The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1878, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR DAILY HERALD, ee ay Se aention cael rate of one doll —. b i“) anew iF jar, per, mon are for at . Im order to fe sacrese changed must raphic phic despatches must Letters and paci 1 properly sealed. Kejected communications will act be revarned. catbpriisk «ci le PHILADELPHIA UFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Fanin OPFICt—49 AVENUE DE LOPERA. “American exhibitors at the International Ex; Bete letiers (4/ postpaid) addressed fe Ae ata oo ee MAPLES OFFICK—NO. 7 STRADA PACK. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms asin New York, seeseeseeeeeNO, 288 AMUSE (ENTS TO-NIGHT. —— ae SEW YORK prance he BOOTH’S TH EBATRE— AMERICAN INSTITU WALLACK’S THEATRE—Koap to Rum. UNION SQUARE THEATER! BTANDARD THEATRE— FIFTH AVENUE THRAT OMMO AND JULIET, NIBLO’S GARDEN—Nick or tux Woops. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Faxcnon. GERMANIA THEATRE—Fasevuans, HAYMARKET THEATRE —Vaatery, THEATRE COMIQUE—Vantuty._ OLYMPIC THEATRE—V. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaniery. TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—Vamterr. ACADEMY OF DESIGN—Loax Exurarrion, TRIPLE §8 HEET. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1b, 1878, ‘ ‘The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and partly clowdy, with increasing winds. To-morrow & will be warm and partly cloudy, with brisk winds and possibly light rains. Wat Srreer Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- ket was very active and excited. Gold was also active and fluctuated between 1003; and 1013... Government bonds were lower, States dull and railroads lower. Money on call was active at 6 a7 per cent. Aw Insane Asyium Patient has just beaten @n attendant to death—a radical change of the usual order of difficulties in such places. SxcreTary SHERMAN proposes in futare to purchase silver at American market quotations, ‘which is the only business-like plan possible. Tue Brincs Trav ends, as was antic pated, by a disagreement of the jury, and the Jeng, dreary, tragieal story will again have to be told and quarrelled over. A. Person who can be in practice a despot by ‘virtue of her position should have a more ser- ‘viceable memory than was yesterday displayed by Mrs. Battersby, matron of the Magdalen Asylam. A Few More Dars Like Yesterpar, with its forty-four convictions of persons guilty of eruelty to animals, would compel brutal drivers to abuse each other to keep their cruelty in proper condition. Tae Warruicic or Time has seldom brought to view so strange a combination as that of the famous guerilla commander, Mosby, and the son of the martyr Lincoln, both of whom ap- peared yesterday as witnesses in the Fitz John Porter case. Sentm™entat Yrarners after the Commune, ‘which some foreign enthusiasts have lauded so eloquently, will find but little comfort in our pertinent selections from Jules Simon's new ‘work. The biographer of Thiers pronounces the best of the Paris Communists to have been stupid blunderers. The world well knows what the worst of them were, and there is no reason to believe that on this side of the ocean they would be any better. Crrizexs Apprenenstve oF Harm from im- pending Mayoralty nominations may now breathe freely, for Mr. John Foley has called Bpon the Comptroller and displayed his general panacea in the shape of a five-mayor list, and— ob, joy!—Mr. Kelly has admitted that either of the gentlemen named would make an excel- lent Mayor, and that it would afford him great pleasure to place their names before the Con- wention for nomination. Now for a statue of ‘Mr. Foley to commemorate this illustrious act. Tue Wonperrvt Crry Steam Hueatinc Pian wf General Spinola was rushed through the Board of Aldermen yesterday, only one Tam- many member voting against it. Of course the Aldermen have looked carefully into the merits of the plan, considered thonghtfully the nui- pance which torn-up streets will inflict upon the @normous majority who will not care to avail themselves of the system, and seen to it that the projectors of the enterprise are men of sufficient eapital and character to do the proposed work properly. And of course none of them knew wf any pipes being laid to the Aldermanic chamber before the resolution was yore upon, Tne Weatuenr. —The 4 depressi ssion, the storm ventre of which created so much damage on the New Engiand coast, has passed entirely into the ocean. The area of low barometer in the ‘West now dominates the weather from the Rocky Mountain regions to the Ohio Valley and from Texas and the Gulf States to the British Possessions. The pressure has fallen but plightly within the area, and its eastward prog- ress is very slow. A large area of high berom- pter extends over the New England, Middle, Bouth Atlantic and Eastern Gulf coasts. The highest pressure is over the South Atlantic Btates. Very little rain bas fallen cast of Phe Mississippi Valley, mainly over the fower Jake regions. There have been very heavy showers on the Pacific const ond pome sections of the Northwest, but the quan ity in either district was slight. Clear weather has generally prevailed in all the | geotions except the northern lake regions. The ‘winds have been brisk in the west, northwest ud lake regiovs, fresh on the Atlantic const and light elsewhere. Temperatures continue to fall in the northwestern districts. Else ‘whore a steady rise has been recorded except on the Middle Atlantic coast, where they have heen variable. Strong winds may be expected over the Middle Atlantic and New England States during the next few doys, The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be warmer and partly cloudy, with increasing ‘winds. To-morrow it will be warm and partly ploudy, with brisk winds and possibly light pains, | and NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OUTOBER 15, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. A Private Conversation Abeut the Muyoralty. This is a private conversation with an eminent republican politician of this ¢ity, and the public is respectfully requested not to listen. Within a day or two one, two, perhaps three candidates will be nominated for the office of Mayor of New York. Two certainly—Tammany and anti-Tam- many. Possibly a third—a “straight” re- publican candidate, It is this last little possibility about which we wish to speak to General Arthur for a moment. It is an interesting question, why there should be a ‘‘straight” republi- can candidate, and before he is trotted out we take the liberty to ask, not how he is going to run—we know that already—but why he is to run? Is it going to be the case ofa third horse put on the track not to win the race him- self, but to help ono of the others? Is he designed only for the friendly office of going ahead and “cutting out the work,” as the racing men say, for the intended winner? We suppose General Arthur can answer this interesting question, and Bence we ad- dress ourselves to him, not in a spirit of fault finding, but with the most amiable curiosity. General Arthur isan excellent man; some of his friends even think hima very sagacious political manager. He oc- cupies the envied position of confidential friend and adviser of a much greater man, Senator Conkling; and itis said that Mr. Conkling, who has the manly quality of trusting his friends and who does not live in this city, confides to General Arthur the management of his political interests in this end of the State. Well, General Arthur, whose ability and sagacity we are far from doubting, thinks of nominating a “straight” republican candi- date for the Mayoralty, and we respectfully ask what he means? Does he mean in good faith to run his man? Does he believe he can elect him? Or does he mean only to help elect some other, we mean another candi- date? If we had the ear of so great and sagacious politician as he is, and a gentleman in whose future we take a friendly in- terest, we should say to him, ‘“Gen- eral Arthur, be careful. You have need, just here and now, of all your polit- ical wisdom; for you have a career of your own to make. You have a future which a blunder at this time may endanger. You may once more become Collector of the Port, or you may go abroad as consul— to Liberia, say; or to Japan, perhaps, where your friend Senator Conkling may enjoy a view of you, enhanced by an appropriate distance. Many things are pos- sible to you, General Arthur, and some of them may hinge upon your part in this fall’s city politics. Our city politics are so petty, so dirty, so insignificant and subordinate to the interests of the State, so trifling, in fact, that they are naturally the subject of trades and bargains. But, after all, these mean, low, petty city politics of ours affect the comfort, the happiness, the prosperity of rather more than a million of people, When you nominate a ‘straight” republican candi- date for Mayor, General Arthur, you ought to remember this.” That is what we should say to General Arthur, and mainly out of a desire that he shall not overreach himself by too great political astuteness. He is an excellent and an enterprising politician, as things go, and we do not want to see him brought to grief through falling into the common notion that the city of New York is of no consequence whatever, and that its politics ought to be, or deserve to be, or atany rate must be, manipulated as a sort of trick game by politicians of both parties for their own ends. It is the blunder of some of our political leaders that they fall too readily into the ruts of politics, They are too busy, or too idle, or too timid, or too careless, to look a political situation frankly in the face, and they trust everything to a few chosen political manipulators, and do not take the trouble to know for themselves what the people think. In this way they go on finely for awhile, until sud- denly some day they drop ont, because the people have got tired of being neglected. There was Senator Conkling’s friend, Sena- tor Thurman, for instance. He was a man with a great future—a possible President, If he had made himself acquainted with the people in his State; if he had been a fearless exponent of their best ideas, a bold leader in the right cause, he might have completed his career. But he got it into his head that his friend John G. Thomp- son was the people of Ohio, and so he did not ask the people, the real people; he only asked Mr. Thompson, the sham people, what he had better do; and Mr. Thompson, who is as sagacious and astute a man as General Arthur, told him that he had better make a combination with the celebrated “Ohio movement”—and now Senator Thurman is sitting at home wishing he had consulted the people, the men who have the votes, and not Mr. Thompson, who has but one vote and only knows about combinations, If we were privileged to advise Senator Conkling we should urge him to take warn- ing from his friend Thurman. Mr. Conk- ling does not live in New York, but he frequently comes here, we notice, in this he does well. Hoe is the Senator of the whole State. Now when he visits New York he would do well to make the acquaintance of some or even of a good many of ite citizens, and thus get s notion directly, and not at sec- ond or third hand, of what they think and what they want. When he sees his friend General Arthur he meets a very agreeable gentleman, a sagacious politician, a possi- ble collector or consul; bat he don’t meet the people of New York; he does not geta real knowledge of the thoughts or the wants of the citizens. When he has looked over General Arthur's budget of ideas and plans and expectations it would be well for hitn to see some others of the voting population— Mr. Astor, for instance—or some others of the many men who have a real, vital inter- est in the city, and who, though they perhaps think as meanly of our city politics as even General Arthur, are yet forced to teel a genuine solicitude for the city’s inter- ests, because these are to a great extent their own. These citizens might tell him, as doubt- less they would tell General Arthur, that a “straight” republican ticket can only help Tammany to win, but that a judicious and fair combination ticket, made up of repre- sentatives of all, the opponents of Tam- many and composed of good men, could beat Tammany and achieve a creditable and perhaps a lasting political success. The Proposed Corner in Gold. We regret to observe that our intelligent contemporary, the Times, is uneasy about the possible success of a supposed attempt by a notorious speculator to get up a new corner in gold and foree up the premium. Such a speculation cannot succeed, it rightly says, without the help of the banks ; but we will add that it needs, besides the banks, the help of a sufficient mumber of panic makers in the street. Ifsuch people are allowed to scare the public thoroughly beforehand with vague and wild threats of what is going to happen and of the magni- tude and probable success of the threatened speculation this will be of the greatest pos- sible assistance to the speculutors. We know, of course, that the Times does not mean to play into the hands of speculators by circulating alarming reports. We mean only to suggest caution to it; for the alarm- ists on the street, many of them more honest than wise, would be glad of its help. A Second Chance to Register. To-morrow will be the second day of registration, and it is to be hoped that all the voters of the city will qualify them- selves as electors without delay. The first day’s registration was slightly in excess of 1875 and of last year, but was over 20,000 less than in 1876. In 1875, when Tammany was overthrown by the opposi- tion with Recorder Hackett and District Attorney Phelps, the total registration was 144,000; in 1876 it was 183,000 and last year 143,000. This year the total registry will probably be in the neighborhood of 160,000, The total vote polled in 1875 was 169,000—a falling off of nearly eleven per cent; in 1876, 183,000—a falling off of. nearly eight per cent/ and last year 124,000—a falling off of nearly fourteen per cent. If the loss this year from the total registration should be ten per cent the total vote would be 144,000. It is estimated on the basis of our population that there are over 190,000 legal voters in the city of New York, and it is not encouraging to the cause of good gov- ernment that nearly 50,000 citizens should absent themselves from the polls on an election for Mayor, especially when the ab- sentees are known to be mainly persons of responsibility and good social position, The interests involved in the present elec- | tion are of sufficient magnitude to demand a fall expression of the public will, and it is to be hoped that the registration of to- morrow and the succeeding days will indi- cate a larger vote than is predicted. All Work and No Play. Congressman Hewitt having offered the West Point cadetship in his gift to whatever boy a competitive examination might prove most worthy, a dozen bright youths pre- sented themselves; but eight of the twelve were promptly rejected as physi- cally unfit for the position. The disubili- ties of some of these boys may have been of hereditary nature; but the proportion of the rejected is too great to be explained away in this manner, The New York school- boy enjoys a great deal of teaching, but no exercise worthy of the name. He is in school from five to six hours a day and studies at home during several hours more ; but if he can find a little time for physical training the means are lack- ing. The combined gymnasia of the city are inadequate to the proper physical requirements of more than one in fifty of our schoolboys, and the schools them- selves, public and private, neglect the physical necessities of their pupils in a manner almost criminal. If the averago physique of the dozen boys alluded to is a fair indication of the condition of city boys in general—and there is no reason to believe it is not—the nominal estimates of the value of education must be reduced just two- thirds, No matter how able, some feeble men have been intellectually, the general rule holds good that to have a sound mind one must havea sound body. Is not the condition of these selected boys a warning powerful enough toset parents and teachers to thinking, so that mind in future may not so frequently be unavailable for lack of physical backing? People’s Secrets. The Western Union Telegraph Company is the keeper of everybody's secrets, but some secrets it does not keep with a success calculated td inspire confidence. Perhaps if it were known how many secrets aro in- trusted to the wire it would be thought that the number of those that get out is very smallindeed. In the despatches kept might be found probably the key to every domes- tic tragedy that has broken hearts or de- stroyed homes; as well as the commercial and financial secrets of merchants, bankers and brokers, and the plan of every crime that has startled the community and puz- zled the police, Any government that should assume the right to make a free use of the despatches would put itself in possession of more secrets than ever echoed in the ear of Dionysius. But the secrets committed to tho custody of the telegraph companiesero kept very well except when they are political, and on several im- portant occasions the projects, schemes and rogneries of the politicians have been disclosed by the simple process of a Con- gressional demand for the papers. Nobody but the victims will care to object when an exposure of this nature proves that a Prosi- dential candidate was prepared to buy the great office if he could get it cheap enongh. But it has often happened that nets of doubtful advantage have been permitted to pass into regular precedents because they produced good results without consideration ot the facility with which they might be turned the other way. One of these days the people will have to go over the subject of the disclosure of telegraphic despatches in a spirit not affected by one or another resuls of such disclosures, Tammany or Antt-Tammanyt?t What kind of man Mr. Kelly will offer us for Mayor this evening probably*ie- pends, even at this late moment, upon whether he thinks the anti-Tammany peo- ple are determined to defeat him, or whether he is persuaded that they are only a set of political strikers. Mr. Kelly knows very well what the peo- ple know also, that anti-Tammany cannot hope to elect its ticket, and that it can beat Tammany only by a close and straight com- bination with the republicans, There are but two real parties in the city—the Tam- many party and the republican party. There are a number of outsiders, mutineers against Mr. Kelly, ‘‘soreheads,” ‘‘come- outers,” all included under the general term anti-Tammany; but these dissatis- fied people have no organization, no party discipline, no cohesive power. They have ® good many voters, but to attempt to op- pose the veteran ranks of Tammany with them is like sending raw militia to fight veteran troops. The anti-Tammany case is hopeless un- less they can form a coalition with the re- publicans, but in doing this we think it clear that the republicans, having a solid organization, a party name and banner, a well drilled, well disciplined force of voters, have the right to require that they, and not the anti-Tammany men, shall nominate the head of the ticket. If Gen- eral Arthur should insist on a straight re- publican ticket we should think him a poor politician, and many people would suspect his motives, But if he offers the anti-Tam- many people a fair share in a combination ticket, and asks only that he on his part shall name a good and unobjectionable man for Mayor, the anti-Tammany leaders cannot afford to reject such an offer without pro- ducing a general conviction that they do not at heart wish to defeat Mr. Kelly. To reject such an offer would, in fact, be to play into Tammany’s hands. Such a combination of all the anti-Tam- many forces, supposing, of course, that un- exceptionable men were presented on the ticket, would have the united and-vigorous support cf the World, the Sun, the Times, the Tribuneand the Hznaup. A combina- tion in good faith between the republicans and the anti-Tammany men can almost cer- tainly defeat Tammany, and at the mere hint of such a union Mr. Kelly would feel himself compelled .to nominate for Mayor the very best man he could get to accept his offer. Such a union of the elements opposed to the ascendancy of Tammany would have been easily brought about had Mr. Bonner accepted the Mayor- alty nomination. It can be formed now without difficulty if the anti-Tammany leaders are sincere; for a reasonable offer from them to the republicans would be at once accepted. The republicans could not afford to reject such an offer of union; pub- lic opinion would condemn them if they did; but they are not likely todo so. If the anti-Tammany leaders are sincere they have the way open to them to defeat Tam- many, and to doso with the public sympathy on their side and with the support of all the leading journals of the city. Mr. Kelly waits with unconcealable anxiety to see whether the anti-Tammany people are in earnest, or whether they are political adventurers who will help him to success on the chance of picking up some crumbs of patronage which he can fling to them. Can Resumption Fail? We are within two and a half months of the date fixed by law for the resumption of specie payments. Our whole paper cur- rency, including both greenbacks and bank notes, is substantially at par with gold, and has attained such steadiness of value that, excepting for a day or two at the close of last week, it has not varied more than three- eighths of one percent for many months, The foreign balances are largely in our favor, and seem likely to continue so, relieving us of any apprehension of a foreign drain of the precious metals. AI® these circum- stances are favorablé to the smooth and easy execution of the Resumption law without any jolt or disturbance in the transition from an irredeemable to a redeemable cur- rency. If there is any possibility that the experi- ment may miscarry it must arise either (1) from a ropeal of the Resumption law, or (2) from an insufficient coin reserve in the Treasury, or (3) from defects in existing legislation. The country is safe on the first two of these heads, but there may be some room for doubt as to the third. Let us consider them in the order named, First—The repeal of the Resumption law is a political impossibility. President Hayes will remain in office for twoyears and three months after the next meeting of Con- gress, and his voto may be relied on if a re- peal bill should be passed. It is certain that no such bill can pass both houses at the next session. The ground taken by the republican party in this year’s elections has made that party a unit for resumption and the republicans still have a majority of the Senate. Besides, a number of demo- cratic Senators, led by Messrs. Bayard, Kernan and Eaton, sre uncompromising champions of resumption. Resumption cannot fail by o repeal of the law. , Second—The coin reserved in the Treasury is ample and perhaps redundant. Mr. Sherman has been satisfied on this point since the sale of the Jast four and a half per cent loan to the Syndicate. But even if it were supposable that the stock of gold in the Troasury may prove insuflicient tho Secretary has full authority to sell any amount of new bonds for resumption pur- poses. The experiment cannot fail for lack of coin. ’ Third—We now come to the only real source ofanxiety. Will not the operation of a law which was enacted at the last ses- sion make resumption a nullity? We, of course, refer to the act forbidding any further contraction of the legal tender notes, and requiring all that are received into the Treasury to be paid out and kept in circulation. It must be confessed that this looks like pulling down with one hand all that is built up with the other, If our whole paper circulation consisted of legal tender notes we do not seo how there could | be any valid repty to this argumont, But fortunately our paper currency ua in about equal proportions of greenbacks and bank notes, and a contraction of one will have the same general effect as a contraction of the other. The volume of paper in circulation would be as surely diminished by the withdrawal of a hun- dred million dollars of bank notes as by the withdrawal of the same amount of legal tender notes; and if all the greenbacks are kept in circulation, as the law directs, the effect of resumption will be to contract the circulation of the banks, if the currency is at all redundant. If there should be no premium on gold during the month of Jan- uary that fact would prove that our paper circulation is not excessive, and in that event there would be very little ‘demand for coin at the Treasury. But if there should be ever so small a premium on gold the currency would be at once con- tracted until the premium should. cease, But the contraction would fall upon the bank notes. Bank deposits consist in ‘about equal proportions of greenbacks and bank notes, and the banks would send the notes of other banks to Washington to be exchanged for greenbacks, and immediately present those greenbacks for redemption. The effect would beto force home a large quantity of bank notes, most of which would not be again put out until there began to be a dearth of currency. There will be no difficulty in contracting the paper currency, but the contraction will fall on that part of it which consists of bank notes, Hard Money Candidates Wanted. Both parties in this State having adopted sound currency resolutions we hope they will be so far consistent as to nominate for Congress only gentlemen who are known to stand on the platforms. We hear occasion- ally of intrigues, by one or the other side, to curry favor with the greenbackers by nominating men for Congress who either favor inflation or are conveniently ‘‘on the fence.” The voters are not unlikely to resent this kind of trifling, which is pretty sure to be exposed when the nominations are made, if not before. The republican party is just now claiming to be the especial friend of sound currency. We advise its managers here and in Brooklyn to take a little care that they are not caught bargain- ing with the greenbackers, because this would certainly be exposed. The merchants of the two cities, who are vitally interested in the currency question, ought to bestir themselves in this matter and see to it that they are fairly and ade- quately represented in Congress. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator Mitchell has arrived in Washington from Oregon. Senator J. B. Eustis, of Loutsiana, 1s at the Hotel Bruaoswick, Mr, Jeremiah 8, Black, of Pennsylvanta, is at the St. Denis Hotel. Ex-Treasuror New says that the Indiana election in sures the nomination of Hendricks 1n 1850. Senator Stanley Matthews among the visitors at the National Kxecutive Mansion yesterday, Bufluio Kzpress :—“Hanlan begs tt® people to let ap on Courtney. And truly it is a poor ru:e that doesn’t work both ways, He let up om Hanlan,’’ The President ana Mrs. Hayes will leave Washing- ton Wednesday morning for the Winchester (Va.) Agricultural Fair, revurning in the ovening. Ot the tour Russian grand dukes Constantinovitch is the handsomest.—P, J. Don’t want to seom contra- dictious; but Vitch is the ugitest?—Philadelphia Bul. letin. The Rev. N. Bjerring has received a “axase’’—a special letter from the ecclesiastical government at Bt Petoraburg, together with tho **kamilaffka,” a violet barretta, as an acknowledgment of his services in this city as pastor of the Russian Chapel. The editor of Lonuen Truth is bimself a Jew, and a very able one, and he makes the folowing remarks:.— wood the touchiness of Jows at when the term is used rather a of race than opprobriously. I sce if particularily ashamed of, or to be particularly proud of, in being a Je In England Jows have a great advantage over Christ because, while they have the advantage of Leing Englishmen, they also bave tno advantage of belonging to a power. ful fraternity, bound together like Freemasons, ever roady to support any of ita members, No people are more exclusive than Jews, and no people have more marked traits of character, Let an Englishman and a Jew have th more than the bothing to be Christians, 1 would rather. with an eye to my own interests, do business with # Christian than with a Jow; ous wore I a beggar I would rather beg of a Jow than of a Christian.” General Sherman was recently tn Arizona Prescott the citizen: we him a ball, every one who subscribed $10 being entitied to admission. An army officer, wno was one of the three or four hung that “In the midst of the joyous dance a mi ay son of toil, with unkempt hair, sotlea and hands and the asual min sin his boots, in shirt sleeves, a belt filled with curtridges, pistot and nile, approgchod the entrance door and said to tho ettondant @ here, my friend, how much does it cost to get mto this Iny out?’ ‘Ten dollars,’ replied the attendant, ‘Does that give a tel. lor the right to go in and shake hands with General Suerman?’ ‘Certainiy,’ was the reply. ‘fen aollars goes,’ sia the mniuor, and bandling the attendant a entered tbe ballroom. wended bis wh the crowd, avoiding the ladies’ could have aone one of y jam rs, opproached the General and aid :—‘Ge i Sherman, I merely want to snake your hand, I fought under you tn the march to the sea,’ and turned ana left the room immediately,” AMUSEMENTS. at BROADWAY THEATRE—“‘LOUIS XI.” W. Alvauah th im Mr. J, W. Albang! good company, In spite of certain marked faulta Mr. Albangn emphasizod the loading and strengly contrasting characteristics of one of the most pewerful und unscrupulous kings that old Franco evor ondured, and a select audionce seemed to appreciate bis efforts at their full value, The character of Louis XL. is one which abio netors bave been wont to admire from altar of, but to shrink from attempting. This reiuetance has come aot #0 mach irom any special difficulties which the part imposes apon representative as from the fact that the charactor is one which ak most never appeals to the sympathies of aa audience. Except daring the few and brio! metances in whieh he ulmost grudgingly admits bis love tor his son the Daophin Louwts ts by times ambitious, oraity, crcl, superstitious and erratic, Yot he i and itis this semi redeeming teatare always forcible, ent with unvarying haste and ruggedness. at gen- wine force partly atones for the solter and more interesting ps Mr. Albaugh deserves credit for preset @ Trealistic picture of a type of person and life lly wrapped in the loosest sen’ cast Ga is bus little that tsuncomplimeatary, Mr. Wheelock as Nemours Was excellen', though at “te be barely escaped ranting. Miss’ Rose Keene, a lady who veheve has not betore appeared before a New York audtence, Invested “the, obaracier of the Dag hin with that ee) timidity and submissiveness, arg by oc casional outbursts of affecti indiana. tion that are naturally -uggested ‘g- the lite which the son of such @ nt, suspicious even of his own flesb and bio must have led; in presence also she was extremely effective, and ber alternations of timidity and on as she attempted to Marie, the e vory pathetic. mine ana Mr, Linghem ep Gol sia, wore quite good, as w: to which he broug a y too robust religious enthumtast, The minor parts were satisfactorily acted, and the acenery was equal to the requirements of the piece. “YANCHON” AT THE GLAND OPERA HOUSE, An audience which filled every seat in the orches. tra und parquet and every seat in the balconies, and which overtlowed into the open spaces benind the last tier of seata up and down stairs, assembled last evening in the Grand Opera House to give *Fanchoi in the person of Miss Maggie Michell, wel- come, fhe play is so familiar to theatre goers, and has been so recently performed in Brooklyn with Miss Mitchol! in the title réle, that it is need. lesa here to go into jig comoorning it; but it must be sald that it never put upon the stage in than 18 was at the Grand Opera Hi ‘The cast of the play was strong and there hiteb from begianing to Miss Mitel Dest and Kept the aud at times in roars of laugh. ter at the pranks an ings of Fanchon jo her wild- est moments, and at other times moving them to tears by her pathos. STANDARD THEATRE—‘‘F2ITZ.” The popular German dialect comedy of “Fritz’? was produced at this theatre last night before a large-audi. enco, with Mr. J. K. Emmet in the title rdle, Ho was supported by his own compan; interior to that which playea with him at the o theatre in the early partof the summer, All the favorite melodies of the pieco were enthusiastical! cored, but the bad cold with which Mr. Emmet suffered prec! ne t the possibility of their being repeat is well mounted and put upon the and, judging troin tho way it was rec: bids fair to nave a successtul ran weeks’ ongagoment of Mr. Emmet at this house, NIBLO'S—“‘NICK OF THE WOODS.” The feature at this old theatre last night was the” ‘well known play in which Mr. Charles Pope personated the Jibbenainosy, Bloody Nathans anda balf dogen other characters that are familiar to the theatre oing pablic. Mr. Frank Tannebill played Roaring ph Stackpole and Mr. T, J. Riggs Colonel Bruce. Among the prominent members of the rest of the cast wero Miss Annie Ward Tiflany, Miss Fielding aad Mrs. Baker, all of whom 1n their way bave done effective stago work. The pinay was well mounted and although too muck of the blood and thunder order it evidently pleased the audicnoe, which was large. —_- OLYMPIC THEATRE. The variety performance at the Olympic Theatre last bight attracted a large house, The entertein- ment is one of the bost of the kind im tbecity. The Programme consisted of an amusing farce, entitled “Our Country Consing,”? which was toll by Miss Luia Francis in popular medley esolectior by Con- way and Rerrigao tn Irish j) solos; by Jonn Hart’s and by a banjo toar it by prices are filling tho theatre every night. PARK THEATRF, BROOKLYN. The reprosentation ef ‘Kit, the Arkansag Traveller,” was greeted last The reappear. at the Park Theatre, Brooklyn, evening by an enthusiastic audience. ance of the popular character actor, F. in the City of Churches was welcome whom be has long been familiar as well by many who hud not previously seen him. The humor which runs tbroagh the play was well presented by George R. Edeson as Judge Sugen, James Cooper xs Major Squiggs, and Con, Murpby as Lord Fitzfole. William M. rocket ition of the negro ferryman and assistan Bor Prior, as Kit’s wi! in the prologue STEINWAY HALI-—THE ALHAIZA OPERATIC CON- CERT. A small sudience assombicd Jast night at Steinway Hall to attend the concert announced by the Alhaizs rt Company. Max Maretzek, with bis or. cellent music. Luberti, Boniverdi ang Sigooriua Tomasi sang as well as people are expected to do when subordinately employed. The feature ef the evening was the periormance by Frang Rummel, « pianist, of whom itis claimed that he isa worthy successor of Rubenstein. He has a brilliant touch and one that marveliously dovelopes the re sources of the piano, andin many respects establishes for bimselt individualuy, Ho ‘ilustrates with won- deriul force the works of the great composers, espe- cially Wagcer, Mile. Athi ® partial failure, result was ungatisiactory and the concert goer evi- dontly did not regard her appearance asa success, The programme was as follows and whea it ts mentioned further comment 18 unneccessary :— Overture, ‘Rienzi,’ W chestra. Figha Dei Re (Alricana), Meyerboe Bonivera. i Sogno, Mercadante, Signor Concerto, Op. 73, for piano and orche: Beetuoves (L. Allegro, 2’ Ad- agio un poco mosso, 3 Allegre) Fraoz Rummel, “Ii Mio Tesoro’ (Don Giovann!), Mosart, Sig- noe — Lubert. “Gare Compagne”? = (Sonnam- bala), ssellinl, Alina Albaiza, Part 2 by ‘“Maobeth,’? Verdi, Siguorina Tomasi and Sige lie a Rome,” waltz, Rteci, nor Boniverdi, Alina Albaiza; “Fan uartett of Vv M Tomasi, Lubertt nod Doaiveray; March, be Protate, Moyerbeer, orchestra, THE ITALIAN OPERA. Owing to the suddon illness of Mile. Gerster, who has been announced to appear in “La Sonnambala” to-morrow evening, Mr. Mapleson has been compelied his programme, and will introduce “Le abstitate, with Misa Minnie Hauk, id Galassi im the cast, It is natu raliy annoying fo the management that this accident should have occarred; but man proposes and Provi- deuce takes care of the rest. Tne following is the tull cast of “La Traviata’ for to-merrow night:— “i or Frapollt miznoe Gntouat ‘ignor Frances Signor Bignardt -Sienor Grarst TONY PasTon’s. A great audience Jast night assembled at Tony Pastor’s Theatre to welcome him home afters bis long tour, Duriog bis absence the theatre has been rofitted and eularged, and ts now ono ef the pleasantost rosoris of the kind im the city. The programme compri firs, ashbort comical sketch, avd afterward performances by artists who aro well known to th Bryant and William Hoey played justraments, Miss Kitty O'Nel reper cing, Tony Pastor su C his twina, Watson and sa Kounedy, tue tive speotacl as completo as BARNUM'S CIRCUS. The samo oid attraction that has drawm multitudes from timo immemorial was presented Jast evening at Giimore’s in the “Own and Only Greatest Show on Earth” of P, T, Barnum, Bat while the same clowns, the same Indy riders, ond even the same sawduet seomed to vo in the fing that all saw in childhood daye—at least it they wore mot the very samo they wero identical in ap jco—ot there wore now attractions that wei old circus as a Krenoh doll, that Js to the old evening dross Th was allowed tte peop wdust, ‘There aid everytoia, the Woman with ant yon ; there were wild bo! bats, and thore wes the great P. 1. Barn seit, who walked around quite like an ordin and’ th were at least tour tt had assembio nomber who w Inck of seats, anow fi