The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1868. EW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT; PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic , despatches must be addressed New Yors HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications wiil not be re- sie Noe 13 RELIGIOUS SERVIORS TO-DAY, BUNYAN HALL.—Rsvy. Cuss. B. Suyen, cw rue mi D.'s—Demons, Do-tans axp THe Dicwens.” Afternoon. BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CRURCH.— Rav. Day K. Lez, on “Woat Dip Pave Pasacu at aries,” Morning. CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Rav, Baown. Morning and afternoon, YTERIAN CHURCH —Rev. 10M OF CHaRacTER, THE Apsotr CANAL STREET PRE! Davin Mircner, on *P1 Goat or Lirz,” Eventi CATAOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH.—Pamacaina on tan Comte or tux Loap."* Evening. CHURCH OF THE STRANGRRS, Chapel of the Uni- versity, Washington squate.—Rey, Dia. Daxus. Morning aud evening. CHAPEL OF THE HOLY APOSTLES, Rutgers’ Col. lege.—Morning and evening, COOPER INSTITUTE. Lows. or Maryia' ‘Tue Bisters or Ca. ‘Lecrors sr Ex-Goverxon Sevan or cus House or ning. EB CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Rav. 8, H. Trxc, Ja. Evening. CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, Fifth avenue—Rev. Da. Wasuacane rox “Tus Mipxignt Missiox."” Evening. DODWORTH HALL.<Srinirvauistio Socterr. Dr. Wiis, ox “Taeopoks Parga in Srinit Lira,” Morning ‘and evening. ELEVENTH STREEL METHODIST EPISCOPAL ee ‘Ssruon wr Rav, Bisnor Jans. jorning, METHODIST CHURCH, Harlem.—Rav. Trxa, Je. Afternoon, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Fo WAS ‘ON “CAUTIONS ABOUT Evening. Srerazs HH. second streot,—Rrv. GIONS INSTRUCTORS or Youtu. SEVENTEENTH STREET M. E, CHURCI.@Ray. Wa. P. Coxsit. Morning and evening. ST, STEPHEN'S CHURCH. —Rev. W. Warricn, ox “Tue Special mks or tux Trox Cuvaca." Evening. ST. ANN'S FREB CHURCH.—Sxrvicae vou Dair Morés. Afternoon. TRINITY CHAPEL, street.—Suour MUSICAL Bexvicz anv Szawo: TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH, Rav. J. &, Kenpuicr, D. D. Evening. UPPER CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION.—Morning and evening. Second avenue — “ADDRESS To Youna Mex.'’ UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Bisnor Sxow ox ins Tasers Be a Univeasat Puysicac Coxriagaation,”’ f York, Sunday, January 12, 1868S. THE NOWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atiantic cable is dated yester- day evening, January 11, & King William of Prussia forwarded a cordial New ‘Year's greeting (in autograph! to poleom. Its publi- cation tended to restore confident the prosecutions instituted aga: Deen abandoned by the government, The French army bill deciares that every man io France shai! serve in the National Guard, no exemption even for the infirm being provided, The English officials are hunting up promi- nent Fenians in Ireland. Consols 9254 a 92%, money account, in London. Five-twenties 71% in Loudo: 6 in Frankfort. Cotton was Grmer, with middling uplan in Liverpool. Breadstuffs quiet, Prov: duce without marked change. CONGRESS. Ip the Senate yesterday Sir. -umner presented a joint yeeolution affirming that the thirteenth articie of the Constitution had been adopted by a requisite number of States, and was consequently valid, which was referred, Mr. Dooliitie gave notice of a proposed amendment to olution to invalidate the existing gov- erpments ip the Southern States. The case of the removal of Secretary Stanton was under consideration in the executive session of the Senate yesterday. Senator Howard admitted that the words “atonce’’ were contained in General Baird's telegram to Secretary Stanton for instructions during the New Orleans riots, which telegram Stanton had not furnished the President untt! several daye after its re- celpt, and th Senator Howard, omiited these words in his’ report, ‘ibe debate was postponed until Mon- day. In the House the entire day was devoted to speech making on the negro, the finances, the law of impeach- ment and the privileges of American citizenship, Mr, Barnes, in a speech on the Gvances, gare notice of his intention to introduce a resolution favoring an early return to epecie paysoents, The Congr nai Committee on Reconstruction, it is known, have adopted a bill, which will be introduced in the lower house on Monday, deciaring in substance that the governments in the Boutbern Stat re null and Void; authorizing the General of the army to remove any ofall officers in command of districts and detail others ; taking from the President any authority to make such rem or appointments; the President to use the army or navy in enfor authority of the prosent State governments, and making itahigh misdemeanor for any person to taterfere to Prevent the execution of the orders of the Geaoral ip pursuance of (hese laws. MISCELLANEOUS. Gonora! Meade bas removed Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, from office, and will promulgate bis order to that effect on Monday. The Governor has telegraphed bo President Jotason asking bim to tnterpo tain him in offies, In the Georg bitter speech was made in opposition te king Congress for power to remove Btate officers by & member who bas hisherto acted with the New 6 to registration and directing registering boards in future to follow only the laws of Congress on the subject, In the Mississippi Reconstruction Convention yester- day © communication was received from the superia- Sendent of the gas works at Jackson Gernanding a do- posit or personal security before the gas ts used, in the Virginia Convestion a resolution deciaring the | Proceedings of the body usurping in their character, Propoting ap adjournment sine die, and reducing the pay of members to $4 per day was tabled, A decision was rendered in tho O'Connor and Tack Of caso at Phiiadelphia yesterday, the relatore beng remanded to the custody of the sheri. The Lawrence (Maes.) mil! owners have commenced reducing the wages of their employés. The Louisiana Convention bas @ articies of the The county budget of expenses for the ensuing year was forwarded to the Board of Supervisors yesterday. It estimates the appropriations required for ail purposes wt $11,512,241, The Hamburg ehip Leibnite, arrived at Quarantine Jast night with thirty-five cages of ct ow board, hunéred and five dur Voyage from (he same din A little boy ien years of age, named Jacob Bullach, committed muicide im his mother's residence, in Wea: ‘Twenty-filth street, yewerday, (ns ft of deapondency, Wecause bis elder brother had bees sentenced to the ‘sland as @ Confrined drunkard, The stock market was strong and excited yenterday. Coveroment securities active and buoyant Gold cloned wt 19836 0 13814 The general markets exhibited mo pied eaventy.two © wetivity yester. tay. Cotton was in active demand, mainiy for export, ad advanced 3¢¢, per Ib, Coffee was ju fair demand and steady, Oo ‘Change flour was but steady, Wheat was Irregular, wintor beiag in fwir demand and firm, and spring dult and nominally lower. Corn do- clined 20. » 3c., while oats advanced 1o. Provisions wore generally active and firm, Naval stores were without activity, but Qrmly held. Petroleum was tm better demand and closed c. a Ho higher. Freighte were active at higher rates. Beo! cattle were steady, with a moderate demand at from l4c. to 183g0, for cot yn to prime; 832 head errived at Communipaw. The swine market was not very active, but previous prices were maintained, com: moe to prime sell:ng at 750. a 8c. The arrivals wero $40 head at Communipaw and 600 at Fortioth street, Presideat Making—Trials and Troubles of the Party Politicians. The tsials and troubles of the President making politicians and the newspaper or gans of both our great political parties, in reference to the succession in the White House, are painful to contemplate and witbal very amusing. The republican journals have got into a lively discussion among themselves on the respective merits of principles and ex- pediencies, measures and men, the statesman and the soldier, Chaseand Grant, The radical organs, par excellence, bave no faith in Grant— they do not want Grant—they distrust the political antecedents of Grant, and they are disgusted with the studied and imperturbable reticence of Grant. Under the apprehension, however, that they may have to fling up their hats and shout for Grant, they are resorting to all sorts of devices to make the oracle speak and repeat their shibboleth of negro suffrage and Southern negro supremacy. Will they succeed? They cannot say, but they fear a failure, and hence their sore distress, To us this painful difficulty between the boisterous radicals and the reticent Grant is the old difficulty of Mahomet and the moun- tain, and it can be settled only in the old way. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the moun- tain, or give it up as a bad job. Our impression is that the mountain will not be moved by Sambo. On “the almighty nigger” Grant is a Western man; for the great West is pervaded bya grand idea touching the “almighty nigger.” It is this—that the black is so far the inferior of the white race in the order of nature that there can be no such thing as negro equality in the order of Ameri- can politics or society, The amiable and generous minded Abraham Lincoln shared in this idea, and never accepted the ultra radical interpretation of the dogma that “all men are created equal,” Ask any Western soldier, from Grant or Sherman down to one of Sherman’s bummers, what he fought for in fighting the re- bellion, and he will answer that be fought for the Union, and his right of way down the Mis- sissippi, and not for the nigger. Even by Lin- coln the abolition of slavery was prociaimed, not asa measure of justice to the blacks, but asa military necessity looking to the salvation of the Union. So tar, too, in all that he has done and in all that he has said, General Grant’s position in reference to the negro is entirely consistent with this salient idea of the emancipation proclamation. True,as a law abiding man and a law regarding soldier, Gen- eral Grant bas faithfully executed and pleaded for the execution of these Southern Reconstruc- tion laws of Congress; but for all this, lf made the military dictator of all the outside revel States reduced to one district, in order to consummate Southern reconstruction under negro supremacy, wo shall not be surprised if he declines the honor, inasmuch as its accept- ance would make him the embodiment of the radical negro supremacy policy. It will suffice for the present, however, that the radicals are debating among themselves whether it will be better to lose the Presidency in a fight for principles or to secure {t in @ Gght for Grant. The resuscitated elements of the Northern democracy—a party which was generally sup- posed some ten months ago to be defunct and done for—are quite as much embarrassed with their Presidential candidates as the wrangling republicans. In January, 1867, the democratic anglers were fishing for Grant, and would have jumped at him withont conditions. In January, 1868, emboldened by the last fall elections, they turo up thelr dainty noses at Grant, give Andrew Johnson the cold shoulder, and are clamorous for a candidate representing the “time-honored principles of the party”—a man whose garments have not been soiled by the war against State rights; a man with a clear anti-war record. So it is that we find Mr. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, the demo- cratic favorite of the West against the fleld, while only a feeble voice here and there in the East is raised for Seymour or McClellan, or some other broken-winded or stiff-jointed quarter horse. Here we find the democratic managers re- peating the same blunders which marked their course after their remarkable but delusive vic- tories of 1862. We must, therefore, again re- mind them that the war against the rebellion was nota failure, that the legitimate conse- quences of the war must be accepted as the law and the phe. § ahd that po second hand candidate of the Chicago Peace Conyention of 1864 will touch bottom in 1868. A candidate with a good war record, like Andrew Johnson, and répresenting the policy and constitutional principles embodied in Mr, Jobnson’s veto messages against the universal negro suffrage and Southern negro supremacy policy of this radical Congress and the republican party be- hind it, are the man and the platform for the resuscitated but sill weak and shaky de- mocracy. Sixty thousand democratic majority in this city iss splendid figure, and fifty thou- sand in the State is positively startling ; but with Pendleton, Seymour or any such hide- bound democratic candidate for the next Presidency even the Empire State will bo turned back to the republicans, It ts evident from all the indications around us that they will close up their ranks for the Presidential battle, and that only with a candidate who will need no crutches on the war question,and who can boldly take the offensive on the negro question, can the opposition elements hope to prevail. The Case of the Rev. Stephen MH. Tyros. Mr. Stephen H. Tyng has got into trouble with his bishop and his brother clergymen. For what? For preaching the Gospel, Mr. Tyng, it appears, has bad the audacity to preach in the parish of another clergyman without the permission of the parochial authorities, and bas thud violated a canon of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which pro- vides that “no minister belonging to this | Oburch shall oMciate either by preaching, reading prayers or otherwise, In the pariah or within the parochial cure of another clergy- man, unless he have reccived express permis sion for that purpose from the minister of the parish or cure, or in his absence from the church wardens and vestrymen or trustees of the congregation or a majority of them.” Mr. Tyng is to be tried, and if canons have any force in the Protestant Episcopal Church he is bound to be condemned. To us the con- viction or acquittal of the reverend gentieman is s small matter. Mr. Tyng cannot lose by being condemned ; he cannot gain by being acquitted. The public is with him now, aud it will remain with him whatever the result. 72 us, however, and to the public at large, it is a matter of some interest to learn that euch 4 canon as that which we have quoted should find a place among the rules and regulations of a society calling itself Christian. Mr. Tyng, it is manifest, has not forgotten the precepts and counsels of the Master he professes to serve. Such precepts and counsels, if we are to judge from this canon, form no part of the creed of the bishops and clergy of the Protestant Epis- copsl Church, The Master described the field of missionary effort as the world; and the high- ways and the hedges, the lanes and the alleys were not to be overlooked. His parting coun- sels to his chosen disciples were--“ Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” The right and the wrong in this case will best be seen by placing this text of Scripture alongside of the obnoxious canon of tte Protestant Episcopal Church, Dickens and Some Other Renders. Mr. Dickens has concluded his readings in this city for the present and is gone to the fresh fields and pastures new of pious Brooklyn, thence, we believe, to visit the retired town of Philadelphia and other towns further and filthier. His success has already been very great. Not less than eighty thousand dollars has thus far been drawn from the popular pocket to pay for Dickens’ tickets, and of this sum Dickens himself has secured about one- third—perhaps less ; Dolby and Company have taken two-thirds. It will be seen, therefore, that the lion does not get the lion’s share when it comes to dividing. Mr. Dickens should change his programme and profit by the ex- perience of another distinguished reader—the Hon. Mrs, Yelverton. That lady read several times, but made no money. Her agents, how- ever, lived all the tie on the fat of the land, and could not be induced to taste any fluid less expensive than champagne. Mra. Yelverton, seeing the real stete of the case, instituted a sweeping reform, and swept her whole business establisument away at a stroke of the pen, as if crossing a “t.’ She then attended to all her affairs herself; hired halls, had her tickets printed, arranged the sale of them, paid out all the money personally, and visited the editors everywhere she went. Her affairs flourished from that time. Now she is about to visit the South on a professional tour and look up the editors there also; and of course the chivalric and gallant spirit of the land will assert itself wherever she ap- pears, and her cash account will blossom like » rose—in fact, like a mountain of roses of the most expensive sort, the kind that are worth fifty cents apiece on Broadway. We would commend this example to Dickens, and, following it, he can have seventy-five thousand dollars for every twenty-five he secures as at present built in. Other distinguished readers are to appear among us goon, and Fanny Kemble is an- nounced as one. She comes in her old age to recall to an’ admiring public the memory of the triumphs of other days; for she was truly one of the greatest actresses that ever ap- peared in this city. Mr. George Vandenhoff is to appear also in a@ series of readings, and, we believe, to follow in Dickens’ wake and give the same pieces. Mr. Dickens should therefore not be set up and reasoned from by the Lon- don Times as if he wore the only reprosenta- tive of John Bull on thia side the sea; for all are English, and some better types in their way of English sentiment and feeling than he is. All the persons whose names we have mentioned are, moreover, better readers than Dickens is. Indeed, Dickens is no reader at all, and his only power before an auditory is that of mimicking the few quaint personalities that are sketched in his stories. Public in- terest was excited to seo him as the author of the stories he reads. As we huve hitherto said, it was the same Interest that we should feel in hearing Homer read the Iliad. Doubtless the Greeks who did hear the old rhapsodist thought him a poor enough hand, and this is the general conclusion as to Dickens, He isa quaint and curious figare in the matter of chains and seals and mustache, but between Dickens as an author and Dickens as @ reader there is as much difference as between Shak- speare and George Francis Train. Austria vi is Kome. Tn none of the great reforms and political changes whioh have lately occurred in Austria is the spirit of liberty, the disenthralment from ancient prejudice and tradition, so marked as in the government's action relative to the Con- cordat, When it first became a certainty that the Anstrian Ministry would lay before the Reichsrath @ plan for reform in those matters which relate to the education of youth, to liberty of conscience and religion, and to mar- riage rites in the empirc, a body of twenty-five bishops sent in so violent a memorial to the Emperor that it brought down on them a se- vere rebuke, firat from the Emperor himself and afterwards from the Municipal Council of Vienna. This firat step was soon followed by others, each more positive and decided, till the climax has now been reached by the acknow- ledged necessity of either annulling the Con- cordat or tho making of ® completely new treaty with Rome, based on the new ideas pre- valent in Austria and more consistent with the new constitution, which grants liberty of con- science, liberty of religion, froedom from priestly preponderance in educational quar- ters, and makes civil marriages lawful and binding. The firat proposed revision of the Concordat has become an imposstbility, Nothing will now do but “n0 Concordat,” or a treaty with the Pope on a very different basis from the last, With this object in view the Emperor haa written an autograph letter to his Holiness exprossly pointing out that what held good with the absolutism of 1855 cannot @o so with the constitutionalism of 1867, thus giving tho Pope an opportunity of offering to conclude another treaty. To the many little disagree- ments which have Iately occurred be:ween Vienna and Rome must now be added the serious one, announced through the cable, that recruiting for tbo Papal army bes been forbid- den within the limits of the empire. It is highly probable that the Emperor's invitation to the Pope will be anawered by the old “non possumus,” in which cage the utter abolition of the Concordat will follow, thus estranging an- other country from religious flefdom to the Holy See. Adverttalng—Progrese of Idee om the Sub- Sect. Chambermaids were the frst to perceive the true principles of advertising, and etep by step the world of business ia following in the path they marked out, Wanting a place, the girl’s natural idea was.to advertise for it—but where should she advertise? Clearly in the journal that was most taken by those who em- ployed servants—not in the cent sheet only bought by people as pooras herself. It would be of no use there. Not inthe great blanket sheets never seen save in the dingy counting rooms of heavy grocers; nor yet in those organs that plume themselves on their amiable respectability and circulate in the rural dis- trict, She put her advertisement in the journal that went just where she wanted to go herself, and that she had seen on the breakfast table of every house she had ever aeen in. This practical view of the case has always given that class of advertisements to the Heraup, and has always kept them in our columns despite every effort to draw them to other quarters, They are ours in virtue of the natural operation of a business ‘law that Bridget makes no effort to defeat. Next to the chambermaids there was a large class of promiscuous advertisers who also put their notices where they were sure to be seen by the people. There were horse jockeys and dog fanciérs and boat racers, and people who had lost articles of value, and the auctioneers of household furniture, and nostrum venders, and the managers of theatres. Advertisements, however, of great lines of trade kept themselves for a long while dn special places, and whoever wanted to see this, that or the other class of advertisements had to buy some particular paper for that sole purpose, Business men hag to buy one paper for the news, to get thg general movement of society, to keep up with the political discus- sion of the day, and another paper to find the trade announcements of fellow dealers in the same article. Hore was the absolute noga- tion of the primary idea of advertising—that the advertiser shall force himself on tho atten- tion of the one to whom he makes his appeal. Men were compelled to hunt up the advertise- ments. But enterprising dealers saw the ab- surdity of this and led the way to a change ; and when the ground was once broken an obvious advantage compelled imitation. Flummer, of the firm of Flummer & Bunks, who is the agent for eighteen lines of steamers and nobody knows how many lines of packets, read one’ morning in his newspaper at the breakfast table the announcement of the agent of six rival lines. Flummer was outraged to the core of his heart. Such an innovation had never been known. No business man had ever before taken such advantage of another, It had been customary from time immemorial to hide this class of advertisements in an obscure corner of @ sheet published somewhere on the banks of Buttermilk channel, and so respect- able in its proportions that it required a porter and two boys to turn it inside out. Agents had mutually agreed to this hiding, and all was equal. But here was a new man with a fund of rascally enterprise in him flouting that time-honored understanding, and actually putting his advertisement where nobody could help seeing it who saw the news. Flummer, disgusted with lifo by the circumstance, nevertheless, had to follow suit in selt-de- fence. So shipping advertisements, general auction notices, dry goods announcements, and ® world of others have been leaving special tra- ditional channels to force themselves on public attention in the columns of a newspaper. One of the first men to perceive the advan- tage to be gained in this way was Mr. Bonner, of the Ledger, whose peculiar and extensive style of announcing the attractions of his journal is familiar to all. Bonner has alrendy made a large fortune out of the success thus gained for his paper. Among the latter con- verts to the system are the book publishers. Hitherto bodksellers have very persistently kept their announcements in journals that had a quasi reputation ag scholars’ organs, papers that from an affectation of intellectual charactor were supposed to circulate especially among book buyers, We need scarcely say this was an error. Your people who read “ scholars’ organs” are mostly those who expect to get their books on deadhead principles, while the subscribers to pretentiously “intellectual sheets ” are more concerned with writing some trashy little book of their own than with buy- ing the best possible book ever written by any one else. Booksellers who really want to get at the groat mass—at the buying and paying public—must put the announcement that they have published «new book where the people find the other news of the day—in the columns of the Henatv. Booksellers in London have already recognized the necessity of advertising in the real newspapers, and the Appletons here, having something really worth public atten- tion, have led the way in this movement on this side the Atlantic, and the whole trade will follow. Tho Fashions. The realms of fashion are in a state of con- siderable excitement at present. The opening of the new Opera House, the near approach of the great balls of the season, the skating ponds and rivalry between some of the fashion- able churches, have put the Indies and théir faithful servants, the modisies, at their wits’ ends to dovise novelties and becoming toilets for the emergencies of the season. So far they have eclipsed former years in the attrac- tions and elogance of their costumes, and have carefully abstained from the extrava- gances of their fickle mistress, The belles of Paris, according to our correspondent, have beon in a quandary to select tho most attrac- tive of the New Year's prosents from the bewildering array set before them in all the principal establishments, They have a gor- geous butterfly now to loop up their trains in the ballroom, so that the torm “butterflies of fashion,” hitherto used in an uncomplimentary sense, may now be considered en régla The net robe has become quite a favorite, and when worn by o roigning belle it proves a dangerous enare for susceptible young men, The divinities of tho demi monde havo lately insisted upon caste among them- selves, and @ dancing master was obliged to choose hetween two of the leaders. at tho risk “of the way to reach of ruining his establishment if he gave {n- struction to both. The pupil whom he re- tained made a genuine sensation one Sunday at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, when, like a black eheop, she spread consternation among the fold by attending sermon in propria persona, which an eloquent preacher delivered on the subject of fashions. The leading churches of the American metropolis seem to be the shrines of fashion as well as of religion, for the most distingué toilets grace the pews, and the rustle of satin and the sheen of velvet sre as important features to the ladies as the sermon, the organ or the preacher. The skat- ing season has also brought out some attrac- tive costumes,,and it is expected that the great balls that will come off within the next month or two will surpass their predecessors in brillianey of toilets, Whatever the con- dition of business may be the iadies seem resolved to assert their rights on the subject of fashion. The Rev, Mr. Smyth’e Programme for To- Day. We have already noticed the important fact that the Rey. Black Crook Smyth was to de- liver a sermon to-day, which, judging from the programme, promises to be a very pleasant medley. The subjects to be treated of are as numerous almost as the sands of the sea; the enlightenment which thg public are to draw from them will of course depend upon the method in which the famous Black Crook cler- ical orator will handle them. People may, per- paps, be able to judge from the programme what the sermon will be, or, perhaps, they may not be able to form any !dea at all about it, because preachers do not always follow their notea any more than they follow the precepts which they enunciate with sledge hammer eloquence from the pulpit. However, here is the programme. Mr. Smyth will say that, his health being thor- oughly restored after his recent attack of “Black Crook,” or dramatic vomito, he again resumes his place on the clerical stage. Then will come the TEXT. The children of this worid aro in their generation wiser than the children of lignt.—Luke xvi., 8. New York the wonder of the world, besides many others reasons why, because it sustains #0 many nows- papers and periodicals, Number aud character of its papers and periodicals. Religious weeklies, Secular weckhea, Dailies (7imes, Tribune, World), including tue evenings (Te'egram) Character of the editors cl ared trom misrepresentation. Requisites for the successtul editing and managing of a daily—tho New York Hkxaco, What are D. D.'s? Number of clergymen of ali per- auasions in the city. How many of them have sei ed charges? Number of churches and theatres ag vom- pared with the population, What good, if any, are they duing? How does this work compare with that of— "Tae Demons!—meaning and application of the term. Number of piaces of ainuxemeut. “Tne Doilars,” a8 representing earnest business men, “The Dickens,” a8 roprasentivg popular literat Why are pleasure-giving men, men of business, and pubiic literary characters more successtul than clergy. men in their respective undertakings? Maoy reasons might be assigned; but the chief one 's their kuowlodge tHe public—and that is by advertis- ing. The time was when the pulpit was the great aavor- tising medium and power for thrones, societies, books, laws, opinions—everything, But times are changed, and now “the press’ ig the paramount power among men and nations, Great need of reformation among tho D. D.’s and the churches, as much so as “‘reconstruction’’ in the state, city and theatres, Lessons to be drawn from “the pross’’ by the pulpit. Complaints of the people against the clergy and the ohne Dombahell—a nut for the clérgy to orack—the re- volution in the churches of all denominativnms cum- mencing. A call to the people to rally and carry the movement through vigorously and independently. Probably the “ finis’’ will be the most agree- able part of the discourse. It will be seen that Mr. Smyth is to devote a large portion of his sermon to the newspapers and the value of advertising, the latter being a very moral insti- tution, which has come down to us with Chris- tianity, But there are a good many classes of newspapers, secular and religious, to which the preacher’s attention should be directed. The secular papers are, perhaps, the most religious of the two—a fact of which we hope Mr. Smyth will make 4 note ; for the religious press deals most in cant and purely technical religion, while the secular press often gives us illustrations of re- ligion in a practical shape, showing both sides of human life--the good and bad—and, by contrast, points many a moral and adorns innu- merable tales. Then there is the illustrated weekly news- paper, in which we find the same order of talent that makes “Black Crooks” and “White Fawns” illustrious, and attracts the attention of vehement parsons like Mr. Smyth. We hope this class of literature will not be forgotten ; for does it not reflect the wicked spirit of the age quite as much as the unclad drama, of which it is a pictorial representa- tive? Saying this, we say all that is requisite upon that subject. In this fleld the preacher may revel and pluck flowers to adorn his dis- course from every page. The clergy, as well os the “demons, the dollars and the Dickens,” it appears, are going to come in for their share of rebuke in the form of “a bombshell.” Well, the proverb that “when rogues fall out honest men come by their own” is a3 true in the pulpit as out of it, and if Mr. Smyth treats his brethren to a good, sound, wholesome berating for their hypocrisy nobody will complain except the men who are hurt, When Mr. Smyth jotted down the note that “the time was when the pulpit was the great advertising medium” he must have thought that he was philosophizing @ century hence, and certainly must have for- gotten that thore was such a place as Plymouth church in oxistence, Upon the whole, wo take it that if Mr. Smyth’s programme is faithfully carried out to-day there will be a fluttering in a good many Let in OOO NOTES ON ART. ‘es at the Paris Exposition. an account of tho brilliant ng at the National ff representatives of Exposition. The works which bave been returned are now on exhibition at the Academy. 11 is gratifying to find that these works meet here with more generous appreciation than was accorded to them by some of the Parisian critic, One of the latter, M. Honri de Ia Madétine, in the Paris American Pict We publiehed on Th: reception on the previ Academy of Dosi, Guide, condescended to give them a few lines’ notice, at the fag ood account of works of art exhibited by_ all f nations, He ays flippantiy enough :— “The United States of America are surely a great country, and sho North Americans arent ple, ‘but whad litte artists they etill arel eso grad daubings which they exhibit, ander protext of ‘Blue Mountains,’ ‘Niagara Fails,’ ‘Gono. seo Plains,’ or ‘The y Season in the Tropics,’ ance as puerile ignorance, joking placards are gold at at Boston, | am vory “cannot rejoice at it, Mr, 9 the wild prices at Philadel Willing to believe so, But Whiatior appears to mi truly worthy of atte sole ourselves by the reflec eritic Would criticise Ameri foverity, He wor our lakes too with bi equal 00 long and wide, Mountains too lofty, our au- x oo gaudy, OUT grass too skies too bright, until bis ¢yes bad gob weed to them, or at least until be had see years at Paris andin Florence, gi Friday evening, at Somerville’s Art Gallery, of a picture Whiob will remain on ex! for a tow wooks and which, If we do not ort, will make @ decided sgngation {m ourart circles, This picture, entitled “The Ods- Isque,” represents “The Pride of the Harem,'* with all the charms with which Byron and Moore and Tennyson have tavested Oriental beauty, There cau be no excuse for the Sultan of Tur- key if eitmer of the three Odalisques whom he is said to have lately drowned in the Bode Phorus resembled the Odalisque of Mr. Martinez. 4 most conscientious work of art, the nudity of the figure ta open to no objection on the part of she most morbidly fastidious In drawing, in distribution of lights nd shades, in deitcacy and richness of coloring and in she exquisitely elaborate finish bestowed upon sll the ac- cessories, this !s @ highly remarkable ction, Mr. Conrtant Mayer's now picture of “Maud Mulier’® attracted a throng of admirers of this poy Pony ana Goupiis’ (Mr, Knoed!er's) yesterday. In force as weil as in sentimental tenderness we do not hesitate to place thie work at the head of Mr. Mayer's opreductions. Whittier's touching poem of ‘Maud Muller’ is one from which a painter of sentiment could tareip fall draw inapiration, Mr. Constant Mayer found In it = she: him, and the flush of the kev note to his ideali- he rocks through which th 1g gurgies, . The judge has just ridden away, after his g with ber by the meadow side, and her as wo can discern in that fair face and ye of some remote possibiitty that there might have been something deeper than mere commonplace in tl ords of the courteous gi She is dreaming out a shi a somewhat ambiti by the artist to bis with regard to the stability of her aerial architecture hang like storm clouds over ber visions of future bliss. Perhaps in the sadness that shades Maud’s reverie wo glimpse, too, of the thoughts that came to ber in life, ag sbe mused retrospectively over her spin- wheel; and herein there is a strain ef tender melan- choly that is very touching: For of all sad words of tongue or pen. ‘The saddest are these—''it might have been.”* Arrangements have been made for the reproduction of the painting of ‘Maud Muller"’ by the process of chromo- lithography, and on the scale of the small copy now on view, A fac-simile of it wiil be executed in by fe big artists im tho reproductive branch of art re- forrad to, Newly Imported French Pictures. Mr, Avery, who was entrusted with the Amorican works of art sent to the Pans Exposition, has brought back safely all that were returoed, and is about to resume his former occupation ag an art agent, He wilt soen place on exhibition at the Gaileries on the oor- ner of Fourteenth strces and Fifth avenue, the various selections which he made while abroad. Many of these were purchassd out of the show in Paris. They tnclude one important work by each of the following artists:—Gerome, Mele sonnier, Roussean, Breton, Jalabert, Bougereau, Dau- bigny, Toulmouche, Piasean, Hamoa, Merle, Troyon, Chavet, Landelie, Diaz and Calame, aa well as eeveral by artists whose productions have not previously been seen here, Mr. Avery has algo brought over ‘a fine collection of water colors and drawings oy Paul Delaroche, Couture, Gustave Doré, Achenbach, Ziem, Horace Vernet, E. Frere, David Las Vibert, Gavarn, aud other arusis, He wil, likew! it the largest picture painted by Boughton, # orite American ‘arly Puritans of New Englaud Going to Wore i They are armed to protect themselves against Indians and wild beasts, and the wintry scene 18 finely rendered, This picture was greatly admired at t exhibition of the Royal Academy Mr, Avery's hibition will include a work in marbio by the celebrated Milanese, Tantardini, which was a prominent attraction {n the Italiau court at the Paris Exposition, with many other “objects of art’ tp. bronze, ivory, wood, stiver, giasa, china, steel and Parian, selecied the French, Russian, German, ltalisn, Swedish, Austrian, Prussian, English, Chiaese and Japanoat tions of the Paris Exposition, : The Studios. The artists at the Studio Building, on the corner of. Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue, are industriousiy preparing for the “betier times coming."* Mr. Constant Mayer has finished his One, largo picture, “Maud Muller,’”? which has been duly mentioned above, “Roligious Meditation,” “The Love Message" aod “The Confidence’? are the principal pictures on which Mr. Mayer is working at present, Mr. James Hope is busy with his characteristic views of Vermont scenery, His large picture, “The Gem of the Forost,’”? was entirely painted in the open air, and fs, of course, full of effects that cannot otherwise ve produced, The very same impression which the originag scene mado upon the artist is thus reproduced upon the spectator. ‘“‘Ihe Bowl,” as the Castleton people call this cool, dolicious spring, hidden ina cleft of moss. red slate and overshadowed by trees which dark noonday, may weli be called ‘The Gem of the Forest." Mr. Granville Perkins is at work on the pecultar coast scenery of Cuba. One of his paintings represouts a sunset off an castern cape of the island, with a vessel asbore, abandoned to the wreckers, and with sea and sky illuminated by the setting san. Another painting will havo @ historical as well as picturesque interest, for it te desigued to represent the first landing place of Columbus on the eastern coast of Cubs, with the crum- bling oid fortress erected by his sailors, with cocoanut trees and a distant mountain range just lit up by the morning sun. Mr, T. W. Wood secks his inspiration in thoroughly American sources, and bow suceesstully is attesied by bis admirabie picture, ‘American Citizens, we specially noticed last week im our account of the Water Color Exhibition at the Academy. “The servative,’’ s blacksmith at his forge; ‘The Radical, dusty miller, each duly provided with the newspaper be swears by; The Sharpshooter,”” which was deservedly praised at the last spring exhibition, avd “The Farmer in His Hay Field,” are all valual tributions to the now school of strictly American art, Mr, arthur Lumley, whom we likewise mentiono® last week as one of the principal contributors to the water color exhibition at the Academy, is devoting tim= golf with omthusiasm to the bitherto neglected branch of painting in water colora, He is specially occupied with discovering and reproducing the picturosque in the mslti- form varioties of it presented by children, by no means forgetting the little Italian musicians who can trans~ torm even @ prosaic New York street scene inte a picture. by Murillo. The artiste at the studio building in Tenth atreet re- ceived many visitors on Saturday, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather. Mr, Page's *Venuses,” which we noticed at longth @ few weeks ago, are stillon exhibition at the Tenth trees mudio. Mr. 8. R. Gifford has completed two new pictures, “The Mouth of Shrewabury River’ aud “Indian Sum- morn the Hudson." Mr. Gignoux is still busy with the studies for his large picture of Mont Blanc, One represents Alpine scenery” at sunrise and another at sunset, Mr. Whittredge has resumed his souvenirs of Rocky Mountain scenery, a large picture representing is being: now on his easel, Two or three ‘studies’ snow that be is also as fond as ever of a stroll in the woods nearer home. Mr. McEnteo has finished a picture in his best style, which is well named “In the Woods,"” Mr, Hubbard exhibits a composition whieh combines the moat strikit aracteristics of Adirondack fcenmery.s Mr. M. F. Do bas just fnisbed another of his un- surpassed marines, “Oi Samdy Hook.'’ Yesterday exhibited also his well known picture of ‘“Faragut’ Flagship Passing the Forts at New Orleans.”’ Mr. Shattuck has now completed his large pictu “The White Hills in October," with rainbow effects ms only om the clouds but on the foliage. This excellent Picture 1s soon to be exhibited at Goupil’s (Knoedler's) on roadway, and is, we uaderstend, to be popular: by the aid ofa chromo.lithograpb. The studio of Mr, Heade je full of reminiscences of Brazil, and his pictures abound with them. The dazzling, profusion of Brazilian vegetation, swarming with life, must be very tempting to an artistic eye, ‘Mr. Bradford finds equally tempting the positive con contrasts to troprcal scevery, which he bas stadied on the bleak, but strangely picturesque, coast of His greatest picture, ‘‘Crushed by the » has been oxtubited fn Kurope daring the of which @ chromo-|ithograph is now beii Mn, will be brought back to New Yi Three of his pictures , most recently Rock on the Coasi of Navajack Bay," tion’? and “An Approaching Storm," continue his series of Labrador coast scenes, He has @ saperb collection of phot . full of teoberg effects, which would have delighted the late Dr. Kane, Mr. A. Cary Smith has added to his marines a remin- scence of bie cruise im Martha’s Vineyard Sound, “O® Oe a seiten Scott, “the druramer boy artist,’’ is *fight~ ing his battles o'er again’ in his drawings of baitie econes during the late Mr. E,W. drat the picturesqao elementa. p districts in jop Gathering,’ Hopvines tas prettily aa Cow g vines, although they have not ther painter or poet. ‘'Boys| Fishing,” “Reciprocity” ootbleck sada boy with oranges for sale) and “S tures of Mr, Perry. Mr. Van Biten is occupied with river sconery, Mr, Guy is constant to bis highly finished cabinet ures. ‘Mr, W. J. Hays has addod a fine baek to his menagerie. | Mt. pees ting sad bill cranes, ir. Let / eral Sedgwick will show OD Thompson can overcome the alleged dl modern coatume offers to the sculptor, joni, Whore studio is next to Wi a “Margaerite and Faust,” kamin “The School