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The New York herald., 1879-03-01
An Extra Session Probable.

The conviction became general yesterday,
among those Senators and Representatives
who have heretofore believed that Congress
would complete all absolutely necessary
legislation by the 4th of March, that it cam
not be done and that an extra session is in
evitable. There has been so much recent
delay and there have arisen so many new
causes of delay on several appropriation
bills, and there are such strong differences
between the Senate and the House as to the
jobs engrafted into bills by the Senate, that
there is little or no hope of getting through.
The necessity for an extra session has
become SO generally accepted that the
President conferred yesterday with leading
republican Senators as to the fittest time
for calling it. The conclusion to which
their advice pointed is that it would be wise
for the President to issue his proclamation
at once on the day following the adjourn
ment, summoning the new Congress to
meet after an interval of ten days. We
hope this will be accepted us sound view
Nothing could be gained by postponement
The appropriation bills ought to be passed
before the close of the fiscal year, and
time enough should be allowed for
deliberate legislation. Neither the Presi-
dent nor Congress wishes to be confined in
the malarial atmosphere of Washington in
the hot months Of summer. 1t is better
that the new Congress should assemble at
once and complete its business while the
weather is yet cool. If it should be re-
garded to-day as q settled conclusion that
there is to be an extra session that will be
good reason for dispensing with all hurry
and thereby avoiding the jobs which are
SO apt to be smuggled in and slip through
amid the tumult and distraction OF the clos
ing days Of short session.
The New York herald., 1879-03-01
Overwhelming Defeat OF the Brazilian
Subsidy.

Subsidy.
The House of Representatives did one
thing yesterday which rebounds greatly to
its credit 1t rejected the Senate amend
ment to the Post Office Appropriation bill
granting subsidy to John Roach's line OF
Brazilian steamships by vote OF 80 yeas
to 157 nays. This is a magnificent tri-
umphant vindication of the character OF the
House for honesty and economy, and for
sound judgment as well. This vote goes
far toward atoning for the errors of this
House on the silver question and other ques-
tions connected with the currency. 1t is but
justice to say of the present democratic
House that, in spite OF its theoretical errors
on questions of finance, it has been remark
ably free from completely with corrupt jobs,
and that it has been sincere, consistent, and
successful in maintaining sound principles
of economy. The House has reason to be
proud of its record on this great head OF
legislative duty.
All the tears lie in an onion that will be
shed over the humiliating disappointment
which has overtaken John Roach and his
lobby. All the money they have expended,
all the intrigues and man@uvres they
have been so industriously prosecuting,
have gone for naught Next to John
Roach himself the person who has
the greatest reason to be mortified,
at this decisive defeat is Senator Blaine,
who made himself the great national cham
pion of this subsidy and OF the order OF
ideas on which it was defended. We
warned him that he was falling into mis-
take, but the warning was not needed. His
vivacity and facility so greatly outrun his
caution and foresight that he is perpetually
doing things in haste to be repented of at
leisure. He does too many things which
evince his inability to anticipate the
sober second thought and deliberate
judgment of the public mind. All his
most striking efforts since he has
been Senator have betrayed this lack
of forecast. He made n vehement speech
against the Halifax award, but the award
was paid with the general appreciation of
the country. He took the strongest ground
against the Chinese, and his views are
almost unanimously repudiated in his own
section of the Republic. He was the vigor-
Gus advocate of the Brazilian subsidy, and
we behold the result. Slower, more taci-
turn and less brilliant men have better
chances for intrenching themselves in the
solid confidence of the public. Mr.. Blaine
has yet to learn the meaning and value Of
"a wise and masterly inactivity"
The New York herald., 1879-03-01
Legislative Tinkering.

The Legislature is consuming much time
in discussing the expediency Of reducing
the salaries of city officials in general and
of the fremen and school teachers in par
ticular. as contemplated by Mr.. Strahnn' j
bill. The main object of the discussions
appears to be to afford seedy politicians an
opportunity to profess their intense affec-
ton for firemen, school teachers and labor
ers, and their determination to resist all
al; this is sincere and not designed to gain
popularity and votes for the seedy politi-
clans if they should happen to come before
the people for reelection to the Assembly
or as candidates for other positions. We
are not prepared to say that any of the USE
full and hard working employees Of the city
in the fire or education departments are
paid any too literally for the services they
render, and we are decidedly of opinion
that they are the last public servants upon
whom economy ought to be practised. But
they must owe their escape to the proposed
reduction of their moderate pay to sound
reasoning and not to the buncombe of their
professed champions.
We need less costly city government
than we now have as relief to all who bear
the burden Of taxation. We spend about
thirty million dollars year, and that is too
much. But the saving to be effected by the
pairing down of salaries is comparatively in
significant. The important leakages are to
be found in other directions. The Board of
Education made false pretence at econ
omy last year by cutting down the teachers
salaries after the total amount to be levied
by taxation for the department for that
year had been fixed. The reduction did
not, therefore, effect any saving to
the taxpayers, but left o larger share
of the appropriation to be spent in
books, repairs of schoolhouses and
heating apparatus and the wonderfully
expansive item Of fuel. For 1873 the Board
demanded the modest appropriation of
eighty thousand dollars for fuel, an amount
sufficient to purchase over twenty-six thou
sand tons Of coal at three dollars per ton.
In many other departments there is similar
prodigality, and in nearly all an excessive
and entirely unnecessary number of en-
ployes. If such great leakages as these can
be stopped we may save the city three or
four million dollars Of annual expense and
still pay the firemen and school teachers
enough to support themselves and their fam
lilies with some little show Of comfort and
responsibility.
The New York herald., 1879-03-01
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

Ole Bull is about to commence an Eastern tour.
Sothern is expected in New York about the 1st Of
April.
Master Lee. the boy soprano. seems to have made
quite hit in Boston concerts.
Aptommas. the harpist. will soon give series Of
musical rectals in Boston,
1t is reported that Mr.. John L. Owens will make .
six months tour through Australia.
Miss Clara Morris has accepted play called "The
Second Wife" a translation from the German
Lotta finished the first week of her engagement in
Cincinnati to house that was literally packed.
The Cincinnati Lodge of the Order OF Elks have
arranged for monster benefit on the I'd of March
The widow and daughter of the late George L. Fox
said to be playing in an Uncle Tom combination.
Rubinstein is threatened with blindness and by
last &C, cunts was under the care Of an oculist in
Dresden
There Is London announcement that Mile. Chris
tine Nilsson will join the Mapleson Opera Company
and return to America with Gerster next year.
1t is said that Messrs Ford & Zimmerman. Of
Philadelphia. have placed $500 to the credit Of
Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan. the authors of III. NJ
S. Pinafore."
Mr.. Bronson Howard's play. Hurricanes" has
been produced in London at the Criterion Theatre.
under the title of Truth" and in the main favor.
ably received although Of the journals describes
its Jokes as "unpleasantly broad"
Birch Wambold and Backus deny that they allow
spectators sell tickets the doors the side
walk near the San Francisco Minstres Hall. ''Somo
fellows" said Backus yesterday. 'may buy three
four tickets each and try to speculate them but
when we find them around we the police ON them.
chased one of these chaps with club myself ono
night" said Backus. and if hadn't been short
xvipded I'd hit him on tho hin.
The New York herald., 1879-03-01
FINE ARTS.

LUDWIG KNAUs 'READY FOR HER LESSON"
There has been added to the collection in s. p.
Avery's Gallery a new and much more important
Knaus than has been in the dealers galleries
for some time. called "Heady for Her Lesson" A
charming little German girl very neatly clad stands
looking out Of her clear brown eyes at us. with her
hand the pencil sweet smile lights up
the fresh fair face. and we can see that
she is eager to show how well she has
learned her lesson. The figure stands out finely in
the centre of tho floor, and feels strongly the
space between it and the wall of the the pose
natural and the expression of the face with its umn
ous fresh flesh nts is lifeke The treatment through
out is remarkable for simplicity and an accurate
knowledge OF the value OF each brush mark; noto
this in the modelling of the face and in the work on
tho white pinafore which the pretty child has
her brown velvet dress. On the whole the painting
is masterly one and worthy Of the painters high
reputation.
The New York herald., 1879-03-01

The WEATHER.-The meteorological condi-
tions prevailing yesterday were marked in the
region east of the Mississippi River by the
movement over the whole of q remarkable area
of high pressure. whose centre travelled over
the lakes, the Middle and New England States,
Canada and the British maritime provinces
toward New foundland. Prcssures ranging con-
siderably above $3.50 inches were observed
within the zone of movement of the highest
barometer, and these decreased gradually
toward the Gulf where they ranged be-
tween 5000 and 1920 inches. The de-
veopment of this extraordinary atmos-
pheric density occurred after midnight Of
Thursday, and very little loss of pressure was
observable over the Middle and New England
States until toward last evening, when the area
Of high barometer moved slowly nortbcastward
to the regions OF New Brunswick, Ncwfound-
land and Labrador. West OF the Mississippi
the depression already noticed in the HERALD
advanced to the Missouri Valley from the south
west and west, cutting into, as it were, the high
barometer Immediately In front. Steep baro-
metric gradients were thus formed with result
ing high winds before aud gales behind the
centre of disturbance Light snow and
rain fell the eastern and northeastern
margin of the low barometer. The temper
atures also rose before it, causing q rainfall in
close proximity to an abundant snowfall. Low
temperatures, however, continued over Manitoba,
the lakes and indeed, all tho region east of the
Mississippi and north Of latitude 35 degrees,
until the receding high prcssures gave south
erly and soutbcasterly winds, which quickly
raised the temperature south of the
uakcs to above the normal for tho
sseason. Cloudincss Is limited to the lake
districts and westward, but will extend grad
ually eastward during today. Elsewhere the
weather has been clear. 1t is probable that
storm of considerable energy is moving in far
northern zone, and which contributed to the
development of tho very high prcssures in our
latitude. Tho weather in New York and it's
vicinity to-day will be warmer, with increasing
cloudincss, followed by rain. Tomorrow it will
be warm and cloudy, with rain.
The New York herald., 1879-03-01
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
respectabilit

Longfellow sneezes in hexameters.
General Shields leans upon q cane.
Tho Cinnamon on the Pacific coast number 200.
Very few heroes are so awfully handsome of the
stage.
A daughter of Garibaldi in pantomime at Surrey
Theatre?
Tho Cincinnati Commercial scathingly says that
subsidies do not subside.
Looking at dentists showcase wc reminded
of the smiles OF Schuyler Colfax.
Assistant Postmaster General and Mrs. Tyner will
20 to the Pacific coast in April
Talmagc expects that beyond the heavens he will
be rewarded for visiting the hclls.
London Wwh:-''The Bayard of the park or bank
parlor is the Bismarck of his home"
The oil from the liver of the bass is said to be O
medicine. Do they put it into bass phialG
SO 1t not the Thundcrers gun. but the two
charges, that burst! Loaded with red tape.
Commander Juan N. Montojo. naval attache of the
Spanish Legation at Washington. is at the Everett
House.
The correspondents say that there is good deal of
love making in Rome. which reminds us to say that
when you are in Rome do as Romeo did.
Queen Victoria has received from the Empress of
Brazil dress Of spider webs. When IL camo she was
in the paror and she caught it on tho fly.
Lord Kilcoursic. of England. and Sir Henry W.
Bochcr and Lady Becher. of Ireland. arrived from
Europe in the steamship Parthia and at tho
WORT House.
Much complaint is made In Georgia because beavers
are damming the streams. The beavers 20 To dam.
ming without a cursory glance at the rights of
mill owners.
A contemporary says that tho Americans and the
Irish are tho best pedestrians. II we are not mis-.
taken it the people pursued by Pharaoh who had
| the first walk over.
Tho condition OF Mr.. Isaac Butt shows further
slight improvement, but is still critical. His ply.
| sician cannot for days pronounce q decided
| opinion to his recovery.
| Considering that tho American people did not
greatly celebrate tho national holiday of washingtons
Birthday we have little hope that they will celebrate
| April fools day much more nobly.
The Duke of Connaught's marriage with the prn
cess Louisa Marguerite. grand niece of Kaiser VIII
helm, is to bo celebrated Windsor ON the 18th OF
March. The Princess gave reception yesterday al
Berlin. tho last previous to her departure for Eng
| land.
Tho London correspondent OF the Edinburgh
| Scotsman denies that Lord Napier and Ettrich
will succeed Mr.. Layard Ambassador a.
Constantinople. Ho says:-"The conservatives
| are already much aggricved at the ap
pointmcnt of Lord DufIerin as Ambassador al
st. Petersburg that tho government is scarcely kei,
to bcstow the Constantinoplo Embassy outside Of
| their party"
The New York herald., 1879-03-01

portant) to direct the manner in which
they shall invest their funds. The safety
OF such property depends upon the mode
of investment but the three or four
million dollars received in trust by Arch
bishop Purcell were invested or disposed
of according to his unrestrained discretion,
which made lottery of the savings OF the
poor. If his ventures had been successful
nobody would have suffered, but it is for
the very reason that speculative business
judgments are so liable to be mis-
taken that all laws relating TO the in
vestments OF savings banks and trust
companies take away all discretion and
prescribe the particular mode in which
their funds shall be invested. 1t will not
do for any ecclesiastic to assume that he
may safely take risks which the wisdom OF
the laws prohibits to the most trained
and capable business men who are
intrusted with the savings Of the
poor. Ecclesiastical savings banks are
fundamentally wrong in principle. They
receive the earnings Of the poor without
the safeguards which universal experience
has proved to be necessary. When they
fail they not only involve the poor in suffer-
ing, but bring discredit upon the Church.
The system is radically vicious, and it is
to be hoped that the terrible warning at
Cincinnati may put total and speedy end
to ecclesiastical savings banks, both for
the honor of the Church and the interest
of the Moor
The New York herald., 1879-03-01
A pINAFoRE RECEPTION.

All the Deadeye Dicks, Little Duttercups. Ralph
Rackstraws Josephines Hebes. Lords of the Admi-
rally, Captains Corcorans and others who serve rs
officers and men. sisters. aunts cousins. brothers.
e cterd, the ships Pinafore riding at anchor
in and about New York. entertained
yesterday afternoon aboard Tony PASTORS Canal
Boat Pinafore" The prime dOnne of the several
companies were seated in the proscenium boxes.
while the cousins, auns sisters brothers. dead-eyed
Dicks and others, members of the vast crew, found
room in the body OF the house. 1t must not be in.
ferred that sufficient number of aunts. sisters.
cousins and brothers appeared to fill tho house.
that all the officers and who
invited engaged in the naval service.
for such was not the case. The merchant
marine represented. and the river service
not neglected for one Billy Birch first officer Of
a now famous mud scow was ON hand, and several
for purposes OF ablution, noted by the writer.
1t was before such mixed audience as this then.
that the Tony Pastor 'Canal Boat" appeared yester
day afternoon. Much of the music and text
of the III. M. S. Pnafore' are preserved in
the Canal Boat Pinafore but withal it has original
merits of its own which yesterday claimed vocifer-
recognition from crowded house, Gus Williams,
Right Hon. Sir Joseph Lager (ruler OF the entire
navy), funnier than ever before. and his new
business" twice excited the risibility Of the
players as to jeopardze the effect Of scene two.
The audience never-that is. hardly ever
the curtain until. by the. baby farming
hocus-pocus of Little Buttercup Rackstraw became
Corcoran and Corcoran Rackstraw. Tony Pastors
reception proved such success that it is expected
that the other companies playing "Pinafore' will
follow his example and send out invitations. The
and the Court Square CBrooklyn) companies were
represented
The New York herald., 1879-03-01
A Honeymoon in Jail.

Now, indeed, the Chinese must 90. They
may not be able to help being heathen, or
viewing the world through moon-shaped
optics, and Of sending their money home to
their families instead of putting it into
American whiskey and headaches but
when they insist upon being married like
human beings, yet select Jail as proper
place in which to spend honeymoon, they
tramplo upon some of the most sacred
rights of railway companies and hotel
keepers and outrage the holiest sentiments
of humanity. Yet this is what couple of
newly married Celestials yesterday pro-
posed to do at Virginia City, Nevada 1t is
not with the real merits of the case that
public sentiment will concern itself, for u
great many men deserve Jail accommoda-
tions for life for the offence of marrying
under any circumstances whatever. But
marrying is not usually considered in tho
pitiless light of fact; the ceremony and the
honeymoon are always supposed to be con.
ducted in tho realm of romance, no matter
what may be the antecedents and bank bal
ance of the contracting parties, and any one
who departs from time-hopored custom in
this respect is utterly incompetent to regard
American institutions with that intelligent
sympathy which is necessary to the per-
petuity of our glorious Republic. If the
President throws this last anti-Chinese de-
spatch into the balance instead of the waste
basket the Pacific coast will promptly have
its dearest wish gratified.
The New York herald., 1879-03-01
The Five Hundred Athletes Mt Gill
mOre's Last Night.

The shrill eagle cry Of the Scotchmen, as
it rang up from all parts Of the vast hall
when their pets had scored point; the
starting of some withy STRIPPING three whole
minutes behind more than score Of his
comrades, and then moving them oil down
before the hot two miles were over the
stringing out Of thirty or more at o time till
there were q dozen races oil going on at
once-these and the many severe tugs Of
war made very gay and pretty scene at
Gilmore's last night, and the largest ath-
letic meeting ever held there proved in
many respects the most interesting While
in the tug Of war there is clearly wide
field for good generalship it is an evident
mistake to allow any two teams twenty
minutes on o stretch. Five would be
ample, and instead of so much lying still
there should be constant succession
of heaves, as the New York Athletic
men showed last night. Objectionable as
the heaves may be In a horse they
are just the thing in this now very popular
sport, and men affected with them should
by all means be cultivated. 1t is pleasant
to note that, while the English press claims
that Sin running races at longer distances"
we are .'far behind" them, it yet comedies
that while ''no Englishman has yet run q
hundred yards in nine and quarter
seconds the veriest sceptic will admit that
the evidence that the American, G. Seward,
did so is irresistible" Large and we'll
handled meetings like this, with the en-
trance fee SO low that oil who wish may
readily enter, and prompt and impartial
disqualifying Of all who do not walk fairly,
do very much to foster these manly sports
among us and to breed men of nerve and
courage and stay. Should the trying inter-
national contest at Gilmore's week after
next result in O'Leary again winning it
might be we'll to invite some of the best
English athletes in other lines to como
over and try conclusions with our youth on
this now famous race course.
The New York herald., 1879-03-01

TENEMENT DANGERs.-Last nights meeting
Mt Cooper Institute was remarkable for the
character aud high standing of a large proper
ton of the attendants. Like wise men they
refrained from embalming their convictions in q
set of resolutions. as any body OF mere senti-
mentalists would have done. The committee ap-
pointed by the chairman to devise some method
of reducing the bad features of tenement house
life to u minimum is composed almost entirely
OF solid citizens, and their deliberations can
hardly fail to suggest some remedy or, at least,
some degree Of alleviation.
The New York herald., 1879-03-01
ADJUSTMENTS,
ACADEMY OF MUsIc-.cARMEN."

ACADEMY OF MUSIC-"CARMEN.
Carmen" was given last night with the same cast
with which it presented when originally pro-
duced here in the early part of the winter. The
house. although the Lenten season has only com
menced was large and fashionable one. and was
liberal in ITS appreciation OF the airs and meio
dies which have gone far to secure the
popularity of the opera. Miss Minnie Hauk as
Carmen repeated her previous successes as the way.
ward gypsy girl and won plaudits honestly earned
by her admirable acting well as by her singing
throughout the opera. Yet she not greeted with
that warmth of welcome her first appearance
which she received ON previous occasions. She was
i'll good voice. however. and she entered into the
spirit OF tie role with warmth. Campanini was the
Don Jose. and he proved equal to all the
requirements OF the part. His acting in
the third and fourth acts was excellent
The Escamillo OF Del Puente q repetition OF his
previous performances of that haracer-well sung
aud well acted. The song of the toreador in the
second act received as it deserved, hearty encore
This. however is of the most pleasing, as it is
OF tho most taking airs in the whole opera.
Nine. Lablachc and Nine. Sinico as Mercedes and
Mchaela did the little that required OF them in
an acceptable manner. and III. Thierry as II Dancairo
invested his role with his usual humor Mile Palla-
dino enthusiastically applauded for her dancing
in the incidental ballet or the second act Taken al
together the opera was given in manner not in.
ferior to any OF it's previous representations.