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3 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL -12, 1882-DOUBLE ‘TALKS WITH A NIHILEST. Whe Recent Nihilist Associ: tion Circu- iar. 2B STRONG OBJECTION TO IT —SKOBELEFF'S SPEECHES AND HIS POPULARITY—GERMANS AND RUSSIANS—WHEN NIHILISM STARTED. From the New York Times. When the circular was published a short time ‘ago In Boston calling for contributions to a fund to promote nihilism and teiling of the establish ‘ment of an association here, which circular had attached to it the well-known name of Vera Bassulitch, I sought my nibilist friend, the doctor, and asked him what he thought of it. “I have no wish toimpngn the motives of ‘those who have issued the circular,” replied the doctor. “Ido not know them, and they may be honest and well-meaning people; but the thing does not please me at all.” “ What is objectionable in it?” “This begging tor money. I speak asa Rus- sian, and say that I strongly object to having our party brought before the world as beggars. It is humiliating to me as a Russian to see tiils. There isno necessity to beg for money. Our party has never had todo it, and I fail to see any justification whatever for doing it now. Ido not like it at all,” repeated the doctor, with some degree of irritation in his tone. “Then you would not advise contributions?” “I should not give any money myself, and I should not counsel any Leaded to give, until rsonal inquiry he can be very sure where HAs Speen I do not betieve in it at all. party has always been able to raise the money it needed in Russia among our own peo- ple, and it does so now. This coming before the ‘world in the attitude of beggars will do us infi- nitely more harm than any good which the money obtained micht do, supposing it to be honestly spent. Besides there is no pressing ne- cessity for money. Are we to revolutionize Russia by buying up public opinion? I only know one time when our party was really in need of money. There was a temporary drain of fands, so they broke open the government bank in St.Petersburg and replenished the treas- ury from the government funds. You may rest assured of this, that when the nihilist party has to go to other countries begging for money, the Fevolutionary movement will be extinct in Rus- sia. and of that I see no signs now. “How about Skobeleff’s speeches? Do you think they will lead to war?” “Mere talk. Russia is to war. See the trouble we had in fighting the Turks. Certain it is if she fights Germany single-handed she will be whipped. With France as an ally, attacking Germany on the West, while Russia attacked on the east, the re- sult would probably be different. But Russia is not fit for war now.” ‘Would a German war be popular?” “Well, it would and it would not. We Rus- sians do not like the Germans at all, and the it popularity of Skobeleff is due to the de- fent the people have in seeing how a few words from him set all Germany in an uproar. They enjoy the fun, and just how there is no more popular man in Russia than the dashing General who could so stir them up with an after-dinner h. Skobeleff always has been popular. le is @ fine soldier, a tine scholar, a wonderful linguist, and a thoro Russian. There is none of the Germano-ofiicial flavor about ‘him. Then he has not been mixed up in any disa- — politics. Todleben was sent to govern e south, and Gourkho Center Russia, and other generals to other parts, under those ex- traordinary orders for military rule, but Skobe- Jeff by some skillful means contrived to steer Clear of the mess.” “To what is your dislike of Germany due?” “Partly historical, partly in race. Historically, it dates from the time of Peter the Great. He ‘Was oue of the greatest men that ever lived, but Ithink he did infinitely more karm to Russia than he did good. Our party has to undo much of the work he did. He was one of those great Yeformers who are too impatient to wait for things to grow up naturally; they must build them up artificially. He violently interrupted the normal growth of the country, which, crude and rou:h as it was, would have worked itself out intime ina natural and satisfactory manner; and introduced a vast imperialism, well organ: ized, thorough in its working, and almost resi: Jess in power. This was utterly foreign to the Russian people, who naturally are the most de- mocratic in the world, I think; and it was not Secomplished without great violence and blood- shed. Our vast standing army dates trom him. He succeeded by his iron will and great genius. While he lived he worked solely for the good of Russia—no other thought was in his mind. But the system he founded in the hands of his suc- cessors became one of the most despotic tyran- nies on earth. Have you read Schulery'’s Rus- sian papers, published in Scribner's? Well, I mention them to say that he has completely failed to understand the place that Peter the Great occupies in Russian history or the depart- ‘re that his reign marks in it. “Now, Peter the Great wanted men who could do his work, and he had to find them mainly among the Germans. We Russians were not advanced enough and not nearly so well adapted Dy race conditions. Mechanics, book-keepers, architects, builders, adininistrators, supervisors and — Lnrdivg Czar = to get irs er- many, He p! them in itions of trast and ibility in the palisamstaar service, ‘and to this be the court party and the office- holding class of Russia is a German party. Ger- man used to be the court language, but the present Emperor, before he came to the throne, ‘Was one of the anti-German faction, and carried it so tar as to forbid German to be spoken in his palace under penalty of a fine. There probably Was some idea that it would help the Russian, or anti-imperial, movement along to have him Succeed to the crown, and this may have been in the minds of the men who planned the killing Of the late Emperor. “You can understand now to some extent how the Russian people as a whole dislike this element, identitied with the imperial power. settled among them. I should say from what I have seen in New York thaf the feeling With the better classes is much the same as that with which the average American resident re- gards the office-holding Irishman. But, of Course, we have to acknowledge that Germany is ahead of us in the march of civilization—it is useless to ignore that. But I do say that di- Feetiy Russia has a fair chance for self-develop- ment, which will be when she gets a constitu- nal government. Germany will have to go alone tag d quick if we don’t overtake and pass her. We Russians are in the crude state now, but there is more improvable stuff in the Rus- sian than the German everhad or began to no condition to go ‘The Slavs and Germans are so different that it fs not easy for them to mix weil. The Ger- man Is dali, plodding, and methodical, and we are got methodical—that was how Peter found it better to employ Germans—but impulsive, es; and a. F — “Is there a ‘ge German ion in ‘Bussia?” = “Oh, yes. The Bultic Provinces are full of Germans. There has always been a iarge Ger- man emigration to Russia. The Mennonites, who have been emigrating here. are resily Ger- mans, not Russians. They originally came from Germany upon the invitation of Catherine, who wanted tosettle the vast and fertil- territory of southern Russia. She promised tie that their peculiar tenet about bearing arms should be re- Spected, and they have been living i their own DEADLY WAYS OF DRESSING, a A Crusade Against Corsets, Pe ‘Tight Boots, and Twenty Buttoned Gloves. London Post, February 27. A lecture on the present style of dress was delivered by Mr. Frederick Treves, at Kensing- ton, on Saturday, under the auspices of the N: tional Health Society. The lecturer observed that the primary objects of clothing, to cover the body and maintain it at an equable temper- ament, haye little or no concern in some of the dresses of the period. In the low evening dress the arms, neck, and upper part of the chest and back are bare, while about the lower extremi- ties is accumulated a mass of raiment that vould garb a dozen children. In the ordinary of women little regard is had for main- taining an equable temperature ot the body The covering of the upper part of the chest above the line of the corset’ is very thin—per- haps that of the dress only. The region of the corset is reasonably covered, while about the hips many layers of clothing are massed. Thus the body may be divided geographically into a frigid, a temperate, a torrid zone. Asregards tight lacing Mr. Treves said if the most beautiful female outiine is that of a young, normal, well-developed woman, then a harrow waist is hideous. A miniature waist is adeformity under any circumstances, and few deformities are ing. The waist is an in- flection of the body between the lowest rib and the hip bone. No normal woman is waistless, although its conspicuousness depends some- what on development. Children have normally nine inch legant” twenty inches; the waist measurement of dress- makers’ lay figures now varies from twenty-one to twenty-five inches. Those who wish to imn- prove their figures by stays have before them the conceptions of a twenty inch waist Venus. To the outline of this hour glass they aspire. The normal waist is quite the fashionable waist quite round. Women with miniature waists who maintain that such waists are natural to them, and are independent o art, must have been born deformed. No person enters this world with a ready made fashion- able waist. As regards health, the tapering waist is effected mainly by a compression of tle five lower ribs, these ribs being more movable than all the rest. There is a popular delusion to the effect that there is plenty of empty space inside the body, and into this space the dis- placed organs are pushed in tight lacing. Tight lacing means a depression not of skin, muscle bone, but of liver, stomach and lungs. Even a slight amount of constriction affects these organs, and stays that are by no means tight lessen the capacity of the chest for Post mortems on tight lacers show the liver deeply indented with the ribs, and more or less seriously displaced. The stomach is also com- monly affected, as, too, are the lungs. The dis- eases that commonly result are chronic dys- pepsia, liver derangements, disturbances of nutrition, &c. Tight lacing, moreover, renders more or less useless the diaphragm, or’ principal muscle of respiration. The breathing powers of the narrow- ed are always seriously impaired, and hence follows possibly the lan- guor, the inability for exertion, the tendency to faint, &c. The circulation, moreover, is inter- fered with, and certain casesate reported of death lexy in young women who have tight. injuriously affect the muscles of the back. These muscles become wasted be- their function, that of supporting the spine, is absorbed by the corset, and they ex- hibit the usual changes of muscles that have been long disused. Thus the back is actually weakened by the use of stays, and those women who maintain that they cannot do without the support of stays make use of the argument of the opium eater, who, after having by indul- gence developed a craving for the drug, asserts that hecanmot do without it. Under no cir- cumstances do young girls require stays, and to the bulk of young women also the same remark applies. A modified corset, composed merely of some stiff material, and devoid of all bands and whalebones, ete., may be used by those who in- cline to stoutness, or whose busts are promi- nent. and by women. who have been mothers. Such a corset or bodice would merely give that slight amount of support required for comfort and appearance. The lecturer next referred to shoes and boots, and denounced pointed toes and high heels. He thought the amount of clothing usually worn by women was too great, and that the number of petticoats was often excessive. These garments have for their primary object the protection of the lower extremities, but if addi- tional warmth is required for these parts surely the use of an extra petticoat or so is not the most sensible way of supplying it. Not only do ‘tticoats add greatly to the weight of dress to carried, but they throw a very injurious bur- den on the hips around which they are attached. Several petticoats suspended layer by layer about the waist cannot have other than an inju- rious effect upon health, and the evil is espe- cially obnoxious to young girls, in whom the hips are narrow and in whom the garments can- not be properly supported without a considera- ble amount of constriction of the waist. If these garments must be worn, let them be attached to @ bodice, or let them be suspended from the shoulders by a modified form of brace. A far more sensible way of clothing the lower extrem- ities is provided by the so called combination garment, which is a most valuable addition to reasonable and healthy dress. Gloves, with a fabulous number of buttons, that cover nearly the entire arm. and with closeness of fit, and with impermeability of structure, must seriously interfere with the action of the skin of the upper extremities. There was need of a dress both sensible and pretty, and the evolution of such a dress would appear to be at present somewhat hindered by the action of these very persons who oppose fashionable costume. The Greek dress, somewhat recently introduced, was not only e x- tremely eful, but it was also healthy, and with some little ingenuity, be adapted to all the circumstances of every day te Suppers. Speaking of fashionable customs in New York, a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe- Democrat writes: Another striking indication, in a small way, is the liberality with which the many expensive restaurants, Delmonico’s, the Brunswick, &c., are patronized. The man who has already spent or $40 for a couple of seats to hear Pattior to see Sara Bernhardt will, of course, not hesitate to wind up the evening with a supper which will cost #5 or £10 ahead more. Perhaps no more vivid illustration ofthis phase of New York life can be obtained than by repairing, after the theater or opera, to Deimonico’s. The scene there is really extraor- dinary and unequaled by anything to be witness- ed in Paris or London. Delmonico’s and the Branswick face each other, and a number oflarze electric lamps flood Fifth avenue at this point with light, while the large electric post tower from Madison square increases the glare of the illumination. The avenue is completely blocked up with carriages, and the shrill calls of the attendants bawling out numbers, and the shouts of the coachmen asking each other to move on, keep up a din till after midnight, and when there are balis at either place, such as take place every night during the winter season till 4 o'clock in’ the morning, the crush in the restaurants is something astonishing. If you do not drive very fast from the threater ten’ to, one you will be unable to obtaina seat, an communities eversince. When military service ‘Was made universally compulsory some time ago richly dressed ladies may standing in the lobby of ernoncs andin a they found themselves in trouble and emigrated “ Do they expect never to be called on to bear ‘arms here? for. if so, they may tind they have Jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.” “I don't know. America, you know, is re- garded as the home of ali isms, from Shakerism to Mormonism; and the Mcanonites have come, doubtless, with that impression.” aw to nihiliwn again, tell me when os rurmantoon Into — Botts inenatiotely. after war. It received its most powerfal impetus through the abolition of serfdom.” ‘That was the act of the late Emperor?” ‘Yes, if you mean that the edict was sizned by him. The war may be said to have been the immediate cause of its abolition.” i i not the voluntary act of the Empe- “Weil, yon know that It was President Lin- issued 4 & 4 5. & i quite 8 2 be the of itt ts Hi if i > fle violent draught which must cause many severe colds, waiting for the privilege of sitting down at these festive tables. On Saturday night, when the many wealthy Hebrews are out in full force, it is at its worst. The lobby then is as med with ladies as the secret meeting of a8 co aliks, satins, and furs head bes @ densely i> nes in while many @ poor hungry wretch passes casting an eager hopeless look at the acle within through the LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS. Hows Honest Old Abe Retased to Try fo Put the Lite Ginn in a False Position. From the Chicago Tribune. The following interesting scrap of history is furnished the Tribune by an old resident of Chi- cago, an ex-judge, and himself an actor in the event he describes. It is now given to the public, it is believed, for the first time: “When the opposition to the extension of slavery had crystalized in the north into anew political party—the republican—it found in the north itself the most talented and dangerous enemy the rising spirit of universal liberty had to overthrow. In the person of Stephen A. Douglas the south and slavery extension had a giant indeed to fight their battles in the very strongholds of liberty. In 1858 a new Senator was to be eleeted from this state, and Doughs was put forward as the candidate of the ee ter sovereiynty’ democracy. The leaders of the newly formed republican party instinctively turned to ‘Old Abe’ as the fittest man in the state to contest the position with him, and he was sent for to meet afew prominent men in Chicago to arrange the conduct of the campaign and decide upon the proper course to be pursued in the inevitable debate in prospect. The meet- ing took place at the old Tremont house, and a very full attendance of the principal men of the city and state was secured. It will pe remembered that Douglas and Buchanan greatly diflered in their views of democratic doctrine and potter. and after much debate it was the general sense of the meeting that, as Buchanan was the head of the demo- cratic party, his views should be regarded as the true democratic doctrine, and hence in the coming contest Mr. Douglas should be held re- sponsible for them. And the debate should be ¢onducted in opposition to these sentiments in utter disregard of the fact that Douglas repn- diated them, and hence could not in fact or in justice be regarded as holding them. After much talc had gone round, Mr. Lincoln was galled upon to give his views of the matter. It is impossible now to quote his exact language or give any correct statement of the indescrib- able manner of the manas he slowly elevated his towering frame above his fellows who filled the hall. We can only give general substance of the address: ‘Gentlemen,’ said he, ‘you have put me forward in this contest without any solicitation on my part, and I am here at your request. It is a matter I do not care particular- ly about, and I am of the opinion you have made a mistake in selecting me as your candidate. I cannot enter this debate nor conduct it upon the principles you propose. They are wrong in prin- cipleand false in fact, and I have never yet n able to advocate a cause with any success which I did not believe had justice and truth upon my side. Mr. Douglas, a3 a matter of fact, does not entertain the principles nor advocate the policy of James Buchanan; hence it would be unfair and unjust to him to so regard him. Besides, I am convinced it would place me in a ridiculous light before the people to be continually reply- ing to arguments and overthrowing positions which it is notorious my opponent does not as- sume. Nothing would give Mr. Douglass 50 easy a victory as such a false and dishonest course on my part. No, gentlemen; I cannot enter the canvass upon any such grounds as you propose; it would uot be honest.’ There was no replying to such arguments, and the upshot of the matter was that ‘Honest Old Abe’ was permitted to enter that memorable contest entirely untram- meled and with what result is well knowu to all the world. ——— The Antiquity of Printing. From the Atheneum. At the last meeting of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Mr, E. Satow read a paper “On the Early History of Printing in Japan.” The art of printing on wooden blocks in China seems to be due to the accident of some one desiring to obtain a fac simile of an inscription on a stone monument, in the first instance, by the process of rubbing with coloring matter over the paper, and subsequently by covering the stone with Indian ink, placing the paper against it, and Tubbing. It was probably long before the plan of engraving a composition for the express pur- pose of taking copies was thought of. In 175 A. D. the text of the Chinese classics was cut on tablets which were erected outside the univer- sity, and of these Impressions were taken, some of which are said to be still in existence. Printing from wooden blocks seems to be no older than the end of the sixth century. It was not until the tenth century was well ad- vanced that printed books became common. In Japan the earliest example of block printing dates from the middle of the eighth century. Before that stone inscriptions and seals with engraved characters were in use. The early Japanese prints were chiefly reproductions of the Chinese Buddhist and classical works, the absence of a native literature apparently re- tarding the adoption of the art of printing. The first realiy national work printed in Japan was the “Ni-hon-gi,” at the very end of the ixteenth century. Printed slips containing a Dharani out of the Buddhist Scripture were distributed through- out Japan to the number of 1,000,000 in 764-770; these were apparently printed from cast copper or bronze blocks rather than from wooden ones, The earliest Japanese printed books were of a considerably later date. Of those which have come down to modern times the oldest was printed about *1200. Printing received a great impulse from the expeditions of Hideyoshi against Korea, when a number of books were brought back by the victors, and the Japanese learned what had been achieved by. @ people whom they had considered vastly their inferiors. Among these were some books printed with movable type, a contrivance which seems to have found immediate favor with the Japanese, for nearly all the books produced during the next thirty or forty years were printed with movable type. The use ot movable type was said to date in China from the middle of the eleventh century, but the author had not been able to corroborate this statement. Movable copper type was used in Korea at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and even earlier; indeed, one book so printed appeared to date from the years 1317 and 1324. And even if it were after all not so old as it seemed to be, there were others dating unquestionably anterior to the date of invention of printing by movable type in Europe. The invention reached Japan from Korea, and there was a distinct mention of Korean types produced by casting and molding about 1420 A.D. Although illustrated books were extremely common in morerecent Japanese literature, the earliest Mr. Satow knew bore the date 1610. Previous to this, however, there were woodcuts on a large scale representing the pop- ular gods, and to some of these a very great age was attributed. One of them dated from 1017, and another was engraved by Nichl-ren, who died in 1282. T looked across the garden wall, ‘And saw her there—t seo her Yotl A little thing that played at What mattered fright? what mattered f: Iclimbed—I broke the peach-tree’s sel T looked across the garden wali. And, curls and ptnafore and all, Beheid her—never to forget— A little thing thut played at bal Grave has she grown, discreet and tall, Since, when the morning dews were wet, J looked across the garden wall— Since she was five years old, and small, With slipping sash all cmoked set, A little thing that played at bal. But still, sweet wi How first we lovi I Wateh across a garden wall A little thing that plays at ball. ix Mary Prosyn. ——-e-__ Dickens Dutchman. Within a few days, Charles Langheimer, the by convict in the eastern penitentiary who has | tain Lucus gained notoriety from the fact that Charles Dickens wrote about him in his “American Notes,” describing the system of solitary con- ‘THE NERVE OF A GYMNAST. Acquired Practice—William Han- jem’s ofa Fall. From the Louisville Commercial. “Gymnastics are bad medicine when taken for anything but brief and pleasant exercise,” said Mr. William Hanlon, one of the famous Hanlon brothers. The talk had turned upon the life of professional athletes, and the reporter ven- tured the opinion that gymnasts, as a class, must be men of more than ordinary nerve. To the writer's surprise, Mr. Hanlon was quick to challenge the statement. “T've heard it remarked,” said he, “‘that a man must be very plucky to toss himself about on a high trapeze. It is not true. He may be plucky enough at that, and yet a coward in almost any other direction. “It is simply the custom of going upon the trapeze and his train- ing that makes a performer appear to be braver than others. He as jut like a trained soldier, who, when he gets the order to charge, does so, though he may not feel @ bit like it.’ He acts like a piece of machinery in fact. Now,a re- cruit wouldn't do it. Say charge to the veteran and he charges; say charge to the recruit and he don’t. that is all the difference.” “What has been your plan for developing your muscles?” “Constant work with Hight weights. Many make the grand mistake of tiring themselves with heavy weights. They put themselves under a constant strain, and soon wear out. It is much better to put up alight dumbbell fifty times than a heavy one ten. The muscles get just that muca more play, ind hence a greater de- velopment, with no strain. The most remarka- ble example of the evils ofthe heavy-weight style I ever saw was in the case of John C. Heenan. I saw him fight King. When he was intraining for that battle he was continually at work with the heavy weights, and he did get Up an enormous amount of muscle in his arms. If he could have struck King as he wanted to in the first few rounds he would have killed hifi. But King kept away from him, and fade him exercise his overstrained muscles; and when the real strain of the battle came upon him, he had no reserve power to sustain it. That had all been given to the heavy weights. He was never drugged, as was Teported. The only Poison he ever got was from King’s fists, as Sir William Ferguson, the eminent London phy- sician, said, after an examination of Heenan cob } sequent to his defeat. Light and often, that’s the proper thing in using weights to make mus- cle.” “You have had several very nasty falls. What is the sensation like?” “I have had three of the bad falls that marked the Hanlon family. You will probably think it singular that I neither tose consciousness nor presence of mind when I fall. My worst tumble, I think, I got in Havana. We were playing under the management of Jim Nixon, and we made a great success. The same people in Havana go to the theater every night, and they demand constant changes in the Dill. My brother Tom was taken sick suddenly. His lad- der was up in the dome ready for ‘the leap for life,’ and the people began to clamor to have ‘it done’ I finally agreed to do it. The feat con- sists, after the performance ofa variety of tricks on the ladder, In swinging yourself into motion, and jumping to ataut rope, rauning from the ceil ing at an incline to the wings. The jump was a long one, and the house was very quiet when I bezan to swing, preparatory to taking the leap. I threw myselfat the rope, and when I was in mid-air, I saw it was no go andthat I was done. Istruck out desperately with my feet, in the hope of nelping myself forward, but’ I only reached the rope with the tips of the fingers of my left hand. Both hands and both feet were extended in spread eagle form ifyou life. Lought to have struck the rope with both hands, fairly in the center of my body, with the legs ‘across the line, so as to distribute the strain of sus- taining my weight over my whole body. As it was, it all fell on my left arm, and my body swept in toward the rope like a whiplash. Of course I let go, and then I began to turn spi- Tally like a corkscrew and then go down. I in- stantly realized that I must not land all spread out. I gathered my left arm close into my body, pushed my head forward, and drew my legs to- gether, struggling to get into shape to fall on my side. 1 did fail just that way forty feet on a wooden stage. My arm was driven into my side and a rib was broken. The arm was shattered, and I was laid up for many months, While i was going down, in an instant I saw over again, as vivid as life, every fall that I ever witnessed. They came up in my mind, one right after an- other, like successive flashes of lightning, and I seemed to be experiencing ail of them in my own person. But worse than everything else, a great deal worse than the shock of arriving, was the terrible shriek of agony that went up from the audience. It was like one heartbreak- ing wail of agony. I can héar it yet, and I hear it every time I think of the accident. That is a peculiarity of our family. We all heard that shriek, and none of us ever forget it. How did that accident occur? My brother Tom made a mistake in the measurements because of a mis- calculation of the space in.a round dome. The Tope was two feet further away from the ladder than it ought to have been.” se TO USE ITS OWN BIBLES. Probable Withdrawal of the Baptist Church from the American Bible So- ciety. 5 A meeting bas been called for next Thursday evening at the Calvary Baptist church. N. Y. city, “to consider the duty of Bible work without entangling alliances.” The necessity of the movement is stated to be thie action of the Amer- ican Bible Society in refusing co-operation with Baptists except on humiliating conditions. he Bey. R. 8. MacArthur, pastor of Calvary church explained yesterday that up to 1835, the Baptist church cordially co-operated with the Bible society, but after that time, owing to the refusal of the society to circulate translations of the Bibie into foreign languages made by Baptist scholars, the support of that church was largely alienated. The result was the establishment of the American and Foreign Bible Society, and, later on, the American Bible Union, It was the latter society that led in the movement for a revision ofthe English transla- tion of the Scriptures. The version known as the Baptist Bible, whose high echolarly character is now admitted, was the result. About three years ago a conference of eminent Baptist minis- ters and laymen was held at the Fifth Avenue hotel to re-establish cordial relations between the church and the American Bible Society. The understanding then was that the policy of the society would be more liberal, and that it would not object to using its funds to supply Baptist missionaries with the translations re- quired by them which translated the Greek word “baptize,” “immerse.” Recently the society has returned to its old policy, and hence the present movement. Its outcome will probably be that the Bible work of the Baptist church will be carried on through the Baptist Board of Publication at Philadel- hia, and in foreign lands through the American issionary Union at Boston. It is more than likely that the English version adopted will be the present revised version, with the notes of the American revisers incorporated in the text. This does not translate the Greek verb ‘‘bap- tize,” “immerse,” but “baptize in water.” ———___.9.__ ‘Wrestling in the Old English Style. From the Accomac Eastern Virginian. After the trial of our Accomac boys in Mat- thews last week had been concluded and the sentence pronounced, the Matthews men de- clared that they had # man, one Ason Robbins, who coutd throw down any man on the Eastern ET. SPRING IN LONDON. Scenes in Hyde Park, ‘From the N.Y. Sun. Loxpoy, March 23.—The few halcyon days which have deluded the present generation into believing that spring exists, and that it can look like what it never is, have filled the park as it rarely is even at the height of the season. There is a drill-like, almost automatic precision in the manceuvres of Hyde Park. Each hour of the day is sacred to a particular form of parade duty, and it is absolutely impossiple to shorten or transpose the allotted time. To be seen driving when you should be riding, or to be seen at all except within the Imes and in- trenchments of the camp of fashion, is to vote yourself nobody. You at once become a repro- bate, an outlaw, compared to whom the exile in Siterian minesis a cheerful member of so- ciety. Leaving alone the early hours, the pride of the morning, when babies, perambulators and nurses combine exercise and amusement by a rather circumscribed and unhallowed march past the Horse Guards, and where accidents invariably happen in front of the sentry boxes which necessitate a lengthened stoppage before the tall soldier, we reach 11 o'clock. Hundreas of equestrians fleck into Rotten Row every forenoon, emerging on all sides, and thronging the 5 between “the Corner” and Reming- ton Garden gates. They never swerve nor wander into other paths; they pace the con- ventional treadmill with the same regularity as the blinded mule of a Spanish noria; and they never seem to weary of the daily routine. They are all there. The little shapeless Ama- zon of five on her shaggy Shetland. 1 with long hair nearly touching the pony's back and riding close to the tall carriage horse and the protec- tion of the old coachman; the mature and equally shapeless matron who takes hermorning canter instead of Banting. Behind these that well-known, invariable, inimitable British sil- houette of the square-shouldered, white-haired, gray-whiskered gentleman of sixty; portly is the adjective which becomes him so well. There is so much of the ruddy vintage lingering in bis cheeks; he rides either a large gray horse or a fat cob, and may be a minister, a banker, or a railway director. If he is shabbily dressed, he may be a lord; in which case the groom who follows him rides by far the tier horse of the two, for it is considered supreme good taste to seem careless of horse- flesh when one’s stables are full. All the young men are very much alike in appearance, but they affect divers styles. The languid one: rarely go out of awalk; also those who hire their horses, as they are never quite sure of them. Those who own no racing horses gener- ally look like jockeys in private life, and sit as if the park were a course and they had tremen- dous Jumps in front of them; when they reach the end of the row and wheel round they just casually glance right and left, shorten their stirrups and seem to say: “This is the way I should do it if I ever did it.” very short, their trousers are marvels of tight- ness and their ties are so white almost appear to have been forgotten. They do not associate with other equestrians, nor talk to ladies. They occasionally stop at the railings to exchange a few clipped words with kindred spirits who derive infinite solace from sucking caues that look 1 ke whips, or whips that look like canes. If you see th men on foot afterward they strike you a8 very PROPOSALS. ‘Rorosats For rresa BEEF. a Ornee oF A, A. ©. 8. Wasrmoron dD. ‘St ALED POS: in Pazascns, I received af tors ON Ww tached. will be ROON, iy SEE STE 188, be opened in oe Kverine the Freeh Beef SS. army, 1882. involve the United ment in excess of the pprone ations ranted by Con purpose. mm ercleet in ge ee Fresh Beef,” undersined. for the frees for and addressed rese! Bank proposals et snk pro nality «feet, payment sanounter bend, ker naek btained to thi : tea by all, 12&m8,9 C., March Sst. 1882. wud ect to the Seen e: oy WEDNES AX, MAY SEV- of bidders forferiaiiue acd de required by the Subsistence De- nie Poet, for ieaues b> troops year July Ist, Beef shall not be construed to ‘States in any objiration for pay- |. The sovernment ‘any and all p formation wx oral. conditions, ce. SEBRER SMITE, Ist Lt. 2d Art, AAG. 8. P*OPosALS FoR LEAD Sasi W GHTS. Orrick OF BUILDING For STaTR, Wan Axp NAVY DEPARTMENTS Wasmixerox, D. C., 2. SEALED PROPOSALS for furnishing and 4: Lead Si ‘eight W for State, War and Nai ‘will be received at APRIL TWENTIE thereafter i Dlank forma tion to this office. aT-6t vy Departments, this office UNTIL LWELVE in presence 3 ®, €eneral instructions to bidders snd { proposal will be April 7th, ts for the North Wing of the in thin c ELV EM. of , 1882, and opened iminediately Of tndders. furnished on applica- THOS. LINCOLN ©. Lieut. Col. Corps of 1 MA= LETTINGS. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, ‘Wasurxatox, D. C., March 10, 1882. Proposats will bereceived at the Contract Office of this Department until THREE P.M. OF APRIL TWENTY- NINTH, 1882, for MAIL MESSENGER SERVICE be- tween the City Post Office and the Georgetown and Capi- tol Hill Post Office Stations, and the ‘Post Office Depart- ment, according to the echedule of arrival and depar- Their hair is cut | ture specified by the Department, in the City of Wash- hat they | ington, D.C., from JULY 1, 1832, to JUNE 30, 1885. Pamphlet describing route, with instructions to bid- ders, and forms for contracts and bonds, and all other very noisy young | Recessary information, will be furnished upon applica- meek, awkward, and speechless. They do not | tion to the Postmaster at Washinton, D.C., or to the commit themselves in words even on their favorite amusement, but still they carry out the Second Assistant Postinaster General. national idea of outdoor exercise and healthy enjoyment. The women still wear those very short and peculiarly ungraceful habits which no perfection of fit can render graceful to a short girl riding a tall horse; she displays her foot, and beneath it the saddle girths, and has the effect of being out of all proportion. More low, round hats are seen now than of yore, when it was considered “not the thing” to be seen in any except a man’s hat. Dark green isthe prevailing color. Itis a pretty conceit to say that all English women ride well; many do, of course, but some are cer- tainly not to the saddle born, and their bearing on the reins is cruelty to the horse's mouth. Sometimes a batch of six or seven girls come flying past, palpably escorted by a jaunty riding master, and they scatter all before them in their headlong charge. Many try the rails, and dis- play pretty feats of horsemanship for the benefit of the bystanders. Those are generally unat- tended save by a groom. The delusive summer sunshine filled the side alleys with pedestrians, and a motley crowd they were. Sables and muffs jostled parasols and spring bonnets; some were in winter man- tles, others in June costumes. June, in the almanac is a summer month; in London, June is sometimes not so cold gs Christmas, and occasionally almost genial. °The prevail- ing fashion for ladies is to wear a sash with a dress attached; at least there is every reason to believe that a skirt lurks somewhere beneath those huge bows and loops and ends, but it cannot be proved. Every now and then a wo- man passes, or one passes her as she sits ona chair alone. She seems faultlessly dressed, and is generally young and good looking. But there is a je ne sais quoi, an inch too much in the long tan gloves, a glitter of gold where none should show, a shade of terra cotta in the friz- zled hair, an extra frill on the skirt, which ex- plain why other women look at her out of the corner of their eyes, and men stare at her so squarely. Beauty, { regret to say, also distine- tion, and especially a good carriage, are scarce, both among those who ride to be looked at and those who come in order to be seen. When the clock on the Park lodge points to 1, pedestrians and equestrians vanish like light” ning. A few fleet Heid and the Row is silented and deserted. The Parkremains empty till 5, when the carriages have their hour, and the fairy godmother’s wand is changed the uinpkins into coaches, inetead of the rats into orses., ————————+-o-—_____ } GORTSCHAKOFF’S RETIREMENT. Changes in Russia. From the N. ¥. Herald. All the advisers of Alexander II are gradually withdrawing from the council board of Alexan- der III. Prince Gortschakoff, their leader, was yesterday relieved of his functions. He is eighty-four years old, and will probably spend the evening of an honored life among the mild amusements of the Riviera and the German spas, quoting Horace, giving little suppers and showing by his attentions to the ladies that he can still play the part of an elderly beau. The time has not come to estimate his political work. Indeed, it would be hard to decide whether Russia has gone forward or backward since he began to direct her policy. She was humiliated in the Crimea; she lost the fruits of her cam- paign against Turkey; she has seen Germany End Austria, grow strong on her western front- iers, and, to balance their strength, she has only gained possession of vast deserts in Asia, the value of which is still problematical. Many of Prince Gortschakoff’s ideals have thus been shat- tered, and M. de Giers, his disciple and succes- sor, must break with his traditional policy or fall. Russia is waking to new life. She is ea- ger for new men, new ideas. Shadows still lie Seep on thie Tend, eat the miokninic as cot fir Gi. Realistic Bats on the Stage. From the London Telegraph. One of the most sensational scenes in Victor Nessler’s opera, ‘The Ratcatcher of Hameln,” Shore. The challenge was: ted on the spot by Captain Solomen Lucas, of this county, and bets were made by the friends of both sides. 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