The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, . TROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day én the year, ‘Three cents per covy (Suntiays excluced). Ten dollars per r starate of one dollar per month for any period as than six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, free ot postage. WEEKLY HERALD—One voilar per year, tree of post- **SOTICE Li? SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on Yow, of thene ¢ A)] money remitted at risk of sender. attention subscribers wishing their address changed give their old ax addre: All business, n graphic despatches must be aduressed Nx nd pack agi 4 communic: ia be properly sealed, ill not be returned, ———_—__.—___—_ PeneT UFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH NL )EFICE OF ae" NEW YORK HERALD— Re S6 FLEET STREE PARIs OF FICE —49 AV VENUE DE L/OPERA. ‘American exhibitors at the International ition can have their letters (iy postpaid) addressed to the care of our Paris Bice sree of charge. NAPLES OFFICK—NO, 7 STRADA PACE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms asin New York. AMUSEMENTS TO- NIGHT. PARK THEATRE—Hvrricayes. BROADWAY THEATKE—Lours XL BOOTH’S THEATRE—Higsn} , Vill. AMERICAN INSTITUTE—E: WALLACK’S TH EATRE—Scnoot ror Scarpa. ONION SQUARE THEATRE—Motage axp Som STANDARD THEATRE—Fkirz. KIBLO’S GARDEN—} GRAND OPERA HOUS: LYCEUM THEATRE—Josuva Wuitcoma SAN FRANCISCO MINSTR TONY PASTOR'S THEATER GILMORE’S GARDEN—Bansun’ ACADEMY OF DESIGN HAYMARKET THEATRE THEATRE COMIQUE— BY, JAMES THEATRE BOWERY THEATRR—Vat FAMOUS LONDON SHO} TRIPLE palin oe that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and parily cloudy, with light rains, followed by gradual clearing... To-morrow it will be cool and fair. Watt Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock market was active, and after a decline in the forenoon slosed strong. Gold opened at 1005, and fell to 10019, at which figure the m&rket closed. Government bonds were strong, States dull and railroads irregular. Money on call was active at 6 a7 per cent until the close, when the rates were 4 a 5 per cent. CoytrisuTions to the yellow fever fund were pitifully small yesterday. Tue VaNnpeRsiLt WILL contest continues to progress from squabble to scandal. As Micut have been expected, the press comments upon Mr. Tilden’s denial of knowl- edge of the cipher despatches are generally in accord with the political predilections of the editors. Hancine an obnoxious man in effigy may efford great personal satisfaction to angry ene mies, but the Pennsylvania oil producers will have to adopt some other plan if they mean business. Mr. Patvx1o, of Washington, who a fortnight ago made the most remarkable long range rifle score ever reported, is suffering one of the pen- alties of greatness—another crack shot has challenged him. Tue Caste of the forgeries of circular notes of the Union Bank, London, should renew among business men a desire for some safeguard more trustworthy than a signature, which is never exactly duplicated. Tue VALUABLE Station Resurt died at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, on Thursday, shortly after trotting a closely-contested race; and yesterday, on the same track, the bay gelding Shadow dropped dead in harness. Ir Episoy’s. Execrric Licut is doomed to failure why is it that the stock of nearly all the prominent gas companies is considerably lower now, at the beginning of the principal consuming season, than it was in midsummer, when con- sumption was light! Ivy Tnere really were people who knew that Assistant United States District Attorney Hoxie was a frequenter of financial bucket shops why were they not patriotic enough to inform his snperior officer? Here was a distinet oppor- tunity for civil service reform. Tue Orricers of the People’s Savings Bank of Newark, whose peculiar dealings with the funds of the bank have been fully explained in our columns, were acquitted yester verdict will probably encourage dan regularities wherever the story of the case is | told Ir Is To Be Hoven that Mrs. Alexander, the Bridgeport “resurrectionist,” may yet lose her temper enough to tell all she knows. Recent developments justify the public in wanting the whole truth about the woman’s horrible busi- Bess, no matier who may be hurt. Jcpce MorGan has properly held the brute an king, diamond hunter, yrostitutor of his wife and would-be assas- sin of bis wife's sister, in $1,000 to keep the peace for a , and to stand committed until the bail is given. It is to be hoped that no law- yer or judge will so far forget common deceney and humanity as to interfere with the Jud attempt to deprive this dangerous character of bis liberty. Tue Weatnen.—The area of low barometer which was on Thursday over the lake has moved into Canada, the Middl Eugland States. A subsidiary centre of disturb- | ance has been developed over the northern sece | tiou of the Middle States and Southern New England, with k and variable winds. ‘the | high barometer extends westward and south- | ward, with the highest area over Texas and | the Indian Territory, In Manitoba the bi eter is again falling, with very strong souther! winds but generally fair weather. Svow has fallen over the upper lakes and rain in the lower lake districts and the northeast. Rain has also fallen over the coast districts of the Middle States. Cloudy weather prevails in nearly all the districts east of the Mississippi Valley. The general temperature is lower, except | in the Northwest, where it has been variable. In the yellow fever districts the cool northerly | winds, as avnonnced in yesterday’s Herat, lave set in over the uffeeted region, and it is to be hoped that the falling temperature will Jessen the rtality. The weather New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and party cloudy, with light rains, followed by gredual clearing. To-morrow it will be cool ud fair. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. Naturalization in Court. The decision of Judge Freedman upon the naturalization .questions which ‘were recently presented to him appears to be perfectly just. Mr. Davenport made no specific allegations of fraud, nor did he offer any evidence that the persons hold- ing the naturalization papers were not in fact entitled to them. He rested his case upon the very narrow technical point that certain entries were not made in a certain book, kept by the clerk of the court, called the “Book of Minutes.” To enable the general reader to understand clearly what this book is, and the uses to which it is or- dinarly put in judicial proceedings, a few words of explanation will be useful. In the ‘‘New American Encyclopedia,” published by the Appletons, there is, under the title ‘‘Naturalization,” a paper from the pen of Chief Justice Daly, of the Court of Common Pleas, of this city, describing the practice which is, in theory, at least, pursued in that court ‘on applications for naturalization. Therein it appears that the applicant first exhibits to the clerk of the court a certificate of his previous declaration of “‘intention.” The clerk then prepares for the applicant a written deposi- tion, renouncing all foreign allegiance and undertaking to support the constitution of the United States, The applicant then pre- sents at least one witness, who, under the law, must testify to a five years’ ‘‘residence” and to the good character of the applicant, and the clerk prepares the form of an affidavit for such witness. With these papers the parties are taken before the Judge, who should orally examine each of them under oath, and if he is satisfied that the applicant has “resided” for the requisite period and is a man of good character he makes an order, and a judg- ment should be entered for his admission to be a citizen. The depositions are then subscribed by the parties and sworn to in open court in the presence of the Judge, the certificate of the declaration of in- tention, the deposition and initials of the Judge are filed, and these papers constitute the record of the proceedings. A certificate is then issued to the applicant, under the seal of the court, and signed by the clerk. But Judge Freedman clearly explains that prior to 1858 and up to that year the Superior Court Judge neither signed his name nor even his initials in attestation of his order, but verbally toid the clerk to enter the order of naturalization in the “Book of Minutes.” After 1858 and up to 1873 the Judge did put hisinitials, and only his initials, on the papers, but no entry was made by the clerk in the ‘Book of Min- utes.” During the period of that practice the naturalization papers now in contro- versy were issued. But in 1873 and ever since the practice has been eriforced of making brief entries in the ‘Book of Min- utes.” From this narration it will be seen how unjust and harsh it would have been to set aside the judgments of naturalization upon so slight a technicality as that presented by Mr. Davenport, which was that no entry was made inthe minute book. But while we are content with Judge Freedman’s do- cision it does seem clear that the practice of our city courts in naturalization, whether as narrated by Chief Justice Daly or de- clared by Judge Freedman in his recent opinion, is altogether uwsatisfactory. Judge Freedman repeatedly declares that naturalization, under the rule established by Congress in pursuance of the constitu- tion, is a judicial proceeding. He concedes that in order to create a federal citizen out of an alien there must be asolemn judg- ment, and a due entry of that judgment by a competent court of record. If the power of naturalization is judicial it of course cannot be delegated to the clerk of a court, but must be exercised by the Court itself, and the Court must be satisfied in each case, by appropriate evidence, that the requisite facts creating the right to naturalization exist. The applicant's own oath cannot be received as to “residence,” and affi- davits are not sufficient. There must be the oral testimony of competent wit- nesses. ‘‘Residence,” under the rule of Congress, is a mixed question of law. and fact. The applicant may pro- fess and think that his home is in New York city, although he has during all of the five years lived and transacted busi- ness in Germany. If the statistics are even partially true of the number of applicants heretofore naturalized in an hour in some of our courts it is difficult to understand how there can have been a sufficiently careful examination into the identity of the parties, the character of the witness, the sources of his knowledge and the character of his per- ception of the legal definition of the term “residence.” If the admission of the ap- plicant to citizenship can only be by a solemn judgment of a court carrying with it such important consequences as a judg- ment does, it would seem that the evidence of the judgment should rest upon some- thing more satisfactory than what is or pur- | ports to be the mere initials of a judge upon a piece of paper. Such a record cer- tainly does not, at least to popular appre- ciation, fill up one’s idea of a solemn judg- ment in court. As we said on a previous occasion, we do not look at this subject merely in its rela- tion to voting in the city of New York, for we think it has more important relations than even those which surround the elec- tive franchise. What legislation there should be to make the records or judgments of naturalization more elaborate and com- plete in the future we do not now attempt tosay, but we think the public will under- | stand—what might not have been quite | clear before—which is, how such a state of things as President Grant represented to Congress in his annual Message of Decem- ber, 1875, could exist in this country. He said:— “On many oceasions it has been brought to the knowledge of the government that certificates of naturalization are held, and protection or interference claimed by par- ties who admit that not only they were not within the United States at the time of the pretended naturalization, but that they have never resided in the United States; in others the certificate and record of the court show on their face that the persons claiming to be naturalized had not resided | would have closed the required time in the United States ; in others it is admitted upon examination that the requirements of law have not been complied with; in some cases even such certificates have been matter of purchase. These are not isolated cases, arising at rare intervals, but of com- mon occurrence, and which are reported from all quarters of the globe. Such occur- rences cannot and do not fail to reflect upon the government and injure all honest citizens.” If Supervisor Davenport has conclusive evidence of fraud practised upon the Court in obtaining any certificate of natural- ization, or has such proof that the initials of the Judge or the cer- tificate of the clerk of the court are forgeries, or can establish that the applicant had not resided within the United States during the requisite period of five years, and in che State of New York during the requisite period of one year immediately preceding his naturalization, he should make haste to lay such proof in tangible form before the Court out of which the pre- tended naturalization paper issued, to the end that the courts may do what Judge Freedman says he shall not hesitate for a moment in doing. Subterranean Wonders. Our correspondent’s description of the newly discovered mammoth cave near Luray, Vg., which we publish this morn- ing, will be read with interest by all ad- mirers of nature's fantastic handiwork. That caverns should be found in the lime- stone formation of the district is not to be wondered at, but when these assume the scale of magnificence reported they become attractive to the tourist as well as the scien- tist, and of course quickly take their places in the showman’s list with the significant an- nouncement attached, ‘‘Admission one dol- lar.” With a keen eye to business the dis- coverers of the Luray cave have commenced to fit it up for the reception of visitors. Stalactite and stalagmite have already received their names. We read of the “oratory,” ‘‘the blacksmith’s shop,” “the amphitheatre,” &c., which may, in time, mean a charge of twenty-five cents extra. The chamber of the petrified skeleton is of course too big a thing to be thrown in reck- lessly for the benefit of ordinary sight- seers; 80 we may expect that the entrance of that apartment will be walled up until public curiosity becomes strong enough to warrant the man in the ticket office issuing special coupons at a good figure to the eager multitude. We hope, however, that too much cave will not be discovered just now. We are not, as a community, financially prepared just yet for more subterranean wonders, Considering the amount of money spent in Paris during the present year by visitors to the Exposition we regard itas bad business policy on the part of the Luray people to spring such a surprise on us as the discovery of their big cave. However, let them take the benefit of their enterprise and the assurance that we rejoice at know- ing for certain that a commodious place of retirement has been found so near the At- lantic coast for all the candidates who aim at but will not attain the Presidential chair when Mr. Hayes’ term of office expires. It began to look as if Kentucky was going to be the honored State and her big cave the scene of the great reunion of the disap- pointed ones, but now mutual condolences may be exchanged in the grand subterra- nean amphitheatre at Luray, Va., with the petrified skeleton for -ebairman of the meeting. One of the Sidelights, In the two denials that have now been made of complicity in the guilt of those cipher despatches each of the inculpated persons has touched tartly upon the fact that the men whom it is alleged they sought to bribe did in fact vote against them. That is an evidence certainly that if an attempt was made to bribe it was not suc- cessful; but does it prove that there was no such attempt? Mr. Tilden pursues this muddled fancy even a little further. He insinuates that as the certificates were offered to the democrats for money and given to the other side it must have been that the other side offered larger sums, But this view, which contounds electoral certificates with ordinary articles of com- merce, knocked down to the highest bid- der, might be corrected from the knowledge of men with far less experience in political trickery and traffic than the democratic candidate. Democrats were first tempted to make the effort to buy that which they believed to be their own by the discovery that it was likely to be given to some one else. There was an already established current of corruption that was against them. They en- deavored to arrest it, and in the failure of that endeavor it kept on in its previously established course. But there was more than thisagainstthem. There was the pas- sion consequent upon the disappointment of those whose chance to make money had slipped through their fingers. They had committed themselves to a scheme in the hope of gain, and the scheme was thrown over by the refusal to pay. Would they, being human, not have voted the other way, then, in mere spleen, or would they havo given to a candidate for nothing that thing for which, as they understood it, he had retused to put up the “spondulics,” not because the purchase was dishonorable, but because he could do better in an- other way? But if there were these quite sufficient inducements not to help the side that had thrown over their game, there was undoubtedly corruption on the other side. Was that also an attempt to purchase, and an attempt that could have been known to the other candidate? Is not the contrary exhibited in the fact that they all got offices? If Tilden’s agents had given any man filty thousand dollars to per- form a certain service the performance of the service and the payment of the money the transaction. It would have ended there. No claim to office would have been established, and no office would have been given. That is the same on the other side; and the much em- phasized tact that ail those creatures got office is, as far as it goes, an evidence that they got nothing else. Had they been paid they would have been spurned on cither side alike; but what men do without pay it is assumed they do for party—and the party reward is office, The Rascality of the Glasgow Bank Directors, We will not imitate the unsparing sever- ity of comment in which a large portion of the British press has been wont to indulge on every conspicuous occasion which dis- closed a want of financial honor in citizens of the United States. Nothing could be more unjust or inexcusable than to hold a whole nation responsible for local or in- dividual swindles in which they had no agency, and of which they were totally ig- norant until revealed by a sudden explosion. The American peopte have suffered much in their reputation from this unfair mode of treatment by the London journals, but it is so unjust that we shall not attempt to re- tort it on this remarkable occasion, The bulk of every nation is honest, and neither laws nor public opinion can in all cases restrain the knavery of men in positions of trust. The report of the examiners of the broken City of Glasgow Bank reveals a cor- ruptness of management and a rottenness of condition scarcely credible of an institution that had the confidence of a large though not the most knowing portion of the British commercial public up to the day it closed its doors. The deficit reaches in round numbers thirty million dollars. No wonder that, as our despatches say, a serious panic is an- ticipated. No wonder that the managers, when they found tongue enough to stam- mer with, declared that the points of chi- canery involved were as “startling” to themselves os to the examiners. When by intricate manipulations of the books two accounts were made to show nine and a half million dollars less to the debit side than they honestly should have done one would think that the limit of falsification had been reached. Not so. In another case over three million dollars of bills parted with had shrunk to about three-quarters of a million dol- lars on the books, the balance having been sent to London to be discounted to obtain the’ advances that enabled the rotten concern to keep its doors open and to con- tinue its delusive dividends. Further than this, they had fraudulently added a million and a half dollars to the bank’s circulation, And so on through the dismal catalogue—fraud upon fraud, falsification upon falsification. We have never had in this country such a gigantic exhibition of moral and financial depravity as that which is here presented. There have been many instances in this country of the abuse of trust by bank officers, but they have been mostly cases of embezzlement by some individual officer, as by a defaulting cashier or teller who had so fully acquired the confi- dence of the directors as to put suspicion and vigilance asleep and who afterward abused that confidence by robbing his em- ployers. But in the case of the Glasgow bank the directors themselves entered into a gigantic conspiracy to overreach and de- fraud their own stockholders and the pub- lic. The directors of that rotten institu- tion seem to have been the most unscrupu- lous set of swindlers ever clothed with such a trust. It had for some time been known among themselves that the institution was rotten and bankrupt, and they made a guilty use of that knowledge in unloading their shares upon an innocent and unsuspecting public. By paying large fictitious dividends they kept the price of the stock to a very high figure, and so successful was the decep- tion that on the very day before the failure the shares of the bank, which represented £100 of paid in capital, were selling for £235}, although worth not merely nothing, but a great deal less than nothing, because the shareholders are liable to the whole extent of their property for the debts of the bank, Awrong, but not so atrocious a wrong, has been inflicted upon the depositors. It is the custom of all the Scotch banks to pay interest on deposits, and the false and fic- titious credit maintained by this institu- tion seduced depositors to trust it with their money. This money was checked against from day to day for the current pay- ments of the mercantile community, and was relied upon for meeting future obligations as they might mature. The failure deprives them of all their ready money, and although they will ultimately lose nothing if the vic- timized shareholders are solvent, they will be greatly embarrassed by long delay and tedious legal proceedings. The crimes committed by the officers and directors of this rotten bank are such as should lodge them in prison, if there is law or justice in the courts of Scotland. Our despatches furnish a revolting picture of the criminality of the officers of the bank, and the indignant excitement caused by the exposure is perfectly natural and justifiable. A Great Pa Sorrow. Great calamities awaken broad sympa- thies. We never know how much we love our friends until we see them suffer. The fond way in which the true man clings to another who is on the eve of bankruptcy is one of the most healthy and consoling things in this life. Nothing in a long time has touched the public heart so poignantly as the sore straits of the gas companies, with a merciless scieatific enemy about to souttle their gasometers. New Yorkers can- not now pronounce the word ‘‘Manhattan” or “Mutual” without sobbing audibly; we write them with a compassionate tremor which, alas! the, heartless types can- not convey. If sorrow can be com- pared with sorrow, if sadly twang.’ ing heartstring can be mensured against wildly heaving brenst, we should say that the gloom which has settled on our citizens’ souls because of the gas men’s agony can alone be likened to the outburst of popular grief when the Third avenue horse car company began to lose money through the elevated railways. Have they not, these benevolent gas men, with equal pipe lighted up the houses of the wealthy and the naked streets of the poor? Have they not given poor and rich that feeling of pride which comes of a monthly gas bill— the rich through their dry and wet meters and the poor through the taxes? Aman might sleep in peace, he might go to bed in the dark, he might go out of town for a month, but his faithful meter kept ticking away in the cellar all the same; the genial collector came with his mystic bill as usual. And is all this about tobe no more? So it seems. Gas shares are going with facility down to the “demnition bowwows.” The gas men them- selves have been holding an anticipatory “wake,” marred, we regret, by unbecom- ing and ghastly glee, with Jablockoff can- dies at the feet of the alleged corpse and spectral Edisonian candles around the head, and the poor flickering light that we loved so dearly completely snuffed out. Every face in the metropolis will be long as a gas bill when General Roome, like Conn's mother in the ‘‘Shaughraun,” leads the elegiac chorus, ‘‘Why did you die, with your dividends high ; Manhattan and Mu- tual, why did you die?” Gone to meet the pine knots of our daddies, Wanted—Some Old-Fashioned Hon- esty. Not all old-fashioned ideas are as valua- ble as their admirers believe, but it is cer- tain that once the sentiment of personal honesty was stronger and more distinct than it is at present. The Hoxie defalca- tion is only one of scores of similar cases, reported within a year, which would be un- heard of if the old idea of the relationship of ownership and trust prevailed at the present day. The latest bank disgraces— the great one in Scotland and some recent eases in America—are also illustrations in point. None of the persons whose moral turpitude led to the dishones- ties alluded to were low knaves ; nearly all of them were men of good birth and breeding, intellectual training and religious or moral tendencies. All were members of that class which is society's highest achieve- ment, and to which alone the world can look for competent managers of business trusts. If this class fails in any particular business and society fails with it. How numerous and great its failures have been we know only in part, for the secretiveness which goes hand in hand with every sort of dishonesty, and which in most cases as have come to light has been successful through terms of years, is undoubtedly now guarding many rascalities as bad as any that have seen the light, ‘he only possible remedy for this state of affairs is for public sentiment, and, above all, the law courts, to judge men by their acts instead of their motives, No matter how good a fellow or how active a church member a defaulter may be, no matter how absolutely he intends to return the money he uses, he is morally a thief, and persons or courts that condone or belittle his of- fence encourage that habit of self-deluding sophistry which can lead the best of men to the worst of crimes. Judas Iscariot was probably a good fellow; he certainly was prominent in religious works, going about with the other apostles to heal the sick, cast out devils and preach the Gospel; he was a receiving and disbursing treasurer, and he merely wanted to make more money than his position honestly gave him. But who apologizes for him now? A Flash in the Pan. Two or three days ago the country was startled bya story that twenty-five hun- dred negroes were marching upon the de- fenceless little town of Waterproof, La, and as there was no armed force at Waterproof the only inference was that the blacks were intent upon treason, stratagem and spoil. Then we were told that two regiments of troops had been despatched to the aid of the beleaguered town, and while the whole nation was hurrying to post offices and news stands for particulars of the arson, rapine and slaughter that seemed in- evitable there came to the Hzgatp information that the reports had been extravagantly exaggerated; that no troops had been ordered out ; that there had at no time been any probability of a danger- ous outbreak, but that some negroes pass- ing through the town to a mass meeting a few miles above had indulged in insulting and threatening language. Before any more olarming despatches are sent North the South would do well to remember that most of the readers of Northern papers have conned Governor Hampton’s speech in which he reminded the blacks that the whites outnumbered them ten to one in the United States, and they should realize that Northern people also know that even negroes would not be foolish enough to organize raids in a State which is governed by a party that, to say the least, is not given to encouraging negro irregularities, A New Effort for a South American + Union. The South American republics are re- ported to be making s new effort to form a customs union, or, to speak more accurately, a confederation of States, somewhatafter the manner of tho confederation which pre- ceded our union. The objects of a Con- gress which has been called together are thus set forth in the programme :— (1.) To formulate a common law for Spanish America. (2) ‘To fix the manner of deciding questions arising trom conflict of Jaw in the different States. if the several States on LJ the laws of patents, contracts jaiform system of commercial Lt Some day we shall perhaps see estab- lished a general customs union of all the republics on the two continents of North and South America. Such an object is worthy of the best efforta of statesmen in all the American republics, and especially of our own; it would benefit all concerned; it would secure the industrial snd commer- cial development of the South and Cen- tral American States, which, with abundant natural wealth, have long failed to make the advance which this and their positions en- title them to, and it would insure a future of great and secure prosperity to their peo- ple and to our own, The citizens of the United States must wish well to every effort made by our sister republics in the South to secure the general tranquillity and order and to increase intelligence and prosperity among their people. Every thoughtful citizen of this country feels that we have never done our duty, as the elder Republic, toward the South and Central American free States. We havo neglected them and have not used our just influence with them for their good. They have not lacked the sympathy of our intelligent citizens, but they have not felt the helpful hand of our government, and this has been a blunder in us. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Russians have small eyes. Rubenstein has three childrea, S nator Ben Hill is the jawbone, Theodore Thomas is a Hanoverian. Who will care for the mother oountry now? A returning board seems to be a sort of boomerang Mr, Tilden could not got into the Presidency because he was not an Ohio man. Sp pied Randall in a private letter to a Washington frien: that he ts sanguine of a re-election. The seueseken Wisconsin believes that Bayard and Hendricks will test the Democratic Presidential Con- vention, General McDowell was in Washington yesterday on bis return to the Division of tho Pacific, of which he has command, A professor of palmistry says that long, thin fingers indicate a love for song. Bank cashiers in Chicago must love song. Mr. Tilden’s card to the Heratp fo dental te eritt. cred by some of the papers simply because he did not write it in cipher. Bronson Alcott will continue the literary and Philosophical conversations whieh Rev, Joe Cooke held Jast winter in Boston. It Secretary Schurz were being scalped by an Indian he could tell the Indian the best theoretical method ofscalping. But be couldn’t scalp an Indian, The efforts of the republican pri of Indiana to abuse Hendriek: soon as the democratic victory ts over show that his enemies regard him as the coming candidate, Senator Bruce (colored), of Mississippi, says that what property he owns is in tha’ State, and he won- ders why people shou!d have said that he meant to migrate to Onto. The Quebec Mercury explains bow Canada liberals in polities have changed to upholders of the Crown, and that paper, in double leaded emphasis, asks, “To whom do wo belong?’ Tho Rocky Mountain News thinks that the country’s flnancial questions, instead of being sottied by Octo- berelections, are only just begining, and that noth- ing 1's cortain but uncertainty. A Novada miner last woek made $7,500, and wanted to come East to seo the old folks, He was offered a draft on bankers in New York, but refused it, desire ing coin, and he brought away a carpot bag fall of solid money. AMUSEMENTS. THE MAPLESON GR'ND ITALIAN OPERA, Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather of last night a large and brilliant audience witnessed the second periormance of Mr. sMapleson’s opera troupe at the Academy of Music. Mozart's “Lo Nozze di Figaro,” whieh had not been given in [talian for sey. traction. Notwithstandin, iw drawbecks, which were bat as spots upon the sun compared with the surpassing excellenco of the performance as a whole, the representation of the opcra was exceptionally, fine, It was noteworthy in that two new soprani, a new contralto and a new basso mado their first appearances in America, while Miss Hauk sang for the first time here im Cherubino, The music of this réle lies exactly within the range of Miss Hauk’s voice, and nothing was wanting to fen- der hor periormance incomparably the best ever given here of this part. Her phrasing of the “‘Vot che sspete’”? was such as only a great artist could offer, and she sang the morceau, withal, with ex quisite feeling. It proved the gem of the per. formanee and was imperatively encored. Madame Sinico, who sang Susanoab, is an artist of ripe experience and good method. It was evident yastevening that she was nursing her voice in the Style and exceptional rai of Voice were most con- vincingly exhibited, and the pleasure of her listeners was attested by two recalls, Mile. Parodi was cvilently nervous, and sang un- jer voice is powerlul and p rating, and, the “Dove Sono,” w ally briltiant, opbyr Duet’? and tn ber opening aria bat in the tho artist failed to realize t! ssible effects of these numbers. The 1m was, however, very favorabl xceptions noted. me, Lat orably Known upon the London ope howed herself the true artist by accepting the comparatively minor réle of Marcellina, Never betore has this part been Mi time popularity as Count Almaviva, and M. Thierry roved himself the best Bartolo we have nad since The cheruw Deriormauce as the composer do on ‘Tne orchestration, under Sig: tone poem in itself, It was not to be wo t singers were inspired by such accomp: stage settings were sumptuor gh one of the flats. ed of the freshenin, formance was received with genuine and well merited enthusiasm. Periorm: co will be given on Mond: ‘aust’ will be presented, wit! argherita. Signor Campanini Miss Havk as make his rentrée as Faust; Signor Foli, the groat Sonee, will appear as Mopuistopveles, and Mma |, the leading soprano ot Italy, will sing for the fist time with Mr. Mapleson’s company in Siebel, the new opera, “Carmen,” by George Bizet, cotve its first representation L America Original cast, headod by Miss Hauk, with which the work was given during its uuprecedented run io London last summer. This production of the nuthor’s own vei score complete, performance of on in Philsdetphia, is made that Mme, Gerster is rapi pect her positive appearance in about ten days. Mr. Mapleso: riecting a new enterprise te 8 of tieket speculators, ‘with the officers of the District to take orders for opera tickets Friday No oxtra charge whatever for this accommodation ts Lo be made, the te jh y asking only the uniform price of fitteen cent. heir office feo, MUSBIC\L AND DRAMATIC NOTFS, Anthe variety theatres give matinées to-day. Barnum’s Circus at Gilmore’s Garden this after- nd evening. Mr. Albaugh appears this afternoon as Louie XI, atthe Broadway. Maggie Mitchell in “Fanchon” at the Grand Opere House this afternoon. “Fritz” salutes the public once more at the Stan dard matinée to-day. “Henry VIII.” at Booth’s tor the last time this alternoon and evening. Mile. Albaiza appears for the last time in concert at