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AMUSEMENTS T0-M0KR0W.
BOWERY THEATRE,
Bowery ? ITW. at H P M. Mr. Stetson.
GILMORK'S GARDEN,
Madison avenue and Tweuty-sixth street.?nEBRKW
CHARITY FAIR.
EAGLE THEATRE,
Broadway and Thirty-third street.?VARIETY, at 8 P. M.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS,
New Opera House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth itreet,
at Hl'.M
WOOD S Ml'SKI'M,
Rroadwav. miner of Thirtieth street.?KIT, at S P M.;
doses at lit 40 1*. M. Matinee at - 1*. M. K. S. Chaufrau.
GLOBE THEATRE.
Not. TJ8 ami 730 Broadway.?VARIETY, at 8 P. M.
booth S THEATRE,
Twenty tblnl street and Sixth avenue?COON'lE SOOGAU,
at * 1' M. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams.
ACAD.EMY OP MUSIC.
Fourteenth street.? LUIIENGRIN, at 8 P. M. Wachtel.
TONY PASTOR S NEW THEATRE.
Noa. 585 and oX7 Broadway ?VARIETY, at S P. M.
LYCEUM THEATRE.
Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.?ON DEMANDE UN
OOU VERNEl'R, at S P. M. Fechter.
THIRD AVENUE THEATRE.
Third avenue, lietween Thirtieth and Thirty first streets.?
minstrelsy and VARIETY, at H P M.
COLOSSEUM.
Thirty-fourth street ami Broadway. ?PRUSSIAN SIKOE OF
PARIS. Open from 1 P. M. to 4 P. M. and from 7 .'M P. M.
to 10 p. M.
WALLACE'S THEATRE,
Broadway and Thirteenth street.?BOSOM FRIENDS, at 8
V. M.; ciose-> at 10:40 P. M. Mr. John Gilbert.
PARISIAN VARIETIES.
Sixteenth street, near Broadway.?VARIETY, at 8 P.M.
BROOKLYN THEATRE,
Washington street, Brooklyn.?HENRY V.. at 8 P. M. Mr.
Bitfuold.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
Broadway and Fourteenth street.?ROSE MICHEL at S
r m.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Mo. 624 Broadway ?VARIETY, at ? P. M.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
Twenty-eighth street, near Broadway.?PlyUE, at 8 P. M.
Fauoy Davenport.
THEATRE COMIQUE.
Mo. 514 Broadway ?VARIETY, at ? F M.
TWENTY-THIRD STREET THEATRE,
Twenty third street and nlxth avenue.?THE Fl^ATTERER,
at 8 P. M.
PARK THEATRE.
Broadway and Twenty-second street.?THE CRUCIBLE, at
? P.M. Oakey Hall.
TIVOLI THEATRE.
Eighth street, near Third avenue.?VARIETY, at 8 P. M.
GERMANIA THEATRE.
Fourteenth street, near Irving placc ?DAS STIFTUNG8
FEST, at * P M.
QUADRUPLE SIIKET.
NEW YOEK, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 19. 1875.
From our reports this morning (he pnjbabilities
are that the weather to-day will be cloudy,
with posrtfjly snow.
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Wall Street Yesterday.?Stocks were !
again doll and showed no important ad
vance. Gold declined to 113 "j-H and ended
at 113 3-4. Money on call loans was freely
supplied at C and 7 per cent.
L'Amebique has been towed into Queens
town. Her passengers havo had more for
their money than they bargiunod for. and yet
doubtless many of them are not happy.
"The Thundering News from the Straits
of Malacca" is not so exciting as might have
been expected. The natives display the
white flag and the Union Jack takes its
place.
A Liberal Gjiin of One is something for
English parliamentarians of that way of cut
ting the Uritish loaf to he joyful over. Such
a gain is reported from Sussex, and shows
that the southeastern voter is not to he daz
zled by Oriental canal statesmanship while
his hops want a market.
Professor nordensxiold's Letter on his
twenty years' work of patient scientific ex
ploration within the north Polar circle will
be read with great interest If his water
pathway between the basins of the Ob and
Yenisei and Northern Europe can be made
available, even during a limited portion of
the year, for the transit of Siberian products,
ha will have enriched the Empire of the
Czar by more than all the Rothschilds could
aubscribe if they made him a present of their
united bank balances.
The PttEsroiNT, 8upreme Conrt and Con
press, or a very largo number of the latter
body, spent yesterday at Philadelphia in
upecting the Centennial buildings and listen
ing to argument# why the government
?hould assist so great an enterprise to meet
Its present want of $1,637,140. We hopo
when thp members of the House of Repre
gentatires are all satisfied about the disposal
of the committee chairmanships that they
will look at the great symbol of free Ameri
ca'* growth in a century with kindly eyes,
la helping tho Exposition with an appropria
tion they will pass a proper and a popular
1fUr?
The Spring Klectiona.
If the day for the municipal election* in
New York were a matter for the convenience
oi a few politicianH we should care little
whether it took place in spring or autumn.
Hut great principled are involved. There
fore we press it earnestly upon the atten
tion of the Legislature soon to assemble
at Albany, We trust that it will be con
sidered without regard to politics. There
are no political issues involved in it, because
the city of New York, when well governed, is
never so from a political point of view.
New \ork should l>e managed as economi
cally as a merchant manages his business. We
should regard also the general comfort of the
inhabitants. We should ever remember that
this is the metropolis of the American con
tinent, and to be worthy of the Republic.
Politics have no business with these
considerations, but with finance and tariff
and reconstruction and public improve
ments, questions that must be decided by
the State and the general government It is
not whether a Mayor or Comptroller or the
Common Council are right or wrong on finan
cial points, but whether they are earnest,
courageous, of executive capacity, and with
that large ?nd prudent ambition which sees
that the way to make New York a great
city is not simply to limit the expenses
of government, but to keep constantly in
view the tact that it is a growing city; that it
is now among the largest in the world; that
it is the metropolis of this continent; that
it should be worthy of the commercial,
social and industrial renown of the Repub
lic.
Now, it is impossible for our municipal
politics to be separated from national politics
if the election takes place in the city and State
on the same day. Let us suppose the Presi
dential canvass, with its party machinery
and the country burning with the
fury of a tremendous canvass. It would
be quite impossible for any city reform party
in such a time to elect candidates especially
opposed to the far-reaching organizations
which control the canvass for the Presidency.
So long as we allow the canvass to take place
on the same day in both city and State we
intertwine the two isms so closely that
thieves and practical politicians and those
who control the canvass through the ma
chinery of the primary elections and stuffed
ballot boxes and debasing associations, like
the dark lantern, Know Nothing, Tammany
Hall and the Custom House republican ring,
have it in their power to vitiate the will of
the people and to elect bad men. It is to
avoid this, to secure an economical and en
terprising government, and to'strike a blow
at the Tammany influence, that we urge this
change.
So far as the convenience of the peo
ple is concerned this change would be
an advantage. The antumn is the time for
the farmers to vote. Then their crops are
garnered. The summer's work is done.
I hey have time for thought, for conversa
tion, for the exchange of political views,
for reading the newspapers and attending
public meetings. It is their season of rest.
In the city it is different. The autumn with us
is generally a time of great business activity.
We have a little spring ripple, but it soon
dies away before the coming of the dead
summer. In autumn we have the rising
tides of tho year's business, the Christmas
holidays creeping on and the increase of
business inseparable from that season.
Election day in the autumn can only be
observed by the merchants and those who
arc engaged in commercial affairs at a per
sonal sacrifice. Therefore our elections are
neglected by the classes most concerned with
the real interest of tho city. Taxpayers arc
almost forbidden to take part by the fact
that they only can do so at an injury to
their business. Now, this can be reformed
by a transfer of the election day from the
tall to tho spring. If the Legislature, for
the convenience of the agricultural com
munity, arranges an election in the autumn,
why should it not, for the convenience of
a city community, give us the municipal
election in the spring ? This change is
justified also by the opinions of the wisest
men in both parties, by the general sentiment
of the republican party aH represented in the
action of the Union League a few years ago,
as well as by that of the democratic party,
as indicated by the positive opinions of Gov
ernor Tilden.
Let the Legislature, therefore, pass an act
without delay giving us tho municipal
elections in the spring. This will be the
beginning of a reform. Then let it strike
at Tammany Hall. Let it abolish the dark
lantern, Know Nothing lodge on Fourteenth
street, which, by an old secret organization,
is enabled to stiflo the will of the demo
cratic masses of New York and to give
power to one dynasty of bosses after another
like Kelly and Tweed. So long as our
politics are at the mercy of an organization
like Tammany Hall, so long as an inside
circle of "Sachems" havo power to dictate
to the masses of tho party, we shall have
no good government as a city. We shall
have rw eed again as we had him a few years
ago, bccauso the machinery by which Tweed
cnmc into power, and the men who enabled
him to gain it, and those who surrounded
him in the fulness of his strength, still live
in Tammany. They follow the banner of
Kelly with tho devotion they showed to
Tweed. Tho way to strike down this in
fluence is for the people to have these elec
tions at their own command. Let light fall
upon the iniquity and the darkness of this
secret lodge. Let the democratic masses of
this city, without regard to "ring" or "boss"
or local complications, meet in convention,
select their candidates, and hold those in
authority to the strictest responsibility.
This will be the beginning of a reform
which is sorely needed in our tax
ridden metropolis.
When we have given good men authority
then comes the future of New York. This
is of aft much consequence as "thrift." We
must avoid the mistake into which men
as worthy in public esteem as Comptroller
Green havo fallen?the mistake that the
way to govern New York is to strangle it,
to repress all growth, to remain content
with the shameful results of the Tammany
domination. Let us tear up all political
secret societies and corruption by the root.
Let us have a generous system of public
works, of docks and parks and improve
- nienLs. Let us arrange our taxation so that
we ahull pay from year to year what our city
costs. Let us have a thorough system of
drainage, so that wo may stamp out diph
theria and typhoid and those malarial dis
eases which come mainly from misgovern
lnent, and which have given New York such
nil ill name. This is the future that we hope
to see in our politics, for which ?e labor
and pray. It is for this that we urge that the
elections be held in the spring. It is tor this
that we impress upon the democrats them
selves the necessity of freeing themselves
1 from the domination of Tammany Hall.
That done, and we trust it will be done
without delay at the meeting of the Legisla
ture, and there is no reason why New York,
lilting herself out of the misgovernment
and folly into which her affairs have fallen,
should not go ou in a new career of pros
perity and splendor.
Ilovr It Strike* a Stranger.
The foreigner who, twenty years ago.
landed in New York, found in the condi
; tions of society, especially as regarded the
diversions and amusements of men, a
striking contrast to those which found iavor
in his own country. Athletic and manly
sports were comparatively unknown, or their
practice was confined to a few; "sport,
so-called, was rather a byoword of reproach ;
the noblest exploits of horseflesh were
represented by the performances of a "fast
crab cricket had obtained but a sickly
hold, chiefly among the English members
of the St. George's Society; the national
game of base ball was in its infancy ; hardly
a single boat club existed, and the rare
matches were confined to the sculling strug
gles of Whitehall champions ; while
That stern joy that anglers fool
In fishes worthy of their reel
was known to a very few who had the taste
or leisure to seek it. In the streets and
avenues our intelligent stranger found car
i riages and vehicles of a fashion unknown to
1 him, drawn by quadrupeds in whom blood
1 or breeding was conspicuous by its absence,
while the box was adorned by a driver,
dressed usually in his master's old clothes,
and sporting a fierce mustache.
The visitors who are to be attracted hither
by the Centennial Exhibition of next year
will discover how great a change has been
wrought by experience and the advantages of
foreign travel. We can now boast of cricket
clubs, with their select "elevens;" boating
clubs, that possess oarsmen not unworthy to
vie with the Oxford or Cambridge eights ; of
! athletic clubs, of the racket, jockey, four-in
hand and coaching clubs, while the South
Side Club of Long Island remains the joy
of the followers of Izaak Walton's gentle
craft. He will see the streets filled with all
' that elegance can dictate in equipages, and
horses, liveries and servants, handsome
I houses, splendid hotels, in short everything
I that taste and money can provide or procure;
but our stranger will bo undoubtedly as
tonished on discovering that amid all
the perfections and refinement of a metrop
olis the city religiously preserves its ancient
traditions as regards the filth and dilapida
tion of its streets and avenues, and not
s merely in the business streets and the minor
thoroughfares, but in the finest and best
j part of the city. With what a feeling of dis
grace must we admit to the visitors from all
the great European centres of the highest
civilization who are to throng our hotels
next summer that the only approaches to j
our beautiful Park are either disfigured by j
i most inconveniently laid iron rails or paved ?
in such a manner as to endanger their necks
if they venture to rido upon them!
Within a few weeks the Legislature will
meet, and this is an important subject for
their first consideration. Wise stiggestions '
have already been made as to how their
duty can be best accomplished. Let us
begin by having Fifth avenue macadamized.
It will bring a blessing to the dust-wearied
pedestrian, a comfort to the parading militia
man who now hobbles over the uneven
stones, and, above all, it will effect an ines
timable saving to the owners of vehicles,
from the umuwmming grocer's cart to the
dignified drag.
Such an improvement would be a sad
blow to the carriage and harness makers, but
then it is impossible to gratify everybody.
The Dolan Case.
j The feeling in reference to the writ of error
granted in the case of Dolan, under sentence
of death for the murder of Mr. Noe, continues.
A suggestion worthy of consideration is
made by a lawyer of eminence?namely,
that in all cases of capital punishment the
condemned should have the right to appeal
to the. Court of Appeals as a matter of right,
and that this supreme tribunal should pass
j upon the law of the case without unreason
I able delay. This is only fair, and the matter
might be arranged by the Legislature passing
a law making it incumbent upon the courts,
even the Supreme Court, to return all capi
tal eases to the Court of Appeals for revision,
and directing that the Court of Appeals
shall hear and pnss upon them within a cer
tain time-say in thirty or sixty days. Then
it mi'.'ht be understood that, after the opinion
of the Court of Appeals, the matter, so far
as the law was concerned, is at an end, and
unless the Governor interfered the execution
' should take place within three weeks or a
j month. This would be to apply to our own
jurisprudence something of the English
| custom, and also to give the prisoner every
i possible right under tho law. Al>ove all, it
would secure a rigid administration of jus
tice. There is no value in capital punish
ment whatever unless it is swift and prompt.
As it is now, the law is frequently a dead
letter. The matter should be considered by
the Legislature at the earliest possible
moment.
?.
Ocit MxBOHAJSTt who suffer from the un
just discriminations of the railroads against
New York in the way of freight rates yester
day presented a petition on that subject to
the Mayor. Their fight with the railroad
combinations is one which interests every
body hero whose means of livelihood are de
pendent upoD commerce.
SostK PiBTictJUBR of the life of the man
who attempted to blow up the Mosel with
dynamite for the sake of the insurance, and
who committed suicide on the awful but
providential miscarriage of his diabolical
j plot, are furnished in another part of the
i IliliAX 1>.
Th? Kellgtou* Preu on tho Third
Term.
The prominence given to Bishop Haven's
nomination of President Grant for a third
term has very naturally excited the attention
and awakened the interest of the religious
press in the proposition. The Methodist pa
pers, whose editors "know their man" better
than any others, treat this nomination very
cavalierly, as one of the eccentricities of the
Bishop. The Methodist, of this city, thinks
the secular press has given too much impor
tance to the thoughtless remarks of Dr.
Haven, and seeks to dispel the public fears
that thero will be a Methodist nomination
for the Presidency. There will be nothing
of the sort, for Methodists, it says, are utterly
opposed to mixing Church and politics, to
turning ecclesiastical gatherings into cau
cuses, and the Methodist influence will be
used to keep Church and State apart. And
if it should happen, says the Methodist, that
any ecclesiastic enters into intrigues with
politicians to bargain away the Methodist
vote, he will not be able "to deliver the
goods." That, it adds, is just the difference
between Methodists and Catholics. The
Christian Advocate ridicules the timidity of
"certain papers in this city upon whom the
name of Gnint operates much as the sight
of water acts upon rabid dogs, *>r a
red flag upon a mad bull," for their abuse,
deprecation and denunciation of the parties
concerned and all their relations in the
Bishop's nomination. \Ve may doubt, says
the Advocate, the advisability of what was
said about the election of President Grant for
the third term, but now that that question is
raised it is not to be put down with a sneer
or a scowl. We are not committed to that
measure, but rather opposed to it ; yet if, as
Bishop Haven thinks, the safety of the freed
men against a fate worso than slavery can be
secured only by the re-election of President
Grant for a third term, the Bishop's nomina
tion will not have to wait long for a second,
nor for a tremendous confirmation, for the
American people are desperately in earnest
about that matter. These are the views of
the two leading Methodist papers, and the
only two published in this city. The provin
cial press holds to similar views.
The Observer is the only Presbyterian
journal that notices the matter, and in its
opinion the Presbyterians are no longer "the
Lord's foolish people," that distinction being
henceforth duo to the Methodists.
The Christian Union thinks "a Presidential
nomination by a clerical body, called to
gether for consultation upon Church matters,
a very objectionable and a very unwise pro
ceeding, to say the least;" and it trusts that
no other sect will ever imitate this bad
example. The Independent, after reciting
the manner and matter of the Bishop's
nomination, suggests to the clerical gather
ing that indorsed it "that it is quite an
innovation to turn a religious meeting into a
political convention, and that if the Metho
dists do much more in that line they must
not complain should they be classed with
the Catholics as a political Church.
The Catholic journals do not take the same
"innocent" view of this third term nomina
tion that some of our Protestant contem
poraries do. The Freeman's Journal can
hardly keep patient with a President who
"has made a Methodistie ass of himself,"
and who "is doing a dirty thing politically"
in "wounding sorely and seriously the
?liboral Catholics' who are not ready to
apostatize from the Catholic Church, but
who up to this time have been his friends."
Had "the Jesuits" bought up General Grant
and held the disposition of his words
and acts, the Journal thinks, he could not
more eminently than he is doing have played
into their hands. The Catholic Review thinks
this third term nomination of Bishop Haven
is of a pioce with his miscegenation and
woman suffrage utterances, and that he has
neither hurt Methodism nor injured Grant
by it, because their common hatred to Popery
will make it all right.
The Baptist papers aro decidedly opposed
; to this kind of clerical caucusing. The Ex
i aminer and Chronicle insists that it was Bishop
' Haven's design to draw out the sense of the
! meeting on his nomination, and that the vote
given by the Boston meeting was not, there
fore, a mere compliment to him, but an in
dorsement of the President for another term.
The Christian Trader thinks Bishop Haven
i made something of a mistake in his nomina
I tion at the time and under the circumstances
i in which he made it. While we want more
i Christianity in our politics we want, says the
Leader, no Methodism, Catholicism or any
i ism. From the Church Journal's knowledge
i of Bishop Haven he is just the man to norni
S" nate a President of the United States and
elect him at a Sunday school meeting. The
Churchman classes the Methodists with the
Catholics as the only two religious bodies in
this country seeking political power.
Mr. C'onway'a Plan.
Mr. Moncure D. Conway, who, after a resi
dence of ten or twelve years in London,
has returned to New York and delivered a
series of lectures upon topics of great public |
interest, is reported to have made a speech
at one of our clubs, suggesting that the |
tenure of the Presidency should be based
upon the Swiss plan. Mr. Conway's idea,
like that of the advanced republicans on the
Continent, is that the office of the President
j should be limited in power, rather like the
chairman of a board of directors than a
I potentate clothed with high duties and pre
rogatives. One reason why the Presidential
i office is so strong and almost unassailable is
that we give the President the absolute con
trol over a vast amount of patronage. As
every single appointment is a source of
power, so this prerogative gives the office
vast authority. The argument in favor of
limiting the Presidential term to not mote
than one or two years finds favor with the re
publicans in France. At the same time they
aro opposed to anything like a Senate or
a second House. The theory of republicans
like Mr. Conway is that the power should
rest with the people, Hint the government
should bo the expression of popular will,
that the power should bo wielded by a par
liament fresh from the people, and that there
should be no Executive, no Senate, to stand
between the peoplo and their will. This is
a beautiful theory, but we question how it
would succeed even in America. Thus far
it lias never been tried oven in France with
success. Without commiUiuu ourselves to
I Mr. Conway's views we agree with him tnat
the Presidential office should be shorn of
many of its prerogatives.
Judicial Homicide.
Wome societies have destroyed their con
demned criminals with poison. And of that
method the case of Socrates was a memora
ble instance. This method apparently came
from the East, where deadly potions have
always played a conspicuous part in human
history. With the primitive people in other
parts of the world the obvious club has
always been the handy servant of justice.
John Smith's head on a stone and the stal
wart subject of Powhatan armed with a sap
ling are the types of the victim and the ex
ecutioner that have prevailed and still pre
vail in the preference of the dark Bkinned
races. Even the murder of the Jew pedler
by the three negroes was done liko an African
execution, with knotted sticks. Steel and
hemp come in the history of judicial homi
cide as compromises between the poisonous
juices of trees and the trunk of the tree
itself, or a branch made into a club.
I'oison strikes at life through the stomach ;
the club addresses itself to the head as the
most evidently vulnerable point ; but the
sharp steel moves to the practical separation
of head and body, while tho ropo works an
equally efl'ective functional separation with
out mutilation of tho body. Steel as an in
strument of tho law has several forms, and
has been found susceptible of improvement
The rope remains brutally what it probably
was in its origin?a mere lasso or a longer
bowstring. Both tho sword and the uxe
have found favor; and there are as many
fables of the skill with which tho former lias
been employed as there are instances of
bungling butchery dono with tho other.
Our modern form of the axe is
the guillotine, which is simply an
axo, moved by wooden arms that
do not become unsteady at tho critical
moment, because their nerve never fails.
Spain has supplied a characteristic mod
ification of the executioner's steel in the
garotte, which is, in fact, the dagger,
framed as the French have framed the
axe. It is a characteristic national prod
uct, and it is one of the strange contradic
tions which constantly turn up in human
history that the cruellest race of people treat
their murderers most mercifully of all. It is,
perhaps, sympathy. But the garotte is an
ideal instrument for expeditious and infal
lible execution. It pierces tho spine at the
base of the brain, the essentially vital point.
Clumsy and uninventive in this partic
ular, the English and ourselves adhero
to tho rope, which, in the hands into
which it usually falls, is an instrument of
torture. It does not shed blood, and in the
times when it was thought salutary to exe
cute in public it was effective for this and
for the reason that it is an execution all of
whose processes immediately address the eyo
of tho beholder. It is calculated to impress
tho multitude with terror. But since the
theory of executions before the multitude is
relinquished tho clumsy rope should bo re
linquished also. Our murderers should bo
killed by the galvanic battery.
Pulpit Topics To-I)n.y.
In presenting our city pulpit topics to
day we find a budget good, bad and indiffer
ent. But as society is made up of just these
classes of persons each will be suited. The
Baptist pulpit will be represented to-day by
Dr. Armitagc, who will call upon his hearers 1
to take sides for Christ ere they come to the
swellings of Jordan ; by Drs. Sampson and
Simmons, who will prove that Christian
heirship implies unlimited possession, and
sketch the early struggles of Baptists for lib
erty; by Mr. Konnnrd, who will, in answer
to inviting voices, begin a series of discourses
on scenes in our Saviour's life with the {
commencement of that life?tho Nativ
ity ; by Mr. Knapp, who, in showing how
worldly tribulation is neutralized in Christ,
will present God's mercy to those who visit
him ; by Mr. Leavell, who will demonstrate
that all things work together for good to
those who have faith in God, and by Mr.
Jutten, who will present the cnuse of for ign
missions. Tho Methodist pulpit will be rep
resented to-day by Mr. Lloyd, who will pre
sent the ground of tho believer's security and
the modern analogies to Christ's wilderness
temptations. In this theme young men are
interested. Tho Methodist pulpit will bo
represented also by Mr. King, who believes
and will so declare that tho religion and
morality of the Gospel are inseparable ; by
Mr. Willis, who believes there is work for
the million, but he wants them to get on the
truo foundation first; by Mr. Johns, who
thinks the Christian so fixed is im
movable, and if ho sows he will reap
a great harvest ; by Mr. Lightbourn,
who advocates the practice of the
higher life as found in the Bible; and by Mr.
Harris, who has been searching prophecy and
history to find out how near the millennium
is to us. He will give the results of his inves
tigations to-day. Dr. Talmago will lead the
Presbyterian pulpit by commencing a aeries
of sermons on public iniquities, and Mr.
I'helps will apply tho prayer test Dr.
Preston will represent the Catholic pulpit
with his closing lecture on tho Eucharist,
which he will show is the fountain of light
as he has already demonstrated it to be the
fountain of life. Mr. Baker will uphold the
status of the Episcopal Church with a dis
course on the Bible in the schools, in which
he will take the position that to insist upon i
its retention is an infringement of individual I
liberty and opposed to tho genius of
Christianity. Mr. Hep worth will pre
sent tho joy and sadness of the Chris
tian life; Mr. Alger will repeat the
history of the weeping of humanity and
present the distinctive characteristics of
orthodoxy and liberal Christianity; Mr. Nyo
will tell us something about the wke men of
the East and the star which led them to
Christ, and will give us some of the best
methods for converting unbelievers to tho
Christian faith and life; Mr. Giles will te.ich
his people how to walk in righteousness;
Mr. Seitz will paint the Prodigal's appear
ance after his return home; Bishop Snow
will bring the judgment dispensation near;
Mr. McCarthy will refute Dr. Draper's
science and Dr. Talmage'g logic; Mr. Lynn
will discuss the relations of Church and
Stato in America, and Mr. Brown will tell us
what unbelievers belie? '? And here wo may
I cost for the ureaont.
E>|land an<l France?Ho Near *a<f
lfeg So Far.
When the readers of the Hebald have
conned over our London and Paris cable let
ters they will appreciate a thought which
occurs to us regarding the two capitals and
the two nations they typify. The facts in the
one are those that might transpire with the
Royal Exchange for a background ; those
in the other would exhaust the resources
of the stage for a setting. Lrmdon is a shop;
l'aris is a theatre. The English letter might
be discussed in tho solemn recesses of a bank
parlor at four P. M.; the Paris letter in a
brilliantly lit caff after midnight. Stocks,
bonds, foreign loans, shareholders, a high
way for commerce, politics as touching tho
pocket and Christianity as an associate
with industrial developments, are settled
with all possiblo gravity in the cable
letter from England. When we turn to
Paris we see politics on their emotional side.
They seem to be ever in the third act, with a
startling dinouement possible and a farcical
iclaircissement probable. If we were to hear
that the Disraeli Ministry was likely to fall
on the question of the tax on beer, or any of
the other great English questions, we would
regard it with very different feelings
from that which the report evokes
that MacMahon is likely to choose a
military Cabinet to overawe the refractory
voters who think that a llepublic is the
thing they want. The beer question would
draw forth visions of grum-faced brewers
and frothy-lipped yeomen at a rural tavern.
The military Cabinet gives us a clink of
spurs, a street charge of cavalry with sabres
drawn, and a dramatio "whiff of grape
shot." We Bee the beer question decided
at the polls. The British artisans are
hurrahing "between drinks," and the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer is settling how muoh
of the rejected tax he can put on tea and
how much on sugar. The military Cabinet
has been settled in France, with the success
of MacMahon, let us say. Very well! The
republicans have buried their fallen
brethren in the morning, and the caffs
in tho evening are full as ever; Gleck
continues- to play Macbeth, after one
night's intermission ; tho painters and
dramatists (and doctors) have fresh subjects ;
the modistes substitute military cockades
for herons' feathers in ladies' bonnets.
"Hurrah for beer 1" shouts tho Englishman.
" Vive la bagatelle f' shouts the Frenchman.
And they are building a tunnel under the
little salt river between those two peoples,
who are as far apart ethically, aesthetically
and politically as if one inhabited Iceland
and tho other Madagascar !
"Distressed Members."?The charter un
der which tho Tammany Society exists was
passed April 9, 1805, more than seventy
years ago, at a time when the friends of
Aaron Burr were controlling Tammany Hall.
This charter, among other things, is "for tho
purpose of affording relief to distressed
members." Now the only two "distressed
members" of Tammany Hall who have re
ceived relief from their "fellow members,"
so far as wo can learn, are Harry Genet and
William M. Tweed. Harry Genet was a
"distressed member" on his way to jail, and
was relieved by the aid of an officer of ex
Sheriff Brennan, also a Tammany member.
William M. Tweed was also a "distressed
member," in sore tribulation, and his
relief came from a pnAiyi of John
Kelly, both of them Tammany fellow
members of Tweed. The question arises,
and it might be well for Mr. Clinton to ex
amine the subject, whether tho provision of
the charter directing Tammany "to afford
relief to distressed members" means that
when a Tammany jailkeeper has in his pos
session a Tammany jailbird his obligation to
tho secret, dark lantern, Know Nothing
lodge compels him to let tho jailbird go.
The Third Avenue Savings Bank, which
failed recently, affords, we are sorry to say,
rich ground for tho searcher after official mis
management. The disclosures elsewhere
will be read with painful interest
because they show how ineffcctivo
the State control has been over
these institutions, when irregularities that
the law may yet punish as swindles could bo
carried on for years. It was the money of
the poor and the hardworking these "gontle
men" handed round to each other so lavishly.
If there is legal punishment for such acts they
should be made to feel it
National Guard, Attention !?The Stat*
authorities have resolved on disbanding the
Fifty-fifth, Seventy-ninth, Eighty-fourth and
Ninety-sixth regiments of the Now York
militia. They could not fill their quota,
and hence as regimental organizations they
cease to exist. Hero is a chance now for our
"crack" regiments to recruit. This news
will help to console the Seventh for their re
pulse yesterday?in the courts, tho only
battlefield open to them at this season.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Tho battle* of Asia arc fought In Kuropoan counclis.
The dellnltion of Uio word "moral" boa been tho
subjcct of dobato la tho Mexican Congress.
A wearied young lady hastened the departure of ?
tedious caller by remarking, a.? she looked out of I ha
window, "1 think w? aro going to have a beautiful sun
rise."
Senator Pblneas W. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, and
Congressman Kliaa W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse,
arrived in the city Inst evening from Philadelphia, and
are at the St. Nicholas Hotel.
A French writer who seem* to be minutely acquainted
with tno constitution of tho Sue/. Canal Company
asserts that the shares which tho Knglish gavornmont
has Required confer no right of voting us long as tbo
dividends arastwpeudod.
Wine is perhaps oheupest In tho m-jat temperate
country In tb? world?the rural purt of Tuscany; and
drunkenness ia less in Munich, whero beer runs like
water, than in I<ondon, where it costs, of the same
quality, throe times the sum.
Professor Hosier, or Germany, ia. now successfully
treating t>hthl?le, or pulmonary consumption, by mak
ing an tnc;sion through tho wall ot the chest a*l draw
ing off the pus with a syringe, nod afterward washing
out the ulcers with weak earboUo acid.
Chicago Tribute ?"And canst thou always lovo thus*
Alfred,''she murssured, "oven when a&e has crept
upon me and left his traces hore t" There was a pause
on his part, bat 'twas only momontary, wliou ho re
plied, in a tone ol doap remoustraucc, "Can a duck
swim ?"
Lieutonant Woyprecht, who was with the Austro
Hungarian and (Jt-rin<'n expeditions, has woli aaid "tli*
the Polar regions odor, in certain ImporUut respects,
greater advantages than any other part of (ho glob*
for the observations of natural phenomena?magnet
ism, the aurora, meteorology, gootogy, bouuy aui
soology."