The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1878, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day im the year. Three cents per copy (S ded). Ten dollars per ear, or at a rate of one dollar per mouth for any period than six mouths, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, free of postage. WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- *SOTICE TO SUBS York or Post Office moi ftx on New $.—Remit in and where neither of these ed send in a registered letter, danney Fomitted atrisk of in order to insure atten- tion subscribers wishing their addross changed must give their old as well as their new address. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must ‘ MRALD. ould be property sealed, will not be returned. CE-NO. 12 SOUTH SIXTH Oa NEW YORK HERALD— VENUE DE L'OPERA. A “American exhibitors ut the International Exposition ean have Deir letters (if postpaid) addressed to the care of our Paris office charge, OS pins OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and ferwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XLIL- 309 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. cass aie BOWERY THEATHE—Rosr Micaxt. BOOTH'’S THEATER! Opera Bourre, WALLACK’S THEAPRE—Tnx Roap to Rum. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Moruxr axp Som, STANDARD THEATRE— Fritz. AMERICAN INSTITUT! 0 WIBLO’S GARDEN—Tue Deivce. BRAND OPERA HO! S 3AN FRANCISCO M TIVOLI THEATRE— ACADEMY OF DESI THEATRE COMIQU BROAD ST. THEATRE, Philadelphia—Hr: WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK, TU ‘The proba York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair or clear. To-morrow but litle change will take place. POLLS OPEN AT SIX A. M. AND CLOSE AT FOUR P. M. Watt Street Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- ket was active and steady. Gold was steady all day at 100%. Governrent bonds were firm, States steady and railroads quiet. Money on call was steady at 5 a 6 a 4 per cent. In Cura the operations of the troops are car- ried on upon so extensive a scale as to give rise to the report that a new rebellion has brokenout. Vote Earty, But Nor Orrey. Tne Races aT Jerome Park to-day will be the last of the season in this part of the country. | A very large attendance and some excellent sport may be exp AccorDING to our despatches very severe gales have prevailed on the upper lakes for several days past. Many lives have been lost and several small vessels driven ashore. Next To THe Contest in this State to-day the Dattle in Massachusetts will probably be the most interesting to all our citizens General Butler’s chances are not of the brightest. Vore For THE Best Man For Maror. of ees Ir Is Setpom that a sadder tale of two cities le printed than that of the unfortunate woman who was found in a starving condition on Broad- way yesterday, her husband having died of yel- low fever in New Orleans. A Larce Numper of distinguished Baptist clergymen and laymen expressed in a formal ad- dress yesterday the esteem in which they held the Dean of Westminster. It is sweet to see brethren dwelling together in peace. Vote ror Guynxina S. Beprorp For Crrr Jopce. InsTEAD OF MAKING Appropriations for the Indians the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church yesterday ought to have set apart a good round sum for the benefit of the Indian Ring. They are the savages who need conversion. Berore The Enp of the season of naviga- tion the canal receipts will, it is believed, show an increase of two hundred thousand dollars over those of last year. As the railroad traffic has not fallen off there could not be a better evi- dence of the revival of business. Curs Law Pry, the Chiness Minister, was the attraction at the Maryland Institute Fair, in Baltimore, yesterday, as the President was a few days ago. He drew immensely, and was hospitably entertained by the managers, who entertain none of the foolish prejudices of the San Franciscans. Vote ror Att THE Goon Canpipates. Ax Ipra of the ravages of the yellow fever in Memphis may be obtained from the letter else where printed describing the progress of the plague among the employés of one of the news- paper offices—the Appeal. In all sixty-eight persons were attacked, thirty-two of whom have been buried. Wuen Ir Comes to the payment of money benevolent associations are as a rule not much better than insurance companies, the generosity of which is proverbial. Th cision in one of the courts yesterday that harsh and oppressive bylaws are powerless to protect them in an evasion of their just obligations. Tae Weatner.—During yesterday the de pression that | from © la into Nova Scotia and Ne ck developed on the northern margin of the Gulf Stream ad low barometer. It did not, however, weather within t territory of the States except in the ¢ SV United treme northeast of Maine, In the Northwest and West the barometer has fallen briskly, with warm southerly winds. The new depression advancing from that direetion will probably move toward the lowe e ond Ohio Valley regions, and find an outlet to the Atlantic coast in that direction. As yet the weather continues extremely fine over oll the territory east of the Missouri and Mississippi valleys, being cool on the eastern and warm on the western section of that area. The highest pressures are now north of the lakes and south of Tennessee. There will be no appreciable change in the weather today from that pub- lished for the several States in the Hpnatp yes terday, except perhaps an increase of cloudi- ness in the fur Northwest, into which a depres- pion is now moving, The ather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair or clear. To-morrow but little chagge will take place. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1878—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Mistakes About the Indians. When an American attempts to count up the mistakes about the Indians which his government and his fellow citizens have made, he presently discovers that he needs more counters than his fingers and toes. It has been a common frontier mistake to believe that ‘‘there are no good Indians but dead Indians ;” one of our greatest mistakes has been to thigk that the Indian naturally likes to be robbed and swindled;a great many people have long been persuaded that it was a mistake to transfer the Indian Bureau from the War to the Interior Department ; it is undoubtedly a mistake to sell arms aud ammunition to the Indians and thus enable them to fight our troops, Secretary Schurz has discovered that it is a mistake to allow the warlike Indians to own herds of ponies, and some day General Sheridan will dis- cover that it is a mistake not to kill every Indian pony his men capture. It is un- doubtedly a mistake to make treaties with will see by a de- | an Indian tribe as though it were a sov- ereign nation, and itis alsoa mistake to treat the Indians as Indians at all, for they ought to be made amenable to the general laws precisely as other residents of our Ter- ritories are. But here comes Colonel: Mallery, of the United States Army, with proof of some other and fundamentalterrors into which we have fallen about the Indians. In the first place he asserts that it is a mistake to call the Indian a “red man.” Colonel Mal- lery having probably caused some Indians to wash themselves discovered to his amaze- ment that after a thorough bath the North American Indian is not red, but brown; and he remarks that the Indians themselves know this so well that among the savage tribes our own people—General Sheridan and Colonel Mallery for instance—are com- monly called ‘‘red men,” as being at least more red, through exposure ‘to the sun and fresh air, than the Indians, who guard their complexions with vermilion and other paints. A more serious mistake which we have all been making about the Indians, he says, is to suppose they are rapidly dying out. In fact, as he proves, there is the best reason to believe that in spite of bad whiskey, fre- quent wars, the decrease in buffalo, the rifle of the frontiersman and the swin- dies of Indian agents the Indian is slowly increasing on our hands. The early settlers of different parts of our coun- try who have left us accounts of the num- ber of the Indian tribes they encountered there is good reason to believe depended largely on theirimaginations for their facts. Thus Colonel Mallery cites the report of Father HRasle, early in the seventeenth cen- tury, who wrote that he had seen in one place in Illinois twelve hundred fires kindled for more than two thousand Indian families, but other .missionaries passing that way soon after found no Indians at all In fact, these fires were kindled by a great hunting expedition, and the Colonel re- marks that ‘‘these temporary fires no more indicated the population of a large district than would the halt of o great caravan establish the population of the Sahara.” He shows by abundant evidence how greatly the original Indian population of the coun- try was overestimated, and even in the case of the California Indians, who undoubtedly suffered greatly from the brutality of our early settlers in that State, he has some remarkable figures, showing that of twenty thousand, the actual number in that State in 1847, there still remain at least thirteen thousand. But this is a case where in the common persuasion the Indians have become almost extinct, and where they have certainly been very shamefully maltreated. The case of the Seminoles is another very striking one. In 1822 they are reported to have numbered three thousand eight hun- dred and ninety-nine. In 1835 the United States went to war with them, and they then numbered about fitteen hundred, The government spent thirty millions in trying to kill or remove them; and in 1875 the census showed that they had, in spite of the efforts of the United States, in forty years doubled their numbers. A potent cause of error in the earlicr guesses at the numbers of the Indians, which affected greatly all more recent esti- mates, arose trom the confusion concerning the names of the tribes. Travellers and set- lers reported tribes, gave their numbers, and subsequent explorers or investigators reported that many of these tribes were no longer to be found. Of course they had died of contact with the white race, But the truth was that the earlier reports were erroneous. ‘They reported, in good faith, names of tribes which were synonymes, or they bred confusion by mis- spelling names of well known tribes., Thus the Mohawks were reported also as Anies, Manguawogs, Canungas, and by half a dozen other aliases. The Senecas were also Sin- nikes, Genessees, Chenandoans, Jenon- towanos and Nundarawonahs. The Dakotas were reported as Nadowessi, a name sup- posed at one time to mean ‘hated foes’ in the Algonkin tongue, but heid now more probably to bea corruption from the French, who called these people “Indiens du nord-ouest,” whence the Indians com- pliantly called themselves ‘‘Nadou- essie.” The same tribe or nation had half a dozen different names among its friendly or hostile Indian neighbors ; and a traveller naturally put down in his note book each of these names as represent- ing @ disfinct tribe. Lewis and Clarke lamented the extinction of the great Paduca nation, of which they remark nothing re- mained but the name; whereas, says Col- onel Mallery, in truth the Indians remain, bnt have long ago dropped their name, being now existent and known as Co- manches and Kiowahs and probably as numerous as they were before Lewis and Clarke mourned their extinction, The Iroquois, it is established, now num. | ber 13,668 souls, as against 11, in 1763, ‘The Sioux confederacy have quadrupled their numbers in one hundred and forty years and doubled them in twenty-nine years. thorough investigation, that there were not ot Mexico on this continent when Colum- bus discovered America, and he shows that | there are now three hundred thousand, Colonel Mallery concludes, atter a | | Warm up. more than holf u million of Indians north | without counting. half-breeds. But what is of more moment to us, who have the charge of the remaining Indian people within our borders, and to whom it must be a matter of conscience to see that they are decently treated, actual count shows that in the last four years, in a popu- lation of one hundred thousand Indians, belonging to nearly one hundred tribes, there has been an actual though slow increase, the excess of births over deaths varying from six-tenths of one per cent to 2.32 per cent. ‘This is the important fact developed by Colonel Mallery’s valuable investigation. The Indians are not dying out; and our In- dian policy concerns, therefore, not a race which will presently disappear, but a people who are permanently a part of us and for whose care and future we must have not a temporary and perfunctory policy, but one which shall last, and whose chief object should be to redeem them as’quickly as possibly from their savage state and in- corporate them into the general body of the people, making them amenable to the same laws as other residents and throwing upon them, as quickly as is reasonable, the bur- dens of lite, from which the agency plan now too greatly relieves them. On the present theory the Indian is perforce a tramp.’ He cannot own property individ- ually—at least, he is not encouraged to do so. If he separates himself from his tribe and tries to earn his living by labor he becomes an object of suspicion and perse- cution by the Indian agents, to whom he then ceases to be profitable ; and it is buta few years since that in California hundreds of Indians, living quietly and usefully as farm laborers, were suddenly and cruelly “gobbled up” by the Indian Bureau and forced on to a reservation, to be made pau- pers against their wills, The United States Senate To-Day. Of the State Legislatures to be chosen to- day seventeen will this winter choose United States Senators. Besides these there are seven States which have already chosen their new Senators, where the Legislatures have already been elected. Of the States which will send new Sena- tors to take their seats on or after next 4th of March, Alabama, Arkansas, Cali- fornia, Florida, Ohio, Oregon and South Carolina will exch nge republicans for dem- ocrats; Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Wisconsin republican, and Indiana, Geor- gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mis- souri and North Carolina democratic, will make no change in the politics of their Sen- ators. Connecticut and Pennsylvania are doubttul, though it is probable that neither will change. Of the thirty-eight States twenty-four have now democratic Governors and only fourteen republican, but the election to- day may change the politicel complexion of several States. All Right. A democratic member of Congress the other day in Washington gave assurance that assoon as Congress meets he will in- troduce a resolution directing the Potter Committee to investigate all the cipher tele- grams of both sides. All right. We suspect that about one- half the members of the House have reso- lutions in their pockets ready to be flung at the reading clerk as soon as they can catch the Speaker's eye, ordering an investigation. Mr. Hale has, we believe, pre-empted the ground on the republican side; Mr. Potter himself may be heard from, and the open- ing hours of the session will be made lively by gentlemen anxious to investigate every- body and everything. We trust Speaker Randall will rule all efforts at investigation ia order. The House cannot do anything less, harmful for the three months which will remain to it when it meets than resolve itself into half a dozen or a dozen energetic committees of inquiry, and give the whole of its great mind to cipher despatches. The country can get on very well without any new laws, and the appropriations will not take up much time. If both houses will agree to do nothing for the session except pass the necessary appropriations and investigate cipher despatches the people of the United States will be happy and content. We are not of those who habitnally speak with contempt of Congress, nor do we ap- prove of this too prevalent habit in the press and among the people, but the posi- tion of the country just now, the condition of industry and trade, leave nothing for the present Congress to do which it is at all likely to do, and therefore the less it at- tempts to do the better. Keep Cool. We have already been informed by our weather prophet that the meteorological conditions to-day will be clear and cool. Our citizens could not vote under better circumstances ; let them see clearly what they are aboutand keep cool. If ‘an area of low barometer” begins settling over any par- ticular candidate he will show an admirably philosophic spirit in keeping cool. In sev- eral of the districts where the wind of party feeling blows high, where the raging candi- date for Alderman skims about like one of Mother Carey's chickens with a storm in his wake, let the citizens, irrespective of party, form themselves into refrigerator committees to keep things cool. It may grow cloudy for Assembly aspirants, but still they owe it to their country to remain cool. There is no necessity to tell Mr. Tilden to keep cool ; he is a whole iceberg in himself. But let him anchor himself to windward of Mr, Cooper thronghout the exciting day to keep down his candidate's temperature. He might also send up a chunk of the glacial to Keep all day between Mr, O'Brien and Mr, Croker, who generally need some- thing extra around election times to keep them cool, Let Mr. Kelly keep cool, and ask Mr. Schell to keep cool. The eventful struggle will soon be over, and when at eve the small boy seizes promiscuously ash barrels and apple stands for bonfire mate- rial, it will be time enough for the elders to An hour or two, particularly in front of the Hrustp bulletins, will decide our citizens whether they are entitled to cheer as they voted, orto cheer with the other fellows if they want to cheer at all. An Appeal from Japan. Mr. Matsuyama Makoto, a Japanese gen- tleman who has spent the last eight years in Europe and the United States, has been taking a survey of his own country tor some months, and contributes to the current rum- ber of the North American Review a thought- ful and suggestive article on the foreign rela- tions of Japan, which appear to him ex- tremely unsatisfactory. Japan, he says, has had but one friend among the Christian na- tions, and that friend has been the United States; but he complains, and justly, as it seems to us, that while we have always acted honorably toward his country we have for the most part done nothing. Japan, he says, at a time when her people and government were ignorant of interna- tional relations, was persuaded or ‘coerced into consenting to a treaty which actually resigned a large part of her sovereign rights as a nation, because it agreed to a scale of customs duties injurious to her people and to the right of foreign consuls to act as judges in cases where their own citizens or subjects were in litigation with Japanese, which has caused constant trouble. The Japanese government is now about to pro- pose a change in these treaty provisions, and the writer appeals to the government and people of the United States for aid and countenance in this matter. He presents a strong case, and it is the stronger by his showing that the English have been the authors of the sharp practice which has injured and humiliated Jupan, and that they, or at least their agents, are those who now oppose the legitimate wishes of the Japanese people and government. He shows, too, that English agents and mer- chants are at this very time engaged in an iniquitous attempt to force the Japanese government to allow the importation of opium, which is forbidden under laws which the British consuls assist their coun- trymen to evade. If the intelligent Japanese Minister at Washington, Mr. Yoshida, should ask the help of the United States toward a revision of the commercial treaties from which Japan is said to suffer we have no doubt that he would get a ready hearing from Secretary Evarts, who is awake to the advantage of securing better commercial relations with other countries, and would, we have no doubt, very gladly co-operate in anything which would do justice to Japan, not only because that country ought to be justly treated by foreign nations, but because, though we have benefited but little by our commerce with Japan, the United States are the ‘most ancient” ally of that country. The commerce of Japan deserves our attention for our own sakes. It is ao trade with nearly forty millions of in- dustrious people, who bought imports in 1876-7 to the amount of over twenty- five million dollars, of which we sold them only eleven hundred thousand dol- lars’ worth, while Great Britain and her colonies sold them over fifteen millions. Of the imports into Japan in that year seven millions were of cotton goods, seven millions of iron goods and three millions of woollens, Surely we are prepared to sell Japan more than eleven hundred thousand dollars’ worth of such manufactures, es- pecially when we bought of her in the same year over thirteen millions’ worth, of which ninety-eight per cent came into our ports duty free. We recommend the case of Japan to Secretary Evarts as worth looking after, We are already favorites with the Japanese, and we ought to push our advan- tages, Conspirators’ Day. The patriotic voter in New York who has listened obediently to the mouthpieces of his party, no matter which party it may be, has learned ere this that the candidates for whom,he is not going to vote are suspected of a never-equalled assortment of terrible conspiracies. If, therefore, he is suscep- tible to coincidences, he will grip his ballot with more than ordinary determination and take a longer stride than usual on his way to the polls as he realizes that to-day is Guy Fawkes’ Day as well as election day, and that history has come along the centuries and across the Atlantic to repeat itself in our own metropolis, Guy Fawkes operated with gunpowder and under the houses of parliament; but what is the villanous saltpetre compared with the villanous games that every voter is sure the other side is up to? What are houses of parliament compared with court houses and city halls and assem- bly chambers, to say nothing of more im- portant buildings, under which every voter believes that all sorts of dark conspirators are hard at work with all sorts of tools and appliances, among which wires and pipes are prominent? And when the shades of even fall, and the patriotic voter's own can- didate is elected, as the voter is already sure he will be, what is the burning of Guy Fawkes in effigy compared with the “roasting” which will be bestowed by the successful voter upon the foiled conspira- tors and all of their miserable apologists? Inspiriting coincidence ! American Jockey Club. Jerome Park will be the scene of great excitement to-day. Seven races are on the card, and they are of a character that will please all who witness them. ‘Ihe first will be a dash of three-quarters of a mile with maiden allowances. ‘There are five entries, comprising Simoon (4), 1001bs.; Dan K. (4), 110 Ibs.; Pique (3), 97 lbs.; Bonnie Wood (3), 97 1bs., and Susquehanna (4), 110 Ibs, The second event will be a race for the Hotel Stakes, a dash of a mile and three- quarters, a handicap that will have four starters, comprising Bramble (3), 110 Ibs. ; Loulanier (3), 100 Ibs. ; Bayard (3), 97 Ibs, and Franklin (3), 88 Ibs. The third race will bo a dash of a mile and an eighth sora purse given by Mr. G. L, Loril- lard. For this event five will go to the post, viz. :—Hattie F. (5), with 104 Ibs. up; Sus- quehanna (4), 105 lbs.; Warfield (3), 104 lbs.; Bonnie Wood (3), 102 lbs., and Bertha (3), 92 lbs. ‘The fourth race is a selling one, in which each owner handicaps to suit himself by placing a value on his horse, the distance one mile. Eight will start, con- |, a8 W. L Higgins (4), 100 Ibs. ; Simoon, (4), 92 lbs.; Albert (3), 105 tbs.; Miss Mal- loy (3), Stulbs.; Pique (3). 97 lbs.: Nannie that H. (4), 100 Ibs.; Janet Murray (3), 97 Ibs., and Rifle (3), 103 Ibs. The fifth race will bea dash for two-year-olds, three-quarters of a mile. This will be an interesting affair between Startle, with 110 Ibs. up; Una, 103 Ibs.; and Kingston, 100 lbs. The sixth race will be a dash of half a mile for all ages, for a purse of $300, given by Mr. Pierre Lorillard. Six are announced to start. hese are Fusillade (3), 107 !bs.; Warfield (3), 107 lbs.; Empress (4), 115 Ibs.; Dan K. (4), 115 1bs., Bonnie Wood (3), 107 Ibs., and La Belle Heléne (3), 107 lbs. The closing event of the day will bea steeple- chase, the most popular race of all among a large portion of our citizens, and which alone would bring out a crowd to Jerome Park. Seven are named to start, and from the manner they are handicapped the race must be a good one. The starters named are Deadhead, 156 lbs.; Disturbance, 144 lbs.; Dailgasian, 144 Ibs.; Lord Zetland, 142 Ibs.; Bay Rum, 140 Ibs.; Patriot, 138 Tbs., and Lizzie D., 180 lbs. The races will begin at one o'clock, and trains will run at 11:30, 12:30, 12 and 12:25 for the course, “Deuced Awkward, You Know.” We know not what wild freak of the cable, what Afghan nightmare, what Rus- sian bogey, is responsible for the peculiar mixture of howl and whine emitted yester- day afternoon by the Pall Mall Gazette on the fishery question. A telegraphic sum- mary of Secretary Evarts’ admirable and evenstempered note to Mr, Welsh, examining and overturning Lord Salis- bury’s position on the rights of a New- foundland mob to drive off our fishermen in defiance of their rights under the Treaty of Washington, appears to be the immediate cause of this outburst of lamentation and rage. What kind of summary would make Mr. Evarts’ very plain statement appear “rather threatening” to British eyes we can- not say, suffering as those eyes are from acute Oriental inflammation. It is ‘‘scarcely accidental,” says the Gazette, that this note should come at a time when England has her hands full of com- plications. No, it was the design of this truculent Mr. Evarts to catch Lord Salis- bury between the Afghan devil and Russian deep sea and breathe horrible threats at him if he did not summarily pay for the damages to our _fishermen’s nets. It was, it seems, directly con- trary to the spirit’ of the Treaty of Washington (which, by the way, the Gazette refers to with loathing) that our Secretary of State should remonstrate against any British outrage, until he had first assured himself that England had, Lord Salisbury had, no other little difficulty on hand. To go “suddenly springing diplomatic mines at an awkward time,” you know, is per- fectly awful. " Having started on this intelligent basis it is perfectly natural that the journal, which, we believe, is controlled by a Cab- inet Minister, should lash itself into fury and fall into. lamentable errors. The award of the Halifax Commission, it states, is ‘due and long over- due,” and furthermore, it adds, the American press demands that the award shall not be paid at all until the Newfoundland damages are assessed and deducted. As the date settled for payment of the award is the 24th inst., and the money is already in London, and no re- spectable newspaper in America has claimed that it should not be handed over to the British government at the proper time, we think the Gazette has rather defective sources of informa- tion, to put it mildly. That it then. proceeds to talk ina wild and horrible way of galvanizing the claims tor Fenian damages which were laughed ont of court so many years ago, together with other exploded Canadian grievances, is not surprising. ‘To be sure it naively admits ‘Lord Salisbury may have taken up a false position,” but that he should be compelled to take up a false position at ‘an awkward time” evidently convicts Mr. Evarts of the most wilful maliciousness or some other terrible crime ‘‘contrary to every principle of international law.” Verily, the straits of a British party which has taken a contract with itself for a ‘spirited foreign policy” are pitiable. To find the precious Berlin Treaty going to pieces and Shere Ali reinforcing Ali Musjid is bad enough without Mr. Evarts raising ‘‘chim- eras dire” by writing to Mr. Welsh. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Moody is never moody, Pearls and feathers are the rage this season. Old Father Time is a far-sickle old fellow, after all, Several electric light companies have been organized in London. ‘The St. Louis Journal says that the German figure of speech is 9, An English magistrate decides that steel spurs on a game cock are spurfluous. If Talmage keeps on dumping garbage his congre- gation will get yellow fever. Please, oh please, do not send us any more jokes about Gortschakoff and Schouvaloff. Perfumed gloves are pleasant only so long as the odor lasts, which is only a little while. The Austrians have no word in which fitly to ex- press their dislike of Count Andrassy. Paris ladies are wearing blue or red plush jackets, with slashed sleeves and steel buttons. A Nevada man has a trotting horse called “Tho Chinaman.” The Chinaman must go. Talmage says he never sowed any wild oats when he was young. His oats were all tame. Acorrespondent asks us whether Talmage is not a gas bag. Well, yes, a sort of balloonatic, Senators James G. Biaine, of Maine, and Justin 8. Morrill, of Vermont, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Among those who sailed for Europe in the steamer Switzerland, from Philadelphia yesterday, were Colonel Thomas A. Scott and family. London Globe:—‘A most important distinction be- tween socialism in America and socialism in Germany is that the former works in the open light of day, while the latter is toa large extent @ secret move- ment.” « A cable despatch from Berlin denies the truth of the report published in the Paris Univers that Mile. Mar- garet Rothschild had applied for admission to the Catholic Church, as a preliminary to her marriage with the Due de Guiche, Prince Bismarck arrived in Berlin on Sunday to attend the marriage of his daughter with Count Rauitzau, whieh is to take place to-morrow. After the wedding the Prince will proceed to Varzin, where he will remain till Christmas. M. Philippart, of Brussels, the well known French- Belgian railway contractor and! financial kite-flyer, who was tried for embezzlement and breach of trust, was acquitted of these charges yesterday, but has been sentenced to six months’ iinprisonment for in- curring largo Mabilities, knowing bis inability to meot | them, . i (<n AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—‘‘CARMEN. The fourth representation in New York of | «is o famous opera took place at the Academy of $' sir evening, in the presence of a large and tasiione andience. The cast was unchanged, and Miss Hauk continues to challenge more or les# of #!): tion us the leading spirit of the opera, Bo her now and then exhibits defects of intonatic’ phrasing occasionally lacks sweetness and rou") it cannot be denied that she acts the part of tlw |: ing, unscrupulous Carmen with a grace that is »t finished and natural. It must also be co: that the more frequently one listens * { prima donna the stronger grows tl a pression produced by her fine artistic «t0ilti Signor Campanini again illustrated 1 j mirable school, and was repeatedly ap) (i/o Dramatically the part affords him scope £0 th the best of his performances. In the music ot kaca millo Signor del Puente has an opportunity, fo which he appears to be admirably sulted. for the ex hibition of his voice. His ‘Toreador Attento” is one of the best numbers of the opera, full of fire and| splendidly harmonized, Mmes. ico and Lablache sang their respective réles with the smoothness char- acteristic of their former efforts and received the plaudits of the house. Cavalazzi appeared in the allet as light and graceful as ever, chorus was better than usual, and the orchestra under the supert leadership of Signor Arditi can scarcely be improved, Opinions still vary as to the place which “Carmen” will occupy among modern operas and the distinctive type of music which it represents, but it has unquestion, ably strong clements of attraction, and will excite critical curiosity wherever it is presented. BROADWAY THEATRE—‘‘OTTO, A GERMAN.” Otto Rutger, » German -Mr. George 8. Knight Linette, Queen of Hearts. Mrs. George, Knight Gottleib Muller, a rich brewer. oi, Ward Dick Freely, whose name indicates his ¢ er nA. Mackay 0, Mr. .'T, Nicholls Casper Becks, an importation of doubtfu Benjamin Freely, a “Business man, sir” Mr. Matthew Holmes Adolph Morton, moro youthful than verdant Mr, Walter Bronson Old Bil, guardian spirit of the brewery. .Mr. W. H. Portello Christine, snloying Tove's young dream, Miss Eva G. Barker Mrs, Freely, who likes to have her “say” irs. D. B. Van Deren A full house awaited Mr. George 8. Knight at the Broadway Theatre last night and greeted him and his wife (née Sophie Worrell) as heartily as any actors could have desired. Mr. Knight is as droll as ever and his wife fully as sprightly, and as the piece itself is considerably better than plays written for special- ists like Mr. Knight it promises to draw full houses, “Otto” has been seen in New York before, and one of its leading attractions, consisting in a wonderful and thoroughly artistic ‘fit’ in which the hero ine dulges, was done by Mr. Kuight two years ago ‘in George Fawcett Rowe's play, “Fifth Avenue,” so that no detailed description of the piece is necessary. It is worthy of remark, however, that people crowd to see plays like ‘Otto,’ “Joshua Whitcomb” and several others which might be named, although these are in many respects very faulty in the artistic sense, and are seldom cast 2s well as plays which are better written but less popular. The reason is simple enough to any one who has seen the pieces named, Each has for its hero a simple, natural person of a type familiar to every one, and with the humor which seems inseparable from real naturalness. It may be lamentable that theatre audiences enjoy mere fun more than they do high art or the emotional drama, and are even willing to endure a great deal more of the “variety” business than belongs legitimately to an; play; but the fact being as it is, and managers ant dramatists being human as well as audiences, the hint that is implied by the success of such pieces should urge more attention to the humorous element of the drama. In real life fun is about as frequent and in- tense as sorrow, and unless the same proportion is observed in the ‘drama only the most powerful work can atone for the lack of the natural spice of life. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—“‘STRUCK OTL.” Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Williamson reappeared at this house last night in their specialties “Struck Oil” and “The Chinese Question.” Mr. Williamson’s John Stofel remains the same inimitable piece of character acting that moves in its higher moods by its infec tious humor, as deeply as it touches by its pathos in its more serious moments. Mrs. Williamson gives a less profound, but not less moving Sartonpey oA ture as Lizzie Stofel, and her admirable singing of her merry songs, fittingly supplement her pn and mirth provoking acting. e support was as aa the somewhat less minor parts of the piece de» served, and in some cases better. Mr, W. H. L barring a tendency to extravagance, was especially good as Deacon Skinner, and Miss Ida Vernon gave unusual prominence to Susan Stofel. wae acted with the sparkling mirth characteristic of thie talented couple in the Crag edge wo of thia trifle. It would have been more effective, however, had it not been delayed Pt the slow process of the first piece, ot an hour behind the advertised time. There was a good audience in attendance, and the pere formances were warmly received, BOWERY THEATRE—MISS EYTINGE MICHEL, Miss Rose Eytinge, the favorite actress, began an engagement at the Bowery Theatre last evening in the sensational drama of “Rose Michel,” she assuming ” the title rd/e. A large and appreciative audience greeted Miss Eytinge, the old house being filled from pit to dome, and so successful was the lady with her auditors that they summoned the star before the cure tain at the close of almost every act. The character of Pierre Michel, the miser and murderer, was as- sumed by Mr. Cyril Searle, and in his rendition this rising actor gave further proof of his histrionic power, ‘The remainder of the cast was filled by the stock com- pany, and their support was sufficiently good te enable the leading actress and actor to deepen their impression on the house. The engagement of Mise Eytinge closes with this week, and she will appear om Friday night as Nancy Sykes, a character in which she won success on the London boards. 4S ROSE PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN. ‘The exitement among the politicians and those who are interested in the result of the battle of the ballot did not prevent the haditués of the Park ‘Theatre, and such persons as are fond of witnessing @ good play, from attending that cosey place of amuse ment last evening. The attraction there was the famous artiste Mme. Janauschek, who commenced a week's engagement before The performance given was ‘Chesney adaptation of Dickens’ ‘Bleak House.” Mme. Janau- echek assumed the double réle of Lady Dedlock and the French maid Hortense. She received an excellent support from the regular company of the Park Theatre, and the costuming and mount of: the piece was most creditable. “Branhild” will be given at this theatre on Thursday and Friday evenings and at the matinée on Saturday “Mary Stuart” y. evel ing the only representation of fan” will be given, so that Brooklynites may be congratylated upon their oppor- tunities of beholding the great tragedy queen in sow eral of her best réles, i MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. French operas are being given in Amsterdant. Alarge number of musical works are announced for publication this season in London, Mrs. Isabella Stone’Pond has been engaged as the vocalist of the Ole Bull Concert Company. Sardou has finished acomedy, entitled “Gold Dust,’* that is to be produced in the United States, Miss Maggie Mitchell has entered on a two week's engagement at the Holiday Street, Baltimore. The Philharmonic Socicty give their first concert at the Academy of Music, and not at Steinway Hall, Mme. Modjeska has entered on her last week at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, and on Friday takes her fare- well benefit. Owing to the illness of the tenor at the Grand Opera House, Paris, lately, the manager had to return the receipts to the amount of 22,000 francs. Marquis, a Brazillian rider; Wodda Cook, an expert equestrian, and the Herbert Brothers are among the leading features at Barnum’'s Show this week. Mr. Jacob Gosche, who for a number of years was the manager of Theodore Thomas, is announced to give a series of concerts in the Boston Music Hall. Since the production of “Mignon” in 1867 it has at tracted to the Paris Opéra Comique alone upwards of 8,500,000 frances, Its five hundredth representation took place there on the 2ist of October. Mr. John White, the organist of St. Patrick’s Cathe. dral, gives the first of his recitals to-morrow afters noon at half-past three, in the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, Sixty-sixth street and Lexington avenue, Romenyi’s real name is Hoffman. He changed it after the revolution in 1848, during which he fought under Kossuth against the Austrians, The word Re monyi is Hungarian for the German hoffnung, or hope, So he changed Hoffman into Hoffnung, and then trans lated that into Hungarian. To-morrow evening Mozart's opera, “Tl Don Gio» vanni” will be given for the first time this season, with the following caste: . Signor Frapoltt iinor Del Fen At the matinée on Saturday “Il Trovatore’” will be repeated, with Mme. Parodi as Leonora, her first ap- pearance in that character, and next week (Monday) Mme. Etelka Gerster will positively sing the rdle of Amina in “La Sonnambula”