The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBE NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR LD, published every day tn the year, Nee earey touy WSundaye exclued). ‘Ten dollars pee per mouth for auy period ‘for six months, Sunday Post Office mor be procured se HERAL de aduresre ‘Letters and pack axes should be property sealod. Rejected communications will not be returned. New Yor ——_.—_——_ PHILADELPHIA UFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LON LON LOEFICE OF aus NEW YORK HERALD— 0. 46 PLE EET. Paris oFrict—49 AVENUE DE L'OPERA. ‘American exhibitors at the International Exposition can have Meir letters (if postpaid) addressed to the care of our Paris office cha x NAPLES OF FICE—NO. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Fancuon. LYCEUM THEATRE—Josava Wurrcoms, BOWERY THEATRE—Savxp ruom Tax Stone PARK THEATRE—Bovgosts axp Boxnsaxne. AMERICAN INSTITUT: WALLACK’S THEATR TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE UNION SQUAKE THEAT VoTuxR AND Som, STANDARD THEAT! FIFTH AVENUE TH THEATRE COMIQUE—V. OLYMPIC THEATRE. TIVOLI THEATRE—Vai STEINWAY HALL—Or: GERMANIA THEAT! BROOKLYN PARK TIT TRIPLE SHEET. , OCTOBER M4. 1878. The probabilities are that the weather in New Fork and its vicinity to-day will be cool and partly cloudy, followed toward night by increasing tem- perature and a ‘emporary clearing. To-morrow it will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy, pos- sibly with light rains. Our Anstracts of yesterday’s sermons will be found to contain some thoughts as pertinent to week-day practice as to Sunday theorizing. Tue Picrurys described in another column are of themselves enough to assure the success of the approaching loan exhibition. Tewxesser aNp Inprana do not contain all the depraved brutes in the Union; New Jersey presents a promising specimen in our columns to-day. New Lryks have been forged for the chain of evidence which is binding so tightly the prisoner Reiuhurdt, suspected of being the per- petrator of the Silver Lake horror. Tne Tenpency ot peculiar crimes to succeed each other is again exemplified.. This time the villany consists of chloroforming to death, a supposed case in Tennessce following close upon the Bassett-Alexander case of the same nature. Tue Pecuttar Nature of the religious ser- vices at the Kings County Penitentiary yester- day provokes a wish that the audience in striped garments had been greater. New York could have spared nearly all of her politicians for such a place on such an occasion. A New Svuacestion of the cause of certain Custom House abuses appears in our columns today. If it were made concerning any other body of public servants it might be laughed away, but the pablic long ago learned that cus- toms’ officiais were not like unto other business men. Tue Gas Companurs seem greatly exercised over the report of Edison’s discovery of a suc- cessful clectric light, and no wonder. The new illuminator is said to be three times as cheap as gas; 60, if the companies propose to compete with it in price, they will have to reduce their rates so much that they will not be able to more than double their money. Misroxtunr Seems to follow Professor King’s balloon, which collapsed so unexpectedly a few days ago. It has again come to grief, and this time in mid-air, so that the escape of the seronaut seems almost miraculous. It was Jong ago demonstrated that balloons will ascend, so it would appear the part of prudence as well as science for zeronauts to direct their present at- tention to the important matter of management of these self-willed, untrastworthy air ships. Ir JenseYMeEN insist upon keeping hotels they should locate at a safe distance from the State capital. We know that Trenton cannot be worse than Albany, for some things are impos- sible by theiravery nature; but it is neverthe- less reported that while the late proprietor of a prominent hostelry at-Trenton is now serving a term in State Prison for embezzlement of public funds the present proprietor is to be prosecuted criminally for discrepancies in hia accounts as a town treasurer. Tne Weatner.—The depression that moved along the coast is now over Nova Scotia, and has developed a storm centre of considerable energy. The low areain the Northwest is ex- tending its influence rapidly throughout all the districts west of the Mississippi River and north of Colorado and New Mexico. It has made but little eastward progress during the past twenty-four hours, but is gradually organ- izing a centre of disturbance as it approaches the northern Jake region. The area of high barometer dominates the weather in the central | valley districts and over the Atlantic coast from New York to Florida. The pressure is also relatively high over the Gulf and in the South- west. Rain has fallen on the New Kng- land coast and over the lakes. With the exception of the lower lake regions the weather throughout all the districts has been generally clear. The winds have been from brisk to high on the New England coast, brisk in the West and northern lake regions, aud fresh elaewhere. The temperature hus risen iu all the sections except in the North- west, where there has been a decided fall, It is very probable that the disturbance that is in the West will pass over the lake regions to the St. Lawrence Valley, in which case we are likely to experience sume of the brisk winds attending on ifs southeastern margin, In another column will be seen the details of the severe weather on the New England coast. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool wd partly cloudy, followed toward night by mereasing temperature and a temporary clear- ing. To-morrow it will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy, possibly with licht rains, Troubles Ahead in Eurepe- In Europe and in the parts of Asia imme- diately dependent upon the cdmplications of European politics the prospect of the future is stormy. Several issues of the greatest consequence are at a stage that would involve an instant resort to force if we were just entering a season at which military operations are practicable instead of the season that enforces the truce of im- passable roads, frozen rivers, rain, snow, ice and starvation. But as this truce is en- forced the chance is opened and the time is given to exhaust the efforts of diplomacy for the preservation of peace; to pre- vent invasion by concessions; to recon- cile conflicting claims by compromises; to soothe offended pride on one side or another by solutions satis- factory to the dignity of princes, or by the pageantry of triumphs as illusory and deceptive as they are apparently splendid, Shall the labors of the diplomatists in this busy winter prepare an idle summer for the soldiers next year? Or shall their failures make inevitable the violent solutions that are impending? On the Afghan frontier the military forces of the Ameer of Cabul and a papt of the British Indian army are tace to face. It is proposed to operate against the Ameer with three columns—two to move on the line from Peshawur to Cabul, and the third from Deraghaze Khan toward Candahar; but the Indian expeditions are not ready and the Ameer is. He stands on the defensive, as he has no military object beyond his own frontier. As itisthe intention of England to take material guarantees for the protection of this part of the Indian frontier, and the Ameer knows it, it is to be, once begun, a clear war for conquest on one side and de- fence on the other, and there are no delu- sions, England intends to ‘make the Ameer harmless,” like any of its subject Indian princes, and the Ameer intends to preserve his independence. Consequently it will not do to move into the territory of a warlike people on an errand of this sort until every proper military precaution is taken, because such expeditions degene- rate readily into painful calamities. An ad- vance into Afghanistan with the force now assembled for the purpose cannot possibly be made, and it will invite an unfortunate conclusion to advance even with any force that can be concentrated this year. Perhaps, therefore, no movement will be made this season, and that fuct will indicate the pe- culiar characteristics of either side; for England has intended this operation for years and at the critical moment cannot proceed, and in the winter the news will spread in the strange way in which news does spread in India that an Asiatic peo- ple, their neighbors, are about to fight the English for independence and to keep their lands and lives from the spoliation of the dominant stranger. By the spring time all will know it—all will watch for the story of the result—and defeat may develop very effectively whether the Hindoo is really in love with his subjection to England. Can diplomacy prevent this conflict? It cannot change the intention of the Ameer; but England can defer her purpose, and mdy. That would be her retreat, there- fore; but the present English govern- ment has the theatrical talent to announce its own submissions as glorious victories over its opponents and to impose that sort of statesmanship on the people. Perhaps the Afghan difficulty may be gotten over by a resort to those tactics. If it is not then England will have an Indian war on her hands and labor troubles and commercial distresses at home at the precise moment when the Eastern question will be opened for that ultimate settlement which was arrested by that delusive com- pact of truces known as the Berlin Treaty. If England gets out of her scrape with the Ameer without fighting the trouble immi- nent in the Balkan Peninsula may not reach a radical issue. It will be patched up by local arrangements. Otherwise the estate in Europe of the bankrupt Ottoman Empire will be finally administered with little regard to England's wishes, for the trouble between Austria and Turkey is ata point trom which it might be readily pre- cipitated into war by a word from a Power so deeply interested in the issue as Russia. Austria has up to this point escaped with great skill from the complications incident tothe dangerous gift made her at Berlin. She is not in satisfactory possession of Bos- ‘nia, bat she has done enough to save the government from the Hungarian clamor, while the new attitude of the old Czech party has given the Hungarians themselves a subject for reflection. But though the Andrassy government has escuped the main point of the trouble inside the lines it has to reckon with the unpacified population of a conquered province and with the Otto- man forces quite sufficient to give it trouble. If the Bosnians and their savage helpers from over the border were such for- midable obstacles what would be the diffi- culties of a conflict in which these were the mere accessories ucting in conjunction with an army under Osman Pacha? Grecian ex- altation would reach the fighting point in the event of a war between ‘Turkey and Aus- tria. . With England busy in India, and Austria at war with Turkey, the Treaty of Berlin would be dealt with in 1879 os the Treaty of Paris was in 1870. Austria, Tur- key, Greece and Russia must settle their relations definitely on the basis of force, and they will do this next year unless the diplo- matists can in the winter months find some pacific solution, or unless the conflict in Indiais averted. For the diplomatists—they have sought a solution so hopelessly for half acentury that it is vain to count on them now ; but between Britain and the Ameer there may yet be peace with more or less honor. Germany has a terrible skeleton in the closet in the socialist trouble, and France, it is very probable, has to pass through some lively political excitements in the year tocome. All the powertul reactionary elements will endeavor to make one more desperate conflict against the final snocess of the Republic, andin favor of that re vision of the constitution in » monar- chical sense for which they have never ceased to labor, They will be im- mediately stimulated to this by the result of the Senatorial elections, which, it seems highly probable, will give the republicans a majority in that body. With both chambers republican the Presi- dential office will be republican also, so that if things go on as now the end of the year 1880 will see France as completely in the hands of a government of the people as the United States is. Itis not in human na- ture for the monarchical and ultramontane conspirators to let this pass without yet more desperate efforts against it. But of the result of those efforts the issue is cer- tain. In Germany's conflict there is more doubt. In the conflicts of the German gov- ernment with the ghastly discontent of the German people a fearful struggle isin prep- aration. Murder by Public Enterprise, The State of Indiana has just been the scene of the most outrageous act of mob violence that has been reported for many months, Even the famous records which Indiana's famous war Governor kept of “bloody shirt” campaigns in the South contain but little mention of law- lessness so inexcusable, outrageous, brutal and murderous as that manifested in Posey county Inst week. It is un- necessary to rehearse the circumstances, for rarely have such a series of occurrences been so carefully, yet so graphically and fully, described as were those of the Mount Vernon tragedy in the Henaxp of yesterday. Probably the victims deserved death if they were guilty; but in.a State and county abundantly supplied with legal machinery there was no reason, aside from brutal in- stincts, in the solemn duties of judge, jury and executioner being assumed by a gang of excited ruffians. But the only testi- mony against four of the five murdered negroes came from affrighted women of bad character; the most merciless judge and jury would have accepted such evi- dence only after the most thorough and suspicious sifting. The counsel of one of the victims claim that they could have established an alibi for their client. The old man who shot the officer and whose fate is unknown had reason to believe that he was defending his*home and son agninst a gang of low marauders. The danger and disgrace implied by this fiendish outrage does not rest alone upon the county and State in which the acts occurred. The reputation of the whole nation will suffer wherever in the world the English language is read, and at home men will wonder whet security the most law-ubiding citizen has for his life’ when the word of the lowest wretches and the suspicions and unrestraint of the scum of the populace can hurry any one into eternity upon any charge that may be trumped up. Indiana should go into mourning, and her politicians, of either party, wocld do well to determine that re- form, like charity, begins at home. Jules Simon en Thiers. In modern history there is no chapter of higher political interest than that of the administration of the government of France by M. Thiers. Any great political story— any vivid record of a nation’s perils, ca- lamities, convulsions and successes—will catch hold upon human sympathies with startling effect in proportion as it is well told ; but there seems to be some quality in the history of France and in the struggles and tragedies of that nation in virtue of which they fix the attention of men more readily than the history of other countries. In the period that passed between the sign- ing of the armistice in January, 1871, and the retirement of Thiers from the Presi- dency France touched well nigh all the depths and shoals of national experience, and the history that M. Jules Simon has made on this subject has therefore in the most abundant degree the first requisite for an important historical labor—a grand theme. Thiers received France from the hands of the con- queror—crushed, : prostrate, helpless—one might say in a state of mental aliena- tion. He was made President by an Assembly of monarchists in the confidence that he would find a way to restore the monarchy, for which, indeed, the country was ready. He was himself a monarchist, and had no other record, People only waited for the two monarchical parties to reconcile their respective differences by a “fusion,” to unite the claims of two branches on one man, and then counted to see that one man crowned and his gov- ernment conducted by the ancient Minister of Louis Philippe. They waited tosee France return to February, 1848—repentant over all that had occurred since then. But they counted without the great politician who had discovered the secret of French history—who recognized that all the conflicts, slaughters, intrigues, the enormous disquiet ofa resolute and ir- repressible people resulted from the persist- ent endeavor to secure self-government, and the constant frustration and defeat of that endeavor by ambitious adventurers and pigmy princes. How he applied that discovery in the life of the nation is shown by Simon in the work of which we give an aecouut in another column—a work of which at present we shall only say that it seems eminently worthy of the subject, Tariff Changes, We print elsewhere a letter from Mr Fernando Wood, Chairman of the Ways and +Means Committes of the House of Repre- sentatives. It will be seen that Mr. Wood agrees with us that it is not advisable to at- tempt to disturb the tariff at the coming session of Congress, because the same op- position which prevented the proposed changes at the last session will predomi- nate in December next. Mr. Wood agrees with us that stability is necessary; and while he does not think such ao public committal of the Ways and Means Committee as we suggested the other day is prudent in view of certain contingencies, his own assurance that he does not think it wise to attempt changes without a fair prospect of success, or with- out the pressure of un¥xpected public ne- cessities, will give confidence to merchants end manufacturers, who will see that the Chairman of the Ways and Means has every inclination to favor what they need—stabil- ity. Few will disagree with Mr. Wood when ho save that the tariff ought to be “court. revised at the earliest possible moment. But it will be seen that his influence will be cast against inopportune and merely dis- turbing attempts. Defective Natura: It is to be hoped that the very important questions respecting the naturalization of aliens which have recently been presented to the courts of the city, and are now pend- ing, may not be considered and disposed of on merely local or partisan considerations. The fact of citizenship of the United States carries with it rights and duties which reach far beyond the elective franchise in the city or State of New York. Whena “court of record” in this city, ‘having a common law jurisdiction and a seal and a clerk,” adjudges and certifies an alien to be 8 citizen of the Union it brings into po- RK 14, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. litical being a person who may own Ameri- can vessels and command them ; may pre- empt public lands; may have certain im- portant rights in the federal courts ; May command the services of our consular and diplomatic officers; may own real estate; may become a national legislator, and, in a word, may put in operation the power and treasure of the United States to vindicate his nationality. The fact of naturalization is algo, in most of the States, a prerequisite of the exercise of the elective franchise, although a State may, if it pleases, dispense with it. Intelligent foreign observers of our political system wonder why Congress permits State courts of such inferior juris- diction to clothe aliens with national citi- zenship, and why the legislative power did not limit such functions exclusively to national tribuzals. The reason un- doubtedly is that at the beginning of the present century, when our present naturalization law was enacted, the federal gourts were few in number, and in many States not easy of access. But what- ever may have been the reason it is a fact that at this moment every court of record, in every State of the Union, which has a common law jurisdiction, no matter how small, and a seal and a clerk, can make national citizens out of aliens of all races, the yellow or Mongolian races only ex- cluded, And during the election periods these local courts work with intense energy and turn out federal citizens with corre- sponding rapidity. The whole system is so faulty that President Grant, in his annual messages, repeatedly asked Congress to re- vise and remedy it ; but the naturalized vote is so potential in the States that the average cS ar national politician appears to fear to deal with the evil. Let us look at what is required to make an alien a citizen: First, if born abroad of alien parents he moust make a general declaration of his in- tention to be a citizen. Two years or more after this declaration the alien can go before either a national or a State court and make certain other declarations, and if it shall be ‘made to appear to the satisfaction” of such court that among other things ‘the has resided within the United States five years at least, and within the State or Territory where such court is at the time held one year at least,” the court may admit and adjudge him to be acitizen. ‘But,” adds the law, ‘‘the oath of the applicant shall in no case be allowed to prove his resi- dence.” Congress has, it will be seen, made the conferring of citizenship @ judicial act. And can Congress impart such national functions to State courts? The critical element in naturalization is five years’ ‘‘residence,” and it must be es- tablished by other witnesses than the ap- plicant. What constitutes residence or domicile is one of the most delicate ques- tions in the administration of justice, and Congress certainly intended that the ques- tion should be solemnly tried. But how is it tried in this city? What examination is given of the witness who swears to ‘‘resi- dence” as to the source of his knowledge or what he means by the term? How much time does a judge give tothe inquiry? And what remedy is there when an improper or fraudulent judgment has been entered declaring an alien to be a citizen? What court can annul or set aside such judgment? Who can move to correct the error or fraud? There is a well authenticated case of an applica- tion to one of our foreign ministers by a man presenting a certificate of naturaliza- tion who admitted that he had never been in the United States, but that his brother procured the certificate from a Brooklyn How can such a certificate be made yoid? It must be remembered that in nat- uralization there isa ‘‘judgment” of a court, which is a very solemn and controlling doc- ument. It cannot be attacked in any other court on collateral issues. It imparts a verity, if regularin form. Asa plea it isa bar, and as evidence it is conclusive. In Spratt’s case the federal Supreme Court said, by the mouth of Chief Justice Marshall, that if a judgment of nat- uralization issued by a State court was unexceptionable in form it was conclusive in that court, no matter though the evidence were overwhelming that the applicant had never been in the United States. We do not discuss now what remedial legislation Congress should enact, but we only call attention to the fact that application is now made to the very courts making the judgment claimed to be fraudulent because obtained by perjury, It is to be hoped that the judicial power of New York in this city will deliberate long and well upon the very important matter that is now before it. The question is new, and has, as we have shown, consequences more important than those which relate to the exercise of the elective franehise. And may we not also hope that all the judges will hereafter b> more deliborate and care. fal in trying the question of ‘‘residence” on new applications for naturalization? Genoral Batleg’s Prize Cases. The political opponents of General Butler in Massachusetts are giving him plenty of defensive work by parading in great detail the history of his connection with the suits for recovering the Farragut prize money. We publish the story in another part of to- day’s Henatp. It purports to be the result of careful inquiries in Washington, and the facts are related with so much particu. larity as to give a strong impression of authenticity. The writer of the account has evidently been allowed free access to all official sources of information at the national capital, it being the interest of the republican party to defeat him in his present canvass. Being disliked as a disorganizing greenbacker and detested as a political renegade he had no reason to expect any mercy from the men in authority at Washington. The story, if true, proves that General Butler is unmatched for legal smartness and chicanery, and that he is troubled with no scruples of integrity. He must answer and explode these charges or his political prospects are ruined. But it is not fairto judge him on an ex parte statement unless he confesses judgment by silence, The case is a very ugly one as presented. Tho enormous fees received by General Butler make but a small part of the accusation, The gravamen of tht charge is that prize money was claimed and re- covered ior large numbers of vessels which belonged to loyal owners and were restored, or which on other grounds were not subjects of prize. The operation is de- scribed as a wholesale plunder of the Treasury by the permission of legal forms; and unless the facts are misstated or over- stated the charge is not groundless. Gen- eral Butler will have quite enough to do for the present in trying to parry these damaging accusations. It will be futile for him to go about the State electioneering while they are hanging unrefuted over his head. Rvuugh on Brooklyn. Yesterday the pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle preached upon the iniquities which he had beheld’ during a night trip which has now become historic. What his thoughts were upon noting that the announcement of this unsavory and not particularly important topic drew to his church the largest audience that ever gathered within it we are not in- formed, but to sinful outsiders it would seem asif even among some church-goers there isan unnatural fondness for certain articles of mental diet which attract more by their spice than their wholesomeness. The preacher did his audience at least the good service of disabusing their minds of the common idea that the low places of amusement he visited are par- ticularly attractive, either in themselves or their performers and frequenters. The sermon contained some characteristic and extraordinary flights of oratory, but we are pained to discover that at least one of these was ventured upon without a proper understanding with the dictionary. Think of a Brooklyn preacher saying that in a low haunt he ‘*felt as though sitting on an island coast against which a curoclydon had driven a thousand dismasted hulks, and every moment more blackened hulks rolled in,” &.; and all this while the significance of “euroclydon” being ‘southeast wind,” and Brooklyn itself, particularly the neigh- borhood of the Tabernacle, being exactly to the southeast of the sinful pleasure-den in’ which the imaginative divine stood wrapt in his shuddering thought! The City of Churches cannot safely endure many more such home thrusts from one of its own rapiers. On another page we publish a remarkablo and interesting statement of a young lawyer, who has convinced himself and many others that he is competent to dis- cover the unspoken thoughts and even the most closely guarded secrets of other people. Of the actual nature of the supposed power the gentleman does not seem able to speak with confidence, but if he has demon- strated the existence of the forco as dis- tinctly as he believes he has it is to be regretted that it is not a power that can be readily found by or im- parted to others, This mind reader claims to’ have frightened a murderer out of the country, unearthed a robbery, and, better still, reclaimed some of the stolen property, and all through his ability to divine the thougMs of others. If such proves to be the case New York must have him at all hazards, though in our good nature we might *occasionally allow him to go to Washington. True, Indiana has done her full share toward strengthening criminal reports and weakening faith in human na- ture, but it is in our own city that gen- uine mind readers can be kept most busy and upon matters of great im- portance. If he had been here two months ago and glanced through the mental processes of the Coinpiroller’s brain he might have saved more than half a million of people from a great deal of wearing anxiety by informing us who was to be Tammany’s nominee for the Mayoralty. In the Court House, City Hall and Custom House he might local- ize thefts and thieves, instead of leaving the public to suspect nearly every one in these buildings. He might even find out what Mr. John Foley is really up to, and this alone would stamp the seal of genuineness upon his protessions. Give us some mind readers who can really divine the workings of human thought, and New York will suddenly become the most virtu- ous city of the world, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The following Americans were registered at the Paria office of the Herato on Satorday :— Barvour, J. E., and wife, Connecticut, Hotel Males- herbes. Barstow, Mra, M. T., Now York State, No, 29 Rue Cammartio, Barstow, Mins S. M., Now York State, No, 29 Rue Cammartia. Bell, £. T., New Jersey, Grand Hotel, auline ©., New Jersey, No. 44 Rue Cheny. Blauck, Rudolpn C., and wite, New Jersey, Hotel de VAthén6e, Biaucke, Mrs, Robert, and family, New York, Hote: de l’Athén60, Brant, L. P., and wife, New York, Hotel de PAthénéo, Brooker, ©. F., octicut, Hotel de l’Athénée, Bull, W. P., At 8, NO. 61 Kue de Provence, Cabell, Dr., Maryland, Hotel de St, Petersbourg. Cube), Miss V., Maryland, Hotel do St. Petersbourg. Orawiey,J. ¥., Now York State, Hotel da Conseil aE ‘y, J. B., New York, Hotel du Conseil a’Etat. Dano, Rev. J. W., Por , Anglo-American Hotet. Duon, Rev. M. H., Pennsylvania, Aoglo-American Hotei Earl, Rovort, New York State, Continental Hotel. Kiy, Miss C. B., Connecticut, Hotel Malesherves, Ely, Mine @ A., Connecticut, Hotel Malesherbes Givien, albert. Gooraia. No, 16 Nué Geofror-’ Harris, O. R., and wife, New York, Metropolitan Hotel, Horn, Miss Sallie M., Pennsylvania, No. 44 Ruc Clieny. Kena, Hote. Proven RB. H., Pennsylvania, No, 26 Avenus a, J., New York, Hotel du Prince Alpert Joseph A., Now York State, Grand Hotel. Martin, Howard T.,New York State, No, 11 Rue de In Bienfaisance. McDonaid, Jonn, Now York, Grand Hotel. McLoughiip, T. P., Now York State, Grand Hotel, Neide, Miss Blanob, Hotel de la Coargnne. Neide, Lieutepant Horace, United States Army. Hotel de la Couronte, Norris, J. 8., Maryland, No, 11 Rue de |’ Arcade. Norris, Octavius J., Maryland, No 11 Rue de IAreade, 4 Parsons, F. H., New Jersey, Oxtord and Cambridge Hotel. Pieiffer, Adolph, New York, No, 34 Rue Montrouge, Raphael, J. M., Toxas, Horet de Nice ot Pane. Redway, A. J., Cincinnati, No. 29 Bouloyard Hause mano Roe, Lieutenant U. F., United States Army, Hotel Dominici. Sachs, s., New York, Hotel de Strasbourg. Schmidiapp, C,, and family, Cincitinati, Hotel Violet, smith, D. W., New York, Hote! de Franco, Standrew, J. A., Virginia, London and New York Hotel. Taylor, Miss A. R., New York, Hote! du Louvra, Taylor, Mrs, E. A., Now York, Hotel du Louvre, Tompkins, H. B., New York, No. 93 Boulevara Haussmann. Vanderpoel, Dr., New York State, No. 23 Rue Monge. Vincent, Frank, New York, No. 51 Avenue Malakoff, Wobb, ©. H, and family, Now York, No. 6 Avenue Eiplau, Webster, ©. B,, and wile, No. 59 Rue Nollet. Whitmore, J., New York State, Continental Hotel, Wheeler, Lieutenant William H., United States Army, No. 66 Rue Basse dos Kemparts, AMUSEMENTS. » Julius A., and family, New York, Palatt BOOTH’S THEATRE—HERE AUGUST WILHELMI ‘An audience of nearly thirty-five hundred people— one of tho largest tnat has agssembiea in New York during the present season—last night sgain pela tribute to the genius and si ‘au artist who, less than two weeks ago, was comparativoly unknown to the American public. Wilhelmj came among us almost unannounced and preceded only by «a reputation among bis brother musicians as the intimate friend of Wagner and the leader of the orchestra at Bayreuth when the great composer stirred the artistic world by the rendition of his wonderful composition, But Wilhelmj is no longer a stranger. He has taken a place in American memories, chiet among those who have heretofore illustrated his art during toe last twenty-five years, and, in what may be called a phenomenal way, has achieved a repatation which loses nothing by bis modesty of entrance. His qualitios as a performer upon the violia have been @ady described in these columos, He nas imtroduced to us a new echool, in which breadth, vixor, sympathy, purity of ton nique, simplicity, combined with ¢ treat. ment’ of which his subjects are capable, ali have found expression, and in giving uf the music of the tet as his of which the rent In this has touched nor drawn a bow that bas not somehow and to some boay conveyed a lesson, The programme last evoning was as follows:—Vart I.—1, a. ‘La Camp ie ry jol-Liszt; b. Marl Atnens,’’ Beetnoven-Rabo 2, “Spirito Gentil? theme that of tbe rt zarini; 3, “Roberto” ta ‘ch’adoro, | Meyerboer, Miss Kate L James; 4, ‘ics Rameaux,” Faure, Signor taptetra;, 5, Concerto—Adagio, Alla gro, Mendelssohn, Terr August Wilhelm}. Part 1.—l, “Ap! Martha), Flotow, Signor Lazzariui; "Abt, Mis Kate L. James; 3, “Walter 7 Wagner: Wilheimj, Herr ‘August Wilbelmj; 4, Pasquinade, Gottschalk, Mmo, Carrene Herr August Wilbelwj; 6, song, With violoncello obi Werner), Rabaudy, Signor Th bord Mme. teresa o played r her accustomed grace. zzarini gave hii tenor solos with fervor, tt not with tne best of voice, Tagiiapietra ‘was apparently a trifié hoarse, and Miss Kite L. James ropeated Abt’s “Em. Darraseement” with much the same effect that bat characterized her previous efforts, Wilhelmj bim- self never appeared to greater advantage. ape tt was due to the magnetism generated by sence of an !mme' audience, or, 1¢ may the sight of Ole Bull, wnite-buired, apprecial watonial, occupying a box adjoining the # lated greater than usual effort, At any rate th te varius of the artist nevor pealed out grander notes or ly represented the thought of his com> rks acompliment to Ole Bull, Wilnelmj substitated the Paganini concerto ior Ernst’s romance, from ‘Othello, and for encores good naturedly gave schumann’s ‘‘Abenlied,’? Erost’s ‘Airs Hongrois” and Chopin’s “Nottarno,” No. 27. There. were many distinguisned 10 in the house, and the applause wi giiapictra, rtists were generally excellent, the piano wit! & curious fact Maurice Strakosch, that tho present ts 2 itaprersario, and that Wil! ‘2d of the present month of October cel anotversary of the first appearance of Mr. Strakosch as described in the HsRracp of that date in 1848, MUSICAL AND DUAMATIC NO'ES. “Zohoo! for Scandal” will bp repeated to-nignt at Wallack’s, Robson and Crane open at the Park on the 25thof November im the ‘Comedy of Errors,” Anew Freoch opéra bouffe company has been or ganized and will make its appearance at an early day, Mr. George W. Colby, tho pianist, accompanies the Ketlogg-Cary concert company on thoir Eastern tour this week, The programme at the St. Jamos Theatre is changed every week. Dir, Hart has secured a number of tale ented artists, “Mother and Soo,’? at the Union Squaro Theatre, bas proved a hit, 1t is one of the vest drawing plays now on the boards, K. Emmet makes his rentrée in the new atthe Standard Theatre. The regular com- pany will goon a tour, Harrigan and Hart, at the Theatre Comique, are je of the best variety entertainments we bad in Now York for a number of years, ‘ony Pastor has returned from his professional tour and reopens bi tre thisevening. The piace has been redecorated, upholstered ana enlarged. The subscription sale of tickets for the Mapleson Opera season, which begins on Wednesday evening, promises to exceed the most sanguine expectations, a show commences a limited season this Gilmore’s Garden. The attractio: Mr, M. W. Hanley, is rapidly makiog a reputation as One of the Most attractive of the variety theatres of New York. . The reduction of prices at Booth’s Theatre bas ro- sulted ira largo increase, both as re, receipts. Tho management mont bas boon satisiactory. Tho San Francisco Minstrels are doing business in making money dor themseives aro for everybouy else, Some ot their sketches are inimitable and receive Maggie Mitoholl beg! the Grand Opera Ho , in Fanchon, and will prob. ot acters in which she ts such @ popular favorite. simore’s Bana wil Sunday night concerts there het jer. . At the Broadway Theatre to-night Mr. J. W. Ale baugn makes his first appearance in New York in hig historical’ portraiture of Louis XL Elizabeth Vog Siamwits will succeed him next weok, Fitty conte Bow secares a good seat at the Broadway, Davenport opons in Hartford to-night, 15th, Bridgeport on the 161 rl) yn aud other New Jeracy towns tot the balance of the week. Un the 2ist sue opens af the Park Theatre, Brooklyn, in ‘Olivia,’ Mile, Tima di Mareka will appear in concert next Friday at the Academy of Music, in Brooklyn, alter an absence of four yonrs, assisted by Mme, Cal 1, Fritech, Tagiapietra, Susini, Wiener and Hill, She will also upper: Booth’s Theatre vext Sunday, The musical event this evening will be the appear. ance of the Albuiza Operatic Concert Company at Steinway Hall, ihe company is said to embrace exe cellent talent, Among others 16 the grout Kuropean Piano virtuoso Franz Rummel, who nas been pro. Meunced & worthy saccessor of Rubinerota, .