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The onlg up-town office of TnE Times is at 1,269 Breadwag, between Thirtg-flrst and Thirigecond streets. Advertisements for Tax Weekly Times mutt be handed in before 6 o'clock this evening. fhg Signal Service Bureau report indicates for to-dag, in this eitg, warmer, raing weather, variable winds. Judge 'William L. Mctlf.k it somewhat belated In his effort to aoenre for bis prin-cipaL Got.

Hill, a list of "reliable Demo-erata" like unto that which the lamented Tildex cansed to be made and which Mr. 'If ill in rain sought to get into his own hands. The Jndge will hardly accomplish in the leas than thirty days he has to serve aa Secretary of the fitate Committee the muuui uah no uaa uuuciacu( csuviaujr if many of those to whom he applies for information reply to him, as one has done, that Bollix M. Squire was the only name he felt like suggesting and the Jndge knew his present address. By "reliable Democrats" Jndge Mcller may be supposed to mean Democrat who are prepared to join in opposition to Mr.

Cleveland, and these, in the vernacular to which Mr. Hill must be habituated by his visits to county fairs," are jost bow "mighty scarce." I V. 1 1. It was on the 17th of September, 1787, that the Constitution of the United States in its original form was completed and signed by the members of the convention which bad been sitting since the 14th of Msy in the city of Philadelphia. Preparations for celebrating the centenary of that event are about completed and the people of Philadelphia are in a state of excited Anticipation over the coming display.

Preliminary to the celebration of Saturday there is to be an industrial parade on Thursday and a military parade on Friday, expressive of the growth and progress of the Nation under the Constitution. The indications are that the Quaker City will be thronged with visitors during the three days, and that the celebration of the last gTt national event associated with its history will be eminently successful. New-York should soon begin to think of celebrating the actual establishment of the National Government, which took place in this city in April. 1789. The municipal authorities of Syracuse save determined to see if the West Shore Railroad is not to some extent amenable to the laws of the State and the ordinances of the city.

On Saturday morning a fire track was struck by the eat ine of a train of this company at a city crossing, the men and horses were hurled into the air, and the truck, which weighed 8.000 pounds, was carried the length of a city block and then thrown against a fence a mass of kindling wood. The Captain and driver of the truck, who fortunately escaped with their lives, declare that they were on the lookout for a train when they neared the crossing, but that no whistle or other indication of its approach was given, and a number of witnesses assert that the train was rushing through the streets of Syracuse at the rate of thirty miles an hoar, contrary to the city ordinance, which limit the speed to eight miles an hour. Tha Mayor and City Attorney have decided to bring a suit against the railroad company for the value of the truck snd the permanent injury of one of the sBtml to spend as much money on the law-rers as the railroad cab, there is a probability that this suit will be pressed to a conclusion instead of being compromised for a ridiculonsly small amount, as is usually the case where aa indmdual undertake to fight such a corporation. But a case of this should not be allowed to drop with 3Le assvmnf at of damages in money. Sail-Toad crossings in cities should be abolished, Vf that is possible, and if not.

the laws for hs protection of life in their neighborhood jthoald be rigidly enforced. EAltlmors remains faithful to the memories of ths Battle of North Point, and cele- rated its anniversary Yesterday with as ardor as drenching rain would How. The deienas 4f the eitr against Can. Boss's attack, seventy-three years go. wa Indeed a rerfarmaacs worthy of Juf com mmnratal, mrtTiisTly S)oaaidnr ing lb success of that officer's descent pon Washington less than three weeks before, and also that the reliance for the protection of Baltimore was so largely upon militia and volunteers.

No doubt it was a piece of good fortune that the British General fell mortally wounded at the very outset of the march upon Baltimore after the landing of his army below the city, and it was snotber advantage that the fleet was able to effect" nothing against Fort McHenry. To the bombardment of this work we owe Key's famous sung, which baa done its full share toward immortalizing the repulse of the invader. One of the great points of interest has for many years been the participation of sur-Tirora of the battle in the annual celebration. Last year a gloomy view was taken of the probability of again assembling the fast dwindling group of veterans, yet it appears that three of them wore st hand once more yesterday to dine together snd to accept congratulations. Baltimore is very proud of her North Point triumph.

The report that an enconnter had already occurred between the Spanish troops and the filibusters who recently lsnded near Ma-tanzas is now confirmed, although the loss of the soldiers is now limited to one killed, and perhaps, with a like reduction of the Spanish forces said to be enraged, there may have been thirty instead of three hundred. 8till.it gives a certain prestige to the invaders to hsve been able to drive off the coast guard, and others may now be tempted to follow in their footsteps. The ill fortune that befell the expedition of Saxchez two years ago put an end to these attempts for a time, but they appear to be rife again. While Saxchez operated from Barscoa to Santiago, Garcia infested the region between Matanzas and Las Villas, but the movements were all easily suppressed before anything of importance had been accomplished. It should be said, however, that while Saxcuez only carried nineteen men with him from New-York, he gathered many times that number to bis standard on the island, snd in like manner the party now under the command of Jost Garcia and Beribex, although a small one, may be able to make much trouble in the island.

The only reason yet apparent for the revival of filibustering movements in Cuba is the recent disturbance in Havana, whicb seems to have somewhat subsided. No revolutionary movement of late years has approached in importance the uprising of 1870. Among the healthy signs of the temper in which the Eouvier Ministry is showing is a circular from the Director of the Post Office to his subordinates, directing them to instruct all carriers and clerks that no influence or recommendation from outside the service will aid their promotion or prevent their dismissal, as their conduct may justify. On the contrary, the intervention of outsiders will be prejudicial to them, and while they will be required to abstain from all political opposition to the republic, they will not be allowed to take an active part in politics in any direction. This is in the line of recent utterances by M.

Botjyieb himself, who has been declaring to his immediate constituents that the Government wished and would tolerate no service from its employe's save that required in the line of official duty. He added what is somewhat novel doctrine for a Bepubliean Premier, that, while he should retain office only so long as he was supported by a Republican majority, he should seek to deserve the co-operation of right-thinking men of all parties, and, as an illustration of his general purpose, he should regard the reduction of taxation as a mnch more important question than any arising from the relations of Church and State. A year ago such a declaration would have causeo: a Minister to be denounced as a "ClericaL" GOV. HILL'S PROFESSION AND PRACTICE. It will not do for the Governor's organs to (rive too much prominence in this city to his "sagacious utterances during his visits to the country fairs." These utterances will not be very profitable even in the rural regions where be is not so well known as he is here.

The farmers manage to do a good deal of thinking about election time, and wben Gov. Hill tells them that, as to taxation, general laws applicable to the whole State should be preferred to special legislation for or against particular localities or interests." they will be apt to remember the Governor's course regarding the insurance companies' taxes by which one "particular interest" was favored most scandalously. When he tells them that "local concerns should be regulated at home rather than at Albany," they may possibly agree with him as to a principle which no one seriously disputes in the abstract. But this is one of the things his Literary Bureau would do well not to parade in New-York City, because th'e facts that show his professions to be utterly hypocritical and false are too well known, too constantly before the eyes of the people, and attended with evils so obvious that they cannot be overlooked. The principle of the regulation at home of local concerns was shamefully riolatrd by the Governor when he joined in the scheme to remove the Mayor and Controller of the city from the Aqueduct Board.

This board has charge of one of the most important of the local concerns of New-York. There is no single concern that compares with it. either in the amount of money to be expended upon it or in the necessity of having the work carefully, honestly, and efficiently done. The Mayor and the Controller are the two chief elective municipal officers, 'the only ones, in fact, by the selection of whom the people can hope to exercise any real control over the management of their own affairs, Yet Gov. Hill, with the lying pretense of "regulating local concerns at home on his lips, deliberately removed these officers from the Aqueduct Board and replaced them by men who, if they are not bis features, are men with whom he can establish and has established relations of the greatest political and personal benefit to aUasaalf.

Does Mr. Hjxa flatter himself that these facts will be i nored, not only by the general public, who have only a general interest in them, but also by the political organizations and pol tical managers whom be has disappointed? Undoubtedly it would have been a serious violation of his svowed "cardinal principle of home rule bad be merely turned out is Mayor snd Controller from the Aqueduct ommisaion and placed the business in the of the managers of his party. But i hen he not only violates home rule, but app opriates to himself the profits of that offeni be makes it extremely risky to display his sagacious utterances" at "country fairs" the cardinal principle of regulating local loneerns at home. Suppose that Gr yf.r Clevelaxd, while Governor, had mad this change iu such a a matter as the Aq leduct Commission, and had then proceeded to seenre the protection of his interests in I ufTalo by putting into a prominent place ut der the commission the brother of his con idential political agent in Erie County, tat a howl the present organs of Gov. Hil would hsve raised.

We shall not insist on icirhowlingttGor. Hill for doing this, but may, in the interest of common decency id common sense in political journalism, ad' is thein not to present Gov. Hill's "sai acious utterances" on home rule as an i ttraction for New-York voters. Nor is th Aqueduct Commission the only "local concern" in this city which is not regulated "at home," and is very dist nctly regulated from Albany." The i nbway Commission is another instauce bat will be brought very promptly to the nind of anyone familiar with New-York atiairs by the reproduction of Mr. Hill's agricultural speeches in his New-York organs.

I The presence in that commission of anL gent of Gov. Hill, en- gaged in such perations ss were de-uruns on Saturday last. scribed in our cc enjoying the repi tation of being the dispenser general of the funds available for the Governor's cai npaign to win the next Democratic State i Committee, is not an incident likely to scape the attention of politicians of his own party in the city. The Governor is slaying a desperate and greedy game. He i i not playing it skillfully, and ho does not a to his chances of success by posing in 1 his vicinity as the cham pion of municipal independence for New York.

CITL ES" MOST. For the first ti in his life, except dur- intt his term on Most has done Uckwell's Island. Johx act of public service. Of course he did ot mean to do anything of the kind. Hi act was the result of a fit of bad temper.

It appears that he was article in these columns exasperated by a the other day pointing out that Socialists, of the Anarchist i ariety, bad imposed upon the courts which had naturalized them, urging that no re certificates of naturalization should be issued to those who desired them merel, for the purpose of disturbing the publ peace, and suggesting that steps should be taken to revoke the papers of such foreigners as had abased their citizenship, Hereupon Most Determined to offer himself as a test case," as, indeod, ho is. to determine whethe the law meaas anything at all when it prov des that a man must show before he is natu alized thst he has been a well conducted pe rson and that he is likely to make a good citizen. The proposition that the law mea is something is evidently startling to Mosi and similar vagabonds. It is startling that it should be startling. Their tonishment is a testimony to the looseness tvith which the law has heretofore been iministered.

The custom has undoubtedly been -to issue certificates of naturalization to every adnlt male who was able to pay the fee. So long as immigration came ii driblets this promiscuous and perfunctory dmissionof applicants did no great harm. 'he few mischief makers who became citiz ins under it were scattered and absorbed in the general mass of the population, and 1 he political theories they bad imported wei regarded by their neigh- bors merely as fa of weak judgment. It is a very when men different matter now, hold political no- tions directly tion of the posed to the Constitu- nited States and the laws passed ut er it are collected by thousands in the I at cities of the country. and are organized to promote their un- American doctrines by their votes aa Amer ican citizens.

Tae obvious and necessarv safeguard is to ony them votes. In the next generation eir children will have rid themselves, unde the conditions of Amer- ican life, of the nsense their parents im- bibed in ignorant of those conditions. The foreign Socialist himself, if he lived with wear out his Socialism in Americans, woull a few years and 1 ecome Americanized. Hut unfortunately itis possible for a foreigner to be in America for years, if he lives and practices a bam licraft in one of the great cities, without 1 ving with Americans and even without i cquiring their language. This is the fact bat renders the formal and careless adminisl ration of the naturalization laws in a high gree criminal and danger ous.

This is true evfen of those foreicn Social ists who are not possessed by an sctive malignity toward icir neighbors, who are in private life bom st aud well meaning men. and whose Social ism is merely the expression of a natural rev It against a class despotism which they hav not yet learned does not exist in this eon itry. The only trouble with these men is tha they are imperfectly Americanized. If the term of residence required before ation were doubled, there would be little danger in admitting them otherwise upon he same terms that are now imposed. But lackguards like Most are upon a very di ferent footing.

They propose to carry political agitation by riot and murder, and they com to this country in ordei to abuse its hospitality by attacking its institutions, the rejection of one of them Is almost. If not ouite. nn- precedented. he Clerk of the court to whom Most asplied for leave to declare bis intentions rejected the application on the ground that be would not promise to obey the laws. This Is a good ground, but it Would have failed if Most bad chosen to lie about bis intentions, does not eorteninlate the and the statute! naturalisation of perjurers.

It would have been a better ground, as a precedent, if he bad been rejected because the statute requires proof that the applicant, during his residence in this conn try. has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the happiness and good order of the same, and it is matter of common notoriety that Most baa behaved as a man of bad moral character, hostile to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, snd as ill disposed as possible to the happiness and good order of the same. It is satisfactory, of course, that a precedent should have been set for the rejection of an applicant, but it should not be necessary that the rejected applicant should be a notorious malefactor. The law requires positive proof showing a probability that the man will be a good citizen. This implies a real investigation, snd a real investigation is not possible where applications are made, as they have been in this city, at the rate of 10,000 in a single season, unless they are acted upon much more deliberately than it has been the custom to act upon them.

Even then courts may be imposed upon but, as we have already shown, there is a remedy for this imposition. Good news as it is that an applicant for naturalization has been rejected for unfitness, it would be better news that a score or a hundred of citizens bad been deprived of their naturalization papers because they had been obtained by fraud. PRISON REFORM. Ex-President Hates, in an address before the International Prison Congress at Toronto yesterday, made a very clear statement of the objects and difficulties of the Prison Association. Its chief difficulty is a lack of general interest in its purposes and of the support which is dependent upon such an interest.

Almost any man. when the subject is pressed upon his attentiou. will admit its importance and concedo that reform is needed in the policy and methods of prison administration, but unless he has a decidedly philanthropic turn he cannot be induced to take a sustained interest in it It is therefore left to an association of persons with philanthropic tendencies and of those directly concerned in the practical management of penal institutions to work for the improvement of prison methods. Their most effective means of promoting the object at present lies in spreading information and awakening interest in the subject As Mr. Hates said, an enlightened and favorable public opinion is the essential precursor of successful reform.

There are plenty of reasons why intelligent people should take an interest in the subject Crime is the source of one of the heaviest burdens which the publie has to bear in direct and indirect expense, and its treatment comes very near to the safety of the individual and the community. There is no qn est ion that the policy of the State in dealing with criminals has much to do with the prevalence of crime. Indifference and inattention in regard to the matter may therefore have serious consequences in permitting bad methods to continue, and preventing the adoption of measures which would produce the most salutary results. It requires study of the subject to make it clear that there is something more to be done than the mere punishment of crime by imprisonment, aud that stndy comparatively few people make. Punishment should have a purpose more definite than the vague one of executing justice upon violators of the law.

Its primary purpose is the protection of the community, not from the individual criminal, but from crime in general. It should be calculated to lessen crime, and the difficulty of the problem is in devising a kind of prison discipline which shall tend at once to reform the convicted criminal and to deter others from following his example. To make imprisonment at once deterrent and reformatory is not sn easy matter, and many people have little faith in the possibility of accomplishing that purpose. This, however, is the main object of what is called prison reform. However Utopian the general aim of prison reformers may appear, there are many practical propositions the value of which cannot be questioned.

The prevailing custom in county jails of herding together offenders of all grades, ages, sexes, and conditions under one indiscriminate treatment is calculated rather to promote than to check crime, and a civilized system would introduce a classification of inmates and a discriminating treatment intended to reclaim those that were reclaimable. There 1 is also need of a change in dealing with habitual or hardened criminals. The practice of holding a criminal in prison for a certain term and then discharging him regardless of any beneficial result of the penalty is an evil which sfionld be corrected. No person who is morally certain to return to criminal courses should be let loose upon the community. So long as reformatory efforts are unavailing the confinement should continue, and discharge in the first instance should be probationary.

The hand of the State should be upon the prisoner until there is a reasonable assurance that he will cease to prey upon the community. Efforts at reformation should also be accompanied by some provision for the encouragement of discharged prisoners to lead an honest life by first training them to a useful occupation and then enabling them to secure it These and many other objects of prison reform commend themselves to the judgment of intelligent men without reference to whether it is possible to devise a penal discipline which shall at once reform those who are subject to it and deter others from bringing themselves under it It is especially desirable that the question should engage the attention of the publie and be so studied that an intelligent and effective opinion may be brought to bear upon the subject It is only through the force of such prevailing opinion that legislation can be secured, and in that view, the work of the Prison Association is one of great value. By continued agitation it will gradually produce an impression bring about a better understanding of the cubject, WILL THEY BE ASKED TO BLENHEIM There is perhaps a significance in the honors which have been paid the Duke of Majilbokocgii at Newport beyond a mere expression of that respect with which our democratic world of fashion baa always regarded Europeans of exacted social position. The entertainers of the Duke perhaps hope that they will be asked to Blenheim. They know, of course, that the probabilities are against such an event occurring.

But still there is a chance, and people will do a good deal for a chance. We have heard this anecdote of Thackeray when a boy at school. He was at 15 a fat overgrown lad, extremely indisposed to any, kind of mental or physical exertion. He would say to a school-fellow somewhat younger than himself: Russell, I wish you would go up stairs in my room and bring me mypenkpife; perhaps you will find a peunyon the table." The boy would presently return with the remark: "Here's your knife, but I didn't see any penny." "Ah. well." would be the reply, I never said you would." The Duke is no doubt willing to let his entertainers suppose there is somewhere to be found sn invitation, but in Piccadilly be will probably remind them that he never said he would.

There is little question that the Newport people in these calculations are destined to be left." Still we do not doubt that in the case of a very pretty girl, or, still better, in that of a very pretty young married woman, this nobleman would be happy to throw open the doors of his house. Whether tender parents or a prudent hnsband would think the notorious Englishman an eligible acquaintance for daughter or wife is another matter. Still, to effect an entrance within the charmed circle of English society and to arouse the envy and jealousy of friends at home who have not done this, would seem to some persons a thing so desirable as to make it worth while to incur a few risks to obtain it. THE DETROIT REUNION. The meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, which is to be held at Detroit this week, is the twentieth of the annual reunions of this body of veterans.

The Army of the Tennessee, though a less numerous organization at most periods of its career than some other famous Union armies, has a record of which its survivors may well be proud. It traces its history back to the glories of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, and.Lrough apart of its component forces, beyond them to the attack at Belmont It forght through both days at Shiloh, the bloodiest battle which up to that time had ever taken place on this continent. It spaded its way to Corinth, took part in all the remarkable series of marches and battles that ended in the fall of Vicks-burg, marched to the relief of Chattanooga and Knoxville, and formed the right wing of the great army that fought its way under Shermax to Atlanta, thenoe journeyed to the sea. and finally turned north from Savannah through the Carolina. It included at times the Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Corps, and its successive commanders were Graxt, W.

T. Sherman, McPher-box, Howard, and Logax. Fewof the great armies were so fortunate in constant experience of victory, since temporary repulses did not interfere in its case with the steady progress of the general campaign, whicb was sooner or later sure to be crowned with triumph. It was an army of great marches, too, as well as of great battles, the average record of the Fifteenth Corps from Vicksburg to Washington alone, not reckoning the first two years of the war, being 2,289 miles and that of the Seventeenth 2,076 These long past events of battlefield and bivouac will be recalled by the veterans who meet at Detroit It cannot be said that annual reunions of this sort diminish in public interest or importance in these later years. On the contrary, they seem to acquire additional significance.

They are watched by a new generation which has come on the scene since the great events of a quarter of a century ago, and they also serve to indicate the degree of comradeship that subsists between those who were foes on the field, but in peace are friends. Hardly a meeting of a great army society like that of the Cumberland, the Potomac, or the Tennessee occurs In these days without yielding some fresh illustration of the way in which the veterans stand by the principles they fought for, and yet express hearty friendship for those who long ago came again under the common flag of the country. It is a pity that a competent lecturer on toxicology was not sent out with the soldiers who have been doing disinfecting duty in Italy. He would have explained to the anti-sanitary mob the difference between carbolic acid as a beverage and as a disinfectant When the soldiers insisted that it was harmless, the crowd naturally demanded that they should try it on themselves. One drank it and died.

Two others refused to drink it and were killed. This is a painful showing for Catholic Italy, but it recalls the treatment of suspected witches in Puritanical England. The culprit was thrown into water over her depth. If she sank and drewned it was admitted that the prosecution had made a mistake. If she floated she was promptly convicted and killed.

The ignorance of the soldiers touching the uses of carbolic acid is especially lamentable for the reason that it will strengthen the popular Italian prejudice against disinfection. It has been proved to the satisfaction of Trapani that the disinfecting agent is a deadly poison, and whoever attempts to asperse the sick rooms of that village hereafter will do so at the peril of his life. JBE IRISH CROPS. FromUAs London Daily Telegraph. From the general abstracts of the agri-eultaral statiarios, Ireiaad.

Jost presented to Parliament. It appear that daring tse present year ara were planted with cereal crop, betna- a dacreaae. a eosapared with laat year, of 6.000 acres. Ou tbo otfcor band tnere aa beea aa Increase of 7.434 acre under green crvpa, and 3.312 ander flax, makuax tha nml decrease In the acreage under Ullage 18.794. In meadow and elovor nndar eulttvMiea tber baa beea aa taereaee of 409.

Thus, la tea extant of land aader crop ot all kinds, there baa been alaoe test rear aa taereaae 3CL33S aeras. AXUSEUEyiS. MR. MANSFIELD. Mr.

Richard Mansfield presented at the tadlaon-eViBare Theatre last nljcht Mr. T. R. Buinvan's play founded on "The Strange Caae or Dr. Jekyn and Mr.

Hyde." Readers of TBI Tutu already know something of this play and the positive artistic merit of Mr. Mansfield's acting in the strange double character, for the piece and tbo performance of It received critical attention In tbla column while Mr. Mansfield was filling a professional engagement In Boston last Msy. Mr. Stevenson's fascinating book baa been widely read, and the great publie Interest felt In tbe brilliant young actor's latest effort waa indicated by the presence of an audienoe that completely Jammed the little theatre and followed tbe proceedings In the mtmlo scene wiih close attention.

The nigbt waa one thst will be memorable la tan tbeatrtt-al record of tbla raot comiuunitr of babltual plajrtroera. Whetber tha plar aurvlTra or not. It will be cordially admitted that Mana-lleld'a bold venture Into a doubtful Held waa not prompted bv the mere desire for novelty era vulvar yearning for notonetv. Hia acting revral new depths In bis arliatle nature, and dl-plar a command of dramatic expedient nut sbown in any work previously done by Mm, in depleting tne baa sensuality, tea faideoua brutality, and the awful venom ot Hyde aa well a In reveallua the forlorn but tender and lovable nature ot Jekyll bta acting wa dialiiignUbrd. in tha one instance, bv surprising force an1 artistic drz-teritj In the otbef ly pathos aud dignity.

From this point of view bis performance should be regarded, to understand ita value as a key to an luterevllng and cruwlnr artit'a future position on our stage. Mansfield it developing rapidly, and hi pmicres 1 shown In this play to be In the ritrbt direction. He already enjoy a measure of substantial popularity rarely won on the atnge, and more rarclv rctalued, tr ao young a man. His powers of mimicry and bis skill in making up" have been ot great service to blin iu former years. In this plav be miebt easily have brought the, glfte more prominently Into plav.

He could, without difficulty, have rnprodured the stout, middle-aged physician of Stevenson's romance and made the contrast with his terrible other self more striking. But it would have been itupoaalble, under those circumstances, to preserve tbe aerlous character of tbe work. That what be made to seem real by a facile writer of narrative cannot alway be reproduced tn the vision is an axiom all ptaywriglita and actors have to learn; aud It is equally true that thins tbat Impress the mind as grave. In a t'ook, often become comic on tbe stage. A play following closely the text of etevenson's atorv would be merely a grotesque burlesque.

Mr. Sullivan, acting on Mr. ManstleliV advice, bas taken tha idea rather than the substance of the book, and the chauires made in putting tne Idea In dra bob tic shape were prompted by nice artistic discrimination, and will be approved by all competent fudges. Thus Dr. Jekyll ha become a yonnrer man.

sallow. restlMS. burdened with a great secret wr.lch tortures bis mind, loving fondly a gentle girl, vet unable to resist th powrr of the evil Inherent In his nature. And Hyde 1 merely Jekyll transformed Into a demon. The transformation are effected with tine skill; but they are not nearly so astounding to the simple mind as the harlequin's tricks in the pantomime.

The dominant purpose in this work Is to show tbe terrible suffering and degradation of Jekyll, through bis blind follv lu Juggling with the unknowable, and thus to point in dramatic form tbe moral of the hook. Whether such a purpose can be carried out in a Plav. with the' approval of tbe publlo that supports theatres, the attitude of that publlo toward "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" win show.

The book is an allegory; It events are impossible, and It Is related to tbat form ot literary endeavor classed vaguely aa psychological. Tho doubt whether such auhjecu are well adapted to dramatic treatment in acting plays has not yet been dispelled. A man who can drink potion and through the action of tbe liquid upon bis digestive organ completely change bis moral nature and bla physical aspect would certainly never have beea selected a a stag hero, if he had not already figured tn a story read by millions of people. But in discussing tha play itself and its qneer subject the genuineness of Mansfield' acting must not be overlooked. The murder of old Kir Danvers; tbe fugitive murderer gnlptng brandy In his room and talking with horrible mirth to the Imaginary spectre of bis victim; tbe encounter between Hyde and Jakyll's friend In tbe street at nlcht.

the strange scene between Hyde and Lanron, and the sudden transformation to Jekyll under tbe Influence nf the mysterious draught are scenes remarkable alike for vivid pictorial effect and undoubted emotional power. The sad soliloquy, preceding tbe death scne. contain beautiful passages beautifully rendered, and tbe battle of the conflicting elements in tbe man's nature la here deploted with notable ingenuity. Tbe play is ombre, necessarily. Tnat It Is not at all moments deeply Impressive might have been expected.

But In Mansfield's hands It Is tbe medium of thoughtful, and brilliant acting. Tbe same thing bas been true, in the past, with such drama as Manfred." The supporting company all treated their characters with an evident sense of the solemnity of the occasion. Their speech was measured and forcible. Miss Cameron waa a pleasing representative of tbe heroine, and Mr. Harklns deserves credit for bis efficient work In his one important scene.

Miss Helen Glldden was. however, a feeble substitute for Miss Sheridan as Rebecca Moor, tbe miserly bag. and the second act was not. therefore, quite so effective a in Bo ton, where, also, inn aetlon in tbat part of tbe play was. continuous.

Last night there werat Intermissions, requtrea to put elaborate scenery Into place. The stage pictures were all good, and tbe decorations on tbe wall of bestial Mr. Hyde's room alarmingly characteristic BIJOU OPERA HOUSE. Mr. John A.

Mackay is the "star" of Rice's Surprise Party which appeared at th Bijou Opera House last night in what was called on tha bills a "captivating musical and farcical comedy" entitled Circus in Town," by Messrs. Edward Hoist and Woolson Morse. "Circus tn Town" Introduces half a dozen comely girls snd as many men, and give to each a specialty." There Is no effort made to connect these specialties by a sustained nlof. They are dragged before tbe audience and left there to be appreciated, or the other thing. What feeble story tberc is relate to a eircu proprietor whoso performers suddenly and lnezpllcabl resolve to strike.

Tbe proprietor baa a pretty wile with whom a gay Lothario Is smitten. He writes her a letter, snd, after mailing it, discovers that she 1 married and her husband insanely jealous. He endeavors to recover the letter before it falls into the husband's hands, and, of course, manages matter so tbat bloodshed la sroiiled. Mr Mackay wa tbe gay Lothario and W. H.

Hamilton tbe Jealous husband. The amusing element of the piece was centred tn the clever performance of Mr. Richard Oolden, who. as an Irish servant girl, was lrrealstlhly funny. He ssng a soug entitled Wben tbe Roses Fade and Ile," Imitating tbe attlons of an Italian opera prima donna, and received the one genuine burst of applause heard In the BI)ou Opera House last night.

Miss Josie Hall a a flying trapeze artist" must have been extremely eu-ten ainlng to judce from tbe colossal floral "tribute" which were conspicuously handed to her over th footlluht. r. Paul Arthur as a youth ot tbe period waa so good-humored and genial in his endeavors that no one mimled when he atruck the wrong note in the "medley" which waa aung. Among the varieties introduced in the piece were tbe tumbling performances of tbe Davenport Brothers, who made tbe most ot the small stage, aud a tigbt-rupe "act" by an unknown but athletic gentleman. Tbe moslo Included a drinking chorus, a rather effective "dude quartet." a duet, and a sentimental solo capitally sung by Mr.

W. H. Hamilton. "A HOLE DT THE GROUND." There was an apologetic twang in the re-marka which were made by Mr. Charles Hoyt.

wben. In answer to calls for the author, he presented himself before the curtain at the Fourteenth-Street Theatre last evening. Tbe programme, too. contained an explanatory preface tbat apologized after a fashion, yet there waa no occasion for an apology or an excuse. The play if it can be so styled waa Mr.

Hoyt's A Hole in tbe Ground." and It was the first performance of It in this city tbat waa given laat evening. The piece is an uproarious farce similar to Mr. Hoyt's previous one. It abound In langy humor, boisterous horse plav. Jingling ditties, and tbe other stock ingredient that Its predrceaaora had, bat tbe surroundings are new.

tbe situations are varied, and lb activity! made to run In fresh channels. Like the parlor Match" and "Buueh of Key," however, its performance serves the intended purpose to bring out laughter. Tnla It certainly docs. The large audience tbat roared almost lueeasantly through the three acta gave abundant lokru of this. They Insisted on having nearly everything repeated, even uown to a bit of whistling by one of the performers.

Wben au author 1 able, by tbe aid of a good company, to do this much be has no need of apologizing. It 1 a creditable thing to bring out hearty, even If unthinking and boisterous, laughter, ao long aa things held sacred are not tae aubject of tidieale or honest emotion 1 not antra ed. What If tbe moan employed be rough and uncouth and tbe method unrefined! Tbe man whose work la able to drive away care and to bring forgetfulnee of the petty woniea of life need not be aaaamed of hi efforts. By all this is meant tbat Mr. Hoyt's burlesque scored an undoubted uo-: that lu fun wa catching, and that th performers In general did weU.

Mlaa Flora VaJb, Mr. George Richard. Mr. Frank Law-ton, Mia Sannette Cores toe k. Mr.

Julian Mitchell, and the other dosaw members of tb eaas perforatd their work aaOsiactoiily. The tiUse tee piece, Uc.Mni rata leal, slsiplv refers to a slaking ef a part of a Xallroad. Thl eauae train detention a ad, with what happen In aad aroand the railway tao. the performance deal. Tb accessories, eos.

tomes, scenery. Ac. were all good. The taee will be performed here for four week and will Utea bs given ta other cities- STANDARD THEATRE. Tbe marvels of the "Arabian Nights have been a fruitful source of material for tat stage.

It was sot to be wondered at. therefor, that Aladdin and his. wonderful lamp should once more be made use ef as the ground work ef a spectacular burlesque. Alfred Thompson b) responsible for the latest theatrical vemlen of this familiar tale, which has already been witnessed with pleasure tn Chicago, and was last night produced at the Standard Theatre la. the presence of a large and demonstratlvB audience.

It seems a pitiful thing te say, bet there is hardly a man alive to-day who hat the remotest nottou of the construction of a burlesque. If th plate truth mnst be tnld. aa it should be ror tbe guidance of the pai.liel Mr. Thompson does not appear to be tbe Bia, III version of the story of Aladdin, whlen he rail ti.e "Arabian SUhta." Is vastly infertar fat tbe good old version familiar to playgoer of so years ago. but the new arrangement of th tory give ample opportunity for ti Introdue.

tlon nf spectacular effect, brilliant marches and ballets, gorgeous costumes and and a general rlltter and glory that, like Bauqne'a crown, daizle tbe erenalls. There am a doen glistening stage sett in the new production that are as handsome aa anything ever seen in p-. tncie in this city. The costumes sre new and elaborate, add there Is a large fore of handsome and shapely women, who are exhibited ta th very best advantage. Tberw-1 a curtain of steam which asceeds to the proscenium arch, biding tbe stage while a change of scene is effected and producing a striking effect.

There are a fairy grot, to and a transformation scene pf dazzling beanty, and there I a number of oiher scene which are really well painted and wrll handled, come of the transformation did not work well laat nlglit, bnt tbat I a defect which fnture audience need not tear. Tbe burlesque la interpreted by a large company of clever iopla. among whom J. H. Kyley a t'how-fhow.

ths magician: Loie Fuller a Aladdin. LIIMe Allls-ton as hi mother. Celt. Elll as tb Princes, and J. k.

Connelly as tbe Inspector of Potlc are conspicuous. The hit of the Tuning was made by tbat admirable burlesque aetrea J.ina Mervllle a Kick a Poo, the magician' valet. The leading dancer are Adele Cora alba. Mile. Vivian and Dort, and Orcste, A dance of doll bv Ml Mervllle.

Miles. Dorst and Vivian, and M. OreMe created the greatest enthusiasm of the evening, which was wholly due to the delightful character actingof Miss Mervllle. Alto. gether.

the "Arabian Night" tnrnisbes a very irsKsui entertainment aun ought in meet with NOTES OF THE STAGE. The last performance of the Fall of Babylon will be given to-night for the benefit of Mr. John W. Hamilton, on Siaten Island The sale of seats for Mrs. Langtrr's first performance in "As In Looking Glass" will begin this morning at tbe Fiflh-A venue Theatre.

Dockstader's next afterpiece will be called "Dr. Freckle and Mr. Snide The minstrels had a crowded bouse to begin their second week with last night. At the Grand Opera Honao last evening Mr. Louis Jam and Miss Walnwright began their week's engagement In Virglnlus." Tonight these popular plaver will eeu for the first time as Ingomar and Partbenia.

Lost in London" is likely to attract large audtenrea at the Windsor throughout ihs week. It waa performed there last nUht by Mr, Newton Beers and his company, and the new spectacular effects were highly appreciated. A vocal and instrumental concert at the Madisorf-Square Garden last nlgbt Introduced Misa Annis Montague and Mr. Charles Turner In addition to Mr. Hlciiobs's excellent orchestra.

Concerts of a similar character will be given there throughout tbe week. Nina Bertini, the latest addition to CoL McCaull's opera company, made her debut at Wallack's last night, aa Ksrln, the herring dealer's daughter, tbe character which Mis Josephine Knspp ha sung since tbe first production of "Bellman." Miss Berlin 1, who was formerly a member of Emma Abbott's company, possesses a good voice, which she has carefully cultivated.and she made a very favorable impression on the audience receiving her full share of spplsuae. Miss Knapp takes a vacation, winch sh ha well earned by two years ot conUnnou work. The lack of sense and purpose in "The Wily West." whloh waa presented at Harrlgan's Park Theatre last night, wa equaled only by tb dullness of the performance. The programme furnished tbe information tbat this alleged entertainment waa "an amusing sstlre on Buffalo Bill's Wild West." but tne limited audience gave no evidence of concurrence In tbe statement.

Tbe painful auempta at humor and tbe generally Inans treatment of two such hackneyed subjects as the far West and lire In a dry goods establishment put tbe spectators so pearly to sleep thst tbe dancing of four Imitation darkles was hailed with tho wtldaal enthusiasm. Indeed, tbe only tolerable features of the evening were those Introduced bv tbe variety" people In tbe cast. Tbe rousle In tbe piece was also by the author of tbe words, and suggested that his Juderoent In selecting was worse than hi memory. The Wily West" I the mushiest of the mushroom that spring up in the preliminary" theatrical season. WISCONSIN IBB HEAD.

A QUI5TION OP PRECEDENCE AGITATING GRAND ARMY MEN. St. Louis, Sept 12. Tbe national encampment of tb Grand Army of tbe Bepuhlie will be called upon during its present session to settle a row tbat has recently developed. Two of the departments are at locgerbeads over tb question of precedence.

Tbe Department of Illinois has up to this year been ae corded tbe first place In tbe parade, the column being always formed in the order ot organization as a matter of course, no one denying ita tight to that position. Tbe claims of Illinois to being tbe birthplace of the order are still conceded, but Wisconsin ha lately come forward and denies that llliuoi wa the drst organized department, claiming that bonor for herself. Th members of thai department sffirin thst It was organized on June 9. 1966. over a month before the recorded organization of ths Department of Illinois: that after ttte war a number of soldier societies were formed In various parts of the State, and that, upon heurlng of tbe information of a Grand Army post at Decatur, IlL.

Hnr20 of them sot together and. abolrsbloir their several societies, resolved' themselves into a department of tbe new order and elected J. K. Proud til Department Commauder on the date mentioned. Tbis claim, although made 21 years after the birth of tbe Grand Army, seems to have beea acknowledged by CommaDder-tn-Chlct Falrchlld, for the roil of the twenty-first national encampment, recently issued from national aead-qnartera.

gives the date of the organisation ot tne Department of Wisconsin aa June 9. 13G6. snd Adit. -Gen. Gray ba written to tbe Louis committee ordering Wisconsin at the bead of the column.

This ha provoked a storm ot Indignation from tbe veteran, who had pre pared to do especial bonor to Illinois. MSB HOVRS DEVASVZD. Boston, Sept 12. There is a. partial strike among the furniture finishers la thl eltj and vicinity.

On Friday evening th Furnltun Finisher' Association voted to strike unless thl demand for nine hours for a day'a work wai granted. Tbe demand was made on the mannv facturer this morning aud In several inttanoet was granted. In other eases it wss refused, sad the men went out At Schllmper Biakt't, South Boston, the firm refused to entertain ths committee, and 20 men left In a body. At Irvloir 4 Casaon's, Cambridge. 14 men went out.

and 33 went from Bardwell 4 Anderson'. at Boston. The men at tha Dorchester factory of E. Camming A Co. also Is tbe city proper tbe finishers at C.

E. EUke's, F. F. Brown A and Ward' looking glass factory went out. The following firms have acceded tn tbe da-mauds of the men: Shaw Brothers, (X S.

Small A Co. Small Brotber. Dauiel idxrr A Co N. Boutette, Mellisb byrtaid A and Reniiia A Co. A 1 1 he places tbe men.

of course, still at ork. A meeting of manufacturer was heJd thli afternoon. It wa strictly private, and Jtul what firms were represented Is not known It wa given out that tha manufacturer had derided to stand out against the reduction of working hour. MXPLA1SED BT THS COUfAXT. PaovtDEKCE, B.

Sept. 12. Tbe Wooniocket Rubber Company make a detailed sutemeot to-day regarding the attachment ef Khlytoa Grrea. of 5w.York. on Ui property of ths company en tb claim of aa naSUed contract tor a big shlnest at rubber.

Mr. Baonigan, of the company, partly closed a purchase of rubber aggregating snarly SZS0.000 with broker la Xew.Yutk laat July, and a no signed by the broker with fchtplun Green, which, however. Mr. Baonlgan as not containing tha terms at parrbaae. Tbe began t- ship taa rubber, aad flndleg it waa fert aptaU quaUf represented, Mr Bastifaa refused lo receive it II all arrived, hewever, A iter it ws rejected.

Ores took possession of a part aad sold it. Mr. Bannigsa eaered to arbitrate, bat Green began ptmeeetUng get his mousy or the Uty tbomsaud-deUsr suaca-isat on th property In New-York, and later la b-toa. Beon were aerei ro secure any adgment, uat Graea refused le rttolv the aitachmaat- Ths coss-paay claims that the whole tenor at th uf Ureen ha been to tore tbe payment ot aa ajtralnLed contract ot sals by th a at every aiaaa that csa be o4 to saiberraae th Woaect it taker Co-.