The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1878, Page 4

f NEW YORK HERALD pa eer Owe BROADWAY AND ANN STREET Sa a BE JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY ‘Three cents per Year or at a rate of on less than six months, or tive ¢ edition ui. free of postage. w Y HERALD—One dvilar per year, free of post- ‘on dollars per per month for any period rs for six mouths, Sunday $.—Remit in drafts ou New insure atten s changed must give sll ay their new address. news letters or telegraphic despatches must New Youk Hiatus operly sewled. returned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE 12 SOUTH SIXTH STRERT, LONDON OFFICE ( HE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLI S DE Lor RADA PAC Subser nents will be received aud forwarde in New York. VOLUME XLII STANDARD THEATRE—AzMost 4 FIFTH AVENUF THEATRE—Casiux, AMERICAN INSTITUTE—Exuasr NIBLO'S GARDEN—Tur Dever GRAND OPERA HOU K NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Tratyen Hoses. j ATRE—Orro. (C—Matinee—It TrovaToxe EMY OF MUS ATRE—Josuva Warrcoxs, THE—Rosé Mieune. TRE—Dik Raverx. SOOTH'S THEATRE—Fuxscu Overs Bovrre, WALLACK'S THEATRE—Tux Rivas. ACADEMY OF DESI¢ PHEATRE COMIQUE--Vaxixty TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—Vanrere, 87 JAMES THEATRE—Vaninzy. EGYPTIAN HALL—Vantrry. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. | WINDSOR THEATRE—Vauiery, STEINWAY HALL—Syaruosy Coxernr, BROAD ST. THEATRE, hiladelpbia—Hess Ovens. —Loax Exutairion WITH SUPPLEMENT. “NEW YORK, The probabilities are (Mat the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair or partly cloudy. ‘To-morrow it will be slightly warmer and fair. 9, I8TR, TURDAY, NOVEMBE: Watt Srreer Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- ket was dulland weak. Gold opened at 10014, and declined to 1001s, the closing quotation. Government bonds were firm, States higher and railroads strong. Money on call lent at 4 a 5 per cent and closed at 3} a 4 per ceut. To-Morrow a week of prayer for young men begins throughout the world. They need it. Tue Kip Grove Front is to be resumed in the courts. There seems to be no more peace for the blunderer than for the wicked. Barparic AFRICA seems to have reproduced some of its peculiar features at the scene of the North Carolina execution yesterday. Tue Dovste Ronpery of an Eighth avenue jewelry store yesterday isa warning to owners of open fronts who do not also keep private watchmen. Geyerat Orv's Rerort, of which we give an abstract to-day, contains a better description of the situation on the Mexican border than is to the rich. The last horse in the great Lancashire Handicap at Liverpool yesterday belonged to the Duke of Westmivster, who is probably the richest man in England. Firtees Hunprep Doicars Is more money than the average Eastern man would care to trust himself to carry, even inside of a savings bank ; but the confiding Westerner tries experi- ments—aud pays for them Tur Evipence upon insanity in the Vander. bilt will contest yesterday would have been easier reading if the expert had merely in- dicated the classes of people who have no streaks of lunacy in their mental composition. Francis Murriy, the successful advocate of totul abstinence, begins to-morrow along series of temperance meetings in this city. We hope he may catch enough members of the Assembly to justify hopes of a sensible excise law being passed next session. For SuccessrcL Doverne of candidates who may become mischievous if elected, the plan lutely followed at Elizabeth, N. J., is without | au equal. A person who received a handsome majority of the votes for Justice of the Peace is said to have been dead for six months, EsuGration of an undesirable kind will prob- ably set toward Virginia very soon. A short time ago a wife murderer was senten for a single year only, and a similar punishment was yesterday awarded to a young man who brained en old one as the victim sat quietly at dinner. Guxerat Haxcock’s recommendation that more attention be paid to rifle pructice in the army is none too strong. If a hundredth part ot the ammunition used during the lute war uad been expended in competitive marksman- ship the aspect of the struggle would have been | very different. } How Texperty Soniert the police seem to be for the comfor! of well-to-do proprietresses in the disreputalle <istriets! The complainant agaiust two of these women stood yesterday among the prison waiting the eulling of the case ; the plained of, though equally under arrest, sat in a comfortable room. Tue Wrarnen.—The movement of the high barometer from the north and northwest inte the central and southern districts continues, but the pressures are decreasing very decidedly. In the northeast and central over N Scotia a storm centre has been for lon the northern margin of the Gulf Stream, with low pressure, heavy north to northwest winds and some rain and snow. This storm has been in proce of devel- ppinent for two daye, and carly notice of its chai. ster was cabled tu lon, Paris and Liverpool m Thursday at midnight. The barometer is «gain falling in the Northwest, with rising tem- perature, Vessels and steamers leaving New York to-day for the east coust and for Europe will | run quickly into the low pressures of the Nova seotia storm and will experience heavy winds rom the northwest. It is probable that a very dangerous tempest will be experienced north of atitude forty degrees and eastward of longitude fixty degrees, Heavy rains and snows are re vorted from Europe, whieh threaten serious in- andations in the great river valleys. A storm | ventre is now on the British coast«, where very aeavy gales ave prevailing. This disturba arrived exactly at the time predicted by the Herarp Weather Bureau, The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair or partly cloudy. ‘To-morrow it will be slightly warmer and fais, | Presidency that it had hard work to deter- | good enough to be nominated for Congress. j rels with amusement. | they at least keep their eyes open. | currency again, and kept the whole country NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1878—WITH SUPPLEMENT. A Good Time to “Stop. Fooling.” The present position of the democratic party reminds us of a South Carolina inei- dent in the old slavery days. A number of negroes, made repentant during a religious revival, came down to the banks of the Pedee to be baptized by immersion. One after the other was dipped under the waves, until at last one of the men, in the excite- ment of the moment, was held under water a good deal longer than he expected. He struggled up into the air, blew the water out of his mouth and nose, and exclaimed, ‘Look heyah, ef ye don’t pay more ‘tention and stop dis foolin’, fust ting ye know some gemman ‘I] lose a nigger.” If we were the confidential advisers of the democratic party we should urge them to “stop fooling.” They cannot afford to go on playing at politics and playing so badly as they do. The country would, on the whole, we believe, like to see the democrats once more in power, for the present election shows that it does not love the republicans. It sees all their faults ; but it is a sensible country, and it is waiting patiently ror the democrats to show that they possess a little common sense before it puts them in pos- session of the federal administration. At the present rate we should think a demo- cratic President probable about the year | 1952. The latest returns cut down the demo- cratic majority in the House of Representa- | tives to a point where it is in fact no majority at all; for no one can foretell how the Southern independenis will vote; and of the greenback members, who are in- creased to eleven, five or six are of republi- ean antecedents, and will on party ques- tions vote with their former friends. From present appearances the democrats will need help to elect a Speaker when the next Congress meets. This is a melancholy ex- hibit for a party which confidently expected a majority of twenty-five or thirty, which only a year ago was so sure of the next mine upon whom to bestow the great office, and was so confident of controlling the | next House that it thought almost anybody | A year ago the republicans were divided, and the democrats looked on at their quar- To-day the repub- licans are united, and the democrats aro split into factions whose leaders oppose each other far more bitterly than they do the republicans. They are divided not only by personal differences but on princi- ples and policies, and it is not too much to say that the democratic party of the coun- try is to-day little better than a mob, which has just now about as much chance to elect the next President as it has to bring about the millenn‘um by a strict party vote. It is one of the marvels of modern politics that this | should be true of a party which has among | its leading men more and abler and more trusted men than the other. ‘Take the Sen- ate, for instance, and the republicans can- not to-day produce on their side six Sen- ators in whom the general public has as much confidence as in Bayard, Randolph, Kernan, Lamar, Hill and Garlind. But the republicans have the wisdom to let | their leaders lead and rales them; in the democratic party the gentlemen we have named have been substantially in the~mi- nority. Their advice, sound and able as it always is, has been despised by their party, which has preferred the voices of such men as Voorhees, | | Ewing and other inflationists and dema- gogues, and was so ready to cheer this kind that poor old Senator Thurman thought they could put him into the Presidency on what was called the ‘Ohio idea.” The republican leaders have no more definite policy than their opponents, but They do not go about like men asleep and dream- ing: and they have one belief whieh has saved ‘them often from shipwreck: they firmly believe that the people of the United States, or a majority of them, are honest and respectable. Now, the men who have managed to control the dem- oeratic party for the last dozen or twenty years, and who are still control- ling it, make the blunder of believing that the people of the United States are no bet- ter than aset of tramps. It is not an exag- geration to say that during the whole of the last session of Congress the democratic policy was simply a ‘‘tramp” policy. Un- able to see that the country wants above everything else peace, order, rest, perma- nence, stubility, confidence, the men whom | the democrats permitted to lead them passed from one attempt to another at disorder. In the face of the fact that we are on the very verge of specie payments, and that all legitimate interesis had already coniormed themselves to that end, Mr. Ewing was allowed to take up the greater part of | thesession with attempts at unsettling the | in alarm and stegnation, Then came the | celebrated Potter Committee, with its half | concealed expectation of unsettling the Presidency, and its utter and ridiculous fail- | ure to accomplish anything except the pro- | duction of a set of unmitigated scoundrels | as its favorite witnesses. When we men- | tion in addition to these the silver folly we | have made a complete list ot the demo- | cratic work in the last Congress, unless we | add the wonderful shrewdness with which | the democrats fostered the greenback party, | which has by drawing off democratic votes | helped the republicans to carry a number | of districts. | | Whenever all the democrats in the coun- | try vote the same ticket, if they can se- | cure the help of the independent voters they are very likely to carry the elece | tion; but it is a good while since the | democratic party Was numerous enough to | divide in two with w reasonable hope | of success. Whenever it shows the country that it is the party of honesty, good order | and stability, it will have a fair chance of carrying the Presidency; but to do that it will have to place itself under the control of its wise and honest leaders, of the men who have held to what are called ‘‘sound, old fashioned democratic principles,” most of which have been coolly turned out of doors and lett for the republicans to pick up. Congress will mect in a few weeks, and the people are waiting to see whether the recent elections have taught the democratic party anythiag. We advise the democrats in Congress to “stop fooling.” They can- not hope to carry the country with the ery of “Fraud,” as they were last year silly enongh to suppose; for, if nothing else pre- vented, the celebrated democratic cipher despatches bar the way. They cannot carry it by letting Ewing and Voorhees rule their councils, If they are wise they will de- nounce as no democrat the man who even whispers the name of the Resumption act; they will cut the acquaintance of the famous “dollar of the daddies;” they will silence Ewing and Voorhees; they will forget allabout the Potter Committee and try to persuade the republicans to forget about it too; they will ask such men as Senator Bayard and Governor Seymour to frame a policy for them, and they will endeavor to have fewer captains and more high privates in their ranks, The democrati: party does not lack brains, as some of the republicans are contemptuously saying. {t has brains enough, but it makes no use of them. It has allowed its heels to get uppermost, and imagines that if it only puts a sufficient number of ‘‘blatherskites” to the front the country will surrender at once. This is where it blunders, The only way to cap- ture tbat noble bird, the American Engle, is to put salt on his tail. But that scemsto be among the lost arts of the democratic party, which comes out of the fall elections | not only outvoted, but outwitted, outgen- eralled, the victim of its own follies aud the laughing stock of its opponents. It does a party no harm to be beaten if it stands for the right; but to suffer de'eat for a wrong, and a very silly wrong, is to become an ob- ject of contempt. The Theft of a Corpse. No diecovery has yet been made of the body of Mr. Stewart nor of the persons by whom it was taken from the vault. It is not reasonable to suppose that a police, confessedly not omniscient, should in a few hours make itself familiar with all the de- tails of ascheme that has been coully planned and elaborately contrived with especial view to secrecy as a necessary element of safety. Judge Hilton’s notion that the odor of the body would render it impossible to conceal it, and that consequently it would assuredly be found in a few hours, has already proved not to be a brilliant fancy. In England some time ago a murder was discovered by means of a bloodhound, who led the detectives toa place where parts of a human body were concealed; but such cases of disclosure are rare. Naturally this was one of the first gest itself to the rogues as a thing to guard against, and if the body is not now actually in some vat in which are substances that will smother the odor it is perhaps underground. Indeed, it seems to us that the police have done wisely to direct their search for the remains on the theory that the body has been put in another grave, and that the miscreants hold theniselves ready to sell to the friends, not the body itself, but the secret of where it is, Perhaps the information given by the vender of a materinl for the preservation of dead bodies may prove useful. ‘This man remembers that on the 7th of October, the day on which it was first planned the vault should be robbed, an attempt was made to get from him the means, as he be- lieves, of presetving a dead body, and it is thought the man who came to him on that errand has been identified. Doubtless the substantial reward offered by Judge Hilton for the discovery of the body and the thieves will sharpen men’s wits aud memories, and possibly may tempt some accomplice. Regulators Who Need Regulating. Darke county, Ohio, must be well named if some of its prominent citizens who have banded themselves together as “regulators” areto be accepted as specimens of the in- habitants at large. These regulators, uo- der the pretence of giving the public better protection than is afforded by the laws, have been committing murders and indulg- ing in all sorts of illegal and violent acts, until the whole country is in terror. Two men who were notified by the band to leave the county under penalty of death and neglected the warning have been shot dead. One man who bad incurred the condemna- tion of the regulators was murdered in his bed by the side of his wife. Ten other citizens have received orders to leave, and one of them, fearing assassination, has taken his departure. There is, however, a disposi- tion to make a stand against the ruffianism of the band, and the Grand Jury have in- dicted seven of the number for kidnapping, some of the accused being men of wealth. It is tu be hoped that the law wili be found strong enough to regulate the regulators, At rare intervals, in anew and wild com- munity, where it is impossible to enforce the laws and criminals get the upper hand of society, a vigilance committee may seem almost justifiable. But it is always a peril- ous experiment for men to go outside the law and set themselves up as jndges, juries and executioners over their fellow: The enforcers of lynch law eusily slide into the commission of the worst of crimes, and the severe punishment of a few lynch- ers wonld be wholesome in this country. Darke county, Ohio, would be an excellent place to commence such an example. The murders committed by the regulators of that county seem to be marked by extreme brutality, and it would be well to prove | that when the law gels its grip upon tle murderers it will be as relentless toward them as they have been toward their victims, General Arthar, A correapondent, who seems to think he knows, asserts very positively elsewhere that Mr, Arthur ‘will wever be re- nominated to the Collectorship of New York unless Mr. Conkling should be made the next President.” We do not perceive the importanes of this siatement, unless our correspondent wishes to incite Mr. Arthur to inerease his efforts to make Mr. Conkling President. He adds that the administration took no part in the recent Mayoralty election, Cer- tainly we saw no evidence of its activity or influence in the recent election, It was General Arthur's victory, and he deserves the credit for it. points to sug-; Murders for the Dissecting Room. ‘The crime for which Mrs. Alexander was yesterday sentenced to imprisonment for life, and for which young Bassett is yet to be tried, is not without its proto- type. Indeed, so closely has the manner of committing it been followed that it would seem. as though the story of the model crime had been read with core. There are points of variation, but these are merely in the direction of improved appli- ances. Jusu fifty years ago flourished in the city of Edinburgh two rascals named Burke and Hare, whose trade was murder-- murder for the profit to be gained by sell- ing the bodies for dissection. heir iast victim was an old woman whose dead body was seen in the rooms of the murderers, where she had been singing and carousing ashort time’ befcre. Burke was arrested. Hare turned king’s evidence and the former was hanged. Burke confessed before. execution to no less than fifteen murders committed in company with Hare. Their plan had been to pick up old or weak-minded persons on.the street, bring them to their residences, give them food and drink, make merry with them, and then when'the liquor made them drowsy putthem to bed. Once asleep one of the fiends would hold one hand over tue vic- tim’s mouthand nose and press up the chin with the other, while the other wretch flung himself over the body to keep still the arms and legs. The body was thus without external marks of violence; the body was packed in a box or barrel, and the surgeons asked no questions. In the Bassett-Alex- ander case the march of science is seen. ‘The victim once asleep, or even drowsy, some chloroform tovk the place of the strangulation process, For.unately the law made the surgeon in and how the body had bzen obtained, and the Students of the Newgate Calendar found that they had committed a murder, but could not find a market. cffer to buy bodies which Dr. Sanford is said to have made before the crime to Mrs. Alexander was sufficiently explicit as to the source from which they should be obtained does not appear. It is probable that as the business in any case required a defiance of popular prejudice Mrs, Alexander, in her avaricious reasoning, leaped to the conclu- sion that the scientific eagerness which would risk running counter toprejudice would not be stopped by an inquiry into an infraction of the law. . Io her depraved mind laws and prejudices were much the same thing, and one crime was no more in her eyes than ancther. That is the way crime is hatched. ply of the scientific need of ‘‘subjects” should be taken in every State out of crim- inal hands. “A Terrible. Temptation.” The story which was outlined in our cable despatches of yesterday concerning the alleged effort offLady Gooch to palm off a child upon her husband as his heir, that child not being his or hers, brings to mind the plot of Charles Reade’s well known novel, ‘A Terrible Temptation.” Where great estates are involved in the lineal suc- ceasion of a family, where a failure to pre- | sent heirs male may send the property toa distant branch of the family, or to a branch | which has been estranged by family quar- rels, the temptation is indeed, for’ a woman to seek a di- rect ‘successor by any means possible. Before Charles Reade’s novel was written many were the strange stories circulated in whispers of noble and wealthy families to which heirs had been denied in the usual course of nature, and wherein various methods had been adopted to place a spu- rious heir in the empty place, to the con- fusion of expectant relatives of many re- moves of blood, In the novel the childless Indy Bassett adopts, with many precau- tions, the offspring of her gypsy nurse, and | rears him as her own. ‘the boy, as he grows up, is so different to the fair haired Bassett that the Baronet’s brother, who covets the property, casts suspicion upon the wife, believing and alleging the boy to be the son ofaclergyman, Out ot this ma- terial Mr. Reade has wrought a very ex- citing romence; but the plain lines of the story of real life which the cable indicates may prove of greater interest still. Paris or Versailles, M. Gambetta, in a speech to which refer- ence is made in our cable despatches, has spoken of the removal of the seat of govern- ment to Versailles as an attempt to ‘de- capitate Paris” and as an ‘‘exile of the Leg- islatare” which is to endure ‘fortunately not forever.” Evidently, therefory, the great republican leader is in favor of the return of the Legislature and the Presiden- tial residence to the metropolis, and he ance of the republican policy to make a change in this respect. By the constitu- tion of France the scat of government is fixed at Versailles, and it will be necessary to amend the constitution in order to take the government to Paris ; but this will be easily enough done if the republicans for- mally determine to advocate this measure, We believe the change would be a very un- wise one. Many great calamities recorded in the history of France were the conse- quence of the fact that Paris was the capi- tal and that the government was there, and was thus within the reach and subject to the dictation of a street mob; and for that great evil there is no equivalent advantage in having the Assembly meet in the city. Gambetta’s present reference to Paris is | more like the rhodomontade of Victor Hugo than the calm reflection of political reason, Robbers Afloat. Four staterooms were robbed on a Sound steamer in a single night, and heavy sleep- tection of stateroom. doors, were ‘gone through” in a style not so much practised afloat as on the benches in the city squares, Doubtless it is to be regarded as an evidence of moderation and a frugal mind that the thieves robbed only four rooms instead of forty, and their success is not so much an Whether the | It is time that the suy- | very great, | evidence of their skill as of their happy | fortune in choosing reasonably good sleep. ers. Bolts on stateroom doors are a good security to passengers if the staterooms have no windows; but if the bolts are tam- pered with so as to be made impracticable the mere locks on stateroom doors are no obstacle to practised thieves. On the Mas- sachusetts the bolts were wedged. But when was this done? It may have been done by connivance with some persons on the boat; but even if there is no blame on that score it is certain that it exhibits a grave want of caution that there is no watch- man on duty in the stateroom saloon at night. Demoeratic Demand for Naturalization Reform. Now that Tammany Hall has taken up the subject of reforming our navuralization laws, and has demanded an inquiry by Con- gress, it is to be hoped that the reform will not be long delayed. ‘The enemies of Tam- many assert that it is the democratic party in this city and State which is chiefly bene- fited by fraudulent naturalizations. But it is the democracy which now demands the aid of Congress to protect itself. Here- tofore, when the President or the Depart- ment of State has urged the action of the legislative power, republican members and Senators have begge.l to be excused, on the plea that, in some election in the possible future, their democratic opponent will, ‘in the pinch. of the game,” use a republican | vote for honest naturalization as a vote against the rights of naturalized citizens. Such is the bad and immoral logic which pervades our political methods. But now Tammany has acted by the following resolu- tion, and republicans need not fear:— Resolved, That this committee, on behalf of the democratic voters of this city and on behalf of ull uaturalized citizens, without distinction of party, do petition the Congross of the United States to direct an investigation into these ontrages thus committed, and | to enact a law by which their repetition hereafter may be prevented und those who have been guilty of them thig | Be, deprived of the power witich thoy have shown ease nice on the questions of where | themselves unfit to be intrusted with. And further, thut as the laws of every country provide for period after the elapse of which even felons are exempt from prosecution, that it be alao ten years in pursuance of acertiticate of a court of record shall be conclusive as to his rights, and shall be a bar to all proceedings against him by reason of any technicality as to the form of the order by which he was naturalized or for any cause whatever. It may be found, after ail the inquiries possible have been instituted, that there is | now no feasible method of separating the true from the false naturalizstions, and therefore n statute of limitations is the only remedy. The reports to the State Depart- ment from our different diplomatic agents, .and the confessions of those holding cer- tificates of naturalizations, leave no doubt of extensive frauds. How much and what | quality of evidence Mr. Davenport may have we know not; but if he has much that is apparently conclusive then the law should reqnire a proper federal officer to present it tothe court issuing the fraudu- lent judgment and ask that it be set aside of record. One thing is certain, and that is that the public cannot much longer endure on each recurring an- nual election this disturbance and turmoil about fraudulent naturalizations in 1868 or in any other year. ‘The State of New York has an interest inthe matter, and possibly might move before the proper court to annul the judgment, but the right of New York is not quite clear. It is citi- zenship of the Union which is in contro- versy, and the United States government should step to the front in respect to the past and the future. As the law now is no judge can admit an alien to be a citizen until after he has inquired, and is ‘‘satis- fied,” that during five years the applicant has been a “resident” in this country; has borne a good moral character and has been true to our government, But the inquiry is noto- riously a farce. Never, or next to never, is more than one witness examined, and lie is generally a person unknown to the judge and ignorant of the legal definition of ‘‘res- idence.” The applicant may have been con- victed of an infamous offence during the five years, or guilty of treason. He may have been, during all that time, the most colossal scoundrel ever vomited from the slums of London, and the witness he pro- duces no less a scoundrel. The Atalanta-Nautilus Match To-Day. The special match this afternoon on the Harlem between Messrs. Eustis and Downs, the famous Atalanta pair, now the cham- pions of the country, and Messrs, Levien and Childs, of the Nautilus Club, promises to be a very close and highly exciting struggle, while the known fairness of the men ond their mutual good will insure a thoroughiy fair and gentlemanly contest throughout. Matched almost to a pound as to weight and so well as to size that together they would inake a rattling four-oared team, the friends of both pairs are naturally very sanguine as to the result, and, if the water is smooth, there is little doubt that very fast time will be scored; while, if the Nau- tilus men should manage to win, they will doubtless find, long before next season | lenty of seems to foreshadow an attempt in pursu- | Sree ney OF WOR: SE Oub AOE Sitent BY Killorin and Smith, and other fast North- western oarsmen, to say nothing of those of our own State, who have no disposition to let the National Amateur championship in pairs rest quietly on the sluggish little Hariein. ‘PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Tn London they speak of “a plain-c 8 detectiv London is ina state of great excitement about the electric light. Condon, the receutly released Fenian, registers as from England, Secretary Thompson of the Nayy is tery buay on his annual report, Mayor-elect Cooper will have his summer residence at Newport next year, Buffalo Exprees:—“John Kelly gif a Demegradic bardy. V » ish dot bardy now 2” Senator Ben Hill ught to select another chair in the Senate soon, Conkling’s will not be vacated, ‘The chanuel produced by Kads' jetties near New Orleans is said to be as good aa the entrance to New York harbor, The Crown Prince of Germany does a great deal of routine work, but his voice in the governinent has little or no weight. ers in armchairs, without the small pro- gig lide. Burlington Maw) vexatious trials th is that #he haw t upon a hired gir ‘The Englishman of the clerk or small shopkeeper class has few chagces for amusement. A critic says that his time after working hours is chiefly occupied in watebing the clock to see when it is bedtime, » Cvar of Russia is in an alarming condition of h, and his successor will be intensely pro-Slavie and anti-German in idea, and much trouble may re- eult therefrom, In Germany theman of small income passes the evening With his family during the summer months “One of the saddest and most ynies to a girl when she marries ischarge her mother and depend rted that the exercise | of the rights of citizenship by a naturalized citizen for | -ccaccemnitnettnatiaie in a “garden,” during the winter ina hall, the mem smoking, the.women knitting and soeiuble. families intermingling, all listening to music by the band. The President's alleged mind is at this tite wholly engaged with the 1uoney problem. Somebody has told him to believe in metal money; #nd to several geutle- nen who called on him immediately after the election he was heard to say that he thought the hard money auen had won, . After speaking on the subject for a few moments the President was removed to a kindere garten so that his brain might rest. Bret Harte, who is a consul in Europe now, is really & good story teller, notwithstanding that some of those who have met him say that he is*cold. The truth is that he tells a story as well as he writes one, and that, leaving out of the acconnt that he never has a bookkeeper, and so has dnancial pages which he dovs not pleasantly scrutinize, he is one of the most modest me; who ever appeared in literature. London World:—‘In- the highest quarters, I hear, attention is much absorbed by the question of pro- viding for the succession—not to the Crown, for that is happily secured—but to the peerage which Lord Beaconsfield adorns, ~ ‘fhe -Premier’s only surviving brother i# not a very lordly personage, und, besides, ia the incumbent of a Incrative position in the upper house which could not be held by a peer.’ Tt has been accordingly suggested that the: fitness of things and all the interests involved might West be consulted by passing over the impossible brother and going at once to the nephew. It has even been proposed that he should at once be styled Lord Hughenden, just as the Comte de Chambord, in his joy over the fusion of 1878, used to call the Comte de Paris ‘the Dauphin.’ AMUSEMENTS. ‘7 THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. et’s opera of “Carmen” was performed for the fifth time last night at the Academy of Music by Mr. Mapleson’s company, Miss Minnie Hank again playing and singing the title rdle effectively. The mu- Sic of this opera gaius steadily upon the appreciation of our public. The various morceauz which have gained commendation hitherto are now watched for with eagerness and noted with pleasure. The songs | of Carmen in the first act, the toreador’s song and many of the choral pieces were thus intently listened to. Signor Campanini as Don José and Signor Del Puente as Eacamillo were, as before, yood in their | parts. The choruses went well and the orchestra was under admirable discipline. “Ii Trovatore” at the matinée to-day. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Matinéen at all the principal theatres to-day, with thy exception of the Park. “Il Trovatore” is tobe repeated this afternoon at the Academy of Music. Mme. Gerster was present ot rehearsal yesterday and will sing in “La Sonuambula” on Monda: M. Edouard Remenyi, the Hungarian violin yir- tuoso, arrived from Europe yesterday and is at the Westminster. ‘The farewell concert of Mr. Frederick Mollenhauer at Steinway Hall is announced for Thursday evening, November 28, The last matinée and last night of Modjeska are un- nounced to-day at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. On hoth occasions Mme. Modjeska will appear in “Camille.” At the Grand Opera House this afternoon the Will- jiamsons give a matinée, during which they will appear in their well known “Struck Oil” and “The Chints¢ Question.” A Cecilian concert will take place at Steinway Hall on Sunday evening, November 24. The entire enier- tainment is to be given by the artists and chorps of the Mapleson company. ibs Mr, Rudolph Aronson deserves the thanks of' the New York public for the effort which he. proposes to make ut Gilmore’s Garden to-morrow evening in in- troducing a series of Sunday night concerts wherein the music will be suited to the popular taste, and the price of admission will be ona popular basis, ‘The privilege of listening to fifty artists from Mapleson’s opera orchestra while they illustrate the beauties ot Strauss, Lecocq, Offenbach, Gung) and Metra, had no: before been enjoyed in New York, with an entrine fee of only twenty-five cents. The New York Aquarium has just received, by the steamer Pommerania, some interesting specimens of figher from the cogst of Norway. They very piuch resemble the tropieal snapper. They are called lip fishes or ballan wrasse, are of various colors, the male being blue and the female red, and are the only fithes on the Norwegian coast that have any bright hues: In the tanks there are some very beautiful marays from Bermuda, which are possibly the nearest approach to the sea serpent known. They are about three feet long, have a month and teeth shaped like a snake and Lut one fin, which extends the entire length of the body, ‘The cast of “Almost a Life,” which is to be put on the boards of the Standard Theatre to-night, is ag follows:—Avisie Doranche, Miss Mande Granger; Conntess Melanie Clairnot, Miss Rose Osborne: Mar. chioness de Bonneville, Miss Virginia Buchanan, Francifia, Carlotta Evelyn; Madelaine, Sadie Bigelow; Jules de Bonneville, Mr. Eben Plympton; De San maise, H. A. Weaver; M. Gerome, G. Levick; Count Clairnot, Harry Eytinge; M. Manuel, B. T. Ringgold; M. Doranche, G. H. Stephens; Phillipe, Ben Magin ley; Collinatte, Charles Leclercq; M. Doumat, Randall; Antoine, A. G. Enos; Briencourt, L. Weaver. The drama includes twenty-one speaking parts. The fourth week of the Barnum show has been al- most ax successful a6 those which have preceded it, An entirely different programme ie given, with new fea- tures, This week a pad equestrian, Wooda Cook, made his firstappearance in a performance better than that of the average pad rider. Marquisi, a Brazilian rider, gives an illustration of the peculiarities and ways that “Poor Lo” has of managing a horse. An acrobatic trio, the Herbert Brothers, have new ways of accom- Plishing old tricks. They turn double somersaults from the ground without the sid of a springboard, a feat which has been considered an impossibility, Morgan and Fish, Miss Kattie Stokes and Miss Emma Lake are recalled at every performance. The latter, in her manege act, is considered by horsemen ae the superior even of the late Mme. Tournaire. Carl Antony introduces his educated stallions in a variety of difficult acte. All styles of horseman- ship can be soen in thin equestrian school, Each kind has its best representative to demonstrate the peculi- arities tothe audience, The original comicalities of James Holloway, the English clown, are also a featuré of the show. The menagerie is a large one full of classes and orders of the animal kingdom new to the people. The musenm contains many gbjects of in- terest, ‘Two performances are given each day, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS ON THE ASIATIC ST& TLON-—ORDERS. Wastinatox, Nov. 8, 1878, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson, commanding the United States naval forces of the Asiatic station, reports to the Navy Department from Yokohama Japan, October 11, that the Monongahela, Captain Fitzhugh commanding, being declared free from disease, and the cholera having entirely disappeared from Shanghai, was to have returned to that port from Woorung bar on October 1, to complete repairs on the boilers, &e., when she will proceed to Yoko- hama, via Nagasaki and Kolbe. ‘The Alert, Commander Boyd, is at Foo Chow, where he will remain till there ia no further apprehension of any niolestation of American citizens and theis property. ‘Thence she will proceed to Hong Kong, and will visit Swatow, Amoy, &e, Commander Boyd, on leaving Amoy for Hong Kong, will make a search for the rock on which the American bark Forest Belle in alleged to have struck last winter, ‘The officers and crew of the Ranger, Commander | Manley, having subjected to the encrvating heat of Hong Kong during the past summer, a change toa wore northern climate is deemed advisable, and she will, on being relieved by the Alert, proceed to Naga saki and Kobe, and thence to Yokohama, ‘The Ashuelot, Commander Perkins, left Yokohama on October #d inst., an ‘ived at Kobe on the 6th, from which place she will pxoceed to Bangkok, Siam, visit. ing en route Nagasaki, Foochow, Hong Ko' Manila. On her return she will call at Salon Pakoi and Haihow, reaching Hong Kong about ¢ middle of February next, ‘The Palos, Lieutenant Commander Greon, will leave Tientsin for Shanghai before winter sets; Ap e% amination of the hull of that vessel and estimates for repairs are being made. i McKay, machinist for the Monocacy, died of apop tober 8. The health of the officers and crew of the squadron remaina good, Lieute: car BF, Heyerman ia or dered to at Port Royal, 8.C., a8 Sane v. Paymaster Joseph 5, ae or dered to duty as purchasing pay master at ington, Pay Inspector W. Williams is detached se pur- chasing paymaste Washington, and. to duty as inspector in charge of stores at Washingtom Navy Yard. . ; Hampshire