The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1878, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, puhished every day in the Three cents per copy ( undays ‘excladed), Ten dolla: ear, or at a rate of dollar per mouth for any period s# than six months, or Ove dollars for six months, Sunday edition Included. fres of postage, WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post “NOTIER TO_SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on New ‘York or Post Office money orders, and where herof these 4 seud the money iu a rey Al money remitted at risk of sender. | tion subscribers wishing their addr their old as well as their new address. ‘All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must Naw York Heato. ‘should be properly sealed, ill not be returned. PORT PeLA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OPFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STRE PARIS OFFICE 49 AVENUE DE LOPERA. Tor ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Ricoverto. BROADWAY THEATRE—Orro. STANDARD THEATR! BT. JAMES THEATRE—T» #IPTH AVENUE THRAT! TONY PASTOR'S TH ACADEMY OF DESIG NEW YORK AQUARIU. WINDSOR THEATRE— ABEBLE’S AMERIC: PHICKERING HALL—C BILMORE’S GARDEN BROOKLYN PARK TH BROAD ST. THEATRI PHILADELPHTA—Hess Overs. ee ~~ TRIPLE SHEET. 1s%8, The probabilities are that the weather in Neto York and ite vicinity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy or fair, possibly with occasional fight ra‘ns. To-morrow it: promises to be cooler and fair. Way Srrer 3 ket was fairly active and stocks were generally strong. Gold sold all day at 1001s. Govern- ment bonds were strong, States dull and rail- | roads irregular. Money on call was active at 3 , advancing to 6 and closing at 4 a5 per It fs Harpiy Necessary to say that the oolice have not yet found the remains of Mr. Stewart. s in the torpedo, else- not be very pleasant news pean governments. Tue Improv where recorded, for some of the E ir Reronts Be True the Wall street gpecu- laters do not intend to allow Chicago the unin- ierrupted mc ly of *‘corners in wheat.” Busnor McTy Testimony in the Van- lerbilt will case contains some racy and charac- teristic expressions of the deceased Commodore. Canapa isin luck. It is reported in Ottawa fhat the home government will aid the North- srn Pacitic Railway to the extent of thirty nillion dollars. Kixc Hrmpert has promoted the brave municipal guard who helped save bis life to be ssergeant. The King ought to kuow the exact value of the eervice. Nivery axp Nive of the ‘finest police in the world” were yesterday taken off detailed daty and put on post. it would be interesting tu know what they were doimg until row. Some New anv Inrkeestinc Licht was Jkrown on the grewt sixty-four thousand dollar forgery yesterday by Becker. one of the we- ate’s evidence. Govexyon Nicnorts has sensibiy deter- mined to aid the dederal government in every way possible in punishing those who were guilty ctiou in Lonisiana. of fraud in the late el Jensey’s Tramrs will not stand any fooling. One of them yesterday assaulted a lady who had offered him bread and butter on the doer- step instead of iting him to stay to dinner. Is Tue Orision of the Sinking Fund Com- missioners they have no authority to exchange the long five pe The charter provides only two methods of disposing of bonds—by auction end by bids. zt bonds tur seven. Srcrerary Scuvxz’s Liovren to the Secretary of War, in reply to General Sheridan's eriticisan of the Indinn serviee, is quite wrathy, It has bee: referred to General Sherman. A row among these four warriors would be something terrible, de Seems ths tunder the charter the clerks of the differeut markets have jurisdiction of ihe | street space within # distance of three hundred | yardsof the market houses. This somewlrat com- Plicates the question of the authority of the Commissioner of Vublie Works to remove the stands, ‘Tre Conaresston a1 Comaurrre charged with the preparation of a plan for the reurganiza of the army has been in sess days. A veil of impenetr: its proceedings, but it is very ever plan it agre: Congress that th recognize it, » seerecy envelops tain that what- committee will not be able to Tne Weatura.—The low area over the lake regions has extended its influe throughont all the districts except the northern seetion the Middle Atlantic States. The narrow avea of hjgh barometer that exiended northeastward from Texas has been entirely dissipated, so that the depression that was over eastern Gulf and the one over the Jakes have been consoli- dated into one exteusive depression which dom- inates the weather from the Rocky Mountain regions to the Atlantie and from the Gulf to the | British possessions, Rain has fallen in the | Middle Atlantic New England States and on the South Atlantic and eastern Gulf coasts, In the Jatter districts the full has been heavy. Morning fozs have prevailed in the Ohio Valley and the southermlake regions. The weather has been cloudy over the Juke regions and the At- Jantic const districts amd generally clear west of the Mississippi River. The winds have been fresh to brisk on the Middle Atlantic coast,fresh ever the eastern Gult and generally light else- where. ho temperature hus risen in the South avd SouthWest and fallen in the other districts. ‘The weather in New York and its vieinity today will be warm and partly elndy or fair, possi Diy with occasional licht 108, Tomorrow it pituises to be cooler and fair, n | om here for several | upon will be so chauged by | NEW. YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1878--TRIPLE SHEET. The Marquis of Lorne om His Voyage. The steamer Sarmatian, with the vice royal party on board, is now in the mid- Atlantic, ploughing her way through the waves and currents, amid whatever weather is vouchsafed to her, toward a land which, though not new to the husband, is entirely strange to his illustrious consort. Her emotions, of course, differ from those of the companions of Columbus during his first voyage and from those of the female part of the passengers on the May- flower ; but the sense of wondering contrest experienced by The Intter could not have been more vivid than that felt by the Princess Lonise as she meditates on her transfer from the life of soft elegance in a Eur@pean court in which she has been nur- tured to the compardtively rhw society of the North American Provinces. It is like the transplanting of a precious shrub reared indoors ina costly vase into the open air of a ruder climate, whose winds, though they may not visit her‘roughly, will still be a trial to her powers of endurance. It will ‘be a great compensation for the change that it rescues both herself and her’ husband from the annoyances incident to a marriage which has placed them both in an equivocal and anomalous position in the highest English society. The enthusiastic accalma- tions with which outpouring multitudes in London and Liverpool greeted the vice royal couple on their departure attest the popularity of this appointment with the English people. None of Lord Beaconsfield’s many coups de thédtre has been quite so happy and suc- cessiul, or has been so signal « display of the usually inconsistent qualities of refined tact and masterly boldness as the stroke by which he has at once lifted the Mar- quis of Lorne out of the social awkward- nesses which were a consequence of his marriage into the royal family, and at the same time and by the same dexterous stroke Kindles and intensifies the loyalty to the Crown of the most important of the colonies at a stage of its growth when the desire and expectation of independence are beginning to stir in the minds of many of the Canadian people. Beaconefield’s other feats of this kind are exposed to criticism and provoke dissent. Many Englishmen regard the purchase of the Suez Canal shares asa blunder, and a few are more inclined to deride than to ad- mire the bestowal upon the Queen of the pompous title of Empress of India, although the prestige of the latter was followed up and heightened by the well planned visit of the Prince of Wales to the East. The nequisition of Cyprus is stilla topic of discussion and contention with the British public, and is thought by some to bea greater mistake than the pur- chase of the Suez shares. But with the exception of one clever but spitetal weekly, sheet published in London, and the farther eception of that portion of the nobility which has looked askance on Lorne since his marriage, the public sentiment of Eng- lund warmly indorses Beaconsfield’s brill- iant display of dexterity in cutting a social and political knot which it was impossible to untie. Had the Marquis of Lorne remained ia England he never could have extricated himself from the perpetual mortifications to which he has been subjected by the dis- tinction in rank between his royal spouse and himself. In the higher British society his wife is entitled to that precedence over all the nobility which belongs to a princes? of the blood, while her husband can claim no other rank than belongs.to him as the eldest son of a great duke. The other scions of royalty resent his intrusion into their charmed circle and have administered to him ‘many a well bred snub, while, on the other hand, the nobility look with contemptuous jealousy upon what they re- gard as his upstart pretensions. The London World, is attempting to express the senti- ments of that narrow and supercilious cir- cle, but it finds no echo in the hearts of the great body of the English people, who love the Queen and rejoice in the good fortune of any member of the royal family. The enthusiastic good wishes and profuse farewell greetings with which the Marquis and his princess are wafted forward on their voyage prove that the English nation does not share the petty spleen by which the Marquis of Lorne has been an- noyed since he aspired to the love and won the hand of a danghter of Queen Victoria. Had the Marquis murried in his own rank and been appointed at this carly age to the great station of Governor General of Canada his departure would have been as unnoticed as that of an ordinary nambas- sador to a second class Power. ‘he pre- vious viceroys to Caunda have been states- men ; some Of them, like Lord Darham and | Lord Elgin, very important statesmen, but over none of them has there been any of this acclaiming parade when he sailed from his own country for the scene of his duties, It is solely in consequence of the Marquis of Lorne’s matrimonial alliance with the royal family that he re- ceived those unprecedented demonstrations of faithful and affectionate homage. Al- though they may be gall and wormwood to afew envious peers they show that, under the skilfal management of Earl Beacons- field, Lorne’s marriage with the Princess Louise is made a source of resplendent in- | duence and popularity, and has enabled him to overtop and outshine the proudest of the young nobility, although in 9 different sphere from that in which they move. No other Prime Minister could have so in- trenched himself in the confidence and | gratitude of the Qneen as the worn veteran of so many successful struggles against the natural prejudices of the English aristoc- racy. Having himself triumphed so won- derfully over their. repugnance to upstart | pretensions, he was, above all men, fitted by tact and training to lift the contemned | husband of a princess out of the social em- | barrassments and political obstructions | which attended such a marriage and start him in a public career where he will derive inflnence and prestige from the very source which impeded his rise and shaded his life in his pwn country; for in Canada the fact that the new Governor General is the son- in-law of the Qneen will be the chief ele. | ment of his popularity. | ‘the preparations which are making in the principal cities of the Dominion for meeting the Marquis and his consort on their arrival are without precedent in the case of any Governor Generaly and if they are not wholly, unexampled in Canadian life the sole exception is the series of ova- tions given to the Prince of Wales in 1860. There is an eager gnd delighted stir of expectation in every part of the Dominion through which the Governor General and his suite will pass in their journey to the capi- tal ; and as Canada is more wealthy, more populous and more advanced in social ex- perience than at the time of the Prince of Wales’ visit, it is probable that that great ovation will be equalled if not eclipsed by what will be done after the arrival of the Sarmatian and the debarkation of her illus- trious passengers. The people of the States will approve the joy although they: may not share the enthusiasm of their neighbors beyond the frontier; they will assist os interested spectators, though not.as par- ticipants. Whatever may be the weather which the Sarmatian -is encountering during her voyage, we hope that the genial atmosphere of an American Indian summer may be found on her arrival, and that a bright sun shining through the soft haze of that delightful season will ena- ble the street parades and outdoor demon- strations to be secn to the best udvantage. The social and political effest of installing ‘aroyal princess in the government house at Ottawa as the mistress and leader of Canadian society is a tempting topic of speculation on which we must forbear to enter at present. ‘ Life Insurance Litigation. It is a theory somewhat popular that in every case in which a life insurance company ontlives a man whose life it has insured it pays the sum of the insurance to the persons to who it is due on the contract | only after an excessively minute scrutiny of all the circumstances of the case, and after a solution satisfactory to itself of all possi- ble doubts—first, as to whether the man is dead; next; as to whether he had ever de- ceived the company in his life, and last, as to whether he did not deceive the company in his death by dying improperly and un- justifiably and without good and sufficient illness, It isa theory thatis somewhat spite- ful, and expresses rather an opinion founded upon the observation of frequent litigations than knowledge founded upon the other side of the relations of these companies to the people. In common regard for fair play it must be remembered that the companies pay amillion quietly wherever they dispute a thousand, though, of course, the case they dispute makes more noise than those they pay. Companies Nave learned, in fact, that to dispute payments isa very bad sort of ad- vertisement and injures business. Insur- ance companies in this State paid on deaths alone in the year 1876 twenty millions of dol- lars and a very large sum in addi- tion on endowment policies. Yet there is apparently to be a troublesome dispute over the case of Mr. Dwight, who has just died at Binghamton. This gen- tleman had insured his life for upward of a quarter of a million dollars within three months. He was forty-one years of age, apparently hale and hearty, but had had pulmonary hemorrhage; seemed to be some- what extravagantly addicted to sport, and died suddenly. It appears improper on its face fora gentleman to insure his life for so much money and die before the payment of the second premiums due quarterly, and yet it may be all right. Bat the insurance companies allege that this gentleman insured his life with the intention to destroy it and did destroy it. They allege that he hastened his death by poison, but that the main cause of death was exhaustion, purposely induced through improper exertions fora person not in robust health. One allega- tion is that in bad weather he swam across the Susquehanna River, near Bingham- ton, four times in one day. This is a case that is likely to give some indication as to what amount of care a man is under obliga- tion to his insurers to take of his life, and the story will be one of general in- terest. ° Cold Water in the Wrong Place. “When the righteous disagree the devil jumps with glee,” it is said. It this is the ease the Demon of Rum has had a rare old donble shuffle to himself over the feud among the temperance people of New York. His bottle-nosed Majesty has heard to his delight Mrs. Conklin cail Mr. Francis Murphy an ‘‘Alpha and Omega,” while the Apostle of Temperance retorts by saying equally hard things of Mr. Gibbs. Mr. Murphy, it seems, is not a million- naire and cannot give all his time to con- verting drunkards without remuneration. | In the eyes of Mr. Gibbs and Mrs. Conklin this is a fiendish crime. But the conflagra- drunkenness tion of goes on; the Red Nose gleams incandescent amid the blue alcoholic flames, and the whiskey fames ascend uncensingly. ‘There are seventeen miles of fire, for there are seventeen miles of rum shops in New | York. What are the engines of total absti- | nenes doing?. They are squirting the cold water upon each other and not upon the flames. Mr. Murphy came to town with his brand new steam engine, with its high pressure of earnestness, its long hose ot holiness and its nozzle of directness, The stream of cold water eloquence that he threw was making a great impression on the flames, when the little local brigade came up and turned its little hose npon Mr. Murphy. This is very sad. If ogreat Apostle of Rum came to town, a man whose eloquence could double the sale of alcoholic stimulants, he would be lodged in palatial style. He wanted, and bis sumptuous dinners would be washed down with the vintages that tickle the palates of kings. His cigar smoke would be worth ten cents a puff. | Nothing would be too good for him, Shall | temperance do relatively less for its Apostle, its own Francis, above allits only Murphy? Is saving to be unprofitable in this age, as in the ages gone before, while destruction is to pay now «as always a high dividend on wrecked lives? The nineteenth century does not believe in half-starved apostles, but likes to see them sleek, well fed and dressed to a charm, as would have all the clothes and horses he | if some of the good they promise others had stuck to themselves, Denis Kegrney’s shirt sleeves were a mistake ; so would be a Murphy fed on codfish balls and corned beef hash. The enlightened age that raised ‘Talmage’s salary will not tolerate the tak- ing of one buckwheat cake or one Piccadilly collar from Mr. Murphy. The Halifax Award To He Paid. President Hayes has wisely decided, in pursuance of the discretion vested in him by Congress, to make a punctual delivery of the tive and o half millions on the 23d inst., and thus end the controversy respect. ing the validity of the Halifax award. The President evinces a correct appreciation of the priceless value of national honor and good faith, and a majority of the Amer- ican people will indorse his decision, The President is not responsible for raising the question which has re- cently been im controversy between the two governments since he was required by Congress to make representations be- foro paying the award. No intelligent American doubts that the award is exorbi- tant; but the sabject was muddled by tho treaty and worse muddled by the incompe- tence of the men selected by our govern- ment to manage its case before the Commis- sioners. We blundered in the treaty and blundered in the choice of our agent and counsel to represent our interests at Halifax, and the excessive amount of the award isthe natural consequence and-heavy penalty of these blunders. Had our case at Halifox been placed’ in the hands of a lawyer as vompetent as Mr: Evarts it is not probable that any necessity would have’ arisen for disputing the justice of the award. The clumsiness of the treaty is apparent in the fact that it made the period of time indefinite and yet required the award to be a grosssum. ‘he stipulated privileges are to run for twelve years and indefinitely thereafter, subject to termination at any time by either government on giving two years’ notice. If neither government should give notice the treaty may ran twenty, fifty, oreven a hundred years. Now, it is the plainest dictate of business sense that when the time during which a privilege is to run is thus expansive and elastic the compen- sation should be equally elastic—in other words, instead of a gross sum it should be acertain rate per annum during the exist- ence of the privilege. The same definite sum which would be a just compensation fora hundred years would be an excessive compensation for twelve years; but, accord- ing to the treaty, while the period can- not be less than twelve years it may extend to a hundred. With nothing but so elastic a treaty to guide them how could the Commissioners know for what length of time they should reckon the com- pensation? A gross sum for the enjoyment of the inshore fisheries in perpetuity would be business-like and intelligible; a gross sum fora definite twelve years would also be business-like and intelligible, though the sum awarded should be smaller; but a gross sum fora privilege which may run on in- definitely or slop at any time dfter the ex- piration of twelve years was an arrange- ment absurd on its face and never should have been adiniitted into the treaty. It seems to have been assumed in the re- cent discussions that our government will terminate the treaty at the end of the twelve years, in consequence of the exorbitance of the award. This isa hasty and unreason- able conciusion, Had the award been sta certain rate per annum during the continu- ance of the privilege our government would, of course, terminate it at the earliest date possible if it deemed it excessive. But as the award is a gross sum, to be paid once for all, we should save nothing by giving notice. If the treaty should run on for twenty or fifty years we shall have nothing additional to pay, and therefore have no motive for terminating the arrangement, unless the free admission of Canadian fish and oil is worth more then inshore fish- eries, The notice of termination is more likely to come from the British government. Mr. Evarts’ able protest against the injus- tice of the award may, however, check this tendency by convincing the British govern- ment that it cannot extort from us anything worth while by putting these fisheries egain in the market. Commerce Im the Arctic Seas. There is one hardy nhvigator who pursues a laudable ambition to explore the Arctic regions in the way in which all the early discoveries were made in other seas—by commercial ventures. This is Captain Wiggins. In 1877 he made a voyage, re- corded at the time in the Heraup, to the Kara Sea, the Gulf of Obi and the mouth of the Yenisei River, on the Arctic coast of Siberia. His report of his experience there and the inferences drawn were that voyages could be made along that coast in summer all the way from | the Northern Ocean to the Pacific, and that they might be made commercially impor- tant. -An effort was made to interest the British Admiralty in the subject and to in- duce the government to defray the expense of an exploration that would ultimately, it was held, develop a great trade in whent. But the government would not undertake it. In the last summer Captain Wiggins repeated his voyage, and carried a cargo from Liverpool to the mouth of the Obi and returned with another of the products of the country. He made in that Arctic bay the singular discovery that a commerce more or less irregular mow actually exists between the Siberian rivers and Hamburg. Burking « Police Captain, The impndence of the resurrectionists | promises soon to transcend every bound. ‘To rob graves is bad enough, as the ghouls will learn ior themselves the first time any | one discovers them in the act, but to oper- ate upon living beings, as the self-confessed resurrectionist Burke— suggestive name ! .- did upon Captain Byrnes last week, is as | ernel as it is unfair. To be chloroformed to death would not be half so uncomfortable to a nan with the clear conseionce pecoliar to the finest police in the world as to be carted around the wildernesses of New Jer. sey to gaze upon empty holes in the ground and listen to the fragrant narrative of the scamp who professed to have carried the Stewart remains from place to place | aie in our neighboring State. When the real hiding place seemed discovered, and visions of great checks and professional jealousies floated before the enraptured official eye, the chapge of mind and consequent refusal of Burke to proceed any further in the search or confession was a little the most brutal and heartrending outrage in the whole history of crime. Something dread- ful should be done to the wretch who is guilty of all this cruelty, otherwise there is no knowing hoW many of our police cap- tains, may yet become ‘‘subjects” for the heartless public to exercise its sharp wits upon; and between being dissected and being laughed at by everybody who reads the papers no sensitive, shrinking soul, such as all police captains have, could hes- itate for a second, The Sanitary Convention. The American Public Health Associa- tion convened yesterday, at Richmond, Va., and the Yellow Fever Commission presented a report which will be found in full in another column. The terrible scourge is a timely and important topic for investigation by such a body, but we hope it may not monopolize the atten- tion of the Convention, Thousands of deaths have resulted within a few months from the fever, but be- cause the comparative mortality was great in the afflicted districts there is danger that other and worse destroyers of human life, more widely distributed and therefore apparently less terrible, may be neglected. No such body of men should convene and adjourn without putting itself strongly on record against dirty streets, badly ventilated public and private build- ings, filthy tenements, imperfect drainage, defective heating arrangements, injudi- cious dress, bad cookery, and the many other fruitful but almost unnoticed ceuses of unnecessary mortality. It is not right that the principal public protests in print against such evils should be made by unprofessional writers. Every prominent sanitarian has at some time in- veighed against one or more of these faults,’ but the errors that come of ignorance are not killed by a sizgle blow ; they succumb only tothe most persistent pummelling by the stoutest arms, and the men who are re- garded as authorities on such subjects are the proper ones to do’the fighting. And even when opinions are emphatically ex- pressed by conventions competent to dis- cuss such matters the good work is only begun. To speak and write are good, but to be heard and read are equally important ; whereas the verbal pro- ceedings of such bodies are heard by a few thousand at most, while a smaller number “see the bulky volumes of published “‘trans- actions.” There should be sanitary “tracts” as numerous and as well distrib- uted as the religious ones with which the community is flooded, and if the conven- tion were to arrange systematically for the preparation and distribution of such infor- mation among the people the money could easily be obtained. Let some member of the body interest himself in this important work, and thus increase indefinitely the good results of the discussions. Goodby to Mr. Kearney. Mr. Kearney leaves us for his sunny home on the sand lots of San Francisco, We bid him goodby with sincere thanks for his coming East. He came to enlighten us—and he did. He was heard, patiently, good haturedly, curiously; and wherever he spoke he settled the question on which he addressed the people. He decided it contrary to his desires, to be sure; but that also was his own doing. Whatever merit may be in his cause he ought to be convinced by this time that the American voter is not to be persuaded by oaths, or by inflammatory appeals, or by shameless abuse of opponents. Mr. Kearney was fully and fairly reported in the press which he was so tond of vili- fying—and we must say that the press in this way revenged itself upon him. That he wes heard and read of all men was his ruin, That he spoke freely and was re- ported fully was the ruin of his cause. Whether he returns home either wiser or better it is not possible to tell; but he leaves the Kast, having done a good work here in proving to all classes of our people that there is nothing in Denis Kearney nor in the movement of which he has made himself the head, so far as he is its true ex- positor, which deserves the sympathy of any decent or industrious American citizen. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. In Washington roses are blooming out of doors, ‘The most eminent physicians in New York make from $40,000 to $70,000 a year. Great numbers of Amcricans are visiting Mount Vesuvius, which is in operation, A bee owner in the West discovered that his bees fiew forty miles toa friend's clover Held, and returned, Senator Beck, of Kentucky, says that the banks cannot dominate, and that they must accept the silver dollar. Among the passengers by the Cunard steamer Seythia, which arrived yesterday, was ex-Governor John T, Hoffman and family. He was looking re- markably well, and said he was in most excellent health. Most of his time abroad had been spent in the mountaius of Switzerland, the German watering places and Paris, Saturday Keview:—*Thanks partly to their tem- perament and in part to their climate, the Scotch are thrifty in their very vices, Strong heals as they bave, there are countries in the world where « man can contrive to intoxicate himself more cheaply, Even with # scasone vessel « little raw whiskey goes a long way in the shape of a stiraulant; and when the Enylish laborer has merely besotted himeelf in a mist, after wallowing through a gallon or so of adulterated beer, a ‘gill’ of his native spirit bas eet the Scotch ploughman’s brain a-swimming.”” Heve (apropos of the opera), is @ brave declaration from the World:—The house was again crowded, and the ‘braves’ with which all her (the prima olos were received had the genuine ring of carnest enthusiaem, An puseant, it may be here re- marked that ‘brava,’ when given in ite mageuline form of ‘bravo,’ must seem exceedingly ridiculous to the prime donne to whom it is often addressed ‘by, frequenters of our opera houses, People who use the Italian form of exclamation should at least be able to distinguish between ‘brava’ for @ female, ‘bravo’ ora male ond ‘bravi' for two or more of either sex.” ‘ Which sngyests the recent case of Mra, Bravo, who was arrested for poisoning her husband, and of whom the Italians sing :~ ‘There was a young woman named Brava, Who got the man Bravo to have her; Aud when they were Bravi, “Are you giving ns taffy” Asked the Brave when poisoned by Brava, | day morning. AMUSEMENT: FIFTH AVENUE HALL—¥FRENCH OPERA BOUFFE A pleasing but not strong performance was gives last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hall, on Twenty fourth strect, by several members of the recemt French opéra bouffe cémpany, which, by reason of bad management, lately suffered misfortune. The entertainment was simply 4 concert in which some , of the members of the @@. organization participated, ‘The programme embraced a number of choice selee tions from the works of the reply French com- . posers, and in the main forded pleasure to & not large, but ® very appreciative audience, ‘The features of the evening were the songs of Mule, Zelie Weil, whose fine soprano has already been # sub- ject of favorable cdmment in these colmmnus. M. Mialet is an excellent baritone, and in singing two songs of his-awn exhibited good taste. He would donbtless show to better sdvantage, however, in illus- trating the music of more famous composers. Mle. Cecilia created not 4 little merriment by her imitation of singing birds, and was warmly applauded. The other features of the evening that are worthy of men- tion were a duet by Mile. Weil and M. Doria, anda violin solo by M. Kapp. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. The second matinée of the “Chimes of Normandy” will take place on Saturday at the St. James Theatre. At the Standard Theatre there will be a special matinée performance to-day at half-past one ot “Almost a Life,” which will afford suburban residents a desirable opportunity of witneszing this popular dvama, “Richelieu” will be played for the last time at the Fifth Avenue Theatre this evening. Mr. Booth will appear in his fine character of Bertuccio, in the “Fool's Revenge,” on to-morrow, Friday and Sature day evenings, ani as Ruy Blas at the Saturday matinée, / “The New York Criterion Comedy Company” is the title of a new organization, of which Mr. F.F, Mackay is to be the acting manager and stage director, whila the business management will devolve upon Mr. Jacob Gosche. ‘The purpose of the new combination is to present # comedy entertainment in the different cities upon a superior scale. Tho opening plays for the season~beginning December 2 are “Our Boys" and “Caste.” ' Marie Roze-Mapleson is singing.to large audiences in Canada, She appears in London on the 22d, Grand Rapids on the 25th, Fort Wayne on the 27th, Toledo 28th, and Cleveland 29th and 30th. The papers spesk in warm terms of her performances. At her appear+ ance in Montreal the aristocracy of the city waa pres- ent in all the splendor of opera costume and received her like a veritable queen of song. Her personal beauty, sweet voice and admirable elocution are let ters of credential wherever she appears, FINE ARTS. . LOAN EXHIBITION LECTURES--JOHN L. HAYS ON ‘TAPESTRY. The fourth of the course of Loan Exhibition loc- tures was delivered at Associotion Hall last evening, the lecturer being John L, Hays, LL. D., of Cam- bridge, Mass., and his subject, “Tapestry and Ite Relations to Decorative Art.” Asan introduction to his interesting and instructive lecture Dr. Hays de scribed ahigh warped loom, such as is used at the Gobelins factory, and the process of tapestry making, his explanation being illustrated by lurge diagrams. In opening the lecture proper be used the evolution theory to illustrate the love of the beautiful in msnkind and his produc- tive faculties in this line. Decorative tissues, he said, were made in periods anterior to any records preserved. In the first records we se2 it almost. a perfosted art. The monuments of the eighteenth Egyp- tian dynasty, more than 3,000 years ago, show dressea upon which the most varied patterns in colors were wrought evidently by the needle. The Bible shows the high advancemert of the art = amo) the Israelites, who had what they knew in Egypt. The designs the Egyptians and probably the Jewish embroideries were flat, fhe forms being expressed merely by ont lines. Among the. Greeks, who derived the: rudi- monte of all thelr arte from Egypt, that of embroidery weotus to have attained a high deyelopment. There, as in all times and countries, embro! waa the #pe- cial rig eis of noble women. The Romans, though they brought rich fabrica from the Kast, did not, it is ge ge make tapestry. Ovid was quoted to #ehow that the Greeks madc tapestries like those since produced at the Gobelins. There are treces, said the lecturer, of the decora- tion of churehes in Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries with tapestries. The earliest mention of them in rae iggy poet ‘They regi made from Saraenic designs, ‘brated Bayeux jt ‘ran described at onus source of the true mcdimval and modern tapestry, which was due to the elevation of Baldwin, Count of Flanders, to the, imperial throne of the Kast. Arres, the chief seat, was afterward succeeded by Brussels. The designe were taken from the illumi- nated manuscripts of the period. A Legere oy was then given of the rich tapestries of the Middle Ages and of their uses. ese fabrics, worn over @ knight’s armor and with figures of animals on them, were his coat of arms, and the insignia of hia family. The prosperous career of the tapestry manu- fueture in France was described, as was the establish- ment of the Gobelins MA Loula XIV. in 1662. Sketches of Lebrun of the Gobelins, the first decorative artist of the world; of he soa ra events in the history of the factory, of Nay present aged and distinguished director, M. Chey- reuil, were given. The lecture closed by advising ludy decorative artists not to waste their time by much and small work, but to produce objects em- bodying thought and ‘imagination, which would be of value he wt and become heirlooms, OBITUARY. NELSON M. BROWN, Mr. Nelson M. Brown, for the past two years Supes intendent of the Housatonic Railway, died at his rest dence in Bridgeport, Conn., on Saturday evening aftes ashort illness. He was fifty years of age and had been in the employ of the Housatonic road about twenty ES filling various positions of trust, and was highly esteemed by the officers and employés of the road and the public at large. His remaius will be taken to Canaan on Weduesday morning by special train for interment. He at one time represented the town of Canaan in the State Legislature and was alse a member of the City Council in Bridgeport. WILLIAM CALLCOTT, ‘Mr. William Callcott, the musician and composer, + died at his residence, Gravesend, England, November 6, at the age of seventy-cight. Mr. Calleott.was more than ball a century ago the principal violinist in the orchestra of Her Majesty's Theatre, and subseqnently became musical director at the Adelphi, the Olympic and Astley’s, He was the father of Mr. William Call. cott and Mr. Arthur Calicott, the scenic artiste, WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, B. A, Recent mail advides from Englaud announce the death of Mr. William George Clark, late the public orator of the University of Cambridge, which office he held from 1567 to 1869. Mr. Clark died at York, where he had been long bie sy | from severe fliness and paralysis. He gratuated B. A. of Trinity College tn 184, and was one of the seniors of that socicty at the time of bis death, COLONEL JAMES MADISON STRONG, Colguel James Madison Strong, member of the State Constitutional Convention from the Mariposa and Merced district of California and the pionser cot ton grower of that State, died at Sacramento yester- ‘The convention yesterday adopted suitable resolutions aud adjourned till to-day. HENRY 8, KING. Henry 8. King, a London banker, formerly at the head of an extensive publiehing house, died suddeniy, on Sunday, of heart disease, DR. HENRY RB HANEY, Dr. Heury R. Haney, a member of the local Ontario Legislature for the county of Monck, died in that Proy- ince on Monday night. UNION FERRY DIRECTORS, ‘The stockholders of the Union Ferry Company held their annual meeting at the office of the company at the Fulton ferry, Brooklyn, yeeterday, and re-elected the following directors fordle ensuing year:—Henry E. Pirrepont, Nathan B. Morse, Charles E. Bill, Abra ham B, Baylis, Abicl A. Low, Horace B. Claflin, Jo- seph Perry, James 8. 'T. Stranuhan, Simeon B. Ohite tenden, James How, Walter N. Detiraw, Bryan H. Smith, Ripley Ropes aud E. Cornell, MeLean was choven to fill the vacancy in the Board caused by the recent death of Janes A. DeGrauw. Je Sullivan Thorne, Theodore &, Smith and W. W. Swayne were elected inspectors of election, CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. ‘The will of the late Kobert 8. Robinson, who die in Brooklyn on the 13th inst,, was offered for probate in the Kings County Surrogate’s Court, yesterday, ‘The estate of decedent is valued at about $20,000, and the life interest thereof is beyueathed to the widow of Mr. RAinson. After her death it ts to be divided, equally, bet ween the Portlaud Female Asyluw, the Widow Wood's Society and the Portland Home tor the Aged aud Indigent, length. Planders is the gennine, leon's intercat in it and of the.