The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD |™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON ~ BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Ai ee Se ‘hed every day in the year, | secluded). Ten dollars per two dollars and fifty DAILY HERALD ents per eopy (St eral | KLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- CE TO SU BSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on New ‘and where neither of these 1 ut risk of 96 ny pers wishing their address changed must give well as their new address. tion sul their ol ‘All business, news letters or telegraphic despaiches must de acdressed New York Hexanp, Letters and packages abould be properly : Hejected communi 0 i “0) RADA PACE FIC A VED vi FFICE—NO. 7 S rs ns 9 vill be received aud tions and advertise: ‘on the sume terms ai AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. en PARK THEATRE-Es BROADWAY THEATRE—H. M. 8. Prxavone. NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Rep Rivise Hoop. FIFTH AVENUE TH. pa LYCEUM THEATRE—T) ASK BALL. UNION SQUARE THEAT! BOOTHS THEATRE—Lirn BOWERY THEATRE—Coeste: GERMANIA THEATRE—H TONY PASTOR'S—Pixa THEATRE COMIQUE— MASONIC HALL—Tw SAN FRANCISCO M1 KURTZ GALLERY Au York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and partly cloudy or fair in the morning, followed by rising temperature and increasing cloudiness. Ao-morrow it will be warmand fair. The winds will probably increase during the next forty-eight hours. Carrie D. $s along the Hudson know no amore about pleuro-pneumonia than policemen do of private entrances to rum shops on Sun- days. ; A Cuerorma MAN preached: ) agencies, and neglected to mention the Stree Cleaning Bureau, w is the leading incentive to metropolitan pre iy. TALMAGE is on the lookout for little games at his trial, which begins to-day ; but perhaps it is only the force of habit contracted during those Painful Accident to a United States Senator. The foundering of the French iron-clad battery, the Arrogante, has drawa our atten- tion to an accident on this side of the At- lantic, in which one of the pariies, through his own imprudenee, sustained severe in- juries. We refer to a recent collision between Senator Blaine and the Secretary of the Navy; and the ease is so instructive to mariners attempting to navigate our dif- ficult political waters, and so well inculeates the importance of extraordinary care and skill, that, for the benefit of other Senators and political navigators in general, we pro- ceed to recount the particulars below: — On the 23d of January last, the day being fair, with clear skies and moderate wind, Senator Blaine got under way and pro- ceeded, with guns double shotted and crew standing at their quarters, to open an at- tack on the American navy. In plain words; he offered in the Senate two anendments to the Navy vill—one of which was to estab- lish a board to report what number of officers were necessary ‘‘for a navy with seven thousand five hundred men” and stopping promotion above the grade of en- sign until further orders. The board was also directed to inquire whether any navy yards can be dispensed with and how the expenses of the naval establishment may be decreased. The second of Senator Blaine’s amendments was in these words :— That from and after July 1, 1883, only such num- ber of tho graduates of the United States Naval Academy in any one year shall be entitled to ap- pointment as midshipmen in the navy as aro re- quired. to fill vacancies of that grade existing on the Ist day of July in each year; those entitled to appointment to suid vacancies to be determined by the Academic Board on the basis of their standing in the graduating class, And if the number of mid- shipmen shall not have been previously fixed and limited by law it shall be the duty of the Secretary to so fix and limit it on or before July 1, 1883. ‘These resolutions the Maine Senator pro- ceeded to defend in a speech of some length, in which, unfortunately, he com- mitted himself to quite a number of posi- tive statements of what no doubt he had been led by some one to believe facts. The Naval Committee, doubtful, perhaps, of the extent and accuracy of the Senaton’s infor- mation on this subject, asked Secretary Thompson for his opinion of the amend- ments and the acsompanying statements, and a comparison of the two documents leads us to the belief that Senator Blaine will not touch the navy again—at least while Secretary Thompson is at its head. We do not remember a more painful ac- cident toa United States Senator than has resulted to the Maine Senator from his rash collision with Mr. Thompson. As to midshipmen Senator Blaine said:-- “From the Naval Academy for the last four- teen years since the war we have added an average of fifty officers per annum to the navy, and we are continuing to doit. You are liable to add from fifty to seventy-five offizers annually to your navy, and there is no limit fixed by law at all to the lower grade. We fix the limit down to ensigns, famous midnight tours on this side of the river. Tae Ixte + Assocration of Geneva (Switzerland) is now an organized fact, and there is a place where a regutta might be rowed without the assistance of all the gamblers and thieves of New York. Mr. FrormnGcHam gave clerical critics of the theatre a deserved rap yesterday when he suid that even churches had changed within two hun- dred years. It is the stage of two centuries ago that most pulpit orators talk about. Tue Graxt Movemest—the real article—is lucidly described in another column, and in a manner to which neither democrat nor republi- can can object. The principal gains appear to de in the East—tcn thousand miles to the east- ward, in fact. Tue Ports of the bill, now before the Legis- lature, providing for the tunnelling of the Hud- son River, are plainly given in another column. ‘The advantages which would accrue to this city from such an enterprise, properly conducted, w.ll be apparent to every one who realizes how large a share of our trade and travel require separate and tedious transportation because New York is on an island. ‘Tur Weatner.—The disturbance which passed over our district on Saturday is moving into the ocean off the Nova Scotia coast, attended by rain, snow and increasing winds. During the storm's advance over the lower lake regions and through the Middle Atlantic States the tension of atmospheric clectricity increased re- muarkably, and lightning was frequently seen, although not accompanied by audible thunder. ‘This increase of clectricity wae due to the sudden changes in temperature which took place over the districts mentioned, causing a very rapid condensation of the atmospheric vapor, which 4s shown by the heavy rainfall. An area of high barometer follows the disturb- ance and dominated the weather in all the districts east of the Rocky Mountains, except the extreme Northwest, where the press- ure was relatively low. Toward noon yesterday the pressure began to decrease very rapidly in Dakota, and the gradients for westerly to south- erly winds became very steep, and last evening 4 storm centre moved southcastward toward Lake Michigan. This storm centre is at present unattended by any precipitation; but as soon as it has passed over the lakes, where it will obtain ite store of water, rains and snow may be ex- pected, particularly in the St. Lawrence Valley and the New England States. The course of the storm will be to the northward of our district, as the high area which overlies the central valley districts and the South and Middle Atlantic cousts will tend to divert it in a northeasterly direction. It will probably be attended by high winds in the lower lake regions, and will be very severe when off Nova Scotia. Rain has fallen in all the Atlantic coust districts, from the Gulf of Mexico to Nova Scotia. Clear ‘weather has prevailed in the southwestern and Gulf districts. Elsewhere it was cloudy. The winds have been fresh to brisk in the Jake re- gions, Northern New England States and tho Northwest, brisk to high in the West and gen- erally light elsewhere. The temperature has visen in the Northwest and the Middle, \Atinntio and New England States, It Shas fallen very devidedly in the Gulf districts and has remained nearly sta Aionary elsewhere. Our special weather gable from Europe says that a fresh gale from Whe eastward prevailed lust evening at Holy- jhead. This shows that the storm predicted by Phe Hrnatp Weather Bureau to arrive on the British and French coasts between the 21st and 3d hus arrived on time. The weather in New (York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and Qpartly cloudy or fair in the morning, followed Iby rising temperature and inereasing cloudiness. but for midshipmen there is no limit at all, and yon may pile in midshipmen until they are there by the thousand, for that matter, if you take time enough, and at the rate at which retirement or deaih thins out the upper gtades of the navy you will find such a disparity between the incoming and the outgoing as must lead to a steady annual increase in the officers of the navy.” The Secretary replies calmly that twenty-five graduates annually, not fifty or seventy- five, is a liberal estimate, and adds:— “There does not seem to be any danger of there being a very large number of mid- shipmen on the navy list. On the contrary, a@ reduction may be cxpected. In 1872 there were 113; in 1873, 113; in 1874, 103; in 1875, 81, and in 1876, 64. There are at present only 41” He adds:—‘there are constant applications for this class of ofli- cers from commanding cflizers of ships at sea, and very iew vessels have been fully supplied with them, owing to their small number.” So much for Senator Blaine’s ‘‘midship- men by thousands ;” but he pretended also that the navy was in other grades im- mensely over-officered. The Secretary re- plies that there are but one hundred and fifty-three more officers of all grades now on the naval register than there were in 1841, when we had only four steamers cruising, and the general introduc- tion of steam abundantly accounts for this small increase. He adds that ‘besides the service at sea, officers of the navy of all grades and corps are employed on ‘other duty,’ not less important and responsible, though not in immediate command of men. They pertorm duty at the navy yards, where the care and distribution of stores and ma- terial, valued at millions of dollars, require professional knowledge. Also on the coust survey, for which Congress, recognizing its value to the country, appropriates annually the necessary amount te carry on the work, the hydrographic portion being conducted by naval officers, Also at the Naval Acad- emy, where the officers who have completed a term of sea service in their turn take their places as professors, to train and edu- cate the young men who are hereafter to take their places, Also at the Hydro- graphic Office, Naval Observatory and Nau- tical Almanac, officers are employed in work which not unfrequently brings ac- knowledgments from abroad of its value to the commervial and scientific world. Also at the torpedo station officers are assigned to duty as instrnctors in the classes of young officers upon whom the practice and im- provement of this most important branch of the naval service must depend, And the lighthouse districts throughout the United States are under charge of navat officers as inspectors. In addition to these different positions required by law to be filled by naval officers a few of them are required for special duties on boards of examination, inspection and courts martial. And all contracts for the construction of vessels or for materials of war requiro the inspection of officers during the progress of the work. To all these duties officers are assigned as they return from sea service.” Surely a more forcibie answer to the suggestion that our navy officers have nothing to do could not be made, and we have preferred to give it in the Secretary's own words, But Senator Blaine’s amendment pro- posed to base the number of officers upon ‘o-morrow it will be warm and fair, The winds will probably increase during the next forty- eight hours. | a fixed torce of seven thousand five hundred j men inthe navy, ‘The Secretary shows that this number is not adequate to man the ships which he hopes and needs to have in commission next year. Of the seven thou- sand five hundred men now allowed more than a third are employed on training ships, receiving ships, on the coast survey and at the Naval Academy, in accordance with law. The remainder leaves him scant material to man the ships now in service, and we are glad to read that he expects be- fore next December to have ten more ships afloat and in commission. He needs, there- fore, more men, and we trust Congress at the regular session will allow them. Finally, as to the navy yards, Senator Blaine said:—‘‘There is of course a vast and useless expenditure in the navy yards, a very large and overwhelming expenditure in that department which we do not in any event need.” ‘To this the Secretary replies that if we are to have a navy we must have yards, but that he is not unwilling to close and dispose of some of the navy yards if Congress desires, and we suppose he would begin this economy under the direction of Congress by shutting up and selling out the navy yard at’ Portsmouth, on the New Hampshire coast, which in the general opinion of naval experts is the one which, in the interests of a judicious econ- omy, could be best spared. And Mr. Thompson concludes with the following quiet rejoinder to the Maine Senator's urgent plea for naval economy:#‘‘In re- gard to the other question, whether or noa board should be appointed to decide upon some plan of decreasing ‘the expenses of the naval establishment,’ the department can only now say that it has employed all pos- sible diligence todo this. The expendi- tures of the last fiscal year were $4,928,677 74 less than those of the pre- ceeding year, although more ships were thoroughty repaired and made ready for sea than during that yeir. The expenditures of the year ending June 30, 1877, were also $4,630,440 63 less than the year preceding that. The average, annual expenditures for the five years previous to and including 1877 were $19,328,684 58; so that those of the year ending June 30, 1878, ‘were $6,021,770 49 less than this average. And thus far during the present fiscal year they are still further reduced, as appears by the fact that the expenditures for the first six a new home, Kansas does not require many new farm laborers, and certainly not of the class which knows little besides the way to pick cotton. The cause of the exodus is that the negro who aspires to be indepen- dent has been charged too high a rental for land-—seven to ten dollars an acre being the average price—and as the crops are precarious, aud at best not highly profitable, he has found himself a loser. Negro politicians have heid out | glowing maps of ‘‘free Kansas,” as they did of Texas, and so the hegira has begun. The Southern land owners have themselves somewhat to blame fur this condition of affairs, No doubt rents have been too high, andthe system of giving a storekeeper's privilege on plantations to unscrupulous men who give the negro credit in order to swindle him is having its effect, High rents, swindling storekecepers and negro politicians are turning the tide toward Kansas. The New Assessment and Tax Bill. Altogether the most important measure presented at this session, and perhaps for several sessions, of the New York Legis- lature, is the bill reported near the end of last week by a special committee of the Senate relating to the assessment and tax- ation of property. It has been felv for a long period that our system of State taxation is not suited to the present condition of affairs. So long ago as when Mr. Hoffman was Governor the Logislaturs authorized him to appoint a commission to examine this subject and suggest changes. Govr- nor Hoffman did appoint a very able com- mission with David A. Wells at its head, going out of the State to find an export of the highest reputation in respect to questions of taxation. But the system recommended by Mr. Wells and his associates proposed so radical a change that it was regarded as theoretical and fanciful, and it fell stillborn in the Legislature to which their report was made, Since that failure the question of State taxation has been discussed with great intelligence, Mr. George H. Andrews, late Tax Commissioner of this city, having made the most noteworthy contributions to the discussion. ‘Lhe special committee of the State Senate have kept quite clear of months were $1,452,404 82 less than for the corresponding period of last year. ‘That these expenditures could be still further reduced by omitting the repairs of vessels and suffering the navy yards and other property to deteriorate in value there is no doubt. But if the navy is to be preserved, even in its present condition of effective- ness, and the vessels are to be repaired and kept in a condition tor service, it is not likely that there can be any very material diminution of expenditures,” We do not remember ever to have seen a more complete and crushing demolition of a United States Senator than this by the Secretary of the Navy, and we congratulate the navy upon having at its head a Cabinet officer who knows so well how to defend it against attack and to show in few but per- tinent words what it really does for the country. - It is amazing that Senator Blainoe should not have tried to know a little of the subject before he ventured to speak about it, especially when the object of his attack was the navy, which has always hitherto found able defenders in New Eng- land. He will probably leave the navy alone ‘hereaiter-—at least while Secretary Thompson remains at its head. It is not safe water for him to cruise in. Changing the Seat of Government . in France. By the present constitution of France, section nine of the laws on the organization of the public authority, it is declared :— “The seat of the executive power and of the two Chambers is at Versailles.” Con- sequently, when a movement was initiated some time since for the return of the govern- ment to Paris this constitutional provision stood in the way. As the seat of govern- ment could not be changed without a re- vision of the constitution, and the constitu- tion could only be revised by the act of the two houses conyoked in national conven- tion, and as the national convention once convoked for the revision of the constitu- tion might not limit its action to this par- ticular poin!, but might take up the recon- struction of the organic law in some very important respects, men cf conservative distempers who did not want to see any new political storms provoked were in great doubt whether or no it would not be a great deal better to endure the small ills consequent upon a daily trip to Versailles than to venture the great ones that might follow if the constitution were to be keel- hauled just now. For the body assembled to act upon the constitation may act upon it en totali € ow en partie. It may ba “revised” by the substitution for the present constitu- tion of a constitution absolutely different in every point. All the enemies ot the Repub- lic voted for it on that understanding and with the intention to sweep it away on any day that they might have the power. As the constitution was a compromise between the republicans and their opponents there are many points in it the republicans would like to change, and as they have the power they may seize the occasion, Teste this probability the Assembly hes "voted by ‘a large majority to call the National Conven- tion for the revision of the constitution, A Negro Exodus. St. Louis is becoming a large emigration depot for negrocs who are leaving the South for Kansas, The Liberia scheme was a failure, and the thousands of negroes who for two or three years migrated trom Georgia and Alabama to Texas returned if they conld or mourned for their old homes if they were com- pelled to'remain, The last stampede has been for Kansas. It must bo said for these colored people that they aro peaceable, worthy and zealous, and that their object is to secure anew home, Few of them know the habits of any life besides that of the plantation; but it is that very life from which they are seeking to escape. They do not know what they want; what they do not want is leit behind them; and it is a pity that they are to be disappointed in their efforts to find the innovations proposed by Mr. Wells and Mr. Andrews, and have devised a plan of their own more in accordance with the average tone of thinking on this subject. The special committee of the Senate rec- ognize as fuliy as Mr. Wells or Mr. Andrews that the present system of taxation, adopted when agriculturs was almost our only in- terest, is unsuited to the present condition of the State. They refer to the vast aggre- gations of wealth and capital which were unknown when our present tax system was adopted, and to the new species of corpo- rate property which has grown up, “nearly equalling the entire value of real estate,” and which ‘thas almost escaped assessment and taxation.” It is the main purpose of the new bill to bring this vast aggregate of property owned by corporations within the scope of the tax laws and make it bear its proportional share of the public burdens. Were this the sole object of the bill it would be exposed to no just criticism, ex- cept perhaps in details susceptible of easy amendment in the progress of the bill through the Legislature. But it includes another change of more doubtful expe- diency. In assessing real estate and other property it proposes to deduct the just debts of the owners, The probable effect of this exemption would be that mortgages would be transferred to people living in other States, and a considerable portion of the fixed property which is protected by New York laws would elude New York taxation. Nevertheless, this is likely to be one of the most popular features of the new bill, and if its adoption is necessary to carry the other parts of itit will be better to take the bill as a whole than to lose the very important features which bring the vast aggregate of corporate property within the cff:ctive operation of our tax laws. Why should not the immense capital of our railroad companies pay its equitable sbare of State taxes? Why should not the very lucrative street car companies and elevated railroads bear their fair proportion ofthe public burdens? There are no fitter subjects of taxation than these wealthy cor- porations, which almost entirely escape under existing laws. A great railroad, whose property stretches through twenty counties of the State, cannot be reached under the present system. If any one county attempts to assess it the plea is always ready that it pays its taxes else- where. Under the present law it is taxed in the county where its principal office is located; but as it can change its principal office at pleasure it is tempted to locate il in some county where taxes are lightest, and its taxxbility is made a farce. By the new bill all corporate property—railroads, telc- graph companies, horsé car compnnics, cle- vated railroads in cities - is to be put under the supervision of the State assessors, who are to appraise the property and distribute the amount of tho assessment among the counties in which the property lies. This plan is excellent. Where the property lies wholly within one county— like that of horse cir companies and ele- vated steam roads—the whole assessment is to be for the benefit of that county. ‘There is no justice in letting so vast an amount of productive property escape taxation, and if this admirable part of the bill cannot be passed as a separate measure we prefer to take tho bill as a whole ratherthan lose this great feature. The bill as reported is, of couise, susceptible of amendment, and may easily be amended, but it is altogether too important to be permitted to fail. The Arrog and the Eurydice. The loss of the French floating battery Arrogante, while practising with her guns off the Isles of Hyercs during a storm on last Wednesday, furnishes another melan- choly example to the naval authorities of European countries of imprudence in dis- regarding timely storm warnings. Our despatch published on Saturday states that “the storm arose during firing practice and ‘the Arrogante sprang aleak.” This means that the laboring of the heavy ship in the sea raised by the storm strained her hulk so a3 to causé the leak. The “storm” that arose on Wednesday, the 19th, ‘wadabalicbed by the Henary Weather Bureau on the 13th in a general warning, and in a particular warning on the morning of the 17th. tween the 13th and 20th the weather was very unsettled on the british, Norwegian and French coasts, «xtending southward to the Medi erranean, and the conditions such as to emphasize the warnings very de- cidedly, Yet the Arrogante went out to practice on the very day the storm was most likely to reach Western Europe, and was lost, with forty-seven of her crew. ‘This sad event reealls tho loss of the British war ship Eurydice off the Isle of Wight on the 24th of March, last year. She was re- turning from the West Indies after a prac- tica craise, and came up the Chan- nel close to the English coast, with every sail set. She was suddenly struck by a tremendons squa!l with snow, and laid over on her beam ends. ‘Then she filled and went down with three hundred of her crew and invalid passengers. ‘Lhe storm that sank her, on the 24th of last March, was, like that of the 19th of this March, predisted by the Hzn\wo Weather Burean six days ahead, Had the warning signals been displayed on the English headlands the Eurydice might have been saved, for her commander would certainly not have carried sail as he did. If the French local naval authoiities had heeded our warning, which is regu‘arly published in the official meteorological builetin, the Arrogante might now be safe at her moor- ings. Too Much Enterprise. We heartily admire the-great West. She gives us wheat and border stories and cattle and the anti-Chinese agitation and a great many other things to cheer the heart of man and make his stomuch strong. When, however, finding the Pucific Ocean between her and further territorial con- quests she has turned her eyes enst- ward and prepared to swoop down upon our own Harem, why, bless her! she has gone too far. As matters of enterprise it may be excusable to squat on pleasing cor- ners of Indian reservations and to spirit sundry logs from timber land that is part and parcel of the national domain ; but the ‘flats along the Hatiem River are ontirely different from these, We admit that their level and _ consist- ency suggest chills and fever, which is supposed to be particularly attractive to men of Western training, but the oppor- tunity to shake at unvarying periods is not the exclusive right of the Westerner. We know it is claimed that the lands belong to certain Western families by right of entail, they being descended from the Baron Waldron, who practised ftaiming on the Harlem a many . years ago, before that stream was _ obstructed by bridges and polluted by sewers and factory drainage. But since that time we have had a court house built in Harlem, and a bridge, and some private residences, which the city is supposed to have paid fox, and the elevated railroad has found its way there, and in one way and another the place has cost the city, so much that the idea of its being stolidly ‘squat- ted” upon in Western fashion is—why, really, it’s too bad. Harlem elects about two-thirds of a Congressman and one and a fraction of un Alderman, and if the West thinks it is going to get these we give it warning thatin attempting to do so it will assail the holiest sentiments of the metropolitan nature. Let the West stick to legitimate efforts; it has long had the monopoly of Presidents and border ruffians, grasshoppers and champion fires ; let it satisfy itself with these and keep its hands off cur own Harlera, which has already cost us far more that we have got for it. Spring Fever. There are exceptions to all rules, even to that which teaches that disease is danger- ous. The mild days which have already appeared, without the fear of an almanac be- fore their eyes, have inflicted upon some thousands of persons the premonitory symp- toms of spring fever, but very fow seem to be frightened by it or to take steps to repel ils advances. Perhaps a suspicion of green under the brown surfaces of the parks and unflagged dooryards has not occurred to every one, nor have men and women thought to look up into our occasional trees to ste what bird society is doing in its upper circles, but the invisible impulse that has awakened the grass and diverted the sparrows from their chronic anxiety about the family larder is just us busy and influential in human nature, Everybody knows that overshoes and winter wraps must still be kept within casy reach, and that the price of coal is of more general interest than that of railway stocks, yet many people stand at open doors and windows without any particular reason for doing so; they stop oftener than usual beforo florists’ windows, though flowers arc not more numerous and beauti- ful than usual; they go out shopping, to the theatre or to church and consume more than the ordinary time ea route, and, though busy as ever, seem beticr natured and less ina hurry than they have been during the winter. Even the tramp, who is supposed to have rid himse!f of all human traits not absolutely necessary to existence, has felt the gentle influence and sought quite numerously the park benches that have missed him steadily in late months, Tho fever will abate promptly at the first cold or rainy day, but tne germ, though tempo- rarily latent, will increase in potency and cause many relapses until the disease has run its varied course through stuges omong which are that of seeking early vegetables and spring clothing, looking at ndvertise- ments of country board and wondering when excursion steamers will begin again to run, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The following Americans were registered at tho Paris ofiice of the Henauy on Saturday :— Alexis, J.,"New York, Globe Hotel. Bache, 8. J., New York, Continental Hotel, Baker, J. E., Wisconsin, Hotel Dominici. Beach, J. H., St. Louisa, Hotel de VAthénés, Béjottes, Léon, New York, Globe Hotel. Benda, a, New York, Continental Hotel. Berthaud, Miss L., Cincinnati, Hotel Binds, Beutheur, Solomon, New York, # Rue Lafitte, Budd, Samuel, New York, Hotel de l’Athénée, Budd, Miss A. S., New York, Hotel de PAthénée, aT Goorge F., Philalelphis, Hotel de Lam Crane, J. A., New York, Hotel de 1'Athénée, Desmy, C. A., New York, Grand Hotel, Garnior, Albert, New York.” Gunnison, A. aud family, Cincinnati, Hotel Binds, Harding, G. W. and family, Boston, Hotel du Louvre. . Held, C. W. and wife, New York, Hotel de Baviere, Kane, Commander Theodore F’. and family, United States Navy, 44 Rue Clichy. Latham, Miss Emilie M., Philadelphia, Hotel des Deux Mondes, Naga L. and wife, New York, Continental Ho- tel. MeKenty, J. and wife, San Francisco, Hotel de Lille et d’Albion. Poix, A. F., New York, Hotel d’Angleterre. Ranft, Richard, New York, Hotel Violet. Thursby, Mrs. and family, New York, London Ho- tel, Welsh, William, Jr., and family, Philadelphia, Hotel des Deux Mondes. Wheeler, Second Lieutenant William H., United States Army, Hotel Chatham, Williams, F, E., Connecticut, Hotel Beauséjour. » Young, Mrs, J. B., Philadelphia, Hotel des Deux Mondes, Capoul is coming. Snow on St. Patrick's week is pat. + ‘There is many a slip between a banana skin dnd the sidewalk, ‘The Boston Post calls our elovated railway cars “castles in the air.’’ Congressman Heister Clymer, of Pennsylvania, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. March came in like a lamb, but it will not stand upon the ordor of its going. Schuyler Colfax is the political waif—in fact, a perfect wafer. He is a sort of waifering man, The Chicago Timef thinks that Sir John Astley has not lost in weight, but has gained in pounds, There is uo noed for a man committing suicide when he may go to ‘Lexas and be shot inexpensively. Seflor Zamacoma, the Mexican Minister, and suite left St. Louis last night for Washington, via Cincin- nati, where they will stop one day, ‘The highest penalty of the law should be put upon the prisoner who in answer to “What, never?” re- plies ‘Hardly ever,” A Jerscy temperance man who went home very late the other night said that he had been studying hard sidcria! reflections. An exchange says that most diamonds are made of puste, We have frequently noticed in a few of our exchanges that items from this column have paste behind them. Marquis Tsing, the Chinese Ambassador to England and France, speaks and writes English and has a fair knowledze of French, He has two boys and a girl for children and a suite of forty persons. And now Eve is accusea of having married too early. We have frequently thought that she took the firet offer she received; but she was 9 young und giddy thing, and she knew she was not going to have any mother-in-law. Still she might have waited, might have waited. AMUSEMEN’ Ts. CONCERT AT THE BROADWAY THEATRE. A popular concert was given last evening at the above house by a number of artists, including Mr. J. Graft, the well known tenor of force; Miss Beere, the rich contralto; Signor O’B. Mareato, baritoney and Miss Clara Louise Graff, mezzo-soprano. Mr. Edward R. Mollenhauer, the violinist, was on the bills, but not on the stage. It would not be just to say that his absence was made up for by the drum selos of Mr. A. R. Carrington; but it must be admitted that few ecstatic fiddlers could awaken the same enthusiasm as this young man with his nimble drumsticks. He played on the rim of the drum, on the drumsticks thomselvos, he waved them over his head and whisked them under his legs until the bland martyr at the piano was tired out. ‘Mr. Graff sang Randegger’s ‘‘What are Tney to Do” with nice effect and @ final high fo which the house. Miss Beore sang, as fore, “O mio Fernando,” with “I Cannot ‘Sey. Goodby” for an encore. This ly has dramatic as well as musical peas should be heard trom sooner or GRAND OPERA HOUSE—DE MURSKA CONCERT. The twentieth in the series of concerts under the direction of Signor de Vivo took place last evening atthe Grand Opera House, and was well attended, The performance was in every way equal to ite pre- decessors and the same artists appeared who have sung and played on former occasions, The pro- gramme consisted of familiar operatic salections, all of which were rendered with the usual excellence that characterizes this company. Mlle. de Murska was in admirable voice, and in rendering the mad scene from ‘Hamlet’ and the aria ‘Una voce,” from “Tl Barbiere,” was enthusiastically applauded. Miss Markstein, the well known pianist, performed Liszt’s fantasia “Lucia.” we center Susini, liapietra and Rosnati have better in t! concerts, than they did last event , and the occasion afforded much enjoyment to all who were present. In addi- tion to the pieces already nam od the programme comprised the following Melon ese isto song, ** od Pi feu) Signe ‘Saainl at romanze froi Pavorita, mor ra; song, mori,” Signor Rosnat! oats Kio “Masni ee Rospati and Susini; Me rg (Huguenots), Signor vite eari,”” or "ragliaplcten: violin 080: “Rev. aint wi + duct, “Crispino signe Comare” mor Suaini.. Te sou egal ors were Messrs. sob it and George SUNDAY EVENING CONCERT AT BOOTH’S THEATRE, Professor D’Auria’s concert at Booth’s, last even- ing, was in every respect @ delightful entertainment. ‘Tho programme was well selected, the orchestra was large and kept well in hand, and the soloists were Reményi, Mme. Carrefio and Miss Gertrude Frank- la—not ® numerous company, indeed, but the enough that makes a feast. Reményi is the wizard of the viclin, who cnthrals his audience by the rapturous beauty and wild, deep strength of the tones he evokes from his instrament. He played a fantasia from “The Huguenots.” Mme, Carrefio's rendering of a fantasia on Hungarian airs by Liszt was exquisite. It is a very.difficult task to do justice to the wild, plaintive, me'ancholy music of the Magyars on the piano. But Mme. Carreno ia a ph of Fee markable delicacy as well as power of succeeded in rendering the tone pictures of co arian life and love in ® manner worthy of tho warmest praise. Miss Gertrude Franklin is & soprano with on tanee Poa 3 and pom ness of voice, She ‘and tions by Rode, and tun Se wnnoet a aithcalt tals, with astonishing bp en & her voice lacks evenness, she has # pheno: for the execa- tion of florid music, Sho teills with the ease and charm of a bird, The Programme, for the orchestra consisted of an overture Bazzint, Ror |, Caledo~ hia” ("ltecollections of | Scotland,” D'Auria), “Wild Flowers,” an overture by D'Auria and selec. tions from “Aida,” ‘The concert was a most enjoyable one, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Mr, Frank Mayo will commence # three weeks’ engagement at the Grand Opera House to-night. He plays “Davy Crockett” for a week and afterward the “Streets of New York.”’ A grand concert by Ole Bull and Madame Marié Roze is announced this evenitg in Brooklyn, and will doubtless be the occasion of a great gathering of the admirers of these favorite artiats. ‘The London papers had a telegram the day after the first performance of “Lohengrin” in New York, to the effect that Mme. Gerster had made a grand success as Elsa, ‘This Js news for New York! Mme. Essipoff will visit London this season after an absence of two years. Sho will first appear at the Philharmonic concert on April 26, and again on the 30th of the same month, She will also give two re citals at St, James’ Hall—one on May 1 and the other on May 22. ‘Wagner's “Rienzi,” with a Russian. vorsion of the libretto, is to be produced at the Russian Opera House, St. Petersburg. A now thre act opera, “Boecacio,” by Herr Sup é, produced at the Cours Theatre, in Vienna, has been successful, A new opera, “Caterina di Vinzaglio,” by the young com> poser Pozzolo, has been successfully represented 06 Venice, At Her Majesty's Thoatro, London, the remarkable success of “Carmen” and “Rienzi” has been suff cient to draw fall houses for the past six weeks, Oo Wednesday performance of Sir Julius Benedict's “Lily of Killarney” diversified the programme, ond Herr Brill’s “Golden Crons” is to be revived, Mr, Mapleson’s season of Italian opera will not com- mence till the beginning of May, and it is probable that the performance im English wiil be carried on until the house @ required for preparations for the foreigners, \