The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1878, Page 6

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War Srreer Yesrenpay.—The stock market was active and there was a general advance in prices. Gold was somewhat strouger, being quoted throughout at 10014. Money was easy on call at 11y to 2 percent. There was a very quiet demand for governments. State bonds were neglected and railways were dull and stronger. Samoa has ratitied the treaty we made some time ago with her, and sent us an ambassador with all his blushing honors thick upon him. Bustness Men will be glad to read in other columns the official announcement that the third claas mail registry regulation goes into effect the lst of next inonth. ‘Tus Skim Mixx dealers came to grief in the courts yesterday. It will be some consolation to their victims to see at leust a portion of their unlawful profits turned into the city treasury. ‘THe UNSkEMLy Sv: Lt of a Justice of the Peace throttling a brother Justice in open court was presented in a Staten Island town this week. Judicial eccentricities of this kind are not uncommon in our sister island. A Decistox of considerable importance to the liquor interest has been made by the Excise Commissioners. It is held by that exemplary body that under the much disputed Jaw of 1857 they are empowered to revoke a license for duc cause. It Has Brex Decipep by the Police Com- missioners that the list of polling places at the next election shall be the same as last year. The list of republican inspectors has been made out and approved, but Tammany’s patriots are yet to be parsed upon. Tr Wu Bu Seen by our news columns that the furnishing the latest arrivals and departures of the ficets that come und go in our port is uot the only service the Henaip yachts are en, abled to render to our shipping. The latest noteworthy achievement ot one of them was the rescue of the schooner Siak ‘Tuesday last from the Romer 3h Tue Preswert’s Por of appointing good democrats excise officers in Georgia does not seem to work very well for cither the revenue or the officers. In the fight between the revenue officials and the illicit distillers in Hancock county in that State the former, it seems, had soted the democratic ticket all their lives, but that fact did not save them from the bullets of the moonshiners. Gexenat HOwarp seems to be exceedingly successful as a missionary to the Indians. He has just succeeded iu obtaining an interview with and an explanation from Chiet Moses, who suys that he has been misunderstood, and promises all manner of reform. If General Howard is allowed his own way we shall have the Indians all right in a short time. All that is necessary is au interview with him. Tor Weantin.—A ve ble change has taken place in the barometric conditions during the past twenty-four hours. The low pressure that was ¢ the lower lakes and western sections of the Middle witie SU The vasure on the has entirely disappe South Atiantic an aud there are indications of very stormy we in that district. The barometer is exceeding); high in tho Northwest aud West. It is also F If coust is falling high over the New Kogland States and Nova | Scotia. The relative positions of the two high areas with that of the depression re counts for the dissipation of the lat coustant indraughi of very quickly eqnalized the pressures throughout all the disiriets. n hae fallen and continues to fall in the Ohio Valley, the lake regions and the Middle Atlantic States. There has also been a slight fall on the South Atlantic coast. ae: for the wind from both areas The winds have been from brisk to high on the | Gulf coasts. They have brisk in the lake re- gions, tho West and Northwest, and sisewhere fresh. Temperatures bh gen- trully fallen throughout all the districts, ex- cept on the Middle Atlantic coast, where they have been variable. There ave indications of the development of a cyclonic storm northwest of the Bahama Islands, which will probably prove geovere. Its general conree is likely to be north- eustorly, possibly following the outer edge of the Guif Stream. Steamships bound for Seuth- @rm ports may expect rough weather. ‘The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and cloudy or partly cloudy, with rains, Tomorrow the same conditions are likely to prevail in the early part of the day, followed by gradually cleaving indications. South Atlantic and been = generally NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. New York Politics—City aud State, ‘The news from Maine touches the nerves of parties throughout the United States. It excites thom as with an cleetric thrill. The question now uppermost in all minds which take an active interest in the politics of the country is, “What next ?—and next?” Political calculations are for the present baffled and disconcerted, It will take a week or two for party managers and ma- nipulators to recover from the shock and distraction of the unexpected news from Maine, which put an extinguisher on the lest glimmering hope of a re- | publican majority in the next Congress. | Democratic politicians will exaggerate the consequences of the republican defeat in Maine, and are likely to be so elated as to fancy that they can safely venture on the wildest experiments. hey are more likely than ever before to perpetrate some of those stupendous and fatal blunders which Gen-- era! Grant thinks they can ulways be relied on to commit whenever victory seems to be within their grasp. But if they should steer clear of wrecking mistakes their chances are not merely good but resplend- ent for carrying the next Presidential jelection, he drift of events is so strongly in their favor that nothing but their own folly and blunders, the fruit of over-sanguine and high wrought expectations, can defeat them. ‘Lhey are already certain of both houses of the next Congress, and their subsequent success de- pends on the wise or unwise use they may muke of legislative authority. If no egre- gious mistakes are made in the first session of the Forty-sixth Congress—the session of 1879-80 —it is morally certain that the dem- ocratic party will elect the next President, This hopetul outlook, which, in demo- cratic estimation, is an assured prospect, | will impart liveliness and animation | to the contest inside the democratic party for its Presidential nomination in 1880, The republican aspirants will stand back and rather deprecate a nomina- tion than court it, making a clear, open space around General Grant if he will con- sent to be the republican candidate. But the democratic aspirants will regard a nom- ination as equivalent to an election, and from this time forth there will be a vehe- ment competition for the first place on the democratic Presidential ticket. 'The new face which has been put upon the political situation by the Maine election will infuse energy and animation into the democratic struggle in New York tor the control of the State Convention. Mr. ‘Til- den feels that he has a right of pre- emption on the National Convention of his party, and that his only chance of asserling this assumed right with suc- cess depends on his regaining control of the democratic organization of his own State. Mr. Tilden is the most secretive of American politicians ; but it is supposed that bis ‘‘still hunt” method has been pur- sued with even more than his ordinary dili- gence, and the Maine election will infuse new ardor and confidence into his efforts. "There is no county or Assembly district in the State where Mr. ‘Tilden has not ac- quaintances, and his intimate personal knowledge gives him great facilities for the effective underhand work in which he ex- cels. His vigorous antagonist, Mr. John Kelly, knows the politics of New York city ‘ike a book,” but he is no match for Mr. Tilden in ma- nipulating the rural democracy. It re- mains to be seen which of the two will prove most powerful when their supporters come into conflict in the Democratic State Convention, It is a matter of political life and death with Mr. Tilden to control the Syracuse Convention, for if Mr. Kelly should triumph over him there the defeated candidate of 1876 may as well “hang his harp upon the willows and sit down by the rivers of Babylon and weep.” ‘Tho. fresh hopes of democratic success inspired by the result in Maine will invigorate the struggle on both sides, Mr. Tildon has a stanch ally in Governor Robinson, who, like Mr. ‘Tilden, is strong in the rural districts of the State, and understands them almost as well, It is certain that the conjoint influence of the actual Governor and the ex-Governor will be exerted to the utmost for securing a ma- jority of the delegates at Syracuse; and since the rural delegates largely outnumber the city delegates there is a chance that Mr. Kelly, omnipotent as he is in the city, may be foiled. It is safe to assume that Mr. Kelly will not show his hand in city politics until after he las fought his battle in the State Copven- tion. If he comes back victorious from that scene of action he will be clothed with a prestige which will make him monarch of all he surveys in municipal politics, He will not disclose who his candidate is for Mayor or any city office until it is seen whether he comes back as a conquering hero from Syracuse. If he con- | trols the State Convention, if he “lays out’ | Mr. Tilden and his supporters in that body, he will put on the confident airs of a dic- | tator in city polities, and no section of the local democracy will be bold enough to resist his will, But if he returns from Syra- | cuse like a beaten gamecock, with drooping | plumage, the anti-‘lammany democrats will | pounce upon and pluck him and form com- binations tor defeating his candidates. Mr, Kelly's political iortunes, for this year at least, are staked on Lis success at Syracuse. If he triumphs over the Tilden-Robinson demo- | erats in that arena space will clear around | him in the city afid he will be permitted | to have everything his own way. He does | not know, nor can ahybody know, how for- midable the Lilden struggle may prove in | the State Convention. It is the aim of Mr, Lilden’s “still hant” tactics to take his | opponents by surprise, deploying at the last moment a degree of strength which they did not anticipate or suspect. It may be sately assumed that he is not idle in such a conjuncture, and nothing but a trial of* strength in the Convention will reveal what he has been doing. Ifit shall finally turn out that his “ways thatare dark” result only in “tricks (uat are vain” Myr. Kelly will lave smooth and easy sailing in municipal politics. It remains to be seon whether Mr. Kelly has the same firm grasp of the demoeracy of the State which he has of the democracy of the city, If he fails in the State the city will pass out of his control; and it is because he under- stands this perfectly that he is so reluctant to show his hand in city polities until aiter the great buttle has been fought at Syracuse. A Terrible Mining Accident. While the recollection of the terrible dis- aster on the Thames afew weeks ago is still fresh in the public mind in England and in this country there has occurred in Wales another horrible calamity in which the loss of lite is unfortanately almost as great and the circumstances surrounding it if possi- ble more horrible and heartrending. The calamity which our special cable despatches deseribe this morning was on land—in one of the Welsh coal mines—-and, as may be supposed, the list of the dead is a long one. Coal damp, _ the fatal foe of the miner, appears to have been the immediate cause of the calamity. When the explosion took place there were, it seems, nearly four hundred men in the mine, and of these less than one hundred were rescued. ‘Ihe chances of the safety of their fellow workers are exceedingly slen- der, and the experience of similar disasters there and in our own coal regions leaves but little hope that subsequent despatches will mitigate the horrors of the calamity. Military Commission at West Voint. The Military Board convened in June last to hear and receive whatever General Porier and his opponents have to say in his case will resume their sessions at West Point on Tuesday next. Great interest naturally circles around this investigation, on eccount both of General Porter and his iriends and of the government or his ac- cusers and their friends. Up tothe date of adjournment in July last all the evidence had been to the credit of General Porter, even that given by the witnesses called by the government to conirovert the new testi- mony and to sustain the finding of the court martial which condemned him. Even the principal witness put forward by General Pope at his urgent request to sustain his views admitted he was in error on the prom- inent and vital points in his original testi- mony. After additional evidence, lasting for a few days, is presented by Porter the government ovidence will immediately follow, and it is understood that the coun- try has been scoured for witnesses tosustain the latter side. Considering that the evidence on Porter's behalf has totally discredited that of General Pope and the other witnesses for the prosecution on the original trial, it will be due to those officers and to the govern- ment that they shall be summoned and be made to testify. If they were right then their evidence should be sustained and they should have the opportunity to sustain it, If they were wrong, and Porter has been suffering under a severe and? unjust sen- tence these long years, they should be given the chance to confess it if they are con- vinced, or to maintain it if still of their origi- nal opinion. In either case the country has the right to their testimony and to know whether Porter was or was not justly con- demned, ‘the country calls for the ‘‘iruth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” and wants no partial statement whitewash- ing Porter and condemning his opponents, or, unjustly condemning Porter, white- washing those who have accused him and persistently held to the justice of their accusations. Porter has asked fora full investigation, so that this shall be the last of it, so far as a rehearing is concerned. Let him have it, and if he was justly sentenced let us know it, and let him suffer. If not justly con- demned let him be relieved of the sentence, and let the country know who are the offenders, The Board is composed of hon- ored and trusted officers, and it is due to themselves, to the army and to the coun- try that the investigation shall be thorough and the decision full. We shall watch the proceedings, prepared to approve tho right and to condemn the wrong, if wrong there should be. The Vesuvius Threatening. Vesuvius is once more in trouble and an overflow of lava east of the Observatory is regarded as probable. People whose homes are on the sides or at the foot of this un- easy vent of subterranean fires will not, perhaps, agree with the outside world in opinions on this subject, but the world will recognize that it was high tizne the moun- tain bestirred itself, under pain of losing its reputation for regularity. Since the be- ginning of the present century it has aver- | aged about one eruption in three years. If | the interval has at any time reached four years the equilibrium has been restored by | a reduction to two years on some other oc- | casion. Between 1822 and 1828 there oc- curred the unusual lapse of six years, which may have been compensated for by the | earthquake which shook Algiers nearly to pieces in the year 1525, That did not leave enough subterranean force on hand to supply Vosuvias with her regular eruption due in the saine year. Her last disturbance was in March, 1876, and the time now, there- fore, verges toward the regular period ; so we hope the eruption may come on, if the alternative is to be an earthquake, About This Time Look Out for Squalls Political almanacs are much like the old- fashioned ones without which no farmer's chimney piece is complete. There axe cer- tain seasons of the political year in which it is safe to predict squalls, and the approach of the election period is one of them, ‘The man who does not prophesy disturbances at such time, even without glancing at the political barometer, is utterly destitute of weather wisdom and is out of place every- where but in those celestial climos which it is extremely improbable that politicians ever enter, The squalls that are raging at present originated in a centre of great de- pression in the region of the ‘‘outs” of city politics, and are moving in direct line for the “ins,” the most violent gusis raging around the Sheriff, County Clerk and Reg- ‘ ister. We do not know how well in ship- shape these officers have their respective crafts, but we assume that they have been long enongh upon tlie political sea to be al- ways prepared for squalls, VProbably, too, they have acuuired suflicient experience to avoid mistaking any number of squalls for a cyclone, They will do well to be watch- ful, however, for the natural tendency of a squall is to “carry away” something, and the object of the particular squalls alluded to is manifestly to carry commanding offi- cers overboard and to wash new ones upon deck in their places, c om Ho: Abu Now that the authorities at Washington have reformed the New York Custom House according to their own very peculiar ideas they would do well to reform them- selves and some of their rules. Some of the annoyances to which travellers are ex-, posed are detailed in another column to- day, and show that between ignorance, suspicion and the meanness which char- acterizes certain grades of the official mind, no foreigner can arrive here nor any citizen return ,from abroad without being treated as a suspected thief or smuggler, while he may! be thank- ful if allowed to retain all of his personal property, even in a damaged condition. Some of the examining officers are men of experience, and have hitherto done their duty with credit to the government and re- spect for the rights of the traveller ; but now, | subject to the espionage of high-priced | spies, who must make a pretence of doing something in order to retain their own places, the inspectors are compelled to act in a manner which, under any other cus- toms system of the civilized world, would insure their ignominious dismissal. This condition of things is outrageous, even when men are its only victims ; but it becomes disgraceful and abominable when ladies are subj-cted to it, as they are now upon the arrival of every steamer. We cannot blame the officials for obeying orders, but the orders themselves and those who make them need a severe overhauling. The law is made for the people, not the people for the law. The system is utterly stupid, insulting and wrong. If the exist- ing stringency is to be maintained its offensiveness might be lessened by the cus- toms officials learning a lesson or two from those of Russia, In the land of the Czar the baggage of ladies is examined by female inspectors, and thus outrage upon the ordi- nary sense of decency is avoided, while the care and neatness are assured which the apparel of any lady re- quires, Aside from its simple duty toward travellers the government would be gainer by this sensible change in its sys- tom, for the ablest male inspector can be no match for a woman in deciding what is and is not dutiable among a lady’s effects. The majority of the unjust seizures and similar annoyences are due to the natural incompe- tence of men to deal with this question of the true nature of feminine property. If an irresponsible despotism like Russia can manage such affairs with profit to itself and without offenee to the public republican America should not be slow to adopt the Russian method, so that we may no longer disgrace, ourselves and insult every one who approaches our shores, A Reported Massacre. The beautiful working of our Indian policy is freshly illustrated this morning in the reported massacre in the Yellowstone Valley of an excursion party by the Chey- enne Indians. ‘The information is given upon the authority of a brother of United States Senator Dorsey, of Ar- kansas, who says that reports have been received at Keogh that General Miles, who was escorting a number of excur- sionists in that region, had been surrounded and that in an engagement twenty-seven persons had been killed. It is to be hoped that the information may prove to be un- founded or exaggerated. There are already monuments enough in the Western country of the dishonesty and rapacity of our Indian agents without this additional mamorial of savage revenge. Another Mayoralty Candidate. Oneof the Henatp’s readers suggests Mr. ¥E. S. Jaffray asa candidate for the Mayoralty. Mr. Jaffray is an old resident, a gentleman of high social standing, a successfal mer- chant and a man of marked probity and ex- ecutive ability. Wedonot know or care what his politics are, but have not the slightest doubt of his election should Mr. Kelly nominate him. Between him and Messrs. Sheppard Knapp, Samuel Conover, John 'T. Agnew, William R. Grace, Augus- tus Schell, Samuel D. Babcock and others who have been suggested for the highest city office, Mr. Kelly ought to be able togive the city a good Mayor without groping about in the dark byways of politics and running the risk of catching the wrong man. We are sorry that the above list does not con- tain the names of Messrs. Robert Bonner, Charles A. Dana and Hugh Hastings, but these gentlemen have declined the honor in | advance. We hope Mr. Jaffray and the other honorable gentlemen named may not decline, for if this manner of evincing mis- taken modesty continues it may become necessary to advertise “A First Class Mayor Wanted” in the ‘Help Wanted” col- uns of the Hema, or to send a bollman around through ,the respectable streets of the city to announce the great necessity of the peopleand Mr. Kelly, and implore pub- lic spirited citizens to throw themselves, Quintius Curtins like, into the» great gulf which exists between the Muyvralty as it is and as it should be. Nobiling’s Death, The death in prison of the second of the men who recently attempted to murder the German Emperor saves his head from the official axe and is the murderer's own suc- cess, in so far as he has died at last from the wound he had himself inflicted. Nobil- ing, it will be remembered, succeeded in depositing two bails in his own head botore the police broke down the doors of the room in which he was taken ; and as he is now reported to have died from paralysis of the lungs it isto be supposed that the brain was so much injured at that time that it has at last proved unable to supply the nerve force that carries on the process of respira- tion. It is just a hundred days since Nobiling shot himself, and it is pos- sible that tho fatal paralysis of tho respiratory organs was brought about by the formation of an abscess in the cerebral suDstance and # vonsequent pressure On the spinal accessory nerve. It is also possi- ble that Nobiling, seeing the likelihood that he would recover, and, learning the fate of Hoedel, succeeded in inflicting upon himself an additional injury through the still open wound. As injuries in this part of the brain leave the intelligence in- tact he was quite able to do this, Probably the government will not regret the result, for it is relieved from the necessity of re- peating the ghastly drama of an execution with the axe without having exercised a clemency liable to misinterpretation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘Nilsson ia becoming fat. Longtellow’s local tax is $2,230. Hyacinthe will bave a Paria church. Kearocy said:—-'After I got through with the Fresidoni,”? Mr. W, A. Otway, Third Secretary of the British Legstior Washington, is at the Hotel Branswick, Married Freucn artists are very domestic in their bavita, usually having their studios on tho same flat with their homes, It will be remembered that a son of the late Vliver P. Morton was very sick in Alaska. He bas arrived tn San Francisco tn good health, , Viscount de Nogueras, Portugeuse Minister at Wash- ington, arrived {rom Europe, in the stea:nsbip France, yesterday, and is ut the Hoffman House. E£x-Seeretary Simon Cameron has gone to the White SulphurSpriogs ot Virginia, He thinks that the green- backers may bold the balance of power in the Pena- sylvania Logislature. Toe three Fox sisters, introducora of Spiritualism in 1848, aro alive. Margarot, who was said to have been married to Dr. Kane, the explorer, isin Eug- jand; Kate is married in France, and Leah is married in New York, au American traveller in Galway saw a@ pig ina peasant’s house and he said, “Why do you cave the P’g ip thero?”? “Sbure,’? said bo of Galway, “tho hoase has all the convaoyances that a raysonabie pig requotres.” Licutenant Commander D. C.. Kells, Uuited States Navy, wrote to United States ator Kellogg that the latter 18 a liar, Lieut will probably have a trial by court martial serves to have. Mre. Van Cott, the preacher, was born In New York city and she Js nearly Ofty years of age. Her fathor was Major Nowton, mauager of Jonn Jacob Astor’s estate. Ho became insau Marrying and soon be- coming a widow she attended to ber busband’s basi- ness of drug broker. Sho was converted ona Fulton terryboat while thinking about religion. Becoming a preacher she traveiled through the country, and she counts more thun twenty-geven thousand con- versions ag tho result of hor labors. She weighs 225 pounds, and she ta now tn California, Charleston (3. C.) News and Courier: —“The tore- most democrat of the North to-day is Senater Bayard, of Delaware, Hendricks and Tourman, of whom better things had been expected, have yielded to the clamor of the hour and are now actively lending their ability and 10- fluence to encourage the groonback delusion, which has taken so strong a bold upon the popular mind in the West. But Bayard clings to the true democratic croed with the courage and persistence of a states- man who ‘would rather be right than be President,’”’ MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, The musical profession are making noble efforts in behalf of tho yellow fever sufferers. Several onter- tainments are In course'6f preparation. Missy Ada Cavendish, Who bas waite such a mark os Mercy Merrick at tho ‘Iiroadway Theatre, is attract- ing crowded houses. The judgment of press and pub- lic therefore seems to be correct. Her engagoment Is limited to two weeks—a possible mistake. Mr. Ranieri Vilauova, a well Kuown musical artist, was among the passengers trom Europe who receatly arrived on the steamship St, Laarent. Itis his in- tention to give concerts daring the coming season, described asa favorue, having received tion in his Dative country, Mr. Joveph Price, the organist of St. Patrick's Cathedral, gives another of bis organ recitals to-day at half-past three P. M. The programme is as fol- lows :—Bacn, *'Fantasie and Fagto"’ (G@ minor); Voick- mar, “Adagio; Raointerger, sonato No. 4;” Bott, “Adagio Religioso,”’ viotin' and organ; 8. Sacns, rhap- souie No. 3; Thiele, variiitions (A flat). ‘Tho success of Mary Anderson at the Fifth Avenue ‘Theatre ia such that sho will continue hor appearance in the “Iunchback” unul further notice. + dae,” which is said to be hor best piece, is therefore poat- poned for the presont, butis ready for production when needed. A strong cast hus been promised for tho new piece. ‘The Stadt Theatre, which opened a few weeks since uader the management of R. W. Butier, representing, itis alloged, a lawyer named H. L. David, who sop- plied the si unexpectedly closed vos terday by the refusal of tho actors to perform unless the mouey due them was pud. As the management was unable to meet those dowands the aceson came to a somewhat sudden termination, Mr, E. Ritter Molicnhauver has made an invention whereby, according to bis description, he changes the tone of an inferior violin to that which we some times hear jrom tho best. He says that he can mako the most ordinary instruments equal in sound and quality to the productions of the oid masters, and proposes to demonstrate the success of his eflorts at Gilmore’s Garden next Tuesday morning, auring the rehearsal of one of Mr. Theodore Thomas’ concerts. Tho dramatic teata s ing will be the presentation at the Standard Theatre of the play eu- titled “An Open Verdict.” The plot ts natural and historic, Incidents that have occurred tn our own country make it intoresting, aud it certainly poseesses the merit of being an American production, If tho | performance is not enjoiued hereatter by the heirs aod representatives of those who imagino that the dialogue r to old jamily matters the management will vo lucky. Giimore, with his band, bas evidently mado a bic. Notwithstanding several drawbacks at the beginning of bis tour, incidental to bad mauagement, good luck has followed bim to Germany, and the organizatien has scored a triumph. As one of the German papers observes:—“Bvery man is a soloist on bis instrus ment, and In listening ove forgets that {t is only a brass band, Hoe hears a soft, melodious orchestra” Franz Abt, in a note to Gilmore, writes that “the band cannot be excelled, even by the very first in | stitutions in Kurope.”” Besides Abt aro Vieuxtemps, Hiller, Gumbert, Dupont, Saro, Carl Rosa, Bial, Dan Goufrey and Newmaan, Up to the Inst advices Gil more bad given 130 concerts in Europe, the sojourn of the band in tho sevorul coautries visited being as follows :--Great Britain, six weeks; Hollaud and Be- gium, one woek; Franee, two weeks, including ten days avd ten concerts in Paris, and Germany, five weeks, Since leaving Paris—July 13—the band have given concerts tuliows :—Lille, tw | Cologne, seven; Elberfold, three; Barme’ seldor!, one; Mioster, three Hupover, three; Bremen, thro Hamburg, five, and Berlin, » ne; Dis. en. IPALIAN OPERA, | To Tax Epiron or tux Henao:— The Henatp deeerves the thanks of all the | loving people for its generous support of Mr. 1 Mapleson’s efforts to eatablish Ltulian opera in New ; York on & pormapont basis, bat if its efforts ers we do not eee how far the present season will bo successiul. beon furnished by tne stockholders. arrive and no scenory for the new operas Ww ready. Sr. August Belmont ts too president ion Wonder that no steps aro taken to onal Fox to begin work immediately, It i avorr Mr. Fox's wsristant is Mr, Fontana, most ronowned sce ie In, both Lidge, two; Braunschweig, two; Bremorhaven, ouo; mnusic in that direction are not seconded by tho stockhold- Fur the information of tho HexALo and for the beneiit of the enterprise it is proper to say that Mr, Mapleson seat from Loudon bis scone painter, Mr. Fox, who arrived here four woeks ago, for the purpose of prepar- ing the scenery at the Academy, bat so far he has been prevented trom carrying out his orders on account of a luck of funds which ought to have The latver are ‘fo indiflerent in the mattor that the opening day 4 THEO. THOMAS’ TESTIMONIAL A GREAT POPULAR DEMONSTRATION OF BE GALD—LHE PROGRAMME, THE PLOPLE, THE RECEIPTS AND THE RESULT. Led by the encoaraging palma of the veteran Thurs low Weed a whirlwind of welcome greeted Theodore ‘Thomas last evening as he took his accustomed stand 0p the carpoted dais assigned to the conducior of the double erchestra in Gilmore’s Garden. 1 was a gala night. i It was the culmination of a long, arduous and suc- cesstul careor, * It was cheer to the inmost cock!o of his heart, aud it was shekeis to bis not overlurdened pocket. It was more than this, for it showed that Thomas was the favorite not of the wstuetic and artistic ele ment alone, but of the popular music lover as well. Filteea years ago, When the heavens opened and the rains regularly descended about the hour whea the Thomas matinée doors were opened, so that only a small though select audience in everahoes and waterproo{s enjoyed the programme, Mr. Thomas espoused the creed of the fatalist, and mado up his mind to poverty, Later on, when Profedsor Doremuz took hold of the lame ana impotent Phil- barmoutc, infused fashiouable blood in its flaccid veins and compelled the gay and festive of the metropolis to troop to the ucademic vestibule, Thomas wok heart and said, “Ah bal” And now, When thee pecunious Shook and the enterprising Gilmore took him by either bend, domictied bim in fairyland and guaranteed the payment of his weekly bills, Thomas ussumed a diamond sceptre, planted hig joot upon a crimson stool and furuished procrammes the like of whieh were nevor scon before, Just as Now York was congratulating itself on the probability of an ever faitaful fhomas and a permanent orchestra of sixty picked performers, Porkopolis stopped in, aud, with a flourish ef promises anda certifed chock, seduced the charmer from his perch, For a week Now York eat glum and sullen. The, on the 2ssumplion that music would not necessarily die because Thomas forsook her, New York determined to give the uagratelul one a benodt which should bo something better shun the average theatrical benefit, The co-operation of Shook & Gilmore wis casily secured, the Hakatp columns in. formed the people of the date, and last night the deed was done- ‘Tho occasion was the social evont of the scason, Notwithstanding the advance In pricos—admission $1 and boxes $5, instead of fifty cents and $3—tne Spacious garden was packed to its utmost capacity. Every box was sold twenty-four hours in advances and long lines of impatient adintrors stood om Madi- son and Fourth avonues waiting a chance to get io, although the getes were not to bo flung open for an hour. Ordinary street and walking costumes are. the only wearin the garden. Last night the L styles io hat, bonnet, wrap and stuff and out, armed in the boxes and on the promenade. The Beel-sater, the name of a quaint ture-up bat worn by Madame Modjeska and other recont arrivals from the other side, seomed to be tho favorite feminine cap-sheaf, although the Gainsborough, so much affected by would-be celebrities, was by no means neglected. “Give me a box.”? Lhis wag uttered in deep, gutiural tone, by adark complexioned man, who stood gloomily outside the tieket ofllce. “AN gone,’? said the feative Gtlmore, “pshaw!' Well, let me havo six tickets.’ He paid $6 and the gate Keeper toached his soft felt bat as Edwin Booth and his tamily passed in and Joined the pacing crowd. - The programme selocted by Mr. Thomas spoaks for itselr, Thia is it;— nor G. Taglinpler rom **Rheiagoid’ Fidelio” Symphonic Poem, Preludes”? GO Witham Al igo gia,” N. Waltz, Wienor Fresken Hungurian March, Kakcouy . .. It would be absurd to speak of the performance of last evening a3 in any way differing from that of its predecessors. ‘The orchestra was enlargea to the Philharmonic liinit and to some ears the improvement was numerical only. The smaiier oaud bas atrained a status of pertoction to which the Increased o-chestra could not fairly be expected to approach, or, ratuer, equal. The orchestral rendering was Thomasian ta the absolute sense of the term, and Theodorus gra- ciously acceded now and then to the vulgar demand for an chcore, Signor Tagliapretra was woll received and courtecusly requested to doublo hit work, and after the mavner of artists consented, So did Miss Emma Abbott, woo burat upon the d lightod orbs of an euthusiastic auditory in a costume fresh from the crafty band of Worth and a coifure that would have dono credit to the Queen of Sheba, Her voice was 10 particalar good humor, probebly be- cause Misa Clara Louise Kellogg sat on one side of the garden und Mile, Koze on the osber, Sho sang as a bird sings, for the fun of it, and her encores genuine American testimonials that mo conductor's baton could braab aside, Her success was emphatic, and Mr, Thomas never did 4 more gravetal act thaa when be ran after her retreating skirt and begged her to come back aud “give ibte ’em again,” Next to the Kaiser Marcu, which is slways a favor. ite with the people, Liszi’s “Preludes” boro away the orchestral palm. Right here—lor Theodore Thomas has a practical mind—i may be well to chronicie the fact that the Accounts stand as tellows:— Recoipts last bight Advortising... Bul posting, &c. Grand remainders... .sssceoeseeeee sees ees 94,476 AT In other words, the festal night puts im Thomas’ pocket the cheoriul sum of $4,476 43. Not enouga to start a bank witb, bat very nice to bave in the bonse, ‘The uudience last night might properly bo divided tuto four classes—those in the cottage boxes, those ia the circie boxes, those in the enclosure of chairs and the groat army of monagerio martyra, the O’Lecrys of the night, who walked aad walked aud walked from eight tillten and uéver took arest. Iu the cottages sat several notable people. Mr Thurlow Weed, ac. companied by bia daughter, was too observed of all observers, aud us be leanod heavily oo his cane hia shaggy eyvbrows entirely eclipsed his looked like Belsarius in « dren hoeter, wile and daughter were and when the Ja weot glass of seltzer his eyes we: which read :— Qreca enn se rene reese rene te NEO net OTE NOLEN CE HETOEE i DITTENHOBFER’S CORDIAL Drcrccererevererecevereserececsce poeta resets tere owe He tvox zwet lager and retired, Scattered bere and there wore Clara Louise Kellogg and mother, Marie Roze, Mr. Mapieson, Governot Salomon and wife, Senawr Bob Strahan aod Mr. Jobo Bigelow 10 an attractive rove and cardinal hose Rovort Heller, the conjarer, Miss Haidee Heller, to: second sigutor; William R,’ Deateb, Henr; Erducu, ily Hea Montague’s in Diplomacy *; * E. A. Buck, Jacob rf } ex-United States District Au Courtney, Bamuel a r,s Foster Dewey, boss Dr. Doremui berg, B. yl reprath, D. Max. Drey, Dr. I. Wover, A. pach, Dr. Sax. Herzog, Inane Bameel J. Rose, Josopa H, © the barroom to coutrouted by « siga Henry Pt lea 9 Welter, BE. Naumberg, Autonis otbal, J. A. Bernheimer, De Wits J. ‘Abecassis, Edward salo- Hoary Cam; iter M ginan, Arnold Leo, Jul mon, 5. Lansburg, Mons. Fiamung, | musical director in Piymoath Church; Worranrath, the German tenor; the Brothers, 'Cougressman Ellis, trom Senator Spencer and wile, from Alavama; Eli Perkins aud wite, William jeton, the baritone; G. W. Carieion, Edward ‘Touy Hart, Chandes Fuiton, wit! isa A ib; Mrs, Kate Obase Sprague, Aristarcht ht Sandford, Edwin ry Booth and wile, M {the Park Theatre; Colonel Ktng, Ma non 8, Sailivan, Jobn Hoey wud lady, U. D Mr, Lake, the frieod wud, beiper of Mi Kate Rogers, Stephen Fisk joraon, of Standard T K. Thorne, Jr, and wife; J. Maud Harrison, Mis# Loutse Pomoroy, Sonat Picree, District Attorney Pheips, Abbot Webe: Miles Beach, Frank Lord, Aribur Waliaek, Moss, William Stoinway, Mr. aud Mrs. Jobo fi, Stariu, Ex-Sheriff James O'Bei lato, and Iminediately o Sheridan shook’s cot At the close recognition of crowd slowly ti wick wnd Marliard’s, trotted off with a Jod,