The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1878—TRIPE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPBIETOR, THE DAILY UERALD, published every day ‘Tree cents per copy (Sundays excluded). T. ESE OF abs rate of one dollar edition incieded ires of wostae,” . free of u WEEKLY HERALD—On in the yaar. a wth for aay p six mouths, Sunday Har per year, free of post- ore NOTICE TO SUBSCRIB —Remit in drafts on Now h ene All rt teu- fr address changed must give je despatches must Letters and packa; Nejected comamnn PUWADELPEIA OFPICE-NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH S' ; LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREET. ARIS OFFICE—49 AVENUE DE L'OPERA, |APLES OF FICE—NO. AD* CK. Subseri advertisemen: forward me terms as in elurned. he received and rk, BOOTHS THEATRE STANDARD THEATR ST. JAMES THEATRE FIPTH AVENUE THEATRE ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Ma NIBLO’S GARDEN—Aro: GRAND OPERA WOU E—-Rrewaxo IT, uee—Lucis vt LamMERwoor. tur Worzp in Erauty Days. GERMANIA THEATRE—Due Kes LYCEUM THEATRE—Docui.t Manxiace, ABERLE'S AMERICA BAN FRANCISCO MID WINDSOR THATE! TIVOLI THEATRE-V STEINWAY HALL—S: NEWARK GRAND OPE York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer, followed by cold, and partly cloudy or cloudy, with flurries of snow. To-morrow it will be cold and partly cloudy. Wate Srreer Yestexpay. e stock mar - ket was active and irregular. Gold opened and | Ca#pet-bag rule this-was their condition, and closed at 100g, and sold in the interim at | we congratulate them and the country on 10044. Government bonds were firm, States higher aud railroads irregular in price. Money | grading political activity. Since the end on call lent at 3 a 31, per cent. Bartrmore ie enjoying the novelty of arun on one of its savings banks. Tue Curtixc Orr of the wail on the Fall | buying farms; they are raising crops; they River line is rather poor Post Office economy. Pepestrrax Cmctes are beginning to be in- | panies the possession of property, andarein terested in the coming match between O'Leary and Campana. It will, it is thought, come off before the Ist of January Tue Proressionan J K passed away many years ago with the other uncles things of the old Tweed Ring; but, according to our court reports, the professional witness has arisen to detile the courts and pervert justice, THERE 18 Theory that dying men see more distinctly before death. It is curious that as the term of the average Alderman draws to a close he suddenly discovers an enormous num- ber of abuses in the management of the street railroads. Cartarn Mixer, of the schooner Era, of New London, brivgs news from the Arctic vessel Eothen as late as last Augost. He confirms the Previous reports that the Northern season this year is unusually mild and the water remark- ably free from Tue Laresy Conxsrirvtionan Conuxprem propounded to the federal Supreme Court is this :—Caun a soldier found guilty of murder by a court martial, but whose sentence was unexe- cuted, be again tried by a State court under the Gith amendment to the United States constitu- tion t Tue Vatve of circumstantial evidence is shown by the case of the muu Hart, who was sentenced a short time ago in Maine to impris- eonment for life for murder, It will be seen, trom the letter elsewhere printed, that the opin- jon that he is innocent is all but unanimoas. ‘The strongest evidence against him had no bet- ter foundation th dre: Tae Carwek or “Loxp Asupurton,” alias Griffis, alias Saville, elsewhere described, was a short although # brilliant one. The Rocky Mountain detectives, who, while they had an order for Lis arrest in their pockets, took hie “lordship” to the races and made a compan- on of him, would be just the men for the Btewart grave robbers to full in with. Ir tHe Views of the joint committee charged with the reorganization of the army are carried out the military branch of the service will un- dergo several important and radical moditica- tions. The force is limited to twenty thousand men, the artillery consolidated with the ord- gance avd the organization changed from regi- ments to batteries. But the ryost important change of all is in the provision for the inter- changeability of service of line and staff officers inaccordance with the present European system, Southern Industry, Crops, Trade and Business Prospects. We surrender a large amount of space to- day to a copious correspondence, in which is set forth the presemt con- dition of the principal Southern States, including all that border on the At- lantic from Virginia to Florida and west of the Alleghanies from Tennessee to the Guif. Perhaps no descriptive matter of equal extent relating to that section hus been printed since the war which was so timely at the date of its appearauce. Sena- tor Blaine is to open on Monday a debate on Southern affairs, and the information which we publish faithfully portrays the condition of the South as it really is at present. To be sure, the correspondence relates chiefly to business and the debate is to bear almost solely on polities; but no correct judgment of the latter can be formed on data from which the former is excluded. The surest test of good govern- ment is a prosperous and contented people. It is an utterly false view which measures the condition of a community by the amount of its political activity. Periods of intense political agitation are generally periods of disaster when the subjects of agitation are important, and _ periods of vile degradation when tho subjects are trivial. There is no evil which could befall the South—not even | another pestilence like that with which plantations used to be when they mortgaged their expected cotton crop in the beginning of the year for money to purchase their sup- ples. One reason for this change was the difficulty of borrowing, but it has proved of great advantage. The cultivators save interest, save the profits of middle- men and the expense of transporta- tion, and live in greater comfort, plenty and independence. ‘here is but one voice throughout the South as to the advantages of this change of system, We reier again to Georgia because this is the pattern State of the South in enterprise and improvement, Georgia was the first to emancipate herself from ecarpet-bag rule, and she enjoys great advantages of position. All the railroads which connect the Mississippi Vailey with the Southern Atlantic coast meet at Atlanta, a point in her territory. Her navigable rivers and enterprising cities favor the development of her resources. She is open- ing new railroads and the stock of some of her old ones is advancing prodigiously in price. She is purchasing expensive ocean steamers, and within a year five hundred thousand dollars of new capital has been invested in new cotton factories, She is setting an example which the neighboring States are following with varying degrees of success, and on the general revival of prosperity throughout the country the Southern States are likely to enjoy their it has been recently visited, not even a blight which should destroy its crops—that could be more mischievous and deplorable than the complete occupation of the South- ern mind with politics, This is the evil which afflicts the most corrupt wards of our great cities, and nothing so tends to bring our free, popular institutions into con- tempt. Woe to that part of any community which lives by politics! There are in some of our cities herds of people, mere hangers- on of crafty politicians, who live by the employment doled out to them by men who have the bestowal of pub- lic patronage, who are mere lackeys of ambitious men, and whose whole talk is of the means by which the set of demagogues to which they are attached is to circumvent its rivals, The existence of these servile crews is the reproach and | scandal of our municipal institutions, and nothing could be worse for the colored citi- zens of the South than to be transformed into such a class. During the period of their emancipation from that kind of de- of the carpet-bag réyime they are advancing to a better condition. They are engaged in the regular pursuits of industry; they are renting land; they are are acquiring the self-respect which accom- full proportionate share. Afghanistan in Parliament. Nobody can blame the British Ministry for the desire to have its policy discussed in conditions which promise more for the government than for its adversaries ; but it is plain that an anxiety on this point im- plies that the Cabinet does not face the opposition with the absolute confidence it exhibited some months since. Both the proposition advanced by the opposition dis- approving the war on the Afghans and the proposition of the government, made as required by !aw, that the Indian revenues may be applied to defray the expenses of the war, may lead to a debate in which the whole conduct of the government can be taken up ; but the resolution for which the government refuses to name a day faces the subject fairly and presents it without complication, while the other presents it inextricably entangled with a financial topic that has no relation to the merits of the policy. Perhaps this poiut will mot affect the freedom of the debate, but when the vote comes the government may have a ma- jority, thoagh the opinion of the House may be against its policy, for many will vote to give a permission which will ulti- mately take some or all the financial burden Secretary Schurz om the Army. In his testimony before the Indian Com- mission the Secretary of the Interior has expressed some peculiar views upon the abilities of army officers. Disavowing, as any sensible man would do, any desire to embarrass his own department with the management of Indian affairs, the Secretary more than implies that army officers are incompetent as, business manngers and humanitarians to properly care for the savages, As the transactions of the Indian Bureau to date have been what they have been it would be insulting to any body of respectable men of knowh sanity to use them as a basis of comparison ; but, looking to the future, in what respect woyld the army officers be likely to fail? They may not all be saints, but it is impossible that they can be such thieves as the gen- eral run of Indian agents have been and still are; so it is probable that our savage wards would receive rations, blankets and other allowances in full quan- tity and according to standard. This fact alone would prevent the cause of many an unnecessary outbreak. An Indian war is to the American soldier the most arduous, thankless, dangerous and inglorious duty that he can possibly encounter; so it is probable that he would see to it that dealers in whiskey and ammunition were sup- pressed, and, consequently, the likelihood of outbreak would be still turther lessened, Yo keep the Indians quiet, compel tlfem to support themselves and protect them and their property requires a degree of firmness and a habit of authority and discipline which can nowhere else be found in such perfection as in the army. As for capacity to educate and civilize the Indians, it is impossible that hn- mane, Christian men are as scarce in the army as among Indian agonts, and the wildest apologist for the existing method will not claim that any civilian class of gov- ernment employés is as well educated and intelligent as the officers of the army. The Secretary cannot imagine the picture of a uniformed warrior teaching little redskins to read and write, but does he imagine civilian agents will do such work? Teachers, farmers, &c,, would be employed for their special labors, just as hundreds of civilians are now employed by the War Department for duty uuder military supervision. Dis- cipline, system, inspection, accountability, restraint and harmony of action would char- acterize army management from the first, and these would be more valuable to the Indians and tho national honor than any set of substitutes that the Iuterior Department can devise and perfect before the savages are exterminated by the rum, ruffianism and rascality which have nearly always worked off the shoulders of the British taxpayer, though they would vote to rebuke the mak- ing of the-war if they had an uncompli- cated opportunity to do so. As the gov- ernment thus seems te distrust its late ma- all respects better off than when they were indulging in vain dreams of supporting themselves by politics, like the tools of vul- gar demagogues in our great cities. In judging of the condition of the South, as set forth in the extensive correspondence which we publish, it is to be considered that the business of the whole country has been for the last few years in a state of de- pression and stagnation, owing to general causes which have operated in the South as well as the North. The fact on which this correspondence should fix attention is that the South is rising out of the universal depression more perceptibly than the North. In spite of the hard times which have weighed like an incubus on all the industries of the country the Southern people, colored as well as white, have been advancing in well-being and comfort, and they are confident of a prosperous future. There is, however, a difference in the tone of feeling in different Southern States. The most complaining of these States is Vir- ginia, the most hopeful and prosperoug is Georgia; but most of the others resemble Georgia rather than Virginia. The chief eause of this difference is not difficult to find. Virginia is the Seuthern State which is most impervious to new ideas and the slowest to adopt improved methods in her agriculture. This may be owing in part to the fact that the social revolution consequent on freeing the slaves was not so great in Virginia as in the plan- tation States. Virginia raised negroes for the Southegn market, but did not herself possess the large plantations on which they were chiefly employed. The consequence was that emancipation did not break up and disorganize her industrial system as it did that of the States further South, where slaves were collected in great numbers on vast estates. Virginia is still running in her old ruts, the raising of tobaceo being her chief in- | dustry and the partition of land remaining very much as before the war. Bat the great plantation States could not go on by their old methods. Necessity, which is the mother of invention, compelled the land owners to devise some system by which the production of the Southern staples could be reconciled with the altefed state of labor. ‘Tae Wratner.-—Very littic change has taken ‘They are dividing their large estates into place in the meteorological conditions during small farms, letting some on shares, selling the past twenty-four hours. ‘The pressure is Fising gradually ‘n the northeastern districts, following the cepression that moved into the ocean, but it is still below the mean. ‘The direg some, and making no discrimination be- tween white and black cultivators either in the letting or the selling. The result is tion of the zone of high barometer is vow northe proving most favorable, and the effect is par- west and southeast, over! ving the South Af} #enlarly happy on the condition of the Jantic and Eastern Gulf States and the northern | negroes, who advance more rapidly in pros- ‘Missouri aud Mississippi valleys, the two centres of highest pressure being connected by a narrow strip of high barometer, overlyiug the Lower Mississippi Valley. The pressure is falling slowly in the Southwest, and a disturbance is evidently advancing from Northern Mexico. Rain and snow have fallen in the lake regions, the Middle Atlantic and New England States, Cloudy weather bas prevailed in all the dis- frieta except the South Atlantic and Eastern | Gulf coasts. The winds have been from fresh to brisk on the Middle Atlantic aad New Eng- land coasts and over the northern lake region, fresh in the lower lake region and the North- west and generally light elsewhere. The temperature lias risen in the Western Gulf and the central valley districts, las been variable in the lake regions and has fallen in the Other tricte. Tho pressure is falling bris! English coast. ‘The weather in New its vieinity to-day will be warmer, foll cold, and partly clondy or cloudy, with flurries otsnow. Tomorrow it will be coldand partly cloudy. perity than such of their white neighbors as started from an equal condition of pov- erty. The explanation is simple. The negro women and girls, having been trained as plantation laborers, join the men and boys in outdoor work, thus doubling the | number of hands on farms cultivated by negro labor. But even in the light of this explanation the acquisition of property by ‘the colored population seems wonderful. The tax books of Georgia show that the négroes of that State are assessed this year for more than six million dollars’ worth of Property, whereas at the end of the car- | pet-bag rule they had next to nothing. A great change has been made in Georgia | and the States that imitate her in their gen- eral agricultural management. It has been | found expedient to diversify theim crops. jority the hint to prepare for a general election may be more than a mere ruse, Who Shall Be Speaker! As the republicans will have nearly or quite one hundred members in the next Assembly out of one hundred and twenty- eight it is tolerably certain that the posi- tion of Speaker will be filled from the re- publican ranks. This being the case the old politicians of the party are ready to seize upon the office as if they held a pre- emption claim entitling their bid to con- sideration before that of any new aspirant, Thus in discussions as to the Speakership contest we.hear of the comparative chances of Husted and Alvord and Sloan, or of Sloan and Alvord and Husted, as if the choice of the members elect were to be nec- essarily confined to these former occupants of the office to the exclusion of all others, But there are a number of new members in the next Assembly, and it is possible that they may claim the privilege of looking around and judging tor themselves whether there are not others beside former capable presiding officers who havo a good claim to the honor. It would not be at all sur- prising if they should reach the conclusion that some such experienced and efficient representative as Hamilton Fish, Jr., or Dr, Isaac I. Hayes would make a desirable Speaker, and would moreover give tone to the character of the session by infusing new blood, as it were, into the legislative system. The large party majority renders unnecessary those skilful parliamentary tricks in which some of the chronic candi- dates for the Speakership are supposed to excel, and certainly the dignity, fairness and intelligence which are desirable in that high office would be as well supplied by Mr. Fish or Dr. Hayes as by Mr. Alvord or Mr. Husted. It would not be surpris- ing, and it certainly would not be unwise, if the next House of Assembly, which meets at a critical period in the fortunes of the republican party, should lift the machine out of the old rat by elevting as) Speaker some new candidate who does not claim to hold a mortgage on the office. Horse Car Strikes. Strikes on a more or less extensive scale are said to be in course of organization on several of the horse car lines. It is evident that the organizers have a fine field for their operations and a great chance for suc- cess. ‘They intend, and hope, of course, to hurt the companies, Alas! they may ruin them, which perhaps they do not intend, For fear they may we shall tell them how to do it, because the danger of those com- panies moves our sympathies, ‘hey have only to organize a strike which shall stop the lines for three days. ‘hey can do that of course, else what is all this we hear about the tremendous power of Inbor and the laboring men? If they stop a line for three days the remnant of people who now use it will be forced to use tho “elevated.” Those people will thereby discover, what perhaps they do not now know, that the “elevated” is in operation, is safe, conven- ient, comfortable and swift. They will never return to the horse line again, and it will perish. It needs the pressure of some cri- sis to force upon inany people the knowl- edge of the progress that has been made under their-very noses. So, if the drivers do not want to actually destroy the em- They raise their own wheat, corn, vegeta- ployment they quarrel with they would do bles and pork, and are not dependent | well to strike os little as possible just j solely, om cotton, as the owners of the great { nowes their own sweet will in Indian affairs, Snow from a Clear Sky. Yesterday evening the people hurrying home after business were puzzled to find flakes of snow falling from on apparently clear sky. Above tho stars were shining quite brightly, but there was the snow blowing around the street corners with the fitful gusts of wind that blew coldly from the westward. Away over Bergen Point and Staten Island the sky was clouded, and there is no doubt that some of the snow came from that quarter, falling from the high level strata of vapor. But with a surface temperature of about thirty-eight degrees a considerable condensation of at- mospheric vapor was going on over the city, and this water, or fine rain, fulling through astratum of cold air became snow. It does not follow that this process would produce cloud or even haze to obscure the starlight, as the snow formed at a much lower level than that at which condensation converted atmospheric moisture into rain, and the snow fell as fast as formed. A recent ex- perience in the Arctic seas has shown that even in that icy region waves of warm air pass northward over the country without being always perceptible at the surface. On the Alert it was found one day that the temperature, suddenly ri.ing after intense cold, was three degrees higher at the imain- mast head than on the deck, and that below the surface of the ice for several feet the tem- perature was as low as fifty degrees below freezing point. Under these conditions rain would first be formed in fine particles under the stratum of warm, moist cir, and it would then become snow before reaching the ground, while passing through the cold substratum, of air. Vagrom Men. From the days of Dogberry, at least, it has been the duty of the wateh to compre- hend all vagrom men, and in the spirit of a liberal interpretation of terms the police may, be taken as the equivalent of the watcly the booty. They had to catch them, for ® mar pointed them out. Canadian Court Etiquette. The interesting scene in the Senate Chamber at. Ottawa, which onr corre- spondent so briefly described in yester- day’s Hynauy, should not have excited his wrath. Being republican, let him be merciful in viewing the flexile spinal col- umns of Canada. Looked at as an Amer- ican spectacle the levee may be as odd as it is novel, Asa Canadian entertainment it may be regarded as an experiment. If Her Majesty's subjects in the New Dominion are simply parboiled courtiers they have been putin the pot late in éife and had only a little simmering. When we recog- nize the fact that your true court lobster has been boiled for years and years before he has the proper hardness of shell and crimson ‘Tyrian tint, the exact dignified slowness of advance and retreat on trying oceasions in the presence of his brother lobsters, it is manifest injustice to expect the soft-shelled Canadians to go through the evolutions with the precision of veter- ans. It will not do to endeavor to look at this levee from both sides of the line at once. We have no donbt that the crimson chair ig all right, and the red canopy all right, and the hundred attendants in red all right. The bow of the Marquis is re- ported to be unyarying in its motions, which is a sign not to be rejected that the “Governor General was all right. It was evidently the, Canadians who were all wrong. ‘They probably had been instructed by twelve or fifteen different dancing mas- ters, and the result was doubtless a variety of courtly inclinations, includ- ing the Red River triple-bob friendly, the Oriental salaam and the discreet dip of the high-toned flanky, as well as the court bow, de rigeur; which should, we are told by authority, represent, “(1) great respect, (2) humility, (3) dig- nity.” In the endeavor to pass through these distinct phases successively, instead of combining them in one inexpressible flexion of the muscles, the good backwoods- men possibly presented some striking effects. For instance, approaching the red chair with rounded shoulders and down- cast eyes as expressive of great respect, then suddenly wiggling and crouching as hough entertaining a suppressed spasm by way of humility, and finally walking off, puffed out like a drum major, to express restored dignity. ‘This would be remark- able, perhaps amusing, but it is nothing to get mad about. Should Canada in a year or two seek to join our sisterhood of States we should find numbers of her people quite elegant in their ways—a fact which alone would reconcile the gentlemen from Osh- kosh and Peoria to sharing the blessings of our constitution with a people whom they now regard as barbarians, whether in swal- low tails or splitting logs. Religious Bookkeeping. Ifall the points of the remarkable afti- davit of the plaintiff in Gelston vs. The Brooklyn Tabernacle are substantiated it will appear that churches, as well as other organizations with business affairs to attend to, need ‘the occasional services of an expert bookkeeper. ‘he public, like many of Mr. Talmage’s parishioners, has been led to sup- pose that the debt of the Tabernacle was annihilated by that great debt leveller, Mr. Kimball; but Mr. Gelston swears that the subscriptions for taking up the debt were contingent upon the raising of the full amount of indebtedness; that this last was understated to the extent of about twenty- five thousand dollars; that statements made by the pastor and other church officials were incorrect and with intent to deceive; that the great “jubilee meeting” over the payment of the debt was a great humbug, a large portion of the debt remaining unpro- vided for, and many of the subscriptions having been made by minors who were without legal responsibility.. It is gener- -ally supposed that. the trustees of a church are business men who are conversant with the four elementary rules of arithmetic; but if this supposition proves erroneous in the case of the Tabernacle the aggrieved mem- bers should not forget that an expert book- keeper is more likely than an unfraternal squabble to properly adjust matters, Whistler's Damages, Mr. Ruskin, critic, said of Mr. Whistler, painter, that his ‘ill educated conceit nearly approached the aspect of wilful im- posture,’ and that he was a coxcomb who asked two hundred guiueas for ‘flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.” Hemeant to say that Mr. Whistler's pictures were bad as pictures—that there was no art in them and no artistic Inbor; in fact, that saving only the point that they do not al- ways watch. But the duty in regard to ‘‘va- grom men” is one on which they are dis- posed to act, as shown by at least three cases in their exploits for Thursday. On that day the watch challenged in the Prince's name that chronic ‘‘vagrom man,” Dr. Mary Waiker—for, since it is the tailor that makes the man, she is one of them of course. But she chose to exercise a woman's prerogative as to speech, or forgot her pantaloons as it were. Bat the only complaint was that she would not tell a horrid policeman whether she was aman ora woman. And she was taken into custody and dragged to Police Headquarters tor holding her tongue, Did ever s woman so suffer in such a cause before this woman? On the same day there was a free fight between five men in Sixth avenue, and people were ‘‘hooted” and handled roughly in a miscellaneous way. An enormous crowd gathered, but the police were away; had an engagement— watching Walker,may be. Finally a shot was fired; one man said he “was a goner’-—- the usnal formula—end feil into his brother's arms, ‘The rest they ran away.” Evidently one of the fngitive three was a homicide—so far as any one could then tell. Iwo of the fugitives were caught and handed over to a policeman who happened | that way. Confronted with the supposed | victim of the murderous assault he said neither of these was the man who shot him, and the policeman thereupon let them go! They were ‘“vagrom men,” not worth the attention of justice, But on the saimo day they caught a party of burglars who had safely robbed @ store and were hiding they were daubs, mere siaps and dashes of pigment thrown at the canvas. Mr. Whist- ler does not deny this, for he admits that he painted his thousand dollar pictures in aday. But he claims that though they are daubs they are not ordinary daubs, but that they are redeemed and glorified and raised to the regions of arb by o theory in regard to color, which theory he has expressed by terms which sound absurd because they are not used in pictorial art, but are appropriated to certain conceptionsin music. Mr. Whist- ler sued his critic, and for his pains got from the jury a verdict which implied that he had received no damage—either that his pictures had no character to lose or that Ruskin’s ill word had ceased to be scandal- ons, But is it nota little odd for Ruskin to object that it is not art for men to fling pots of paint in the face of the public? How about Turner, then? Mr, Whistler svems a little daft on color, but wiil he ever be such a raving madman as ‘Turner was? The Gooch Imposture, In this day’s Henarp is given the re- mainder of the examination into the case of Lady Gooch, who endeavored to foist npon her husband a false heir for the purpose, as it was argued, of preventing the regular descent of an inheritance to the rightful persons, As will be seen by the proceedings reported, the hus- band of this Indy, having exposed the attempted swindle sand _ thereby pertormed what he conceived to be his duty toward his own relatives, declared himself willing to forgive his wife and sought the consent of the magistrate that the prosecu- tion might be discontinued. But as the lady’s act was a crime the 1aagistrate prob- ‘ably found that he had no right to exercise @ discretion of that nature, and therefore, asthe cable informed us last Friday, the lady was committed for trial. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Canada farmers send eggs to England. ‘The Spaniard’s drst instinct is for dancing. Senator P. H. Hill, of Georgia, is at the Windsor Hotel. ‘Lhe well-to-do-middle class of Spain aro very hom pitable. Senator Goorge F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Schuyler Colfax—oh, yes! ho was the man whe smiled like a rat trap. Senator Sargent, of California, who has been ill, is convalesecnt and rode out yesterday. The French government has taken charge of ten fine Jersey cows for breeding purposes. Gough is sometimes very timid about going upom the stage. Even he frequently has stage fright. A Western jougnal discusses the question, “Who owns all of ont doors?” Perhaps it belongs to Mra Myra @larke Gaines. Dr. E, Cooke Webb, formerly of General Pleasom ton’s staff, has been appointed chief of staff of the Homeopathic Hospital, Ward's Island, Brilliant bit of witfrom London Purch:—‘‘Facetious old gontlemun (to passenger with » saw)—You show your teeth, sir.’ (Chuckles) Crusty carpenter— ‘You don’t. ‘Cause why?—Y’ ain't got none!’”” On the door of a schoolhouse in the township of Manchester, N. J., the school committee recently posted the following :—‘Notis. A Meetin will be held in the house on Monday, Dec the Fust, Whin all The Texable inhabitans are axed to Tend.” Some of the Empress of Austria's stud have already arrived in Ireland, and are located at Newtown, near Dunboyne, where the late Mr, Wardell kept his thor- oughbred breeding stock. Her Majesty will probably hunt with the Ward Union staghounds, a6 well a@ with the Meath foxhounds. Both packs have shown capital sport already this season, and the fortnight’s frost, which has been almost unintermittent, haq done hunting men (women) yeoman’'s service im clearing the hedges of the overgrowth of grass ang weeds and making the small open drains and cuttings in the pastures visible to the eyes of horse and rider.—London World, AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—‘'LE NOZZ¥ DI FIGARO.” A large audience assembled at the Academy of Music last evening to enjoy an opera, the numbers of which always illustrate the tenderness and melan- choly of its great composer, Mozart. As Cheru- bino Miss Minnie Hauk has rarely’ appeared to greater advantage. Her round, rich voice illus trated the charactor in a manner that left little oppor tunity for adverse comment. (lassi, as Figaro, both acted and sang artistically, Del Puente, as Al- maviva, aio won the praise of the audience. ‘The Susanna of Mme. Sinico, and the Marcellinaof Mine, Lablache were likewise admirably represented. Mdile. Paro resonated La Contessa with her usual grace and excellence. The house was full of critical people and the performance was in every way & credit to the management. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, ‘The opera of ‘Lucia di Lammermoor” will be sung at the Academy of Music at the matinée to-day. “Cinderella” and the group of children who illus trate the performance are among the features at th¢ Aquarium this evening. : On the 12th of December a concert will be given at Steinway Hall for the benefit of the Home for Bust ness Women. The names of the artiste who are ta appear will be published hereafter. Mr. and Mrs, George S. Knight, after their success. ful engagement at the Broadway Theatre, which closes with to-day’s performances, commence buet+ neas “on the road’ on Monday, opening firet in Patorsén, N. J. ‘The concert to be given to-morrow night at Booth’s Theatre comprises several excellent artists from the Mupleson opera troupe, among whom are Miss Minnie Hauk, Frapolli, Del Puente, Foli, Mile. Pisani and Miss Helen Ames.. Edouard Reményi and Signor Campobello are ulso announced, During the performance of “Romeo and Juliet,’* at Buifalo, last night, in the potion scene where Modjeska was about taking the poison, some ruffan gave an imitation of pulling a cork, which so an, noyed the Countess that she ordered the curtain rung down and left the stage until the offender was ejected, when she played the scene amid great applause from the crowded auditorium, Miss Selma Borg, # lady of great talent, and largely reminiscent and instructive in the presentation of her themes, after delivering her series of lectures on Icelandic history, art and culture, will give a concert at Chickering Hall on Tuesday evening, in which she will be aided by several of the former members of ‘Thomas’ orchestra, She will lead in person, and much of the music to be interpreted is that of her own people. TROUBLE IN THE ACADEMY. THE SHAREHOLDERS AND THE MANAGEMENT AT LOGGRRHEADS—-WHY MONEY HAS BEEN 1081 ON OPERATIC VENTURES IN NEW YORK, ‘The new management of the Academy of Musi¢ (the Board of Directors having been chosen in May last), have met with the opposition naturally ta be expected in their efforts to induce the stock- holders to relinquish some of their prerogatives for the sake of paying the debt of the Academy. It has long been an open secret that the manager who leased the Acadeiny had to accommodate, in some of the most desirable seats in the house, a very consider able number of ‘‘deadheads,”” the stockholders hay= ing the right to tacir seats at any and all perform. ances given in the house. This fact has usually beon declared to be one of the prin- cipsl causes why managers have so often lost money in their attempts to introduce Italian opera in New York. Whether this is true, or not, it is undis- puted that a considerable debt hangs over the stock company, and a resolution was adopted at s meeting of shareholders, held in Mr. Belroont’s house on No- vember 27, that until this debt should be paid the directors should have power to waive the rights of shareholders to seats and admissions in letting the house for all performances except operas. ‘The following letter, written some days after, ox. plains itself: — e Academy of Music is impossible to get @ 6 to the reservation of | th at a nominal re it Is ab present ¥ Mapleson, The shareholders aro aware that the Academy han a floating debt hanging over it of some $18,000, which, sustead of gotting it from thom by way of on assessment, han been provided for by a short :nortgage at six per cent iu te the expectation heing that in # couple of ys this id of out of the reutal of the house, roneat state uf agree aie is a ppticant away and inake bi 0 nous places, which he can rent without auy of these wou rticle in the Charter Im relation to thix matter is as stockholder shall itled, uoder shy di the" recommondatt sion of shareholders rights two years, we shareholders, i to be made aw the great impor ery truly Pi At ® mecting of ihe Executive Committee held Thursday night it was resolved to send coptes of this jeter and of the resolution mentioned to each share holder requesting his written indorsement of them. In the meantime Mr. Thomas 1, Musgrave sent ou? a circular & the stockholders opposing thie, He maiutaing that the siockhollers have a right to theit seata at all perforiaances and charges that the mam agement are trying to deprive the stockholders of this ght, and he says that the principle contained in the resolution, if well founded, can at 4 time be carried to the exteat of depriving the stockholders Without their consent of their seats at all performances, ity cluding opera, ) |