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6 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. AI were wont to take place in this in the “Ip Boing Done.” under this rule, where oocasion réquires, STREET. they may have been to many, were undigni- | than “‘the house is being built [t matters | may do ow we ae aaa ae INETT. fied, and, in a certain sense, unworthy of that | very little, inasmuch as speaking elther way @ participle? Not by putting together two JAMES GORDON BEN . PROPRIETOR Street Obstructions aud Mledirected Omelal Zeal. The recent raid upon the flagpoles and certain projecting signs on Broadway afforded the crowbar brigade a signal opportunity for displaying their valor and illustrating the official, if sometimes misdirected, seal of the much maligned Street Commissioners and Inspectors, It also afforded a tresh illustra- tion of the fact that ‘the powers that,be” of every class are liable to periodical and violent outbursts of official zeal, as well as of the additional fact that they almost always strain at a gnat and swallowacamel. The sidewalks of our most frequented thoroughfares and busiest streets are often blocked up for miles with piles of boxes or hogsheads or bricks and other building materials, without any effectual attempt to remove these obstructions for the convenience of the over-patient public. In many a street a double line of wagons and carts is permitted to extend throughout its entire length almost every night in the year, like an emigrant train camping out on the Western plains ; but suddenly an old statute is discovered and rigidly enforced, prohibiting flagpoles and signs from running out over the street. No more banners must be hung on the outer walls, and those who seck fora sign sacred cause in whose name and behoof they | there can be no mistake as to what we mean. | participles of the same voice, but by quslify- were held. They had but one object, and that | But shall we say ‘‘the man is robbing” and | ing the activity of the present with the other object was money. To secure this object the | ‘the woman is washing” when we mean, not form, Such a composite expression ought, in public meeting and the many speeches were | that the man is robbing or the woman wash- parsing, to be regarded as compound nomina- deemed necessary. Since the Hegatp com- | ing, but that some one is robbing the man and | tives are, because it is essentially single—it is menced to take the churches in hand itisfound | some one washing the woman ; in short, when | the name of one conception; and, having thus that to court publicity is very much » work of | we mean as nearly as possible the direct con- | applied certain words as the name of # com- supererogation. That which is made known | trary of what our words would import. To | mon conception, why may we not assert of everywhere cannot be made more public. | speak thus would be to defeat the very object | that conception anything we choose—that is, That good cause which is set before our | of speech, which, epigrams apart, is to convey apply to it any verb in the language? Shall million readers, and which so effectively | impressions exactly from one mind to another. | we stop at the word ‘‘is” because a portion of speaks for itself, requires no further advocacy. | Yet we are asked to do this—to say “the | our expression in another phase of its gram- We are not surprised, therefore, to learn that | woman is washing” when we mean that she is | matical life is related to that word? Shall we the May meetings are not to take place this | being washed—because the latter phrase vio- | be afraid of such patent nonsense as “exists year. Even the Evangelical Alliance hascon- | lates some rules of grammar. We are asked, existing” or ‘is ising?” We might as well cluded that it is unnecessary for the present to | in short, to violate the first principle of speech | hesitate to say ‘it snows” because we cannot assemble the lights of the Protestant world in | and sacrifice perspicuity to a fantastical sense. | also say ‘‘we snow, you snow, they snow.” this city. We are glad to see our labors so | of propriety. ERISA Ts ADI, it handsomely pide The church so- One of the magazines devoted to sup- ‘The Mow Game’ Law cieties will not be the poorer because the an- | plying tho public with original matter has The law for the protection of game, intro- niversaries have been discontinued. The | lately laid before its readers a digest of a dis- duced in the Assembly by Mr. Skeels, is @ purse strings of our New York merchant | cussion that fills several pages of Gould decided improvement’ on anything that our princes are far more likely to yield to the smart | Brown's Grammar of English grammars on the | ®Portsmen have had heretofore. It prevents advocacy of the newspaper than to long- | form “Is Being Done.” Siding with the all deer shooting on Long Island for five yoars, winded anniversary orations, We consider | weight of authority against the expression, | 0d all woodcock, quail and partridge shooting U lare have been given in an indirect manner to such Members and officers. Charles Smith, a man twenty-seven years of age, living at 116 Madison street, yesterday morning committed suicide by leaping frem thira story window. The deceased had been very ill, and com- mitted the act while laboring under At of tempo- rary insanity. . ” aS Volume XXXIV.....---seceerere recess +.Ne. 80 RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. ANTHON MEMORIAL CHURCH.—Morning—Rav. TH08. A. JaaeeR. Evening—Bishor Portes. BAPTIST MARINERS’ TEMPLE.—Rev. De. Hovox. ‘Morning and evening. “ STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.— Bie pat Kr LEe Morning and evening. be reinterred in Woodlawn Cemetery, Westchester COOPER INSTITUTE,—Farx Paracuixo or Rev. J. | The stock market yesterday was weak B. ALLEN. Morning and evening, clined, particularly for Pacifio Mail and os chet CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS.—Large Chapel, Uni- | Central. Gold was steady in the vicinity of 131, versity, Washington square.—Rav. Da. Deus. Morning | which was ita final closing price. " —— The aggregate amount of business consummated CHUROH OF THE RESURRECTION.—Rxv. D® | in commercial circles yesterday was light, the mar- PL ees eee kets with but few exceptions being exceedingly CHURCH OF THE REDEMPTION.—Rev. U. Soorr. | quiet, Coffee was dull and heavy. Cotton was in Movuing and even! good demand, principally for but s “ export, prices CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Ray. AzR0?T | were very irregular, closing at about 28}e, for mid- Brown. Morning an dling upland. Sugar—Raw was active and ke. CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES.—Rev. Dx. | higher, fair to good refining Cuba closing at 11%c. a Wasuuune Evening. 12s¢., while refined was freely sought after and NGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THR HOLY | 340, @ 3c. higher, hard selling at 16%c. a 17 SHINY Mine: Du G.F- Keown. Moraiog andevening. | On’ “iunange flour was dal, ax soe RVERETP ROOMS.SrimiTuaLists. Dn. H. P, Fars. | While wheat was slow of sale and lower. FiLp, Morning and evening. Corn was in moderate demand and rather f for th term, unless FIFTY.THIRD STREET BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. W. | more steady in value. Oats were unchanged. Pork this one good result already gained. the writer in the magazine contributes no idea oo same nisl isn 2h beste se shall not find it projecting anywhere from B. Penpieron. Morning and evenin:. Was dull and prices depreciated about 25c. per bbl. Other results will follow. We certainly ex- | of his own and furnishes no new argument, | Dy § person who iene White street to Thirty-first street, FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rev, East. | Beef anddard were but little inquired for and prices | pect that the style and tone of pulpit oratory | unless we accept as an argument the declara- | Same. These provisions will hardly meet Occasionally, while all is quiet at Police Wa A MR eee favored the ouyer. Petroleum, though quiet, was | will be greatly improved. We want ideas. | tion that hisgrandmother disliked this locution. | general approval. Woodcock and partridges | Headquarters, a startling flourish of trumpets bsexiars higher, crude im bulk closing at 17c. and refined at is heard, “the force” is marshalled in battle array, and special care is taken that newspaper reporters shall be summoned in- order to chronicle duly the exploits of the night. Bui after all, the result is usually pe i insignificant. Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. A few frightened, half-clad girls are dragged from a dance cellar in Water street, a few bottles of rotgut are smashed at a low corner groggery, a few three-card monte tables are upset in some dingy out-of-the-way den, perhaps even two little boys may be caught playing toss penny with buttons in the City of Churches; but of the palaces devoted to heavy gambling or to other forms of fashion- able vice—palaces so numerous within the limits of Thirteenth and Twenty-seventh streets that, if placed side by side, they would form, externally at least, a splendid avenue, a We want taste and elogance and oratorical | The mostnotable points of reasoning presented | cannot be obtained to stock any place with, power, of course; but we want ideas | are those that have been in use these twenty | 80d sportsmen are not so selfish as to expect above all. The pulpit has been a years, They are of the sort that have been | t0. keep the shooting all to themselves simply little too slow. There has been too much talk- | happily called fictitious examples, imagined | because they were fortunate enough to obtain ing for talking’s sake. Anything was good | on purpose to make usage seem wrong. Ono | ® few quail during the past winter. There is enough if only it covered the requisite time. | of the examples starts from the assumption that | another provision—that no set nets or pounds The preacher must now be prepared to see | the verbs ‘to be” and ‘to exist” are perfect | shall be used in any of the waters of this himself in print and to know that his intellec- | synonyms. Were this true it would follow State—which must have got in through over- tual measure is taken by thousands who never | that ‘is being done” is equivalent to “exists | sight, as it would prevent the shad fishing saw or heard him. This publicity will no | existing done;” and it is held by the writer | entirely by citizens of New York in the doubt be the ruin of some; it will also be the | before us that the supremely ridiculous sound | Hudson river, and hand the entire business making of many. It will no longer be pos- | of this must be an unanswerable reason against | over to Jerseymen. It would also strike a sible to complain in this city or neighborhood | the first form. Again, the expression is said | heavy blow at the Long Island fishermen, that the lights of the pulpit are hid under a | to be inadmissible because, as {t associates a | Who use pounds and make the Sound shore of bushel. This new missionary movement, which | present and a past participle, it ‘‘brings pre- | Connecticut a profitable rendezvous for that we have instituted and with which we identify | posterously together” words that cannot have | lass of citizens. With these and some other ourselves, whatever may be its effect upon in- | relatién. Here the error begins in the as- | minor exceptions the law is a good one and dividuals or upon church organizations, cannot | sumption as to synonyms. To be and to exist | Will give universal satisfaction. fail tohave a powerful influence in hastening the | are not synonymous. They are very far from | It reduces the time for killing deer to the ¢ET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCE.— sro ee naner tac 303, Naval stores were generally steady. see Prominent Arrivals in the City. Buy. [8aa0 BiLEY. Morning. Judge R. R. Sloane, of Ohio; General E. W. Leav- UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Bisnor sow, | ©DWorth, of Syracuse; Comptroller W. F. Allen, of Afternoon. Albany; Congressmen L. S. Trimble, of Kentucky, WASHINGTON HALL, Third avenue.—Rav. D. K. Lex, | 824 Colonel 8. Tate, of Tennessee, are at the St. Afternoon. Nicholas Hotel. Se che ange cae Commander Mead of the United States Navy, and TRIPLE SHEET. |@$ssronor cooria erative ator tows pe ins anal is cband ial A. Van Vechten, of Albany, and E. L. Brewster, of Chicago, are at the Hoffman House, Colonel F. D. Curtis, of Troy; 8. L. Griffith, of Lit- ras tle Rock, Ark,; Judge Merriman, of Washington, THE NEWS. and 8, M. Randolph, of St. Louis, are at the Metro- — politan Hotel. Europe. Dr. Joseph S.C, Rowland, of Fort Smith, Ark.; ‘The cable telegrams are dated March 20, 3. M. Mathews, of Tennessee; 0. H. McCann, and Mr. Gladstone's bill to dis.establish the Irish | R. S. Baker, of Massachusetts, are at the Maltoy Ohurch was taken up in the British Parttament | House. ‘ yesterday, and made the subject of a lengthy | Colonel R. H. Delaney, of Virginia; Colonel S. M. debate, in which a number of the prominent men of | Johnson, of Washington, and W. A. Dudley, Ken- Doth parties took part. John Bright made a vigor- | *Ucky, are at the New York Hotel. New York, Sunday, March 21, 1869. ous speech in support of the bill. Colonel B. 0. Butler, of Luzerne; Frederick Ham- | day when Christianity shall be the religion of | it. They have quite different points of signif- | three months of Ootober, November and | broadway to hell—of all these not one is dis- A despatch from Madrid announces the suppres- | mond, of Worcester, Mass, and Ed. Campbell, Of | +14 entire family of man, The press is to Mb | cance, are still more widely different in their | December; it allows woodcock shooting t0 | tured. The parents of many a ruined son oF sion of the Andalusian revolt. Albany, are at the Westmoreland Hotel. Gelhi: * Galusha A, Grow, of Pennsylvania; L. B. French, of Ohio; J, L. Howard, of Hartford, and Rosswell The expedition containing the political prisoners | Hart, of Rochester, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. of many a ruined daughter may ask, ‘Why not?” We can only refer them to the “powers that be” for an answer. urth \d stops the the great power of the future. With the press } uses, and are as far as the poles apart in | commence on the Fourth of July, an at her back Christianity need fear no foe. grammatical character, inasmuch as one is | sale of all quail, partridges, prairie chickens ees eS especially an auxiliary verb and ,the other is and fresh venison on the Ist of March. It Daniahed to the isiand of Fernando Po will sal from Prominent Departures. The Advancing Conflagration in Cuba. the | forbids the use of batteries in the South Bay, Havana to-day. D. ©. Litth left yesterday a ? not, The writer who does not recognize the A base Hennes pepesrslreit ae: reilctoand bas be An intelligent examination of the telegraphic | | ooutiar character of the auxiliary verbe, and | Probibits sailing for ducks or killing them at | AN Aroument.—Carl Schurz’s reason for not voting for the repeal of the Civil Tenure bill now is that he wants to vote for the repeal by and by. He does not want to deprive him- self of the pleasure of voting against the repeal next session. advices from Cuba shows that the revolutionary ut | night; all of which are most excellent enact- conflagration is advancing westward irresis- pia Ne arapetie ni ee dene is | ments. Trout fishing commences on the Ist ‘tibly, notwithstandiug the repeated reports ignorant of our language. Apply the maga- of March on Long Island and on the Ist of from Havana of the insurgent defeats. In| 9+, arguments strictly and we cannot say | Aprilin the rest of the State. Most of the fact, itis these reports of Spanish successes | <4)» man is dead,” though we hold that ech | Provisions are sensible and consistent, and, which give us the first intimation of the | ,, expression would be nevertheless good | even if the law is passed in its present state, it appearance of the revolutionists at new points. English. For instance, “the man is,” argues will be in the main correct. The last telegrams advise us of the appearance | 1,4 magazine, is equivalent to ‘the man of an insurgent force at Macagua and the exists,” and you cannot add ‘“dead” to such great activity of others at Bolondron, The a form, since this would “bring preposterously Place first named is the eastern terminus of the | tovether” inconsistent terms; for a man dead system of railroads radiating from Havana, no longer exists. Matamoros and Cardenas, and the second is an If we trace to its real source this difficulty important point in the heart of the great sugar | j, regard to “Is Being Done” we find that we distziot of Cubs. When this district becomes are discussing the philosophy of grammar in involved in the revolution, as has all the | 7.04 to active and passive voices. Active country east of it, a vital blow will be struck | 414 passive voices are in the very nature of at the resources of the Spanish government. } the primary actions of. the human intellect ; These are now derived entirely from the slave and ifa language @oes not possess forms of labor of the Western Department, and’ the expression adequate to the intellectual opera- recent decree of the Cuban revolutionists | ,. tions of the people that use it this is a certain establishing the unconditional abolition of | indication that the forms it has must be de- slavery “exsures the early’ Goetruction: ofthe veloped or wrested to the occasion that arises, | if pursuit becomes hot a timely surrender will system. How can we in English, where the voice is pas- insure his safety. He surrenders and the Tue Tenure or Orriog LAw—Covuwtio | sive and the time the present, associate such at- | Plunder is divided betwoen the owner and the Noszs.—We have before us several conflicting | tributes asthe participleconveys? How can we detectives, Thus, when a thief succeeds he estimates of the probable vote of the Senate | do this without ambiguity in the voico? Can | *teals for himself, but whon he fails he steals on the repeal of the Tenure of Office law. | we do it by any use of the present participle? | fF the detectives, The police is thus directly From these estimates, or conjectures, rather,we | The difficulty is that the most essential charac- | {terested in the cultivation of crime, in en- et the admission from both sides that the re- | teristic of this form of speech is that it ex- | CoUraging robberies on a grand scale, and in ult is doubtful. The democrats, in their zeal | pressesaction. To whatever word this terminal | Dever driving great rogues to such extremes for the repeal, have, we apprehend, been scar- | “ing” is affixed it adds to the previous sense of | ** Would compel them to give up their opera- ing some of the carpet-baggers over to the | that word the idea of activity—as watching, | tions. We have the samo system on a smaller ther side, But still the pressure of the office- | walking, running. And it is ignoring the very | ®°#le {n other parts of the police administra- kers for the repeal is telling in the radical | nature and growth of our language not to tion. All the dens of iniquity in this town are ks, and the repealers are sanguine of suc- | consider this; for the particle is the addition | ‘Permitted because they serve the polico as for they have the right on their side and | to the word of another word expressing action. | Convenient traps in which to catch the rogues fe President. It is as if we should say of a man that ho is | WO drift this way. As Important Bitt Sicnep.—The Preai- | Work doing, talk doing, eat doing, and then, Goop CHaNos ror A Sueiuna Comnrr- dent has signed the bill establishing equal for convenience and facility of utterance, drop rer.—If the Legislature wants to send down rights to blacks with whites in the District of | the 4. If, then, we use this active for a pas- any more committees to nose out the iniquities Columbia, to act as jurors, to hold office, &c., | Sive—if we take a class of words that in their | or tig city it may send one to the pig yards the right of suffrage having been established | D&ture express action and use them for the | 1.) town that are now proving their sweetness heretofore. This is an important bill, for it is | direct contrary, it is an abuse in language and | +, 14,4 Board ot Health. the beginning of the end in reference to the | ™¥%t lead to that reproach of speech—ambi- ceca rights of negroes to hold office. The abolition | Suity. Pans Fasnioxs Durive Lent.—During of slavery commenced in the District of Co- If we say the house {s building, a storm is | Lent our Paris fashions correspondent has lumbia, and so did negro suffrage. The third | brewing, there is but little fault to find, because | been to church, as in duty bound, and our and last step in this programme of ‘equal | there is no danger of doubt. From the nature | lady readers are therefore informed to-day rights” has now been taken in the same dis- | of the case but one interpretation can be put | how the fair penitents dress who form the trict, and it is tantamount, under the circum- | on the words, as. storm does not brew ale | largest part of the fashionable congregation of stances, to a settlement of the question | nor s house build itself. Yet this expression | Father Felix at the cathedral of Notre Dame. throughout the United States. only stands on sufferance and for want of a | Old fashioned sedan chairs have been revived better, since, after all, the house is doing | in Paris, and ladies of the faubourg Saint MANAGING THE Mommous:—The Indianapo- | nothing, and so cannot be build doing. | Germain now go to church in them and not on lis Journal says the “polygamy of Salt Lake | put there are many more instances | the velocipedes recommended for that purpose must be broken up as @ condition of society.” | in which the expression must mislead. Sup- | by Henry Ward Beecher. The pastor of Ply- This, from « republican organ, is the first out- | nose, to slightly modify an expression in| mouth Church might also recommend the new spoken expression of the party in support of | Shakspeare, we should say Polonius is at| money bag—‘‘s long, dangling alms pouch the plank in its platform which declared supper, ‘‘not where he eats, but where he ts | made of artificial flowers”—which is now worn polygamy and slavery ‘‘twin relics of bar- | eating,” who would guess what {s meant? It | in fulldress at tho Paris churches. But, like barism.” If the views of the Journal—which | was because of difficulties like this that so | most Americans, he cannot have much venera- represent those of Senator Morton—are to be | gound a reasoner and clear a writer as Dr. | tion for the old clothes, the cocked hats and regarded as an index of the manner in which | gohnson marked with reprobation this manner | gray coats of Napoleon the First, which were the Mormons are to be managed, it might be of forming passives. ‘There is,” he says, | lately bequeathed by the cousin of the present well for Brigham Young to bring out in bis | ‘another manner of using the active parti- | Emperor, the Princess Bacciochi, to the Salt Lake City theatre a new version of the ciple, which gives it a passive signification. | Museum of Sovereigns at the Louvre. farce of “‘A Manager in Difficulties.” This is, in my opinion, a vicious expression.” ee thei ctl a sol Tre Inn om DisneTabisuuns The difficulty in regard to ambiguity was | Wrton Doxs He Mean ?—Carl Schurz says pee Cans “aamieden ombakien apparent in the earliest use of this form of | that the great abuses in the appointments to night inform us that the discussion upon the speech, whence a distinction was made by the | office are due to the fact that place is given bill to disestablish the Irish Church was being | Prefix ‘‘a", equivalent to at. Now wo find, in | for personal or political favoritism. Does this continued in the British Parliament, John | fact, that the form before us supplies exactly | refer to the Senator's appeal to Grant to make Bright spoke strongly in favor of the bill and the loss of that prefix. But that old provision | some pipe heehee opm ar In the course of his remarks took occasion to | has passed out of use; the occasion for it | souri, or to Grant's reply that he knew the glance across the Atlantic and review the anti- | Femains, and we have another form of speech | people of gene a heared British feeling existing here among our Irish | that serves as its equivalent, and so serves 7 adopted citizens. through the habit of the people taking any cm refuge that the spirit of the language affords against uncertainty in meaning. Why, then, In the Senate yesterday Mr. Fenton introduced | paul, Minn.; Rich: 8 bill to prohibit secret sales of gold, which was re- | ana hawt ay see og aera ferred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Abbott re-| ar. and Mrs. James B. Mackenzie, Miss Adrienne Ported and asked immediate consideration of bill | webster, New York; Dr. R. H. Townsend, ©. D. de to fix the status of judge advocates of the army; but | st. sauveur, Paris; A. J. Ostheimer, Philadelphia; Mr. Grimes objected, on the ground that itfproposed | Mr, and Mra. Ciccone, Paris; Mile. M. Blanchard, too large a number of officers, and the bill was inde- | New York; Mr. A. Dennutte, Havana; Mr. and Mrs. finitely postponed. Mr. Sumner introauced a | Richardson, Boston; Mrs. Signigo and child, Paris: Joint resolution to reduee ocean postage to | Miss R. M. Redevin, Mr. Lechaux, France; Mr. and ‘he rates of postage on land. At the expiration of | Mrs, Lapage, N. Hart, Jackson; Mrs. L. J. Hart, New the morning hour the bill to repeal the Tenure of | york; F. de Bacien, W. W. Emile Guilion, Mr. and Office act came up a8 unfinished business, when Mr. | irs, a, Morlof, sailed yesterday in the French Vickers made an atgument in favor of repeal. Mr. steamer Pereire for France. Thayer also advocated repeal, declaring that the act ee ee waa poo passed to check the career of Andrew John- | Christianity and Our Era=The New Mis- son x he bad abandoned his party. One reason stonary ncies. why he desired repeal was to enable President — Grant to remove the Johnson men and copperheads We have had occasion more than once in still in office. Mr. Drake was in favor of repeal, but | these columns already to call attention to the Would not vote for suspension, which, was but | fact that in these later years of the nineteenth another method of putting the President upon pro- century the religion which proudly claims for bation. He wanted to leave the President | . teas, 350 deaks Gab) conrepe). atin caai tee founder Jesus of Nazareth is in a pecu- others unfriendly to the republican party. | liarly flourishing and hopeful condition. Nu- Mr. Morrill denied that the act was intended | merically it is far from being the largest merely a8 a check upon Mr. Johnson, but he would | religious body. Compared with Buddhism in giadly see it modified, but neither suspended nor re- is parti smal pealed. He dissented from the views expressea by sas lular Christianity looks very. e republican Senators mm regard to government patron- | indeed. Numbers, however, are not the only age, and denounced the doctrine of “to the victors | nor the surest test of strength. Buddhism belong the spotls” as a source of great national evil. | makes no more conquests, and is identified Mr. Casserly favored repeal, contending that under | with a civilization which is doomed and must the constitution the power of removal was vested in te President alone, and was a necessary power in soon pass away. Christianity, on the other order to secure faithful administration of duties, | band, is full of youthful energy. If its follow- ‘The doctrine implied in the law that the powerof | ers are yet in the minority, if it has much removal could be reguiated by legislation was a | work to do and many conquests to make, it is dangerous heresy, and its, logical conclusion was . that Congress had the right to deprive the President also the most powerful force in tle shape of of that power altogether. At haif-past four o'clock, | Téligion which the world now knows, or, in- without taking any action on tne bili, the Senate | deed, has known for many centuries. In one adjourned. sense it represents, in another sense it con- Miscellaneous. The counsel of young Twitchell, who is to be exe- keg tas ae ag arable scene cuted next month in Philadelphia for the murder of | 2 times. Whatever has a right to be called his mother ine'aw, Mrs. Hill, has written a letter de- | “modern” as distinguished from “ancient” mying the statements recently published by the | civilization is Christian in its origin and in its Easton Argus of an alleged interview between | main characteristics. Steam power, in its ‘Twitchell and his pastor. . The President has appointed James W. Haines, manifold spplications, the electric telegraph, Frederick A. Tridle and William Sherman commis- | he printing press—these and all the other sioners to examine and report on the completed sec- | forces which are rapidly changing the face of Sions of the Central Pacifle Railroad, vice Bigler, | the globe and transforming and elevating hu- Denver and Henley, removed. man society— oped The collectors of internal revenue in Tennessee a eer, eve ord have: inaugurated @ vigorous campaign against the | Christianity, and they are now her willing ‘whiskey ring in that State. Collector Wilson, of the | handmaids. ‘Third district, aided by a company of United States Time was when the churches dreaded the troops, is operating in the mountain counties, where his assistants have succeeded in confiscating five introduction ot every new thing. Christianity Aifferent illicit distilleries. was always in danger when science made any Thomas Harland, deputy commissioner of tne | fresh conquests. It has at length been demon- internal revenue, has resigned that position, his | strated that science, after all, is s more resignation to take effect as soon as his successor is made familiar with the duties of the office. Powerful protector of Christianity than all the ‘The Senate yesterday confirmed several nomina- churches put together. It does not under- tions sent in by President Grant, Among the number | Mine; it strengthens the foundations. It does ‘was that of William A, Richardson to be Assistant | Not mar; it rather reveals and enhances the Secretary of the Treasury. beauty and attractiveness. Our Sunday and A resolution has been introduced in the Lower House of the Arkansas Legisiature declaring that Monday Heratos afford a striking illustration the new Speaker is a non-resident of tho State, ana | °f What one of the most potent of modern therefore disquatified from holding office. a reso | *gencies can do and what it is doing in the tution was aiso introduced accusing the Clerk of the | interest of Christianity. The press can no House of malfeasance tn oMce. said to be divorced from religion. ‘The Common Council of St. Louis has granted to spread 8 the several railroad companies pottrendl gg teas | C7 Sanday we Out before our readers city the privilege of extending their tracks through | ® full account of the doings of all the church the streets to the levee. ‘This will greatly facilitate | in every section of Christendom. On Monday, the grain business of the State, as it will enable | through our columns, the preachers repeat loaded cars to be run through from Western Mis- sourt to New York without breaking bulk, their sermons to fresh. audiences, multiplied The Pensacola and Georgia Railroad and the Tal- | More than a hundred-fold. It is « new mis- Iahasse Railroad of Florida were sold yesterday at | Sionary movement. A large portion of the public sale. The first named road was sold for | force at our command is thus regularly and $1,220,000, and the Tallahasse road brought bat | systematically devoted to the help of the $195,000, The Oxy. churches, to the service of Christianity. We ‘The nitro-glycerine found ina boat at the foot of | Yield up our space willingly; we grudge Whitehall street on Thursday was shipped from the | neither the labor nor the expense. But we ovis te meg Moe hadley N. J., and con- | shall not rest contented until we see more life wig ie agent of the United States government, Se Gariaeed, Ga. The glycerine, Which Was seuaed nm pn poring more activity, more power by the Commissioner, is valued at $615, in the pulpit, Our example is already In the Supreme Court, before Judge Barnard, the | being extensively followed. The movement is case of James Fisk, Jr., vs. The Union Pacific Rail- | certain to become more and more general. Fond Company came up yeeterday, pursuant toad-| The press has thus so far come—it is comin: journment. Thomas ©. Durant, vice president of . the company, was examined relative to the coaneo. | ™Fe and more—to the help of the preachers. tion of the Crédit Mobiier with the ratiroad com. | It will be their own fault if they do not make pany, and at the conclusion of his testimony the case | full use of the opportunity, They never have por further pra eauaet eae ae A.M. | had such an opportunity. Christianity can- Thursday udge ‘an order ap- potuting W. Tweed, df, recetver of the Crédit Mo. not but gain. The churches and the preachers billet in this State, but was unable to find any books, | ™4Y Not prove themselves equal to the oc- bonds or other property belonging to the associa- | Casion. Time will soon reveal the fact; but i tion. An affidavit was read from Mr. Fisk, setting | the time is precious. forth that he feared it was the intention of parties | The publicity which we have given for terested move rty of th Sash Athen “a Alga Po uaaharer some time past to ecclesiastical matters has injunction already granted. Mr. Fisk has been | S!teady produced fruit. It has always seemed tuformed that the ratiroad company has a secret ser. | to us that those immense gatheriags whic! Danozrovs,—There is a society here that is calied the Association for the Prevention of Gambling. Its method of preventing this vice is to keep spies on duty at the gambling places to get the names of visitors, and then the so- ciety communicates with the employers or basiness partners or other persons interested in the honesty of the person, reporting the fact of his visit to such places. Now, we have aa idea that a society acting on these principles is worse than the vice it fights against. The dis- honesty that may be in gambling is but one phase of dishonor; but here is the whole figure of that moral horror.. Even with those who believe in the above society its motive is, perhaps, all that justifies it. But suppose abuses—suppose this damaging report to be made falsely, through malice. What then? This society must be wrong sometimes. It is as likely to be deceived in its agents as othera are. Who started hore this Italian institu- tion? ImproveMENT Loan.—That is a good propo- sition now before the State Senate to pay for local improvements done by the city authorities on a different plan from the one hitherto in use. By any considerable street opening or other improvement the whole city—every lot in it—is benefited, and therefore the whole city should pay; but property near the im- provement receives more benefit, and there- fore should pay a larger proportion. The plan is to meet these points by assessing part of the cost, as now, and paying part by an issue of city stock. Asout A Fis Batt.--The very elegant and magnanimous people who got up the inauguration ball refuse to pay for their supper. They agreed to give the caterer half the proceeds, and he took the chances and went in for a speculation; but as the proceeds were heavy they want to cheat him. Inau- guration balls are always got up by men of this class. There wasa man in Pennsylvania once who would steal acorns from a blind hog, but he was not so bad as these fellows. Dessoration.—Nothing can be more revolt- ing to humanity than that carving up of a dead friend or relative called a post-mortem examination. Only the necessities of public safety ever justify this proceeding where there are friends to be shocked and grieved by it, It should never be done where there is no doubt as to the cause of death. Yet it is said that there is an arrangement about our Coroners’ offices to force these examinations where they are not necessary in order to collect the fees payable in these cases. Where will this rapacity stop ? The Detective Didiculty. There scems a disposition to make Young,’ recently the detective captain, the victim for shortcomings not his, but due in fact to the bad system of which he was a part. It is the system that isto blame. He did not invent it and could not change it if he ever had any desire to. Nothing can be worse on its face than the idea of making thieves and the police mere con- federates ; yet this thing is constantly done by the system of compounding crimes to recover property. By this system the rogue is never in danger. He steals in the hope of getting off with his plunder, but in the certainty that Mumicrrat Rive mx Part.—They have @ municipal ring also in the French capital. It is composed of Baron Haussmann. He does astonishing things and makes the city pay, and pay at a terrible rate. The ring is ovena more expensive luxury there than here; but the difference is that there they have some- thing to show for the money when it is gone. Tue Cry is “Stu. Tarr Come.”—Tsracl Washburne has been appointed Collector of the port of Portland, with Falmouth annexed. ‘Thus is anotherof the Washburne family pro- vided for. Who comes next? Over Tary Go.—Accounts of railroad acoldents multiply. It has become fashionable nowadays for trains to take a lively turn down an embankment, giving passengers the benefit of the gyrations, The last case occurred on the Grand Trank Railway in Canada, sending i topsy turvy the passengers in one of those Inviting travelling vehicles oalled palatial sleeping cars. Elegance did not prevent ocou- ante from receiving severe contusions. Too Many Lawyers.—Sprague says there are too many lawyers in Congress. There are too many everywhere. There is too much law may we not employ aform that prevents doubt, | 4 to little justice im the whole machinery of poi circumlocution and ‘as distinct and government, national, State and municipal— definite use? Because, say the grammarians, especially muntolpal. Dig vasthiai it is a new-fangled form, and we have not] Nor Oreprrasi®.—Dr. Parker's lectures on such familiarity with it that we can give it &| “The House we Live In” are not up to the agemainan place within our rules, Doctor’s fame a6 & surgeon. They are, in “Have We a Demooratio Party Amono | Perhaps this is because you take a small | fact, jejune and frothy. Even within profes- Us?” is the inquiry of the Louisville Courier- | and erroneous view of your rules, Here, for | sional lines lecturing is not the Dootor's forte. Journal, Doubtful. The Tammany National | instance, is a fact in English grammar duo to | Is ita result of our system of education that Convention sent it sky high last July—on In- | the genius of the Ianguage—passive verbs are | #0 few of our medical teachers are even re- dependence Day. always compound, And why shall we not, | spectable in the lecture room? : Poor Viratnta.—The Richmond Hnguirer— once the proud organ of the aristocratic de- mocracy of the once proud Commonwealth of Virginia—is in the doldrums, According to its notions Virginia ‘‘has gone to pieces” by Con- gressional action. Too late, Ita own politi- cians sent it to the other place long ago.