The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1879, Page 6

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BROADWAY THEATRE: NEW YORK AQUARI FIFTH AVENUE THEATR WORK and SORCERKR, ‘WALLACK’S—A Scrap or Paver. = GRAND OPERA HOUSE—A Cetupnaren-Cass, GERMANIA THEATRE—Das ‘UNION SQUARE THBASRE—Tux Bayxen's Davoures. ,BOOTH’S THEATRE—Latttx Duke. , AMERICAN MUSEUM—Coniosinies. LuGAN Guar Batt, RK, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1879, The probubilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and cloudy, with rain, followed late in the ecening by gradual clearing. To-morrow it will be cooler and partly cloudy or fair. Wa t Srrert Yesrerpay.—The stock market was active and feverish. Government Wonds were quiet, States active and railroads irregu- lar. Money on call became tight in the after- noon and lent up to 7 per cent, closing at 607 per cent. Snap Pores are in season again. draught coasters catch them with anchors. Let Tur E Friar His Wixcs—the doors of the British War Office fasten with American locks. : Light A Rairroap Has Been discovered which ‘was constructed inside the estimates—but not in America. : Foxucttar Toxsitiris is the name of the @revalent affection of the throat. No wonder that it is so painful. Aw Aprrat from the Surrogate's opinion in the Vanderbilt will case seems to beramong the possibilities. Poor New York! Great Tu1Nes are to be expectedwf the prem- feed Woman's walk at Gilmore’s Garden, for in point of laps the fair scx distances men com- pletely. Tue Hazen-Stantey Quarret is to be settled by court martial. Itis a pity that the court could not have been ordered two or three years sooner, s Tur “Brack Crook” children’s performance case threatens to turn up definitions of dancing, ‘to be given by persons who know all about it. Call Talmage. Te Da. Haves’ Brit becomes a law amateur oarsmen near New York will have a race course which is neither narrow nor crooked. Rowing men every where else will envy them. Ir Arrears that in 1566, while prices were far higher than now, Mr. Roebling estimated the cost of the Brooklyn Bridge at only four mill- ious. But perhaps the trustees have com- pounded interest on the estimates. Curr Joskrm has broken out again—this time in the North American Review. Good. Ink is cheaper than blood, and just as full of glory. Besides, General Howard cau follow him there without having to wait for troops. Tue Boarp which is discussing army equip- ments will devote itself to shoes to-day. John Ennis has sent in bis four hundred and seventy- five mile pair for consideration, and they de- serve it ; but the Board should spare no pains to get samples of the footgear of Chief Joseph and the runaway Cheyennes. Leeistatons must differ from ordinary people fm sowe way for their dignity’s sake, which Probably explains why the Assembly yesterday voted to reduce the salaries of judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals to the figures of second class clerks, and left our police justices in receipt of about twice as much as Cabinet offic: Tue Weatnen.—The storm centre is advane- ing slowly through the central valley districts, its progress being retarded by the large area of high barometer that overlies the Middle Atlantic States, the lake regions and the Northwest. » Phis high area is gradually being dissipated near its centre, which is over the lower lakes, and it is likely that the pressuro will have de- creased enough by to-night to permit of the dis turbance breaking through and passing into the St. Lawrence Valley. Heavy snow is re ported in the lake regions, but the high tem- peratures did not allow of its remaining on tho grotnd very long, and raine have been general in the central valley and Middle Atlantic const districts. +The weather bos been cloudy over all the eountry except the Northwest and the South Auantic States. . ‘I'he winds havo not eyet increased to any great extent, being gen- erally fresh throughout all the districts, but the conditions favorable to the development of higher velovity are becoming more marked, par ticularly on the western slope of the Alleghany Mountains and northeastward to the Middle At- lantic States. In the West also the gradients are becoming more stecp for northeasterly to morthwesterly winds. A decided rise has taken Place in temperatures, except in the Northwest, ‘where o rather sharp fall has occurred. In the event of the disturbance forcing ite way through rthe high zone the winds over the southern por- Mtion of the Middle Atlantio States will veer very rapidly frum eust to south- l-weet. The weather over the British Islands and Northern France is decidedly unscttled. A ‘Targe depression has passed over tho Channel and was moving toward Germany last night. "The weather in New York and its vicinity today ‘will be warm and cloudy, with rain, followed late in the evening by gradual clearing. To morrow it will be cooler aud partly cloudy or fair. ee NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. interesting reading; in fact, the incident ‘The Mayor and the Police Comm’ sioners-The Common Sense of It. Mr. Whitney, the Counsel to the Corpora- tion, has advised the Mayor officially that “there is no provision of law for anything in the nature of atrial in the case of the contemplated removal of a head of ade- partment ;” and that the “safeguard against an abuse of power,” which is ordinarily found in atrial, is provided in another way in concerns of this nature. As this opin- ion is dated on the 18th and the Mayor acted on the 19th it is permissible. to infer that His Honor called for this official advice in order to make it the basis of his actioh with the Commissioners of Police, as in fact he did act upon the principles theroin de- clared in rofusing to permit an ordinary, act’of ministerial duty to become a judicial process. © 5 Should the view of the law taken by the Corporation Counsel not be sustained by the Supreme Court, what then? Possibly’ iit may not be'sustainéd by that Bench, for jthe Supreme Court not only differs with very made to turn on a number of points, every one as hard to determine as that. General Smith’s lawyers would see the present Mayor out of office, and if his successor stopped the inquiry go before the Supreme Court howling that they had been denied ‘the ‘‘consti-tu-tion-al right” to be heard. Hence it is evident that to give the law- yersall that they might claim in this way would be to defeat and make impossible the exercise of the function that the charter confers upon the Mayor, and therefore that cannot be what the statute intended. But between that and the refusal to hear them save in the Mayor's own way there isa wide difference, and we hope that the Mayor, in keeping out of the trap of an interminable legal inquiry, has not erred in the other direction. Since, howéver, the men have in fact had a hearing—and it has been in part such a hearing as they chose them- selves, forthe Mayor acceptod the written statements of the lawyers upon the per- sonal assurance from the Commissioners that these conatituted their answers—it is probable that even the courts will deem capeble lawyers, but sometimes differs with itself, and in its turn the Court of Appeals differs with the Supreme Court; so that if we are once fairly launched upon a doubt as to a legal point certainty is the one thing that is absolutely not .obtained short of the court of last resort. Is it obtained even then? Not on a point of abstract right, for tho same point way come up in a different shape in another year with other judges in the Court of Appeals, and then we-may have it decided another way. ‘THerefore the judges may differ with the Mayor's adviser, and if they do the fact that he advised the Mayor officially will make no difference as to the error. . Aside ftom the legal ‘niceties, however, and in any common sénse judgment on the merits of this trantaction, the attitude of the Commissioners is rainous to their own case. Every public functionary who ob- structs a properly authorized inquiry into the way in which he has -performed his duties condemns himself in the eyes of the public. Plain people know that an honest cashier is not only ready to show his ac- counts, but glad of the chance to get some one to show them to. Had General Smith as a brigadier in command in his periods of military service failed to carry a position he was ordered to storm, and it had been whispered about that the failure was due to very unpleasant delinquencies of duty ‘on his part, would he not have been the first to demund an offi- cial inquiry?. Undoubtedly he would, and the proud eagerness 6f a soldier to clear his case before his fellow soldiers, the readiness of an honest cashier in his invitation of scrutiny, are acts in: accordance with or- dinary human impulses, and they commend themselves to every man's own conscious- nese of what is right. But, on .the con- trary, o case is\prejudiced in every one's view when the official called upon to give an account of his steWardship appeals to a lawyer to help him out with a technical de- fence. z It is orrant nonsense to say that any lawyer was necessary in this case, except in so far as it was desired by somebody to have a lawyer's aid in perplexing a plain matter, or that there were any legal tech- mcalities irom which the Commissioners needed protection. They were to answer the Mayor on points as obvious ay Trinity steeple, and the answer should have been as plain as the point inquired about. It did’ not need to be technical. Above all, it should not have been evasive. It should not have been ao rigmarole of legal pretexts and prevarications. Fancy a man who dipsinto Blackstone for an answer when he isasked ifthe dirt in Greenwich street has been shovelled out this year; or who ap- peals to ‘‘Kent’s Commentaries” against an urgent request for. information as to why the Metropolitan ash barrel decorated every, wintry thoroughfare for'@ month at a time ; or who would refer you to the Pundects if asked why such a bravo in uniform as Cap- tain Williams has not been disciplined by his superiors! Any such a defence is in itself a confession. Every one of the Commissioners cited be- fore the Mayor has daily and hourly famil-- iarity with all the facts involved in the in- quiry to which he was called, or he is not fit for his office. They were notified of alleged failures to perform their duty, and further that, on account of those failures, they would bo removed from office unless on a certain’ day they could show to the Mayor that they were not properly responsible. Those fuilures related’ to tho condition of the streets and to the demoralization of the force, and every fact in vither con- nection should be as familiar to them ali as his daily concerns are to any merchant. ‘They’ were not called to a testival of legal entanglements, but to an inquiry on tho acts of their daily duty. They knew all about these or they did not. Ifthey did not know they should assuredly bo removed for simple want of attention to their duties. But they proba- bly did know; and why, then, should they not answer, plainly and straightforwardly? Why should they obstruct an inquiry which the Mayor is forced to make by the pressure of public opinion? ‘There can be no possi- ble reason save the consciousness that they had neglected their duties and had no suf- ficient answer to inake.’ Hence they called in‘lawyers to darken counsel with balder- dosh. Whither would such a method as the Commissioners desired to act on lead us? Everybody knows to what an abusive ex- treme lawyers can carry an inquiry of this nature, One of the things to which there is no known limit is claptrap rhetoric about constitutional rights. Neither the courts, however, nor the public admit that a man has a constitutional right to an office any longer than he exhibits the capacity to perform his duties ; nor has he even a con- atitutional right to his own property if he cannot manage it, One has a constitutional: right to be heard, but not to be heard for- ever. Undoubtedly a few ingenious law- yora, with an illimitable right to call witnesses, could stretch out an inquiry on the case of these Commissioners through the whole term of the present Mayor. Nearly two years wore consumed in England in tho legal determination of o point of personal | identity; and the present case might be that no right has been denjed to anybody. Tariff Excitement in Canada. The press of Canada, which, although more devoted to the politics of the Domin- ion than to general news, is very able, and is more vehement and acrimonious than it is able, is within the last few days almost wholly surrendered to the all-absorbing subject of the new tariff. It reminds us of our own party press during the great bank controversy in the days of Jackson and the strenuous tariff discussions’ in the time of Tyler, The newspapers of the Canadian cities: are old-fashioned blanket sheets, like. our Journal of Cominerce and Even- ing Post, and in times of excitement they devote the greater part of one of their ample folio pages to hested political editorials, At the present it is all tariff and nothing else. Attacks and defencts of Mr. Tilley’s’ budget speech and his new rates pf duty are the stuple of controversy, and the opposition seem to have the best of the argument. There were evident symptoms 6f weak- ness ‘in the budget speech. : ‘I'he Minister of Finance rested his defence of the new tariff, -in great part, on the ground that its princi- pal object, asida from a necessary increase of revenue, is to extort from the United States a reciprocity treaty, which is an implied confession that the tariff is not entirely defensible on its own merits as a measure of domestic policy. In giving prominence to the purpose of se- curing a new reciprocity treaty Mr. Tilley asserted that of the twos millions of addi- tional revenue which he seeks to raise the greater part will be raised from the trade of*the United States. A main object of this .representation is to parry the argument that the tariff is. hostile to the interests of the mother coun- try and calculated to excite un- friendliness in Great Britain, Its op- ponents declare that the alleged tenderness to British interests is a misrepresentation, and are, doing their utmost to render the protectionist policy of Sir John Macdon- ald’s government odious in England, and to impress the people of Canada with the idea that the new tariff puts the British connection in jeopardy. The argument is that the higher duties fall chiefly upon articles of which the groater portion are imported,.not from ‘the United States, but from Great Britain. In this view the Toronto: Globe prints the following illus- trative table :— 25 20 30 30 40 30 30 50 20 60 io be 50 2k, 40 to GO 325, 10 be 184g er » 133 a 233,045 86,600 87,676 * 25,638: ‘This list shows how much more heavily the new rates on these articles will fall on the trade of Great Britain than on that of the United States. The goods,on which the greatest amount of revenue is collected are, of course, those of which the largest im- portations are made. Itis but fuir to say that the foregoing list is made up of selected articles culled out of the tariff for the pur- posé of exciting prejadice against it in Great Britain. But no such one-sided representation was needed to rouse attention in England to the effect of the new tariff on British trade. Mr. Bright submitted yesterday in the Imperial Parliament ques- tions relating to the Canadian tariff The Colonial Secretary said in reply that only a telegraphic summary of the new Cana- dian tariff had beon received, and that he was, therefore, unable to judge of its effect, “but he had telegraphed that the government regrets the proposed increase of duties already high.” He added that the right of the government in regard to the sanction of the new treaty was not affected by the instructions to Lord Lorne. This significant intimation that the act of the Dominion Parliament may perhaps be ‘disallowed by the home government is cal- culated to make a profound sensation in Canada and to oncourage and stimulate the opponents of the new tariff On ’Change. The members of the New York Stock Ex- change were thrown into a state of excite- ment on Wednesday by the appearance in the visitors’ gallery of those two pedestrian celebrities, Rowell and Ennis, the winner and second in the race for the Astley belt. The enthusiastic reception of the strangers was natural enough. It is not often that such sound stock appearson ‘Change. The liberal margin put up by Rowell in his recent victory was sufficient to enlist the approving sympathy of every broker. The success of both men in remaining in. the ring until the end was caleulated to excite the envious admiration of such an assem- blage. Rowell was a fair representative of the “shorts” and Ennis of the “longs.” No wonder that the bears took delight in paying their respects to Ennis, who had proved himself capable ot bearing the most flattering attenfions with becoming mod- esty, or that the bulls shouted lustily in honor of the sturdiest John Bull who has made his appearance among us for many a day. Archbishop Pureell’s Explanation. Archbishop Purcefl bas written at “opén letter,” which was publishd tn Cincinnati’ yesterday. It is an <xplanation of and seeks to be an apology fér'the financial’ troubles that havo ovértaker and over- whelmed him. Hoe states thiit the equitable indebtedness of the dio¢esedo¥s not amount to more than one million dollars, and that not more than half a million of money has been deposited with him in truat, The aggre- gate of liabilities is swelled, the Archbishop says, by claims for compound interest, and these claims he evidently considers un- reasonable and not sustainable in equity. But if the people who chose the Archbishop as the custodian of their savings had depos- ited the mgney in an Obio savings bank the regular half yearly interest would have been entered on their books to their credit when due, and would have thereafter drawn interest. Hence the depositors would have received exactly the same compound inter. est which they claim from the Archbishop and wich the prelate seems to regard as a sharp and scarcely honest demand. Everybody will be glad to learn that the liabilities are not so enormous as has been heretofore represented. Ifthe Archbishop's statement is correct, and the total indebted- ness is not more than a million dollars, the difficulties-in the way of the relief of the diocese will not be so great as they have hitherto appeared. Yet the depositors ought not to be refused the proper interest on their money, for they ‘placed it in the Archbishop's keeping in order that it might yield a fair interest and be securely and wisely invested. . We should prefer to await the result of the exemination now being made of the liabilities before accepting the figures of so evidently incapable a financier as Archbishop Purcell. But even the amount he admits is a large.one, and his explanation of the causes of the deficiency is by no’ means satisfactory. He complains that through the Inck of general collections the entire burden of educating priests has fallen upon him ; that he has paid the sal- aries gt the professors, fed, clothed and educated the seminarians, borne the ex- penses of ecclesiastical students at Mount St. Mary’s, Emmettsburg, in France and at Rome, purchated in “Europe a library of sixteen thousand volumes, with philosophical apparatus, and that these ex- penditures, with the sums spent in build- ing the Orphan Asylum, Cathedral and other ‘buildings, have ‘finally swamped” him. These were all worthy objects on which todavish money if the money hed belonged to the Archbishop. But as’ it did not be- long to hint, but was the property and in many instances the all of other people who intrusted it to him ‘for very dif- ferent purposes, had he any right to use it in such a manner? A Cowardly Murder. The sad story told in the Henaxp special despatch from Texas of the cowardly mur- der of Mr. B. C. Porter, the actor, and the dangerous wounding of Mr. Barrymore, of the Diplomacy combination troupe, is cal- culated to excite a feeling of indignation against a community in which such das- tardly crimes, by the indifference ywith which they are viewed, are rendered only too common. A ruffianly detec- tive enters the lunch room of a rail- road hotel at midnight and finds there a lady in company with two gentlemen, awaiting the arrival of the train. He insults the lady and is remonstrated with by her companions, who inform him who she is, when he instantly,- Texas fashion, whips out. his revolver, shoots Mr. Porter dead and dangerously Wounds Mr. Bar- rymore, both of whom are unarmed. Our despatch states that the ruffian is in jail, but. the probability is that before many days he will be at large, and will again fire himself up with bad whiskey, the customary stimulant of Texan bravado, and puta bullet into some other inoffensive man, unless meanwhile he should himself :tortunately be laid dead in his boots by one of his own amiable com- patriots. i Don Juan and San Juan. If there be any truth in tho story which the wits of Washington are circulating at the expense of the venerable Simon Cam- eron, diplomacy, Lord Byron and a slight contusion of ideas are probably, responsi- ble for the escapade of the octogenarian statesman with the now famous Widow Oliver. As told in oui‘colaiiiés yesterday the gossip is that shortly after ‘Mr. Cameron found himeelf in the chair of Charles Sum- neras the head of the Foreigh Relations | Committee of the Senate he’ received one morning a ponderous document from the Stato Department in “rega¥d to the Sah Juan difficulty, which was then sore y troubling Mr. Fish and the administration. As tho San Juan question had never come up in Pennsylvania politics it was, of course, all Greok to Mr. Oameron. Feeling, however, that something was ex- pected from him in his new position, he heroically determined to enlighten himself and his brother Senators on the subject, and to that end sought tho aid of the accomplished Librarian of Congress. Mr, Cameron, the story goes, did not suc- cegd in making himself very clearly under- stood by that official, and the result was that a few hours afterward a couple of cartloads of various editions of Byron's works were sent to his committee rooms, the leaves all nicely turned down at the striking passages in the celebrated poem, Juadgihg from the revelations ia the Washington court Mr. Cameron must have found it exceedingly appears to have been prophetic, for, accord- ing to the testimony, the ex-Senator fol- lowed as vigorously as it is permitted to one'of fourscore years to follow the adven- tures of the youthtul Juan. It was all very pleasant, but, as he has found to his cost, he wus not as particular as he ought to have been in regard to the boundary line be- tween himeelf and the Widow Oliver. Another International Affair. If probabilities are fulfilled, as they seem ina tair way to be, Jerome Park will next tall be the scone of the most, exciting inter- national race that America has known. The famous English colt Peter, who has never been beaten but once and against whom no English turfman wonld care to wager ‘) except with enormgus’odds in bis favor, is l expected to’ come over and run. mile and a.balf against Mr, Keene's Spendthrift, who has never Veen beaten at all. Both horses aye under the management of men’ who mean business, and unless some previous accident to either animal,prevents tho race issure to be run. The match will befor an amount—ten thousand dollars—in keeping with the imporiance of the event, but this wager only fuintly indicates the amount of money that will change hands after the race has been run, It is matter for general congratulation that the match is in all its features so admirable, and that, whatever may bo the fizal result, American patrons of the turf will be enabled to behold the re- doubtable Peter at the work for which he has shown such extraorJinary aptitude. , PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ie this Boccacio’s De Cameron? ‘Senator Conkling wears a blue necktie, * Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, wears a sack coat in tho Senate. i * + fa Secretary Schurz has two grown daughters and two little boys. i * Justice Miller, of the Supreme Court, was once a physician in Kentucky. Sergeant Bates lectures in Illinois. If any man pulls him down, spot him. Victor Hugo is said to hold that oniy himself and one lady speak, French correctly. ‘Mr. Potter Palmer says that Chicago is paying off many of the mortgages held in the East, a When aman gets into one of Reményi’s concerts on trust can he be said to “hang up” the fiddle and the bow? Eli Perkins alleges that Hayes told him that if his olive branch Southern policy failed ho would try the Grant policy. » Saturday Review says that it is not alone the gen- teel fashionable daughters of lodging house keepers, but ledy novelists as well, who say ‘“Betweeen you and I.” Empress Eugénie is pale, anxious and faded, and Olive Logan guesses that she wears a wig, her hair is 80 purely blonde; and Olive calls Louis a rosebud of a@ young fellow. Joaquin Millor’s former wife writes {o him saying that their Waughter Maud has gone from necessity upon the ballet stage, and that he ought to know «the dangers to girlish innocence in sucha place.” The Democratic Convention, held at San Antonio, Texas, yesterday, nominated Columbus Upson, of that place, on the seventy-sixth ballot, to sucoced Mr. Schleicher, late of the Sixth’ Congressional district. m 4 Lady Anne Blunt, courageous traveller, visited, with s companion, the Euphrates apd the Bedouins, and she says that one day while in the desert she met s native Who approached her and said, “Star- board, port, Goddam.”* is A London girl says that most of the ‘‘men” met in the ballroom and who dance are ‘‘croatures” who can’t talk, although they are preferable tothe pes- sons who tell about their personal likes, the kinds of shoes and socks, &c,, they fancy. Ex-Governor, Burchard, of Honduras, in a public lecture, says tbat the Catholic clergy of that country charge so much for marriage fees that marriage is greatly provented and vice fs encouraged. And he says that the same is true of othes Central American. States, An English magazine epicure insists that Ambrican oysters aro much inferior to the little coppery Eng- ‘ish variety. He is like the darky who went cat- fisning, and, happening to catch 8 fine trout, throw it back into the water, saying, ‘When I come catfish- ing I want catfish.” a A fifteen year old lad has been arrested in Lenawee county, Mich., and brought before an Adrian justice on acharge of assaulting a woman. It is shown that he has a terrible antipathy for women and cannot keep the peace when he is in sight of one. His case is a curious one, and they have gent him to tho Re- form School in hope of curing him of his idiosyn- crasy. The Capital says that although ex-Senator Sargent made many political enemies by his chivalrous, partisan and zealous course, his retirement is a loss to California and an injury to the country, and that he isa lovable man. It says that he always went to the rescue of the under dog in the fight, and that on the night whon he left tho Senate there were more hands with hearts behind them extended to him than men usually receiye. The ex-Senator who is very ill bas accepted the invitation of the Secretary of ‘the Navy to teke afour months’ cruize to the Mediterranean. Cceveland Herald :—When the cry has gone forth for the best men to fill positions of responsibility, honor, dignity and profit, and the modest Obicans stop forward in response to the call, aro they to be blamed because their superior Atness fs immediately recognized and the positions given them? Is it not the extrome of ingratitude to speak of their readiness to serve the public—for a consideration—es ‘hog- gish?’ If they wero not prompt in presenting them- selves there would be danger of tho positions being filled by inferior men from other States, to the mani- fest damage of the public interests.” AMUSEMENTS. CHICKERING HALL—BALLAD CONCERT. ‘The second ballad concert in the serics announced by Mr. William Courtney was given last evening at Chickering Hall. A well trained vocal octet began the performance with Leslie's song, “The Pilgrims,'’ after which Mr. Carlos Florentine sang “The Flow- ing Tide,” by Millard, and was followed by Mme. Gago-Courtuey, a lady of stately propor- tioms whosg voice is evidently well adapted to, a drawing room, but who, from some cause, last night failed to make a pronounced success before the public. She selected for hor entrée Pehsuti’s ballad, “Eyes So Bltto,” and later sang “The Voico of the Heart.” The accompauiment was bad, and possibly it was owing to this causo that nearly all of the singers found themselves at times somewhat handicapped. Mr. William Courtney wad in good voice, ond sang his several bal- lads with @ graco that occasioned consider- ablo applause and an oncore. In the socond ra Mr. Carlos Florentine attempted to sing “The jst Chora,” by Sullivan—ot least that name was marked ou the programme—but the organist who accompanicd him was so intent ou making his own chords heard that the voice of the artist wag it lost. Mrs. Robertson, who is a good soprano, was warmly welcomed to the con cert stage, and did not disappoint tho expectations of the sudience in sweetly rendering the ballad, “Love Has Eyes,” by Bishop. She was enthusiastically recall and obliged repeat the song. ‘The instrumental features of tho evening were the piavo solos by Maximilian Vogrich, the youn Hungarian composer, He pi yed. first « ial by Chopin, in F minor, and subsequently 9 — largltetto and etude by Henailt, ending sting Hungarian march, In giving these con- corts Mr. Courtney has undoubtedly struck a us Jar vein, but his success must depend on the choi of arins that are on a plane with "te taste. The general crowd are most molodies which they comprebend, A hand organ wouldn't earn pennies if it ground out anything elec. THE PINNER-DAMROSCH CHAMBER MOBIC BOIREKS, ‘The fourth of a serles of chamber music soirees, by Mr, Max Pinner and Dr. Damroech, was givan st the was well selected, includipg Herr Goldmark’s suite’ for pianoforte and violin, op. 11; Beethoven’s “Ro- manzs in G,” for violin aul pjanoforte; Robert Schumann's op. 63,,trio in D minor, for pianoforte, Violin and violoucello; and vocal renderings of songs by Rubinstein, Franz Schubert and Felix Men- delssohn, making up a thoroughly enjoyable and artistic evening. Mra. De Land gave Rubinstein’s song, “The Dew Is Sparkling,” hb Wand're Nicht,” Franz Schubert's serenade, “Horch, Horch,” and Mendelssohn's “Of ail the Pretty Girle” satisfactorily, Mr. Tretbar's singing of Robert Franz's “Waldfahrt” brought him « well earned encore, Mr. Max Pinner gave an cxquisite rendering of an inal theme by ‘Tschaikowsk; doing full justice atten rythmical melancholy aud eharm of this peculiarly Slavic music. ‘Scha- mann's trio for pisnoforte, violin and violoncello was rendered by Dr, Damrosch, Mr, Frederick Berg- ner and Mr. Max Pinner in a manner that searnes fe, Sitaation ot the feu audience to ie ir. Damrosch gave a rei full of and emotion of Goldmark’s work. Ore — af anything, a miusician capable giving the most exquisite rendering to the emo- tional and the besutitul. Tho concert . was artistically a very enjoyable one, since both musicians and audience were iimbued with the artistic spirit so necessary to the rondering-of ‘the enjoyment of the higher music, PARK ‘THEATRE—MATINER, * Such an audience as that which gathered at the Fark Theatre yesterday afternoon to witness the per-. formance of “Engaged” has rarely been secon within its walls, ‘Tho matinge was arranged by Mr. Abbey, the manager, chiefly for the purpose of affording an opportunity--not often enjoyed—to membcrs of the theatrical profession to see a play that has become @ wubject of much comment in thoatzical circles by reason of its curious construction anl great success, The event naturally attracted hundreds of other people, the majority of whom were quit. as much interested in viewing the notabilities present and scoing Mr. and Miss 80 and So in their “store clothes” on this side of the footlights as they were in the progress of the comely, Concerning the latter it. may be briefly sail that it never elicited gredter laughter, ran more smoothly or created a stronger. array of admirers, Mrs. Booth was at her best—melodramatic in Jove and tragic over her tarts. Mr. James Lewis convulsed the house with his drollery, while Mr.: Riggs and Miss Sydney Cowell, with their Scotch dialect; Miss Mingic Palmer, Mrs, Gilbert and Miss‘Chester; Messrs. Joseph E, Whiting, Owen and Cullingtomefitted nicely into.a picture of which the author, W. S. Gilbert, would be proud. Among the prominent profeasiona’a present—it would require a column to publish all of ‘their ‘names— were the Chureh Choir Pinafore Compuny, from the Broadway Theatre in » body. Messrs. George . W-R. Floyd, John Gilbert, E. M. Holland, Chatles Rockwell, ‘HH. Beckett, H. Lee, Charles ie, Parselle, J: K. Polk, M. Lingham, Miss Fannie Deven; J Mr. Charles Backus and ladies, Misses, Linda Dietz, Sarah Jowott, Maude” on, Elle Wilton, Louisa Allen, Stella Boniface, inte Rogers: Messrs, Mordaunt, A. M. Palmer, Chandos ton, Poole Porte 4 Harrigan and Hart, J. and J. C. Di James H. Meade, erage Edeson, ‘George’ K. Good- win, Cazauran, W. E. Sinn, Gus Williams, William Birch, Wambold, Add Ryman, Welch Edwards, Charles Fisher and Owen Fawestt. ‘4 MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, It is'said that Gerster speaks eight languages. Essipoff is 6aid to be making a tour of Holland,’ ‘Tho Vokes have leased a London theatre for five years. bho s “ Janauschek, last week, played Mary Stuart in Mim . neapolis. Den Thompson is successfully working tha West- orn circuit. “The Banker's Daughter” will probably visit Boe ton in May. . Sothera will spend the summer in Labrador salmon fishing. t “Mother and Son” was last week produced at the California Theatre. f Mr.'John McCullough and Mr. Joseph Emmett are on the Western circuit, . Lotta is playing in theWest. In Chicago she crammed tht house nightly, "spat lewsiyuiha Tony Pastor, with a strong company, is at tho Holliday Street Thestro, Baltimore. rf “Engaged” has been produced’ at Ford’s Opera House, Baltimore, to audiences. — ~ i Lasalle, the French baritone, has recently made & sensation at La Scala in ‘Re di Lahore,” Mr. Henry G. Hanchett announces s pianoforte tecital at Chickering Hall on’ Wednesday, March 26, “Our Boys,” after a run of nearly fifteen hundred nights, is to be’ withdrawn from the Vaudeville, London. ? Clara Morris says she will appear next season in historical plays only, notably Antoinette and Lady Macbeth, 1 Modjeska’s name was Helena Behda. An irreverent exchange suggests that John B. Gough was fre quently 80 before he reformed. * Signor E. Muzio, the well” known director, arrived in this city on Tucaday, and will vail for Europe on the steamship Labrador, April 2. Henderson's Standard Theatre Company are this week playing “Almost a Life’ in Louisville, whence they go to Cincinnati for a weck. Arthur Sullivan’s overture, “In Memoriam,” re- contly performed at the Paris Conservatoire concert, ‘was agreat success. Sullivan ie the first English composer so honored there. Mr, William 8. Rising, e young American tenor, is accredited with much success in his studies abroad, and will make his début with a well studied répertoire of fifteen or eighteen operas. Mise Lilian Norton has probably already made her début at the Manzoni Theatre, Milan, as Zerlina in “Don Giovanni.” Her artistic name is now Giglie Nordica, or the Northern Lily. / Offendach is iu Vienna, attending the production of his operetts, “Madame Favart,” and was an- nounced to conduct its first performance in public, ‘Tho piece-is said to have been exceedingly well re- ceived, and is soon to be produced in London. — ‘Thus far over forty singing societics have signified their intention to participate in the twenty-first Smwngerfest of tho Sorth American Swngerbund, te be held at Cincinnati from June 11 to June 15 incla- sive, and the prospects are that the chorus will number fully 1,500, Signora Pascalis, @ prima donna mezzo soprano, « has been engaged by De Vivo to appear next Sunday evening at the Grand Opers House concert. She will sing in conjunction with Do Muraske, Tagliap’ Susini, Rosnati, Markstein, Kapp, Oolby, Hill other known artiste. Tho Strakosch Italian Opers Company, last week, wero in Detroit. Miss Kellogg’s Valontine, in the “Huguenots,” is warmly praised by the local press. Among other mombers of the company are Annie Louise Cary, Litts, Adams, Conly, Gottschalk, Cauf- man and Lancaster, Miss Adelaide Lennox begins her readings s¢ Brewster Hall this evening, with an original bit of, verse on “Pcdestraism," and a varied and interost ing programme. Miss Lennox has been seen by many thestre-gocrs while playing in our city thea tres, aud her début as a reader ovokes considerable interest. Tho Count Joannes has made an engagement to appear for six nights and a matinée at the St, Jamos ‘Theatre, between Thirticth and Thirty-first streets, on Broadway, commencing next Monday, in the character of Lord Dundreary, in which it is under stood he will attempt to burlesque his old antagontet Sothern, + Ole Ball will give his farewell concert, prior to his @oparture tor Europe, on Monday, March 24. He has specially selected Mme. Marie Mozo as the prima donna for this occasion, and among other selegtions Marie Roso and Ole Bull will appear togethor in the “Prelude de Bach.’’ The concert will take place at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn. Miss Mary Andorson will play in Brooklyn during Easter week, Her presont tour, judging from the comments of the preva, has been attended with ex ceptional success, It is pleasant in noting the criti cisms to find no record of stolen diamonds, run- away hosses, anatched pocketbooks and extraordinary dgesses that nowadays seem to be requisite in adver+ tising an artist. The young American cvidently depends on per intrinsic merit, The list of re-ongagements of mombors of the Boston Museum Company for next season, #0 far as made, includes Messrs, William Warren, J. 8. Haworth, B. 2. Greham, Alfred Hudson, James H. Jonen, James H. Ring, J. Burrows, J. Nolan apd W. Melbourne; Miss Annie Clarke, Miss Marte Wain- wright, Mrs, J. R. Vincent and Mies Rose Temple. It is understood that Mr. Crisp will not remein, and it f# said to bo probable that Mr. Charles Barron wilt