The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD aie bamniaeseaiionemdaion BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. entRanas neds JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. three cents per copy Sundays excluded, dollars per ear, or at a rate of one dollar pe erie je months, or five dollars for six mouths, Sunday dollar per year, free of pust- vit in drafts on New where neither of these yin a regintered etter, AL In ord rsure atten. xed must give age. NOTICE TOs York or Post Offic b heir old as All business, y sealed, returned. 112 SOUTH SIXTH NEW YORK HERALD— DE Lore Y ADA PACK. will he received and 0. TO-NIGHT, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—Hanerr AMERICAN ID TY NIBLAYS GARDEN—A GRAND OPERA HOUS NEW YORK AQUARIUM PARK THEATRE-—Lorras. CGILMORE GARDEN—Baksom's Suow, BROADWAY THEATE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. LYCEUM THEATE BOWERY THEATRE WALLACK'S ACADEMY OF DESIG -EXxninirros. S THE CONTINENT, Strvek O11 TrAtNeD Horses. AMBULA, 1TCOMB, UNION SQUARE THEATRI—Morime anv Soy. STANDARD THEATRE—AtMost a Live ST. JAMES THE Tuk Belts oF CORNEVILLE, GERMANTA TH Div Racnen. HEATRE—V antery N HAL # AN FRANC WINDSOR TH THEATRE COMIQL ABERLE’S AMERICAN THEATE TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—Vauery STEINWAY HALL a BROOKLYN PAR! TRIPLE DNCERT HEATRE—CaMiune NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, Isis, The provabilities ave that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, followed by rains. To- morrow it will probably be cloudy and warm, with rain. Oxty Oxe Dearn from yellow fever in New It is to be hoped itis the Orleans yesterday. last. Sovrn Caron bur sigus of improvement. Corron Cror is excellent, Miticians shows little or no her crop oI Mr. Berecuer gave his idea of a church yester- day. He does not exactly believe in the theory that it should be a sort of fashionable ciub. Tom Moore's bust for Prospect Park will soon be finished. If he wer e and had a choice he would probably prefer the other kind of a bust. SurrixG Butt has become weary of the Cana- dian snow d pines for the sealp of the Ind gen This will be good news for the Indian lobby. Moerrny, tHe Temprraxer Revivanist, m: avery successful opening of his campaign here yesterday afternoon, The field is an exceedingly promissing one. Two Appitions this morning to the long list of missing men—one a Brooklyn merehant and the other snd journulist, Wonder what the police “theory” will be? Coroxet Marieson has done an exceedingly kiud and mis act in offering the services of his opera t a concert to be given for the benefit of one of our struggling eh os. Mr. Tarmace’s word picture of poverty and erime yesterday was terribly vivid. hw who Jook ut it will differ from him that the mission is more needed on Manhattan Islaud than in Monrovia. Tur Sumer Gioxies have faded from moun- tain and 4 , but it will be s from our notes and notices that our led in fastening not a few ivas, rtists have of them on stue the opinion yester- to visit New York reform s he would un | were De. Herwortn ad day that if our 1 and begin to cut down things generaliy in the public be anything but popular. sali and Tne Porrrart ov Gexenar Botier w a New England clergymen painted yesterday certainly not u flattering one. It suggests the old proverb about the picture of another dis- tinguished character whose name will readily suggest itself. JESTION in veg: Tur Larest St ard to the Ind- ns, to be found in another column, is thata group of islands on the California coast be used as an lnm for then. Why not « the Indian ts and lobby there!) The Indians I be all right if Jeft to themselves. nh Mavrip Corrnsronpence this morning sa little more minutely inte the details of late at pt upen the 1 King Alfonso of Spain than our cable desp . full as they were. The King, it will be se lisplayed ex- traordinary nerve and coolness on the occasion. fie Se. Mark's Coren Outrage was forci- Diy denounced in that edifice yesterday by Dr. Rylance, the pustor, and there ean be no doubt that the sympathy expressed by him for Mrs. Stewart was shared in by the large congrega- tien who heard him. The whole country will say “Amen” vw his pra that the law may speedily Jay its hands upon the inhuman per- ” trators. Ip Thenn Be any efficacy in prayer the young hit to be virtuous wl luppy this week. Hance with the « i the Geneva guestion ence of the Young Men's Christian Asso: eiation all the elurebes will be praying for them during the next seveu du more esp ly for the German young men, who, it is . larly wicke The German young men t to do better. Tur Wearten.—The storm centre has moved oorthenstward from w Brinewiek, wed ring weather and diminishing w ‘ngland. In the Northwest the low ba- rometer has advanced into the Missouri Valley, preceded by rains and higher temperatures and followed by cold northwest winds, light snow ail increasing pressure. This disturbance ex- tends southward into Te high temperatures prev: of high Yarometer is now in the Sonth Atlantic States, and will move to-day into the ocean. Pressures are increasing on the Pacific coust, but continue low over New Mexico and the adjacent territory. For New York and its vicinity today the weather will be warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, followed by rains. To-rnorrow it will probably be cloudy and warm, with rain, over as, Where rains and The cew NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1878 a — small that the defection of two or three | bach Secretary Evarts on the Halifax Award. The Secretary of State has consented to the publication of his elaborate despatch to Mr. Welsh, setting forth, tor confmunica- tion to Lord Salisbury, the reasons why our government deems the Halifax award ex- orbitant and invalid. The despatch is dated September 27. It has been with- held only until it reached its destina- tion, and in order to avoid the impro- priety of giving it to the public before it had been communicated to the British For- eign Secretary. Although it is a document of great ability and force of reasoning we regret that there was a necessity for its preparation. But Congress in the act making the appropriation and putting it at the disposal of the President seemed to re- quire of him the duty of making a protest. ‘this duty conld not be escaped, and since it was unavoidable we are glad that it has been discharged with as much calmness of tone as force of argument. If the treaty of 1871 ended the question of the fisheries and put it out of the field of international contro- versy, Mr. Evarts intimates that the award, exorbitant as it is, might have been paid without remonstrance. But the question is certain to come back upon us at the expira- tion of the twelve years. Our government refuses to assent by its silence to the jus- tice of an award which may be brought up as a criterion of the value of the fisheries in future negotiations. It is desirable to have the question settled for all time, but itcan be permanently settled only on a basis of equity. We have been discussing it with Great Britain for sixty years, occasionally getting rid of it for short pe- riods by temporary makeshifts. Itis une fortunate that the treaty of 1871 merely postponed the question without settling it, and since it must inevitably come up again it is desirable finally to dispose of it now rather than five or six years hence. Mr. Evarts offers to the British government an opportunity to settle it in perpetuity now and avoid the irritation and sense of injury which may obstruct negotiations at the end of the twelve years if this country pays from a sense of pride an award which it deems neither just in amount nor binding inlaw. If the British government insists we shall of course pay, and when our honor is released and the subject comes up again this country will be likely to place itself on the extreme boundary of its rights. Mr. Evarts’ protest puts us in a position which torestalls the effect of present concessions upon future negotiations. The British government will no doubt insist on the award, and will thereby render the ques- tion of the fisheries a difficult and very likely a dangerous one when it comes up again a few years hence. It is unfortunate to be sowing the seeds of fu- ture irritation instead of cementing friend- ship by a full and final settlement of a long standing controversy. Mr. Evarts maintains that the funda- mental error ot the two Halifax Commis- sioners who made the award consisted in computing it on a false basis. We had fishery rights under the treaty of 1818, and those acquired in 1871 were additional. The value of our rights under the treaty of 1818 was not submitted to the Commission, but only the value of the new rights acquired under tke later treaty. There is still another ques- tion which was not submitted to the Com- mission. The British and the American governments have never agreed in their in- terpretation of the extent of the privileges acquired by the treaty of 1818, but we surely never intended to pay for the rights which we have always claimed under that treaty. But the award of the two Halifax Commissioners seems to have been based on an estimate of the total value of the priv- ileges which we hold under both treaties, instead ofan estimate of the privileges we acquired by the treaty of 1871, which alone was submitted for their decision. Mr. Evarts contends that when arbitrators thus misinterpret and exceed their authority their decision is not binding. It is shown by quotations from the re- ports of the intelligent British agent at Halifax to his own government that by the concurrent testimony of nearly all the wit- nesses examined the only thing of real value acquired by the American fishermen was the inshore mackerel fishery, Mr. Evarts maintains that the award should have been founded on a true valuation of the in- shore mackerel fishery, after making the proper set-offs for the privileges in our waters and markets conferred on the Cana- dians. The award is greater than the whole value of the fish after they are canght and cured and salted and barrelled and de- livered. The computation is very simple and we will repeat its points. For the first five years of the operation of the treaty the whole catch of mackerel in those waters was 167,45 barrels, and assuming that three-fourths were taken inshore, there were 125,961 barrels caught in the first five years under the treaty. The average price was $375 per barrel, making the whole value of fish taken inshore in the five years $472,353; but this inelndes the cost of the barrels, the salt, the expense of catching, curing and packing. What- ever part of this may be fairly reckoned as profit is obviously the proper compensa- tion for the privilege of tuking the fish, The profit for those five years, Mr. Evarts thinks, could not have been more than $25,000 per annum, which would amount to only $300,000 for the twelve years, even making no deduction for the value of the offsetting privileges given by the treaty to the Canadians. But the $5,500,000 awarded is more than eighteen times the value of the privilege without any dedne- tion for the admission of Canadian fish into our markets. Mr. Evarts’ despatch will, of course, be printed in the English journals, and this caleulation, fortified by facts, cannot fail to make an impression on the public mind. Mr. Evarts’ reasoning on the necessity of unanimity to render the award binding is more spegious than solid, It will con- vince no impartial person, much less the British Ministry. Had unanimity been necessary two arbitrators would have been as good as three, ‘Ihe only con- ceivable reason for a third was to enable him to decide ifthe two should disagree, We are glad that the Secretary of State says he will not insist on this point if the British government dispute it, but we wish he had omitted it. A case is always weak- ened by arguments which the adversary can casily refute to the satisfaction of others as well as himself. Having freed its mind, we trust our government will pay the award—‘‘like a gentleman,” to use Lord Dufferin's expression. The Hounds Balked, The search for the body of Alexander T. Stewart and the thieves who desecrated his grave still continues, but the police give no sign of any decided progress toward success. Briefly summed up, the case stands pre- cisely as it did on Saturday. The route taken by the thieves in leaving the ceme- tery has been ascertained, but at the point where they reached the pavement in Tenth street the trail stops short and all is a blank beyond. The clew about which the Thirteenth precinct police made so much mystery on Saturday turns out to be no clew at all, and so another “theory,” what- ever it may have been, disappears. While we are disposed to give the police authori- ties due credit for energy in their search we cannot refrain from calling attention to the fact that none of the actors in the startling crimes lately committed in this city have been apprehended, and the Board of Police should clearly understand that the people are already dissatistied. Banks are gutted in open daylight, men are stabbed in public places, stores are robbed in the glare of gaslight and graves are despoiled in the very heart of the city, and yet no arrests are made. It is about time this state of affairs was changed. Our despatch from Washington shows that the police authorities there entertain suspicion that the man who endeavored to obtain the preserving fluid and who pur- chased the shovel is one George N. Christian, a notorious resurrectionist of that city, who seems to have done a thriving trade in rob- bing graves. If the description given of his visitor by the Bond street undertaker is really thet recorded of Christian in Washington the fact can easily be determined, for the photograph will settle that question. With this clew in their possession we presume the detectives will follow it up until its value is decided one way or the other. It is exceedingly probable that a man like Christian would engage in such a nefarious transaction, for it is well known that the thieves who stole Mr. Stewart’s body must have been accustomed to handling corpses, The Solid South. The solid South is not so solid at it was, if the republicans and the independents elected are all counted. But it was more solid last Tuesday than it will ever be again, The republicans who are counting on the solid South as a good issue in 1880 are mistaken. The color line is breaking down very rapidly in all the Southern States, and the following remarks in a re- cent number of the New Orleans Picayune show the drift of political thought in the South:—“‘It is certain that there will always be a party in Louisiana in opposition to the democracy. The conservative citizens, heretofore driven in one direction by out- side tyranny and therefore acting in unison, now that the pressure is re- moved may exercise more freedom. more independence and more individualism, For years it has been held unpatriotic for any white Louisianian to attempt to defeat the will of the conservative party, and well we know that those citizens of the State who gave aid and comfort to the radical party before 1877 made themselves entirely and permanently odious. But the time is coming when a new party may be expected here, and when many white citizens will not deem united action so essential as to override all party differences.” We observe that many partisan journals are already making up lists of the next Presidential vote, and both sides have the habit of counting all the Southern States for the democratic party. Two years isa long time, and at the rate at which events are moving we suspect that there will be neither a solid South nora solid North in 1880, Grant and the Tanning Business. Ex-President Grant's brother-in-law, Mr. Corbin, in an interview published else- where in to-day’s Henatn, states that the story of the General’s connection with the tanning business is erroneous, and he does not know how it originated. He does know, however, that General Grant never was a tanner and was never in any manner en- gaged in that trade. Mr. Corbin does not believe that the ex-President is at all de- sirous of returning to his old duties at Washington, and does not consider that the republican party is dependent on any individual. It circumstances should so shape as to convince the party that Grant would be the strongest candidate, and to make the Republican National Convention desirous of nominating him, he does not doubt that the General would regard it asa duty to accept. In other words, should the democrats through their folly need a ‘‘tan- ning” in 1880 for the good of the country, then Grant would go into the business in earnest, as he did in the days of the rebellion, How Would It Look! The President is credited with saying that the result of the election in the South ern States would have been different had some eminent Northern republican speakers gone down there to take part in the can- vass. This is very true, but respectable and influential Northern republicans would hardly go down to ask the Southern voters to elect to Congress such men as many who held the republican nominations there, How, for instance, would Senator Conkling or Senator Blaine have felt urging the voters of Louisiana to send Madison Wells or “Tom” Anderson or Chief Jnstice Lude- ling to Congress? Yet these were all republi- can and greenback candidates. What effect would have been produced had these three worthies exchanged stumps with Mr. Conk ling and Generat Hawley and gone through New York and Connecticut advocating the republican and greenback canse? The Northern republican orators knew what they were about when they declined to speak in the South for Southern republican candidates ; they were not inclined to dirty suomselves with ench company, What Did It? Now that the elections are over the demo- eratic journals are looking about to see what hurt their party. Mr. Purcell, chair- man of the democratic committee of New York, thinks it was the cipher despatches; the Rochester Union thinks it was the third party movement; the Connecticut demo- erats acknowledge that they were beaten because they silently submitted to their greenback platform, which their leaders did not believe in. They are all right; for it was allof these things which defeated the democrats. The absurdity of the fraud ery in the face of the cipher de- spatches did something; but the timidity and hypocrisy of democratic leaders did much more. Governor Hubbard, of Con- necticut, for instance, was defeated on a greenback platform, and he must feel in his heart that the people served him right, for he knew better. The democrats who swal- lowed their principles in silence, like Gov- ernor Hubbard, and the democrats who swallowed them and pretended that they never had any, like Senator Thurman, de- feated their party. When Mr. Thurman said, in 1874, ‘‘Never have I spoken in favor of that inflation of the currency which I think I see full well means that there never shall be any resumption at all. And that is precisely what this inflation means. It means demonetizing gold and silver in per- petuity and substituting a currency of irre- deemable paper, based wholly and en- tirely upon government credit and depend. ing upon the opinions and interests of members of Congress and their hopes of | popularity whether the volume of it shall | be large or whether it shall be small—that is what inflation means. Sir, I have never said anything in favor of that; 1am too old fashioned a democrat for that. I have heard and preached too many hard money lessons to advocate such a theory as that,” and when he said, in 1875, “You, my fellow democrats, are what are calied hard money men, and I am a hard money man. That is, to-day, we do not believe in an irredeemable paper currency ; we believe that such a currency must neces- sarily fluctuate in value, lead to specula- tion and extravagance, and benefit no one but money loaners and speculators. We believe that our currency should consist of gold and silver, and for convenience, paper convertible at par into gold and silver at the will of the holder. In this we concur with the uniform teachings of the demo- cratic party, with the opinion of every really eminent political economist the world over, with the lessons of experience found in the history of every commercial nation and with the views of almost the entire body of the business men of America’—when he spoke thus he was on sound and tenable ground, and it was only when he and other democrats left that ground to be occupied by their opponents that they wore deserv- edly beaten. The American people are honest and respectable, and they like courage and principle in their public men, It is because the men who assumed to lead the democratic party this year had neither courage nor principle that they were left in the lurch—so greatly to their surprise. A Bedevilled Enterprise, The development of the commercial and industrial possibilities of the great and rich region represented by the Empire of Brazil and the neighboring republics is out of the question until the necessary railroad and river transportation is provided. Im- mense rivers which can be opened for navi- gation afford the means of securing the latter, but in creating the former the giant forest trees must be felled, swamps must be crossed and mountains turned by the iron road. Brazil, and indeed all the northern and central regions of the South American continent, present to enterpris- ing men'temptations for energetic specula- tion and work that cannot be surpassed on any other continent. But there is no part of the world where the difficulties to be overcome in accomplishing any really prac- tical improvement at a reasonable cost are so numerous and vexatious. To begin with the financial questions involved, it is undisputed that the credit of South American countries is bad, and that capi- talists demand exorbitant returns from very moderate investments. If we only look over the history of the negotiations connected with the Madeira and Mamoré Railroad we will see how im- practicable it is to carry out such an enter- prise when the promoters stand between the political uncertainty and bad credit of South American countries on the one hand, and the cormorant appetites of European capitalists on the other. Out of every loan raised for internal improvements fully one- half the sum realized by a sale of bonds at a great sacrifice is expended in paying either the financial agents in Europe or supplying some deficit in the national treasury in South America. The balance is rurely applicable directly to the object in view, consequently everything costs double and treble what it is worth and the money supplies soon run short, Then contractors, laborers and stockholders suffer. The mis- take made by the contractors of the Madeira and Mamoré Railroad in sending white labor to Brazil was a very grave one. Plenty of colored and acclimated labor can be had from the West Indies for such work, The history of the railroad project in Brazil, which we printed yesterday, shows how vast sums may be expended in almost fruitless efforts to attain success, and really meritorious enterprises bedev- illed into utter failures by greed and mis- management. Independent Democrat:. Three independent democrats have been elected in Georgia, and there is a report that one at least has succeeded in Virginia. In South Carolina the nomination of inde- pendents was prevented by the regular democrats only with great difficulty, and in some other Southern States, as in Alabama, there are independent movements. How the independents now elected to Congress will vote remains to be seen. ‘They have been very bitterly opposed and denounced by the regular democrats, and may choose in the House to be really independent of party bonds, the more so as they have suc- ceeded by the help of many colored votes, The demoeratic maioritv in the Honse is so —TRIPLE SH ERT. Southern independents would be a serious matter, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘The following Americans were registered at the Hena.p Paris Bureau on Saturday :— \ Astin, Amory, Boston, No, 33 Rue Tournon. Bullock, T, New York, Hotel Bergere. Cooper, A., San Francisco, Hotel de Russie. Darling, Miss Bessie, New York, Grand Hotel, Davies, T., New York, No. 45 Avenue de Friedland, Downes, G, M. and Miss Downes, New York, Splen- dide Hotel. Elliott, C. L., Connecticut, Hotel de la Couronne. Hart, G. T. and wife, New York, No. 118 Boulevard Haussmann, a Instcin, Charles E., New York, Hotel de l'Athénée. Jackson, E. C., New York, No, 7 Rue Drouot. Knapp, J. P., New York, Continental Hotel. . Lowell, Maine, Anglo-American Hotel. Murphy, S. M. and wife, Tennessee, Grand Hotel. Paine, Alfred, Boston, Anglo-American Hotel. Partridge, Joseph R., New York, Splendide Hotel. Peddie, Mrs. B., New Jersey, No. 7 Rue Drouot. Phelps, Charles A., Hotel Binda, Pride, A. B., New York, Continental Hotel. Miss Helen, Connecticut, Grand Hotel. Scott, W. G. and wife, Indiana, Hotel Binda, Shaler, F. A., Connecticut, Grand Hotel. Sutton, H. K., New York, Hotel du Louvre, Thayer, Charles F., New York, Grand Hotel. ‘Tiffin, Joseph, Montreal, No. 16 Rue Duphot. ‘Tiffin, H. J., Montreal, No. 16 Rue Duphot. Van Riper, Miss M. L., New Jersey, Splendide Hotel. Williams, G. B, and wife, Hotel de Bade, Young, Jennie J., New York, Splendide Hotel. Mr. Wendell Phillips is at the St. Denis Hotel. Mr. E. Rockwood Hoar, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenne Hotel. Mr. E. Blahdorn, Secretary of the Austrian Legation at Washington, is at the Hotel Brunswick. Baron and Baroness Blanc, the Italian Minister and vite, are ut the Albemarle Hotel, where they intend to remain for several weeks, There is in Galveston, Texas, an old, gray-haired Irishman, who was once a professor of ancient lan- guages and applied sciences in the University of Vir- ginia, He is thorough in Semitic and Sanscrit. He is so poor that he earns a precarious living by ped- dling apples. Prince Bismarck is very fretful and nervous. He constantly suffers from neuralgia and from a belief that his enemies will attempt to assassinate him. He in sleepless, haggard and broken, and his temper fre- quently finds violent outbursts. He keeps up his nerves by drinking port wine. The Prince no longer receives the sympathy of any party in Germany. London 7ruth:—“The upper classes in England have their amusements, and yet these very upper classes ure too apt to frown down the very idea of those in “a lower social stratum” requiring any recre- ation and to fancy that to ‘eat, drink, sleep, work and gotovhurch on Sundays is all that these latter can want. Among lower class Englishmen there are many respectable persons, but @ wondrous lack of refine- ment, and asort of innate stupid vulgarity that are met with in no other country, while those of this class who cannot put up with the monotony of the “Eng- lish home” scek their amusement in places where all the associations are degraded and where, instcad of culture and refinement, they are brought into contact, with all that is the reverse.”” London World :—* ‘Masterly inactivity.’ This phrase with inverted commas has been going the round of the newspapers for some time now, and has of late been so constantly quoted by the Times in ref- erence to Lord Lawrence's pusillanimous suggestions, that ordinary readers may imagine that it owes its origin to him. Iam open to correction; but I be- Heve the expression will be found for the first time in the Vindicie Galicia of Sir James Mackintosh. ‘The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise und masterly inactivity.’ Daniel Webster adopted | it in rebuking the ardor of the party who wished to take advantage of the Papineau rebellion in 1837 to annex Canada to the great Republic. His argument ‘was that, sooner or later, Canada must be absorbed in the natural course of events; but the policy of America was not to hasten the event by war with Great Britain, but to bide her time in ‘masterly inactivity.’ ’”” Novoe Vremia (description by # Russian officer) “When I returned home from Turkey I arrived at Pultawa just in time to witness the departure of the Turkish prisoners for their own country. I was not wu little surprised to see how the Russian ladies (and among the number were: some belonging to the best families) did not blush to goto the station to take leave of the Turks. They pressed them to their bosom, and kissed them with tears in their eyes; the emotion of some of them was so great that they fainted. Altogether the scene was so scandalous that the police had to interfere and to turn out of the sta- tion all non-travellers; this rather damped the ardor of our sentimental ladies. Five teachers belonging to mnasitum have been taken to task for unseemly demonstrations; among them are the daughters of » high official and of a proto-pope. ‘The head of the ice at Pultawa hes determined to prevent the repe- tition of sue scenes, and women are now forbidden from going to the station when there is a departure of ‘Turkish prisoners.” AMUSEMENTS. ABRONSON’S CONCERT AT GILMORE’S GARDEN. Alarge and appreciative audience gathered at Gil- mores last evening to take part in the inauguration of Mr, Rudolph Aronson’s popular — concerts. ‘The orchestra was meade up of many of the veterans of our musical seasons, and comprised some forty pieces fairly balanced as to strings, reeds and brass. ‘The programme was designediy light, but not quite us flashy as some expected. Mr, Aronson is @ young gentleman who has yet to learn the difference between a machine to mark time and @ real leader. At times he vainly endeavored to give greuter velocity to the fempo, and at others seemed as vainly struggling to catch up with or restrain the ardor of the musicians. His intentions im this respect were always intelligent, but he must rule with a more weighty rod before he can take out of his orchestra all that is in it. On the programme were a imarch by Suppe; “Prinz Methusalem Overture,” a waltz and a qulop by Strauss; a waltz by Waldteufel, another by Gungl and still a waltz by Mr. Aronson, ‘The waltz business was @ little over done, A selection from “Carmen proved the feature of the evening, and was redemanded, but the string quartet, “Filigrane,” by ‘Lackenbacher, showed the sterling materiala Of the orchestra, Messrs. Meyer, Christ, Schwarz and Popper playing voual portions of the with deliewey and skill. ‘Th programme were Venzano’s “Waltz Song,” given with dash by Mrs, Dora Gordon Steele, and ‘The Seout,’” ood and the i“ tis well that 8 Was 80; have been more impelled to The concert was given in the orchestra being fazed On ACTORS sawdust ring. — Out side t rtain were ranged they have b taining the wild anin tions of Mr. Barniin’s sho ‘The whole building was heated by monster stoves to keep the animals warm. Now, although these animale were from Asia and Afri was not the per- fumes of Arabia, §; rst of all they pervaded in additional puis and gusts, those in the cirens, place, then they ear nee, At the close of the first part a number of brave, devoted fellows went down and lighted cigars = and a md stood puffing near the entrance to th ne of the wild animals, The pward, and after a while were inwards on the already laden air, There sniff of hopeful anticipation. was aa questionable in quality as it was wnt to qualify if not counteract. did happen was that the variety of odors was increased, It heeame, as it were, a symphony of quaint smells, that vied with the efforts of the harmonizers of sweet sounds, Never before was the same double result attai left before the perform: ance was half : with confined ideas as to whether it was a concert or a series of crucial experi- ments in an ocenlt department of natnral history they had attended, Tt aawisted one to a clearer idea of what the Augean labor of Hercules must have been, Mr, Aronson must hire a Hercules or another bail, BOOTH'S THEATRE—THE PARISIAN CONCERT, ‘The concert given by the new French opéra boufle mpany last night proved quite nnexpectedly to be of genuine dnd unique interest, The programme was evidently designed to present songs mainly by French composers, adapted to the concert #tage, and outside of the vale of ondra bonffe: and instead of Offen. loudlets curl Y variety was as astonishing as their persist: | “ana Lecoeq there were given Félicien David and Massé, and even Wagner and Bach were not ig: nored in the tasteful menu of guod music given in the programme proper. In the performances Mlle. Zelie Weil easily led by her piquant chic, her brilliancy and artistic finish, Her “La Fille a’Auberge,” by Chas- sagne, was most captivatingly rendered, and received the compliment of a double encore. The same result attended her singing of ‘Fait au Fait,” by Chassagne, in the second ; although the song itself was not comparable with the first selection. Chief among the Stes Ang? things of the evening were “L'Amour en Gaguette,” by Barbier, sing by Mane. Dralla; the duo from “Les Bresiliennes,” by Bordeze, sung by Mme. Dralla and Edant; the romanza from David's “Lalla Rookh,” by M. Doria, and two original songs com) 4 sung by M. Mialet. In the latter the baritone sang in too full voice, his sing- ing, rote en yt apnea The oo blight upon the ‘or was an inte! On; "Rruitsize fe nidette, by M. Iecuyer, ‘This was u coarse and unpleasantly suggestive piece that il there was no excuse for offering, an ‘was do. servedly hissed. Mlle. Stani and M. Benedick gave several airs very acceptably, and there was a piano- forte solo by Mile, Desombray. The latter, however, added nothing to the interest of the occasion, ‘There was a fair audience in attendance, and, spite of the numerous encores, the entertainment’ closed at an agreeably seasonable hour, c GRAND OPERA HOUSE—GILMORE’S BAND AND MLLE, DI MURSKA, The second combination concert of Mule. Ima di Murska and Gilmore's Band took place at the Grand Opera House last evening, in the presence of another of the great audiences which the good business. tuct of Messrs. Poole & Donnelly seems successful in drawing together. The selections were of a character well calculated to please the popular taste, The over- ture by the band was the “‘Stabat Mater,” after which Signor Susini, the old operatic favorite, sang Verdi's “Sicilian Vespers." Professor John Hill then performed a piano solo, composed by Gottschalk, introducing a number of national airs. Then came Mile. di Murska in a grand cavatina from ‘‘Semiramide,” which she rendered with an execution that was almost faultless, As an encore she sang a Hungarian song that was also warmly applauded. In the second part Mile. di Murska rendered exquisite aria from Meyerbeer's “Star of the Nort! with an obligato for two flutes by Messrs. Bracht and De Carlo, There have been few occasions in New York when this artist has ap- peared to greater advantage or clicited more genuine enthusiasm than she did last evening. She was evidently in full sympathy with’ her surroundings, and her vocalization was scarcely without a flaw. Her last piece was a duet, “Elixir d’Amore,”” by Doni zetti, in which she was admirably sustained by Signor Susini, Levy, the cornetist, performed a number ot his well known solos and, as usual, shared the honors of the evening. The band, under Mr. Gilmore, has rarely been heard with greater pleasure, advantage, and all the selections assigned to it on the programme were warmly praised. success of these Sunday night concerts and the low price assessed for them shows that the public is always prepared to pay trib- ute to art and avail itself of the opportunity of enjoy- ing the best talent. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Wilhelmj appears in Philadelphia this week, sup ported by Mme. Carreno, Miss Kate James and Signor ‘Tagliapietra. ‘The “Chimes of Normandy,” the most popular of light operas will be presented at the St. James Theatre this evening by the Tracy-Titus English Opera Com- pany. Miss Catharine Lewis, the London lyric comé- dienne, will make her first appearance in this city on this occasion in the réle of Serpolette. Mr. Manrice Strakosch will, on the 18th, inaugurate another series of four concerts by Wilhelm) at Stein- way Hall. The great violinist will present several notable classic rks by Becthoven, Rubenstein, Max Bruch and Lipinsky, which he has not previously per- formed here. Wilhelmj has taken a firm hold upon the public, and any noveltics which he may offer will have unusual interest to lovers of the classic. At his first concert at Steinway Hall, to-night, M. Reményi will play, with orchestra, a grand concerta by Mendelssohn, a nocturne and mazurka by Chopin, two capriccios by Paganini and several Hungarian melodies. Mme, Riye-King will.play Liszt's BH flat concerto. Miss Helen Ames will sing “Infelice," by Mendelssohn, and an air from “Carmen,” and Mr. William Courtney, who will make his first appedrance in this country, will sing ‘Il mio tesoro,” from ‘Don Giovanni,” and “Tell Me, Mary, How To Woo Thea” by Hobson. ’ OBITUARY. JOSEPH WOOLLEY. Joseph Woolley, an old Fulton Market fish mer- chant and prominent citizen of Long Branch, left that town on Tuesday last, apparently in good health. After voting on that day he took the train for New York to attend his business in Fulton Market, where he has been a dealer in fish for the past thirty-two. years. His friends and the citizens here were greatly’ surprised on Thursday evening by the receipt of a telegram announcing his sudden death by a stroke of apoplexy at his abode on Sixth street. Mr. Woolley was a ndant of an old and numerous family in Monmouth county, his father, Nathan Woolley, up to the time of his death, having charge of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse. The deceased was born in Long Branch in 1820. He for a short time interested him, self in seine fishing, and would take the proceeds of his labors to New York and there sell them at a fait He afterward opened a stand on the corner of mman and South streets, in 1846, where he was doing a thrifty business, when be associated with him @ partner, business being continued under the name of West & Woolley for nearly t years, when, West withdrew with a small fortune and the firm was changed to Rodgers, Wools ley & Co. After several years it was again c! ged te Woolley, Clark & Co., and subsequently to Woolley, Lanphear & Co., the pane firm. Mr. Woolley died at the age of fifty-eight years and three months. Ha leaves a wife and four grown-up children, He was a man lacking education. He had considerable real estate in this locality, and is reported to have been quite wealthy. He was generous to the poor and contributed freely to religious institutions of all de- nominations. His remains arrived at Long Branch from New York on Saturday night, and were interred in the family burying ground at Mechanicsville. PROFESSOR ROBERT BLAKEY, PH. D. Dr. Robert Blakey, who died October 25, at Newcas- tle, England, was born st Morpeth, Northumberland, in 1795, received a classical education, devoted him- self especially to mental science and was chosen in 1835 professor of logic and metaphysics in Queen's College, Belfast, which post he soon resigned on ac+ count of ill health. He early came before the publioa as an author, having published in 1829 “The Free- dom of the Divine and Haman Wills,” and in 1833 a “History of Moral Science" (2 yols.), which w printed in the United States and was highly mended by distinguished metaphysicians, wrote “An Essay on Logic’ (1844), “The Lives of the Primitive Fathers of the Chureh,”” “The History of the Philosophy of Mind’ (4 vols., 1848: second’ edi- tion 1850), “The Temporal Benefits of Christianity,” “On Moral Good and Evil,” “A Historical Sketch’ of Logic” and “A History of Political Literature’ (4 vols., 1855~" published several volumes on sporting topics, ber Neweuatle, and w: Britannica.” ceived a gold medal from the King of the Belgians, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the versity of Jena. He was a friend of Southey, Dr. almers, Allan Cunningham and Sir Willi: a ton, and some of his we tion of Gioberti and Victor Cousin. REAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL MERCER, Rear Adiniral Samuel Mercer, of the British navy, died at Deal, England, October 25, aged nearly seventy years, He was born in 1809, entered the navy in 1821, served on the East and West coasts of Africa in Her Majesty's ships Leven and Barraconta, and for three years from 1827 was constantly employed in suppressing the slave trade, He was promoted to the rank of commander in 1638, when he was appointed inspector commander at Lyme, in Dorsetshire. In 1941 he was appointed to Her Majesty's whip Ocean to couduct the packet service at Dov In 1847 he was appointed by the Treasury on the relief Wervice in Ireland during the potato famine. From 1851 to 1859 he was harbor master at the Glamorgan Canal Docks at Cardiff. He was Vice Consul at Granville, in France, for a short time in 1864. He obtained the rank of rear admiral in 1875. MAJOR GEORGE FREAMOR, Major George Freamor, a prominent member of the bar, died suddenly yesterday morning of paralysis of the heart, aged forty-seven years, He was in the cav- alry service of the Confederate army through th war, on General Fitz Hugh Lee's and Wale Hany ton's stafie, Ho was a Presidential elector from Californit for Buchanan in 1856, and was a member of the Mary: Jand Legislature in 1857 and again in 1474. REV. HENRY JONES, The Rev. Henry Jones, a prominent Congregational- ist clergyman and graduate of Yale College, 1820 claas, died at Bridgeport, Conn., on Saturday uighty aged seventy-seven years, He was 40 Dass Jones, of Hartford, es nt ™ AARON SIMONSON. Aaron Simonson, one of the veterans of the war of 1812, died at his residence, Tottenville, 8.1, last week, in the eighty-third year of his age. ‘This leaves tang of the veterans now living in Richmond