The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1879, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. ‘Three cents per copy (Sundays excluded), Ten dollars per jars and fifty conts y edition i jar por year, free of post- drafts on New neither of these All TICE TO SUBSCRIBE Yihiee 1 Remit in i dw their old us well as All business. news | de uddressed New Yous nia Lotters and packages should be properly Rejected communications will noc be returned, O. 112 SOUTH SIXTIT EB NEW YORK HERALD— LPHIA OFFIC E DE STRADA Subseri, ill bo received and forwarde York BVENING. Matineo. Matinee, ick ow Trek Woops. Yur Lerrek Derkerivs, . Matinee. Matinee. PINAFORE, Matinee. anv BaLt. Matines, kDCRKN Vou BALLET, RE—SrKLLBOUND. Matineo. Kkm's Davgnter, Matinee, Narore Matinee. WINDSOR THEATRE Matinee, TIVOLE THEATRE—Vane rOR'S—Vanieni York and its vieinity to-day will be warmer, with increasing cloudiness, followed by rain. To-mor- row it will be warm and cloudy, with rain. Watt Srrext Y Ket was active, but feverish in tone. Government bonds were. firm, States weak and railroads quiet. Money on call was easy at 3a4 per put, advanced to 5 and closed at 4 per cent. A ‘TENCE to hard labor for life is bad, but setting tire to tenement houses is worse. O'Leary will gain friends by his hearty and gentlemanly welcome of Rowell, who came over here for the belt that O'Leary brought from England. Titpen Is Avencep. A man could not wish his worst enemy more tormented than the Pres- ident is just now about the fifteen-man Ameri- can-ship Chinese act. A Contemporary suggests that Captain Boy- ton’s watertight dress will enable the Chinese to enter America and circumvent the ftifteen- man law. Pacific coast papers please copy. A Kentucky Poriceman fought another wan yesterday with his fists only, and was promptly suspended from duty. He should have fought with a club if he wanted to retain his position. Weston has one manly consolation for his failure to do his two thousand miles on time— he tramped over the same sort of roads and in the same kind of weather that ordinary mortals use. Ovr Srory of the loss of the Tolck is spe- cially commended to the attertion of Congress, which is responsible for whatever shortcomings of the Life Saving Service are caused by insufli- cient equipment. Coyeness is paying practical attention to ventilation, and has appropriated $30,000 for improving the air of the House. They could have el that money by adopting the fiat system of our Board of Education and pro- nouncing the ventilation perfect. Texement Dancers.—Last night's meeting at Cooper Institute was remarkable for the character aud high standing of a large propor- tion of the attendants. Like wise men they refrained from embalming their convictions in a set of resolutions, as any body of mere senti- mentalists would have done. The committee ap- pointed by the chairman to devise some method of reducing the bad features of tenement house life to a minimum is composed almost entirely of solid citizens, and their deliberations can hardly fail to suggest some remedy or, at least, some degree of alleviation. Tue Wearne ‘The meteorological condi- tious prevailing yesterday were marked in the region east of the Mississippi River by the movement over the whole of a remarkable area of high pressure, whose centre travelled over the lakes, the Middle and New England States, Canada and the British maritime provinces toward Newfoundland. Pressures ranging con- siderably above 30.80 inches were observed within the zone of movement of the highest barometer, and these decreased gradually toward the Gulf, where they ranged be- tween 30.30 and 30.20 inches. The de- velopment of this extraordinary atmos- pheric density occurred after midnight of Thursday, and very little loss of pressure was observable over the Middle and New England States until toward last evening, when the area of high barometer moved slowly northeastward to the regions of New Brunswick, Newfound- Jand and Labrador. West of the Mississippi the depression already noticed in the Herat advanced to the Missouri Valley from the south- west and west, cutting imto, as it were, the high barometer immediately in front. Steep baro- ametric gradients were thus formed, with result- ing high winds before and gales behind the contre of disturbance. Light snow and rain fell on the eastern and northeastern tMargin of the low barometer. The temper atures also rose before it, causing a rainfall in close proximity to an abandant snowfall. Low Aowperatures, however, continued over Manitoba, ‘the lakes, and, indeed, all the region east of the Mississippi and north of latitnde 35 degrees, antil the receding high pressures gave south- erly and southeasterly winds, which quickly praised the temperature south of the Makes to above the normal for tho @eason. Cloudincss is limited to the lake districts and westward, but will extend grad mally eastward during today. Elsewhere the woather has been olear. It is probable that a etorm of considerable enorgy is moving in a far Rorthern zone, and which contributed to the development of the very high pressures in our Jatitude. The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be warmer, with increasing cloudiness, followed by rain. To-morrow it will be warm and cloudy, with rain, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Afghan War—Opinions of General Rasgonoff. linteresting despatches from the Henatp correspondent at Tashkend are given in our columns to-day, and record the prog- ress of events at that important post— the arrival of the ambassadors of the Ameer of Cabul, their reception by the representa- tive of the Russian Czar, and sets forth more amply than the despatch of yesterday the opinions of General Rasgonoff en the possible chances and changes in Afghanis- tan. In these despatches, as, indeed, in all our despatches from the same source, the public has fair occasion to admire once again that ever new wonder—the growth of the news gathering system of the daily press, From the heart of Asia we get for to-day’s paper the report of a conversation held in Turkestan on February 24, and also despatches on Thursday and yesterday, the latter reporting the death of the Ameer himself and suggesting new complications of the Central Asian question, It is but a very few years since all that part of the world was looked upon as a region scarcely accessible to creatures of Western race. People read in their hisiories and in wild, half fabulous chronicles of Balkh, Bokhara and Samarcand, and only half realized the fact of their existence on earth. Vambery was thought almost as famous as Marco Polo and as adventurous as Stanley because he went over countries now visited by three Henaxp correspondents, and trom which we get daily reports by telegraph. Bussian magnates have been somewhat troubled as to how they should deal with the case that is presented to them by the arrival of this embassy. Instructions from St. Petersburg were requested by the au- thorities in Asia, who clearly appreciated the full significance of this event in the aspect ofits moral effect on Asiatic peoples and naturally feared that if leit to themselves they might give exclusive attention to that part of the case to the neglect of the Euro- pean relations involved. They were in- structed, but the instructions given pro- ceeded exclusively from considerations of Russia’s relations to England in Europe, and the agents of the Emperor in Asia per- haps demanded the modification of these instructions, for the definite purpose to re- ject all propositions from the Ameer’s repre- sentatives does not seem to figure in the present programme. _ It is scarcely possible to overrate the im- portance of this embassy in the light of those relations to Asiatic opinion and policy which both England and Russia must keep in view as they hope to guard and aggran- dize their Eastern empires. Afghanistan is a considerable State, independent as yet of the Power that has absorbed all the king- doms in the vast peninsula to the southeast of it, but which that ravenous and unscru- pulous Power now seeks to absorb by the same system it has applied to so many other Asiatic States. In this emergency the Afghan sovereign appeals to Russia as the other great European Power interested in Asiatic dominion, and calls for protection and assistance. With full knowledge of the experience of Hindoo princes and people the Afghan ruler cannot contemplate with complacency his possible subjection to such a government as rules his neighbors; and he appeals to the monarch whom English writers class as the most arrogant and ab- solute of tyrants against the government of the freest people in Europe, which has plundered Hindoostan and leaves its mill- ions to starve in periodical famines, It is a fact of significance that there is a power within reach to which princes may appeal in such a case, and it is unfortunate for Russia’s influence that her hands are in any degree tied. Her agreement on this point was a blunder. General Rasgonoff’s views on the military resources of the Afghans and on the possi- ble and probable results of the war are of interest and of peculiar value as those of the only intelligent European who has actual knowledge of the facts and can re- count them, if not without prejudice, at least without prejudice against the Afghans, All reports of the condition of the people of that country, except what have reached the Hznarp from Turkestan, are from English sources. Except a few Russian officers only Englishmen have recently visited the country ; and‘ though English newspaper correspondents may have every intention to be impartial, we know very well how ab- solutely impossible it is for an Englishman to give an accurate account of the enemies of his country. From this intelligent observer, therefore, we have the opinion that the people of the country, so far as they can make themselves heard, are disposed to resist the English ; that the sovereign has no intention to make terms with them, and will give them all the trouble he can if he lives, while the prince who will be his successor on the throne exhibits the’ same disposition; and if there is some reason to doubt his declara- tion because he is thought to be insincere it should be remembered that he is a man of warlike character, and that the influences of his natural instincts and impulses might be supposed toinspire him to that very course which he declares he will pursue, As to the military means, if tho spirit to fight exist General Rasgonoff considers them amply sufficient for the occasion. The Afghans have cannon and an incom. parable cavalry that only needs to be capa- bly directed in order to completely destroy the comparatively small columns of the in- vading force. How such a body could cut off all communications with the bases upon which the invaders depend, deprive them of supplics, ravage the country near them, harass them and cut them up in detail—all that is a story familiar enough in the chron- icle of Eastern wars. But for that sort of service there needs energetic, resolute and capable commanders, and in that important material the Afghans are poor, In the light of these facts it becomes plain how vory important to England is the pros- ent attitude of Russia. Were Russia, in- deed, the sort of Power she has been pic- tured in the jeremiads of the Jingoes with what effect she could exhibit it at the pres- ent moment. England's forces in Afghan- istan are not in a good condition, They are dependent upon the country for subsis- tence, and they are compelled to resurt to the most savage suppression of popular sen- timent to prevent the slightest open demon- strations of ill will, In this crisis Russia need only raise a little finger to overwhelm the British forces in Afghanistan with a ruin as complete as that inflicted by the Zulus in South Africa upon the Twenty- fourth regiment. All the Afghans need is a competent commander. Suppose Russia should send them such aman as General Ghourka, whose brilliant achieve- ments in the Balkan country exhibited his genius for the sort of war that could be waged with this splendid Afghan cavalry— a war of rapid movements and of the de- livery of overwhelming blows that might seem almost to fall from the skies. Russia need supply no more than that one man ; she need not send a gan nor spend a dollar, and thus easily she could overwhelm an expe- dition the destruction of which would rout the Ministry. Yet sho refrains. Would England do the same in the same circum- stances? In the light of her history it is not entirely certain that she would? An Extra Session Probable. The conviction became general yesterday, among those Senators and Representatives who have heretofore believed that Congress would complete all absolutely necessary legislation by the 4th of March, that it can- not be done and that an extra session is in- evitable, There has been so much recent delay and there have arisen so many new causes of delay on several appropriation bills, and there are such strong differences between the Senate and the House as to the jobs engrafted into bills by the Senate, that there is little or no hope of getting through. The necessity for an extra session has become so generally accepted that the President conferred yesterday with leading republican Senators as to the fittest time for calling it. he conclusion to which their advice pointed is that it would be wise for the President to issue his proclamation at once on the day following the adjourn- ment, summoning the new Congress to meet after an interval of ten days. Wo hope this will be accepted as a sound view. Nothing could be gained by postponement. The appropriation bills ought to be passed before the close of the fiscal year, and time enough should be allowed for deliberate legislation. Neither the Presi- dent nor Congress wishes to be confined in the malarial atmosphere of Washington in the hot months of summer. It is better that the new Congress should assemble at once and complete its business while the weather is yet cool. If it should be re- garded to-day as a settled conclusion that there is to be an extra session that will be a good reason for dispensing with all hurry and thereby avoiding the jobs which are so apt to be smuggled in and slip through amid the tumult and distraction of the clos- ing days of a short session. The Five Hundred Athletes at Gil- more’s Lust Night. The shrill cagle cry of the Scotchmen, as it rang up from all parts of the vast hall when their pets had scored a point; the starting of some withy stripling three whole minutes behind more than a score of his comrades, and then mowing them all down before the hot two miles were over; the stringing out of thirty or more at a time till there were a dozen races all going on at once—these and the many severe tugs of war made a very gay and pretty scene at Gilmore’s last night, and the largest ath- letic meeting ever held there proved in many respects the most interesting. While in the tug of war there is clearly a wide field for good generalship it is an evident mistake to allow any two teams twenty minutes on a stretch. Five would be ample, and instead of so much lying still there should be ao constant succession of heaves, as the New York Athletic men showed lust night. Objectionable as the heaves may be in a horse they are just the thing in this now very popular sport, and men affected with them should by all means be cultivated. It is pleasant to note that, while the English press claims that ‘‘in running races at longer distances” woare ‘far behind” them, it yet concedes that while ‘‘no Englishman has yet run a hundred yards in nine and a quarter seconds the veriest sceptic will admit that the evidence that the American, G. Seward, did so is irresistible.” Large and well handled meetings like this, with the en- trance fee so low that all who wish may readily enter, and prompt and impartial disqualifying of all who do not walk fairly, do very much to foster these manly sports among us and to breed men of nerve and courage and stay. Should tho trying inter- national contest at Gilmoro’s wéek after next result in O'Leary again winning it might be well to invite some of the best English athletes in other lines to come over and try conclusions with our youth on this now famous race course. A Honeymoon in Jail. Now, indeed, the Chinese must go. They may not be able to help being heathen, or viewing the world through moon-shaped optics, and of sending their money home to their families instead of putting it into American whiskey and headaches; but when they insist upon being married like human beings, yet select a jail as » proper place in which to spend a honeymoon, they trample upon some of the most sacred rights of railway companies and hotel keepers and outrage the holiest sentiments of humanity. Yet this is what a couple of newly married Celestials yesterday pro- posed to do at Virginia City, Nevada It is not with the real merits of the case that public sentiment will concern itself, for a great many men deserve jail accomimoda- tions for life for the offence of marrying under any circumstances whatever. But marrying is not usually considered in the pitiless light of fact; the ceremony and the honeymoon are always supposed to be con- ducted in tho realm of romance, no matter what may be the antecedents and bank bal- ance of the contracting partics, and any one who departs from time-hopored custom in this respect is ulterly incompetent to regard American institutions with that intelligent sympathy which is necessary to the per- petuity of our glorious Republic. If the President throws this last anti-Chinese de- spatch into the balance instead of the waste basket the Pacific coast will promptly have its dearest wish gratified. Overwhelming Defeat of the Brazilian Subsidy. The House of Representatives did one thing yesterday which redounds greatly to its credit, It rejected the Senate amend- ment to the Post Office Appropriation bill granting a subsidy to John Roach’s line of Brazilian steamships by a vote of 89 yeas to 157 nays. ‘his is a magnificent, a tri- umphant vindication of the character of the House for honesty and economy, and for sound judgment as well. This vote goes far toward atoning for the errors of this House on the silver question and other ques- tions connected with the currency. It is but justice to say of the present democratic House that, in spite of its theoretical errors on questions of finance, it has been remark- ably free from complicity with corrupt jobs, and that it has been sincere, consistent, and successful in maintaining sound principles of economy. ‘The House has reason to be proud of its record on this great head of legislative duty. All the tears lie in an onién that will be shed over the humiliating disappointment which has overtaken John Roach and his lobby. All the money they have expended, all the intrigues and mancuvres they have been so industriously prosecuting, have gone for naught. Next to John Roach himself the person who has the greatest reason to be mortified, at this decisive defeat is Senator Blaine, who made himself the great national cham- pion of this subsidy and of the order ot ideas on which it was defended. We warned him that he was falling into a mis- take, but the warning was not heeded. His vivacity and tacility so greatly outrun his caution and foresight that he is perpetually doing things in haste to be repented of at leisure. He does too many things which evince his inability to anticipate the sober second thought and deliberate judgment of the public mind, All his most striking efforts since he has been a Senator have betrayed this lack of forecast. He made a vehement speech against the Halifax award, but the award was paid with the general approbation of the country. He took the strongest ground against the Chinese, and his views are almost unanimously repudiated in his own section of the Republic. He was the vigor- ous advocate of the Brazilian subsidy, and we behold the result. Slower, more taci- turn and less brilliant men have better chances for intrenching themselves in the solid confidence of the public, Mr. Blaine has yet to learn the meaning and value of “a wise and masterly inactivity.” Ecclesiastical Savings Banks. The immense and almost astounding amount of the liabilities of the late Arch- bishop of Cincinnati, as at length ascer- tained by investigation, is calculated to make o painful impression on minds which are sensitive to the honor of the Catholic Church in the United States and on all Christians who venerate piety out of their own communions. We sup- pose there can be no Catholics and fow Christians of any denomination who do not feel sympathy and commiseration for the aged Archbishop Purcell, whois ending alife of eminent usefulness in circumstances of disaster and humiliation. His resignation of his high ecclesiastical dignity betokened his own sense that he had made a fatal mis- take, though not asense of guilt. The re- quest of his people that his resignation should not be accepted attested their undiminished confidence in his charac- ter—a eonfidence fully justified by his long life of purity, piety and distinguished zeal tor the Church, But the acceptance of his resignation by the Pope, in disregard of that affectionate re- quest, evinces the judgment of the Holy Father that the venerable Archbishop had committed imprudences which dis- qualified him for iurther usefulness in the important station which he has so long adorned. It is impossible to doubt that the decision of Pope -Leo XIIL was wise and expedient. Although the great mistake of Archbishop Purcell was a mere error of judgment, committed with the purest intentions, it is a fatal bar to his usefulness as an ecclesiastical ruler. A Catholic bishop or archbishop must necessirily discharge certain duties in the administration of property. The church edifices and institutions of charity and education are under his supervision and control, and he needs to possess considera- ble business capacity to administer them with success. This is quite as much as can be expected of an able man in addition to his spiritual functions. Archbishop Purcell ventured beyond these limits, and he has paid a heavy forfeit for his imprudence. Thousands and thousands of humble and sincere Catholics have reason to regret the trust they reposed in him as the custodian of their modest savings. Perhaps no keener pangs can be felt by a truly pious and benevolent mind than a sense of the loss and suffering he has caused to the too confiding members of his flock. A selfish schemer feels no such poignant regrets at the misery he has inflicted upon others, but a man of true benevolence and genuine piety accuses himself more severely for his mere errors than more hardened men would for conscious breaches of trust. But indulgent sympathy for the misfortunes of this ven- erable and estimable prelate should not blind Catholics to the indefensible methods which ho pursued. It isa grave moral wrong to induce the deserving poor to intrust their hard carn. ings and scanty savings to any custody which is not absolutely safe, The unre- served confidence which such people re- pose in their religious teachers makes it too easy to mislead them, especi- ally as they are in no danger of being mis- led by intention, but only by errors of judgment in the spiritual guides whom they trust. But when they confide their prop- erty in this way they do it without any of the safeguards which the law throws around the savings of the poor, The directors of an ordinary savings bank are not permitted to manage the property intrusted to them’ according to their own dis. cretion. The law interposes to limit the amount they may receive from one indi- vidual, to limit the rate of interest they may py and: (what is infinitely more im- portant) to direct the manner in which they shall invest their funds. The safety of such property depends upon the mode of investment; but the three or four million dollars received in trust by Arch- bishop Purcell were invested or disposed of according to his unrestrained discretion, which made a lottery of the savings of the poor. If his ventures had been successful nobody would have suffered, but it is for the very reason that speculative business judgments are so liable to be mis- taken that all laws relating to the in- vestments of savings banks and trust companies take away all discretion and prescribe the particular mode in which their funds shall be invested. It will not do for any ecclesiastic to assume that he may safely take risks which the wisdom of the laws prohibits to the most trained and capable business men who are intrusted with the savings of the poor. Ecclesiastical savings banks are fundamentally wrong in principle. They receive the earnings of the poor without the safeguards which universal experience has proved to be necessary. When they fail they not only involve the poor in suffer- ing, but bring discredit upon the Church, The system is radically vicious, and it is to be hoped that the terrible warning at Cincinnati may put a total and speedy end to ecclesiastical savings banks, both for the honor of the Church and the interest of the poor. Legislative. Tinkering. The Legislature is consuming ‘much time in discussing the expediency of reducing the salaries of city officials in general and of the firemen and school teachers in par- ticular, as contemplated by Mr. Strahan’s bill. The main object of the discussions appears to be to afford seedy politicians an opportunity to profess their intense affec- tion for firemen, school teachers and labor- ers, and their determination to resist all attempts to cut down their pay. Ofcourse ali this is sincere and not designed to gain popularity and votes for the seedy politi- cians if they should happen to come before the people for re-election to the Assembly or as candidates for other positions. We are not prepared to say that any of the use- fuland hard working employés of the city in the fire or education departments are paid any too liberally for the services they render, and we are decidedly of opinion that they are the last public servants upon whom economy ought to be practised. But they must owe their escape to the proposed reduction of their moderate pay to sound reasoning and not to the buncombe of their professed champions. We need a less costly city government than we now have as a relief to all who bear the burden of taxation. We spend about thirty million dollars a year, and that is too much. But the saving to be effected by the paring down of salaries is comparatively in- significant. The important leakages are to be found in other directions. The Board of Education made a false pretence at econ- omy last year by cutting down the teachers’ salaries after the total amount to be levied by taxation for the department for that year had been fixed. The reduction did not, therefore, effect any saving to the taxpayers, but left a larger share of the appropriation to be spent in bobks, repairs of schoolhouses and heating apparatus and the wonderfully expansive item of fuel. For 1878 the Board demanded the modest gppropriation of eighty thousand dollars for fuel, an amount sufficient to purchase over twenty-six thou- sand tons of coal at three dollars per ton. In many other departments there is similar prodigality, and in nearly all an excessive and entirely unnecessary number of em- ployés. If such great leakages as these can be stopped we may save tho city three or four million dollars of annual expense and still pay the firemen and school teachers enough tosupport themselves and their fam- ilies with some little show of comfort and respectability. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Longfellow sneezes in hexameters, Gencra) Shields leans upon a cane, ‘The Chinamen on the Pacific coast number 130,000. ‘Very few heroes are so awfully handsome off the stage. A daughter of Garibaldi in pantomime at Surrey Theatre? ‘The Cincinnati Commercial scathingly says that subsidies do not subside, Looking at a dentist's showcase wo are reminded of the smiles of Schuyler Colfax. Assistant Postmaster General and Mrs. Tyner will go to the Pacific coast in April. Talmage expects that beyond the heavens he will be rewarded for visiting the hells, London World:—The Bayard of the park or bank parlor is the Bismarck of his home.” ‘The oil from the liver of the bass is said to be a medicine. Do they put it into a bass phial? So it was not the Thunderer’s gun, but the two charges, that burst! Loaded with red tape. Commander Juan N, Montojo, naval attaché of the Spanish Legation at Washington, is at the Everett House. ‘The correspondents say that there is a good deal of love maxing in Rome, which reminds us to say that when you are in Rome do as Romeo did. Queen Victoria has received from the Empress of Brazil a dross of spider webs, When it camo she was in the parlor and she caught it on the fly. Lord Kilcoursie, of England, and Sir Henry W. Becher aad Lady Becher, of Ireland, arrived from Europe in the steamship Parthia and are at the Bre- voort House. Much complaint is made in Georgia because beavers are damming the streams. The beavers go to dam- ming without even a cursory glance at the rights of mill owners, Acontemporary says that the Americans and the Irish are the best pedestrians. If we are not mis- taken it was the people pursued by Pharaoh who had the first walk over. The condition of Mr, Isaac Butt shows a further slight improvement, but is still critical, His phy- sician cannot for some days pronounce a decided opinion as to his recovery. Considoring that the American people did not greatly colebrate the national holiday of Washington's Birthday, we have little hope that they will cclobrato April fool's day much more nobly. The Duke of Connaught’s marriage with the Prin- coss Louisa Margherite, grand niece of Kaiser Wil- helm, is to be celebrated at Windsor on the 13th of March, The Princess gave a reseption yesterday at Berlin, the last previous to her departure for Eng- land, Tho London correspondent of the Edinburgh Scotsman denies that Lord Napier and Ettrick will succeed Mr, Layard as Ambassador at Constantinople. Ho says:—The conservatives are alieady so much aggrieved at the ap- pointment of Lord Dufferin as Ambassador at Bt. Petersburg that the government is scarcely likely to bestow the Constantinople Embassy outside of their party.” | — AMUSEMENTS... ACADEMY OF MUSIC—“CARMEN,” “Carmen” was given last night with the same cast with which it was presented when originally pro- duced here in the early part of the winter. The house, although the Lenten season has only com. menced, was a large and a fashionable one, and was liberal in its appreciation of the airs and melo dies which have gone so far to secure the popularity of the opera. Miss. Minnie Hauk as Carmen repeated her previous successes as the way- ward gypsy girl, and won plaudits honestly earned by her utimirable acting as well as by her singing throughout the opera, Yet she was not greeted with that warmth of welcome on her first appearance which she received on previous occasions, She was in good voice, however, and she entered into the spirit of the réle with warmth, Campamini was the Don José, and he proved equal to all the requirements of the part. His acting im the third and fourth” acts was excellent. ‘The Escamillo of Del Puente was a repetition of his previous perlormances of that character—well sung aud well acted, ‘The song of the toreador in the second act received, as it deserved, a hearty encore. ‘This, however, is one of the most pleasing, as it is one of tho most taking airs in the whole Mme. Lablache and Mme. Sinico as Mercedes and Michaela did the little that was required of them in an acceptable manner, and M. Thierry as Il Dancairo invested his rode with his usual humor, Mle, Palla- dino wes enthusiastically applauded for her dancing in the incidental ballet of the second act. Taken al- together the opera was given in a manner uot in- ferior to any of its previous representations, A PINAFORE RECEPTION. All the Deadeye Dicks, Little Buttercups, Ralph Rackstraws, Josephines, Hebes, Lords of the Admi- ralty, Captains Corcorans and others who serve a8 officers and men, sisters, aunts, cousins, brothers, et cetera, on the ships Pinafore now riding at anchor in and about New York, were entertained yesterday afteraoon aboard Tony Pastor's “Canal Boat Pinafore.” The prime donne of the several companies were seated in the proscenium boxes, while the cousins, aunts, sisters, brothers, dead-eyed Dicks and others, members of the vast crew, found room in the body of the’ house. It must not be in- ferred that a sufMicient number of aunts, sisters, cousins and brothers appeared to fill the house, or that ull the ofticers and seamen who were invited were engaged in the naval service, for such was not the case, The merchant marine was represented, and coven the river service was not neglected, for one Billy Birch, first officer of a now famous mud scow, was on hand, and several persons who have never had to do with water, except for purposes of ablution, were noted by the writer. It was before such @ mixed audience as this, then, that the Tony Pastor ‘Canal Boat” appeared yester- day afternoon. Much of the music and text of the “H. M. S. Pinafore’ are preserved in the “Canal Boat Pinafore;” but withal it has original merits of its own, which yesterday claimed vocifer- ous recognition from aecrowded house, Gus Williams, as Right Hon. Sir Joseph Lager (ruler of the entire navy), was funnier than ever before, and his new “business” twice so excited the risibility of the players as to jeopardize the effect of a scene or two. ‘The audience never—that is, ever— ceased laughing from the going up of the curtain until, by thee baby farming hocus-pocus of Little Buttercup Rackstraw became Corcoran and Corcoran Rackstraw. Tony Pastor's reception proved such a success that it is expected that the other companies playing “Pinafore” will follow his example und send out invitations. The Standard, Fitth Avenue, San Francisco Minstrels and the ‘Court Square (Brooklyn) companies were represented. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. le Bull is about to commence an Eastern tour. thern is expected in New York about the lat of April. Master Lee, the boy soprano, seems to have made quite a hit in Boston concerts, Aptommas, the harpist, will soon give a series of musical recitals in Boston, It is reported that Mr. John E. Owens will make a six months’ tour through Australia. Miss Clara Morris has accepted a play called “The Second Wife,” a translation from the German. Lotta finished the first week of her engagement in Cincinnati to a house that was literally packed. ‘The Cincinnati Lodge of the Order of Etks have arranged for a monster benefit on the 2d of March. The widow and daughter of the late George L. Fox are said to be playing in an Uncle Tom combination, Rubinstein is threatened with blindness and by last ac-ounts was under the care of an oculist in Dresden. There is a London announcement that Mile. Chrig- tine N.lsson will join the Mapleson Opera Company and return to America with Gerster next year, It is said that Messrs. Ford & Zimmerman, of Philadelphia, have placed $500 to the credit of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan, the authors of “H. M. 8. Pinafore.” a Mr. Bronson Howard’s play, ‘‘Hurricanes,” has been produced in London, at the Criterion Theatre, under the title of ‘Truth,” and in the main favor- ably received, although one of the journals describes its jokes as “‘unpleasantly broad.” Birch, Wambold and Backus deny that they allow speculators to sell tickets at the doors or on the side- walk near the San Francisco Minstrels Hall, ‘‘Somo fellows,” said Backus yesterday, “may buy three or four tickets each and try to speculate on them, bit when we find them around we set the police on them, I chased one of these chaps with a club myself one night,” said Backus, and if I hadn't been short winded I'd caught him on the hip.” FINE ARTS. LUDWIG ENAUS’ ‘READY FOR HER LESSON.” There has been added to the collection in 8. P. Avery's Gallery a new and much more important Knaus than has been seen in tho dealers’ galleries for some time, called “Ready for Her Lesson.” A charming little German girl, very neatly clad. stands looking out of her clear brown eyes at us, with her slate under her left arm and holding in her right hand the pencil. A sweet smile lights up the fresh, fair face, and we can see that she is eager to show how well she has Yearned her lesson. ‘The bee stands out finely in the centre of the floor, and one feels strongly the space between it and the wall of the room; the pose is natural, and the expression of the face. with its lumin- ous tresh flesh tints, is lifelike. The treatment through- out ix remarkable for simplicity and an accurate knowledge of the value of each brush mark; note this in the modelling of the face and in the work on the white pinafore which the pretty child has on over her brown velvet dress. On whole the paint is @ masterly one and worthy of the painter's big! reputation. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARTISTS. At a meeting of the Society of American Artiste, held on Thursday evening, it was decided that the dates of opening be postponed from those announced, in the Henatp of Thursday to the following :—Var- nishing day” and private view for the press, Friday the 7th inst.; private view and reception of invit quests, day and evening, on Saturday the 8th, and be of the gallery to the public on the morning ‘Monday the 10th. ‘The exhibition will remain open for three weeks, On Sunday afternoons from twelve to six P, M. We are glad to say the gallery wil open to the public free. NOTES AND NEWS, A collection of the exceedingly interesting little terra cotta statucttes from the tombs of Tanagra, in Bwotia, lately imported by Gaston L. Feuardent & Co., has beon sold for $1,500 to Thomas G. Appleton, of Boston, for presentation to the Museum of Fine Arts of that city. These are the only Tanagra statuettes in this country, and it isa pity they could not have been secured for the Metropolitan Museum. Louvre possesses alarge collection of these figures, there are specimens in the British Museum, in that at Berlin, and others have lately been added to the Musée des Antiques, in Paris. There will be illustrated articles based on this collection in Serit ner’s Monthly and the Art Journal, The first ann’ exhibition of the Salm: Sketch Club, held at the Kurtz Gallery, last evening, baving LTO, ya two weeks. Though s great suceers art! Hh we are sorry to say it was not financially. 0 attendance Was poor, the highest amount taken in on any one being $28 92. The exhibition next year wi undoubtedly be more successful if proper publicity is given to 1. °We ote the following examples aa sold:——A. 8. Roorbach’s “When Locusts Hum,” A. F. Bunner’s “A Country Church,” “April,” A. C. Morgan’s “Waiting,” H. Newell's crayon sketches of aman fishing and of a girl com- ing home from the.ields, J. G. Brown's “Grandpa's Story” and Jennie Brownscombe's “She Wives a Side lance. 3 William T. Walters, of Baltimore, has issued invi-+ tations in his own name, and that of his son, to an art reception at his residence, No. 66 Mount Vernon place, from eleven to two P. M. on the 6th inst , to view his fine collection of pictures. A rea ement of the gallery and of art objects is anno’ at the foot of the card, The Water Color Society Exhibition at the Academy closes this evening. ‘The number of sales has been unusually large. The largest attendance so far waa on yesterday, when 820 ission tickets were sold and 295 catalogues, A private view of a number of pictures and studies, painted in Italy and Egypt by George H. Yewell during his late residence abroad, will be given at chards’ Art Rooms on the 6th, 7th, 8th and 10th , from one to ten P. M. nd Charles H, Miller has been elected a member of the Society of Amer! Artists, making the eighth Academician who meuber of both bodies,