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6 POPULAR AMUSEMENTS OF THE GERMANS Where they Go and How they Bujoy Themselves. THE WANT OF THE PEOPLE. ‘To know how to live isascience. Not everybody nor every nation 18 possessed of it. Those who do know it contribute not only to their own comfort, but to the nealthfulness of their race. A rational mode of life begets cheertulness of temper, from which again springs the invigorating spirit of health, There must, however, a certain mean be observed. The morose austerity of the monks of L& Trappe 1s a8 much to be condemned and contemned as the loud boisterousness of lewd orgies, A divi- sion of time between business application and sensi- ble recreation is necessary to preserve the body in health and to Keep the mind active, whiie neither the one nor the other should wholly absorb all the energies of man. It is especially to Americans that we address these remarks. The ‘go aheadativeness” of the American peuple has become proverbial. In tt lies and from it came the main source of the unparalleled progress of this country. Some pretend to see in it nothing but the greedy desire for the “almighty dollar;” but, to our view, there is something more concealed with- in it, It is the restless spirit uf activity, which brooks no delay and presses ceaselessly forward, overcomes every obstacle, and finds pleasure in contending with dificulties, Buta bow bent too much will snap. Even an engine, howsoever powerful. when overworked, will either burst or break, Man is but a living engine, moved and kept 1n life by heat pro- duced by combustion, and unless the necessary ma- terial be successively furnished for the vital powers to act upon and rest be given as occasion re- quires for the active properties of the human body to recuperate, the latter will, like unfed fire, con- sume itself, This is no idle talk; there is whole- some, solemn truth im it. Our great-grandfathers knew it weil enough and left us the old nursery say- ing, “ali work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. In this, as in many other a homely phrase, is hidden @ sound iesson of the philosophy of life. To know how to live may, therefore, be called the science of the economy of lie. It behooves us, in a material point of view, to study it and apply the ex- perience of other nations to our own case. In this respect popular amusements become a popular boon and are weil worth the attention of our people. As in factories the division of labor has resulted in benetit to all, so in com- mon ie a proper division of time between business, rest and recreation will likewise produce beneticial fruits. We may learn much in this respect from the different European nationalities who make this country their adopted home. Far advanced as we are in wany things over all other nations, in re- gard to this we can profit a great deal by their exam- ple, and especially by that of the Germans. Thrifty and prosperous as they are as a Class, enriching the country ana themselves by their energy, they forget not that while to work in season 1s man’s duty, to enjoy tife is man’s right as well. Hence we find that they make the best possible use of every opportunity offered tor rational enjoyment, and fare the better for it. But for this the Germans would not be what they are--a nation of hale, hearty fellows, capable of enduring any amount of hardship and battling for their rights with persever- ance, though not with ferocity. Their way of life makes them tenacious. And though tenacity 38 one of the peculiar characteristics of the American people—wiica they fully proved during the late Wwar—it might be Increased to stubbornness if with the alacrity of Uie Awerican to understand were united the tenactly of the German to hold. Hence we propose to show the American public how Ute Germau citizens of the United States live, , how they amuse theinselves, how they enjoy their rest, the respite they nave from business. WHAT IS WANTED. In this connection it is necessary to say that the Germans have studied the science of living. Busi- hess is one thing with them and recreation another. They know uo ¥ to divide tue two; they know how to periurm the duties of life, and also how to enjoy its They They have either friends or with them. Go anywhere German place of amusement, and you will find the familes—the man and lis wife and their children—all pleasantly associated with other families, and, “‘ihrowing care to the dogs,’ enjoying themselves and gainmg strength — for hext day’s drudgery. Tue expense is little, as Will be seen beiow. To ali these places the fee of admission Is cheap, in order to enaple whole families to enjoy the pastime The performances, en regie, are not of the highest order of scientific skill, They are, iu some cases, rather inferior; but that makes no difference. ihey are up to the popuiar taste, and ‘that is all which is Wanted. Tiere are songs and music and tieatrical performances, all at a cheap rate and all ior the people, more so than the most artistic representation of a Booth, aJanauschek, a pleasures, never go alone. their families into a__ purely Naas or Dawison could weil be. The wealthy can enjoy the heroes of the art. They have the money and are able to pay. Compar- ively but few of the people are wealthy, and those who are not, seek other places where for Jess money they may “tlrow care to the dogs” and have an hour or two of pieasant, social entertain- ment. For such it is the duty of those who can aiford it to provide the localities where all, rich and poor aike, May Congregaie and spend an evening, and Witere the wives of ali and their children would hot hestiate to accompany them. LIFE IN EUROPE. ‘This has been very weil managed in Europe. In ali the large cities there are pla of aniusement suita- bie for all classes and v.sited by ali. In Vienna, Ber- lin, Munich, Co.ogne, Hamburg, Bremen, Paris, Lon- don, ani, in fact, every city etuer on tie Content or in the ‘British Isis!” has its localities where peopie of every condition und it pleasurable to go with their families and friends, and where the expense is but very little. Take, for instance, the Kroll’s ¢ en at Berlin. Here everytliag i8 up to .he highest mark of expecta. ton, ‘There is skating in lie Winter and swimming im the summer. Here you have a tueatre and circus, & swing for the children. a menagerie, a caroussel, Italian nig! Hreworks, in fact every- ‘thing that imay desire, and all for a very small ay. So i is at the Furadies, at the speri, the lysium, aod at @ hundred other places in Vienna. And te same is the case in all the other cities in Europe. Why not bere? Are the Germans in this intry to have the privilege to show the Amerigans ow co liver”? THE GERMAN RESORTS. Having i the foregoing given ao indication of the necessity that to “mix the useful with the sweet” is what is stil lacking in the character of the American people, we will proceed to give @ short account of some of the piaces which the Germans have provided, in this city and environs, for their Own eujoymen’. it is impossible to give them ail, tor there are so many that 4 mere mention Of their locality wouid probably fill up a page in the HERALD. But those mentioned are among the more rominent, and might be an example to Americans ow to enjoy life and provide forthe recreation of the great public—that portion of it, at least, who neither own bor drive in carriages, but take their families (even the babies) to keep them com- pany, and to see, a8 Marquis Posa said, that “life is ir. JouN KRESS’ SUMMER GARDEN, Kristian Kor- nebisen, proprietor, on Fifty-fifth street, between Second and Third avenues.—This has a front of four full city lots, with the usual depth. Among the = attractio are an aviary, a large foun- tain and a concert every evening. The Place can hold about 1,500 persons, and the average daily attendance is about 500. The “Young Pigeon Breakfast Club,” composed of Ger- man gourmands of the Nineteenth ward, meets he: at sunrise every morning during the summer. Ad- Mission is tree, and a majority of the daily visitors are members of the Nineteenth Ward Reading Clab and their families. Scnvustzen Kun.—This place is situated on the corner of Sixty-sixth street and First avenue. It is @ public aay 85 by 100 feet, has @ pavilion, trees and shrubbery, and a number of German gice clubs meet there regulariy, thd | vocal coucerts. It can accommodave 500 persons, but the average per day 18 about 150, BAavER’s SUMMER GARDEN.—This place is situated on the corner of Seventy-first street and Fourth ave. nue, and is about 150 by 76 feet. It has a nice cot tage for visitors to the Central Park, for whom it is especially designed. There are seats for about 1,000 rsons, though the average per day is selaom more than 300. Adinission free. THIRD AVENUE PARK.—It is located on Seventy. eighth street, between Third and Lexington avenues, can accommodate about 500 persons, and the daily average 1s about 150, Occasionally, especially Satur- = and Sundays, there isa concert at this place. Admission is free at ail times except when societies Tent it for picnics, HAMILTON PARK.—This is one of the popular places of amusement in the city among the German: being on Third avenue, between Sixty-seventh an Sixty-eignth streets. It runs through to Second hue and can hold over 10,000 persons. This piace 18 largely visited by our German population, and dur- ing the whole summer a great number of societies, Military companies and the Swabian Carmstadter Yoiks Verein have their festivals here. Admission free except on society days. CREMORNE GanvEs.— This place is situated ‘On Third avenue to Lexington avenue, between Sev- enty-second and Seventy-third streets, It 1s known for the Rochus festival held here annually. There are concerts nightiy and admission is free. ‘The capacity of the place is about 3,000, and the ave- = daily beeen mon 1,000, LLEVUE GARDEN,—This resort is situated on th East river, foot of Eightieth street. it Comprises about six acres and can accommodate over 7,000 persons, though the average number of vistors per day is only about 2,000. As in all the other places already mentioned all the different appliances for the amusement of the public are here to be found, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1869.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. as F balla, stich as Russian swings, carousels and danc! a wrth A'dne breeee from Sere an a abe shore of ver. Jongs’ Woop.—This place is well known from the late Schuetzenfest, which congregated about 20,000 ple daily suring tts continuance last summer. The large hall built by the Schuetzenbund is still ‘there and concerts nightly will be the amusement of the public. . River Park.—This has had as many easinicoe visitors a day, on Fast river, foot of Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth streets. The dail rage attendance may be stated as about 2,000, FeLSENKELLER.—This place is on 110th street, near Fourth avenue, has lately opened a vault drilled out of solid rock, and with concerta and glee clubs the German populares of Henem ane making it their resort. Its capacil ul ‘TERRACE GARDEN.—This . situated on Third avenue, between Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth streets, 1s building a theatre for summer night performances, Besides the concerts, to which a small admission is charged, there are many other attractions; the Arion Vocal Society, the Nineteenth Ward Reading Club, and probably the Liederkranz, will hold their summer festivals at this e. The garden wil! accommodate over 5,080, it the daily average of visitors is nearly 3,500, UNION PARK.—This place is on the East river, from Sixty-second street and First avenue. The ground covers about twelve acres and can comfortably accommodate 10,000 — The average daily visitors number over 3,000. Hupson RIVER Ga&RDEN.—This is located on Fifty- ninth street, between Tenth and Kleventh avenues. It contains about two acres, holds 2,000 persons and anes 160 visit it daily, except when picnics are e| PHILLIPPI’S GARDEN.—This place is situated on Second avenue, near Sixtieth street, It is a small ia, stiil the datly average of visitors is exceeding 0, Etm Park—On Broadway and Ninety-second street, contains about four acres and will hold about 4,000 persons; the daily average is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000. BROADWAY GanpEN—Near to the last, on Broad- way and Ninty-third street, It extends to the North river and covers an area of about four acres. Though niore than 5,000 persons have frequently been here, the daily average 1s about 500, Lyon Park.—It is situated on 110th street and Tenth avenue, and fits capacity for room has never been fully tested. at some of the Arion ana Lieder- kranz summer night festivals over 10,000 persons were present, and still there appeared to be room for more. The average daily attendance is about 2,500 during the summer, GERMANIA PARK.—This is one of the curiosities of Westchester county, being situated in Melrose, a Short distance east of Third avenue. It will accom- modate 10,900 people, though, excepting picnics and Sundays, seldom more than 2,500 are present, BEEKMAN HILL PaRK.—On the bank of the East river, between Fiftieth and Fifiy-first streets, is capable of housing over 6,000 people. What the average daily attendance may be cannot be said. GERMAN THEATRICALS, Above are some of the principal places of summer resort for our German population. They go to either one of them in the evenings accompanied by their families, and while their wives and children meet friends and acquaintances, and enjoy the free air of nature, they act as a check upon their “mon,” and extravagances are seldom to be seen. But this is notall. All over the city there are places equally inviting, because of their cheapness and because they contribute to enhance social enjoyment. Not to speak of mere dancing halis, it is enough to refer to the fact that besides the Stadt theatre there are a number of places in the city where theatrical per- formances are given once, twice or oftener per week to crowded audiences and to the utmost delight of the listeners. Of course the measure of true artistic criticism would be out of pla:e in these locaiities, but they serve their wholesome purpose by provid- ing cheap pular amusements. Such are to be found at No. 42 avenue A; at Hubatchek’s, No. 533. Fifth street; at Dramatic H on East Houston Street, near Mott; at Kaemmerer’s Beethoven Hall, No. 431 Sixth street: at Wubschel’s Saenger ilall, on Forty-second street, near Ninth avenue; at Land- mann & Held’s Assembly Rooms, on Forty-fourth street, near Ninth avenue; at Traub’s National Gar- den, in the Bowery; at Dier’s Bowery Garden; at Union Hall, 53 Bowery; at the Atlantic Garden and the Pacific Garden, near the: Bowery theatre. At the four last mentioned places no regular dramatic performance is given, but songs, intermingled with orchestral pieces, are the programmes. All these places are crowded nightly, perhaps not less than 10,000 persons visiting them and others in other parts of the city. CONCLUSION. The above hurried details give our American pop- ulation a good lesson. We have, as shown, a nuin- ber of places where the Germans mostly assemble, capable of accommodating uver 115,000 ns and visited daily by about 40,000, The expense is almost next to nothing, the admission bemg generally free, and only in exceptional cases rising above twenty-five cents. The beverage generaliy used is nothing stronger than lager, of which the wives and children artake as freely as the husbands and fathers. Order is universally preserved, and after the hours spent in pleasantry and amusement, the next day is yearned for to give an opportunity for the refreshed ‘acuities of man to attend to the business of his vo- cation, Such cheap, popular amusements are wanted here. They ought not to be confined to the German nationality alone. They have shown with their Saengerfests and Schuetzenfests how people can rationally amuse themselves, strengthen the body, enliven the spirit, and above all, remain tn the family circle, though out in a public place. HORSE NOTES, Friday afternoon was very pleasant, and a great many fast men and fast horses were out on Harlem lane and the Macomb’s Dam road enjoying the de- luicious weather. Seventh avenue is being graded across the Jane, and that old trotting ground is now cut in two parts, and a ste¢p rise has to be ascended and descended in crossing the avenue. Like the Indians, the trotters will soon have to find new grounds away from this city to exercise their fleet limbs upon unless (as was suggested in the HkRALD a short time since) Sixth avenue above the Park be graded and kept for their use. Antong those who were out we noticed— Mr. L. Phillips, accompanied by the Prince Louis ae Bourbon, behind his very fast and beautiful team of Hambletonian mares. They are so steady and Tast it is a treat to see them go. Mr. Bonner, with a friend, was behind Dexter, and seems to have got the whoa ! on him. Mr. Borrough was driving a bay team. Mr. Odell had out a sorrel and bay. Mr. Eldridge drove his fast colt, Mr. Alcott drove a pair of bays. Mr. H. Barclay had his black and bay. Mr. Foster held the reins over a pair of bays. ae John Briggs drove his fast Josephine and mate, Mr. Hinman drove his black mare. Mr. Barry was speeding Juno and mate. = Matthews was making the dirt fy with his sorrel. Mr. Phyfe drove his stout and fast “My Tom.” Mr. France drove a bay. is Mr. Huggins was behind his team. Mr. Marsnall was “calling on” Shark, and he re- sponded bravely, showing a gait. B. Mace drove a very fast roan horse called “Dick Carhart.” He is one of the steadiest and fastest of our gentlemen's road horses, Abe Dubois was there with a bay. Mr. oe had out a bay trotter. Mr. Andrews drove a fast bay mare. Mr. Abrams was behind his Bashaw. Mr. Brown drove his good troteer Wofal. Mr. Barkley drove a bay and black. Bary Hamilton drove a brown. Mr. Kirk drove his bay and sorrel. Mr. Holbrook drove a gray and brown. Mr. Wm. smith had a brown horse. Mr. Herry Harbeck drove a bay pacer, (oun Jarvis and Wooley were benind a fast team on Mr. Cohen was behind the Admiral. Frank Baker drove a pair of short-tailed bays. Mr. Dennison dro ‘ton Girl and mate, =. bg ap brown horse. r. Jos. Husson he reins over a good =. Mr. Leadbetter drove a fine and fast Hambietonlan mi Mr. Rogers drove a fine pair of grays. Dion meee has rece uy irchased of 5 e ing mm: Dats, $6,000, Fer best time iea:go, nner lohn Haskell bas matched his bay mare against M ‘amphreys’ black mare Eastern Queen fo $00 @ side, best three in five, in harness, over the Fashion, the 19th of May; good day and track. shyfe lost a Valuable horse ‘Thursd noon, in Central Park, by a somewhat singi ? He stumbled, fell and broke tus nec 000, SUICIDE OF A LADY EIGHTY-NINE YEARS OLD. (Port Wayne, Ind. (April 22) correspondence Cin- cinpati Commercial. Another sad suicide was committed in this city Jast night, by an old lady eighty-nine years of age, named Mrs. Susan Christie. She had threatened several times to destroy herself, but no attention was paid to it, her threats being considered as indications of derangement. This forenoon her son found her body in a cistern, where she had thrown herself some time during the night. AN ADROIT THIFF.—Two or three days since a well dressed and gentlemanly appearing young man visited one of the principal Oya, stores on Wash- sapon street and desired to look at some earrings with drops or pedals attached. Several sets were jhown , but none suited until he came to a vel luable pair of heavy fine gold with diamond set tings, which were in @ beat morocco case, and which he examined with particular minuteness. On inquir- ing the cost, he remarked that they were just the article he wished, but not ing sufficient money about him then, he would call and take them the next day if they could be laid aside for him. This was agreed to, and the individual left the store, but has not yet made his second appearance. It has since been ascertained that while examining the articles he managed to exch: the morocco case and contents for Lew i >! Rg BL tained almost a fac-st valuable elry, but which on inspection to be of little or no value, as the metal is more like Attleboro jeweir; than gold, and instead of the setting being diamonds ie trick was mont April we the: ey iy pothing Cael —- Th RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Anniversaries and Ecclesiastical Meetings, 1869. ANNIVERSARIES. American FemaleGuardian Society and Home for the Friendless—Annual sermon by Rev. L. Eddy, D. D., of Brooklyn, on Sunday evening, May 9, in the Fourth Presbyterian church, West Thirty-fourth street, near Sixth avenue, The annual business meeting, for ladies only, will be held at the Home chapel, 29 East Twebty-ninth street, on Wednesday, May 12, at ten A. M. and at two P, M. § New York Sunday School Union—Annual meeting May 18, in the Collegiate Dutch church. New York Unton Theological Seminary—Annual examinetion May 4, Madison square Presbyterian K aaakivs Sunday School Anniversary, June 1. American Congregations Union—Academy of Music, Brooklyn, May —. American Bible Society—New York, May —. National Sunday School Convention—Newark, April 28. Rew York Mepinen Benevolent Society—May 6, at their asylum, Eighty-eighth street, near Fifth ave- nue. GENERAL ASSEMBLIES. Old School Presvyterian—New York city, May 20. New School Presbyterian—New York city, May 20. Southern Presbyterian—Mobile, May 20. Cumberiand Presbyterian—Murfreesboro, Tenn., jay 20, United Presbyterian—Monmonth, Ill, May 26, GENERAL SYNODS, Reformed Presbyterian—Cedarville, Ohio, May 19. Evangelical Lutheran—Washington, C., May 13. Eee ge peeen sian June 2, German Reformed—Philadelphia, November 24. GEENRAL ASSOCIATIONS AND CONFERENC Kansas General Association—Lawrence, M: 2. Michigan General Association—East Saginaw, May 19, Indiana General Association—Indianapolis, May 20. Liitnots General Associatton—Farmington, May 26. Iowa General Association—Denmark, June 2. Rhode Island Conference—Littie Compton, June 8. Onio Conference—Akron, June 8. Nebraska Congregational Assoctation—Fremont, June 10, Connecticut General Association—West Haven, June 15. Vermont General Association—Brandon, June 15. Massachusetts General Association —Woburn, June 15. Oregon Congregational Association—Salem, June Maine General Conference—Bangor, June 22. New Hampshire Gencral Association—Keene, August 24, Wisconsin Presbyterian and Congregational Con- vention—Sparta, October 6, California General Association—San Francisco, October 6, Minnesota Conference—Owatonna, October 14. New York General Association—Potsdam Junc- tion, October 19. Missouri General Conference—Sedalia, October 20. ROMAN CATHOLIC ORDER OF THE FORTY MOURS’ DE- VOTION IN THB CHURCHES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK FOR THE YEAR 1869, May 2—Fifth Sunday after Easter, St. Nicholas, May 6—Feast of the Ascension, St. Alphonsus. May 9—Sunday after the Ascension, St. Peter. May 16— Pentecost, St. Joseph. May 23—Trinity Sunday, St. Anthony. May 27—Corpus Christi, St. Paul, West Fitty ninth street, May 30—Second Sunday after Pentecost, St, Columba. Progress of Religion in the United States— Revivals—Church Organizations, ‘The number of conversions or accessions through revivals the past week reaches nearly 5,000. Of these 930 were among the Baptists, 890 among the Methodists, 780 among the Presbyterians and 600 among the United Brethren. In Holden, Mass., there are 100 or more converts, The revival in West- field, Mass., carries more than the usual marks of genuineness. Not only prominent business men but liquor dealers are among the converts, and have re- nounced the sale of rum. Dr. Shaw's church in Rochester, N. Y. (Presbyterian), received 150 on pro- fession last communion. The Methodists in Utica have 200 hopeful converts. In Greenpoint, L. I, there have been 150 converts, of whom 49 joined the Presbyterian Church at the last communion. Over 100 converts are reported by the Lutheran pastor in Churchtown, N. Y., and over 50 in the Presbyterian congregation of Huron, N. Y. Accounts of the organization of the following churches have reached us during the past month:— PRESBYTERIAN.—From Milwaukee, Wis., a corres- pondent writes:—“By a union of Old and New Scnool Presbyterians residing on the west side of the river, among a population of 40,000, where there has hitherto been no English Presbyterian church, the paleaty Presbyterian church has been lately or- ganized. It begins with a communion roll of nearly 100 members, and with a flourishing Sunday school.’ Churches have been organizea in the following ee N. J. (West church); Milwaukee, 1s.; Lodi, Wis.; Spring Creek, Mo. (Cumb.); Kan- gas City, Mo. (U. P.); Beatrice, Ne! Lincoin, Neb. CONGREGATION AL.—In Boston the Highland church Was organized last month, with a membership of fifty-two persons. Boston has now sixteen Congre- ational churches. Newly organized:—In Boston, Elizabeth, Me.; Smyrna, Mich.; Mount olden ‘Prairie, Towa; La Grange, Mo. Fort Scott, Kansas. Newly organized:—In Hunter's Point, stown, Pa.; Winfield, Pa.; Bethlehem, Pa.; Colchester, Vt; Shelbyville, Ind. (colored); Tre- mont, Ind.; Mount Olive, Ind.; Galesburg, tl. veces Kirksville, Ky.; Hastings, Mich.; Castle Rock, Minn.; Spring Valiey, lowa; Davenport, lowa (German). i EPiscopaL.—New parishes have been recently or- ganized in Aurora, N. Y.; Cypress Hills, L. L, and Harvard, Ill, The Church of the Good Suepherd has been formally constituted in Rochester. The Mess of Pottage and the Thirty Pieces of Silver. To THR Epitor or THE HERALD:— In the issue of the HERALD of Sunday last a few thoughts were presented on the subject of “the al- lance of the world and the Church.” It is proposed in this article to merely glance at the relationship existing between capital and labor as involved in the transaction between Jacob and Esau, under the old dispensation, and the change to be wrougiit in that relationship involved in the transaction wherein the thirty pieces of silver are the counterpart in the new dispensation to the mess of pottage in the old. In an article like this no attempt will be made towards a full illustration of the subject, as it ts one involving the mysterious and triple transaction of civil, religious and indi- vidual rights. The latter it is proposed briefly to consider. In examining the Scriptures the vastness of the ends to be accomplished, in comparison with the smallness of the means used, is in such striking contrast with the preparations made by men tn tneir undertakings that the mind is at once impressed with the truth contained in the new born theory of Scrip- ture homeopathy. The bargain and sale between Jacob and Esau is the first on record. It was the institution of the law of trade—the foundation of the principles on which it has since been conducted, not only by the descendants of Abraham, but by ail other races of men. Without exception it is the grandest speculation recorded in history. It is one in which the seller was emphatically sold. It was the pros- ay acquisition of much for the present release of ttle. It was a transaction combining the temporal and spiritual, faith and substance; for in all large a faith and unbelief enter largely into them. The fearful and unbelieving are those who adopt the temporal adage, “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; while the bold man whose view of the future is strengthened by his faith re- two birds in the bush as worth far more than one in the hand, he is enabled by his faith to see before him in the future the prospect of his becom! the possessor of the living birds in the bush, together with their multiplied progeny. Therefore, the man of faith regards @ small spirit- ual treasure laid up in the future as far more desirable than a large temporal one in the present; for as the latter inishes and at last jes from the sight the former increases in attractiveness in roportion to the nearness of the approach to It. 18 transaction teaches the intimate connection be- tween the spiritual and material. For the mess of pottage the spiritual was parted with—for it the spiritual was obtained. The loss of tne temporal Was the gain of the spiritu It teaches there 1s that which can be sold for money which money will not buy. The right to buy and sell is not disputed, but the mode of doing it and the circumstances under which it is accomplished are often of such @ nature that tt may be questioned if right has any- thing to do with it. It is assumed here that in a temporal poe of view labor was the birthright whic! z Sold Jacob for the mess of pottage, Labor is the Virthright of all men, inherited from the fall of our first parent. As it was determined before Esau and Jacob were born that the elder should serve the younger, the term serve defines the temporal nature of the birthright bargained and sold. ‘This being a decree of God, nothing but a decree of God can de- stroy or in any Way impair it. The hard and rough hands of Esau were typical of the hard hands and brawny arms of abor, The soft and smooth skin of Jacon is represented by its counterpart to-day. The cunning trickery and deceit of the latter are pre eminently prominent in the great and small transac- Hons throughout Christendom. “As the nail stick: eth fast between the joinings of the stones so doth sin between buyer and seller.” The jabor which Esau was commanded by Isaac to perform was by artifice and trickery so diverted from ite legitimate channel that it not only fasied to benefit the laborer, but became the very means by which he was wronged, oppressed and deprived of his temporal as well as spiritual right. Esau came from the fleld and said to Jacob, “Behold, Lam at the polnt to die,” and appealed to his brother for @ pit tance of food to sustain and strengthen him, Jacob, taking advantage of his necessity, said, “Sell me this day thy birthright,’ and Esau, ‘aa is the custom in py hy to count the profit and loss, reason- ing io manner:—“As Lam at tne pot to die, what it shall this birthright be to me?” and he sold I ht unto Jacob. The of the laboring ae parted ad wa Ge sack anee conneer. wa) is at the it to die for him to Often he is r — worth, in is only accumu- lated by labor, There 1s not! conceivable having in or conventional value that is not the pro- session of til he and his descendants flourished for a period; Edom, aa the type of labor, soon became desolate. “From to generation it shall be waste.” Under the old dispensation Fepipora bl were the reward of the righteous. ‘He shall flourish as a branch and shall be recompensed in the earth.”’ ‘The rich and powerful were the special favorites of God, and were so considered; hence the astonish- ment of the apostles when Christ declared that un- der the new dispensation it was as easy for a camel ogo wuponen @ needile’s eye as for a rich man to enter into kingdom ot heaven. They reasoned if the rich, the special favorites of God, cannot be saved, “who, then, can be saved?” The temporal the pott: represented the ma- "| terial ‘agency ny transaction was to be py God's decree overturned and eradi- the evil im the bar and sale cated by wherein the thirty pieces of silver represented the material agency in the transaction cleariy nts the pros, “Heal similar with similar.” This was the initiavory step for the overturning of the old dis- pensation. Old things were to pass away and all things become’new. As@ thousand years is as one day with the Lord, and as God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform, the day when this change 13 vo be final and complete is, no doubt, from the signs of the times, silently but surely approaching. The news of tae beginning of this change was first comiunicated to the laboring class—to shepherds as they watched their fiocks by night. The same class were chosen as chief instru- ments in proclaiming the Cia tidings in the days of its infancy—fishermen toiling at their nets. The carpenter’s son became King of kings aud Lord of lords. Tne beginning of the overturning of the long established relationship between labor and capital was to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness. It was incomprehensible to them in that day; and the stumbling fools are not all dead yet. Labor is the mstrument in the hands of God which more than any other 1s to-aay working out the great problem of the final change, when there shall be no more strife between Jacob and Esau, between capital and iabor. “Kphraim shall not envy Judah and Judah shall not envy Ephraiun;”’ when the earth shall be fuil of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Labor is now do- ing more to bring about this than all the learned preachers with their eloquent sermons and finely wrought exegeses of selected passages of Scripture. Labor, with the aid of science—which 1s the result of labor—‘s exalting the valleys, making low the hills and mountains, rough places plain and making straight in the desert a highway for our God on which his horse in armor swalloweth the ground with swiftness and salth among the trumpets ha! ha!” “He mocketh at fear and 18 not affrighted.”” Labor is the means by which opposite parts of the globe are being brought into close proximity—ait is opening up the way for a great and marvellous change for the ushering in of that day which was prophetically spoken to Esau—“and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the doimunton that thou shalt break his yoke (the yoke of Mammon) trom oif thy neck. The merchants which were made rich by her (Mammon) shail stand afar off weeping and wailing. Forin one hour so great riches is come to naught.”’ Is Christianity a Lie? To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The article in your estimable paper of to-day— “Christianity” —expresses as true sentiments as ever were uttered on the subject, to wit:—“If there is no religion but natural religion—in other words, if there 1s no revealed religion—then Christianity is a lie and tne churches are swindling institutions one and all,” and later on, “we wish to see her (Christianity) ( as she was when seen of old by the lake of Galile and on the hills of Judea. We want to progress; but prostess must be from complexity to simplicity, ‘om human dogmas and decrees to Boapel precept, from artificial ceremonies to artless worship.”” No sensiole man but will concientiously subscribe to these views, views proclaimed as ca the hero of Christianity nimself, an estimable, intelligent man, who i osed—and unto death—the human dogmas of ali Pharisaism, simply recurring to the universa: truth that we are all children of God, part of the all from which we issie, are and return; and that all dogmas are merely clouding that intelligence with which all men are endowed in order to understand- ingly behold and approach God, the universal source of all being; without interference of wrangling me- diators, that substitute for the purpose of personal aggrandizement or profit artificial ceremonies, and human dogmas for artless, intelligent worship. Religious Services by Telegraph. A correspondent of the Journal af the Telegraph, commenting on a novel proposition to have prayers vy telegraph, says:— Let us have prayer by telegraph. I am still under the impression that much good will be the result of such action. That, if prayer is offered in this man- ner, with the true spirito! devotion, it will be a suc- cess; and we will be rewarded, not by man, but by Almighty God, whom we propose to adore with the assistance of the telegraph. Failure can only arise from formality without sincerity. We, as a people, are advancing in art and science. Let us not forget that ali our contrivances and discoveries are thin; which “God has wrought.’ And we should apply all that 1s practicable to the consummation of His services. Believing it practicable, I would urge this system of worship, espe- cially for the benefit of those who are deprived of the privilege of assembling for public worship. Some are placed in wholly irreligious society, and are spiritually alone. Should they hear and offer prayer on the instruments with which they labor they could more readily realize that otner hearts are sympathizing with and praying for them, which would encourage them to persevere, and per- haps enable them to successfully resist the world’s temptations. Should this system become a custom, who knows but many non-professors of Christianity who purposely absent themselves from public wor- ship Will hear a petition that will cause salutary re- fection. [We might add to the above that the HeraLp some time since adopted the system of not only having prayers but whole sermons by telegraph, publishing them on the Monday morning following their de- livery. The above idea is, however, a good one, and may be the means of reclaiming many a perishing operator's soul. Saving a soul by the electric tele: graph! That is progress.—Ep.) The tional Sunday School Convention. Next Wednesday the nationa! gathering of Sunday school men takes place at Newark, For some time the note of preparation bas sounded and there will no doubt be a grand convention. A similar conven- tion was held ten years ago, and one fifteen years before that, and still another about twenty years before the last mentioned. So that the preseni will be the fourth of its kind. Dedication of a Catholic Charch. The dedication of St. Joseph’s.Roman Catholic church at Manchester, N. H., on the 18th instant, was @ grand and impressive affair. The church has been several years in building, and its cost is $70,000, The architecture is medieval Gothic, With the space in the gallery the church will seat 1,372 persons, and the chapel, which opens into the sanctuary, will seat 500 Sabbath school children, The pastor is Father John O'Brien, and the church was dedicated by Bishop Williams, of the Boston diocese, A —_ number of prominent clergymen from were present and assisted in the services. ted that every dollar of the expense of the church has been contributed by the Catholics of Manchester. The President's Sabbath, The Obdserver, commenting upon the statement that the President has made a rule to receive no calls on the Sabbath, and has forbidden his secreta- ries to bring him any letters or telegrams except ‘they are on important public business, in answer to something he has called for, remarks:—We are glad vo hear of this resolution, and we trust the President wiil persevere in keeping it. Apart from the example, which must be salutary in all departments of the government, Its effect upon the President cannot fail to be wholesome. His heaith itively demands at least this amount of rest. There is great danger that he will not be able to hold out now, so is the pressure of public business upon him; fut te observance of the holy Sabbath as a day of rest will do him good, mind, body and spirit, Let nim have peace on that day. The Home for Young Girls, Several benevolent ladies and gentiemea of this city, about three years since, established in West Houston street a home for the temporary reception of young girls exposed to the temptations of city life and for the recovery of those who had fallen, The institution has been instrumental in the rescue of a large number who have been restored to friends or placed in sit+ uations of virtuous industry, and many while temporartiy residing in the Home have become hope- Lens the subjects of divine gri The house occu- pi being too small the Hom be removed to West Fourth street, on Washington square. For these enlarged quarters the managers solicit dona tions of furniture, pictures and whatever may add to the comfort and attractiveness of the place. Such articies may be sent to 86 West Fourth street, at any time after the 25th inst. : $ A New Presbyterian Church in Valparaiso. The Valparaiso Mercurio of the 17th ult. contains @n account of the laying of the corner stone of a New Presbyterian church in that place, at which an address was delivered by the Rev. David Trumbull. The inscription on the parchment deposited in the cavity of the foundation stone is as follows :— The Union of Vi was founded by the Bee, Dekada bal petave of the Unit States of America, in 1845. Their Arst public editice was constructed in the Galle de San Augustin in tain 300 worshippers. That edifice, peor ing insufficient for the increasing numbers, hes disposed of to the German Congregation revently formed by the Rev. vr. Fiedler, and the construction cost. of $61 000, resolved’ ul ne" or mer stone, of cost of $57, upon, the corne which is laid by the Rev. Dr. Trumbull, this 4th d of March, 1869, Pastors, Rev. David ‘Trumbull D. D., Rev. John Guy. The Feeling in New Jersey—Meeting of the Presbytery of Elizabethtown. The Ola School Presbytery of Elizabethtown held its spring meeting in the First church of Elizabevh, N. J.,on the 20th and 2istinstant. A large number of ministers and laymen were present as delegates, among them Colonel Hope, well known in con- nection with the “Hope Express Company,” who represented the new and enterprising church of Roselle, a stirr-ng young village on the Central New Jersey Railroad. This Song rexesios has recently erected a very beautiful edifice and is almost free from debt, New churches have also been erected recently at Westfleld and Liberty Corner, and con- siderable repairs and renovations made on the churches in Rahway, Plainfleld and Elizabethport, ‘This Presbytery is decidedly in favor of the reunion of the Old and New School bodies. It elected the following ministers and laymen as delegates to the next General Assembly, that meots in New York in May, namely:—The Rev. Drs. Piumley and Lucas, and Messrs. E. M. Hunt and Hagamen. Religious Notes. Rey. Dr. Parsons will deliver a lecture on ‘‘Reli- gion and Patriotism” at St. Joseph’s church this |, evening, The proceeds will be devoted to the benefit of the parish schools under the charge of the Sisters of Charity. The lecture will be followed by a sacred concert. The East Side Methodist Episcopal chapel, York- ville, corner of Seventy-seventh street and Second avenue, will be opened to-day with appropriate ser- vices for Sunday school and other religious pur- poses. Services will be conducted at nine A. M. and two and half-past seven P, M. Rev. B. K. Pierce, chaplain of the House of Refuge, will preach. The Most Rev. Archbishop will administer the sa- cred rite of confirmation to-day (April 25) in the church of St. Nicholas, Second street, between First and Second avenues, A New England paper says:—Zrratum.—In our paragraph yesterday, concerning thirteen ministers ‘who had been spanked in infancy, for “spanked” read “sprinkled.” Upon which the Philadelphia National Baptist humorously remarks:—“‘{f these were good ministers, as we are bound to believe, they were no doubt spanked as well as sprinkled in their tn- fancy, and it would be an interesting point to ascer- tain whether the spanking did not do them vastly more good than the sprinkling.” [We respectfully suggest to our clerical brethren the use of the word “Spragued” instead of Hie ae as infinitely more euphonious and genteel, if not devotional.—Ep.) ‘ne other Sunday @ lady preacher in Wisconsin discoursed from the text, “I say unto you, watch,” and the next week the gallant youths of her congre- gation eve her a nice gold one. A Chicago business firm has undertaken the entire support of a foreign missionary, beginning with the present year. Rev. Dr. Harris, assistant corresponding secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, calls for $900,000 for the current expenses of the present year. : The Orthodox Quakers of this country number 54,000. They have 765 churches, that furnish sittings for 269,000 persons. In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution—to be undetermined where the case is so plain and the necessity so urgent; to be always intending to lead a new life, but never to find time to set about it. “Mrs, Van Coot, a widow and a licensed preacher of the Methodist faith, 18 said ‘to have converted over vee Persons within the past year in Northern New York, and yet it is proposed to turn her out of the ministry.” The rest of the ministers up there are probably afraid that she wiliconvert all the sin- ners and thus ruin the business. The Congregationalist says:—The whole business of pew-owning and renting, we are more and more persuaded, is an ill-judged excrescence upon our system, if not a positive nuisance. It will die out long before the millennium.’ T ngelist says the Reformed Church must feel the loss of two such ministers as have just died, viz.:—the Rev. Dr. N. Wyckott, for thirty-two years pastor of the Middle Reformed church, Albany, and she Rev. Jeremiah 8. Lord, D.D., for twenty-one ears pastor of the Reformed church, of Harilem—the former at the ripe age of seventy-elght; the latter, with the harness Peay on, in his fifty-seventh year. No candidate for membership in the Providence (R. 1.) and Kansas Conferences who uses tobacco, “except for pig hPa oses,”’? will be admitted “upon trial or to connection.”” “Tobacco for medicinal purposes” is good. It 1s useful for killing Tats and mosquitoes, The brick edifice known as the New England church in Forty-first street, near Sixth avenue, has been sold to # committee of gentlemen repre- senting the Committee on Church Extension of the Methodist Church. The building stands on leased ground, which accounts for the small price ob- tained—$30,000. In the Nebraska Conference, nine years old, there are forty preachers, 2,315 members and thirteen houses of worship, worth $85,500, The Sunday schools have 2,272 pupils, The agent of the Albert Wesleyan University, of Belville, Ontario, has received $6,000 in aia of that institution. The German Methodist churches of lowa have 25,000 members, There are in the 15,885 Sunday schools of the Methodist Episcopai Church 1,326,833 officers, teach- ers and scholars, a number exceeding that of the Church membership by 71,768. The Con; tional and New School Presbyterian churches of Plymouth, Ill., have entered upon the following co-operative plan. They are to worship six months in the Congregational edifice and six in the Presbyterian, each to keep up its separate organ- ization. Rev. Mr. Swift, of lowa, is preaching fur the united congregations. Marriage is evidently not becoming an obsolete in- stitution or losing favor in the city of Gotham. The number of persons married and legally certified by clergymen during the month of March was 1,198, and for the first week in April 370. The suits against some of our clergymen who fatled to report the mar- riages at which they had oMiciated have been with- drawn on their promising to report tn future. Hints to Teachers.—1. Do not teach what you do not thoroughly understand. 2 Do not ‘tell scholars what they can tell you. 3. Whatever you tell your scholars make them teil you again. 4. Give only reasonable commands, and then insist on their being obeyed. 5, Give your scholars plenty of occu- pation while they are in the class. ‘The Methodist churches of Boston have organized @ Woman’s Board of Missions, In the New York Conference the past year there has been a net increase of 1,442 members, twenty- two pen and five houses of worstip, worth The first Sabbath in May 1s set apart by the Old School et fe geneg churches for the annual collec- tion in behalf of the Board of Publication, The Second church, Philad*lphia, received four- teen new members the 12th inst., making their num- ber gy Oa They sustain two missions, one of which hag @ chapel. The Sunday school numbers 400. Their new sanctuary, seating 600 persons, is nearly finished. The report for 1868 of the Southern province of the Moravian Church in America states that there are in the churches 1,088 communicants, 135 non-communt- cants and 518 children. The Sunday schools contain 529 scholars and sixty-five teachers. Albany has a queer trouble. Two members of a church choir having seceded therefrom, have been singing in the congregation lustily, out of tune, to break down the enemy. Arrest and discharge and re-arrest followed to no purpose, the offenders still singing out of tune. irs. P. A. Hanatord, who has accepted an invita- tion to be pastor, both of the Universalist society at Hingham and Waltham, Mass., will successively preach two alternate Sundays in each place, and Supply the other by substitute. She receives $1,000 from each society. A — ago whe Central Presbyterian church in Rochester, N. Y., dismissed eighty-two members at one time to form the Westminster church of that city, and now on the 4th inst., the mother society re- ceives sixty-three converts on profession of their faith and eleven persons by letter, ‘There is that scattereth and yet increaseth.” The trath of this aradox might be vindicated in this way much more juently than it is to the multiplication of the churcaes and to “the edifying of the body of Christ.’ INDIANA. Sad Accident-A Marder Trial. Turron, April 21, 1869, An infant son of Martin Molliha citizen of this Place, was fatally poisoned this morning by taking a solution of arsenic, sdministered by the father through mistake for quinine. ‘The trial of Jam Stewart, a constable, for the murder of Perry Gi: whom he was trying to ar- rest, about @ year will take place at the next term of the Circuit Court, April 26. Senator John Green, representing Tipton and Hamilton counties in the Btate Senate, says that Jesus Christ was a mulatto. SINGULAR Request,—The suicide by shooting of Miss Sarah ©. Lewis, at her house in Braintree, was mentioned in the Herald on Thursday, and we have since learned that she made a will bequeathing her house and land where she lived to a lady in Boston on condition that she should support the domestic animals the deceased owned during their lives, and when dead the property was to revert to the Univer- salist Society in West Scituate. With the will was found a very large photograph of a tom cat, the property of Mine Lewis, and as this is the only do- mestic animal she was known to ponent, and as the picture will prevent any exchange of the animal, the legacy, even if andisturbed, will Bop, ery long benefit the legates, Boston Herald, April 24. and sous The lowliest seats, and the same smile of thanks answered every offering, thirty-seven windows of stained glass, over the chapels which surround the principal nave, their rainbow tints fell on the large stone. pillars which, like forest trees, rise gracefully—297 in num- ber—to support the’ lofty vaults. Ange: ing from the life of the resurrection formed such an imposing coup d'a@it that it ia no wonder I should have preferred this mass to that of Rossini, now 80 much extolled; for | heard the latter in a gilt opera house, full of fashionable women in iow dress,‘and the words “he was de- spised,” under such circumstances, could not ims press. How different in one of these cathedrals, so silent, until the chant and organ strain burst forth, so pervaded with an atmosphere of things gone by, until clouds of incense rise so triumph of art over marble, stone and metal, all rising to prociaim the glory of on Godhead the origin of all Christian art—the inex. haustible source of every perfect thing ! of Drexel, Harjes & Co., No. 3 rue seribe, I the week ending April 4, 186 Boston—S, Gaetano. London—J. 8. Morgan. E. Hinshelwood. but. Wheeling, N. Pa.—R. 0, . <— Charles de Luge, ina NY the right of suffrage upon you = of opteen and twenty ter, N. HL, on the 27th PARIS FASHIONS. Lions of the Hour—The Latest—Imperial Re- ceptions—| Still the Rage—Prevailing Colors—Fiowers— A Brilliant Fete—Notre Dame. PARIS, April 6, 1869, There is always aman of the day in French circles, just as there is a girl, man, chiid, or baby of the Period in every weekly newspaper, We have had M.de Rangabé, M. Emile Olivier and Sardou in these latter days; the Nabob of Bengal eclipsed ali three for about a week, and now we have the min- ister of King Leopold Il, M, Frére Orban, who has taken the place of the nabob, No one knows what the diplomatist from Belgium nas come for; every one knows he is a remarkable man of about sixty,that his father was a gatekeeper or concierge at the palace of the University, that he was born at Lidge, that he is as great a politician in Belgium as M. de Bis- marck at Berlin; has a fine, high, intelligent forehead, and has risen from the humbie station he was born in to be a consummate statesman, combining deep learning with an elegant exterior. He is an officer of the Legion of Honor, and enjoys tie reputation of being not only a terribly puzzling lawyer but a great Gnancier. It is not unlikely that before this record of Parisian sensations reaches the HERALD gome other lion will have started up. Thus it is chroniclers of the tastes of our times have to sketch rapidly, and for my own part I never can see new men standing in the avenues of high life without having to resist the temptation to act the gendarme and say, “Move on, move on, gentiemen, you are stopping up the footpath.” { cannot complain or the nabob, nor of the atrocious spring weather which has caused him to depart. He has gone, carrying under his arm a to him quite novel acquisition—an umbrella. He has left a good deal behind, as the Indians always do; a native so formed for creeping exotics at home could not travel without some of the indigenous productions; but he has aiso left a large roll of parchment to the tailor who lined his linen trousers and foulard shirts with sable fur, This document nominates the tailor special purveyor to his High- ness. We all had it impressed on our minds that this personage was entitled to a salute of forty guns in every city he entered. The awe which this intel- ligence from St. James’ palace first spread in my mind has abated since my fancy has depicted him in the act of counting the forty reports, standing up under his new umbrelia, with his gold-rimmed spec- tacles on and all the nankeen turned inside out, with the sable linings outside in. But such images as these are not the only things to be reported in elevated circles. The Empress has commenced her intimate Monday receptions. There are to be seven of them; and as there are seven colors in the rainbow our extravaganies have each resolved to wear every color in turn. To come'out in orange or yellow would have been the climax of horror a few seasons ago; it is ail the style now. The wedding of Mile. Jurien de la Graviere 1s an- other incident of importance at the Tulleries. She marries M. Massias, an aid-de-camp of Admiral de la Graviére, and receives the round dowry of 200,000 francs from the Empress. The bride’s father teft for Toulon the day before yesterday; but Eugénie, ever sympathizing with lovers, obtained a congé for the future bridegroom, and he was invited to the Tuileries last evening. Tlie trousseau will come nde my inspection this night—too late for the mail, ty fortunately; but details on tne wedding, which will ree hake on the 11th inst., shall accompany it in my next. 7 eh RI Oe. gal The renaissance or sixteenth century stylea are becoming more clearly defined at court than in any other quarter, the theatre excepted, where the ce- lebrities of the demi-monde always vie ,with fash- ions: setin the highest regions, Skirts are being looped on one side only, under long almspouches chatelaines, the slashed sleeves and valois roll stuffed out with wool round the armhole, laced satin with white lawn coming out erin diamond shape, are the principal teatures of this period, not forget- oo valols hat and curied feather. e Louis XV., so suggestive of levity, are bein; modified by the ‘Trianon styles. The sashes behin are assuming all the more importance from the fact that it was attempted to dethrone them from their camel’s hump. It is a novelty now to have fe? ends behind, one long, the other shorter, and 1m! ately over it; both are fringed. Without anticipating that costumes quite en suite will be done away with, it is noticeable that black corded silk Watteaux, Versailles and Camargos will be worn over plain flounced petticoats, whether muslin, foulard, silk or lawn. The prettiest mantles are at this moment black cashmere, cut with bees’ Wing tunic behind and square mantle fronts; the whole either ruched, and these ruches bordered with black satin, or trimmed with black lace or fringe. Cashmere over tunics, coat and basques in one will be worn immensely in all the tender gamut of shade and color over colored silk sflounced under- skirts. Another material to acquire before summer is the striped Algerian chalys, which will be made into paniers over plain under petticoats of the color of the satin stripe. The idea most in vogue regard- ing shades now is mauve over straw or yellow, biue, shot with silver gray, and blue bordered with light salmon. Sleeyes are either preferred puffed from wrist to elbow or & la vieille, with @ flounce of lace from the elbow, falling over the arm. The latter is very snowy if not adapted by a vielle; but ladies are entreated to resolutely take to the becoming fichu and’puff if they have ever heard themselves called scraggy by a friend. juare bodices are very unbecoming if the anatomy of womanhood is not hidden by a little flesh in some of the Venus Unts. Ido not say all, but one or other of them; if Pink in its freshness and white in its transpar- ence are irrecoverable the moutant or high styles are rendered ideal by proper art ip drapery, and conceal what no one likes to look at without necessity. The following are the flowers I have admired on ring fanchons:—The rose-colored anemone, with black heart; the yellow water lily; the wall flower bouquet for diadem and blue feather aigrette; the flaming poppy and biack aigrette; the lily of the valley aigrette alone and green leaf diadem; the white lilac eranch and violet pansy. I recommend @ white lace hat with a white camelia and aigrette of pink heath, of course for a brune. The most brilliant bail given in Paris since Easter was at the Ministere of Finance’s, by M. Magne. Mme. Magne was in white satin, with diamond neck- Jace and ornaments, and Parma violets mixed with white scented wood violets. Mme. Pernetti, the pe tag of Baron Haussmann, who is gifted with golden hair, was in white, covered with white tulle Tuche, white roses in her hair and in plaits which fell down her back. ae Alfred on Wert — ae with poi and looping of cherry satin, and purpie roses, wi golden grapes tn her hair. Paul raland Edmond About were @ good deal her at the buffet. lie. Marie Magne was in pink tulle, with clusters of Itlies of the yevey Jcoving, up her panier, tn her = and falling about in long fringe round her ice. Many belles had just cut fresh flowers from their hothouse plants, and the dancing salon was per- lumed with their scent. This is the loveliest of adornments. Madame Ducas was in white tulle, with a green tunic of pouit, fringed with pansies on long stems, varying in shade from the yellow to dark vioiet. Princess Julie Bonaparte was in a striped Orien- tal material and a long antique tunic worked with gold. On her foren a bandean of diamonds. One of the most artistic celebrations of this week has been Adolphe Adams’ Grand Mass for the benefit of musicians. It was performed at Notre Dame by 400 instrumentalists and the powerlul organ of the Metropolitan Cathedral. While standing up in organ loft | looked down on the antique nave, in which all the musical, literary and artustic talent of Paris had crowded in answer to the invitation of poor musicians, The wives of some of the most eminent men in France were led through the crowded ranks by members of the association, each lady hold- ing a veivet uch in hand, in which louis fell in brotherly emulation from the wealthiest to the poorest of the audience. loveliest siiken trains swept by the The sun streamed tn from 8 In bronze, and bishops, scenes in paint- jesus and His appearances after tues of the old Kt id ip the mui who was in the PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. List of Americans registered at the banking house ew Yor! Miss Andrews, J. B. nl Mr, Miss M. B. Dar- S. Shirley, Mrs. F. J. Sinith, fee, W. de Moftimer, Mr: and Mrs. Aitred Moore, 199 Kate G. »,, Mise Emina A. Olendorf, J. Newton Sears, W. D. Barbour, &. H. Bia: id, A. M. Patterson. Philadeiphia—John K. Grigg, Joun Cowan, Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton Smith, A. D. Jes sup, Miss Jeasap, Commodore Inman and fam- tye Thomas Dallett, B. F. Betts, M. D. Si cise San Fran- O—d. Qe ‘ Warren, Mr. and Mrs. P, Chrystal. Warren. New Orieans—Mias N. Oran, Algerta— Massachusetts —Misg HAs Hurl: A convention of persons interested in conferring i men between the will be held in Mam