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[Notice.— For want or 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
wishesconciseiy, it they would receive concise
Many notes that are received are so nearly illegible that
they'find their wav at once to the waste-basket. 1
Capt. Kidd. —lst. “I bought tho seven
teenth number of the Dispatch issued, and have
bought every number since up to that of Sept. 29,
1878. s*hea I bought the first paper I was a young
man. Naw I am old, gray and bald. Now what I
want to know is the date of the seventeenth number,
how many Dispatches I have bought and what they
cost me m the aggregate?” Vol. 1, No. 17, is dated
March 29, 1816. Up to date you have had 1749 Dis
patches, the aggregate cost of which was sllO 11.
2d. Mr. George W. Brown, of No. 84 Chatham
street, wrote us in March, 1875, concerning the ves
sel you mention. He said, “I can state that there
was a side wheel steamer built at Ashtabula,
Ohio, and called the Washington, George Washing
ton, or General Washington, which, I do not dis
tinctly remember. The boat was built in 1837, and
in the Spring of 1838 went to Buffalo, N. ¥., to have
some furnishing work done, which could not be so
conveniently done at Ashtabula. She then early in
the season received a load of freight, and proceeded
Hp the lake to Toledo, thence to Detroit, and it was
on her return trip to Buffalo that she was burned
to the water’s edge while off Silver Creek, a small
port some thirty odd miles'west of Buffalo on the
south shore of Bake Erie, in or about the middle of
June. As near as I can recollect, the fire broke out
about two o’clock, or soon after in the morning. A
steamboat far off saw the flames, and'went to the
rescue, but did not arrive at the scene till after the
devouring element had done its work of destruc
tion. When the boat took fire it was some two or
three miles from shore. Thera was but one small
boat in which the passengers and crew could escape,
which was got ready, filled with men and women,
and reached the shore in safety. Some saved them
selves on pieces of lumber, sticks of wood, or any
thing that would buoy them, but many lost their
lives. It was supposed that the fire originated un
der the boilers, and it spread with great rapidity
as the boat was new, and the cabins and furnish
ings in-side were constructed of kiln dried pine
lumber, and painted, grained and varnished.” Mr.
Brown concluded by referring to Mr. A. W. Brown,
who was master of the bo it, and wnose post-office
address was Ashtabula, Ohio, or Henry Hubbard or
Joseph Hurlburt of the same address, suggesting
also that files of the Buffalo papers of 1833 would
contain the story.
Napoleon.—The island of St. Helena
certainly belongs to Great Britain. It is probably
the best known of all the solitary islands in the
world, and is situated in the South Atlantic Ocean,
850 miles from the nearest land (Islo of Ascension),
and 1,150 from the nearest point of the African con
tinent. It is ten and a half miles long and six and
a half broad, and incloses an area of forty-seven
square miles, with a population of about 7,000. It is of
volcanic origin, and consists of rugged mountains,
the highest rising to 2,700 feet, interspersed with
numerous ravines. St. Helena was discovered by
she Portuguese navigator, Juau de Nova Castella,
, 'May 21st, 1501 (St. Helena’s DayL and remained un
known to other European nations, until 1588, when
it was sighted by Captain Cavendish, on his return
from his voyage round the world. It remained un
inhabited until the Dutch became posses’sors of it;
in 1673 it was taken from the Dutch by Capt. Mun
den, of the English navy, and soon after the East
India Company obtained a charter for its posses-
Bion from Charles IL, which they held until*. 1833
fwith the exception of the period from 1815 to 1821,
the British government req firing ic as a residence
for Napoleon Bonaparte, wuO died there May sth,
1821) when it was ceded to them by the British gov
ernment. It is frequented by ships on their home
ward voyage from the East Indies, tor fresh pro
visions and water, which constitute, in fact, the
Chief trade of the island.
J, 408.—James McPherson, alias the
“Lime Kiln Man,” was a native of Scotland. There
were many stories told of him which were entirely
without foundation. It is said that he was at one
time a merchant of wealth and reputation in this
city, and that, in an unfortunate moment he met
with an exceedingly beautiful girl, with whom, or
course, he fed “desperately in love,” and that her
coolness to him drove him crazy; that this love
caused him to neglect his business, forsake his
home, repudiate his relatives, take to sleeping in
Lime kilns, and to picking his nourishment out of
the gutter. The story w.as a very pretty one, but
would not stand investigation. He was really a
poor, demented vagrant, wfio wandered through the
streets during the day and sought refuge in a lime
kiln—hence his soubriquet—at night. He was not
burned at all, but died in this city early in .1857.
He was a monomaniac on religion,’bis leading idea
being that to obtain the kingdom of Heaven a man’s
chief duty on this earth was to cultivate his,beard
until it attained a patriarchal length.
American Boy./—“We would like to
know the author of the poem called “The Ameri
can Boy,” the first verses of which are as follows:
•• * Father, look up and see that flag,
How gracefully it flies;
Those pretty stripes—they seem to be
A rainbow in the skies.’
“ • It is your country’s flag, my son,
And proudly drinks the light,
O’er ocean’s waves in foreign climes,
A symbol of our might.’
»« ‘ Father, what fearful noise is that,
Like thundering of the clouds ?
Why do the people wave taeir hats,
And rush along in crowds ?’ ”
Oan any of our readers inform us ?
H. H. J.—Date your bills as follows :
Ist. Bowery Theatre, “Faustus,” Eddy as Mephis
topheles, Friday, June 9tb, 1854. 2d. Same theatre,
J. W. Wallack as Macbeth, J. E. Scott, Macduff, and
“Peter Wilkins,” Saturday, December 28th, 1850.
Bd. Same theatre, “The Jewess” and “Maid and
Magpie.” Friday, November 13th, 1857, The Miss
Bt. Clair is the lady referred toby Miss Celia Lo
gan. 4th. Same theatre, “Monte Cristo,” Friday,
April 25th, 1851, Mr. E. Eddy as Edmund Dantes, Miss
3. Woymss Mercedes, and Miss Susan Denin Haydee.
sth. “Washington” and “Vidocq,” with J. R. Scott,*
Tuesday, February 25tb, 1851. 6;h. Nible’s Gar
den, twentieth week of Edwin Forrest, “Richelieu,”
January 29tb, 1861. 7th. Mitchell’s Olympic Thea
tre, “Midas,” “The Savage and the Maiden,” ‘'Re
volt of tne Poor House,” and “Irish Lion,” Mon
day, Feb. 10th. 1840; and Bth. Wallack’s Theatre,
••Society,” Saturday, March 3d, 1836.
W. H. C., Jr.—“lhave wagered that
Edwin Booth did play Marc Antony in ‘Julius Canar’
•t Booth’s Theatre. Will you decide if he did?”
Yes, you win your wager. “Julius Caesar” was
produced at Booth’s Theatre on Christmas night
1871, Mr. Edwin Booth playing Eruius, Mr. Lawl
reuce Barrett Cassius, Mr. F. G. Bugs Marc Antony,
and Mr. D. W. Waller Julius Ccespr. On Monday
February 19th, Mr. Junius Brutus Booth took the
place ef Mr. Barrett as Cassius, and on Monday
March 4th, Mr. Edwin Booth played Cassius, Mr.’
Wm. Creswick, the English actor, playing Brutus
On Monday, March 11th, the piece was played with
Mr. Edwin Booth as Marc Antony, Mr. Creswick as
Cassius, and Mr. F. C. Bangs as Brutus, the run of
the piece terminating with that week.
Squib.—lst. The United States Sol
fliers’ Home, it is Expected, will be opened some
time in the Fall, but nothing definite has yet been
announced. 2d. Laura Joyce, the actress, is the
daughter of Dauncey Maskell, an Eaalish journalist,
who has been for some time resident in Boston’
She was married to, aod subsequently obtained a
divorce from, James Valentine Taylor, of that city.
As an actress she played at Niblo’s, in this city, in
the spectacle of “Leo and Lotos,” and then went
to Boston, where she played in “Evangeline,” and
has mainly since remained.
A and B.—“A party of two are playing
poker dice. A throws three fours and two threes.
B then throws, making two sixes and two lours. He
picks up the other dice to fill in, but, when throw
:ng, hits a glass on the counter and turns up a six.
A claims a foul, B a fair game. Who is right ?” If
no provision were macle for such an event before
commencing, B certainly wins, as it is not presuma
ble he played to strike the glass, nor should any ob
struction have been permitted on the table or coun
ter. In such games these occurrences should be
provided for before throwing.
W. T. CL- Ist. The lines :
«• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.
As those move easiest who have learned to dance,”
are by Pope, and may be found in bis “Essay on
Criticism,” Part 11. 2d. Those
“ True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be-not shined upon,’*
ere from Butler’s “Hudibras.” 31.
“ Angela visits, few and far between,”
Is from Campbell’s “Pleasures of Hope.”
T. H. B.—lst. We have never heard of
the faculty of occasioning cancer being attributed
to the tomato, nor are we aware o; its having been
called the “cancer plant;” but it was at one time
called the “loveapple,” and had other local names
in different plaees. We do not c insider it at all
productive of cancer, and therefore do not agree
with the Rochester physician referred to. 2d. We
have heard that the part nearest the end of the
vine is the sweetest part of a melon, but only con
sider that a matter of taste.
News-Dealer.— “ What quarter of the
globe is Australia?” It does not belong to any
quarter of the globe, but is a continent of itself
being justly regarded so on account of its vast exl
tent. It is the largest island in taa world, and lies
between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Its greatest
length from east to west is about 2,400 miies and
its greatest breadth from north to south from 1 700
to 1,900 miles, having a coast line of nearly B*ooo
tai les, and including an area of perhaps 3 000*000
square miles. ’ ’
Euchbe.—“ A party of four are playing
a partner game ot euchre. Our opponents have the
deal, and my partner orders it up. The dealer then
says he win go It alone against him. I claim that
he oan only make two (by euchroiog my partner!
but he claims that by making all the tricks he can
make lour. Who is right?" You are. No more
than two points can be made under any circum
stances for euchreing a player. Beside, your on
ponent had no right to go alone when his side was
ordered up.
Repose.—lst. There is no law against
rains running on Sunday in this Ctate, and the de
rated railroad companies do not re imre anr sneci.l
priviio.e for that. 21. Yes. 3d. We do not know
whether the variqus congregations “like the mu
sic" or not. but suppose they .will have to “gr.n
and bear it." 4th aud slh. Yes, the charter so nor
mils them.
Monk.—Mr. D. S. Wamoold, now oi
the San Francisco Minstrels, never was proprietor
of a coloreil opera troupe in Palmo’s Opera House
afterward Burton’s Theatre, the site of which is’
now occupied by the American News Company’
Mr. Wambold first appeared in this city at Hone
Chapel in 1853. p
L.—lst. Mr. John Brougham was born
in Dublin, Ireland, on May 10th, 1809. 2d. We do
not know of any American ever having been Lord
Chancellor of England, but will further investigate
the matter for you. 3d. We do not know the owner
of tae .florae Frank Munson. The animal’s record
is only 2:27.
T'"’.bible Sufferer.-— We have no con
de whatever in the person or institution
Get some intimate friend to introduce you
to a practical and reputable physician, give him your
case and your entire confidence, aud you will have
nothing to fear; to trust the others would be dan
gerous.
E. M’C. —A man not a citizen and
not si; jnonths in the country cannot be a super
visor l f election. v
A. B. C.—ln making out your bill for
paintiaa a bouse, you can say; “To house-paint.
tpg,"B9rau«h,” >■
Don Carlos.—We believe seven per
cent, to be the legal rate. Tender that amount with
principal in the presence of a witness or witnesses,
aud you will probably obtain the article without
trouble.
Sufferer.—Glycerine and oar’eolio
acid, mixed in equal parts, will, if applied two or
three times a day, soften, ease, and ultimately cure
the most obdurate of corns.
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE :
CONTINUATION OF “ WEAKER THAN A WOMAN.”
AN HOUR WITH BIJAH.
ADAM’S LONELY BOYHOOD.
POWER OF CHEMISTRY.
A NOVEL SPOILED.
TIIIIXD PAGE:
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE: Scotland and Quebec; Eu
ropean Letter from Rob Morris; True Craftsman’s
Lodge; Memorial; Thoughts that Breathe; A Dedica
cation; Eastern Star Notes: Commandery News; A
Question; Congratulation; Kane Lodge.
SIXTH TA.GJE3 :
CIRCUMSTANCE.
THE PRINCE AND WATCHMAN.
A DEAD MAN SWEARS.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
CURIOUS ANIMALS.
A CHILD’S SUICIDE.
HE LOVED CIDER.
THE SWORDFISH.
A DISTRESSING MISTAKE.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
IDLESSE.
GLADYS’ DISCOVERY.
THRICE WARNED.
THROWN OVERBOARD.
THE RIFF PIRATES.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP,
fto fnd
REW YORK. OCTOBER 6. 1878.
The NEW YORK DISPATCH
has a larger circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
lished in the United States.
WORTHY TO BE READ.
On the Sixth Page will be found a story, en
titled “The Prince and Watchman,” which we
publish at the request of a number of readers.
The story was published some thirteen years
ago, in the London Family Herald. It is from
the German, and is one of the most amusing
stories which we have published in the Dis
patch. We commend it to all our readers as
well worthy.of their perusal. The story will
run through but three or four numbers of the
paper.
IfWMHH I UWI, Aiilft'W WJL
WHY BE DESPONDENT ’
The Daily Times was in very melancholy
mood yesterday, and gave disheartening pic
tures of the chances of Republican strength in
various parts of the country. What its object
is in talking the way it does we cannot com
prehend. It is certainly not good generalship
on the eve of a battle to tell the soldiers they
are sure to be whipped. An army going into
battle with the assurance that it will be beaten
is very sure to be defeated. So is it with a po
litical party, and we trust that from the pres
ent time until the Wednesday alter election
the Times will assume a more hopeful tone.
We think we can show it seme reasons for
hopefulness. In the State of Indiana, which it
delivers to the Democrats without a fight, we
have every hope of not only carrying the State
ticket, but of having control of the Legisla
ture, which will assure us of a United States
Senator in the place of Voorhees. Our hopes
for this bright result are based not alone on
what the Republican press of the State say,
and they unanimously predict a sweeping vic
tory, but wo have private advices from men as
well posted in polities as any.£in Indiana, who
express the utmost confidence in a sweeping
Republican success. There is another reason
why the Republicans should win. There are
three full tickets in the field: Republican, Dem
ocratic and National. The Republicans are
making a bold, aggressive campaign, fighting
for honest money and honest paymen t of na
tional obligations. Many Republicans who
were led away from the true faith by the
sophistries of the inflationists, have seen the
error of their ways and have returned to the
fold. The Democratic party is wobbling about,
taking no positive stand either for or against
resumption of speofe payments or inflation,
and will make but a weak fight. The Nationals,
like the Republicans, are aggressive and in
earnest, but they will make a better fight on
the stump than at the ballot-box. We do not
see how it can win. It will not be able to draw
from the Democrats more than one-third of
that party’s strength, and as nine-tenths, at
least, of its members come from the Demo
cratic narty, bow it is to cast anything,like the
vote the Republicans will have is beyond our
ken. We have hopes that instead of losing we
shall gain two members of the House ot Repre
sentatives. So far in the campaign everything
looks bright for the Republicans of Indiana.
For several years past we have not been so
hopeful ot carrying New York State as at pres
ent. The judicious action of the State Conven
tion, and the conciliatory course of Senator
Conkling, have done much to unite the party
as it has not been united since 1872, and wo
have not the slightest doubt but that we shall
elect our candidate for Judge of the Court of
Appeals, have an increased majority in the As
sembly, and gain several Members of Con
gress. The very few Republicans in this State
who have been carried away by the National
craze will be more than made up by the honest
money Democrats who will join with us in the
fight for the protection of the National honor.
In Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, lowa and
other Northern States the campaign has been
opened vigorously, and in not one of them is
there a likelihood that we shall lose members
of the House, but in all hopes ot increasing the
present strength. Why, then, should wo be
gloomy or despondent ?
THE COLORADO VICTORY.
If the Democrats had carried Colorado by as
rousing a majority as the Republicans did on
Tuesday last, their organs would have been
jubilant, and for weeks we would have heard no
end of their joyful comments. But now that
the boot happens to be on the other leg, they
endeavor to belittle the Republican triumph to
the best of their ability, and they try to ex
plain it away by all sorts of outside considera
tions. According to them, a majority of the
people of Colorado voted the Republican ticket
because they wanted to deal Jay Gould, in the
person of his chief representative at Denver, a
stunning blow. That consideration may have
influenced some voters, but what swelled the
Republican vote in Colorado to such gratifying
proportions was the indignation ot the people
because ot the course pursued by the present
Democratic Congress toward Mr. Belford, who
in 1876'hod been elected to the House of Rep
resentatives oy a large majority, and whose
seat, with wanton injustice,was given to his de
feated competitor, Thos. H.Patterson.a Hoosier
blatherskite of the Blue Jeans Williams school.
Otherwise the lines were sharply drawn be
tween Democrats and Republioans, and the
former lost most heavily in their principal
strongholds. This victory is an offset for the
defeat of the Republicans in Oregon, which was
brought about through the unpopularity of
United States Senator Mitchell. One of the
gratifying features ot the Ooloi ado election is
the smallness of the vote polled by the Green
backers. This is highly creditable to the good
sense of the people of that distant State.
THE AUSTRIAN CRISIS.
The Austrian government is at this juncture
passing through a dangerous crisis, which it
has brought upon itself by its almost incredi
ble folly. The sacrifices inevitably resulting
from the Quixotic expedition to Bosnia have at
length given the Magyars the long wished-for
chance to demand that their (financial burdens
be shared by the people of the other provinces
ot the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The latter
have much bettor credit, and they are finan
cially much more favorably situated than the
Magyars. Ever since the regeneration of the
empire this question has been an apple of dis
cord between the two sections, and now the
Magyars have declared with rars unanimity
NEW YORK DISPATCH, OCTOBER 6, 1878
that unless all their financial wishes be com- |
plied with, they would not pay another larth
ing to defray the expenditures of the Bosnian
expedition. The Emperor Francis Joseph, it is
a well-known fact, clings with foolish persist
ency to the Bosnian scheme, and this determi
nation of the Magyars puts, so to spoak, the
pistol to his breast. Upon receiving the dis
mal tidings from Pesth, he hastened thither,
but found the Tisga Cabinet inflexibly resolved
to resign. The Vienna Cabinet also declared
its intention to resign, unless Couut Andrassy,
that wonderfully keen-sighted diplomatist,
should retire from the Chancellorship. What
is the unfortunate Francis Joseph to do under
the circumstances ? Ho is ignoraut; head
strong, and always disposed to act indiscreetly
at a time when the utmost prudence should ba
' exercised. Further news from Austria will be
looked for with great interest.
NO FUSION.
The most important question in regard to
the municipal election is, whether or not the
Republicans of this city shall enter into an alli
ance with the so-called Anti-Tammany Hall
party ? Judge Dittenhoefer’s German Repub
lican General Committee, at its meeting on
Tuesday night, declared in favor of such a fu
sion, and also in favor of Dittenhoefer’s nomi
nation for District Attorney on the fusion ticket.
But what weight has the German Republican
General Committee? It consists almost exclu
sively of German federal office-holders or place
hunters. They are certainly not the men to
dictate to the fifty thousand Republican voters
cf New York city what course to pursue at this
momentous crisis; nor is Abraham J. Ditten
hoefer exactly the man for whose nomination
as District Attorney the better class of New
York Republicans would be willing to support
“Jimmy” O’Brien for Mayor, or John McCool
for another important municipal office. As a
matter of course, the New York Times is, as
usual, clamoring frantically for a fusion with
the Anti-Tammanyites. We have often pointed
out what an untrustworthy adviser the Times
is in regard to city politics. The defeat of the
fusion ticket In 1877, through the treachery of
the Anti-Tammanyites, should be a caution to
the Times, which fairly bellowed for the nomi
nation of such a ticket. After that humiliating
discomfiture it ill becomes the Times to charge
with being secret allies of Tammany Hall all
Republicans who wish to give the Anti-Tam
many riff-raff a very wide berth.
There is still another journalistic advocate
of a general fusion ticket against Tammany
Hall aside from the Times and the sleepy old
Evening Post, which has no influence whatever
in city politics, and that is Mr. Oswald Otton
dorfer, of the Slaats Zeitung. In case such a
fusion should be’ formed, Mr. Ottendorfer ex
pects recognition for his famous German-
American Independent Citizens’ Association,
that is to say, that Morris Ellingei-, Nick Bu
tenschoon, Adolph Dengler, or some other
aide-de-camp of the Tryon Row magnate, be
nominated for a lucrative office on the fusion
ticket. Now this is utterly absurd, consider
ing that Ottendorfer’s faction last year polled
only slightly over six thousand votes.
But what tangible evidence have we of the
numerical strength of the Anti-Tammanyites?
They are composed of anything but homoge
neous elements, commanded by a sat of politi
cians who care nothing for principle, but
everything for the spoils of office—politicians
not over-savory, from whom respectable citi
zens naturally shrink, and who shout as fran
tically for the Syracuse nominee as the most
rabid Tammanyites, Give “Jimmy” O’Brien
and that ilk a reasonable prospect of success,
and they will be indefatigable in bringing to
the polls the last man for themselves and—for
the Democratic State ticket, while you simul
taneously disgust decent Republicans to such
an extent that they will prefer not to vote at
all. And then think of the negotiations now
going on between the Anti-Tammanyites and
the disreputable Greenbackers. Do the Re
publioans of New York really wish to pull in the
same harness with the latter ? By so doing
they would, at least to some extent, give, up
the proud position which the Republican party
has taken on the currency ques tiou.
Let there be no fusion ticket I
OUR CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN.
The Congressional conventions of the Repub
licans of New York city will be hold in a few
days. We express the earnest hope that the '
successful competitors for the nominations will
be able men of high character, whom the whole
party will be glad and proud to support. Above
all things we strongly object to dickerings and
bargainings with outside factions, in conse
quence of which the Republicans would be
placed in the unpleasant predicament of having
to oast their votes for objectionable candidates.
In the district at present represented by
Ahram 8. Hewitt “Jimmy” O’Brien is said to
have Congressional aspirations. Republicans
should not help him, for he would be nothing
but a rabid Democrat in the Hou io of Repre
sentatives. There is very little show for Re
publicans in the Fifth District, but they should
nevertheless hold their noble banner even there
aloft. We suppose that Sam Cox will succeed
in saddling himself again upon the voters of
the Sixth District, the more so, as with rare
shamelessness, he has laid himself in the mire
before the Greenbaokers, in defiance of all hie
former pledges and even of tho Democratic
State platform. It is sad that this great me
tropolis should have such a prince of dema
gogues among its representatives in Congress.
The Seventh District the Republicans will
surely carry if tho proper efforts bo made.
There will be four and perhaps five candidates,
and a popular Republican such as Charley
Spencer would surely win. Above all things,
let no Republican bo foolish enough to advocate
a fusion with’the friends of Thomas Creamer,
who will be the Greenback candidate. We pre
sume that Anson G. McCook will have no diffi
culty in carrying the Eighth District. In the
NlnthDistrict Fernando Wood is evidently very
sorely pressed, and Ben Willis can be easily
beaten. The whole situation is such that Re
publicans should stand firmly to their guns.
NEXT TUESDAY’S ELECTIONS.
The result of the election next Tuesday in
Ohio and Indiana is justly awaited with general
interest, not only because in a great measure it
will decide the complexion of the next national
House of Representatives, but also because it
will afford the first opportunity to form a cor
rect idea of the strength of the so-called Green
back-Labor-Reform movement. We still believe
that the strength and extent of that movement
have been greatly overrated; and we further
more believe that the Greenback-Labor Re
formers have made more converts among
Democrats than among Republicans. In Ohio
the Democrats, while in power, have been act
ing with such stupid recklessness that their
campaign speakers have been all along on the
defensive, and their explanations have been in
sufficient to remove the popular prejudice
against their party. At the sama time, the
abominable gerrymandering bill passed by the
last Democratic Legislature has curiously and
most injuriously re-acted upon the party.
Most of the candidates nominated for Congress
were decidedly objectionable, and, while tho
Democrats under the new apportionment hoped
to elect at least fourteen members, they will
do well to carry ten Congressional districts.
In Indiana, the Republicans, under the ener
getic and sagacious of Benjamin H.
Harrison, have done so well, that they confi
dently expect to carry tho State an’d to hold
their own in tho various Congressional Dis
tricts. That these expectations are very well
grounded is plainly to be seen.from the trepi
dation with which the Democratic leaders look
forward to next Tuesday’s elections. fcThoy con
cede that Daniel Webster Voorhees is doome d
as [a candidate forfre-election to the United
States Senate. This in itself isia matter.tor
sincere congratulation among all [.those wiro
dislike shallow-brained, cheeky demagogues.
Will It Be an Example ?—We will
watch with interest the way in which the ras
cally officers of the Glasgow Bank shall bo
treated by the courts of Scotland. As rascally
theft, indeed more direct, was committed by
bank officers here within the past seven years,
and not one of them was punished. Will
Scotland sot us an example for our future
guidance in dealing with reckless, careless and
■ thievish banlj officers?.
that unless all their financial wishes he com-
Butleb’s Castigation. —Butler’s Con
gressional constituents did quite right in de
manding his immediate resignation. No Amer
ican politician perhaps ever violated his pledges
and every sense of honor and decency with the
same brazen effrontery as the political rogue
from Lowell. But he will not resign his seat in
Congress. lie never resigns any office which he
obtained, no matter by what disreputable
means. He will only write to his justly indig
nant constituents a smart and impudent letter,
in which he will pretend to despise their fulmin
ations against his disreputable and disgraceful
conduct. Still, tho call upon Butler to resign
his seat in Congress will tell heavily against
him among the decent men that have thus far
felt inclined to vote for him at the impending
election. It tears from the ugly face of the
demagogue the mask he has so long worn.
People of Massachusetts, it is time for you to
extinguish the badly-smelling flame of Butler
ism. 1
A Disreputable Thick. —Milwaukee
beer has thus far enjoyed an excellent reputa
tion in this country, and it has been extensively
sold all over the West. But the exposures of
the disreputable practices to which the princi
pal brewers of that city for years past have re
sorted to in order to cheapen the process of
producing their beer will go far toward destroy
ing its good name and former popularity. It
has been established beyond a doubt that large
quantities of Milwaukee beer are brewed from
maize and rice. The article thus produced, if
not positively unwholesome, lacks almost total
ly the nourishing qualities ot beer honestly
brewed from malt aud hops. Rico and corn
beer quickly loses what little strength it pos
sesses, and all lovers of good malt dnuks should
refuse to drink it. The leading brewers of Mil
waukee have amassed enormous fortunes. It
will boa salutary lesson for them that their dis
reputable trick has been found out.
Petebmann’s Death. —From Germany
comes tho distressing news that Augustus
Henry Petermann,the greatest of our cotempo
rary geographers, did not die of apoplexy, as
was at first reported, but committed suicide.
The dispatches from Berlin add that suicidal
mania has .been prevalent among Dr. Peter -
mann’s ancestors, and that his father and
brother took their own lives without any ade
quate reason. This would account for the
fatal step taken by the illustrious geographer,
and tho suicidal tendency was unquestionably
promoted by Dr. Petermann’s incassant and
most exhausting application to the study of
his favorite science. Let his death, if it was
caused as indicated by the dispatches from
Germany, be a warning to other learned men.
They will serve their favorite sciences best by
giving their mental powers that relaxation
which alone renders a long and useful career
possible.
Cleab Them Out ! —The decent saloon
keepers on the Bowery are required by the po
lice to keep their doors closed after one o’clock,
A. M. But the numerous haunts of vice in
which that thoroughfare unfortunately abounds,
and where poisonous liquor is sold to burglars,
sneak-thieves, “pimps,” and harlots, are per
mitted by the police almost to do as they
please. The front doors of these establish
ments are kept ajar, and within, the nasty
crowd of male and female outcasts hold high
carnival. About daybreak they leave the sa
loons, generally in a state of beastly intoxica
tion, and then the most sickening scenes may
be witnessed on the Bowery. Such blasphe
mies, such obscenities uttered by female lips,
cannot be heard out of pandemonium. The
police rarely if ever interfere with these reel
ing, swearing groups. Why, we are at a loss
to understand. It should certainly be other
wise.
A Queeb Political Organization.—
The Manhattan Club, composed of Republicans
and Democrats, held its regular meeting last
Friday evening on Eighth avenue, near Fif
teenth street. About two hundred and fifty
were present, all apparently tax-payers, and
very respectable in appearance. The president
of the club, Mr. Wm. A. Shields, stated to those
enrolling their names, (and quite a number
joined on Friday evening,) that the object of
the club was to pick the best men put up by
either party and vote as a body for them. This
is evidently the most novel organization in ex
istence. They cannot be called bolters, as they
wait until the nominations are made and the
members pledge themselves to vote as the club
determines. After the election it will be inter
esting to know if they kept their pledge.
Vile Dbmagogueby.—One evening last
week Mr. Fernando Wood made a speech to
his constituency which was never surpassed in
vile demagoguery by anything which we re
member to have read. He had also the
wretched taste to introduce the name of a
religious sect, and to tell the members of it
what he had done for their church. Such
speeches as that of Mr. Wood should consign
the speaker immediately to his political grave.
Of all things appeals to sectarianism by poli
tieians s'hould be frowned upon by the people.
If persisted in, it oan have but one effect—a
renewal of the days of Kudw-Nothingism. We
trust that Fernando Wood will receive a lesson
at the coming election which shall teach other
demagogues the folly of trying to drag sec
tarianism into politics.
Bismabok’s Hesitation.—Whan the
German Parliament adopted, at the second
reading, the Anti-Socialist Bill exactly as it
had been amended, contrary to the wishes of
the Government, at the first reading, Prince
Bismarck became so angry that he informed
the National Liberals he would resign unless
they should vjte the bill as the Government
had proposed it. The great Chancellor subse
quently, however, seems to have cooled down
considerably, for now a cable dispatch which,
it is true, sounds somewhat unintelligible, re
ports that a compromise has been effected, in
consequence of which Prince Bismarck has
agreed to remain in office. This is undoubted
ly the best solution of the difficulty.
A Timely Suggestion.—The Dispatch
has always been friendly to, and advocated en
ergetically the cause of honorable liquor deal
ers that were persecuted by shallow-brained
temperance fanatics. Hence, we have the right
to make this very timely suggestion to the
liquor dealers : Do not mix up too much with
politics, and especially cease advocating the
nomination of a man for City Judge on the
ground that he would reruse to enforce the
Excise Law. Any Judge that would obtain a
seat on the bench under such circumstances,
might be naturally expected to prove recreant
to bis pledges, and turn out to be the worst
enemy of the men that elected him.
England and the Afghans.—The
English expedition is reported to be.ready to
move upon Cabul, the Ameer having refused to
receive the British mission. Now, to unpreju
diced persons the question will appear quite
natural, What business has England to meddle
with the affairs of Afghanistan ? True, she says
the unfavorable disposition of the Ameer is*un
pleasant to her, but, at bottom, all England
cares for is to subjugate and annex Afghanis
tan, as she has subjugated and annexed the
principalities of the North-Indian princes. And
for this greedy, insatiable policy tho British
people are to shed their blood and pour out
their money!
“Undeb the Gaslight.”—This is the
very suggestive name of a new illustrated
paper just out, price ten cents. It contains pic
tures of Rev. Dr. Talmage among the beautiful
women at the “Strand,” tho O’Leary-Hughes
walking match, touching instance of a Mag
dalen’s devotion, sensation scones of what the
women of tho period are doing, astounding
disclosures in regard to “Our Lawyers,” all
fully illustrated.
Very Just.—A great many German-
American papers ask very justly why no sub
scriptions are being made in the Fatherland for
the relief of the yello.w fever sufferers. When
ever a great calamity occurs in any part of
Hemapyi Vy> Qsrmaaa ia tea United sujtaau_
called upon to contribute liberally for the relief
of the victims. It is time that this should be
reciprocated. Thousands of Gorman families
in the Southern States have been cruelly strick
en by tho fearful plague, and not a few are suf
fering from want of the necessaries of life.
Cannot the rich Germin empire do something
for them ?
Kama i
and
IWWWWWWWWWWWW.WW ar w
WASN’T GOOD ON FIGGEBS.
She camo to town from Rockaway on her usual
Saturday trip. She came down on the same old
clam cart filled with clams and onions. As she
slid off the cart wheel she had a worried expres
sion on her face, a wonderfully suggestive face
—suggestive of a Dutch cheese. She slapped
the off horse on the back, gave the nigh one an
onion, and entered one of the stores opposite
Washington Market.
Tho clerk, a young man who had a hump
backel nose that looked as if it had been through
a mill, and gave him the appearance of having
a shoehorn tied to his forehead, rubbed his
hands iu glee, for he imagined he saw a big sale
looming up in the distance.
“Say, look here,” she drawled, “I want ter
git a hat an’ a pair of shoes for the old man.
When I let him come down with the clams and
onions, he gits bilin full, and don’t chip up a
cent when he gits home. I’m runnin’ the ma
chine myself now. Give me a hat an’ a pair of
shoes for the old man.”
“What size does he wear?” queried the ac
commodating clerk.
“I got ’em here in my ridicule somewhere,”
and she went up to her heels in a gripsack that
she carried in her hand. When she came out it
was seen that the search had not been success
ful. She colored up as she remarked :
■ “The old man writ the Aggers down on a
piece of paper, but I must have lost it.”
“Can’t you remember what they were?”
"Lemme see. There’s the hat fust—humph.
Now the Aggers fur the hat wuz—well, the first
figger looked like a cruller, and then there wuz
a straight mark that stood on a shelf, and un
der tho shelf wnz another cruller.”
The clerk began to look as if he was being
blown up as he took a pencil .and made all the
figures in the alphabet.
She didn’t recognize any of them, and said:.
“Well, tnebbe there’s different kind of fig
gers up our way, an’ I’ll send ’em down to you.
Now ’bout the shoes.”
“Ahl yes, the shoes, to be sure,” said the .
clerk, “Now what number do you want ?” ,
“Well, I remember this much: the old man
said that if I lost the figgers that there was a ,
war occurred in the last part of the shoe num
ber, Can’t you name some year that had a war
in it?”
The clerk informed the good woman that
wars were occurring every night among the
Greenbackers, and told her that tho last big
war was at Syracuse a few weeks ago. Then he 1
spoke of the war of. the Rebellion, but she said 1
that it wasn’t as big as ’6l. Ho then began
with the year of the hostilities between Cain
and Abel, and went through the whole ancient
and modern history. When he arrived at the
Revolution she quivered, and said it was some
thing ’bout the Americans, like that. When he
struck 1812, she jumped nearly over the coun
ter :
“That’s um, that’s up, show up your twelves.
You’re the brick I’ve been huntin’ for. The old
man’s got a foot like a herrin’ box, an’ you’ve
struck it dead.-' You’d git nine out of a possi
ble ten. Make a twelve, will you ?”
He made her a twelve, and after scanning the
figures she took a pocket-book out of the grip
sack and paid for the shoes without saying a
word, but there was a satisfied look about her
which can he likened only to the expression on
a mule’s face after he has kicked a man over a
barn.
“I wish wo wuz so fortunate’bout the hat.
Make some crullers, won’t you ?”
He began with an “o,” and she said that was
a doughnut. He again went through all the
units, but she couldn’t find what she wanted,
and left for home. The old man eame down
the next day, said something about a old
fool, and purchased a hat, size 8%.
AN ENTEBPBISING JOURNALIST.
Our old friend, John Stevenson, recently
started a paper. It had been imexistence two
days (it was a weekly paper and hadn’t yet had
its first issue), when a band of strolling players
came into town. They were [to give a perform
ance at the Town Hall, and were to produce
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Mr. Stevenson was
mellow when they arrived, and attended the
performance that night. After the performance
was over he sought out Uncle Tom, fell on his
neck and wept, and sympathized with him on
account of the cruel treatment he had received
from Legree. He then introduced himself, and
the two went to a neighboring sample-room
and sampled. Uncle Tom suggests ! a game of •
cards, and George Feyton, Uncle Tom, Legree,
and Mr. Stevenson sat down to a quiet little
game of poker. t When Mr. Stevenson awoke
there was nothing in his pocket but a hole.
The “press broke down” that week. Next
week the “form unfortunately was pied.”
When Mr. S. received more funds he went to
the town and began in earnest. Everything
being ready, he was about to issue his first
sheet, when an influential citizen of the town
camo to him and said:
“Young man! if every man, woman and
child In this town were to take six copies of
your paper every day, you wouldn’t have
enough money to pay your board.”
John keeps schooners from overflowing now.
SMALL CHANGE.
Mb. O’Roubke got paid off as usual
last Saturday night, and after loading up he
took a Third avenue car for home. His busi
ness is down town, and he resides about a mile
from the City Hall. As soon as he dropped
into the car seat he paid his fare and went to
sleep. When he awoke he was at the Harlem
Bridge. He donned a complacent air as if he
had arrived at the place he started for and hid
behind an ash-barrel until a down-car started.
When he again awoke he was at Canal street.
He alighted and determined to walk up to his
home. After walking about a mile he found
himself at the North River. A car came along.
Ah 1 he had it this time. The next time his
eyes opened he was at the Battery. He was
too proud to ask any questions and he again
boarded a car. The return of consciousness
caught the Central Park birds singing in his
ear. Ho sat down on a hydrant and waited for
daylight to come along. When it passed its
way he hoofed it home. He spells street car
with a “d” now.
Mb. Coopeb is a fine young man. He
has a heart as big as his cheek, and he wouldn’t
harm a loaded cannon if he knew it. The
other day he was walking down William street.
He was ruminating. He had a wad of tobacco'
as big as a loaf of twist bread in his mouth.
Mr. Cooper is very cleanly in his habits and
never spits on the sidewalk. He wanted to ex
pectorate, and just ahead of him he saw an ash
barrel. He would wait until he got to it.
When lie arrived at it he spit. It was no little,
common spit, but one of those good old-fash
ioned ones that reminds a person of the flood,
or a Summer shower, or something of that kind.
Three seconds afterward he got a belt under
tho ear with a club that made • him think he’d
fallen off a barn. He had spit in an apple
woman’s barrel.
We are supremely happy. An editor
came to us the other day and said: “1 used one
of your ‘squibs’ the-other day and forgot to
credit it. 1 hope you’ll excuse me this time.”
Then wo thought of tho Telegram copying a
half-column article of ours, and crediting it to
the Boston Post, and we wept, and determined
to publish that man’s name. It is Kenward
Philp, and he is a rising youeg journalist, and
he don’t owe anybody a cent, and don’t drink
anything, and didn’t borrow thirteen dollars of
us about two weeks ago, and he paid it, and
there are many other good things which he
would do if he could only think of them. When
we feel grateful we have to speak our mind
right out, even if wo do lose money by it.
As the cold weather approaches, the
young man will be compelled to do his hugging
inside. We mean inside of the house by the
parlor. Winter is the season of the year when
many a vow is made and many a young man
will be compelled to promise, ere Spring
It was on the afternoon of Tuesday
last, and he saw one of his creditors coming
and could not evade him. What should he do 1
He walked up boldly and shook tho man by the
hand. “Whan can you pay that little ?”
began the fiend. “Do you know why I’m like
O’Leary?” asked our friend, as he took out a
roll of bills. “No,” said the fiend, and his face
was wreathed in smiles, and ho squared off
playfully and continued, “ unless it is because
you’ve been walking for a ‘belt.’” “Not at
all,” said our friend, as he made for a passing
car, “ it’s because you’s behind me.” The pav
ing-stone passed over the car gnd killed a
tramp.
There was a young man named St.
John,
And he was one of tbe bon-ton.
He got as full as a tick,
And got hit with a brick,
And now the young snooz-r is gone.
As we propose to publish pleasant little obit
uarj- notices like the above for every newspaper
man in the city, so that their friends may
have them ready to slap on the tombstone
at a moment’s notice, we would suggest that
orders bo sent in immediately, as it requires
some time to compose them. Each order must
be accompanied by a SIOO bill.
The fiend sent us another batch yes
terday, and wants to know what we think of it.
Fiend! you can’t write poetry. Go into the
circus business. Got a position on the Fulton
Ferry and yank a big wheel, and wear a nice
blue cap, and be sassy and get chucked over
board. Join a menagerie with an elephant in
it, and stick a pin in his off leg. Do anything
else but poetry. There is a place in the En
glish Channel where they appreciate poetry.
It is called Hehers. Go to Heliers.
Thebe was a terrible accident on Chat
ham street a few days ago.. Some parties were
talking about tbe weight of a horse-car. As
they crossed the track ahead of one, one of the
party attempted to lift it with his foot, and now
there ain’t but one to wash. He said that he
tripped and got his foot under the wheel by
some accident, but his friends knew better, and
told him that he couldn’t fool them, and that he
had been trying to play points on them, so that
he could bat on a sure thing.
A cotempobary;' in a voluptuous article
on tho weather, says that “ stoves do not feel
amiss these cool evenings.”' No, we should
think not. If we catch any stoves around our
way doing anything of that kind we’ll notify
the police. It’s an outrage, and should ho
abated. When anything of that kind has to be
done hope that we will be notified at once, and
we will see that no time is lost between here
and the point of destination.
Now is the time to hunt. A friend of
ours who went out gunning a few days, is now
hunting for a beautiful diamond ring which he
was foolish enough to wear out on the day’s
sport. He desires us to say that anybody who
returns the ring to this office can keep the fin
ger. His companion’s oar could be used as a
pea strainer, without causing him any incon
venience.
“Dobah” wants to know wljat she shall
do. A young man loves her very dearly. He is
very wealthy and-handsome, but he don’t sat
isfy her. Why? What’s in the way? These
are all the charms that are requisite, and Dorah
must bo hard to satisfy. If she will drop in
and see us we will advise with her. in private.
Our wife is about dying, and maybe we’ll do.
The newspapers all over the country
are beginning tt> notice the “ peach tree in full
bloom.” If beer and rum and things cost four
million times as much as they do, citizens
wouldn’t discover these phenomena in their
back yards.
The sleepers on the line of the Elevated
Railroad have, as yet, made no complaint that
the running of trains a-npise them, all reports
to the contrary notwithstanding.
L? our friends want to see a model
newspaper man they should call at this office.
We go all day without drinking, and do noth
ing but what is write.
The reason why a little loaf is like a
little loafer is because they both get full of rye.
"Who knows Bill Yards ?
M-TISICA-Ij.
Steinway Hail—Mabie Boze-Maple
son Concerts.—The first public performance by
this fine musical organization was given on Monday
evening at Steinway Hall, tbe assemblage being a
particularly fashionable and brilliant one, and in
cluding many of the best known professionally mu
sical people in town, with a large sprinkling of well
known and gifted amateurs. Marie Roze was of course
.the bright particular star of the occasion, her first
offering being the ‘'Robert toi que j’aime” aria
from Meyerbeer’s “Robert le Diable,” the harp ac
companiment being played by Miss Elizabeth Slo
man. Her reception was very warm, and she, in
answer to a re- demand, sang tbe Scotch song by
Burns, “Coming through %the Rye,” which pro
voked unlimited applause. Later in the evening
she sang the Ardita waltz, first sang here by Mlle.
Titiens, being expressly composed for her by the
gentleman after whom it is named, and this time
gave in response the pleasing little air, “Five
O’clock in the Morning.” The lady was in excellent
voice, and greatly pleased her many admirers pres
ent. Signor Brignoli was made much of on his re
appearance, and sang the romance, “Colli Nativi e
Cari,” from Ardita’s Italian-American opera, ««The
Spy,” and following this, on request, with “Dormi
Pure.” On his second appearance he departed from
the programme announcement of “ Salve Dimora,”
and sang instead Sullivan’s ballad, “Dove once
Again,” and “Good-By, Sweetheart, Good-By.”
Mr. W. T. Carleton, the popular baritone, sang Bar
ri’s “ L’Ombra deHa Croce,” (“The Shadow of the
Cross,”) and on being recalled, Charles Adams’
“Noel.” In the second part he also sang the ro
mance from “Dinorah,” “Sei Vendicato Assai.”
The instrumental soloists were Mr. Fred Duldren,
pianist, who played Mendelssohn’s second concerto
in D Minor, a composition of his own, and a gavotte
by Padre Martini, and Mr. Louis Blumenberg, who
gave, as a violincello solo, Servais’ “O Cara Memb
ria.” An excellent orchestra, directed by G. Oari
berg, also performed the overture to Cherubini’s
“Anacreon,” and. the grand march from Mendels
sohn’s “Athalie.” The entire concert was a supe
rior one, and highly enjoyed until the very end.
The second concert was given on Friday evening,
when among other features was the “Miserere,”
from “H Trovatore,” with chorus and orchestra,
and the first series terminated with an afternoon
concert yesterday,
Alhaiza Opera - Concert Company. —
The audition muszcale arranged by Mr. Frederick
Bullman-at Steinway Hall on Tuesday evening last,
was largely taken advantage of by the musical
classes, who are now having so many and such
varied operatic feasts laid before them. The ob
ject was to introduce the members of the Alhaiza
Opera-Concert Company, and a pleasanter means of
so doing could not well have been devised. The
prima donna, Mlle. Aline Alhaiza, has before ap
peared in this city aa Mlle. Lambelli, in French
opera bouffe. She is highly gifted both as vocal
ist and actress, her voice being a rich soprano, and
she pleased greatly by her slnging’of a selection
from Verdi’s “La Traviata,”|and Ricci’s waltz song,
“Une Folle a Romo,” aud her combined singing
and acting in a scene and aria from Donizetti’s
“Lucia di Lammermoor.” Signorina Tomasi, the
prima donna contralto, also sang airs from “Le
Prophete,” and “Lucrezia Borgia,” and Signor
Luberti, the new tenor’s selections were “Il Mio
Tesoro” from*** Don Giovanni,” aud an air from
Bellinis “I Capuletti.” Signor Boniverli, the
basso, gave an air from “Rlgoletto,” and Mr. Franz
Rummel stirred the audience to excitement by nis
rare piano so’lo performances, his selections being
R. Schumann’s “Variations Symphoniques,” a noc
turne by Chopin, Handel’s “Harmonious Black
smith,” and a polonaise in E Major by Liszt. The
first public concert of the Alhaiza Troupe will be
given at Steinway Hall on Monday, October 14th.
Steinway Hall—Gband Combination
Concert.—On next Thursday evening a particularly
notable concert will be giwen at Steinway Hall, be
ing the first and only appearances in concert of the
leading members of the Strakosch Opera Troupe.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg will be heard for the first
time since her return from Europe, singing a bar
carole from Meyerbeer’s “North Star,” a song
express y composed for her by the distinguished
musician Clay, ’ and with Miss Cary, Mr. Conly, and
Signor Rosnati, the quartette from Donizetti’s
“Lucia di Lammermoor.” Miss Anna Louise Cary,
the great contralto, will also reappear, her selec
tions being Faure’s “Santa Marie,” Cowen’s “Bet
ter Land,” and in»the “Lucia” quartette. Signor
Rosnati, the new tenor, is announced for Luzzi’s
•koro&M 9 “^ a jmd
f ( popular “None Ver.” Mr. George A. Conly will
y contribute aa air from “The Magic Flute,” and
’ Pinsuti’s “Bedouin Love Song.” Mme. A. Mare t
-3 zek, the mest perfect harpist in this country, will
, play Labarre’s “Bolero Espagnol,” and Bosha’s
“Souvenir d’lslande;” while the famous pianist,
3 Mme. Julie Rive-King, will play the solos, a pre*
t hide, and fugue "by Haberbier aud Giulmant, and
3 Liszt’s “ Rhapsodie Hongroise,” No. 14. The price
f of admission will be only one dollar, with reserved
j seats for fifty cents extra, and the concert will be
t one of the best and greatest of the season-
’ Steinway Hall. —Wilhelmj Concerts.
—The third of this series of musical entertainments
• given by the eminent violin virtuoso at Steinway
Hall on Wednesday evening, called together one of
, the largest and musically critical audiences it has
ever held, and in the apiJreciation bestowed was
quite in proportion to its size, and immensely com
plimentary co its object. The performances of Herr
Wilhelmj were a concerto by Mendelssohn, and his
. own “Fantasiestuck,” a romance, and a nocturne
p adapted by himself from Caopia. Nothing equal
r to his violin playing has ever been heard here, and
} the unanimity of the musical world in regard to it
k Is wonderful. The assisting artists were Mme. Car
reno, who among other piano compositions played
3 Beethoven’s sonata in B flit, and selections from.
Chopin; Miss Katie L. James, who charmingly sang
Abt’s ballad “Embarrassment,” and the old Scotch
. ballad, “Within a Mile of Edinboro Town;” Signor
Lazzarini, a new tenor of considerable ability,
whose selections were a romance from tbe opera of
“Don Sebastian,” and the “Salva dimora,” very
1 sweet y, and Miss Maud Morgan with a harp solo,
1 Goed-elfried’s “Dame des Steppes.”
Herr Wilhelmj’s last concerts prior to his leaving
• for the West are announced for to-morrow, Wed
’ nesday, Friday and Saturday evening), and the
. afternoon of Saturday.
San Francisco Minstrels.—As the
season progresses those “ merry sons of tbe colored
• Momus” get merrier and merrier, and extend their
i cheerfulness doubly to all wh > oacaiioually. while
j away an evening in their company. Wambold, Ray
j mond, Frillman and Russell warble sweet songs and
r ballads, and Birch and Backus furnish the humor
( ous element in the early portion of the bill. Later
r on Ricardo burlesques femininity, Johnson and
Powers sing and dance, J. G. Withers plays flute
solos. Add Ryman orates, George Thatcher tells
5 wonderfully funny stories, and all of the comedians
3 join in the general fun. You can v sit the San Fran
cisco Minstrels on any evening of the week or on
( the afternoon of Saturday.
Chickering Hall. — Signoriaa Gemma
Donati announces a grand operatic concert to be
• given at Chickering Hall on the evening of Satur
, day next, October 12th, when she will be assisted
( by Miss Auerbach; J-'*!* Graff, tenor; W. G. Gott
( schalk, baritone; Signor Susini, basso; Mr. J. Levy,
the Incomparable cornetist, and Sig. Agramonte,
pianist. The programme will be a tastefully se-
1 lected one and the prices popular.
Obpheon Tree Singing Classes.—Mr.
Jerome Hopkins announces the opening of these
r Invaluable classes for the season, and* points with
i just pride to the sixteen years’ success they have
I enjoyed. The lessons for ladies and girls are open
> from 3:30 to 5 P. M. on Mondays, at Ascension
. Church Lecture Rooms, No. 68 West Eleventh street,
, near Fifth avenue; for ladies and gentlemen, from
. 8 to 9:15 P. M. on the same evenings; for choir
boys, at St. Augustine’s Church, No. 103 East Hous*
ton street, near Bowery, on Tuesday aiternoons, at
I 4 o’clock. Instruction is free, class books costing
J $4, a portion of which is refundable, and the term
lasts till May, 1879. Mr, Hopkins’ address is No. 25
! Union square.
i
J DRAMATIC.
, Park Theatre.—Qn Tuesday evening
last “Old Love Letters” and “Hurricanes” was
succeeded by “Bouquets and Bombshells,” an
adaptation from the German by Mr. J. W. Shannon,
who so cleverly adapted the piece called “Cham
pagne and Oysters” for the same theatre. He has
J not in this instance, however, been quite so suo«
• cassful, and the work with a lack of both story and
incident, is so full of inconsistencies as to make one
I involuntarily wonder what it is all about. Mr.
Shannon’s most serious error lies in his transfer*
ring the scene to England, yet retaining all the Ger<
1 man surroundings. Capt. Victor Violet, an English
hussar officer, fights a duel with and wounds one Fisi
count Gcwelski for having slandered a lady friend of
his lady friend, Lady Sophie Grant, and according ta
this play is sentenced to three months confine
’ ment in a fort. The fact is an English officer do
ing anything of the kind would not only have a
t very much longer period allotted him, but would
be instantly deprived of his commission. This
fortunate hussar, however, goes to the fort, and
what a wonderful fort it is, where he can fully
gratify his insatiable desire for bouquets, and
strange to relate, find ladies in the fort to give them
to. Tbe orders of the commandant in regard to ths
gates are not attended to by the sentinels, but all
that far from peremptory official does is to warn
them to be more careful in future, the real fact
being that for such an actual neglect of duty, a pun
ishment most severe would be inflicted. The first
r act over, the others are totally independent of it,
and are given up to some of the most ridiculous and
' inconsistent foolery imaginable. Volunteers are
being drilled in a fort, and a rough vulgar drill
sergeant of the regular army, addresses them as he
’ would the poorest raw recruit in a line regiment.
1 The sergeant carries whisky with him at drill, and
3 the funny volunteer picks his pocket of it, aud gets
1 under tbe influence, right in the ranks. The oomia'
’ drilling scene is very funny, but also very impos-
■ sible, and though the uniforms are handsome
enough, there is not a single one of them (not even
including Mr. George Clarke’s) appropriate. After
two acts (the second and third) of tomfoolery, the
I fourth act again becomes rational, and everything
ends as it should, in happiness and joy. There is
5 some good acting in the piece, and much to laugh
’ at, but not one in a hundred would be able at the
5 close of the piece to tell what it is all about. Mr.
II George Clarke played Captain Victor Violet, but his
rendition of it was not worthy of him. His dress
was continental, and his manner was rAther that
• of a blase man of society than a dashing duel fight-
• ing hussar. Mr. James Lewis was evidently con
-1 scions of the impossibility of making anything even
1 tolerably human of such a part as Horatio Softly,
but he remedied that by being intensely comical
5 throughout, and whatever acting honors there ara
in the cast belong principally to him. Mr. Frank
Hardenberg as Col. Sir John Lynx, made up splen-
5 nidly, and acted with dignity and as much feeling
as the portrayal of a comic colonel would admit of,
and Mr. W. F. Owen was a very funny but quite im
possible drill sergeant. This latter, however, was
no fault of his. Mrs. Agnes Booth as the dashing
young widow, Lady Sophie Grant, was, of course,
5 charming in the extreme; the part did not admit
‘ of her distinguishing herself as an actress. Mrs.
G. H. Gilbert was characteristically good as Lady
Violet; Mrs. Louise Allen as Lady Belling, realized
3 such a character as she is supposed to be, clovorly,
and Miss Sydney Cowell made much of the insignifi
cant part of Susan Duck. Miss Minnie Palmer, as
’ Josephine Lynx, showed some advancement on her
’ previous efforts, and Mr. Frank Sanger, as Viscount
Gowelski, and Mr. Cullington, as Peter Jenkins, oom
’ pleted a very commendable cast. “Bouquets aud
1 Bombshells,” as a series of disconnected scenes, is
very amusing, and will occasion hearty and pro-
■ longed laughter during its run, thanks to the
comedy humor and power of Mr. Lewis. It will
be pleasant news to many that Lotta will shortly
I play an engagement at Mr. Abbey’s theatre, com
mencing on Monday, October 28th, during which
. several new plays including “La Cigale,” will ba
k presented for the first time in New York. “Bou
; quets and Bombshells ” will be repeated on every
> evening of the present week, and on the afternoon
. of Saturday.
Lyceum Theatre. —lt is surely a satis
factory proef of Mr. Denman Thompson’s grea(
popularity and drawing power, to find more peopl<
applying for admission than even the liberal dimen
sions of the theatre would admit of; yet such wa<
unquestionably the case on several evenings of last
week. As in Ban Francisco, his touching, though
humorous impersonation has grown upon the pub
lic heart, and in what they first went to see as mere*
( ly a superior piece of artistic work, they now recog
nize that “one touch of nature” that “makes thi
whole world akin,” and while at times ,the side«
ache with laughter at the eccentricities of Joshue
Whitcombe. there is also an occasional tear in th<
eye, induced by tha gentle sympathies and kindly
doings of the uncouth-looking but diamond-heart
ed old Yankee. The ladies and gentlemen of the
supporting company are everyone perfect in theie
5 way, and the performance runs with a smoothness
that makes it doubly enjoyable. We congratulate
both Mr« Thompson and his able manager. Mr. Hill,
f on their merited success and popularity. On Sat
urday afternoon an extra performance is given.
New York Aquarium.—Since last we
) wrote of this interesting exhibition with its won
. derful collection of natural and principally aquatio
t curiosities, Professor Herrmann has provided
- another attraction, in the form of a new magical
j entertainment. His various illusionary accomplish.
1 ments are brought into greater practice than be-
L fore, aud his wonderful mid-air suspension and
j spirit’s cabinet acts defy detection and excite as
, tonishment. The visitor to the Aquarium can study
• nature under its most curious aspects, witness an
• unsurpassed series of Herrmann illusions and lis
r ten at the same time to very choice and well per
j formed musical selections any atternopa qs