The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD nena BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, TROPRIETOR, THE DAILY NE Three cents ver copy for six wo hs, OF at A Tate than devee mon’ . WEEKLY HERALD—Ono nee. NOVICE TO*SUBSCRIBER: rk or Post ¢ ean be pr oney remitted at risk of se het ecery Jay in che year, a s Ten dollars per dollar. ps nday edition includes r per year, free of post- it in drafts on New where neither of these All na reyistered letter. Tn ord insure at ed aust tion subseribers wishing their address chat their old as well their new address. s letters or wlegraphic despatches must Hruacn, es should be properly sealed, ious will uot be returned. PHILADELPHIA OF ¥ICE—NO. SOUTTE SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 ! STRE ebnedae DE LY All business, ne w Letters and pack. Rejected communic: M2 AMUSEMENTS = TO-NIGHT. Sanaa caeeeneeed LOS GARDEN—fTeno, STANDARD THEATRE GLOBE THEATRE-U: GRAND OPERA HO BOWERY PAR NEW YORK AQUARI LYCH S BROAD ae Or] AN Guarp Bann, WALLAC che s OLYMPIC s Davcurer. Dr. Crype. Banker's Daventer, 3ERMANIA THEATRE—Netre Leote s00TH’s THLATRE. CHICKERING HALL—S: ny Concert. WAY HALL—Sysrvoxy ReWRARSAL. HURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1879, “NEW. YORK Lhe probabiiities are that the weather in New York and ils vicinity to-day will be cool and fair. To-morrow it promises to be slightly colder and partly cloudy. Watt Srreer Yestexpay.—The stock ‘mar- ket was very active and strong. Government bonds were active, States dull and railroads strong. Money on call lent at 2 a3 per cent, advanced to 5, and closed at 2 a 21g per cent. Aprpow of Senator Christiancy a8 Minister to Peru clears the way, in all proba- bility, for Zach Chandler's return to the Senate. A Bint to Promote the efficiency of chap- Jains in-the navy has been passed by the Senate. Now, let it take the clergymen all over the country in hand. Tue Repuciion of the fare on the Broadway stages to five cents is a wise step on the part of the companies. It does’ not, however, do away with the necessity for a surface roud. Conscious of its own integrity the Park De- partment begs to be allowed to walk through the fiery furnace of investigation. Wait until we finish one or two of the score we have on hand. For tur First Trur since the war General Sherman finds himself in Atlanta. ‘The ball in his honor last evening formed « much pleasanter reception than the bulls of thirteen or fourteen years ago. Lovistana’s Granp Juries are grinding out indictments by the cartload for alleged viola- tions of the election laws. It would expedite matters if they were to indict the entive popula- tion of the State. Ir Tue Report of the bank examiners on the condition of the Merchants and Mechanics’ Bank of Troy, which is summarized in our despatch from that city, be correct, it has been conducted somewhat on the Glasgow plan. Tne Apreanance -ot the one hundred men who returned from Brazil yesterday, where they went to build the Madeira Railroad, strongly confirms the stories of suffering and distress that have from time to time found their way home. In rue Late Erection in South Carolina up- ward @f two thousand colored men voted the democratic ticket in Charleston. Soa colored witness informed the Teller Committee yester- day. Of course Mr. Blaine will see in this an additional evidence of fraud and intimidation. By Way or Contrast to the Camden hang- ing it may be stated that the double exeention in Indianapolis yesterday went off to the entire satisfaction of everybody, the victims not ex- cepted. It must bea positive pleasure to be hanged by so fine an artist as the Sheriff of Indianapolis. Arne Davexrorr InvesriGation yesterday the familiar story of how citizens were ar- rested on election day was retold by several witnesses, The proceedings were enlivened by a struggle for the possession of a paper between au ex-soldier and Davenport, which at one time looked os if it would involve all in the court room—comimittee, counsel and spectators, Ricu Orv GentLemen who have made half a million dollars or so and kept it will be inter ested in the story of the fate of Mr. Wells, of Maiden on another page. Armed witha lunacy commission, lis loving relatives a few days ago relieved him of the care of his large property, took possession of his office, and among other delicate attentions turned him over to the tender mercies of a receiver. © barometer is above the districts east of the Rocky Mountain re ‘The two large areas of high- est pressure, one on the South Atlantic coast and the other in the Missouri Valley, are cou- nected by a narrow band over Tennessee. Rain has fallen in the Ohio Valley and the southern sections of the Middle Atlan tates. In the other districts partly cloudy weather has pre- vailed. Morning fogs continue on the Gulf coasts, The winds have been fresh in the Middle Atlantic and New England States aud gen- erally light elsewhere. The temperature has risen slightly in the Jake regions and the North- west, has been variable on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts and has fallen in the other dis- tricts. The prospects of favorable weather until the end of the week are good. The Southern rivers continuo rising and floods are likely to occur. The weather over the British Islands is threatening, and indications point to the ap- proach of a depression from the northwest. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair. To-morrow it promises to be slightig colder and partly cloudy. Tue Weaturn menn in all the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30,’ 1879—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘ : ames mmeesemmenciner omen nae enema ante ite eaeememnaceneemmacnarieaumenesanainbisnanretbesuacatae oom pasa eee ane ie Gielen a gas and more gas, Spare us, however, your | persons in cach household, which is about Fallacy of the Arguments Against Free Trade im Ships. We have watched with some care both the debates in Congress and leading arti- | eles in the press to find the grounds of op- ; position to free trade in ships. ‘The rea- soning in favor of permitting American | eitizens to buy ships in the cheapest mar- kets and sail them under the protection of the American flag is so cogent and convine- img that we have been curious to see what could be said in reply. The defenders of our antiquated navigation laws have been prudently shy of coming into close quarters with the incontestable facts which we have been urging upon their attention, We have again and again thrust upon their notice the great point in history that the British navi- gation laws (of which our own ave a servile ; Copy) were repealed in 1849, and the great statistical iact that British tonnage was nearly doubled within the ensuing twenty | years. We have repeatedly challenged them to explain this history and these statistics, and the discreet silence which they have maintained is a virtual admission that the | argument founded on these conspicuous facts cannot be parried. We have also taunted them with the well known fact that i France and Germany permit their citizens and subjects to purchase ships in the cheapest markets; that they have availed themselves of this liberty; that the consequence bas been that France and Germany have established great lines of ocean steamers which mairtain a success- ful rivalship with the British lines, while the United States, which adhere to the obsolete navigation laws which the other maritime nations have discarded, are put out of the field of competition. These great, pertinent and indisputable facts are ignored by the apologists of our restrictive navigation laws, who do not even attempt an answer to the irresistible argument of which these great facts are the Lasis. We wish Senator Blaine, who has made himself the foremost champion of the restrictive policy, would undertake to show that France and Germany made a mistake in adopting the liberal policy which has enabled their shipowners to compete successfully with Great Britain for the lucrative carrying trade of the world. Freedom to purchase foreign ships having worked so well in those countries, what rational argument can there be against according the same freedom to citizens of the United States? We do not wonder that Mr. Blaine and his follow- ers evade this question and despair of answering the argument founded on the example of countries which permit free trade in ships. How cana policy be bad for the United States which has been so salutary for Germany and France? What stronger condemnation can there be of our navigation laws than the fact that, while they have been in operation, the greater part of our trade goes and comes in foreign bot- toms? The refusal of American registers to foreign butlt ships is utterly and obviously impotent, since, in spite of it, American ships are excluded from the business. This argument cannot be successfully met, and tho advocates of restriction are driven to a ‘‘change of base.” Both Mr. Blaine in his speech in the Senate and the journals which follow his cue are contend- ing that the true American policy is a heavy discriminating tonnage duty. They would have all foreign vessels coming into our ports subject to a tonnage duty high enough to destroy the profits of their business, This would be going back to the poiicy of the dark ages. It may not be surprising that some newspapers are ignorant enough to urge such a policy, but it is astonishing to find Senator Blaine on their side. He owes it to his character to discuss such questions with intelligence, if he discusses them at all, What would be the effect of a tonnage duty on foreign ships heavy enough to deprive them of any share in our carrying trade? Why, the obvious effect would be simply to raise the price of freights. It would give an advantage to foreign producers in all the markets of the world. It would operate as a tax on the producers of American grain, cotton, provisions and manufactured goods. For example, the price of grain in Liverjool regulates its price on our Western prairies, The highest price which the American farmers can receive is the price in Liverpool minus the cost of transportation, The effect of increasing the cost of ocean freights would be to diminish the price of grain in America, A discriminating tonnage duty, such as is advocated by Senator Blaine, would operate as a tax on American pro- ducers and would diminish American ex- ports, It is for the advantage of the country to increase its exports, but business is done on so narrow a margin that a difference in the cost of ireights would enable our competitors to com. mand the foreign markets. Nothing could be more utterly and wildly absurd than Senator Blaine’s notion that a heavy tonnage duty on foreign bottoms is the best means of reviving our navigation interest, Such a measure would enable our rivals to undersell us in foreign markets in conse- quence of the great advantage of cheaper transportation. ‘There are many classes of goods which we can produce as cheaply as any nation in the world, but if we adda heavy cost of transportation to the original price of the goods, and our rivals can send their goods at less expense, they will easily take away the market by underselling us, Discriminating tonnage duties are a little too absurd to be advocated in this age, when the great want of producing nations is cheap access to the markets of the world, It has also been said, in opposition to free trade in ships, that several of the great for- eign lines are on the verge of bankrufptey. Admitting this to be true it is an argument, not against, but in favor of free trade in ships. ‘Che fact that the business has been overdone by nations which are permitted to buy ships in the cheapest markets, attests the stimulating effect of perfect treedom. Our complaint is not that we have invested too lavishly im ocean going steamers, but that we are nearly destitute of this de- scription of property, and the fact that freedom of purchase has over-stimulated the business in other countries is a pretty good argument to prove that the same freedom would relieve it from its utter prostration in the United States. It is further to be said that if, as isalleged, some of the great European ocean steamship lines are on the brink of bankruptcy, a necessary consequence of theit bankruptey will be a sale of their ships ata great sacrifice, and that our absurd navigation laws will pre- vent Americans from reaping the advantage of these great bargains. Why should an American merchant be precluded from buy- ing ships at less than half the cost of build- ing them in any country, and thereby un- derbidding al! competitors and giv- ing American producers the advantage of cheap freights? But we doubt whether the foreign steamship companies are on the verge of bankruptcy. ‘heir business has undoubtedly fallen off within the lastfew years, in consequence of the universal depression of trade throughout the world. ‘he inability of the United States to give full employment to their own laborers has arrested emigration and de- prived the sicamship lines of one source of their protits, and the great falling off of im- ports has diminished another lucrative source of their business, But the general business of the world will sooner or later revive, and on its revival there will be full { employment for all existing lines of steam- ships. Before the present depression began, and while there was an immense demand for transportation, the facilities were sup- plied by nations which enjoyed free trade in ships to the exclusion of the United States, which were handicapped and crip- pled by our absurd navigation laws. There could not be a more conclusive argument against our navigation laws than the fact that while England, France and Germany were establishing great and successful ocean steamship lines, under the policy of free trade in ships, our citizens were en- tirely shut out of this Incrative branch of business in consequence of our absurd and restrictive navigation laws. —— An International Polo Match. In our cable despatches to-day we print’ a piece of news of especial moment to the players and ‘admirers of the game of polo, and not without interest to the world of lovers of sport who follow, generally with enthusiastic attention, all the details of great international rivalries in athletic games. Polo players in London, it appears, are on the lookout for worlds to conquer, and would snap at a chance to come to New- port next summer on the slighteSt intima- tion from this side that our players aro at their service; and we have no doubt that if the coat tail of the British polo player is in this tantalizing way conspicuously trailed on the sward somebody will be sure to step on it. . Should a match be made, the English team would be selected from the strongest players in English clubs, and would not be easy to beat; but our clubs could form an exceedingly good team se- lected in the same way. For such a selection the time named is opportune, as the return game of the match between the Westchester and Buffalo clubs is to be played at Newport next summer and will show decisively who are the strongest American players. It would be possible to select from the best men of these clubs a team worthy to contest the palm with the gentle- men from beyond the sea. Should an un- derstanding be reached we should have the finest series of gnmes ever played in America, and perhaps a series not surpassed in the annals of this fine sport in other countries. An international match would excite new interest in the sport, and thejim- pulse would be felt in all other sports, for all manly exercises are allied by a common sympathy and purposes, and a revival in one revives all. It is to be hoped our American clubs will take some action on this hint, and extend a prompt and hearty encouragement to this disposition for a friendly trial of their mettle. “Forward, the Light Brigade!” When Benjamin Franklin made his fa- mous and successful experiment with the kite and key and “bottled up” the light- ning as effectually as. another and a later Benjamin got ‘bottled up,” not qiite ao century ago, a blow was struck at the gas stocks of the future under which they are quivering and vibrating even now. We have good reason to believe that there was no understanding be- tween B, Franklin and T. A. Edison by which the latter was to continue the busi- ness, but there can be no doubt about the earnestness of Edison in proclaiming that his candle will shine the brightest, hold ont the longest and cost less than any other in the market. The wise men of his day greeted the announcement of B. Frank- lin that he had captured the light- ning from 1 passing cloud with shouts of derisive laughter. They were immensely tickled by the utter absurdity of the idea, Fancy catching, holding and releasing at will the fetterless fluid that blasts the giant oak and pine and rends mountains! Yet how ashamed the sons of these wise men became of the ignorance of their fathers, and how regularly their grandsons employ the captive lightning in the transaction of their business! So we believe it will be with the scoffers at the efforts of a man who has harnessed the subtle fluid to the quadruplex telegraph instrument, and who now carries the same mysterious agent to the tip of the platinum- iridium burner which glows with blinding brilliancy under its influence. The truth is that neither gas nor electric lighting has reached the first stage toward perfection, Already experiments in tho former are being made in London which promise remarkable results. ‘Uhe new sys- tem simply insures the complete combus- tion of a regularly delivered flow of gas through an improved argand burner. What an enormous quantity of illuminating mat- ter escapes unconsumed from a common gas burner is shown by the blackened ceil- ings of our houses and the peculiar odor near the flame. If the illuminating power of good gas can be increased from three to six times by improving the burners, how absurd it is for gas companies to claim that the possibilities of electric lighting are for the present exhausted! Edison assures us that they are not, and his opinion is worth something. We say, theretore, to the gas companies, ‘Light up, gentlemen ; devote vour talents to giving ns botter ag, cheaper | of what corps commanders might do. gaseous comments on Edison and his work, the size of an ordinary family. We must Let him pursue in peace the experiments | divide the domestic anjmals and crops which will certainly result in success, be it ; among these settled families to get the true in six months or ten years.” MacMahon Refuses. Marshal MacMahon ‘‘leclines to disor- ganize the army,” and “leaves the respon- sibility for such steps to others.” ‘This is the form in which he puts his refusal to act on the demand for the displacement of cev- tain corps commanders; and he thus at once objects toa phase of, the republican policy and impeaches the motives of those who urge it, ransfers in high commands do not disorganize ‘armies, or, if they do, few armies in the world are without this source of disorganization, for such changes are always acurrent part of the history of military edministration, It cannot be merely changes, therefore, that the Mar- shal objects to, but he objects to the cause of the change and, perhaps, to the men with whom it would be necessary to replace the removed commanders. It would de- moralize the army to put at the head of its corps men with faith in the Republic, and demoralize it to pretend that the actual corps commanders could in any contingency lend thems¢lves to the projects of any parties or persons who might desire to try coups d’étal, and for these reasons apparently" le refuses to yicld. But the Assembly is less delicate in its appreciation “As armies have supported usurpers before this the republicans take the liberty'to believe they may do it again, and, therefore, they want to obtain the only guarantee that seems possible in the cireumstances—to put at the head of the troops men who, in any conflict between individuals in authority and the representatives of the nation, would be in sympathy with the national cause. Consequently the apparently absolute refusal of MacMahon puts the repub- licans face to face with the © difli- culty; he will not do the one thing that it is imperatively necessary should be done, as they believe—the one thing necessary to render impossible an abu- sive use of the executive power, and he stands on the prerogative of his office as the head of the administration, in the cx- ercise of a function with which the Legisla- ture may be said to have no right to inter- fere. If he persists in his attitude he will in afew hours probably find himself with- out the means to carry onthe governmen, in a constitutional way, and hecan either re- sort to extra constitutional means or resign. His action will probably not be accepted by the Ministry, which would, by accepting it, make itself responsible before a house in which, on this issue, it is only remotely possible that it might get a majority. It is true the issue on the army appointments would not divide the House in the same way as it was divided on the vote in regurd to the Mirfistry’s promises, and there is a chance that the show of ‘tight in an ex- ecutive who stands on what is indisputably the function of his office might rally support from many quarters that could scarcely be counted upon as supporters of resistance to the Republic, Should, however, the Ministry obtain a vote of confidence from the Chambers the Marshal may resign. In- deed it is announced that he has actually done so, but it is well to recall that he has hitherto held on to the office with peculiar tenacity through situations where his dig- nity would have been better consulted by a graceful retirement, In case he does this the Chamber will immediately proceed to the choice of a new President, and will fill the office with some capabie man of known republican principles like M. Dufaure, M, Grévy or General Chanzy, and then finally the three great divisions of the govern- ment will be in the hands of the friends of the republican constitution. The trouble will probably move toward a definite solu- tion to-day. Progress in the Indian Territory. The Board of Indian Commissioners is engaged in the preparation of its annnal report. Besides other informatioa to be embodied in that document it will contain the following valuable tabl Ten Years’ 1868. | 1878. Number of Indians in the United) States, except Aluska.......seee+..4| =) 250,864 mber of Indians who’ wear citi- dress... qesesesooeesof ~<a} 197,668 nber of houses occupied by Ind: ians, 8,646) 23,000 145 148] Number of Indian pupil: 5,810) Amount expended for edi Numbor of Indiwns who can re Number of Indians who learned read last yeux (five civilized tribes| PtCd)...0seeeeeee —| = 1,582 Number of church buildings on res- Orvations........006 ee I Number of church members, about..| — —| 80,000 Number of acres of land cultivated by Indians... re 973,018 7 TWO 694,001 Nunber of bushels of wheat raised... Number of bushels of corn rained, .. .|520,079 Nuinber of bushels of oats and baricy’ taised...... seeeesesess| 81,151) 336,132 Number of bushels of vegetables) raised. ...... eee ee (350,690) Number of tons of hay mad seeee| 18,016} Number of horses and mules owned, | 78,018) Number of cattle owned, «| 47,704) Nuiber of swine own 2) 31,284 Number of shesp own 7958 We musi not misinterpret these highly important statistics, They prove nothing respecting the roving tribes which subsist by hunting or are fed by the government, It is the settled tribes—tho Choctaws, Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, &c., who wore transplanted across the Mississippi by President Jackson—that own these dwell- ings, are growing these crops and rearing these cattle, sheep and swine. They had made some slight progress in civilization, or at least in agriculture, while they still occupied lands in Georgia, Alabama and other States cast of the Mississippi. It is these, and not the wild, wandering savages, whose condition is indicated by these truly valuable and encourging statistics. If we take the mode of dress as forming the line of division between the settled and the roving tribes about one-half of the whole Indian population in the United States is fixed in permanent homes in the Indian Territory. It appears by the table that the Indians in the United States (excluding Alaska) amount to 250,864, and that of this number 127,458, or a little more than one-half, wear citizens’ clothing. ‘There are 23,060 Indian houses, and supposing these to be occupied by those who no longer wear blankets and feathers, there are between five and six _ average ownership, and theyare sufficient to prove that these partially civilized tam- | ilies are in & condition of comfort and abundance, tho fruit of their agricultural industry. ‘This information encourages the hope that if the wandering tribes could also be fixed on reservations and confined to settled homes they, too, could in time be rendered peaceful and seif-subsistent, Water Tight Bulkheads in Steamships. We called attention editorially yesterday to the important questions of safety at sea and the value of water tight bulkheads in supporting vessels whose hulls have been injured by collision or other causes. We print elsewhere this morning a very in- teresting article on the same subject, which embraces the views of the Superintendent of the Hamburg-American Steamship Com- pany--the owners of the steamer Pom- merania, recently sunk by collision in the English Channel, That vessel went down almost immediately after bging struck, skowing that either her bulkhead sluices were open or that she was so cut down es to have her central and perhaps one other compartment filled. It is of little conse- quence tothe drowning passenger whether the ship’s oflicers were neglectful or the ship’s construction was defective. It seems that the oflicers of the Pommerania were exonerated from. blame when the loss of | the ship was investigatg]. We are to as- sume, therefore, that they neglected no precaution to secure safety. But why did the ship sink at onde when her hull was broken: by collision? Clearly it was because her bulkheads, though water tight, were not numerous enough to divide her length into real safety sections. Her engine and boiler spaces were not separated, as they should be, by a water tight bulkhead, through which steam pipes and even other connections could be carried without leay- ing openings for water. ‘Ihe strength of a ship is measured by her weakest part, and it is useless to strengthen before and aft the engine compartment if that vital section is too large and exposed to such damage os will render the loss of the ship in- evitable. It is unfortunately too appa- rent that nearly all improvements in construction, made for the sake of securing greater safety to life and property, are the fruits of experience gained frum a series of great disasters. Ocean transportation com- panies are too apt to look for cargo space gained at the expense of strength, for they can afford to lose a ship now and then while gafhing steady profits from the risks to which passengers are subjected. It is high time, therefore, that the jnterests of the travelling public should be looked to. We must have greater safety and less cargo, even at the expense of the steamship com- panies. What fo Investigate. The quarrel that has broken out between one of the Police Commissioners and his associates in the Board creates considerable excitement at headquarters, which must naturally reach the whole police force. A discordant department will needs make a demoralized force. We have no opinion to express on the charges preferred by one of the Commissioners on the eve of his retive- ment from office against a Board of which he has been an uncomplaining member for five years. “ But the people are more inter- ested in discoveting what becomes of the money appropriated for street cleaning than in following up the personal misunder- standings and jealousies of the Commis- sioners ; and if Mayor Cocper makes an in- vestigation of the department it ought to take this direction, When the streets are coy- ered with snow no attempt is made to clean more than a few leading thoroughfares, yet we are not aware that the cessation of the work makes any difference in the expendi- itures. The Mayor should order an investi- gution of the street cleaning expenditures, that made by the late Commissioners of Ac- counts having been puerile. Let the peo- pie know how it is that they pay for clean streets and do not get them, and the want of harmony in the Board, which is certainly an evil, can be easily yemedied by the Mayor in his xppointments to the vacant Comumissionerships. It will do no harm at the same time for the Legislature to also undertake through a committee an investi- gation of the manner in which our street cleaning business and expenditures are managed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Chicago is in love with Gerster, Prince Leopold of England is twenty-six. ‘The youngest member of Victoria's privy council is seven years old. Lord Henry Somerset is no longer Comptroller of tho Queen's Household. . Mr. George W. Childs has forty clocks, but it is not told that they stood so many years on the floor. Prince Heinrich, second son of the crown Prince of Germany and the future high admiral of the German flect, is at Montevideo, S A.C, Sands, business manager of the Cincinnati Times, is dangerously ill, Last night it was thought he might die before morning. ‘The editor of London 7ruth, who recently saw four- teen engines playing upon the same fire, wishes to know when sotke genius’ will discover @ real anti- dote to fire. ‘The few votes that ex-Senator Pomeroy received in Kansas show that he is remembered among the poli- ticians there. “Old Pom” was once @ national repub- lican influence, and now there are few so poor as to do him honor. Drivers of-overladen wagons like to have people on ferry boats pullon the ropes which help the afore said wagons aboard, and when the drivers are going off the bonts they sing out, “Git out of the way, you sucker! what are you doin’ there?” Tu the high toned London restaurants tho waiters will not permit even a husband and wife to have dinner or lunch sent to them in a private room. In- deed, a party must consist of uneven uumbers, threes or fives or sevens, before that party can bo waitel on, London Truth:—"“During the Christmas week of 150) a party of officials belonging to tho Court of Henry VILL. dined together ‘at the village of Shene, now called Richmond, At the end of the,feast my host of the Star and Garter, with many salutations, handed to them the following reckoning :—For brode, 12d.; aio, Js. 4d.; wyne, 10d.; two leynes moton, 8d. ; maribones, powdred beof, 54.; two capons; 2s.; two geese, L4d.; five conyes, 15d.; one legyo moton, five pounds’ weight, 4d.; six plovers, 18d.; six peyions, Sd.; two dozen larkes, 12d.; salt and sauc Gd.; buter and eggs, 10d,; wardens and quynces, 12d. ; herbes, 1d,; spices, 2e. 4d.; floure, 4d.; white cuppes and cruses, 6d,’ The cost of the whole entertainment being ! Grment it was designed to express. AMUSEMENTS. STEINWAY HALL—THE NEW YORK QUINTEP CLUB ‘The small hall at Steinway’s was yesterday efter- noon crowded to overflowing by a critical and tash- ionable audience that assembled to enjoy the first matinée performance of the New York Quintet Club. ‘The latter is an organization that hes been in existence for about six months, and consists of the following artists:—Miss Lina Anton, piano; Hert Carl Richter, violin; Herr Julius Risch, viola; Hera Wilhelm Popper, violoncello, and Hezr Richard Klugescheid, violin, ‘These well known musicians propose to give & series of concerts, classical and instructive in char- acter, that will be attractive to all loyers of goad music, If thoir first effort is a criterion there is li} tle reason to doubt that the club will bea welcome addition to musical ciréles, In Misa Anton an excel- lent pianist has been secured, She represents the strony, broad style peculiar to the German school, and suggestive of & Wealth of brain and muscle. ‘Tuore are tow male performers who equal her mas: culine vigor and splendid wrist power, so much so, indeed, that yesterday there were times when the piano did not uly correspond with the tenderness and grace which one or two of the compositions de- manded and received from the string instruments, sv that the music failed to evenly represent the sen- v, Cart Kichcer is 8 pupil of Spour and is a well known violinist and composer, Mr. Risch, Mr, Wilbetm Popper and Herr Richard Kingescheid are likewise favorably known in pro.essional circ) ‘Lhe first number on the programme was a quartet by Robert Fuchs, acomposer whose name and pro- duccions are uot im this couatry very familiar, He is the author, however, of many mtiful serenades that are populur abroad. The firsp movement is in G minor, and commencing with the principal theme carries it through the entire iirst part in a man- ner that is at once offective and enjoy- able because’ it docs not exhibit too much learning while it is thoroughly musical in treatment, An adagio follows that is replete with, power, after which comes a scherzo that sparkles with ems and is in every way brilliant, ‘The tnale possibly shows more harmony than melody, but it consistently preserves the beauty of expression that enliveus the composition through- out. Mr. Ch. Fritsch, the tenor, sang Schumann's “Mondnacht” and Schubert’s “Am Meere.” If he did not do himself full justice it was owing to indis- position, Ill as he was, however, the audience warmly applauded his last number. The next feature of the programme was an intermezzo, from a quartet for stritem played for the first time. It is the composition of J. Von Beliczay, a Hungarian, and is full of smoothly flowing and sentimental meusures characteristic of tho Hungarian school. Mr. A. E. Stoddard rang, and, for the first time in public, we believe, “Célebrons le Seigneur,” by Rupes. ‘This tine artist was at his best and made the new sony exceedingly effective. ‘The sextet by G. Onslow concluded the enterteinment. Instrumen- tally it was not in every way so perfect as the other pieces, owing, probably, to the fact that it is a com- position that severely tests the most accoinplished urtist. It begins with a short introduction and ig built up after the sonata style. The first movement is vigorous, but difficult. ‘Lhe second theme is of rare beauty. ‘The variations of the third part bear a striking resemblance to cortain Russian characteris- tics and are exquisitely beautiful, abounding in gems, The last movement is also of a lively charac- ter, but was evidently a great trial to the clib. ‘The Quintet have reason to be satisted ‘with their first success and ave to be congratulated upon this worthy endeavor to elevate their art. MUSICAL AND DRAMAMC NOTES. The “Black Crook” is to be revived at Niblo’s about tho 24th of February. The “Danites,”’ at Booth’s Theatre, are drawing full honses, and the play is more enjoyable than ever. The great Siingerfest at Spripger Hall, Cincinnati, will commence on the lithof Juneand continue until the 15th, inclusive. ‘The second soirée of Chamber Music given by the New York Philharmonic Club will take place on the 4th of Februery at Chickering Hall. In Paris, at the Athénée Comique the “Bubel- Revue” aud at the Odeon the ‘Perruque Merveil- leuse” are the only novelties that have been rec@ntly announced. 4 Mr. J. Aberle, the proprietor of the Tivoli Theatre, was the recipient of a complimentary testimonial at the hands of his. friends and patrons on Monday afternoon and evening. Rico’s opéra bouffe company, now playing “H. M, 8. Pinafore,” will close their engagement here on Saturday night, opening at the Park ‘Theatre, Brook: lyn. Monday, February 3, in “Pinafore” for a weok, At the Elks’ benefit performance at the Boston ‘Theatre last week the receipts amounted to $2,600, It is said to have been pecuniarily the most success« ful occasion of the kiud in the history of the Order. “Colleen Bawn” at the Grand Opera House haa proved to be one of the most successful of the attrac- tions of the present geason. Boucicault has rarely played better, and ccrtainly never to more apprecia tive audiences, a “Dr. Clyde” has been ent down since its first per. formance at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, and is draw- ing well, The love scene is loudly applauded every night and the comedy business of Mr, Hardenberg loudly laughed at. ‘ M. Westberg, who made so agreeable an impression in “Martha” and “Mignon” with the Strakosch troupe, was for several years the leading tenor of the Koyal Italian Opera at Stockholm, Sweden, where _ he sung with Mme. Nilsson. “H. M. 8, Pinafore,” at the Standard, has become all the rage. Last night it was almost. impossible to get inside the doors. If those who have already ut- tended once or twice will stay away and give others a chance'they will make more room. At O. D, Borse’s first symphony concert at Chick- ering Hall to-night seven of this composer's original pieces will be played, including the symphony “In Memoriam.” Mr. Borse will be assisted by several soloisis, a vocal quartet and a grand orchestra, . A letter recently received from Miss Emma Thursby leayes it still undecided when she will return to America, She had several engagements in Berlin, inclading a court concert, all of which have been postponed on account of the official mourning for the Princess Alice. “Dot; or, the Cricket on the Hearth” is steadily increasing in popularity and fills the Park Theatre nightly with audiences that enjoy the beautiful play. Notwithstanding this fact, “Solon Shingle” and “The Victims” will be put on next week. Saturday's matiuée and evening performance will be especially attractive to the ladies and little folks, ; Mr, George Edgar as King Lear, at the Broadway, has made a very satisfactory profossional entree—and has no occasion to regret the judgment which in- duced him to go from the business office to the stage, He has improved very much since the “first night, and is now making points that are worthy of th» attention of Shakespercan students, ANTHONY BLEECKER M'DONALD. Anthony. Bleecker McDonald, who was the oldes¥ insurance underwriter in this city, died yesterday, a the age of seventy-three, For some time past he hag been suffering from pneumonia, His life was wholly identified with New York, ‘He was born in Willism street in March, 1906,, For fifteen years he was Secretary of the Knickerbocker Fire In- surance Company, and in 1861 he was ap. pointed by the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool its agent for this city, and continued in that position until his death, He was for more than fifty years a momber of St. Luke's Protestant Ej copal Church, and for forty-two years he was the superintendent of St. Luke's Sunday school. He was also senior warden and treasurer of the church, a trustee of the Church of the Disciples, of the Gen. cra! Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episco- 1 Church, and aiso of the Socicty for the Promotion of Religion and Learning, He and the Rev. Dr. Tuttle were most con spienous in the, founding o St. Luke's Hospital, Some years ago he was senior warden of Bt. ‘Himotny's Chureh, In private lite Mr. MeDonald was greatly beloved by those with whom he asso. ciated. He was ever liberal in his donations for relf+ gious purpores and was personally active in the work of inculcating the practical lessons of the Gos. pel. At the age of twonty-five he married a daughter of the late John Low. One of their children died and three others grew up, He has left a widowed daughter avd a widowed duughter-ia-law and seven grand children, In business he was cautious aud clear stghted, and was noted for the truthfulness of his character, 6 JOHN W. @OOPER. Mr. John W, Cooper, an old provision merchant, died yesterday in Dobbs’ Ferry, at the age of eighty, years, Whena boy he went into business with Mr, Giraud at No. ‘ront street, this city, and a half contury ago it.was removed to the other side of the atrect, JOSEPH BISIOP, Mr. Joseph Bishop, the senior partner of the O1@ slip ehipbuilding frm of Bishop & Simonson, and the builder of the steamer Atlantic, kod on the Sound many years ago and involving @ sad loss of lite, died at Noroton Coun.. on Tuesday. . > .