The New York Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1879, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD Pe BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Bate DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, onts per copy (Sundays excluded). Ten dollars per M1 TE TERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- TO SUBSCRIBER st Office money ordey —Remit in drafts on New nd where neither of these pisteved letter, AML rv to insure atten. anyed must sive be ‘AN busin be addressed Letters und packages shou Rejected communications properly sented. pe returned. parental“ LPHIA OFFIC SOUTH SIXTH OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— will be reecived and w York, S TO-DAY AMUSEMI ACADEMY OF MUSIC BOOTHS THEATRE) STANDARD THEATR: BOWERY TE Pinavons. Matinee. ATRE: ALR. Matinoe. NIRLO'S GARDENS Matineo. NEW YORK AQUART Snow. GLO’ ALTEN JUNGGESELLER, JOLLKEN BawN, Matinee, Matinee. A HOU PARK THEATRE—Tu LYCEUM THEATRE Pinaronk. Matinee, BROADWAY THEATRE| Leak, Matinee. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—Dk. Cuypr. Matinee. THEATRE COMIQUE—M vanD BALL, Matinee, WALLAC UNION SQUARE—Tux TIVOLI TONY P. en's Daveurer, Matinee, ‘anieTy. Matinee. ies are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair, Tomorrow it will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy or fair. Way Srreer YEsterpay.—The stock mar- ket was active and strong. Government bonds were lower and dull, States higher and rail- roads strong. Money on call was easy at 1 a 2ly per cent. Is Mr. Axprew H. Green sick? He did not visit Mayor Cooper yesterday. to the sixty-four thousand dollar check forgery has disappeared ; death removed it. Tne Great Waxk for the Astley belt seems a foregone conclusion, and New York is to be the scene of the contest. Tue Rumors of disaster to the United States steamer Richmond are set at rest by the safe ar- vival of the ship at Gibraltar. Tue Procerpy in the Vanderbilt caso yes: terday showed to what an extent the science of hair splitting has been developed by the legal fraternity. Mayor Cooper promised yesterday to do all in his power to prevent the dumping of garbage in the harbor. Now let us watch and see what a Mayor's. power really amounts to in this direc- tion. Brook yn Prorce will feel easier on reading that most of the Long Island swill milk comes to New York, but alas! for the infants of this city. What is the Board of Health doing in the matter? ‘Tue Istaxp oF Jamaica is probably to have a law making flogging the punishment for nearly every offence. This may do for Jamaica, but it would never sueceed in New York—who would be left to do the flogging ? Tae New Buitpie of the Chamber of Com- merce is apparently to occupy the site of the old Post Office on Nassau street, for which the members of the Chamber have been steadily longing since the government vacated the build- ing. A Downtown Ho: Prorricror says that the principal business of country merchants coming to New York is to get drunk. He might have added that the principal business of many New York “drummers” is to supply the liquor. Comausstonek Davenport's Testimony yes- terday in his own behalf did not prove that he had acted legully in the matter of proceeding against persons claiming to be naturalized in 568, but it restated some of the particularly disgraceful facts of city polities ten years ago. Tur Sexare Comaurrex on Foreign Rela- tions does not intend to go on record against Chi- nese immigration, but reports the House bill without recommendation. This action will not, however, prevent spreadeagleism and buncombe in the Senate when the subject comes up for a Curtis has written a letter to on the subject of the hesitation of the latter to sign a warrant for the payment of a claim for professional services rendered the city by Mr. Curtis, the claim hav- ing been certified by the head of the Law De- partment, the Auditor and the Comptroller. Mr. Curtis’ arguments are altogether too long to be reproduced in our columns, but their purport ie that th or is neither right nor practical in assuming authority to revise the decisions of the Finance Department. The Werataur.—High pressures have now succeeded the low barometer on the Atlantic xeept over New Brunswick and New- and, where the pressure is relatively low. wometer is also high in the Northwest, but is falling toward the Lower Missouri Val- Jey. Inthe Southwest aud South the pressure is above the and the “norther” continue with a moderating force over the Western Gui Rains have fallen ebietly over the South A tic States, and Jight snow over the lower lakes and on the Middle Atlantic coust. Cloudiness prevails on the Gulf const, over the South At- lantic States and the upper lakes. Elsewhere the weather is aor fair, But little change bas occurred in temperate except in the Northwest, where they have risen somewhat. As the storm centre has passed into the Atlan- jc the weather will remain settled for a few days, with areus of calm in the central sulley districts and on the oust, Our special cable weather report from London states that last evening « fresh gale from the west, causing a heavy sea, prevailed at Scilly, At Holyhead the wind was yentle from the south, with a barometer at 29.06 inches. A new depression is approaching the British coasts, and will quickly follow the centre now moving over England, T weather in New York and its vieinity today will be cool and fair, To-mor- row it will be slightly warmer and partly e@loudy or faite A Prodigious Washing of Political Dirty Linen. We suppose that an inquiry which excites so much interest in the United States as the cipher investigation now in progress will be- come a topic in the press of Europe, or, at least, in that of England. Americans trav- elling or residing abroad who have any sen- sitiveness for the national honor are likely to be annoyed and humiliated by what will be said of their country and its institutions in connection with this large washiog of dirty linen in public. We do not see how this disgusting investigation could have been avoided after the publication of the cipher telegrams, but it would obviously have been better for the credit of the Republic if the despatches had not been stolen and published. Considering the use which will be made of these disclosures by the European ene- mies of our institutions it seems to us the clear duty of that part of the American press which is actuated by sound patriot- ism and true American feeling to guard against misrepresentations of the facts brought out in the pending inquiry. ‘The editorial comments of our journals are more likely to be read abroad than the tedious details of the testi- mony, and foreign readers and journalists are not likely to make allowance for the extreme partisan bias of our newspapers, It is the foregone purpose of the republican journals to damage and blacken Mr. Tilden, and a large portion of the democratic press are not unwilling that he should be dis- graced if their party can be exonerated at his expense, since he has a formidable body of political rivals who are willing to destroy his chances for another Presidential nomina- tion. The Hiratp has no share either in the republican malignity toward Mr. Til- den or in the democratic jealousy of his iur- ther pretensions. In the interest of the national character we should rejoice to see him vindicated, but not at the expense of truth. We are following the evidence with vigilant scrutiny, with a view to find what is really proved or disproved, in the hope that our total separation from party aims and passions will secure the attention of candid people to what we may say. There is, perhaps, no safer rule on such occasions than to act as if we were writing for the-in- formation of impartial people on the other side of the Atlantic, for the errors into which they are liable to fall by the repre- sentations of our party press are precisely the errors by which our own people are likely to be misled. It it be true that an eminent citizen who received upward of a quarter of a million more votes for the Presidency than his suc- cessful rival resorted to bribery as a means of getting his claims acknowledged we must submit to this humiliation, if his guilt is established by evidence; but no real lover of his country would wish to see Mr. Tilden thus exposed to universal odium by strained inferences prompted by the political passion of his enemies, If he is guilty let him be made an example and a warning; but candor and justice would alike be violated by going beyond the actual evidence for grounds of condem- nation. We would by no means so far stretch the sentiment of patriotism as to shield any man, however distinguished, against the proper force of evidence; but the national character for justice and fair play is even more important than the protec- tion or the condemnation of any individual. So far as the investigation has yet gone there is no evidence that Mr. Tilden in- spired or countenanced or connived at any attempt to secure an acknowledgment of his election by the payment of a bribe. ‘There is, to be sure, the ugly and compro- mising fact that a man standing in the most intimate and confidential relations with him, his nephew, o member of his own household, a secretary who had for years acted for him with his knowledge and approval, countenanced and abetted two schemes of bribery. ‘This is unques- tionably a most bitter and humiliating fact for Mr. Tilden. It is made infinitely annoy- ing by the delicacy of his relations with this erring nephew, who is the son of his favorite widowed sister, who has for many years presided over Mr. Tilden’s house- hold, who was the honored lady of the Gov- ernor’s mansion at Albany and would have held a similar position at Washington had Mr. Tilden been declared President. We have only to credit Mr. Tilden with average domestic and fraternal tenderness to appre- ciate the severe trial to which he has been subjected by the escapades of this nephew, whom ho attempted to redeem from bad courses in considerate tenderness for the widowed sister who was the centre of his domestic life. His failure to turn this scapegrace nephew out of his house when he discovered what he had been doing should be judged with indulgent leniency under the circumstances, But the intimacy of the relation gives a plausible color to the inference that whatever Pelton did was done with Mr. Tilden’s connivance, But this inference is supported by no facts which have as yet been brought out in the sworn testimony. On this point, which is the great point of all, Mr. Marble’s evidence yesterday supports and corroborates that of the pro- vious witnesses, Mr. Marble swears that he went to Piorida without even consult- ing Mr. Tilden on the subject, and that while there he had no communication with him; but his sharp remon- strance to Pelton against being in- terfered with and his assumption of full powers until otherwise directed seemed to imply that he considered himself the agent of somebody having more authority than would naturally belong to Pelton. If his mission was self-uriginated, as he testi- fies, and if the people who accompanied him went by his invitation, why did he telegraph that he needed “no further assist- ance except full powers, which will be taken for granted till withdrawn?” Had Pelton authority to grant or withdraw full powers? How could he have been depend- ent upon any New York outhority in the exercise of a mission which he took upon himself without authorization from Mr. Tilden and which he assumed as an inde pendent and uninstracted volunteer? But, in spite of this weak point in his tes- timony, there is nothing in Mr, Marblo’s statements which convicts Mr. Tilden of any complicity with Pelton’s despatch ac- cepting the fifty thousand dollar proposal. It would have been wiser not to have communicated either the two hundred thousand dollar proposition or the fifty thousand dollar proposition, even ‘as a matter of news.” Mr. Marble per- haps thought it important for Mr. Pelton to know that the Florida Returning Board was yenal and was seeking a pur- chaser; but from that moment he should have inferred that his mission was hopeless. If members of the Returning Board were ready to sell out to one side they must have been equally ready to sell out to the other, and a party that scorned to buy could have had no expectation of success. he proper thing for Mr, Marble to have done at that stage was to expose and proclaim those offers then and there tothe general indignation of the country, instead of conveying them to New York by a clandestine mode of communica- tion, and tempting the weak side of virtue into the disgraceful acceptance which is the chief shame and scan- dal of the whole transaction. Mr. Marble committed a great error in communicating the offer as a piece of confidential news to New York instead of exposing, proclaiming and denouncing it on the spot and thereby covering the Returning Board with dis- grace. Had he taken this course the cipher exposure would have been a blank cart- ridge, Mr. Tilden is to be examined to-day at his own request, and when he has testified we shall have all the materials of any im- portance which we are likely to possess for a fall review and final judgment of his con- nection with this scandalous affair. A New Proposition. One of the proprietors of the Seventh Avenue and Broadway Railroad Company gives his views in anvther column of the advantages of a surface road on Broadway, between Union square and the Battery. His idea is that the Broadway line might be used by the Seventh avenue cars, which now ran on University place, Church street, &e. ; by the Fourth avenue cars, which now come down the Bowery, and by the Bleecker street curs, which now run on Bleecker, Crosby and other east side streets. Church street, it is argued, would thus be relieved, and would, when free from rails, draw off a certain amount of trucks and wagons from Broadway, while the narrow streets east of Broadway, including Ann _ street, would also get rid of the rail- road tracks. These propositions will attract attention; but probably some objection will be made to giving up Broad- way as a sort of general railroad line to be used in common by a number of" horse car lines. The desire on the part of many of the advocates of a surface road on Broadway south of Union square has been to see such a road operated as a Broadway railroad proper, on an improved plan, with hand- some, convenient cars, good horses and ac- commodations not heretofore supplied by the horse car lines. There is no reason why the rails should not be laid on a plan that would render it safe for the lightest vehicles to drive over them, especially if the company is bound in ils charter to keep the road in perfect condition, The proposi- tion now advanced to run the cars of a number of existing lines over the Broadway road presents a new feature which deserves consideration. Homes and Schools We are glad to learn that ex-Mayor Wick- ham, chairman of the new Warming and Ventilation Committee of the Board of Edu- cation, has taught the teachers in at least one public school to open windows and ventilators so as to introduce pure air and expel that which is bad. When, however, he expresses his belief that most of the schools are better vontilated than the ma- jority of private houses, he not only admits his very slight knowledge of the condition of the generality of schoolrooms, but he offers a comparison which is entirely for- eign to the subject in question. Dwelling houses are generally built without the slightest intentional provision for a supply of pure air, but while an aver- age of half a dozen people occupy each house and suffer from the deoxygen- ized and otherwise deteriorated air, an equal floor space in a schoolroom will be covered by from five hundred to fifteen hundred children. If the few individuals who inhabit a dwelling or even a set of apartments in the cheapest tenement house suffer because of bad air, as they generally do, what is the probable effect upon fifty or a hundred times as many children in air filty or o hundred times as badly polluted by human breath and worse physical emanations? Mr. Wickham is to be thanked for his faulty simile; for the languor and stupidity of many a home circle in an unventilated house gives at least a faint suggestion of the experiences of tens of thousands of in- nocents, too young to complain intelligently, bat old enough to suffer intensely and per- manently. Our Streets at Albany. One of the important points in the chron- icles of what was done at Albany yesterday actually deals with a project to clean the streets of this city. Ordinary readers may deem it incredible that anybody could have thought such a labor feasible, but we refer them to the bill in another column. It is proposed to take this duty away from the Police Department, transfer it to tho Department of Public Works and to revive, practically, the ancient in- stitution known as the Street Depart- ment. All projects in the Legislature with regard to this subject must necessarily be regarded with more or less suspicion. It is only from the Legislature, it is true, that we are likely ever to have a remedy in regard to the streets, and yet when any action is taken we naturally doubt the hon- esty of the intention and want to know if there is not a colored gentleman in the fence. He is not immediately visible in this project, but he may be there. There are somo reasons why, with a well mauaged police, this duty could be better performed in that department; but as things abso- lutely cannot be worse than they are there is some promise even in any change. Diseased Cattle. Governor Robinson has moved with eom- mendable promptitude in the action so far taken with regard to the cattle disease near this city. As the Governor cannot be ex- pected to proceed upon common report, nor, we suppose, even upon what he finds in the newspapers, it would hardly be fair to say that he shows more caution than vigor in a case in which vigorous action is especially necessary. He has directed Pro- fessor Lowe to examine the places near Brooklyn and on Staten Island where cows are kept--not to establish the existence of the disease ; examination could seareély be necessary for that purpose, especially for Long Island, as the Brooklyn Board of Health Inspection and similar official reeord must be presumed to be known to the Governor—but in order that intelligible recommendation may be made by an expert as to what action the Governor ought to take in breaking up these establishments. Under the law the Governor has authority to initiate proceedings that may do finally for these horrible pestholes what local health boards and: Mr. Bergh's society have vainly striven to do for a great while. Naturally His Excellency will not proceed precipitately in a case where his official action will interfere with the ‘profitable” use of private property; but he cannot eventually hesitate between the little evil that will be done by the interruption of the cow house culture of cattle plague and the great benefit that will resulé to an im- portant commerce by the actual extinction of this disease. Rights of property, it ap- pears, can be made only against rights of property, and humanity and considerations of public health are of no account in the scale. For years we have held that these stables were a source of disease in the com- munity ; that the milk was sold in the city, and bred disease, and was a cause of such debility in children as made them easy victims to prevalent maladies; but the Governor never heard of that. Fortunately, therefore, against the right of property in diseased cows is raised the cry of the right of property inthe great cattle commerce with foreign countries, and as this right is by far the most important we may fairly hope that it will overcome the other. Composite Ships. The investigations of the Henaxp regard- ing the construction of ocean steamers and their seaworthiness brings to general notice some interesting facts which were hitherto known only to experts. That an iron ship is subjected to heavy strains due to expan- sions and contractions of the metal is easily demonstrable and not disputed. But acer- tain provision is made for these by the rounded or curved lines of the hull, which afford a certain small percent- age of play. ‘he straight plates are of course directly affected, and the strains are at once thrown on bolts or rivets by the contractions, and to a less degree by the expansions, unless the surface is very fully riveted. But the general ten- dency is toward a disorganization of the parts of the hull and ultimate unseaworthi- ness. Regarding the effects of interior tem- perature, we believe they can be modified by enclosing the boiler space with double iron walls containing a changing supply of water. It would also be possible to put the ship’s plates in position at a low tem- perature, so that when there they would only be subjected to an expansion strain, as cooling by contact with the sea would bring them down to their normal dimen- sions. This may make iron ship build- ing a little slower than ordinary, but it would, we beiieve, give good results in the matter of stability. For a similar reason we believe that the plates of steam boilers should be riveted together at the highest temperature possible, especially when the figure is that of a cylinder. The references made in our article on ‘‘Satety at Sea,” printed elsewhere to-day, to the relative merits of wooden and iron vessels, are worthy of attention. How the difficul- ties of ship construction can be obviated by the adoption of the composite system is also an interesting question touched on by the gentleman whose opinions we publish. Improving the Mississippi. It is rather late in the day to discuss plans for improving the mouth of the Mis- sissippi River with a view to obtaining deep water on the bar, because the works now being executed by Captain Eads are so far advanced as to have practically demon- strated that the jetty system is a success. But time alone can determine whether the results already obtained will be permanent or not. We print to-day a communication on the general subject of improving the Lower Mississippi, and chiefly the part known as the Passes, because we believe that the position of the writer is in some respects well taken. There is no doubt that the selection of the South Pass for the jetty experiment was nota wise one and that the Southwest Pass offered a better line for improvement. But as that selec- tion has been definitely made and large sums have been spent on the works with good results, and, furthermore, as the carry- ing out of these has involved the closing of the Southwest Pass at its head for the pur- pose of concentrating the current through the narrower outlet, it is next to uscless to expect that Congress will permit any more experiments which are calculated to dis- organize the accepted plan, It is now three and o half years since the Henatp fully discussed the leading points in the questions relating to the physics of the Mississippi, and particularly regarding the filling up of the river bed, the selection of the South Pass and the in- uifdations of the bottom lands.. We took two or three occasions to warn the engineers conducting the improvements, or projecting new ones, that an apparently unimportant error in calculation might cause irreme- diable damage to ndvigation at some not distant time. We cannot now advocate any new schemes, no matter how promising, until the programme of improvement regu- larly adopted after mature consideration by supposedly competent engineers is carried out. Captain Eads’ jetties have given nearly twenty-four feet of water at a point where there was less than seven, and vessels of the heaviest tonnage up to twenty- two feet draught reach New Orleans with- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1879.—TRIPLE S . out difficulty. Therefore, while engineer. ing experiments on a grand seale may be vory useful and lead to great results eventually, it will not be prudent to make them at the cost of interrupting the naviga- tion of the Mississippi and at the risk of a possible disastrous failure that would leave things worse than they ever were before. National Quarantine. The select committee of the United States Senate appointed to investigate the subject of the introduction of epid: mie diseases and to suggest preventiv> measures has reported in favor of the organization of « national quarantine system, tor simple and cogent reasons. It is satisfied by the testimony of experts that yellow fever and cholera never originate in this country, but are broaght here from other places. It might have added the plague to its category, as We may pos- sibly have to deal with that one of these days. Further, that the only hope of es- cape from the importation of these de- structive maladies is in an effective quarantine, and that quarantine, as it deals with foreign commerce or com- merce between the States, is naturally and constitutionally a concern of the federal government—all of which is sound, The bill submitted creates a national board of health, of which the Surgeon General of the army and the Sur- geon General of the navy are ex officio mem- bers, and which has the government of the murine hospitals, and ean call upon our representatives abroad for information as tothe health of different places, It is not intended to interfere with any State estab- lishments, but to organize a serviee th t shall cover persons whom State authorities cannot reach. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Some bakers make bread alum mode, The Marseiliaise likeus Gambetta to Moses, Thurman and Tilden are each sixty-five years old, When a stag takes to the water he swiins for deer life. Croizette and Bérnhandt love each other like cats and dogs. Mr, Ferdinand Fish will find what he lost by calling at this office. Chapeaux of the First Empire are beginning to be worn in Paris, “Nocturnes in pink and white’ are what young fellows about town affect this winter, It has been discovered that contemporaneous fel- lows generally die about the same time, Miss Jennie June Croly and Miss Kate Sanborn have been lecturing in Massachusetts, Parisians are trying to revive the camelia for even- ing wear, but white roses hold their own. When a Fiji Island beau, in bidding his dusky beau good night, says “T'a,” she says ‘“Tartoo.” We mortals fling our banners to the breezes, but Old Boreas flings his breezes to our banners. Chicago Tribune:—“Sitting Bull is first in war, first in peace and first in the hairs of his countrymen.” M. Le Royer, the new French Minister of Justice, bears a strong resembiance to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Good men should make no fuss in dying. When you shufile off this mortal coil do not do it witha double shufile. A boy writes wishing to know what.is the hardest of known substances. Probably the editorial page of a Canada newspaper. Yung Wing has been presented with a son by Mra. Yung Wing. The old folks are just as Yung as they used to be.—Boston Post, Yes, and they sail through life Wing and Wing. A trio came from Brooklyn to New York Sunday in search of Henry Ward Beecher's church. Really, the ignorance that prevails in some of the suburbs of the metropolis is appalling. ‘The two first gentlemen inquired for by visitors to the galleries of the Senate are Messrs. Conkling and Blaine. Inthe House General Butler divides this popularity with no one—not even with Stephens and Garfield. ‘The city authorities have placed handsome signs on the corners of the property bounding Harry Howard square, which is on the hill between Broadway and the Bowery, near Canal street, and where the old fireman still lives. The wife of a United States Senator says she can never get used to calling at the houses of strangers and having strangers call on her and having every- body smile like friends. And how hollow, meaning- less and useless it all is, too, M. Henry Waddington, the new French Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of Council, shows his English blood. Heis more stocky and shows less limberness of character than his wholly French con- Sreres, He might be mistaken for a sturdy iron manufacturer; in fact his father was an English cot- ton spinner. From London Fun;—"‘In Siberia,’ says the New York HERavp, ‘you can buy beef for two cents a pound, a goose for twelve cents, a chicken for four cents, and 361 pounds of corn for six cents.’ What a cents-ible place to be sure! is our comment on that. ‘But,’ adds the New York Hexaxp, ‘you have to shoot the bears out of your parlor window.’ Ah, that, now, is not cents-ible; it's unbearable!” London World:-—“Not long ago a husband sought a divorce. Society was full of sympathy for the in- jured inan, whom it believed to be overpowered with grief for the loss he had sustained. The lady, after the usual probation, prepared once more to re-enter the married state. The night before the wedding she was surprised by the arrival of a casket. On opening it she found a magnificent present of jewelry, with a note from the divorced husband congratulating her warmly on her approaching nuptials and wishing her every happiness in her future conjugal relations.” London Truth:—“Che Crown Prince Rodolph got himself into a mess the other day in Prague. wrote to a young lady, who is a singer in the theatre of that town, requesting her to call upon him to give ‘a few lessons in singing. The lady has two brothers who are officers quartered at Prague, To them she handed the letter. They at once called on the Crown Prince and asked for ‘satisfaction.’ If his position did not enable him to grant them this satisfaction they would, they said, accept it from the aide-de- camp of His Imperial Highness, Finally it was agreed that the Crown Prince should tender an apology, and the affair ended,” AMUSEMENTS, ACADEMY OF MUSIC--THE PHILHARMONIC s0- crrry, The public rehearsal for the fourth concert of the Philharmonic Society took place yesterday afternoon ‘at the Academy of Music and was attended by a largo and discriminating audience, The first feature of the programme was Mendelssohn's Symphony, No. 4, in A, consisting of the following movements:—a, Allegro vivace; b. Andante con moto; ¢. Con moto moderato; d. Presto. The andante was warmly ap- plauded and expecially afforded opportunity for the exhibition of the art of the orchestra, It must not be understood, however, that the society was uot in every way equal to its well-known reputation, The soloist of the occasion was Miss Leonie Groessler Heim, from Stuttgart, a pupil of Professor Speidel and Dr. Franz Liszt, This was her first appearance in America. Her selection wasa concerto in A minor by Schumann. Whife the lady played admirably, and is undoubtedly an excellent artist, the orchestra did not permit her to be heard at her best, and the audience were therefore unable to enjoy the del- jcate offects which she sought to produce. She showed a want of power expression, or it may be she was compelled to do so. ‘The last feature of the programme was @ age by ‘Tschaikowsky, a Hungarian, whic! was performed forthe first time in America, It con- sists of the tollowing moyements:—a, Moderato assai, Allegro brillante; b. moderato @ sem- plice; c, Andante elegiavo; a. vivo; ¢. Allegro con fuoco, As & whole work commands compli- ment, and it was warmly received by the audience. It ia ‘full of melody, rich in harmony and affords ample opportunity for @ of instrumenta- tion. It did not suffer y in this respect. It is probable that the symphony will become tn musical ctroles, although ite princi eventually be found to ieaied tts iw MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Mr. J.P. Pattison, the well known pianist, Miss A performance will be given at the Academy of Music on the 2st of February for the benefit of Mr. Neil Bryant. Many members of the profession have volunteered, and the occasion promises to be one of much interest, Phas — Dickinson delivers her lecture on “The morrow night, Mr. D. H. Harkins havi inc: the Fifth aveuve Thestre af hor aleportl. ad subject, a8 treated by Miss Dickinson, is one that has attracted considerable attention, and she will doubt- less have an appreciative audience, “Pinafore” will uot be produced at the Fifth Ave nue Theatre uatil Monday, Mr. Max Maretzek is ip charge of the rehearsais, The San Francisco Min- strels are Likewise preparing for a sensation in this line, and we shail be mistaken if they do not step to the front*in producing the musical beauties of the operetta, “Cuknown” has closed its fourth week at the Globe Theatre to a succession of very large audiences, Its best praise lies in the fuct that it came modestly heralded and has, by its own merit, won its way to “stending room only” and general praise. This Will be its closing week, as Mr. Stevens and his com- pany are under engagement to appear at Haverly’s Theatre, Chicago, on the 17th inst. OBITUARY. PETER W. HOPKINS, STATE SENATOR. State Senator P. W. Hopkins, of the Twenty-fourth district, died at the Eldridge House, Albany, yester- day morning, February 7, after a brief iliness. Mr. Hopkins had been absent from the Senate for a week past, but his illness was unknown, save to a few per sonal friends from Binghamton, until Thursday night, when Senators Hogan and Ecclesine called at his room. They found Bim delirious from brain | fever, and immediately calied in Dr. Bailey, of Ale bany, who said at once that the case was hopeless, Mr. Hopkins’ home physician happened to be in Al- Dany, and was also called in, and remained at his bedside during the might until he breathed his The immediate cause of » hte i § = ; : Hi ! : : i ist i HE H FF FE i i ii ! f nf ? ii author Mr, Charles Lanman, died on Wednesday morning, the 5th inst., at the residence of one of her daughters, at East Orange, N. J., aged seventy-cight years, The deceased lady was the widow of Mr, Char ¢s James Lanman, of Norwich, Conn. She was of French descent and was born and reared on the River Raisin, in Michigan, a region rendered familiar to many readers by her son's cutertaining and pathetio sketches, At the age of eleven years she witnessed the famous Indian massacre at Mich., om which occasion her own life was spared a aingn- lar good fortune. In 181s she married Mr. Charles J, Lanwan, with whom she resided for several years at Monroe, Mich, Since 1835 her had been at Norwich or at New London, of those places being identified with the Lanman family for several one, husband, who died several years ago, was a son of Judge James of the Con- necticut Court, who wes U: States Sena tor from 1519 to 1825, and died at Norwich in 1841, i ef il ist DANIEL W. CLARKE. Daniel W. Clarke, an old resident of this city, i as at his home on Thursday evening. He was born ip Essex county, England, in 1802, and coming to this country about the year 1826 married shortly after- ward, He had always since lived in New York and was one of the oldest members of the Tammany So- ciety. In i hea | elected to the Jarenits, and subsequently recel| an appointment an police tice from Governor Seymour. More recently the position of Clerk of the the position of Clerk in the Court time of his death. He had been hi'three died of the gradual enfeeblement incident eI II | viples, ir avenue streok, on Sunday afternoon, at two o'clock, ment will be made in Greenwood Cemetery. Clarke leaves five JOHN VAN VECHTEN. Mr. John Van Vechten, well known along the Hud son River, died at his residence at Leeds, Greene county, on Monday, the 3d inst., aged ninety-two years, He was born at Catskill November 14, 1786, of an old and respected family, which produced several able men. Abraham Van Vechten, one of the distin- quished citizens of Greene county, is his brother, Deceased was educated at the Kingston , wee appointed by Governor Tompkins a captain the war of 1512, and served on Long Island. He was an active whig politician and waa a personal friend of Henry Clay. He gained and lost three fortunes aur- ing his lifetime, but died . He followed business of surveying for eighteen years. and the office of justice of the peace for twenty over years, His wife died a few months ago, nearly ninety Yeurs of age. ALEXANDER G, JORNSON. Alexander G. Johnson, a well known journalist, died at his residence Y., yesterday afternoon, He 13, 1813, in Newbury, Vt. ated at Dartmouth College, and was admitted td the bar in 1841, He was at time the editor of the Troy Daily #ut cherwens E to 1878, oe boy! Meee. oly technic Institute. State from 1849 to 1851 alro In 1869 he prepared the School laws of New York. He was also a . lector of the port of New York. JOHN ‘tation tj of Coronet foltman viewed his burial permit. CAPTAIN CHARLES BROWNE. Captain Charles Browne died suddenly at his resb dence in Brooklyn on Thursday morning last. He was born on the Isie of Wight in the year 1433, and early engaged in @ seafaring life, which he followed until the 1871, when he discontinued going to rea and in business in this city. ‘the vessels which he com were well: ships Guy Webster, The will take place to-morrow from his late residence No. 428 Union street.