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BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
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fOLUME XLni Jia 178
AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT.
NIBLO'S WARDEN?A Ctuaiutau Cask.
PARKTUEATHE?Our~IiT7vm
STANDARD THEATRE-Knirc.
TONY PASTOB*8-VARlirrr~
UIIA.WD OPERA HOUSE-Buya-nt'* Ui.varucLa.
OIEJIOKE'S .GARDEN?Tuouai' Cox darn.
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NEW YORK, TIT-SHAY, JINK h'D. 1S78.
The 1Ikiiai.ii irill Int. urnl lo lite address of
person* going into the. country during the summer
at the rate of one dollar per month, postage paid.
The probabilities are thai the weather in yew
York and its vicinity Unlay will be warm and
partly cloudy or cloudy, with occasional rains.
'To-morrow it will be warm ami cloudy, probably
with frequent ruins
Wall Street Yesterday.?Tlie stork mar
kot watt active ai d irregular, fluid was steady
all day at 10O\|. (iovemmeiit bonds \n r?:
linn. States steady and railroads irregular.
Money on call was easy at 'J a U per cent, clos
ing at the former figure.
I Ni le Sam is on time with his semi-annual
interest. 'Hie old gentleman begins payment
to-dav.
Skciiktahv Siw.kman hits again returned ex
Uovcruor Mrown's check. If it eoiucs again be
ought to put it in the conscience fund.
'I'm: Miijtaky I)i tautmi-nt of tho South and
Gulf have heen consulidated under tlie uuino of
the former. Augur assumes ooniiuuiid.
Mayor Ki.y has needlessly lakeu the troub'o
to announce that it is very uuecrtaiu when lie
will make, nominations for the vacancies on the
Police and Excise hoards.
Ax Advanck in the price of coal for July has
been dclermiiwd ti]s?ii by the Lehigh Valley
oor]ioratiou. The other lucuibers of the coal
linn avill of course follow suit.
Oca Cotton Drills and Pennsylvania kcro
tteiio are ^?rowin^* in favor in the Chinese mar
ket. China is welcome to adjust the balunee of
trade by sending us utiything except John.
A Knot uishim; Industry in llobokou has
been ruined by Speciul Agent Itruekett. It will
la* no longer possible to purchase the best
brandy there at the same price us lager beer.
Tonix, the West l'oiut soldier who is accused
of murder, w.is placed on trial yesterday. An
ex-Con federate officer who was on the jury
panel was set aside w hen it was discovered that
be had worn the gray.
A r Wyouinu. in this State, a few days ago a
rock salt mine was discovered hv a laboier who
was sinking au oil well, it is supposed to he
?cry extensive and a revolution in the sail trade
is already predicted.
A La lent: Xi viiikr ok Co.noiikssmkx called
upou the President yesterday in, we are told,
the interest of their constituents. The more
correct w ay of putting it. perhaps, would he iu
the interest of their own re-eleetiou.
It Is Ckutaini.y creditable to our (leruiau
citizens that during the great Scliuetzeufest,
w hieh has just closed, onlv one arrest was made,
and that doubly unfortunate person was a young
Oiun who ipmrrelled with his sweetheart.
Tuni.t. Assistant Ski ui.tauysiiii-s of legation
Wer< abolished ui tho last session of Congress ?
namely, those of London, Merlin and Paris.
Tl.c patriots who till them have been ordered to
aiiipeud their gigantic international labors.
A Decision of importance to dealers in com
mercial paper was given in one of the courts
yesterday. A note, whether accommodation
paper or not, is \oid if discounted or pur
chased nt a higher rate than seven per cent.
I Ions, It Si.kvis, have some rights us against
the ollieiul dog catcher. < hie of the latter turned
up in the courts yesterday, and lie was igiur
uiiuiously stripped of the emblems of bis otliee.
Why not j.nt him in tho Pound uud see if any
one will redeem him I
Tilt: I.atk >Ia. Uiiixki.amh.u's Estate is esti
mated to he worth uboutlifty million dollars, lie
wusoncol the seven largest real estate owners in
tiiis city. My his will the vust pro|wrty will ho
managed by executors tor the benefit of his
children, who muv divide it as they shall see fit.
'IIIK Coui'iiUAilux Cut NM.i. has given the
opinion that judges of tin- eivil courts have no
authority to remove their clerks. They arc
commissioned tor six years, and are entitled to
hold otliee for that period. The <|iiestiou was
raised by Judge Pmekiiey, who diss not seem
to he us weli informed in regard to the statute
book as he ought to be.
'1 nr. Wkathkii.?The centre of low pressure j
has moved to the Atlantic coast and toward i
Nova .Scotia, with ruins, which have Irccti limited I
to the lower lake region mid the northern and i
roast sections ol the Middle and Eastern Siutcs. j
Southeast to southwest winds have been prevail- |
lag over the regions southward ol the depression, j
while on its western margin the winds have
varied in direction between southeast toward a
new depression in Dakota and noilbweat, fol
lowing the indraught to that on tho Allautie
coast, i'lie new depression referred to is pre
ceded by light rains in tho Upper Mississippi
Volley. Die temperatures have gciierully risen,
except at |Miiiitx in the New England States mid
lake region and iu the Plutte and Lower Mis
souri valleys. In these last named districts the
winds have increased in force with the develop
ment of tho advancing disturbance. '1 lie highest
barometer overlies the region south of Tetiiius
soc sad extends from Eastern Texas to tlie
South Atlantic const. The weather in New
York and its Vicinity to-duy will be warm and
portly cloudy or cloudy, with occasional rains.
To-morrow it will lie warm and cloudy, proba
bly with ircijucnt lions.
Tli* C?Ngr?n ?? B*rltn.
Id the London Times of Saturday there
was printed an important despatch troui
Berlin, as to the accuracy of which we
ventured to express some doubt on Sunday,
and which now proves to have been plainly
at fuult us to one point of consequence, and
so framed with regurd to the rest of its sub
stance that it entirely misrepresented the
whole subject to which it related, yet did
this in terms that one disposed to chop
logic might defend as strictly true.
By that despatch it was represented that
ltussia had conceded in the Congress
neariy all that either England or Austria
cured" to claim, and that the luinous agree
ment between England and ltussia, re
cently given to the public as the basis on
which their respective objections to the
Congress had been waived?and which
agreement was England's guarautee to
ltussia?had, in fact, not restrained the
English representatives from urging de
mauds beyond the limitations it had
made. It was said by the Times that the
Balkan Mountain was to bo the frontier
of the new independent State ; that the
Turks were to have the right to fortify the
Balkan passes and to garrison the fortified
places, iind that the city of Sofia would
not be included within the limits of this
independent State, but would be in the
tributary State to bo eroaled south ot the
Balkans, and would consequently be a
post that the Sultan could also iortily and
garrison as part of his lj'ontier. It wi.s
said that a telegram from Constantinople
hud coustrainod the Russians to thus settle
these questions?a statement which indi
cated that the writer of the despatch un
! derstood that it was one the ordinary
I reader would liavo some difficulty in swal
lowing, and that consequently needed an
extravagant reason by way of condiment
Over this account ot the settlement of the
' Bulgarian frontier, which from the first has
j been recognized as an exceedingly difficult
| point, the English press has had "a day of
' the blowing of trumpets." This settle
i merit was "nothing less than the abnudon
j merit by ltussia of the policy which has
; guidocl her relations with Turkey during
' tlio last hundred years." So said the
i Times, that exceedingly uncerfaiu thuu
derer. And the Fust said:-"ltussia is now
authoritatively told that she is as lar from
Constantinople, it not, indeed, further,
than she was when the war began. Herein
lies the bitterness of the mortification to
which she must now submit." And all
this grand diplomatic success was "entirely
due to the firmness of the British represen
tative in the Congress." It was to that
firmness that was owing what they "ven
tured to regard as a solution of the Eastern
question." If we remember the spirit of
superior reserve in wlii^h the London press
sometimes corrects the exuberance with
which other people express their sat
isfaction these extravagant sentences
will provoke niuusemcut,; but if wo
endeavor to find any good reason lor such
high notes of victory the failure is so abso
lute that the notes become rather comical.
For nil this gratulation is over what ? Over
a statement made by the Times, which must
ho corrected in every particular in which
it departed from what was previously
known. As to the relations of Sofia to
the two frontiers the Times was grossly at
fault, and in the allegation that Rnfaia had
assented that Turkey should fortify and
hold with troops the lino of tho Balkans it
was equally at fault, and thc-so two state
ments constituted the lubric it gloried over.
Instead of agreeing 1 hat Turkish troops
shall hold the fortified lino of the Balkans
the Russians have said that on certain con
ditions they may assent to a settlement of
this point, which would have a remote and
shadowy resemblance to the settlement as
stated by the Times. If the State south of
the Balkans?Eastern Roumolia?is organ
ized on a basis satisfactory to Russia, and
if the system of administration to bo
adopted is satisfactory to her, then
Russia will consent that the line
of the Balkans, tho northern fron
tier of this tributary State, shall
bo held, but not by Turkish troops. In
the contingencies named that line may be
held by a militia raisod in the provinces?
a forco of natives?who will be Christians
whore tho lino runs through a district
inhabited by Christians and Mussulmans
whore tho line is in a Mussulman country.
In the neighborhood of tho Hhipka
pass, for instance, tho forco thus
raised would be made up in great
part of those Hnydjks who, when
the Russians reached the Upper Balkan
country in tho recent war, became
their efficient guides and led them
to nn I tro by routes unknown to the Turks
or to uny living creatures but these moun
taineers. How great is the difforenos be
tween this to which tho Russians have !
really agreed and that to which it was rep
resented they hml agreed it might seem
superfluous to point out if m> high nu au
thority in journalism had not couinmd tho
two points. No ono who read the bloody
story of lMevna as it was chronicled day
attor day for so many months, or who
remembers the fierce conflict between
Radetzky and Suleiman Pacha in tho
Siiipka Pass, can for a moment doubt
that if the mountain passes were fortified
ami held by Ben of that stamp the llus
sinns would find them an almost insuper
able obstacle against any now movement
toward Constantinople, and England and
Russia might congratulate themselves upon
having established a material and practical
guaruntoe. Rut if tho pusses are to bo held
by a militia made up in great part of the
Christian people of the country, in sympathy
with Russia and conscious that alio alone
supports their desire to be rid of tho Otto
man. the passes will be in the hands of
friends and open to Russia when sliu
wishes.
The other point falsely reported is with
regard to Sofia. This place is a strategic
point of great Importance, and likely to be
of more importance in the future than it
has been in recent wars. It is important
for tho country it commands, for its rela
tion to the Balkans and for its relation to
tho railroad to Constantinople. If this city
were included in the South Balkan Htato
and fortified by the Turks it would
prolong to the westward tho important
defensive line of the mountains and
might be held indefinitely by good
troops, for the railroad could reinforce and
supply it irom all tho country behind down
to Constantinople. But if it be included in
North Bulgaria?be purtoftliat independent
State, and not fortified in Turkish hands?
then it would be open to Russia, and its
possession by a Russian army would turn
the line of th^ Balkans by whomsoever held
and would force the defender to fight the
invader in front of Adriauople. In its
fumous bulletin of triumph the Times re
potted that this city was to be included in
the southern State and to be retained,
therefore, in Turkish hands. In fact, it is
to be included iu the northern State, and
all its strategic possibilities are to be seen
in a light just contrary to that im
plied by what the Times reported.
It appears, therefore, that of the great
triumph over which the Times and the
London Post gloried so freely as the results
of Lord Beaconsfield's backbone at Berlin
not one point remains when both sides of
the story are heard. England's diplomacy
appears thus brilliantly triumphant only
when chronicled by British correspond
ents inspired, perhaps, by the dip'o
mntisfs themselves. It has been already
reported how greatly conservative opinion
in England is disappointed with the Anglo
Russian agreement which becamo n basis
for tho meeting of the Powers in tho Con
gross, and it has moreover already appeared
by tho nnturo of despatches from Berlin to j
London that the correspondents were fur
nished with news of the Congress of a kind
likely to throw dust in people's eyes as to
tho value of that agreement to England.
Apparently the Times' remarkably falso
news is the sublimcst instance of this sort
ol systematic deception.
Grunt in Ilnllsutd.
General Grunt, having exhausted tho
East and grown weary of the honors show
ered upon him in London and Paris, lias
now branched olf to Holland, and is there
tho recipient of attentions as gracious and
as flattering as any he lias j et received,
ltoyal reception?, diplomatic dinners, min
isterial dejeuners and the usual round of en
tertainments have marked his stay at The
II iguo, and the sturdj* Dutch soldiers have
been put through a grand review in honor
of the first general of.tho ago. In the
steady, plodding cities of Amsterdam and
Rotterdam the phlegmatic citizens have
been excited to enthusiasm by the presence
of the American ex-President, and have sig
nified their admiration ol his character and
achievements by crowding tho streets
through which ho passed. Generul Grant
goes to-morrow to Berlin, where he will
probably learn the final result of tho Con
gress which is to avert n European war.
The great diplomats who are now assembled
in that capital will no doubt find time to
do honor to the ex-President, and will bo
well pleased at tho opportunity to meet so
distinguished an American soldier.
Protection for Kxc urn Ion lata.
The excursion fever promises to rage furi
ously this summer. The boats went out
with heavy loads on Sunday last, notwith
standing the threatening appoaranoe of the
skies in the early morning, and no doubt
the excursionists enjoyed the fresh air fo
the fullest extent. But the great rush for
the excursion steamers suggests the im
portance of compelling the proprietors to
obey the law in regard to overcrowding.
An accident to one of these boats with its
large load of pleasure seekers, mostly
women and children, would in all proba
bility end in a most heartrending calamity.
Tho officers whose duty it is to seo that
these laws are observed have not been dis
tinguished in the past for vigilanoe and
nctivily, and if they neglect their duty
Borne steps ought to bo taken to call them
to account. It is alleged that souio of tho
boats last Sunday wero overcrowded and
that the provisions for saving life in
oaso of an accident wero entirely and ab
surdly inadequate. Two-thirds of the peo
ple who go on such excursions have no idea
of tho danger they incur, and it is deplor
able that their lives should be thus jeopar
dized when a proper observance of the luws
would render thoru comparatively safe.
Our local authorities should adopt meas
ures for tho protection of the thousands
who embark on tho excursion staamers,
una should take puins to see that tho laws
are enforced.
A Sermon for Tmui pa.
'llio sermon preached to trumps last
Sumlny by Mr. William W. Forsyth, of
llhode Island, is one they can understand
and which is likely to give them a useful
lesson. The text was taken from tho first
and second chambers of a revolver, and
went directly to the head of tho particular
trump to whom it was addressed. The
ruffian entered Mr. Forsyth's house with
out taking the trouble to knock, doubtless
in the expectation that he would bo un
heard and unseen, uiul thus enabled to lay
bis hands on any portable articles of
value lie might happen to come across.
In this he was disappointed, as
he was observed by the family and
cautioned to knock at the door und
announce his entrance if lie should
call again. Tho fellow went off; but
ho doubtless remarked that Mr Forsyth
was in locblo health und that his wile was
the on!j other inniAte of the house, and ho
was not to bo balked in what appeared to
hint so available an opportunity for plunder.
Soon afterward Mr. Forsyth, having occa
sion to go to the kitchen, found the tramp
there, armed with a dirk knife and evi
dently bent on murder, if necessary, as
well oa robbery. Mr. Forsyth rushed to his
bedroom, followed by tho tramp, and, hav
ing secured his revolver, fired at the ruffian,
hitting tho top of his head, but not dis
abling bim. Tho tramp soized him by tho
throat and endeavored to throw liiui over
tho banisters, bat Mrs. Forsyth bravely
camo to the rescue of her husband and by
her assistaneo enabled him to Are a second
shot, with better effect. The tramp left,
with a bullet in his head, but after going a
short distance fell and was ouptArcd lie is
still alivo, but there is some hope that he will
not recover. Tho tramp ruffian is the wont
in existence. Women and children nro
often at his mercy, and recently it has been
almost as dangerous to leave an unprotected
family in a quiet country neighborhood in a
settled State as on a border farm in the neigh
borhood of the Bannock Indians. It is very
little use to arrest a tramp as a vagrant. A
short detention is all the discomfort he is
called upon to endure, and he sturts out
afresh, probably with a disposition to re
venge himself through the bludgeon or the
torch ou those who have caused the incon
venience. It is very well to relievo real
distress wherever it exists, whether in city
or country; but the best meal that can be
given to a regular tramp is a leaden one,
and it should be supplied in sufficient
quantity to satisfy the most voracious appe
tite.
Ait Kvunive Witness.
The lively Mrs. Jeuks does not improve
on further acquaintance. Even Inr irreve
rent audacity and flippant tongue cease to
bo amusing when administered in largo
doses. Such exhibitions arc diverting
chiefly because they are odd; they become
tedious as saou as the gloss of novelty
wears off. That kind of pert flip,
pnucy is so unfeminine, it so over
stops the modesty of ladyhood, that
amusement at its oddity Goon gives
way to disgust with its violation of?pro
priciy. A woman who seems to enjoy making
a public spectacle of herself by "the dar
ing impertinence of her replies and by
bandying smart repartees when ex
amined under oath eaunot be respected
as a candid witness, even when i'. is pos
sible to extract from her the truth. Tliii
Mrs. Jeuks not only parries questions by
her flippancy, but when they are pressed
upon her she plumply refuses to answer
with the same easy freedom she would prac
tise in a private circle of her equals. The
committee indulges this slippery witness in
her freaks because there is no power to com
pel her to answer questions. The House
not being in session the committee cannot
procure an order of arrest for contempt, and
she can make game of her examiners and
defy them with perfect impunity.
Very little was elicited from"hor yester
day beyond repetitions of the same story
and evasions which she presented on Satur
day, and yet the hours were not quite mis
spent during which she was kept on the
witness chair. Yesterday's examination
served to divest her of the sensational pres
tige which attondod her first appearance,
and to reduce her to her real proportions as
an intriguing, unscrupulous adventuress.
She adheres to lier statement that sho
dictated the so-called Sherman letter, but
flatly refuses to toll who was her amanuen
sis, or to account, except by impertinences,
lor ber motives in practising that flagrant
deception 011 persons for whom sho pro
fessed friendship, # or for the liberty she
took with Mr. Sherman in opening a pri
vate letter addressed to him and sending an
answer signod with his uume. Her refusal
to tell who was present in the room
when the answer was prepared precludes
the calling of witnesses to contradict her
respecting tho composition of tho letter in
that placo ; but she was made to give euch
an exhibition of her habits of mind and
modes of expression as brings tho truth of
her main statement into doubt. The letter
is remarkably terse, being couched in the
fewest words that would sulfice tp convey
the same meaning, whereas Mrs. Jenks has
shown herself to be an effusive, garrulous
woman, who can hardly express herself
at all without introducing soma irrele
vance. This being hor intellects] character
how did it happon that she was able, on a
sudden impulse, to compose a letter so
exactly in the style of a trained man of
business i Ihe very first expression in the
letter is one which no woman' would have
been likely to use. "Yours of even date"
has been received. This is a form
of expression most unlikely to have
occurred to uny woman, even in
attempting to counterfeit the stylo
of a public man. But those who judgo
by internal evidence would rest their
opinion upon the general cast of the letter
rather than upon particular expressions.
Its directness and businesslike condensation
is quite alien to tho habi's of mind which
Mrs. Jenks has disclosed in this examination
and in her published letters. It is so
nearly like what Mr. Sherman night lmvo
written that when ho testified belore the
committee ho not only discovered no inter
nal evidence that it w is not his. but stated
that there were things in it which ho mifeht
have written under similar circumstances
How did this flighty, erratic, loquacious
magpie of a woman succeed in composing
such a letter?
IlrooUly it's Unit Kxplouioii.
Tho slmrp explosion, accompanied by (he
llight of bricks, planter and office furniture,
that startled tho Brooklyn city officials jes
torday and killed one ol the occupants of
tho Tax Collector's office, besides injuring
another, was just one of those occurrences
that arc necessary front lime to time to re
mind careless people that they must not
neglect tho gas fixtures. It appears tLu tho
man in chargo of tho meter did not be
lieve it a part of his duty to notify
any of tho department officers when
ho was about to turn the gas on or
off. Hence he turned off tho supply aud
the burners in the record vault of tbo Col
lector of '1 axes ceased to give light Every
body in that department believed that tho
burners were turned off, because there was
no escape ot gas. But when tho supply
was turned on at the meter the gas llowcd
into the vault from tho open burners and
filled the upper section to a dogrce tha:
ntado the mixturo of gas and air highly ex
plosive. An employe entered the vault und
struck a light with a match. Tho little
flame in contact with the gas colleeted in
tho vault cuui 1 the explosion. We repeat
soitto of the details, which are fully given
elsewhere, in order that tho reader may
compare tho effect of tho explosion with the
apparent simplicity of its cause, and inako
a mental note of the number of times ho or
she, by contributivc negligence, bus nearly
brought about a similar result. People
think that tho great safeguard against gas
explosions is the detection of an escape by
tho smell it causes. It is at tho time when
the powerful odor suggests the necessity of
caution that the gas mine is charged with
death. At such a time open the windows
and door* and examine the burner*, bat do
not strike a light until ventilation has re
moved the danger.
Fireworks on ik? Foartk.
The Law Committee of the Board of
Aldermen have under consideration the
questiou of prohibiting the use of
fireworks in the city on the 3d and
4th of July. An ordinanoo to this effect is
already in existence, but every year since
its enactment the firework manufacturers
have been able to secure its suspension, and
this season they are again at work in the
same direction. In the interest of property
and of human life it is to be hoped the law
will be rigidly enforced this year. The
argument ot tho manufacturers, that they
have accumulated large stocks of these
destructive explosives and that to pro
hibit their use in the oity would be
to injure the dealers financially, has
little or no force. In the face of the law on
tha subject they should not have gone on
m iking goods the use of which they knew
would be, when the time came, illegal. If
the law wore an ex post facto one it would be
an entirely different thing ; but it is not.
It was in existence before a dollar's worth
of the present stock was manufactured or
sold. They manufactured at their peril,
and they have no right now to ask that the
law be set aside for their benefit. If their
request could be granted without infringe
ing upon tho right of others there would
not bo much objection to acceding to it,
but that is not possible. To save tho prop
erty of a score or a hundred firework men
the Board oi Aldermen have no right to en
danger the property of other citizens, the
value of which is ten thousand times
greater. It has boon estimated that thus
far the annual celebration of tho Fourth of
July has cost more in life and property than
the war of tho Itovolution. Only a year ago
tho valuo of tho property burned in less
than three thousand towns by firework ac
cidents amounted to more than a quarter of
a million dollars. In one hundred and
seventy-live cities and towns thirty-one
persons were killed and five hundred seri
ously injured. This is paying a little too
much for our patiiotic whistle, and it is cer
tainly time to apply a remedy. If any one is
so patriotic that ho must burn gunpowder in
rnomory of Seventy-bix there is abundunt
room for him to do so outside of the cities
and towns. But in the centres of popula
tion dangerous explosives ought not to be
placed in tho hands of ignorant and care
less persons. Let ns have a rigid enforce
ment of the law in this city this season.
Socialists in Council.
Tho meeting of tho socialists of this city
last evening to cel?jbrato the anniversary
of tho French llevolution of 1848 was at
tended by nearly one thousand persons, a
large number of whom were undoubt
edly attracted by curiosity and bad
no sympathy whatever with the objects
of the gathering. A majority of
those present were, of course, foreigners?
either Frenchmen or Germans. Tho meet
ing was orderly and the speeches, as a rule,
were comparatively temperate in tone.
There was, of course, a good deal about the
rights of labor and the tyranny of capital
and all that sort of thing, which is com
paratively harmless and answers itself
Tho socialists have a perfect right to
meet and discuss tho labor question, tho
French Revolution of 1848 or any other
revolution. Free Hpeoch is at the corner
stone of onr institutions, and it cannot bo
donied to the socialists or to any other
class of our people, provided they do not
violate the law, Neitlior the resolutions
adopted last evening nor tho speeches
that were mado give a very clear
idea of what the socialises really
want. A decree of tho provisional gov
ernment is quoted in regard to education.
Surely there can be no ground of complaint
in that respect here. Again, standing armies
aro denounced. Woil, wo have no stand
ing army that as comparod with those of
Europe is worth the nume. While our mili
tary resources urc greater than almost
any two of tho first class Powers in
Europe wo are almost untaxed in
that respect. The union of Church and
State is condemned. No union exists here,
nor is it likely that one over will exist. Tho
socialists endeavor to draw a parallel be
tween the c indition of the workinguien in
Paris in 1818 and of the workinguien
iu this country to-day. Thcro is not a
shadow of resemblance between the two
cases. Land is lice, labor is free, speech is
free, education is free. The socialists will
make little headway among the intelligent
American workingmcn. Their theorios arc
in every respect un-American. Thoy may
do in Europe, where the whole fabric of so
ciety is different, but they can never obtain
a loothold here.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Out tanks will i.ol bear overtaxing.
Mrs. 11. C. l'oiicr U at tier Nvwpurt cott.igr.
"IV S. T,???Who ever board a lockjaw?"
licnerai lborum W. Ewlng, ol Oblo, la at Hi* Ft.in
Avcuuc U act
Dio L. wis Is la Grass Valtsjr. Allogorlctlly ibis bat
long btan true.
New Urinous Timer.-?"King Caucus is 10 lbs ??olio
and yellow lost."
XIr. \\ llliain lloacb Lawrence, ol Kbolo Island, Is
at tbo BrcVOort House.
111 at or i is oxpooiod Id l'arls. olive Logan says tbal
?be bos finally lelt tba stage. ?
Two youug Miimco wu > woro bathing In Georgia
barely escaped from tto Jawa of no alligator.
Tho President will uttoud too colobratloo of tbo
Wyoming Contouoial, near tVilkosbarre, l'a,, ou tbo
31 nod 4tb of July.
Tba Cincinnati lint'i (dom ) loalouulos that General
Growooor would liko to succoad JuJgo Swayuu lu tbo
Umio<l Kittles Suprofno Court.
Atlanta (?onitit?tion (dom.):?"Tbo ropobjleno rat Is
very particular its to tbo nature ol tbo loiegrams be
chows up. Ho is a trained rat."
Colonel Itobort M. Douglas, United States Marshal
lor tho western district of North Carolina, whoso
comunstion expired yesterday, has boon rotppointed
by tbo I'resUout.
In tbo Supremo Court, st Buffalo, yoatorday.
Judgment of absolute divorco was grautad to Carlotla
Slovens, wlfo of Jobu A. Stevens, actor, and tbo au
thor of tbo plar "Uokuowu." Cause, adultery.
Daobury JTtw*.?"It is suld that Uluok, the com
posor, wnou a child, used to roam front village to vil
lage singing lor egg*. Count Joanoos has beguu
rntbor Into, but be should take courage from tbo coin
cidence. "
London I'rutk .-?"Lord BeacoosQold la by so means
a fool; tie is always ready to make a strategical move
moot to tbo roar when bo Unds that bo bis pushed
matters too far, and bis skill consists In enveloping
this movement In MCb * cloud 0< words end prindpMf
tbat It passes unpercolved."
Clncinoatt Commercial (mil.):?"We do not nomt
nate President Hayes lor rc-clociioo. We have to rajr.
however, that a movement lor bis rouomiostlon map
prove to be most Hi and conclusive answer to tbe
?third term' lolly which Is makiug Us appoarancs
among tho soreheads and tbe remaios ol tbe rlog^
especially tbe wbisltey rings."
Recently tbo ladles wbo edit the Chicago Putt gave
Springer a "seeing to" which uiuet have awakened la
bis mind acute reminiscences of tbs extra judicial
office ol the maternal slipper In bygone daye. fbejr
reviewed Ills Congressional coarse, tbo most sslolns
act ol which was his vote against Mr. Hayes' litlo tc
tbe Presidency, and rauko it appoir sufficiently boyish
and ridiculous.
AMUSEMENTS.
ST. JAMES THEATRE? CEBVARTK8?AMATEUI
KNTKItTAlNMUNT.
Tbe magical and dramatic enioriuinmcnt given last
evening at ibe 31. Junes Theatre lor the l'und wblct
|i being rul.-od lor tbo Cervantes monument U
bo erected lu Central Park drew together a tali
audience. Tbo attendauco ol our Spanish ani
Spanish American citlaeus wbo l%rmod tbe bulk ol
tbe uudlonce would have been greater, us all the eeati
wcro takou, ll It bad not been tor tbe rumored death
ol tbo tjuoen of Spain, and tbo weather. To tbe
loriuer cause may be attributed tbe ubsrnce ol the
Spanish Minister and tho members of tbo location.
Mijor sunchls opened tbe evening wltb a uumbor of
bis Tests ol prestidigitation and inagic, which were
received Willi upplause, and which woro well per
lormed. The eggs in tne bag, tho walch trick, tho dta
appourlug bird cago and lUo bat restoration wore the
most upprociatod. i he second purl ol tbu prouraosms
cooslsied of the singing by Mine. IIirtz of a soug and
aria Irom Verdi's "Xubuco," with a piano accoinpuai.
meut oy Sigaor Moderaii. Mme. Iluriz, who sang
with a good deal ol graco and lu tbo lower
passages with pleasing expression, ss au oucoro gave
a cnarc.iing little Spanish sonc, which was applauded.
The third purl ol tbo programme compri.ed inore.o;
Major Sanubiz's legerdemain, and tucluded Prutessoi
ll'Tiuunn's trx'KS, "Ino Marvellous Pishing" am
"I'uo Satanic Kitchen" and some momuriziiig. Au
exhibition ol the optical illusion of tho lalkiug ncad,
or "I'tic Sphinx." lullowod, aud oausod a good deal
ol luuguior.
I he ovouing wag tonal ml oil by tho perlormanoe ol
the amutiog laroe in cpunish, "Un Cairto cop doa
Chinas" (I'lio Double-bedded Kootii). Don Pedro do
Olivu as 1'amian, tbo snoring and irritating marrlod
maa and bad room inato, was exeolleol. Major Vjceuio
Sauchiz wis tquallv so as Cosuie. ibe nervous,
touchy young bachelor, wbo discovers on telling ilia
talc of ins love, alter they have thoroughly driven
sleep utvay in thoir squabbling, that bis conddout is ibi
lair one's uusouud.
A incdel in piaster ol the proposed monument na
design.d by SeAor Miranda was oxiilbiteu lu toa
theatre latt owning.
8T INDARD THEATRE ?"FBITZ."
A new rorsiou of tbls play?tbat which Is to b<
shortly produced by Mr. Emmet in England?wat
presented lest uigbt at tbe Staudurd Theatre bsfort
ouo of tbe largos', and most reUnod audiences ol ib?
season. Tbo changes that have been made consist
principally lu scenery and situations and the dialogue
Is, to some extent, an Improvement npon tho ren
coring winch is so familiar to thousands of our the*,
tregoiug people. The piay now oods wltb tbo court
sceno instead ol tbo somewhat iar fetched uulo
drauinlic act in which a child Is rescued Iroin a ro
voicing mill wbeol and the villein of tbe ploco vio
lontly derconds into a snpposnblo aubtorrsuoun abyss.
Tbo little one, however, is made to do au Interrniog
pert wlib Krilz, in winch arc mingled much ol the
onotlouB humor and pathos of tho famous character
pint. Mr Emmet and M's* Miuule Palmer, Mr.
Uiav, Mr. Kowo aud tho oilier members ol tbu com.
pany liavo rarely performed bolter thin tbey did
last evening, and tbe pretty theatre ocnood with
songs, stories, laughter and upplause. Too engage
ment ol this favorite uctor necessarily terminates
this wook, owing to another which ho Is compelled
to bll on tbe other sido of tbo Atlontln In Jnlv. To
are Kritz onoe stimulates a desire to see bim again
and again.
xiblo'b garden ?"a celebrated CAKE."
Owing doubtless to tbe tbreuteulug aspeet of the
weather "A Celebrated Case" did not aa usual Oil tbe
house at Niblo's. The dratue, however, still holds
good In point ol interest and tbo puoplo down town
ero not likolv to im> surleited for soino nine to coiuo.
It is tbo polloy ol the management, however, to bring
out attruuiivo playa in rapid Kuccetslou und roalnlaia
tbo "drawlug powor" which bas lately beou go
largely developed at this theatre. Mr. Collior'a com
pany is thus far one ol the best that has appeared at
Xiblo's during tbe present season.
MUSICAL AMD DRAMATIC NOTES.
Oilmnru's Harden wu well flllod last evening and
Tbomaa' music was, a* usual, excellent.
At Tony Pastor's the entertainment consisted ol 1
long ami varied Hat of attractions calculated to sail
almost every taste.
Messrs. Poole and Donnelly, at the Grand Ooers
House, had the Bryants for their bill ol fsro and Intro
duced sevoiui new speclaltlee which louud not a little
lavor by the audieaue.
Uuusual preparaitou Is being mode by Jarrett &
Palmer lor the production ol '-Uncle Tom't Cabin'*
In England. Clue company, cousUuug of sixty per.
lorniere, will leave New York on Iho Xd ol Apguat;
another, comprising the same number, will atari oo
tbo 17lh ol August. Tbo Ural will opsu in Manebustoi
on tbs 1-Jib. The secoud will open in London at lbs
l'riueosa Hoyul Theatre in iho aiternoon aud tbo Koyal
Aquarium Theatre in tbe evening. Tbo negroes have
been selected with great cars from a burgs musical
constituency on Souibern plantations, and some of
the "soloists," so-cailsd, are aald to be very fine. Our
English cousins,wbilo astonished at tbe invasion. Will
have an opportunity ol hoarlng wild, woird, minor
maeic, accompanied by tbo peculiar ealestuonles of
an excitable raco, such ax they probably never beard
belore. Among tbe perloruiora chosen are lioraso
Was ton, iho well known banjo player and singer;
Saudi Washington, tbo camp meeting -'sboulor;" tbo
Louisiana Troubadour Quartet, tbo Slidoll children and
tba "Jolly Kour." Tbe London company will probably
remain uuitl iho end of May. Doth companies men
take tbe road and will appear In Birmingham, Bristol,
Liveipool, Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin, Edinburgh and
elsewhere. Among too whiles selected lor tba rep
resentation of tbo play are several woll known
actors uud actresacn, one ol whom Is Mr. Cborlot
Morton, who made a tut as Usapard, tba miser, la tb?
"Chimes ol Nurmandy." Ho Is to bo one of tbe
Uncles Tun Mr. II. E. Rows, of tbo Standard The
aire, la also among tbo oboe on onas. Mioses Mary
Dates ana Alllo Cblppondale will play Topsy. Llttlu
Eva Is to bo dono by Amy Blavin cud an English
child whose name Is not yol anooancod. The soon
er* will be new and painted from original sketches
taken in the Soulb. Thompson and -Suilivun streets
are excltoa over tbe event, and every colored maa
and woman who ran slug a song or dance a jig u
worrying the lilo oat ol the managers in the enacavor
to bavo "do espouse paid" from New York to Eng
land and return. As one ol them remarked the otbo(
day, "Deao rebel niggers ain't nulllu, nohow; we
New Yorkers kiu sing and danco dtro lags off."
FINE Ut'i'8.
J Ilk CKllV I Villi MONUJIkNT.
A good six id model of ibe Csrvanias monument waff
exhibited lust uvouiug at tna St. Jaiuee Theatre oa
tbo occasion of tbe amateur perlormaneo In aid at
the monument fund. Tbls modal, wbleb gives aa
excellent idea of bow tbe eompieted structure
will look, will be placed on exhibition in Giimora'g
Garden this evening. Prom tins lulotalaro mono
ntcnl? iboui lour lost In height, mods ol plaster aad
with ibe parts wbleb are to be ol metal, bronzed?II
will be seen thai Scflor Fernando Miranda's design
is an txcailcnl one. being imposing and very arllalie.
Tbo design of tbs proposed monument was usiorlbed
at Itogih la tbe IIkuald's columns on May IB, and It
will bo necessary now to advort only to particular
points.
Tne group on tbo Iroat taeo ol tbe ironcattd pyra
mid forming the body 01 iho structure, uud represent
lag Dou Quixote aud .-iaoubo 1'auza sotting out on
ibvir Journey, u good. Tbo knlgbl, oa ltokiuante,
lanoe and sbieiu on one arm, witu bis othor band up
lilted, toils tlie wondering Ssucbo, seated oo bis don
key, wbst deeds ho wnl do, while tbe letter leans his
Uoad on bis arm as bo looks up at hia mailer.
I be ligure ol Corvnoles, wbicb stands on tbe top of
the short shall, and winch will bo ol colossal sue?
those ol iho knight and squire bolug Ills sun?Is wall
posed and digmlled, and has a natural grace. Tbe
writer stands in nii court druse, holding la one
bead bis pea and uodir his other aria
tbu completed manuscript ol bis work, while
Ins ewurd hangs by bis side. At tbe
back ol tbe monument, <>u either Side of woleb are
tbo sceot-s from the captivity ol Carvnnios In Algiers,
and tlio battle of Lopauto, in whicn ho lougbt, is un
der the inscription, an exceedingly urllslio piece of
still III-, to be lisu tbu iroat group, a Droose
alto relievo, ihorn is a table si wbleb is u
chair, nod on whieb rest tb? writer's eloak and
list, the manuscript ol "Don Quixote" and writing
materials. By tbo cbulr leans a .word and uuder me
table aro heaps ol books, typtiyiiig those works ef
chivalry which "Don Quixote" overthrew. Oaths
ground are uleo e water Jug, a loal and sbaekiea, re
rumders ol the pom's prison Hie. Tbe Inseriidinn in
Spanish, translated, rente?"To the immortal genius,
Hon Miguel da Ccrvsutes Sauvouru, irom the Span,
nrds una hpanleb Amoricaus ol the New World."