The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1878, Page 8

i 8 NE W YORK HER: AL D BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, EKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- Remit in drafts on Now either of these ed letter. All to insure atten anged must give or Post Office money ord enn be procured send the Money remitted at risk of % subscribers wishing t Adress rapbic despatches must Hakatp, ald be properly se will not be ret OUTH SIXTH YORK HERALD UF DE Lor STRADA PA mes will he received and New York. Vouume | AMUSEMENTS INEATRE COMTQU LYCEUM THEATRE—| BROADWAY THEATRE BOWERY THEATER NEW YORK AQUARIUM WALLACK’S THEATRE #NION SQUARE THEAT! ACADEMY OF MUSIC—R BOOTH’S THEATR STANDARD THEATR' ST. JAMES THEATRE FIFTH AVENUE THE NIBLO'S GARDEN—Anovs GRAND OPERA HOU XLII TO-MORROW, Bayxen’s Daveurer, LETTOL 5 0’ Lowrte’s. AuMost 4 Link, Pie-GIROPLA. ABERLE'S FRANCISCO MIN SOR THEATRE. QUADRUPLE SHEET, WITH SU PPLEMEN L DAY, DE The probabilities are that the coe in Dae York inity to-day will be slightly warmer and fu lowed by increasing cloudi- ness and, possibly, rains. To-morrow it promises fo be warm and partly cloudy, with occasional rain, fe Watt Srreer Yrs -—The stock mar- ket was active and strong until near the close, when there was a general break in prices. Gold opened at 10034, fell to 1001, and ad- vanced to 10019, Government bonds were firm, States steady and railroads strong. Money on per cent. Hing with the and its call was easy Ir Is Consor fill of the ther AvoLocy, elsewhere ght acquaintance with the ample, but teo late. Accorprsé to our Louisiana despatches the colored brother did a little shooting on his own account at the recent election in that State. GexeraL Bote printed, for his s sand lot orator Tr Witt Br Seen from our reports this morn- ing that the numerous athletic and other out- door clubs are making good use of the present delightful weath le Tur New York Erevarep Roap keeps its promise Harlem will have rapid transit by Jau- uary. It would be impossible to give it a more acceptable New Year's gi ‘Tue Prosrecr that a republican will be elected President of the new Board of Alder- men is as doubtful as that the police will tind the Manhattan Bank banditti. Ayti-TamMany is truly grateful. It proposes to make a republican the clerk of the next Board of Al The magnitude of this vic- tory can hardly be overestimate men. Revivauist Mereny si he has reformed eight thousand drunkards in the past three we If they were steady drinkers there ought to be a pauie in the liquor business. EEDINGLY Prowapie that the per- bonfire of four thousafd tons | of government hay at Fort Keogh the other | t sa good supply of that article on hand. Ir Is E son who ma Tne Exvevation of a Tilden democrat to the | dignity of a deputy sheriff has had a chilling effect on the spirits of the Tammany faithful. What does the Sheriff mean? is the great question. Wuart Kryp of ¢ vil serv reform is it under which nearly a score of useless officers were re- tained on the Custom House payrolls Jest th discharge might hurt some republican candidate in the late u etion ? Corporat Noonan, the third husband of the supposed woman whe died at Fort Lincoln re- blew out what litt brains he had yes- | diy probable that profound t. cent terday. It is grief prompted the ae iverse to Mr. Tilden in his celebrated income Asorner Decision was tax t wyers say there is nothing in it; but, then, why did they make so bitter and earnest an opposition? Tun Wearnur.—There has been very little rhange in the conditions throughout the United | States, except in the soughwestern districts, where the barometer is falling rapidly, preceding the enstward movement of a disturbance that is Northern Te New The re of highest pressure is now over the lower nil the Middle Atlan Rain attend the epression on | ver and ico. Jake regions a coast. and snow advancing its eastern wargin, which now overlies the Lower Missouri and There has also been a light fall Jand States. Morning fogs prevail over the Middle Atlantic coust districts and the lower Jake re The Hy | cloudy central val air | Tie winds have been fresh through | sections except the West. where they The temperature has fallen Upper Mississippi valleys. in the New Eng- Ons. eather has been gene n th elsewhere out all th ve been brisk. ledly over the lake re Atlantic and New En, generally in the other districts. indica tions of a severe disturbance for the Lower Mis ud Gulf dist well neral direction of the path of » will be throngh the central valley districts and over the Middle Atlay coast. however, that a subs fjary disturbance may be developed east of the Alleghanies and will travel along the Atlantic coast. The weather over the British Islands is at present fine, but the winds have veered to the southeast on the west coast, and it is very Jikely that rain will fail during the day. The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be sligitly warmer and fair, followed by jucreasing cloudiness and, possibly, rains, Toe districts and It has risen The sissippt Valley marked. The the storm ce pis are very It is probable, lin the Middle | | disturbance of communications by qorrow it promises to be warm and partly eloudy, with occasional run. EW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1878--QUADRUPLE SHEET--WITH sUPPLEMENT. The Invasion of Afghanistan. In one of his published communications against the war in Afghanistan Lord Law- rence said: - “From Jamrud, on the eastern side of the Khyber Pass, right up to Cabul, is a distance of one hundred and‘ninety- two miles, in which several difficult passes have to be surmounted, and along the whole way, to the right and left, the country is of an exceedingly rugged character, abound- ing with a warlike and fanatical population, whom it would be no easy task to reach and still more difficult to subjugate perma- nently. These people would for all time be our open or secret enemies—probably both, It would be extremely Gifficult to hold by force of arms for so con- siderable a distance such a succes- sion of defiles, and nearly impossible to do so if any disasters attended our troops in the country further west.” Our. latest news from the British column which in- yaded Afghanistan by way of the Khyber Pass lends peculiar interest to this suecinct description ; tor if, as there seems reason to believe, the communications of that column are effectively cut that is the country in which the troops have got to face the diffi- cult problems of short supplies and the changed aspect of that ‘‘abounding warlike and fanatical population.” Nobody, of course, can be surprised to learn that the independent savages of those mountains, who kept very civil tongues in their heads when the well appointed Brit- ish force was near by, assumed their more natural demeanor as the rear guard passed out of sight, nor that they have closed in behind the British force, as the waters of the sea behind a passing steamer, nor that they are animated with the savage’s instinc- tive hunger and thirst for any sort of devil- try that the occasion may open the way to. But there will be legitimate occasion for surprise if it shall prove that the soldiers who planned this advance as a part of a more extensive operation, and who have had the experience of a lifetime in Indian operations, did not foresee and provide against the very obvious contingency of a the mountaineers. No fact conld have been more certainly counted upon than that they would rise behind the column, either of their own impulse or under the incitement of emissaries ot the Ameer or at the instiga- tion of chiefs in his interest. If this was not contemplated as the inevitable course of events by the British commanders—and we cannot yet believe that it was not so con- templated—if it shall prove that they have not delved far below the enemies’ mines in that sort of frontier tactics, then there has been exhibited an ignorance of Oriental craft not to be expected in such cireum- stances, and a kind ot valorous bravado alto- gether out of place, but nevertheless char- acteristic of British commanders on all oc- casions. But how could they provide against the obvious difficulties in regard to their rear involved in the very nature of that ad- vance? Not, it is clear, by an attempt to hold their line in force. For as it needed the very presence of the invading army to give the mountaineers smiling and friendly faces, so they could only be kept per- manently in awe by the retention at every important point of a force sufficiently large to beself-sustaining against all efforts fora period long enough to give the force at ad- jacent posts time enough to come to the rescue. By a well supported chain of posts the line could be held; but it would require a force at least as large as the whole Khyber column to oceupy those posts. Indeed, to attempt to hold such a chain of posts would be to enter upon that labor which Lord Lawrence re- garded as extremely difficult in the most favorable conditions and nearly impossible ia adverse circumstances; and the addi- tional force thus required and the heavy additional supplies it would make neces- sary were perhaps all considered from a money point of view, and rejected out of consideration for the al- ready distressed finances of the Indian government. not to hold the line with force sufficient to guarantee it against all possibilities, and as it would be imbecile to put any confi- | dence in the good will of the country, the column must have been supplied with a view to the loss of the communications behind it and the opening of a new line dependent upon the protection of the column whose base is at Quettah. It is possible, therefore, that in cutting the line in the defile the mountaineers hurt the column no more than one would hurt a serpent by hostile operations against the skin he drew himself out of last year. But this remains to be seen. Several incidents of the first stages of the advance by the Khyber Pass implied on the part of the Afghans a plan the essential element of which was to draw the British column the greatest distance into the coun- | try inthe shortest time. Every supposed obstacle gave way the instant they touched it, as readily as the green branches with which the hunter covers a pitfall in the forest. say that all that wos a far-away projected and accurately executed plan of the Ameer to entrap the invader; but there was in it all certainly an aspect of that nature. It imay be reasonably thought that it was too successful to be all contrivance; but that is savage strategy and the precise sort of warfare in which men like the Afghans are far greater adepts than men of civilized nations, As we said at the time, it would have been foolish for the Ameer to fight the English near the frontier, with their troops jresh and in circumstances where if any- where they could whip whatever he could put in line against them. His retirement was therefore natural; bub it was not an orderly retirement. It was one that simu- lated demoralization withont any reason whatever for such an appearance, There were also too many stories of Afghan de- moralization from the people of the coun- try, and these people were too demon- atively agreeable to the English. But perhaps all that savage strategy was vain. It may have been intended to entrap the invader, and he fray bave seen the trapand gone into it with fuil confidence that he could make a way out whenever he wanted it. But if it should be otherwise the Khyber str Therefore, as it was decided | Perhaps it would be too much to | column will be one more body of British troops sacrificed to that blind and foolish contempt for an enemy which is a common element in the first stages of many wars. Our Western plains are covered with the bones of men whose lives have expiated that sort of folly, and in the wide limits through which the British standard has been borne by British soldiers there is not a region but has some scene made memor- able by the splendid valor with which the them by the incredible imbecility of their commanders, Should that column perish, however, the invasion will not necessarily bea failure, since it is but one of three columns sent on the same errand. But if, distressed in the mountains for want of supplies, and, eut off trom all assistance, itis worn away by enemies from whom it year painfully enongh for the people in England who want ‘a spirited foreign policy.” Commissioner Davenport's Cuses. A test case involving the question of the sufficiency of the naturalization papers issued by New York courts in 1868 and the legality of the action of Commissioner Davenport in arresting persons as illegal voters who offered to register or vote on such papers, is to come up for argument before Judge Biatchtord to-morrow. ‘The issue is one of importance, involving other interests besides those of a political char- acter, and it is desirable that it should be judicially decided at the earliest possible moment. If the naturalization papers of 1868 are so deficient as to ren- der them powerless to confer citizenship their holders are still aliens, and all acts they may have done in the capacity of citi- zens of the United States are illegal. But if the papers should be found thus fatally deficient it does not follow that the persons to whom they are issued and who have be- come possessed of them in good faith com- mit an offence against the law by offering to exercise the rights of citizenship they profess to confer. The question will re- main whether the persons arrested by order of Commissioner Davenport were not acting in good faith and strictly within the law when they made the at- tempt to register and vote on japers bear- ing the stamp of regularity and issued to them by the courts of the city after they had fulfilled all the preliminary reqnire- points should be settled by a legal decision before the close of the next Legislative session, so that if the naturalization papers in question are really valueless some mode of relief may be found for those to whom they have been granted. Ten years have elapsed since the issue of those certificates, and it would be a gross injustice to pro- nounce their holders still aliens. They are clearly entitled to citizenship now, and it seems only fair that they should be held harmless for an irregularity for which they have no responsibility and which works injury only to to themselves, enous in Sefior Canovas del Castillo announces that with the passage of a Lill by the Cortes limiting the franchise the work of consoli- dating the constitutional monarchy will be completed. While the experiment of extending the suffrage has gone on over the greater part of Europe the experiment of taking away a voting power once held deserves watching. Since the accession of King Alfonso the work of the reaction in Spain has been steadily pré- gressing, and it is ouly punctuated by such an event as the speech of Setior Castelar, a brief account of which will be found elsewhere. Helpless to stay the work which he is suffered to witness, he speaks ‘‘more in sorrow than in anger ;” but there isa significance in what he says which no Minister can overlook, thongh he has made up his mind not to heed it. Castelar exclaimed against the disfranchise- | ment of two-fifths of the male adult popula- tion of Spain, whom this act would place “in an abyss from which they will think they can only escape by war or revolution.” Spain. That is, unfortunately, what the act means. If all those opposed to the monarchy are comprised in the ex- cluded two-fifths the pretty structure of Oastillo may last as long as the tanner | of the gravedigger in ‘‘Hamlet;” but even this is very doubtful. ‘Lhe govern- ment that is squeamish enough to object to a French Duke as a representative of his country at Madrid, on the ground that le would become the centre of republican in- trigue, must have more than two-fifths of the Spanish people to fear. All the same there is a frankness about this Spanish re action which shows that it does not shirk any portion of its huge and unpleasant task of rolling Spain back to the time of the fragrant Isabella. Breathitt Little Unless the Governor of Kentucky derives his policy from Kilkenny, where the con- | tentions eats were lett to fight it ont ona certain line untilthere was nothing left but the tails, he will promptly order a couple of companies of militin to the region of Breathitt. At latest accounts the Sheriff of that county and his followers were barricaded in the Court House at Jack- son, while the Sheriff-elect and his friends were barricaded intrenched within convenient shooting distance. Bullets whistling playfully along the streets, here and there stopping to investigate the vitals of the ‘‘prominent citizens” who had no particniar interest in the question at issuc, Itis solely in the interest of the ‘‘prominent citizons” who have not yet Leen thus investigated that we War, heroic and were | think the pastime of “Ned” Strong and his friends should be interfered with. These fellows know so much about fighting that they will not be likely to expose themselves to the Sheriff's missiles, | and the “prominent citizens” might be anni- hilated betore one party or the other gained a decisive victory. It may perhaps occur to Governor McUrary that it is disyracefal to have such scenes of violence and blood- shed enacted in a sovereign State of the Union; but in any case the need of preserv- ing the “prominent citizens” of even so | small a place as Jackson should move him men have faced the death brought upon | cannot force a battle, its loss will close the | | theatre in New York. We well remember | | these things and ments to entitle them to citizenship. ‘hese | a | Bull; toaction. The State of the “Mill Boy of the Slashes” has no ‘‘prominent citizens” to Spare just now. The “Star” and the ‘Stock. That distinguished actor, Mr. Edwin Booth, has, like other great men, some in- discreet friends who are not content with simple panegyric and gush when they write about him, but launeh out into fiery exhor- tation and denunciation if a pen is pointed ata single blemish in their favorite. We { deprecute this, because it often leads the self-elected champion from the dignity of the chevalier into the swagger of the bravo. Happily in the present instance we are not eatled on to discuss any fine matters of taste in Mr. Booth's acting but a simple fact in his management, It has long been observed that the companies supporting Mv. Booth have been composed for the most part of poor “sticks.” Exceptions are appealed toin the past when such and such a one supported our favorite tragedian at his own recail cistinetly our pleasure at his having broken through what seemed his bad rule. But it | was only for a while. Ever since | when he played “Hamlet” he has | had notone poor ghost but a whole com- pany of them, It is not to the point to say | that the bad actors seen during Mr. Booth's present engagement were not employed by him, nor that he makes them seem worse than they really are. Those who want to see the full force of the eriticism must catch Mr. Booth when he plays at Detroit, say, or Milwankee, with his own travelling company. Then, indeed, the bad actors whom we see habitually denounced in the New York press would seem histrionic giants by the side of the scarecrows whom he takes ‘‘on the road.” We donot be- lieve for a moment that Mr. Booth fears or need fear diminution of his renown from showing his splendid talents beside other actors of merit in their respective lines, We do not believe that it would be very hard to find such actors. How, then, is it to be explained that Mr. Booth is to be found in such queer companies? We are driven back upon two reasons. Either Mr. Booth. believes that the ex- hibition of his transcendent abilities is enough for any audience, or else his busi- ness manager has convinced him that a good company would not bring any more money to the theatres along the route than poor one. When artistic egotism and bread and butter lead to the same conclu- sion art pure and simple has not much chance, except so far asthe ‘star’ repre- sents it. But no one shall take away from us the privilege of regretting that any cause should lead to such a result. With Mr. Oliver Doud Byron or the wondrous Miss Wilhelmina Skeggs in view we would not so complain. The worse they are supported the more the fun, But with men of Mr. Booth’s stage rank, or approaching it even, this course, pursued by many of them, is “the sure way to destroy the best effects of their best acting’—as we have seen them destroyed. What use, then, for Mr. Booth’s admirers at all hazards to make far- fetched comparisons with a painter like Meissonier hiring somebody to jog his elbow at critical moments in the use of the brush? When did Meissonier paint in one exquisite figure and let botches daub in the rest? When did he paint ‘pot boilers?” Whom Does Mr. Taylor Represent? The readers of the Heratp will remember our acknowledgment of the receipt by one of our staff of Mr. David Taylor's check, nominally in payment for services ren- dered, but really as compensation for some notices he expected to see of the well known violinist, Ole Bull, in whose inter- est he professed to write. Promptly upon our publication of the case, however, Mr. J. Jay Watson wrote us, saying that Mr, Bull would countenance no such acts, and that Mr. Taylor did not represent the vio- linist, but was an agent of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau. But now we are in re- ceipt of the following letter:— Bosrox, Nov. 20, 1878, To rar Eprron or THR Herat In the editorial columns of the Henatp of the 28th inst. the pared an article headed “A Fair Offer to the AD nager.”” In ‘he course of that ar- ticle rtain Mr. David ‘Taylor is deserit agent of the Redpath Lyceum Bu mpression is thereby conveyed that ay responsible for Mr. Taylor's action in the matter under consideration. ‘As such an interpretation is exactly the reverse of act Wo shall feel obliged by your ake known through the Hen in any the Redpath Ly nreau, and that his action in the matter of which your article treats wasn ~ authorized nor instigated by us, nor had we au ance of it until the publication of the hotice that appeared in the Heratp on Tuesday, Weare agents for Mr, Ole Bull in his present con- cert tour, and in that capacity sold to Mr. Taylor the concert Which took place at the Brooklyn Acelemy of Music two weeks ago. Our relations with Mr. Taylor, so far as regards Mr. Ole Bull, and in every other manner whatever, ceased after that entertainment. We are aware that Mr, Taylor has engayed Mr. Ole Bull for a concert to York next month, y of business we have, naturally, exten- sive relations with newspapers, and we invariably follow the regular plan of paying for wdvertisements in the connting rec ‘Trusting that for the al possibly selves yours, obedien Man: 1 on’ will courteonsly give us space which if might ne uit ors Redpath Lyceum Burean, The question of whom Mr. Taylor repre- sents becomes, therefore, as great a puzzle as the whereabouts of the Stewart remains. Mr. Watson denies that he represents Ole the Redpath Bureau assert that he is not their man so whose monthpiece and disbursing agent is he? In polities there is recognized a position cailed *represent- ative at large ;’ butthe principal duty of the holder of this title is to get money, not to give it away without first obtaining it from some one else. Is it possible that Mr. Tay- lor is a sort of representative at large in the world of art, and is spending his own monoy out of pure loyalty to the cause of refining amusements? If not, perhaps he can tell whose representative he is, for the | public cannot endure that the source of such undeserved generosity should be en- shrouded in mystery. A Dangerous Precedent. It is stated that a Inwyer, appropriately named Furey, procured warrants of ar- rest against nineteen directors of a Jersey City suspended savings bank on the sworn complaint that he had deposited thirty-seven dollars in the bank under the inducement of a statement that the institu. tion was solvent and that his money was safe in its keeping, which statement proved to be a false and fraudulent pretence, the war- and = that It appears, however, that rants were not executed the imperilled directors are still in the enjoyment of their liberty, This happy termination of the affair is due, it is al- leged, to the abatement of the complainant's fury by a satisfactory settlement of his claim. Bnt, then, is not the precedent fraught with considerable danger to the di- rectors of a suspended savings bank? It | seems to concede the justice of the com- plaint on which the warrants were issued as well as the sufficiency of the remedy | sought by the sharp depositor; but will not other and larger depositors be tempted to resort to sinilar.summary proceedings, in the hope that they shail be equally fortu- nate in extorting a settlement of their claims from the fears af the Peecrerst ? Lieutenant Schwatka’s Search, The party of Arctic explorers on board the Eothen, under the command of Lieuten- ant Schwatka, has gone into winter quarters at Depot Island, in the northern end of Hudson's Bay. From a brief letter of the commander to Chief Justice Daly it ap- pears that his plans regarding the main object of the expedition—the recovery of the remains and records of Sir John Franklin—have not been fully de- cided. Until Lieutenant Schwatka learns the exact place of the depesit, of which the Nachillas informed Captain Barry, he cannot, of course, say what course he shall take. From the two possible routes the Lieutenant refers to it would seem that he expects to make the long sought discovery ‘in King William’s Lind or Doothia—that is, in about tho seventieth parallel of latitude. In the meantime Lieutenant Schwatka will find plenty of work surveying the coast line from Cape Fullerton to Ches- terfield Inet, and whether he succeeds or fails in his chief object we may be certain that geographical knowledge will be en- riched by his j Journey. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The approach of Advent has set very many of our city pastors at work preparing lectures out of the ordinary ran of topics for Sabbath evening discussion. It will be seen in our religions columns that Dr. Preston is to give us the result of careful thought on the Protestant Reformation and its results; that Dr. Rylance will present his views about Communism; that Dr. Smith will show us the relation of the prophetic history of the world to the Sec- ond Advent, and that Dr. McKim will re- view the biblical proofs of the Judgment and its conditions. The second coming of Christ in its relation to the Millenarian the- ory will be discussed by Mr. Kennedy, and in its social regenerating aspects by Mr. New- ton, and in its relation to the Judgment by Dr. Howland, who will distinguish between the true and the false millennium. Dr. Cha- pin will view Christ in the light of a divine manifestation; Dr. Curran will explain the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, and Mr. Moment will draw lessons from the wreck of the Pommerania. Dr. Talmage will open the doors of the club houses of New York and Brooklyn jnst a little and let his audience peep in; but, per contra, Mr. Mickle will illustrate by panoramic views that there are narrow places in the broad way. Solomon’s wisdom will be questioned by Mr. Richmond; the life of Elijah will furnish lessons to Mr. Hull; the blessedness of believing will be made apparent by Mr. Blanchard, and worldly ambition will be contrasted with Christian faith by Mr. Chambers. Dr. Gallaudet will review the work cf his church among deaf mutes; Dr. King will try to lift the stones that seal the tombs of sinners; Mr. Hatfield will discuss annihilationisth, soul sleep and immor- tality, and Mr. Corbit will analyze eternity and tell us what it is. The women of the Bible will not be forgotten to-day; for Ruth, Deborah, Mary Magdalen, Dorcas and other women will be considered by Messrs. Mer- ritt, Martyn, Tyng, Jr, and Affleck. Man’s hour will come to Mr. Burch; a noble discontent will be indorsed by Mr. Davis; the principal thing and a happy hope will be pointed out by Mr. Hepworth, and the source of Christian success by Mr. Rowell. Christ's third word on the cross will be discussed by Dr. Deems ; the hin- drances to gospel temperance will be indi- cated, with a view to their removal, by Mr. Heywood ; work and destiny is Mr. Col- cord’s theme; God with us Mr. Searles’; the place in history of the manger at Beth- lehem by Mr. Sweetser, and salvation and the life and character of ‘Thomas Paine by Moses Holl, The “are Awards at Paris, There is much food for reflection in the perusal of the list of awards for painting and sculpture made by the art jury at the late Exposition to the painters of different nations who exhibited there. France, with 1,421 exhibits, has 128 awards, ineluding medals ot honor of the first, second and third classes; honorable mentions, and di- plomas to the memory of deceased artists, England, with 522 exhibits, has 20 awards of various kinds, Belgium—398 exhibits; awards, 20. Austria and Hungary—298 ex- hibits; awards, 17. Italy--382 exhibits, awards, 17, Spain —152 exhibits; awards, 11, Norway and Sweden—Exhibits, 166 ; awards, 10. Holland— Exhibits, 117; awards, 9, Russia—Exbibits, 195 ; awards, 9. Switzer- land—Exhibits, 142 ; awards, 5, Portugal— Exhibits, 27; awards, 4. United States—Ex- hibits, 143; awards, 4 Denmark—Exhib- its, 8 yards, 3. Greece—Exhibits, 92; award, 1. We stand, therefore, twelfth in the list of fourteen countries, ahead of only Denmark and Greece, and in proportion of awards to exhibits only of the latter, We ought to be ashamed of ourselves to think that little Portugal, with only 27 exhibits, carried off as many awards as we did. Even our sister Republic, Switzerland, is way ahead of us, and Russia, with but a few more pictures and pieces of sculpture, lias taken more than twice as many medals 1s wo have, here is no good in con- cealing the fact,” though the has been made to do+ so, that we have little cause to be proud of our late art display at Paris, ‘Che blame of this must not be laid entirely on our ertists and their productions, A large share of it should be borne by the Art Committee in this city, who had charge of tho selection effort | of the See which pepreaented yt BE at the greatestart display which the nations of the world have ever made. To their nar- row-minded pclicy we owe the fact that many artists were unrepresented who would have done us much eredit and would have raised the standard of the collection. It is stated by competent judges that on passing from the art galleries of other countries into that of our own the general idea of weakness given by the assembled paintings was pain- ful. The French art erities were very gra- cious, as they could afford to be, talked of the signs of promise for the future of our art which could be discerned, and praised chiefly the few really American genre pic- tures exhibited. The jury, however, did not medal these or a few landscapes and ma- rines which should have received recogni- tion. They gave well deserved second and third medals and an honorable mention to a canvas of archwologi¢al genre, a ma- rine and a foreign genre picture painted abroad by Americans, and an _ honora- ble mention to one Inndseape executed in this country in a decidedly foreign man. ner, Judged, then, by the opinion of the jury we have made little or no advance in landscape painting since 1867, when Mr, Charch was our only medallist. This, how. ever, is not so, for our advance has been steady in landscape, though not as great as it should have been, Itis in figure paint. ing that we are weak, and in this branck | the rate of progression has so far been very slow, though there is much to hope tor in the future. The home patronage oi American art, which has decreased of late years instead of increased, has much to do with the present state of affairs. It is however encouraging to be able to state that some of the pictures at Paris were sold to foreigners, and that it is thought that distinctively American pictures, chiefly of genre, will sell if placed upon the foreign market. When, then, American pictures are stamped with foreign approval we will see the buyers of this country follow the lead, and American art, backed by proper patrone age, improve | with rapid strides: Trade with ea In another column will be found a report of the address of Sefior Zamacona, the Mexican Minister at Washington, delivered at Baltimore yesterday before the Board of ‘Trade of that city. Commerce, not diplo- macy, is the subject handled in the ad- dress, the Minister doubtless believing firmly that the labors of the diploma- tists will be made very easy if the two peoples ‘can be made thoroughly well acquainted with one another through intimate commercial relations, Our people are apt to tuke very kindly te diplomatic fancies of that sort, and our merchants will be glad to know that any one whose voice is likely to be respected in Mexico is authorized to advocate the ex- tended development of its trade with this country. Perhaps there are fewer practical hints than might have been expected in an address of this nature in regard to a coun- try of which the mass of our people know too little ; but the expedition organized to go to Mexico in January on a voyage ol commercial exploration is, perhaps, relied upon by the Minister to fill up all deficien- cies of that Kind ‘mpen its cage PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The Central Pacific Railroad lobby is already en trenched in Washington. London Judy asks (ha! ha! b: canstic come from the moon?”’ Mormons late at night recently nearly killed a re porter of the Gentile paper, the Salt Lake Tribune. Naval Constructor 8. M. Pook lies dangerously ill at his residence, No. 275 Franklin avenue, Brooklyn. ‘The marriage of Princess Thyra, of Denmark, with the Duke of Cumberland will be solemnized on the 2st or 220 of December. Ex-Govyernor Tom Young, of Ohio, says that the stalwart republicans will be satisfied with Hayes* message. Hayes talked freely to him. Splendid specimen of English wit from London Fun:—“Mr. Gladstone's speech at Rhyl shows that he _ will brook no nonsense, notwithstanding the torrent of abuse he receives.”” Mr. Garcia, the Argentine Minister, was at the State Department yesterday to take leave, intending to return home by way of Paris and to be absent from Washington until spring. George William Curtis expected to visit the Pacific Coast this autumn, but *he writes to a relative in San Francisco that owing to literary engagements he will defer his trip until next spring. It has been noticed by a close observer that when eating turkey a colored gentleman always prefers the white meat.—Hoston Port, That's where you dine, is it? Beon wondering. —Philadelphia Bull Magnificent wit from London Punc Vhat the Amecr thinks might come of admitting an Eng- lish Envoy (as he puts it in his broken English ‘Am‘ere to-day; might be gone to-morrow,’ ” A Western poet, who deprecates the advances made by science over romance, writes thi wtricity may —Does lunas | be conquering, but that moonlight itself is superior to gas, Ha, yes; but then, my boy, you can’t metre by moonlight alone. An eminent English physician says that among artisans the great temptation to take alcohol arises from bad cookery, From which it would follow that teachers of good cookery, like Miss Corson, are, after all, the best temperanée advocates, ‘The Paris Journal det Debats stated yesterday morn- ing that Alfonso, King of Spain, has determined to ask the hand of the Princess Christine, sister of the late Queen Mercedes, in marriage, but the Paria Beta. Jette published a despatch last evening from Madrid | entirely contradicting the statement of the Journal des Debats, SINE ARTS. CLOSE OF THE LOAN EXAUBUTION—FINANCIAL RESULTS, ‘The second loan exhibition, in aid of the Society of Decorative Art, closed its doors at the Academy of Design shortly after ten o'clock last evening. ‘The exhibition—a far groater success artistically than that of last year—has not been as great a one finan. cially, though the results are good, all cireumstai considered. The exhibition this year opened earlier, and being a second one many people undoubtedly thought that it was but a repetition of the first. The attendance last year for the thirty-six days during which the display was open was nearly thirty-six thousand, ‘This year for the forty-one days it was 42,740, Some eleven thousand catalogues were sold jaxt year and about ten thouvand this, The net results of the first exhibition were nearly $8,000, of whieh $587 were received from the opening of Mr. Marshall O. Roberts’ gallery and $500 as @ donation from Mr. ©. P. Huntington, The total amount taken in tais year is about $12,060, Givideak as follows :—Admissi at twenty-five cen ing thowe at Son the opening night, $5, 2,500; loan mong rent, aver installation and servic | 1 $500 expenses of lev. of abont $6,000, ‘« “pald into the boc ing the extra money recely than that of the fir about $900 Les tion. If it had not L we the amount earned thi exched that of laet, ‘The attendaye yesterday Ps 4, the highest figure of this season, we velieve, id te galleries last evening were crowded,