The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1869, Page 4

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The postage being only thirty-five cents a quitter, country subscribers by this arrangement oan receive the HErap at the same price it is furnished in the city. Europe. ‘The cable deapatches are dated January 24. ‘The Paris Gawoie says that -Greece rejécts the @eclarstion of the Conference. << Hobart Pacha bas left the harhor or Gren The Vloeroy of Egypt has offered the Sultan 50,000 imen in the event of war. "devs" Yesterday Mr. Burlingame and the niembers of fhe Chinese Embassy hed an interview with the Em- perof Napoleon at the Tuileries. A most gracious reception was accorded the ambassadors, after which Mr. —* was received by the Em- press, Som - It is officially announced that the Spanish i ment will not consent to the cession of Cuba. There were violent debates in the Italian Parlia- ment last week on the question of the mill tax. Mexico. Our Mexico city letter is dated January 10. Gene- ral Escobedo had sent a messenger from Tamaulipas, on the Rio Grande border, to urge the authorities to the employment of more active efforts to put down the revolution now existing in that State. The bill for the free exportation of ores had been passed in Congress over the President's veto. Cuba. Despatches from Havana state that several Spanish soldiers have been assassinated in that city, ‘This adda considerably to the feverish excitement of the people. Our Havana letter is dated January 14. The rebel chiefs are reported to be not in accord, and two strong parties are forming. General Quesada is working hard to be made General-in-Chief. The cholera had broken out in Bayamo. Miscellaneous. The revenue collected during five months, beginning fuly last, amounted to $15,000,275—an in- Grease-of $6,883,390 over the amount collected in the five months ot the previous year. ‘The petition to the Senate to confirm no more of President Johnson's nominations does not meet with mach favor from Senators, many of whom consider it impertinent, and Las never been approved by Gen- eral Grant, as reported in some of the papers. Tho Supreme Court have been privately discussing the constitutionality of the Legal Tender act, without, however, settling upon any definite opinion. It is probable the constitutionality of the act will be sus- tained. Half of the business portion of the town of Troy, Bradford county, Penn., was destroyed by fire yes- erday morning. Fifteen houses were destroyed, inoluding the Troy Hotel, Pomeroy’s Bank and the ‘Troy Gazette oMce. The loss is estimated at $145,000. ‘The British bark Cadet arrived at Philadelphia yes- terday after a voyage of 105 days from Liverpool. ‘The crew had suffered terribly from starvation, only thirty-five days’ provisions having been on board ‘whon she started. Adverse winds delayed her, and when eighty miies from the coast she was biown far to the southeast by a terrible gale off Hatteras. The City. At the Allen street Methodise church yesterday Rev. L. 8. Weed preached on the subject of the “Millennium,” which, he said, was an age of univer- sal intelligence to be ushered in and advanced by hitman means. Rev. D. K. Lee preached in the Bleecker street Universalist ehurch on “The Resur- rection of Damnation.” Dr. Bellows preached on “The Justice and Mercy of God." The friends of the American Tract Society met in St. George's church ‘and discussed the prospects of Christianity in Spain, The Right Rev. Bishop Odenheimer, Bishop of New Jersey, preached fn the Memorial church, on Waver- ley piace and West Eleventh street, on the text “Behold the Man." ‘The quarterly report of the Foreign Department of the New York Post Office shows that 1,170,102 letters ‘Were went to Europe during the three months ending December 51, and 1,019,106 were received. The Amount of postage collected on these letters was $282,773. There were 126,338 letters sent during the Period to the West Indies, and 141,116 received The office of Caivary Cemetery, on Mulberry street, “wae entered by burglars on Saturday night, @ hole being made in @ brick,wali two feet thick for the par- henna partly in bonds, was taken from Which Was battered open with » hammer. who was | the Police where she gave birth to & little girl. As this is the first ooourrence of the kind et the Mulberry atreet headquarters the oMcers pro- pose to hold a public christening at an early day. The steamship Cella, Captain Gleadell, of the Lon- don and New York Steamship line, will leave pier No. 8 North river to-morrow (Tuesday), at two P, M., for London direct. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Senator J, B, Chattee, of Colorado, is at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Colonel H. W. Freedly, of the United States Army; John E, Owens, of Baltimore; John Shuber, of Panama; John H. Kemper, of Albany, and ©, M, Callahan, of the United States Army, are at the Me- tropolitan Hotel. Colonel P. 8, Frost, of New York, and Dr. N. Green, of Louisville, Ky., are at the Maltby House, John F. Canby, of Lexington, Ky.; Edward Ber- ger, of Frankfort, and Jos, Sherman, ¢f Allentown, Pa., are at the Westmoreland Hotel. Ben Field, of Albion; General Young and Ramilton Harris, of Albany, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. G. Van Vechten, of Albany; J. M. Wetherell, of Chicago; E. P. Sturges, of Mansfield, and F. D. Hays, of Boston, are at the Hoffman House. The New Republic of the Occident—The Law and the Destiny of Mexico. Advices from the Pacific coast inform us that a plan is on foot to split off a large splice from Northwestern Mexico and erect a new republic of the Qccident. The scheme in- cludes the rich mineral districts of Sonora and Sinaloa, and is no doubt fomented by enter- prising spirits from our side of the border, with disaffected ones in Mexico, both of which elements abound in the heterogeneous popu- lation now laying vast foundations of empire on the American borders of the Pacific Ocean. Such a scheme is assisted by the condition of affairs within the republic of Mexico itself: -~ That government, although counting a period of existence of barely fifty years, is worn out and confessedly incompetent to perform the duties for which governments are instituted among men. Peace has fled the land, except it be in some mountain fastness, where a bold Indian like Alvarez, in Guerrero, or Lozada, in Tepic, defies the government within his territory. Industry and trade have dwindled until they are the mere shadows of those of former days; public revenue has become the legitimate prey of every local ruler; and the bonds of society are so com- pletely dissolved that human life and individual liberty are safe only in the large cities, or within the vale of poverty and individual obscurity. To-day we behold the degrading spectacle of a national government sitting in the halls of the Montezumas, fulminating worthless paper decrees against the robbers and kidnappers who prowl securely on every.road within the republic. e We are not disposed to lay upon the present rulers of Mexico the whole blame for this state of things, nor do we look to them for the cure of evils which are not entirely of their cre- ation, They are but simple individuals in a social and political organization, which obeys laws called into existence with the birth of the government, and these must work out their full mission. Every nation at its inception re- ceives gn impulse which may be called the law of its political existence. When the thirteen colonies rebelled against the British crown they were separate political organizations, con- flicting and often at war with each other, The first impulse was toward union and centraliza- tion, by the calling of a general congress. From this came the confederation for tne war; out of this the greater centralization of the con- stitution of 1787, and from that we have gone on centralizing our political forms to the pre- sent day, when we witness its thus far greatest but not altimate degree of centralization. In this we but obey the impulse received at the birth of our political forms. So it was with Mexico, only her impulse was in an opposite direction. When New Spain rebelled against the Spanish crown it was a centralized viceroyalty, divided into depart- ments merely for the convenience of fiscal ad- ministration. The political impulse which attended the birth of the Mexican nation was one of decentralization. The departments were erected into sovereign States. Govern- ment there has followed the line of this impulse until for years past its decrees have been pow- erless beyond a radius of thirty leagues from the capital, and not obeyed unless they coin- cided with the personal interest of local rulers. As with us society has prospered with the growing strength of government to protect, so in Mexico has it dwindled with the decay of the protecting power. The entire political being of Mexico is dry-rotted with the law of its existence. It can look for regeneration only in the breaking up of its present forms and the establishment of new ones upon other prin- ciples, of which the proposed new republic of the Occident is anexample. Within Mexico itself there are now at work the germs of other similar movements, and the end of all these will be one, Each in turn will be attracted to our stronger political system, as Texas was, until all revolve in the harmony of the Union. Some three years ago, in this city, at the old Union League Club House, General Grant, in a crisp little speech, referred to our sister republic as a proper subject for active intervention. From that passing remark we were satisfied that the General, who goes for thorough work, did not admire the dilly-dally- ing and temporizing policy of Mr. Seward towards Louis Napoleon. Nor do we suppose that the General is altogether satisfied with the success of the Secretary of State in get- ting rid of the Franco-Austrian imperial usur- pation by persistent scolding. Nor is it likely that the do-nothing programme upon which | General Rosecrans, our new Minister to the Juarez government, seems to be acting will be followed under Grant's administration. We expect something better and more com- prehensive and decisive from the practical mind of our great soldier. We dare say that Grant has not forgotten (for he was there at the time) the great mistake make by General Scott, when in occupation of the Mexican capital, in refusing to accept the governmemt of the republic as a free gift, and with a splen- did salary, as the Captain General, in the name of the United States. We anticipate in nome practical shape the revival under Presi- dent Grant of the grand idea involved in that offer to General Scott, and within the next four years, in all probability, as a territorial delegate to begin with, we shall have » man in Congress from each of the Mexican States. Sooner or later this substantially will be the solution of the Mexican question, and General Grant is the proper man go to gottle jt, Legislature. Now that the flerce conflict for Senator is over and the clan Fenton and clan Morgan have laid by their claymores and flung away their shields—the former to sit in high places within the threshold of the Senate Chamber; the Morgan chiefs to retire to the dismal nooks and fastnesses where the whiskey ring doth dwell and where the light of day will probably enter no more forever—our Metropolitan commissions, the Police Department and the Excise law, are about to obtain the attention of the Legis- lature. The Metropolitan Police law and the Excise Board are both the creations of Greeley-Weed fanaticism and political cun- ning. They stood the test bravely for a long time in the face of popular disgust and odium. From the Metropolitan Police law sprung a despotism that our courts were often com- pelled to protest ‘against. The rights of the poorer classes found little recognition when they transgressed the law and became the victims of incarceration, frequently for trivial offences, under circumstances of peculiar hard- ship, or were held as prisoners in the House of Detention under the guise of witnesses, while the criminal went at large on bail. It may be that these grievances are not charge- able to the members of the force any more than the vexatious and paltry persecutions which the police have inflicted upon the liquor dealers under the operations of the excise system. The construction and interpreta- tion of the laws in both cases are to blame, The remedy, then, is to be found in wholesome Iegislation. The defeat of Motgan has put an extinguisher upon the fanaticism of the Greeley taction. It has, moreover, left many soreheads in both houses at Albany, who may,not be unwilling to resent the election of Fenton and the disappointment which they had to swallow at the hands of Speaker Young- love by leaning tenderly towards such mea- sures as may be introduced for the amendment of our Metropolitan Police and Excise laws. Two or three bills have already been reported and referred to committees relative to these laws; for the regulation of licenses, the hours designated for the legal sale of liquors and the duties of the police in the premises. It is said that reasonable modifications in these laws will not meet with much hostility even from the friends of Senator Fenton, while the dis- appointed adherents of Morgan may prove still easier in dealing with the measures broached by the democratic minority, The extreme views of the radicals have re- ceived a shock in this Senatorial contest which even success has not been wholly able to ward off. The game is not all with them. The republican party in the Legislature is divided, let partisans say what they will to the con- trary, and the division is based upon the bit- terest of all causes—treachery, successfully practised and most provokingly boasted of. The radicals hold the majority of the party in their hands, it is true, but it may turn out that it is not quite safe to use their power incau- tiously. By skilful management the demo- crats may turn this condition of things to ad- vantage. Senator Tweed and Peter B. Sweeny—the bold Agamemnon and the wise Ulysses of the campaign—keep watch and ward over the battle from their tents in the wetavall, auu 10 18 LUE UKELY Luas euy Opportu- nity will be overlooked by these ever active leaders. By whatever agency a modification of the obnoxious Excise law may be brought about, the people of this city will have cause to rejoice that one of the most oppressive, un- equal and odious enactments on the statute book will have had the sting taken out of it. It was conceived in fanaticism and vindictive- ness and has disgraced our legislation too long. The Metropolitan Police law stands nearly in the same category, though some good may have come out of this Nazareth. Its operation is full of abuses which we trust the present Legislature will correct. Tae Danisa West Inpta ENTANGLEMENT.— With the approach of the Senate to the con- sideration of Mr. Seward’s treaty for the annexation of the lovely island of St. Thomas, the sore disappointment of the Danish government at the prospect of no sale is painful to contemplate. We fear that the confidence of Mr. Seward and his zeal in the negotiations were too much relied upon by the King of the Danes. We fear that there would be no chance for the ratification of the treaty were the price of the island reduced from two million five hundred thousand dol- lars to a million, or even half a million; be- cause we have no money in the Treasury for any more expensive luxuries of this sort just now; because the Alaska purchase has been developed as something of a lobby job, and because the island of St. Thomas is too shaky for a navy yard, a coaling station or anything else, at any price. For these and other reasons we join our lamentations with the Danish King over the failure of his treaty with Mr. Seward, and would recommend him to try his luck with his rich son-in-law, the Prince of Wales. He has money and may want a little more land. Tax Gatnerers.—The Cleveland Plain- dealer, a very plain-spoken Western paper, refers to tax gatherers in the following uncom- plimentary manner :—‘‘That they are not, as a rule, honest; that they take illegal fees where they do not openly steal; that, as a rule, they all swell their income in making an unlawful profit by irregular means; that, as a rule, they are all more or less corrupt is not denied.” It is unnecessary to add that the editor of the Plaindealer is not a candidate for public office. How tue Inpiays Witt, Use Grant's Mz- DALLIONS.—The Louisville Jowrnal-Courier thinks that the medallions of General Grant proposed to be gotten up at government ex- pense for distribution among the Indians will be melted up by them and used for bullets to kill white men, or, it might be added, sold to sutlers and sharpers for brass buttons or other trinkets. The whole proposition is one of arrant flunkyism, disgraceful if not dis- honest, A Goon Tmo ror a Bank Orerk—A good pair of legs for a foot race after a bold robber at & moment's warning, They have such ao clerk in the Park Bank, and the value of his legs was fully proved on Saturday last in recovering the stolen money and ontohing the thief, atrect yesterday was taken to the dentral office of | The Motropelitan Commissions in the Telegraphic Yankeelsm—A Mean Job. It ts well known to our readers that a French and American telegraphic cable com- pany, known as the D’Erlanger and Reuter enterprise, have completed their arrangements for the connection of New York and the French coast by means of a new Atlantic cable, and that they are now met, just as they are ready to commence work, by a narrow- minded attempt to interpose obstructions to the landing of their wires on this side of the ocean. Under the influence ofthe Western Union Tele- graphic lobby our Senators and Representatives at Washington are induced to forbid the land- ing of any foreign cable on the American coast without the express consent of Congress. This dog-in-the-manger policy, so shamefully in contrast with the progressive spirit of the age, will have the effect to stop the operations of the French company after their whole capital has been secured, and will probably destroy the enterprise. This, at least, is the hope of the Western Union monopolists, who desire to shut out all competition and who are the real opponents of the French com- pany, since they foresee that the construction of the new cable would be the means of estab- lishing inland lines in opposition to their owa. There is, however, a et meaner piece of Yankeeism connected wi this French cable business. About two years ago William Orton, Charles C. Leigh, Charles Harvard “and their associates” procured the passage of-a bill through the New York State Legislature granting them “‘the sole and exclusive right and privilege for the period of twenty years from the dateof this act to lay, construct, land, maintain and ope- rate telegraph! ic or magnetic lines or cables in and over the waters, reefs, islands, shores and lands over which the State of New York has jurisdiction, to connect by means of said telegraphic lines or cables the State of New York with the empire of France.” Now, Wil- liam Orton is the President of the Western Union monopoly, and neither he nor his asso- clates had any more idea of laying a cable to the coast of France than of constructing air lines to the moon ; but information had reached them of the progress of the French under- taking, and the bill was required in order to bleed the Frenchmen out of a few thousand dollars. Consequently, in June, 1868, these enterprising Yankee corporators induced the French company to buy out their charter, although they well knew it to be worthless, since the jurisdiction for a marine league from low water mark on all the coast belongs to the United States, and not to the individual States. But the victimized Frenchmen paid two thou- sand pounds in gold, or about fourteen thou- sand dollars currency, to the Orton and Leigh bogus company for a transfer of all their “tights,” and agreed to pay an additional ten thousand pounds in gold as soon as the Yan- kee corporators should have secured the opin- ion of Chief Justice Chase that the grant of the State of New York would actually and, effectually exclude any rival French company from landing a cable in the State of New York for twenty years. The two thousand pounds blood money was paid by the French company and received by the Yankee ring in December last, and the next month Orton and his Western Union monopoly lobby proceeded to Washington to oppose the laying ur we victulzed Prouvh= men’s cable and to prevail upon Congress to declare the grant of the State of New York null and void. We leave it to our readers to determine whether in their experience they ever met with a meaner piece of commercial smartness in all Yankeedom. Cuba—Insurgent Officers in the City. Our recent advices from Havana tell us of one deplorable riot and an attempt at another in that city, and of the active movement of General Quesada’s force of insurgents and Count Valmaseda’s column of troops toward the Western Department, where the revolu- tionists seek to create a new scene of opera- tions. Coincident with these advices we have chronicled the arrival in New York of five young officers of the insurgent army of Cuba. Publicly it is stated that they desire to create sympathy and obtain aid among our people for the patriot cause, but privately it is intimated that they will make this a base for new opera- tions in Cuba, They have come too late. Tho evident signs from Cuba indicate the wane of the revolutionary effoft. While the Eastern and Western Departments have been from the beginning in open disagreement, we are now informed that General Quesada’s aspirations to the chlef command have caused a new dissen- sion in the vicinity of Principe, and that the leaders there are not in accord with those who have recently fled from Bayamo. The dissen- sions do not mark a path to victory. As for the riots in Havana, they are merely the tem- porary ebullitions of an excitable people under the new order of things, which confers upon them greater freedom than they have hereto- fore enjoyed, and which, consequently, they do not know how to use. The next important event to be looked for from Cuba is the contest between the forces of General Quesada and those of Count Valmaseda, both of which at last accounts were moving on Villa Clara, the insurgents by land and the troops by steamer and rail. As for the purchase of Cuba by the United States, our European telegrams indicate that Spain thinks it worth while to retain the “ever faithful isle,” and by bleeding it for an other decade, spur it to a more successful revolutionary effort in the fature. Ler Us Have Liont.—The wretched qual- ity of the gas furnished to our citizens down town last night may have been highly pleasing to those sanguinary individuals who prowl about the streets amusing themselves by knocking down and robbing unwary mortals, but we cannot imagine the state of semi-darkness to have been at all pleasant to the great majority of the people—not even to the officers of the gas company. Why did we not have a full supply of gas last night? Who can answer? Sympatny For Criminats.—The Louisville Courier-Journal judges, ‘from speeches on the gallows, murderers, in proportion to num- bers, have a much larger representation in heaven than any other class of human beings.” If sympathy for murderers continues at the rate it is now progressing the surest mode of getting into Paradise will be by way of the gonffold. i house thief on East Fifteenth street, Full de- tails of each case were given yesterday morn- ing In the Heratp. The Bond street burglar was captured be- tween four and five o'clock on Saturday morn- ing in Amity street, after a swift flight anda desperate struggle, during which he tried to kill one of the officers in pursuit of him and was himself shot through the hand. He was committed, without bail, to answer at the Court of General Séssions upon the double charge of burglary in the house of Dr. Beach and attempting to shoot officer Randall. The bold robber of the Park Bank, smashing the large plate glass window in front of the money department and “grabbing” a package of $3,636 in national bank bills, ran out of the Ann street entrance of the bank, and, after a vigorous chase, was arrested in Maiden lane, about half-past nine o’clock on Saturday morn- ing. On Saturday evening, at half-past six o'clock, while Mrs, Lynch, keeper Of a diamond jewelry store under the New York Hotel, on Broadway, accompanied by her husband, was going home through Fourth street, with a bag containing fifty thousqnd dollars’ worth of valu- ables, they were waylaid by five . ate high- way a Mr. L hb held staat 8 aly on to the precto ati insti a FAG wife quic! ay beoeeett to the spot officer Van Zant, who secured and locked up one of the gang. On Saturday evening also a suspected board- ing house thief was arrested in East Fifteenth street, as he was leaving, he said, to visit certain relatives in Canada. His projected journey ended for the night at the station house, Surely this record of a single day should stimulate citizens to fresh precautions and the police to renewed vigilance. In justice to the police it must be added that if all the villains in our midst, from murderers, burglars and highway robbers to boarding house thieves, shall be as promptly arrested as in the above mentioned cases, the organization of a vigilance committee in New York may safely be post- poned for a while. What Shall We Do with the Ofal¢ In many of her sanitary arrangements New York is behind other large Ameéricén cities, while from her favorable location, with her two broad rivers and her splendid bay, a¢ ‘ell as from her superior wealth and commercial im- portance, she ought to be ahead of them all. What to do with the offal of a populous city is always a question of importance with sanitary officers, and it is probably‘owing to the appa- rent convenience of the two rivers on our eastern and western sides as a receptacle for all manner of refuse that we have hitherto done nothing with our offal except to dump it into the water and suffer it to dispose of itself as it best can, This might have been all very well if the tides would carry all they receive to the ocean and there dispose of their load. But there are incoming 4s well as outgoing tides, and tho lattor are in the habit of returning the foul mass confided to their keeping back to the city, and as a conse- quence our slips and docks are foal with rot- ting carcasses of horses, dogs and cattle and with all manner of disgusting deposits. ‘ At low water so Offensive is the stench along the river fronts from this cause that it is only sur- prising that the neighborhood of the docks is not in a yet greater degree the hotbed of fever and disease. It is no unusual thing for a pleasure yacht or an excursion steamer on the point of starting ona summer trip to find the puttid body of some animal come bumping against her sides, while the thousands of passengers who daily throng our ferryboats can bear witness to the fact that at low water they are driven from the decks by the horrible effluvia stirred up by the revolving wheels as the boat enters the slip at low water. The Boston people have a regular receptacle for the city offal, where proper chemical appli- ances destroy all foul smells and where the refuse is utilized and made to return a good profit. We should have the same in New York, instead of dumping dead animals and all manner of refuse into the rivers, to breed disease and become a filthy nuisance to the city. If the city authorities have not the power or disposition to move in the matter the Albany people should direct their attention to the subject and give us a law for a regular offal department in New York. It is a reform imperatively demanded and one that should be secured before the heated term of next summer. Which of our representatives will be the first to volunteer in this needful and popular move- ment? Broruer Jonataan Intropvoine Caixa TO France.—We are advised to-day of a vory gracious reception of the Chinese Embassy by the Emperor Napoleon. It was left for the young republic of the West to spur the oldest nation of the world into civilized action. France naturally feels a little surprised to see Young America take the old man China by the hand and lead him forward to 9 new existence. It is a sign of the times, and points to a close linking of Asiatic and American destinies. Iornoat Races.—The aquatic fraternity of Poughkeepsie and thereabouts have had some rare sport in their iceboat races on the glassy surface of the frozen Hudson, Under a spanking norwester these iceboate skim the river like great gulls on the wing. Mr. Bergh would doubtless enjoy the sport; for, unlike sleighriding, it involves no cruelty to animals. These iceboats, too, are capable of being ap- plied much more extensively than they are to the practical purposes of winter transportation on the Hudson and other Northern rivers—a hint which we commend to the attention of practical iceboat men. A Naw Sprowwio.—A Western democratic editor says he has discovered an unfailing recipe for frostbites, chilblains, scalds, little burns, bad burns and Wash-burnes, The latter, he thinks, is a prevailing epidemic in public offices. Rumors or SMaLerox,—There are rumors in the oity that fs again provalent, Fh ptagdi emo greeny aan even frost: thas to-day, question between our territory of Washington, | on the Pacifl, and British Columbia, ‘The, naturalization treaty, we presume, will be, ratified, for it seems to be fair and just. The San Juan Island boundary question, too—a small matter—may be satisfactorily settled as proposed. But the main question involved— the Alabama claims—in another of these pro- tocols, is not touched, That protocol will not. do; for it settles nothing, evades the main feaue entirely, and so mixes up these Alabama, indemnities with offsets that the whole scheme looks like an evasion of the real matters im dispute. We think, however, that these may be safely left to the diplomacy of General Grant. Tar Government TeLearaPH.—The Gin- cinnati Chronicle says:—‘'The government telegraph bill receives hearty support from several of the leading journals of the goun- try.” So it should of every newspaper in. every part of the land; and so it would were not many of them in fear of the power of the “‘pestiferous monopoly” known as the Western, Union Telegraph Company. Those paperd that refrain from endorsing the project elther do so from cowardice or motives the reversa of honorable. GATHERING OF THE GHOULS, RANA Anan 4 The Isms and the Schisms in Council—Burs lesque, Blasphemy and Blackguardism Rame paut—The Bible Absurd, God Nonsense, and “That's What’s tho Matter.” ? The ghouls which flit across the vision of decent. people from time to time have turned up again at Metropolitan Hall, on the Sixth avenue, and yea- terday afternoon, according to previous notice, they convened to ventilate their ideas on “Positive Philosophy” and “Spiritualism.” It was a motley group that assembled to discuss such weighty themes. A Shylock-looking individual, with deep- sunk eyes, shaggy brows, hooked nose and long mane hanging from his chin, shuffled around ig. the vicinity of the door and levied a tax of ten org ber on each person comingin. Near a patched-up inept Helis te ro me beet coleed Ke num laverous-looking mi op who were eusalng — plan of eiara aa ae payment! group who vould do or. “the iger” oat the ‘nee Fd Leave Man” when disguised pratense) two or three ooked Il ike | prise fighters = ee and one of sta oh ia was amusin; mse! ral tween ae ing Feat he ie binds aa tour ages inch knife. re were four fe: one with a very purple dress and ea? a around the mouth and the crow's fee through the deceiving vell which pe bee countenance; another in a velvet sack, mi and black curls; Be. third with a sen es short fo! anda very long nose, high chee! ane oe teeth, and the fourth ih dressed in aT eatea ae sen time, no doubt, been passably good pees Vhen there were enough present to secure the ren! of thé room one of the ghouls, who wore above forehead an upright tuft of hair (such as J Allen, the minstre! e g A gg in), a with au expression such ‘as aight conve an ex| yn. Buc m vey thet a disinfectant was heeded tn his as if cor up on & placing ht ne hand ovée he Jowest button waistcoat an left ha it, he sald:. th? ty-em. ae these oat a-rived I move that Missis How-ed take bak ge et i ae Houd was duly elected, oy the ee! \d curis walked to took o her furs and valve late a then stood up on the the ape ok er pt hing her ea oe oe wrists. ‘ing at the ‘Orders Cara cata tartar ra 1a which hung the “Geneviéve Social,” she seemed to the cessary strength and requested Cede to. ceed. A tall, man with bushy white hair fis head: ‘and’ his upper lip came up on system, and advan to ‘ane read irom slips @ very long which undertook to prove thas itiviam [pone ® person from belle’ any’ nimed that 4 claimed it must P Bist at it was ae as Spiritualism in every family in the ‘A gentleman then undertook to it the state, ments of the Positivists and Spirieualises pa Goan ing that nothing could be proved that the he of the b head and mustac! Cie ce ene eee any who undertook to ans of the Holy Ghost, The speaker did not crowd much, and the of the bull’s-eye spectacles and “Johnny Allen” tuft “came to answer him. This ghoul was evident hea’ “Answer not @ fool acco! to his , lest ye ‘fool accord- ny ie none of them knew wha = Sang Hy Sy Ghost. It came, he ne ee ae word hel or el, the sun, and the word wind.” ‘Then the bull's exes were remo puckered nose and Mr. Ghoul went into tas tal some abstruse astronomy, himself with the evident ing man times been nuubuggea ty tne the Spi eae es he was ready to beiieve Sangam be proved to his satisfacti le Wi & ore of the Joe Gi with Toad looked like a cone set on his # oulders and @ monstrous top knot. This individual the idea of was all nonsense, that the which were stated in the Bible were ridicul surd—everything Seg =. materialism. was no such thing as ipresence, omni-t ranting. nee, omnipoten = while speak wouid iy without draw! @ brea that | wae ejaculate every little while, “And - matter,” and often when ob! to take an breathing Cy he relieved the “wait” by giving the jaculation agi Shother gt ghoul pul berated all Cocteinen, or elther Jews or Christians, and asserted that by means of tific instruments we could place the ee ‘Ghostor the “sun gust’’—on a scale and measure and it, just the same as any other column of air, He followed by a Britisher, who a Ls Lang Ef or the soul, ora ‘‘y sort of think: that mind ‘wus the Tesul ter entirely, ‘and that there wae no such soul in man’s body. The “sun worshij rine of the! pass oo i ont God; but two or trine of the sun as i; = of his fellows Ly — hate ral auf although sombbody” politely Foquened nough somebody earop on himself,” he ati bi ali bad left the r The Expeditions to the North Pole=Leotare by Dr. Doual. This league of German negativists assembied at No. 132 Bowery, at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, Dr. Douai, a member of the league, delivered a lece ture on North Pole expeditions. He stated that all former and present expeditions were bayer oo} for the pened of finding @ nearer route to the crossing the North Polar In Indies BS short review of the listo g he mentioned the merit the English ex = Prantcin, who aa lost e 4 8, and finally closed wil ikewh of the american expe Kane ond Hays. The 8] ir then tions of later date, and ald —The G ition, under Paptein the der tain Guel