The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1878, Page 6

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MHEATRE COMIQU BAN FRANCISCO ML BY. JAMES THEATRE! THEATRE BRIG TON— TRIPLE 1878, The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity today will le warmer und partly cloudy in the morning, followed by in- ereasing cloudiness and possibly light rains. To- morrow it promises to be warm and clowly or partly cloudy, probably with rains. Watt Strevr Yesterpay.—The stock market was dull and prices might be roughly stated as higher for the grangers, lower for the coal secu rities and steady for the Vanderbilt stocks. Money was easy on call at 11y to 2 per cent, and gold was weak at 1004, throughout, Gov- ernment and State bonds were dull and steady, while railway mortgages were generally higher. X of the streets are as filthy will never do, Messrs. Police as ever. Comunissiox.ers. Tne Prise the races at Lexington and the trotting matches at Narragansett. There were some very excit- ing contests. Panty stands chance in Brooklyn at the next election. Tt bas been shut out from all participation in the man- agement of the machine — of th contest, Neary One Tuousanp doubtful certificates of naturalization have, thus fur, been surrén- dered to Commissioner Davenport. The exact history of how their nominal owners obtained them would be interesting. Tuere Is a Fresu Dirricutry iu the Han- Jan-Courtney match, At a mecting in Montreal it has been decided not to raise the money for the rnce at Lachine unless the contest shall be for the championship. Tuere Are Painret Rumors around the City Hall that the scheme to heat the city by steam has a good-sized colored brother con- cealed somewhere in the pipes. It ought to be easy to steam him ont, Tue Mayor anv ALDERMEN have done their part toward the erection of the barge office at the Battery. If the Sinking Fund Commis- sioners will hurry up now we shall have the masons at work in a few weeks, Mrs. Puitiirs, who confessed a few days ago that she had poisoned her babe, still persists in ber self-accusation, although no trace of poison Kins been found in the stomach. A second anal- yeis will be made by Professor Doremus. A Lanptorp axp Lexanr Decision of con- siderable importance was given in the courts yesterday. The point that would seem to be established by it is that a landlord cannot eject, even alter suit and judgment, provided the rent is paid. Postmastkn James smashed a corner in tameos yesterday by the seizure of fifty dozen which it was attempted to smuggle through nis letter boxes. The Custom House is, after all, the safer gentiemen who are striving to cheat the Treasy way for the de by the Police Commissioners it appears that there are in all thirty-seven hundred and sixty-seven good sized holes in the city pavements. They call upon Commissioner Campbell to repair them, Meau- while, will the Commissioners seo that they are cleaned out! Tae Wearn From ax EXcMeRATION he depression that was in the West on Su y has made considerable progress during the past twenty-four hours. It now overlies the lake regions, but dominates the weather within « varrow band from Canada,to Although the pressure has materially dover the Middle Atla England distriets it is still relativ and tends to retard the eastward the low area. There is, however, a general north- erly movement of the high area observable, which indicates that the passage of the depres- siou Will not be delayed very long sure is also Jow over the ro Gulf and South Aulantic coust districts. The barometer is very high in the Rocky Mountain regions, Rain has fallen ou the South Atlantic jt and throughuut the Missouri and Mississippi valleys and the lake regi ‘The pres- cor re It has been heaviest and most gene in the lat. ter districts, they being within the in- fiuence of the area of low barometer. ‘There was also a slight fall in some sections of the Middle Atlantic Stutes. The winds have been from fresh to brisk in the Northwest, northern lake region and over the Western Gulf and Bouth Atiantic coast distri It fresh on the Middle Atlan coast and els: . f dures have generally fallen, exeept in the Mid- Alle Atlantic and New England districts, where a slight rise has taken plu Strong winds are probable for the luke regions aud the western pections of the Middle Atlantic States during the next few days. ‘Lhe weather in New York and its vieinity to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy in the morning, followed by increasing cloudiness and possibly light rains. ‘To-morrow it promises to be warm aud cloudy or partly gloudy, probably with rains, has been v aud New | NEW YORK HERALD, Secretary" Sherman's New Experi- ment with Silver. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has issued instructions for the payment of silver dol- lars in exchange for legal tender notes at the Treasury in Washington and at the sev- eral Sub-Treasuries of the United States on and after September 16. This is extolled in some quarters asa resumption of specie payments ; but it seems to us like a sudden and ill-considered makeshift. Mr. Sher- man has been trying for several months to put the new silver dollars in circulation. It is but a few days since he published an order permitting their exchange all over the country for greenbacks at par in even sums of one thousand dollars up to the limit of ten thousand dollars in any one transaction, and offering to pay the cost of transporting the silver from the mints to any point where it might be wanted, He seems to have been quickly convinced that this effort to incorporate the silver dollars into the general currency of the country would prove as futile as all his preceding efforts, and he covers his defeat by the new Treasury rescript. This last experiment may turn out well or ill, but its good effect, if it shall have any, will be rather due to accident than to foresight. It is too sudden and looks too much like a freak to have been the result of mature reflection. That part of the press which makes haste to land it represents it as a dexterous manwuvre for retiring the greenback circu- lation and locking up a considerable por- tion of it in the Treasury in advance of the legal date of resumption. According to these admirers Mr. Sherman intends to make the } customs duties virtually payable in legal { tender notes, and by retaining these notes in the Treasury to contract the paper circu- lation. It is ussumed, plausibly enough, that no more gold will be paid for duties when silver can be had at par for green- backs, and that the government wil! keep paying out the silver it thus receives back through the custom houses to defray its ordinary expenses, and will thus aceumu- late a hoard of greenbacks. It is difficult to believe that Mr. Sherman has adopted such a plan’ on mature con- sideration. He is bound to obey the laws of Congress in their letter and their spirit. It makes no difference whether he likes a law or not, he is equally bound to exccute it according to its real intention. Now it so happens that nothing is plaincr than the will of Congress that the legal tender notes shall not be accumulated and hoarded in the Treasury. The act of last May, sus- pending the further retirement of United States legal tender notes, explicitly pro- vides that “‘when any of said notes may be received into the Treasury under any law from any source whatever and shall belong to the United States, they shall not be re- tircd, cancelled or destroyed, but they shall be reissued and paid out again and kept in circulation.” It is inconceivable that, in the face of so plain a law, the Secretary de- liberately intends to purgue a plan of hoarding the greenbacks and locking them up from circulation. ‘ If his purpose be what his applauders suppose it is equivalent to receiving green- backs in payment of duties, It would make no real difference either to the im- porting merchants or to the Treasury whether greenbacks were directly paid for duties or whether they were paid into the Treasury for silver and the silver returned through the Custom House. In either case the government would virtually receive greenbacks at par in payment of duties, and the Secretary would flank or outwit the law instead of obeying it. A bill was offered in the House at the last session to authorize the payment of customs duties in legal tender notes at par, and it was disagreed to by the decisivg vote of 154 to 96. It-is incredible that" Mr, Sherman means to circumvent by an artifice a law which Congress refused by so strong a majority to repeal. The true interpretation of this new Treasury instruction is that it is a last and desperate attempt to push the silver dollars into circulation. Popular as ‘the dollar of our daddies” seemed at one time as an electioneering cry, the people do not want this sort of money, and will never take it until it is forced uponthem. The paper currency of the country—-both. legal tender notes and bank notes—is really popular. The people have confidence in it and prefer it to silver. It is a noteworthy fact that the recent currency agitators inscribe greenbacks on all their banners and insert them in all thoir platforms, but have nothing to say for silver. ‘Ihe new national party, or labor party, is a loud and obstreperous greenback party, but not a silver party. Mr. Sherman has been faith- fully coining silver dollars month by month, according to law, but when all is done he finds that he can make no use of them. He has adopted one expedient after another to get them into the bands of the people, and now, as a last resort, he offers to exchange them in any quantities tor legal tender notes. It is improbable that the offer will be accepted save by people who will use them instead of gold to pay duties, The only effect will be the saving by the merchants and the loss by the ‘Treasury of half of one per cent, or whatever the difference may be between the value of gold and greenbacks. ‘The people at large do not wunt the silver dollars, be- some, without any compensating quality. They will not buy more bread or meat or cloth than bank notes, and six or eight of them are a burden ina man’s pocket, They can never be brought into common daily use without the previous suppression of small notes. Let Secretary Sherman do what he will they will remain a drug on his hands. They will not be used in foreign commerce, because they could be exported only at their ballion value, and for all home transactions, except payment of customs and fractional change, the people will always prefer small notes. If the law forbidding further contraction of the legal tender notes did not stand in his way Mr. Sherman could undoubtedly so manipulate the silver dollars as to make them an instrument of drawing greenbacks into the Treasury and hoarding them, But he will not attempt this against the law and Against the public clamor which would be cause they are inconvenient and cumber- | raised on the subject. However it may be intended, we find nothing to admire in this latest stroke of policy. To dignify it as a resumption of specie payments is absurd. Specie payments must be resumed by law and not by caprice. Mr. Sherman will be just as free to stop this experiment any time between now and the Ist of January as he is to begin it, amd if it is cried up as a resumption of specie payments | the country may be mortified with a new suspension. It will not do to play éast and loose with so important & measure a8 te sumption. We do not see that a single ad- vantage will result trom the substitution of silver for gold in the payment of duties, end this is all that Mr. Sherman's mew exper ment can amount to, country districts. Compared with those of the Metropolitan road they suffer in every respect. The stations at Chatham square, Houston street, Kighteenth street and at Forty-second street and Third avenue should be completed at once, in simple jus- to the people who wish to patronizo road, and it is a matter of won- that these should remain in their unavailable condition while those above Forty-second. street, where no cars are yet running, are so ngarly completed, The more important Chatham street branch, which alone ean be of any use to persons doing business in the centre of the down town portion of the city, is not only not completed, but according to one of the en- gineers the iron for it has not even been tice the der If it were trae that the Secretary intends | ordered! If these things indicate the ideas it as a means of accumulating greenbecks in of the directors as to what rapid transit the Treasury it would be mistimed and fll- | facilities should be, they would have done judged, as well as itlegsl. The domestic busioess of the country will always be mainly transacted in some form of papet currency, and as trade seems to be reviving the Secretary shoald wateh its progress better to have put their time and money into something else, instead of annoying and delaying the public as they have done and ave doing. Pottering with a valuable fran- chise, which competent men would have during the present sutuma with os | used in a business-like way and with some little interference as possible, important for him to ty is | regard for the reasonable demaads of the be able | public, is not what is expected of great cor- judge how mach paper curreney is meees- j porations that profess to have sense and sary for the convenient transaction of busi- ness in the season When large banking facilities are needed for moving the crops. ‘Lhis is just the season of the year when the paper curreucy should not be contracted, even if the Secretary of the Treasury had authority to contract it, He should wateh the course of business and try to learn what it teaches, He has an ample stock of coin for successfal resumption and he should exhibit no fidgety anxiety to antici- pate the operation of the law. but we are confident that he means nothing more than to yet some of his silver coin into cireula- tion, without any purpose to force # con- traction of the greenbacks against the letter and spirit of the unwise law which Congress passed in May. AVK.UE A, fronting on Tompkins square, bas not seen tho street sweepers for soveral cays Garbage and filth of ull kinas abouod there. Police Commissioners and Officer Ki clean 1? The Maine Bilecction, The election of State officers and Con- gressmen, which took place in Maine yes- terday, has been looked forward to with considerable interest because of the doubt- ful character of the contest, owing to the introduction of the new greenback or so-called national party into the campaign, A year ago the vote polled by the greenbackers was comparatively insignificant, but it was feared this year by the friends of honest money that the agitation of the question in other States, particularly in Massachu- setts, would tend to increase their numbers. The returns thus far re- ceived are not complete, and it is im- possible to say definitely how the battle has gone. It is evident, however, that the greenback vote has been largely increased. by the defection of the democrats who were, no doubt, disgusted by the tac- tics of the Tilden leaders in the State and the prominence given to the fraud issue. According to the latest de- spatches Reed, Frye and Lindsey, the republican candidates in the First, Second and Third Congressional districts, have been re-elected. In the Fourth dis- trict, where the contest was exceedingly bitter, Powers, the republican candidate, has probably been defeated by Ladd, who ran on the: greenback ticket. Hale's district is close.. So far as the Gover- norship is concerned it is believed that Governor Conner has failed of a re-election by the people. The result, however, will not be definitely known until this evening or to-morrow. ‘Tue Seventeexta Waxp, one of the most populous in the city, is again in a horribly filthy state, What nd mean? Are they striving to bring a plague upon its residents? The Excise Mudidle. The District Attorney will have to make still another effort before the much indicted Early can be securely bound by tie toils of the law, and it is not certain that even then he will succeed. We give in another col- umn the opinions of prominent lawyers, among them the District Attorney humself, on the point raised by ex-Judge Ditten- hoefer, counsel for Early, and the gist of these is that in this and simi- lar cases conviction must hereafter depend upon the agreement of a jury, in- stead éf following as a matter of course upon mere proof of the sale of liquor. * The practical benefit to dealerg of this new phase of the struggie between law and liquor is stated by Judge Dittenhoefer to inhere in the hope of the engctment of a common sense law regulating the sale of in- toxicating beverages, but the District At- torney suggests some obstacles in the way of such an enactment, and those who have had any experience at Albany in affairs of this sort, no matter upon which side, will sorrowfully admit that Mr. Phelps has fairly outlined the difficulties to be met. It will be possible, however, to pass a law the application of which can be secured by persons with a fair knowledge of ordinary English, and this is more than can be said of the present one. Meanwhile the temperance people will do well to bear in mind-the wisdom of the adage that half a loaf is better than no bread, and to accept such assistance as the better class of liquor dealers are willing to give them. Scrro.k Staeer bas fallen back into tts old condition of Gib, We do not wantan epidemic there, and the Po. Nee Commissioners will see that it 4 Why This Delay? The Elevated Railroad on the east side of the city has succeeded in disappointing nearly every one and in almost every pos- sible way. It does not give rapid transit, properly speaking, at all, for a horse car, making as few stops, could make about as good time, The stations are few in number and so far apart as to deprive many people of such benefits as the road claims to offer, while such as exist are ugly, difficult of ac+ cess, and as inconvenient and badly ap- pointed as.many a one on new railroads in ability as well as money. weawron Srmeat is reported by our tospectors as ‘ithy w the exvreme. It is impure from cud tocnd. James Kiernan is the officer in charge, Will the Po- Hier Co.nmissioners see that be does bie duty oF pul & man there whe will uot se scandalously noglect the work ior which be is pata! WVetlow Fever. One of our city contemporaries, ordinarily accarate, describes yellow fever as a discase to be absolutely prevented by drainage and the kindred appliances of sanitary science, and refers in this connection to its relation to lo lands near tidewater, alleging that acase has never been produced at five hun- dred feet above the level of the sea. Our contemporary is in error, however, in this statement, which is simply one of fact. Yellow fover in Mexico and in the West Indies, and at other places which can be named if necessary, is produced at a far greater altitude than that given. But if what is said of altitude were accurate it could hardly be considered as applicable to the prevention of this pest at a place like New Orleans, whose altitude cannot be changed and to which all that sanitary sci- ence can do will never supply an equiva- lent for the air of higher levels. But we do not believe that yellow fever is a disease absolutely preventable at all points. That it can be prevented and has been prevented in Northern cities principally by sanitary improvements we have already shown. New York and Philadelphia are evidences of this fact. By the same means it can be modified in Southern cities; but to sappose that it can be eradicated is to leave out, of view its tropical, pestilential character. Upon a people whose systems are eufeebled by malarial cachexia the fever acts with more fatal vigor, no doubt, than it can upon 2 people not in that condition, By the re- moval, therefore, of that which produces the malaria its ravages may be greutly re- duced, and in that way sanitary science can do a great deal, and if the fever were a malarious disease might prevent it; but it is not a malarious disease--not malarious, that is to say, in the sense in which the use of that adjective. would classify it «s only a malignant form of our. intermittent, remittent and con- gestive fevers due to marsh miasm. It has no relation to them, and the clearest dis- tinctions may be made between it and the diseases of that class. There is no perio- dicity in yellow fever. Periodicity is the essential characteristic of the other class. Yellow fever cannot. exist at the common temperature of the countries in which ma- Jarious diseases are constant, From yellow fever men die or get well at once, while the malarious fevers have a tedious conva- lescence and recur. recur. All the garments ever worn by ague- smitten mortality since the world began may be exposed to the sun in any climate and will not make a pestilence; but the jacket of a dead sailor who had yellow fev passing ashore as an heirloom, cost eleven thousand lives in a single city. In short, between the most pernicious remittent fever and any case of yellow fever there is a sharp line to be drawn equally as to causes, symptoms, pathology and treatment. Yellow fever may be modified at New Orleans, and the authorities there who have any regard for the future of that great seat of commerce must do what is required toward that end, or the disease will be “prevented” in the Crescent City as another malignant dis- ease has been prevented in the deserted cities of the Roman campagna. Ip tue Pouce Commmaonnns will visit Clintes, be tween Houston and Stanton sireets, iney will Gad that it has not been cleaned in two weeks, Its con- dition ts abominable, Why te it not swept? Officer Kiervan is pala tor attending to it, but Be does nothing of the kind, Whe Is to Blame? There can be no good excuse for the tumbling down of a house in the course of erection. If a capable architect makes the plans and specifications and sees that they are properly carried out; if capable work- men are employed and good materials used a building must stand, When it falls to pieces and tumbles into the cellar there must be fault somewhere, and as such acci- dents are likely to cause a terrible loss of life the law properly steps in to guard against incapacity, carelessness or greed in the ergetion of buildings. The character of the foundations, the thickness of walls, the quality of the mortar and all details are specifically laid down by the statute, and a Department of Buiklings is created ond maintained at a cost of seventy or eighty thousand dollars a year for the purpose of seeing that these provisions are thoroughly observed and enforced. When an accident like that on Broadway and Fifty-third street occurs some one must be to blame, and it is most important to the public safety that in this case the responsibility should be placed just where # belongs, and that the calpable person or persons should be punished. We have no right to pass this occurrence over lightly because, through the interpo- sition of Providence, it was not the occas Yellow fever does not | TUESDAY, S“#PTEMBER 10, 1878—TKLPLE SHEET. sion of a fearful loss of human life, The criminal incapacity or carelessness of some one caused an accident which might easily have killed forty or fifty people, and if the offence should be suffered to go uDpun- ished it will, be followed by «similar occurrences whose results will not be so harmless, Indeed, many lives have al- ready been sacrificed by the fall of ynsafe buildings in this city, and this is by no means the first instance in which the care- lessness or incapacity of builders and of the department have been made evident. We insist, therefore, that a complete and search- ing investigation into ‘the’ causes of the Broadway and Fifty-third street accident should be made by competent and inde- pendent persons, to be named by the Mayor, and not by the Building Depart- ment. Let the people know whether the architect is ‘to blame, or the owner, or the Superintendent of Buildings,.or all these together. It is’all very well for the Build- ing Department to say that the law was properly carried out and the duty of the de- partment properly discharged. What, then, was the cause of the accident? Nothing is more certain than that somebody must be to blame when a house tumbles down as if it was built of cards, and the public satety demands that the censure and penalty shall go were they are deserved. Nouro.k Strext, between Stautou and East Hous- top streets, 18 repor.ed as the dirticst im the Seven- teenth ward, Will Officer Jumes Kiernan, who is re- spoasibie for Its condition, explain why it ts £0 scanda- Jously neglected by him? PERSONAL INTELLIG<NCE, The duster bas excdusted. Senator Thurman will attend the Georgia State Fair. Congressman Morrison has beon visiting St. Louis, Kearvey say: “I um pot a sympathizer with strikes."* Chicago young ladies obtain tho autographs of Chinamen for their aibums, Kearney says:—‘There 16 factions, @eu’t kaow about nobody.” “the New York Board of Health see] nto New Orloans bas fatien trom 13,000,000 to 2,500,000, Chionmen are teacuing natives of the Pacific tatends to iaduige ie opium swoxing. Micbaei Reese, the Cali‘orula millionoaire, used to aay that avarice was a disease with him. re, Rowley, 1! child of the eminent commentator, Dr. Adam Clarke, bas recently died. ‘The French working classes, we aro told, spend less im proportion to their means thau any tn the world. Kearney said, logicaily:—' One issuo at a time. Don’t crowd your issues, * * * Pool your issues,” The New Haven Register is of opinion that the merit im the Oneiga communtiy is that the men have 10, wotber-io-law. AScoteb clergyman in London is losing his meatal balance; aud be recently guve out the same bymn toree times within ap bour. : Io Poris tm 1877 the greatest mumber both of mar- Tiages end of deaths happened ia Marob. Buckle would Dave bees aelighted with this item, A @ trom Kearney :—*‘The eat workingmen wil! run (bis couutry i they to waik through bived up to thelr Kaees and die tn the pool.” 4 According to & Sanday School boy, interviewed by bis teacher of the Barlington Hawkeye, lightning Rover strikes twice im tho same place because it docen’t peed ta, Cattaraugue Republican :—‘The Henarp is one of the most compleie ac wspapers published 1n the world. lis system of cotiecting news is probabiy superior to that of aay other newspaper." Volonel Lawrence Kip is vietting bis brother-in- law, Mr. Pierre Loriilard, at Newport, Colonel Kip wilt probably coutest the pomiaation for Congress with Mr, Willie in the district now represented by the Jatter. Pail Mell Gazetle:—*la this country; at present, the caucus young, modert and feeble; public Opimion w strong and vigilaat, and therefore the worst elements of the new organizations are for the time, and might always be to some exteus, probably, kept uuder control But every year the aifioulty of breaking up the machipery wili become more mani fest, and the Weakness of public criticism more pro- pounced. Ik is ebeurd to suppose that clover party Mavegers Will not jeara to discipline the igaorant wusees in the large towns.” AMUSEMENTS. BROADWAY THUATAE-— MISS CAV: NDISH MERCY MPARICK, A large aud appreciative audience assembled at the Broadway Theatre inst eveuimg to Wiloess the début io America of Mize Ads Cavendish. it was on eudience prediapered wo be critica’, like rst wight houses in New York, ana ag Ahe orcesi was a trying coe Mise Cavendish passed through it triamphentiy and achieved a desided suc- cous, The play oi “The Now Magdalen” ts one that hex already bees played ia this city, the part of Mercy Merrick Lerag assumed by Miss Carlotta Lo- as was as © Burse Bader the Genera Cross, lo a but she meets a young girl, Groce Koseberry, proud of bame and race, WhO u8 On ber Way to Kegiand & au auet, Ihe two women leare esen oihor's story aud Grace repulses Merey as an outcast, A skirmish on aes O8 the Outpurta, the Preach being driven away by theGermmans Dering tho melée @ bullet passes through the windew of ibe but avd stretches Grace Roseverry apparently Hiicless at Merey's ive. A rad. den impulse leads the latior (o amume the name aod characier of Miss Roseverry, She received vy the the suut and wins ber love avd that of ber nopuew. Bur Grace Kovoberry t wot billed, & smite! Gorman physionn restorme ter vo life and reson by exiractiog the ballet trem ber bree, Go the tree Grace arriving a the } : 22 if i HE EFS Hi pnp fy B Blow presenied last wigte Ane (here is avendant 1 Miss Cavendish bas od: wonder (bal she sarsea was wo lntroduce ber to sirenge land. tli obo Abd BON he HUCCeRs Bhe AS the false Mise Janet Koy, #hose tore she bas wou, Mise Cavenuish the mental that accom pace the mpostere s Seewty thet ee ber tree character, The mentsl ony quetied by the vere! that sue in * dead Woes, apd Whew abe Hods bersei! comirumted Ly the Iiving Grace, who bas just declared abe falls in aewoon, This ise very sertting scone, Miss Julia Bacebett as Grace aevoucces herselt se the irae ry and le defeut sod Gayieiding when she te re Just (hen Mercy eoiers, sue so sudden is tho Ineetiog (bet the letter as if shot and falls beipless ow the carpet tablesu closes the act and roused the audience te & pitch of eubbusianm, v —e another strong situation, bas sieps forward to take Graco Meruy’s beter rescucs § (the Women who peis her, So powortal wae Miss Cavendish in this scene that lively rose at her, and she was twice before the curtain, From Cavondiss's success, was noting was full of seemed to that the andicnce was with her. The Bature asserts g z it .38 ! | oa ber on this her first appearance phetic of the success she will meet herestter, Welcome ber as @ decided acquisit! politun boards, aad hep? to see the lady moro congenial to the refined natare that is evidently hers in real lite. Mr. Wheelock as the Curate, sho is wil tng to the true motives ef Mercy Merrick, and ofers ber band, after her coufession, was forcible tm Stronger scones of the pisy, though too demonstr: f was excelle: tain that fell on the prologue was raised Mr. Arthur Dudley will have to leara how to act geatiomaa belore he cau hope to doserve more the laugbter bestowed upon bim by ‘The remainder of the cust does nol mention, GRAND OPERA HOUSE-~“‘ONCLE TOM’S CABIN.” In consequence of the ivjuuction restraining the production of ‘*M’liss’? at tho Grand Opera House “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was sabsiituted lust eveoing, ‘The proguction of this weather-beaten, tlme-houored corner stone of the native Ainericun drama bore some unmistakable marks of greut haste upon it, and if high standard of criticism. uudience was thin, the piay was thin and the pertorm- ance was thin, Mr. McDonald as Unolo Tom. was a stick; Slia8 Gaddis as Auct Ophelia displayed a decid~ edly ‘artificial humor; whole Eva and topsy were rather xinustagly dono by Miss Gracte Wade'uod Miss Sallie Parton. The rematuder ol the cast wi too good for the audience. THE: TARE COMIQUE. The Theatre Comique pr ted an excellent bill last eveuing,. andthe bouse wus crowded ry audience evidently inclixed to help the actors along by an abundance of applause, The programme was Varied aud extensive, us it usually Is at this theatre, but the hits of the evening were Johu Wild’s “Rapid ‘Transit’? and the amusing dramaol “Callanan the De lective,” in which, of course, Harrixan and Hart Were the great attraction, Severslamusiug songs, dances and Byevnaatie performance: cluded in the Dill, ull of which had theif owa attractions Jor different portions of the audience, “Galluban, the Detective’ was a really 1unuy piece of acting, ia whieh Hurrigan apd Hart tuily sustained thelr claim for clever interpretation of comical scenes, . GLOBE THEADRE, ‘Tho Giobe Theatre had a fair audience last evening to see tho ‘startling, brilliant and wonderful illusions” of Macalistor, who affords a few pleasant hours of starting transitions to lovers of sengational prestis Gigitattou. ‘Though there ‘ts always the sembiance of tricks that bave been soen belore, still the per former coutrives to gwe ull be uocs something of novel surrounding aud succeqds admirably in making good sclections trom bis r¢épertoire, which 13a very ex- vensive one, The eotertmoment was manitestiv en- joyed by the audicnoe, who were not slow in applaud. ing. “ypivz” AY THE BROOKLYN PARK THEATBE, It bas been remarked that (hore is moral philoso phy in the ludicrous and theology in laugnter.° Ii it 18 true, then Parson Sinn is to be congratulated upon the philosophical charactor of the service at the Park Theatre, Brooklyn, last night, aud every ind vidual in the audience is entitled to the degreo of D, D., for such sbrieks of lauguter are seldom heard. The subject of the merriment was the well known *‘com- eay”’ of “Fritz,” with J. K. Emmet intne role of the proteun Dutchman, There 1s no ptot. to necessitate thought on the part of the spectator, as the play ta nothing more or less than a clever variety programme of the ordinary kind, performed by one mau aud hav- features connected in a very flimsy for the golden the scattered the collection ve that together, throud scenes and of songs, could not patnos incidents dances and laughtor-moving situations by the greatest stroich of imagination be calied a play. The rollickiny, exuberant fun of Eow met 13, however, cootagtou: nd Sir Richard steele, who anxiously sougnt fo without knowing why,” w object of hig sourch tn tho persou of any mule iu the house, The dimpiers, the smilors, tho luughors, the grinners aod the horse grinners—representatives of all the classes into which the author of “Tristram Shandy”? divided the savjects of risitiliiy—were on hand, but Jong belore the close thoy all became borse laughors aud tous consolidated the frateraity, HE PHILADELPHIA THEATRES, “LONDON ASSURANCE” AT THE CakSTNOT AND “4 WOMAN O¥ THE PEOPLE” AT THE Wale NUT. ; [BY TELEORAPH TO THE HERALD.) PaiLavenvata, Sept. 9, 1873, The opeuing of the Chestnat Strect Theatre this evening was attended by a large and fashionable audi, ence, There ure very féw changes in the dramatic personnel of this excollent theatre, and as onch familiar {aco prosontod itself upom the stage it received tt warm greetings of many friends in treat, Mr. 3: Miss Glover, Mr. Griffiths and Mr, y wereall fate toringly received and compelied to bow | acknowl odgements again and agalo. Mr, Stanley, the low com edian, whoso presence was missed last season, was eatied before the curtain most enthusiasticatly, ‘The play, appropriately chosen for a festive oceation, was Boucicault’s bright and sparkling comedy “London Assurance.”” This would be a severe test for the abilities of an ordinary stock company, bat the Chesinut has a strong forco and the play was rondered very smoothly aud acceptably. The cast was as fol. jows:—Sir Harcourt Courtely, dir. George Hollana (hie first appearance since bis retura from Europe); Charles Courtley, Mr. Henry Lee (bis first appear. 0, Mr. Hollang, ance bere); Pxzzie, Mr. W. E, Sheridun; Maz Harkaway, Mr. Gvorga H. Geuilith: joliy Spanker, Mr, Mark Sraith (018 first ap) here); Mark Medal two y ); Cool, Mr. Francis B, Wilson ance here); Solomon Isnacs, Mr. Harry Bave; artin, Mr, C. ot. Walktu: Mr. ©. Hy Cubili impson, Mr. J, 3. Holl. 33 Lillig Glover; Grace reya (hor lrst appearance Mansfeld (ner first appear. nee bere). No accoant of the evening’s periormunce would b¢ of the musical director, . The Caestous complete without a ment f jer, aud bis orch. ourned the reputal eotras in th pointwents , and the scene in the second 5 grouudsot Max Huskaway, jpontapeous bur: For it was ossrs. Goatcner and Bur: on- eo”? will bo played every tf and will be followed by “Sne The Chestnut ts to be upaliy to comedy and standard plays, the management have pever yot mot recoguition Which they doserve Philudeiphiang, bat Mr, Gemmill juccees this season. WALNUT, opie’? was produced at the © last night to uo immense rece’ oud of each play tonal rehool ry interesting. five acts and to the rT mothers. Miss Rose Eytinge gave a magnificent im- jou of Marie, the woman of the je, and, the greatest bit ot her ca- by Mr. Gyril Searle Shegives a matinée tho benefit of the tho sume pisos, “A owiedy 0 suflerers, pl @1 the People.” MUSICAL AXD DRAMsTIC NOTES, Patt) aos Nicotioi will sing in Berlina daring the month of NSvembor, The terms ol the two artistes are 10,0008 per 5 A Wagnerian tovisibie orchestra has been tried at the Cologne Thoatre, Tors ta tho Orat theatre that bas made the exper! it. M. Kmile Augier's latest success, bait,’ is to make its appearance at the Haymarket Theatro shortly. La Gasette Musicale, of Milav, states that out of twenty turee new operas produced in Italy trem Jan- wary to July two wero partial and the rest total fail. urea y “Aenneben von ‘Tharau,'? will be p avout the end of Octover, and will be aiverward given at Dresden aud Cologne. A Musical eptertalomentia aid of St. Mary’s Or. | phan Asylum will be given on Saturday evening at the ball ef St, Joseph's Industrial school, Orange, N. J. . Mr. Pred Warde and Maurice Barrymore have per- chased the right to play “Diplomacy’’ outside ot New York from Messrs, French & 800, and will hereattor “etar’’ io (he piece areand the couatry, Jon was granted, at the sult of port, restraining W ‘aseum, Philadelphia, from producing, under the title ot “The Loves of Olivia,” a play which Mise Davenport alioges is simply an alteration ot ber play entitied “Olivia.” At the tustance of we defendacte Jadgo Yorkes, of that city, yesterday m seourity 10 $1, damage, TT action was continued until Septem. ver 17, whon the caso will be argued in the Vourt of Common Pleaa,