The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1878, Page 14

10 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR WEEKLY HERALD—One collar per year, tree of post- NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS it in drafts on New d where neither of y in a registered letter. sk of sender In order to insnre rs wishing their address changed must it Has their dress. i graphic despatehes must ew YORK HK. \d pack aves shoul be properly sealed, Rejected communication aot be returned. sab PHILADELPHIA OFFIC 0, 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LOSLON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLERT STREET. PARIS OFF ICF—49 AVENUE Di P “Amnerican exhilitors at the International Exposition can have Dear letters (iy postpaid) addressed to the care of our Parts Bice sree of chiar NAPLES UFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. and savertisementa will be Subseriptio NEW YORK HERALD, ACADEMY OF M STEINWAY HALL. BROADWAY THEATRE BOOTH’S THE. AMERICAN ID WALLACK'S THEATRE— ne I UNION SQUARE THEATKI—Vornen anv Sox. FIFTH AVENUE TH NIBLO'S GARDEN GRAND OPERA HOL WEW YORK aQuaRi LYCEUM THEATRE—Josuva Wurrcoma, PARK THF ATRE—Hcrnicanxs, HAYMARKET THEATIC THEATRE COMIQUE—Vanu 87, JAMES THEATRE— BOWERY THEATRE: BAN FRANCISCO MI TIVOLL THEATRE—Vaniar_ FAMOUS LONDON SHOW—H#ROOKLYN, BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE Ours QUINTUPLE SHEET. The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity (o-day will be cool and clear or fair, To-morrow it will be fair and cool, followed by rising temperature. Watt Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was fairly active, and prices were well sustained, with a general upward move> ment. Gold was steady all day at 1001). Government bonds were firm, States steady and. railroads quiet. Money on call was easy at 6 a 7 per cent, closing at 4 per cent. A Most Remarkabce, sad and romantic story appears to-day under the head “Life Without Food.” Revrorts of the late hurricane continue to come in from sea, and they are all uncompli- mentary. No Oxz. who reads our reports to-day of sports and amusements will complain of any lack of means of recreation in the vicinity of | New York. Bravtirun Some Rare anv TREASURES, which will soon again be returned to their hid- ing places, are mentioned in our notes of the Loan Exhibition. est fair devised in New York since the old days of the “Sanitary Association” will be found in another column. Mr. Moopy should time his efforts better. He is now at Chicago, whereas New York will be until election day the headquarters of Satan in the United States. Tue Repairs Mape to the engine of the war sloop Enterprise while on the Amazon were ex- tremely creditable to American ingenuity, but how came the vessel to get to sea without proper repairing facilities and materials? AxsoTHer Mccu Marniep Man appeared in court yesterday, and several deceived women are indignant and inconsolable. Unmarried ladies will probably continue to place their hearts where they please, but wonld it not be weil for them, before forming life partnerships, to make at Jeast as careful inquiries as men do before taking business partuerg for a short term of years? AyotueR Bopy oF Men have been setting Holy Writ at uaught. According to the Bible no one attempts to rob a strong man without first binding him; but a couple of burglars with designs against the property of Barnumn’s giant conceived the unorthodox idea of waiting until the strong man was away from home. It is gratifying to read that these free thinkers lost their plunder and their liberty too. CoLp Weatner and an occasional frost are doing for the yellow fever districts what human efforts have been powerless to accomplish, and the number of new cases diminishes rapidly. Now letthe South take pattern afterthe Brazilian cities, which are cleaning, draining, filling in and doing all other sanitary work that suggests itaelf, in order to be prepared in time for the next hot season. Two Decisioxs, very important as precedents, In the case of Chester A. Arthur, Collector of the Port of New York, vs. Joseph W. and Frederie N. Goddard, in error to the Cirenit Court of the Southern Dis- triet of New York, the Court decided that the actual dutiable value of a bill of imported goods, when determined by construction of in- voice, was that sum which remained after de- duction of discount for cash, even though eash was not paid, but charged against the pur chaser on general account. In the ease of Shilla- ver vs. Robinson, appeal from the Cireuit Court of the Eastern district of New York, the Court affirms the strictness with which conveyances made under mortgages should he exe ! Tue Weatner —The cent of | st ba roweter continues ou the New England coast, but is moving slowly northeastward to Nova Beotia, attended by light rains. Westward of the Allegheny Mountains, over the lake region and the Guilt of Mexico clear weather prevails with the advance of the bigh rom the Southwest; but in the Northw n districts the barometer is falling, with increasing south- erly winds. Over the lakes and all the region eastward of the Mississippi Valley westerly and northwesterly winds prevail, with decidedly lower temperatures. North to northeast winds In the West are experienced on the Gulf const. and Northwest the temperature has risen. day or two the favorable conditions in the yel- low fever districts will probably change again | to warm and dawp weather, which may cause a temporary increase in the death rate. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and elear or fair, To-morrow it will be fair and cool, followed by rising tempera ture, Ina} Real Estate Prospects. AChicago journal reports a promising rise there in the prices of real estate, shown by recent sales. There are occasional re- ports of this kind from other quarters; and we have no doubt that where men want a | piece of real estate and the owners know it the price asked and paid is often good enough. For the present, however, there is more demand for productive farms in different parts of the country, than for city property; and the people who have sold the most real estate—barring of course the Sheriff—in the last ten years are the land grant railroad companies, some of whom have done a handsome business. It may be said without exaggeration that a not incon- siderable part of our population has in the last five years removed from cities to the country to engage in agriculture, and this is one of the best results of the industrial depression. There is nowhere in this coun- try now any speculative demand for real estate; but the number of sheriffs’ sales seems to be diminishing; the dreary list of foreclosures which Western as well as East- ern city journals for a long time gave is shortened of late; and here and there we notice evidences that capitalists are quietly making purchases at the present low rates, evidently with a hopeful view of the future and with practical purposes. All this should not encourage the merely speculative holders, for their turn will not come for a good while yet. The people who, for a year or two to come, and perhaps for a longer time, will buy real estate, are people who want homes, and they will buy, not in blocks, but in lots, and at moderate prices. So far as New York is concerned the building of the elevated roads will give a healthful impetus to the settlement of the upper part of the island, which property owners there can easily check by raising prices beyond the means or the expecta- tions of the class who will seek pleasant suburban homes for their families, and who expect to get half acre or acre plots conveniently placed at moderate rates. Real estate owners in the upper end of the island and the lower end of West- chester county would be wise if they com- bined to keep down prices and to offer fa- vorable inducements to men of moderate means to buy and build, Merely specula- tive building would bea blunder; but who- ever offers half acre lots at moderate rates to buyers who will guarantee to build for their own use, and is able at the same time to offer small loans on mortgage to such buyers to help them make their improvement, will probably secure sefe and good -returns. Business has set- tled down to a pretty solid basis now, and a considerable number of people of small means and moderate incomes are laying by money and would like to live outside of the crowded parts of the city. Thousands of such people have in past times gone to New Jersey; other thou- sands will prefer the upper part of New York Island if the rapid transit roads sre completed and well managed, and if the owners of real estate in that region take pains to attract them. The prices of real estate are undoubtedly low, but there can be no general rise until there has been a great revival of business, Land is notoriously the last to feel the stimulus of a general rise in prices and we shall see all manufactures go up, and all labor employed, and a new era of specula- tive activity far cn the way before we see such a rise in real estate as too many holders are impatiently waiting for. In the meantime there is going on a healthful and necessary redistribution of the population; thousands of families who were drawn to cities by and dur- ing the era of inflation and speculation have learned by a disastrous experience that the safest retuge, on the whole, for in- dustrious people is on the land. The best class of mechanics and artisans are thus drafted off to the land, where they can bring up their tamilies without the constant fear of lack of employment and consequent poverty. ‘he cities of the United States which made so enormously rapid a growth during the war and fora long period sub- sequent will not increase at nearly the same rate in the next ten years; but it is probable that their growth will be sounder. Instead of filling up, as in other years they have done, with merchants who are deter- mined to undersell every one else, at the risk of ruining themselves, embarrassing their creditors and combining to cause gen- eral distrust ; instead of being infested by ten times as many speculators of one sort and another as the business outlook will justify, these cities and towns will grow in importance and genuine strength as cen- tres of more thickly populated agricultural districts, the demands and supplies from which will constitute a variety of trade which is always legitimate and therefore alwnys tends to enrich those who conduct it. Town lots may not rise materially, for nearly the whole population of the world would be required to oceupy all the “lots” that are being held for better prices in the United States; but increase of business in productive property—which town lots never are will more than make up for the delay of the long expected but reluctant rise. The real growth of New York in the next twenty years will naturally take place on the upper end of the island, As soon as the elevated railroads are completed and have secured the public confidence thon- sands of clerks, mechanics and artisans, a large proportion of whom now sleep in Brooklyn or New Jersey, while others live in crowded and uncomfortable qaarters in the lower part of the city, will see that they can more comfortably live in the upper end of New York, Business men also, to whom the crossing of the river or residence out of the state is a business inconvenience, will look for homes above the Central Park. ‘The new city will grow rapidly on the northern end of the island, unless real estate owners make the blunder of raising their prices too high and thus checking the natural demand. The evil results of such a course have been felt in imany cities, for it is possible to repel pop- ulation even from the most naturally desir- able and accessible localities. Washington affords an instructive example, for there the higher and naturally more desirable parts of the city, surrounding the Capitol, were originally held by owners at such exorbitant rates as drove population and business to lower lands, Thus Pennsylvania ave- nue, originally a swamp, became the prin- cipal business street, the bulk of the popu- lation gathered in the lower parts of the city and the highest parts remain to this day low in price and without a market in spite of all their natural advantages, Yes, andin spite, too, of many efforts made by capital- ists to draw residents tothem. It is useful for real estate owners in the upper part of the island to remember this and guide themselves accordingly. “Plain Lang ge from Truthfal James.” The more the affairs of the defunct Glas- gow Bank are stirred the more offensive they become, and the manner in which the English and Scotch press attack the late management should delight every one who has lost money by the failure. As these journals have always claimed the reputation of telling the truth, particularly about irregularities of American financiers, it becomes a matter of interest to discover how they treat those of their own land. We are glad to be able to testify to their extreme indignation against the Glasgow thieves. The London Times says the official report of the investigators is ‘one of the most disgraceful in the history of banking,” and that the great loss could never have occurred had it not been for ‘deliberate and long continued fraud.” The Glasgow Terald says, ‘'The law will offer no protection for society at large if an attempt is not made to ascertain the legal responsibilities of the men who have proved thus false to their trust and thus guided the bank toits doom. The News, of the same city, talks of ‘astounding frauds,” ‘‘every conceivable method of deception,” and “knaves of the blackest dye,” while the Evening Times says that the statements of its London contemporary of similar name cannot be denied, and that the case is all the worse because the ‘scandalous crime occurred in the professedly most religious city in the most religious country in the world.” The moral of the whole sad business is that human nature is the same everywhere, and that a few men who, by election or otherwise, find themselves in control of a large quantity of money belonging to other people, and without close supervision by some disinterested officials, will not stop to consider whether they are in Glasgow or New York before they begin to speculate and peculate. The losses by the Glasgow bank exceed those of the combined defalcations reported in the United States during the the past two years, but the geographical and religious environment of the bank has neither helped nor hindered the directors in their rascality. The results upon busi- ness and society are indicated in our special cable despatches of to-day. Will Americans take warning and watch their bankers as carefully as they do any one else who han- dies their money? Earl Dufferin’s Departure. After six years and a half of distinguished service in the New Dominion as its Gover- nor General Earl Dufferin sailed from Que- bec yesterday for England, bearing with him the affectionate good will of the Cana- dian people. The scene of parting, which our special despatch describes, was a re- markable one. Cold winds and heavy rains could not chill the warmth nor damp the ardor of those who gathered on the banks of the St. Lawrence to bid him farewell. Still a young man, Lord Dufferin bears with him in those hearty cheers which sum up the general verdict upon his administration the prom- ise of a future even more brilliant in the Old World. The tact and graces which served him so well in harmonizing conflict- ing interests and smoothing over difficul- ties will probably before long find loftier employment. In the settlement of the Ministerial question by the swearing in of Sir John Macdonald he has removed every trace of unpleasant duty trom the first steps of his successor, the young Marquis of Lorne, who will find the new Cabinet in working order upon his arrival. Canadian expectation will now be turned to the new comer and his royal wife, and in the evident determi- nation of the home government to dignify the entry of the young Campbell by every available pomp of circumstance and sign of | power they will find much to gratify their curiosity and promote their loyalty. Yet it is plain that Earl Dufferin wall not be for- gotten amid these official rejoicings. It is scarcely too much to add that when Canada rests contentedly as a part of onr great fed- eration His Lordship'’s memory will be cherished as that of the good Haroun al Raschid is in the song and story of the Orient. Mr. Potter Declines, Mr. Clarkson Potter, who has served ably and successfully during several terms in Congress, declines a renomination. His party must regret this refusal to serve it, tor it has not too many men of brains and sound judgment in the House of Repre- sentatives. Mr. Potter gives a good many reasons for rejecting the offer of his con- stituents to return him once more; but his letter leads us to covclude that the chief reason is disgust with the condition of political affairs. Wo cannot blame him tor being disgusted, but we suspect many of his friends will think it a mistake in him to abandon the political field just at the time when the labors of all good and sensible men are most needed there. He writes that he finds himself unable to agree with his party on some important points ; but the fact is that neither his party nor the other agrees with itself on any im- portant point. At the last session of Con- gress there was not a strict party vote cast on any question that we now recall, except on the motion to constitute that unfortunate committee of which Mr. Potter became chairman; party politics are so utterly muddled that neither party was able to determine on any point of public policy in caucns. Such a time seems propitious for men of brains to exer- cise their influence in giving shape to new party policies ; and we should have thougiit that the political field would be especially interesting at such s time to Mr, Potter, The Tammany Ticket. The Tammany Convention yesterday con- cluded its labors by the nomination of can- didates tor the offices to be filled at the next election, In one name the anticipations of the political gossips were not sustained, | and they were either at fault in their infor- mation as to the make up of the slate or the slate was changed at the last moment, Tammany, therefore, presents tor the suf- frages of its lieges Mr. Schell for Mayor, Mz. Frederick Smythe for District Attorney, Judge Bedford for City Judge and Alderman ‘fuomey for Coroner. Our opinion on the one glaring defect in a Tammany ticket has been declared and is known. Aside from that weakness there is no fault to be found with the ticket now made. Ithas, indeed, an in- herent strength in the character of the names it bears. Mr, Schell is well known in his party and to the general public as a highly respected citizen, and as one against whose intelligence, credit and char- acter not a word can be said. Mr. Smythe, now nominated for District Attorney, is the gentleman who stood as the ‘lammany can- didate in that famous conflict which re- sulted in the election of Recorder Hackett. It was then conceded that he was a gentle- man in every way worthy the public confi- dence, and even that the case of the people against a factious attempt to displace an admirable functionary was made more striking than it would otherwise have been by the admitted merits of the man it was necessary to defeat for the as- sertion of the principle of popular sov- ereignty. Judge Bedford is remembered by the public for his conspicuous success in his former discharge of the duties of the position to which he is now again nominated, It is a pity that this office—or, indeed, thatjudiciary offices generally—should be involved in the whirl and strife of party politics, and re- grettable that when a good and capable man like Judge Bedford is brought forward the parties could not agree to make his election certain by making the same nomi- nation on both sides. Now that Tammany is fairly in the field we shall soon hear from the opposing elements that it was at one time hoped could be brought to combine upon a ticket that would command all the independent votes. Perhaps the pub- lic needs scarcely to be told at this time that that hope grows small by degrees and beau- tifully less. Intrigue is busy on that side in the great effort to put the popular iater- est aside and turn the whole movement to the profit of a sly, slow politician of whom the people have, we believe, had more than enough. Tammany’s great defect is of that nature; but if this defect is even more flagrant on the other side, as it now bids fair to be, there will then be no choice be- tween the two tickets on the ground of principle, and if the public must choose only as to the respective merit of the candi- dates, all that has been heard of what the combination proposes to do leads us to be- lieve that the Tammany ticket, as now pre- sented, will be decidedly preferable to the other, Boil It Down. Hundreds of preachers in New York and its vicinity will go into their pulpits to-day with sermons which, in point of proportion, diction and other literary graces, have been carefully prepared. There is another quality, however, which every conscien- tious minister will admit is necessary toa sermon—it is that of moral and spiritual effectiveness. ‘To be effective a thing must be strong. Strength is not inconsistent with grace and elegance, but without it the latter are useless. But how can a sermon be strong when its subject matter is diluted to the very verge of destruction with words ? Soups and broths are very well as portions of a meal, but of themselves alone they are very unsatisfyiug food. A valuable idea is as practically imperceptible in a mass of verbiage as sugar and salt ure in the fluids from which they are obtained. Like these the sermon should be boiled down until its essential quality is tangible, visi- ble and of the greatest possible strength. It isa mournfal and enraging task to re- duce any artistic work to its merest ele- ments; but ifa preacher has not the rare faculty of combining elegance and force the important nature of his work should reconcile him to personal loss that the gain of his hearers may be increased. It may be possible that in rare cases the boiling down process may be continued until nothing whatever remains, but in such event the fault is not of our advice, It is to be traced directly to the utter worthlessness of the sermon as it originally stood. Courtney’s Explanation Under Oath. Shortly before the Hanlan-Courtney race at Lachine Courtney, who had been slightly the favorite in the betting, began to lose ground. Rumors were rife that in his own home at Union Springs, at Auburn and all through Cayuga county, his best friends were deserting him; that intimates of his and of his backers were in receipt of word from the latter that he was sure to lose, and that men were leaving Auburn suddenly for this city and Montreal in hopes to hedge and cover their threatened losses, The unquestioned fact that a brother of one of Courtney's backers was openly avowing in Auburn that Hanlan would win, and that an intimate of his had telegraphed to a prominent pool room in this city that Courtney had sold the race, gave force to the ugly news, and soon it was flashing all over the land. Canadians, all along confident that their man could win, were flocking into Montreal by the thou- sand, and the betiing soon ran up to the fabulous rate of three and even four to one on Hanlan, with scarcely any takers, All this time Courtney was well, indeed in high condition, and no reason was known why, if he wished, he should not make a wonderful fight, if not a certain victory. And yet, when the race day came, he was almost without a friend, and when the race was rowed, though over and over he collared and passed his man, almost fouling him at the finish, he stopped rowing for a moment and was beaten by half a length. At once the press of the country were on his trail. Every sort of inquiry was made, und while latterly the light begins to break in his favor it was hard to tell how SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1878—QUINTUPLE SHEET. much confidence to place in mere hearsay stories of reporters who had nothing over Courtney’s own name. But he has recently challenged investigation, and besides enter- ing suit against one newspaper in his own locality for libel he has now freely unbo- somed himself under oath in a statement which will be found on another page of this paper. Strangely enough the whole mat- ter practically sifts down to two facts— Courtney did not know the course, and the brother of one of his backers actually had been talking him down before the race, But it was only to bring down the odds which then favored Courtney and make the betting better for his friends, which result it certainly effected with a vengeance. But it is very clear that Courtney was party to no wrong act nor cognizant of the mad step his friend was taking, and it is equally plain that his backers honestly stood by him to the bitter end, It is but simple justice to him, then, that until sworn proof is shown to the contrary he should again receive the confidence so freely accorded to him before, and that slanderous charges which, under sworn proof, are shown to utterly lack foundation should be silenced at once. What the Cundidates Have to Say. In another part of to-day’s Heratv the reader will find the opinions of a large number of candidates for office ong variety of topics of immediate interest in the politics of the day. Inquiries made by our reporters of candidates for Congress, for the Assembly, for the Board of Aldermen and the offices of District Attorney, Alder- men and Mayor are responded to by men of all parties in a variable spirit and to very contrary effect as the parties differ, but altogether very frankly and plainly. Re- sumption, the national banks, the army, the navigation laws, fraud, the wages of laborers employed by the city, the powers of the Mayor, the reapportionment of the State, the duties of district attorneys—these are some of the topics on which the men who request the suffrages of the people of the city give their opinions. With these responses of candidates before him no man can declare himself entirely ignorant of the candidate for whom he deposits his ballot. Commonly the people get in their hands on election day a beautiful variety of little tickets covered with the names of men of whom they never heard before, and between the different aspirants for any given office that can make no other distinc- tion than that one 18 called a democrat and the other a republican. With the record we spread before the public to-day an im- provement is possible, for by this the voter can at least discover what the candidates’ opinions are on points of decided moment in the concerns of the day; discover that some candidates have good, distinct, de- fensible opinions that may be wrong; that some are very flabby-witted on all subjects, and that some have no opinions at all, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Admiral Porter is at Springfeld, Mass. What S. J. Tilden really needs isa poace congress, Senator Roscoe Conkling is at the Filth Avenuo Hotel. Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, ie at the Filth Avenue Hotel. The Indianapolis Sentinel does not believe that the rod helps to educate children. Some of those fodiana men who wore hanged seem to have been roped into the affair. Mr. Victor A W. Drummond, secretary of the Britien Legation at Washington, 18 at the Hotel Brunswick. Philadelphia Chronicle:—*Coal oil is no revtvalist, but it converts fifty women into an; where the miuisters convert one.” The Pittsburg Dispatca says that the republican party liberated the negro, but that the democrats of the South promised him cflico, A provineial contemporary es that it ts unsep- timental to criticise the ite of those hymns which, becoming popular, affect the hearts of so many people in all communities, Some of the soldiers on the Plains are stiil trying to eaten up with the Indians, Until etevated ratiroads are built out on the Plains for the soldiers there can be no nope of ross in military science, In 1831, at in, Professor Silliman drove into a small maple tree a ple on which to hang a lantern, ‘Ihe other day th as found | block of wood, and for awbile people wonderea now it got there. Dean Stanley will not remain in Quebec till the ar- rival of the Marquis of Lor: bas beon reported. hes in the Catbed! -dav, and leaves for on Monday, sailing from New Yorn Novem- ber 6—resches this city a week previous to date of departare, Dablin Freeman's Journal:—Mr. O'Connor Por has written to Isaac Butt, M. P., asking him to ps ticipate in the Home Rule Confers which meets at Dublip on the 2iat inst,, or the public meeting to bo held in connection therewith on the 220. Mr, Batt has replied at length positively deciipiog to take part in the Confere AMUSEMENTS. MODJESKA IN “FROU-PioU" AT THE FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ue Baron de Oamori Fitoa Meiipac and Halevy’s five act comedy- Frou,” was produced at th ing with decided suc of the ttle réle w. other parts led us to expect, The toning of the character from giduy, gilded maiden to shame. artistic, Ppiause admiration, jaatones, There is no need to recite at this day the plot of “Frou-Froe,” which is familiar to American audi. ences, but it may not bo una ty to remark that this broaking of & ful butterfly ou the wheel of iife is accomplished with rare skili by the ploywrghta Takiog a cre re a6 light a8 ihistiedown and blowing her about on and forgiveness come just betore the poor epark of Iifo 18 quenched, was worthy work for those clover fellows in Frunce who have no fear of the pre moraltt before their eyes when they cag lay bare the secrets of tof human na. tore of ours, have oxbibitea will fi traits of flucters, Wiliuliy at fl to her doom, Her sin conclusions, It 18 no longer preach bai to dissect.’ Into the exuibition of all Draw your o ram atist’s duty to this Mme Moujeska enters with earnestness. Nothing that our stage hai ful, airy litbene: be compared to bi of Gilverte in She may beautiful of au of La ce. Wh 6 shadows begin wher about ber and the winds of passtum whitl the little soul along, through and threugh with the cannot eontrot, The excellence of tion and the unflinching su: agony until death co that this she pulsates ation shambling-gaited typical Knglisuman bis earnostn commendation. The lover, Vutreas, of Mr. Buckley was well d and wellacted. M. Brigara, th Cd of millinery) been recorded may we nos be permitted 10 ret Strate with Mr. Fiske tor giving us still another Variety of bational intonation, Moajeska calling aa “arrangement”? au *orangement” we ean, you know, put up with, bu’ when we have German iuflection: added to Polish inflections im a Frenen play | given in English we begin to think that Mr. Fisce’s “dramatic college’? is beatiog the universe lor pupils. STEINW\Y HALL—THE ALHAIZA MATINEF. The audience at Steinway Hall yestorday afternoon was small, aud the applause which followed the per- formances of the respective artists who appeared in the Albaiza mativéo was limited, Much, how. ever, was deserved that found no expres. sion, Mme Albaiza has evitently passed \brough a school the culture of which she aimirably illustrates. Her voice may be sharp, cutting and wopleasant to thy critical ear, but no one cab deny the fact that she has beon a bard and cone sclentious student, The ari ‘Ancor nen giunse,’? from the first act ot **Lucia,’? was given by her with an exhibition of aamirao'e techuique and ouly required rouuder tones to elicit the utmost enthust- asin, In the quartet trom Martha,” she ap to greater advantage and showed still more of he artistic taste Thu defect of Mme, Athaiza ts o1 not of cuiture, Opus 54, by M polonaise by Ch warmly applauded. This young artist evidently has before nim a "great futare, nie wrist power, bis expression, tho manner (orprets the meaning in which he emphasizes and of the inasters whim he protessionai cont: Sigvor Lubertt, the tenor, Was in fice voice, and addeu not a little to the Success of tho entertainment, Signor Buniverd), barione, and Mile. 1omasi jikewise rendered their Tespective purts most ueceptable, The provramme was as tollowa:—Air—‘'Favore ite,’? Donizetti, Signor Boniverdi; La 5 Brag Matiida Tomasi; Variatious Gp. 54 Mendvissobn, Franz Rummel; A ” Fiowtow, Sizhor Luberu; Alr—A now giunse’? (fire act, Lucia’’), Douizett:, Alina Alhatza; ir, “Perche mandar 11 gievinetio’” (‘Paul and Vir- giuia’”’), Victor Mussé, Signor Boniverdi; brindist, “Lucrecia Borgia,” Verdi, Matilda Tomasi; nocturne, Fsuarp major, Op. 15, No. 2, and poionnise, A flat major, Op. 63, Chopin, Franz Rummel; grand quar- tet, Martva,’? Fiotow, Alina Alhuiza, Matulde Tomas, Signori Luber:i and Boniverds. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, “Friiz” is making a great success at the Standard Theatre. Many people are unable to flod comiortable seats, “Mother and Soa” has proved a great hit at the Union Square. ‘The circus at Gilmore’s Garden is one of the chief attractions of the city. The piace is thronged every night, “Faust” willbe given to-morrow night, forthe third subscription evening ef the season of Italian Opera, at the Academy of Music, with the following cast:— Faust Signor Sampanias Valentine ‘Minnie Haut Direcior of the Mu ++eSignor Arditt Extensive preparation ts being made for Wednem day night, when “Carmen”? will be produced for the first time in Americs. All the scenery, costumes aué mounting will be new, an eventtul one inall respects. The be presented with the following artists: Marghorits Lablache Carmen (« gipsy) Mile. Minnie Hank The following 1s the complete cast of Coleman's ecomody, “The Jealous Wife,” whion is to be given at OBITUARY, BENJAMIN H. LATROBE. Benjamin H. Latrobe, the eminent civil engineer, died at his residence, No, 146 North Charles street, Baltimore, yesterday morning, atieratew weeks’ ilt- ess, of paralysis of the mght side, supe: cerebral irritation, Mr. Latrobe was se’ yours of age, having been born in Baltimore in 1807, His father, Benjamin H. Latrobe, Sr., was am archie tect of note and furnished tue plan for the National Capitol at Wasbingt @ Exchaoge, the Cathedral and other prominent buildings in Baltimore and otner cities. Forty yours ego © was charged with superintending the construction of the New Orleans = water works B. HL Latrobe a graduate of St Mary’ Coliege, Emmetteburg, and studied law, At tue father, finding tuat the law was not with his tas determined to gineer, At the age of twenty-three he begai cureer as civi! engineer and acquired an emi- that wenarios equal ay. other offex appointed Mr. ward mat the railroad company trom its beginuing. Tous were called to occupy two of the enterprise, rvision tbat the Onio River, while thomas Sweno was president of the company. It was on Japaary 1, 1853, bye tne t ag the completion of the Baltimore 10 Mr. Latrobe remaived in the employ of pany As engiveer, constructing ‘8 projected iy it neer of tl road, b tive ability services. acting as chief the altimore and Unio road he w connected with other roads patronized by jaiter company. Mr. Lat x fe his position the 'workiug of 1 a wife, two sonr—Re' Episcopal Church, gineer—and three da’ ried, One of his daugnte term, ts was modes yoars, but as authority apoo subjects consecied with Dis proiession bis advice often sought in reference to important public Works. Reowatiy the Mayor of Baltimore req ed lim to give bis ax to the best methed for Mprovement of J ons prevented a roply, ay irom Emmanaei Ute fanera: will take place Episcopal Uburch. FR\NZ VEIOT. Freoz Voigt, a native of Switx id, formoriy professor of mathematics at the Louisiana State Agr cultural And Mochanicn! College, died of yollow fover at New Orleans yosterday, BISHOP GALBERRY'S SUCCESSOR [oy TELEGRAPH To THR HERALD. Newrort, R. 1, Oct. 19, 1878, Bishop Hendricken, of this dice tonsively circulated report that he is to be tra to Hartiord a8 the successor of the late Bi berry. He does not ability of wny «ace to see comple whieh he jertaken—vi2., ew cathedral iu Providence,