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S. B, D., Kichmond, Ind.—“ Where is
the city of Tokio, and if you can give me any par
ticulars concerning it kind ydo so? I inquired of
tne Chicago Inter-Ocean, and they replied that there
was no such place mentioned in Lippincotts Gazeteer.
I am sure, however, tuere is such a place, and there
fore appiy to you.” Tokio is a city and the capital
ci Japan in tne East part of the main island, and at
the head of the Eay oi Yedo, on the Sumidagama.
It has a population of nearly 800,000, including a gar
rison of 7,140 and 400 foreigners. Yedo was laid out
in 1591, when the walls of the present stronghold
were built, and it soon became the military centre
of the empire. In 1656 and 1854 earthquakes occa
sioned an immense loss of life and property; and
there have been many very destructible conflagra
tions, owing to the former combustible style of
building and inefficient police. In 1861 the British
and French legations were established there, but
were soon driven away, and were not re-established
till 1865. In 1862 it ceased to be the compulsory
residence of the daimios. In 1868 it became the
residence of the Mikado, and the name was changed
to Tokio (Eastern capital). On Jan. 1, 1869, the port
was formally opened to foreign trade and residence.
In the Summer of 1871 the entire power of the em
pire was centered there.
Hates Man.—The twenty-second joint
rule provided for the opening and counting of the
vote for President and Vice President in joint meet
ing of the two houses. The rule is too long to be
inserted here, but the feature of it which has given
rise to so much discussion is as follows: “If, upon
the reading of any such certificates (that is, certifi
cates of the electoral vote) by the tellers, any ques
tion Shall arise in regard to counting the vote
therein certified, the same having been stated by
the presiding officer, the Senate shall thereupon
withdraw, and said question shall be submitted to
that body for its decision, and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives shall, in like manner, sub
mit said question to the House of Representatives
for its decision; and no question shall be decided
affirmatively, and no vote shall be counted, except
by the concurrent votes of the two houses.” Under
this rule the House could object to the counting of
any votes, except, for instance, the State of New
York, and thus elect their candidate, if the Senate
did not object to the counting of the votes of that
State.
W. G. M., Clinton County, Ind.—
“I want a decision in the game of cards called pi
quet. 1. I deal the cards. My opponent counts, say
about twenty-five, and plays on till he can count
thirty. Of course, if every thing which he has is
good, he can say sixty when he comes to thirty
before I count anything. Now suppose he does not
say sixty, but counts on and says thirty, thirty-one
and so forth, and then 1 count one, two, and so forth,
can he come in afterward and claim the other thirty?”
He cannot. 2. Suppose I require eight or ten, and
make seven tricks, will I have the right to count the
leas ten and say I am out, before all the cards in
my hand are played out, or will my opponent have a
right to claim the game if he can go out with the
other tricks remaining ?” You have not the right
to count the leas until all the cards are played. Your
opponent has the right to claim t lie game. 3. Can
I claim the leas as soon as I make it and say 1 am
out?” No.
South Carolinian.—Wade Hampton,
the claimant to the Governorship of South Carolina,
was born at Columbia, S. C., in 1818. He graduated
at the University of South Carolina, studied law, and
was successively a member of the House and Senate
in the State legislature. At the commencement of
the civil war he entered the Confederate service, and
commanded the Hampton Legion of cavalry at the
battle of Bn 11 Run, where he was wounded. He was
made brigadier-general, served in the Chickahominy
campaign, and was again wounded in the battle of
Seven Pines. He afterward commanded a cavalry
force in the Army of Northern Virginia, and was
again wounded at Gettysburg. In 1861 be was made
lieutenant-general, and commanded a body of caval
ry in Virginia. He was afterward sent to South Car
olina, and in February, 1865, commanded the rear
guard of the Confederate army at Columbia, which
place he was accused by General Sherman with de
stroying.
Old Reader. — ‘ ‘ Will you please inform
me in what year the ravishing and murder of the
old German woman occurred in Greenwich street, in
the First Ward, in a house of prostitution ?” On
November 16, 1857. Tne name of the murderer was
Maurice O’Connell; that of the victim, Teresa Spits
len. O’Connell was tried and sentenced to be exe
cuted, but his sentence was commuted to imprison
ment for life, (March 20th, 1858). For the above in
formation we are indebted to the courtesy of Ward
en John Quinn, of the Tombs (city prison). 2. You
will find files of,the daily papers in the City Hall or
Mercantile Library. You can. see a file of the Dis
patch at this office.
T. W.—l. “Am I correct in saying
that Edwin Forrest played Othello in a theatre on the
west side of Bro.: sway, near Prince street, nine or
ten years ago ?” It is incorrect to say that he played
in a theatre near Prince street. Mr. Forrest played
an engagement in the Eroadway Theatre, below
Broopie street, west side of Broadway, in the Fall of
1867, during which he- played Othello four times with
in six weeks. 2. The Society for the prevention of
cruelty to -animals receives a share of the city ap
portionment to public charities.
C. S. G.—On the evening of August 17,
1858, the day of the receipt of the news of the suc
cessful laying of the first Atlantic cable, an im
promptu celebration was held, during which the
City Hall took fire. The tire broke out about twenty
minutes to twelve on the night of the 17th, and
burned until two on the morning of the 18th. The
cupola of the City Hall was completely destroyed,
and the dome badly burned. The real cable cele
bration did not take place until the first of Septem
ber following.
Housekeeper.—To wash lace curtains
take strips of cotton cloth about one inch wide and
the length of the curtains. Sew them coarsely to
the back edges of the curtains, say with darning
cotton, a soft thread being preferable; then after
washing, secure them to a line drawn straight and
use clothes pins freely to keep the edge true on the
line. In this way the curtains will dry In desirable
chape and hang true and smooth without the least
necessity of being pressed off after being dried.
King Lear.—The story of King Lear
is probably, according to Richard Grant White, of
the remotest antiquity. It is told in the Gesta Ro
manorum of a Roman emperor, Theodosius. Accord
ing to the British Chronicles, King Lear preceded the
first of the two Csesars of that name more than one
thousand years. Shakespeare may have got his
story either from Holingshead’s Chronicles, the Mirror
of Magistrates, Romance of Perceforest, Faerie Queen,
Albion's England, or Camden's Britannica.
Abthub. —The new Territory of Huron
has an area of about 70,000 square miles. It is par
allelogram, extending from Minnesota on the east
for something less than 400 miles, to Montana on the
-west, and from the British Possessions on the north
200 miles to the boundary of Dakota Territory on the
south. Its population is estimated at about 10,000,
having received considerable accessions by immigra
tion since the taking of the last census.
S. F. O.—“ls there in this city an in
stitution for truant Protestant boys?” Yes; there
is the New York Juvenile Asylum, at 176th street
and Tenth avenue, the House of Reception being at
No. 61 West Thirteenth street. It is for the care
and reformation of destitute, truant, and disobedi
ent children committed by magistrates or surren
dered by parents. Application can be made at the
House of Reception.
Readeb. — The stanza from “ Led
Astray,” that you desire, reads as follows:
“ I have another life I long to meet,
Without which life my life is incomplete.
Oh, sweeter self, like me art thou astray?
Trying with all thy heart to find the way
To mine ? Striving,, like me, to find the breast
On which alone can weary heart find rest ?”
C. G. S.—l. “How deep was the Col
lect Pond where the Tombs now stands ?” Mrs.
Mary L. Booth, in her “ History of the City of New
York,” says: “The pond was indeed very deep;
deep enough, in tact, to have floated the largest
ships in the navy.” 2We cannot say as to the time,
but it is generally believed that it will.
Leonobe.—The price paid by newspa
per editors for stories accepted depends entirely on
the merits of the production. An editor, on read
ing a story and finding it good and acceptable, cares
little about the fact of the writer being unknown in
the literary world; it suffices lor him that the story
is a good one.
W. J. S. —The directors of the Munici
pal Oxygen Gaslight Company as we find them in
the registration of incorporotion (May 29, 1874),
-were Messrs. George Shea, Sydney Howard Gay, R.
M. C. Graham, Henry J. Robinson, James M. Var
num, Richard M. Harrison and Henry J. Porter.
F. D.—We cannot give you the private
address of any actors or actresses. It you wish to
communicate with them you can address to tae
theatres in which they arc employed. The first
xnentioned lady has just entered her thirtieth year;
the latter is in her eighteenth.
Fireman. —The receipt for making
.scenery canvas uninflammable is very simple: The
canvas and rope is soaked in a solution of tungstate
of soda for half an hour. After it is dry it is
primed with a solution of silicate of soda.
Neck and Neck.—The pay of the po
lice (patrolmen) is $1,200 per annum; of firemen,
$1,000; and of the letter-carriers, from S4OO to
S9OO. Lamp-lighters are engaged by the gas com
panies, and not by any city department.
Fbiend. —The following was the vote
at the October election in Maine: For Selden Con
nor (Rep.) for Governor, 75,024; J. C. Talbot (Dem.)
69,857; scattering, 535. Connor’s majority, 14,635:
Connor’s plurality, 15,167.
G. L. B.—B bets W that at the late
Presidential election in the State of Colorado the peo
ple did not vote-directly for Presidential electors.
Is he right? He is. The electors were elected by
the Legislature of Colorado.
F. E. A.—lf the case is as you describe,
it is not morally honest nor in accord with religious
teachings. The creditors, if they go about the busi
ness properly, can easily avert such a hypocritical
fraud.
Enquirer.—l. The last great riot on
the occasion of an Orange parade occurred in Eighth
avenue, on July 12th, 1871. 2. The “Westfield”
steamboat explosion occurred on Sunday, July 80th,
1871.
J. McK.—Mlle. Bonfanti, thedanseuse,
never did appear with a “ Buffalo Bill ” combina
tion, but Mlle. Moriacchi, who is the wife of Texas
Jack, did travel with such a company.
T. W. H.—l. Thomas Murphy was ap
pointed Collector of the Port of New York by Presi
-dent Grant. 2. We do not give information as to
the religion of private individuals.
Hoboken. —The lines:
“ A little nonsense ne v
Is relished by the
(turn Butter’s •* HudibHu* ’
Kit.—The official vote of Arkansas was
as follows: For Hayes, 38.669: Tilden, 68,083; Cooper,
211. Tilden’s majority, 19,203.
Lb Petit Faust. —Your friend is right.
The real name of Herve, the opera-bouffe composer,
is Florimond Ronger.
Old Boy. —Harper Brothers’ buildings,
Cliff and Pearl streets, were destroyed by fire on
December 10, 1853.
H. M. J.—At six-card oribbage, the last
card played scores a point. Therefore your claim is
correct.
J. W. D.—We do not know of any one
who professes to be able to make animals talk.
Poker.—lf A gives up the pot to B he
need not show his hand unless he choses.
L. R.—Niblo’s Garden Theatre was de
stroyed by fire on May 6th, 1872.
Ignoramus.—The expressions used are
both slang, of recent invention,
C. H. B.—You cannot make a sweep if
there are no cards on the table.
Constant Reader.—We do not know
of any such society.
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “ ON HER WEDDING MORN.”
MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES.
THE DETROIT SOLOMON.
A SPORTING PUP.
BILL’S STORY.
MERRY TRIFLES.
NEW YEAR’S DAY.
A BENEVOLENT MAN.
COUNTED OUT.
WAGON-COVER GRAB.
FREE LOVE.
THIRD JPJkGJE j
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE : Is Our Work All Done ;
Keep An Eye Open; The Legend of Prince Edwin;
Strict Observance Lodge ; Taking an Observation;
Commandery News; The Mason’s Beacon; The Pro
gress of the Controversy; Montgomery Lodge; Kings
County Lodge; Masonry in East Orange, N. J.; Con
tinental Lodge ; Citizen’s Lodge ; Eastern Star
.Notes; Masonry in Syria; Questions and Answers;
Tecumseh Lodge; Clinton Lodge; Independent Royal
Arch Lodge; Rochester; The Quaker City; Well Said;
Elections; Labor Exchange.
SIXTH PAGE:
WAITING.
CONCLUSION OF “THE PERILS OF BEAUTY.’*
A WIFE’S STRATEGY.
ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.
FOES NO LONGER.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
ROMANCE AND RELIGION.
IGNORANCE UNEQUALED.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
SEVENTH
THE NIGHT COMETH.
THE WARDROBE WOMAN.
MAJOR MOLLOY’S WIF&
A DOG ON THE WIRES. v
AN ACTOR’S MADNESS.
A RED-HOT STOVE.
A SMART DOG.
HELL’S BEND.
A GOOD SHOT.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP,
fltto gort jiqratdr.
SEW YOKE, JANUARY 7, 1577.
The NEW YORK DISPATCH
has a larger circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
lished in the United States.
INCREASE IN THE CITY’S DEST.
The permanent debt of the city of New York
continues to increase, and there seems to ba no
hope of stopping the increase. During the last
year the Increase was over $3,000,000. Where
is this going to end? If continues in there
can be but one conclusion: Bankruptcy. The
debt of the city is now over $119,000,000. The
interest on this debt, at six per cent., is $7,110,-
000. This interest must be raised every year
by taxation, and is a severe burden upon prop
erty. The effect on the city of the high rate of
taxation is to drive business from among us,
and, also, to drive out of New York buildings
every trade or manufactory which can be car
ried on elsewhere. Yet our city rulers, in the
face of these facts, continue increasing the
debt, piling it up by millions each year. They
are like the man that Killed the goose that
laid the golden eggs. They will tax New York
city until property will become valueless. At
the present time there is very little real estate
in this city which is paying anything like a
fair interest on the money invested in it, and if
we are to increase the debt by three or four
million dollars each year, how long will it be
before real .estate will not pay sufficient rent to
cover the taxes ?
Something must be done to put a stop to this
annual increase of the city debt. What shall
that something be ? We can sec no way but by
the Legislature passing a law making it illegal
for the city to further increase its debt. 4)ur
city rulers either have not the brains to see that
they are fast ruining it, or else have not the
courage to, economize by cutting off the un
necessary placemen. The “Bing” has been
out of power now for five years, yet during that
time the debt has increased over twenty-nine
million dollars, while the taxes have been
higher than ever before. This may show good
government, may show brilliant qualities in the
men who have had the making up of the city
estimates and the disbursement of the city’s
income, but wo acknowledge our inability to
see it in that light.
We say to our new city officials that there
must be a change. The disbursements must
be Kept within the income, and there should be
means taken to wipe out part of the debt—a
debt which is rapidly destroying the prosperity
of the metropolis of America. Mr. Ely, the
new Mayor, and Mr. Kelly, the new Controller,
have both the reputation of being honest men.
We will take it for granted that nona of the
city’s money shall be stolen. Can we take it
for granted that none of it shall be squandered
on political favorites who do nothing for the
money they receive ? The report for the next
year will show us whether they have been
worthy of the confidence placed in them by the
people. If the city goes one more dollar in
debt during the year they will have proved
themselves unworthy. The people have grown
tired of professions, and want results.
NO BEASON FOB DESPAIR.
The World informs us that a well-known
American scholar, now traveling in Europe,
writes homo to his friends that he knows of
“ nothing in the whole history of our country,
not excepting the accursed folly of secession,
which has done so much to damage the cause
of free government as this unexpected attempt
to do away with the clearly-expressed will of
the people.” We are unable to see the matter
in the same light as the “American scholar.”
Here wo have had two months of great excite
ment over the result of the Presidential can
vass, yet people have gone about their business
in their usual way, have discussed the, various
questions as a general thing with fairness and
calmness, and there has been no trouble, no
rioting, no revolution. The London Times in
speaking of our Presidential complications said
that the manner in which the American peo
ple have borne themselves in the midst of ex
citing events is astonishing to contemplate, and
that in any other country in the world there
would have been grave trouble ere this.
We think that the calmness of the American
people in the midst of great extitement shows
conclusively the superiority of free over all oth
er kinds of government. The people of this
country know that even if they have to suffer
injustice it is but momentary, and that in a
short time they can rectify all wrongs at the
ballot-box. Under other forms of government
wrong can be made right by revolution alone.
What is there in the attitude of the Republic at
the present moment to dishearten the friends of
popular government throughout the world?
There is doubt in the minds of the best men as
to whom the people elected President. They
are trying to discover an honest and honorable
way out of tho difficulty—trying to discover the
right of the question. But whatever the decis
ion, they do not fear trouble. They know that
the American people have faith in the strength
of their free institutions, and that they will do
justice in the end, for tha citizens of the Re
public are the last Court of Besort, and the bal
lot-box their court-room. In other nations
great questions are settled by the bullet, while :
with us we settle them with the ballot. There I
is nothing in the present situation of American
affairs to cause the “ American Scholar ” or any
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JANUARY 7, 1877.
NOT WORTHY OF RECOMPENSE.
Ben. Hill comes in for the kind and courteous
consideration of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Aud
this because he dared to sneer at the men who
are “invincible in peace and invisible in war,”
to toll Fernando Wood that bo did not have a
“ comprehension of tho conservative power of a
ten-inch shell with the fuse in a state of combus
tion,” and to inform blustering demogogues at
the North that if they made war the war must
bo fought at the North, for the South had
enough of that sort of foolishness. The ma
jority of sensible people thought that Ben. Hill
talked pretty good sense. But not so the En
quirer, which goes for Mr. Hill in this stylo:
“ Ben. Hill has done nothing worthy of recom
pense at tho hands of the Democratic party. If
any party, the Republican party is under obli
gations to him, and should reward him. And
the Democratic party in no State can afford in
this hour to place a premium upon such a man
as Ben. Hill. If the Legislature of Georgia
would render a service to tho National Democ
racy, it will return some one to tbe United
States Senate whose name is not Ben. H; Hill.”
This simply means that the Legislature of
Georgia should punish Mr. Hill because he had
the audacity to speak the truth and cover such
valiant warriors as Fernando Wood with con
tempt. We think that Mr. Hill is entitled to
the thanks of all good citizens for stripping the
lion’s skin from the bellowing jackasses. Mr.
Hill, like the other Southerners who were led
into rebellion in 1861, does not forget the wordy
aid given to him by the Fernando Woods of the
North; nor can he sit by with patience andhear
the same men urging the country into another
war without expressing his scorn for them.
There is little likelihood that the advice of tbe
Enquirer will be taken by the Legislature of
Georgia. Mr. Hill proved his courage and the
honesty of his convictions by taking up arms in
defense of secession, and since he has been in
Congress be has shown himself an able debater
and independent thinker. It is possible that
Georgia could do better than send him to the
Senate; but, then, it is probable that she could
easily do worse, for she might send one who
would prove a mere tool in the hands of North
ern demagogues. .
ECONOMY, BITT NOT MEANNESS.
We aro somewhat astonished that tbe World
should object to aught done by Mr. Holman or
any other member of its party. But it does ob
ject to “paring down still further the salaries
of our diplomatic agents abroad.” It does not
believe in sending men abroad fb represent the
United States without giving them tbe means
of maintaining their position respectably
among their colleagues. In this we agree with
the World. So long as we -continue to have
ministers representing us in foreign lands, we
should pay them salaries on which they can live
in respectable style. We do not want to see the
representatives of the Republic compelled to
live in mean apartments, unable to give enter
tainments, or incapable of meeting the repre
sentatives of other nations on an equality.
There is such a thing as turning economy into
meanness, and though we favor all just economy
in municipality, state and nation, we decidedly
object to treating public servants as if they
wore unworthy of fair remuneration for their
labor. But in the present state of the world
we do not think that it is necessary for the
Government of the United States to send minis
ters to foreign nations. The means of commu
nication between nations are easy. The ocean
telegraph brings Europe right to our doors, and
the Secretary of State can perform by its means,
and by means of the ocean steamers, all the
duties which are now required by resident min
isters. In the early days of the Republic, and
until within a few years past, it was compulsory
upon the country to have ministers representing
us at the principal courts of Europe. That ne
cessity no longer existing, we are in hopes that
steps shall be' taken to do away with ministers
altogether. At present they are more expen
sive and ornamental, than useful servants, of the
Government. Of course, it will be necessary to
maintain consulates abroad,for the protection
of our commerce. But until such time as for
eign ministers are done away with, we would
not like to see their salaries so reduced that
they would appear in a shabby state of dilapi
dation before the representatives of smaller
Powers.
THE EUROPEAN “SICK KAN.” •
A telegram from London Informs us that the
English Government has received communica
tions from the Viceroy of India to the effect that
throughout the Mohammedan vassal States of
England petitions are being numerously signed
praying the Empress of India to sustain the
Sultan oi Turkey against Russia. It is also
stated that large sums of money are being sub
scribed by the Indian princes toward the mili
tary expenses of England in the event of a war
with Russia. Unless England is supported by
some other power, she can do little to check
the ambitious projects of the Czar. Russia has
everything prepared for a sudden attack upon
Turkey, and the provinces of Servia; Bulgaria
and Montenegro will vigorously assist in de
stroying the Ottoman’s power in Europe. It is
very doubtful, too, if England will go so far as
to lend the aid of her arms to the Turk. Judg
ing by the English press, and by the speeches
of such eminent leaders of public opinion as
Gladstone and Bright, the English people are
not in the humor to sustain a power which has
shown itself incapable of an enlightened policy,
which persecutes Christians in the most bar
barous manner, and which makes no progress
in civilization.
It looks to us as though the people of England
are convinced, with tbe rest of the world, that
the time has come to drive the Ottomans from
Europe, and to establish in Turkey a govern
ment more in consonance with the spirit of tbe
present time. The Turks do not belong to Eu
rope. Though the government has been estab
lished some six hundred years, it has never as
similated in sentiment with European ideas. It
is now what it was at the beginning, an unnat
ural excrescence in Europe. If Russia attacks
Turkey it will have the sympathy of the civil
ized world; not for itself, but against a semi
barbarous, persecuting, non-progressive power.
The best sentiment of England will bo with the
Czar, and the petition of the Indian Mohamme
dan princes and their offers of gold will have
but little effect. The “ Sick Man” is nigh unto
death, and there are few who will regret bis de
cease.
THE NEW DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.
The new Democratic doctrine that the House
of Representatives should be authorized to de
cide the Presidential election is utterly at
variance with all Democratic teachings, and it
would havo never found many adherents among
tne Democrats themselves if they did not hap
pen to have just now a large majority in the
lower branch of Congress. But success is every
thing in the eyes of that party, and principle
nothing. It clamors against Republican elec
tion frauds, and boldly applauds the Grover-
Cronin trick by which the will of the people of
Oregon is to be thwarted. It demands to be
treated by the Republicans with the utmost
fairness and forbearance, and treats them in
turn in the most proscriptive partisan spirit. If
the people of the United States have not about
enough of the Democratic party after the dis
play it has made of itself since the day of the
Presidentiel election, wo must be greatly mis
taken. At all events, the dignified, calm atti
tude observed by the vast majority of the Re
publicans presents a contrast anything but
favorable to their Democratic adversaries.
COMING TO THE SURFACE.
It is strange that so many ill-omened birds
who, in the crisis of 1861, played a conspicuous
part in opposition to the loyal cause, should at
the present juncture of our national affairs
•again come to. the surface. We do not allude
to Ben Hill, who seems to have learned wis
dom, nor to Wade Hampton, who has undoubt
edly learned wholesome respect for the great
Republican party which, no matter what Demo
cratic and Independent papers may say, em
braces the bulk of the intelligence, virtue, and
morality of the country. We refer to Wm. M.
Gwin, who, having been forgiven for the part he
i took in tho Rebellion, was audacious enough to
I try to falsify the vote of Oregon; and to Mr.
I Campbell, tho perjured and still unpardoned
1 member of the United States Supremo Court,
I who has the effrontery to come before the peo-
ple of America with an opinion as to how an
honest count of the Presidential election should
be secured. Judge Campbell may be a good
jurist, but it is difficult io see how decent peo
ple can havo any regard for what ha says.
Spying Into Telegrams.—We are op
posed to Congress, or any other power, having
the right to gobble up telegraphic correspond
ence and give it to public reading. A telegram
is in the nature of a letter, only the telegraph
is used as a more expeditious way of commu
nicating. But it seems there is no law protect
ing telegrams from spying eyes. no law which
surrounds them with tho same sacredness which
hedges letters. We think a law should at once
be passed making it an offense to disclose the
contents of a telegram, and we doub.t not but
that tho present discussion in Congress will re
sult in that; but it won’t be done just at pres
ent. If any political telegrams are to be given
to the Investigating Committee, we hope all
will be given up. We want the bottom facts.
If Mr. Chandler has been guilty of crooked
work, let tho country know it. So, also, with
Mr. Hewitt. Tho public are opposed to having
letters or telegrams interfered with, but thev,
at tbe same time, feel anxious to know how the
“ machine ” is run. Lot the whole truth come
out.
Cox in Philadelphia.—Mr. Sunset
Cox, it appears, was not satisfied with the ri
diculous role which ho played in this city as
Chairman of the Election Fraud Committee.
He has now been performing at the Continental
Hotel, Philadelphia, where, after threatening to
■ do all he could about ferreting out the election
frauds that had been committed in that city, he
ran away to Washington, and left Mr. Rice, of
Ohio, in charge of the Committee. This com
mittee employs no less than forty messengers
at a large expense, and, as it is well understood
that the whole investigation is not meant seri
ously, it strikes us that the party of reform and
economy should not spend so much of the peo
ple’s money. We said, immediately after Mr.
Cox had been appointed chairman of that com
mittee, that he would make a fool of himself.
He has verified our prediction.
A Benevolent Undertaking.—Among
the prisoners in the Penitentiary on Blackwell’s
Island is the unfortunate Caroline Blank, the
Viennese girl, whom a scoundrel named Aloy
sius Hammer ruined, and then involved in a
fraudulent transaction, of the character of which
she had no idea until she was found guilty of
felony and sentenced to three years’ imprison
ment at hard labor. Mrs. John Bigelow has
made it her special task to secure the release of
this unfortunate girl, who, in a foreign coun
try, as those who know all the circumstances
connected with her case are convinced, finds
herself subjected to galling and utterly unde
served humiliations. Mrs. Bigelow has also
secured evidence satisfying her that Henry
Engelmann, sentenced to Sing Sing for a long
term of years, is innocent, and has made an
urgent application for his release.
The Presidential Question Settled.
—Tilden is elected. There can be no further
doubt on this head, for hasn’t the Democratic
Committee of Maine proved it—by resolution ?
Congress should at onco dismiss its commit
tees from further consideration of the matter,
and the Vice-President should give himself no
further trouble about the electoral vote. The
Democratic Committee of Maine have expedi
tiously settled a very knotty question, and re
lieved the entire country of all apprehension as
to the future of the Republic. Wo sincerely
thank the Democratic Committee of Maine, and
hope their shadows will never grow loss—than
those of the “Three Tailors of Tooley street.”
Exit Butenschobn.—Next to Clamor
ous Klamroth and the great jurist, Otterbourg,
Mr. Nick Butenschoen, a three-thousand-dollar
official under Controller Green, was envied most
by all German office-seekers who swear by
Oswald Ottendorfer. Alas 1 A few days ago
Controller Kelly asked Butenschoen to resign,
which he had to do. He is a good Plattdeutscher
poet, and will now act, in that sweet and
euphonic language, as Ottendorfer’s Homer.
The eulogy on the publisher of the Staats-Zei
tung, which the discharged poet will write in the
idiom of Fritz Reuter, will be eagerly expected
by all who believe in his genius and in the
greatness of Oswald Ottendorfer.
Crazy Again.—Ottendorfer has one of
his crazy spells again. He abuses the Republi
cans once more with a virulence that would be
amusing but for tbe fact that a great many
German voters that read no other paper but the
Staats Zeitung, religiously believe every word
which that arrant demagogue publishes. Not
a day passes by but the Staats Zeitung coins
fresh falsehoods about Governor Hayes, whose
noble conduct and dignified bearing under the
most trying circumstances should entitle him
to the respect and admiration of all decent
men. Still Ottendorfer abuses this good and
pure statesman every day as if he were fit only
for the gallows.
The Bennett-May Bow. —The Bennett-
May pugilistic encounter has created consider
able talk during the past week, and much of it
has been unfavorable to Mr. Bennett. Knowing
nothing of the origin of the quarrel, the public
should not be hasty in its condemnation of Mr.
Bennett. If the quarrel had its origin, as some
of the daily papers state, in Mr. Bennett’s
treatment of a near female relative of Mr. May,
we think that gentleman would have shown
greater regard for his sister in avoiding any
public scandal. If what is said about Mr. Ben
nett is true, we think the lady who escapes
marrying him is to be congratulated.
Senator Logan’s Successor.—Senator
Logan has been renominated by the Republi
cans of the Illinois Legislature, There are a
number of “ Independent ” members in the
Legislature, and their votes are likely to decide
the question of the Senatorship. At present
they do not favor Mr. Logan. Should the Sen
ator find that he cannot obtain sufficient votes
to be elected, it is • stated, he will decline the
candidacy in favor of some stronger Republi
can. It is possible that Minister Washburne
may be the successor of Logan. It would be
difficult for Illinoisjto make a better choice.
Once More.—Wo urge the Police
Justices once more to sit every day alternately.
The scenes presented at the District Courts
during the recent cold weather were sufficiently
distressing to show tho urgent necessity of
such a measure. Some of the Justices devote
barely a couple of hours to their official duties,
and, in consequence, the examination of many
prisoners is carried on in an exceedingly super
ficial and bungling manner. Cases of gross in
justice are thus frequently committed because
the Judges are in such an unseemly hurry to
get off the bench.
The Special Election.—The result of
the special election in the Seventh Congression
al District was a foregone conclusion, but the
Tammany leaders there spared no efforts to get
out as large a vote as possible. Under the cir
cumstances Mr. David Dudley Field received a
surprisingly small vote. Had the Republicans
nominated an able and popular man against
him, he might have been defeated; but Messrs.
Patterson and John J. O’Brien, in neglecting to
seize the opportunity, showed,once more the
incapacity and inefficiency of their leadership.
Oub Sidewalks. — Property owners
should certainly be compelled to throw ashes
upon the slippery and dangerous sidewalks.
During the whole of last week innumerable
casualties, and not a few of a very dangerous
and distressing character, were caused by
the slippery sidewalks, and it strikes us that
the police should rigidly enforce the city ordi
nances in this respect.
The Truant Agents.—ls it not about
time that the Truant Agents should do their
duty ? Most of the schools on the east side are
only half full, the children play in the streets,
and the Truant Agents draw their salary. Will
not the Board of Education at length make
these officials do tlioir duty ?
It may be that the clean crossing Bald-
I win keeps in front of the famous north-east
corner of Canal street 'and Broadway helps
some. The fact is, however, that throngs of
people cross over and go into the great retail
ware-rooms as they' did when trade was at full
tide before tho holidays.
Wife and (W&
SAD IS THE LIFE OF THE GENIUS.
The Dispatch minstrels hasn’t been well re
cently. The distracted state of tbe country has
worked upon his sensitive soul, and he hasn’t
played upon the banjo since November 7th.
But he has occasionally taken up tho bassoon,
and through it given vent to the agony which
has riven his heart-strings. But the other
night, when he was playing in his most doleful
strain upon the instrument, a stranger camo
that way. He stood astounded.
“ Great Heaven!” he cried, “there must be
some fearful crime being perpetrated in that
house. Police! Police!”
In an instant a policeman was at his elbow.
“ Wbat’s the matter ?” he inquired.
“Don’t you hear those shrieks, and howls,
and screams ? There must boa horrible mur
der being committed there,” answered tbe
stranger.
“ Don’t I hear them ? You don’t think I’m
deaf as the dead, do you? Why, that infernal
racket would make a wooden Indian run away 1
That noise you hear is a lunatic, who thinks
he’s a musician, playing on the bassoon.”
“Playing? And do the people around this
neighborhood stand such an infernal nuisance ?
It’s enough to drive any one to insanity,” said
the stranger.
“ Well, st ranger,” answered tho policeman,
“ there ain’t many neighbors around here now.
There used to boa good many, but his music
has killed them pretty nearly all off. I tell you
what, if I was a coroner, I’d pension that in
fatuated galoot. He’s tho best friend any coro
ner ever had. I ain’t been on this post long,
but if I’m Kept here I’ll do something that’ll
make the Commissioners break me,” and tho
policeman began examining his revolver.
“I’m blowed,” said the stranger, as he hur
ried away, “if I wouldn’t sooner be sent to
Siberia, or condemned to the mines of Peru,
or locked up in a house with the mothers of
my three wives, than be compelled to listen to
such an infernal racket and horrible discord.”
And it is ever thus that the youth of genius
and of sensitive soul is spoken of by a cold, un
feeling, selfish world. Sad, indeed, is tho
life of the gifted, but sadder still is that of
those who live in their vicinity.
A FUNERAL PROCESSION.
. Gaily tho bells jingled. But that was about
the only gayety there was connected with that
sleigh ride. The horse was of the gallant
breed which needs a baystack in front of him
to induce him to beat a turtle in rapidity of
motion. His ribs were his most noticeable fea
ture. If it is true that a “ lean horse is best
for a long race ” that horse ought to have been
entered for a race extending from New York to
San Francisco. And the sleigh was not a gor
geous concern, but it was comfortable. Those
sitting in it could stick their feet through the
bottom and aid that noble steed In propelling
it. But a sad mishap befell the sleigh. When
it was dashing around the corner of a street—
going at the furious rate of two miles a week—
it came in collision with another sleigh. The
other sleigh wasn’t hurt. But the comfortable
sleigh was knocked into kindling wood. The
gallant steed didn’t run away. He was too
well trained an animal, and considerably too
weak.
He stood and looked on, and seemed to con
template the destruction with pleasure, and
waiting to ask what was next on tho programme.
The men who had been “ out on a lark ” hunted
up a cart, picked up the pieces—small pieces—
and were about driving off;' when an on-looker
on the sidewalk asked:
“Was that a sleighing party, an enjoyment
of the holiday season, a gay and festive gather
ing of congenial, jolly fellows ?”
“A sleighing h—l,” replied one of the party.
“Not much. We were going to this old hack’s
funeral, and he was pulling us, the innocent old
boneyard.”
“Well, then, old fellow,” said the on-looker,
“if you want to ever get him to that graveyard
you'd better hoist him on the cart along with
the rest of the fragments. He won’t add much
to the weight of the freight.”
DOM PEDRO TURNS UP.
A straw shows which way the wind blows.
One blew down Frankfort street on Saturday.
The straw this time was a straw bonnet. Every
body but the lady who was chasing it looked
pleased. She didn’t. Her face wore a severe
smile as she scooted along after the bonnet.
Then the boot-blacks joined in tho hunt, and they
cheered the bonnet as it sailed under carts,
hopped over snow-banks, piroutted around a
lamp-post, and waltzed over a stoop. Then
sympathetic men entered into the hunt, and
one daring gentleman, with gray hair and a
cotton umbrella, succeeded in planting his foot
on it, and held his foot—and it wasn’t a diminu
tive one, either—on the hat till he stooped down
and picked it up. Then he marched up grace
fully, and with a Chesterfieldian bow and a mit
tened hand, presented the bonnet to its fair
but not smiling owner. She yanked it out of
his hand, and giving him a freezing look, said:
“I don’t thank you one bit for putting your
clumsy foot on it. ”
“My dear madam,” said the restorer of the
bonnet, “I don’t ask for thanks. I’m the re
storer of the lost, the searcher for the hidden,
the seeker for the astray.”
“ You’re a blamed old fool, that’s what you
are,” answered the lady, as she shook and
punched the bonnet.
“You’re mistaken, madam,” said the man.
“TH tell you a secret. I’m Dom Pedro. I left
Kamsehatka last night, and, thank Heaven, I
was in time to catch your bonnet. Adieu, sweet
one. I’ve an engagement with the king of
Abyssinia to-morrow.”
And then he floated away. If that lady had
been given to profanity, Dom Pedro would have
had a whole park of artillery of cuss words
fired at him. As it was, no dictionary could do
full justice to the look she cast after him.
SMALL CHANGE.
This is poor weather to go serenading.
You see, the old man can stand at the window
and pelt you with hunks of ice, and laugh at
you behind the blinds, while his daughter, the
one you went to serenade, is trying to thaw
out her nose by the heat of a kerosene lamp in
the back room. The only way to get square
with the old man is to take an accordeon along
with you. Once you awake him from his slum
bers by your howling, you can keep him awake
all night with the accordeon. But this is some
times dangerous, for there are people who would
kill an accordeon player as ruthlessly as they
would a bed-bug—and, wo think, as justifiably,
too.
The holiday season generally opens the
hearts of even the most stingy, and they make
presents and give to charitable institutions.
Luch an effect had the holiday season on one
rich elderly gentleman of Lexington avenue
that he sent to a society for the prevention of
pauperism an old pair of spectacles with iron
case. He also sent a request that his name
shouldn’t be published in the list of donors to
tho institution. Such modesty is refreshing in
tnis vain and egotistical age.
The Summer morn, when the sunlight
first touches the mountain and glorifies it with
the splendor of his sheen, is a picture which
painters have thousands of times put on can
vas and poets millions of . times have raved
over, yet what is it to be compared to the
countenance of the man who falls upon the
snow when he is promenading with the loved
one, and discovers that the white stuff he saw
between his legs as he was getting up was only
snow after all.
A clergyman up in Sullivan county re
ceived twenty-tour pairs of worked slippers,
seventy pen-wipers, one hundred and six book
marks, and one hundred and fifty-three ink
stands, and still he is not happy. “ Why in
thunder don’t they pay me my salary, or send it
in beef and potatoes ?” is what he said. Even
clergymen are sometimes devoid of sentiment,
and appreciate pork and beans more than they
, do wetv aud book-mam.
I A fascinating and wealthy widow of
Washington has got marriod to a young man
and setiled upon him an income of $12,000 a
I year. The Dispatch minstrels says he would
navo married her for half the money, and sup
plied all music gratis for her parties. And-ths
few inhabitants left in the Second Ward would
not have been inconsolable if he had been re
moved to a richer sphere in life and a greater
distance from them.
A Western editor speaks of a cotem
porary as the “ limping son of Beelzebub—the
rotten-hearted scavenger of the low-down dog
geries—the purple-nosed swillor of pure ben
zine—the carrotty-headed defamer of the dead,
and the nauseating flatterer of the living. A
fellow that a turkey-buzzard would run away
from.” And we think it a very handsome com
pliment, presented in strong and graphic lan
guage.
Burdette, of the Burlington Hawk-
Eye, and the cleverest funny man of them all,
is soon to go lecturing. He goes into it as a
penance. He once pain his board bill, and his
soul has been racked with remorse ever since.
He wants to see the rest of the world as wretch
ed as himself. That’s the way with all human
ity. When a fellow has the bellyache he wants
the rest of the world to howl.
The wife who furnishes her husband
with ideas isn’t the lady who resides in Dean
street, Brooklyn. About the only thing that
lady furnishes her husband with is a sore head.
But men who have wives they love shouldn’t
cherish them with the remark that “ a blind
old mule would know better than to say that a
balloon is a new kind of hoop skirt.”
It is not necessary when you attend
a theatre to think that the people present are
more interested in your talk than they are in
the play. This is a pleasant but mistaken illu
sion. And you needn’t wait to discover the
fact until somebody shouts: “ Bun an umbrella
down that fellow’s throat and open it. Do any
thing to stop up his mouth.”
“Why is it,” asks a clerical writer,
“that whites do not increase in numbers in
Africa?” Even the missionaries do not live
to an advanced age there.” Probably it is
owing to the fact that the missionaries don’t
eat the Africans while the Africans cfo cat the
missionaries.
We beg leave to inform our readers
that poems on the closing of the old and the
opening of the new year are no longer in order.
But a few about George Washington would be
acceptable. Our devil owns a very large bag.
And rejected poetry is his chief perquisite.
The days begin to lengthen and the
lower end of ulsters begin to look as though
they could lose a yard without hurting their ap
pearance. An ulster that’s traveled through
two months’ mud hasn’t the appearance of hav
ing a millionaire for an owner.
A. M. Brown: You are entirely mis
taken. “The sheeny Summer morn” has no
particular reference to the opening of Jewish
holidays. “Sheeny,” in this case, moans—but
look at the dictionary for yourself.
The season is now at hand when a poli
tician can think of the Father of his Country,
and praise him, and glorify him, and shout
about his honesty, and then exclaim : “ Our
candidate's elected any how 1” x
Another Indian has gone to the happy
hunting grounds. He belonged to the Wooden
Heads. He had long done faithful duty in front
of a Bowery cigar store. Like Baron Palm, ho
was cremated.
Says a cotemporary: “There is a lady
in San Francisco.” Is it possible ? We thought,
from the number of divorces which take place,
that there were only females and Chinawomen
out there.
“ The honest trustee ” is the noblest
work of God, but he doesn’t seem to be very
largely represented in this neighborhood at
present.
The rage for imported German hares
has caused a scarcity of cats in German locali
ties in this city.
World M
DRAMATIC.
Eagle Theatre.—Mr. Hart’s New Year
pantomime is a most acceptable production, and
one that the public can scarcely fail to appreciate.
It is called “Santa Claus; or, Harlequin Bob
Cratchet' and Ding Dong Bell,” and is founded on
Charles Dickens’ “Christmas Carol.” Unlike the
general run of English pantomimes, which consist
of an opening burlesque, generally in bad rhyme
and deficient metre, with a harlequinade tacked on,
the opening of the Eagle one is in sensible prose,
and the story is simply and effectively told. Its
manner of presentation could not easily be sur
passed, as the scenery is beautiful in the extreme
and the effects striking beyond measure. There
are seven serious and three comic scenes, beside
two gorgeous transformation ones. The artistfe are
Messrs. Charles Graham, Ben Day, and Smith, and
they have reason to be proud of their work. “ The
Crystal Grotto” is an exquisitely beautifully con
trived and admirably executed stage picture, and
the final transformation view, entitled “The Sea
sons,” will rival in elegance of design and artistic
finish of execution, anything yet seen in New York.
The acting in the opening is worthy of Wallack’s
Theatre. Mr. Robert Johnston’s Scrooge was more
than good. He both looked and acted the part
faithfully, and gave to it a Dickensish tint of which
not many actors are capable. The great Boz’s char
acters are seldom faithfully portrayed on the stage.
We can pay Mr. Johnson the compliment of saying
that he gave a correct picture of one. Mr. John
Wild’s Bob Cratchit was also a performance of rare
merit. John Wild is, without exception, the most
versatile comedian on the New York stage. What
ever he does is sure to be done well. He is natu
rally full of humor, he works assiduously, sticks to
his lines, and gives them full expression. He is a
master of stage business, and would occupy on the
regular stage, should his inclinations lead him
there, the position of a Burton or a Burke. James
Bradley plays the small part of Big Ban, and much
of what we have said of Mr. Wild also applies to
him. No part is small with this clever young actor.
Give him a small part in a burlesque sketch and
he will imbue it with the importance of a
title role. A short experience in a comedy company
would make a great comedian of James Bradley.
Mr. D. Kelly was Santa Claus to the very letter, and
Miss Lizzie Kelsey was a decidedly beautiful cud
realistic Fairy Christmas. Thus much of the leading
dramatic characters in the cas*, and if our language
savors somewhat of extravagant praise, our justifi
cation lies in truth and honesty. Of the princi
pal characters in the harlequinade we cannot sneak
so favorably. It is said that it takes a wise man to
play the fool, but Mr. Sheldon gives the lie to this
assertion. He does all his acting with his mouth,
but, fortunately, he has not occasion to say any
thing. If Mr.' Sheldon played pantomime all the
year round, we could tolerate him: otherwise, it is
difficult to do so. Mr. Lewis is a vile Pantaloon, and
Young America is a rather insipid and Falstaffian
Harlequin. Miss Gorenflo makes a graceful Colum
bine, and Master Martin does some very clever
pantomime business as • Mungo, the monkey.
Incidental to the piece, Mr. J. W. McKee sang
'what are on the programme as comic songs.
He is the most funereal comic singer we ever list
ened to. Jenny Hughes and Jobny Wild were deser
vedly honored with enthusiastic applause for their
excellent comic duets, Miss Hughes also showing
what a graceful dancer she is as well as a pleasing
vocalist. Messrs. Richmond, Wild, Bradley and
Sheldon wore also very funny as the Crazy Quartette.
Our advice to all in regard to Mr. Hart’s beautiful
and most enjoyable holiday pantomime is go, see
and enjoy it. Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
■ Niblo’s Garden.—The beautiful spec
taele of “Azurine” has been played to. good au
diences since our last, and the Kiralfy brothers
have met with their full share of public favor since
their return to New York. The balleta led by Mlles.
Rosa, Gaugain and Letourneur, each of whom excels
as a premiere, are highly effective and greatly ad
mired; there is some very pretty music running
through the piece which is cleverly rendered, and
the acting generally is very good. The burden of it
falls upon Miss Florence Ellis, Miss Blanche Mor
timer and Miss Marion Fiske, and Messrs. W. H.
Lytell, W. H. Fitzgerald and H. W. Ellis. The
scenery is very beautiful, the groupings character
istically tasteful, and the stage management perfect
to a commendable degree. The Messrs. Kiralfy
contemplate producing in rapid succession a series 1
of spectacular pieces, among which are “Around the
World in Eighty Days,” “A Trip to the Mbon’*
(spectacular opera-bouffe, music by Offenbach), “ .fhe
Lucky Star,” and others. “Azurine” will be given
every evening during the present vyeck a/jd at a
i roatineo an Staiurdav.
Grand Opera-House. —B/ amvuge--
ment with Mr. Augustin Daly, that gofiV&sn-.an’s play
of “Under,the Gaslight” was prodn<ws Kt Messrs,
Poole and Donelly’s beautiful thettri during the
week, with members of the Fifth Aveftte Theatre
company in the cast. Literary merit'jthe play has
not. Its original success was due to the introduc
tion of the locomotive effect—an effect that had
already been introduced to the stage when Augustin
Daly was in his swaddling clothes. If at all born.
The characters are caricatures; the language is in
sipid; the plot is far from probable.
ism is all that the play has to depend on, and in this
respect it is assuredly exciting enough. It was well
acted at the Grand Opera-House. Mr. D. H. Harkins
was the best Snorkey wfe have yet seen; Mr. Lamb,
who has no superior on our stage as a low comedian,
played Bermudas ; Miss Mary Wells was intensely
natural and consequently disagreeable as Old Judas;
and Mr. De Vere, whom we are glad to see back in
bis proper place, made an excellent Byktr- Miss May
Nunez, ag Laura Courtlandt, convinced us that the
lady has superior dramatic abilities, which proper
opportunity cannot fail to make prominent; and the
remaining ladies and gentlemen accomplished tho
by no means easy task, all things considered, of
rendering their parts endurably.
During the present week, Mr. Daly’s best play,
“Divorce,” will be revived, with the leading mem
bers of the original cast in their old parts.
This evening, another sacred concert will be given
by Slavin’s Georgia Jubilee Singers. Matinee on
Saturday.
Union Square Theatre.—Miss Clara,
Morris bad recovered sufficiently to appear again
during the week, and her beautiful and touching
Impersonation of Miss Multon in the play of that
name brought tears to the eyes of most who wit
nessed it. In emotional parts such as this Miss
Morris is unapproachable. There is no lady on the
American or English stage who can be compared to
her, and we question if even in France, the home
of emotional drama, her equal can be found. The
cast also includes such famous names as those of
Messrs. Stoddart, Parselie, and O’Neil/ and Mrs.
Marie Wilkins, Miss Sara Jewett and Miss Bijou
Heron. • Mr. A. R. Cauzaran, the adapter of the play,
has accomplished the rare task of having improved
upon the French original of Nus and Belot, a task
which but few English writers can boast of, and
we are indebted to him for a play as charming in
itself as it is charmingly acted. “Led Astray” was
played last night for the last time this season.
“Miss Multon” will be played’ on every night of
this week excepting Saturday, but at a matinee on
that day. A special performance will be given on
Saturday evening.
Wallack’s Theatre.—“ The Shaugh
ran ” was played last night for the last time, and Mr.
Boucicault’s engagement terminated with that per
formance. On to-morrow evening will be revived tho
immensely successful comic drama “Forbidan
Fruit,” with which such a hit was made in the com
mencement season. The cast of the princi
pal characters will be the same as formerly, engag
ing Messrs. Montague, 'Beckett, Arnott and Shan
non, and Mme. Ponisi, Miss Ada Dyas, and Miss
Effie Germon. Mr. E. M. Holland will take tho
place of Mr. W. Herbert, and Mr. Joseph Curran
will make his first appearance in several seasons.
“Forbidden Fruit” will only be played for two
weeks, as on Monday, Jan. 22, Merrivale and Simp
son’s “All For Her,” will be produced with Mr.
Lester Wallack as Hugh Trevor. Matinee of “ For
bidden Fruit ” on Saturday.
Booth’s Theatre.—There is and can
bo but one opinion in regard to Mr. W. S. Gilbert’s
new play, “ Dan’l Drue?,” and that opin-ion is in
every respect a remarkably praiseful one. We have
had no play in a long time combining so many good
qualities, and so few faults, even of construction,
as its only faults are. It is pure, healthy and com
mendable in tone, quite within the range of human
probabilities, fall of beautiful sentiments, .and it
appeals to those with the keenest and most refined
feelings for everything loveable. Mr. Barrett has
already greatly improved on his first night’s per
formance of Dan’l Druce, and now gives us a picture
worthy of his own and of the author’s abilities. Mr.
F. B. Warde has played parts in which he had better
opportunities of exhibiting his admirable skill and
strength as an actor, but as the manly young sailor,
.Geoffrey Wynyard, he does himself, perhaps, greater
credit than in more ambitious parts, illustrating, as
he does, how much a truly conscientious artist can
make even out of little. Mr. Jennings, one of our
best charactor actors, has greatly perfected
his creation of the garrulous dragoon, and
Mr. V. . E. Sheridan, whom we have never known to
d ) anything that was not artistic, distinguishes
himself h ore than ever in a part the requirements
of which could only be filled by a refined, studious,
and gentlemanly actor. Miss Minnie Palmer has
conquered even”the sycophantic scribblers who look
upon youth and beauty, when combined with un
questionable talent, as something to be condemned,
and has already created an impression that, if sus
tained—as we doubt not it will be by subsequent
performances—will give her a place among the
brightest of young American actresses. The little
lady, in her acting, gives evidence of feeling, as she
undoubtedly understands, every attribute of tho
Heaven-sent substitute for the miser’s gold, and a
more charming or more perfectly formed creation
of the character ot Dorothy we do not think could ba
afforded than that given by her. Had W. S. Gilbert
written no other work than “Dan’l Druce,” it
w’ould obtain lor him the name of being a genuine
benefactor of the English-speaking stage. It is
such works as this one that wo must look to as a
means of purifying and elevating that which French
obscenity and society trash has done much to de
grade. To those who have not yet sean “Dan’l
Druce” we can promise a wholesome dramatic
treat, such as is only given at long intervals. It
will bo repeated on every evening of the present
week and at a matinee on Saturday.
Fifth Avenub Theatre. —The present
will be the last week of “ The American ” at the
Fifth Avenue Theatre, and those who wish to see a
highly artistic creation will find it either in Mr.
Coghlan’s Duke or Miss Lewis’ Mrs. Clarkson. We
would suggest to Mr. Daly, if hs is amenable to sug
gestions, the expunging of some very offensive lines
allotted to Mr. Lewis in regard to the counting in of
a President. The stage of a theatre is not an appro
priate place for disagreeable political remarks.
“ The American ” will be played every evening of
this week excepting Saturday, on that day “The
Lady of Lyons ” will be played, afternoon and even
ing, with Mr. Coghlan as Claude Melnolte, and Mis a
Davenport as Pauline. On the following Monday a
new comic sensation, called “ Lemons; or, Wedlock
lor Seven/’ will be produced.
Lyceum Theatre. —J olm Howard
Payne’s tragedy, “ Brutus; or, The Fall of Tarquin,”
was played at the Lyceum Theatre last week. It is
a gloomy, undramatic,- and consequently uninter
esting work, and we are neither surprised at the in
frequency of its representation nor its failure when
represented, to either amuse or inspire ordinary
audiences. Mr. Booth, however, has evidently a *
weakness for the part of Brvdv.s, and it must be
said that be far excels the author in tho fullness and
.brilliancy of his conception of it. The assumed
idiocy, genuine patriotism, ardent desire for Roman »
freedom, and Spartan heroism in the administration
of justice, are pictured by our eminent tragedian as
only a great dramatic genius could* picture them.
His acting is full of pathos, and in certain points he
rises to a hight of terrible grandeur that is all the
more effective in its freedom from a staginess
which the author leaves almost' unavoidable. We
like Mr. Booth’s acting of Brutus; we can scarcely
tolerate Mr. Payne’s tragedy of the same name.
Mr. Frank Pierce’s Valerius was a notably fine per
formance. Mr. Robinson’s Titus did not impress us
favorably, and the general representation was one
not-calling for special praise. “Much Ado About
Nothing” was played at the matinee yesterday.
During the present week “King Lear” will ba
played, with Mr. Edwin Booth as King Lear; Mr.
Frederick Robinson as Edgar; Mr. J. M. Hardie as
Edmund; Mr. Milnes Levick as Kent, Mr. Frank
Pierce as Glost'er; Mrs. Clara Jennings as Cordelia’,
Miss Jennie Carroll as Goneril; and Miss Alice Brooks
as Regan.
Tony Pastor’s New Theatre.—Miss
Kitty O’Neil, the most popular and pleasing of jig- •
I dancers, reappeared on New Year’s Day, as did also
Harry and John Kornell, vocalists, humorists and
Irish comedians. The Austin brothers also re
i turned, as did Baby Bindley, Tony Pastor, Gus Wil
liams, Frank Girard, and the entire company made
the initial programme of the new year one to be re
membered. Tony has another budget of new songs,
and if his admirers had their way he- would himself
occupy the stage all the evening. Gus Williams grows
more and mote genial and entertaining with every
appearance, and is certainly one of the brightest
luminaries in his profession.
' Gilmore’s Garden. — The Wintei
equestrian games, given here nightly under the di
rection of Messrs. J. D. Walton and Dan Muco,
have proven rarely satisfactory to the layers of
sport, and are maintained in a manner that ensure*
wholesome excitement and amusement. During tho
week there have been trotting matches,, fast racing,,
ladies Roman Chariot races, steeple-chasing, match
running* expositions of horsemanship by tho Cali- t
fornian, Neil Mory, and the Mexican, Carillo; stand
ing and mule races, and equestrian sports of every
kind. These exciting contests will be maintained
i every evening at the Garden, whero three hours of .
j unalloyed excitement and pleasure can at auy