The New York Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1878, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11,’ 1878.—TRIPLE ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR 7H BALD. published im the EZ DAILY BE! 2 aver day ihe voor, sonih for any period ix months, Sunday free of WEEKLY MERALD—One OTICE TO RUBSCRIBERS.—Remis in drafts on New York or Pont Oflce money orders, and where neither of these can ve procured son the all mitted at risk of sei ar wishing their “nadcens changed must as their new address. All bus s letters or (elographic despatches must Be adurens ow Youn Iixuarp. ack Ages should be properly seated, ‘communications will not be returned. Nore a ~siausy castai PETADELPELA UFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONLON “OFFICE OF 1HE NEW YORK HERALD— NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OF Ct —49 AVENUE DE LIOPERA. American tore ai the International Exposition can have Beir letters (i postpaid) addressed to the care uf our Paris free NAPLES UFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACK, » aenitiess and aavertisem: be received and penewardes: aie sho came terms as york. Forme XLII... -=NO, 284 ‘AMUSEMENTS —TO-NIGHT. WIBLO’S GARDEN—Corsican Broruras. , DrEW YORK aQuakiU MuyczUM THEATRE—Josava Wurrcoun ADWAY THEATER: 'H’S THEATRE—| PraNDARD THEATRE—Fa YIFTH AVENUE THEATRE OLYMPIC THEATRE— a STEINWAY HALL—Wituxias Coxcsnt BROAD 87. THEATRE, Philadelphia—Ronert Heuea. ‘TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1878, ‘The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and cloudy or partly cloudy, possibly followed by increasing temperature and rains. To-morrow it will be warm and partly cloudy, with rains, followed by clearing weather. ‘Watt Street Yestexrpar.—The stock market was active and very weak, there being a general decline in stocks. Gold advanced from 100% to 100%. Government bonds were quiet, States dull and railroads irregular. Money on call was very active and lent at 6 a7 per cent. Tue Amatecr Games of the New York Ath- letie Club at Mott Haven to-morrow promise some excellent sport. Tne Feast or TABERNACLEs begins this even- jDg at sunset. It is one of the three great anni- ‘versaries of the Hebrew year. Ir Racnet O’Net’s Picture or Lire in the Magdalen Asylum be accurately painted a little reform in that institution would do no harm. Finst Crass Racisc and a splendid attend- ance was the rule at Jerome Park yesterday. ‘To-morrow will be the last day of the meeting. ‘Tue Next SexsaTIon in the Jersey courte will fhe the trial of Mra. Smith, the wife of the mur- dered police officer. An indictment against her ‘was presented yesterday. Sm Henry Harrorp’s Carp, elsewhere printed, shows that the English riflemen are not very anxious to take their chances in an- other international match. What has become of the traditional British pluck? Sm Joux A. Macponatp’s Magorrrr is so )large that the task of forming a Ministry and \reconciling the numerous-diverse interests is by ‘no means easy. The French Canadians betray symptoms of striking out on their own account. In THE SeventeENTH Congressional district of this State the unusual spectacle is presented of two brothers running for Congress. One has been nominated by the republicans and one by the democrats. The initial letters of their names are also the same. Tuexe 1s aT Last some prospect that the pro- visions of the late Mr. Wood’s will in regard to the establishment of a college of music will be carried out. A compromise between the con- testants has been effected and the lawyers salled off. Gexerat McDowe11’s testimony in the Fitz John Porter inquiry yesterday was exceedingly important. He has corrected a mistake in dates in bis pamphlet on the case which has gone un- ehallenged for sixteen years, and which has placed General Porter in a very false position, It is a most important point for the defence. Tue Cuter Ports agreed upon by the Pub- lishers’ Convention in regard to the postal ser. vice are the extension of the fast mail and car- rier system, the registration of second class matter and uniformity of rates upon the same | kinds of matter. Cougress will perhaps give | “them some consideration next session. Lone Brancn seems destined to become the headquarters of amateur pigeon shooting in this country. The gun club of that city bas been reorganized and strengthened by the addition of new members, and the int: tion is to erect es club building this winter «o that everything will be in readiness for next season. ‘Tue Weatnen.—The storm centre that passed | over the northern part of this State on Wednes- day is now over Nova Scotia, and is moving into the ocean rapidly. The depression which yes- terday’s Hexavp reported in the West has de- veloped @ storm centre of considerable energy ever the Northern Missouri and Mississippi val- leys. The ares of high barometer that was over the South Atlantic const has extended itself northward and now forms a barrier between | the two storm areas, Over the Gulf districts the barometer is falling, particularly in the western sections, and there are indi- eations of the development of another disturbance in that region. Rain has falien in the lake regions, the central val- ley districts and the South Atlantic and East- ern Galf States. In the latter districts the fall has been unusually heavy. The winds have been generally high in the West and North- west, brisk over the lakes and the New England const and fresh elsewhere. The temperature hes risen in all the sections except the Middle Atlantic and New England States and some parts of the central valley districts, where it yas fallen decidedly. There has been but little shange throughout the yellow fever districts, wd there seems to be very little likelihood of any cool weather for some time tocome. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day, will be cool avd cloudy or partly cloudy, possi- ply followed by imereasing temperatnre and rains. Tomorrow it will be warm and partly clondy. with rains, followed by clearing weather. |. | cept for the ress aud Business. During the summer there has been a very encouraging revival of business ; but mer- chants begin very generally to complain that there is of late a falling off, and nineout of ten, when asked what they think the rea- son for this, answer unhesitatingly thatthe universal dread of Congressional interfer- ence makes everybody reluctant to buy or make business engagements. ‘If Congress were not to assemble this winter at all I believe trade would go on and there might be, by December, 1879, a very fair .re- vival of industry,” said a New York mer- chant the other day ; and added, “I desire a judicious revision of the tarift ; I think it necessary for the country ; the Wood tariff was well meant, but the agitation of it in Congress at the last session alarmed every- body and actually bronght a large part of the business of the country almost tos standstill ; and after all the trouble it made it did not pass. If we are to have the same farce repeated this winter at Washington a good many of us merchants might as well shut up our warehouses and go to sleep until Congress adjourns, if only we could.” ‘There is a great deal of sound sense in what this merchant says, The Hznatp believes with most men that the present tariff ought to be thor- oughly revised, but we see also that the agitation of this subject at present and in the prevailing condition of trade and industry is injurious and injudicious. We should be glad to know that Mr. Wood and other members of the Committee of Ways and Means saw this, and would de- termine not only to leave the tariff, and indeed the whole revenue sys- tem, untouched at the next session, but would before Congress assembles in some way give the country public and defi- nite assurance to this effect. It is entirely certain that the present Congress has no in- clination to make proper and needed changes in the tariff. Mr. Wood undoubt- edly thought better of Congress and his party than they deserved when he believed that his bill would. pass at the last session. It never had the favor of a decisive major- ity of the House, and it it had passed the House the Senate would have amended it to death. Meantime there is no doubt that the months of agita- tion of the question created a general alarm and uncertainty among business men, which had a paralyzing effect and worked a great deal of needless injury to the coun- try. To repeat all this at the coming session would be only to keep a large part of the business of the country for three months more at a standstill, and for no good end, because no changes in public opinion en- courage the hope that the opposition to tariff revision will be less obstinate or powerful than it was at the last session. We suggest to Mr. Wood, therefore, that, as Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, he ought at once to get the views of the -members of his committee, which is charged with the consideration of this subject, and “try to get their unanimous consent to a public and immediate assurance that, unless specially instructed by a strong majority of the House, they will not report or even consider any changes in the present tarifi We have not the least. doubt that the committee will consent to such an announcement if their chairman requests them to. We do not recall any member who would be likely to refuse, or whu is very urgent for a new attempt in the present Congress after the experience of the last session. They all see that the probabilities of carrying any bill they would report are very slight ; and we presume all of them have been told by their business acquaintances that the agitation of the subject is so injurious that unless there is a strong and well founded hope of success it is inexcusable. We urge Mr. Wood to immediate action in this important matter, because it is cer- tain that the country would be benefited by an early assurance that it need not fear any interference at the coming session. If such a pledge were now given importers, manufacturers and dealers would know that they had fourteen months before them in which to plan and carry on their operations without fear of changes in a very complex law; and for the pres- ent what everybody wants most of all is stability. We have got, after long waiting, « substantially stable currency, and, no matter how the Novem- ber elections go, everybody knows that the approaching session of Congress can- not make any change of moment, ex- better, in the currency. laws. There is likely to be a great deal of acrimonious discussion of this question, but the Resumption act cannot be | repealed, and except some now unfore- seen financial catastrophe alters the condi- tion of things essentially we shall see the currency remain during next year as steady as it has been during the past spring and summer. If to this could now be added an official assurance that there shall be no attempts at tariff changes at the next session thousands of business men would be relieved and would prosecute their offairs with new courage and enter- prise. We repent, that what the country needs just now is stability. Business has on the whole adapted itself to the present tariff The desire for a thorough and well considered revision of the tariff is growing, most of our manufacturers rightly bolieving that it is necessary in order to increase our foreign commerce and to enable them to sell to advantage in foreign markets their surplus products, But they see also that the present Congress is not capable of dealing with this question ina rational and conclusive manner. They saw at the last session that the majority of members were not informed on the subject and were not inclined* to adopt the proposed or indeed any changes. They very sensibly prefer to wait until a future time, when, the cur- rency question being out of the way, tariff reform can have the full consideration which the importance of the subject requires. “One war at o time,” Mr. Lincoln used tosay; and we believe the majority of those free traders who are not mero doctrinaires will agree with ts that this is not an anepicious time to propose and agitate a new tariff. and that it is far better for the interests of the whole country that it shall have the earliest possi- ble and the most authoritative assurance that it may goon with its affairs without fears of attempted changes in customs coming three months’ session. nd the Ameer, On the frontier of Afghanistan events have not gone forward with the sort of rush that public impatience in England seemed atone moment to demand, though it is doubtful whether they have not in fact gone forward more rapidly than is consistent with the preservation of the dignity of the Indian government. It was thought by some heed- less people, even in India it seems, that by a rapid march of the forces of General Boas the Khyber Pass could be oceupied, and that from the advantageous position of the inner end of that pass the government might take its time to consider and determine upon further steps. But that military cal- culation has come to naught by the dis- covery that the Ameer has troops enongh in hand on the frontier to guarantee him against any accident there. Beyond this, the reflection that he can depend upon a force that as compared with England's Indian army is not greatly inferior in point of numbers and is greatly superior in point of quality, has impressed upon the mind of the government the fact that‘ the success of a coup de main being unattainable, other movements must be made only after mature and complete preparation. It is possible that while they are in this attentive attitude on either side the discovery may be made that the whole humiliation is the result of a piece of British arrogance or British stu- pidity. Despatches were sent to the Ameer with reference to the advance of Sir Neville Chamberlain, and it appears to have been assumed that the Ameer’s instractions would have been at the frontier when Sir Neville arrived, but they were not. He followed the despatches 80 closely that he was at the pass some days earlier even than it would have been possi- ble for the officers there to be informed of the Ameer’s will. Now, Sir Neville Chamber- lain went in the style of a certain ancient envoy, of whom it was said that his suite was too large for an embassy and too small’ foran army; and, as England’s intention with regard to Afghanistan is no secret, admission was flatly refused. If the Ambas- sador should now be eventually entertained it may be thought the Ameer has yielded to bravado; but the fact will be that he has proceeded with more regularity than the English. How to Stop Indiana Outrages. A correspondent elsewhere calls atten- tion to the grotesque revelations made in recent despatches from the Indian country. It is reported thence in substance that it will be difficult for the troops to catch the Indians, as these are better mounted and have more spare horses than the soldiers ; but it is added that if the troops should be unfortunate enough to outmarch and come up with the savages it will probably be the worse for them, because the Indians are as well armed and ore known to possess fifty thousand rounds of ammunition, “given them for hunting purposes by the Indian Agent at Fort Reno.” * It would seem from these accounts that the Indian Bureau still does its full duty by the ‘wards of the nation.” It has armed and equipped them, and if they do not ‘‘whip” the United States troops the fault will lie not with the Indian Bureau but with the Indians themselves. Con- sidering the way in which ‘economy and reform” have pared down the army and the efficient manner in which the Indian Bureau is conducted, the border people are inclined to bet on the Indians. « How would it do to hand the Indians over to the War Department? We have all heard how the barbarous West Point officers would abuse them, and so forth; bat it is safo to say that they would not arm and equip them, and thus something would be gained. We should no longer see ‘two departments of the federal government engaged in open war with each other, and shooting down each other's adherents on the Western Plains. If the Indian Bureau were transferred to the War Department the Indians, we may safely believe, would not be better armed and equipped than the soldiers ; and while to the ‘‘iriends of the Indians” this might look like foul play the people at large, on the whole, we believe, would like to see the army have at leasta fair chance. Hints for the Elevated Roads, The comfort and convenience of rapid transit to nine-tenths of the people of the city only render it the more desirable that the elevated roads should be made entirely and unquestionably safe, that the acoom- modations should be first class, and that the rates of fare should be as low as possi- ble. In another column some of the de- fects of the roads are enumerated and sources of possible danger are pointed out, This is not done with a desire to embarrass or assail the management of the roads, or for the purpose of exciting needless appre- hension in the minds of passengers. It is for the interest both of the companies and the public that accidents should be most anxiously guarded against and that the roads should be made popular from the start. The crossings on the Third avenue line, at Forty-second street and Chatham square, will certainly require the greatest caution and the most untiring wateh- falness to guard against even the slightest chance of a collision. On the Metropolitan road there must be no cessa- tion of prudence and care in turning thé sharp curves which unfortunately aro to be found on that line. As to the complaint of cheap construction and limited comforts on the New York Elevated cast side line, it~ remains to be seen whether the close economy practised by the company is to be for its own or forthe pablic benefit. The road is built and equipped cheaply enough to afford to carry passengers ot five and six cents at all hours of the day and makea handsome profit. If the fare is fixed at these amounts the people will not grumble at some inconveniences and discomforts, but they will not cousent to a repetition of the treatment they have received from the Third avenue horse oar lines only to put money in the pockets of the stockholders of the New York Klevated road Feverish Anxiety Respecting British ‘Trade. The cable despatches from Glasgow and London printed in the Hznaip yesterday and to-day convey a gloomy impression of the misgiving and distrust which prevail in all the business centres of Great Britain. The British public does not recover from the shock caused by the failure of the Bank of the City of Glasgow ; and although the failures of great business firms which have followed have not yet been so numer- ous as was apprehended they have sufficed to unsettle confidence and to create an un- easy feeling that the worst has not come. The remarkable article in the London Times from which we published copious extracts yesterday will rather increase anxiety than allay it in spite of its tranquil- lizing aim. The very necessity for so earnest a protest against alarm attests the existence of a widely diffused feeling of dis- comfort and distrust. ‘Bhe medicine is too strong to be administered for a slight mal- ady. The Times warns the public ‘‘to pre- pare to meet new shocks, as the Glasgow collapse has started a movement which will find out the weak places in every firm and institution throughout the kingdom, A trying time lies before all banking and financial interests, and every department of commerce may be subjected to embar- rassment ond alarm." These are, indeed, ominous words, and, appearing in the leading public journal, they cannot have been lightly uttered. The real foundation for anxiety does not lie so much in the great Glasgow failure and the ruin of firms which depended on it as in the general state of British trade at the period when this calamity falls upon it. The storm strikes a ship which has been wrenched by a long voy- age in rough seas, and which has been weakened by much straining of its timbers. A battered or partially disabled vessel easily goes to pieces in a gale which a stanch vessel which had not been long beaten by the waves might ride out in safety. The last four or five years lave been a period of struggle in every branch of British trade and industry. The consequence is that all the weaker establishments, whether industrial or commercial or financial, have been compelled to strain their credit to the utmost in the hope of keeping their heads above water until the return of better times. But the better times have not come, and there areas yet no signs of their ap- proach. All British interests suffer from that “hope deferred which maketh tho heart sick.” In such a state of things there is great danger that confidence may be utterly prostrated if there should come even one other such collapse as that of the Bank of the City of Glasgow. As the Times says, with great justice:—‘The present or- deal comes at a time when commerce is weakened by a prolonged period of depres- sion and cheered by few signs or none of a revival of prosperity. The Board of Trade returns for September fail to yield the smallest comfort respecting the great indus- tries of the country. The imports of cot- ton, flax and hemp have fallen off, while the exports of cotton piece goods, linen, jute, the manufactures of iron, steel, hard- ware and cutlery have declined in quantity and value, especially in value.” . The people of this country have the strongest reasons for deprecating the down- fall of British prosperity. Great Britain is our most valuable and best paying cus- tomer, and her trade cannot suffer without bringing injury to ours, Hard Weather in the Arctic. One of the American whalemen, who, as Van Campen says, ‘‘have pushed their en- terprises far into the Arctic Ocean by Behr- ing Strait,” has just brought back a re- port which will be read with great interest by the people who study: the conditions and phenomena of Polar meteorology. Captain Fisher, of the bark Legal Tender, arrived at San Francisco on the 16th of September after a voyage of thirty-five days from Point Barrow. He reports the weather very cold in the Arctic, the thermometer marking twenty-eight degrees above zero on the 12th of August, an extraordinary degree of cold for that season, and the snows had already set in. Im coming through Behring Strait the Legal Tender found ice extend- ing from East Cape to below St, Lawrence Bay, aleo very unusual circum. stance st so early a date. In ordi- nary seasons the whalemen remain on the Arctic side of the Strait until late in September or early in October, and even then are seldom driven out by ice or extreme cold, but by the scarcity of whales or fear of the approaching winter. They do not go provisioned for wintering in the ice as exploring vessels do, and cannot run any risk of being caught by the sudden freozing whieh so often occurs in the Arctic bays and water lanes during the autumn months. The early cold ‘‘anap” encoun- tered by Captain Fisher indicates a lopg and severe winter. Should it prove to bea repetition of 1873 it willbe as likely as not to happen that the following year will carry the precedent farther and make the sum- mer of 1879 as mild and open as was that of 1874, when the whalers advanced beyond the latitude of Herald Island and saw no ice to the northward in any direction from the masthead. If this should come to pass it will be a very javorable year for explora- tion, both along the coast of Kellett’s Land and in the direction of the Pole itself. Spirk Below Proof. According to standard authorities proof spirits consists of a dilution which contains moro spirits than water. In the interest of thoso who are compeiled to endure them we would suggest that spirits intelligent, in- stead of alcoholic, should embody at least the same proportion of genuineness. The pabli¢ has had a great deal of poor stuff im- posed upon it of late under the plea that it came from tho spirits. The profossed revelations in the Stannard murder case and the many things hinted at in the Vanderbilt will quarrel are as much on any strong-backed people can be oxpected to bear up under, even were the quality up to standard, But poorer, thinner, more watery trash could not be imagined than all the testimony alluded to has proved to be. There mav be disembodied spirits floating invisibly around us—the weight of opinion among good people tends toward 8 positive belief in such surroundings—but if human beings have any influence upon this mystic circle they either exhibit a lamentable de- gree of indiscretion in their selection of spirits or the original article is outra- geously watered upon coming in contact with the human receiving medium. If we are to have our attention steadily called to mani- festations from the unknown world we have a right to insist that the spirits shall be at least “‘proof ;” the drivel that has thus far been poured out might have been equalled by any lunatic or knave were not knaves and even lunatics too smart and humane to inflict such feeble stuff upon an intelligent people, Honor to the Brave. We publish to-day a letter the purport of which should make every American blush forshame, The writer says that the re- mains of the gallant soldiers who met their fate on the Little Big Horn still lie uninterred, and worse still, that the most conscienceless of all ghouls, the relic seeker, has sometimes turned into trinkets the bones of the brave fellows whom even the savages of the prairie mention only with respect. Probably red tape, 80 ex- cellent as a safeguard but so execrable 1n every other capacity, has prevented the interment by the government of the re- mains, which are as deserving of honor as any that ever earned renown on fateful fields; but if this is the case there should be made some outside effort to render re- spect tothe brave. Tho three hundred at Thermopylm may have been conscious of greater responsibilities than Custer’s men were, but they could not have died more bravely or more miserably. Let this mat- ter be kept before the people until even the powerful bonds of red tape cannot restrain the government from suitably honoring those who so nobly supported it when all but honor was lost beyond hope. A Prolific Crime. Much as the public has desired to have the Silver Lake mystery unravelled there are some people who will be almost sorry that the proper thread is apparently in hand at last. The history of murders will be searched in vain for a case which has led in one way or another to the discovery of 60 many sickening stories and crimes as have been brought to light by the discovery of the brutally buried corpse on Staten Island. Such glances behind the scenes of awful tragedies are not pleasant, but to the better class of beholders they are beneficial, Between good society, re- fined surroundings, honorable associ- ates and other environments, respectable men and women are too apt to forget that there are other worlds than theirs, and that the malign influences of these are some- times near enough to be dangerous. The necessity of prompt enforcement of laws against capital offences is too frequently belittled by the very class which should charge itself with the duty of protecting society as well as improving it, To have outgrown the belief in supernatural fiends walking the earth is a poor sign of progress if beings equally vicious are working so in- dustriously and with such seeming im- punity. Butler Uncorked Again. During the late civil war a soldier who was drank and noisy in his company bar- racks was urgently requested to shut his mouth, “I d-do shut it,” he stuttered; ‘I’ve shut it 1-lots of times, but it c-comes right open again.” A similar peculiarity affects the various bottling experiences to which General Butler has been subjected. He was lately bottled securely, so far as his gubernatorial prospects were concerned, but last night the cork flew out with a loud pop while the Central Democratic Committee of Boston was discussing the preparation of printed ballots for the uso of voters, The Butler men insisted that their candidate’s name should appear on the ticket as the regular nominee, and the Abbott men were equally persistent in demanding the honor for their own standard bearer. There was ® great deal of furious fizzing und frothing, perhaps not entirely independent of the vontents of bottles previously uncorked, but the friends of the Worcester nominee will soon discover that uncorking is not the only operation requisite to liberate the con- tents, and that breaking the bottle, which is what their last night's operations finally led to, liberates only by causing a hopeless spill, ae Cornell Euger to Row Harvard. Cornell is eager to row the Harvard Uni- versity eight at New London next summer, the same week the latter rows Yale; but, as she has twice beaten Harvard since being beaten by her, she, of course wants her to challenge. Harvard’s eight this year was very strong and fast, and only two, Messrs, Bancroft and Schwartz, were graduated, and one or both of these may remain at one of the professional schools. If this desire of Cornell’s seoms foolhardy it must be re- membered that she has a way of being in the front on race day, no matter what the odds. What she would greatly profer, if there is water enough at New London, and there is said to be, is to have not only two, but four university eights in o breast race for the four miles—namely, those of Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Cor- nell. If this could be arranged tho result would be a magnificent contest, free from all danger of foul, asall the crews would be coxswained, and instead of only one race there might actually be two or three sharp fights all going onat once. Columbia, with her usual enterprise and pluck, would doubtless jump at such a race, and if Har- vard would assent Yale would hardly hesi- tate to do the same. Cornell would also do this if all the others preferred it. She would accept a challenge from Columbia to row at New London either the day beforo or atter the Harvard-Yale race, or even on the same day, and then, if she won, meet the winner ot the other con- test in a final heat the next day. The ex- cellent management of the New London authorities this year is a good guarantee that everything would be done to make so brill- inant a meeting a thorongh success, Now let Harvard say the word. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The French vintage dacs not promise very well, Russian concerts in Paris have been very success- fa Theodore Thomas is now called the sweet Addler of Obie. Senator Patterson will go {rom San Francisco to the Indian Territory. The chiet street of Amstordam is called Kalver- straut (Calf street), The Eagiish army authorities are ordoring Spanish mules for their batteries, Mr. Hayes’ logic ® good deal like shat of the 8. “Why is Withelm) like Bos reat Rodgers ts supposed to be the tenor of the Hayes travelling combination, In Congressman Banks’ Massachusetts district there is an effort to strain out a Nat, ey must have stumbled 8 into bis own mouth,” Mr. ht, Clay Lukens, of the Now York News, bas ia press a book illustrating American paragraph bumor, Tho Empress ef Austria may not after all visit. Ire Jand, her people having begun to grumble about the expense. The faculty of the Cincinnati College of Masie, with Theodore Thomas at its head, will be organized next e- Daly bas been made an bonorary memper of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society at 8t, Petersburg. Tho German Emperor will celebrate his golden wedding tn Berlin and Potsdam next June, it aothing bappens to prevent. Did you ever boar an old eaken bucket break loese and rattle down a well? Yes? Thon you have heard the oratory of Stewart L. Woodford. Tho drowsy, imuocent wasp comes indoors these fine, cold autuma 3. Ho is no aristocrat, this picks you up with one tine of his tork, town through which the Emperor and Empress were to pass was placarded with the an- nouncement that the Emperor was to be assassinated, The ladies of Holland, with their silver and gold trimmings forthe hair, and their modern beauets overall, appear grotesque and sometimes very homely. About fiteen tens of stonc have been sola in Len don to Amorican visitors and to rural Engiishmen ag Pieces of Cleopatra’s Nvedle. Of course they wore never near the Needle, Carl Scharz is said to have writton some very fine poems for private use, They are supposed to bein er; and some of them are so old that they are Weasured in pte vie. Thomas Carlyle has in nis garden a deek for hold- ing hugo books. To an intruder upon his privacy recently said with eu! may all prosperity at A shtpowner of Z: jam, Holland, t@ worth $80,000,000, bat he Itves in a house worth about $4,000, and he enjoys himsell sitting inthe little door. yard with his two daughters playing dominos, Jadge Simmons, of St, Louis, holds that as cross. walks are made for the cenvenience of persons on foot, it is the duty of drivers, including those of horse cars, not only to check their speed when a per. son ts on a crosswalk, or even appronching it, but to stop where there ts the least danger of a collision. The Judge foed a driver who, expecting people to get out of drove among them. Wolseley ia only forty-five. He has never army. At scbool, near Dublin, he wasa close student of engineering. He was wounded while inthe Crimes, apd fought bravely in India, He vis. ited the Confederate army, and formed the opinion shat Lee was the greatest military genius since Nape- leon, and that he was greater than the German gen. ergis of this generation, For his Ashantes cxpeditios he was knighted and given $100,000, AMUSEMENTS, STRINWAY | HALIr—THR EELLOGG-ARE OOM, - CERT. jonce which assomblod at Steinway. Hall 1 nagers, ‘hat couia be de sired. for a popular rtainmegt. It comprised the following selectio: Duet, “Belisario,” Dont zetti, Signor Lugzirini ana Mr. Conly. Harp sole, “Bolero Espagnol,”’ Labarre, Mme, Maretzek. Cava: tina, ‘11 Barbiere,’’ Rossini, Mr. L. G. Gottecnatk, Aria, “Casta diva,” irom “Norma,” Bellini, Mist Clara Louise Keliogg. Romance, “M’appari”’ (Mar tha), Flotow, Signor Lazzarini, Aria, “O don tatale,* from “Don Carios,” Verdi, Miss Aunie Louise Cary, Song, ‘11 Monaeo” (The Monk), Meyerbeer, Mr, George A.Conly. Polonaise, trom “Mignon,” Am broise Thomas, Miss Clara Lourse K. 1% Song with organ, barp and Annio Louise Cary, ir d’Iriaude,’’ Bochsa, Mme Maretzok. Brindisi, “To the Queen's Health,”? Alfred H. Pease, written expressly for and sung by Mr, George A. Conly, accompanied by the composer, Quintet, trom “Lucie di Lammermoor,”” Donizetti, Miss Kellogg, Miss Cary, Signor Lazzarini, Messrs, Gottschalk and Conly. Signer Loezzarini. was in admirable voice, and Mustrated, by a sbarp contrast with his defciei to bimsell, thus compelling adverse criticism, Mme, Maretzck played collent taste, both in meots, Gottschalk, conscieatious, hag rarely sung better. Mr. pis ll A. Conly, the basso, Nikowise did well, bat not uis best. Mm selections aesigned to bim id @ which are re Louise Ca is who have heretolore won much é ea Davo appeared in public, | ot y to bor on the programme Mise notable lack of warmth, color Wenge Winer Roped Sime of of her Dravara” ph room, wets le, erooning Voice that mult "uistress of the magaetic art the utmost of ns og Pleasure. Tho welco: tended to Miss Annie Lo Cary was extromely en- thusiastic, rhe Payee wm trea the selections assigned. Being oncored, 4 th old = familiar r Strong and hearty 1 which she was re in other words, they ao ounce ietinctly, aud cossequeatiy ibe sudher she time is in doubt whotuer he ts letening to a jargon ef vocal chorus or his own YY pleasure that attaches conveying th ‘i using bis or d to be dissatisiea with hes Canadian experience, Mr, Lawrence Barrett is reported to have met with mach succers In bis Western tour. Mr. J. K. Emmet commonces « four weeke’ on. gegement at the Standard Theatre next Monday, The Roze-Mapleson Operatic Company appeared at Lancaster, Pa., last evening before a large audience, “My Son,” a transiation of “Mein Leopold,” a Ger. man comedy, occupies the bourds at the Boston ta favorably devoribed. benind the curtain, ima Abbott is singing to largo audiences at Ford’s Grand Overa House, Baltimore, The local Dapers speak ia flattering terms of her Marguerite is “Faust.” The “welcome home” to be given to Gilmore and nis band by the Twenty-s reziment, if armory, to-morrow eve