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fISOTTCB.—For want ot space, many questions received
remain unanswered for some time. Each query, if legiti
mate, will, in its turn, receive proper attention. We must
request our correspondents to write plainly and state their
wishes concisely, it they would receive concise answers.
Many notes that are received are so nearly illegible that
they find their wav at once to the waste-basket. 1
A. J. and H. H.—lst. Your bill of the
National Theatre (Purdy’B management), Mr. J. B.
Booth as King Lear, is for Thursday, August 14th,
1851. 2d. Your bill of same theatre for Monday,
Nov. 25th, 1850, with first appearance of Mr. Lafay
ette Fox a? Christopher Strap is correct. 3d. It was
d. L. Fox, afterward the famous Clown. 4th.
Miss Malvina is Mrs. W. J. Florence, her maiden
name being Malvina Pray. stb. Yes it was the now
famous Rip Van Winkle, Mr. Joseph Jefferson, and
Miss Lockyer was his first whe. 6th. No, the Ham
ilton referred to was W. H. Hamilton, who on Feb.
20, 1854, killed H. E. Stevens, stage manager of the
Bowery Theatre, in a wrestling match. He poisoned
himself in San i'rancisco on March 23, 1861. 7th.
The lady was Melinda Jones, the wife of the person
now calling himself the “Count Joannes.” She
died in this city about two years ago. Bth. Your bill
of the same theatre, “Linda, the Pearl of Cham
ounix,” is for Thursday, Dec. 6th, 1849, benefit of
Mrs. D. P. Bowers, formerly Miss Crocker. 9th.
The young lady (her first appearance on any stage),
as Mrs. Milford, was Miss Sarah E. Crocker, after
ward Mrs. F. B. Conway, sister ot Mrs. Bowers, and
now dead. 10th. Bowery Theatre, fourth weak of
“Undo Tom’s Cabin.” (T. D. Bice), Is for Monday,
Feb. 6th, 1854. 11th. Bowery Theatre, ‘‘Last Days
of Pompeii,” J. B. Scott as Arbaccs is for Wednes
day, Nov. 27th, 1844. 12th. Laura Keene’s Theatre,
first night of “Colleen Bawn,” Thursday, March
29ch, 1869. 13tb. St. Charles Theatre, Bowery, near
Chatham Square, “Pirate Doctor,” burlesque of
“ Macbeth” and “Lottery Ticket,” Tuesday, Mar
10, 1353. 14th. Same theatre, fourth week of J. IL
Scott, “Evelyn Wilson,” and “Ugoiiao,” Thursday
evening, April 7th, 1853. 15th. Same theatre,
•‘Spectre Bridegroom,” “Captain Charlotte,” and
“Irish Lion,” Wednesday, June Stu, 1853. 16th.
Bowery Theatre, “Ugolino,” “The Crew of the
Fiend,” and “Joe in London,” Monday, Dec. 30ta,
1850. 17th. The manager at this period was Mr.
Thomas Hamb in.
G. P. E.—lst. Yes, yojr bill is of the
original version of G-. L. Aiken’s version of “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin,” at the National Theatre. A version
by C. W. Taylor was produced at Purdy’s National
Theatre, in Chatham street, early in 1852, but had
no success. Aikens’ version was produced at the
same house on July 18th, 1853. It ran for more
than two hundred nights, afternoon performances
being also imperatively demanded for many weeks.
Another version was produced at the Bowery Thea
tre in January, 1854, and ran for several weeks, T. D.
Bice being the Uncle Tom and Miss Gertrude Dawes
the Tcpsy. 2d. Your bill of the Academy oi Music,
Mme. De La Grange as Fides in “The Prophet,” is
for Friday, November 9th, 1855. 3d. The bill of the
Broadway Theatre, first benefit of Miss Agnes Rob
ertson and first appearance in New York of Mr.
Dion Boucicault, “Andy Blake,” “Used Up” and
“The Young Actress,” is to be dated Friday, No
vember 10th, 1854. Mr. Boucicault played Nir CJiarZcj
Coldstream. He disavowed any claim to being an
actor, and alleged that ho only played from a de-
Bire to have the author in his own play, a statement
■which shows that he was quite as modest tw-euty
lour years ago as he is to-day. 4th. Broadway The
atre, “The Jealous Wife,” Miss Julia Dean as Mrs.
Cokley and “Dominique the Possessed,” is for Mon
day, April 17th, 1854. sth. Metropolitan Theatre,
Misa Julia Dean in “Tortesa the Usurer,” and
•«. Morning Call,” Wednesday, November 15th, 1854.
6th. Wallack’s Theatre, “Lavater; or, Not a Bad
Judge,” and “Asmodeus,” with second appearance
in America of Miss Georgina Hodson, is xor Tues
day, October 23d, 1855. 7th. Wallack’s Theatre, “A
Bold Stroke for a Husband” and “No. 1 Round the
Corner,” Thursday, April 20th, 1854. Bth. Same
theatre, “The Brigand,” “Two Can Play at that
Game,” and “The Windmill,” Thursday, November
2d, 1854. 9th. “London Assurance” and “Out on
the Loose, Friday, November 17th, 1851. We have
still one to date for you.
Anti-Czab. —In round numbers an En
glish Army Corps contains, when all its several parts
are placed on their full war establishment, very
nearly 37.0G0 men of ad ranks. Of those, in round
numbers again, 5,000 officers and men bolong to the
medical, commissariat and administrative depart
ments, leaving 32,000 of all ranks belonging to the
infantry, cavalry, artillery and engineers. There are
three divisions of infantry, a brigade of cavalry, a
force of artillery, distinguished as the “Corps Ar
tillery,” and a complement of engineers. Each di
vision of infantry also comprises a force of artillery
and cavalry, as well as foot soldiers. To give its
composition more in detail, it consists of two bri
gades of infantry, each brigade comprising threa
battalions, a batallion oi rifles, a regiment of caval
ry, three batteries of field artillery, a company of
engineers, a troop of military police, and an amuni
tion reserve column. The cavalry brigade consists
of three regiments of cavalry and a battery of horse
artillery. The corps artillery comprises throe bat
teries of horse artillery and two batteries oi field
artillery, beside an ammunition reserve column.
Altogether, therefore, an army corps includes twen
ty-one battalions of infantry, or, in round numbers,
21,000 bayonets; six regiments of cavalry, or 3,000
sabres; and fifteen batteries of artillery, or ninety
guns.
Storms. —Wo cannot account for the
lack of lustre in your blacking other than that the
ingredients were not properly mixed. Wq submit
to you the following: Ist. Molasses, one pound;
ivory black, a pound and a quarter; sweet oil, two
ounces; mix well and then and a little lemon juice
or strong vinegar. 2d. Ivory black, one ounce and
a half; molasses, an ounce and a half; sperm oil,
three drachms; strong oil of vitrol, three draenms;
vinegar, halt a pint; mix the ivory black, molasses i
and vinegar, then mix the sperm oil and oil of vitriol
separately, and add them to the other mixture. 3d.
This recipe is said to produce a superior article of
shoe blacking: From throe to four pounds of lamp
black and a half pound of bone black are well mixed
with five pounds of glycerine and treacle. Mean
while two and a half ounces of gutta percha are
cautiously fused in an iron or copper saoce-pan, and
ten ounces of olivo’oil added with continual stirring,
and afterward one ounce of stearine. The warm
mess is added to the former mixture, and then a
solution of five ounces of gum Senegal in one and a
half pounds of water, and one drachm each of oil
of rosemary and lavender may bo added. For use
the blacking is diluted with three to four parts of
water. This blacking keeps the leather soi’c and
renders it more durable.
V. J. F.—You could not, unfortunate
ly, obtain in this State a divorce under the circum
stances stated by you. The only grounds on which
an absolute divorca is attainable Lera are adultery,
impotence, idiocy, lunacy at the time of marriage,
consent obtained by force or fraud, and imprison
ment for life. The causes in Massachusetts are
adultery, impotence, insanity, idiocy at marriage,
uniting with a religious sect that professes to be
lieve the relation oi husband and wife void or un
lawful, and refusing cohabitation for throe years,
sentence to confinement for five years or more, or
desertion for five consecutive years.
■ J. H. M. —Ist. “The Long Strike”
was revived at Wallack’s Theatre on Monday, Juue
3d, 1872, and was played till June 15th, being fol
lowed on Monday, June 17th, by Watts Phillips’
“On the Jury.” 21, We have no record of so unim
portant an affair as the farewell benefit of Mr. G. W.
Thompson at the Bo .very Theatre, presenting “Ya
cun” and “lhe Polish Jaw.” 31. “Humpty Dump
ty” was revived at the Olympic Theatre on Monday,
April 17th, 1376, and ran until Saturday, July Btb.
Constant Header. — Claim copper
coin with soap and water, and then polish them
with powdered soapstone or flannel. Never wash a
copper coin to give it a bright copper color. ’Lhe
result will be to show all the scratca.es and bruises
on the coin. It is better to leave tna dark color un -
touched, and tbe soapstone will almost bronze it.
If the rust is difiicult to remove try charcoal pow
der.
J. J.—lst. It is difficult to tell accu
ratoly what the circulation of the leading daily pa
pers is, as they each claim a much larger one than
is really enjoyed. 2d. We cannot tail you the paper
having the greatest circulation in the world. The
circulation of the London Times ranges about one
hundred thousand. The Telegraph has the largest
circulation of English daily papers.
H. S. —Ist. The population of Berlin
at last census in 1371 was 825.339, 01 whom 42,120
were Roman Catholics, and 27,607 Hebrews. There
are over sixty places of worship iu the city. 2-1. No,
we do not consider Berlin the most un-Godly city
in the world. There arc other cities in Europe,
notably Paris, muca more dissoiuts than Berlin.*
J. S. J. T. —The Sikhs are a people of
India, chieliy inhabiting the Punjaub. Taey are.
tall, thin, dark and active, excellent soldiers and
horsemen, frank, eociab.o and pleasure-loviuThey
fight well either as infantry or cavalry, ths prepon
derance of them being cavalrymen.
J. M.— Alfred S. Moses, the bartender,
was murdered at the Sea View House, Navesink,
Highlands of Naw Jersey, on August Ist, 1357, by
the hotel clerk, Ja ues P. Donnelly, who was subse
quently convicted, and on Friday, January 8, 1353,
executed at Freehold, N. J.
Some One.—John Morrissey was never
beaten in a prize that is, be* obtained tho
money in every fight aa was concerned in. He was
beaten several times iu rough aud tumble fights
when attacks were made on him.
Two Years Subscriber.— It would be
quite proper to present your affianced with a hand
some purse, v/linthor you pat anytaiug i.i it or not.
A purse is a vary useful tiling to a young lady, and
therefore quite acceptable.
William.—lst. No; the condensede di
tion of “Appleton’s American Cyclopedia,” though
b splendid work, is not nearly so satisfactory as the
complete edition. 2nd. Tne matter was too trivial for
attention.
Subscriber. —We cannot give up space
here to the lorum speech from Sheridan Knowles’
play of “Virginias.” You can obtain a copy of the
play for fifteen cents at French’s in Union Square.
■P. McC.—lst. No, you cannot sail an
English built ship under the American flag. An
effort is now being made in Congress to nave this
law repealed. 2d. We believe you can.
Blackstone.—ln this State a person
has to serve a three year’s clerkship in a lawyer’s
office before be can be admitted to practice, unless
fie has attended some law university.
Typo.—Any money collected by the
. Post-office authorities Lera goes to the U. S. Post
office. The deficiency due on a foreign letter is of
course due to the government here.
J. P.—We cannot devote space in this
column to matters of detail in queries possessing no
interest to anyone bu:tae querist. The answer
Vas correct; leu thatsutlice.
In Doubt. — The bridge over the
thames River at Hammersmith, Middlesex, En
gland, is a suspension bridge, and hue a spaa of
|22 feet.
Comus.—John Real was executed in
the Tombs for the murder of Officer Smedick, on
August 5, 1870, James O’Brien being at the time
Sheriff.
G. B. H.—Barnum’s Museum, corner
of Ann street and Broadway,, was destroyed by
s£6 qd. 13 cII 1860.
S. B. A. —Ist. If you keep a licensed
- boarding-house, you can detain the trunk; if not,
you cannot. 2d. Liquid ammonia is what you
, want.
Evebitta. — Ist. Address Miss Sara
Jewett, at Union Square Theatre. 2nd. Wo believe
the lady studied under Miss Morant.
5 T.—Mr. P. T. Barnum married here a
■ few years ago an English lady who came to this
country to marry him.
Eggs.—Stuart Robson was the original
Picard in “The Two Orphans ” at the Union Square
Theatre.
a N. tl. S. —The great Chicago fire
originated on the evening of Sunday, October Bth,
1871.
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‘ CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
STBOONO PAQE:
l, CONTINUATION OF .“TUB COST OF HER LOVE.”
NO PAY, NO BOARD.
" HOW SAM TOLD A STORY.
8 SOUNDS OF THE NIGHT,
a PLEASANT WHIMS.
v PREMONITORY DREAMS.
1 THIBD PAGE! ,
u Masonic INTELLIGENCE: The LovlneTlo; Jeremiah
9 L. Hutchinson; Circular; On the Road; For Orrin;
* Robert H. Trafford; Pen Pictures of Living Masons;
* Masonry Conservative; Possible Freemasonry; A
0 Memory of the Past; Commanders Nows; Concerning
1 the Stranger; Zoroastrianism and Masonry; Rockland
- Lodge; Chancellor Walworth Lodge; Eastern Star
1 Notes; Craftsmen’s Mutual Benefit Association.
; SIXTH
- UNNUMBERED GRAVES.
J CONCLUSION OF “FROM OUT THE GLOOM.”
f FLASHES OF FUN.
; WHO KILLED THE JUDGE !
. A CLEVER SCOUNDREL.
, HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
» HORSE-BREAKING.
OPPOSING PROGP.ESS.
f ASTONISHING AN ELEPHANT.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
PAGE:
1 ONLY AN IDLE FANCY.
THE MAN IN POSSESSION.
) A CHILD’S DEATH-BED.
» GLAD HE WAS THERE.
* MERRY TRIFLES.
AN OPERA STORY.
3 PRIZE OP THE ALSPACH.
> OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
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SEW YOIIK. MAY 5. IS7B.
I
; The NEW YOKK DISPATCH
1 has a larger circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
lished in the United States.
AN UNUSUAL CAREER.
Esgrot for the death of John Morrissey was
very general in this city. This was owing to
tho fact that during his Senatorial career he
had done much to reform abuses in this city,
and that his political record was unstained by
peculation, bribery, or jobbery—a very unusual
sort of legislator to omanato from tho Demo
cracy of the metropolis. In looking at the ca
reer of Morrissey we are struck by tho mixture
of good and evil which it presents. When ho
first bocamo known to tho public it was as a
bully and very riotous rough, then as a prize
fighter, next as a political shoulder-hitter, and
then as a gambler. As ho became rich from
gambling ho grow to wish a nobler fame than
that which ho had achieved, and he aspired to
boa Member of Congress, he was elected, took
his seat, and though he did not make speeches
ho proved a good committee man, was strictly
honest, and when he gave his word to
support or oppose a bill or a man
ho never went back from it. Ho aid
ed very much in upsetting the Bing,
and with John Kelly became the leader of
"reformed” Tammany. He did not continue in
Tammany long, butcame out from it, and fought
it with tho boldness which has characterized him
in all his struggles in life. Twice on Tam
many’s own chosen grounds ho beat its candi
dates, and strange to say, the ex-prize-fighter
got in both instances tbo support of the best
men in tho districts In which he ran. In his
contests with Tammany he exhibited a ragged,
homely common sense which took with the
masses, and in his brief speecncs in tho State
Senate he generally reached the very gist of the
subject, and invariably exhibited good judg
ment. Had Mr.' Morrissey, when he entered
politics, discarded gambling, he would have
won more respect from law-abiding men who
admired his official honesty. But from tho be
ginning of his career to its end he was a law
breaker, and never oould secure the confidence
of thinking mon, who naturally argued that it
was unwise to elevate a constitutional law
breaker into a law-maker.
Beared in poverty and ignorance, among
coarsq associates, it is in no way astonishing
that Morrissey was, with his giant strength
. and bull-dog courage, that which be was in his
early days; but as ha grew in knowledge, in
power, and influence, there can be no excuse
for his continuing a course more demoralizing
to the community than even his shoulder-hit
ting and prize fighting. His official career is
without a stain. His character as a good and
law-abiding citizen can only be condemned.
With his manliness, frankness, truthfulness
and official uprightness all honorable men must
sympathize. But his was not a career to hold
up to general admiration, as was done by too
many ot the daily papers. Morrissoy was an
unusual man, he had an unusual career, but
wo do not care to see men of his stamp become
usual in our political history. They are not
the sort of men of whom we can feel proud, nor
can we’point to them as examplars for the com
ing rulers ot the country, now attending our
public schools.
THE BALTIC TBOUBLE.
There is a seemingly well-authenticated ra-
■ port from Europe that Bismarck has seat to Co
penhagen Field-Marshal Moltke, who is to urgo
tba King of Denmark to join Germany in a pro
test against the entrance of a British fleet into
■ tbo Baltic in the event of the braaking-out of
war between England and Bussia. This theory
of making the Baltic a closed sea to foreign
powers waging war upon ono of tbo countries
on its shores has long been a favorite idea with
Prince Bismarck, and if ho insists upon it on
1 this occasion, we cannot see how England can
1 bid him defiance without getting into severe
trouble with Germany. It musk have been pa
tent to the dullest observer for a long time past
. that the German Empire is, to all intents and
I purposes, the ally of Bussia. Just now the cry
I “No British fleet in the Baltic” would prove
’ exceedingly popular in Germany, and, if En
land’s iron-clads were excluded from that sea,
it would greatly help Russia. Denmark, al-
■ though its present dynasty is closely related to
that oi Queen Victoria, bears the same relations
, to the imperial family of Bussia, and she has
not yet forgotten that in the war of 18G3 and
‘ 1864, in which she lost tho two provinces of
j Schleswig and Holstein, the English govern
i ment, after holding out false hopes of assis
tance to her, basely betrayed her. Hence, she
will probably bo quite willing to join in Prince
Bismark’s demand, and the Swedish govern
ment will unquestionably pursue tho same
course. •
' A PERTINENT SUGGESTION.
r It is quite evident now that in stirring up
the so-called Florida frauds the Democratic
I leaders did not desire to disturb Mr. Hayes in
s the possession of the Presidency, which they
cannot do, as they well know, but to obtain a
1 plank of the platform upon which they propose
1 to conduct the impending Fall campaign. Now
we should like to know why some prominent
1 Republican representative does not get up on
s the floor of Congress and boldly charge the
3 Democrats with having stolen from Rutherford
3 B. Hayes the States of Alabama and Mississip
. pi, which be would have surely carried if a fair
1 vote had been permitted to be polled? That
question is as pertinent as all the hysterical
3 lamentations oi the Bourbons in regard to tho
r vote of Louisiana and Florida, and we aro at a
loss to understand why tbo Republicans do not
a meet their charges by the proper oounter-
J; charges. Yazoo county, Mississippi, always
cast thousands of Republican votes, but in
a 1876 only two. How was that unprecedented
n change brought about ? Who stole the Repuh-
LG lican votes in Alabama? Who disfranchised
tho Republicans of Mississippi ? If the Florida
y business has to ba raked up, let those questions
ha answered, too.
NEW YORK DISPATCH, MAY 5, 1878
1 THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
j It affords us sincere pleasure to record the
fact that the Paris Exposition of 1878 has
b opened under the most favorable auspices.
’ The French metropolis wore its gayest attire,
and its whole population, all reports concur in
j stating, gave utterance in enthusiastic cheers
for the Republic to its unfeigned delight be
[ cause of the success of the great show, which
i eclipsed the pomp and splendor of tho boasted
exposition of 1867. As long as such political
3 rogues as Broglie and Fourtou, who misled and
’ well-nigh ruined Marshal MacMahon by their
reactionary intrigues, controlled the destinies
of France, we opposed tho participation of free
' countries, especially that of tho United States,
in the exposition ; for we knew that the anti
republican cabinet would ascribe the success of
the exposition to its own popularity and to the
prestige of MacMahon; but sines an over
whelming majority of the French people have
indignantly repudiated tho monarchist con
spirators, and since the Republican government,
energetically aided by tho two Chambers, has
. mado it a point of honor to render the exposi
; tion as magnificent as possible, in the face of
- tho unpatriotic opposition of tho stupid Legit
j imists, and of the desperate, vile Bonapartists,
. the affair has assumed an entirety different as
pect, and the success of the exposition under
Republican auspices should boa matter of con
gratulation among the Liberals of all countries.
It was asserted by the Reactionists that crown
ed heads and princes would stay away on this
occasion from Republican Paris. Snob, how
ever, was not the case. Among the followers
of Marshal MacMahon there was quite a sprink
ling of the scions of royalty, and we should not
be surprised to see nearly all the sovereigns of
Europe visiting Paris during the progress of
tho exposition.
THE ENGLISH WAS PARTY.
The British Government has tho effrontery to
assert that it was long ago familiar with the
secret naval schemes of Russia, the discovery
ot which wo know now, has thrown the people
I of the United Kingdom into a state of intense
excitement. If the British Government had
really such knowledge it would have certainly
prepared public opinion in its country for the
- unpleasant news. But the English Govern
ment, like the English press, has pursued ever
since the Eastern question assumed a threat
ening aspect a course of systematic and whole
sale lying, for no other purpose than to gratify
the vanity of the English war party, which, ac
cording to the reports of impartial obsorvors,
does not embrace the best elements of the Brit
ish people.
The conduct of the English press, with very
few exceptions, is simply disgraceful To pan- 1
dor to the prejudices of tho war party tho Lon
don papers now represent that serious difficul
ties have arisen between Russia and Turkey in 1
regard to the execution of tho treaty of San ■
Stefano. The truth is that Layard, tho British
Ambassador at Constantinople, is leaving no
stone unturned in order to create difficulties
between the Czar and the Sultan. But the lat- 1
ter cannot bo fooled a second time by listening
to British promises. Ho knows that they are
absolutely worthless. But if he should pursue
a different course, if ho should imprudently bid
defiance to Russia, tho latter would speedily
expel him and the remnants of his beaten and
demoralized army from Constantinople before (
British troops of any consequence could come
to his assistance.
As regards tbo removal of the half-savage
Sepoys of the British army in India to Europe,
wo cannot but consider it a most ill-advised
measure. Tho Sepoys, when confronted by the j
Russian veterans, will play as pitiful a part as
the Zouaves, tho Turcos, and the Sparhls of
the French army did in the war with Germany. ■
Beside, how are these natives of torrid India to j
bear the widely different climate of Europe?
The nativo rebellion in Boumelia and portions
of Bulgaria, it now turns out, is a very insig- <
nificant affair, and was formidable only in the
lying letters of English newspaper correspond
ents. These lies are invariably refuted after
tbo lapse ot a few days, when fresh ones are
coined to tickle tho palate of tho British war
party. A significant fact is that tho peace
party in Englandis evidently gaining in strength
and courage. The war party bas not only been
beaten at tho parliamentary elections in some
of its former strongholds, but a monster ad
dress, among the signers of which appear the
names of many of tho most eminent English
men has been forwarded to Queen Victoria,
urging her not to aid in plunging the country
into a gigantic war that might prove most dis
astrous to it. It would be well for the queen
if she would lend a willing ear to these wise
counsels, but we doubt her inclination so to
do. Sho is a narrow-minded, headstrong wo
man. Because her deceased husband was a de
termined adversary of Russia, she thinks it her
boundon duty to pursue tho same course. That
in so doing, sho is arraying herself on tho side
of darkness and reaction does not concern her
in the least. Perhaps she might contemplate
tho present pitiful condition of Eugenio Bon
aparte, who plunged France into a disastrous
war, and taka warning while it is time.
THE COMMUNIST SCARE.
We do not believe that the so-called Com
munists, East or West, actually contemplate a
speedy rising in our larger citios, nor that any
numbers of them aro secretly arming and dril
ling at tho prosont time. Their leaders, as a
general thing, cannot boast of an abundance of
brains, but they have certainly enough to per
ceive that their “risings ” on the plan of the
Paris Commune would speedily involvo them in
very unpleasant consequences. Still it is an
undeniable fact that there are among them hot
headed lunatics to whom nothing would be
more agreeable than to bring about a general
turmoil, in which tho enemies of our present
social structure would hold high carnival. In
this connection we will call attention to a letter
written by a Frenchman in this city to the
Journal Des TravaiUeurs, a socialist paper
published at Geneva, in Switzerland. In
that letter thoro occurs tho following pas
sage, “If capitalists in Now York and
other American cities will not soon assume
reason, they will speedily havo occasion
to regret it. Hera in New York ono thousand
determined mon could easily obtain control of
tho city, and there are plenty of such men ready
for action: Tho telegraph wires could bo cut
very easily, the police dispersed, and tho armo
ries of tho militia occupied without much diffi
culty. To take possession of Pans was a hun
dred times more difficult.” Now, while wo do
not think the danger either imminent or se
rious, wo most emphatically advocate the
, adoption of proper precaution by our au
thorities. While wo do not distrust a ma
i jority of our policemen, nine-tenths of whom
are faithful, brave officers, the fact remains
■ that in an emergency, such as we havo indi
. cated, the numerical strength of the force
would be found inadequate, and on tho bravery
and devotion of our militia, their past record
, proves that we can entirely rely. But are tho
. moans of bringing them together such as to be
i equal to meeting a sudden and unexpected out
break ? To this imooitant point our military
authorities should give careful hoed. Being
unprepared, might make a formidable riot out
, of that which preparation would not permit to
. become a respectable election row.
A GOOD MOVE.
i The Congressional Republican Committee has
> determined to make an earnest contest, at tho
t impending Congressional elections, in all
t Southern districts where there is reason to be
i lievo a majority of tho voters will cast their
s ballots against the Democracy provided that
1 they are not deterred through the shot-gun
■ policy of the Southern swashbucklers from go
ring to tho polls. The course adopted by the
t Republican Congressional Committee, in our
1 opinion, is a wise one. It will put the temper
o of the Southern politicians to the test, and
1 demonstrate whether their assertions that they
t have accepted the results of the civil war in
- good faith are well-grounded or hypocritical,
i At the same time this move, even though it
u should be only partially successlul, would go
1 far toward dispelling the Solid South theory,
f which, in tho long ran, could not fail to bring
1 about most acrimonious and injurious sectional
a controversies, and it would also greatly help
s the Republicans to carry the next House of
Reoresentatives. a result devoutly to be wished
for. The prospect for it is decidedly promis
ing, and the nation will surely not regret being
delivered from the rule of demagogues and in
capablos who follow such pitiful leaders as Ran
dall, S. 8. Cox, Blackburn, and all that ilk.
These men have been in power sinco 1875; they
havo made a great deal of misohiof, and accom
plished nothing except to prove their own im
becility and malignity.
PARDON HIM!
Wo trust that Governor Bobinson will have no
hesitation in pardoning the unfortunate convict,
Hogan. That man had shown practical signs
of repentance for his former misdeeds, although
we have not been ablo to ascertain that he was
guilty of anything but a single act of theft, for
which the terrible penalty of five years in the
State Prison had been imposed upon him.
True, ho had escaped from that prison, but he
had led ever sinco tho life of a respectable, in
dustrious, honorable citizen. He had, in fact,
proved that he was worthy of being a freeman
again. Shall he now be flung again into his
coll, and when bis term of penal servitude has
expired, return to society with only too natural
thoughts of ravenge, and despairing of over be
coming a respectable citizen again ? Governor
Robinson, public opinion demands that you
should promptly pardon this unfortunate man.
No official act of yours would elicit more heart
felt applause, and tho ex-convict, on his part,
would undoubtedly appreciate such an aot of
clemency, and such a generous manifestation of
public sympathy in his behalf.
Otavid
Ths O. U. A.—The “Senate” of the
so-called Order of United Americans met a few
days ago, and resolved to circulate threo hun
dred thousand copies of an addross, setting
forth the prineiplos of tho order, among the
people of this country. Wo are glad that very
few persons participated in the Washington
moating; for tho principles of the ordor aro very
similar to the proscriptive teachings of the de
funct Know Nothing party, and for that reason
they should be objectionable to every sensible
man. Such proscriptive principles may find an
ephemeral support among the thoughtless
masses, but more sensible counsels will speedi
ly prevail, and the proscriptive leaders will bo
discarded as dangerous and untrustworthy per
sons. We regret to find among the participants
in tho Washington meeting the name of Mr.
Henry C. Robinson, of this city. We havo al
ways considered Mr. Robinson a man of com
mon sense and intelligence, and we are at a loss
to understand why bo should affiliate with a
crowd of shallow-brained fanatics, who seem to
bo unable to comprehend that this is an age of
progress, and that a successful appeal to nar
row-minded, bigoted prejudices is no longer
possible.
The Holahan Bill.—What objections
tho State Senate can have against the passage
of the Holahan Excise Bill wo are at a loss to
understand.' A majority of tho State Senators
are said to be anxious to remedy the stupid
portions of the Liquor Law of 1857, which is
now iu force, and which the authorities are
utterly unable to carry into execution. The
legislative session is drawing to a close, and we
aro afraid that, if tho Senate defers action upon
the Holahan Bill to the last moment, it may
fail, and the present intolerable state of affairs
may continue until the next session of tho
Legislature. Wo do not blind our eyos to the
fact that the Holahan Bill has some objection
able foaturcs, but it is, in our opinion, the best
law we can get, and the State Senators who op
pose its passage from impure or bigoted mo
tives are certain to incur a heavy responsibility.
While the stupid Blue Ribbon fanatics and the
infamous keepers of low distilleries and dog
geries would applaud their coarse all sensible
and enlightened men would bitterly con
demn it.
Lockwood Opens His Mouth.—One
Lockwood, a very small demagogue, was acci
dentally elected to the present Congress in a
district of Now York State which usually re
turns Republican representatives. Since then
town and municipal elections in that district
havo clearly foreshadowed the triumph of tho
Republican candidate at the impending Con
gressional contest. Hence Lookwood, wbo never
before opened his mouth, in the National House
of Representatives, delivered there, to empty
benches, on Wednesday evening, a furious ha
rangue, in which he lauded Montgomery Blair
to the skies, and endorsed Maryland Kimmell’s
ridiculous bill against President Hayes. As a
matter of course, Lockwood will have an extra
edition of his great speech struck off for circu
lation in bis district. Wo are afraid that the
majority against him there next Fall will be
greater than if ho had hold hia tongue.
A Deserved Success. —The Courrier
des Elats- Unis, of this city, celebrated the fif
tieth anniversary of its foundation on Wednes
day last. Its career has bean one of unbroken
and well-merited prosperity. It is an honor to
the French population of this city, except that,
in a manner to us inexplicable, it panders, in
regard to the politics of this country, to the
dangerous heresies of the venomous Bourbon
Democracy. Tho French boast of always
marching in the van of civilization and pro
gress. Why, then, does ss respectable and intel
ligent an organ of thoirs as] the Courrier des-Etats-
Unis adhoro to the policy of tho American re
actionary party? Wo trust that tho Courrier des
Etats- Unis henceforth will pursue a more pro
gressive course. At any rate wo cordially con
gratulate the Courrier on its success, and we
hope that it may be as prosperous on its cen
tenary birthday as it is now.
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A Model Fbaud Shbiekeb.—John B.
Stoll, of Ligonier, a small backwoods town in
one of tho darkest counties of Indiana, is the
Petroleum V. Nasby among the Democratic
politicians of that State. His 'more intelligent
party friends always keep him considerately in
the background. During the war Stoll was, of
course, a blatant copperhead. Then he began
to shriek for an unlimited inflation of the cur
rency, and now ho bellows, “ Fraud, fraud,” as
frantically as any. of the craziest and most
venomous Bourbon papers. Some of the lat
ter organs in tho East have received from Stoll
cards on the “fraud” question, couched in the
most extravagant language, and those organs,
ignorant of tho fact that the author of these
contributions is the laughing stock of his own
parry in Indiana, seriously print them in con
spicuous type. By so doing they certainly
make asses of themselves.
Tammany's Neabest Fbibnd. — Mr.
Fish, Member of Assembly, is winning a repu
tation by no means enviable. It is that of be
ing a “Tammany Republican.” On most of the
recent bills which have been before tho Assem
bly ho has acted the part of Tammany’s near
est friend, and has done everything in his pow
er to thwart tbo Republicans and Anti-Tam
many men in their endeavors to cut down the
sinecurists of this city and to restrict the des
potic power of Controller Kelly. Mr. Fish may
think he Is paving his way to future public ad
vancement. If be does, we think he mistakes.
There is no Republican, that wo can remember
of, who allied himself to Tammany in times
past that has not sunk into obscurity. Mr.
Fish should learn a lesson from the political
history of this State for tbo past ten years.
A Sudden Change.—What is the mat
ter with the Tribune ? A short few months ago
it spoke of John Kelly in the bitterest terms
which its highfalutin style permits, and now it
treats him with a gentleness which is nigh unto
affection. There must bo some cause for this
sudden change. Pray tell us what it is. Wo
can’t imagine tho burly, blunt, dictatorial Con
troller end the namby-pamby editor lying un
der the same blanket, unless there were very
weighty reasons therefor. Kelly has been pur
chasing much newspaper stock recently. Has
he been investing in Trilrune stock ?
The Police Commissionebships. —
“Jake” Patterson is among the Republican ap
plicants for the vacant Police Commissioner
ships. Wo cannot too emphatically oppose his
candidature. Ho is a trading, mousing politl
-1 cian of the lowest order. Patterson is very
l cheeky to want to be Polios Commissioner, af-
■ ter his disgraceful career as a member of the
; Excise Board. He is a stench in the nostrils of
■ all high-minded Republicans. We do not know
whom Mayor Ely may appoint, but he could
not make a more unpopular selection than that
of “ Jake” Patterson.
Harsh Treatment.—A poor devil
named Sam Sharrott was sent to the Island
last week for a month for giving a goat a kick
that broke its leg. The goat had entered Sam’s
shanty, and was eating up his only good shirt
when he discovered it. He naturally kicked it
out of the place. Would tho gentleman who sat
in judgment on him have done less ? We think'
Sam received very harsh treatment for his
ejection of a four-legged trespasser. Sam is
said to have a rather unsavory character. This
may be true, but in this case he was not tried
on his character—he was tried for a specified
offense. The evidence did not show that he
used unnecessary violence in ejecting the goat,
and wo can’t help thinking that the court con
demned him on his previous character, and not
on the merits of tho case before it.
Received its Quietus. —The idiotic
ordinance which passed the New York Board of
Aidermen, forbidding any mon not living in the
city from driving carts or trucks, has received
its quietus at the bands of tho Legislature and
Governor, a bill having become a law which
empowers the cartmen of this city to live whoro
they like. Of course, tho ordinance never
could have been enforced, as it was as illegal as
it was silly. It is exceeding strange why be
coming a New York Aiderman should drive a
man who hitherto seemed to possess ordinary
sense into the front rank of first-class idiots.
But it is so.
Roasting the Chestnuts. —There is
much talk in Washington to the effect that
Gen. Le Duo is in high glee because the House
has passed a bill elevating tho Commissioner of
Agriculture into a Cabinet officer. There is
little likelihood that the bill will pass the Sen
ate ; but if it should pass, there is less likeli
hood that tho President will appoint Gen. Le
Due a Cabinet officer. The President thus far
hasn’t shown himself especially favorable to
lobbyists. It is just possible that Gen La Duo
has been roasting tho chestnuts for some other
man to eat.
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Sat Down Upon.—Washington Square
is not to be covered with armories, tbs Legisla
ture having passed a bill that it shall be used
forever as a park. Thus was another of the
idiotic ordinances of the Now York Board of
Aldermen quietly sat down upon. Can’t our
Aidermen beget some other puerility for the
Legislature to kill ? They’ve got to burry up,
as tho Legislature won’t be much longer in
session.
Ofc imd
A FUNNY CUSS.
He was riding on the front platform of a Sev
enth avenue car on Wednesday evening. He
wore a tall tower collar and a tall tower load.
He was funny.
“D’yer seo that fruit store ?” queried he,
pointing to an Italian’s apple-stand. “That
feller’ll telegraph home that he owns a seven
story store. Next week there’ll be thirty thou
sand of his cousins landed in New York, and
each one’ll have a tin termattus can to carny
beer in. Maybe they'll be so high-priced that
the cans will have to be nickel-plated. Yer
can’t moat always sometimes tell. They’ll all
expect to make a fortune in a wook.”
Thon he pointed to a colored man.
“The happiest people in the world I Give a
nigger a watermillion, and a couple of quarts of
sun and he’d lay down aud die. Most honest
people in tbe world. They never steal. ’F I
had a chicken-coop with only one chicken in it
I’d put a double-barreled gun on every bloody
door-and winder, if there was a nigger within
two looks of the place.”
A passing Gorman next attracted his atten
tion.
“There’s a reminiscence of a frugal class of
people. They are thrifty and s aving. Give a
Dutchman a knuckle of ham and a loaf of rye
bread, and he’ll support a family for a week on
it. He’ll save every cent he makes and put it in
a savings bank. What he can sell he’ll sell; what
he can’t sell he’ll give to tho pigs, and what tho
pigs won’t eat he’ll eat himsolt. When he’s got
about a thousand dollars in tho bank tbe
bank’ll bust, and then he’ll go up to Cen
tral Eirk and drown himself. He can’s
stand prosperity. D’yer know what I’d do if
adversity ever put her claws on me ? I’d get a
gallon of whiskey, and lay down alongside of it.
I’d get bilin’ drunk and then go home and kick
my wife all crooked so’t she wouldn’t eat any
more. Then we’d be happy. It’s too late to
go to work and I guess I’ll go git drunk. Ta,
ta,” and he skipped.
that boy of ours.
The word “Mr.” is an entirely unknown
quantity in his vocabulary, and he calls every
body by his first name, from tho editor up and
down. When Bent on an errand, he jumps
down stairs and runs through the building, but
when he gets to the door his haste expires. Ho
is gone about an hour, and then returns and
wants to know, “ What’s the man’s name you
sent mo after ?” He is personally acquainted
with every peanut woman and apple peddler on
tho street, and can be found when you want
him interviewing one of these as to the origin
of peanuts or the success of the present year’s
apple crop. He reads novels unceasingly, and
is well up in all the recent works of literature.
He has a holo in the floor where he hides his
novels. In nine cases out of ten tho board
which belongs over this hole can ba found out of
place, and he swears that the other boy took it
out. When tho city editor is busy ho will coma
in and slap a handful of crumpled copy on his
desk and ejaculate, “The man who wrote that
is a d—n tool 1” After a minute’s hesitation,
and when tho city editor is about to hoist him,
he will continue: “The managing editor told
mo to toll you so.”
When we reach the better land wo expect to
meet that boy on the corner of Bible street with
his nose in a bent bucket of ice cream, and ten
to one bo’ll say:
“Hello, Odds and Ends! How did you got
in? Did you swipe the editor’s pass ?”
BEALES MOVES.
Beales moved on Wednesday and rode down
on the last load. He’d been treating the truck
man at every coiner, and he couldn’t have got
another one in if he’d used a ramrod. He
mounted tbe load with a looking-glass in one
fist and a clock in the other. He told the truck
man to trot. He trotted. Everything went
along right merrily till one of the previous
wheels struck a brick. Then Beales perambu
lated toward terra firma. He drew a full length
picture of bis head in the looking-glass and
knocked tho clock out of time. Tbe wheal of
the truck spoiled the picture which made
Beales mad.
“*F that darned wheel hadn’t a broke that
hole in the lookin’ glass, might a saved it to
plant ther 'dog in that I killed this morning
with ther bureau,” muttered Beales as ho went
into a beer seminary to fire in another.
SMALL CHANGE.
As Mr. Fergus was passing up Broad
way the other day he felt rather thirsty, and
thought ho would take a Cooling draught of
water at tbe drinking fountain in Union Square.
Now Mr. Fergus did not take the water because
he liked it, for be is no adept at the business,
bat he could run his fingers all through his
clothes without hearing a solitary jingle, and as
his tongue was protruding from thirst, ha must
needs drink something, and was compelled to
tackle aqua. Ho had scarcely drained tbe cup
when the keeper of the park turned off the
water from the large fountain in the centre.
Fergus looked at it as the stream diminished,
’ and his eyes began to bulge; finally ha threw
down the cup in disgust, and as he started
down street he muttered, “Darned if lever
1 try it again. That fountain was so astonished
that it had to stop and breathe. No more
water for me.” He keeps his word.
. A scientist has invented beer soap.”
• All one has to do is to get a cake, and wash
1 his hands when he can get a schooner with as
■ much froth and dirt in as he can procure on
r the Bowery for five cents. Coney Island land-
• lords please take notice.
3 I A small boy on the Bowery, the other
f day, ran against a man and knocked a small
! satchel from his hand. Tho man began to
1 swear and stooped to pick up the grip sack,
I prior to chasing the boy. The boy stopped and
began hunting In the gutter. “ Did you drop
anything, Mr.” "No,” said the man, and his
whole manner changed at the simplicity of the
1 youth. “Yes, you did, you old fool yer drop
: ped yer werleese,” and thus getting time to
• skedaddle he skedaddled.
t
t No doubt many of our readers have no
; ticed the old man who sells papers at the Ful
: ton ferry house, yet none have ever thought or
3 would believe that he is immensely wealthy.
3 He dresses in poor clothes, and no one would
3 believe that he was ever worth a cent in the
I world. And ho isn’t.
1 Lay for the Christian—“ln the Sweet
’ By and Bye.” Lay for the butter merchant—
> “The Sweet By and Bye.” Lay for the cbim-
■ ney sweep—“ In the soot by and bye.” Lay for
• the landlord—” In the suite by and bye.” Lay
for the amateur poet—with a club.
. “ Butterflies have already made their
p appearance in Cincinnati.”— Exchange. And
. you call that a news item, do you ? Come
j around to our boarding-house, where the butter
, flies all the year ’round, and we never see any
, thing but oleo—what d’yer call it.
1 The Queen of England has presented a
• Dorchester woman with £3 for being the mother
1 of three daughters at a birth. We once saw
■ eight daughters at a birth, and nothing was
■ said about it. Their husbands waited on tbe
■ stoop to conduct them home.
A grain of pure gold was found in the
gizzard of a chicken in Shiocton, Wis. This
statement was no doubt promulgated to ben
fluenoo tho price of hen fruit, and no at-hen
’ tion should bo paid to it.
> A great many signs on Broadway read:
“ Boy’s pants.” How people can be so ungram
matical we cannot imagine, in the days when
Daniel Webster’s grammars are so plentiful and
cheap.
If they don’t put cow-catchers on those
cats on tho Elevated Bailroad, tho first thing
they know they’ll run over some poor woman’s
cow, and then they’ll bo sued for damages.
The physicians and undertakers now
weai'seven foot countenances. The limp and
green cucumber has appeared, and the brazen
watermelon follows a good second.
Dio Lewis says that a man need not
sneeze unless he wants to. It siieezy thing to
stop it, but everybody nose that it’s a luxury
that wo don’t catarrh ’bolish.
“Have you ever read ‘The Tale of a
Bumble-Bee?’” asked George of Sarah Jane.
“No," said she, as she turned the color of real
paint; “butl’vefelt em.”
Two hundred different varieties of fruit
are grown in Georgia, and all the tailors are mi
grating. It only takes a yard of cloth to make
a pair of pants out there.
Many a man now shaves himself before
the tail-end of a tin wash-boiler, who but one
short iwook ago had all tho Jmodern improve
ments in his boudoir.
California has refused to allow women
to practice law. Wait till those legislators get
home, and they’ll find exactly how soon the act
. is to take effect.
Ths only reason we can see why a
thief’s pocket is like a bottle of champagne is
because it contains a pop.
Oysters are courting now. Don’t eat
’em.
Who ever saw bean stalk ?
ugHMWiwi Uliwu.
MUSI CAL.
Grand Opera House.—Sunday Even
ing Concerts. The concert of this evening will be
the twenty-first, and most attractive of the season.
Mr. J. Lovy, the famous cornet tist, has arrived from
Australia, and will make his reappearance, playing
i his solos, “Alexis” and “Maud,” and assisting in
the overture to “Zampa,” Mr. Ed Haslam will play
the flute solo, “Bonnie Eloise;” Miss Henrietta
‘ Markstein will play pianforte solos ; Miss Ju
liet Fend erson will sing a cavatina from Verdi’s “La
' Iraviata,” and the prayer song from Donizetti’s
1 “Marie De Bohan,” and Tissiugton’s orchestra will
1 perform the overture to “Maritana,” selections
.Tom “Evangeline,” and other pleasing composi
, tions. Mr. Chas. Pratt will be the accompanist.
Union Square Theatre.—English
Opera. —The well-known and admirable musical or
ganization, known as the Hess English Opera Com
pany, that played so successful a season at Fifth
’ Avenue Theatre, last Fall, will return to this city
1 and commence a brief season at Union Square Thea
tre on Monday, May 13ch. Tbe company includes
such artists as. tho Misses Emilie Melville, Mrs. E.
A. Seguin, Miss Louisa Franklyn, Mr. Wm. Castlo,
Mr. Charles Morton, and others, and their opening
■ production will be “The Chimes of Normandy.”
Park Theatre—French Opera Bouffb
—Mlle. Marie Aimeo and her famous troupe have
’ returned to town, and on Friday [evening inaugu
' rated a brief season of French Opera Boufte at the
• Park Theatre, with a revival of Lecocq’s charming
I work, “La Marjolaine.” The audience was a very
1 large one for so close a night, and the performance
L was one ol the best ever given by the Aimee Troupe
l in this city. The delightful little prima donna was
t in excellent voiceband acted splendidly as Marjolaine,
1 and Mlle. Duparc was scarcely less admirable as
j Aveline, M. Jouard sang finely and acted gracefully
I as L’Estrapade, and M. Mollard did himself great
credit as Frickcl. M., M. Duplan and Mezieres were
immensely funny, as respectfully PdZerscAoj) and Van
Der Boom, and M. Costal merits a word of praise for
1 his Burgomaster. The chorus and orchestra, under
• the direction of M. Almeras, were also good. The
t same opera was repeated yesterday afternoon and
J evening. The arrangements for the present week
> so far as made will ba as follows: Monday, “La
; Vie Parisienne;” Tuesday, “Girofle-Giroiia;” Wed
} nesday, “La Jolie Parfumeuse;” Thursday, “La
Fille De Mme. Angot,” and Friday, “La Perichole.”
[ Afternoon performance on Saturday. Tha original
version of Planquettea “ Las Cloches de Corneville”
ia in preparation.
i Steinway Hall. —A grand concert will
be given at Steinway HUI on Saturday evening next,
under the management of tha well-known com
poser, Mr. Charles T. French, when, among others,
the following artists will assist: Miss Sallie Reber
and Miss Agnes M. Sheehan, sopranos; Mrs. Leo,
mezzo soprano; Miss Dickerson, contralto; Signor
1 Talbarti and W. C. M. Steckel, tenors; Sig. Maroa to,
• baritone; W. B. Forman, basso; J. N. Pattison and
t Miss Madeiine Jerolaman, pi mists; D. Frank Tully,
3 organist; and Charles E. Pratt, musical director.
3 Among the productions of Mr. French to be given
are his quartette, “ How Happy I’d ba if Mother
[. were Hare;” male quartette, “Tall tho Folks I’ll
Soon be Home;” ballad, “Are Thy Dreams of Me ?”
3 and “Keep Pretty Flowers on My Grave.” The
other selections will be from (instrumental) Eeet-
1 hoven, Gounod, Suppe, and (vocal) Souderi, Patti
l son, Verdi, Donizetti, Bsife, Keens and Bishop,
f The price of admission will be only fifty cents, and
) a highly superior entertainment may be fully de
pended on.
1 Wood’s Theatre, Brooklyn.—Callen
y Hqx’3 Georgia Minstrels will occupy Wood’s Tneatre,
• Brooklyn, tuis week. Tho company is a famous one
t and comprises, among others, Billy Kersands,
plantation humorist; Dick Little, the deepest-voiced
basso in tho world; W. Allen, pedestal clog dancer;
. W. Elmer Lyle, female impersonator; James Grace,
j humorist; P. Devonear, comedian; Bob; Mack and
. Bob M’lntosh, specialty performers; Neil Moore,
character delineator; Sam Jones and Tom Chestnut,
’ tenors; W. W. Morris, baritone; J. Douglass, G. H.
3 Skilling, W. Sykes, R. Emidy, J. Cosely and J. Emi
' dy. Afternoon performances on Wednesdays and
1 Saturdays.
’ Academy of Music—Spring-Tide Op
era.—On Tuesday evening next, Mr. Jerome Hop
kins will present at the Academy of Music his new
springitide opera called “Dumb Love.” He claims
3 for it that it is the first perfectly new secular opera
• ever presented at this Academy. There are nine
, teen characters in it, the principal of which will
7 be sustained as follows; Meta, Miss Belle Cole;
1 Brigetta, Miss Pauline Hall; Franz Mr. Wm. 8. Leg
r gatt, and Redcloak, Mr. H. Brougham. One repre
] sentation only will be given and tickets can be ob
-3 Uined at No. 11l Broadway, and No. 41 Union
Square. Boxes $5, $lO, and sls; secured seats,
$1 50; family circle, 25c.
i DRAMATIC.
s Paek Theatre.—The regular dramatic
a season at the Park Theatre was brought to a termi.
• nation with the performance of Thursday evening
last, and a brief resume of what was done djirinxr it
C | may prove somewhat interesting. A preliminary
I season was opened on Monday, July IGth, with the
> production of Mr. Thomas B. MacDonough’s adap
tation of the Parisian Gymnase success, here called
’ “Baby.” It was excellently played by Messrs. Le-
• moyne, E. F. Thorne, Harry Lee, George C. Boni-
• face, W. H. Bailey and John Cooke; Mrs. T. Poole,
1 Mrs. Frank Murdoch (now Mrs. E. F. Thorne), and
> the Misses Kate Newton, Stella Boniface and Linda
• Dietz. It was excellently played, and, though aby
» no means high class work, acquired much favor and
ran until Saturday, August 25th, Mr. James W
Collier taking the place of Mr. Thorne, Miss Minnie
Doyle that of Miss Dietz, and Miss Connie Thomp
son that of Mrs. Murdoch, on August 13th. The
house remained closed for one week, but was re
opened for the regular season of 1877-78 on Monday,
[ September 3d, with tho engagement of the famous
j comedian, Mr. E. A. Sothern, who appeared for the
first time in New York as De Lacey Fitzaltimount in
H. J. Byron’s comic play, called “The Crushed Tra-
J gedian,” the star being supported by Messrs. Geo.
• Holland, Henry Crisp, Russell S. Bassett, Goo. F.
Devere, W. H. Cullington, Ed Marble, Harry
? Lacy, H. C. Curley, C. Harris and J. P. Copke,
r and the Misses Ida B. Savory, Nellie DeVere, Julia
Chapman and Rachel Rayne, Sothern’s quaint
creation at once hit the public taste, and
the ability and popularity of the actor,
1 combined with some rather ridiculous litiga
-3 tion on the part of the Count Joannes, who alleged
■ that it was a satire on him, secured for the work a
• run until November 19th. On Wednesday, Septem
ber 26tb, a special afternoon performance was given
for the benefit of members ol the amusement pro
fession; and on Wednesday, November Ist, the
’ company, including Mr. Sothern, performed tho
r remarkable feat of playing “Tbe Crushed Trage
-1 dian” ia Boston in the morning and in New York in
> the evening, the occasion being for the benefit of
the since lamented Edwin Adams. The piece was
withdrawn after tho performance of Monday, Novem
ber 19th, and on tho following evening was suc
ceeded by tho same author’s “Hornet’s Nest,” a
piece which, though splendidly written and full of
witty things, did not make a groat impression.
On Thanksgiving Day, November 29th, an afternoon
performance of “ The Crushed Tragedian” was again
given. On Monday, December 3d, “Our American
Cousin” was revived, with Mr. Sothern as Dun*
dreary, and on Christmas night gave way to “ David
Garrick” and “ A Regular Fix.” On Friday, January
4th, “The Crushed Tragedian” and “Dundreary
, Married and Settled” were played for his benefit,
and on tho following evening he closed one of his
longest and most sucoessful engagements in this
1 city. On Monday, January 7th, 1878, Mr. John T.
Raymond commenced an engagement, playing Col.
Mulberry Sellers, in “ The Gilded Age,” for one week,
and presenting on the 14th a play by Bartley Camp
bell, called “Risks,” in which he impersonated
Pemberton Pembroke, an insurance agent, with much,
cleverness. Mr. Raymond closed on Feb. 2d, and on
, the 4th “Baby” was revived, with Messrs. Geddong
, and J. B. Polk, Miss Sydney Cowell, Miss Gabrielle
Du Sauld and Miss Minnie Palmer in the parts of
Messrs. Collier and Boniface, and the Misses New
ton and Boniface. The next novelty was on ‘Wed
nesday, February 13th, whoa an adaptation from
tho German, by Mr. J.’W. Shannon, called “ Cham
pagne and Oysters,” was produced, introducing at
this house Sir. James Lewis, Mr. Ben Maginley, and
Miss Maud. Granger. On Monday, February 25th,
Messrs. W. H. Crane and Stuart Robson appeared in
a new local comedy, by Joseph Bradford, of Boston,
1 called “Our Bachelors.” “Champagne and Oysters”
was revived on Monday and Tuesday, April Bth and
; 9th, and on the 10th was produced James B. Runni-
on’s play, “Our Aider men,” in which Messrs. Crane
! and Robson appeared until the dose of their en-
gagement. Ou Tuesday, April 23d, and on the fol
lowing evening, Mr. Daly’s “ Big Bonanza ” was re-
L vived, anil occupied tbe boards until the closing
night—that of Thursday last, May 2d.
Union Square Theatre.—“A Cole
brated Case” reached its one hundredth represen
tation on Wednesday evening, when the occasion
1 was marked by the presentation to each lady visitor
! oi a beautiful programme containing particu
lars of past as well as the present success. Thia
• week will be the last of “A Celebrated Case” and of
J the regular dramatic season, and those who would
witness one of the most remarkable plays of the
period must now do so at once. Last afternoon
performance on Saturday.
Tuesday afternoon the benefit of Miss Sara Jewett
will take place, when “The School for Scandal” will
be performed. This talented young .ady should
have a benefit worthy of her great excellence.
Wallack’s The atbe. —‘ ‘ Diplomacy ”
is still the attraction at the leading American com
' edy theatre, and tho superb acting of Messrs. Fred
eric Robinson, H. J. Montague and Lester Wallack,
1 and Mme Ponisi and Miss Coghlan nightly elicits
enthusiastic appreciation, such as is only induced by
1 the best and most refined of acting. A good, pure
play, excellently constructed and represented, and
1 adorned with the very perfectiin of stage mounting.
“Diplomacy” occasions an amount of pleasaro
commensurate with the reputation of so famous a
5 theatre and so deservedly admired and unequaled a
' comedy company. An aitetnoon representation is
s again announced for Saturday.
Fifth Avenue Theatre. — Signor
Majeroni, a famous Italian actor, who played in
c his native tongue when here>a3 leading man of the
• Ristori company, some years ago, and who has ra-
■ cently made quite a reputation as an English speak
-1 ing one in Australia and California, appeared at tha
r Fifth Avenue Theatre on Monday evening as Cor*
’ poraZ J.nhrine, in a play called “The Old Corporal,”
’ adapted from the French of M. D’Eonery’s “Le
’ Vieux Caporal.” It is substantially the same as
’ that in which Mr. F. C. Bangs, and more recently
> Mr. G. C. Boniface, have played. Signor Ma
jeroni is a tail, handsome and impressive actor,
j and though his English is not absolutely per
j feet, it is, nevertheless, satisfactorily good,
, and there is but slight difficulty at any point in
> thoroughly understanding him. He is very expres
sive in his actions and gestures, and he depicts
pathos to a vary affecting degree. He has most
, talking to do in the first act, and he looked and
( .acted the dashing, graceful Corporal to the life. In
the second act the soldier is stricken with dumb
ness on being accused of theft, and from this inci
} dent onward he forced recognition at once as not
only an actQr of remarkable and unquestionable
t abilities, but an emotional pantomimist such as tha
3 stage has but seldom boasted. The sorrows of the
t poor old man were pictured in the mo 5t affecting
„ manner, and there was a reality and power about
. his conception of the tongue-tied victim that de
noted the most faithful study and refined art. Hi a
1 impersonation presented the nowadays rare charm
j. of novelty, and the verdict in his favor wis a unani
j, mous one, greai interest being already manifested
in his future proposed undertakings. His support
x was very fair, particular praise being due Mr. AH.
< Hastings for a very' superior representation of tho
I villainous Jusurper Pierre Frochard, evidently a
> favorite name with the author, as it also occurs in
“The Two Orphans.” Mr. H. Harris was graceful
as the son Lucien, but he occasionally trip
ped up in his grammar in a rather pain-
> ful manner; Mr. E. F. Egbert was very good as
General Roquebert, and Mr. Clinton Hall as General
> Tavemey played earnestly and well. Miss May Gah
r lagher was particularly pert and pleasing as Ma*
• riotte, and is rapidly developing into an excellent
• soubrette actress, and Miss Gertrude Stanley played
- the orphan, Genevieve, with much grace and feeling,
1 Miss Helen Tracy also giving a powerful impersona
» tion as Mina De Rantsberg. The scenery, by Mr.
• John Thompson, was very pretty and complete, and
1 the costumes rich and appropriate.
r On to-morrow and during the week, not only Sig.
1 Majeroni, but his esteemed and talented wife, the
niece of Mme. Ristori, and also a formot member of
3 that great tragedienne’s company, will appear in a
• new and original society play called “Husband and
’ Wife.” The action of this work is laid at tho pres-'
• ent time and the scene in Italy, and tho distribution
1 of characters at Fifth Avenue Theatre will bo as
• follows: Marquis St. EZia, Signor Majoroni; General
De Lucca, Mr. A. H. Hastings; Duke De Giario, Mr.
J. Clinton Hall; Dr. Lai-redo, Mr. J. Randoll; Count
De Riverda, Mr. Hamilton Harris; Diana, Marquise
St. Elia, Signora Majeroni; Marchioness, Miss Nedia
Taylor; Baroness EmiUiana, Miss Nellie Boyd; Coun*
’ tess di Manfredi, Mlle. V.adimir. Afternoon per
lormance oa Saturday.
San Dhancisco Minstrels Opera
l House — Signor Patrlzlo, assisted Sybis wife, Mme,
Patrizio, now occupy the hall latoly sacred to the
, San Francisco Minstrels, and since their opening
. night on Monday last, have entertained encourag-
- ingly large and notably select audiences. The
Siguor does not speak much English, nor that little
well, but he can make himself understood, and as
an illusionist and magician he is decidedly very
clever. He opened his programme with a series of
ably accomplished feats, all of which were deftly
managed and several very laughable. Mme. Pa
-3 trizio excited the curiosity of all interested in
1 muehuonics by tho display of a wonderfully reten
tive memory, astonishing in its accuracy. Several
1 of the spectators were invited to the stage and par
’ ticipated in the table-turning act, under tho influ
ence of the Eastern magician, Altliothas, and at
least in one instance something more than the ta
ble was turned. But the great feat of the evening
1 was that of Patrizio catching in his gloved hands n
’ ball from the mouth of a loaded cannon. This was
actually done, and done neatly, the illusion, if any,
being very complete. He repeated it at the desire
of the audience, sending his visitors home in a
) state of amazement unsurpassed. Signor and Mme,
. Patrizio will remain for another week, and a pleas<
: ant two hours can be spent in their society. AfteJJ 1 '
t noon performance on Saturday;'