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JSTEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
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~ "S?W YORK. Wl.ltM-.sicW, MAY \ VMS.
Important Notice to Advertisers.? To
Insure. the proper classification of ydcertisemcnts
it is absolutely necessary that they be liutulcd in
before eiyht o'clock every ctcniny.
The probabilities tire that the- treat her in A110
York ami its vicinity to-tlay will be tourm unit
partly cloudy or fair, followed by increusiny
cloudiness and rains. To-morrow cloudiness and
rain are probable, with variable lempcrtiltires.
Wall Street Yesterday.?Tlio stock mar
ket was dull uud steady. Gobi wus stcudy all
day at 100L?. Govcrmucut bonds were strong,
States dull and railroads firui. Moucy ou call
wus easy ut 3 a 1 per cent, closing ut tbc former
rate.
The Potato Duo threatens to cat up Statcn
Islaud this summer.
May brings the usmd gloomy predictions
?bout the peach crop.
Congress Ought to indorse tlio views ot its
two foreign committees in fuvor of tree trade in
ocean cables.
We Gave England iron-dads for war. She
hits just ordered one of our nondescript catama
rans for peace.
The Pennsylvania Pol^hc'ians who pin their
faith to tbo greenback bold a State Convention
in Philadelphia to-day.
France Keeps Her place ia tho.line of prog
ress by making another large reduction in Lcr
foreign postal charges.
The Little Town or Union, in.New Jersey,
hns a model Chief of Police, lie has just been
convicted of assault uud buttery.
The Triple of nearly a million dollars bas
'^ecii added to the l'osl Otlicc Appropriation bill
^klhe Senate Appropriation Committee.
Tiik IIousi. JrmciAUV Commi{-ili: proposes
to repeal the famous Tciiui e of OfilotMict. All
the republicuu office-holders will, of course, pro
teat.
As AirniTOU to help tlic Pacific railroads to
keep uu houedt account with the jgt*eminent is
tbe latest pretty w ine allocation ? of Senator
Thuruiun.
Tin: Outlook for the Crccdjjoor iuterna
tional military title mutch next ScpVniber in
brightening. All the clubs are sciuLug favor
able responses.
JlTHTK i; Wukki.i.h'h Exa.vut.i-; in correcting
the innumerable abuses of the city-pesoon might
be profitably followed by Ilia magisterial breth
ren all over tliti city.
Tin: Tuimty Cih kcii t'oiu mkahon hus
wisely settled tbe difficulty with its tenants by
making a twenty per cent rcibution in rents
snd renew ing their leases.
Two or tiik Tiiiiio Iwacollon's hunting
guns captured for n lxiuid'biU turned up in the
court* yesterday. The liiwt Einp<uur's guns
paid board in another way.
Tiik Conviction ol' tln% notoriously Ind char
acter, "California (lerrge," of manslaughter in
the second degree, shovvm I hut it is sometimes
possible to get a fearless /ury.
Tiik Oknkuai. Co<;xctL.of theRcfnnncd Ejtio
COpul Church? tlio highest legisucive hotly in
that denomination?will h.dtl its annual session
to-day in Newark. The (fiiurch lias six bish
ops, one huudretl and thirty miuisdi rs and ubnut
fifteen thousand romiumiieatit litem hers. It is
growing rapidly, as our rentiers wilhscc, nnd has
a brilliant future before it.
Tiik NVkatiu-.ii.?The low prcssii cos that are
now traversing the territory cast of the Rocky
Mountain* extend from the Cuunilii 01 coast in n
general southwesterly ilireetiou tow a rd Northcrii
Texas. \\ ithiii a comparatively 1 sirrow xouo
idoug this line'the eeiitres of relative ly Jovv pres
sure move ami their distinctive areas expand and
contract under the thermal and otlu ir iutlueiiee*
operating upon tbem. I luring 3 c*tcr> lay the pres
sure rose iu the Northeast and North .western dis
tricts, remained high in the East (lit Of and South
Atlantic States and varied with th- progress
<>f the centres of disturbance through the
Ccntrul Mississippi and Ohio ttille^s and
the hike region. Itaiun fell in thesesJirst tiauied
districts nu 1 in the 1'ialte Valley. Snow' fell
during the moriiing iu the far Wiat, as it did on
the preceding day iu Ctali Turritmy. In the
lake district thunder storm* wore 11,-<|?? -nt yes
terday in the section* where very'decided differ
encea of temperature prevailed* The lowest
prcMUio in still west of the Mis*Huppi. hut the
llrfiueiice of'the disturbance cxtciids'v cry "widely
Mid indicates the probability of lo<:nl storms in
tlM regions of the Ohio and Lower Jdissouri val
leys and generally over the lower flnkc district,
fttaep gradient* continue in Nebniaka and Kali
an*. The w eather in New York and its vicinity
to-day will lie win in and purtlyscloudy or lair,
followed by increasing clouiUues* and ruins.
To-morrow cloud hp -* and rn tn vnrc piobablo,
with variable temperatures.
J Coin in nn lain On All Sitlea?Summer
Tbundor.
xu San Francisco, in St. Louis, in Chi
cago, in this city, throughout tho mining
districts of Pennsylvania and iu many
other places there are so-called Communis
tic preparations or threatening* of revolt
against tho established order of things?
I agitations that incite und pretend to organ
ize discontented elements to take a forcible
remedy for all grievances they have against
society, against authority, against tho law,
aud in short against Providence itself. At
the same time there arc preparations,
it is said, in Buffalo and at other
points on tho frontier where the Fe
nians propose to make ? u rush when
tho moment arrives to capture Canada and
organize an Irish republic, with tho en
couragement of tho l&ussiuu Czar. On tho
Mexican frontier there arc people who want
to go over the border with arms a yd upset
Diaz. Sitting Bull is heard from occasion
ally. Wattorson's Kentucky army is only
lying hidden- in tho tall bluo grass of its
native land; and, taking tho prospect as a
whole, wo may reasonably expect a summer
in which no man will have cause to com
plain that there is nothing in tho papers.
1'hat is one grievance the people will be
spared. It may bo us startling as it was last
summer in tho height of tho great strikes,
when tho whole country seemed to give way
with a run under the influence of a com
mon demoralization ; or it niuy be only as
lively as they have it in Paris sometimes in ,
the warm weather, when, with a tow days of j
battle, they thin out a too crowded commu
nity and then return to their avocations. *
Trouble is to come upon us simultane
ously at many points ; but the number of
points at which insurrection is threatened
is insignificant by comparison with the
number of reasons for which "ihe peoplo"
arc to revolt. "Cheap Chinese labor" is tho
rock the United States is to split on in Cali
fornia. I hero is at least a more general
assent in that as a motive tor revolt than in
any other particular cause of discontent.
But a grievance that is apparently quite as
potent in the immediate agitation there is
thut ono lively little Colt in San Francisco,
ot whom an account is given in our columns
to-day, is only a draymau, while but" n few
days ago another man of the same rueo who
had also flourished in California died
worth nearly twenty millions of dollars.
Imagino the scarcely credible inequality !
But a few years ago these men were equally
poor?they were nliko in origin and poverty,
and ii? the need to gain their daily bread
by their own labor. . Only u few years of
struggle go by, and behold one has accumu
lated a fortune that is simply enormous in
its proportions, and tho other is a mere car
man?poor, ignorant and vindictive. Against
a state of things that makes possiblo such
dissimilarities in men's conditions who
would not revolt ? It is preposterous to say
that'this is fair or just, or that it should bo
respected or assented to by the man
on tho wrong sido of tho difference.
Philosophers and twaddlers may say that
ono man hud just us good u chance as the
other, and could have got just as rich if ho
had possessed tho right qualities. No such
stuff as that will pass with Son Francisco
ugitators. They regard that sort of theory
as milk for babes. They know it is not dif
lerenoo in qualities or gift of Providence
that make these diffcreuco s, but that it is tho
law first and cheap Chinese labor next, and
they mean to ubolish both. 'J hoy moan
that in luturo tho bonanza millionuoires shall
divide with tho San Francisco carmen, and
they have got a little piece of ropo with
which thoy mean to hang everybody who
objects. All the carmen aro unanimous.
In St. Louis and Chicago and at other
important points in the West iho griovnnco
is tho oppression of labor by capital. Thoy
have not in all theso places so patent an
objective as tho Chinese, but tho bloated
bondholder and the institution of prop
erty are not Lad substitutes, and if they
annihiluto these they will reform this coun
try as effectually as tho Califoruians can do
by tho expulsion or butchery of tho heathen.
This cannot bo regarded as a favorable
country in which to orgunizo a revolution
lor the purpose of enforcing "a great
divide." In a war against property the
penniless urc, of course, the fighting
forco and tho property holders arc tho
enemy. Neurly every mon a Communist
meets is ono of the cnomy. As soon
as he comes to clearly understand tho case
ho discovers that he is one of tho enemv
himself, und ho immediately goes over.
Thut would bo a damaging process for tho
Communist forces. In tho native land of
Communism the proletarian element is al
ways of consequence. Hero it exists only
in u lew great cities or in some raining dis
tricts. In tho United States at least two
thirds of tho men who nro tho heads of
families own farms. They nro our strength,
but they are not tho only property owners.
In tho cities property is owned less cquully.
Small fortunes nro not so common; very
largo ones comparatively are more plenti
ful, and thcro is consequently a large mass
of tho population that does not own
lund or houses; but of theso oven a
very largo number have other property
or nro interested in the welfare und defence
of property that they do not own. Even
one of tho great Communists of this city?
tho kct per of tho beer shop at which they
swig and fraternizo?doos not cavo to divido
to tho extent of even n single glass for le.is
.than tho regular market prico. Hut if a
Communist treasures tho institution of
property -porhnps becanfo ho thinks a di
vision now would bo premature -when will,
all tho farmers and their sons bo convinced
thst tho lime to give away tho farms has
come? Win n the fifty thousand bctrjCom
munists who rant in two or threo cities
have beaten thcin in battle. And that will
not bo this year.
It steins to us very probablo that tho
Communistic agitators are laboring under n
delusion as to tho stnto of the country de
nied from last year's railroad riots. Those
riots seemed to disclose to men disposed to
nmko trouble tho important secret that
there never was a rich country in which
property of every sort was so completely
defenceless?so utterly at tho mercy of any
mob who would orgatiizo a riot and then
hoip themselves. Towns wero laid waste,
law less masses moved about in such uuin
bers that the use of a police foroo was not
to bo thought of. and when armed militia
regiments wero called into service thoj
sympathized in many coses with the mob,
or throw dowu their arms and ran away
in mere cowardice. This was so different
an issue to what experienced agitators
from beyond the sea had been used to that
they were startled at the facility it seemed
to open for their operations. In Franco
there would have been a few brigades
turned out iu any disturbod city in such a
cose ; a thousand or so of rioters and may
bo a hundred soldiers would have been shot
and tranquillity re-established, lint hero
were cities near to which there was no
army. With only tweuty thousand soldiers
in tho wholo conntry hero are a hundred
cities with untold millions of plunder in
them. This is the fancy'that has stimu
lated tho growth of Communistic organiza
tions. lint when the show begins, if it ever
does begin, the agitators will find out how
exceptional was the condition created every
where by tho paralysis duo to tho railroad
strike. The city authorities in all places
likely to bo disturbed have beep fairly
warned, and wo do not believo they will bo
fonud unprepared.
Official Lung*.
In considering tho New York official wo
botian with his eyes and then visited his
nose. Wo have shown that he cannot sec
dirt and cannot smell vile odors. Now, a
switchman who cannot distinguish a red
li"ht from green would endanger his own
life as well as tho lives of railroad travel
lers; and a night watchman to whose nos
trils smoke brought no sensation would
run a good chance .of being burned alive it
a firo should break out in tho building' ho
was in. It horrified us to think that our
dear dirl-blind and blunt-nosed officials
should, ignorant of tho danger, expose
themselves to tho poisonous effluvia, tho
mephitic vapors that doom our ordi
nary citizens to death at tho rato o
seven thousand a year. Wo thought of
wostiug tissues, debilitated frames, sunken
checks ; lungs given over to tubercles, and
bodies chilled and fevered by malaria. N\ c
thought thoy might have patiently endured
these drawbacks on account of tlioir high
salaries. We wont sadly and lcfoked at
them. Imagino our surpriso ; they wero all
fat?fat as their ofiiees; tat as tho soap and
pork works they delight in giving permits
to. Then wo questioned them about their
lungs and bronchial tubes. Wonderful arc
the ways of Providence! On entering office
they find their pulmonary organs, they say,
undergoing a queer change. Tho whale, as
wo know, is furnished with a peculiar
fringe-like strainer for keeping large fishes
that corno into its mouth from getting into
its gullet and choking it, and only letting
down tho littlo fishes that do it good.
Tho Boards of Health and Folico and
Captain Gunner have found a peculiar
air-strainer of this kind growing insido of
them. All the noxious exhalations uro
caught in this official strainer, and only
comparatively good air gets into their
lungs. These organs, too, become tougj*
and leatlieiy to an astonishing degroc. A
peculiarity regarding tho air-strainers is
vouched for by third parties, but the offi
cials either deny it or aro very reticent upon
tlui point. It is this, that alter a visit to an
insufferably filthy and fetid manufactory
tho official on cleaning his air-strainer
finds gold and silver and oven greenbacks
sticking in it. Theso bo carefully removes
and'puts by for a rainy day. This iB truly
wonderful.' Tho ugly and venomous
toad with a prcoious jewel in its
forehead is nothing to on offul-ron
dcriug establishment with gold dust
lloating on tho wings of its noxions gases.
I? wo cannot abolish tho stench factories
nor bavo our streets cleaned wo would like
to have all our citizens fitted with these
air-strainers aud leather lungs. At present
they see, they smell nud they Buffer wi.hoat
hope. In tho intorost of humanity,* thon,
lot our present Boards of llcaltji aud Folico
bo taken to Bellevuo Hospital and killed.
A dissection of those worthies would prob
ably reveal bow millions yet unborn could
live amid foul vapors free from disease, and
how thousands now alivo could bavo them
selves from preiuaturo graves. Even if it
turned out that this story of tho official air
strainer and leather lungs was a mistake
wo would still hovo got rid of tho present
boards, and that would ho something. Tho
plan suggested by Recorder Hackctt to tho
Grand Jury on Monday last?namely, of iu
dicting tho so-called Board of Health,
might, howovcr, do some good, for if they
wero sc nt to tho Penitentiary wo might ob
tuin relief while thev were awav.
Peaceful Vva dictions.
Tho general tono of tho European de
spatches continues peaceful, aud in Eng
land it is believed that a settlement of tho
existing difficulties by diplomutic negotia
tions is now highly probable. Tho-feutures
of tho arrangement by which an appeal to
arms is to be avoided nro given in our spe
ciul cubic despatches, but in reality they
leavo tho main issue untouched. These
rumors nro significant principally as an in
dication of the desire of Englnnd to find a
way, without war, out of tho dilemma in
which she has involved herself. No doubt
Russia will willingly aid England in this
effort, provided her own policy nnd tho
legitimate consequences of the war aro not
disturbed. But it is probablo that much
diplomatic negotiation will yet bo exhausted
before a peaceful solution of tho difficulty
is actually reached. Our special cable from
St I'otersburg gives a report of a misunder
standing between tho Emperor of Russia
and tho French Ambassador growing out of
the announcement of the latter that Franco
would hold herself aloof from tho present
complications and would, not interfere one
way or tho otlrcr. Tho Emperor is said to
havo been offended by tho remark of tho
Ambassador that Franco had paid suffi
ciently deair for her right to stcor clear of
the quarrels of other nations and to havo
made such a rough reply as to iuduao the
Ambassador to ask for his rocall. The story
is a singular one. It docs not seem proba
ble that the Emperor would take except ion
to tho adoption by Franco of a policy clearly
justified by her own interests, especially as
French neutrality, in tho event of tho war,
would bo practically an aid to Russia. It
is still loss probablo that any insult would
bo ofibred to tlio French Ambassador by tho
Emperor.
What lb? Uulon Ferry Company
Throatru*.
The Brooklyn papers are not disposed to
look with favor on the decision of Judgo
Van Vorst cancelling tho outrageous leases
bestowed on tho Union Ferry Company by
tho Tweed ^ity government at a nominal
rent of one dollar a year. They regard the
decision us one adverse to tho interests of
the working classes who use tho Brooklyn
ferries, and osscrt that tho nominal rent
wus uccopted on consideration that the com
pany should run boats at certain hours of
tho morning and evening for one cent fer
riage. We are told that if the company is
required to pay rent for tho privileges it
enjoys it will raise its rates to two cents
during all hours of the day.
This is raising a false issue. Tho Union
Ferry Company is a wealthy corporation,
making enormous annual profits, and it is
seaudulous that it should not sooner bavo
boon compelled to pay a fair rent for tho
ferry leases. Other ferry companies which
do not make' a hundredth part of tho
profits realized by tho Brooklyn company
aro required to pay rents to tho city. The
money obtained for such leases belongs to
the sinking fund and is pledged for the re
demption of tho city debt. No municipal
? administration has tho right to give away
tho leases ior nothing and thus to impair the
security of the city bonds. If such a right
should bo concedod tho entire revenuo of
tho sinking fund might bo swept away;
for what could bo doao with one
source of such reveuue could bo done
with all others. Tho fuct is that tho
wrong iullicted on the city has not been for
tlio benefit of the working classes who use
tho ferries, but for the advantage of tho
wealthy owners of tho stock of tho Union
Ferry Company. Tlio threat made by tho
Brooklyn papers, doubtless at tho instiga
tion of the company, that tho rutes of lcv
riago will be raised if u fair rent is de
manded by the city of Now York, should
not be lost on the Legislature. Tho com
pany should be required to pay ut least one
hundred and fiity thousand dollars
u year rent for its leases, and tho
Legislature should pass a law re
stricting the faro to one cent?at all events
during the busy hours of the morning and
afternoon, when working people use the
bouts. The owners ot tho stock have made
themselves rich out of the profits of tho
company, and they should be taught that,
because the Supreme Court cancels tho out
rageous and suspicious lease thoy secured
from corrupt city ofiiciuls, they will not bo
permitted to squeeze their pecuniary loss
out of tho travelling public.
Cliluaiuen Cannot Brcouv Citizens.
We copy from a ?San Francisco paper?tho
Mta California? a decision recently ren
dered by tho United States Circuit Court
denying tho right of a Chinese immigrant
who had applied for citizesnhip to the priv
ilogo of naturalization. This decision will
surprise no intelligent lawyer; tho only
.surprise is that such an application should
havo been made, 'lho idea of tho San' Fran
cisco paper that tho case is likely to be ap
pealed to tho Supremo Court only proves
that tho writer did not perceive tho force of
Judge Sawyer's reasoning. His argument is
so conclusive that no appeal will ever bo
made from tho decision it supports.
Tho question could not have beon brought
before a court at all had it not boon for an
oversight in the .Revised Statutes. Tho
original Naturalization law confined tho
privilege to free white aliens. In 1870 it
was so amended as to admit persons of Afri
can birth and African descent, but it was
loft in other respects unchanged, men of
color besides Africans being still excluded.
When this chango was mado Mr. Sumner
proposed to strike out tho word "whito"
from tho Naturalization laws. It was ob
jected. that this would bring in tho Mon
golians as well as tho negroes, and on this
ground Mr. Sumner's proposition wiy* re
jected. Tho only chango made in tho for
mer law was to except Africans from the
general rulo by which colored aliens
wero excluded. Bat tho revisers of
tho statutes fell into the blunder of omit
ting the words, "being a froo whito person."
It was a blander, because they had no au
thority to chango tho law, but only to put
it into a mora oonvoniont shape. The omis
sion of that phrase would tnako tho Natu
ralization laws apply to Mongolians and all
colored alions; but Congress afterward cor
rected tho oversight of tho revisors. By an
act passed in 1875 "to correct errors and
supply omissions" in tho Revised Statutes
tho omitted words were restored, with tho
avowed purpose of excluding Asiatics from
naturalization. An appeal from the opin
ion of Judge Sawyer woul<\ bo futile, tho
Inw being too clear to admit of any reason
able difference of opinion.
Cheap Tea vol I
It is fortunato that the Legislature is near
its final adjournment, as the cxlraordinaiily
low faro between Now York and Albany
might induco a largo addition to tho lobby
forces. Sorno of tho river boats nro now car
rying passengers for ten cents, and at this
rato the entire democracy of tho city would
be enabled to visit tho State capital to look
alter our local legislation. Tho faro there
and hack would cost no more than two
drinks nt a ten cent bar, and if a democratic
ward politician could not mako up that
amount out of his .frirnds before his
return to tho city his services in
tho lobby would not bo of any great
value. Tho extremely low faro is the
result of rivalry betwocn opposition river
routes, and botwoen land and water trans
portation. While it exists wo should recom
mend all who havo friends at Albany to
avail themselves of tho opportunity to pay
them a visit. Tho "oatthrout" policy which
is occasionally resorted to by computing
i railroad and steamboat lines docs not last
long and is invariably followed by "pools"
and combinations to put up prices beyond
tho logitimato rato to mako up for losses.
Tho peoplo suffer In tho end by these spasms
of liborality. Whether in passenger travel
or freights they arn always called upon to
pay the cost of the war waged by tho rival
ccruorations.
War tfielltatat at Hoaa
Wliilo the general news from Europo is of
a moro peacelul character to-day tho pres
ence of the Cimbria and her mysterious
passengers, the statemenls mode by the
alleged Hussion agents to Herald
correspondents, and' the comments
of the Canadian press do their
best to keep up a war fevor
on this side of the Atlantic. It might well
be supposed, to read these several stories,
that tho first gun of a war between England
and Russia was to be the signal for the con
version of all available American shipping
into a fleet of privateers and for an attack
on Cunada by an Irish army. According to
Mr. Hunt, ono of the rcoently arrived Rus
sian agehts, w ar is inevitable, notwithstand
ing the peaceful reports; but tho views of
this gentleman arc evidently colored by his
wufrn Russian Sympathies. Wo can scarcely
place full reliance pn?hc predictions of a gen
tleman who declares that Russia, so far from
being financially embarrassed, has not com
menced to draw on her resources yet; who
tolls ns that Austria and Germany iri case
of a war arc certain to be actively in favor
of Russia; who thinks that if Russia com
missions vessels as regular cruiseis,
instead of calling them privateers, all
difficulties in the shape of treaties, inter
national and locul law will bo removed,
and who counts on Irishmen fitting out
cruisers with their own money und on the
manning of the Russian navy with some of
our best naval officers and able-bodied
seamen.
It war comes the United States will ob
serve good faith to both England and
Russia, with both of whom oar relations aro
friendly. Tho law will be properly en
forced and will bo faithfully protected
against evasion. Whatever may be the
sympathies of our peoplo wo shall act ns a
great nation ought to act, and much
better than some great nations have
acted toward us when we were in difficulty.
Tho best protection of Canada against in
vasion from the States will be the
honor and vigor of the American govern
ment, and if our neighbors are doomed to
be involved in tho fight they will find their
enemies in Russian vessels and not on Amer-<
ic&n soil.
Mr. Wood'4 TariiT Bill. .
Tbo procco.lingH in the Houso yesterday
do not indicuto the success of tlio new
Turill bill of Iho Committee on Ways and
Means. The sentiment of the llouso is
evidently adverse to the bill. On the mo
tion of tho chairman of tho committee to
take up and proceed with it tho motion wus
lost by a vote of 1)4 yens to 117 nays. But
finally a motion to go into Committee of tho
Whole ou tho bill was carried by barely
one majority, tho numbers being 109
yeas to 108 nays, a few democrats
who nro really opposed to tho bill having
changed their votes from motives of cour
tesy, in order that tho bill might bo dis
cussed. But in the final test they will
probably vote against it. A bill which gets
a ehunco even to be considered by a major
ity of only a single vote, and this by tho
courtesy of members who aro really op^
posed to its passngo, is not iikcly tobcojino
a law. It is pretty sure to be strangled at
some stago of tho proceedings and never to
reach the Senate, where its dcfcut would bo
almost certain cvon if it should pass the
House.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
M. do Corcolle, Secretary of ih? Froocb
Legiltoo ut Washington, 10 at ttio Albom.rle riolol.
M. Outrey, ttio FroucL Mints tor, and Count do Su^
sr.not. of tho French I.ogatlon, arrtvod at tho Hotol
ltrunswtck, yostorduy, Irotn Washington.
l'olico Cotauilsslanor Wheeler, who I t on a vi It to
Washington, and who was cunAuol by Illness to bta
quarters id tho Arlington llotol, baa recovered bta
usual health.
A Duaibor of Vftiahlrglon Journalists garo a break
last party yesterday to Justla K. Colbouro, roceolly
appointed Consul General ol tbo I'hi led Staloa to tho
City q( Mexico.
Assistant Secretary Hawley It acting Secretary of
tho Treasury during (be absence of Mr. Sherman, who
hai gono to Clove laud to attend tbo wedding of Miss
Sherman and Senator Cameron.
Mr. Manuel dc /..un.motia, accompanied by tbo soo
rotary ol SUte, ye.tcrday presented to President
U'tycH bin crcdoutials us Eovoy Extraordinary and
Mlmator Plenipotentiary ol Mexico.
VI.0 newest colors are op t'f tourq lolre, xllver-gray,
lavender aud fawn. Wo nopo soJn to cbroalcla tbo
Introduction ot tho ncwsbiulss ol sioveplpo, pepper
mini, wbeolbarrow, xino and polroleum.
Ilev. W. D. Morg 111, pastor ol the Third Itaptlst
church at North biontngtou, Conn., was thrown from
11 wagon early y osier day morning and Instantly
killed. Ho was returning Iron a Masonic meeting.
A farowell address wss presented y04l01d.tr to the
Ulght Kov. lllxhop Oxcndon, Metropolitan of Canada,
by tbo elergy and lady cf Montreal. His Lordship
loll Meut10.1l last evinlng torQueoec en route lor Log
laud.
Governor McClolian has appointed as New Jersey
Commissioners to Paris, George II. Cook, o! Now
nruuswlck, aud Jonathan IL Illackucll, ol Trouton;
also as Fish TVatdoo Hamilton Hill, ol Burlington
county.
At tlio meeting ot tho Associated i'rojg yesterday
resolutions wore udoptod expressive ol this body's sp.
prcciallon ol tbo lato William Orion's virtues an I
ability. A high tribute w.is paid to bis skill a* pnsl.
dent of tbu Western Uuloo f olograph Company.
Ou Monday oor Superior Court war fifty yonra old.
Mr.'A. F. Warburlou, Its flr.-t appoiutoo as stenog*
raplicr, attained bis mucin year ou tho same day.
Mr. W. Cughingly inquires whether, although tuo
cvontt occiii rod a/jou nillos spurt, tbo Court was
erentcd (or blm, or ho was baru for ths Court
"ft Is bclkvod by tho Nkw York IUi.hii (bat II
Charley 11 >?s had lieen uo Ohio boy Mr. Hayes would
h 1V0 fouod luiii In about twouty mluutca l'erhups
not. Tho regular clQco seekers ol tlio Stale might h.ve
k nod In 111 to gel him cut ol tbo way."? Lujtiito Ax
preu. Yes; but there urn uo regular ofllco-acckors lu
the Mate. They were nil nppoloicd long ago.
1 ho Atlint 1 t'l.i.) Ciintttlutun says that republican
cdliots know nothing ol the negro or bis character.
"I'bey do not know how coddling he Is, nor how
emlly he Is do.udod. They seem to be awaro of tbo
(act that only tbo vicious and Idle class of negro, s
can ho Induced lo seek hum s In Liberia. It Is per
fectly natural that if they are idlo and vicious bero
they will bo still moro Idle ami vicious there."
Tho SocrcUry ol Wsr yesterday appointed lbs to.
losing visitors to tbo West Point Mtlllury Academy at
the nncu il ex iminailn.i lu Jane:?Prolossor A. ?, Vm.
PSblr, ol the University ol Virglols; John C. Ropex, of
Boston; Rev. F. II. Wticcior, of Pouglikenpsio, N. Y.;
Ha via A. Welts, of Connecticut; Captain 8. R. Frank
lin, of the United 8latsa Navy ; Itov. Jaraos Lewis, ol
Howell, Mich., and Rrilfadior General C. C. Augur, ol
tho Unltod Mates Army.
Molt, tbo spirit materlnliter, of Mompbls, Mo.,
wb.im tboassuds bgve Hocked to see, was exposed on
Monday by J. U. Paltce, ol Monmotitn, 111., who at
tended n sd nee and squirted nullino, through a ring
he had prep ti ed lor that purpose, lato ttio laoa ol ons
of tlio spirits which appeared nl tho aperiuro of tho
enbinel. Iho faco at once disappeared, lights wert
brought In and .Moliwns louud with Ills loos covered
wlib tho aalltno stains The affair has crested great
pxcilvmsut in Memphis,
AMUSEMENTS.
union bquahe theatre-mis j jewett'b
ouunt
II Miss Sara Jewell baa ever entertained any doubts
a* 10 her popularity among New York playgoeri lUay
must bare boon dispelled by tba largo audlanea ibal
filled Ike Union Squure Tboaire yosterdav ulurnoon
on the ooeaaiou of ber Ural benefit. Tbe play cbosen
for ibia interesting event waa Sliaridan's ??School lor
Scandal." 1'Qia sterling comedy baa probably be on
pluyod in Ibis country oliencr tban any other one
play, ubd wo have keen greater names in its
cost tbau In any other. A blslory of tba
?'School lor Scandal" In Now York would
ba almost a history of tbe stage in this city, Fow
actors or actresses bavo failed to appoar in II, la
ono part or auotber, and It bas retained its popularity
with every generation siuco 1785, when It was Ural
produced In this oouutry. For benefit occasions it
bas always been a great favorite, and wo have seen it
olicner at sucb times tliau at any other. Tbe cast yes
terday was exceptionally strong. Miss Juwrtl ap.
peurod lor ibo Ural nine as l.udy f'oazio; and wo must
say at once that tuo part Ilea entirely outside oi bar
talents. Tukiug line into consideration she did very
wcil. Miss Jewell is essentially an utginue, with a
winning manner, sweet, pathetic 'voice mid
quick intelligence mat would inulto bor place bard to
till sbouid It become vuuunt, but she is not a sal.
Is.'aciory Lady I'oazle. Sbo needs more brilliancy,
more cubtle action, mora abandon, lnsload ol these
qualities tbe bus grace, coquetry, uud urtloaaness. la
curium passagos with Str l'otcr, wbero sbo played tho
spoiled, petuiunt wile, sbo was capital, but she lacked
the power to give proper etlect to tbe famous screen
scene. With iter personal uppeurunce no one can find
a luuit. her costumes woru "ravishing" uud set off
tue snowy whiteness ol licr tbroal and arms to tba
greatest advantage, and tuo giay wig lent brnliuucy to
tier eyes. Mr. CbarlosCognlin'a Charles Surface found
favor iu London lor several hundred nights, and
from liU rccsptiou yesterday and tue continued ap
plause thai followed tils reception wc are led to be
lieve that it would find almost us last lag favor hora.
We inust coofoss, however, tbat we did not alto.'
gel her eajoy bis interpretation. There wus an
artificiality about it that wo do not find In tba
cbarautor. Charles Suffice sbouid bavo mores Jollity
tbaa sauglrotd. Mr. l'arsollu pluycd air I'cter lor tna
first time, aud he was excellent iu tbe part. IndeeJ,
we never saw but ono boiler, and tbat ono
wus Jobn Gilbert. Mr. T. E. Morris was a
good-no lured Sir Oliver, and Mr. Floyd wus p
good-natured Sir Uenjauiiu Backbite; but good-uaturo
is a quality that Sir UenJ.tiniu should not possess.
Mr. Crisp us Joseph Surlaco evidently had no concep
tion ol the pari, lor ho playod it as low comedy. Mr.
Stoduari was an amusing Crabtroe aud Mr. Glddoua
whs an sin using Trip. Iu Mr Lctnoync's Mos'cs wa
wore rather ulsnppointod, for wo expected a better
characterization Irom this clever ucior. Miss Linda
Dletz did not do mush wltb the p?rt of 1, idy
Sucorwoli, a part ovuit more out of licr line tbau Luny
Teazle was out of Miss Jewell's Mrs (I. II. Gilbert
was in her ?.lument as Mrs. Caudor uud Miss Bijou
Heron as Maria made one of tho pleusautest Impres
sions of tho ufloruoon. Tho play passed oil' very
smoothly aud itio principal actors Were ropcuicdly
cullod bclora tho curtain. .
Li'CISUM TIIXATBE?"GOVE'S SACRIFICE."
The porloruoancc ol "Love's Sacrifice" ut tho Ly>
oouin '1 heatro last evcotng tor tho benefit of St, Mary'?
Frotektaut Episcopal Church, Lako Mobegan, N. Y.t
was in every way successful. Tho performers work
ali amateurs, and they acquitted tbcmselvos with
credit. We have seldom it ever seen better amateur
acting. Tho drama, "Lovo's Sacrifice," Is not ono to
cspec.ally attract u nineteenth ccutury audience, but
It held itio altcuiion ol that assembled lust
evening through five long acts. The bright particular
star on this occasion was Mrs .yier Merrill, who
played Murguici Elmore. Mrs. Merrill Is a remark
ably handsome woman, with a Que stago prosoncc.
In her acting she showed a thorough ktwwJodgo of
Btugc business and proved very conclusive^ that she
would attrucl attention on the proiossiouui stage. Sbo
was warmly applauded throughout the pluy
and called bolero tho curtain. Mrs. Osborna
as Hormioie Oe Vermont, Miss Hind as
Jenny, and Miss Speucer as Muuon were good in their
several parts, and acted with gruce und piquuocy. Of
the men Mr. Bird, as Matthew Elmore, snowoij tho
moat power, while tuo gontlemsn who playod Friar
Dominic showed perhaps the greatest familiarity
with the stage. Mr. Withoriugtoa us l'uui la Font,
Mr. Henderson as Eugeuo DcLormo, Mr. Uauibcrge
us est. l.o, and Mr. Mouse hs Jena KusC, did capitally.
The costumes were gorgeous, uoil altogether the pieci
gave great satisluctiou to a large and lusbionabl\
audience.
ACAD I'M V OF MUSIC?"DUMB LOVE.n
A curious composition by Jeromo Hopkins, eatlck
a rofuuutlc opera In four aots, was put oa tho Btaga
ol the Academy of Muslo last night tor tba first and
probably tno only time. It was not a succoss. 1|
aokod dramatic power and cobasivonoss. Tho text la
full ol slung und tho story fioosists ol more sbrcda
oi incidauis. Here and there wore redeem
ing qualities In tbo shape of bits ol Dions
utit music, all tbo more pleasant borauso in
sburp contrast with much that wus very bad; but
??Dumb Love" us u wholo is entltlod only to the br ici
est ol obituary notices. Under the circumstances It
is scarcely worth while to dusenbo tho plot. Tba
audtooco good-natureuly sat tbo pei tormanco out,
although the people la the upper tiers were anything
but dumb over tbo recurrence ol Iroquunl waits and
coutretemps. Though Mr. Hopkins has dona bolter
things musically be bas this iiino waded beyond bia
d.'ptb.
BTEIMVAY CALL?CONCERT,
A vocal and loitruiucntal concert was givoa at
Stcluway Hall last uvcuiog lor tho benefit ol tba
cbailty lund of LiurolChaptor, Order ol Etstora Star,
Tbo financial result wur, unfortunately, not favorable,
the andlance bvlug extremely sinaih The musical
selections, however, were good, and iboy were gou.
cntliy well Interpreted ny tbe respccilvo arll.-M,
among whom may be mentioned tno numas of Dr.
Goorgu Vaihuut, wbo organized tho concert; Mr. Ch.
Fritsch, Mr. George \V. Moigan, Miss Maud Morgan,
Miss Octavio Uomieo and Miss Jobauulo Ackermauik
A fine string qanriat was also proieol.
TUOfiCAb J1HBES AT t HB AQC.lBICU.
Tbe Now York Aquarium bat rccclvod a largo num.
bar vl ruro and benutllul tropical lis bos Irom llor*
muda auil adjacent water*. Moat of the tpocimcoi
were captured by ilio aquarium expedition, the re
maind.r being contribuiou by Mr. G. M. Alloa, mo
Ameiicau Cousul. wtio la an onihnMustic pUcicultur
Ui. Tbo tiuik* now present a boautiful uppo.irstice,
lor tbcro oro no less ibau lllty-lour uugcl limes, alno
curious cray tlab, twcuiy black uud twelve yel
low grunts, twelve schoolmaster?, a most remarkablo
looking llsb. iliirtccn brvens, twenty rod iquirrol
(lubes. besides hsmlcts, cowpuots, pliu'bcs uod binoa.
There arc also six ayliui la. or Bermuda tobaior, with
several colors; some itod of tbo tuoai beuutllu!
anemones and a scu fan upon wbtcb tlioro aro IIv.uk
poari oysters. Some of ibo specimen* from drop sea
mousing uio extremely rare. Ihoso Inlorosiod la
nutur.il studies should loic no tiuie in seeing tbia
mixnlUccei oolloctioo, for II ts very diflloult to keep
mam aiivo lu eouUaument.
MU.-lIC kL AND DUAMATIO NOTES.
Mr. 1J. H. Uumpbrloa glvoa a concert to-morrow
nlgbl at Cblckerlng flail.
Mr. Frederic Clay's o.inlata of "Lalla Rookb" will
be glvoa tuU aliernooa at Clnckeriug Mali.
Moat el tbo oouibiaatioas now on tbe road aro break*
log up, and tbo members are on ibo lookout lor water
ing placet.
This is tbo last mock of Blgoor l'atrli'.o's caonoa
ball act mid of bis wife's wonderful feat ot Inatantaa*
out memory, lloth are worth scolng.
llermunn, tho colobraied magician, baa Just re
turned Irom a South Amorlcan tour, lie la ?? route
to Europe, but expccU to visit tbo United Statea next
season.
At a mooting of the Board of Managers of tha
Newark Homo tor the i'riou Jiess tbey graieialiy no
copied Mist Emma Abbott's odor to give a concert IS
aid ol tbo Heine, and made her a life patron ol tbe in
alt tu Uon.
Erlix, "our Herman cousin," at tba Standard Tbo
aire, baa little occ.ihiou to grumble at tbo Now York
public, Ho baa been well ansialnod, end in bla own
uoiqueaud humorous way baa well ropatd bla and!*
eucca for their atlendanou.
Alii' NOTES.
Tbo laat ol tbla aoason'a monthly art rocaptlona and
social rounions waa hold at tba rooms of the Art
Students' League last evening. It woa a*"atudoiits'
nUbt." I ho rooms wore bat ploaaantly flllod and
the art display was thoroughly enjoyed In conjuno
Hon with sumo lolronluucnta. The exhibition con
*i?trd ol plctmei In oil acd oil atndtea, wntcr colors,
ilrawlngs and etchings Among Iho exainplos lu oil
wa noted S. W. Van sehalck'e cxoclient "Tho
Kong," which ibo hanging committee of the
Acaecmr n low years ago relegatod to the
corridor; Walior Kin-luw's "i'utr Milan" and a
female head; an almirahle monk story, by Mugtathj
a little J. I. Smith, two ot J. <1- Brown's eflnuiive
Uraud .Mhiiiiii skutches. a utudy hy Stieltrin, some by
Jamas M. Ilari, e.xnnples ol Swain (liflord, a good
head by Karlam and a J. II. Bristol. Among tht
water colors were several Wiualow Uomers, a One
littla 41'tuiiy and a good J. U. Siuillle. A photograph
ol 1'roloaaor Kukeii'i excellent picture, "the Ciiuio.,"
atlrucicd mua.i attention. Walter tiliirlaw'it original
sketch lor In* ??rMiocpahcanug" was or tno collect bin.
Amoug the etchings wo noticed examples ol Appian
Whistler, Luiuiiu.ly, llailin, Ilolauouy, Connies and
fToiuetg.
Tba nionihly art recaption of tbe Union Loagm
Club Ultcs place on Tliurs lay evouing. The exhibi
tion this ui->11 tu will bo composed ol water color draw
lu i(L
I Do clouds begin to ihlekon and tbero aro |>rospe?M
of a storm at the annual morning ol iho National
Academy this nliernoon. There I* n rumor that ooa*
iidornblo dissatisfaction exists' among some of til*
uirmbcrs with euo ot the oldest and most prominent
otllcnl*, and Unit nu cilei l Will be msdo nguiusl big
rceiiouon.