Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1879, Page 12

THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: FTRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Tho Peouniary Rewards of Actors and of Preachers, Some Histrions Wlo Make ns Much a8 $160,000 a Year. The Mighest Ministerinl Salary That of Deecher, Who Gets $20,000 per Annom. THE STAGE. Neww Fork Reratd, ‘The announcement that Mr. D, Boucieault re- coived from his manngers a check for $500 each night—nnd that before the performunce was concluded—during three consccutive weoks s geats the considceration of salarica pald the stare people In goneral, and “stars" in partieular, It is evident that whilo succesaful nrtlats make, if they donot keep, enurinoits fortunes, the nver- nge aetor {s 1o better off than the average clork, for what hemakes upin salary s lost u ex- venses. The ehief stars hiere and in Englund coin noney fast. Sothiern, Booth, Neilson, Owens, Maggle Mitctiell, Chanfran, and a few others huve the cream of the business, lenving the skim milk for mansgers and pretty hard tack for the minor people. 'The past und pres- ent seasons hiave been far [rom prolitable ton mmjority of metropolitan managers, and ruin- ons Lo many provincial managers, but the popu- or stars hava carried harvests of cash outside of New York, which place, for some fnscrutable reason, has proved a very (lolgotha to nearly every one who bid for public tavor, A GLANGE AT BOOTIL & The great prosperity of Edwin Booth dates from A perfod in the casy recollection of the vresent gencration of theatre-goers, In his ear- Her days ho had no drawlog power, aud when Willlam Stuart, the voteran manager of the ‘Winter Garden, announced him for a senson, he was Jooked upon with unaffected wonder, For- tune and the quick wit of Mr. Stunre favored Booth thut year, nnd to the bright suggeation of the manager that. he should play Ham'et, be dlar’e!, nil look Zamlet off a8 well s on the stage, can fulrly be eredited the sudden Jump lic made into publie favor. From thnt time his sLar was fn the axcendant, 1n splte of his bank- ruptey Edwin Hooth 8 remarded ns n very wealthy man, 1lis invariable terms are $500 o performance, and for thls s a cheek must be mven *before Edwin ean =o on,” The preseat Mrs, Booth Is s capuble business manager, and to her Mr. Booth owes muels, In Soston, Poll- adelphia, and San Frauelseo Bdwin Bouth fs o powerful aftruction. In. Brooklyn he played an ecnormous engagement, clefr- fng: fn” two weeks the sum of $35,000, which, huwever, was but Hittle i exeess of* the amonnt dronped in the Lyceum of this city. ilisp Inst engagement fn this eity wos a termble blow to him awd to the mavueement, His terms were §500 o performance; but the recelpts were next to nothing, comparatively speaking. It ta un- derstood that Baoth declines to play more than thirty weeksfnn y At lils terus of S50 lor cuch” perfyrmance, or, including a watinee, £3,500 n week, this would wive bim an_nonual income of $100,000; but he could easlly play forty weeks at the same terns. HOW SOTHERN RAKES IT IN Mr, B. A, Sothern estimated his property a Fear or two nzo at the pleasant fizure ot three- quarters of o milllon, Resl-cstate values have fallen some sinco then, but hern has made money still. 1118 terins are alwnys 500 u por- formance, unless he plays on shares, and fn the Intter specinlty he has had ns high as 80 per cent ol the eross recelpts, An en- gagement made for him by Mr, Lar. 3‘ Wall uwetted him, fn_ Cavada, it extrrordinary percentage, and the mancires ment made mouey at that, Uniike Booth, Soth- crn turnishes the play. He clther ogns or vir- tually controls all his specialtivs, ane® na o ruly inelsts that certain specliied artista atull sup- vort him “fu the prinelpal roles. Alihough he hins made much more than 83,500 o week, it woull bo u faie average fur forty-tive wecks In each of the past ten vears. Tu other words, he can caleulate detlnftely on 167,500 annual in- vome, not counting henelits, of whien be lways has one In each city of his cireudt, or thy larze sums made whien e eluets o pereentage on the grose receipts. Some years ago Sothern laveste ed targrely in real estate this city and clse- ¢ where In"the United States, making a mistake comman i those thnes, from which he not only derives notiucome, but on which ho hus to pay beavy taxes, Occusionally Mr. Bothern has es- saved the role of uianawer, but generally with indliTerent success. Lu niow nlays hie has found Dut Hetle profit, but * Ony Amerlean Cousyu amd ¢ Garrlek M are mines which, ulthouuh worked incessautly for many yeurs, pive no signs of belug used up, 1t wae snlil some years 820 that the man who would write o firsi-rate welodrama for Edwin Booth woull make a for- tuno for himself and ndd to Booth's famg, as well gs give him o monumentul estate. ‘The actor has lung wanted o play in which Navolcon the Great should . ficure, he, of coury the leading role. In this respuect be ditfers from Sothirn, who lins had many pluys written for him, while none was ever written [or Booth, Like Booth, Sothern Is married, e, however, Tives fn style and sponds liberally in entertnine log, while Booth carcfully saves wid puts wway -or nrafuy day. NEILYON AND DAVENPORT. In some respects Adelaide Nellson was the most fortunate star our American heavens huve seco, She never bud an uneuceesstul season, il mude mency where other fuvorites llmpxxed mouey. Wheu she first cano hers she was well beralded, sl sprang_ ut onee mto faver, She hus made as muet vs $1,000 o night six aights wuek for four couseeutive weelis, At times aho hus played ns low ns $1,000 n week; but she found nodifliculy in closing contracts for fifty- Lwo weeks fu the yeor at 8500 n performance, matioeefueluded, “ludeed, the Nellson matinees in Now York and Boston were always features uf the week, as lndies could ottend withont ca- cortg,—a fact which out-of-town und suburban residents fully gppreciate, Miss Nedlson’s property, real and persounl, I8 valued at $500,- 00, of which & large purt In fuvested fn renl ¢state In Now York und Chleago, When she waus out Weet the surprising growth of the country fmpressed bier, and she Was persuaded Lo buy“heavily of projertios already well bal- Yooned, ‘The subsequent heavy decline uffected bur seriousiy, und had It not been for the kind uld of business friends her losses would have crippled lier, Bull, n woman who can make 43,500 weel, not counting benefits, of which sheaverages ten nummu{, ot well be dis- &bied pecunfarily, Miss Nullson wisely doclined 1o purchase new plays, but contentéd berself with utilizing her ol repertolye, Bhe 18, now blasiug u the Brittsh Provinees, and dolug'well, It it suld that she contemplutes another visit to this country, and manugers ave ready for ber at bclr\om-l.lmu terms. i i veteran manager satd recently that, next to Adolulde Neilsn, Fauny, Davenport 18 the st valuable star fn the couny try. By that he meant that shie could ulways comnand big rates, and that her munngors nied huve uo fear nhout draw- ing ability. 18 butnlew ycars since Miss Davenport played fo burlesque in Huoley's Min- strel Hatl tn dirooklyu, dressed in buy's clothes, snd appealiog to the sympathles of the i youth, " Her' fortune is not lorge, but she s made a ereat deal of money, and is alwnys good for 1,000 a week and u benefie, whon shy nluays in ponulardramas. Tn new roies Mins Davenport ducs hot make so wich monev, She purehused e play of “Olivis," uml, withu comuany of her own orgnnization, travels over the country. Dramatic agents say thut Founy Davenport alone is ung of the best uni'ln;: slure In the lst, but, with a company andher own pluys, shu s like tany others,—good ery, bad there, and fn- ditferent” elsewhiere, OWENS AS A MONEY-MAKEN, Mr, Jolin 2, Owena Is reputed to be the wealth- feat actor In the professon. He I fond of play- luf, on ghares, snd olten ncts rmmsuubul’u 24,000 0 week, exclustvo of benetits, | He ios axcumulated o property estimoted ut 82,000,000, aouch of which 18 the “outerowth of real estate ventures, For twum{' years, however, Mr, Owens has luld away a haidsome fortune aonu- atly, Likeall the nost suceeasful uctors Mr. Owens s o ancclullst. As Sothern has his Dun- dreary, Bouth his Huamlet, and Jeterson his feip Van Wiukle, so Oweus hus bis So'on Shingie. Sy, Owens bas avotaed speculutions in his urt, and never govs ou the road with companies u} hisown. Ho plays on mi averago thirty weaks In the year, gives bls recelots for ubout 300,000, uinl spends the rest of hia thne on his farm, JEFPENION, MAUGIE MITCHELL, LOTTA, AND BOUCIUAULT, Although Mr, Julicrson is u dellneator of one character rather thaw un actor as gencruly un- derstuod, hie stunds near thu heud of the rich wen i bls professton. Il gencrally plays on e, und jnukes from §3,000 to $5,000 o week forty weeks n the yeur, His terms with the Fith Avénue Theatro apuve- tent werd extraordiusry—balf of overy dollur . that came {n until $1,000 were recefved, and -thres-quarters of overy dollur sbove §1,0001 son bas been's Y:cnnlury fuvorite for ard, L fortune 1s varlously estimated &t lrom Q00 to §1,060,000. s uwns prop- erty in New Vork. New dersey, und Loulslsua, wud ¥ very careful of It alt, Allss Muggle AMitehell ba another favorito ou whom pecunlary fertune has long smiled. Sho can clear #730,000 to £30,000 a year with case, nnd having cleared L shu knowa how to keap it. Miss Lotta Crabtree avernges $1,000 & week, nud bida falr to do better yet. Mr. Boucieault's drawlng nower eannot be very woll estimated, beeanse ha nppenrs in his own plays only, iia Inst eogagement, with his twn dramas, rietted Wm $500 ench ormance. If e could contintie the same ters forty wecks 10 n venr his sunual Income wonld be 140,000 Irom that sonreo nloue, fle (s alzo ona of the well-to-do men n is profession, n great part of Liis fortune belog made from plays bearing hia name. OTHER ARTISTS, It would bo dmiieult toclass Clara Morels, Mary Anderson, Lawrence Barvett, Mra, Bow. crs, Frank Chanfenu, Frank Mayo, Oliver Dotd Byron, lose Eytinge, Joseph Sturphy, Robson winl Crane, the Dingards, nud othiers less known, becaunse, whila they are enormously successful i sono'places, they are sad to be quite the re. yerae (n oihierse, Wihile they make a great deal of mongy In soma theatres, 1hey play to bad Iusiness in others. Moadjeskn, for ‘fustance, made a hit and a fortune here st year, but her next engagement was a fallure. TIE HTOCK COMPANIES, From the forexoing it muy bo Inferred that actors are colnlng money, whether the managers are or nots but theae favored oues are the fors tunntes, dlstinguished in overy sense from the rank and file of fhelr onerous professton, Leading men und leading women have to work hard for thelr pay, nud inferlor men and women work harder yet for thelr compensation, Here il there n Cogblan earns 8800 n week. for forty weeks [na year, o ‘Thorue recelves $200 for thirty- five or forty weeke. n Montague draws 2250 for forty wecks, ind a (Hibiers wets $195 for the same perfod, but $100 is consldered a lnree salury, while many of the best artists fn stock corne panies wurk like heavers for £50 to 885 n week, * Faselatior " young men and “‘attractive Juventle women flud no diffieulty fn obtaining SIK to $150 n week; but the averare stage ts o tiard rond to teavel, nid many a moek Dukeami acting Princess strut thelr brlef hour in gor- geous garh, knowing thut the Sheril's offleer awalts thelr coming, mnd that no buteher, haker, or candiestick-maker counts upon a fortune from thelr patronnge. Y BIARING Y HECEIPTS, 1t would bie imposaible to lay down exact pro- grammes for stars wnd stock-uctors, os their vouraes differ in nearly every clf For Instanve, Booth 18 known as n_* slider,"—1. e.. e imnkes terms of one sort fn New Y and another in 8an Franelseo. When he played In the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphis, e had 75 per cout of the wross receints nud turnished himsell and bls sntpnost. Ater an nbsence of thirteen years he netted 232,000 in six weeks, and the monage- ment cleared the sume amonut, It §s well kvown that le refused 31,000 o nlght to play 100 nlehts in Dooth’s ‘fleatre iu this ity § but there wasncase in which sentiment ed apart, Of Jate years It 18 o prevalent om for cerfuin sturs to ‘“share atter cx- penses,” but, even has fts_peculinrites in diferent clt! in New York $500 arc ullowed 3 Iu Bostor 1 San Franelseo, §5003 fu Phila- daelynla, i In Clocinuatl, $200; and in Pitts- burg, 3200, The volnt s hero: Stars are glad to share, beeause their self-csteem bids them look fur a bir week’s business, and mansgers are willing to share, beenitae shen business falls off they are sure of expenses In any event and have nothing to pay for the ntlraction. Lester Wallnek gencrally gets 8300 n uight, but he hos made as bich us $2000 n week In Brooklyn, where lie s o great tavorite. Managers greveral Iy share with Lawrence Barrett nud with Johu ‘T, Ruvmond, _Mrs, Bowers is sald to be worth £150,000. E, L. Davenport was always goud for #0600 a week un salary, but he was fond of travel- Ing and shnriog, and died poor. Lotta Crabtree, nuw o mature woman, §8 considered zoud for £250,000. Mngeie Miteholl Im\lurs travellng with her own eompany und in her own plays, Last scason she netted nbout $1,600 a week, MeCul- Jough shares after expeuses. Frank Mayo hus worked {onic nud haed, and his Crockett vspe- clully 18 sald {o have put over $60,600 in his pocket, John 8, Clarko shares after exoenses, aud I8 very rie The Florences tnake here and lose therey their San Francisco enungrement of four weeks netted them 823,000, 'Tiw late Bar- nov Wilhams was fortunate in_having a careful wife, wul wnen hodled he feft bebind hin about #250,000. Ned Adnms made but kept no nioncy. That Montague lett 8o small an cstatn was'a surprise to all who knew him. He lind $230 o week from Wallack’s, and was permitted now and then to star, He made $1,100 in one night In Brooklyn, il in Boston abont §1,400 o weel, ‘That he would havs done well fu “Diplomacy seems proinble, Miss Clara Morrls would hive one of Ameriea’s greateat fortuues if her health wus reliable. Mrmagers would eladly pay her 6500 0 night for ity weeks n the year §f there were nny certalnty of lier playhie. © As it 18 sho makes money fast, but thus far, it {s said, hns uot been able to suve much, THE PULPIT, sume Papiy. Clerpymen as a rule nre poorly patd. In fact, as Dr. Jlepworth once sald, *They don't like to tulk sbout ibelr incomes, they are so very small’ The Jlerald recently treated of “Mr, Beecher 08 n - Money-Maker," showlng that in thirty years that dlstinguished preacher haa drawn Into the coffers of Plymouth Church the round sutn of $1,000,000,and secounting for $750,- 000 that he had made in bis seversl eallings on iy own account. The subject thus stated seoms tohuveattracted universal attentiou,and in places the unfalr {oference is drawn that ministers Lave big pay and au caay life. The fact Is, that the average compensation of. clergymen of all denominntions, city uml country, i lees than 8500 par annum. A few favored dominles arc paid from $10,000 to 845,000, but there are thousands who have from $250 to $300, nnd ure lucky to gzet that,—half of it poesibly invegutu- bles und ©truck,” ¥ THTE PAY IN CITIES, Clerleal compensation In citles Is greater than In the pravinces, but so are the expenses, Mr, Beeclier worked many yeara on a $350 salary, half of which was pald by the Home Misslonary Soclety, and he supported himself literally by the Inbor of his hands, Now his satary 18 lnrger than auy other paid to a preactier fu this coun- try,—~820,000, Forthls he preaches twice on Bunduy, and presides ut the Friday evenlng prayer-mecting, Formerly he also lectured on Wednesday evening, but thut hsble was given up aevernl years axo, partly beeanse it inters fered with his out-ol-town work, but largely baenuse what used to be u regularold-fashioned prayer-inceting had run (ot a pustor’s “ talk,” Nobody scemed to caro to pray_or speak; they preferred to listen to Beecher, The late Deacons Cuornlng, Funolug, wnd Fitzgerald wera fond of asking questions, to which Mr. Beecher wnde long responses; and ovcasionally Brother Joe Knupp enlivencd the procecdiugs by pon- derous pleadivgs In belalt of sluners; but a8 o rule Mr. Meecher did, us he now does, the bulk of the work. Iie bus u threo months' vacation each year, so thut bls snlury {8 vald ilin for three services o week, or 108 ym wlue tmonths, say $185,18 for each pub- Me appearance, My, Beecher does not wivo much time to purochial duties, the majority of theimn devolving wpon Dro Hulliday, who visits e slek, nma up rellgious delinquents, prays with the dying, mud looks aut for the Cliurch missions, earning his 3,00 by real hard work, DI TALMAGH, Brooklyn has more high-priced preachers than auy ather cliy In proportion. Next to livecher, DuWitt Tulmage hns - the largest sulary i LCity of Ctirehes, It was made 13,000 lust yeur, umd will be kepe at thut theure this year. Dr. Tulmngo bus nok_yer doveloped into s nu- tional teacher, and contlnes himselt largely to the dules of the Taburnacle, the Lay College, uuwd thelr outerowths, e has two presehfng surviees und o prayer-mecting every Sunauy, Jlo Jectures once o week uind attends wso u prayer- meeting, He uu‘yuwl:wl the Luy College, und mukes a point of visiting the Bunday-school, In addivon to tils he is somewhat bf a pastor, Thiat 18, lie dues not contlue himself Lo s per- tunctory duties of preaching aloue, but ealls aronnd ‘on bis people, tubks with the mothers wnl the chitidren, wid interests himsel! to an oxtent In thelr dowestic troubles. THE LEV, MONUAN DIX, Trinity Corporation tu lherul in fis deallogs with s servaits, -Morgan Dix, the lector, ro- celyes 815,000, o {s responfble to thy corpo- ration for the entire parish, wnd hus muck office work that makes no publie show. He s the dlsciplinarian of the parlsh, He ypreaches regu- larly fu ‘Crinity Church or Bt Lanl's, atiends weetings, lovks out for the Buwday-schools, How und then marries or reads tho funcral sery- fee, and hterally holds the uffairs of the chureh, u3 ho does its koya, o his hauds, 1t is often suld that Beecher, Dix, 1hs younger ot~ ter, Btorrs, und others would be able to make four times their sularics us luwyers; but, how. ever (hut muy be, he fact rémulus that what they do wake they make as churcnmen, und each lu i wuy diflers from all the rest. De, Diz was at one timo gesfuned for the luw, but having entered the church-service under Dr, Berriun, his predecessor, he found no difileulr, in weeurivg ‘the promiucnce be now hus, 1ifs futher, Gen, Dix, 1s Comptrodler of ‘Crivity Parish und bl sulury is also reporied st $15,000. DI TAYLOK. Dr. Willlam Taylor 1s probably the best-pald Cougregutionulist orator in New York, recoly- ing $12,000 or §14,000. ITe works hard, preaches regulurly, lectures, presides ab prayer-ni 1a"nctiye'on Boards ana Committces, looks for the Sunday-school interests, anid paya speelal nttentlon to “pastoral p, ‘This feature of n pastor’s Mfe {s much neulected by clergemen who are pressed by pablie dutles, such ns Jectur- ing, editing, and attendiog conventions, There are any mimstera whose chiof success is buri of thelr sympathies. ‘They muke a voint of kuowing J;ummnlly evegy man, woman, and child fn thelr congreaation,wiid 2o from ho to hause secking opportunity. to sympat with, cheer, and suceor thelr flocks, Others have no faculty of that sort, They are merely Jreachers, and In no trac sense nnstors. e, Taylor 18 u pastor, and, althousn hie s pald o lnrize galnry a8 a preacher, s chiel merit 1s thought to e in bis social amd Kiudly nature, WIAT DIt. HEFWORTI BAYS. The Rev. Dr, Hepworth stuuds on the other eldeof the fine. \While Heecher, Storrs, Tal- mage, Dix, Taylor,/TliTany, Potter, nf yoe can count their tens of thoisands, Dr. Hepworth I8 compeiled to support limsell by hls braln- work outslde of lus puipit’ As he vuts ity his situntlon Is vather ‘inter- estingly suggestive, A Ilerald e orter " found the Doctor yesterday imernly hard ut work in his eq tudy in Forty-seventh streety and, in yesp he nald: Al that's n uull{ucl in wi great in- terest, *The under-pnyment of clcrg{mcul’ why, certninly, the world Is full of ft, und here's n bright example," “ \Why, [ thought vou were rolling n riches,” “Nousensel Wiy, If Dlidn’t do work vit- rlde of my mnlxu, 1'd have uothing to tive on. When { started my church T was erippled by the death of a gtanch friend. We lad n debt of £200,000. That Is redueed to $85000. My salary was $2,0003 but 1 dide't get . 1t s now il hus been for two years $5,0005 butl don't get 1.1 Y Ave clergymen gencrally underpald 1 *CPhey arey deeldedly, They don't wet halt what they coutld make as lawyers, for instunce. Jf money (s what they are afer, y are (n the wrong place, ‘Then, too, nimsters ure iearfully ucglected, Just as xoon as auything havpensto them, t are bundled fnto”the strect. 'l'he Catholic 18 the only church that takes care of its infirm und nged “minlsters That wonderful orenization uiklerstands what to do with ity servants, 1€ & man (sn't good (o one position, ihey v hiu fn another, where he ts of benetite The Duteh Church makes berter provisions thun any othier Protestant d.nomivation," “But sour city tinlsters have an ensy life and ‘) uty of money,! 4 Well, you don’t know anytbing nbout it. I see the ollier side. When you ace n man swith Tils houts « Tittle broken and his cont somewhut rusty, you may at least infer that he an't over- whelmed with'eash. Out of the 500 ministers in New York 1 dow't belleve there are half o dozen who can gave u cent frou thelr salaries. ‘Chey have to llve In respectable style; they linve to give continually, und they are quite as likely to be taken elck 08 anybody’ clse, and then where are they! " “ \Wiiat is vour salary i “ Nominally 25,000 but if 1t were not for my work 1 vouldn't live. "I don’t uet it, und 1 sup- pose others are {u the same box.” Dr. Hepworta bears his troubles llke o man, and his church rrlves evidence of growth, DI, BTOKNS, Dr. R. 8. Btorrs, of the Church of the Pjl- erlius, s $10.000 sulary. o has lived over thirty years {n a fair house I Pierrepont. street, in Brooklyn, and keeps u yery modest establish- ment. o visits o wreat deal nmong bis peopte, who are gencrally men of means, and mako Lfin valunble presents, send hhn to Eungu.-, und 8o on. D, Storrs preaches twles on Sunday, al- though hie frequently exclisnges or {ntroduces o brother, who pleadsTor one ur other of the sey- eral “causes " fu which the church is futerest- ed, He nlso lectures, attends the regulur prayer- muetings, the social gutherings, the Suuday- schouly ad the Church Comumittees, of which he is Chalrman. DR. CUTLER, Dr. Cuyler, just promiucnt as one ot Dr. Talinaire's bete noires, (s one of the oldest pose where he has 88,000 per an- ally u pustor. He prenchies repu- larly, und attends to ull the sesslunnl demunds of tie Lafuyette Avenue Church; but lus forte is pastoral Visitation, Ile goes from family to Tamily, makes bimsell a help in season of trou- ble, und iterally leads his fluck lko o shepherd. Dl HALL. Dr. Hall earns his 815,000 in a_similnr man- ner. Ilis preaching 1s bue o smalt_part of his wark, Llils e does wwice on Sunday, but ho is a8 well known un the avenud us any promenader there, 1ils people are avewue people, and he visits them, [le hos young ladies’ cinsses, nnd attends thewm. 1le mokes his church-building attractive 1o his congzregatiou, und they delleht topo there. All through the week there are duvotlons! serviees, ut which Dr. Tinll attends, wid he devotes all s timo to the peopls and the interests of his parish. OTHER CLERGYMEN, Dr. Polter hus $10,000 und his house; Dr, Tiffany, $10,000. Dr. Tyng s eredited with $8,000, A number of New York and Bruoklyn ministers get from $3,000 to §{,000, In Ban Francisco Dr. Stone has $12,000. Oce Flonaily clergymen hire o bull, Nke the Musl Hall or Tremout Tewple, in Boston, and de- pend on Sunday collectlons for thelr fncome, Oltentimes the congrepations there are from 2,000 to 4,000 in numbers, but it s doubtful it the collections would nvernge 330 cach serviee, Al the year Or, Hepworth " preached fn Stein- way Hail he recelvod nathing in the way of sal- ary. Dr. Chapin has from_ 38000 to 810,000; Dr. Morizan s revorted at 815,000 Fashjonu ble " clergymen sometlnes recelve o good ala- ry In the puise of fees, Mr, Beecher was given a cheele for 3000 for making a couple man wnl wife. Of late yenrs It has been the custom to pay clergymen who attend fanerals, particulurly when the dead wers notmembers of thefr con- ereeation, Small sataries wre occanlonally cked out by free trlps to Europe; hut us a ruls to them who have much {8 given, and thosu who huye nut huve to et alont s best they can, ‘The pastor. ot the Summerield Mothodlst Clureh s 34,000 and o parsonuge, nid his trustees think they will give him a present of $1,000. Methodist “clergzyen {n eitles range from 81,000 to $3,0005 L'reabyteriuus from $1,200 to 810,000, n majority beingz §2,000; Congrera- tlonulsts from RLG6GD to $20,000,—the lntter figure betorr fownd but once, and $5,000 beinge o foir averuge; Eplscopalluns avernro $3,000; Buotises ure not uverburdencd with Lhls worla's goods, aml thelr uverage Is $2,000; Unitarians uveruze $1,000, In old thnes parsonages went with the churches. but nowasdays there are fow of them only, In the cowstry, whers $2500 would be a lJurie salary, u parsonnge 13 generndly ])ruvmm,mul the average salucy s under $1,000, Boston pays n fow b saluries—fonr of $10,000, sid quite n numbar of $H000 to ¥8,000, Popu- lur preachiers make niore ‘money than sunply astors, nad, it Dr, Hepworti is ¢orrect In say- ot that churches us a rale do not take care of broken-down clergymen, it 1s obvious what~ ever savings the aver: pursun s must by treagure Juld up i Licaven; he cortalnly bus none to luy out on Eartl, il R iight Bucks Killed=Tho Explolt of a Mexi- cun Party on the Rio Grande. Banta Rura (dexico) Letter n Nar Orlenns 1imes. Putting themselves i conieetion with some of the tradera thut dealt with the bands, they suceeeded by promises s threats m getting these [ndfans assembled wt s rmurranaud apot, and by these means captured the whole of 1he noted” Chlet Coluradu's band of Mescalero In- dlung, 1o the short struwrle to resist their eapture elght of the bucks were killed amd TWenLy-Lwo taken prisoners, with sixty squuaws and children, Unfortusately e band of anu Indiaus had, about elght” days before Col, Gareta's arrival, parted from the Mescaleros, and were out on the raid tuwards Durango, elso the wnoly of them wonld Hiely have been bagaed. The expedition returncd with thejr vrisoners, as befure stated, on the 18th, utt were enthusiustieally recelved by the fuhab- itauts of the town, ‘Uhe only loss this foreo sustained Wilg the stabbing of a sentinel by u squaw the first nlght out on the muvel, Ple squuws were ut (e toe given the liberty to walk about in camp, but after they wero searched, n number ot ndden ko tuken nway from twm, and all of them cred the game us the warrlors, One of the ark- abla colncklents of this canturo bn the facy that the father uf Chict Colorado turns ont oo a Lrother of une of the must bromiuent merchants in Sauts Rosa, who hnd been robbed frot u rnneho eiose by this town In 1823 by 16 Mewcales ro8, us & boy 5 yeurs old. 11is name, which they did not change, und some peculine deformity of onw'ol his leet, us well us the corroboruting stories of sutme very aged Indians i the teibe, but his Kdentity beyond doubt, o has, of coursg, entirely forgotten his orlirin, and would, by fuclination, have proferred to stay with thy rest of the tribe, but the relatives fusisted to tuke care of him for tho remaloder of Lis life, i Ko was made®over to them, B Elfects of o Fair, Loston Causmercial fulletin, 4 Whera wero you lise nlght " suld'the Judgo Carnival -~ Authors,” “euld the prsoner, S Brajd 'L 0 oclock: was u liule Dryden, went out und ¢ Goothe drink. 1 couldi’t pay the Beott, und a Lougflellow ut the Wayslde Tnn aaked my nane, ¢ Robert Buras,’ says L Py hum out,* says ho. *The chkuus you will, suys I, My Hotmes io the hiztlduds "a drinking the beer.! * You'll get no Mours hero,! says het und the Littls Boy Blue came along sk run me to, That's Wutts the matter, Judss, © woukd, not tell you u fulse Hood; Ui fubucont as o Lawb,? And the Judge thought so, for be sent him beniud the burs for thirty dayy, o wiser £ not o Walttler wan, num, PING-CAR FARES. Cost of Operating Pullman's Pal- ace Cars. George E. White's Bill Simply Confiscation, Railieay Age, Feb. 13. ‘The tendoney so stronaly develoned in this country of lata years to limit rallway chiarees for frefght and pssonger farcs by State leglshie Hou fs now fuclining some of our law-makers to a still more doubtful exercise of autharity, in- dieated In the ntroduction, In sovernl States, of bllls ‘:duclnu' by one-quarter or one-half the present “charges for slecping-car accommoda- tions. ‘Thero ts no doubt that laws compelling the sleeplug-car owuers to furnish berths for 25 or B0 cents each would be * poputlar,’ as all leglslation ngainst thut peculiacly-heinous crime known ns “eapital” ls with the un- thinking masses; but we do not believe that the tntellizent und honorable men forming the majority of the members of Leglstaturos futend to pass unjust and oppressive laws, the olject of which s to take onc mun's property and zive it to another, simply beeause the other man wants ity und we belleve that It will require but a moment's intelligent reflectlon to show that the movement contemplated by these bills 1s nelther warranted by justice unr honeaty, vor as o matter of poliey. "Fhe splendld sleeping-car systen of Anieriean ratlways {8 ono of thelr greatest cantributions to the comfort andsafety of the travellug public, Tt aflords nccommodations vastly superlor to those offered 1n any otlier country, amd ts the object of ceaselessalmiration wl pratse on the part of for- eleners trayeling over our lune lines of commu. nteation. Stis but a few years sinca the flrst sleeolng-car—a ritde ndaptation of _the ordinar; concli~wns attempted; hnd it 1s much maore ré- cently that the necessity of frequent chanes of cars by day aid nlzht, tn o Journey over several roids, was obviated ‘by the establishmeut of ‘continuoua sleeplng-car lines, by meansof which not only the hurrled business-tan, but also sot- itary womon, children, nod fuvailds, are con- veyed in o luxurious car half way across the continent without n change, snd with astonish- fog easo and freedom from auxiety. Wo believe every cadut traveler wilt admit that there I8 no expeuse of his journey which ho pays sv willingly, and with such a feeliny ot re- coiving un equivalent, a3 that of his sleeping und drawini-room car accommodations. e flocs not often, however, stop to consider what un ontlay of monoy, skill, and execntive abllity fa required to_provide him with his exclusive priviieges. The car tn which he rides cot twice a8 wuch s a resklence of the better class; tralned servants preparo bls easy couch und minfster to his cally the most perfect and ex- venalve nppliances for heating, Iui[hllm:‘ ventila- ton, aud the tottet minkster “to Tifs henlth and enjoyment, und the great strengeh of frame- work and inereased welghi—the best sleeplng- cars welgh from two to four tons moro than the ordinary coaches, uecessituting,of course, zrenter uxpense In moving them—cause & delightful steadiness of motlon, and greatly diminish the danger In case of aceident. In the ordinary ear the passenger takes bis chanees of o seat when ho enters. “In the sleepinz-car he 18 the absa- Inte owner, for the journoy, of n cortaln se- lected portiou, the purchuso of but one berth entitling him to a whole seat, or twico the space beloneing to him fn tre duy car. ‘The posses- alon of that berth means what the rulway com- nany must draw about 1,200 poumnds of dead welizht for b indiylluslly in exccss of the average dead welzht per passenger fu o day car. ‘Thisis on the supposition that every berth {s oceupled, but as u juatter of fact the whole twenty-six or twenby-eight tous of the ear are often hauled for the accommodation of half ndozen persong, or even a less number, Secure in the possession of his berth, sectfon, state-roout, or drawlis-room, the favored pos- senier can sleop, sit, ruid, write, eat, converse, or, comfortably strotchied out, zazo through the ' wide plate-glass windows at tho Ilgm;; lund- acape, - The wealth of o raflway bondholder caanot glye ereater nxury or privacy in travols fng than the puorest man can command for §2 for a jonrney of humglreds of miles.. Is there any need for furthier State laws ih behalf of this fuyored travelor? | Lookingr on the sige of the sleepine-car own- ers, would uny furtllpr restyivtive legialation be Just, or have even the semblunco of justice? A farge mmount of maney s invested hts pub- e service. The Pallmun Compmiy, for in- stauce, represents) n eash outlsy of about §12,000,000, and ybt this great venture yaye only 8 per cent dividends, nud [ty shares are guoted at 80 cents an the dollar, This casn fn- vestment ineludes lgree works fn Detroit, eni- rloylny samo 700 mén, mninly tn repuiring the cora. Linorinous ns I8 the outlay for the cars themselves—approoriately tormed * palaces,” —the continuons outlay for inaintalne the ears and thelr furmshings,—the rich seat coverlugs, the mattresses, llnen, curtaius, towcls, soup, brushes, combs, and the many arifcles, large and small, that make up the furniture of 1he wall-reculated puluco car, s miich beyond the populor esthnate. ‘The aunnal average cost of operating o Pullman cor, neludive its repalies, tarether with malntenunce of upliolstery, bed- ding, mulomulpmeuu. wid puy of emploves, is nbout §4, ¢ averaro nismber of trips per anuum, hwlmlluillw whole number of cars run by the Pullman Compuuy 18 105, To earn the nere cost of maintoining and runping, without any return to the owoers, the number of bertiis sold must nvernge seven por night. And vel Wwho hus not seen along traln of these pnlaces starting ont witts the preater purt of the seats vueant, cuch car with s scparate destinationf For it will not do to concentrate the pussengers fn onu or two cars and reguire them to clange at the several junctions. Kach Jmportant ¢ity must Nave its ¥ throurh cavs,” and they must run with unfalling regularity, full or emoty, 1t must Lo remembered,. too, thut the Company must own o large number of cara to meet the demand (n the sesson of heavy travel, which have 1o bo lald up fu the winter, One very heayy ftom of expense s the ear service. In addition to the conductor awd porter of each car many vther employes uro re- auired fn the general conduct of busliess, The Lullinun Company—we refer to it 8s i1s orgun- {zatlon i8 the most systematic aud toets i ro- gurd to {6 ure most readlly obtuinable—hus o thorouhly milisury system of inspectors, who are coustantly moving over the 30,000 miles of Bones wpon ” which 600 cars of pany v, notlng the efivlency il deportment —of every. conductor purter, mnrking hls coudiiet accordinig to a cer tain seale of excellence, und making furmul roe port to their immediate chiefa, ‘The admbmble diaeipline of this serviee 18 not the result of lucks it comnes from a thorough svstem requir- i the exereise of coustant watehfulness nnd u ligher order of excentive wbility—u system whose ramificatioos extend over a network of connectine lues from Halifax to Houston, fron the const to 81, Paul, "Ihe splendld couraze of capltal that has riske ed millions in estublishiog this jutricate busl- uess, the vlsks of which ure greatly inereased by the thut the contraets are mude with nuny difterent roads for a delinite periad Iy cuch Ciaty und iy suddenty cease, aud by the porishibiv naturs “of the ‘property and” s exposurn to destructlon - by - seeldent In vaglons furme: the far-slghted enterpriso 1hat fs con- stuntly nereuning v cost und completensss of apuolntiments,—| I8 ull the time experiment- I with vew gevices to ndd Lo the trayelerts comfort, and that not oaly keeps pace with the publle domand, but be advanes of T, und we fre- quent Intervals brines out o new marvel of lux- ury uhiead of all thut precaled t,—all hese cone tributions of -money mind genins to the publie are fairly entitled to handsome reward, Con- mon pratitide would prompt tho reclplents ot Lo grudge even u splendid return on Uie fnvest. ment, Certululy when the actnad roturn is no wore thun that fecelved by men who loan their mouey on the sufost real-estate secarlty nnd take norizks nid contrivute nothluge whatover to hu- mut huppiness,it would be agross lujustice forthe law 1oatop i und selze the profits of the enter- prise, moderato us they are, III\‘A‘L'I{ beeatise the honeat furmer bad rather pay u dollor thau two dollurs lor o berth in a sloeping-car when ho as- tonisnes himealf with an aunugl juurney to the citv. The low docs not compel tie honest but frugul agriculturise to ride in a palace car e day-concn whereln he eun nide ond suve his cherishied two dollurs, offers comforts nud Juxu- rles for two or threo cents per mlle os vastly su- perlor to the stuze-couch In which his 1ather used todrag wearily along ut the cost of 10 couts 4 mil, a8 the sturo-coach wna superior to fhie ox-team. ‘The paluce cur §s o luxury offered to thosy who choose to pay & moderato vrice for i, but foreed upon pobody, 'The law bas no more tight 1o seize that luxury und give it to the pour wan who wants it for nothing, than it hus to gelze the rich mun’s house il present it to the impeeunions politiclan, Hut wulviug for the imomueutithe question of Justice to tie stockboldors of sleeping<ar companics,—in the Pullmusn Company they number some fifteon hundred porsons,—it would be poor paliey for the law to cut down thu chiurized to an unproftable busls, Men will uot furnish the money to bulld und run palace- cure merely for the fitn of it, While the public sre not required to ride fu theso cars, nefther are the companles required to furnish thetn, nud they will not do it ut aloss, * Poor pay, poor preach,” Cut down the rates ut which these splendid cars cau be run, uud cheap cars with the Com- _who have been throng| 1I878—TWELVE PAGES, Datd bunls, tier upon ter, will take thelr place. Then what s mourning therg would be for tha return of the happy dave nf[}mlnvo-cuml Itia far ecasler _ to pull lown than to build up, Tt has token the toil and study of years amd the espenditure of millions to establish the magnificcut syatem of Awerl- can eleeping-vars, of which the conntry is so Justly prowd. Snort-sighted and foollsh Lo- Yond compare would those law-inakers be \\'Iml 1o vander to popnlar selflshness aud stupld nrnlhum.-u axraingt corporations, shoutd attempt todestroy It. “To show how the question of what constitntes reasonable rates fs utterly Ignored by rome of the proposed leglslation respecting steerdng. eare, \wo qniote the rates demmded o tho blll of Georre B White, now beforo the IHilnols Legls- Jature, nid compare them with the presont rates upon which the sleeplug-car companies larely earn Interest on their money,—on _many lincs ot even that.. 1t 15 to bo noticad that tlie zates nnmed in the bill are for * twenty-four lours or less,” while the present slceping-car charire I8 generatly 83 for o picht, or about twelve hours, il a dollar or so for the vrivilezes of the car during the day-time, The Preunl.nud proposed rates would compare ns follows: Present Proposed Lroposed For 24 hours, rate. rate. reduction. Berth, 00 $1.00 60% por cont ::-cllm 1,60 Th pet ceut Stato. hortha.. 2,00 7% ver cent Such a reduction would Lo stmply confisen- tion. Il\quIfl compel the sleeplnie-car owners efther to b thelr paloces at u lienvy loss or to Atap running them, 9 18 no fear that such hare-hralned legisiation will pass, "Ihe’ R licay Aye hns no Interest in sleeping- ears or slecptng-car companics, excent that of the publie grenerally, but. g o representative of the rallway Interest 1t doest strongly opvoso o frealk of popular selllshness and prejudice Jouk- e toward denriving that interest of one of fts chiel attractions to travelers—the through pal- acc-car, night and day, scervice, Ipasmiuch as the question of sleeplng car charges is now somewhat prominent In the pub- Ite mind, and similar bills have beon introduced in other Sttes, 1t wonlil seem eminently proper for the Leitslature of Tinols to nopolnt o commitiee Lo malie a thorourh Investization of the whole subject, und report the facts, so that no hasty legislatlon should be had, but that uvery niembicr shontd first have the informa- ton necessary to intelligent actlon on this sub- Juet luvolving so many and vast jnterests, THE RED MAN. Those Cheyennen, nnd Othor Indinng— Views of o Clorgymnn, The Rey. Dr. J. Ambross Wignt, of Bay City, Micli, bas, undor the caption of **‘I'hose Chey- etmes—and Other Indions,” o most excellent ar- tlele In the New York Lvangellst, 1t briatles all over with that aterling common-sense for which Dr. Wight has ever been distinguished. Com- {ngz Irom o Doctor of Divinity, and appearing in the New York Krangelist, 1t connnends atsell especlally to relizious readerd: 1t secms to me that a class of newspapors, religlous und semi-religious, are makiug them- scivea usclesaly unhappy, and mislending their readers ao far as they do lead them, by thelr thppant wiul u\dumnwr}' comments on the late Cheyentie massacre. What are soldiers set to do when put In charge of prisovers, Indian or other? If prisoners fire on their guard and break away, they forfeit thelr lives, as they well know; and the duty of the puards Is to retake thew, altve it they con, nnd dend If they can- not. If a pollccnian hos a thief in custody who breaks from him, und {8 sliot on refusing to atop, punligopinion and the law sustain the of- ficer. Why should n Sloux Indian be treated more tenderly i—or o hundred of them, for that matter{ “Unless I am mistaken, every one of theso Tudians—the pappouoses excepted—was n thicf und a murderer. They had fled from their reser- vation fn the South, stealiug and killing ss they went North, ‘I'he exact number of tlielr mur- ders I lave forzotten,but It was a dozen or Lo, ‘They weee pursued by the army and retaken und’the decislon of the Court was, thut they should bo returned to thelr reservation; and the soldiers were ordered to roturn them. The Indlaus concenled weapons, fired upon aud killed a part, of thelr guard, fled, firing a8 they fled. Pl effort was to retake ns many of them u8 posaiblo. If thuv chose death fnetead of sur- render, they were entitled to their ciolee, They thaut take the sword nerish with ity and no cx- ception ts made for Indiuns, *¢ It 13 unfortunate_that so many who vent their optitons ou the Indlan question scem to have studicd it so 1lttle; and so erally tako the extremo of ono of two sides: elthor that lie Indinn §s ondy it for extermbnution, or that he {8 on innocent aud amlable creature, to be made and kept sweet by pouring molusaes on Ii4 houd, Any oue who studies the questiou long und carefully will find it to bave a rood muny sldes in place of two; md the more of thew the loneer he examines, For one thing, the Indiaus are tot all atize, ‘There are seyenty- two dliferent reservations of them; und theae Cheyennes aro amoug the worst to deal with there nre, **“I'he whole Indlan question is underlafd with one which I8 continually erooping out fn vur htstoryy und not tn ours alone, Tho British toverninent In South Alrien has the smme question on Its hands, That question is: How far has a people i possesslon of i country the vizht to say who clse shall, or shall nat,” joln thiem In thielr possessiond The Canaanlees held Palestime; but the Hebrews pusied o for all ity “Ihe Tndluns were i Now Eugland; but the Puritans wanted a placo there. tov, Kine Phitip sald they had vo businesa there, wnd should wo or bo slafn. But they did not o, “The suma thing has been roneating Itsell ever sinee, till it has reached the Paeltte Coast, Mr, Bltting Bull took thesameview with Kine Philip, *Thls i8 vur country. Wo want tt, We do not want you here, Begone. Dennls Kearnoy, and his * Irishers ! of the Band-Lot varicty, tulk tn the same way to the Chinaman. And forthe simple reason that ho does not Hke him, without thinking ihat as many peovlo distilky the Kear- ney and bis Sund-Lot crew as dislike Johu China- man: possitly re. A grood many of the people of this country have wot llked thelr after-comers, "Fhers was once s *Native Amerfean? party. We make no I»rulunm: nuw of uny fondoess for the Comnmun- 315, Buclalists, tramps, thicves, and bummers, et uerass the water 1hese fitteen vears pust, Wo could spure Dennls [Kearney withous o tear. Weo have never sent Tor the desuits: but they come., So the red mun fs not the only complainant, As hetween us and b, fhe question gets nurrowed down to t Bhall 1,000 Inaluny nossess n whole State, walle 2,000,000 of white men want three-fourths ot it 1 ‘The Indian says: * cannot livw on luss wrouwnd. [ am a hunter, ns my Inthers were, mud irame must - have room, It you come. you will kitl it aiml drive it away, il 1 must starves "The white inanrenlies: ¢ Keep cows nil olgs, mul - grow wheat, uy 1 ¢ Bue that. {8 not the red mun's trade, Messya, * Red Cloud? and *Tlrer 'Toll,’ or whatever {liclr names are, debated all this matter with our Comulssloners o fuw years ago. * They hnd never workeds did not know howj and wonld nwot Jearu, ‘They wished to );u whero they pleased; the conntry waa thelra, 4 Gur Government has considered thele phitos- ophy, us 0 general thing, in the Jlght of C tun gbligation aud of epmmonssense, esyeel of lute years, It admits the tenth, quolit of the{udlan stutesnienta, Jt says to hl will teach you how to live from the e it the effeet ol our fettlaen v vour mieans of lving; but wo ean- event tiut settlemcnst, Aud, us tho best we eanr do tikl you learn to live as we do, wo will tead you.! e ved mun does not Wke 18, and proves o troublesome subject while tho thilnge 18 i proe. cas, Hu ussuines that he {8 wronged, The younie tien takke nll opportumtiva 10 get upon 1l war-puth; tor wur (8 the irade of thietr fath. cryy and Its Impulscs are in their blond, ** A second factor i the cnse 13, thiat e Goy- crnment 4 not well constituted to deal with this lndion questfon. What s wanted 18 o stendy, humane, but firm potivy, followed from yeor (o years with o rlgld acconntatiity of all ts weents by whow 3t deals with them, But our Governinent chnnl.-u wvery fouryears, New men, Who know very Hide sbout §t, wud lack, very likely, sdministrative ability, aro called to deal with It. A system began i3 porhinps over- turned with a now Admbistration, Agenta ave appolnted for political reasons, und litte or no uevountability {8 demumded from them; und they chieat wnd , nore or less, “The British Government, on the other hand, is stublo us to {ts wlminlsteation, There wre no four-year changes, A policy besun 18 continued, w118 ugents wade aecountable, Henco it has fav leas troublo than we with the Indlans, But that Governaont 18 findlie, us suld, that 1he inuate difficoley fs not ulways to by shunned, by ita South Africun experience, ‘Fhey have Afrl- cans to fght; with the orlgin of our lndun wars, ‘“Ihe orleiual aim of our Government, In Its foundation, was sreedum, 'To gafn that wo rlsk- cd some vpen daors o ovil which a strong Goy- ernmont escapes; for overy good thing in thils world of wou und ovll is oifsut by u llabllity to 8 correspondent ovil. Heuce, botlh by our own want of ' suflicient system of dealfug with the by the munite difllealty of the wholo auestion Involved, aud by the savage nature of the Indiaue temselves, we are kout in bot water with them contiuua!ly, No question of greater dillleulty besots ug, * Aud uow wo aro dubnting, with & great deal of heat, whether the Indtans shall bo’ retalned in the carv of the Interior Dopsrtment, or com- iwltted to that of War, Ang, us eleht able men b P or a whale year, and nre cxactly divided, four agalnst four, it would secrn as sf an oplulon of an outsldor would he of littio value, * But, with all the lght shiningtn these narts, even from those two suns, Schurz und Sherldun, it wonld seem as {1 It wore not .o much o_quies ton of principle as many think, which Depart ment hind them In - eharge; only so that twvo things aro seenred : 4 K ral—Tho uriny must police them, They are no safer than n lot of amokors about n pow- der-house, They aud their white neighbors hoth want sharp looking after by some vompetont suthority, with a sword in its T, And there 18 nobudy to do this pollce-work but the army, * Secund—Whoover hna charzo of them, the work of instruction and clvilization must- be proseeuted. The minfater of religlon und the schiolmaster must have free aceess to them. No other course Is for a mormgent to be thought of, “Now, which Department can do this work beat? Is 4 question for fafr oplnjon. Why i it not supposabie” that one Dupartment might manaue somo-tribes best, ntd the other other iribea best? The wote clvilized, milder, and smaller tribes might be committed to the Inte. rlor; and the wilder onea to the War Depart- ment. Why not? At all events there avoms at. thin distance to be vo oceasion for o new war hutwtcen these two Departinents of the Govern. ment, ¢ ** But, manago it a8 you will, there will ho outbrenka, nud the turbulent ravaczes will need n stron arm near enough to strike them, And, when they maraud and imnurder, no good will coma of ' muwkish umnncmnlu{ ‘hmllvmg (helr vitlafny, or complaining of thelr punlsl ment." PUTNAM’S RIDE. Proposed Centennial Colohration of Gon, Patvam's Escapo from tho Britishiemlils. torlenl Reminlsconcos, Correspondence'New York fevald. Gueeywicit, Conm, Feb, 8.—Lone heforo this beautitul Iittle town wus mude famous by the presence of William AL Tiweed nud hig Americus Club 1t bad aname in history as the scene of Gen. Putnam’s daring gallop or vlunzes down the Horse-Neck gorze to eseape from a party of Hesslaus who were pursuiog him, Btudents of our Kevolutfonary history need not be told that Putnam’s ride occurred on Feb, 20, 1769, though Iv mny be news to others. Oceurring 100 yeurs 820, it now comes forward as a centennlal event, and the good people of Greenwich propose to cclebrate it In loyal and patelotie tashion, ‘The projected avrangements are in good hands, the Committee ombracing some of the mostinfluen- tial men of the place, ‘The programma‘ has ot beeu completed, but it will bave some in- tercating features, At sunrise a saluto of 100 guns will be fired, the bells belng rung at the sume time. During the forencon a processlon will be formed at the placa where the British were firat discovered, and the march will be taken up to Putram’s It a distanee of nearly amile. Prestdent Hoyes, Qens, Sherman, Han- cock, and Terrvi Gov. Tlubbard, Gov. Andrew and stafl; Prestdent Porter, of Yale; nud the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon have been fnvited to ride {n the procession, which will embraco mill- tury nud civic orzanizatlons, Besides the vxer- clses at Putnam’s Hill there wlll be speeches, poems, ete,, ot the Congregational Churcly, fol- lowed by n collation at the Lounus House, The amiiversary would be the 20th, but that. belng Ash Wednesiday, the Committee voted to ccle- brate Feb, 23, \Vnsnlnzlnu‘- bivthduy, thus no- tleinz two historle events, and giving a better ovportunity for attendanco. The entlro Con- neetleut Leglalature will probably be prescng, and the day be marked by patriotle fervor, | Visitors to Greenwich aro {nvariabiy shown the old bulding known as Patnam’s head- quarters, situated on the old Boston turnpike, nhout three-quarters of 1 milo from the present ratlrond station. ‘The bullding has been modern- ized und sdded to until it has becomne almost o now ereation, 1t {s o pilu of small stone rough- Iy inortared together, n story aud o half higeh, Daving twoentrances, one of which 18 shaded by a lutticed poreh, A wodern chimuey of fresh red brick somewhat shoeks the anttquarian, but was no doubt necessary, The windows arc very small, und to reuder 1’ habltable each contalus twelve diminuiive but heavily-framed panes of wlass, ‘Thero is but one roowr In each story, the ona on the grownd floor belue nbout’ twelvis feet by ten. "Tho addition to 1t, which forms by fur the greater part of the oresent structure, {8 like a modern lodae. The front and sides arc shiugled in the old New Eneland fashion, but the deslzm §s not auclent, - From this bullding, aceording to local traditlon, Putnam started hurriedly to ride to Stanford, Not many rods distunt Tny 1l ¢llff which shared, with adjacent. paeturage lnuds, the name of Horse N Ihie best published representation of #Pu'g LY which 8 now a portion of * Patnam avenue, ou which Tweed llved, is foung on paige 838 of “Barbour’s Historical Collections. “rhero hus been u great change in the bitl sinee Putnam's day, ‘The turnpike has been stralght- ened, nid in dobgr this it was neceasary to cut directly through the storjed ledge. Below the Jedgo the valley hos beed tilled up at lenst thirt; feet in the tine of the roadway. "The old road- way has been discontinued und fenced in, From the top of the ledgu to the old road below must bo conslderably over 100 feet, nud all this slunt I8 within two or three rods, 'hestone does not crop'out to the surfuce and did not all the dis- tunce, but the way was rarged with bushes and undergrowth, whleh made the way doubly difll- &nlt nud pertlaus. Un one part of the cllif stood the old Eplscopalian Church, which is 14 resented in - all pletures. of the oxploi, und {6 wus to this chureh that the stone slops, u flight of seveauty, led. ‘The chureh T longz since crumbled awa; bat the churchyard contalus g back to 1719, ‘and nurks the site of the edidee. T'o have rldden from the Lrow of an almost ub- rupt preelples down these steps i apparently fmpossible, though such was the fent perturmed by Putpaw. ‘Ihe lest sulbarities avreo thag Yutnum rude down obiigualy and vwne out near the foot of the steps, snd then tools the turn- plke to Stamford, the * Tories™ meanwhile fir- Ingzat bin from the bight above, one bullet passing throueh his hat, ‘The Rev, Mark Mead, who died not many years azo, was told by Gon. Ebenezer Mead—Ulic Intter ol whom stood on I8 porel near the * Neck ” that memorable dny—that he saw the wholo affalr and that Put- nam rode, not down the steps, but through the Rlen, und, rlding over the ground, pointed out with his waip the loealitles. Asn natter ot Interest I append Gen. Put- num's own story of hils uchlevoment, elven In s roport to headquarters, It is as follows: “CAME AT REDDING, March 8, 1770.—A de- tnchment of the cuemy at Kingsuridee, eone sisting of the Seventednth, Forey-fourth, wnd Firty-sevonth British Rewimcents,—one of Hes- slans and two of uew lovies,—~marelhed from thedr Mnes for Horse Neck on thy o nlu{: of the 2th ult,, with the intention of engaplig the troovs ut thut pluce and destroving the sait- works, A Gaptaln aud thirty men were sent from our advauced lines ug florss Neck, who discovered the l:ncm{ ut New Roetelle o ad- vauee, They retired beldry them undiscovered s tur us Rye Neck, where, [t growing nlght, the wnemy observed und gttacked them, ‘They des fendud themsclvos us well aa possible, uud mads thelr wuy good to Eawplts (now Lartchoster), where they toul advantare of @ conumundinig ploce of ground aund made somo Nitthe stand, but the superlor tores of the enomy ablired them toretlre 1o By Bridge (heariog the dame uame still), woich they took up, nnd by that means had an opportunty of resching Nurse Neck In safety, A1 wns there myselt to see the situatién of the Guards, L had the troops formed via hill by the umutlug-lymm ready to mest the onemy a8 they wivageed, “They camo on briakly, amd I soon’ discovered that the deshin was Lo turn -our flank and - pos- sess themsetves of a defile In our rear, walch would eilectuuljv preveut our retreat, sud theree fore ordered partics outon both flanks, with directions "o uive me information of thelr upproach that ~wa might retire In sewan, In the meantime o column advanced by the muln road, where the remaiuder of the troops, amountvg oulv to about sixty, were posted. We dischiarred somu old fielil- pleces whlch wers thero u fow thuiea, mud gave them u smtall firs 02 musketry, but without any conslderavle effect, “The suverlor fureo of tho uum::{ suon obliged our swall detachment to atnndon the place, I therofors directed, the troops to retire und form on o hill alittlo dise tunco from lorsa Nocl, wiile [ proceeded to Stanford (now called Stamrord) to collect body of milltls wnd a fow Contluontal troups whilch were thero, with which [ returned fmmo- diately, and found that the cnewy, ufter pluns dering the fntabltants of the prinelpal part of their effects und destroying o few spit-works, o swall gloon und store, were on thelr retura, ‘the oftieer commanding the Coutinontal troups at Hovso Neck nmsunderstood wy orders, wnl went uch furiber thun 1 intonded, so that ho could not come up with them to any advantage, 1, however, ordored the fow troops thnt came from Stanford to pureune them, thinklug thut they wight huve au opportunlty to pick up sume utrugwlers, Iu this 1 was ot inlstaken, us your Exgellency witl sco by the fnelosd 1t of Drisoners. | eatnot toll to whot purticulur regiments they belongad, One smmunitlon und o bagrage wagon were taken,” The “report govs on to give the contents of the captured wagone and the Mst of vrisoners, but nowhere meutions thut the ride to *Stans ru‘r:‘I " for reluforccments wos dn tho least le- Tl HE PLAGUE, — Some Experiences from Ong Has Been Amongst |4, P Rl Nethod of Sherking s Progren.. Ules of Ita Reaehlng Western E‘n.ro::mm‘ dketehes rrom an org Traveses yog. and Herald, Twns In Turkish Arabla, 1y May, 1874, the rumor came to Bagdng that lhu‘nl:m: M Droken out at Hillah, a Villagaon the gy, 1'= el near the ruins of Babylon, lwaulmx; {“m" am excurston n Ut direcHon, bt ey 2" nlte reports did not deter mo from sty xnm‘ my oxpedition, though agay, e oy #ome prudent fricnds amon, dents of whom I was the m:rmt(.hE \Ennllsh otk few alter, when I reached Kerbelly u:\ & Racry the Mahoimetans, containing the nnrlnue': ::ynl two grundsons of the Prophet, nndnmnm sort of Perstan bilgrias, T found that e e bad reached that place nnd the Inhnhlun& ;-g“ 5,5'“‘3 ‘u‘t‘:rntgm:ld ’:’1‘"[&1 And then, 19y horror"; 0 In! Y J Yol e L'asha of Dagdad hag . DEGLARED A QUARANTING of the infected district, with strict org, shoot any persun who altempted 1y uum » iuo Tust o might bring tho dreqsy q1e2 e that city. | was insids the coridan nnnfg[ " and my. native attendants werg iy Teapatt l‘hgru“m:rn nolilm-u,mnns| nearer than n:.i-?]:';’ il all commanieation wi een e th that m%@"fil‘,fi,‘»‘: do not here prop: % Suflice 1t to sy that I rcnchefi H’n;fio-d‘ ?n'fl? e and was recelved by my friends wigh onen a o almost 08 ona risen from the dead, ’l‘hrynl;“ given me ugp, and were preparing Lo send |y i next “dromedary mall* 1o Datnascus, ”h§ ce to London, an “obituary " (i ;nl“; have brought gricf to relatives In mmx.f,f Waen 1 camo “afterward to reallzo iy narpy, eseana 1 was nob surprised at notichir "q iy |'| resurve of manner among flie more timig, E::x {‘hu‘nl ‘l‘;u l‘?guued I&r a lcwddn_u Lor tear im’.x roueht with mo the sceds scourize, of o dresdel TIB NAME SUGOESTIVE oF nonnon, The pronls of the West haveno cotiception of the horror which 1he very nume of the ) age suurests to Orlental nations, To us it fs nug: thing fudelinite, associnted, verhaps, wilh re “great fire’ thut devastated London 20 yegry ago. But to them {t fa an over-present peallyy, Nearly every yeur there are rumors of iy Drenlkiog out of this terrible seourze fn soms vart of Arabia, Persin, or the southern portyof the Medlierruoean, In the metiory of magy persons vet liviug {n Turkish Arabla the bor- rors of 1831 arc yut vivid, when in g singly munth 50,000 people, nearly nalf the whole pop. ulatton, perished miserably In Bagdad, I while there a wealthy Italfay, the unl of all his fawmlly durine this visitatlon of 1 plague, s thrilling accounts of the incidenty that pussed under his own cycs bad a horritla fasclnation to me in view of the poule which L snw around me {n cotfec-shops wnd bazars, EVERY HOUSE A CABTLE. In Oricutal countries the houses of the better clnss are alwavs buile with solfd outside waily rouud an interfor courtyard, which supplies leht and ventilatlon to the apartments. Ty Lhls there is usually a sinzle heavlly barred gate- ‘way opening on the narrow street, 1o ench of these dwellings, at the thne of the estllence, wero antiicred the fatally and servants, M communieatlon was had with the outsite worl, s complete {solatlon was their only Lopo whila the Angzel of Death was passing by, Each houss was provisioned as for n sleze, and those whoes. vaped were Indebled to the strinwency of this non-intercourse, When by some aecldent the diseaso was introduced all medical treatment seemed fncffectual, nnd as one after auotlier of the fomates porished thefr hodies were throxn at night over the wulls Iuto the street tobe dragred nwav to the river. 'Thero were no sole emn rites of burlal, and all haman affection scemed deadenced In the strugile of each tor iy own life. Who 100k, 0 Qypey, THE DRITISH RESIDENCY was situated us now, surrounded by ganlens, o1 . the Lanic of the ‘Tieris, ‘The disense was lntzge duced by u cat which had erawlud over the walls and was fondied by one of the chitdren, In six days, out ol thirty one lnmates, elghteen Lad perlshed, und the sarvivorasaved themsetves by embarking ou u boat aud floatiug down theriver to the Perstan Gull, Int very muny cases whole familles perished, and thelr jewels und other valuables became the prey to robbers. My navrator did nat tefl me, but ] heard from other persons, that the foune dation of his wealth was Jald at this time of vens erul anarehy nud lawlesancss, In 1773 the plague was stlil more destractivs of human life. At thut thne over 1,060,000 peo- ple perlshed fu Arabla und Peesin. Bassorab, then a flourishing eity of 200,600 ihabtants, ot the moath of the Euphrates, wos depopulated, sud has mover sluce that thne attained oes tenth Its former poputation, EXPERIENCE OF AN ENGLISIC SUItUEON, Dr. Colyille, an nccomplished surgeon of the British army, who hus been for twelve years stationod oy I!:umml, aml made this discases special study, stuted to me as the result of bis experienca that with. earetnl treatment sbout one-third the persons attacked could be saved ‘The plague fs not In nuy sense on epldemic ko the cholera, but is strietly u contazious dis- ease, even moro 8o than the smalipux, Like the lutter it Is more virulent duriug the coll weather thon fn the warm months. Squalr mid Hithy which are hot-beds of cholera, stimd- Inte the ravares of the plague ouly so far 34 they would fnerease the fatality of uny other matiguaut disease. If onve Introduced Into 3 viltage swept by the pure airof the desert, b wiit beny fatal’ns In the slums of ¢ It Is & wistake to suppose that the plagucbas it origin in the fithy habits or fnpure air whidh ure supposed Lo he characteristic of all Urlenial towns, ‘The peraonsl hubits of these prople are, us o rule, cleanly, altha thelr Inr;ll cities are usnally erowded within walls, . filllllllilry regulutions ars rarely euroreed by thele rulurs, OW TO CHEOK TI{E DISEASE. Complety (solution and the strictest nondo- tercoursy enforved by quarantine regulationd are the only proventive to Its spread. If "f *Purkish Government is efliclent u uothing clsty it Is moat stringent and unyfeldng n "m“lm relutiug to quarantine, It would by more thaa g Mo 'ls worth for o Pasha to yield to [uvnr:v‘r Dbribery, and thereby permit cholers or |!1;|{ur ' be fntruduced {uto the provinee or city ln.fl»\" eried. ‘The populacs woufil storm' and mzh Al pmlnco to the ground, us they once did i :«- dad, That portion of Europosn Russa xrl:‘-: the plaizue s appeared Is situnt the m‘fl»l valley of the Volua, near the Casulan Sea. ne Intfected district covers but a smull ure, d e Governmuent of Russla, nuw thoroughly sroused, 13 determined to stamp 1t out by eulunlll.l: ..:; leuticss systuin of fsolution undnon-interesurse: IOW A DESI'OTIU QOVENSNMENT CAN DO “]u It hos givon the mest absolute autborlly 10 o ofliclals 1o uttorly desiroy, if uecessany ?M town or village wfwru it appears und .1.:1:‘ bu he inbubltants to some spot where lllL:fi ul - quarantined until the danger Lus passe D bellovo tho dread scourge will sure et Europe, us the coming wart \rlnadu. ite progress, und o lhumm,'h|v e tovernmont like that of lhxssmF ’mx’w fitted to net i such un emergoucy. 1 . too, the plazue will receivo sudl meuml\l e feal treatwmout as wiil disarm it of m"u‘l; he ror it hus fnspired o the F But s fmprobnbln Uit If once futroduced hlnm (s ity socds may lle dormant durivg the su e and b the sourco of Irequent alurmd aftor, not TIR WAY THEY DID 200 YEAUS 400, The evil demon of pestiluice canuut_‘l!: v ago of sclontitle investigatlon Sbe LXORIEE L ‘hook andcandle® or interpositlon B Salnts, More than 200 years mro the n,mu. anta of thelittle villuge of ()lmrn'm:wfi““ 1 tha lieart of the Bavarlau Tyrol sowel the * Pugsion Play " shonld bo ucrl‘{r P them yearly for alt tine to come ‘{f I;\:’ would uvert this scourge, whie |I Jas it of siveeplug through Germany. ‘To ‘l“»v sl thelr prety It 18 recorded “m:l ns l:]«. 13 lard the place, thoy aud thelr I.'i('Eulh:‘ll"m [ rellziously kept thelr vows, 118 I position sume, howeyer, that to thelr "M“u.nuh-uh wgong the mountslng they were wore e llfmu to thelr prayers for exemption peatlience. ) pammus Movement to Euppress tho Quulds Lot AlEEe oting lss Synacusy, N. Y., Feln ll!.-&"’&‘.‘;":f;,;. been eatled ut the Syracuse Univen Y et duy aternoon, Feb. 14, o take G {n reforcice to_the Oncida Lun{:x}u‘m ears cx;ll“mr admh g;alhfirln;: 1a 8l ! "luur Havei, ;,2 vl amilton Culleeo; rtutty Byracuse Umveralty{ op HNunting e, {’lu.- rl‘)lluuu;a fl Ucnt{lnll 2 % cul of Piymoul Tresty Byraciso; the Hove Ar, 3 ‘“m’ Yeverad Lerfun OUnureh,” olso of Bvrucusés BUL 008 other clergvinon of difforent uulxm"mwm Tuvitatlons huve been extended Lo CI6TEY Psqre, attend from allthe privelpal mlu’w iy tho Hetweon 100 und 200" dolegated, JEE0, Siue, Presidenta of the soverul cmmze]-‘ 4 onfercat: are cxoected o b presont BL UL K0 enl Wo are assured by tho leaders of ¢ i bivk 08 that the thne s now come whet : tho Emnira Staty st be rewovs N8t the protegy o