The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ay in the year. dollars por nid fifty cents per month for Hiiow included, THE DAILY HERALD, pulliched eee: Tiree couts per copy Sundays fi rs for six month on than thveo months, Sunday edi 8 ERALD—Ono dollar per year, free of post- TICK TO SUBSCRIBERS,—Rewmit in draft ‘ or Post Office money orders, and where neith procured send the money in a registered romitted at risk 0 & \dress. ‘or wolegraphic despatches must 1 i Hearn. axes should be properly sealed. Letters and pac! Rejected communications will not be returned, — PRTBADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH " . LON DO! FFICE OF THE NEW YORK HEBALD— NO. 46 REET. PARIS 0 VENUE DE OPERA, NAPLES A . TSTRADA PACE, Subseriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same torme nsf AMUSEMENTS ~ TO-NIGHT. meaner tres OLYMPIC THEATR! NEW YORK AQUARI GLOBE THEATRE—M| GRAND OPERA HOU BOWERY THEATRE PARK THEATRE—Ro LYCEUM THEATRE-1 BROADWAY THEAT! THEATRE COMIQUE. WALLACK’S THEATER! UNION SQUARE THE. MASONIC HALL—Tow Taw Bootws THEATRE—Huavxxors. GERMANIA THEATRE—Hofer Kuincavsce TIVOLI THEATRE-V. Crusox ro is Founcuameavin “MuLurGan Guaxp Batt. ue BaNken’s Davcurer. EGYPTIAN HALL—Va‘ WINDSOR THBATRE- NIBLO'S GARDEN—Davy BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE—Kine Lear, STANDARD THEATRE—H. M. 8. Pixarorxy. | "NEW YORK, W The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be colder and partly cloudy or fair. To-morrow it will be cold and fair, WaALtt Srreet YrsteRpay.—The stock market was active and strong. Government bonds were firm, except for the bonds that are being called, States duil and railroads strong. Money on call was casy at 219 a 31g per cent and closed at 21g a 3 per cent. Goop Men ro KNow—The new city bank di- rectors, whose names are elsewhere printed. More Contractiox—The sentencing yester- day of three counterfeiters to the Penitentiary for, in the aggregate, twenty-two years. Ix THE New Board or ALDERMEN the Tam- many tiger and the anti-Tammany lamb are Deginning to lie down together on the yea and nay list. Sixck THE ORGANIZATION of the Children’s Aid Society it has provided upward of ten thou- sand children with homes in the West. The charity is a deserving one. Tue Testimony in the extraordinary Bishop- Cobb trial was finished yesterday, and the law- yers have begun their task of endeavoring to bewilder the jury. Unless they are unusually Jong winded we shall have a verdict this week. Mme. ANpERSON is doing as well as could be expected after her long journey. She will again appeur on the track toward the end of the month, and if the champions are anxious for a brush she will be glad to accommodate them. Tile Provision in the new Postal bill that letters upon which full postage bas not been paid shall be forwarded and the amount col- lected at the point of delivery will prove a great convenience to the public and entail no loss fpon the government. It ought to be passed. ‘Tue Boaxv or Excise has revoked the licenses of the notorious Geoghegan’s and McGlory’s dance houses, but respectable citizens need not hope that this will have the effect of closing their’ establighments. A couple of smart lawyers can, and doubtless will, show them how to go on with or without a license. Accorb1nG to the statements of two Mormon Phe Distress in England—America’s In- fluence in the Politics of the World. Our London correspondent, following the line of comment which marked the letter we printed on Monday last, sends us an- other letter, showing how the present dis- tress in England begins to affect all classes. His description of the suffering in Man- chester will be read with especial sorrow in the United States. Manchester has always borne peculiar and friendly relations to the United States, and during the war the kind- liest words that came to the North were from those gentlemen who represented Manchester ideas and were called in mockery the ‘Manchester school.” In Kent the farm laborers are in mutiny against the farmers, and meetings are held, in which the farmers are told by angry orators that unless they stop their pranks the orators will emigrate to New Zealand. More ominous than ul! is the proposal of a hundred thousand colliers in the North to strike. The colliers are the only laborers who have no substantial griev- ance with their masters, aud public opinion looks upon their strike as a hardship, especially now when there isso much real distress among workers in cottons and iron, Unfortunately, movements of this kind are not amenable to reason or argument, and we can well understand why the sudden abandonment of work by a hundred thou- sand colliers would create auxiety. he feast of the Pikes in Paris may be supple- mented by a feast of Pickaxes in London. While we all wish our English cousins a speedy relief from their distress, and no violence, no disturbing the laws, it is inter- esting to note the influenco of America upon Europe as a cause and an effect. When we are asked what is the cause of this distress, the answer is ‘America.” When we are asked for a remedy, among the answers is ‘‘America.” It is pleasant to know that if we have unconsciously been the cause of so much sorrow in England we are among the influences to relieve it. An inquiry into the causes of the distress shows, as our correspondent points out, that the main cause is the advancement of American ctedit and American enterprise since the war. For thirty years England has enjoyed an amazing prosperity. The repeal of the Corn laws enabled her people to buy food cheaply, and her enterprise made her mis- tress of the comfnercial and financial world. This dominion was challenged by the Onited States. ‘I'wenty years ago the United States was steadily advancing on England, especially in maritime supremacy. Then came our civil war, and in ten years America fell from her high rank as a com- mercial. and financial. nation. into the lowest rank. England in the. hour of our trouble did. all. she could to help the. Southern people destroy the commercial «und financial supremacy of the Union. We should not complain,.as there is an adage that there is no affection in business., If England, through the folly ot our people, could fake away our trade, it was not in human nature to suppose she would not press her advantage. ‘Ihe civiy war left England mistress of the seas—arbi- ter of the world’s finance ; supreme in stich great industries as iron, cotton, clay, wool and woods; prepared to sell the world everything at a profit, carry everything.at a good freight rate and exchange money.at a fair commiasion. ' If the world could have gone on in this fashion, England doing all the business and the rest of mankind providing food and raw material, things might have turned out otherwise. But America did not mean to remain in the subordinate relation imposed upon her by the war. It will be a matter of surprise to demagogues and Communists to know that since the war America has been making such rapid strides in enter- prise and prosperity as to menace the supremacy of England. In other words, while these demagogues have been blathering and lying and going about the country trying to make mischief and ruin our credit, the ladies who waited upon Mrs. Hayes yesterday | honest, patient, hard working masses have fifty thousand of their sisters will be made out- casts if the anti-polygamy law is enforced. | proud, supreme position. been steadily lifting the nation into its What a com- Their situation is a hard one, and it isa pity | mentary upon the insincerity and rascality that the burden cannot be placed upon the | and imbecility of so much that is known as shoulders of the “‘saints.” “statesmanship” among our public men! Axorurn Disastnovs Fine has afflicted New | In iron we have multiplied our product York. By the destruction last night of the large twelvefold. We now send iron abroad, building on the northeast corner of Broadway | where before we were the principal im- aud Grand street a loss of more than a million dollars was occasioned. Worse atill, two of our gallant firemen were buried in the ruins, and itis feared that others have been lost. Three years ago an equally destructive fire occurred in the block «lirectly south of the scene of last night's disaster, and four men were severely injured. Tux Wratnen.—The depression moved over the New England and Middle Atlantic States during yesterday and is now passing into the ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. It is rapidly porter of iron. his underlies the de- pression in the English iron trade. In cot- ton we are beginning to dispute England's © supremacy. Twenty years ago, and England monopolized this frade. India, China and the United States were her great markets. Now we make our own cloths, In China we are driving out England, because we make better and cheaper goods. India makes her own cloth and raises her own cotton, followed by an area of high barometer which | and will soon be in the Chinese if not in extends from the Middle and South Atlantic | the English and American markets. As a coasts to the extreme Northwest. ‘The barome- | consequence the cotton trade in England is ter is falling steadily in the southwestern dis- depressed. What is worse, it is a depres- tricts, preceding the advance of a depression | gion from which there is no recovery, from the regions of Chibuabua and Cobahuila, | Paglish business men see that their boasted in Mexico. This disturbance moved from the Pacitic across the Gulf of California and thence easterly over the table lands of Mexico where it lost u considerable amount of its energy. It will probably reorganize again while moving through the Gulf and pass over the South Atlantic States invincibility was a sham, and that once American enterprise met them in a fair field there was no donbt of the result. To parody the favorite Jingo song that has been ringing in the English music halls for asa storm centre, Snow has fallen throughout | the last two years— the lake regions and the Middle Atlantic States. Morning fogs prevailed over the Gulf States and the Middle Atlantic coast. Clear weather continues in the West and Northwest. In the other sections it has been cloudy or fair. ‘The winds have been generally fresh throughout the country. With the exception of a slight full in the northern Jake regions and the eastern Gulf coast the temperature haa risen, The gradients will become more steep during today on the coast nurth of Sandy Hook and brisk to We've got the land, we've got the brains, and we've got the money too. So far as this affects the. happiness of the working and business classes in England, bringing distress and depression upon them, it is not a pleasure to our people, We would much rather that our triumphs wore not won at the expense of other na- tions. Distress in Lancashire throws a shadow over prosperity in New England, strong winds may be expected. Our special | But it is not our fault, and we had our own weuther cable from Europe states that another | period, and it was a long and dreary period wdiction sent by the Hrnaty Weather Burean f being fulfilled. The centre of the storin is advancing toward the coasts of the British Islanes, and will probably arrive there during today. The ice gorges i“ in the Southern rivers, and have done consMlerable damage. If the ice holds fast for a few days the rains that attend the advancing depression nay cause dia astrous floods, The weather in New York and its vicinity to-lay will be colder and partly cloudy or fair. To-morrow it will be cold and fair. of sorrow and distress and depression, It is pleasant to feel, as our correspondent points out, that if America is, inadvertently, and from no wish of her own, the chief cause of the distress in England she may happily be one of the means of England’s recovery. Emigration is the panacea, and our correspondent bids us prepare for a largé emigration from England and of the best people of England. Let them come — . workers in iron, and ore, and cotton, and NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1879—TRIPLE - SHEET. woo!, and wood—workers and thinkers of all classes, let them come! ‘Unele Sam,” as the old song says, ‘is rich enough to give us each a farm.” A German writer says that all the series of events which resulted in the culture of mind in Greece and the Empire in Rome only “have purpose and value when viewed in connection with, or rather as subsidiary to, the great stream of Anglo- Saxon emigration to the West.” Darwin in a remarkable passage says that ‘the wonder- ful progress of the United States, as well as the character of the people, are the results of natural selection, for the more energetic, restless and courageous men from all parts of Europe have emigrated during the last ten or twelve generations to that great country and have there succeeded best.” If emigration will help England in her trouble, relieve her of a million or two of good worthy men that she cannot support, let these men come. It will bea benefit to us, to England and to mankind. For the situa- tion in England, with so daring and brilliant astatesman as Beaconsfield in power, is perilous. The temptation to turn the starving multitude into an army and to Prevent distress at home by war abroad is a sore one to a man whose dream is to rival the military statesmanship of Riche- lieu and Chatham, to be as great in war as he is in peace, This is the underlying danger of the present distress in Great Britain. And if America, by opening her broad arms and teeming bosom to the worthy and suffering workers, can avoid war the result will be a new victory of peace, not less renowned than those vic- tories of peace whose influence is being felt in the uttermost ends of the earth. The Municipal Entente Cordiale. We print interviews with Comptroller Kelly and with the president of the Lotos Club, and also the description of an attempt to interview Mayor Cooper, although what our reporter succeeded in gettihg from him was a Barmecide feast, where the forms of an interview were gone through with, but the entertainment consisted of empty dishes, We do not blame the Mayor for his resolute reticence. He has been as frank with us as he was to his fellow guests at the Lotos Club; his speech to them, like his conversation with our interviewer, being of the veritable Barme- cide order. He declines to express any opinion of Mr, Kelly or his motives ; but he certainly has reason to be flattered with the spontaneous tribute which the Comptroller paid to his moral worth. Praise from a political opponent is praise indeed, but a distinction is to be made between the wooer and the. wooed. The boldness which be- comes the former does not quite befit the coyness of the latter, The political maiden- hood of Mayor Cooper explains his decent reserve. ‘Che maiden who ‘‘never told her love” still reciprocated the sentiments of her admirer. When Mayomgooper becomes older in office he may possibly put: off some of his maidenly coyness. Comptroller Kelly, who. is the wooer on this occasion, is perfectly frank and ingen- uous'in the interview, as he was in his speech:,- Jn. replying to the toast he gave expression to his real sentiments. He repeats in the interview all that he said in his speech, showing »that the un- premeditated effusion of the moment is the deliberate conviction of his mind. We have no doubt ‘that he will act in the spirit of his frank and generous declarations and will do what he can to aid the Mayor in the policy set forth in his message. Such a course will be as wise for the Comptroller himself as it will be conducive to the true interests of the city. The statements of the president of the Lotos Club are as satisfactory as they are unreserved. He may be reasonably proud of his successful effort to bring about the entente cordiale. Having invited the Mayor as the honored guest of the evening he was entitled to invite such other guests as would not maf the occasion, and Mr. Kelly's acceptance was a guarantee of his respect and kindness for the new Mayor. it would have been a great point simply to bring them together at a hospitable board. But the frank and happy speech of the Comptroller made the invitation a great hit. The pleasant result does equal credit to the social talents and to the public spirit of the president of the Lotos Club. Very Satisfactory, but Not Gratifying. No doubt Mr. Cyrus W. Field’s report, which we publish elsewhere, is very satis- factory to the stockholders, but we fear it will not be at all so gratifying to the ninety- three thousand patrons who use the east side “‘L” every day:— : First—Because it does not promise the immediate discontinuance of the Grand Central Depot cars. Second—Because it does not promise to heat the cars. ‘Third— Because it meets some of the’ com- plaints aliout poor cars by puerile remarks about people expecting luxurious accom- modations for five and ten cents, Mr. Field should remember that these luxurious ac- commodations are supplied on the west “L" for the same prices that the east “LL” charges forthe most common description ot accommodations. Fourth—Because it states that the east “L” cannot ran more trains at present with safety, owing to terminal difficulties, while every one knows that the other “L” runs its trains in more rapid succession, with greater speed and without accidents, though its terminal facilities are not greater than those on the east ‘‘L.” Russia's Invitation to the Ameer, Prince Gortschakoff’s declaration that Russia could not refuse the Amecr hos- pitality, though she would not intervene in his favor, has evidently reached Tashkend in the form of an instruction to General Kaufmann, and has thus resulted in his invi- tation to Shere Ali to come to that point in the Russian dominions. For a fugitive prince he moves with some style, if the record of his nine elephants and two thon- sand horses is accurate. Evidently the report in our despatch of the Amesr’s con- stant communications with his son in Cabul, and of the apprehension that the son will take care of his own fortunes and make an arrangement with the English by which he shall sneceed to his father’s throne, is all derived from tie intelligence sent to General Kaufmann by the Russian officer with the Ameer, and may be regarded as presenting the facts correctly, as it is im- probable we should get from the imme- diate train of the Ameer reports unfavor- able to his hopes unless they are undeni- able. Execution and Reprieve. In that part of the country where they have to deal with Molly Maguires they seem tu have fully mastered the difficult art of hanging men, successfully as well as expeditiously, inasmuch as a reprieve which reaches the prison only a minute after the men have been swung off comes too late. Had 2 reprieve come to the Cam- den Jail in the case of Hunter it would have been in time even ten minutes aiter the noose had tightened itself around the victim's throat, for he could in all likeli- hood have been revived if cnt down within that period, nud perhaps if. cut down much later. But the Pennsylvania official who received the Governor’s order not to exe- cute the two culprits did not act on that order, though he received it only thre emin- utes after the drop had fallen, Was this because of confidence in the effectiveness of his services as ahangman? Did he know he could not revive them? How did he know it? As the Governor of a State issued an order of this nature it is to be presumed he was convinced that the legal rights of the culprits were not exhausted. They might’ yct have been able to show that they were not guilty. Was he afraid that if he should cut them down after he had duly henged them he might assist their escape by thus giving a basis for the pretext that the sen- tence of the’ Court had been carried out? But the sentence requires that criminals “shall be hanged by the neck until they are dead,” and if they were alive the sentence had not been carried out; and if they were alive when that reprieve reached the Sheriff he had no right to keep them in a position which insured their death, The French Lottery. Twelve million tickets have been sold by the French government for what is called a national lottery, the first numbers of which will be drawn to-day. Although designated a@ lottery, this is less on the model of a lot- tery as ordinarily understood than in the style of those noisy bits of speculative ven- ture known in this country as “‘great gift enterprises.” There is a first prize, it is true, of thirty thousand dollars, the winner of which will no doubt be fully satisfied with the enterprise as a pure lottery; but it does not'alternate between round sums of money like this and blank numbers. An enormous proportion of numbers, on the contrary, entitle the drawer to numbered articles in the Palais de l'Industrie, and these articles are of indescribable va- riety, and range from a steam engine to a row of pins. By December 18 there were accumulated in the storehouse of these commodities seventy-six thousand numbered lots. All this project has grown out of the great Exhibition. It was believed that an enormous number of articles would be left by exhibitors when all. was over to be disposed of under the hammer, and it was proposed that the gov- ernment should make these the basis of a lottery by which it might reimburse itself for the money laid out in helping the im- pecunious generally to visit the Exposition, Fortunately this project caught the popular fancy, and the sale of the first issue of tickets was so great a success that the pro- gramme was enlarged to its present pro- portions. Open Doors but Closed Notebooks. Major Reno’s friends, as well as his ene- mies, will regret that the press is denied the right to report the proceedings of the court of inquiry now in seksion at Chicago, {f Reno is innocent of the terrible charge of neglecting to obey orders and support Custer in the fatal fight on the Little Big Horn he is the most shockingly maligned man in America; if guilty, any attempt to withhold or obscure the testimony will ruin him and the members of the court also, Like a true soldier Major Reno has em- phatically demanded an investigation. If he does not himself fear publicity they are not his friends who would conceal or garble any evidence. The public will also wonder why Captain French, who could give important testimony in the Reno case, is himself on trial at this particular (ime. Is there so much’ for military courts to do and so little time in which todo it that an important witness in so important a case should be cast under a cloud and into a court a thousand miles away from the wit- ness stand where he is needed? Major Reno deserves honest, open treatment; but so does the public, which cherishes alike the reputation of its every soldier, no mat- ter where or what he may be—member of a court, accused, accuser, witness or even the occupant of an untimely grave, Privilege of Parliament in Germany. The bill for the discipline of refractory members of the German Parliament con- tinues to excite very lively comments in Europe on its arbitrary and oppressive character and on the indication it seems to give of a want of independent spirit in one of the great representative bodies of the world. For our part we have not been able to see this bill in the light in which it appears to have been seen by all London journalists. It is proposed by this bill to establish in the German Parliament a coum- mittee on discipline, which shall take cog- nizance of all offensive language, or other conduct contrary to order, of members of that body, and which may in certain cases propose to the House to put obnoxious members beyond the pale of parliamentary privilege—to deprive them of that immunity from arrest or prosecution to which they are entitled as members, Now, if this bill shall pass, it will be the act of the House which determines that it has the right to discipline its own members in a specified way. Every parliamentary body claims and exercises the same right, and the Ger- man constitution gives it to the German Parliament. That body could apparently do without a special law all that this law permits it to do. Although one article of the German constitution seems to clothe members with immunities inconsistent with the projected legislation, another provides that during the session no member can be prosecuted for acts punishable by law “without the approbation of the Reichstag.” With that approbation, therefore, i may be done, and that approbation is just what it is intended to give in defined circum- stances by this bill, PERSONAL® INTELLIGENCE. Horace Maynard, United States Minister to Turkey, left Constantinople yesterday for America, on a fur- lough. , ‘Sir Edward Thornton and his lady are expected to arrive at Niagara Pulls to-day, Secretary Schurz will join them there, Asarule, the men who belong to the volunteer sriny of Great Britain are much betier shots than the men who belong to the regular army. General Franz Sigel met with a serious accident on Sunday last. He was ascending Groye Hill, a slippery elevation in Morrisania, on his way home, when he lost his footing und fell, breaking his right leg, A letter ‘rom Finland states that Lapland has suf- fered dreadfally from the ravages of wolves’ this summer. One-third the reindeer belonging to the Lapps have been destroyed and nearly all the young ones, . Mr. Edison's first patent for the electric light was sealed yesterday. It is the sume which was unsne- cessfully opposed by Mr, Russell. Mr, Edison has two other applications for patents pending which are not yet sealed. Salurday Review :—“When all the difficulties which surround detectives aro considered, and when atten- tion is also given to what they are able to achieve in spite of these, it may, perhaps, be thought that people are sometimes wroth with them because they cannot make bricks without straw, and that on the whole their work is not ill done.” Governor Hampton has so far improved that he was yesterday conveyed in an eaxy chair out into his yard, where he spent several hours in the sunshine. It is confidently expected that he will attend the next celebration of Washington's Birthday in Charleston and take part in the proceedings on that occasion. He will go.as tho guest of the famous Washington Lig ht infantry. Mr. R. U. Sherman has beon appointed to fill the vacancy on the New York Fishery Commission caused by the resignation of ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, who bas been compelled by his delicate health and many other occupations to retire. Mr. Sherman was for several terms a2 member of the Legislature, and has tuken great intercat in fish cul- ture from its very commencement. London Glove:— Our grandfathers, read in the light of old books and obsolete newspapers, seem to have been singularly social and unselfish. Nibilism was unknown to them, and that popular method of treating life as a kind of bore and pleasure, as on the whole a dreary business, would have been regarded a century ago as sheer lunacy. Wo cannot bring back those old days, and wo can hardly even realize them. ho company all met pleasantly, and all knowing one avother would be seated round the supper table, when wit and song and repartee and speechmaking would follow one another in rapid succession. We are so busy in these days that we have not time for such pleasures.” London World:—‘fhe large stocks of gold that have been locked up in the United States to prepare for resumption, in Italy under the suspension of specie payments, and in the Bank of France, must flow forth by and by in fertilizing streams. ‘The effect will probably be to raise slowly the level of values generally over the world; but that effect will be produced slong with a simultanecus advance in credit. Thus the letting loose of hoarded stores will provide @ new basia for increased activity, and trade will reap the benefits, There is no reason for too much despondency, Englishmen have lived through worse times, and have found in them the stimulus to greater energy, and the national character is sub- stuntially what it was.” London Court Journal:—“A man who has lived thirty years on soeds, vegetables and fruits, tothe total exclusion of alcohol, flesh and fish, deserves to be heard on the subject of vegetarian diet. Mr. Ward, the gentleman. in question, reports himself sound in wind snd limb. He is a fellow of the Hor- ticultural Society and president) of the Vegetarian Association. Probably none could adyance a better claim to the latter distinction, He brings his long experience to bear for the purpose of recommending lentils, A pennyworth of lentils, he says, contsins as much nutriment as three shillings’ worth of lean beef. .A peck of lentils would, he adds, last a small family the whole winter. Of course, this is riding a hobbyhorse to death, but it is quite worth while to learn a lesson from this horticultural gentleman’s lony experience, especially at & moment when the subject of cheap food is so important. A vegetarian dinner, properly cooked and served, is exceedingly pleasant and satisfying; but whether one could sub- sist entirely on that regimen is another and a very much larger question.”’ HENRY WARD BEECHER ILL. - A large andience assembled at the Brooklyn Lay College building, corner of Clinton and Amity streets, last evening, to listen to @ lecture by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on “The Reign of the Common People.”’ At eight o'clock Rev. Mr. Ingersoll announced that, oving to a severe attack of influenza, Mr. Beecher was unable to fulfil his engagement. AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The annual mecting of the American Geographical Society was held at Chickering Hall last night. Chief Justice Charles P. Daly was re-elected President, and the following gentlemen were chosen to fill the re- maining: offices :—General George W. Cullum, Vice President; Rev. Dr. Roswell D, Hitchcock, Foreign Corresponding Secretary ; Levi P. Morton, Treasurer, and William E. Curtis, W. H. H. Moore, George Cabot Ward, Isaac Bernheimer, Paul B. Du Chaillu and Egbert L. Viele, Councillors, The annual address was natponed until the February meeting, and inatead Kigjdr A. G. Constable, formerly an eiBcer in the British army in India, delivered an address on Atghanistan. DARTMOUTH ALUMNL The fifteenth annuel dinner of the Dartmouth College Alumni Association, of New York, will bo held at the Westminster Hotel to-morrow evening. The President, Professor John Ordronaux, LL. D., will officiate, and several members of the faculty and many prominent graduates are expected to be pres- ent. Alumni of New York and vicinity are requested to forward their names and addresses to Charles A. Carleton, segretary, No, 98 Broadway, that they may be duly advised as to the reunion. NEW YOKK BAY CEMETERY, ‘The annual election of trustees for New York Bay Cemetery was held yesterday in the office of the in- stitution, on the grounds at Greenville, N.J. The majority of the votes wore cast by proxy, though the attendance during the day was quite numerous, The following were elected trustees for the year 1879:—Charles Seidiet, William Bumsted, Inase'Ven Saun, George R. Hillier, Samuel poninarey George K, Cutter, James Dickson, Henry Ste! » George Oliver, William Foster and James G. Haskins, FLOWER PARTY, ‘The third annual flower party in aid ofethe North. dastern Homeopathic Dispensary was given by the Young Men's Charity Association at Delmonico’s uptown house last evening. The entire second floor was devoted to the benevolent undertaking, the large dining saloon being used as a baliroom, The parlors were decked ont with rare plants, and the five tables over which presided some of New York's most fashionable matrons and misses, were laden with beautiful flowers, arranged in bouquets of various sizes, all of which were eagerly purchased at hand. nome prices by the charitably (lisj Wests, Ainong the guests were:—Bearon Nicholas Shi the Ktussinn Ambassador, and lady; Baron Blanc, the italian = Minister, oud — luly; miral 8. dD, ‘Trencharad, United javy; Commodore Nicholas, United States wy, and lady;, General Hancock, United States Army; J own Davis, K. ©. Larremore, John K, aud jh F. Daly; Mayor Cooper, ex-Mayor Ely and Collector Merritt, Among others the ee of Lorne and Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, through Colonel ton, private secret ys fent their ta at not able to attend, ala was conn at tan o clock and continued @ late hour, ly Alfred AMUSEMENTS. ITALIAN OPERA—DEBUT OF MISS GIULIA MARIO Mario. » Lancaster gliapetra, Bisnor Barberos Miss Arcone Mies Giulia Mario, the young and handsome wife of one of our favorite comedians, made her New York début in opera last evening at Booth’s Theatre, ‘The part she choose was Violetta in Verdi's opera, but we saw nothing to make us concinde that the choice was a wise one. The lady’s friends and well-wishers were present in foree and showered applause and flowers upon her, bringing her before the curtain several times. In fact she en- joyed a succes d’estime, wnd beyond that it does not ome critical accuracy to go at present, ‘To the operatic stage Miss Mario brings g fine pres- ente, looks snd a voice with sume few good tones, but a comnparatively smal} compass, What is, however, of greater moment, her voice is.cither un- developed or spoiled in the training she has received. Last night she was singing chest tones in the upper register heb cet ieee anything in power from the dreadful process, 'a therefore suggesting that she was forcing. Her voice lucked ring or warmth of tone, and her bravura was hard and mechanical. There is no more disagreeable ‘task then to write thus of a débutante, who, doubtless, has spent much time’ on preparation-and worked herd, but so many cireniu- stances vow conspire to push young ladies on the stage, and CWeeertea applause the start is so fatal to tinal artistic execllence, that it is best to point out deticiency in time, Miss Mario did not seem content with her own work lust night, She was nervous ut first, but in the last scene she sang and acted with more efiect. Her best effort was the “Addio del Passato."’ in the ‘‘Libiamo” and “Parigi, o Cara” sho was much less effective, although the latter was far from commonplace. Signor Lazarini, who sings with his nose in the-air, is not improving, although he is working hard, Signor Pantaleoni suffers in tho throat, but still keeps the boards, Knowing what a cupital artist he is it was saddening to seo him 4» the afilicted father last night in the “Di Provenza il mar,” during seven-eighths of a hig por oie stanza, came down to the footlights and roar like a buil until the gods buret into applause. ‘The opera was poorly given throughout, Orchestra, chorus and some of the eincipal characters were as often out of tune as in. For the minor parts we know not what curiosity shop was ransacked, STEINWAY HALL--CONCERT, ‘The musical entertainment announced by. Mr. _ Jerome Hopkins at Steinway Hull under the name of “A Christmas Tide Festival’ attracted a fair audi- ence, and in a friendly way expression was givon to the kind feeling with which his performers were re- ceived. Most of them were fair amateurs. On the programme it was Mteie as a nota bena, that “the audience will kindly refrain from encores, as they destroy the symmetry of asprograme,” but there were few exhibitions of artistic taste during the evening that required the caution. Mr. bossy tf, who made his début on the violin, was decididly bad, and should relegate himself to an orchestra; Misa Dickinson and Scott sang pleasantly as they Pru combats mere oe W.S. Leggatt made a good point comparatively speaking by reason of his clear, well used tenor, but with this exception there were none of the artists present who rose above the mediocre point. The -concert, therefore, was not in the muin’ satisfactory. Mr. Hopkins deserves credit for his efforts in behalf of music, but he cannot expect much fingncial. unless he gives a better entertainment than that ich’ he attempted last ren so He has ch to ot metropolitan taste before he can snecessfully thrust isu before the public asd expect the tte pet $1 a seat tor the privilege of being absolutely bored, * MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTRa. Christine Nilsson is in Paris. Weber’s opera, “Oberon,” has been revived at Her Majesty’s. : é Miss Fanny Davenport is drawing good houses in the West. ; Mr. Pendy, of the Gayety Theatre, Harlem, deniea that the theatre has been closed. On her return from Sau Francisco Miss Clara Morris will play in Chicago and then in Boston and New York. 4 ‘The firat performance in this country of “Dot; or, The Cricket on the Brarth,”’ which is to be-re- vived atthe Park Theatre, with John E. Owens as Caleb Plummer, was at the old Park, in 1846. Charles Base-was the original Caleb, to mont “Evangeline” will be the attraction at the Lyceum ‘Theatre during the remainder of the week and until further announcement. Tho company are drawing well, both music and artists being above the average of burlesque entertainments. ‘The minstrel performances at Jerry Thomas’ Opera House, judging from the audiences that nightly at- tend, are beginning to be warmly appreciated by the public, They are chaste, and no language is uttered to which exception can be taken by the most refmed lady. }Phe Banker's Daughter’’ last evening drew an- other of the large houses that have successively at- tended its performance during the season. No matings today, but the house will be open on Saturday after- noon andovening. The play is one that ought to be seen by every lover of the drama, ‘The Conron sisters, two young ladies who have recently returned from their musical studies abroad, will give aconcert next Wednesday evening at the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, under the auspices of Mrs. Stevens and Profeasor Morton. Their last ap- pearance in New York was at the Grand Opefa House, . ‘The Arion Society will give ® vocal and instrumen- tel concert at Steinway Hall on Friday, January 24, The event commemorates the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of the organization, aud unusual preparations arc in progress to make a great success, ‘The choru: will number ninety voices and the orchestra sigty instruments. ‘The latter will be under the d: of Dr. Damrosch. Miss Henne, Mrs, Swift and Messrs. Bischoff, Graff aud Remmertz are among the soloists, ‘The sensation of this evening will be the production at the Standard Theatre of the comic English opera, “Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore; or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor,’ the libretto of which was written by Mr. W. 8. Gilbert and the music composed, by Mr. Arthur Sullivan. The operetta has now been sung at the Opera Comiqne, London, since the 26th of May, and still continues as one of the chief attractions of that city. It has also been running at the Boston Museum since the 2d of December, 1878. There must, therefore, be something in the performance that is exceedingly attractive. Those who haye attended the rehearsals here describe the music as racy, rollicking and full of ear catching melodies. The choice of ar- tists is also said to have been carefully made, and the scenery has been specially painted and arranged, in accordance with the suggestions of the authors, OBITUARY. REY, BAVAND K. RODGERS, At Athens, Ga, diod recently, Rev. Revand &, Rodgers, formerly a remdent of Newark an¢ vresi- dentot the New Jersey Historical Society. Deceased was for many years pastor of the Church st Bound Brook, aud was regarded as aim the eminent divines of New Jersey, always ew and active in every work, and secu the love and respect of all. As @ mark of rewpect Historical Society has postponed ite meeting one week, THOMAS CARSTAIRS, Major Thomas Carstairs, a well-known citizen of Philadelphia, and Paymaster of the United States Navy, died of pleurisy at noon yesterday, in » private room at the Pennsylvania Hospital, aged about afty- three years, Major Carstairs was a Union soldier during the late rebellion, a son of the late James Car- pa of Philadelphia, and a nephew of Admiral ewer, : SAMUEL K. SPENCER. Samuel K. Speticer died at the residence of his father, at Oid Bridge, N. J., on Monday last. The de ceased was well known in connection with the Man- sion House at Long Branch, and was pores eae A the lessee of the Clareudon for several seasos. had been in poor health for somo time. O. T. PEEK. Colonel C. T. Peck died suddenly at Ballston Sps, N. ¥., yesterday morning of pneumonia, He was @ member of Governor M ‘s staf? and colonel of organ’ inth regiment, State militia, Herecently atabluaued o in Nebraska, known a8 "Haratoye LANDON LONGWORTH. Dr. Landon Longworth, a scientist of some repute, and grandson of Nicholas Longworth, died in Cincin- nati, yesterday morning of pneumonia. JOHN B, NOYES, John R. Noyes, cashier of the National Marine Bank Of Oswego, died ut hia home in Oswego, N. Y., yeater- day afternoon, s