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feated all similar efforts to reach the Depar
ment.
A TARIFF DILEMMA,

The efforts OF Mr. Morrison to patch his Tariff
bill do not seem TO be crowned with success a,
vet One of the most convincing proofs OF
Democratic incapacity IL found In the inability
of even the ablest leaders to recognize ALSO
lutte impossiblities, when met face to face
Even So shrewd man "a Mr.. Morrison goes
about, week after week, vainy trying to recon-
cile the utterly irreconcilable, and to make yes
and no mean the same thing. The Ohio wool
Democrats see that they have no chance what
ever for the future unless they can somehow
satisfy the demand for restoration of the wool
duties. But the Morrison Democrats are
equally certain that they have no chance for
political existence, unless they show that their
cutlery for reduction of duties has been some
thing more than dishonest bullying. BY what
conceivable process both can be satisfied, Mr..
Morrison would like to know. But if he had
been sensible enough to be fit for party leader,
he would have known from the first that both
could not be satisfied and that any attempt to
satisfy both would only bring himself into dis
grace.
The compromises proposed, as was unavOid-
able in such case, have been not compromises
at all, but surrenders. Mr. Morrison. 1t is said
has manifested willingness to cut out of hisl
bill all reduction of duties on WOOL which
would have made him and his bill ridiculous.
But not even that would satisfy the other enc
Of the party. The demand which Is said tt
have been made on their behalf by Mr.. Geddes
of Ohio, is that the duties of the Act of 1867 be
restored. Aud why not That was exactly
what the Democratic demagOgues promised il
the campaign last year. The voters whoI
trusted the party at that time, however foolish
they were then, have sense enough 10 demand
performances of the pledge before they trust the
Democrats again.
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mu1rLs TIE MATTER.

7, March the unfavorable aspect Of our foreign
commerce became clearly visible. Prior to that
month. though the exports had been much smaller
than IN the previous year. and the imports nearly
large. there was, nevertheless. margin OF excess
of exports in every month slnco July, rising grad
ually to S23. 800 900 IN November and then shrink
ing rapidly to }j,50O.0O in February. But in
March the imports Of merchandise exceeded the eN-
ports BIZ 8. OO0.OOO In tho corresponding month
oflsS3 the excess Of exports over imports had been
$I6.97I,2l7, 80 that the difference between the
two months in balance of foreign trade was no less
than S2l, s7s, 332. The cause, it appears, Is not
an unnatural increase of imports. Though the
value imported is larger than in any other month
since last July it is about the same as IN 1888 and
1881. and it happened In 1882 also that the i'm
ports were larger in March than in any other
month.
The great change is III the amount Of ex-
ports, which have been declining every month
since last November, and fell in March
to about 9j6000,000, against S770OO,O0O
In March 1888. December Is usually tho largest
month after decrease in January and February,
the volume of exports usually rises In March nearly
TO the maximum. But the outward movement of
products was arrested In December last. After
$50 600, 900 ia November, instead of the usual
large increase, there cane a fall IN December to
$4,000, 900; then the decline to $74,OO0,OOO in
January and sol 900 900 in February was accord
mg to the usual course. but In March, instead Of
large increase there came further decline 10 $50,
600 900 Hence !. Is not strange that the net outgo
of gold, which had risen from nothing in January
TO SO OOO, 900 in February suddenly mounted to
over ST., 200. 900 in March, and has been still
larger in April. The exports Of gold were $l2,-
224. 13j, and the imports only $000,S01. The
act exports of silver were eSS than 100000.
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spirits which have appeared from time to time IN
tho Army have labored, with no encouragement
and little appreciation, in task to the burdens OF
which they have finally succumbed How lew, IN
civil life, considered 1t as anything IN which they
were particularly interested when poor Upton,
laboring toremedy a defect his system of tactics
"a system which he fondly hoped would place tho
Army of his country ahead of that OF other nations
was driven to insanity and suicide.
In spite of the lack of interest taken in the Army
and the little encouragement it receives 1t
maintains standard of excellence which,
under the circumstances, Is remarkable. West
Point furnishes thorough military edu-
cation; the Army officers are well versed IN
their profession, and the standard OF
enlisted men is high. Our cavalry on the plains are
an extremely effective body OF horse. The wants
of the Army. as they have from time to tine been
enumerated ID papers read before the Military SER
vice Institution, too apparent to be questioned.
With soldiers and officers living in damp and I'M
wholesome barracks, with no general stah anu
with the military life of the Army frittcred awayln
small garrisons, instead Of having at least one or
two large posts for the instruction of all arms 1T Is
high time that something was done by the Govern
ment to remedy the existing evils.
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TALKS NTH M4v1GERs AND Actors

WILSON BARRETT And rERRIss IN AMERICA.
Dantel Fronman, Aadison Square Thsate.-Though ws
In negotiation with Wilson Barrett for Amer
tour, nothing yet been decided upon. We still
deayoring 10 TO terms, difficult matter 10 some
As stated In TRIBUNE days ago. signed
contract with Terriss In his dressngroom hour DO
fore he went board the steamer II begins in October
1885, and will continue for twelve months He win open
at this theatre IN and special play and II he makes
a hit will star through the country afterward.
The rehearsas Of the Pulse Of NewYork" going %
well and think the play will catch on" We
have assumed the management OF all OF WaacEs outot
town business because knowledge Of d country gives
certain advantages My brothers and know person.
ally every theatrical town In the United STATES and have
posted bills In many OF them with my hands. whea
could get who knew tho business do II fos
mo
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A REVIVAL OF BURLEsOUF.

General Barton, BitOu opera House.-We have an dea
that It time find out whether the public WON'T
be glad revival OF genuine burlesque In Blue
Beard" we have one which has tested its popularity
by of 1000 nights, and with good company and
carefully selected music think ought 70 You see
in a musical way have the pull over the man who
writes original work. however good In the first place,
be takes the chances OF his numbers catching the public
ear. In tho secoad, the most successful comic
opera has only three very popular airs u
most. Now We can Gull the sweets from every operate
flower and think you will be surprised when you he AZ
come OF choruses and lind out where they have been
taken Jacques Kruger will play Blue Beard aud
Arthur Tam. late OF the Hess Comic Opera Company,
Zoy Zog iu which EdOun made such hit; Emma Carson
plays Helene, Irene Perry 0Schacdbac; Pauline HaHds
sam; Fannie Rice, Fatipd and Geneyieye Reynolds,
Sister Anne Pretty girls and pretty music ought to make
il co. think. Don't yOul
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DULL SEASON ALL AROUND.

Augustus Htou, Mr. Steis0nS NaAGger-I take Tony
Pastors Theatre from the middle Of September TIL the
week before election. Pastor wanted take II Or
that week ALSO but did not Il In the lgat.
advised him close up play there himself lie chose
the latter course. shall open with variety attraction
anaged by Harry Mann. Then PUT new and orig
NAL piece which being written for The FIRST ACT
takes place board and o. boat tle second at Cairo
and the third at the Pyramids. There several cOmed
ans ana lots of music Mr.. Stetson's difficulties ara
regards COghlan The first suit which he APP
peaed before the ud-c.who the same de
cOD stetsOn his check for the of the suit
o. 1OO costs and Now Coghan Is suing him for
another three weeks salary. Been pretty dub
season ali around Well. rather fancy IL has.
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THE CONDITION or rHE ARMY.

1t is a lamentable fact that tho MAORI. of Amer
leans know little. and care less. about the daily
life of the officers and men Of the Regular Army.
The Military Service Institution IS doing good
work in bringing the affairs of the Army before tho
public. aud papers recently read before It have
called attention to several crying evils Whatever
may DO the difference of opinion as 10 tho proper
size of the standing Army. all will agree that what
Army We have should be- efficient possible. and
the military system of tho Government as broad
and comprehensive as it eau DO made.
Heretofore we have slid along in
the old grooves aud those brlgh .
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TALM1GE on NOVIYG-DAY.

Dr. Tamage has been lecturing on the signlf-
canoe of knowing day" Many persons before
him have run their intellect TO say, against that
great mystery and have come to grief. He is, how
ever, entitled to his guess. which is substantially
as follows: "'rhe first of May moving is to be as
crIbed to a radical defect in our social economy,
defect so deep so wide, so oyermasterlng that no
one but God can ever eradicate It," This detect 49,,
according to Mr. Tamage tho inability of every
man to own the house he livOs in. We are afraid
that the mystery of movIng-day" is "a dark as
ever when Mr. Tamage has done with 1t. FOR
it Is most easily demonstrated that his explanation
does not explain. Then the same general
conditions obtain in scores OF other cities
In London aud Paris and Liverpool ana
Vienna and Berlin, in Boston and Chicago and
St. Louis and San Francisco. millions of people live
in hired dwellings just rs they do in New-York.
But in none of those cities is it custom TO change
residences on the LIST of May on any other day.
Elsewhere people often spend long lives in rented
houses Here they eau do the same if they want TO-.
But the truth is they do not want TO, and
herein lies the mystery.
II is not tho fact that rents are
raised every year. thus driving tenants
out Very often people go from cheaper
to moro costly houses Very often also they 20
from more to less comfortable houses. and that
without any visible OF nteigble impclling mo-
lives The real cause Of this annual migration has
hitherto been wrapped in an obscurity as great as
that which shrouds the migratlons OF those queer
little beasts the Jennings, who every year travel
In immense crowds to the sea. into which they
forthwith plunge, and swimming seward perish
Science has discovered many things, but though II
knows why the dog turns himself round before he
lies down. and Why the Miocene hog refused TO
be modified. and how the mOigppus was evolved
into the morse of the PERIOD it has Thus far failed TO
ascertain the origin or the meaning Of Ne"-iork
"moyinC-dav.'
DR.. Talmaso has made Characteristic plunge M
the subject, but he has not succeeded in pcnetslt-
ing the secret. II has nothing to do with the lana
question OF the rent question. More probably II
is a movement engenderel by the typical nervous
re,tles-ness OF the Yorker, which perhaps
crops out thus in a blind impulse "a change his ell
tire surroundings for explicabe reason. But inc
man who guesscs this riddle will have to be pene-
trated with the mystic emotion which is at the bot
tom OF the annual celebration.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

Andres Anton, who had brief connection
with Mr. MaplesOns Opera Company, will give concert
in Steinway Hal on Wednesday evening.
Mr. BOuccault will deliver his discourse on
the art of Acting" Thursday Afternoon at the
Madison Square theatre.
Nearly all of the music at the Casino concert
last eveus Swas MeyerbeeTs. The exceptions were the
solos of Miss Amy Sherwn. Nine. Teresa Carreno and N
Divide Muslin
Miss Mary Anderson, after a rest of three
weeks appeared at Edinburgh last week. She VIII
visit Glasgow, Liverpool. Manchester, DUBLIN and
Birmingham.
Rehearsal of The Wages of Sin y has begun
at the Fourteenth Street Theatre where that drama to
be offered on May IL with Agnes Booth. Eben Plympton
and Others in the cast
new play entitled "Wife and Child is to
be produced the Union Square Theatre tonight. Mr.
and Mrs. Mckee Rankin, Mr. Fred Bryton Mr.. j. W.
Ferguson and others are TO appear In II.
Marie Geistinger announces her farewell ap-
rearance in America, and her present retirement from
the stage-after more European tour. During LAST
week this eminent German actress was seen at the
Thas Theatre.
A concert for the benefit Of Mme Charlotte
Varan and her pupil Miss Anna L. Kelly, will take place
in Chickering Hall on Thursday evening. The following
artists viii assist: Mrs Sarah B. Anderson, Miss Adele
Marguies Mr. FrtSch, SignOr COetu, Mr.. John r.
Rhodes, and signor Agramonte.
Mrs IanOtry Mt NiblO'S Garden revivas
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way of legislation, but several important meas
ures still await final action. Chief among those
Ia the so-caled Tenure of Office bill, that con-
corning the fees of the County Clerk, aud the
Civil Service bill. all of which are pending IN
the Assembly. Those measures should be passed
rs they come from the Senate. In the way or
forestry reform the least the Assembly can DO
is TO pass Senator Lansings bill. There ought
to be no unnecessary delay over those meas
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Though the recovery last week was about ! 4
cents on the dollar of par value, it was small
cOmpaIed with the previous severe shrnkage
in vale Last week the most violent attacks
were made upon Western Union, which fell to
$599l. and Union Pacific, which fell to $577o,
but both recovered to some extent before the
close.
The money market was not sufficiently dis
turbed to affect the markets, though gold con-
tinued TO 90 abroad. and Secretary FOlger is
sued another call for bonds The latter step is
officially said to be based upon discovery In
the Treasury department that the surplus rev.
enue is running up" If one counts useless sill
yer bought as surplus revenue, and notes paid
and held in hand as surplus cash available, one
can generally find satisfactory state of things.
The fact is that the amount of gold held by
the Treasury in excess Of gold certificates
outstanding was $4,000, 900 less on Saturday
last than on the LIST of January, while the
amount of silver owned was $l4,4OO, 900 more,
and the amount of paid notes on hand
$1,000, 900 more. Deducting the redeemed
notes, the Treasury has still lost ST., 0O0 900
of Its gold, but, because it has heapcd up
$11,0O0,O00 more silver that it cannot use
without dshOnor the Secretary s0lcmnly con-
cludes that his surplus is increasing, and issues
a call which will take $40, 100000 more gold
out Of the Treasury before the end Of the fiscal
year.
The banks continued to lose reserve, and
have left only $685. 900 over the legal require
ment Last weeks loss was all in specie, and
even then the averages did not fully exhibit the
effect of the exports. But it is also TO De said,
on the other hand, that the payment of interest
by the Treasury and the reported receipts ,,of
currency from the interior arc not visible in
the statement, aud the course of exchange
toward the close Of the week indicated that
exports might abate for time and
the banks recover in reserve. The most
unfavorable feature is that merchandise exports
still continue very small. Within sixty days
new wheat will be cut,ani it is hardly strange
that buyers at 81 o. for such wheat as is on
hand are rather scarce. The oil producers, 1t
is said, are combining to restrict production
Whether they succeed in any such movement
or not they certainly have power to put the
price of crude certificates where they please
and they pleased last week to put the price
up to about 81 Ole. The coffee market. with
"A shade more activity. was a little stronger in
tonc tea and sugar were weaker cotton fell
of IN eighth, and provisions sympathized with
the decline in grain.
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Nmusemrnis 60 Night.

AoApxnY OF DRsIcN-Painting Exhibition.
6iJou OrkRA HorsR-S-Blue Beard
CAs~o-e-" aka
DAYS TpYITEF-s-"A Night in Venice"
EDrN MUsEx-WaxworkS.
CsASpOrFkA HOUsF-S-Siber1a.
NIpIso~ SQUARE THEATnE-s3o-"M May Blosson'
CKw.IORK COMEDY IHEATkb-o-kaudom 0hoL
Eiuio's GAtPFN-S-" lygmaltOn ana Galatea
kTlp lHFATHr-S-Besk Ouse,
ITALIA TREATsh-S-Medea.
TutITrF CONQUE--s-" bans rrSulatlons"
To>y PASTORS Observation-Disclosures
NAnACES nFATRE--S-"She StoOps 20 Conquer
81 AVENUE TaF ATsE-s- he Shaughraun. -
Orr AVENUE rHEAIkk-s-" skipped 10y the Light or the
Moon"
ISrH STREET THrATRE-s-Irish AristocracyI
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ABIGAIL PLAY OF ACTION.

Roberto Norris Aiitb0~ Of " The InSe " Nec 0rL"
Ny scenery nearly finished azd reAearsa are working
smoothly We begin TO rehearse at the Star Theatre on
Monday next. NJ play is an experiment and the rrst
night viii decide its fate It is play In which the story
acted narrated Each action IL the sequence Of
that preceding II. There reminiscent solioques
or Conversations and this OF itself ia original II the
people want local play. this Will, think succeed IL
they DON'T it won't. That's all there Is to it,
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NETWORK, MONDAY. MAY 5.
THE NEVIS inns MORAING.

FOREIGN.-Some. IL not all. on board tho state of
Florida are supposed to have been saved. == An
sscent of the Nile has been ordered as TO make a
roconnolssanoe - Tie ex-Empress Anna, Of
Austria Is dcsd. -= Defensive prepara-
tsous are being made IN China -= The Electri-
cal Units Conference has terminated
DoMEsIIC.-lhe forest fires were checked yester-
Say by the rain. 4 tract tweuty-fouT miles square
was devastated III Cecil County, Maryland ==
Tie Medicine Lodge burglars. who were banged
b. mob, were buried in one grave -= nil
placed rail caused accident to train near Can
ton. Miss. == A large party of men were reported
20 have invaded Indian Territory. == The
steamer b. $. Ford was burned to the waters edge
O. ChestertOWn, Md.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Thc Siauese Embassy ar
nyed ON the Alaska yesterday. =- lie con-
tsstants IN the lays race rested. -=- he suc
of the Rev. DR.. Ever preached ms first ser
mon. -=- HE funeral of w. {. DuntOn was held
z= Patrick Keton kicked his wife TO death. -=
baker poisoned himself after tying to kllI his
three children. == No further news was heard
from the State Of Florida.
Ink WEATHER-TRIBrN local observations in
dictate warmer and cloudy weather with occasional
bsht rain Temperature Yesterday: Highest, go;
Lowest, 5G' average. 5Ss
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the horses out of the carriage and dragged IL bac
to London. When they left us, got Up 10 than
them. but this did not dispe the Illusion. POOP
fellow, heard them say 40 they watched Irving
ted hlm, and shook hands with him, with the kind
ly wish to comfort him.
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"THE FATAL LETTER" TAKES A JOURNEY Y.
Helen Buyy.-I take The Fatal Letter" to Phllade-
phla In week and shall whether It will not be
more fortunate there. TANK the papers were rather
hard OF NE for had letters from total strangers
10 say how much they liked the piece. shall also play
in Chicago IL car face the hot weather. In Chicago
have tho company found for ne, but take the original
cast to PhiladeOhIa.
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MONEY AND RUNINESS

i
! 1t was week of speculative failures. The
failure of Mr. Keene, bne Of the most nOteC
spectators in stocks, was result rather thar
a cause of lower prices for stocks than have
been seen for years. The disclosures in the
case of Phillips made the grain market here
uncomfortable, and the collapse of Fralcy
the ST. L0uis Spectator in Chicago, may h
said to have disclosed one object of the reccrt
sharp decline in grain. Bat none of thee
events had much influence upon the gencrl
course of business. When the spectators wlo
had been cunning for shorts in wheat sur
cccded in some eases and found some other POI
pie unable to pay their losses, the prices dropird
off III the absence of any sufficient demand
for export or homo consumption. and what
closed about / cents below the price Of the PEE
ceding Saturday, corn about Dig cents md
oats about the same. Before the failure of Yr
Kccnc was announced, an effort to rally he
stock market had begun. which was in part SIC
ces,ful, though the results of the weeks tnd-
ing were not very brilliant.
The extent of the depression in stocks, fDm
which some recovery began to appear on Tues
day, may be shown by a brief comparison. TAX
ing as "A test the thirty-eght stocks of which the
sales were largest in 1883, with the West
Shore first mortgage bonds and the Erie rec
6nds we find that the average price of these
forty securities at the lowest point on Tuesday
was only 500 IL. The average price Of the
sauna apcurities ot other uates WAS "a followa,
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Mss 1rwrrr AT TIE Union sorARE.

Sherldo,t Sh0ok-Miss Jewett has once more become
member of the Uuon square Company. 1 am not sure
she viii begin to play again. She naturally wishes
10 defer appearance until the commencement Of the
fail season Miss Ellie Ellsler does not remain with us,
and DO not know whether she has taken another oder or
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DESTROYS OF RETIRING.

Richard V1nsdel5.-I think shall give up the stage
al yether if can. am MORALLY tired o. all this
bother. They say am an l-tempered man, but dont
think so myself lily into rage when see man MAKE
an ass of himself but IS all overin minute leave in
few days for England aud have ordered the sale Of ny
furniture already
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and truth Of all that nature ha, to show, as the
Creator has made them. Such O man was Won
Humboldt; such man was Linn@us such man
was Sir Isaac Newton"
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Mrs, LAngtry at NiblOs Garden, revives
..pYcmallnn and liaatean with the following cast

A change is announce in the programme Of
the first of the second series OF Wagner
IN the Metropolitan Opera House under the direction Of
Mr.. Thomas. Instead OF numbers from websr's Guy
ranthe nearly the entire opera Of Tunnhduser" will 10
given. The other programmes remain announced the
second being Devoted to "L0heugrIu" and "Paroifa"
the third 10 DAs Rheingod" aLi Die Walk0rr" The
viii take place Wednesday and FRIDAY
ings and saturday afternoon.
What was called "grand sacred concerto
FOR the benefit OF anonymous artist given Lass
night at the New Park Theatre. The pro
bilious, Mile sara Barton John Gilbert and Sgnof
Belati, who we're announced TO appear, unable
sing ON account OF sickness and other reasons. Mlsa
Susie Cauield soprano whose nsst appearance
nounced the programme sang 10 the great satisfaction
OF her friends sgnor Fernando Mchelena warmly
received by his admirers, aud he showed sweetness Of
tone that would been admirable II his voice had
ce,ved the uauing IL eyiedty needed. slmor CarraDo
gave credta6le performance on the flute; the French
Choral society POrpheon irncas merited some praise
in chOruses, and the orch 'st under ~gnOr Auss
baton. rendered s pieces with spirit and earnestness.
The following is the east of Robert II. Morlisf
new drama entitled The Pulse OF Now York TO be pre-
duced ut the star Theatre, under the authors direction