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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
r K O P B I E T 0 R.
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VOLUME XL NO. 123
AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW.
BOWERY OPERA HOUSE.
Vo. Ml Bowery.-VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45
Jt\ M.
WOOD'S MUSEUM.
Broa<lwnv. corner <>t Thirtieth atreet ?MAZKPPA, at 8
P.M.; clo*a?t 10 :*5 P. M. Mutillfee at 2 P M.
THEATRK CoMlyCK,
No 514 Broadwav.?VAKIEIY, at a 1\ M.; closes at 10:15
P . M.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.
Weat Fourteenth street.?Open from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M.
olympic THEATRE.
No. ?4 Broadway.?VAK1E1Y. at ? P M. ; closes at 10:0
P. M.
FIFTH AVENIE THKATRB.
Twentv-alfhth street and Hroadwav ? THY. BIO BO.
NaNZA. at 8 P. M.; closes *t tU:3>iP. M. Mr Flafier, Mr.
Lewut, Mias Davenport, Mrs. Uilteri
BROOKLYN PARK THBATRK,
Fulton avenue.?VARIETY, at 8 P. M., close* at 10 45
r m
METROPOLITAN theatre.
No. -jS& Broadway.?FtMALK BATBKBS, at SP. M.
ROBINSON HALL,
West c ixteenth itreeL?V A141RTY, at 8 P. M.
BOOTH'S THKATRF.
<v>rner of Twentv third street and .vixth avecne.?
KVaDSE. at 8 P. M., closes at U P. M. M.ss Clara
Kama
LYCEUM THEATRE.
F >urtMnth street n<-ar Sixth avenue.?LA JOLIE PAR*
yLMaL"->h, atdP. M. MUe. Alnice.
SAN francisco MINSTRELS,
Broadwav. corner oi Twenty-ninth street? NEGRO
Ml.<cJTR?.L*Y, at 8 P. M.; cloaca at 10 P. M.
BROOKLYN THEATRE.
THE TWO ORPHANS, at 8 P. M.
WALLACE'S THEATRE,
Broadway.?ROAD Tn RUIVats Y. M.; closet at 10:40
P M. Mr. Moniagae. Mia* Jeffreya-Lewia.
QUADRUPLE SHEET.
NEW YORK, SUNDAY. MAY 9. 1871.
Prom our reports thit morning the probabilities
art that the urather to-day trill be xrarvvr and
dear.
Wall Strext Yxsterdax.?The stock mar
ket was irregular. Gold advanced to 115}.
Foreign exchange was firm. Money was easy
<an call loans at 2 and 3 per cent
Sxvzntt Indians have been captured by
United States troops and are on their way, as
prisoners, to Fort Leaven worth. Among these
are Lone Wolf and other chiefs, distinguished
for their many murders and cruel deeds. Kick
ing Bird, who betrayed his comrades, was
disposed of with poison by a fair but treacher
ous squaw.
The Eclipse of the Sen.?By a special
telegram report from Egypt, through London,
we are informed that the scientists who went
out to observe the eclipse of the sun were
vastly disappointed. Heavy clouds obscured
the great luminary ten minutes before the oc
currence of the phenomenon, and thus ren
dered the work of the expeditionists almost
fruitless.
Th* Cass or ths Mcttneebs, who com
mitted the murders on board of the American
schooner Jefferson Borden, was heard in one
of the police courts of London yesterday.
Captain Patterson gave testimony. The
magistrate decided that the wounded sailors 1
shall be detained until they are able to come
into court nnd tell their story and hear the
evidence against them. It is thought that an
application will be made to the British gov
ernment for tho extradition of ths men to |
America
Ths Bessemer Htsaveii on Trial.?A spe
cial Hkrai.d telegram by cable from London
reports that a trial trip of the Bessemer
steamer was made yesterday. A very numer
ous company, including many distinguished
personages, was on board. The swinging
saloon, the great mechanical sttraction
which, it is hoped, will prevent seasickness,
was not worked; but we are not informed of
the cause of the omiasion. When about to enU r
Calais harbor the steamer refused to obey her
helm and flashed furiously on the woodwork of
the pier, damaging the pier considerably and
herself slightly. The passengers who were
on board jonrneyed to Paris, whence they
will return to England.
A* Explanation in Okdnb.?In the Comp
troller's quarterly report of claims against the
county, audited and paid in 1873, are the fol
lowing:?Warrant No. 5,789, in favor of .
Thomas J. Creamer, for salary as Commis- i
sioner of Taxes and Assessments for the
month of August, 1872, 1833 33; warrant
No. 2,870, in favor of Boswell H. Jerome, for
salary as recognizance clerk in the District
Attorney's office for January, 1872, $208 33;
warrant No. 5,700, in favor of Charles
McCafferty, for salary as recording clerk of
the County Clerk's office for August, 1872,
$90 22; warrants Nos. 878 and 8,299, in favor
of Jamea McCorviD, for $35 each, for rent of !
premtnes for election purposes. But although
in the said report these warrants are charged
as having been paid to the parties entitled to
them the Comptroller's books show that they
wese never so paid, bat thiA, after being held
by the Comptroller in tns own possesion
until the lit of May, 1874, they were then
cancelled by him. By what authority were
they credited as paid when they were not
paid? By what authority were they withheld
from the parties by the Comptroller? and
under what provision of law were they can
celled bv ? An explanation is in nr?W.
The Wreck of the Schiller.
The tremendous physical powers of the
earth, in comparison with which oil the inge
nuity and daring of man are fntile and una
vailing, have no expression greater than in
the sea. The ocean at once divides and unites
mankind. "There are no more Pyrenees,"
said Louis XIV., when ho dreamed that
France had conquered Spain; yet, although
the mountains may be laid level with
the plains and nations cease to be
divided by their inaccessible peaks, the ocean
still remains the unconquerable, the untamed
element upon which the flag of no nation can
be planted. In ancient days the sea wm a
terror, but modern commerce has made it an
ordinary path. It is a convenience rather
than an obstacle, but sometimes it takes ter
rible revenges. The words of Lord Byron
are recalled when we read of such
catastrophes as that which is recorded this
morning?"such as creation's dawn beheld
thou rollest now." Majestic, magnificent,
merciless was the ocean then, when man had
no existenoe in the world, as now when
its billows engulf in one hour hundreds of
happy lives.
The loss of the steamship Schiller, which is ?
fully chronicled in our columns, is one
more proof of the utter helplessness of
man when brought into conflict with the
fearful forces of nature. The sea, which bad
again and again borne this fated bark in
safety to her port, unexpectedly became her
grave. We may calculate as well as we can
the causes of this disaster, but we muit not
leave out of the problem the illimitable forces
of nature. The sea rises in rebellion against
man and avenges her apparent subjugation by
insurrections against which human strugglo
is useless. Ships sail from peaceful ports
and are never heard from again; a thousand
fathoms low they founder. Armadas are
sunk in the unsounded depths, and still the
gray and melancholy waste, old ocean's un
monumented graveyard, hides in its profound
abysses innumerable victims. It breaks upon
the beach with delight, but its music has an
undertone of grief?a dirge older than the
race of man.
No more terrible conquest of the ocean is
recorded since the Atlantic was wrecked oil
the coast of Newfoundland than that of the
Schiller, a noble steamship, which sailed from
this port not two weeks ago. The Schiller
left New York for Hamburg April 28, intend
ing to stop at Plymouth and Cherbourg, but
was wrecked upon the Scilly Islands, south
west of England, on the Cornwall coast.
This ship bore from New York more
than three hundred lives, all of whom had
reasonable hope of a safe and speedy passage.
Ocean travel has become in the opinion of the
public as safe as travel upon land. Steamers
are continually crossing the Atlantic, and no
traveller fears them more than we fear tbe
street cars of the city. To go to Europe, or
return thence, is now a pleasure
trip, unattended with danger or ex
citement, with possibly a distant ice
berg or a storm to make the passage enter
taining. But the sea will not be disappointed
of her prey. She exacts her penalty ; she is
inexorable in demanding her toll, and it has
been fearfully paid by over two hundred
passengers upon the Schiller, which now, with
her cargo of dead, lies fathoms deep off the
iron bound English coast.
The causes of this disaster are not fully ex
plained, yet are not difficult to understand.
The Schiller was a new steamer, built in
1873, and was a stanch and sound ship. The i
Eagle line, to which she had belonged, is
bankrupt, but the steamer did full credit to |
the Glasgow shipbuilders who had launched
her on the Clyde. Her passage from New
York was evidently smooth and safe,
until the ninth day of the voyage, when sho
struck upon the Retarriere ledges, near ;
Bishop's Bock, off the southern point of the
Scilly Islands. A heavy fog prevailed at the
time. If the reader will glance at the map he
will see that the Scilly Islands form a
natural obstacle to Plymouth Sound; and,
indeed, they have been heaped high
with wrecks?high as ever the dead
have been heaped in battle?in the
records of modern navigation. They seem to
invite shipwreck and to stretch a rocky,
threatening arm between the hospitable
shores of England and the adventurous West.
Cooper, in one of his admirable sea novels, has
described a narrow escape of an American
ship from ruin upon the Scilly Islands,
the rocks upon one hand and an English
cruiser upon the other. Modem science has
done its utmost to reduce the dangers which
the Scilly Islands present to the navigator by
placing lighthouses upon the dangerous
reefs. But in this case the lights were
shrouded in fog. In darkness the Schil
ler, "that fated bark, built in the
eclipse and rigged with curses dark,''
rushed upon that unmerciful barrier. We
know but little of the terrible scene that fol
lowed. The Schiller lies broadside on the
rocks, under water, her mainmast gone, and
probably a complete and hopeless wreck. The
sea was rough, preventing boats on shore
from going to her relief and of the three hun
dred and seventy persons on board the ship
less than fifty are known to have been saved.
There is a world of tragedies embodied in
these cold and barren facts.
The responsibility of this awful shipwreck
seems to rest with the officers of the ship.
There was no stnrqp, which might have placed
the steamer at the mercy of the waves; there
was simply a fog and the darkness of night
Conceding that none of the lights could have
been seen, the fog bell at Bishop's Rock
should have been heard. The ledge of Retar
riere, upon which the Schiller struck,
is said to be barely a third of a
mile inside of Bishop's Rock, and
our telegrams assign no reason why the
officers of the steamer did not hour the
alarm bell. The myHtery of the wreck re
sembles that of the Yille dti Havre,
which went down in almost the middle of
the Atlantic by reason of an unexplained col
lision. But even 11 the lights could not be
seen, even if the fog bell of Bishop's Rock
could not be heard, there was still
one more chance fot the anluoky
Schiller. The British law accepts
no excuse from captains whose vessels are
wrecked upon this coast because of tides or
winds. It holds that by constant and careful
soundings with the l<*d the experienced navi
gator cannot fail to tell the dangerous prox
imity of his vessel to the coot, and condemns
I lh? "?n>?in ohn fcllt ??? tu. ?.
W e cannot yet tell whether the captain of the
Schiller did all that was possible to avert
this calamity. He is its victim, and it is but just
to judge him charitably till the whole trujth
is known.
But the startling fact remains that in tran
quil weather, off the well known coast of
England?its quiet harbors not better known
than its dangers?an American steamship
wus wrecked, with hundreds of passengers
on board. These passengort had trusted them
selves to the skill of the officers and the good
faith ot the steamship company. They are
victims of a terrible blunder. There were on
board of the Schiller the citizens of New York,
Philadelphia and other cities, who sought
pleasure or business advantages in Europe.
Some of them were returning to their old
homes to Bee their friends, others
were for the first time seeking the
delights and marvels of European
capitals. Hundreds of them were suddenly
engulfed in the devouring waves, with hardly
a moment's warning of their fate. It cannot
j be that an event so terrible and apparently so
: unnecessary shall be overlooked as a mere
accident of natare. Neither storm nor fire
nor collision with other vessels caused
the destruction of the unfortunate Schiller.
She was lost upon a coast well known to ex
perienced sailors; upon no new rock, but
upon ancient reefs of immemorial danger,
and somebody must be held to an awful re
sponsibility. Ocean travel can never be safe
if such accidents, as they are wrongly
called, are tolerated. We trust that the in
vestigation will be swift and thorough, and
that the guilty persons will be fully punished
if they have not already met the penalty of
their own neglect. The sea is merciless to
the guilty and the innocent alike, and therein
is the more reason why man should be just.
The Ethan Allen Celebration.
The letter we print this morning completes
the historical risumi of the events which oc
curred at Fort Ticonderoga a hundred years
ago, now of so much interest on account of
the celebration of the Ethan Allen Centennial,
which takes place to-morrow. Twenty years
before the beginning of the American Revolu
tion the French and English were contending
for dominion all along what is now our
northern frontier, from Quebec to old Fort
Du Quesne. In 1755 General Braddock met
his famous defeat in the meadows of the
Youghiogheny, and three years later Aber
crombie courted a fate not less terrible on
that historic spot to which Allen owes
much of his fame. It was at the cost of much
blood that the English were able to capture
Fort Ticonderoga, and then it was only to
hold the work for a few years before it fell
into the hands of the Americans as the first
fruits of Lexington and Concord. Fol
lowing that gnat Miccess of the hand
ful of Green Mountain boys whom
Allen, guided by the brave and patriotic lad
who led the small force into the fort just one
hundred years ago, commanded on that event
ful morning, was the battle of Bunker Hill
and the subsequent evacuation of Boston and
occupation of New York. Those were gloomy
dayB for the struggling patriot*, and if the
projected expedition of Burgoyne was success
ful all the glories of Lexington, all the prowess
of Allen and all the blood shed on the heights
of Charlestown had been in vain. The whole
country seemed at the mercy of the British
commander, and his military genius was as
overpowering as his military advantages. Few
soldiers could have planted their guns on
the heights of Mount Defiance as Bur
goyne planted his while on the way
to disaster and disgrace at Saratoga,
and no one, save Allen, could have
clambered up those steep declivities and cap
tuned them. The second achievement of the
bold pioneer, whose namo i? associated for
ever with the picturesque region where thou
sands will assemble to-morrow to com
memorate his valor, was scarcely less hazard
ous or glorious than the first This
adventurous Bpirit was no mere soldier of
fortune; for though the Captain Dalgettys
whose swoids are for sale to whoever will bid
the highest price for them have proved them
selves brave soldiers on many a hotly con
tested field, they were not men to undertake
feats like his, so full of danger and so uncer
tain of reward. It was unselfish patriotism
as well as unexampled courage which dis
tinguished Ethan Allen, and his own account
of the capture of Ticonderoga, which we re
priot to-day, shows that the man and his acts
are alike worthy to be commemorated at the
scene of his exploits on the centennial of his
great achievement.
The International Rifle Match.
Considerable anxiety exists in the public
mind on the score of the Team selected to
represent America in the coming interna
tional contest at Dublin. There is a
feeling that had greater efforts been
made valuable reinforcements could have
been obtained from the South and West,
where the true American rifleman is indige
nous to the soil. It was among the class of
men accustomed to handle the rifle
from their youth that the public ex
pected to see the champions of American
marksmanship chiefly recruited, and the ab
senoe of men of this t tamp from the Team
gives cause for apprehension which we hope
the issue may prove to be groundless, it is
not, however, reassuring to find that the Team
which goes across the water to support
the honor of America should be almost iden
tical with the one that contested with the
Irish Team last year at Creedmoor. Even
then, when the Irish riflemen shot with
all the disadvantages of climate and
wont of acquaintance with the ground,
tho victory rested with America by
only three points, and even this was due
to an error on the part of ono of the Irish
riflemen, who lost a shot by firing on the
wrong target. It is well known that several
of the most reliable ot the Irish riflemen were
not able to come out to this country. There is,
therefore, little reason to doubt that the
American Team going to Ireland will have to
contend with opponents still more formidable
than thoce they encountered at Creedmoor,
and this time with all the odds of climate
and local knowledge against the American!*.
Under these circumstances the gentlemen
superintending the selection of the Team
ought not to allow any red-tapism to inter
fere with the Helection of the best possible
men, whether or not they may have conformed
tn the rn1?*? Ui<1 down for Com&etitoN. Abo?*
all imngs we want victory, and to attain this
grand end all trivial considerations should be
unhesitatingly set aside.
An Event In (Ik* P*ot??(n?* tUorelk.
The magnificent now Presbyterian church
over which the Rov. Dr. Hall presides with so
much acceptability will be dedicated to-day.
Those who have watched the steady advance
of New York in architectural beauty have not
failed to notice the slow, majestic growth, the
eloquent and almost poetic value of the build
ing which has been gradually taking shape on
Fifth avenue, within the shadow of our
Central Park. It is not so much the edifloe,
however, as the fact that it represents the
progress in this community of one of the
most important branches of the Christian
faith. The Rev. Dr. Hall has for a long time
been recognized as the head of the Presby
terian denomination in the city of New York.
1 In our advance to metropolitan greatness
there naturally has grown up all denomina
tions of tho Christian faith. Although Pres
byterianism has not taken the same hold as
Catholicism and perhaps other faiths, still it
has always maintained a representative ca
pacity. Its strength is not so much in the
number or wealth of its congregations as in the
character of the men who have accepted its
doctrines. In the multitude of sects
and nationalities which combine to form
this Republio Presbyterianism has taken
a large and prominent part It goes
back to the time when Calvin pro
tested against the Episcopal and Catholie
principle which three hundred years ago
controlled Europe. It represents the genius
of Knox, who, a few years after his great
master, planted the seeds of the sturdy faith
on the hard soil of Scotland. In England we
find this growth in tho Lollards of the four
teenth and fifteenth as well as In the Puritans
of the sixteenth century. Not more than
three centuries have elapsed since it became
a formal denomination within the Christian
churches of England, and yet its influence
to-day is second only to that of the Estab
lished Church.
The Presbyterian denomination in America
represents more than any other influence that
of Scotland and Scottish ideas. For a long
time it was feared that the liberalism of the
American Republic, spreading, as it did, in the
growth of those States, would be unfriendly
to the establishment of any strict Presbyterian
system. It is to the honor of the members of
this Church that during the probationary
years of our Republio, when w* were uncer
tain as to the proper principles of government,
the Presbyterians were true to lib
erty, temperance and justice. There
were, of course, a large number of
Presbyterians, who were willing to accept
the government as it was, without regard to
slavery and temperance ; but it was in the
Presbyterian fold that we found the one of the
few Christian denominations which regarded
slavery as a crime and was willing to testily
its devotion to Calvin's ideas by debarring
from its communion table all who would not
accept in its truest and most absolute sense
those maxims of the Gospel which prescribed
purity of character, liberty of conscience and
absolute freedom to all, without distinction
of color, caste or race.
The dedication of this church of Dr. Hall
is, therefore, the celebration of more than a
mere local event. It is not alone that we
have built a beautiful church on Fifth ave
nue, nor that we have given an almoet royal
home to a powerful and respected denomina
tion. It is the foundation in this great city
of another evidence of the spirit of Presby
terianism in this country. Although some of
us may be disposed to question all the stern
decrees of Calvin and regret the theology
which in some respects is so bar.h and un
bending. and to hope for a religion which
gave more consideration and hope to the
weakness and temptations of human nature,
still we respect in the Presbyterian Church
the possession of those high and noble quali
ties with which civil liberty would be a prob
lem and free government impossible.
The Politician* and the Proposed
Charter ttcformi.
The action of the State Legislature on tho
various propositions to amend or change por
tion* of the present New York city charter
shows how desirable is the adoption of some
constitutional provision regulating the gov
ernment of cities in accordance with the
views expressed by Governor Tilden. The
two houses of the Legislature sre politically
antagonistic, the Senate having a republican
and the Assembly a democratic majority.
Every proposition to amend the charter in
the interests of the city and the taxpayers is
?o framed or altered in the Senate as to
increase the power and patronage of Comp
troller Green or some other department I
officer who is in alliance with the republican
party. Unless this end can be accomplished
the proposed amendment finds no favor in
the Senate. In like manner the charter
amendments, when they reach the Assembly,
are so changed as to increase the power and
patronage of the democratic Mayor, and are
rejected unless this object can be
J secured. So between the rival houses
desirable measures are sacrificed and abuses
are suffered to continue. No person denies
that we need a very thorongh reform in the
| business of street cleaning. The people of
New York have been called upon for the lost
; two or three years, under a government that
j has claimed to favor reform, to pay about a
i million dollars a year tor this work, while tho
1 streets have been left to be cleaned by the
rain, wind and sunshine, and except on a few
favored thoroughfares scarcely a pretence has
been made to assist the weather in the work.
With the summer approaching the reek
ing filth of the neglected streets threatens
the city with pestilence and death; yet all
we can obtain from the Senate in the way of
relief is a bill that gives to the present incapa
ble and worthless street cleaning authorities
the power to make contracts for three years,
thus extending the existing evil tbat length
of time. This outrageous proposition is
! made because the Street donning Bu
f reau is now under repuhflcam control.
; In the Assembly we are offered ?
change that contemplates a continuance
of the existing evils, only giving the demo
cratic Mayor and Common Council the choice
of the persons who shall control the depart
ment, instead of leaving it in the hands of the
Police Commissioners. Between the tv/o
propositions the people will be left without
any reform and the present abuses will be
left untouched.
The city suffers from the lack of the power
to properly repair the old streets and from
the loose manner in which the public debt
can be increased. But when it is proposed to
alter the law so as to remedy these defects
the Senate seizes the opportunity to make
Comptroller Green a dictator over the city, and
the Assembly responds by striving to make
the amendments inure to the benefit of the
Mayor and his democratic friends. Mean
while it is a matter of indifference to the
Legislature how much the city may be dam
aged and the taxpayers wronged by the fail
ure of the charter amendments. The country
representatives are resolved to promote the
interests of their parties without regard
to the interests of ttte metropolis.
The Woo dins of the Senate and the
Lincolna of the Assembly look upon
New York as a place to be worked for the
profit of rural republicans, while such sturdy
democrats as Fox and Jacobs, Waehner and
Tim Campbell regard the city patronage as
the legitimate spoils of the Tammany democ
racy, and will be satisfied with no reforms
that do not help to fill the municipal offices
with their own political followers. No por
tion of the State has suffered so severely as
New York from the greedy schemes of the
politicians, and any movement calculated to
take the city out of the hands of the Legisla
ture must be a welcome and substantial re
form. Hence we hope yet to see a message on
the subject of city governments from Gover
nor Tilden, so that the people may have his
views before them before the next election for
the Senate and Assembly is held.
Waiting for the Verdict.
One takes a sad kind of interest in thd*
tragedies which are being daily enacted in and
near such a city as this. Every twenty-fonr
hours furnish material for a novel of the most
exciting order. Incidents are recorded in the
columns of every newspaper which, if
properly grouped into a literary composition,
would convince almost any reader that the
imagination of the writer had run riot. The
New York life of which history takes note is
enacted on the fashionable avenues and in the
great mercantile exchanges. But far below
this is another world, one of poverty and
guilt, of temptation and remorse, like the
mud at the bottom of the clear tide, where
evils of every shape crawl and where untold
crimes find a lurking place. Into this world
the majority of ministers and philanthropists
never peep, but from contact with it they
shrink with a natural dread.
The inspiration of these dangerous classes
is rum. Bad liquor is the chief source of
courage to the criminal. He drinks when he
is concocting his schemes, and he drinks his
stirrup cup when he Bets out on his midnight
expedition. While sober there are certain
limits to his audacity ; but when the fire is in
his veins he is like a wild beast of the forest,
reckless of his own life and careless of the
lives of others. What New York might be
come if the gin mills of the city were to be
consumed by the blazing indignation of those
who have lost, and more than lost, dear ones
in this way, it might not be easy to say. No
one can doubt, however, who has watched the
progress of crime and looked into its causes,
that if such an abolition could be effected the
moral mercury would indicate a higher tem
perature at once. Here follows the last
tragedy of drink :?
Mrs. Bridget Sheridan had finished her Sun
day's work, and at four o'clock was watching
her sleeping husband, when she heard a knock
at the door. Almost before her invitation to
enter could be uttered one Doyle csme into
the room with the unmistakable gait of
drunkenness. Some men are happy when
they drink. The myBtic stimulus steals into
the brain and unlocks every cell, letting out
all sorts of queer conceits and brilliant sayings
and repartees. They are better company and
appear to be clearer headed when roused by a
given amount of liquor. Kichard is himself,
his best self, after the dram. Other men are
sleepy when they drink. A veil is drawn
over the brain, and the mind burns as dimly
as a candle in an impure atmosphere, and at
last flickers and goes out Such imbibers
quietly drop under the table, and are not
heard from until the next day. There are
still others who grow to be ugly when they
drink. Every demoniac propensity which is
kept in tolerable subjection by sobriety is let
loose by whiskey. In this latter catalogue
we must write the name of Doyle. He stag
gered across the floor of Mrs. Sheridan's apart
ments, and, hitting his clumsy trunk against
the table, upset it with all its dishes. This
confusion worse confounded naturally roused
the ire of the frugal housekeeper, who opened
the door and suggested to Doyle, in language
which does not appear in evidence, the pro
priety ot a hasty leave-taking. Perhaps her
Yoioe lacked melody as she invited her guest
to stand not upon the order of his going, but
to go at once.
Doyle felt that his dignity had been in
sulted, and determined to avenge it. Under
the hallucination of drink the offence magni
fied itself to his mind, and the possible conse
quenoes of what he might do were not thought
of. The poor brute armed himself from the
arsenal of the street with a brick and a pav
ing stone and returned to Mrs. Sheridan's
household to teach her and her husband bet
ter manners. With unsteady aim he hurled
the brick, which just missed the head of the
head of the family. He then took better aim,
and with the paving stone brought the of
fender to the floor with a fractured skull.
After that the story went on in the usual
way. A policeman took Doyle into the re
tirement of a cell, where he will have ample
leisure to caloulate the exact cost of a glans of
whiskey. Mrs. Sheridan hurried to the doc
tor, who, good Samaritan as he was, seemed
perfectly willing to visit the patient, pro
vided he could get just a dollar for his
trouble, but who preferred to sit in his easy
chair and wait for a more remunerative call if
the dollar was not forthcoming. But, in spite
of the doctor's refusal to attend the case until
ho was compelled to, the wounded man died.
If he had died under the care of the physvoiun
it would have been in the order of nature, but
to die after the prescription of the doctor has
been refused is a fact which invests the case
with singular interest.
All this from a Sunday afternoon spree ;
bad whiskey the cause, and the result a
funeral, a widow, two orphans and a pris
oner under indictment for murdar. This.
however, la only one of ft ftionsand episodes ol
a like character, and to-morrow we stall beat
of another. Whose fault is it? That is #
very serious question.
Pulpit T*plc? To-i>?y.
The asceusion of Christ, which the Churcl
commemorates at this time, ha9 not attractoc
very wide attention from the city pastors to-day
judging by their pulpit announcements. Mr
McCaffrey will set lorth the joy which th?
Church feels in that event, while Dr. Porteoui
dilates on the agitation of belief in Episcopa
Christendom and the authority and infalli
bility ol the individual soul. Dr. Ewer con
tinues his series of lectures on the worship o:
the Church in its internal structure and ex
ternal aspect, and Mr. Newton will considei
the historical Christ as impunged by scientific
criticism, in continuance of his series on th?
conflicts of science and religion. Dr.
Thompson will tell his people how to us?
God's gifts, and will present the salient fea
tures of the English Reformation, also in con
tinuance of a aeries on Church history.
The weariness of life will occupy Mr. Borel's
attention and time, while Mr. Ilepworth
will give his "disciples" some suggestions
about faith and works, and will demonstrate,
for their comfort, that God's Kingdom is not
of this world. Mr. Van Buskirk will tell
another society of disciples when, where, by
whom and by what authority the name
"Christian" was first given to disciples of
Christ Dr. Ganse will show how God's
presence, though real, may be unrecognized
by men, as was the case in Jacob's experi
ence. Sentimentaliam is sometimes, though
it never should be, mistaken for religion, and
Mr. Pullman has set himself to brush away
some of the glamour of scntimentalism, so that
his people shall the better distinguish between
the twOj and so separating them they may at
tain Mat ifl faith in this life. Thero are
crosses in the life of every man, some
have more and some less, vbut they are the lot
of all. Dr. Deems has selected three of them
on which ho will speak to-day. Mr. Lloyd
will encourage his hearers toward true man
hood by the example of the three Hebrew
young men in Babylon whose faith in God
triumphed over the fierceness of the flame and
the greater fury of a heathen monarch's wrath.
Balaam will be set forth by Mr. Lightbouin as
an example of love of money and a warning
to the covetous. Mr. Willis will draw some
useful lessons from summer and winter figs
for the benefit of young men, and old ones,
too. Affection and faith, as illustrated by
Orpah and Buth, will demand the attention
of Dr. Holme, while Mr. Hawthorne will
collate certain hindrances to spiritual develop
ment for his bearers, and show them some
thing from God's record books.
Dr. Fulton, in Brooklyn, will touch the
school question to-day in answer to the ques
tion, Shall the public schools become Papal
or Christian? Mr. Hugo will treat this
question also as one of the three strongholds
of American liberty, and Mr. King will
define Protestantism and Romanism, that bis
hearers may be able to note the distinc
tions. Mr. Lynn will present the practical
side of Spiritualism and give some tests of
tho life beyond the grave. The labor agita
tion in its religious aspects will be discussed
by and before the Reform League by Mr.
Hume and others. Mr. Saunders will con
trast Sinai and Zion, and will present the
closing scenes in the life of the patriarch
Jacob, and thus wdl the pulpits of New York
and Brooklyn be occupied to-day.
Athlitics.?The annual trials of physical
endurance which have come to be an ao
cepted part of our college course were yes
terday held by the students of Columbia
and Princeton. The accounts wo publish in
another column of these contests will provo
interesting to all who love manly sports.
The young men went into the varioui
trials of strength and endurance with
iBImIw.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Judge George P. Comatock, of Syracuse, la ream
ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
George W. Cbllda and ex-Hecretary of (be Navy
Borle are 011 a visit to the President.
Senator Augustus S. llerrlmou, of North Caro
lina, la sojourning at tbe St. Nicholas Hotel.
The ovner or the educated bog has just com
mttted suicide at Montgomery, Ala. The hog aUll
Uvea.
Tbe first question the President antes an appli
cant for office nowadays is whether be Is a "Yale
man."
captains Asa H. Holgate and Herman Schreiner,
Tolled States Army, are quartered at tot Everett
House.
Seiior Don Oabrlei Mancera, a member of the
Mexican Congress, Is registered at tbe St. Nicho
las notel.
Tne young fellows out West don't tolnk mncb 01
Ethan Alien, because he did not know bow to piay
base ball.
Mr. C. Koopmanscbap, of "Chinese cheap labor"
notoriety, arrived at tbe Pifth Avenue Hotel yes
terday from San Francisco.
Senator3 Algernon 8. Paddock and Pbineas W.
Hirchcock, of Nebraska, have taken up their resi
dence at tbe mnaaor Hote1.
The luneral of the late Mr. John Sheridan,
father of Lieutenant General Sheridan, took place
yesterday at Somerset, Oblo.
Judge Pierrepont bad a long conference with
the President yesterday at tbe Executive Man
sion. He returned to New York last night.
I<ong John Went worth, of Chicago, woen a back
man undertoox to swindle him, spit on bis hands
and remarked that ne was an American eagle all
over. That settled tt.
Karon and Baroness de Hnsslerre, of Paris, who
have been residing in Washington for several
months past, arrived in tnis city yesterday, and
are at tne Hoffman House. They will leave for
Europe aome time nurine tbe coming week.
Hen. William Annand retired yesterday from tbe
Premiership of Nova Scotia, and Mr. Vail, Pro
vincial Secretary, becoaea the leader. Mr. An
nand goes to England shortly aa Immigration
A (tent for New Brunawlck and Nova Scotia.
Wang King-ki Is a scholar and tbe son of ?
scholar, and he was a great favorite with the iat?
Emperor. Chlneae rumor has It that Wang ac
companied his young master on those mlitnight
excursions to which he seems to have eventually
owed tne disease of which he died. Wang's pros,
pecta are not so bright as they were.
Moncnro U. Conway, in speaking of the lectures
of Mr. George smith, the young Assyriotogtsr,
says:- "It was something new for the fashionable
audience at tbe Hoyal to listen to learned naria
tives from one who talked about 'Igsdnba and 'in
'lstory.' and who concluded 'on tbe 'ole,' thusand
so." Conway 'it tbe yonng scholar bon the Mp.
A pamphlet, attributed to General Todieben. has
appeared at Brussels, entitled "L'Angleterre ct
les Petite Stats ft la Conference <le Brnxelles." It
gives an account of the barbarous way in which
England carried on war durintr tbe last century,
and contends that its military weakness, as com
pared with the great Continental Powers, whirl!
Its government tries to conceal as far as poselhie,
is theresson why England refuse*! to take part in
? sev9Bd cotuereng*