The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET- 7 GORDON BENNETT, JAMES PROPRIETOR + lished every day in the year. 4). Ten dollars for any elu phic despatches must properly sealed. eturned ded on the same terms ax in New York, VOLUME XLII AMUSEMENTS = ‘TO-NIGHT. WALLACK’S THEATR: UNION SQUARE TH STANDARD THE ST. JAM ORNEVILLE. FIFTH AVENUE 1 BIBLO’S GARDEN—AcK @RAND OPERA NOUS AMERICAN TD PARK T THE Foot's Revexce. LLIVAN'S CHRISTMAS. Dn. Kuavs. TRE COMIQUE RMANIA THEATRE. M THEATR osnva Wintcon, BOWERY TY NEW YORK AQU WINDSOR THEATRI TIVOLI THEATRE: EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanirr ABERLE’S AMERICA GILMOR SAN FR. TONY P. STEINWAY HALL—Winienas BROOKLYN PARK TI RE—Vanrerr. —Barsum’s Suow. ARIETY, LADIATOR. HIA—Tless Orwra HEET. YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMI TRIPLE NEW PHILAD Ly 187s, York and its cloudy or fair. and fair. Wa xt Strevr Yestrerpay.—The stock mar- ket was fairly active and feverish. Gold was steady all day at 1001s. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads irregular. Money on call was easy at 3 a4 per cent and closed at 21 per cent. inity to-day will be cold and partly Lo-morrow it promises to be cold ANOTHER 0) Harcuway has been brought inte court, at an expense of twenty-five hun- dred dollars to the owners. CrrcemstastTiaL Evipes failed yesterday to conviet Pontez of complicity in the forgery of a check on the Union Trust Company, the jury being evenly divided. Tue Muxwerts which appear in our Complaint Book” this morning, show that people still persist in imagining that large corporations care for somb- thing besides money. Wuiir MANvractunsns ure grumbling a great dea!, the produce dealers are so busy in New York that they find their large and hand- some “Exchange” too small for them and pro- pose to build a larger one. “Seconp Tuoveurs Are Best” reads the old saying. and the members of the Seventh regiment probably indorse it strongly as they note the number of their friends who are doubling their original subscriptions to the Armory fund. Dors THE PENNSYLVANIA RatLRoAD own the wunicipal authorities of Newark, N.J.¢ 1f not why should the railroad crossings be so poorly guarded that a man can be struck and killed in a much frequented street, us was the case yes- terday on Mar! Ixy Axoturr CoL.ums the Street Cleaning can find some information about dirty The rain storm—the only exeuse for ig work—is over now, and though it some- what improved matters, it made no pretence of supplanting shovels and carta. A Maw Who Severar Y tenced to be hanged, and wh changed to imprisonment for life, has just been proved innocent. Is it not about time to try and punish a few prosecuting ofhcers, as a warn- ing to the others who seem to think the duty of the State is to conviet every person suspected of or ? ns AGO was sen- se fate was finally Arren Years or Depression the business of ptize fighting is looking up in America, ‘The ‘atest advices give cheering reports of the pro posed battle between the light weights, and now Mr. James Elliott wants to meet Mr. Jobn J. Dwyer in the “squared circle” to decide the heavy weight championsbip. The pugilistic fraternity will be delighted. Sreverav Imvortant Lxpicarions of the busi- ness depression in Great Britain appear in our cable jes this morning, and the poor Englishinen have no greenback orators or labor reformers to tell them how to make things better. Cannot some benevolent society send a few of our agitators over there? Everybody would be bene 4 by such an operation. Tue Wratuen.—As the depression moved eastward over the lower lake regions and the Middie Atlantic States the pressure began to all with remarkable rapidity, and soon a storm centre of considerable energy was developed. During Tharsd advanced nor very lik the area of high barometer so much that it seemed y to throw the centre of disturbance north of our district ward It commenced to recede again very rapidly daring the night and early Friday morning, so that the centre of lowest barometer passed over the New Jersey and New York cons Rain bas fallen over the lower Jake regions, the Middle A tie and New England coasts and the eastern Gulf districte, The fall las been heaviest on | the Northeastern coast. The winds have leon high over the lower lakes and on the New England coust, brisk on the South Atlantic coast, the West and Northwest and light else where, The temperature has risen generally in the Jake regions, fallen in the South and Southwest and bas been variable in other districts. As stated in yester the Henatp the winds have increased con bly on the Northeastern coast. The re nited in another column state that very severe weather was experienced during yester day, partiewlarly on the New England coast. It is very probable that we shall have stro northwesterly winds on our coast during the next few days, The weather on the Atlantic north of thirty-five degrees will be very severe, The weather in New York and its vicinity to- day will be cold and partly clondy or fair, To morrow it promises to be cold TEW England—Afghanpistan—Russia. Our despatches report the offisial notifi- cation that the British Parliament is sum- moned to meet on December 5. Inasmuch as it has been hitherto made public that rl Beaconsfield was opposed to this step, and even repulsed in a contemptuous spirit efforts to lay before him reasons why the country should not be involved in war withont conference with Parliament, it must be regarded as a concession extorted from | him at the peril of a break up of the Cabi- net. But it is only a formal victory over the imperial system, for there is no good reason to believe that his majority will be | feebler than it was, for the war spirit is a afe reliance, Engiand’s torces have crossed the Indian frontier with a gallant show and promptly enough, and in the report of the first movements of the advance the wae is pre- sented in the aspect of a parade or a field day at Aldershott. Unfortunately the pas- | | sage of any given frontier with the pride, pomp and circumstance of military style is not all there is of war, and particularly the | passage of the Afghan frontier in the neigh- borhood of the Khyber could not even ini- tiate serious hostilities unless the Ameer were ill advised or so affluent in force that he might wantonly waste it. It is not of anything like so much account to have passed that frontier in this war as it was to have passed the Danube in 1877 for the invasion of Turkey, and the invader, after that passage, was yet very, very far from the end of his route. But the Moslem failed there, for he could have gained im- portant advantages by fighting at the pas- sage, while the Ameer would have played into his enemy's hands to have fought them on the frontier. It is therefore not to be counted as any success to the invaders to have passed the frontier so readily and to have begun the passage with such small exchanges of fire. It is an evidence that the foe in front of them is alert and well advised as to the peculiar advantages of his position. Although the expeditionary force seems a small one, it is probable that a small force in good hands and picked for its quality and condition is the :nost effective agent that conld be sent upon the errand this force goes on. Unwieldiness would be the least fault of a great army in that country, for the point of supplies is a capital one and the train necessary for a large force would not only impede its advance toa dan- gerous degree, but would reduce its func. tion to that of a mere protector of its mate- rial, But this is mot merely an advance of a small body of men of a superior race into | \ | | | | the country of a barbarous or sav- age foe. It is very different indeed from that; for the Afghans are men of superior quality, as soldiers, to the men that make up three parts of the invading force, and not unequal opponents to the Europeans in that foree, England, there- fore, invades the Ameer’s country with a force numbering about one-third of the force at the Ameer’s disposal; and the force, so much the less numerically—though it is entitled to great consideration for its qual- ity in virtue of the four or five thousand men of the British races in it—is adulterated with about fifteen thousand Hindoos; so that, taken altogether, it is inferior in war- like attributes to the Ameer’s army. But it is, no doubt, far better armed than his forces are, and the experience and skill of its officers is a great point in its favor. With this war faiely on foot we shall per- haps see a very carly and distinct develop- ment of Russia’s operations both in Asia and near Constantinople. Her relations to the Ameer of Cabul may be judged some- what in the light of what is reported in our despatches to-day of the transmission to him from the Czar of a sword ‘‘asa pledge of friendship and unchanging affection to his friend and ally.” With this gift the Czar's representative, General Kaufmann, sent a message that need not be wrested from its evident intention in order to find in it distinct words of assurance for the Ameer with regard to the position in which he finds himself to-day. He is assured that Russia “has always known how to protect her allies from the attacks of any enemy, however power- ful,” and that “whoever sides with Russia need not fear that a hair of his head will be injured ;" and these words have a reference that is certainly not accidental to what was known at the time they were sent to be Eng- land’s intention. Words of compliment to barbaric princes are not always to be taken literally ; but when the Russian Emperor sends asword tothe ruler of Afghanistan and treats his country in plain terms as one allied with Russia ‘‘for the benefit of Af- ghans and Russians,” it would seem an | inevitable inference that relations hitherto partially kept secret are to be secret no | longer. | Russia's operations near Constantinople | are dealt with in the communication of Count Andrassy to the delegations at Pesth. By this official disclosure we learn that Prince Labanoff had actually declared to | the Porte that Eastern Roumelia would not be evacuated by the Russians until the Sultan had madea definitive treaty with Russia, Against that threat the Porte ap. | pealed to the Powers, and Austria, for one, answered that the definitive treaty was en- tirely between the Porte and Russia, but that the evacuation of Eastern Roumelia was provided for by the Treaty of Ber- lin; to which view Russia assented, and declared her intention to act on the terms of that treaty. Precisely what relation that exchange of views has to Russia’s present attitude is not clear, but | it is probable that Prince Labanoffs com. | munication was put forth aa a feeler and in order that Russia might distinetly limit her intention to withdraw to a declaration in which Kastern Koumelia was named; for the territory which she apparently intends not to evacuate is the district between the southern boundary of Eastern Roumelia | and Constantinople. Russia holds that she is not under any ob- ligation to withdraw her troops from that | territory, because no such obligation has been placed npon her by any treaty. Her contention on this point has greatly excited anti-Russian organs every where, which, though they do not j} cite a line in any treaty which pre | YORK HERALD, | Russia, England and Turkey, and | street is to be SATURDAY, sents it one that obligation, assume as implied by all the others, But such an implication could only tonch points not covered by contrary provision, and this | point is so covered. By the secret agree- | ment with Russia England pledged herself to recognize the validity of all parts of the San Stefano Treaty not repealed at Berlin, and the San Stefano Treaty fixed the period | for the general evacuation of the Turkish | territory at three months after the conclu- | | sion of a definite treaty of peace with the | Sultan. This, therefore, is the law between the definite treaty thus refirred to is not yet made, Russia will consequeatly hold on till it is made, and if England takes any steps, such as the sending of her fleet up the Bosphorus, the Russian army will assail the lines of Constantinople and Kanf- mann will move his forces to the support of the Ameer. A New Method of Bull-Dozing. In our Washington correspondence may be found recitals of the methods pursued, or alleged on respectable authority to have been pursued, for carrying clections by | fraud and for protecting the perpetrators | of the frauds against the legal pen- aities to which they have made themselves liable. We had hoped never to witness a revival of such stories, trusting that the Southern people, after recovering the right of self-government, would avoid from motives of policy, if not from a sense of justice, a repetition of the scandals which have been so damaging to the good repute of their section. The past would have been over- looked and forgotten, or attributed to grext provocation if remembered, if their recent conduct had not made forgiveness impossible, If this thing goes on the North will again be as thoroughly united against the South as it was during the period of reconstruction, In the late elections there was no provocation to treat the negroes badly and deprive them ot their rights, and the Northern people will not be insensible to outrages perpe- trated in pure wantonness or from a settled and ineradicable hatred of the negro race. To be sure, the re- cent complaints relate to but three States and only a few counties of those; but they are nevertheless certain to arouse an in- dignant feeling against the whole South. If the democratic party had a true sense of its own interests and its own honor it would be foremost in expos- ing, denouncing, and uprooting these practices which are likely to blast its prospects, which seemed so fair and prom- ising a few months since. We call particu- lar attention to the statements relating to the disgraceful Iunacy of Governor Hamp- ton and the Sonth Carolina demo- erats. The election laws of that State have been deliberately altered with the intention of depriving the colored citizens of their right to vote. The polling places in the low country, where the negro population is most concentrated, have been put at such distances, and the hours of voting have been so abridged, that it was impossible for the colored vote to be polled. Besides this there has been ballot-box stutt- ing and false counting to an extent unparal- leled since the overthrow of the Tweed ring in New York. But the most shameless thing of all is the new method of bull-dozing which has been invented and putin practice in Virginia. Instead of intimidating voters it has been found easier to allow free access to the polls, falsify the result in the counting and then bull-doze the witnesses who offer to testify to the facts. Prosecutions have been begun against the ballot-box stuffers and the false counters of votes, and thereupon the complainants upon whose testimony the proceedings were instituted are caught up and lodged in jail on accusa- tions of perjury. If the perpetrators of the frauds appear in court to swear against the complainants there will be false testimony enough to convict them, and Virginia juries may find them guilty and railroad them to the State Prison. The intention is to terrorize them agaiast testifying to the truth and thus defeat the prosecutions. If the facts are truly stated and justice is defeated and outraged in the courts the indignant people of the North will try to tind some other remedy. A Very Sad Case. It is an old saying that there are as good fish in the sea as were ever taken out of it, and if we are to judge by the shocking case of child killing—we can scarcely call it ac- cidental death—at Newark, there are as many thoughtless, foolish people in the world as have ever been happily removed from it. A mother residing at Newark left her infant daughter in care of her sister. The aunt put the child to sleep, and, want- ing to leave the room, just tied a cord to the knob of the door and hung the other end in a loop loosely round the little one’s neck. ‘The silly woman thoug}t it would be w nice amusement for the intunt when it awoke to get hold of the cord and pull the door knob, besides which the noise would attract her attention and summon her to the bedroom. The poor child, however, instead of pulling at the door knob drew the loop tightly around its own neck, and then in its struggles fell out of bed. When the mother return | and went tothe bed to kiss her darling and meet the welcome of its outstretched arms and its pretty crowing she found ils corpse on the floor, The child was strangled. It is to be hoped that the painful tragedy will teach other people that there are safer ways of providing fora child's amusement than by means of a rope tied in a hangman's noose around its neck. Street Obstructions, The authority of the Superintendent of Encumbrances to remove the obstructions caused by the outside market stands in West street, Greenwich street and Vesey tested in the courts. The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund claim that they receive an income from the rent of the outside stands of which the Superin- tendent of Encumbrances has no business to deprive them. But to what distance irom the market does the right to authorize | and rent market stands extend? The ob- NOVEMBER oe structions complained of exist beyond the market block, and if obstructions and en- eumbrances in the shape of stends are to be allowed at the distance of one block trom the market proper why not two blocks or twenty blocks? The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund could no doubt realize a large income from the rent of meat stands, fish stands and vegetable stands around St. Paul's Church and in front of the Astor House, but would they on that account have aright to put them there? We know of no law by which the authorities having charge ofa market gain control over the public | streets and the privilege of using them to increase the income of the sinking fund. Stalactal Music. In the good old times when underground wonders like the caves at Luray were de- clared to be the work of gnomes and fairies it would not have been difficult to imagine how they made music for their subterra- nean revels, Some quaint sprite took his wand, shaped like a toadstool at the head, and, striking on the stalactites, brought forth the bell-toned rhythmic harmcnies which sent the tiny feet of the ‘good peo- ple” dancing over the crystal floors, while their laughter rippled in elfish echoes from wall to roof. Alas, for the blind, gocd- humored gnomes! Alas for the dainty fairies! Muddy boots are trampling over their crystal floors. Scientists and won- der mongers of the baser sort go pok- ing about and chipping their pillared | halls; and as for the fairy music, a newspaper man in a suit of overalls sits down and taps the stalactites with a walk- ing stick. One would think that the faigies never had been, But as their organ was left behind when mortals entered their abode let it be made some use of. We have author- ity for saying that the fairies when hunted from their homes search through the world for the children of art and breathe their fan- cies in their ears. Of the lovers of music they are very fond, and why, we ask, should not some of these go down to the caves of Luray and restore the fairy organ to its use, mark off the columns on the tonic scale that mortals wot of and make the dim recesses echo with the silvery notes in harmony once more? Let us have stalactal music. Beauty is not lost. The sylvan nymphs, the Naiads of the fountain, the daughters of the sea dissolved like a dream in the hour that Aphrodite and Apollo died and the wind’s mysterious voices told that the great god Pan was dead tor evermore. But new spirits came to the human vision; in the wake of the Man of Sorrow flocked the angels who are by us yet. The fairies are gone from the caves at Luray, but science, hard and uncouth of mien, has entered there with a poetry of its own, It sings the marvellous romance of a drop of water on its mission of beauty through the heart of the earth; how it slowly steals through the limestone rock, taking as it goes the white essence of the stone. It gathers on the nether side of the rocky roof; it grows; it trembles with the fulness of its time of sac- rifice to beauty which has come at last; it falls, Down fitty teet it comes sheer like o liquid diamond through the gloom; it strikes on the white foliations; it is shivered to thousand atoms cf spray, and from each atom forms a delicate rock crystal pure as snow. What fairy skill could match the infinite beauty of the work of these drops of water? The Indian Bureau and the Army. So far as the controversy pending be- tween the War Department and the Indian Bureau involves a question of veracity be- tween the agents of the bureau and officers of the army there can be no hesitation on the part of the people to accept the state- ments of the latter as correct. The loose management of the bureau for many years, the acknowledged faults of the system, the notorious corruptions of the agencies, all tell against the civil authorities, and it will be universally believed that General Sher- idan’s charges against the managemént of the agencies in the Military Division of the Missouri are fully justified by the facts, The new scandal will revive the desire to see the management of the Indians transferred wholly to the War Depart- ment. General Sherman wisely says that it would entail a great deal of extra responsipility and care on the army; but he adds that either the Indian Bureau must come to the War Department or the army must be turned over to the Interior Department to protect the Indian Bureau. This tells the whole story. The Indian Bureau, through the irresponsibility, cor- ruptions and rasealities of its agents, drives the Indians to the warpath. As the army, then, has to take charge of the Indians, it might as weil commence the duty a little sooner and so save the necessity of war. Theoretical civil service reformers at Wash- ington and practical rascalily in the distant agencies will never give us honest and efficient Indian management. Civil Rights in Virginia. Lawyers in the Old Dominion are in full possession of a legal sensation in an appar- ent disputed jurisdiction between the United States District Court and a federal court in the case of two negroes accused of murder, The case comes into the cogniz- ance of the United States judge in the reg- ular cotfrse of justice, as provided for in the statute called the Civil Rights act. By that act the denial of any right of a citizen of the United States in a State court entitles the person 80 wronged to petition for a removal of | the case to the United States Court, and if the removal is denied authorizes the United States judge to have the accused brought before him by the writ of habeas corpus. All this was done in the case of the two negroes, the right denied being the right to a special venire for jurors, so that there might be drawn blacks as well as whites, there having been summoned to try these ases only white men, This denial was held to be a violation of the law of | the United States, and the proceed. ings subsequent to it in the State Court were declared null. It is thought in Virginia that this will render it difficult in future to punish negroes for murder, inasmuch as under this raling they must have juries composed in part, at least, of colored men when they demand thom, 1878--TRIPLE SHEET. and the colored man being even more dis posed to acquit in such cases than his white neighbor toconvict. We are inclined | to believe, for our part, that its altimate result will be a larger number of exeeu- tions, for it will simply throw all cases of accused colored men into the jurisdiction of Judge Lyneb Stick to Your Farm! Trade in manufactured goods is playing sume queer pranks nowadays, A man or a company may work hard, expending much time and money in perfecting some article | of general use, and suddenly find that else- and can sell the results for less money. A few years ago England was the only coun- try which manufactured cotton prints for export, while the idea of any one compet- ing with her in her home markets was laughed at as a bit of insanity; but to-day American prints are being worn by opera- tives in English cotton mills, having been found to be prettier, better and cheaper. Now we hear that agents of German cutlers have been to Sheflield, heretofore the ac- knowledged centre of the cutlery trade of the world, and sold their goods at prices which the home manufacturers could not underbid, Sheffield will continue to make knives and scissors, and no American will be foolish enough to hope that the English print works will be closed, but the illustrations which we have given of the fluctuations of trade will show the American farmer that businesses which he mourntully are subject to drawbacks and dangers which the agriculturist never knows. Breadstuffs and food materials of every kind are always in demand, and have a tolerably uniform value the world over. No competition, no new farming community that may be de- veloped, ‘dock-out” such as workers in the trades are constantly experiencing, nor in tre- mendous failures like those which are con- stantly startling the commercial world. The overstocked manufacturer cannot eat his superfluous knives or prints, nor can the locked out operative dine on his tools, but in the worst season the farmer is sure at least of a full stomach and a roof over his head. Sensible is he if instead of grumbling at his lot he makes the best of it and realizes how in the long run he is better off than many whose occasional suc- eess he envies. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Hewitt is in Washington. Bishop Gilbert Haven is in Texas. Some carvers put on more airs than meat. “falfutige can beat O'Leary round a pulpit. Jack Logit wilt probably be Senator from Dlinois. Senator VourieS arrived in Washington last night. ‘A’ six-yeur-31Y"Chinaman in Nevada haunts faro dens. wes ‘There is to be one Kitchin in Congress. rth Carolina, nator J, D. Camerson, of Pennsylvania, is at the Brevoort House. Sciior Zamacona, Mexican Minister at Washington, is at the Rossmore Hotel. Evening Telgram:—"The war cry of Fred Rull- man—‘Libretto or Death,’ ” ‘The health of Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, is very greatly improved. He is in Washington. Dr. Don Benjamin Aceval, Paraguayan Minister at Washington, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Gambetta, speaking of government, says that cooks have no appetite for the dishes they turn out. The Buffalo Express is afraid that the robbers of Stewart's grave may come around some night and run away with police headquarters. ‘The late Duchess of Orleans, whose judgment was cellent, insisted on Court etiquette being departed from when she went to chapel at the Oratuire, Louisville Colihiér: Journal: —“When Satan took Simon Cameron ‘fp iit’ fie ANleghany Mountains and offered him fe’ Stat!’ bk Pennsylvania, Simon took the Old Roy at his word, Ever since the State of Pennsylva- nia has been in the Cameron famil, ‘The Newark gossips say that the marriage is soon to take place of Rey. J. B, Wetherill, Bishop Odenheimer’s chaplain, to MissSmith, the grand niece and adopted daughter of the late A. I, Stewart. Mr. Wetherill comes of an old Philadelphia Quaker family, and is independently rich. Dr. MacHale, of Tuam, Ireland, is the senior arch- bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, and probably the oldest mitred priest in the world. He has lived during the time of six Popes. He is an extreme na- tionalist, although not a fluent speaker, He has translated the Hiad and Tom Moore melodies into Irish, in which he sometimes preaches, and one of his most agreeable companions is Father Tom Burke. Edmund Yates says:—“Last week I found myself ina position of some embarrassment and of little dignity. I was staying at a large country house, and on Sunday morning our pious host marched all his company off to the church, which his munificence has recently restored at a great expense, All the guests went, for they perceived that it was agrecable to the master of the house, although some of them were Bohemians, who did not appear to know even approximately how many Sundays had beea running since Trinity. Suddenly the choir struck up, ‘From Greenland’s icy mountains,’ and then it flashed acroxs me that Thad come out without any money; and when the host (who is churchwarden) brought round the bright golden plate—every one looking to see what every one else gave—I was crimson with confusion.” He is from AMUSEMENTS. ITALIAN OPERA—-‘‘LUCIA,” Donizetti's “Lucia,” with Mme. Gerster in the title réle, proved again a great attraction at the Academy last night toa packed house, The young and gifted Hungarian soprano asserted anew her rare dramatic instinct, her conscientious devotion to the minutest details of Her part and the phe- nomenal technical execution for which seh brilliant opportunities are afforded in this character, She naturally wins hee greatest popular triumph in "as the music is in itself altogether agreea- ble, aud it is possible for her to display to ex- ceptional advantage her rare power of delivering and sustaining thrilling upper notes, her neat stace and close and finished shake, Added to all these elo- ments is hor complete dramatic realization of the author's creation, completing @ lyric picture that is a* near perfection as human art attain, Signor Campanini's strong and finished Edgardo was as in- f neerted pieces. As ii Hignardi, who belongs to the past, sce is not necessary or helpful, chorus was strong and good as before, and Signor Arditi again gave some of those novel and beautiful pianissimo effects for which his superb band is winningan estimable repute, The performance was received with the same marked enthusiasin as at the first representation. Gerster was cheered, en- nd recalled repeatedly, and similar honors rded_to Signor Campanini, while the quar- ipals received a special ovation after “Che ma frena The ballet of “Les Papilion appointments, its beautify and cory phe of ft the poetic ved a delightful afterpiece to the ope sof the ballet ave (hat it is a shade too long and its movement something too torpid. A little judicious pruning would prove extremely helpful, MUSIC-—THE HEARSAD, ‘That the classic entertainments of the Philharmonic Society retain all of their old-time prestige, and exer- cise the same potent charm as of yore, was evidenced in the assemblage yesterday of a very large, brilliant ond critical audience on the occasion of the first | ACADEMY OF PHILHARMONIC BE- where some one has been at the same work | considers more profitable than his own | can ever aftict farmers with a | public rehearsal of the socicty this season. The programme was most admirably arranged, both as regards artistic unity and general effect. It opened with .Brahms’ grand symphony in DB, No. 2 & work which is yet almost in its primal freshness with us, and whieh can never grow stale or unprofitable with sueh a rendering as it had yesterday at the hands of Mr, Neuendorff’ and his band, a really spleae did orchestra of from eighty to ninety musicians. It is fair to say that the performance of this beantiful and suggestive work did not suffer by comparison | witht any previous rendering of the syznphouy here. | ‘The first movement, indeod, was better played than ever before, and, although there w * the seeming of elegance and detivery in the cox s lending there was nothing lacking in fine points of shading ix the execution, Mr, Neuendorff's performances are at | satisfactory as his pretensions are modest, and it shoulé be noted that he has deftly adapted himself to the changed condition of things, and no longer challenges criticism with the forceful and extravagant 1 ods that characterized Lis conducting during the htel and Fryer-Wagner seasons of opera, The orchestre also xtood suecessfnlly the severe test of a por formance ot Beothoyen’s “Lenore,” overture No. 3 and of Li elaborate symphonic poem, “Die Hun- nenschlacht,"’ with its wondrous effects of instrus mentation, and painted its strong contrasts, barre 3 the devotional wud martial characters, with vivid’ and impressive effect. In the atcompaniments—especlally to the “Star’’ sony from “Tannhiiuser"—the orchestra contributed in 4o limited degree to the symmetry and finish which characterized most of these numbers. Mr. Reményi again appeared as a leading feature of the His principal contribution was & sharp aninor, by Erast, playcd for t “hore. Again, in the moti; he displayed his remarkable gifts in ain h>arouve | the enthusiasm od his The work ‘itself 1s not a profonnd he ough it bristles with technical difficul- yereame readi although no: in the ornamental parts ia the strictest time. Pos bly he chose this method of making the solo parts emphatic. It was certainly successtul in this re. gard, if somewhat equivocal as an artistic expedient, In the second part M. Remenyi played the nocturne in E flat by Chopin, in which he exercises the same spell upon his audience as the Thomas orchestra in its earlier days was nt to do with Schumann's “Lrauemerei,”’ As a pendant to this gem the violinist gave the mazourka in B flat by the same composer, arousing the audience so deeply that, after three recalls, the artist came forwarde and gave, very appropriately, his transcription of a valtz by Chopin, in which his wonderful —pianissime had its best opportunity. Signor Galassi us was to have been expected, — wae thoroughly at home in the “Alla pace” from Merca. dante’s “fi Giuramento,” and the “O! tu bell’ astro,"* from Wagner's Tanul ser. His mellow, resonant baritone was heard t> exceptional advantage in the first air, and no other artist that we cau recall haa sung the Wagner number in a menuer at ell compara ble with his effort. It was imperatively encored, A pipe organ was skilfully introduced and tasteful played by 8. P, Warren, and the harp aecompani- inent of Mr. A. F. Toulmine was a feature of the Wag- ner number, The patrons of the Philharmonic are evidently not to be disappointed in the orcha:tra or the leader of the current season's concerts, STEINWAY HALL— THE LAST WILHELMJ CONCERT, During the present season the musical public have had a number of opportunities to enjoy several good concerts. None of them, however, in point of intel- lectnal interest or artistic taste have surpassed that given last night at Steinway Hall, in which ‘Wilhelm, ertainment en concerto in the — first pathetique, cantabile playing, aud which has at lis evcry appearance gr formances. tho celebrated violinist, occupied the place of honor, and in his own grand, miajestio way interpreted some of the music of the great iasters. A peculiarity that has been com- mented upon in connection with this virtuoso is tha evenness, strength and precision with which he give emphasis to the meaning of the composers whosa works he secks to illustrate. He is always certain. He never resorts to pyrotechnics for the purpose of holding the popular ear, or sacrifices even the severest mathematics of his art in order to secure momentary applause. Just as there is a kind of massiveness about the man as he stands confronting the people, reminding one of the | pictures of Becthoyen, so there is arugged strength, a pose and dignity in his performance that com. inands admiration and among critical people makes & memory. His selections last night were, first, Beet hoven’s concerto in D (first movement), acomposition that enabled him to represent the amplitude of his style. Being encored he played Chopin's nocturne in D flat, arranged by himself. Next he gave aro- manza from Chopin's concerto in KE, also transcribed for the violin by himself, following it by atone polonaise, in C sharp minor, by Chopin. His last fea- ture on the programme was a ereppere by Law which is not familiar in is country, bul made last night a host of friends, for it enabled Wilhelm) to exhibit the lighter phases of the classical music of which he is such @ master and ta bring out the splendid trifies that are in his instru. ment and only require a touch to take shape. He finished his share of the performance with a number of Hungarian airs by Ernst. Mme. Teresa Carrena su the pleasure that always attaches to ood performance on the piano, d played Lizst’s “La Can la,’” Rubinstein’s ‘wrentella” and Lizat’s “Grand Vulse de Faust.’ She was warmly applauded and encored, Miss Kate L. James sang Franz Abt’s ‘Embarrass ment’ and for an encore “Within a Mile of Edin. boro’,” also Wallace's beautiful com} lon, * Night and Pleasant Dreams.” This lady deserves to be complimented, not only for her graceful method, albeit her voice is not strong, but for the clear vocali+ zation which enables everybody in the audience to know what she was singing about. This is saying @ great deal, because few can do ‘Tagliapietra. was in fine musical con rendered Schubert's Serenade and Rabandy's “La Stella Contidente” with his usual excellent taste. The audience was large, critical and appreciative. Mr. Maurice Strakosch and Mr. Max Leibling presided at the piano during the evening. The last Wilhelmj amatinée takes place at Steinway Hall this afternoon at two o'clock. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, “Our Club,” at Wallack’s, has made a decided hit. “Lhe Chimes of Normandy”’ will be repeated at the matinée to-day at the St. James. Booth’s Theatre box office is now open for the sal¢ of seats for ‘That Lass 0’ Lowrie’s.” ‘The second matinée of Mrs. Henderson's successful drama of “Almost a Life” will be given at the Standard to-day, Mme. Di Murska, in conjunction with Gilmore's Band, gives another Sunday evening concert at the Grand Opera House to-morrow. The first concert of the Philharmonic Society, undet the direction of Mr. Neuendorff, will take place thie evening, at the Academy of Music. Mme, Marie Roze-Mapleson is said to have received the cheerful information that by the death of an uncle she has become the heiress to a legacy of £10,009, The circus at Gilmore's Garden is still a leading at traction. The week ending Novomber 30 will be the last of the season. Those who have not witnessed the performance ought not to miss the remaining oppor tunities. To-day ends the last weck but one of the pen formance of ‘Mother and Son” at the Union Square Yheatre. This piece has enjoyed quite arun, whick has been fully earned by careful mounting and excel lent acting. At the Fifth Avenue Theatre this afternoon Mr, Booth will give “Ruy Blas” for the first time thit season, The cast will include Mr, Frauk Mordaunt as Don Sallusto, Mr. Owen Fawcett as Count of Alba, Miss Ellen Cummins as the Queen and Miss Alice Grey as the Duchess. Oliver Doud Byron and his play of “Across the Continent” still continues to draw large audiences a8 Niblo’s Garden, and in all probability would continue to do so for some time if the management could re- tain him, Next week Bartley Campbell's new piece, “The Vigilantes,’ will be given. eting yesterday of the committee appointed arrangements for the John Gilbert testimo- nial, letters were read from nearly all the mauagers and many of the leading artista of the city, who do. sire to participate in the golden wedding. The event promises to be full of interest, and the good taste of the management is an assurance that the programme will be worthy of remembrance. Mr. Rudolph Aronson’s popular Sunday evening con. certs have become one of the musical features of the season. It is «long time since a New Yorker for the email outlay of twenty-five cents could hear dupli- cated by a choice orchestra the music of Paris, Vienna and Berlin, The special attraction to-morrow night will be the American début of Miss Matilda Seott, & soprano from the Crystal Palace popular con- verte, London. Mr. A. C, Dacre, who appears for the firat time in this country at Brooklyn, on Monday evening, 25th inst, a8 Captain Molynenx in the “Shanghrann,” graduated with honor as physician and surgeon at the University of Aberdeen, While pursuing his medical studies he quietly took to the «tage, first as amateur, next a8 a professional, and, unknown to his profes. sors, he played the part of John Mildmay in “Still Waters Kun Deep,” only # few nights before his finad examination, He has now decided to devote himself entirely to the boards, and after his engagement in Brooklyn will appear at the Grand Opera House ia this city,