The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1878, Page 6

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THEATRE, Philndelphia—Epwin Boor. SHEET. + OCTOBER 31, 1878 The probabilities are that the weather in New York and ils vicinity to-day will be partly cloudy or fair and colder. To-morrow it will be clear or Jair and cold. Wat. Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was active and stocks were generally strong. Gold opened and closed at 10033 and sold in the interim at 10014. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads strong. Money on call lent at 5 per cent and closed at 3 per cent. Tue Exrraorpinary Time of 2:1419 was made {on the Brownstown (Ind.) track yester- day. Arter To-Day unpaid tax bills bear interest at the rate of seven per cent, which is no trifle in these times. Cartan Tyson has no faith in Explorer Hayes’ Open Polar Sea theory. But has Captain ‘Tyson been far enough to know? TRIPLE Axorner Cuarter of Presidential cipher history is given on another page. The time for explanations seems to have come. Ir Has AGarn been the fortune of one of the ‘Henan steam yachts to be of service to ship- ping in the Bay. This time it was a govern- ment steamer that was in distress. A Mexican Litutenant, who followed some revolutionists into our territory, has been found guilty of a violation of the neutrality laws. But why not try sone of the cattle thieves? Members of the Catholic Church will be interested in our special cable despatch an- nouncing the appointment of Bishop Gillooly, of Ircland, as Delegate Apostolic to this country. Ir Is Nor Surprisixe to hear that a large number of the colored citizens of the Eighth Congressional district have determined to sup- port Mr. Jerome. Gratitude is a marked char acteristic of the colored race. Ir tHe Ixrormation of a Boston journal is correct Mr. Caleb Cushing declines to run on Mr. Butler's ticket in Massachusetts. Mr. Cush- Ing is one of those patriots who has strong con- stitutional objections to being on the losing side. Tuere Is A Report in Mexico that Pres- ident Diaz is coming to the border to see what all the trouble is about. Before doing so he ought to send word to General Ord. Some of his interestigyg countrymen will probably en- deavor to steal him. A Pouite Nore from Mr. Evarts to the Swiss government would probably induce our sister Republic to behave in a more sisterly way and keep her paupers at home. Another contingent is on the way, and the trouble is we cannot send them back if they decline to go. GENERAL GRANT, it seems, has given up his trip around the world. At the meeting of the Army of the Tennessee yesterday Gencral Sher- man read a letter to this effect. After a short trip to Africa he will rewrn to Paris, where he will remain until his departure for home. Cartan Witt1aMs has a “‘theory” that the Fifth avenue robbery was no robbery at all, and has decided to take no farther steps in the mat- ter. Another police official has a theory that Alderman Morris was stabbed by a madman. Where is entirely too much “theory” among the police force. Tuy WeatTuer.—The central area of the low pressure recently in the Northwest is now over the lake region and the British territory to the northward. Steep gradients have keen formed on the western margin of the low area by the rapid advance of the high barometer from the Rocky Mountains, and high winds from the Northwest and West prevail over and westward of the lakes and Mississippi River. In the South and Southwest the pressure is increasing rapidly, the low area in the Western Gulf having moved eastward during yesterday and formed with the northern depression an irregu- lar shaped barometric trough extending from the lakes to the Eastern Gulf district. Rains have fallen over all the region cast of the Mis- sissippi, with snow in the lake districts. The tem- perature has fallen quite low in the Northwest, but bas risen somewhat on the Atlantic coast. It must, however, decrease again rapidly in the latter region when the depression passes enst- ward and the cold northwest and west winds set in. The winds on the northeast coast are northeasterly from the high barometer overly- ing New Branswick and Newfoundland. Dur- ing to-day they will change to southwesterly and westerly. Navigators about to leave port for Europe or the New England or British American ports will do well to tuke precautions against a heavy southwest followed by north- west blow. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be partly cloudy or fair and solder, To-morrow it will be clear or fair and sold. The middle and east Atlantic const cities will have similar weather, the clearing taking hlace from south to north. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER $1, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. The Rival Candidates for Mayor. Mr. Schell has given to the public, through the Heratp, his views respecting the proper administration of the city gov- ernment—views which are in the main sound and judicious. Mr. Cooper, his com- petitor, has also favored the public with his views on the same range of questions in his letter accepting the nomination of the motley republican - O’Brien - Waterbury - McCool- Haskin - Bixby - Hart- anti-Tammany coali- tion. One of Mr. Cooper's organs also ven- tures to predict his specific acts as Mayor in the event of his election, and, among others, it plainly hinte at the removal of Comptroller Kelly by the conjoint authority of Mr. Cooper as Mayor and Governor Robinson as his sponsor and indorser. We do not know whether Mr, Cooper has been cor- rectly represented in this intimation of his intentions, but the natural presumption is that his only democratic supporter in the press of thegity does not misrepresent him, Assuming that no in- justice has been done to Mr. Cooper by his mouthpiece, what does his intention to re- move Mr. Kelly from the Comptrollership prove? Plainly that the charge made a few days since by the Hzranp is more than justified by the facts of the situation. The opinion which we expressed was that the so-called reform movement, represented by a combina- tion of all the anti-Tammany elements, is a hollow and deceitful sham ; that it is not a movement for the good of the city, buta coalition for the overthrow of John Kelly, because Mr, Kelly is the most formidable enemy of Governor Tilden, whose devoted adherents have secured the nomination of Edward Cooper, a man pledged to restore Mr. Green to the Finance Department by the removal of Comptroller Kelly for reasons merely political, and to perform any other servile acts as Mayor which would promote the interests and favor the ambition of Mr. Tilden and Governor Robinson. The attitude of the Henaty toward Tam- many Hall and the one-man power is too, well known to require restatement here. We have steadily evinced our willingness to join in any sincere movement—not in a sham movement—for restoring the munici- pal government to the control of the peo- ple. It has been: our constant desire that a movement for this great end should be honestly placed before the public stripped of all false pretences, deceptive concealments and electioneering dodges. The Hxzarp has not opposed Mr, Kelly on merely personal grounds; it has made no war on him in his official capacity as Comp- troller; it has never arraigned him before the public as a successor of Tweed for per- petuating the corrupt practices of the old Ring. We have always respected Mr. Kelly's private character and have been careful to discriminate, not only between the man and the politician, but between the public officer and the politician. While doing him full justice in his private and official relations we have found many occasions for criticising and condemning his management as a political leader and the autocrat of Tam- many Hall, Ho is a very positive character, and, like most men of that stamp, he has strong personal prejudices, which he some- times indulges with a reckless disregard of consequences. A noted instance occurred in the case of Recorder Hackett, when the position taken by the Henaxp and its con- temporaries taught Mr. Kelly a lesson which he is not likely to forget. The Henatp cares nothing for men except so far as they represent principles or public measures which we deem important. We credit the anti-Tammany combination with good intentions at the outset, but it has degenerated into a “still hunt” for breaking down Mr. Kelly, in order to build up another one-man power in the person of Mr. Tilden, in utter disregard of the interests and welfare of the city. This combination may succeed, as other combinations have succeeded be- fore, But the Hznatp will discharge its duty in placing before the public the real issues involved in thecontest. Noone shall have any reason to complain that we have suppressed anything which the public is entitled to know or have failed to tell the whole truth, It will be inferred from what we have now said that we have no enthu- sinsm for either ticket. But this comparative indifference may give place to a stronger feeling if a threat made by one of the organs of the coalition expreeses the real intention of Mr. Cooper and his backers. If the coalition candidate had avowed this purpose in his letter of nc- ceptance his assent to the nomination might as well havo been a refusal, for the people of the city would never think of electing him after such a declaration. What is given out by the only democratic news- paper that supports Mr. Cooper is, that if ho is elected he and Governor Robinson will exercise the power with which they are jointly clothed by law and remove Comptroller Kelly from office. We had heard this intimation before in isrespon- sible quarters, and perhaps the democratic newspaper which publicly makes the threat is equally irresponsible. But since it has been uttered in this semi-official way Mr. Cooper, or some one authorized to speak for him, is bound to disclaim it unless he is willing to have it believed that he has se- cretly made such a pledge. If Mr. Cooper has made such a pledge, or even intimated such an intention, his col- lusion with the ‘Tilden-Robinson clique (of which nobody has any doubt) has com- mitted him to a project which is entirely" subversive of his official independence as chief magistrate of the city. It would be repugnant not merely to justice, but to official decency, to exercise an arbitrary power of removal in order to destroy a po- litical opponent. That part of the press, including tho Huranp and Sun, which has been most outspoken and persistent in do- nouncing the one-man power of Tammany has been constrained to admit that Mr. Kelly is faithful and capable public officer, ond that’ the Finance Department has seldom ‘been better admin- istered than since it has fallen into his hands. The objection to him is not what he is doing as Comptr@er, but what he is doing a8 a politician. To remove him from office merely because his politics are obiec- tionable, and to create a vacancy to be filled by the appointment of Mr. Green, would be such an unscrupulous exertion of mere power in contravention of right as would make the whole term of Mr. Cooper, if he should be elected, a period of turbulence and confusion in the city govern- ment. Such a municipal coup d'état would make the Mayoralty an instrument of the ambition and revenge of~ Messrs, Tilden and Robinson, and would. sacrifice the interests of the city to the political hopes of Mr. Cooper’s democratic backers. We call upon Mr. Cooper to disavow such mischievous designs as are imputed to him by his only democratic supporter in the press of the city. Governor Robinson wishes to be a candidate for re-election and Mr. Kelly stands in his way asthe chief obstacle, But we should be sorry to think that Governor Robinson would enter into such a conspiracy with Mr. Tilden and the anti-Tammany candidate for Mayor as is implied in the remarkable threat to which we have called attention. Pope and Porter. The’ artful expedients to which General Pope has had recourse to evade testifying before the Board of Inquiry .in General Fitz John Porter's case will make an unfa- vorable impression on the public mind. General Pope was a leading witness belore the court martial which tried and sentenced Porter, and if he was in error in some parts of his testimony it would be an act of candor and manliness to assist in the cor- rection of his own mistakes and to acknowl- edge the misapprehensions under which he labored at the time of tho trial, when a great deal that is now known of the situa- tion had not come to light. His unwilling- ness to appear before the Board and tes- tify will be ascribed to his dread of a cross- examination. He has, therefore, acted very unwisely for his own reputation, as well as evasively toward the investigation. The Board of Inquiry is not a court; it has no commission either tou revoke or confirm General Porter’s sentence. The only duty with which it is charged is the collection of evidence to enable the President to make an intelligent review of the case. When so important a witness as General Pope re- fuses his assistance, or at least deolines to testify in the same manner as the other wit- nesses subject to have his testimony tested and sifted by a cross-examination, a handle is given to General Porter's friends to assert that he is not receiving fair treatment and that the instigator of the original trial makes a practical confession that it would be.awkward for him to attempt to support his former testimony. If all the witnesses had been permitted in like manner to shirk a cross-examination the inquiry would bave been of no value as a means of eliciting the real truth. But no satisfactory reason can be given why this prominent witness should be shielded from the usual tests of credibility to which all the others have submitted. It is desirable that this, controversy be closed in such a way as to leave no reasonable ground for complaint, and it is to be regretted that General Pope is unwilling to contribute to that end. Searrility in Politics, A stranger to our shores could not read the columns of many of our contempo- raries without becoming convinced that only very wicked men receive nominations for office. A resident, however, knows bet- ter, and when he sees one candidate de- nounced as a thief, another as a burglar, a third as a homicide and a fourth as a pirate he only says to himself, ‘‘this is the time for the squirt guns of slander.’’ Why must a candidate’s private lito be searched and paraded before the public eye? Not to help the great cause of truth or justice, for where malignity can find nothing to magnify or distort it does not hesitate to invent whole catalogues of imaginary crimes to be Iaid at hisdoor. It would seem to be as necessary for a candidate to havea criminal record created by his opponents as to have an honorable record for his friends to blazon forth. The whole gamut of slander has been so played over that it is “played out,” to use o phrase politicians will understand. It deceives nobody. Its object is a dishonest one, for the entire sim is to keep the eyes of the peoplo off the real issues of acanvass. It seeks to place the issne not, for instance, on whether the city or State shall have a good and strong gov- ernment, but on whether Hezckiah Frank- lin, the republican candidate for Assembly, was a bounty jumper, or Petor McBranigan, the democratic aspirant for Alderman, o clothesline robber. It is time to stop this, We have o surfeit of it. The men in the background, who pull the wires and organ- ize these campaign slanders, do it so that their hands may be concealed. Our citi- zens have had so much of it that they may be relied on to reject it in the lump, and vote for men and measures os they know them, and not as the malignant fancy of the opposition paints them. Is the Milleonitum at Hand? The large attendance of ministers and laymen at the conference in this city yes- terday of the believers in the second advent of our Lord is the best evidence that could be given of the keen interest that is felt in this question by the various Christian do- nominations, With one or two exceptions almost every division of the Christian Church was represented. Nearly one hun- dred clergymen, who in other matters of belief aro wide apart as the poles, met on common platform to attest their adhesion to this idea, and it is very certain that the doctrinal divisions on the platform hnd their counterpart im the large audience in front of it. This amicable gathering of Presbyterian and Baptist, of Methodist and Episcopalian is in itself strong pre- sumptive evidence in favor of the second advent and the millennium, which the seo- ond advent implies. It is sweet to see brethren dwelling together in pence and there is some consolation in knowing that there is nt least one point upon which Chris- tian clergymen can unite. At the meeting yesterday no new light was thrown upon the question under discussion, and it is not very probable that we shall know any more on the subject after the conference adjourns than we do now, The theologians for nearly two thousand years have not been able to agree upon it or to explain the precise meaning of the Scriptural passages upon which, however, as a whole, the belief is founded. But, nevertheless, the confer- ence can do no harm, and the fact that such a meeting is possible is in itself a very great gain to the cause of true religion The meeting yesterday may in fact be one of the signs of the millennium, Who can tell? South Carolina Politics, {t is not useful for the republicans to cir- culate exaggerations about tho political oc- currences in South Carolina and other Southern States, The exact truth is the best, The exact truth in South Carolina, as we gather from private letters from dem- ocratic and republican sources, is that while the canvass there has been the least disorderly for many years, and while so far there have been no murders, there has been interference in different ways with the right ofthe republicans and the colored men to assemble and to carry on their canvass, So far os we can learn this interference bas consisted in democratic crowds forcibly taking possession of republican meetings and insisting on “dividing the time” with republican speakers ; in the forcible trans- portation of several prominent and doubt- less corrapt republican leaders from the region where they were organizing their party, and in the attendance of democratic crowds in red shirts and with arms at negro meetings, with threats of what would hap- pen to the blacks in certain contingencies, Some of our correspondents seem to think that much has been achieved in Sonth Carolina when the canvass passes without bloodshed. Others set up the plea that some great and notorious rascals are @ourt- ing the negro vote, and that this ought not to be tolerated, All this is nonsense, and the democrats of South Carolina ought to know that such acts as we have above re- cited are intolerable and will not be en- dured. Governor Hampton has made an inexcusable blunder by confining himself to mere moral disapproval of violence and disorder. At the very beginning of thesq outrages he ought to have given public notice that he would protect to the utmost the right of all citizens freely and peaco- ably to assemble, discuss, to nominate and to elect whomsoever they please ; and, if necessary, he should ‘have put him- self at the head of his State militia and shot down summarily every man who ventured to interfere with the rights of the blacks or the republicans in any way. That was what intelligent citizens everywhere expected of him; and here at the North men begin to ask how much better Hampton is in this matter than a carpet-bag Governor. It was said that a native of the State could control the State, but he has not done so. The preliminary lawlessness leads natu- rally to interference atthe polls, and we suppose we shall hear complaints after next Tuesday that in some parts of the State the blacks were prevented from voting. Very likely many such reporte will be un- founded, but in view of what Governor Hampton has weakly tolerated it will be difficult to persuade people at a distance that the election will be free and unob- structed. If the Governor is wise he will issue a proclamation before election day stating bis determination to see fair play at the polls, and he ought to take the most decided and vigorous measures to carry out such a proclamation. If anywhere the rights of republican voters are interfered ‘with he ought to be the first to denounce it, to bring the perpetrators of such outrages to punishment, and to declare and, so far as he can, make the election at such places void. He has been weak, but he has yet time to save himself and his State from dis- grace. Tammany’s Ratification Meeting. The Tammany Wigwam last evening was ablaze with all the glory of Chinese lamps and campaign oratory. The fierce democ- racy were there to overflowing, and the surplus sufficed to render the scenes out- sido the hall as exhilarating as any old- time demoorat could desire. In token that this was the home of the “regulars” Sena- tor Kernan, Lieutenant Governor Dors- hoimer and Erastus Brooks were gathered on the platform around Mr. John Kelly. To be sure Mr. Tilden was absent and Governor Robinson was away; but nobody, it appears, seemed to miss thom. Firstly, Senator Kernan discoursed ably on the financial question—hbard money man of a hard money State. Then Mr. Erastus Brooks raised his voice against the cruel republican wrong of refusing to reapportion the State. Mr. Dorsheimer came from these far away subjects to business, and asked for the election of the entire ticket. Mr. John D. Townsend stuck some little pins in the lonely and unimpressionable figure at Gramercy Park, and then came Mr. John Kelly, who made one of those characteristi- cally frank speeches, in which he eppealed from the cry of dictatorship to the candi- dates he laid before the people. He praised the Tammany candidates, and asked a com- parison between them and their opponents, Mr. Edward Cooper he referred to in kindly terms aé a man who never could make up his mind, but went about to other people seeking for a decision and coming back in the end to the first he had consulted to know what his opinion had been when he set out. There is agrim humor about this, which those strange yokemates of the pres- ent canvass, Mr. ‘Tilden and the republi- cans, may be pardoned if they do not ap- preciate, Wo shall havea lively time here until election. Nothing in It. The canso of the rise in silver in London isascribed to purchases by the Australian government, The population of Australia does not exceed two millions, and the entire quantity of silver which the island can utilize in several years might be taken out of the circulation of the same metal in New York without causing any perceptible scarcity, The Australian Finance Depart- ment should have sent direct to Secretary Sherman tor # ton or two of the new dollars whioh that fanctionary is so anxious to un- load upon somebody. There they ate, all geady made coins, with » religious -senti+ ment on one side and on the other a head original enough to startle even the original inhabitants of Australia. Besides, Congress and other sage authorities have pronounced them as good as gold. Australia will never have another such chance, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Cleveland is to have a Penny Press. Knowing hgtdoan that in Pennsylvania Don will net fed. 4t used to be said that only the brave England owns four-fifths of the tonnage in vessels which trae to China. Mr. E. Rockwood Hear, of Massachusetts, ts at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Ex-Governor Shepherd, of the District of Colam. Dia, 18 quite sil with poeamonia, though his eymp- toms are not regarded as dangerous, Chancellor Haven, of the Syracuse University, had an enthusiastic reception lust night by the st of the University on the eccasien of his re we ever heard a Piko’s Peak, No; but the roport of a Comstock iode.—Nsxw York Heraup. Did you leave witbeut hearing a bone-answer?—Cin- cinnati Commercial Dean Stanley is again the guest of Mr, Cyrus W. Field, in this ety. Last evening be visited the Union and Episeopat. colleges, To-morrow pected to attend a reception, and othor officers of the Met dist Episcopal Churob, in St. Paul’s Church. Saturday, he will breakfast at the Century Club, and on Sunday morning is announced to preach in Grace Episcopal Church. He will preach at night also, provably in the Chureb of the Holy Trinity. London Queen says:—“Mr. Callender, F, R. 3, the cmin-nt aurgeon of St, Bartholomew's Hospital, London, wiil arrive in New York tn the early days of The object of bis visit Isto examine the stitutions and practice of the States, and ‘m aod hospitable welcome. ly proud: ot science of si Various appliances and methods for 1! Oa of suffering 1m painiul operations they bave in- geniously invented; still thoy will not lose sight of the fact that in Mr, Callenuef they are receiv'ng a man who bas won an exceptionally bigh professional reputation in bis own country. Besidos being Sur- geon and Lecturer om Surgery at 8t Sartholomew’s Hospital he is Examiner ia Anatomy at the London and president of Clinical Society, and author of essays and papers on surgical subjects, as woll as a valued contribator to the leadiug medical journals of theday. Mr. Callender will visit Philadelphia and Boston as well as New York.” AMUSEMENTS ITALIAN OPERA— Panis—mancn, 1875, “Carmen,” including tation in Paris, turee years since, AB the opoga is, unquestiovably, most interesting work by a pew compover, prodocea during the last doocade, these casts, with the dates of prodection, will have a special interest at this tim@, when the opera is paramount as the great novelty of the musical season. 1¢ will be noted by a giance at the original coast that the part of Carmen was written for Mme Galli-Marie, for whom Thomas wrote ‘*Mignoa,”’ and who has created mere parte than any other prima Mme. Marie Roze, who, of course, fictitious account of ner performance of part published, was engaged in London wben “Carmen” was pro- duced tn Farle, Evory successive periormance of the opera confirms the favorable impression of the first hearing, Last night, when theo, era was given here for the third time, the poriormance again revosied new beautios of instrumentation, and masterly har. monies 1a the vocal parta as well, eapecially in the concerted masic of the second act. There ts, indeed, moro real music in this act that ts music, serving the purpos> of trae art, t! 18 comprised |; ine entire operas of Donizetti or Verdi, The work is the prodact of an original genius, and must not be con- founded, as it should not be compared, with the con- ventional writings of the popular school of liahen composers, Many of Bizet’s critics persist in flip- pantly stigmatizing this masterpieco as an opéra comique, because “Carmen” was originally brougnt the homo of know to tolt them that Bizet, w' teen years, became impregoated with the doctrines of Wagner, absorbed them, so far as bis @ailic organization would admit, and opon this basis Gaally formulated the ex- traordinary work which is being given to oar public under such exeeptionaliy favorable auspices, Far school, be declared opeo war nected with the established boven rene! udices Bow work, At all the season hiss Haak, it on’ aoe hein Yt beea stated, encoun- C position etion of the'wo bat the front i 1y"s, seats being sold being meee ta the one months, Whatever may be real “pointe” im the mo. pet it 1@ ineontestabie that this pa 1s, dramaticaliy, the moat complete aretent realization of a composer's ideal the present time has known, and thie ished spite of the tact Mace the part of the heroine | oharacteristic effect of the ensemble, Jog \o make every porsibie aeorifice. boy! pocaiar charnctortstios of Bizet’s to be expected thet the Atmerionn pad- that keee sense of nice pa ggont couciuavery evident from the mien enema Vegarmon’” leat mit that te well frequently aa Det applaud eee tthe Nan tae places, It was quick, he manner of the Amencas pi 5 ' pablie, to enjoy and approve the sensational features, like the dance to Carmen's castinet aceompant bacchanalian Escam! nigh, end bull chorus, of the bat Phrases which abound, the exquisite ng most of the concerted music, were, of appreciation went, ma iy, and very openly, too deeply rsd hudying opera to remember that ar. as those in the cast of last < te the warmest enco' jo- ring to develop in the opera, de- “Carmen”? evening are fairly ment, Signor Ard| ently the public’s taste for wat was elined to perm) Bight t# a convincing proot of the Orm held it hag already secured upon the puvlia, BROADWAY THEATRE—LEAH. The production of this play quite a large audience last night. As Leah Elizabeth Vor witz is a decidod success, The rdle gives her an op- portunity for tne display of that strong declamatery power which she possesses In a bizh degree, and en- ables her also to portray the ever varying shades of feeling in which the piece abounds, Inthe fourth and fifth acts the best evidence of her power wag e fact that many of her audi were in tears, undoubtedly bave made even a stronger Even with tho support sho had it is due to n that she compares iavorabiy with Miss Baseman, woe made a ropatation out of the character in Loadoa a fow years ago. FIFTH AVENUE HALL-—BLIND TOM. The engagement of this singular colored enild of genius is drawing lose, 1: will probably not be proloaged beyor reek, Whoever has failed te attond the Ny Derformanees of Blind Tom therefore ought not to neglect the present oppor. tanity. Of mere music the public havo an abundant supply; but when it emanates from a condition of idiooy, when you might as well expect one of the orang-outangs from Baroum’s cages to step on the stage and reproduce the moss exquisite creations of the masters as to see the thing really done by this poor, demented Rego; when you see his sightleas cyes jonguc lapping hie sity—this being, so little bigher taan a brate— one of the choicest of its gifts and tne ability to ilias- trate that gift with oll the art. th ttends the choicest cultarc. It is casy to exp! why Biiod Tom tor nearly twenty years has startle ¢ musical and critical world by bis performances on t! but how he does it 1s a problem ti Iikely to be solved this side of eternity. be 10 fine hemor and played at bis rd works a8 tho **bapsodie not only repetitions of su Hongrotse,”” *Trovatore, Fleyoi’s Hymn, wita variat: and ional jes ot anfferent coun. tries, ee jag Do a startling effects of bis ow ree of bis original sougs were full ot asquiaityes Deaut , and bis composttion descriptive of the Hattle of Manassas lost none of its freshnese or qaaintness from the fact tbat it has scores of times before. As a musical phet without other intelligence than that woiecl yeyed from a single organ in bis brain to his ten flogers, Bliad Tom is undoubtedly the most remarka- bie in Christendom. ARTILLERY AT THE AQUARIUM. Among the attra is a pertermance in which ille. and pretty woman, is fired frem sent fiyiog through the air a distance of thiny er “forty ieet, the daring performor landing 10 a net, The Jeat 18 a remarkable one, not being entirely iree trom Gunger, though of course the expulsion of the female nerobat frem she tube of the so- called “gansoo” is pot aceomp'i-hod by the direct explosion of a powder charge. When the word is given by Mile, Gerak a sbarp dotonatieon cecurs at the the bage tubo, and at the same pace. The propatsive foree powertul'spiral spring acte foo! charge of gunpowder were actually burnea im the chamber of so largea pleos ot erdoance it id be so powertul as to iand the fair mademoisel! x comfortable m: ber plamp form, St: & striking one, for itm: the require a groat deal of to a metal tube and pene ag Out In such & hoadioug fashion, KK Of this eannon act at the Aqua mit herself to This ta she las nom, —— BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE—‘‘SEMBY itl.” MATINEE, It was a large and thoroughly appreciative audi enee (bat assembied at day atternoon ynjor ow Park Theatre yester- 0 first matines performance ot “Henry VIII.”” The play is now so lamiliar tothe theatre going public that it is unnecessary to dwell Upon ite detatis, but 1t is dae to the prosent manage. ment te say that it bas been admirably put upan the Brooklyn stage, and illustrates the soveral Shake spearean scenes with a fidelity quite equal to thas eve repetition. re “the careful may weil fee! the bers of Car . George Vando: excess of praine wo ~~ that his re he best ge jas been heard for MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Mile, Iima Di Murska bas been specially engaged to sing om next Sunday evoning at the Gilmore Baad Concert at the Grand Opera House, Levy will alse appear. ager Elisier, of Cleveland and Pitwsbarg, bes rgavized a Rip Vaa Winkle combisation, armong the members of whieh are Miss Maude Branseombe and Mias Adelaide Thornton. Mr. Mex Strakosch has engaged Herman Linde, the Sbak espearena actor, to appear at Bootn’s Theatre om the 6in of January and alternate with the Kellogg and Cary Opore Troape, The bill at Watlack’s will be changed every night this week. This ovening “The Jeaious Wite” wilt be given, to-morrow (Friday) ‘The Road to Rain,” on Saterday “(he Rivais” Tne Hamborg Hassar Band will appear in & concert on Saturday sad Thursday eveniogs at Steinway Hall, The band comprises forty artiste of Europes Fepatation, ana as the prices aro placed at popular rates they ongnt to have a good house, Mesers, Hathaway & Pend, of Boston, have engaged Mme Marie Roze and hor company, constetiog of Brignoli, Tom Karl, Carleton, Peaso, Kersir and Colby, for a tour of forty concerts for the United States and Canadas, The sam paid le $34,000. ‘The first benedt of Modjeska tbhig sestom takes place to-morrew at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, Mr. Edwin Booth opens in Hamiet a week trom next Monday, A revival of *Camitie” for ome or twe nights, with Mr. D. A, Herkine as Armand, is ie com tompration. The Red Hussar Elite Dand, under the direction of Protessor K. Senreiner, the composer, arrived trom Hombare on tho steamer Wieland on Tuesday, The band consists of forty members, among whom are t New York during the coming The Dramatic Acafomy eatadlished by Messra, Fiexe & Harkins, of the Filth Avenue Theatre, was formally opened yesterday, wheo a ber of you Indies assembled with thoie pare and guarding Mr, Harkins received the pupils, divided them imte cleeses and established their days of attendance and feoitation, The mate pupils will be received ag eoow 06 possible, No charse is made for tuition.