The New York Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1878, Page 6

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FIFTH AVENUE THEA AMERICAN INSTITUT KIBLO'S GARDEN— GRAND OPERA HOU GERMANIA THEATRES LYCEUM THEATRE—Josnva ee ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Matineo- PARK THEATRE—Lort, ONY PASTOR'S THEATR BY. JAMES THEATRE—Vanti EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanierr ae ST. THEATRE, Phitadeiphta— Rows Boor. TRIPLE SHEET, KEW YORK, NOVEM BER 2, SATORDA 1878, THE FOX AND THE Goat. A FABLE }ROM ZSOP. An old Fox from Gramercy Park, having fallen Into ® Deep Well, was detained a Prisoner, A Custom House Goat came to get a drink, and, looking down, @aw the Fox. “How is the Water?’ be asked, “Lovely,’’ answered the Fox in cheery tones; “come down and help yoursel!.” The Goat jumped down and drank, but found he could net get out Then Bald the Fox, it you will place your fore feet against she wall and bena your Head | can skip up you Bnd escepe and help you out afterward. Th Ing Goat consented and the Fox got out, bi the Goat “in the Hole MORAL. Morte d’ Arthur ts one of the possibilities, The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be slightly warmer and fair. To-morrow it will be warmer and fair or partly elowly, foliowed by increasing cloudi- mess and probably rain, Watt Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was dull, but prices were very strong. Gold opened and closed at 10014, selling in the in- terim at 1003g. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads quiet. Money on call ‘was more active and lent up to 7 per cent, clos- ing at 6 a7 per cent. Anotuer DeractTer.—$4,000—not a church or Sunday school man. AmMonG Proressions conducive to longevity must now be added larceny, a thief in the Tombs Court yesterday having numbered sev- enty-nine years. Sometuinc Unusvat Happenep in the Van- derbilt contest yesterday. Some testimony highly creaitable to the Commodore's heart and bead was offered. Some Detaits of the dying Southern scourge are graphically given in another column in the words of one of the brave New Yorkers who ‘went South as a nurse. Cornett Cnat HALLENGES Harvarp to an eight- par four-mile race, and Harvard should accept, \f only to strive against the most persistent winner of college boat races. Jupcep By Ovr Report of the proceedings at the Germania Assembly Rooms last night, before the cigarmakers and Crispins, Captain McCullough and bis squad were like a herd of Texan bulls in a china shop. Tne Bosrp or INvestiGaTion in the Porter ease have determined to accept as evidence cer- tain documents written by General Pope since the trial in 1863, and as this is done at the re- quest of General Porter's counsel the announce- ment will pique public curiosity. Tue MeTHopIsts appropriated large sums yesterday for missions amovg Chinamen, Afri- cans and other heathen, but not a cent or a missionary for Indian rings and lobbymen. But perhaps they thought, and quite naturally, that these were beyond redemption. Ir Is To Be ReGrettep that the person killed yesterday by the explosion of the boiler of a twenty-nine year old locomotive was a faithful conductor instead of that one of the company’s employés who is responsible for the retention of this ancient infernal machine in active service. Tae Weatner.—The movement of the de pression from New Brunswick eastward has been followed by a slight increase of pressure through the New England States and Upper Canada. The barometer has fallen in the lake district and risen in the Northwest behind the depres- sion. The highest barometer is now in the South- ern and South Atlantic States, where warmer and clear weather prevails. Tho strong west and northwest winds on the Eastern and Nova Scotia coasts have been experienced, but are now moderating. Light rains have fallen in the Jake region, but elsewhere the weather has been dry. A falling pressure n the region southeast of Florida, with strong winds, shows that a disturbance similar to that recently experienced may be developing there. Vessels bound south coastwise should take notice and mark the changes of pressure south of Cape Hatteras. The disturbance now north of the lakes causes strong southwest winds over that area, and it will probably move toward the St. Lawrence Valley during to-night. Steep barometric gradients are forming in the North- ‘west and along the lake shores. The tempera- ture has increased in the South and West end will be higher on our coast during to-day. In New York and its vicinity the weather will be slightly warmer and fair. To-morrow it will be warmer and fair or partly cloudy, tol- lowed by increasing cloudiness and probably rain. At Boston and Philadelphia similar weather will prevail. Southward the condi- tons Will be more favorable, Tammany and the “Combination.” For whom should a citizen wishing well to New York vote at the next election? For the Tammany ticket or for the ‘‘combi- nation” ticket ? The readers of the Hznanp know that we have opposed vigorously and pertinaciously the one-man power of Tammany. We did so in the hope that New York might obtain an independent Mayor—a man free and untrammelled and able to serve the city without respect for or engagements to per- sonal and partisan influences and interests, Unfortunately the candidate of the ‘‘combi- nation” is not sucha man. Without doubt- ing his honesty of purpose or even his ability, it is notorious that he is not an independent but a committed, not an un- committed but a pledged man. So far as the city government is concerned, it is formed for him beforehand, and if he should be elected he would not exercise any independent volition in the importent appointments the next Mayor will have to make, because his slate is made for him already. Mr. Cooper for Mayor does not stand for Mr. Cooper alone; but for Mr. Cooper plus Mr. A. H. Green, plus Mr. Waterbury, plus Mr. S. J. Tilden, and 80 on. Now, while we, in common with a great mass of good citizens, would be delighted to see the city redeemed from the control of a one-man power, such as is represented by Tammany, it dces not follow that we shall be willing to exchange one master for half a dozen, no better, but, on the con- trary, not so good. Between ‘l'ammany and Mr. Bonner, for instance, we should unhes- itatingly have chosen Mr. Bonner, but be- tween Tammany and this combination ticket there are many and good reasons for preferring a continuation of Mr. Kelly's rule. About Mr. Kelly we know something defi- nite. It is admitted that he means to serve the city faithfully and honestly; that he knows what its welfare demands, and that he has no ulterior views or plans. The rea- sonable objection to him has been and is that he rules without that clear responsi- bility which ought to attach to the exercise of power. If he had himself accepted the nomination to the Mayoralty he would have been elected with general applause. But the “combination” has not these merits. It is a coalition of discordant and repellant elements, formed not with the end of serv. ing the city, but with the object of placing in power in the city a different faction, no better than Tammany and not controlled by any one man as useful or as sincere as Mr. Kelly. The ‘‘combination,” we fear, seeks not the good of the city, but the gratifica- tion of personal ambitions in the control of party organizations and party plunder in the city and inthe State at large. It seeks to make the metropolis a tail to the kite of State politics, and in this it only repeats the old time and demoralizing pol- icy which has brought so much injury to the city. Against plans and schemes of this kind good citizens may and ought to protest. Between Tammany and an able and inde- pendent candidate for the Mayoralty we should at once prefer the latter; but when our choice is limited and lies between Tam- many and a “combination” less scrupulous and promising far less good to the city, we have but one course—to support the best ticket actually in the field, and that in this case is Tammany’s. Nor is this all. Tom- many, if its ticket is elected, will come into power with a definite degree of re- sponsibility to the people of New York; the “combination,” a mongrel body of in- coherent materials, will be as irresponsible as the wind. If it does wrong, if it fails to rule wisely and energetically, there will be no way to fix responsibility on any fac- tion of the coalition. Now, the ability to hold some one responsible for abuses is at the bottom of all possible good and efficient government. Mr. Cooper and his wicked partners, with one eye fixed on the State politics and another on the city loaves and fishes, with a dozen different personal ends to serve, and with the welfare of the city the last thing in their thoughts, tell us blandly that they seek a ‘‘non-partisan” municipal admin- istration. To be sure! A non-partisan government—that means a body in which every member will get what he can and do as little good as possible and no one will be responsible. New York has surely had enough of that kind of thing. We prefer Tam- many Hall; that, at any rate, we can hold to some responsibility. If the Tammany ticket is chosen the Tammany organiza- tion—a real, actual, tangible body, with Mr. Kelly at the head of it—stands before us to take the blame of maladministration, if such there shall be. But with the ‘‘combi- nation” in power where are we to look? Upon whom shall we fix the responsibility for misrule? Upon the republicans? “No,” says General Arthur, ‘we are not responsible. Mr. Cooper does not belong tous, We had to take him in order to get aman of our own into office.” Upon the Irving Hall democrats? ‘‘No,” says Mr. O'Brien, “Mr. Phelps is not our man. We did not guarantee him, we only voted for him so as to get a slice of pudding for our- selves.” And so on to the end of the chap- ter, or rather of the ticket. It is alittle cool, even for these November days, to come at us with a bland appeal for a “non-partisan” government. Why, the whole monstrous debt of the city was created and wasted under the non-partisan system, Tweed himself was the great apostle of the non-partisan trick; he knew how well it worked—for his purposes, and he had always enongh republicans in his service and pay to make the non-partisan scheme successful, Non-partisan government means a division of the public plunder, so as to shut the mouths of both or all the parties to the combination, 1t means the exercise of power without responsibility, and that means the subordination of public duties to pri- vate ends, As human nature is constituted such a system, if it begins with the purest men, is sure to end in corruption and mal- administration; and it never has the single aim of good government before it. How true this is is shown in the present combi- nation, which, as everybody knows, has for its chief object, not to give the city an hon- cure the control of f the State polities to a faction of the democratic party, who have given the republicans certain offices to in- duce them to help. That is the plain story of the “combination,” and for all they care the city may go hang. Mg. Enasrus Brooxs will again represent Richmond county in the State Legislature. His renomination for the Assembly is equiva- lent to an election, Mr. Brooks is nominated by the democratic party, to which he is at- tached, but his support comes from men of all political opinions who can appreciate sterling integrity and marked ability in a representative. Our Skeleton Army. The annual report of Lieutenant General Sheridan deserves the calm and careful at- tention of every citizen who professes the honor and pride of a patriot. The only possible excuse for feelings prejudicial to our little army was ruined by the bill pro- hibiting the use of the national soldiery as @ posse comitatus, so now republican and democrat, South and North, ate compelled to regard the army as what alone it is—the foe of the nation’s enemies and the nucleus, which the most ordinary caution suggests, of the larger force which some accidental foreign complication might require. The nation’s principal foes, recognized as such by every one, are the Western Indians. How the red man became our enemy neither political party can explain without admitting indelible disgrace on _ its own part. The Indians have been cheated, lied to and abused ever since civilization crossed the Mississippi, and the lions and jackals of every administra- tion have taken active part in the villanous work. There are now west of the Missis- sippi about three hundred thousand Indians, all the males of whom are compe- tent to bear arms and nearly all in pos- session of effective weapons. According to officers of the army, who are supposed to be the Indians’ most merciless enemies, there are scarcely any of these savages who can- not be made, not only peaceable, but self- supporting; but the influence at Washing- ton of the whole body of army officers does not equal that of any small local Indian ring, and every Indian ring sees in any attempt to civilize the Indians the loss of its own occupation. A rifle and sabre campaign against these white vermin being prohibited by current sentiment— perhaps because they would in some cases have to be pursued into the House of Representatives and the Senate Chamber itself—military efforts “must be restricted to the effects of the evil in- stead of the cause—the Indians must be watched and sometimes fought. For this duty we have not fifteen thousand men available. Although we are the only civil- ized nation in existence that has not for years seen a complete regiment of its troops at any important point, let aloneany ‘‘show” point, we have not enough of troops at any single post on the border to protect life and property in case of an Indian outbreak. We arein the position of a chess player who with a few pawns must protect himself against the full board of his adversary. The situation at certain points is given by General Sheridan in figures within the comprehension of any one. What the results of such inadequate provisions are is al- ready known to every one who has read the Henatp’s numerous reports of gallant but ineffective chases during the pastyear ortwo. The lately outraged residents of Western Kansas also have something em- phatic to say on the subject. Yet between old time hate and modern partisanship, dishonest greed and personal obligation to rings which have contributed to campaign expenses, Congress this winter will not be lacking in men who in one way or another will be persistent in attempts to impair the strength and efficiency of thearmy. These men should be watched by the con- stituencies responsible for them. The qaestion is not political but national. So opposition to the army is not partisanship but rank treason, which can be and should be punished, as it may be, without resort to either law or violence. Elsewhere in the civilized world treason makes its per- petrator socially and politically an out- east. Is our civilization to fail on this im- portant issue ? The Adeiphi’s Patched Boiler. The report of the local inspectors of steamers on the fatal explosion of the boiler of the Adelphi on the 28th of last Septem- ber charges the engineer, the boiler re- pairer and the inspector who passed the patched magazine of death-dealing steam with being responsible for the loss of life that resulted. ‘The mere fact that the boiler required patching at all was suffi- cient reason for its condemnation. It is impossible to make a patch safe, because the strength of the part does pot depend on the new piece of plate, but upon the old plate being able to hold it in place. If from any cause a plate becomes weak- ened by wear or injury, it should be re- moved altogether, and with it so much of the plates to which it had been attached as to allow for an entirely new set of rivet holes cleanly punched. Considering that the whole boiler depends on its riveting this must be so thoroughly well placed and well hammered as to make the lap joint tight, even without calking. The condition of many steamboat boilers on our rivers to-day is simply scandalous. It is a cruel thing that it is necessary for several of these wretched patched things to explode and kill anumber of people before the inspectors awaken to a sense of the duty they owe to the public, Imprisonment for a long term of years should be the punishment for this manslaughter by criminal neglect. Mr. Cuanirs M. Scnterreiin has been re- nominated for the Assembly by the demo- crats of the Second Westchester district. When a gentleman of Mr. Schieffelin’s so- cial position and superior qualifications consents to fill a position in the State Legislature there ought not to be any oppo- sition to his election. Mr. Schieffelin is one of the few thoroughly acceptable and valuable reprosentatives to be found at Albany, and his return te the Assembly is oat and oMicient administration, but to se- js matter of certainty, NOVEMBER 2, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET Sixty-Day Paper. Somebody has asked Secretary Sherman how much paper money circulates in sev- eral European States, and he replies:— Twelve and a half dollars a head in France, six and a third in Great Britain, three and a half in Germany and fourteen and a half in the United States. Thus it appears that we have already more paper money per head of population than either of the other three States named, and we have besides a free banking law, under which our paper currency can be increased at any time to any extent demanded by business and with the best security to bill holders, Consider- ing all the facts of the case it is not won- derful that the greenback inflationists cast but a small vote, But the real question is as to the redemp- tion in coin of the paper promises to pay. A United States legal tender note is at this moment actually a note having sixty days torun. At the end of that time the Secre- tary of the Treasury will redeom it in gold; and as the national bank notes are redeem- able on demand in legal tenders they, too, will be virtually demand notes, for which the holder can get gold sixty days hence. We say gold, because the Treasury has but little silver—of one hundred and fifty mill- ions of coin it will have not more than twenty millions of the universally despised dollar of our fathers, and it will probably be allowed to retain these. We trust Congress at the next session will direct the Treasury to redeem the sil- ver fractional currency in sum@of fifty or a hundred dollars, The small change is only token money. The country will float a great deal of it, because it is convenient and necessary, but unless the government redeems it on demand the banks neces- sarily refuse to take it on deposit, and a serious and constant loss is inflicted on persons who in the course of business re- ceive more than they can use of it. All token money becomes burdensome as soon as it ceases to be redeemable, precisely as paper notes, which also are only tokens— not money, but the representatives of money. There is in some quarters a needless panic about the dollar of our fathers. This, which properly is alsoonly a token and not teal money, exists as yet in so moderate a quantity that it can do little harm. If Congress continues tho foolish attempt to make eighty-four cents’ worth of silver pass current as a dollar the silver dollar will presently fall into great disrepute, and public opinion will, long before the amount coined becomes dangerously great, demand the cessation of coinage and the withdrawal of the amount coined. But if the present Congress shall order the re- demption of the silver small change by the Treasury in sums of fifty ora hundred dollars, and if the next Congress should follow this up with a law ordering the redemption, also, of the silver dollars in sums of say one or five hundred dollars, there is reason to believe that the country, under these circum- stances, would float not less than a hundred and fifty millions of silver withoutLincon- venience to business or derangement of the eurrency. For the present only about twenty millions of silver dollars have been coined, and more than another year must pass before the silver dollar can begin to do the great damage which is now predicted of it. By that time we trust it will have found its proper place as subsidiary coin, Maz. Hamutow Fiss, Jr., is again a candi- date for the Assembly in Putnam county. The district is honored and the character of the Legislature improved by such a rep- resentative. Mr. Fish ought to be and will be elected. Trickett Whip Hanlan at the Sculls? Edward Trickett, of Australia, the world’s champion at the sculls, was net hurt so badly after all, as, notwithstandiag he has no first joint to his right fore finger he is reported as having recently made re- markably fast time and as being eage? to row Higgins, Courtney or Hanlan. James Higgins, of Shadwell, the champion of éng- land, who will be remembered as the sroke of-the London professional four at the Cen- tennial races, is a man of almost exactly Hanlan’s height and weight, thougl better off than he in having had‘ several men con- stantly at him, such as Elliott ard Boyd, who could give him all he wanted to do, Hanlan means, it is said, to sail ia Decem- ber for England, and it will doubtless be settled before next midsummer whether there is any man in Europe who can out- scull him. He cannot well get at Courtney again, then, before July. Unless Trickett comes to Europe or America, as Hanlan’s time is likely to be thus taken up, Trick- ett will probably remain champion of the world for nearly a year yet unless Court- ney goes out and beats him on his own Parametta River. This he will hardly do until he has another five-mile interview meanwhile with Hanlan, and this time on decent water. If the latter did actually row six miles with a turn in thirty-eight minutes when practising on the Kennebe- casis for his race with Wallace Ross, and he had as much current against him one way as he had with him the other, and if he can go that fast again, it looks very much as if the really fastest soullor in the world re- sides at present at Toronto. But we must be permitted to doubt that he made that time. Can An Egyptian Loan. Another Egyptian loan is the immediate result of tho arrangement by which the ad- ministration of that country has been put into English and French hands. Some credit is due to the organizers of this plan for having given the country even the moderate capacity for borrowing, repre- sented by the fact that it is willing to ac- cept seventy-five cents and pay interest on it a» if it werea dollar. By this loan tho burden of Egyptian indebtedness will not be incrensed, as its proceeds are to be ap- plied to the extinguishment of obligations ofa troublesome nature. It is based on the income from the Khedive’s surrendered es- tates, and that these will yield a net income equal to the interest on forty-two and a half million dollars, at five per cent, will give an idea of their extent, In the announce- ment of this loan the names of the British and French governments are tacked to the word “guarantee” in a way likely to deceive the careless reader. The governments guarantee the appointment of a commis- missioner to see that the revenues to pro- vide for this debt are properly applied; but they do not guarantee that application, Genenat Gronoz H. Saanre is nominated for the Assembly in the First district of Ulster county. General Sharpe has experi- ence and capacity to commend him to the support of the people of his district, and they will no doubt take care that he is not deteated, Ancient Critics on Modern Politicians, The aptest fables ever written are the old Greek ones which go under the name of f£sop, there being a question both as to their date and their real authorship, although there has never been any qnes- tion as to the superior keenness and fineness of observation which they display respecting the weak and ridiculous pecu- liarities of human nature. It may, indeed, be said of sop, as has been so often said of a celebrated modern writer—Rochefoucauld, the au- thor of the celebrated ‘‘Maxims”— that his wonderfully acuto observation is exhausted on the weak and base sides of human nature. This is quite wrue; but it is also true that the base and ridiculous hypocrisies which are so instructively ex- posed by the Greek fabulist happen to be the side of human nature which is most enduring and which has continued to fur- nish new verifications of Esop’s wisdom from the period when he wrote down to our own, They are more constantly applica- ble in politics than in any other depart- ment of activity, there being no other in which the selfish instincts and the transpar- ent hypocrisy with which they are at- tempted to be veiled play so large a part in the great comedy of human life. How little of Homer holds a place in popular recollection compared with the less copi- ous writings of the old fabulist and his curious menagerie of knowing beasts. Being founded on beasts, they, too, faith- fally portray tho beastly side of human conduct, and hence their peculiar apt- ness as illustrations of modern politics, The pending city contest comprises such a variety. of elements that it presents the whole diversified menagerie of feathered and unfeathered animals which make the recitals of sop so entertaining to child- hood by their grotesqueness and to grown people by their pithiness and satire. In reading our modernized Msopic and other fables this morning the units of the “overwhelring majorities” boldly claimed for all the candidates will not fail to recogn'ze how peculiarly applicable they are to the situation. The prize of offic, like the bone or the cheese o: other toothsome morsel in the fable, is sought to be won by an adoption of stratagens that mark the instinct of the political animal seeking to seize it. We find the sly fox, the blatant donkey, the self-dsceiving ostrich, the greedy dog, the cring‘ng jackal, the voracious wolf and the lion vho brooks no rival when the prey is to bs devoured —all contending in their pe- culiar way for a share, Progress in France. With what has been now actually gained in the choice of Senatorial electors it ap- pats to be certain that the renewals to be made in January next will give the republi- cans a majority in the FrenchSenate. This i an important success, as indicating the ‘aith with which the French people con- template the republican machinery of gov- ernment after a good trial of its opera- tion. And the France that has thus declared its faith in republican ideas is not that France of universal suffrage whose verdict has been decried by all the reactionary elements as that of ignorance, prejudice and fanatical popular passion, but it is France consulted ina way con- trived by the enemies of the Republic as one most likely to bring out that sentiment which it has been believed was opposed to democratic ideas. At last, therefore, even that France is convinced that it is time to try sincerely and honestly the only politi- cal system that is no longer a conspiracy. Both representative bodies will now, there- fore, be republican, and these on joint ballot will elect the next President, who will certainly be oa republican of whose faith and principles there can be no doubt, The Best Savings Banks. Savings banks that fail, savings banks that are plundered by burglars and say- ings banks that are robbed even more com- pletely by their officers—savings banks, in short, which are mere traps for the small store of the poor people—these classes seem to be more numerous than any other sort of savings banks of which the people can hear, and therefore it becomes a very important problem what thrifty men and women shall do with the few dollars they areable to lay aside from their earnings. One of our despatches points out that some of the citizens of Washington have found a satisfactory solution of this diffi- culty. They have withdrawn their de- posits and purchased, as far as their means go, the government four per cent loan. For some years now we have urged that our government should follow the example set in England, in associating with tho postal service asystem for aceepting the deposit of savings. All the arguments in favor of that are in favor of the people using the government bonds forthe same purpose. By this means money is less immediately accessible in case of need than it would bo by the postal savings bank system, but it is at least removed trom all the perils that surround it in the averago institution for savings. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. All the politieal signboards lead to Jerome, Mr. Lyon Playfair, of Bogland, is at the Windsor Hotel, Goneral James A. ‘voort Hous, Mr, Theodore D. Woolsey, of New Haven, is at the 014, of Ohio, is at the Bro , of Vermont, is atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel. In « Danbury oiothing store, says the News, ia a eard announcing :—‘Perfectly Gtting garments. Bver) article sets us good as a bev."? Mr. Joba W. Morton, son of the ls» Senator More ton, bas arrived home trom Alaska. Associate Jastice Stephen J. Field, f the United Tt # said that when Mr, Tilden head the sews about Nephew Pelton Ohio and it makes bim think of home. Mr, Theodore M, the Railway Mal! Service, bas tendered his resigna tion, to take effect upon the appointmes of bis suc cessor. Cungressman McCook’s friends hay ono leading argument in his favor, and it is thi he 1s one of many McCooks, But too many MoCd&ks may spoil the broth of a boy, Sir Jobn Rose, Canadian Commission’ at the Parts Exhibition, ts gaz.teed as having receed the Grand Cross et the Order of St, Michael audit. George for bis important services he Exoftion, Dr. Sandford B. Hu ditor of thWewark Daily Advertiser, is dangerously ill at bis redence tn Irv. ington, He has been suffering trom alarta tor sev. eral days, and since Sunday bas boenonfined to the house. Genoral George W. Getty, commidant of the United States artillery school at Foress Monroe, returned to that post yesterday andresumed com mand during the adjourument of t) Board ta the Fitz Jobn Porter case, of whic! BE SURE SOMEBODY EBE DON'T EAT YOUR CHESTUIS, FROM A NEW EDITION OFESOP, Once there were some nice ch the fire before the azo of a certai: certain cat, who were both very ton\ nuts. The monkey said to the oat, \y us combine to steal those chestnuts’? ‘Agreed,’jaid the cas, “You know,’/ said the monkey, ‘*myjand® are not long enough to reuch the outs, but/e can easily get them it you will allow me to bd one of your paws io one of my hands’? “Alright,” said the cat, who though Susually bo sly and cautious, was completely takea in byhe smile ‘so childhke and bland” of th 80 Mr. Monkey obtained pos: with which he salely swept the nutsfom the burn- ing pan, and ate them with great rolis) Mr, Cat wag 80 busy trying tv cool bis scorchedjwes after the nuts were secured that all were doured by Mr, Monkey. Morat.—Is it necessary to pointjut the moral here? Guess not. But iet us remark @t the monkey at Gramercy, the oat bas a porary abode in the Custom House and the chestny should be af the City Hall. SS AMUSEMENTS. ITALIAN OPERA—“‘DER FRHCHUTZ.” lcuor Franceseht “Sigaor Pyat Jéiinor Bignarat Signor Graszl Mile. Parodi Mme Sinice me, Robiath Weber’s admired opera ‘Der Freipiitz’’ was givea Inst night to fill the gap occasioned (Mme: G4rster’s Protracted iliness. Mr. Maploson edd scarcely bave made a more unfortunate choice, fos showed all the weakness of his company and nonot its st gtb, Neither Miss Haux nor Signor Capanini were io the cast, and, of course, neither} the baritones, Galassior Del Puente, both of wnm aro favorites witn the public. General interest concentrated upon the performances of amy Fi as Gasparo and Signor Tecchi as Max. fort claimed no allowance on itil ff physical disability, sat e is, and produced somes) did notes; but his lower votes were sadly yuting, and what ever be may baye been it would $m that he is ne” Jonger a basso profunde, His abg was thronghout The music of Max aqaire: bt whieh Signor Tecohi ortuly t it, something ligherin quality thug ot adigrazia, it te bollov am inilexibie, and 1 once last night be smug $e xcructatingly tame,and te of the qualifications off firs looked and ‘acted Anetta wcceptavly, though animprossively. fhe mccevs of Mine even: ing was made by M by comparison with ber ass clear voice rang out with teliig Of the celebrated “Prayor” s@ne, The choru far better than we have evir telore beard im the ration under Arditi, who jerentcomposers, @, ant, although of the incantation jonce wag not, as is aspoytia by the There was no ecena, whieh jandsomely nelved. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, itz’? is filling the house st the Standard, One Jost compell ay stad! Maggie Mitchell makes ber! Grand Opera House this alter: At Waliack’s “Senool tor jcahdai” is to be agaim played this afternoon, and atniht “The Rivals.” “Mother and Son’? is driwing {uli houses at the Union Square Theatre, Anoherdrama, however, is Uxely to follow 1t very soon George Knight follows ‘Leal” at the Broadway brigh German sketches, Mme, Von Stamwitz, howover, his jel{ able artistic impression. “La Cigale,” as presented at become one of the drammic feitures of the season, Lotta gives the public mere fuc in a eircus way thea ‘we have seen for a jong ime. At the first concert ofthe Synphony Society, which ta te be given at Steinway Hall Yovember 7, the grand ‘a of sevont; will pley Beethoven's Symp! j the overture to Goldmari coneorts conducted by Mr. Cariberg, at Ci Hall, the grand orchestra wil! play Schu phony in D minor, No 4, andBoethove: in A major, No. 7; Remony, be Hungarian viohatst, will play Sponr’s “Concer Dramatico,” and Mise Kate Thayer will sing the etter” aria trom “Don Giovanni." “Faust’’ is to be presente: this afternoon at the Hauk, Campanini, Pisani im the cast, “Carmen’! will be given foi tue fourth time oa Mom day next, and at at the meinée againon Saturday next, “Don Giovanni,” wth Miss Hauk, Mile, Parodi, Mme, Sintco, Signor *rapolli and Signor Folt, wilt be visited Brazil, singing a routd of premii success, and, returning to Gurope, was the La Senla, of Milan, and he royal opera at Madrid, From this place he weat ® London, having been engaged by beater Mapleson for three years, of a solid, mellow vit of Bollni, popularly kaown here judetta Galassi, te the original Cas tala critical @ty of Milan, and bee sinos sung with the great teno! Tamberlik in Havana and Mexioo, —— THE NOMINATION OF THE GIRAFFE, ANOTHER FADIA NOT BY ZSoP, A cortain Election veins about to bo bold of a King ot Anima's, the Lion mide sure of a Re-election, Bat a Convention of Kichers was called a lew Woeke 8 to Election Duy, and an Opposition Ticket Ived upon, “here were present the Ostrich, many been carefully coached bofor “Gra'mercy,’’ said He, “put Ye up the Giraffe, He has the Nock of tne Ostrich, the Head of the Horse, the Body of the Camel, tho Lega of the Donkey, the Tall of the Male, and the Consciones of the Hyena He will break the Schell ef the Lion and How it is Fragments, K-whooper up lively, and we will bave no more Lyin’ except our own.” The Giraffe accordingly received the Nomination, But on Election Day he coula not be found, and the Lion waa according jeoved, MoRab.—lo Heterogeneous Union there is a0 atreng\a, owl, Donkey,