp explosion took place, which shatteced a large portion of the mine, burying many unfortunate men under the ruins. There were two hundred persons in the works at the time, and their escape from im- mediate death was almost miri Tae Wearucn.—The threatening indications @hich pointed to the probability of rain last sight have been increasing as the undulation of low pressure which they attended approached the coust. The most southerly margin of the | latter was yesterday morning in the region | south of the lower Jakes and immediately cast of the Upper Mississippi in the space between that river and the Lower Ohio. Rains extended over the luke region and the Ohio Valley, and southward toward the Gulf. In the afternoon the wargin of the depression | moved somewhat to the northeast, still attended by light rains and causing the threatening’ cloudiness that was observ- able along the Middle Atlantic coast, So far the barometer falls very gradually toward the north and northwest. The temp e has risen very decidedly at all points, particularly in the Mississippi Valley and Middle Atlantic States. Southward of Tennessee the pressure is high, but slowly falling. In New York and its vicinity to-day the weather will be warm and cloudy, probably with rain, followed by de- erensing cloudiness and slowly falling tempera- ture. 4 quick, would have had a curious interest when done by a competent hand. This singular and surprising son of the wilder- ness, whose deeds have long been a terror, though his person was hardly known, ib a wonderful specimen of Indian character. If this interview had contained nothing beyond the life-like piece of portraiture with which it opens, followed by a col- loquy on comparatively indifferent topics, it would have been worth the pains it has cost to get it. But besides lifting the cur- tain on the appearance, dress, bearing, lan- guage and personal eccentricities of this swarthy and most remarkable individual it lifts the other and thicker curtain which has hitherto concealed one of the darkest and most wildly thrilling tragedies in the whole history of Indian warfare. The impenetra- ble veil: of mystery which has so long hung like a pall over that terrible and fatal afternoon on the Rosebud when every white map perished has at length been penetrated. The most competent of all witnesses on the Indian side, Sitting Bull himself, tells the whole bloody story with mizute particularity. He tells it under such circumstances and amid such surroundings that if the most skilful dramatist had known all the facts he could not have put this awful tragedy on the stage with more impressive effect. Our correspondent was indebted to Major Walsh, of the Canadian army, whose mar- vellous tact has given him a great ascendancy over the Indians, for the opportunity of this picturesque interview with Sitting Bull. It took place after nightfall of the same day on which the confer- ence was held with our commissioners, when their mission was treated with so much indignant contumely by the derisive savages. The representations made by Major Walsh prevailed on Sitting Bull to consent to the proposed talk, and he was conducted by that officer to the quarters which had been assigned to our correspond- ent. No other persons were present except the interpreters and a stenographer em- ployed by the representative of the Hznatp. The portrait of Sitting Bull as he appeared by lamplight on that evening is sketched with o distinctness which almost enables us to see him, a few descriptive touches bringing out, in all its wild and savage no- bleness, a picture as faithful as a photo- graph, but with more life than a photograph ever attains. The ‘eyes which gleamed hike black diamonds,” the ‘‘jaw like a bull- dog's,” the setting of the remarkable fea- tures in “the long black hair which hung far down his back, athwart his cheeks and in front of his shoulders,” with the pictu- resque decorations of his costume, and the native pride and ease of his manners, make an impression that cannot easily be forgotten, The far stretching wilderness which sur- rounded the camp, the overhanging dark- ness of night, the fresh memory of that day’s abortive conference, and the more fearful and mysterious memories going back to that fearful massacre on the Rose- bud, of which Sitting Bull was the ruling spirit and whose history he was about to relate, invested this occasion with every accessory which could contribute to heighten the interest of a narrative which makes us forget these weird surroundings in the thrilling interest of the facts. Although the greater part of the interview is a mero literal transcript of the questions and an- swers which passed between our correspond- ent and Sitting Bull it has all the liveli- ness of rapid dramatic dialogue. But such is the deep interest of the story itself that readers will hardly think of the manner of telling. This first description of Custer’s fight on the Rosebud ministers to quite a different feeling from mere historical curiosity re- specting a memorable event. It will excite indignation that the heroic Custer and his men should have needlessly perished by a wholesale savage butchery, because he was not properly supported by Reno, A curious mistuke made by Sitting Bull both authen- ticates the chief portions of his narrative and explains why the massacre of Custer’s men was so complete. Sitting Bull’s error grew out of his ignorance of Custer’s plan of battle. Custer’s plan was to attack the Indian camp simultane- ously on two sides and thereby fill it with confusion and terror, In point of fact Reno attacked first and was driven back, and Custer’s attack followed after an inter- val. Nothing could be more natural than that Sitting Bull, who knew nothing of the plan, should have misinterpreted these suc- cessive attacks, He did not himself see the commander of either, and as time enough elapsed between the two assaults on his camp for the force which had been employed in the first to be marched around to the | side whence he received the second he sup- posed this had actually been done, and that both movements were led by Custer him- self, He accordingly imagined that Reno's coramand, which had retreated to the heights, were an insignificant handful left there by Custer for purposes of observation, and thought it safe to withdraw all his warriors from that side and concentrate them against Custer. On the side toward Reno there were lett only the squaws, chil- dren and‘superannuated old men of the camp, and if these had been attacked a part of the Sioux warriors who were over- whelming Custer with immense superiority of numbers would have been detached for the defence of the squaws, and the fate of the battle might have been different, It is plain from Sitting Bull’s account that Reno remained perched upon his heights in mortal dread of a set of squaws and old men ata critical time, when a vigorous at- tack would have divided the warriors and have given Custer and his men a chance for their lives, if not forviectory. Charity would suggest in behalf of Reno that he knew nothing of Custer's engage- ment, But this excuse will not hold if Sitting Bull tells the truth, He says that the noise of the firing was distinctly heard by the collection of squaws who were con- fronting Reno and must have been héard by Reno himself. If this was so that officer seems inexcusable. Even if he had been confronted by warriors, instead of squaws and old men, he ought to have attacked with the utmost dash and vigor, thereby creating a diversion for the relief of Custer. The plan which Custer had made for the Rosebud battle was like that which ho had always adopted in his Indian fights. He never hesitated before superior num- bers, but always divided his force and assailed an Indian camp on two sides at once, intending to profit by the confusion and distraction of the foe. Had Reno's at- tack and his own been simultaneous it would probably have succeeded, as the same tactics had always done before, and if Sitting Bull had not been deceived by the lapse of time between the two attacks into the belief that both were led by Custer he would not have left the side toward Reno so exposed, This would have been a costly mistake for Sit- ting Bull if Reno had taken advantage of it. But when the sound of Custer's battle came to the heights to which Reno had fled he should have fiercely descended upon the enemy, even if he did not know his advantage. and not have left the heroic Custer to deal with the whole force of the savages alone. What is past cannot be remedied; the brave dead cannot be called back to life; but no citizen can read this true history of the Rosebud battle without a quickened movement in his veins—a movement stirred as much by indignation as by the renewal of a great national sorrow. Concealing the Pope’s Death, Despatches from Rome deal plainly with the desire which is thought to be indulged in the Vatican to keep the Pope's death o secret for twenty-four hours—a desire for which no reason is evident if the choice of a new Pope is to take the ordinary course, since that would be scarcely further advanced in twenty-four hours from the death of Pius IX. than at the moment he breathed his last. But if it be supposed that the Pope has prepared a bull prescrib- ing and commanding s clear departure from the ancient procedure of the Conclave, and if, under this new law, an election can be held immediately by the cardinals in Rome, so that the new Pope can be made even before the world learns of the death of his pred- ecessor, the object of this short conceal- ment is sufficiently comprehensible. It was suggested by Prince Bismarck in 1872 that this was substantially what was intended at Rome. In his circular to the German Am- bassadors at foreign courts, dated May 14, 1872, he said, ‘How will the election of the next Pope be conducted? Will they not attempt to seize the office by surprise in such a way as to suppress even the form of the ancient guarantees?” If the Pope's medical attendant has, as reported, been excluded from the palace because he was thought to have given information to the Italian government of the Pope’s condition, that certainly indicates a peculiar anxiety to keep that government in ignorance. Why should the cardinals care to keep this fact a secret from the government or from any person unless there is some ground for the suspicion so long entertained in Berlin? Erzeroum. Reinforcements were sent to Ghazi Moukhtar Pacha from Europe immediately after his defeat at Alaja Dagh, and these forces are now already in or near Erzeroum, with whatever other aid he has been able to gather from any points in Asia. There is no case in which ‘the arrival of reinforce- ments exerts a more distinct influence upon the course of events than the case presented by the Russian march upon the Armenian city. An army that had opposed them with great success through the summer went to pieces in their hands, as it were, in conse- quence of a great defeat, and their one func- tion was to follow fast enough upon its heels to keep it on the run, to prevent time for rest and the recovery of confidence. This they did, and what was left of Moukhtar’s army bade fair to run into the sea. In the course of such a run they meet their friends coming up who have not yet been beaten, who. have not lost their morale, and are ready to fuce the enemy and arrest his precipitate advance, and the broken line forms again behind the line of fresh troops. That is what has happened, and the Russians, feeling the fresh battalions in their front, are once more compelled to move with deliberation. This is why they did not go into Erzeroum helter skelter on the heels of the flying Turks. But the rein- forcement sent cannot be very large, and if it is not it will neither stay nor turn the tide of success which sets so strongly toward the Russian arms, Congress Yesterday. The Senate has amended the Army bill in several essential particulars, so that it will have to be sent back to the House. Of the amendments adopted the most important is, perhaps, that which places the limit beyond which the strength of the army shall not be increased at twenty-five thousand men, or five thousand more than the number agreed upon by the Representatives, The whole question received from the democrats in the Senate a far broader and more liberal treatment than from the members of the same party in the House, who appeared to sacrifice their individual opinions to a supposed sentiment in favor of a reduction which Senator Beck declared has resulted in making the bill of the House ridiculous. The Naval Deficiency bill was passed with- out a division and without amendment, so that it will become a law immediately, In the House the financial debate was contin« ued and will be renewed ngain to-day. The vote will probably not be taken until Sat- urday, choice of a, Our Lady Claimants, For years the lady who has a claim against the United States government has been a faithful frequenter of the lobbies and com- mittee rooms of the pational Capitol. Her form has grown as familiar in Washington as is the figure of the reigning Miss Flite to the people in the vicinity of the English Court of Chancery. She is as persistent, as untiring and as hopeful as the imaginary English suitor, and is just as confident of the eventual allowance of her claim by Con- gress as the other is of » final decision in her favor by the Lord Chancellor. Ourlady claimant has.as much reverence for the sacred red-tapedness-of Congress as the Miss Flites have for the profundity and wiglomeration of the great English Court, and if she is dis- appointed one session she is ready with her formidable papers, ‘her insinuating man- ners, her letters of introduction and her arguments ad soon as the next session opens. Everybody treats her kindly. The head of the department into which she is certain to work ‘her way greets her hurriedly but civilly, and listens to her oft-told story, even if he listens with certain irrepressible marks of impatience. The Senator whose eye catches her dreaded approach, but to whom evasion is impossible, is always pleased to see her; shall be delighted to talk her case over with her again when this terrible pressure about the financial ques- tion is out of the way, and suggests a visit to the Congressman to whom some of her letters are addressed. ‘The Representative, finding escape from the cloak room cut off, looks despairingly at the tempting side door through which he had hoped to dodge, ‘and then turns to greet the well known visitor cheerfully, listens to her opening sentences attentively, makes a note to see’the President or the secretary about her case without delay, pledges him- self to go right to work with the Speaker and the menibers and hurries back to the House, having, by some mysterious prop- erty of acoustics, just heard his name being called by the Clerk. Even the busy head of the Washington bureau of the New York daily journal finds time to say a kind word to the persevering lady claimant, accepts her latest pamphlet and promises to forward it at once to his chief at New York, who will doubtless give it a good notice in the paper. We wish she could get her rights—for, of course, her claim is a just one—and 80, for the matter of that, does everybody else. But, unfortunately, in spite of her persist- ency she is pushed aside session after ses- sion, and the vacation finds her with her thin purse grown still more consumptive looking, but with a gratifying addition to her stock of documents and letters, of which she is justly proud. One of the present lady claimants of the national Capitol is Miss Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland, and she prays for compensa- tion for services rendered to the United States during the late civil war. ‘I'he nation has been laboring under the delusion that the campaign which commenced at Forts Henry and Donelson and culminated at Vicksburg was planned as well as. so glori- ously carried to success by General Grant, Indeed, at the foot of chapter 7 of Dana's “Life of Grant,” appears the following: ever sugyested it to him, Badeau’s ‘Military History’? gives a lull and clear exposition of al e ence iv regard to this matter, an it was Grant’ Fraistence alone which succeeded in getting authority for the movement. But Miss Carroll proves by the evidence of Lincoln, Ben Wade, Thomas A. Scott and others that she planned and suggested the Tennessee campaign, and that to her stra- tegic genius the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson and the fall of Vicksburg aro sub- stantially due. Her documents are strong and her letters enthusiastic—in some in- stances gushingly so. Although Miss Car- roll’s story detracts somewhat from Grant's military fame the country has a right to recognize her high strategic services if it is truthfully told. France had her Joan of Arc, why should not the United States have hef Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland, “My Maryland?” Wetrust Congress will give Miss Carroll's claim a generous con- sideration, At all events she is entitled to some recompense for literary services ren- dered under Lincoln's administration in the Union cause, and the Unitel States should pay its just debts, even if the silver lunatics and gamblers will insist on their being liquidated in a debased coinage. Judge Lynch and the Other Judges, If there is any murderers’ trade union or other organization for the protection of the rights and interests of murderers as a class that body should take into serious consider- ation the propriety and policy of putting dampers or brakes or some equivalent moderating apparatus upon the zeal of ad- yocates in murder trials, It can be demon- strated, and almost without difficulty, that the excessive zeal of advocates, and par- ticularly their overworking of certain lines of defence, is proving, and must continue to prove, a great prejudice to the dignity, if not to the safety, of the ancient and honor- able fraternity of the Sons of Cain. It may be shown’ that advocates are likely to im- peril the standing and possible exist- ence of the craft in civilized countries—and for what? Fora trivial gain—for the mere acquittal of a worthless brother here and there, who has been clumsy enough to be found out. Society seems to have no really solid objection to the existence of the fra- ternity of murderers, provided that side by side with the institution of murder it can recognize as existing and effective the in- stitution of the guillotine or the gallows aud some judicial formalities which present at least a gambling’ chance that the act of murder shall put in peril the life of the man who cominits it, Precisely, therefore, asthe extravagance of advocates tends to reduce the gallows to ‘a fiction and the trial toa farce, society tends to the withdrawal of its quasi consent to the vory existence of the institution of murder and to the ex- pression of its purpose in this re- gard by violent means. We may ‘clothe our care with circumstances.”’ Every one has read with o shudder how some people in Illinois treated a few days since the harmless and gentle youth—a rising orna- mont of the fraternity--who murdered o SHEET. his achievement by effectively tapping Goetz’s wife on the head with an axe, that she might not continue in a wretched and lonesome existence. Every one has also read the later story, but not precisely with a shudder, of how a judge in New Jersey put off two murder trials till the next term of the Court because the papers for drawing the jury were rolled when the law requires that they should be folded. ‘they were pretty clear cases, and the witnesses were there and all was in order, but the advocates urged that the juries had not been drawn at ten A. M., os the law requires, but at half-past ten or a quarter to eleven ; and further, that the ballots were rolled, not folded. ‘These departures from the letter of the law were urged with such vigor that the Court yielded and the cases went over. Pethaps at the next term the witnesses will be dead or ont of the way apd the murderers will be saved to continue their practice. That will be a success for these individuals; but, “we repoat, ‘that these kind of successes are an injury td the’ interests of murderers asa class. .'They.pro- duce just such eventsas that in Illinois:. All those Illinois men were animated by the con- sideration that the papers might be rolled instead of folded in that case, and that if the papers ever got folded right it would be proved that the man was insane, and so they cut it all short and put a piece of rough, coarse, perhaps dirty, rope about the youth’s neck and hanged him on a com- monplace, ordinary tree, But that is evi- dently the tendency ; the correlative of the murder trial pushed to its extreme. Reac- tion and no trial must follow an abuse of the institution of trial. Law and Common Sense. There are some curious features connected with the bankruptcy of John H. Keyser, the Ring plumber, which, while they may be in harmony with the requirements of law, are not easily reconcilable with the dictates of common sense. Keyser was one of the principals in the combination of thieves by which the city was robbed of many millions of dollars, In the first terror of detection he made an assignment of a large amount of securities to Mr. Jackson 8. Schultz, to be held by the assignee in trust for the city, and to repay the city in part what it may have lost through Keyser’s crimes, The city has received nothing from the trustee, and now Keyser claims by an act of bankruptcy to wipe out all his indebtedness. He still owes the city all he dishonestly obtained from its treasury, a preferred claim, common senso would say, because one for stolen money. But the city is debarred from a voice in the election of the assignee in bankruptcy, al- though the assignee has the power to in- vestigate the city’s claim as he may see fit. The trustee is elected, therefore, without the city’s vote, and the election is, as the Register remarks, controlled by the votes of one Regan, a former employé of the bank- rupt, ‘‘who represents certain other former employés in the interest of the bankrupt to secure the choice of assignee.” This may be.all in accordance with law... It is certainly at variance with justice and com- mon sense. An Unprofitabie Breach of Negtrality. The suit brought by Mr. Oscanyan, the late Consul General of Turkey in the United States, against the French line of steamers for the recovery of the value of one hundred and thirty-two thousand cartridges alleged to have been shipped to France by the plaintiff during the French war, was brought to a termination on Wednesday be- fore Judge Donohue by the dismissal of the complaint. The defendant’s counsel, Messrs. Buck and Chittenden, raised the point of the illegality of the shipment under the neutrality laws, A private trader has no more right to furnish belligerents with munitions of war from the markets of a neutral nation than the neutral gov- erfiment itself would have. The gist of the Alabama case was that a government may not permit its citizens to do what it might not itself do in violation of neutrality. The Turkish government would not deem it good faith on the part of the United States to suffer the Fronch Consul General to buy and ship arms from New York directly to Russia to be used in the existing war. But Mr. Oscanyan's suit failed, moreover, be- cause there was no proof of ‘the delivery of the cartridges to the French company’s line. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Spinner ts on hie way to Florida for the winter, Mr. George 8, Boutwell, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, A Cincinout! paper says that Mr. Hayes was elected Governor of Obio as an anti-Catholic, Pendleton seeme to be only a little way ahoad of General Morgan tor the Obio Senatorship, Hon. Henry L. Pierce consents to accept the nomi- nation of the republicans forthe Mayoralty of Boston, Tho Cincinnati Commercial says that imputatious upon General Howard’s personal courago are simply infamous. ‘A Springfiola man says that he doosn’t like masie because t! re so many commas, semi-colons and periods in it. The St Louis Globe-Democrat speaks of “tho bill to make teaspoons a logal tender.’’ This must be Bat- ler’s pet measure. renee 59 John McGregor, an old and esteomed resident of Fultonvilie, N. Y., dropped dead in his barn yester. day, from apoploxy. 7 Mrs, McNally, of Chatham, Ont, aged eighty-tobr, committed suicide yesterday by jumping trom a third story window. Insane, J. K. Millner, William Rigby and. R. S, Greenville, of tho British riflo team, bave returned to this ity from a trip to San Francisco, They will return to Europe in the steamor City of Berlin, which sails on Saturday, Goveral Sir William O'Grady Haly, Commander of the British forces in Canada, with bis Aide-de-Camp, Captain O'Grady Haly, arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday from Baltimore, and will leave to-morrow evoning for Halifax, The full beuch of the Massachusetts Supreme Court yesterday sustained the verdict rendered June 8, 1876, awarding to Mrs, Julia Weston, vocalist, $7,000 dam- ages for injuries sustained in falling through a hateh- ‘Way at tho store of William W, Churchill and others, ‘The new Canadian National Society held a meeting at Montreal yesterday, Alderman Stephens in the chair, The avowed object of the society is not to weaken the British connection, but to draw Canadians of all creeds and nationalities into closer fellowship with each other, Washington Star:—“While Senator Maxey was Speaking In the Senate this morning, Senator Davis, of Illinois, leit bis own seat to got nea he Texas Senator, He took the chance of one of tho ordinary chairs holding him, The rosult was that ho had no sooner got well seated in it than the cane oat as well as the underpinning gave way, aad gently certain person named Goetz, and sounded | dumped the Senator on the floor,” AMUSEMENTS. * STEINWAY HALL—‘“‘sUDAS MACCABEUS.® The Orst concert of the Oratorio Society of New York took place ast night at Steimway Hail, im the presence of a large und refined audience. The theme selected for the occasion was that which Handel wrote in celebration of the victory of Culloden, which was wou by William, the Duke of Cumberland. The great composer mado this marvellous score in less than thirty days When the work was produced in Covent Garden, Londou, in 1846, 1% created a sensation, and wince that time nothing but “Tae Messtah?? among his compositions has been so frequently per- formed, It posse: @ dramatic force and un interest that are rarcly e¢: 4 in similar compositions, It depicts the wariiko spirit of a people, their prayers in the hour of dejection and their jubilation in the momont of victory, Much of this effect depends upon the chorus, and last night this body showed its admirable training fo the rendition of its several subjects. Mr. Stoddard, the basso, amply contributed to the success of the occasion, und, takey ‘all, Dr, Damrosea.has reason to ve proud of bis The excellegt training of bis orchestra best work of ull the artists engaged were contributed in ifakiag one of the noteworthy wrusical” successes ofc:the. seasov. To-morrow tho Jourth sympuony gonna at Dr. Damrosch will take Place at Steinway Hail. The solo quartet consisted of Mra. Imogene Brown, Miss Antonia Hevune, dir, Joseph Maas und Mr. A. KE. Stoddard, Mr, Maus, the tenor, bore a large share of the burden of tbe performance, and did well, The affs’Galt Forth Tuy’ Powers,’ “No Unuallowed De. sire.” “How Vain-le the Man Who Boasts in Fight,” und especially ‘Sound the Alarm,’ were ara- Mativally rendered and with an effect that stirred the wudienee enthusiasticully, Tho two ladios, Mrs. 1mo- gene Brown und Miss Henne, likewise encountered their exucting tasks with conscientious taste. sprumpb. und the CHICKERING WALL--~MR. AND MRS. HAROLD POWER. Theso artists made their second appearance ip America at Chickering Hall yesterday afternoon ant met with another gratifying reception at the bands of @ select and critical audieace, While the style ot theit periormavce is not entirely new in this couutry Mr, and Mre. Power invest it with a charm peculurly thes own which makes {t at onco unique and attractive, 1 Toquires rare tulent, a keen seuse of humor und much knowledge of human nature to hold the aticution of an audience tor two wours or more and send them away not only good natured but unxious to gougain, Yot dir, Power seoms to possess those gifts in a remarkable degree, and to them und « well chosen series of sub» Jevts muy be uttributed the success with which be haa boon greeted, Mrs. Power, likewise, adds largely to the pleasure of the entertainment by ber sweet songs and pure Kuglizh intonauion, There is much clevers bess in the oils of acting Which she undertakes, and {t results: 48 much irom her refinement as from are, ‘Vhewe artists should be heard in order to ve appreci« ated, ana, judging trom the general tribute, they will not dixappoiut uny one Who admires entertaining vers aatility and exquisite vocalism. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—-THE ‘ELKS’ BENEFIT. The tenth annual venetit of the Protective and Bo nevolent Order of Elks, which took place at the Acad emy of Music yesterday altcrnoun, drow together ag audience only second in magnitude to that which as semblod on tho occasion of the bencit to the late Edwin Adams, ‘The performance was long and varied, and the earnest manner in which the many volunteer artists were received, from the stars to the musicians, attested the appreciation in which this admirable society 1s held by members of the theatrical profession, The leading features of the entertaiument wero the fourth act of “Camille,”’ in which Miss Clara Morris and Mr, James O'Neill respectively played the purts of Cu- mille and Armand Duval; the first act of **Musotte,? in which the irreprossible Lotta and hor new com. pany appeared, and the potion scene irom ‘Ro meo and Juliet,’ in which Miss Mary Anderson, th¢ brilliant tragedienne, gave to the public auother exhibition of the marvellous and original tragic power that has astonished audiences elsewhere. Hor ex~ quisite reading of the linos, ner well defined elocau- tionary effects in language, pose and gesture, and the death scoue, where she portrays tho inroad of the 1 poison from finger ends to heart, constituted a pore formuuee which, aithough but fragmentary, whetted the appetito for more, in addition tothe foregoing scenes were contributions by Bryant's Minstrels, Cnarley Backus und the principal actors and actresses in the several variety theatres of Now York, in which ngs, dances and skoiches made a really enjoyable mealey and sent the audience homo gratitied. All the arrangements were bandsomely carried out by the cowimittee sclected fur the purposa, und the Elka bave good reagon to congratulate themscives on their poe cuniary success, MUSICAL AND DBAMATIC NOTES. _ ‘The Hess opera troupe are in Philadelphia this weer, Mario Roge will bs in Now York about tne lst of Japuary. Rose Eytinge is very soon to appear at the Broad: way Theatre. ‘The Withameons will commence an engagement af Piusbarg next week. Dr. 8. M. Landis, the sanguinary tragedian, is ane nounced to appear at Tony Pastor's, The tallest nan and woman in the world are now on exhibition at the New American Museum. Miss Helen Powor, who recites and delineates ad~ mirably, bas mot with a flattering success at Chickcr. ing Hall. The Hutchinson family quertette, which 1s now on its thirty-sixth annual tour, will sing in Chickering Hall on Tuesday, Novembor 27, and December 1. Fow people can witness the representation by Janauschek of Lady Dedlock and Mile, Hortense in “Chesney Wold,”’ which is now on the boaras of the Broadway, without experiencing a new revelation, ‘These characters never have bad such a superb ex. ponent Mr. Joo Jofferson’s third matings takes place tos morrow at Booth’s Theatre. One of the most inter. esting features at theee day performances of “Rip Van Winkio’’ is the presence of the great throng of children, They go with their parents and they go alone; they goin pairs and !n clusters, und the pa- thetic Rip has few more earnest admirers or lovable critics than these same little ones. That which the children as woll as tho aged can enjoy must cere tainly possess the vital element of univorsul popu- larity. It ia the crowning tribute to the beautiful art at actor, Davenport, one of New York’s favors 0 to bave become a progounced favorite elsewhere, Sho is now fulfilling a sories of engago- ments in the West, which, judging trom the tone of the pross, are exceptionally brilliant, This week she isin St. Louis; next week she will play in Memphia Miss Vavenport’ bas chiefly appeared in her original creation of Mabel, in ‘‘Pique,’’ but is likewiso praised for her impersonations of Rosalind and Lady Teazia, She has advanced rapidiy in her profession during the last year or two, and improvement in the same proportion will doubtless secure for her an enviable position us a representative actross. We supposed the English Comedictta Company that opeued a short jos of performances at tho French Theatre on Wednesday last to be composed of ama- tours, If this supposition bo correct their entertains ment js quite creditdbie, Tor it is far above tho stan~ dard of the ordinary amateur, One does not go to an amateur performance ta the samo critical frame of mind as to @ regular “professional” performanco, But even amateurs should not ovorlgok delects in pronunciation of wellknown words, whethor lrench or English. We say thfiia all kindoess to Miss How- ard, Me, Weldon, Mr, Thorne and the Messrs, Sylves, ter, “They notonly marder tho Queen’s English, but they guillotine the President’s French most cruelly. Bat otherwise, barring a little stiffness of action and voice, they do vory well, In fact we have seen very much worse among professionals, The first of threo grand Brignoli-Gilmoro concerta will be given at the Academy of Music this evening. ‘The programme is very attractive, as will be observed from tho following choice selections:—Oversuro, “Robespierro,’? Gilmore’s Band; bymn, of Peace,’ poetry by Dr, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Now York Choral Union and Gilmore’s Band; piano solo, “Fantasie Faust,” Mile, Teresa Carreno; romanza from Martha, “M’appart,” Signor Brignoli; grand opera selection, introducing solo for euphonium (Mr. Frank), cornet (Mr. B, C. Bent), clarinet (Mr. Kogel), with gems from L’Africaine, « Huguenots,” “Le Prophete,” “L’Etoule da Nord” and other operas, Gilmore’s Band, with chorus, in finalo; cavatina from “Lucia di Lammermoor,” Miss Lilian Norton; overs turo, “Jubel,”” Gilmore’s Band; cavatina from ‘Itige oletto,” Migs Sallie Rever; English song, ‘‘Love Once ’ Signor Brignoli; grande marche triumphale, “The Crossing of the Danubo,”’ Gilmo! Band; graod scene frow “li Trovatore,’ introducing the “Miscroro,”” Mise Lillian Norton and Signor Brignoli; Hallelujah Choros from the “Messiab,’? Now York Choral Union and Gilmore's Band,