The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. " THE DAILY NWERALD, published every duy in the year, cents per copy (Sundays excluded. Ton dollars per CaF, OF Ata rate of one dollar per month for any period s than six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday included, free vf postage. SNEEKLY MEMALD—One dollar per sear, tree of post 3 7TO_SUBSCRIB: Remit in drafts on New FATE TO, SUBRCRIE eee 4 ean be procured send the im reqistered \evter. All oney remitted at risk of send In order to insure atten- fin subseribers wishing their address changed must give thelr old as well as th r pew address, ‘All bnsiness, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nuw Yous Henan. Letters kages should be properly sealed, + Rejected H not be returned. munications bir — aaa OFFL . 112 SOUTH SIXTH FFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— ET STREET. E—49 AVENUE DE LOPERA. STRADA PACE. Subscriptions and advertise:mes il be received and for on the same terms as York. ne VOLUME XDI... 27 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ox Hla hy NIBLO'S GARDEN—Acr GRAND OPERA IOUSE. NEW YORK AQUARIT PARK THEATRE—Lo: ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Do: Bauncx’s Suow, LYCEUM THEATRE—Josu BOWERY THEATRE—Otivex Twist. WALLACK’S THEATRE. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTR STEINWAY HALL—Epovuanp Rewrnrh ACADEMY OF DES: THEATRE BRIG RIPLE The probabilities are that the weather York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and porily cloudy, with northwest to southwest winds. Lo-morrow it wil! be fair and moderately warm. Watt Srreer Yesrervay. ket yesterday was Icas active and feverish. Gold was quiet all day at 1001s. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads strong. Money on call was easy at 4 percent and closed at 3 per cent. A CHANGE oF Base on the, Southern policy the latest rumor from Washington. - Murrny finds no diftienlty in inducing per- sons to sign his temperauce pledge. To keep it is the question. Tue CanvassinG of the election returns is rather mournful work for the Tammany Alder- men this year. poset! aie “volo ts Tux RevoLvroxary Business seems to be depressed in the West Indies. It is quiet all along the line. it Is ALauosr Neepiess to say that the police have not yet succeeded in arresting the despoilers of Mr. Stewart's zrave. Twern’s Law EXPENSES have become the subject of a legal controversy. When shall we hear the last of the ‘‘Boss ?” Cartains oF VEsseLs, foreign and coastwise, will tind some specially interesting information in our report of the proceedings: af the Pilot Commissioners’ meeting yesterday. Inuicir Distitation, the chief industry of the mountains of Tennessee, is, it is reported, entirely broken up. ‘The reformed mooushiners will in all probability soon turn up us gaugers. Jy toe LamicGration Sratistics for the past thirty-two years are correct Germany is slightly shead of Ireland—two million from Lreland and two million one hundred thousand from Ger- many. MEXico is endeavoring to secure a little Cus- tom House reform. Were not the meeting of Congress so near we might let them have Mr. Wood for a couple of mouths to do a little in- vestigation. ANoTHER Provosition to heat the city by steain bas been made to the Aldermen. This makes the fourth application. If we must be blown up or seulded Jet the privilege of doing ao go to the highest bidder. Ir Has Brex Derexwixep by the committee of the Bur Association to lay the charges of the alleged exaction of illegal fees by the Sheriff, Register and County Clerk before the Grand Jury, which meets next Monday. Some or Tor Leavixe Citizens of Newport have determined to form a sanitary sssociation on the plan of a similar society in Edinburgh. If either of these cities needs an organization of this kind as much as we do it must be badly off indeed. In tne Marine Court yesterday Judge McAdam eloquently laid down the law on the dog question. He hoids that every citizen is en- titled to life, liberty and, in the pursuit of hap- piness, to the inestimable privilege of keeping a dog. ‘Tor Wearitn.—The depression that was over the lower lukes on Monday night has moved rapidly eastward and is now central over New Branawick. The pressure has risen very quickly over the Southern and Central States from the southwestward, the movement seeming to cen- tre on Nebraska as ouapivot. The effect of this general movement of the atmosphere has been to change the direction of the winds from northwesterly and westerly to a southwesterly direction. Rains attended the progress of the centre of low pressure eastward, and the area of precipitation has been gradually decreasing over the Middle and Eastern States as the storm appronched the coast. From the Rocky Mountains westward to the Pacific the barometer bas risen, with clear weather, except nu the region between the Uintah and Sierra Nevada ranges, wliere it ie yet below the mean. Our special cable weather reports from London avnounee that at Liverpool yesterday afternoon * strong north-northeast gale prevailed, with the barometer at 29.39 inches. In the northeastern sections of England a very heavy northerly gale is prevailing, with ‘* tremendous sea” off Thurso, in the horth of Seotland. These indicate the ap- proach of a storm centre to the British Islands, iu accordance with our warning eabled on last Sunday night. The weather in New York and its vieinity today will be warmer and partly clondy, with northwest to southwest winds. ‘Tomorrow it will be fair and moderately warm. How the Bunks Will Resume. The proposed bank policy in aid of re- sumption, of which the Hesanp gave the particulars yesterday morning, was for- mally considered and unanimously adopted yesterday by the banks which form the New York Clearing House. ‘this means that it will be the policy of all the banks in the country, because there is no bank outside of New York which has not such relations to the New York banks as to have its action in such a» matter as this determined by their united policy. The statement which the banks make to the public concerning theif conclusions and policy is printed in full elsewhere ; the six points of the policy they have determined on are of such im- portance that we print them here in their official form. ‘They are of interest to every merchant and manufacturer, to every bank depositor in the country: — After the Ist of January, 1879, the banks of New York city will:— 1, Decline receiving gold coins as “special de- posita,” but accept ahd treat them only as ‘lawful sna Abolish special exchanged of gold checks at, the Clearing House. 3. Pay and receive balances between banks at Clear- ing House either spigot or currency.: _ 4. Receive silver dollars upon deposit only under special contract to withdraw the same in kind, 5. Prohibit payments of balances at Clearing House in silver certificates or in silver dollars, excepting as subsidiary coin in small sums—say under $10. 6. Discontinue gold special accounts by notice to dealers on the Ist of January next to terminate them. We believe we do not exaggerate the im- portance of this programme when we repeat what we said of it yesterday, that it will mark one of the most momentous events in the history of the United States. By adopt- ing it the banks of New York have shown themselves capable of meeting and fulfill- ing their duty to'the country in helping to re-establish a stable currency for the land. What they have thus agreed upon is en- tirely sufficient, with what the Treasury can and must do to accomplish the great end in view without disturbance to the mer- cantile or industrial interests of the nation. We do not see how they could do more, nor do we just now see how they could do less, with security to their capital and their deposits. We can imagine that some of the adherents of the silver policy may find fault with the determination of the banks to exclude silver from their regular de- posits, but we remark that the banks cannot be expected to depreciate their own capital, and ought not to be allowed to do so, by receiving and becoming possesgors of de- preciated coins; and further, an act of Con- gress authorizing the Treasury to redeem silver coins in sums of fifty dollars, which the friends of the silver dollar can easily pass if they will, will remove all objections to it on the part of the banks, who will then take it on deposit without difficulty. . Of the fifteen millions of silver dollars so far coined only about two millions remain in circulation, This shows sufficiently what the country thinks of these coins, and warrants Secretary Sherman in keeping the coinage at the minimum limit fixed by law. The proposition that the Treasury shall cease to reissue one and two dollar green- backs by way of forcing out silver seems to ns not entirely expedient, though it may do no harm, asa further test of the real demand for or disgust against the silver dollar. We suspect that before the small bills are nearly all withdrawn Mr. Sherman wi!! be overwheimed with complaints and protests from all parts of the country. It is not necessary to discuss in any de- tail what must be the policy of the Treasury after the Ist of January. We have repeat- edly. pointed out thatthe banks must neces- sarily seek to supply themselves with gold, at least enough for current use. They have now on hand twenty or thirty millions. The remainder of what they will need in all parts of the country they will draw from the hoard in the Teasury in exchange for greenbacks. Thatis the object and main use of this hoard; and Mr. Sherman, who of course sees this, will pay out his gold with alacrity and with entire confidence, because in the first place the amount he will have on hand on the Ist of January will be sufficient for all im- mediate and ordinary demands of the banks and the public ; because, further, as he pays oat gold, his own obligations to re- deem will continually decrease, and finally, because he has behind him the Resumption act, which permits and directs him to acquire all the gold he needs for the re- demption of the entire mass of legal tender notes by the sale of bonds, and allows him to sell at his discretion for gold either four, four and a half or five per cent bonds to any amount. With the authority given him by this law he can draw gold from Europe to any extent he or the banks mny need; for under it his power is unlimited. The country is warranted, therefore, in regarding resumption on the Ist of Jan- uary as a fixed fact, and in believing, further, that it will be accomplished with- out disturbance of industry or commerce, Congress, when it meets next month, may, if it will, facilitate the operation by some amendments of the silver law, Fortunately the events of the last session showed that in the present Congress the inflationists are not strong enough to adopt any legislation which would embarrass the Treasury in resuming or limit the Secretary's necessary powers. Mr. Sherman has and will retain full powers. He has only to act with courage and decision to secure a sound and stable currency, and it will be our singular good fortune thus, in spite of much igno- raut and mischievous legislation, to escapo the perils of both silver and inflation. The result of the fall elections gives us reason to hope that common sense will prevail in both parties in, Congress, When it has been made freshly apparent that the country repudiates the repudiatora of all national obligations and the crazy notions of the currency empirics, it would be as indecent as it would be impolitic om the part of an expiring Congress to even attempt legisia- tion in the direction of inflation. It may be too much to expect that Representatives like General Butler, who are committed to inflation and who are not elected to suc- ceed themselves, should respect a policy whose carrying out will not be their con- cern; but such men cannot expect to revenge their home defeat upon the nation or to affect the course of either of the great parties on this question. The republicans have already committed themselves asa party to resumption, and party discipline is strong NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. enough with them to enable their leaders to silence the inflationists on their side. As to the democrats, they must see by this time that they have lo# seriously by allowing their party to be ruled and led astray by ignorant demagogues like Ewing and Voor- hees. If they are wise they will do all they can to get the currency question out of pol- ities and thus enable themselves to turn the attention of the country to other questions, with which they have a chance toregain the favor they have foolishly lost, The Fisheries Dispute. It is supposed that the State Department has received a communication from Lord Salisbury, the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to the two despatches of Mr, Evaris to our Minister in London—one complaining of the Fortune Bay outrage, and the other protesting against, the Halifax award, The Secretary of State on being in- quired of yesterday declined to say whether such a reply has been received or not, and of course he discloses nothing of its con- tents. It is more likely to be tirst published in London than in this country. It isa document which will be awaited with lively interest, especially as Lord Salisbury has shown on some other occasions that he wields a trenchant pen The country does not understand the delay of our government in opening this correspondence. ‘The Halifax Commis- sioners declared their award Novem- ber 23, 1877, nearly a year ago, and but little time was needed for discover- ing all the reasons which are officially stated for impugning its justice and valid- ity. It may, indeed, be said thet this was rather a question for Congress than for the Executive, inasmuch as the award could not be paid without a legislative appropri- atior. This is, no doubt, a sound view, but it does not account for the long delay after Congress had appropriated the money. To reserve the discussion until the near approach of the day fixed for the payment was not the most obvious way for aftording the British government a fall oppor- tunity’ to inquire into the subject and prepare its reply. If Mr.’ Evarts had decided not to go into a protracted dis- cussion, and to make no rejoinder to Lord Salisbury’s reply, the delay is of no con- sequence; but if he should find it necessary to make a rejoinder the British Foreign Secretary will hardly have time for prepar- ing an answer to the new arguments. ‘The interpretation which we would profer to put upon Mr. Evarts’ delay is that he sent his able protest as a matter of form in pur- suance of the suggestion of Congress, and that it has been all along the intention ofthe President to pay the award if the British government should not voluntarily release our own from the obligation, and this quite irrespective of the strength or weakness of the British reasons for insisting on its pay- ment. We sincerely hope that this is the view and purpose of the President, for it is not consistent with the national honor for our government to engage in a long diplo- matic dispute on the question whether it will stand to a bargain which it deliberately made, The long delay in complaining of the Fortune Bay outrages seems quite inex- plicable on any reasonable grounds. ‘lhe violation of the rights of our fishermen by a local mob, or even by the local authori- ties of Newfoundland, has no proper bear- ing on the question of the award. To make that the excuse, or any part of the excuse, for repudiating the award is what our gov- ernment surely cannot intend, and hence it was impolitic to reserve complaint on that subject and make it the immediate pioneer of a long argument against the award, The two things being distinct in substance should have been kept separate in the dis- cussion, which the public can hardly deem them to be when they are presented at nearly the same time, although in different despatches. ‘The Fortune Bay affair should have been brought at once to the attention of the British government as soon as the facts could be ascertained and verified, and not have been held in reserve to reinforce an argument against the award. If the award is paid, as we trust it will be, we are confident that there will be no difficulty in securing justice on the other head of com- plaint. A Welcome Rest. 'Yhere was surprise, and wo cannot doubt agreeable surprise, in the Surrogate’s Court yesterday, when Judge Black, on behalf of the Vanderbilt will contestant, made the unexpected apnouncement, ‘The contes- tant rests her case.” No wonder that Mr. Henry L. Clinton sat in speechless amaze- ment fora few moments before moving an adjournment until to-day, or thatthe usu- ally sedate and decorous Mr. J. H. Choate, as he left the court, gayly tossed his ban- dle of papers up to the ceiling and cought it as it descended. ‘The silence of the one counsel who is generally not averse to talking, and the playful, baseball-like performance of the other counsel, who is usually the gravest of the grave, are significant of the gratification with which Judge Black’s brief sentence was heard. The contestant rests d case of which the people are weary, and which ought never to have been started on its long and tiresome career—a case which has throughouf been prolific of scandal and suggestive of cupidity and falsehood. It is to be hoped that the farther proceedings wili Be brief. There does not, indeed, ap- pear to be any reasun why they should be extended, and the unfortunate controversy cannot pass out of the public sight too soon. The Next Board of Aldermen, The next Board of Aldermen will have a majority of four against the Tammany dem- ocrats in that body. The division stands nine ‘Tammany members, seven anti-Tam- many and six republicans. The organiza- tion of the Board will, of course, go to the opponents of Tammany, and there is some discussion as to whether the President shall be accorded to the republicans or to the anti-Tammany democracy, The con- test for the honor is said to be of a friendly character, and the decision will probably turn on the question of the consirnection of the next Board of Apportionment. The latter Board is composed of the Mayor, Comptroller, President of the Dewart- ment of Taxes and Assessments, and Presi- dent of the Board of Aldermen. The duties of the Board of Apportionment are so im- portant and act so direotly on the interests of the several departments that the republi- cans, who gave Mr. Cooper nearly two-thirds of his vote, will natarally claim a represen- tation in its councils. The next Board will be at first composed of Mayor Cooper, Comp- troller Kelly, Commissioner Wheeler, of the Tax Department, and the President of the Board of Allermen. The three former are demoorats, and the republicans urge that on that uccount the latter officer should be a republican. Commissioner Wheeler's term expires in May, 1879, and if the Mayor elect contemplates appointing a democrat as his successor the claim of the republicans to the Presidency of the Aldermanic Board will have great force, The Legislature of 187%. The republicans have seoured so large a representation in the next Assembly that the question of the United States Senator- ship may be considered as out of the way. The majority in the Senate, with Mr. Thomas Murphy in Mr. John Morrissey’s plage, is eleven, while in the Honse it will not be less than sixty-eight, making about eighty on joint ballot. As the Assembly will be a reflex of the Saratoga Convention there is not likely to he any opposition to Mr. Conkling, whose re-election may be regarded ascertain. This disembarrasses the con- test for the Assembly organization, which, when a United States Senatorial election is pending, is generally mixed up with that event, and leaves it tobe decided on its merits, 'fhree ex-Speakers—Messrs. Alvord, Husted and Sloan—will bein the next House, and each is said to be desirous of again pre- siding over the body. But there are so many new members that it is regarded as probable that the Speaker’s desk may be filled without regard to former service. Indeed, it is believed .by some that there may bea desire among the. Assemblymen to extend the honor of the Speakership to some one who has not already enjoyed it, especially as such distinguished represen- tatives as Dr. Hayes, of this city, and Ham- ilton Fish, Jr,, of Putnam, are to be found on the floor. The republicans lack one.of a two-third yote in the Senate, having twenty-one Sen- ators, to eleven on the democratic side. This may prevent them from passing laws over the Governor's veto, should the occa- sion arise. At.the same time, when only a single democratic absentee will give the re- publicans a two-third vote in the upper house,.and when at least two of the demo- cratic Senators are old: republicans and still have many republican sympathies, there is not much doubt that the republi- cans could overcome a veto in that body if they should desire to doso. ‘There is not at present any apparent prospect of a bitter party fight between the Governor and the legislative majority next year, but it is im- possible. to predict what differences may spring up before the close of the next ses- sion. The Reciprocity Convention at Chicago. A large body of influential merchants and shippers from all parts of the United States assembled yesterday in Chicago to discuss questions connected with the mutual ex- tension of commerce between the leading countries of the Western Hemisphere. This Convention did nothing yesterday beyond organizing and appointing a commit- tee on resolutions, In .looking over the list of the officers, and espe cially of the numerous vice presidents, readers will recognize the names of so many gentlemen distinguished in the commerce of the country as to justify an.expectation that the proceedings to-day will not be so empty as were the speeches spoken yes- terday, which were mere buncombe. Among the three hundred members there should be some who bring with them fresh sugges- tions based on accurate knowledge. The extension of our tradé with the nations that lie at our doors and with all parts of the American continent is a subject of the first magnitude, and a convention assembled to consider it should keep clear of claptrap and enlighten the country by the promulga- tion of sound views resulting from wide information and careful reflection. Such views cannot be extemporized on the spot, even by the ablest men in the Convention. The only ase of such an assembly is to test by discussion and publish to the world con- clusions which have been reached by previ- ous research and preparation. If anything worth saying is sent forth from this Con- vention it will easily command the atten- tion of the country. Mtss Hosmer’s Motor. This is an age that threatens to overturn all our conceptions of the stability of things. Even the cast iron mechanical laws that are believed to govern the equi- librium of the universe are in danger of being set aside by those untiring investi- gators of the mysterious secrets of nature who are bent on showing that the word “impossible” must be expunged from our modern dictionaries because it belongs to a dead language. The telephone en- ables us to hear a friend speaking five hundred miles away, the pho- nograph makes a word uttered an eternal physical record of an idea, and now comes an application of the magnet as a motor thet promises to cause ® revo- lution in mechanics such as the wild- est dreamer hed not imagined. Such, at least, are the opinions of practical men who have bad opportunities of exam- ining the operation of this new motor on a small scale, That there exists an irresist- ible, if unregulated, force in magnetism has not been denied by scientists. The nature of the power exerted proves plainly enough that our present appreciation of it cannot measure what may be exerted to an unlimited extent when un- known agencies cause a development of its latent forces. The steam that only lifted the lid of Watt’s kettle has been ap- plied to the Corliss engine. So can the subtle power exercised in raising needle by & magnet be developed to a degree equal to the movement of an ocean steamer, That’ Miss Hosmer should be the discoverer of some of the secrets of thie mighty force is » matter of which her country has reason to be proud. hope that Edison and herself may not drive us too fast toward the time when all that is to be known will be known. The Marquis of Lorne. To-morrow morning the new Governor General of Canada will step aboard the steamer Sarmatian, which will carry him and his royal wife to the scene of his future labors. He has been spending the last few days of his stay in England at Sandring- ham, the home of his brother-in-law, the Yrince of Wales. There several of the mem- bers of his wife's family have been holding @ pleasant little domestic festival on the occasion of the heir apparent’s birthday on Saturday last. To the Princess Louise the journey will have all the charm of novelty, but at this season even the willing service of the Hxgatp Weather Bureau cannot in- sure a passage of the Atlantic that will leave recollections of unmixed pleasure. ‘The preparations on shipboard show that every- thing 1s being done to make the voyage as pleasant as possible. from some of the most disagreeable ex- periences of rough weather at sea, Beyond the inevitable malaise of this ocean journey’ the young couple can look forward to a warm reception when they touch Canadian soil that will console them. We wish them & prosperous journey. An Important Decision. A suit was brought at Middletown, in this State, in 1875, against the landlord and tenant of a liquor saloon, for damages caused by the loss of a horse which was driven to death by the plaintiff's son while intoxicated by liquors supplied to him at the saloon. tained a verdict in his favor, which was confirmed at the General Term, and the landlord carried the case, so far as he was concerned, to the Court of Appeals. The action was brought under the law of 1873, known as the Civil Damage law, which makes the owner or lessor of premises on which intoxicating liquors are sold jointly liable with the tenant for any damage done by an_ intoxicated person who has been supplied with liquor on such premises. The Court of Appeals now effirms the judgment of the lower ‘courts, thus establishing tle liability: of owners or landlords of any premises in the State usedin the liquor business tor damages done by any drunken person who may procure liquor at such places. Ifa man should get intoxicated in a New York saloon and commit a murder, inflict a wound or do any injury to person or property while in that condition, the landlord or owner of the premises would, under this decision, be liable not only for damages actually sustained by the parties in interest, but for exemplary damages as well. The Isthmus Ship Canal. Some additional light was thrown last evening by Rear Admiral Ammen on this important subject. ‘he lecture delivered at Chickering Hall, a report of which will be found elsewhere, was intended to support the claims made for the Nicaragua toute as the most advantageous and {easi- ble. We hope that any differences of opinion that may arise as to the adoption of routes will not cause de- lays to the definite adoption of some practicable route. There is no doubt that Lake Nicaragua affords an inexhausti- ble reservoir from which a ship canal locks can be supplied, and that a lock canal will cost less than one joining the two oceans on the level. But it must be remembered that where they are avoidable, even at a considerable ex- pense, locks are by no means desirable for any kind of canal, and must be doubly ob- jectionable for a ship canal of so much importance as that across the Isthmus. The route proposed by Lieuten- ant Wyse, of the French Navy, is short and level, but costly. It severs the Isthmus by a deep cut and a short length of tunnel. For the safety of ordinary canal navigation it may be the best plan; but in a country so liable to volcanic convulsions as that through which it passes we believe a tunnel is an experiment that may prove unsuccessful. The same may be said of locks, It is easy to plan on paper, but difficult to execute a work against the suc- cess of which the subterranean forces may be exerted. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Snakes will not go near geraniums, Dogs are more skilful thin detectives, Kearney was the cork inButler’s bottle, It is @ wise rag-baby thatknows its own Ben Butler, Speaker Samuel J, andl is at the New York Hotel. Mr. George M. Robesot, of New Jersey, isat the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Doree, of Missouri weighs 376 pounds, He must be a chunky Doree. Speaker Randall and fanily will go to Washington on ‘Thursday for the seasu. When @ man's wife box his ear until he sees stars he is supposed to bebold sside-careal display. Mr. Detroit Free Kress, pu are very particular your- self, and you ought t (olbw your own demand about credits. * Since Edison threatenecto give us the electric light, gas company presidents have been singing the long meter doxology. Talniage is suid to have earned his mouth in early childhood by trying to mile all over a quarter sec- tion of mince pie. How do you proneuce khedive ?—Detroit Free Pres, We can't quite bh it,—New Haven Register, But you khediventually. The Springfield Reputican thinks that churches should find fields of labr for worthy tramps and save their money for thea, Since Robert) Ingersollwrote his letter to Emma Abbott the boys say .¢ is undecided between Horeanna and Whoakmm, ° The man who has curd himself of the habit of smoking is the most intorant of critics, He forgets what a nuisance he was lmself. Edmund Yates saya tht in the United States the servant girl has no sympihy for the other members of the family, the kitcherbeing very democratic. As we grow old the pat does not impress us as being a very desirable nimal. Our love for him ceases. If you want hime all, you want 4 goat while yon're young. Danbury News;—“Hent 0. Work, the author of that fatal song, ‘My Grandfaer's Clock,’ is this State. It was genertly believed tha’ Obio nan, and we regreto learn he is not.” ‘Two Montclair gentleien were going home the other midnight, with agood deal of benediction aboard, and they were somnly leaning against each other and discussing théftuation, when one of thtm broke forth into song, Nighted we stand, divided We hear of swinging berths to save the Marquis and Marchioness The plaintiff ob- We only | we fall; can't yer stand on yer boots, or have yer forgotten the ciphernall?” r| Augusta (Me.) Jouraal:—‘‘A little Portland girl re- cently testified innocently to the life of drudgery ex- perienced by the average “queen of the household” who does her own housework. Somebody usked the child it her mother's hair was gray. ‘I don’t know,’ she suid, ‘she is too tall for me to see the top of her head, and she never sits down.’ ” Chicago Journal:—You may not be able to dress iv silks or velveta or diamonds, ‘lady, but at leat you may be sufficiently in style to stop in your walk, reach down and grab the off side lower corner of yout dress skirt, a little east by nor'west kittering south, and lift the august demi-train along with the reat of yourself into the street car, while the passengers all wait and swear,” London Truth:—“Looking-glasses, or, to use @ more comprehensive term, mirrors, are very nice and very useful iu their proper place, but to line the entrance to a theatre with them on both sides is, if I may use the term, ‘biocking.’ It took me quite, if not more, than fifteen minutes to get from the theatre to the street the other night, simply because in front of me there were ladies, and on each side mirrors,” Where the overland stage road crosses the Ruby Range, at about the mmit, there isa grave, at the head of which stands a slapjack—such a one as every- body who has crossed the Plains knows all about— and on this cake, which must have been carved while hot, is the following:—‘Baldy Pike, the man what originated the proverb of ‘When I struck Laramy plains Laramy peak was a hole in the ground.’ Dumas once said to Olive Logan:—‘My father's fame was hurtful to me at first, because when I wrote & poor thing, it seemed very much poorer than it oth erwise would, on account of its having been written by an Alexandre Dumas; and then, on the other hand, when I wrote # good thing, people shrugged theis shoulders and said, ‘Ah, yes; the young chap is. not for much in that; the father wrote it.’ But,” added ths author of, the “Demi-Monde,” with a smile, ‘since T wrote ‘La Dame aux Camelias,’ I have heard ng more of that sort of talk.” AMUSEMENT: BOOTH'’S THEATRE—-THE FRENCH OPERA BOUFF§ COMPANY. Under the auspices of several of the French societies of the city a pleasant entertainment was given at Booth’s ‘Theatre last evening by the, members of the French Opéra Bouffe Company for the benefit of the French victims of the yellow fever in the South, The house was fairly filed. The performance consisted of the second act of “Jeanne, Jeannette et Jeanneton,” which was followed by a vocal and instrumental concert in which: Mlle. Zelia Weill, M. F. Doria, M. Exile Mialet and other mem- bers of the organization performed a number of well chosen solos. The last piece on the programme was “Le Moulin Joli,” 4 comic 0] » in one act, by M, Varney, which was charmingly given, and elicited the heartiest applause and laughter from the audience. The orchestra was under the direction of M. Salvator Guerra, Artistically the entertainment was a success, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. “Hamlet” will be repeated to-night at the Fifth Avenue, “Don Giovanni” will be given to-night at the Acad emy of Music. Signor Campobello, who has recently arrived from Europe, will sing this evening at Remenyi’s concert at Steinway Hall. He is said to possess .a superb voice. At the Theatre Brighton, Broadway, this evening, a new play, entitled ‘‘Shay-le,” and said to contaim much dramatic incident, will be presented for the first time. Riga ons The first Wednesday matinée of “Otto” will take place atthe Broadway Theatre to-day. The engagement of Mr. Knight in this German specialty haa thus far proved to be one of the hits of the season. Brooklyn will have an opportunity of hearing Mr, Mapleson’s Italian operacompany, with its full chorug and orchestra,on Thursday evening, November 21, when “Carmen” will be given at the Brooklyn Atade- my of Music. Mr, Joseph Holland, the youngest son of the late George Holland, who joined the theatrical profession about a year ago in the true student spirit, has, after @ satisfactory trial, been engaged to play Antonio ig the “Merchant of Venice,” which is about to be re vived in grand style at the Chestnut Street Theatro, Philadelphia. The young man—and he is quite young—is full of promise. Mr. Booth will give his fine rendition of Iago, with Mr. D. H. Harkins as Othello, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre to-morrow evening. Mr. Buckley will play Cassio and Mr. McDowell Roderigo. Miss Alice Gray will be the Emilie and Miss Louise Muldener the Desdemona. On Friday Mr. Booth will play Othello and Mr. Harkins Iago. To-night and at the Saturday matinee “Hamlet” will be given. ed “Almost a Life” improves on scquaintante, “It i¢ replete with the peculiar melodramatic French ace tion that has made successes for eo many of its pre« decessors in the same school. The work of Mrs, Henderson, the translator and adapter, has been ade mirably done. By the way, Mr. Eben Plymptom ought to dress more like 8 nobleman and Miss Maude Granger less extravagantly. The stage ought not to ‘be turned into a millinery shop or @ modern fashion plate. At Chickering Hall.to-night a grand concert will be given for the purpose of paying the debt on the orgag of the Church of 8t. John the Evangelist. The fob lowing artists will assist:—Miss Emily Winant, sole contralto, St. Thomas’ Church; Mr. A. F. Toulmin, . Thomas’ Church; Mr. P. A. Schnecker, + Mr. George William Warren, organist, St. Thomas’ Church; Mr. John White, organist, St. Pate rick’s Cathedral, and the choir of the church, consist. ing of a quartet and a choras of twenty-five voices, all under the direction of Mr. R. Harry Warren. FINE _ ARTS. LOAN EXHIBITION LECTURES—WILLIAM C. PRIMR ON THE ART OF ILLUSTRATION BY EM GRAVING. The third of the series of lectures in connection with the Loan Exhibition of the Society of Decorative Art was delivered at Association Hall, last evening, to a good audience, the lecturer being William C. Prime, and his subject ‘The Art of Illustration by En- graving.” Mr. Prime opened his interesting dis< course by stating that his subject was the history of illustration by engraving and not the history of eugraving. ‘the former was divided into two departments—the history of illustration by pictures, and that of the multiplicae tion of pictures by engraving. There are men and whole families of men who have never seen 4 picture, and who do not understand it when they do see one, Tilustrations must always be suited for the capacity of those for whom the} are made. Bunyan’s “‘Pil- grim's Progress” has been published in in- numerable illustrated editions suited to differ ent classes of people. Missionaries to China have published an edition in which tian is represented as 4 C1 . Ditrer’s, “Life of the Virgin,” though full of what are ignorantly called anachronisms, was published for the German mind of the early sixteenth century. The (apn Preaents itself in each cage where pictures made of how to properly convey hts by means of the eye instead of the car. art of printing is only one of the at in the progress of this art. The inven! of letters was one of the most wonderful achievements of the human intellect. Phonetic letters were probably a result of the prior invention of mak! jures to express ideas, The oldest ex: les of arte are found in Egypt, and there 4,000 years ago the art of illustration reached a perfection never since rivalled, ‘The ancient Coptic is @ lost ze, but the Payp- tian artist painted with such skill that Greek, iu, German, French and lish speaking men, women and even children could read his stories as well as hie own rs. at Egyptian art indicates knowledge, aa Bu their pictures have served: their ag cd 4,000 years. After my sted the growth of ifnstration from the simple Egyptian up to the complex Greek at; Mr. Prime showed the similarity of its development from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Possibly out of the love of a» monk for a religious picture grew a desire to muitiply copies of it, and so engraving was invented. ‘the invention of print with movable type was & direct outgrowth of wo engraving. In carly times, the lecturer thought, illustrated books was the . proportion of pater than even now, illustration havin; en become & . The advance of of wood engraving was then geen oy in- debtedness of the world to Ditrer spol power of illustration was shown by the of ite application to the Bible. A Bible pul at ey between 1470 and 1475, which was itl about one hundred woodouts by an unknown artis: appears to have been the stockbook of ideas for wmubsequent times. This old artist had Fogel) given more inatruction in Bible story to millions o! people for 400 years than many commentators,