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New-York tribune., 1881-12-17
GENERAL NOTES.

The locks affixed TO the desks of members Of
the Ohio Legislature are Of such an intricate pattern
that uiley caunOt be operated by skeleton keys nor
picked by the appliances OF burglars In view Of this
fact the sergeantatArms announces that unless the
twenty thirty members of the last Legislature who
took their keys home with them return the same he
shall be Obliged To resort To violence, thus running ths
locks and nIutiating the desks.
An Elmra clergyman reports that the war
on mutilacd coins has been good thing for the
tribution box. A who has tried In vain TO pass
half dollar with hole in it finally gives up in despair
and drops II the Sunday collection 20 which he
formerly in the habit OF contributing nothing.
q dime Such coins the churches sell bullion, at
average reduction OF per cent Of their face much
the advantage of foreign missionaries and poor people
at home.
Yennor announces that polar wave may
be expected IN Washington about December %. Only
short year ago such prediction would have chilled
the marrow in a vast number of bones the Cana.
dian prophet is universally recognized member
good and regular standing of the gigantic band
successful guessers At time IL seemed II he
would succeed in being always and people began
TO feel satisfaction in depending upon the precise
of his every prediction But he has bern right in
a few instances OF late confidence has been yatn de-
sroyed and his prOgnOstCations more useless
, While the Portuguese Church Of st. John
the Baptist In Boston undergoing repairs last Sep
tember the workmen found spring OF pure water be-
meath the building well dug, above 1t n shrine
erected and the water was cODsecracd The pastor
OF the church assured his people that there MI
rnculous power medical virtue in the water,
and that n any had been effected they simply
the result sf faith In God But the people would not
accept the explanation and the stories OF the remarkable
virtues OF the water spread rapidly. Soon there
perfect rush OF people TO tho church and found
necessary establish restrictions in regard 70 supplying
the coveted fuid. Applicants now required 10 re-
peat pr Iyers for the souls In purgatory and to drop
cent into the contribution box and supplied with tho
water in bottles.
The boundess West is so prolific Of prodi-
gs that the custom has gradually about Of attest
ing the yarns spun in that rrgion by he signatures Of
prominent citizens The postmaster and ply scians
CT Forrest, ILL., willing to that boy named
John Maurer living that place, fell OF the bumpers
OF caboose which he stealing ride last Sstur
day. knocked piece OF his skull two inches square,
several fragments OF the bone not to speak OF
sand and cinders in upon the brain, picked himself up
tied his handkerchief about his head, walked mile and
nalf to his injuries attended TO, submitted 10 the
Insertion OF q silver plato I'm place OF the lost skull, snd
cheerfuly asked for something TO eat His friends hope
that he will and become a distinguished road
agent.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-17

The commerce and industry of the country have
been almost continually pestered and plagued
for many years by operations of the Govern
ment. In the past these operations have been
abundantly justified by the necessity of get
ting the public debt within reasonable control
and diminishing its burden. But there Is no
such necessity now The debt cannot possibly
be rut in more cOntrollable or ad-
vantageous shape than that which Mr..
WINDOWS work brought. about. The legitl-
mate business of The country earnestly prays for
a brief resting spell. Gamblers in stocks or
merchandise, of course, hope for continuance
of the violent fluctuations which Treasury
operations cause. But is it not high time for
the Government to give business men chance
to do little legitimate business, without new
fret or vexatiOnl
In brief. there is no good excuse for this or any
other legislation in regard to the three and a
half Der centdebt. The power TO paw at any time
or to defer payment indefinitely, as the Treas
ury may find it advantageous, is worth great
deal more than the 81 900, 900 yearly which TINS
bill would attempt to save. An enterprising,
clear-headed and vigorous Secretary of the
Treasury will make that power worth many
times 81 900, 900 yearly, in his dealings with
the long-term bonds for which provision
must sooner or later, be made 1t is not states
manship nor financial wisdom to throw away
the most powerful lever in the possession OF
the Government for use in dealing with that
fxed-term Indebtedness. Nor is there the
faintest whisper of public desire for further
reconstruction of the debt Excepting few
uneasy politicians and few uneasy financicrs
and spectators, the whole people pray, Let
us have peace!
New-York tribune., 1881-12-17
PERSONAL

Dom Pedro and his wife are expected in Paris in
January.
The Prince Imperial of Japan will soon arrive in
Paris, where he is to finish bis education
The wife of Mr. John W. Guiteau is reported 70 be
a sister of ex-hssstant Postmaster-Genera Tyner
The report tha t Senator David Davis was about to
marry his deceased wife's sister is cOntradictad
Mrs. Ddyis's two sisters are both married already.
Miss Annie Louise Cary will. it is said. marry Mr.
LOrillard next autumn, and make her last app ar
ance upon the stage next June, IN Portland, Maine
Mr. Longfellow has written poem called
Hermes Trsmegistus," which Will ill two pages
in the February or midwintor number Of The CEN
'wy Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson will contribute to
the same number essay on 'Superatiyes"
The hereditary Prince of Monaco. the unippor-
tant sovereign from whom Lady Mary HaIaitou was
divorced few years ago, is to be married. it is said
TO the Duchess of Richelleu, who was in her youth
Miss Heine, of NewOrleans.
Captain Richard F. Burton, on November 49, left
Trieste for Lisbon, thence TO sail for Madeira, his
way to the west coast of Africa He intends to land
at AKIN, on the Gold Coast. between Liberia and
the English Cape Coast Castle. In his work.
"Wanderings in West Africa" 1S63), he speaks Of
six gold mines, which he expects now TO develop
as it is asserted, the necessary capital has been
secured. He hopes to be able TO penet ate
to the King Mountains which in his opinion are
the sources of tho gold in the streams whence tho
name " Gold Coast" Is derived. The existence OF
this mountain range is doubted bv people, bnt
Burton is confident not only that this u mistake,
hut that he knows its real position to be about 300
miles north and parallel to the coast and IL conti-
dent that he fOretnld IN 1888, he will discover
new Opbir or California there. He expects to be-
absent some four months.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-17
THE RHOMBO CEPHALLTC NONSENSE.
FrOta 7hS PhilddsiDhfl LetiGer

Before the prosecution had Guiteau meas.
ured hat, prominent Puiladelpha halter sen MS
notebook with diagrams 10 The Ledger Ia Comment Va
Spzkas theory TINS hattcrs notebook appears 10 20
study OF great criminals II s sinHulIrly IKE the hte
book Of fancy pear-gIOSer, TOO. There Is scalceiI
head In IT, III act that not pear-sdape OF the wes
variety, unless III the fes that have renarkabe nAS
ness 10 the outline the sole OF wellwOrn slipper O
equity shoe IL monstous study In fact, OF what a
pear be abnormal crania SOmotues tue unDaIah'oe
bulge is in front, sometimes IN tho 0ack-tut no Two
siues are alike Here IL head that looks like ms
sLapen hiut arrowhoad here is amonstrOus pr0tuoel
ace behind the ear; here Is one that Is kno0Dy as
tato ali round; this must be mUrierers skill, ana ths
an Idiots Unfortunately tor theory they are the
haters best oustOmersall OF them highly respeetaD9
family e and If them distinguished In pnollc sna
private he their ability Intelligence and worth
number them dead aud their accounts made upV.
this world they beyond the reach OF outOres
disposition. The seeming murderer WAS prohlens
Judge, the IDIOT Governor Of distinction; tno
knOOby potato, all gono to side, was genial, en
terprsing merchant Vioe-Presldonts head dlagram,
which is in the collection, would lead any COURT wse
the Sptzka test applied, To send the owner To an
hospital One OF the nearest balanced hoads Is Dri
ianl, put eccentric, physician, long dead who "
the hatters line would have been very saIe nau =.
affairs. Here is clergyman, who gave the calmes.
VICE to his hOok, but his head ~ shocking IN is
neas.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-17
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New-York tribune., 1881-12-17
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
MADAME PATHS CONCERT.

Madame Adelina Patu returned here for a concert
before going to Philadelphia and the West, and she
gave 1t last night in the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Tho plan of the concert was like that which she
inflated at her first Brooklyn appearance two
weeks ago. half of the programme was made up Of
concert selections and half of act of Opera-this
time the last act of ii TrovatOre.' Here the chef
interest of the evening centred, though her
singing of 4" Bel raggio" from Semiramde" " in
the early part OF the concert marked hor greatest
accomplishment, viewed as pure singing. 1t
demonstrated. quite as well as the spasmodio
aspirations of Verdi, how warm aud
full tho dramatic current is in her artistic
veins; and. ~ compared with her performance in
the OPERA it showed her discriminating judgment
between two widely differing styles of
vocal writing. The Rossni scene and
air had classic breadth and no.
bility of style as delivered by Madame Patti
and its iord passages lost their usual character of
embellishments and became part of the vehicle in
which the sentiments of the piece were to be con-
veyed.
In the Verdi music there was modern. realis-
tic expression, which was heightened in
a remarkable degree by her tragic and
ImpassOned acting. Her task to excite serious
interest in the made difficult by the made
quacy of some Of its features, but the short
conings were all forgotten tho moment she
appeared Her LeonOra was q vastly better
impersonaton than tho best of the singers who
have been and heard in the part he o. have
succeeded in presenting, In the acting and in the
singing there was visible rapid development
Of the dramatic element until tho death
scene. The situation which Verdi con-
structed artfully in the prison scene blending
the harsh accusations of Maurice. tho hurried
pleadings of LeOnOra and the grooming song Of the
gypsy in her dreams, has often excited hearty ad-
mption for Verdi's genius but 1t is wonderful how
Madame Patti heightened It's effect by her action
and her song
Altogether the evenings work (which included
"COmin' thro' the Rye" and The Last Rose of
Summer" sung on rooals in the first part and the
English ballad "She Wore o Wreath of Roses y was
significant OK position of Madame Pattls versatility
New-York tribune., 1881-12-17
Aem'I)ork Daily Gribn1le,
FouNoEe BY HORACE GREELEY.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER II, 1881.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-Pierola, the ex-Dctator of Peru, has
left that country for Europe. - Mr.. Williamson.
NJ p. telographs to THE TRIBUNE his views the
Chili-Pernvian question. - The Mexican Con-
gross has adjourned. - NJ Roustan will not re-
turn to Tuns, but will be appointed to another i'm
portant post - The session of the French Legis-
laturs has ended.
DuMEsTIC.-ln the Guiteau case yesterday Mrs.
Dunmire the former wife of the assassin, testified;
the expert testimony for the prosecution was begun,
Or. Lori e, of Washington and Dr. Allan McLane
Hamilton. of New-York, being called to the stand,
their testimony damaging to the defence of ill.,
sauity. - Benjamin Harris Brewster
mated as Attorney General - Burglars at
tempted to rob the Red Hook, n. Y, Bank YES
terday morning, but they became alarmed and fed
60 The Grand Opera House at Columbus. Ohio
was burned yesterday. -; The Mallory steamer
Guadalupe has been run upon the bar at Galveston
and is in a critical condition. 80 Chief Justice
Hunter has refused to modify his order declaring
Cannon of Utah, alien. - Twenty-One mem
bers of the 9th Massachusetts Regiment have
been dismissed for misconduct at Richmond, Va.
CoNGREss.-ln the Senate the President pro TEN.
was authorized to fill vacancies the Committees.
and did so; the bill legalize the election of the
Legislature of New-Mexico in 1880 was passed.
- More than 500 new bills were introduced in
the House, among them Mr.. RandalPs Refundng
bill the special committee on tle expenses attend
ing the illness and burial of General Garfield
announced by the Speaker
CITY AND SUBUgBAN-The Alumni of Wesleyan
University had a dinner last night at Martlnci's.
60 meeting was held yesterday at the Office OF
the Austrian Consul to devise means for aiding the
sufferers by the Vienna fire. 60 The firrmen
further examined the condition of the theatres.
- The Board of Estimate and Apportionment
discussed the estimates for the public schools. =
d. D. Chamberlain was remanded to the custody of
his wife. - Gold value of the legal tender silver
dollar ti12l2 grains S7.12 cents. - Stocks were
active, and after some improvements generally
lower closed weak.
THE WEATHER-TRrBuNE local observations indi-
ate warmer and clear or fair weather Thermometer
yesterday: Highest, 800; lowest, 30; average,
26lo
New-York tribune., 1881-12-17
LET Us H1VE PEdCF.

The Finance Committee of the Senate has
made some important changes in the refunding
bill proposed by Senator Sherman, but none
that render the passage of the bill desirable.
The amount Of new bonds to be issued is
limited to $2O0,OOO 900. No reason for this
change appears, unless it be that the Commit
tee believes the revenue will he so reduced that
only $3.50, 0,0000 900 of the three and half per
cents can be paid within five years .and also that
the revenue will certainly remain large enough
to pay off that amount. Unless Congress
makes important changes at this session in the
pension laws or in the revenue laws, the
ablest member OF the Senate can hardly guess
whether the surplus revenue viii be above or
below $7O,0OO,O0O yearly. The Commit tee
begins at the wrong end Of the business 1t
does not appear that any understanding has
been reached. even in committee, in respect
to action on the taxes or the pensions. Until
the committee has formed some vague idea of
the amount of money TO be expended in debt
paying a new funding bill is at least decid-
edly premature.
The only reason given by any member of
the COmpttee thus far we believe, for favor
ing the passage of n new bill, is that it may
save the Government something in interest.
But if that motive has weight, what reason can
there be for negecting to refund the whole of
the three and half per cents The amount is
about $550.000,000, of which $4,000, 900
have been called The interest on $500, 900, 900
at gig per cent is SIS, ,200,0 900, and at 3 per
cent. it would be only $15,6O0, 900; why
should not the whole Of this great saving Of
81, SOC, 900 be accomplished, instead of a saving
of barely 81 200, ,O00q Two cIsons can be eglvcn
Either the Committee believes that no more
than S20O,O00,000 of the new bonds can be
Sold if so many, or it believes that the sur
plus revenue will leave only 500 900, 900 of the
three and half per cents outstanding in five
years. If the former the Committee might well
ask whether il is worth while to risk serious inju-
ry to the public credit by attempting a new and
c0nfessedly uncertain negotiation for the sake
of saving bare million yeary If the latter,
the Committee ought to let its bill sleep until
some idea can be formed as to the extent of
the surplus revenue hereafter, for it may be
desirable TO save more than $2,000,000 yearly
in interest, if the debt is to be nieddled with
at all.
Another provision added by the Committee
to the original bill may possibly shed much
needed light upon its purpose. 1t is proposed
that the amount of lawful money received Oh
deposit for purchase of new bonds Shall not at
any time exceed the SUN Of $25, 5,OO0,O 900.
Perhaps this is meant to prevent too rapid alb
sorptlon of money by the Treasury for the
purchase of the new bonds, but if 50 the Com
mittee should have considered whether there
was adequate reason for casing any absorp-
tiOn of mnnAv disturbance of the market.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-17
amusemenis 60 Night.

Ac.DyNY or MUsIc-2-" AIDA =. ..So,ber-n-I ay."
EiIoI OPERA HoUsE--2 and s-n.t DoiIar" S-"Tickct
BoOTH's THRATEE-2-"T Inc mls"V'
oi LoIne r ,TEt2 and g" The Passing FGfSII GffTcI'n
DAL1 az ,rRr-s The Rat ChGrmer OF onod
3th!SY 6thhASYHH ~ FIyTH AVENUE lHEAThE-Z- ino ~
man.. e-ntJ,'o J@." ,,thpES . and 8" The World. .
TnHAvtEIY'- i4TH STREET iHEArhh-- anu o ''''D
Ireland" ,,-. q o,d Q 3o-"Eemeralda."
N9yy TIIr ATPH COMoUE-" The MAJOR
80 FRtNCysCo MINsTRKLs-2 ani o. ,,-.,ouoou
hAN h 80, t,T r,IS ,Tur-2 Is AMI Is" Patience
Ti1.I94 I'm GTKg-2-" Max and Moritz g." La Mus
TuE tsiyo-2 and s." Hanlon Lees. ,1on
Hio~ Art IHsArRE-2 and 5-"The Lights Lon-
w1SI.son TufArRE-" Tourists in the Pullman Palace
Car"
ppooKIyN ACADEMY or MUsIC-Philharmonic Concert
BUNNLLL's MUSEUM. ,,,.,,.t
StTioNA al ACADEMY OF Decentralization.
aT,i,sr ANn nrO ADwA AY-2 and S-EduCated Horses
New-York tribune., 1881-12-17
After poor Mr. ScOyilles experience, n brother in
law will be more stunned than mother-n-law.

After poor Mr. Scoyilles experience n brother in
law will be more Stunned than mother-ln-law.
Judge Cox was prompt enough on Thursday in re-
buking Judge Porter rs premature" when he
made a remark which looked like an attempt to in
1uence the jury hut he had no rebuke for G1teau's
continuous stream of backguar iism. Perhaps he
draws the line at premature ut,erances by innocent
counsel.
We hope all who are willing still TO call them
selves Stawars read carefully the testimony of
General Reynolds in the Gniteau case. There was
abundant food for meditation for them III 1t.
Hendricks is tho man to solve tho tariff problem
for the Democrats He can do it in two words
"Straddle it,"
Perhaps the Indiana sniff at Democratic states
men who +" have to get on a stool 20 look at any
public man III the country" is meant for Mr. Tden.
II he has been guilty of proceeding of that sort it
certainly was not for the purpose mentioned. He
mounted. il he mounted at ALL for the purpose Of
being more convenient 10 the ear OF the public man
He either had TO pull the ear down or ascend to
Sho ear, and the latter was certainly the more
courteous way of doing it,
One Of the Government counsel in the Guiteau
case succeeded in bracing up the Court to object
to fresh assault upon its dignity by saying in a
tone of remonstrance "Oh, your Honor!" 1t is
something of n wonder that before this time some
member of the counsel has not repeated ReverdY
Johnson experience in Il rural Pennsylvania court.
Mr. Johnson had argued perfectly plain point Of
law OH which all the authorities in his favor,
and the Judge TO his infinite disgust ruled against
him lie WAS piling up his books and papers with
considerable energy preparatory TO leaving the
room. when the Judge said: Does the counsel
wish to be understood attempting TO express his
cOEtempt for the COurtW Express II, your
Honorl' rctorted Mr.. Johnson" 81 was trying TO
conceal it,"
There seems to be n dmunition In the friskiness
Of Messrs Cox and Randall, the end men of the
Democratic minority. What is the matterf Has
the supply of humOr run out, or have thoy heard
from the country
Why do not the Democrats hold National Lodge
Of Sorrow on the political stuatIoni They are
holding something of the same kind now, but it is
informal, and the members are demonstrating their
grief in an irregular and ftful manner. A formal
assemblago would he much more impressive. Mr..
Atkins could preside and furnish the keynote for
the exercises by repeating his truthful and mem
Orable observation that the democratic party is
doomed to defeat. whatever course IL adopts" Mr..
WattCrson could contribute q lamentatiOn on the
death of free trade n Democratic isSut. and Mr..
Pcndleton could create n grand howl of anguish by
saving that the party Is so far gone that has been
deemed safe for 1t 10 declare in favor of civil
reform since it Will never have any offices TO divide.
It still remain1 true that no member of that wing
of the Republican party which showed itself to be
IN the majority at Chicago has slipped into the
Cabinet yet
New-York tribune., 1881-12-17

The following dispatch to the Editor OF The
TRIBUNE, received yesterday by cable from
Liverpool, is from a very capable member of
Parliament Sitting for a Scotch borough), who
has alsc exceptional acquaintance with the sub
icct by reason of long residence aid large busi-
ness connections on the Pacific coast of South
America
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 1G-ln the Oh li-Pcru contro-
vcrsy hope the influence Of your Government may
be salutary. Peru is morally, financially and po-
itically bankrupt. She canuotiudcmnify Chilli Her
PROMISES like her bonds utterly worthless The
aconsition Of territory by Chill is an accomplished
fact and IN Secretary Blaines language, " wise as
well as necessary" Tho desert Of Atacama was col
onized by Chilians, and draws its sustcnaucc natur
ally from Chill and not from Peru. Urgc the
Washington Government to promote the interests
of civilization and constitutional government, aud
these VIII best be guaranteed by recognizing the pre-
dominating influence Of Chill, so ably sustained by
her statesmen and vindicated at great cost on
the field Of battle. On any other lines the action
of the Washington Government may be injurious to
human progress s. WILLIAMSON, ". T..
An experienced American diplomatist once
said "Chili is to south America what the
North is to the United States; Peru what the
South is We believe that our Administra-
ton realizes at once the power and the right
of Chill, and has not the slightest disposition
to push i;s views beyond the friendly repre-
sentatOns already made. We believe, too,
that the Government of Chill understands aud
is perfectly satisfied with our attitude, in spite
of the laundering of some of our agents.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-17
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.

Mr.. Mccullough will personate Jack Cade tbi,
evening in the old tragedy, by Conrad, which was
made familiar to our stage by Edwin Forrest. and
in which Mr.. Mccullough himself was long ago dis.
tinguished. Those who are desirous of contrasting
the old "Jack Cade" with the now one-receptlv
provided by Mr.. Lewis Wingfeld-have thus an
opportunity of gratifying their taste in critical
study Mr. WIngieds piece, " The BondmanD re.
ceives its final representation this afternoon NEXT
"Brutus" and also in ''Virginius' and This Giadi
atOr."