The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1878, Page 4

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WALLACK’S THEATER: UNION SQUARE THE. STANDARD THEATR BY, JAMES THEATRE GERMANIA THEATR FIFTH AVENUE TH GRAND OPERA HOU! AMERICAN INSTITUT! THEATRE COMIQUE- ABERLE'S AMERICA! NEW YORK aQuARIUM— CHICKERING HALI-~Syarnoxy Concert. sure that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and fair, or partly cloudy, followed by gradually in- creasing cloudiuess. To-morrow il promises to be warm and partly cloudy, possibly with oecusional 1 rains. Watt Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ret was active and feverish. Gold was quiet all day at 10013, Government bonds were firm, States active and railroads irregular. Money on tall was easy at 3 a 4 per cent. Wonvers Witt Never Crase. Here is the £xcise Board revoking liquor licenses because of a violation of the law. Some IyrenesvinG Lirerarure, pro and con, im vegurd to the Kiverside avenue contract, will he found on another page. Campana, the Bridgeport pedestrian, is doing well, and it is not improbable that he will sac ceed in beatin, g¢ O'Leury’s time. Tus Vermont Merve: sentenced yester- day to be hanged two years hence has been given ample time for repentance. Constpertne the state of the thermometer Halifax is getting up a good deal of enthusiasm over the coming arrival of the Marquis of Lorne. Tar Rescmrrion Skizs are brightening. Boston’s fifty-one associated banks have unani- mously indorsed the action of our Clearing House, Ir Tnenr Arr Axy Mew in Ohio who have not yet obtained oftiec under the federal administra- sion now is the time to come and see about it. The railroud fare is down to a dollar. tigers were snuggled a few days ago has quietly slipped away from the Costom House authori- rs will do. One or Murriy’s Converts last evening made a valuable contribution to the temperance tund—the pawn oflice ticket of his wateb, which he had pledged to enable him to buy spirits. As THE Fitz Joun Porter, investigation is likely to last for the balauce of the ecntary the President has determined to give ex-Surgeon General Hammond a bourd of inquiry of his own. Mr. Surrvan has the price of Newfound. land—no, the tisheries--all ready, but Mr. Evarts has not yet sent his warrant for it. There is no danger, however, that the British government will allow him to forget it. Berrween Territorial legislation and the legis- lation of Congress it is impossible, Goveruor Emory, of Utah, says, to obtain a conviction in NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1878—WITH SUPPLEMENT, How Not to Win im 1480. The party organs of both sides are very busy just now showing by columns of elec- tion figures how each may, can or must win in 1880. The republicans, ignoring the fact that they have but 133 votes’in the next House out of a total of 293, and that they will lose their present control of the Senate, vigor- ously count up 213 electoral votes for them- selves, against 156 tor the democrats, and cry out, “Glory; let’s hoist the bloody shirt!” ‘ The democrats point out that their op; nents carried Ohio by a plurality of less than 3,500 and by only 274,000 votes ont of 589,000, the total cast; that they carried New York bya plurality of about 25,000, and only with the help of the Tilden demo- erats, and that in general the democratic defeat is not irretrievable. We advise the partisans of both sides to remember that the American people are, in the words ofa well known negro preacher, ‘mighty onsartain,” and they were never more changeable in political mat- ters than just now. In fact, they are not fit to be trusted; they are the despair and contempt of all political managers, and there was hardly ever a time when majorities were worth so little as a permanent investment. Here is the great State of New York, for instance. The repub- licans, with the help of a first class ‘‘gerry- mander,” have swept it in the election of Assemblymen and Congressmen ; they havo over sixty majority in the Legislature and seventeen in the Congressional delegation. But New York elects a Governor next year, and who knows? Those perfidious wretches, the free and independent voters, may cause the twenty-five thousand republican plur- ality of this year to disappear in 1879 as completely as the boy under the magician’s basket. So the democrats have been reckoning, after their accustomed purblind and silly fashion, that the ‘solid South,” with New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, was sure to give them the Presidency ; and be- hold they have lost all three of their North- ern States, while of the “solid South” it may with certainty be said that if it re- mains “solid” it will ruin the democratic prospects in 1880 by creating a ‘‘solid North,” but that it will probably cease to be solid before then, as the increasing num- ber of independent organizations in all the Southern States shows ; in which case the democrats must carry a good many North- ern States to win, Under these circumstances, and consid- ering the lamentable disposition of the great and increasing mass of independent voters to vote as they please, we are benevo- lently moved to give both parties a piece of advice. There was once a Machiavellian schoolboy who remarked to his young chum, “Never lie, unless you know the whole case. When I don't see my ground entirely clear I always tellthe truth. It is the only safe way.” So we advise both parties. In their present situation their only safe course is to be honest and to seek their own success by determining to serve the best interests of the country. It will be 2 ruinous blunder, for instance, for the republicans to place themselves, as they are apparently tempted to do, once more on a sectional issue and to strive to set the North and South by the ears. The country is heartily tired of all that kind of fuss and trouble, and it understands per- fectly that it was not the duty of the people in Lonisiana, for instance, to elect to Con- gress Madison Wells, ‘‘Tom” Anderson and can candidates down there. If the republi- can party means to take the ground that it shall nominate notorious rogues and thieves for office, and that if they are not elected this shall constitute a grievance against the sec- tion whose people reject them, it willassume a very untenable position. If the Northern republicans want to establish aSouthern wing of their party, and desire the sympathy of the country in doing so, they must see to it that honest and honorable men are nomi- nated down there—men whom gentlemen like Messrs. Blaine, Conkling, Garfield, Hoar and others will not be ashamed to support on Southern soil. The repub- licans ought not to forget that they owe their salvation in the recent election en- tirely to the administration policy, which they have so long reviled. If the Presi- dent had treated the Southern States ns his eertain causes. This shows the advantage of | party wanted him to no amount of demo-~ having a Mormon lobby at Washington. Postwaster Grenenat Ke eis of which is printed on another page, contains several valuable sugcestions looking to the greater efficieney of the service, whieh itis to be hoped Congress will at least fairly consider. ‘There is no department of the government that eomes closer to thepeople than the Post Office, or upon which they are more dependent. They expect good service at its bands, and are un- willing that its ieney and usefulness should be impaired for the sake of a paltry economy, Tue Wratien.—The centre of highest pres ure is now over the Massachusetts coast and is receding rapidly into the ocean before a large depression * is advaneing from the west. ‘The influence of the high area extendas far into the central valle stricts and the lake regions, but conditions will be changed very much dar- ing the next twenty-four hours by the eastward advance of the depression. The pressure is be- fow the mean in all the districts west of the Mississippi River, and is likely to continue so for some days. How ns have been general throngbout the Guil rictsaud the Mississippi sewhere the weather has been fair, except on the Sonth Atlantic coast, where ceca sional cloudiness has prevailed. The winds have h ou the South Atlantic and Gulf cousta, fresh in the West and North- west and light elaewhere. A general rise in jemperatures has taken place except in the northeastern districts, where they bave remained nearly stationary. Strong gales tontinue over the British Islands, attending » deep depression that overlies the North Sea, This storm was predicted to arrive on the Brit- ish and Norwegian coasts abont the 14th by the Heraty Weather Bureau. On the 13th the weather throughout the western coasts of Eng- land, Scotland and Ireland became very unset- ted, and strong gales have since prevailed, ao sompanied by rains and gow. The weather in Kew York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer aavl fair, or partly cloudy, followed by gradually jnereasing olondiness. To-morrow it promises tobe warm and partly cloudy, possibly with era ad NE ‘report, & Bynop- | cratic folly could have saved them this fall. Mr. Hayes’ Southern policy and his hard money policy, more ably and effectively defended by Secretary Schurz than by any other republican leader, were what saved the republicans this year, and not their own follies, which they are now attempting to revive. They owe their success, such as it is, entirely to the admin- istration, whose policy it is that has left their party in so,good a position now, rel- atively to 1880, To the democrats there are so many ways open to secure a magnificent defeat two years hence that we scarcely know where to begin. We take it for granted that they will drop the inflation poker, which has so badly burned their fingers; they must see by thistime that there are not tramps and ruined specui!ators enough in the country to make a majority of voters, We should advise them also to get rid of | the “solid South” as quickly as ‘possible Also to allow no one to persuade them to attack the national banking system; the people are very woll satisfied with those bank notes, which pass current all over the Union. They had better not attack the army either, It is not too big in the coun- try’s eyes, nor too heavily officered. They had better cnt loose from all cipher de- spatchos and their authors and stop the ery of fraud. In fact, ifthe democrats are wise they will make haste to pick up again the old democratic principles which they dropped a good many years ago, and with- out which they have never fought anything but a losing game. As ao ,hard money, honest dollar, equal rights party they used, about a generation ago, to carry the coun- try with great regularity and by ‘‘reliable” majorities, In those days they were also, as now, the party of economy; but they knew where and how to economize. There are many signs which show that | Chief Justice Ludeling, who were republi- | TROnAY os umeen | ae) BELOY SHO (RED ee | tion of reactionaries; but as to the Sena- the country would like to give the demo- crais an “inzings;’ nor is the cause of this far to seek, The people are tired of old issues; ‘“‘the South” and the currency have been rung in their ears until they aro sick of both, They wish to move on to other and new questions; but they sce the republican party constantly barring the way and perpetually dragging forward, with the greatest ingenuity, these stale issues. The President was wise enough to see that this was the real and grave danger to the continued ascendancy of his party, and he began his administration with a vigorous intention to “move on.” But he had the whole pack of his party leaders snapping at his heels immediately, and these have succeeded so well in bemud- dling his policy and nullifying his good intentions that at the end of two years of effort to get on the country finds itself flung back into the old rut again and hears the republican leaders set up once more their old and dolorous howl. ‘The American voters are not fools; take them in a mass, and they have shown on numerous occasions an almost preternatural sagacity. They see very well that the repub- lican leaders bar the way to all healthful and progressive political action ; they have been ready for six years past to give the democrats a chance; but when the demo- erats swing back to a “tramp” platform, put their blatherskites to the front and send their men of brains to the rear, the voters, who are in the main respectable property owning citizens, are shy of the democratic party. General Butler is reported to have said that he owed his recent defeat to the churches, the property owners and the school teachers, He was probably misrep- resented ; but it is certain that the demo- cratic party will never succeed until it has won the confidence of these three parts of the community. Let Us Prepare in Time. It has been the custom in New York to wait until we have a heavy snow storm be- fore considering how we can get rid of the snow heaps. As soon as the streets are blockaded and travel either on foot or in vehicles is rendered difficult the people begin to complain, the press opens its bat- teries on the authorities and the Street Cleaning Bureau discovers that it has no appropriation applicable to the removal of the snow and ice. Then discussions as to the best means of relieving the city and suggestions from theoretical street cleaners commence, and the city goes on suffering day after day, week after week and even month after month, until the sun, the wind and the rotting rain do the work which the authorities are paid to perform. It is to be hoped that this year the Street Cleaning Bureau will prepare for the snow before it comes and be ready with some plan for its removal in advance of our an- nual blockade. The streets have been bet- ter kept recently than for some time pre- viously, and it is to be hoped that the im- provement observable in the street cleaning work will not be of a temporary character. If no plan of removing the snow as soon as it falls has yet been considered and decided upon the authorities should at once set about that necessary preliminary work, either by advertising for proposals or per- fecting their own arrangements. A snow blockade can easily be prevented, provided the preparations to that end are made in time and with ordinary intelligence. ‘There is no reason why the city should suffer as it does winter after winter when the people are willing to spend a liberal amount of street cleaning authorities should strive to meke the present season famous as one in which we have at last been enabled to meet and overcome our most formidable winter enemy. . | The French Senate, Yesterday the three vacant life places in the French Senate were filled by three conservatives, one each from the three fac- tions that make up the conservative majority in that body. It was previously understood that this would be the result, as the con- servatives had the power, and no one could for a moment fancy that they would elect republicans. Only a quarrel between the factions as to the equal distribution of the three places could have opened a way for the minority. Therefore the vote is simply significant of the harmony that for the time controls the counsels of the enemies of the Republic. Within two months another election of Senators will quite overwhelm the results of this one, In January there will be elections to fill seventy-three vacancies, and of the ont- going seventy-three fifty-four are conserva- tivesand only nineteen republicans, An exceedingly small proportion of repub- licans will go out and a very large propor- tors who will take their places it is prob- able the proportion will be just the other way. There will come in probably fifty republicans to twenty-five opponents of that party, and the small point taken by the conservatives yesterday will be swept’! away. The Ma ttan Bank Robbery. Some one has been arrested because some one else has # suspicion that he may be connected in some indefinite way with that | piece of ancient municipal history, the rob- bery of the Manhattan Savings Bank, As the robbery of that bank occurred previous to the robbery of the Stewart vault it has been forgotten by the whole public, except perhaps the unfortunate persons who had intrasted their property to its officers, It was natural for a people not disposed to worship the police blindly to suppose that they had forgotten it with the rest; for thongh it has no doubt been announced from time to time that the detectives had a clew it is well understood that their posses- sion of millions of clews is consistent with dense ignorance on the subject to which the clews are supposed to relate, But be- hold! the memory of the police is better than was commonly thought, for they have actually made an arrest on that old account, It may be that the man arrested was not connected with tho robbery in any way whatever; that remains to beseen, But, guilty or not guilty, his arrest is an agree- able evidence that if the police do not pos+ sess the skill to catch thieves they at least have a tenacious memory in regard to crimes actually committed, In three weeks they have not forgotten the theft of as many millions, Neutrality of the Black Sea. It is a provision of international law with regard to the Black Sea that “its waters and ports are formally and forever forbidden to ships of war of all nations, whether those whose territories it touches or others;” and to this there are no exceptions save im favor of gunboats for the Danube service or tor the Russian and Turkish coast service. At the close of the recent war it was agreed that the provisions of former treaties which touched subjects not touched in the recent treaties should remain valid.as the de- clared will of the parties. Consequently the provision quoted above must be regarded as a supreme regulation in regard to the Black Sea; and the Rus- sidn Golos does not go too far in its declara- tion that the mission of the British gunboat Condor to Bourgas is a violation of the neu- trality of those waters. Bué England, which makes a noble noise if it catches, or only fancies it catches, any other Power in the violation of a treaty, takes the liberty commonly of acting on its own impulses without regard to treaties. Perhaps, how- ever, the British government was not aware that it has recently assented to give validity to a law which should have kept its gun- boats ont of Bourgas Bay. It may well be as ignorant of the law on that subject as it was of the law in regard to the fishermen’s troubie in Fortune Bay. Hunting the Body Snatchers. Perhaps the report that four persons un- doubtedly parties to the theft of Stewart's body have been taken into custody would command more attention if it were a trifle more specific, since the police are just now so much better watched than they ever watched any onein their lives thatitis not casily to be understood how arrests of this impor- tance could have been made without the knowledge of the particulars getting abroad. Doubtless the public will use its discretion as to believing this story, and it will also, in all likelihood, do the same asto the fancy that the police stand with their hands suspended over every one concerned in the outrage—ready to seize each his man ata given signal. ‘hat story presents tothe mind a picture rather too much like what is seen at some summer hotels when twenty colored gentlemen in white aprons march down the dining room each with a dish of horseradish in his hand, with which they all go through the manual of arms, and which they bring down with electrical effect when the head waiter flourishes his pepperpot. We would be glad to have the police catch the men even with that sort of style, but the assumption of that style must be accepted as an indication that they have not the men in sight. Conflict of Authority. As tho streets are principally intended for the use of the public as thoroughfares any permanent obstruction of them by structures in the nature of shops is, of course, unlawful, and is more or less of a nuisance as the case may be. All the streets in the vicinity of Wash- ington Market are obstructed in this way to some extent, and doubtless tho fact that all that part of the city is given up to such uses has caused the obstructions to be looked upon with more tolerance than they would find in other neighborhoods, But Washing- ton Market tends to bubble over to extreme limits when it finds its way as far as the block in Vesey street east of Greenwich, and the Department of Public Works seems tousto have decided wisely that obstruc- tions there should be removed. By the report it will be seen that this was resisted by the clerk of Washington Market. In what way does the clerk of the market have jurisdiction over streets that are not near the market? That Missing Greenback Party. The greenback national party claimed in its official organs 250,000 votes in New York and got less than 80,000, It claimed 250,000 in Pennsylvania and got 81,000, It claimed 125,000 72,000. It claimed ninety Congressmen and got eight, and it showed once moro that it is an excellent club in the hands of the republicans with which to defeat the democrats ; but that is all. Fortunately on the 1st of January the country will resume democrats break up their own organization and join the greenback party and march on to sure defeat under the banner of infla- tion, we shall hear no more of the green- backers unless they come ont in their true colors as land speculators and subsidy mongers. Fire On Land and Sen. It is seldom that we are called upon to record so many fires in one day as this morning. The destruction of a large por- tion of one of our smaller towns; the nar- row escape of Atlantic City from the fate that befell Cape May a week ago; the burn- ing of a penitentiary, of a railroad train and of a portion of the cargo of one of onr large ocean steamers, which are the main features of the fiery chapter elsewhere printed, give color to the notion that acci- dents, like startling crimes, in obedience to some rule or law, have a way of arrang- ing themselves in groups and combinations. Chief among the disasters of yesterday is the destraction of the principal business portion of the city of Bradford, in Penn- sylvania, Fifty buildings were burned, and the loss, it is estimated, will not be far from three hundred thousand dollars. At Atlantie City several dwellings and stores were laid in ashes, and at oue timo it was thought that the principal summer hotel in the place would be blotted out, That it was saved is for- tunate for either the insurance companies or its owners, but it is a rather doubtful benefit to the public who, in the course of things, will patronize it next summer. Tho lesson which these two fires teach is one that has been set before those who are mainly interested o thousand times, bnt all to no purpose, If proper precautions bad in Michigan and _ got | been taken to guard against such disasters @ large amount of property would in all probability have been saved; but the penny wise policy is so rooted in the minds of rural Jegislators that wisdom comes to them only when it is too iate. Fortunately the loss of life as the result of the day's disasters is small, the only deaths being those on the burning railroad cars. ‘The penitentiary residents of course escaped unsinged. In regard to the steamship fire, it speaks well for the management and discipline of the vessel that, although a portion of her cargo was burning for four days, few of the pas- sengers were aware of its existence. Insucb cases @ panic is almost certain destruction. Let the Play Begin. At last theré is something definite from the Afghan frontier, and the date of a mecting between Her Majesty’s troops and those of the Ameer of Cubul is fixed for Wednesday next. ‘The importance of the statement of the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces, printed in our despatches, does not attach to the iixing of the date so much as ‘to the internal evidence which the statement involves that the haughty Ameer has spurned the Viceroy’s ultimatum. It presumptively confirms the rumors that have been reaching us to that effect for several days past. Great Britain is going to have her challenge to fight accepted; or she has, at Rawil Pindee, a com- mander fashioned after one of our most promising Indian fighters, who is always abont.to captare ‘the hostiles,” but never succeeds, Whether or not the pride of the British nation will be satisfied with a contest between her Indian army and the barbariang- of Afghanistan, after the parade which was meade of the vast resources of the Empire at Malta and Cyprus, remains to be seen. At any rate, this seems to be the only oppor- tunity afforded just at this moment for the employment of her military energy, and the world may as well. see what Great Britain ean do. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Senator Blaine will go to Washington next Tuesday. Sothern is always nervous just before facing an audience. Sir A, 'T. Galt left Montreal for England yesterday with Finance Minister Tilley. Mr. Thurlow Wesd was in Albany yesterday cele- brating his cighty-first birthday. Dr. Smig, United States Army, one of the survivors of the Modoc war, is in New York. Senator Thurman hes entirely recovered, and he will be in Washington on the 19th. ‘The Emperor William has been told not to return very soon to Berlin for good health. Chief Judge Sanford E. Church, of the Court of. Appeals, is at the Grand Central Hotel, Ben Butler is still in favor of paper money. thinks the wad in the gun kills the bird. In » Memphis streot car were twelve ladies, out of the twelve were clad in mourning. London Truta‘says that public opinion is formed by people between forty and fifty years of age. A cable despatch from Darmstadt says that the Grand Duke of Hesse is sick with diphtheria. Mr. J. H. de Hegermann’ Lindencrone, Danish Min- ister at Washington, is at the Brevoort House, The latest candidate for the United States Senate from Ni ja has just struck the forty-foot level. Why is it that when, by mistake, a lady gets into a smoking car, she has to turn up her nose and talk so much while she is trying to escape to another car? ‘The Thanksgiving gobbler is strutting about the barnyard, notwithstanding the injunction that when you think you are standing you should beware lest you fall. Acomplimentary benqnet waa given last night at Chicago to Professor Elisha Gray, as a recognition of his services to telegraphy in connection with the in- vention of the telephone. On a certain ridge of Kearsarge Mountain, in Cali- fornia, there is a plece where, at about midday, the rumble of trains on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 140 miles distant, may be heard. ‘The Cathedral Chapter and parish priests of the diocese of Dublin will meet on the 23th inat., to se- lect three names from which the Pope may choose a suiecessor to the late Archbishop Cullen. If any country editor will start a column of funny Eleven | items, quoting all the paragraph columns in the country, and putting one silly original item st the top, he will be requoted and will gain a reputation for wit. ‘The Right Hon, Edward Gibson, Attorney General for Ireland, has declined to succeed Lord Justice Christian as Judge of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, and Mr. Gerald Fitzgibbon, Solicitor General for Ire- land, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. Congressman-clect Ketcham, of Waddell's old North Carolina district, writes thet, being a greonbacker, he cannot go into cancus with any mere political or- ganization. ‘The United States will never be able to get along unless Ketcham changes his wind, Loudon Tru(i:—“If men and women had become accustomed to the beauties of what Mr. Rathbone calls ‘the ideal nude,’ there is very little question that we should no longer see the distorted waists and other malformations of the body which fashion has pi scribed, and which have led to the sacrifice of so m human lives.” London World:—~" Elegy in an Irish country church- | yard overheard last week. Sorrowing ‘widyw-man’ specie payments; and then, unless the | has just erected the fnvariable draped urn in memory of the late placens uzor; to him eritical old lady, huv- ing duly inspected the snme:—An fligant monye- ment, so it is, sor; a8 nate a patterned water jug as ivér I see, atid a clane white towel reposin’ peaceful- like on the top av it. Well, well, its herself was the orderly woman; the heavens be her bed!'” AMUSEMENTS. ITALIAN OPERA—“‘LUCTA” “LES PAPTL- ross.” AND Sig. “en anin bula” on Monday night was a royal welcome, that extended to her last night in “Zneia” was a, raud, over- whelming ovation, which in spontaneity, strength and splendor furexeels any similar tribute toacontem- porancous artist that can be recalled, Not since those exciting and never to be forgotten experiences of the past, when the unparalleled enthusiasm that Jenny Lind awakened was rife, has a scene been witnesse:t ut the Academy in any degree comparable with the extraordinary demoustration of last night, The boxes blazed with beauty adorned with the magnificence of artistic and elegant toilets; the orchestra and balcony, the galleries, even the usually untenantable upper proscenium boxes, as well as every available inch of standing room, were densely packed with an eager and excited throng of listeners, Seldom if @ver before has so vast an audience yielded iteelf #0 absolutely to the spell of art, and, seldom, indeed, has en artist come forward who so completely commands and enthrals a public, made up of such widely opposing elements aa such au as- semblayge represents. Mme. Gerster’s Lucia is @ rey- elation, is original in its conception, permeated with marked individuality in iss characterization, and in- comparably brilliant and cony in its execution. ‘Thore is not a shadow of a # f conventionality in this artist's Lucia. It is #imple, earnest, pathetic, passionate in its dramatic aspect, brilliant, trathfu refined end finished in its musical limning. One searcely realizes, in heaving this artist's wonder. ful alt notes, extraordinary technical difficulties are being met and vanquished, ‘There is such con- sutmmate ease aud grice, such absolute elasticity and freedom from strained effects in everything this singer attempts, thet the actual difficulties which she overcomes wre lost sight of, or recur to the hearer ost ond they have been 80 wonderfully accom- shod. ‘There are definite mechanical limits, unalterably fixed, to the technica! possibilities of any singer. The Janguage of thescore muy be ornamented in different degrees and in different ways, but there is 4 point beyou whieh human skill cannot reach, Zhe point has been attained by this artist, and, me- chanically, another Hungarian artist, De Murska, realize. in this very part all that was possible, an: with wondrous teekntea! fidelity to the composer, But Mme. Gerster brings something more than flawless techniqne to her singing of the bravura passages, thickly studding the mu- sic of Lucia; for she ‘surcharges every shake, and every roulade, the minutest phrase, in fact, with equisite sensibility, and therein lies her iatchiess charm, She sings from the heart, She sets up a delicate, beantitul ideal and secks its realization with a wealth of native sentiment, of natveté, that never for a moment permits of consciousness of self or loses sight of an earnest and devoted pu 0 to portray conscicutiously the conception within the artist's mind. ‘ In the musi¢ of the mad scene the artist held the ve literally spel! bound, Her fioriture, novel, bewildering, dazaling, yet mechanically pre- , literally rivalled ost intricate effect possible in instrumentation, ‘he audience fairly rose in the wild excitement that followed, in fact, almost. inter- rupted the finale, where the artist took a wonderfull: clear and ringing F in alt, and the seene was repeated, only to be followed by renewed enthusiasm, Mme. Gerster was fortunate in hee associftes last night Signor Campanini finds Edgardo a most con- yenial part, for it is powerfully dramatic and not eom- pulsarily robust, as are other parts with which the sumrae of this artist's voice does not so easily assimi- late. In his great scene, in the second act, he made a. magnificent climax, and both of his arias in’ the last act, were given with such indescribable delicacy and feeling us to arouse the house to a », BeARCELY EX- celled by the demonstrations bestowed upon the prima donna, Signor Galassi’s Aston was conspicuous by its forbearance, » which the artist cannot be too pieele comnmended, Signor Foli was more than ordi good as Ramundo, ‘The chorus was, as it generally is, strong and true, ‘The orchestration, under Arditi’s leading, in itself, and much of the unprecede: cured by this. familiar work was undoubt due to the marvellous accompaniments the band. The costumes showed the © lavish resources and unstinted hand of the ment, for they were all new and cosily. As we have indicated, the audience was a demonstrative one and not eetisfied with previous tributes, called for Gerster after the fall of the c at the end, and at lust she came forward, dressed in her street costume, naively acknowledging the ovation, and pleasing anent by her frank, honest simplicity of manner. Ls PAPILTOUs, . Antiopa, Queen of the Bustertlivs....MMe. Emma Pal ‘Amiral, King of th ‘AN ‘Mile. Leonti Lycas, Mile. Antonia Puck, Mario Muller Danais, Mile, Benett Ardrouiacha, Miie, King Zophirette, 10, Nuppa Papilia, . Whe Myrina, ivina Cavalozet The new ballet, produced for the first time last night, proved an unexpectedly brilliant affair, and formed ¢ dazzling pendant to the lustrous success of the opera proper. ‘The action of the tableau celebrates the awakeni of the buttertiies by the rising of the sun. A gran féte is held in honor of the return of Amiral, ‘The approach of Lycas alarms the festive insects, who disappear at his approach. Puck’ appears and enlists the shepherd as the champion of Myrina, who, under the displeas- ure of the King, has been confined in a tree, shepherd releases her. They join in a pledges, which are interrupted by the King Quoen and their armed hosts. Puck comes again, compeld the royal couple to give their con- sent to the union of Myrina and Lycas, and a féle dansante celebrates the happy finale. The piece was splendilly mounted with dazzlin, new dresses, generally appropriate. For the dress Puck, however, Mr. Mapleson’s costumer should refer to Alfred Fredericks’ drawings in his setting of «Che Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The dress work, Jast night was altogether lashing, in any individaae of character. There was a brilliant gronp of in the divertissements, when Cavalazzi, recalling in her pas seu! recollections of Elisier, in the grace, fin ish and artistic abandon of her dancing. Little Misa Muller, a pupil of the author of the ballet, Mme Kathie Lanner also charmed by her ease and dainty style. ‘The novel feature of the let spectacle was a decided success, and will undoubtedly be repeated, ‘The crowd was so dense at the doors last night as to suggest the advisability of having an extra doos keeper on hand and the centre door Well dressed ladies and gentlemen can scarcely relish such rough treatment as ingress to the opera secured to most of the audience last night in the passageways. THE FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—-EDWIN BOOTH I OTHELLO. On Thursday night Mr, Edwin Booth appeared at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in the character of Ingo, and achieved a success of which any artist might be proud. Last evening he person- ated the title réle of the well known tragedy with a vigor that aroused the liveliest en- thusizsm. Whatever there isin the action, passion and pathos of “Othello” was carefully wrought out, and the results were wonderfully picturesque. Mar, Booth sometimes reads his lines too rapidly, but, aside from this remark, there is scarcely a word that can be uttered in the way of adverse criticism. He répresents the Moor fixst as ® lofty, magnanimous soldier; next as a man obed jent to the passions that afilict the best of us; and finally as one overcome by the wiles of a deceitful friend who achieves his ruin by filling bis soul with unmitigated agony and a sense of all is wicked in human nature. It is not ible in a brief notice to describe ow these various phases of human temperament are illustrated by the great actor, They are an indi- vidual creation, not a copy, and in contrast with every similar picture that has gone before stand rt. “Pit. Booth has an individuality of his own. His musical voice, finely attuned, ax it is, to the sion of the strongest as well as the gentlest of neuti- mont, his natural grace otf manner and his inherited ability enable him to EF rsciey the strong effects whereby he has been advanced to the front of the American stage. ‘The Iago of Mr. Harkins was not good. While ho easuyed the part of the bluff and hearty soldicr, he exhibited little of the gentleness of the courtier and lost sight of the keen deceit wherewith a villain would most siteceasfully conquer # woman, ‘There were portions of his ucting that merited praise, but the contrast with the Iago of the night betore was against him. Miss Mulener as Desdemona repeated the success to which reference has already becu inade, and Mise Alice Grey again won the quiet praise of the audience in her adinirable impersonation of Emilia. The new sceuery is worthy of commendation and shows @ desire on the part of the management to mount good plays in a worthy manner, g MUSICAL, AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Mr. Oliver Doud Byron's play at Niblo’s thus far hae drawn good houses, It is said to be full of strong dra matic situations. ‘The first in the series of Chickering Hall symphony concerts takes place this evening. M. Reményi and Miss Kate Thayer are announced to reappear. “Otto,” at the Broadway Theatre, has been drawing excellent houses during the week, Popular prices are evidently producing favorable results on ail of our theatres, A matinée is announced for to-day, Mme. Marie Roze saug at the Acatemy of Music, Montreal, laat night. The house was crowded with a brilliant audience, who enthusiastically cheered the prima donna and called her out several times, strew- ing the stage with flowers. Anotable improvement in the orchestral music of the several theatres i# observable this season, There is scarcely a place of entertainment in which the mane agers have not paid as much attention to thi: urce of entertainment as they have done to the stage. At the request of @ number of prominent citizens of Cincinusti the College of Musie will reproduce the oratorio of the “Messiah” during Christmas week. ‘That oratorio, it will be remembered, was one of the distinguishing features of the festival last spring. ‘The chorus, it is stated, will number 500, Mr, Whit ney hus already been engayed. It has been rumored in musical circles that the elder Mir. Mapleson would return to Rurope on one of to-day’s steamers and leave the management of the opera to his sous, This is not true, He may go ina few days; but the inypresario’s purpose is to remain in England only long enough to attend to a few per- sonal matters. He will bring with him to America the remaining members of his family, for whom apartments have already been secured, It is now known for @ fuct that Miss Kate Claxton hus leased the Lyceum Theatre for a period of five weeks, commencing on the 2 of December. The play in which she will open is entitled “The Double Marrisye,” ne of the dramatizations of Charles Reade, What may follow this is not yet announced, ‘The arrangement was consummated last Monday, and Mr. Hill, the lessee of the theatre, is apparently well satistted, first, because he has received an advance upon the cost of his lease, and, second, because it en. ables him to fulfil engagements for “Joshua Whit comb” in Boston, Philadelphia and elsewhere with- out sacrifice, Mr. Hill etates that it was his intemtion to kecp this popular play on the New York boards for five or six months, but he has found that the maue gers of other citics would not release him from his engagements and hence that he must once more “take the road.” After Miss Kate Claxton’s emgagemeut Nannemacher's “Evangeline Surprise Party" will ap pear for & season