The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1878, Page 15

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TONY VASTOR'S THEATRE ACADEMY OF DES! FIFTH AVENUE BRALL—Biixo Tow BOWERY THEATRE: BAN FEANCISCO MI TIVOL! THEATRE —V BROOKLYN PARK THE QUINT UPLE SHEET. ~ OCTOBER The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity 1-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 REMARKABLE, sad and romantic story appears to-day under the head “Life Without Food.” Reports of the late hurricane continue to come in from sea, and they are all uncompli- mentary. No Oxe who reacs our reports to-day of sports and amusements will complain of any lack of means of recreation in the vicinity of | New York. Some Rare anv Beautirurt TREASURES, which will soon again be returned to their hid- ing places, are mentioned in our notes of the Loan Exhibition. Some Interrstine Particurars of the great- | Real estate owners in the | of the island and the lower end of West- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1878—QUINTUPLE SHEET, Real Estate Prospects. A Chicago 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. upper end chester county would be wise if they com- bined to keep down prices and to offer fa- yorable 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 est fair devised in New York’since the old days | there has been a great revival of business, of the “Sanitary Association” will be found in another column. Mr. Moony 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 Tue Repairs Mave 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? Asotner Mvcu Marriep 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 would 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 naught. According to the Bible no one attempts to rob a strong man without first binding bim; but a couple of burglars with designs against the property of Barnuin’s giant conceived the unorthodox idea of waiting until the strong man was away from home. It is Land is notoriously the last to feel the stimulus of a general rise in pricey 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 families without the constant fear of lack of employment and consequent poverty. The cities of the United States which made so enormously rapid a growth during the war and for a long period sub- sequent will not increase at nearly the same rate in the next ten years; butit is probable that their growth will be sounder. Instead of filling up, as in other years they have done, with merchants who are deter- gratifying to read that these free thinkers lost their plunder and their liberty too. Coty Weatner and an occasional frost are doing for the yellow fever districts what human efforts have been powerless to accomplish, and the namber of new cases diminishes rapidly. Now let the South take pattern afterthe Brazilian cities, whieh are cleaning, draining, filling in and doing all other sanitary work that suggests itself, in order to be prepared in time for the Dext hot season. Two Decisioss, very important as precedents, have just been rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States. 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- | trict of New York, the Court decided that the | actual dutiable vu a bill of imported goods, when determined by ex | struetion of in- voice, was that sum which remoimed after de- duction of discount for cash, even though eash was not paid, but charged inst the pur chaser on general account. In use of Shilla- ber 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 be cuted. Tux Weatnen —The centre of lowest ba | rometer 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 Gulf of Mexico clear weather prevails with the advanee of the bigh pressure trom the Southwest; butin the Northwestern districts the barometer is falling, with inereasing south- erly winds, Over the lakes and all the region eastward of the Missiseippi Valley westerly and northwesterly winds prevail, with decidedly lower temperatures. North to northeast winds are experienced on the Gulf const. In the West and Northwest the temperature has risen, Ina 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 w York and its vicinity today will be cool and elear or fair, To-morrow it will 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. ‘own 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 thou- 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 quarters 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 | inany 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 be fair and cool, followed by rising tempera- ture, 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, and in 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 Language 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 Jerald 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 tospeculate 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 ofa 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 will 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, Potter Declines, Mr. Clarkson Potter, who has served ably and successfully during several terms in Congress, declines a renomination. His party must regret this rofusal to serve it, for it has not too many men of brains and sound judgment in the House of Repre- sentatives. Mr. Potter gives ® good many reasons for rejecting the ofter of his con- stituents to return him once more; but his letter leads us to coveclude that the chief reason is disgust with the condition of political affairs, We 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 cauens, Such a time seeins propitious for men of brains to exer- cise their influence in giving shape to new party policies ; and we should have thougit that the political field would be especially interesting at such a 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 ‘tuomey 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 Tammany 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 factions 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, that judiciary 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 unsatisfying tood. 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 on 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 betting 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 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 fucts— Courtney did not know the course, and the brother of one of bis 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 Candidates Huve to Say. In another part of to-day’s Hxraxv the reader will find the opinions of a large number of candidates for office ona variety ot 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 op 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 is a poace congress, Seoator Roscoe Cunkling is at the Filth Avenuo Hotel. Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, ts at the Filth Avenue Hotel. The Indianapolis Sentinel does not believe that the rod heips to educate children, Si of those Lodiana men who wore hanged seem to have been roped into the affair, Mr. Victor A. W. Drummond, secretary of the Britieh Legation at Wasbington, is at the Hotel Brunswick. Philadelpbia Chronicle:—*Coal oil is no revtvalist, but it fifty women into angels where the tmiuisters convert one.’ The Pittsburg Dispatch says that the republican party liberated tho negro, but that the democrats of the South promised him cfiico, A provinetal contemporary argues that it is unsen- tmental to eriucise the literature of those hymns which, becoming popular, affoct 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 emvated ratiroads are built cut on the Plains for the soldiers there can be no nope of real progress in military science, In 1831, at New Haven, Yrotessor Silliman drove into a small maple tree a staple on which to hang a lantern, ‘he other day th 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 Lorn has been reported. He preaches in the Catbed \o-dav, and leaves for the West on Monday, sailing from New York Novem- ber 6—reaches this city a week previous to date of departure. Dablin Freeman's Journal:—Mr. O'Connor Power bas written to Isaac Butt, M, P., asking him to pai Ucipate in the Home Rule Conference which meets at Dublin on the 2lat inst, or the public meeting to be heid in connection therewith on the 224. Mr. Batt bas rephed ngth positively declining to take part in the Conference. AMUSEMENTS, MODJESKA IN “FROU-FiOU" AT THE FirTH AVENUE THEATRE, ‘Ade Whi 0 Whit f. Frank Pierce Melinac and Halevy’s five act comedy-dram Produced at the above theatre last even. of the title réle was all that her performances tn other parts led us to expect, The toning of the character from giduy, gilded maiden to shame- There is no need to recite at this day the plot of “Frou-Froe,” which is familiar to American audi. cea, but it may not bo unnecessary to remark that this breaking of titul «butterfly on the wheel of life is accomplished with rare skill by the playwrights, Taking a creature as light a8 thistiedown and blowing her about on gusts of emotion, amid which her feeble wings are ail too pow to direst ber, then flinging her at last, soiled and dying, where peace and forgiveness come just belore the poor epark of life is quenched, was worthy work for those clover toltows in France who have no tear of the precious moralities before their cyes when they cao lay bare the secrets of thf human na tore of ours, © bave oxbibitea te you,’’ they will say, “the fate of a woman Irivoious as mauy & A no more; temptations; fruits of her wayward flutters, Wilialiy at first, tober doom, Her sin is’ pu couciusions, It ino longer t preach bai vo dtssect’? this Mme, Moujeska enters Nothing that our stage has seen of ful, airy litheness con be compared to her of Gilverte in the first two acts She may a ugly phantoms out i beautiful of face; ai not be but ail such forgouen i th When tne shado gathor about bi the winds the hitle soul along, Shreegh with the The excellence of sustainment @ pulsates through en she cannot ¢o sition and the unflincnin, the growing -agony uaotil death comes was wortby of ali that this artist has here nibited. The play wa: and if aoy marked ex Sar. @ injured busbaud, had bis lines well read Clements, and were he nol awarkward ambling-gaited and made w typical Englistman bis earnestness would merit more commendation, ‘fhe iover, ted, M, Brigara, the gay was well dressed aud weil fatver of Frou-Froa, mediocre in the bands of The Louise of Miss Muldenor was ¢ Mr. Pieree, ietle stif and aft things that can acting and dress beeu recorded strate with Mr. Fiske tor giving us still variety of national intonation, Modjeska calling al “arrangement” au *orangement” we ean, you know, put up with, bus when we bave German’ iuflection: added to Polish inflections STEINW\Y HALL—THE ALHAIZA MATINEF, The audience at Steinway Hall yesterday alternoon was small, and the applause which followed the per- formances of the respective artists who appeared in the Albaiza matiuéo was limited, how. ever, was deserved that found expres. sion, Mme, Albaiza has cvitently _ passed Ubrough @ school the culture of which she aimirably illustrates, Her voice may be sharn, cutting and unpleasant to the critical ear, but no one cap cepy tne fact that she eon a hurd ana con. aclentious student, The aria ‘Ancor nen giunse,’? from the first act or **Lucia,’? was given by her with an exhibition of aamirao'e techuique and only required rouuder tones to elicit the utmost euthust. asi In the quartet from **Martha,” she appeared euler udvautage and showed still mos ‘Thy detect of Mme, Athaiz F wo artistic baste Voice, not of cuiture, played Opus 54, by M. and polonaise by Ch warmly applauded. Tnis has before bim a wrist power, is expression, in which he emphasizes and inierprets of the imastei bém he seeks to repr worthy of ull praise, tor the piano under his touch takes a new lor ad his ewn professional contréres vonless themueives aetonished. Siguor Lubertt, the tenor, Was in five voice, und added not & litle to the success of tho entertainment. Signor Boniverd), baritone, and Mile, iomasi likewise rendered their Tespective parts most ueceptadle. fe provramme was as loilowa:—Atr—!'Favore Douizew, Signor Boniverdi; Le 5 Braga, Matilda’ ‘Tomasi; Variations Qp. 54, Mendvisgobn, Franz Rummel; th:,”? Fiowtow, Signor Luberti; Air— giuhse?? (fire agt, Lucia’), Douizett: erche mandar ii t giuia”’), Victor Mussé, Signor Boniverdi; briodiet, “Lucrecia Borgia,’? Verdi, Matilda Tomasi; ouetarne, F suarp major, Op. 15, No. 2, and polonnise, A flat major, Up. 53, Chopin, Franz Rummvl; grand quar- tet, ‘Martva,”? Fiotow, Alina Albuiza, Matilda Tomas}, Signori Luberti and Boniverdi, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. “Friz” ig making a great success at the Standard Theatre. Many people are unable to fod comiortable seats, “Mother and Soa” has proved @ great hit at the Union Square, ‘The circus at Gilmore’s Garden is one of the chief attractions of the city. The place is thronged every night. “Faust” willbe given to-morrow night, for the third subscription eventing ef the season of Itullan Opera, at the Academy of Music, with the following cast:— 9. Labinehe Marghoril Minnie Haul Director of the Music and '-Signor Arditt Extensive preparation 1s being made for Wednem day night, when “Carmen”? will be produced for the first time in Americs. All the scenery, costumes aud mounting will be n and the presentation will b¢ Minnie Hank cast of Coleman's ps The following 1s the complet comody, ‘The Jealous Wife,” whiom is to be given at Wallack’s to-morrow :. William . John OBITUARY. BENJAMIN H. LATROBE. Benjamin H. Latrobe, the eminent civil eagineer, died at bis residence, No. 146 North Charles street, Baltimore, yesterday morning, jew weeks’ tlle ness, of paralysis of themght superinduced by rebral irritation, Mr. Latrobe was seventy-one yeurs of age, having been born in Baltimore in 1807, Mis father, Benjamin 1. Latrobe, Sr, was am archie teet of note and furnished the plan tor the National Capitol at Wasbington, the Exchange, t! Cathedral and other prominent buildings in Baltim otner cities. Forty yours ago he was charged with Superintending the construction of the New Orleans = water works B. HL Latrobe was graduate of St Mary’ Coliege, Emmettsburg, and studied law, At the father, finding that the Jaw was no! tastes, he determined to becom gineer. At the of twenty-three he began his career as civi! ineer and acquired an emi- nence in that profession equated by few men He was appointed assis Knight, Chief Engine f Railroad, during the fire The genius aud tal cogaixed by Mr. of this #! work aud in 183) Kaibv’s principal assist erward made chief of the corps of en- gineors and was subsequently promoved to the po-ition of oulef engineer of the company. John H. B. Latrobe has been the legal soaanalior, of LJ most reprise, u was prosident ary 1, 1853, that tne veriand to the completion of Mr. Latrobe remained in company a8 ongiueer, works projected it en: of 4 adininistrative abtlity jees. While acting as chief Baltimore id Unio connected with other roads jatter company. Mr. Latreve., his position of enief engineer ot ti wonty-two year, under the succe of Louis McLu Thomas Swano 0, resigned shortly entered d three daughters, all of whom are tnar- gineer— ried. One of his daughters isthe wite of Protesioe Onderdonk, of St. James! College, Hagerstown, or Fortdiaand C. Latrobe, now serving his Mr Lae second term, 18 bis pephow, trobe was modest and usive, bat of « kindly disposition, He lived ed jite for some authority apea bjects consected With bis profession Lis advice was often sought in reference to important public worl ¢ requested bim 4 improv Mayor of Balt bes in, but he p take piace to-day Ir. FR\NZ VEIGT. ¥reoz Voigt, a native of Switzerland, formorly profoasor of mathematics at the Louisiana State Agr cultural and Mochanicn! College, died of yollow fovor at Now Orleans yosterday. BISHOP GALBEKRY'S SUCCESSOR (oY TELEGRAPH To THE HERALD] Newront, KR. 1, Oot, 19, Bishop Hendricken, of this dioerse, denies the ox tonsively circulated report that be is to be transterrad to Hartiord as the successor of the late Bishop Gule berry. He does not think the he slight ability of any such change ven ne He 1 to say OF eVen intimaty Why Will be Appul vaeancy. He pretors to remain in bhi where he hopes to see completed the which he has undertaken—viz,, the batids new cathedral iu Providence,