The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1878, Page 6

—— NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. eee eee TIE DAILY HERALD, publichat every day in the year. vee cents per copy (Sundays excluded). Ton dollars per at a rate of one dollar por nth for any period loss rr dollars for six months, Sunday tive 5 of postage HERALD—One dollar per year, {100 of post. “NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS ‘York or Post Office money ordei shone. raphic despatcbos must ‘ud packages should be properly snuled commen ications will uot be returned. Sree LPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEEY STREET. PARIS OF PICK—49 AV 4 NAPLES OF FICE—NO. 7 8 A Subseriptions and advertisements wi, yWarded ou the same terms as in New Yor AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRI aa or Vexice NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1878.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Loss of the Pommerania. The sinking of this steamship, of the Hamburg line, in consequence of a colli- sion in the Straits of Dover, caused a great shock on this side of the Atlantic when the news was received yesterday. ‘The Pomme- renia cleared from this port on the Ith inst. and arrived at Plymouth on the night | of the 24th, whence, after landing her Eng- lish passengers and mails, she proceeded on her voyage, touching again at Cherbourg, where she ulso landed passengers (torty- seven in all at the two ports of Plymouth and Cherbourg), and was steaming through the Straits of Dover for Ham- burg, her final destination, when, near mid- night on Monday, she collided with an iron bark, and was so badly stove in that she | went down in less than half an hour. We | can imagine the consternation of the pas- sengers, who had retired for the night, when they were suddenly roused by the violence of the concussion and came rush- ing out of their staterooms and berths to ‘tind what had happened. There was no | hope of keeping the steamer afloat for more than a briet period (so fatal are such colli- | sions to iron ships), and the only thing SE—Yerse. ee be thought of was the loosening and MI Seer ete SOF ERROR, | letting down of the boats. The effort to je conning ached j accomplish this was only pnriially LYCEUM THEATRE—Josuca Wartcoxs, | sucalaand: adi ake PEL ae Sear BROADWAY THEATR } Sar ’ 3 aid +8 ACADEMY OF MUSIC Dr Lawaenwoon. | passengers, with no time to put on BOWERY THEATRE—Batsamo, THe Soncnnse, j their clothes, which had been taken off for NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Thaiven Honses. the night, rushed franticaliy for such boats WALLACK’S THEATRE—Ovw Cvs, CHICKERING HALL— STANDARD THEATRE- ST. JAMES THEATR' GILMORE’S GARD GERMANIA THEATRE—Doctow Kiaus. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—V\ncerr. WINDSOR THEATRE—Vanicry TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaueer EGYPTIAN HALL—Vawery. ABERLE’S AMERICAN THEATRE—Vanusry, ACADEMY OF DESI¢ Dan Exnuniti0n. BROOKLYN ACADEMY BROOKLYN PARK TH BROAD 8T. THEATRE P TRIPLE SHEET. ORK, WEDN P MUSIC—Susvenmaum, vLiws Casan PLP HIA—UNcLE Day't. Lal] DAY, NOVEMBER : The probabilities are that the weather in New | Fork aud its vicinity to-day will be cold and partly cloudy, possibly with occasional rain or snow. To-morrow it will be cold and partly cloudy. Watt Street Yrsterpay.— stock mar. ket wae active and irregular. Gold was more active, fluctuating between 1001g aud 10014, | Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads irregular. Money on call was easy at Bly .a 2ty per cent. ‘ | ie in the price of eoal at the sales vod cause for thanksgiving. H yesterday is a g Ir Becixs To Loox now 2s if Campana and O'Leary will take a little walk of four or five hundred miles together before the Christinas holidays. ‘Tue Iycerase in the provisional estimates for. the coming year shows that the Aldermen are as generous as ever at the expense of the tax- payers. ACCORDING TO ONE OF THE Wrrnesses in the Vanderbilt will case the old Commudore was a model railroad king. His stockholders always shared in his profits. AxorHER Great Srrike, it will be seen from our special eable despatches, has taken place in Lancashire. One hundred and twenty mills are closed and twelve thousand men idle. A Free Temperance Luycu is announced by the revivalist Murphy on Thonksgiving Day. If Murphy can continue to talk “turkey” in this way there can be no doubt of his success. Tue Passage by the Aldermen of the resolu- tion exempting the upper boulevards from the operation of the fast driving ordinance will be agreeable news to the owners of the ck teams. Commissioner Davenroxt, if his own testi- mouy is to i unto himself cle ine Was so inuch of a law ning tha n go through the formality ord of the cases before him. me he did not | of keepicg a re Srorrep Tare and his chiefs, who have been losing ponies for some time past, are deter- mined apon bringing about a reform, and as a | preliminary step have themselves turn thieves. The remedy is i horse | ikely to prove effective. as could be lowered. One of these was so overloaded with people that it sunk almost immediately. Had it not been for the providential nearness of the steamer Glen- garry to the scene of the disaster very few lives could have been saved. But, thanks to her proximity, to her prompt response to the danger signals of the sinking Pomme- rania and to the efficiency of her officers and crew, the lives lost amount to but about fifty. There has been much greater destruction of life in some of the other recent collisions of the same kind. “In the last preceding one, that by which the Princess Alice was sunk in the Thames, last summer, the num- ber of victims was truly appuiling, as it was also in the case of the great German iron- clad, the Grosser Kiirfurst, which went down in the same waters with seven hundred souls on board. But although the loss of life is so much smaller the present disaster makes a deeper impression in this country. A large proportion of the passengers were Americans or Americanized foreigners, and most of the cabin passengers had a large | circle of friends and acquaintances among our own people, This brings the calamity home to us almost as if it had taken place in our own waters. The impression is even more painful and distressing than if the collision had happened just outside of New York harbor, because in that case those having friends on board would have been spared a period of torturing suspense re- specting their loss or rescue. No anxiety, however, can be felt as to those intending to land at Plymouth or Cherbourg, who were a large majority of the cabin passen- gers. The frequency and fatality of accidents of this kind to iron steamers is a drawback to the otherwise great advantages of the substitution of iron for wood in the construction of vessels. The mate- rial 1s so heavy that a concussion which breaks her sides is almost certain to sink the ship. The building of iron vessels in compartments does not seem to have been thus far very conducive to safety. We can recollect no case of a loaded iron vessel which has eseaped after a col- lision powerful enough to break her shell. The iron bark which collided with the Pommeruania had her bows stove in and her fore compartment filled with water, and yet “she did not sink. But this vessel had no cargo; she was proceeding irom Rotterdam to Cardiff in ballast. A heavily laden iron ship is almost certain to be sunk by a vio- lent collision, and the frequency of such | collisions is liable to increase with the in- creasing number of iron vessels afloat, and the high rate of speed attained by most of the ocean steamers which have been built during the past ten years, it would seem that with proper vigilance Ir Is Very Prosanee that the majority of the federal officials in Louisiana ought to be turned out; but to do so because they failed to win in the recent election, as is hinted Urleans despatches, wonld be making the civil | service professions of the adimiuistr more ridiculous than they a in our New ion even at present, Ancement in what is known a8 the “Crédit Mobilier ease” has been begun in the federal Supreme Court. The object of the suit is to compel the restoration to the Union Paci Railroad Company of the moneys of which itis | alleged to Lave becn defrauded by the Crédit Mobilier, and other similar fragrant traneae- + tions. The Weatw that was in the Jake ve eastward = dur northeastern p into the oceun, making the curves of th very sharp on the Middle Atlantic coast. In the Southern and Gulf districts the areca of pressure lus exicnded itself cousiderabl, vow dosninates ti sippi and soxth ventre of distnst 1 barometer ns woved very rapidly < yesterday and forced the | sobars and | he O} » Valley, having a nee in the Mastern Gall, The ometer fell very rapidly iu the northwest Yesterday afterucou, ani a well marked storm centre has appeared ip Manitoba and is moving over the northern British ios is. Rain has fallen in the Middle Atinatic and New England States, the central valley and the Gulf dis- tricts. In the latter wection the fall has | Ween covtinnous and heavy. The winds have been fresh to brisk on tho Middle Atlantic and New Engluul coasis and in the Gulf districts, brisk to high in the northwest and generally light elsewhere. A general rise in temperature has taken place on the South At- jantie aud Gall coasts and in the Middle Atlan tie States, In the other districts it has fallen. It is very likely that the disturbance in the Eastern Gulf will move in a northeasterly direc tion, affecting the South Atlantic States only during its passage. The one in the northwest will very probably have u southeastern path, and will be felt in the lower Jake regions and eastward to the ocean toward the end of the week. As it now appears heavy weather may be expected over the northern lakes during the next few days. Tbe weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and partly elondy, possibly with occasional rain or snow. To-mor- row it will be cold and partly cloudy, | of of the zone of low preasure | low | weather east of the Missis- | | collisions might be entirely avoided, except in thick fogs. In the caseof the Pommerania there was the double obscurity of night and toggy weather. But science should supply and rigorous laws should enforce means of avoiding collisions, even in the darkest nights and the thickest fogs. There is a new opportunity for Mr. Edison to exert his great inventive powers in the same line that he is now pursuing. Let ‘him devise o cheap and efficient appa- ratns for generating the most intense and penetrating electric light on board ships. ‘here would be no neces. sity for using it except in fogs, ‘and it might be made powerful enough to | pierce to 4 considerable distance through the densest fogs that can envelop the tace ofthe sea. Another mode of precaution is furnished by the improved fog horn worked by steam, which has been brought io such n state of perfection within the last f years, One of these powerful scoustic in- | struments might be connected with the | boiler which generates sieam tor propelling | the vessel, ready for ase by the simple | opening of a valve whenever heavy foys | settled upon ils course. ‘The improved fog | horns are coming into general use | at important lighthouse stations, and | the expense of introducing them on iron steamers would be a bagatelle in ,comparison with the security they would | afford. By using the tric light, the im- ‘proved steam fog horn, or both, and by making it compulsory on the commander to reduce his speed in thick weather to a very | low rate in all waters where there is any | liability to collision, the danger of such | disasters could be almost entirely averted, | Lhe iron steamships are so large, 80 heavy, | and they have so inch strength in resisting | | the onset of waves that they are exposed to no great peril from the violence of ocean | tempests. But their collisions with one | another are generally futal, and mo care or | expense is too great for providing security | against this source of danger. When sei- | ence shall have pointed ont and mechanical | { i | | the horrible condition of the victims of the | body wants any gas—-the companies go into | gall, should enforce their adoption by its own vessels and visitevery instance of neglect with heavy penalties. The Advance Into Afghanistan. Without meeting more than the merest semblance of armed opposition at the start the British forces have made their way through the belt of independent territory between India and Afghanistan, and are now about to invade the territory of the Ameer. So far as we can learn from the British accounts, and these are our only source of information, there is nothing but a demor- alized soldiery running for their lives between the red coats and Cabult So abject indeed is the plight of these fierce moun- tain warriors that they are said to have been robbed by the hillmen of what little they were carrying off. The British forces are at Dakka, and the Afghan gurrison of Jellalabad are said to be onthe wing. Joy in the British camp! Ou passait le pére bien passera l'enfant. The British forces went that road a gen- eration since—why not their sons? In our ignorance of the Afghan plans we see no reason to doubt that the British can goa great deal further on their road without smelling any more powder than they choose to burn themselves. It has generally hap- pened in such cases that the Afghans re- tired on their own country, and if they have capable commanders it is a course they might order with possible future advantage, particularly if they reckon on support from the north; But as we are only able to read the future by a glimpse of the backs of the Ameer’s soldiers it may be that they are running away purely and simply and with- out any plan at all. In our anxiety to know more on this subject we hope the British will, without delay, overhaul these fellows and tind out what they mean. The British home government are trying, it seems, to get via St. Petersburg a little information bearing on the subject —namely, about Gen- eral Kaufmann’s speech to the Ameer’s Envoy at Tashkent. Dismiss Them All! The discovery that unfortunate pauper lunatics in the Onondaga County Poor- house are caged like wild beasts and treated with greater brutality than is known ever to have been inflicted on animals has, it is said, fairly aroused public indignation, and the matter is to be “thoroughly investi- gated.” But what need of investigation? | No person questions the trathfulness of the story told by the Visiting Committee as to | inhuman treatment. The only action the Supervisors of Onondaga county can prop- erly take is to dismiss every county employé whose duties are connected with the insane asylum building and to retuse admission into the Poorhouse in future of any doctor who has been cognizant ofthe outrage. No official, from the superintendent down, who knew of the existence of these filthy cages and the vile purpose for which they were ‘used, is fit to be intrasted with authority over the paupers or to hold any public position. “Popular indignation” dies out and a “thorough investigation” by supervisors means whitewashing. ‘lhe only course for honest Christian men to pursue is to drive from the public service every official, high or low, who had any part, direct or indirect, in the brutality practised at the Onondaga Poorhouse, and any supervisor who may hesitate to make an example of these per- sons will only afford satisfactory evidence that he ought himself to be sent into yetire- ment by his constituents. Spinol: Grand Chance. There is a tide in the affairs of some favored kinds of men which, taken any- where between the turn and the flood, will carry them forward into channels of un- imagined prosperity and at last fairly toss them up on meadows, not merely of asphodel, but where the very grass grows in golden blades and the stones that are thrown at stray dogs are hunks of gold-bearing quartz worth five or six thousand dollars. a ton. General Spinola is one of these lucky men. He has on his hands, as the public knows, a nobly imagined project for heating all the people in the city by one fire, and this | project is so democratic in its essence that it has naturally found favor with the City | Fathers, But the prejudices of capital and some other prejudices were against it. Con- sequently it has not made a satisfactory progress. People didn’t want the incon- | venience of having the strects dug up for laying the pipes to carry Spinola’s | steam into everybody's house, and capitalists didn’t want to lend the money for that hefty enterprise in view of the uncertainty | of success. Just here appears the lucky star ofthe man, for at this stage of the case | comes upon the scene a sort of Prospero with a wand—a person, in fact, by the name of Ldison. Edison invents the elec- tric light. Everybody's honse is illumi- nated with it, and the very city authorities keep lightning on tap at all the street cor- ners. ‘That is what we shall see presently. ‘This wonderful success knocks the gas com- panies higher than their own bills, No- liquidation, are wound up and sold out. And then there are their pipes under tne street already laid and handy ; and when | the companies are sold out Spinola will be on hand and will bay the pipes. He will find a bad smell in them, which he can blow out; and they may explode a little here and there if he puts on too much steam suddenly ; but altogether they scem to open a grand field for his enterprise, e The Governor General's Levee, At Halifax, yesterday, the Marqnis of Lorne held his first levée in the Legislative Council Chainber of Nova Scotia. His por- tion in the affair did not call for display of anything more than lofty courtesy, and his good breeding gave assurance that the per- formance would be satisfactory, To re- ceive addresses of welcome and witness the illuminations in honor of the Princess and himself pleasantly succeeded the re- ception, and drive amid cheering thou- sands to the house of Sir Patrick MacDou- where the honored pair dined, wound up the day. This morning the Marquis and his wife take train west- invention have supplied the best moans | ward, where further welcome awaits them, | of prevention the la of each country ; aad we doubt not that the recollec- tion of the hospitality of the warm- hearted Haligonians will reconcile them to the inevitable tiresomeness of much of the formal speechmuking they are destined to encounter. So far nothiny has happened to mar the festal progress of the Marquis and Princess, Having passed successfully through the battle with old Neptune and the less dangerous ordeal of Halifax it may be easily assumed that they will as completely conquer the hospitable obstacles in their journey to Ottawa. A Grave Crisis in A While Bismarck’s difficulties in German politics lie mostly in his dealings with the Reichstag or Imperial Parliament chosen by universal suffrage, the Bundesrath or Federal Council representing the German sovereigns being pliable to his will, the difficulties of Count Andrassy, Foreign Minister of Austro-Hungary, are to be found not merely in the popular legisla- tures of the Empire and Kingdom, but in the Delegations, which answer most tria, | closely to the Federal Council of Germany. So careful were the founders of the Austro- Hungarian federal constitution of 1867 to respect the national jealousies of this loosely jointed State that they left to the Delegations, the only legislative body that represents the whole Empire, the care alone of Foreign Affairs and War, By this re- striction it falls out that since the Treaty of Berlin entails a charge upon the Empire in the occupation of Bosnia, and involves a territorial change in the annexation ot Spizza, the Finance Committee of the Austran Delegation refuses to touch the question of supplementary credit until the Austrian Parliament has examined it. Should the Hungarian Delegation’s committee take the same course the treaty would come up for discussion in the Hungarian Parliament as well, and it is gravely feared that if it should it would stand a good chance of being re- jected. Andrassy, thererore, finds his hands not merely tied for the moment, but the position of the Empire in European politics sorely menaced. To be sure the tull Austrian Delegation may overrule the committee's decision; but the Hun- garian Delegation cannot be so hopefully regarded, and it has an éaual voice with the Delegation of. Austria proper. ‘he Delegations consist of sixty members each, who are chosen by the national parlinments— twenty from the upper and forty fvom the lower houses of Austria and Hungary. Two courses are open to Andrassy—either to bow to the committee's decision and as- semble the Austrian Parliament, or en- deavor to carry his point in the uni.ed Delegations. How keenly he feels the danger of either course may be judged from the imploring tone with which he has besought the Finance Committee to leap over the constitution, assume the doubtful power and not push him into troubles whereof no one could see the end, They are the troubles of ill-considered ambition— the attempt to carry things in an autocratic way in a constitutional country. The difti- culty means possibly another nail in the coftin of the Berlin bantling, and will cause an exchange of grins between Berlin and St. Petersburg and lively apprehension in London. Robeson om Murder. Persons intending to commit murder will do well not to act on the suggestions thrown out to them by Mr. Robeson in his argu- ment in the case of Hunter, the Camden murderer. It is true he indicates a pro- cedure by which they may kill their man or woman and constantly avoid those awk- ward relations with justice which are the unpleasant feature of this pastime; but the trouble with his plan is that it won’t an- swer in court, or not in the courts as ordi- narily constituted. If, to be sure, any one will organize a court with Robeson on the bench as judge then strange things may happen. Robeson holds that, according to the right method, murder divides ittelf into three stages. First, get your man near to the State line; second, strike him while there a blow that shall leave him ten min- utes this side of death; third, get him into a wheelbarrow and hurry him over the State line, taking with you, of course, a good assortment of restoratives—brandy, ammo- nia, or even a hot bottle of old stone- fence—to prevent his dying before you have sately delivered him, C. O. D., in the other State. If it should prove very difficult to get your man near to the State line don’t despise the county line. Robeson recom- mends it as aline that has some virtue in it, | but bas clearly a thorough faith only in the State line. By this method the great law- yer, who was once a bright ornament of the national government, assures the world that the murderer need have no fear of jus- tice, because he has not committed the crime of murder in the jurisdiction of any knowncourt. For instance, the man dies in Pennsylvania, and you are brought be- fore a court in that State. You politely as- sure the judge that you never hit a man in that state in your life, and the mere fact that a man died there is of no consequence toyou. Thereupon, you may be handed over to 1 New Jersey judge, to whom yoa admit that you hit a man, but defy the | judge to show that the man died in his jur- isdiction. Such is Robeson’s plan; but, unfortunately for the fraternity of murder- ers, the judges are not that kind in alithe States. Lady Gooch's Baby. Readers will find in to-day’s Henan the outline, as unfolded in a London police | court, of Lady Gooch’'s plot for keeping her husband's estates in the family in case of her husband's death, Sir Francis Gooch, the husband, op the death of his elder brother inherited an estate of a hundred and twenty thousand dollars. If he should die without heirs the estate would go toa third brother, and, in case of his death, would revert to the widow of the elder brother, from whom it came to Sir Francis, As the younger brother of Sir Francis was in feeble health, and as Sir Francis himself was appatently not expected to make very old bones, Lady Gooch was brought face to face with » horrible fact. This fuct was not merely that she herself would be left un- provided for, but that the fortune wonld fall plump into the lep of Lady Eleanor, who is clearly Lady Gooch’s pet aversion, Not only to be poor. herself, but to see another woman enriched with her fortune! This would be almost too much for any good woman, and this horrid state of the case haunted her fancy day and night. Evidently she asked herself frequently, ““What are you going to do about it?” and the answer always came that what was wanted was an heir. But no heir came into that unhappy family in the natural way, and so Lady Gooch was determined that an heir should come in some other way. She formed the purpose to obtain a foundling, and by simu- lation of all the circumstances impose it upon her husband as hisown child. He detected her design almost as soon as it was formed, and warned her against it ; but she went on. She sought all about her for con- federates and assistunts in her scheme, but the shocking amouzt of honesty that faced her on every hand is simply startling. Nobody would touch the plan, but every- body urged her against it, and her husband was so well informed of all her steps that the police almost assisted at the appearance on the scene of the putative infant. Indeed, the infatuated woman went on with her con- spiracy in the open daylight, and this gave her conduct the appearance of being in- spired by a maninin regard to the discovery of an heir. Arrest of Colonel Mapleson. The Socieiy for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children have perhaps shown more zeal than wisdom in causing the arraignment of Mr. Mapleson for employing children to dance in the pretty ballet of +The Butter- flies” at the Academy of Music. 'Lhey have the law on their side, but it is a law which would not have been enacted had there been nothing more objectionable for it to prohibit than such an employment of children as puts Mr. Mapleson within its letter, though not within its spirit. Mere dancing in the evening is not injurious to the health cr the morats of young children, ‘There are many evening dancing schoo!s in the city which children attend, accom- panied by their mothers, elder sisters or nurses, and occasionally the progress of the pupils is exhibited to an invited audience of their friends. The ballet at the Academy is quite as unobjectionable on moral or sanitary grounds, but as it falis within the interdict of the law the zeal of Mr. Lundberg has been roused against it. The law of 1876 is a good one, and a little convenient blindness on the part of its enforcers in a case like the present would have tended to preserve its pop- ularity. It prohibits dancing or gymnastic performances on a stage or in places of public amusement by children under sixteen years of age, and was aimed against places very different from the Academy of Music. But still the law is the law, and if its friends render it unpopular by so strict an enforcement it is perhups a lesser risk than that of making it unpopular by raising an outcry that only the poor are punished under it while fashion is exempted. The Northern Pacific Railroad. We. print a communication. from. the President of this road, in which he dis- claims any intention on the part of his company ever to besiege Congress for a subsidy, a loan, or any form of assistance other than a reasonable extension of the time within which the road was to have been completed according to the original law. The ample grants of fertile land on either side of the route are deemed quite sufficient to enable the company to raise all the money it needs, and its only prayer to Congress is that these lands may not be resumed or confiscated in conse- quence of the delay and interruption caused by the great panic of 1y73. At the Inst session the Senate unanimously passed a bill for extending the time, and when this bill shall have become a law the President of the road affirms that they will ask no further favors of Congress. They do not regard this as a fuvor, but only as an act of justice. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Baron W. de Wagstati, of Rusia, is at dhe St. Nich- olas Hotel, All the jonrneymen tailors of Constantinople are Jews and Nazarencs, Many English sailors will not whistle at sea for fear of provoking a storm. An eminent actress speaks of stage winking as a stuttering of the eyelids, Seerctary Sherman's: house is eo small that Mrs Sherman cannot give large partics. Evening Telegra Notwithstanding the impor- tance of electricity, it” ‘Yhe late principal librarian and sceretary of the British Museum has retired on a pension of $5,000 a year, A sign of the times. In Atlanta, Ga., a clothier advertises to supply patches of all kinds for chil- dren‘s clothing. An English Bible committee in Paris 41,000 copies of the Gospels in one Sunday ing being in twenty-two languages. The Henaty correspondent in Berlin telegraphs that the Geographical Society of Bremen has elected Judge Daly, of New York, an honorary member, in recognition of | is services to geography. Secretary of the Senate Gorham is in San Fran- ve away the print- | cisco, where he has gone in the interests of the stal- wart wing of the republican party. Kearney has gone there in order to agitate the workingmen, The Alta urges that, in view of the fact that the repab- licans ought to court the sand-lot audiences, the party be divorced from Mr. Gorham, Matthew Arnold saya in the Fortnighdy:—“The French middle class, above all, pique themselves on their logic and lucidity.” The Preach mind craves it; the French language almost compeld it; Voltaire, the French Luther of the eighteenth century, was a splendid professor and propagator of it. And to a middle class Frenchman it seems # matter of the plainest reasoning in the world that the civilization of the riddle class must suffer in England aod thrive in France.” The agitation abont the status of Mra, Senator Bruce (col ) in Washington society continues. She is a very handsome octoroon; and although Mr. Hayes cut Pred Douglass off from some of hie duties ax Mar- shal at the White House, Mrs. Hayes persists in say- ing that she will invite Mra, Bruce to attend her at the first Presidential reception, The Cabinet ladies will call on her, without reserve. Senator Bruce him- self is very dark, and is shaved im the chairs of the barbers of the Senate, Probably the President's message and all the de« partment reports combined will not agitate and swell the heart of the average Congressman as the following report from the solid South;—“The Tennessee pea- nut crop for the year ending September 90 was 305,000 bushels, against 600,000 for the year previous; in Vir- ginia the crop was 405,000, against 780,000 Inst year, and in North Carolina it was only 85,000, agaiust 125,000 in 1877. The growing crops, ¢., for 1878-9, is estimated at 400,000 for Tennessee, 800,000 for Virginie and 90,000 for North Carolina,” ison attempts to make Tight of | -~--\ieenaaiaadaaiamaaaal AMUSEMENTS, - STEINWAY HALL—REMENYI, % M. Reményi gave his third regular concert in New York, and made his ninth public appearance in America, at Steinway Hall, last night. The principal novelty of the programme was the “Divert.ssement alu Hongroise," by Schubert, transcribed for the violin and string quartet by M. Reményi, This composition was suggested to Schubert during his sojourn in Hungery in Count Estevhazy’s house at Zseliz. Schubert's subjective, impression- able-temperament was readily moved by the market originality of the local Hungarian songs and dances, and, a8 a souvenir of a delighitful visit to this fascinating country, he composed this work, assime ilating with his own original fancies the picturesque suggestions of the native music which had so delighted him. ‘he introduction, in the first part, is rich in harmony, sombre “in motive and suggestive of devotional sentiment, The second part is in maxch tempo, strong martial movement, linking the suggestive introduction to the fanciful thoughts illustrated in the third part, with its bizarre and picturesque dance theme and alinost supernatural harmonies, . This composition is too varied, too opaleut in .faney to be readily ana- dor digested at a single hearing, but that it ia ft the most original and inteyesting works of its class that hax been presented is undoubted, If it haa a defect it is in the over elaborétion of the theme ot the introductiou, If M. Remémyi would rewrite thie part, omitting the less sulient passages in his score, he would, for purposes of effect in public, improve the number, His playing merits ‘unreserved praive, He never showed bi more absolut: the true artist than in his perfectly poised and self-contained playing of this difficult piece, which offers such ex. traordinary temptations for inscrumental tricke to none of which he resorted. His performance was dignified, full of fine feeling sand singularly delicate throughout, while truly magnetic withal. In the group of shorter pieces in the segond part he gave the “Spring Song,” by Mendelssohn, 80 exquisitely that he wax interrupted before finishing the closing number of the group, and was obliged to repeat the song. ‘The reception wecorded to his play- ing of the “Paginini Capr. ,"" indicated that the public is most easily moved by the sensational. If he takes the cue, us he should from the impression prodneed these numbers, he will play jewer concertos aud more pieces of this stamp. In the efforts of the supporting artists gencral inter- sent centred upon the performances of the new English tonor, Mr. William Court and ot the pianiste, Mme. Constance Howard. Mr. Conrtney sang the serenade from Rossini’s “Il Barbiers” and the #01 by Wilford Morgan, “My Sweetheart When a Boy. Althonyh not in really guod voice, owing to hoursed ness, he showed a tenor of really robust timbre, undew the best cuitivation, a finished style and a clear, manly delivery. We should judge that his forte was in the rendering of dramatic oratorio music, mors especially that his method seems pecularily adapted to this.line of his art. Mme. Howard, who played two movements from Chopin's concerto in E minor, displayed a nice touch, w fluent technique and a del icacy of expression. She lacks power and abandon, but her performan was altogether acceptable = aud was more than acceptably received. Miss Helen Ames was in good voice, and made — the cuous success of the eveni, ‘kably brilliant rendering of in which M. Remenyi, Mme, Howard and Mr. Dulcken also assisted. This number was redemanded, ax it deserved to be. Mr. Duleken and the string quartet aided materially in the accom- paniments. Mime. Gerster and her husband, Dr, Gar- dini, ovcupied one of the boxes. The Hungarian cantatrice scomed highly delighted ‘with the playing of her countryman and frequently applauded hing ‘There was a crowded house present. STEINWAY HALI.-~MRS, DOW'S CONCERT, Mrs, Anna Granger Dow, formerly of Boston, gaye her first matince musicale at Steinway Hall yesterday afternoon. The artist sang the grand aria, “Sombre Faret,” from Rossini'’s ‘Guillaum Tell extol Thee, O Lord,” from Costa’s “Eli; amarasa,”’ from Mozart's ‘Casi Fan Tutti;’* “Sei troppo Della,” by Campana, and, with Signor Del Puente, the duo, “Quando le Sog- lio,” from Donizetti's “La Favorita, That an artist emerging before s critical metropolitan au- dience for the first time as an exponent of clasgig music would render all of the: contrasted: styles ‘of the solos given equally well ‘was not to be expected, In the Rossini number the lady was somewhat nen vous and her voice was not well poised, Still, she overcame the technical difticulties of this trying num ber with absolute precision and invest the atia with the dramatic feeling properly belonging tuit. The oratorio wir was especially suited to ber clear, flexible soprano, and she gave it with a fidelity and earnestness that indicated how thorough her schooling in this phase of her art hasbeen. The Mozart air wes faultlessly given, and aroused the audience to especial demonstrations of favor, Signor Det Puente showed himself as thoroughly at home in concert as in opera. His “sympathetic, liqnid baritone asserted its powers with such telling effect in a tarantelle by Rossini as to secure a hearty encore, in response to which he gave a stirring renderinie of the Toreador’s song from “Carmen.” Mr. William Courtney, spite of bis hoarseness, made a fine im- pression, especially in “Saved from the Storm,” vy Barri, Herr Franz Rummel played several pianoforte numbers, confirming the favorable verdict already passed upon him. His rendering of the Schumann concerto in A minor, with Mr. Dulck+ en's accompaniment of a second pianoforte, was a splendid effort. Mr. Duleken and Signor Bisaccia lent valuable aid in the accompaniments, The enters tainment delighted a large and select audience, and the reception accorded to Mra. Dow and her associates was warmly appreciative. CHICEERING HaLL. ‘GLIMPSES OF THE ARABIAM Guts,” What was called an entertainment, and meant to be such, was yiven at Chickering Hall last evening under the name of “Glimpses of the Arablan Nights.” Une fortunately for the audience, who had gathered in considerable force, doubtiess attracted by the origi- nality of the idea expressed in the advertisements, the “Glimpses were extremely irregular and the pere formance—what there was of it—therefore pros vokingly dull, ‘The conception of the projector of the entertainment may eventually result in success, but owing to the want of proper rehearsal only the shadow of his purpose was revealed, The plan, howe ever, is sufficiently novel to require brief mention: Tales from the “Arabian Nights’ are read, and in illustration of their chief incidents the curtains are drawn apart to reveal a table: vonsisting of one or two persons attired in elegant tume, who stand re painfully patient whileasmall church choir con- ealed in the background sing modern hymns as an ac- companintent to the Oriental scene, Some eight stories were intended to be told and eighteen of these living pictures presented, but at the speed at which the per- formance Was moving during the greater part of the evening the Herat would be circulating in Philadel- phia this morning before the “Glimpses” ended, The chief attract: consisted of elogant dresses and «n- pdrapery. These are worthy of all praise, but the curtain would persist in coming to @ standstill when only half way raised, while a gentle man in a dress suit would equally persist in destroying the illusion of the tableau by step- ping Yetween the statuesque figures when the curtain was half way down, and so. helping it to #hut them out from public view. Much credit is dug to those who personated the respective charace ters, because they stood. their ground long and well, and they were rewarded therefor with polite but not 4s applause. The real honors of the eveving Charles Roberts, Jr., who read the hibited his fine ability as az prot the entertainment de- 1 enterprixe, but pity for xpe ina wrong direction and exhibi 1 good man@yement. The performance may run more smoothly to-night, but those who were present are not likely to go again, DISSOLUTION OF AN OLD COPARTNERSHIP, On Saturday next the copartnership which has ex+ isted for the last six years under the name of Shools & Palmer will be diseolved, it being the d4sire of Mr, Shook once more to re-entey political life and scenes more congenial to his active mwture than those which surround a theatre, It is understood that he recetvea from Mr, Palmer the sum of $25,000 cash and $25,000 more in secured notes, in consideration of which the latter enjoys the remainder Of the lease of the Union Square Theatre for four years in his own right. He alxo obtains all eo properties and scenery uow in the theatre, The arrangement is perfectly amicable, and in fact Mr. Shook wenerourly expresses the thought that, a4 Mr, Palmer has been largely instrumental in building up the fortunes of the Union Square The- atre, he is entitled to enjoy the results of his enter. prise. Both of the gentlemen are said to have made a jarge fortune during their connection fre almost uninterrupted dramatic suecess which they hi realized, MUSICAL, AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Withelmj will play in Montreal this evening tm honor of the arrival of the Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise, A inatiniée performance will be given this afternoon at the Broadway ‘Theatre, and another to-morrow, ‘Thanksgiving Day. Nearly all of the theatres will open their houses to-morrow afternuon to those who seck the enjoys ments of a holiday after a turkey dinner, A cable despatch to the representative of the resi+ dent management of Jarrett & Palmer states that “Unelo Tom's Cabin” was produced in Berlin on the 23d inst., at the Royal Victoria Theatre, with great success. The play was done in German, but the colored fraternity sang in English,