The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, cident ished every day im the year. juded). Ton dollars por » dollars and fifty cents ne dollar per month for nday edition included ; t dollars por year, free o} THE DAILY HERALD. ‘Three cents per copy (Sun wear, five doila@s tor six for three months, or any period less than three mo without Sunday edition, ei Postae. WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- their old as well as their new address, ‘All business, news lertera or telegraphic despatches must ew Yous Henan. Letters and packages should bo preperly sealed. Rejected commun: nw will not be returned. uni bs Levrne PHILADELPHIA OPFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTIT i TCR OF THE NEW YORK UERALD— Ey AVENUR DE OPERA D4 received and Bi evi forwatied Vo = AMUSEMENTS T0-NIGHT, BROADWAY THEATRE—U. M. S. Pivarorn, NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Rxp IipusG Hoop. FIFTIT AVENUE THEAT. STANDARD THEATRI UNIGN SQUARE Til Boorn’s THEATRE— NIBLO'S THEATRE—| 82. JAMES OPERA HOUS! BOWERY THEATRE GERMANIA THEATRI PARK THEATRE—ExGacni SAN PRANCISCO MINSTRE. AMERICAN MUSEUM TONY PASTOR’S—Pixaroxs RLKSQUR THEATRE COMIQUE—NeLuGAN Guagp Bat MASONIC HALL—Tnx Minar KURTZ GALLERY—Awnnic. nists’ Eximmrios, GILMORE’S GARDENS IAN TOURNAMENT. BREWSTER HALL—Papustnianise. TRIPLE SHEET. S. Pevarons. Mvp Scow Pinarors NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 98, 1879, The probabilities are that the weather in New Fork and its vicinity today will be cool and partly cloudy, followed by increasing clowdiness and wind force. To-morrow it will be cloudy, with rain and brisk to strong winds, followal by irly active and steady. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads higher. Money on call was tight and lent as high us 1-32 of 1 percent per diem, but closed at 5 a G per cent. Cartas Borton scems to have been too, in- dustrious with his paddle. 4 ‘Tne Reeunuicans in the Senate learned yes- terduy how it was themselves, YesTerDay was u jubilee day for the Brook- lyn Tabernacle and High Priest Talmage. LOI AER ne DA OED ‘Tur Nation’s Exemixs are not all redskins— fifty-eight members of the House voted yester- day to reduce the army to fifteen thousand men. Ovr Skeren of the impetuous Tom Buford shows his unhappy affair with Judge Elliott to have been a natural result of a peculiar course of self-education. Tne Inga of a ited States marshal -pro- pouncing deputy marshals and supervisors un- necessary at elections! It is a great deal worse than telling tales out of school. Tue GraritupE or WomeN for any truodéer- vice rendered their sex has seldom been 80 prominently illustrated as by the present efforts of actresacs to increase the Porter relief fund. ANOTHER ORGANIZATION OF CariTALISTS, pro- posing to build improved tenements is under Way, and is so sensible as to desire that a repre- séntative tenant shall be a ember of the Board of Directors. Ixpian Arvarns are getting into a most irregu- lar condition again. An inspector has been re- jecting sixty thousand pounds of flour because it was not good enough, and contractors are complaining that protits are not what they used to be. ENGLanp axp Ingiaxp have been fighting again in Canada, an unusual point being that both parties hailed from the United States in- steul of only onc, a8 is usual. One peculiar feature of this prize fight might be remembered with a view to the honorable settlement of com- ing international affairs—one man offered the other a hundred dollars, and to spar at his ben- efit, if he would give ‘up the fight. Tue Weatnen.—The meteorolagical features of the United States underwent o remarkable change during yesterday. The large depression which extended over thé territary cast of the Mississippi River was divided by uo narrow tongue of high preasure which moved northward | from the Gulf districts until it reached the Brit- | ish provinces. When the two centres of low tarometer'were separated the one to the of the high pressure developed a storm centre over Pennsylvania, and passing over the Alle- ghanies moyed over our district yesterday after- noon with increasing energy. The gradients on the eastern margin of this storm: became very atecp, particularly on the Middle Atlantic coast, consequently high winds were experienced in- many places. When the progress of tho de- pression which extended over the West was retarded by the northward movement of the wall of high barometer the gradients began to get steep, aud last night the indica- tions pointed to the development of a cyclonic storm in the Lower Missouri Valley, which will probably pass through the central districts. ‘The rains which attended yesterday's storm were very general throughont the lower lake regions, the Middle Atlantic and New England States. As yet no precipitation is reported from the region where the weather is dominated by the western disturbance. The ‘winds have been brisk to high on the Middle Atlantic and New England cousts and the northern Jake regions, light over the lower lakes and the central valley districts and generally fresh clsowhere. ‘The tempera ture has fullen in the central lake and valley districts and has risen in the other districts. Elsewhere will be found an ascount of fearful gale experienced on the coast of British Columbia by the American war ship Alaska, The ice is grad- ually breaking up in the Hudson River, and it is probable that navigation will be open very soon. Our special weather cable from Europe states that the weather continues stormy. This is inexact confirmation of the warning sent by the Hnaiw Weather Bureau on the 22d, which stated that unsettled weather would continue until the end of the month, and that dangerous storms would be experienced north of latitade 40 degrees, The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and partly cloudy, followed by increasing cloudiness and wind foree. To-morrow it will be cloudy, with rain and brisk to strong winds, followed by cicaring. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘L” Rosa Management in the Inter- ests of the Public and the Come pantes—Safety, Comfort and Profit. The action of the directors of the New York “L” Company at their special meeting yesterday is highly commendable, because it settles at once and finally the question of danger at their own junctions. So far as it goes the suspension of the operation of the branches as continuations of sections of the main line is evidence that the company respects public safety sufficiently to make an cffort to insure it on this road. It is also an admis- siop that the demands of the Hurarp in this regard were well founded. Sir Boyle Roche once remarked that ‘the best way to meet danger was to avoid it.” There is more sound philosophy in this famous “bull” than its worthy author gets credit for, and we notice, with satistaction, that the New York ‘“L” Company practi- cally adopts the policy of prudence to gov- ern the operation of the road. Now, we do not wish to be considered captious in our criticisms of the men and things connected with rapid transit, but we cannot help making comparisons which must neces- sarily touch on tender spots. For instance, we were assured at ‘the outset that every- thing in the management and cquipment of the “L’” roads that could be considered essential to the safety and comfort of passengers would be done and provided in the most efficient and liberal manner. ‘Che Metropolitan Company only has striven to attain this ideal of safety and comfort by building a well laid track and equipping the road with handspme and comfortable cars. On’ the other hand, the New York “L” Company has not exhibited a similar desire to promote the comfort of passengers. The road, although substantial, is not so well constructed as the Metropoli- tan “L;” the rail joints do not rest on ties, but are made between those supports, and a strain is consequently thrown on the fish- plates, which give way slightly, so as to cause an unsteady movement of the cars. The latter are not models of comfort by any means, and do not compare with the handsome and almost luxurious cars of the other road. Neither company appears to have made any effort to abate the nuisance created by the sulphurous smoke and gas that penetrate the leading cars of their trains. We believe that the locomotive fire boxes are, from motiyes of economy, made too small to admit of the combustion of the gases, and that the draught created by the exhaust steam carries into the air, and con- sequently into the cars, much of the un- consumed gas. Are wo unreasonable in asking the “L” companies to remedy such an evil as this? Surely it is their in- terest to make travelling on the ‘L” roads as comfortable as possibla They must consider that many delicate persons cannot breathe this gas- charged air and aro compelled to ride in the horse cars. Ono of the best reasons why the New York ‘‘L” Company may fear the rivalry of the Metropolitan “L” on the east 'side is the assurance given by the latter corporation that their Second avenue féad will be built and equipped in & manner superior even to the Sixth ave- nue “L.” We have no reason to doubt this assarance, and we regard the Metropolitan “L” policy of first class construction and equipment as the very best that can be adopted for securing the hion’s share of the valuable east side traffic. If the New York “L” Company’s managers desire to retain the present profitable business they must not allow their rivals to outdo them in a generous appreciation of public patronage. It is not by endeavoring'to cut off the Metropolitan ‘“‘L” Company from any ad- vantages of downtown termini that success can be attained. The best road, the best cars and the best service will attract pas- sengers, in spite of what may prove to be imaginary advantages of location and mere convenience purchased at the price of com- fort. ‘The “rights” of the companies to partion- lar routes are probably considered valuable on the supposition that passengers will ac- cept any kind of accommodation that the company in possession may choose to afford them. ‘This isa great mistake, for passen- gers have some interest in agreeable modes of travel and have abandoned the horse car for the “‘L” road train because of the in- creased comfort afforded by the latter. Now the New York “‘L” Company has con- ceded that it is safer to operate branches in- dependently of the main line and has suspended the running of through trains from its own branches. It must be admitted that the trains of two com- panies using a common length of track will create dangers far greater than any that can rise at the junctions of one company’s line. Hence the resolutions passed yesterday by the Board of Directors of the New York “L” apply with quintuple force to the case of the joint occupation of the “‘L” road be- tween Beaver street and Chatham square, and to the proposed crossings at the latter place. How, then, are tho “rights” of the two companies to the Pearl street and Chatham street routes to bo determined? Clearly, by arbitration. What decision can arbitrators possibly arrive at, in view of the equality of “rights” claimed and tho dangers that must arise out of an exertiso of these by both companies over a common route? They must necessarily decide that the profits of both lines below Chatham square shall be “pooled,” as was suggested in the Henaxp, and a just proportion paid, to each company. But we must consider that the expenses of operating and misin-. taining » well equipped road are larger than those of one not so well provided and maintained. Therefore, the Metropolftan «“L” can justly claim its share in the pro- portion of expenditures to profits, or the New York “‘L” Company must equip that road as completely asthe other, Any way the question is looked at the solution that suggests itself is the adoption of the simple plan of equality of accommodation and a “pooling” of the profits of the lines below Chatham square. Our “‘L” charters are the most valuable franchises which .New York or any other city can grant to private corporations. ‘They represent a steady increase of profit, with a fixed measure of expenditure. No comparison can be instituted between them and city railroad grants in other places, be- cause the conditions that go to make them valuable do pot present themselves in any city bat New York, where the’shape of the territory absolutely bars out competition beyond a certain degree and pre- serves fur each line an enormously profitable business. The only re- turn which these “L" companies axe asked to make, besides tho accommedation to the public which they are organized to afford, is the payment of five per cent of their annual net income to the city treasury, This amount, if deducted from the legitimate incomes of the ‘L” roads, would leave asum representing profits far exceeding the highest expectations of their stockholders, yet the companies not only pay this tax, but make in addition large profits out of the illegitimate in- come derived from crowded cars and packed platforms. If the greed of the companies induces them to violate daily their own printed rule# how can they expect the people who have granted them their valuable franchises to regard with in- difference quarrels in which selfishness holds the scales wherein public safety is weighed against private profit and ‘our rights” are thrown in as makeweights against considerations of prudence and justice? Ravages of Pestilence in Brazil, From the pen of the correspondent who so graphically delineated a few weeks ago the scenes of almost incredible suffering in the plague stricken province of Ceard dur- ing the past year we to-day present a lotter giving the annals of the pestilence and famine for the month of January last. It will be observed with pleasure that the crisis was apparently over; rains had fallen and the mortality from smallpox in Janu- ary had decreased to little more than two thousand. ‘The beginning of the end was reached, and our correspondent appropri- ately takes occasion to review the whole history of the epidemic and to correct, to a slight extent, the appalling sta- tistics of mortality given in his former letter. Still, there is enough in the present narrative to amply confirm the general statements previously given, and indeed the danger is not yet over. From its seat in one or two thickly peopled cities the plague has recently extended to the country villages over a ‘wide extent of territory. Fortunately the region new being ravaged is very thinly populated, and the medical experience already gained may probably avail to prevent the recurrence of all those features of horror which were chiefly due tothe crowding of multitudes of starving wretches within the precincts of the larger towns. If proper sanitary precautions for the future shall be taken in Rio Janciro, Bahia and Pernambuco this catastrophe will not have been entirely in vain. Who Killed Mrs, Graham? When a woman weighing a hundred and sixty-five pounds and cnjoying apparent health goes into a public charitable institu- tion, and returns four months later with her weight reduced nearly onc-halt, her person filthy and covered with horrible wounds and sores, and her vitality so ex- hausted that she dics within three days, her case very properly excites grave sus- picions, particularly when her attendants have been attachés of the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. It seems impossible that Mrs. Graham could have been reduced to the condition which an eye-witness care- fully describes in another column unless wilful privation and brytal abuse were exercised toward her. The Coroner's investigation, which is to begin to- day, cannot be too thorough, for who- ever starved or tortured the wrotched woman whose remains offer evidence that cannot be overlooked are still in position to do the same by hundreds and thousands of others who may be unfortunate enough to fall into their hands. Condition of the Streets. In o communication from a well known gentleman, which is printed in the Hzratp to-day, may be found the allegation that “the condition of Fifth street, between First avenue and avenue B, is utterly dis- graceful, The mud in many places is moro than ankle deep; there are heaps of ashes, old bottles, fragments of baskets, wall paper, plaster and the usual assortment of :old boots and shoes.” Hero aro some items for @ picturesque account by the municipal poet of the period: of* the contents of the average uncleaned street, Our correspondent has neglected the usual dead cat or dog, the wrecked remnant of a hoop skirt, and the flaming red label of the empty tomato can which gives color to the typical rub- bish heap. But this was because he was giving o historical, not a poetical account; ho was telling what was in Fifth street, not generalizing a picturofrom many details, By the testimony thus given it appears, therefore, that when we spoke of the energy with which the excavators of the department were seeking for the real level of the structs our terms were too general. Perhaps wo should have said for some streets on tho east side of the city, for Mr. Wood's testi- mony evidently implies that they huve not reached Fifth street in its tar eastern regions. When will they get there? A Te t on Tenements, While the question of the improvement of residences of the poorer classes is so prominent all intelligent suggestions and criticisms are in order. We aro glad, thercs fore, to publish in our “Complaint Book” the impressions whicl a resident of a tone- ment house has formed of published plans and design, ‘The critic referred to errs in some points, particularly when he assumes the profit of one of the enterprises alluded to to be seventeen por cent; but men always do calculate profits erroneously until they build houses themselves, and pay taxes, in- surance, interest, &c., and suffer the inovit- able losses occasioned by bad tenants. One of the suggestions embodied in tho letter alluded to deserves special attention; it is that the committee which propese to creot improved buildings should take counsel of builders and tenants, and discover what the latter really need as well as what the formor can do, American life being what it is there are probably to-day in cheap tene- ments some men yet to be millionnaires, while descents from the top to the bottom are also within the range of possibilities, so let tenants be consulted if the proposed building movements are to bein their in- terest. Negro Emigration from the South. One of the most noteworthy events of the last week or two is the surprising exo- dus of blacks from the States of Louisiana and Mississippi with a view to settle in Kansas. ‘This unexpected movement seems to be as impulsive and unreflecting as that which attracted so much attention a year or two since, when the negro heart was fired with a romantic project of going back to Africa and repossessing the ancient seat of the race. There has indeed been a great deal less of preliminary flourish and parade in the hegira toward Kansas, and its failure, if it fails, will not be attended with such disastrous consequences. It was indeeda most deplorable condition in which the overcrowded shipload of negro emigrants who sailed from Charleston found them- selves after their arrival in Liberia. Pov- erty, want of employment and the diseases incident to a new climate, speedily damped their enthusiasm and convinced them of the improvidence and folly of this impul- sive venture. But the horde of negroes who are precipitating themselves upon a rich ag- ricultural State of the West does not run the hazard of such extreme suffering. »They arrive in the spring of the year, and at | some wages, even if small, they can find employment and aro in no danger of star- vation. If they have sufficient constancy of purpose to remain in Kansas a couple of years they will got rooted in the soil and will no doubt better their condition. Their plan of erhigrating in large bodies is foolish, because they will overstock the labor market at the plave of destination. If they had had good advisers individual families or small associations of families, with means of subsistence for a few months, would emigrate to different points in the West and offer themselves as agricul- tural laborers. Therois hardly atownshipin the Western States where a dozen or two of industrious negroes might not find imme- diate employment as farm hands and in the course of a few years earn mouey enough to buy small pieces of land; but-by going in large bodios to the same place they will choke up the channels of employ- ment. The Western papers describe this move- ment as very Considerable. ‘It is esti- mated that between two and three thousand have already come up the Mississippi by steamer to’ St. Louis, and the strange ex- odus continues without diminution.” ‘‘They are deaf to all well meant advice to return South, and evidently believe that any white man giving such advice is their enemy.” “The migration of the blacks having begun it is not easy to see where it will end. Something like a panic seems to have set in.” Although-tho general destination is Kansas several hundreds remain in St. Louis and have become objects of charity. “The colored population of St Louis immediately took up their case, quar- tered them in two churches and Union Hall, and set about raising money for them. A committee of fifteen was chosen by the St. Louis negroes to attend to their wants.” This recital attests tho want of prudence and foresight which mark the movement. All of them, espccially among the later arrivals, are not equally destitute, “Many of them have brought money and household goods -with them, and homemade wagons and scrubby little mules with rope harness.” Such of them as have a little property can easily dis- tribute themselves among agricultural counties, and may soon find remunorative employment, This strange hegira should teach o lesson to the South. In the days of slavery if negroes attempted to escape they were either hunted dowm by bloodhounds in their own States or pursued and returned under the Fugitive Slave law if they suc- ceeded in crossing the border. At present they are free to seek other homes, and have only to earn money enough to pay their passage to go where their rights will bore- spected. The South needs their labor cannot afford to lose them. It would but a moderate transfer of negro voters turn the scule in overy doubtful Northern § sand confront the solid South witha ‘North, / wy ata ae ad elty to Children. Tho Sosiéty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has so much work before it that it can hardly be expected to do everything at once, bat a letter which we give in our “Complaint Book” to-day refers to a juve- nile class large enough to merit serious con- sideration. ‘The children alluded to are the pagh boys and girls in largo retail stores. If, as the compiainant alleges, these little people .are kept on their fect eleven hours a day, barring a few moments at noon, their case deserves prompt attention. It may be claimed that they are employed im a legitimate busincss, that they know exactly what their duties are to be before they accept employment, and thut they are not beaten or directly abused, but the samo may be said of some of the children whom the society have taken from the stage. Soldiers under drill ure supposed to be as severely taxed as any one else, but if any drill sergeant were to keep recruits on their feet during eleven consecutive hours he would ‘soon find ball and-chain upon his own feet, and any commissioned officer who could be proved guilty of such an offence against humanity would be cashiered. Perhaps the employers of these children do not realize how deeply they are sinning against naturo—people seldom reason in | any way when dealing with beings who fear to complain—or do not know how to do so intelligently; but this fact urges all the more strongly an investigation by thoso who profess competence to deal with such affairs. Cetywayo Sitting Bull. It is reported that our old, if not esteemed, friend Sitting Bull is preparing to pay his respects to us in tho early spring; that he isalready on this side of the line, with a camp extending two miles along French- man’s Creck, and that *‘as soon as the grass begins to grow ho will go to war and sweep everything ont of the country.” Thisis not encouraging information. But then conso- lation comes to us in the statement that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Wash- ington ‘discredits the reports of Sitting Ball’s intended plan of operations.” The Commissioner does not believe that Sitting Bull's Indians will attack fortifications or expose themse}ves to soldiers in forts. Before the ‘disaster at Isandula Lord Chelmstord did not regard Cotywayo asa formidable foe. Since the slaughter of the British troops Cotywayo has been quiet and it is said that he has recently been engaged in gathering in the crops. He is reported to be ready to take the field again “at the now moon;” but the British believe that his strategy will not encourage invasion.of the colony or attacks on iortitfed positions, ‘The new moon will look on and see whether these predictions ave correct. We have had too many Isandulas iz our little affairs with the Indians. Let us hope: that we may not have another before the Washington authorities discover that the Indian Bureau is not the most reliable interpreter of tho plans of our American Cetywayo, Sitting Bull, ‘‘when the grass begins to grow.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Professor Theodore D, Woolsey, of New Haven, is at the Lverett House. Mr. C. J. Brydges has received the appointnreut of Land Commissioner of the Hudsox’ Bay Company. Mr, Frangois de Corcelle, Sceretary of the French Legation at Washington, is at the Albemarie Hotel. At Concord, the home of Emerson, the prisoners at the jailare strung up by the wrists till their veins burst. The great question with many people just now is whether to buy acouple of diamonds or a couple of Florida strawberries, The prices are about the same. Miss Kate Sanporn will lecture this evening on “Father Prout” in tho parlor of Dr. Howard Crosby's Church, Fourth avenue und Twenty-second street. Nothing can surpass the look of angelic pleasure on the face of a dodging pedestrian who stops to sec two truck drivers quarrelling and hopes that thy will kill each other. English farm laborors make no more than $2 50a week and eat coarse bread, a. cheese, @ very little American bacon (once a @&y) with turnips and mangel wurtzel beets. rt Senator Butler, or South Carolina, boards at the same house with Congressman Bragg, of Wisconsin, but does not speak to him because of his position against Southern claims. Eli Perkins says that John B. Gough always drinks sherry and egg before lecturing, and that he advisod him to do the same. He says that Susan B, Anthony always takes three eggs in three cups of strong coffee before she goes upon tho platform. A young girl suicide of Ohio said that tho grave would be very lonesome. It was Hawthorne who, when asked whether people go straight to the other world when they dic, replicd that for his part he wouldu’t mind resting in his graye for acouple of thousand years, | Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of Mime. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, who was sum- moned to Baltimore from Paris, was at the bedside of the latter yesterday, Mme. Bonaparte is critically illand her physician thinks sho may not survive more than a few days. She is ninety-six years of age. In an out-of-the-way country place in Hancock county, Ohio, lives a girl five years old who charms birds at will. Birds fly into her hands and upon her shoulders, showing signs of gladness, Even hum: ming birds fly to her careases. And all day long birds hover sbout her window. Her parents are ig- norant and poor. ° yy Hugging sociables are popelat in some rural parts of New Jersey. The prices charged are given for benevolent purposes, It costs ten cents to hug a girl between fiftcen and twenty, but you have to pay twenty-five cents fora young widow, five cents for a girl between twenty and. thirty, anda dollar for hugging o marricd lady. Many papers are at last awaking to tho fact that when a person who is a witness in a court takes a solemn oath to tell the whole truth brow-beating lawyers should not prevent him from fulfilling his obligation t# Goa. Besides, it is coming to be con- siderea that a lawyer has no right to be a loafer aimply because he happens to be engaged in a case. Longfellow’s yellow house, nine miles from Bos- ton, was built in 1759, and in 1775 was the headquar- ters of Washiigton. Mrs, Washington gave during the winter a round of social receptions, Talleyrand there visited the owner, Craigie, apothccary-genera of the American Army. Jared Sparks, Willard Phil- lips, Edward Everett and J. E. Worcester lived there. Longfellow went there in 1637. At acountry party the other night o humoris®was called upon to get up a new stylo of amusement Seeing an electric battery he started it, and taking one of the handles himself he gavo the other handle to the pretticst girl in the room, proposing that they kiss each other. As their lips mottwo million necdics seomed to break in all their effulgence upon the startled beauty, and now she knows what kissing is, i ‘The Bombay (Hindostag Gazette, Fobruary 27:— On Saturday week General Grant accepted an in- ‘vitation of the well known Parseo merchants, | Messrs. Dossabhoy Mgrwanjoo Wadia & Co., who | have for many years been connected with the trado of the United States of America, to visit their house in Bazaar Gate street. The General, sccompanicd by Mr. Farnham, the American Consul, Colonel Grant, and members of his suite, arrived in His Ex- collency the Governor's carriage about one P. M. at tho family residence of the above firm. The partners and Mr. Jamaetjee Dhunjeebhoy Wadia, the Master Builder of the Bombay Dockyard, received him at the cntrance of the house. The central room of the house was tastefully furnished and suitable to the occasion. The soveral members of tho tamily were thon introduced to the distinguished visitors, and after the distribution of garlands and bouquets tho party ted. An immense crowd had collected outside © catch a sight of tho Genoral, and they heartily cheered him on his doparture, showering ® profusion of flowers on him as he passed. ‘the gallant G-neral and party seemed. welt pleased with the hearty welcome ho had reeeived AMUSEMENTS. PIYTH AVENUE TREATRE—"“ WHIMS.” Dr, Kylinan Slaughtor, inventor of the yreat Pyramid Pilly, el ettion Radeye, editor of the *: Me W. IL Raynor he Kites Fie Witton jeraidine Mayo ive Mary Williams Miss May Gellaghee ‘The play perforined at the Fifth Avenue Theatre last evening under the above name was emphatically bad, ‘Tue only praise given to it was from It lacked interest from beginning to e: sbaolutely nothing in it that could command a com- pliment from an audionce who expected to enjoy sonwthing from an author who has heretofore written many excellent pieces, The dialogue had little force, the situations wore focblo and the dramatist failed in his adaptation from the German in making tho strong points which have created the success of tho original abroad. The play is one which affords many interesting situations, and inanagement has evidently employed — every ee to make the comedy We rg But eS the — endeavors 0 8 compan, even! it was not practicable .. ovate the ‘sation above rediocrity. ‘Throughout the whole m- ance there was nothing that commanded praise below the [ mniy and it looked very mneh aa ifs cl had becn organized for the occamon, “Whims' met with considerable success in vho West, but it must undergo many changes before it can,tako its place on the metropolitan stage, THR SYMPHONY SOCIENY AT STRINWAY HALL. ‘An immonso audience filled to overflowing Stein- way Hall yesterday afternoon, the ocession being tho sixth public rehearsal of tho New York Symphony % . being performed on Society, under the direction of .Dr. Damroseh. ‘The first uumber of the programme was Wagner's overture, Tannhiiuser. It has never before been playea with greater understanding of the artistic in- tentions of the composer, rarely so faultlessly, rarely with such a clear and intelligcat distinction of main and side motifs The besutiful choral, “Awake,” from the Meistersinger, followed, and was admirably executed by the chorus of the Oratorio Society and the orchestra, as was also the grand creation “Lhe Kaiser March,” which concluded the first part of the programme. Beethdven's ninth symphony was enjoyed by the public with unjnter. rupted attention. The orchestra pleyed with fervor and scholurly attention, The first movement elicited the utmost admiration and the character ‘of the wlagio was strikingly expressed. A marvel of execu- tion was the thome in D major, the bassi coming out with rare effect. ‘The chorus was precise. There was no failure in any part; every nuance was clearly given, and the so- — held out the high E to perfeetion, Tho solo- ists were Miss Swift, soprano, whose voice, although not very strony, sounded ; Miss Wynant, an ox- cellent alto; Mr, Stoddard, an able baritone, and Mr. Fritsch, the well known te ‘They all did exceed. ingly well; the difficult quartet was given musically and artistically, ‘To-morrow night will he the sixth and last concert of the season, with the same programme, z HER MAJESTY’S OPERA IN BROOKLYN. Notwithstanding tho rainy weather a large andi- ence assembled last evening in the Brooklyn Acad- emy pf Music to witness the performance of “Il ‘Trovatore,” with the following distribution of char- acters:— Leonora, Marie Roze; Azucena, Mme. La- LU Conte di Luna, Signor Galassi, and Man- rico, Signor Caumpanini, The audience was evidently aware that this was the last appearance of Mme, Marie Roze this season, for she was most onthusi- astically applauded during the entire C, receiving double recalls betore the curtain after each act and floral tributes of every imaginable “og It is hardly necessary to state that Mme. Lablache, Signor Galassi and Sigucr Campanini met with their usual success, 4 U THE OPERATIC WAN ENDED. ‘The great operatic conflict is at an end, We aro to hear no more of the differences between Mr. Mapleson and Miss Hauk. ‘The quarrel, which originated during the Sunday concert con- troversy. has lasted already too long, and opera goers only regret that the reconciliation has becn brought about juston the eve of the de- ae of the company for Europe. ‘There havo en concessions on both sides, and the past is, we hear, buried. And so let it be, Mr. Mapleson bas on his side tice to a very talented artist, mene critical occasious worked bravely and well for him. Mule. Hauk opens the London’ season with “Carmen,” and will also create in London the part of Katharine, in Goctz’s “Che Taming of the Shrow.”” It would be ungenerous, perhaps, to ex- ES vegret that Mr. M: on did not permit Miss auk to assume this cl ter here, or to give us, through her, a Wagnerian delineation of Elsa. It is @ pleasure to Americans that Mile. Hauk can reckon on the fullest approsiation abroad wherever she V Se The last “Carmen” matinée is announced for Saturday. MR. BURBANK’S RECITAL, Mr, A. P. Burbank commenced a series of recftals from the modern and classical dramas, with orches- tral sccompaniment, at Chickering Hall yesterday afternoon. The piece selected for the opening of the course was “Rip Van Winkle,” as played by Joe Jef+ ferson, the whole of which, with a few unimportant exceptions, being recited from memory by Mr. Bur. bank. ‘The characters of (jd Rip, Gretchen, Mi Derrick Yon Beekman, Mina’s* lover, Henr; ant alt the others, evon to the little village children, und not excepting Rip’s inevitable dog “Schneider,” were brought as vividly before the mind’s eye as if the piece with the usual cast and surroundings wag the stage. Mr. Burbank’s dia- leet rendition of Rip Van Winkle approached so near Jefferson's as to secm almost a part of it, or rone a transition of the action from tho stage to the platform. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, At the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, this weck Mr. and Mrs. George 8. Kuight, with their own come pany, appear in Fred Marsden’s play of “Otto.” More than five hundred members of the dramatio profession were present yesterday atthe Broadway matinée and cujoyed “Pinafore.” It was a large pros fessienul audicnee. Abenefit for the family of the late B.C. Porter, who was recently murdered in Texas, will be given. by members ot the theatrical profession at the Walk nut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, next week. +———___—_——- “ OPERA IN LONDON. Loxpow, March 15, 1879. Tho Carl Rosa Opera Company will soon close its season at Her Majesty's, the last performance being announced for AMfarch 22, when **Rienza”’ will be pro- duced, - Lent has not had muchvisible effect-on the size of the houses, which have been very large. Carmen’ bas been the most popular card of the season, but ‘‘Rienza”’ has steadily increased in popu- larity, and has disputed with “Carmen” for the highest favor. To-night ‘The Golden Cross” will bo produced for the first and last time this season. It. did not make a sensation when brought out last season by Mr. Rosa, but why it should not have suce ceeded it is hard to tell, for it has an excellent story, sweet, graceful music, and was especially fitted for the Rosa company. « It may be more at Her Majesty’s than it was at the inferior which it was formed last year. Mr. Gye has published his prospectus for tho coming Itwlian opera season. The most notable feature of it is the absence of the name of Mme. Albani from the list of the. promise’ singers. She will not, there is sufficient roason to beliove, pppoar this season; but the name of Mmo. Putti-still the Hat, and with her is Mme. Cepeda, who made = the public here. Among the I a aro M. -Capoul, Signors Gayarré, Bolis and Nicolint among jones, Signors and Co eon, Sit. Gallhar ‘aig ors Ondinas, Ciampi be pore: Cap; he. Fifty-five operas are snnounced mance, more than half of which are from the French and German. Thé four ad~ ditions to the There is much disappoint- ment because M. Gounod’s new opera, “Polyeucte,”” is not to be brought out. The season Tues- day, April 8, with what opera has not yet been an- nounced. No contract bas yet boen te pe by Mmo. Christine Nillson and Co! lewon, wn yet acttled whether she is to at Hor Majosty’s this season. A CRITIC NOW CRITICISES COLONEL MAPLESON, To Tax Eprror oy THR HeRaLp:— Colonel Mapleson's first appearance in tho rt ot acritic in the columns of the Henaup yesterday is @ diverting specimen of the manager's deftness as an advertiser that challenges admiration. In the same column in which his letter is printed appears tho announcement ot his benefit, to be tendered by the stockholders next week! Is it not about time for the nowspapers to put an embargo upon tho system of indis-rubber adyertining that the long-suffering press of Aiwerica has been called upon to endure ad naw scm during the past few years from the “profes. sion?” A manager of actor who would not have the temerity to come to a newpaper office and demand gratis o fifty dollar advertisement in the advertising columas proper does not hesitate as to the insertion of a left-handed puil in some shapo that ovades tho ‘usual business form. The more novel tho style of the puff the more valuable it becomes, and Colonel Mupleson certainly has found a most ingenious way of calling public attention to himself just in the nick of time. How the knowing ones must laugh in their sleeves as they read his adulatory estimates of urtists! ‘There have been no good Violettas, it seems, except those who havo appeared at wn ra hquse, “ther Majesty's!" Piccolo- elt payed | the part there for ieee nights; ergo, she must have been & great Violottas Every ove knows that to ales ween attractions and not to her artistic qualities was duo tho ephemeral success she achioved, Penco, who is praised by tho Italian critics in the highest ‘terms, is condemned by the doughty Colo Mt its abe Ola not hing et vier A an rt hot sing at “ ‘4 wed oy bout whowo ; Miolata there iat one opinio: ere, Was not, Li |, & meme bor of “Hor Majesty's” Poor wouan! ‘What is the fame she lett behind her in the part in America West ihe aclovd slap at the di tof the jonel's aoe Keon with ia conterporarian = jweeur of any accoun our rated mi clans agreed Sith the ‘Wenatas in ite estimate of “Lohengrin,” and not only these, but one of the thousands who havo seen Camille” ‘rotod, know that Mme. Gerster ts La peg: Apert | the dramatic requirements of ‘still, Col Fyn er, more lge Just now. eg —" 2 =a.