The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1870, Page 6

8 WEw YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET.” — ~—-—__-- NEW YORK HE RAL Ce meee AO ne Dowling, Fechtor and Hamlet, artiste who could not obtain almost any terms The Situation in Eurepe—Our Special Core The Churches Te-Day. Mr, Justice Dowling, with “about one hun- | to appear in England, were it not that, with |, reepomdence and the News by the Cable. If the weather be fine to-day all our metropol- dred others,” of course ‘influential citizens," | the. Hebrew woman who was invited by the | By special written correspondence and news | itan churches will be filled to overflowing with ® class of invisible call boys of rather general | prophet to come and be presented to princes | telegram reports through the Atlantic cable the beauty, fashion, elegance and godJiness of utility in dramatic circles on such occasions, | and gather in much gold, they answer, “I love | we present to our readers the condition of | the city. Our Grace churches, Epiphanys, have, as may have been seen in an interesting | to dwell among my own people.” And so | affairs which existed in Europe yesterday, | Divine Paternities and Trinities will probably correspondence in the Hunatp, invited Mr. | with the female branch of art. While the | The Heratp writers initial with great accu- | groan beneath the load of fair and fashionable Fechter to appear in the réle of Hamlet. The | English actress surpasses in a certain creamy | racy and much force end point the serious humanity that will come to worship Heaven name of the general always glitters in the ga- | lusciousness of tone and in the expression of | events which are recorded by electricity, and | and adore the now styles, while in our lowlior zette, but we find no mention of those unsung | the tenderer emotions, the American excels in | the exciting causes which induced them. Our | Bethels and floating chapels the humbly pious, demigods, the soldiers. Still, it is to us most | fire, élan, quickness of conception, radiance | readers are free to deduce their own inde- } poor in the world’s goods, will sit in meek ad- refreshing'to find the judicial mind unbending | of intelligence and pbrilliancy of execution. | pendent inferences as to the result, From | miration of the unbounded goodness of Jesus ‘The Ecumenical Council and the Infalll- bility Dogma—The Old and tho Now. Our latest news from Rome gives fresh Interest to the proceedings of the Ecumenical Council, and particularly to those proceedings which relate to the question of the personal infallibility of the Pope. Whon the Council was first convened the questions to be con- sidered and finally and satisfactorily settled were somewhat numerous, We heard a great deal about the confirmation of the Pope's de- cree regarding the Immaculate Conception. BROADWAY AND ANN cehaisens: JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Ali business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVZNING. RIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tuagxpr or Has: WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtioth #t.—Matinee dally. Performance every eveaiag. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sxetcurs in INDIA~ GOVEBNMEN?T SIOBE18. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—-Tuk BUELESQUS ov THE SxvEN. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— SonooL. ees THEATRE, 284 at., between Oh and 6th ave.— aft? OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 98d st,—Tae TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosaway.—New VERSION oF MLET, eV ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Ith street.—lTaALIAN OPBRa— RIGOLETTA. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Tux Busy Bopr. MRS. F. B. couwar's PARK THEATRE, Brookiya.— UnNoe Tom's CAUIN, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA “ng 1 Bowery.—Comio VooatisM, NEGRO MINSTER! THEATRE COMIQUE, 6) 18M, NrGuo Acts, & ce BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th at. —BaYawi's MINSTRELS. way.--Comic VOoAL- SAN FRANCISCO MIySTRELS, 588 Broa tway. —Ermo MIAN MiNorReLsy, NEGHO ACTS, &0,--“H asa.” KELLY & LFON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Eruno- FLAN MINSYRELSEY, NUGRO ACTS, dO. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. -Ques7Riam AND GYMNANTIO PERFOLMANORS, 40, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brook!yo.--HooLRY’s MUNOTRELO—THe THEATRIOAL AGRNOY, do. APOLLO HALL, corner 28th street and Broadway.— ‘Tax Naw Hiveaniwonr. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ‘ANATOMY, ‘O18 Broadway.— BoimNoE anp Arr conrats oF ‘TO-DAY I HERALD. Paan. 1~Advertisements, Advertisements. S—Washington : Protection for the Shipping In- terests; Admiral Farragut’s Views of Naval Reform—ibe Paraguayan War—Quarantine Affairs—New York Legislature—Cuba: The Shooting of Americans in Havana—General Baptist Reunion—Bold Robbery tn Boston. 4=—Enrope: French Socialism in Alarming Conspl- racy Against Imperiailsm; Bonaparte’a Foreign Enemies and Outside Influence at La Creuzot; frish Landlordism; Progress of the Papal Couneli—The Ball Season—The Ways of Wall Street—-Execution of a Negro in Virginia. S~Proceedings in the New York City and Brook- lyn Courts—Swalipox: Dr. Harris’ Last Epis- tle; A Full Resume of the Contagion—Paris Fashions: Ministerial Balls and the Ball Season Generally—Snow Storm Gossip: Wealth, Fash- fon and Beauty on the Road—Curtous Political Phenomenon—Marine Transfers. €@—£altorials: Leading Articie on The Ecumentcal Council! and the Infalitbility Dogma, the Old and the New—Amusement Announcements, ¥—Editoriai—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: A Regicide Conspiracy Reported in. Paris; Napoleon's Life Said to be in Danger; a Carlist Movement in Spain; Agrarian Outrage 1n Ireland—The HERALD Marine News Fleet— The Bewitching Brokers—Personal Ibtelli- genco—Fourth Ward Clubbing—Reportea Fail- ure of Two Dry Goods Houses.—Balksky and the Mysterious Lady—Business Notices. ®—Financial and Commercial Reports—Religtous Intelligence—The HERALD and Religion and Sctence—Art Notes—The Western Lumber Trade—Advertising—Southern Railroada—Mar- riages and Deaths, O—Advertisements. 10—Murder Triumphant: The Brooklyn Watchman Murder Case—New York City Intelligence— Suicide by Nanging—Suipping Inteiligence— Advertisements, At—Advertisements, AQ—Advertisements. Butter AND p Dawes were at it again yester- day. Dawes was firm and dignified and Butler was sarcastic and crushing. avep—The abuses of the old ‘ime, by shipowners, before the sioners yesterday. A Goon Ipra.—A document from the Gov- ernor transmitting a list of pardons granted during the year was received in the Assembly yesterday, being the first document of the kind ever sent in to the Legislature. Foury Vrs Quarantine 7 new Comm Tae ArrioprtaTioN Birt in the House is receiving careful scrutiny. The members, who are about losingstheir franking privilege, are not disposed to allow the departments to appropriate more than they need Toe Heratp Marie News Frrer.—In another column we give a report from the Times of the trial trip of our new steam news yacht Herald, and hereby render our thanks to that journal for the courteous spirit in which it has told the story. Tar Covrr or Spgcrat Szssions.—A bill to abolish this court was ordered to a third reading in the Assembly yesterday, It will probably pass, and in this way may abolish all authority claimed by Justices Dowling and Bixby for acting as judges in that court Tne Attrary OvrraGes against the crew of the ship Neptune were offered in the Assem- bly yesterday as a fit subject for investigation by a legislative committee. The courts will investigate it more thoroughly and at less expense. The outrages as reported are bad enough without having the outrage of a legis- lative committee added to them, Tue HavANA ASSASSINATION.—The arsas- sin who so foully murdered Mr. Greenwalth in the streets of Havana a few days since has been arrested. When the assassination was first made known to the Captain General he asserted that on the apprehension of the mur- derer Justice, swift and sure, would be ren- dered. We hope he will keep his word. TuE Greatest THEATRICAL SENSATION OF He Sxason.—The most successful theatrical display of the season was the show of Mace and Heenan at the Bowery tho other night. Even the splendors of the ballet have less attraction for the masses, and the dramatic poets are not to be named on the same day, Feohter is in most disastrous eclipse by com- pptisos. itself in such delightful literary recreation. Lord Bacon is believed to havo at least lent inspiration to some of Shakspeare’s plays. Lord Stowell, during his long judicial career, made it a habit to attend every evening some The name of Mr. Justice Talfourd; the author of “Ion,” will always fill an emblazoned page in dramatic story, and our own distinguished Judge Daly has dug up many interesting but rather mouldy records of the condition of the drama before the Flood. Our judges, however, as a rule, had, unfortu- nately, through a popular misconception, been supposed to prefer bars and billiards as an evening relaxation, and as Judge Dowling’s last appearance on an invitation card was to solicit that celebrated old saddle rock artist, Mr. Neil Bryant, to take a benefit, there some- how grew up an erroneous notion that such light and wsthetic enjoyments as blondes and breakdowns, banjos and bones were more snited to his comprehension and his tastes. By his prosent brilliant coup he has shattered We find that in him the heavy morning cares of sentencing peculating chambermaids are gracefully re- lieved by evenings passed with the big drama- To us and to most lovers of in this city {t and listened with Next to the Immaculate Conception dogma in importance on which the Holy Father had pronounced himself came the Assumption of the Virgin, on which the Holy Father had not pronounced himself, What those two dogmas or doctrines or questions meant not perhaps a hundredth of Christendom or a fiftieth of Catholicism knew or understood how to After the Immaculate Con- ception and the Bodily Assumption came the Syllabus and the question of Infallibility. Of the Syllabus no one in this country knew anything, uatil the Herarp translated the dog Latin and presented it to the reading public in It was then known that the Syllabus was an unqualified condemnation of everything which, in these later years, we have been in the habit of calling modern civili- It was felt that if the Syllabus was correct it had been better for the world if it had been sleeping for the last three or four If the Church was right everybody felt that the warld was all wrong. After the Syllabus came the question of Infal- It was asked what Infallibility meant? It was not long until the Heap made it known to the American public that Infalli- bility meant neither more nor less than this— that we have yet a god upon earth in the per- son of a very respectable, self-denying, gen- tlemanly old man, commonly called the Pope, who believed, or rather who was constrained to admit that his voice, in certain important matters, was the voice of God. It was not generally known, although we were in possession of the secret, that the Ecu- menical Council was convened not so much for the purpose of justifying the Pope's judgment in the matter of the Immaculate Conception or for the purpose of making it certain that Mary reigned in heaven as Queen in her ancient human form, or for the purpose of endorsing the Syllabus—and thus denouncing the steam engine, the railroad, the telegraph, the print- ing press, und particularly the newspaper, as inventions of the Devil—as for the purpose of making an end of all doubt in matters of reli- gious belief, by having it proclaimed that the voice of the Pope, for the time being, was the voice of the Eternal and the Almighty. really was the purpose; and although it was somewhat dexterously concealed, the fact could Since the Council opened no one has spoken of the Immaculate Conception or of the Bodily Assumption. of the Syllabus; but, knowing that one steam engine was any day stronger than a hun- dred Popes, these have not been many. Inside and outside the Council, and in America, the absorbing question has been Infallibility. This is the one question which has commanded the attention of all man- kind—Protestants quite as much as Catholics, It was not wonderful that it should be s0, for if there was still on the earth a living human voice that could express the mind of infinite wisdom, freedom of thought and independency of judgment were no more. unnatural, therefore, that many thoughtful and anxious men were impatient to be delivered of their opinions on this great ques- And during the last two months it is not to be denied that we have had a very fair and very full expression of opinion, although wo cannot say that the expression has been in favor of this very ridiculous dogma, At the present moment it is well known that the Council wavers and hesitates and knows not what to do on this groat subject. sorrow to the Pope and a sorrow to his friends placa of amusement. begin to know. English shape. huadred years, this gay delusion. dred uights to the sweet music of Edwin and to have caught the perfume of {ts poetic charm. critical stomach of Judge Dowling clamored for more. Alps cried to Alps. And surprised, as of course he was, with the gallant audacity of the motto of Lagardétre, Fechter answered, “I am here.” Does Mr. Fechter really think that this trite threadbare trick of being invoked to play a part by Judge Dowling and a number of ‘‘in- who know as much about “Hamlet” as a hippopotamus is worthy of his dignity as an artist? moment in Paris or in London dare to re- cognize such a miserable managerial device of counterfoit desire? What would be thought in either of those capitals if either Wallack, Booth or Jefferson were sent over with a huge preliminary bill of instructions in their varied beauties from Mra. Beecher Stowe? A similar gross mistake, almost insult, which in compli- ment to him aaa stranger we slighted, was committed on his coming here. had but just, for the sake of Mr. Dickens’ genius nd the many lovely creations which had risen from the fountain of his fancy, forgiven much gross ingratitude, and he had himself but just publicly proclaimed his penitence and promised reparation. Yet he had been but « few months home when he, at best with most immodest assumption, sent a message to this country in advance, picking out in preliminary puff for our ignorant public Mr. Fechter's pictorial points, and directing their attention in detail to his various artistic beauties. may be that neither the experience of time nor of his recent travel here can eradicate that inherent snobbism which seems to have built a snug settlement in Dickens’ personal nature ; but surely Fechter should think better things take a gviser and a wider view. The truth is, many foreign artists seem yet scarcely sensible that the infant days of art over here—when a prurient wind bag like Barnum could, by fictitious drafts on the noblest feclings at the heart of a young and generous people, induce them to prostrate themselves before a little fair-haired girl with a throat trick with the same enthusiastic rap- ture as a neophyte before Corregio’s picture of the Virgin—are long since past. We have long since declined to be butchered for a British In art, as in all other things, this country has thrown aside its cradle. which brings the philosophic mind, has brought with it a more refined taste and keener perception, and Mr. Fechter may find that he will have to linger to learn where Dickens sent him forth to teach. There can be no doubt that the drama here is in a far healthior and sounder condition than in England. There are no great artists there. Pinchbeck is the prevailing metal—pinchbeck Beauty, the poet tells us, draws by a single hair; but beauty there is worth nothing unless she buys her hair by the half Here, although recently a titular Shakspefrian scholar, remarkable for the length and thinness of his mental and physical composition, announced drama was dead and the ago of burlesque had succeeded, we find that while Mr. Sullivan has in a few woeks lost thousands in London in an effort to maintain in at least one theatre the legitimate drama—here we see “The School for Scan~ dal” at Wallack’s and Fechter at Niblo's draw night after night admiring crowds. There is no school of art there now to compara with that built up here by the elder Wallack and maintained by his son with hereditary It is simply to us what Drury Lane was in the days of Sheridan to England ; and there are some who now hold the highest place in English theatricals who claim with pride to have taken their degrees at Wallack’s. There is no light comedian in London who can for one moment compare with Wallack in variety of range, in grace, elegance, whim, a genius for trifles, light as the wave of @ flutter of a fan, and that inborn air of the gentleman which cannot be bought and is as much the gift of nature as any other per~ sonal quality. There is no theatre in England at which Shakepeare’s plays are produced with anything approaching the samo splendor of surrounding as at Booth’s, nor is there any tragic artist there who can compare with him; nor is there any arlist who can compare with Jefferson in the assumption of eccentric oddities, or who can touch the smallest details with euch delicious: tenderness and work them out with the finish of a miniature painter, as if all coming from the mere sug- There ia not one of these Dowling called fluential citizens” Would he for one Some have spoken allowed to have such prominence in the is felt that it cannot be earried without which Catholicism From the south of Germany, where the Catho- lic dignitaries have with so much skill been fighting the Protestants on their northern bor- ders for so many years, loud and emphatic voices have gone sounding to the Council, bidding it beware and look at difficulties. Since the days of Luther no such voices have spoken to Catholic authorities ; and the Roman powers know full well that what happened three hundred odd years ago may happen Catholic Germany has spoken, and Catholic Germany has not been despised. Ranscher, and Schwarzenberg, and Dollinger threaten another Luther. men in France have sounded a similar note of Italian learning out of Rome is now ; but Italy has not been obsequi- In Spain the Council well knows that though the Church is submiasive the civil government {s not disposed to bow. Allover the Catholic world it is felt that the so justly proud. The best church- | hundred weight. ous to the Council. and to the popular movements of modern times; and from every section of Catho- lic Christendom where liberty has found a home warnings have gone to Rome ia regard to this Infallibility nonsense. much heed the Protestant world, except when the Protestant world is in danger of harmo- nizing with dissenting opinions inside the Church ; but the harmony in this case has been so complete that Protestantism has been listened to and its judgments have been re- “Hamlet” at Booth's, Rome does not taste and spirit. Looking at the Infallibility question with every eye that we can command we have no choice, but say that i¢ cannot be proclaimed by the Council. Looking at the Council from a hundred commanding standpoints, and re- membering that it was convened for a single and special purpose, we have no choice but Animated by the spirit of » thousand years ago it bas tried to put down the new agents in which men every- where have unqualified faith; but, not to say more at present, it has not been successful. once a possible Its chances were lost long back in @ dead past, which has long since been buried, ond no Ecumenical Council can revive for it the shadow of an opportunity, Is any one sorry that it is so? feather or the now impossible, Uappily we know gestion af nature, Mixed as they are now with us, they form, the same exquisite relief as does the softness of the calf tothe bright boldness of the fawn in the lovely landscape of Cuyp. As yet Fechter, who really represents French rather than English art, has appeared but in two characters, which are mere vehicles for the display of his wonderful range and elaati- city of his power for making bimself a veil of any expression, and moulding his own mask out of his features, which is more a ‘* tour de force” than high art. But in Henri de Lagardére, for instance, while Fechter excels in finesse and rapidity of execution, he does not equal {no public estimation Wheatley, the original representative here, in dignity and gallantry of bearing, and in putting off his own individuality and thoroughly identifying him- self with the part. In Fechter’s rendering the audience sympathize with him as an actor; in Wheatley’s, in the part he assumes, In obeying Judge Dowling’s call Fechter will, however, afford us an opportunity of judging how far the intellectual stimulus acts upon the artist. Tho Judge will, of course, be there. With his peculiar pursuits the lynx-eyed but irresolute intellect of Hamlet, his keen analy- sis of the criminal king, and his exposure of the hollowness of purpose of all lifo, must have made him a subject of most interesting speculation, The world looks for his views, Let us hope we may find in him an American Gervinus, ‘The Religious Press on Municipal Reform, That stanch Old School Presbyterian organ, the Observer, makes the following remarks in relation to the reign of terror prevailing in this city under the present State commission sys- tem :— We are living in the midst of an ungoverned race Of thieves, robbers and murderers, Police oMcera are regarded by the public ag little better than the criminal classes. ‘hey take bribes, They commit violence on unoffending citizens. They waist for rewards before they seize criminals. y auffer rogues to escape when they have them in charge. The police is about as bad as it can be and not have anarchy. The Mayor is Ca of all power, He ts only the nominal head of the city. His responsibility is nothing. No oficer fears him, because he is pow- erless to remove bim. He cannot issue an order that bas any effect in time of danger from tumult or fre, So we might speak of all departments of our miscalled municipai government, We have none worth the name. With this startling photograph of the con- dition of society in this city, coming as it does from a source that commands so great an in- fluence among the moral and religious classes, is it not apparent that some change is abso- lutely demanded in the form of our municipal government? Theproposed new city charter, we contend, will institute many of the required reforms—one especially referred to by our esteemed contemporary, namely, the investing of the Mayor with suitable power and holding him responsible for the execution of the laws and the maintenance of good order. No one pretends that the proposed charter will not bring about @ better state of things than that which now prevails in this city. Let fac- tious opposition to it then cease and the’ ex- periment he allowed to have a fair trial. PoLicEMEN’s Forcep Loans.—The people should observe with some interest what is done in the case of policeman Dyer. This person, wearing the badge of authority, used it, as was charged, to extort money from a woman who kept a beer shop. He terrified her by threats of persecution, and she paid him to leave her alone. Philosophers have held that it was not worth while to fights cur that could ba pacified with a crust. But the crust became expensive in this case. The woman complained, the policeman was brought up, made a general denial, and the charge was dismissed. Pre- sently there camo a perfect volley of similar charges from different saloon keepers against the same man. Some of these charges detail particularly how he assured the saloon keepers he would get men to swear they had been robbed in their places, and then on such alleged evidence shut the places up, There can belittle doubt but the man is guilty, that just such abuse is made of the law by scoundrels charged with the duty of enforcing it, The case against this man is to be reopened, and it will be interesting for the people to watch what becomes of it. Arraip of War.—lIt is given out that Mr. Secretary Fish does not in the least admire the Cuban resolution of Senator Sher- man, and that the whole power of the admin- istration will be used, if necessary, to defeat the resolution. And wherefore? Because Mr. Fish is afraid that, if adopted, that dreadful resolution of simplo even-handed neutrality and fair play will lead to a war with Spain. Could anything be more conservative or more preposterous than this? A war with Spain, when for a whole year, according to Mr. Fish, a handful of guerillas in the Cuban mountains has held the power of Spain at bay, and still holds it at bay, after the addition of thirty gunboats supplied to the Spaniards from New York, through the gracious one-sided neutrality of our Secretary of State! The first and the worst thing that is now needed at Washington is a resolution from Congress that will open the eyes of Mr. Fish to some recognition of the public sentiment of the United States. Stvcutar Paask IN Powrtics.—The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, which represents the fire- eating element in the South, states that it has been informed by a prominent Massachusetts republican that Butler's aim is the Presidency, and that he has no fears at all of Grant as an | antagonist, The strangest part of the thing is that the Telegraph rather favors the idea, alleging that Butler is ‘‘a representative man and will mako the contest a representative one.” It would be a novel contest all round. Who knows but Ben Butler might get his old friend, Jeff Davis, to canvass the South for him? What next? Perry, the alleged “murderer of Hayes, in Brooklyn, is to be released on $20,000 bail. The philosophical young murderer, Reynolds, forgot in his remarks about murder being played out in New York to include Brooklyn. He ought te be allowed to amend. Paria we are informed that Napo- leon’s government has had information of the existence of an extensive social- istic conspiracy among the workingmen of France, and that the executive in Paris was alarmed both by ita extent and perfect organ- ization during even the last week of the month of January. The directors of this combination had cash in plenty, and hence came a rapid propagandiam. The “ strike” and riots, and military and police at the works at La Creuzot followed, and the pnblic peace was seriously endangered in order that the democracy of labor—that new and somewhat mysterious power of politics—should have an opportunity of displaying its strength. The questions of free trade and protection were again debated in the legislative body of France. The dis- turbance which was produced in the commercial world in consequence of the American war of the rebellion was com- pletely acknowledged during the discussion, and spoken of in what appears to us a sad and melancholy memoriam of the then ‘“‘belligerent rights” recognition of the South and the rather hasty anticipations of royalty against and for the obliteration of the system of popular self- government as it exists in the United States. In Rome the Catholic prelates were still more free in their expression against Papal concentration and the attempt to control the mind of univer- salism from a theocratic centre. In Ireland even the impoverished, elmost beggared tenants, spoke to our special representative of rights, including that of the right to live on the soil of their birth. In confirmation of these special premises come the cable telegrams of yesterday evening. From Paris they speak of a rogicide plot against Napoleon's life, of conspiracies, of arrests, of criminal prosecutions and attompts at sup- pression of the newspaper press, Spain speaks of a Carlist conspiracy, as also of the ministerial resolution—peculiarly Spanish—to “let it burst and then stamp it out.” The Bavarian Council is ‘‘considering the de- thronement of the King”—a new subject for ministerial debate. Ireland repeats her agra- tian outrages, the radicalism of revenge. The verification of our special correspondence is thus complete. The fact is of great impor- tance. It affords evidence of the power of the inde- pendent press, and heralds the near advent of tho revolutionism of electricity. Against this new agent no throne is too lofty, bayonets are ineffectual, and no corner of the Vatican suf- ficiently secret, It is the light of publio education made world-wide; a continued noon- day, although some do not even yet ‘‘compre- hend” it. New York Sprme Exxorions.—These forerunners of popular sentiment are begin- ing to come in from the interior of the State. The democrats have thus far gained upon their last vote wherever heard from. Dela- ware county is claimed to be redeemed, the Board of Supervisors being democratic—ten to eight—for the first time in twenty years. Herkimer is back again into the democratic” fold, for the first since 1860, their majority in the Board being twelve to seven. In Mont- gomery county the democrats have chosen a majority in the Board of Supervisors. In Broome county the Board will stand thirteen republicans to seven democrats, a democratic gain of one. It appears, therefore, that what- ever the wrangles among democratic leaders at Albany may amount to, the democrats in the interior are putting themselves in a condi- tion to make a gook start for the next State campaign. Tur Honxst Minority.—There has been a great deal said about the alleged corruption in the Methodist Book Concern, and the charges some time ago made against the pious mana- gera were denied with becoming spirit. Scandal was well turned aside when aon investigating committee reported that it found things all right. But it appears now there was division in the committee, and the minority reports a corrupt plan of making money out of the Con- cern by withholding a percentage on paper bought, What good “‘reason” did the majority see for approving of that plan? Tag Larz Brooxtyy Murpir.—Else- where we give a note from the District Attor- ney of Kings county in regard to our inquiry about a point of testimony in the trial of Perry, It will be seen this gentleman makes the signi- fioant remark that in his opinion ‘“‘the trouble in this case has not been with the testimony.” In other words, the testimony was enough to hang a man, but “hanging for murder is played out.” How large a share of the blame belongs to the Judge, and how much to the jury? A Fixe Fiero ror Wor MEN—The Sonth, from Virginia, yea, from Mary- land to Texas. At this time, when in all branches of labor and trade in the North the supply of workingmen so far exceeds the demand that many thousands of willing hands are out of employment, the South invites them to “Come on; we have room enough, and work enough, and land and bread enough for all.” Why cannot societies, then, be formed in the cities and towns of the North, where labor ts in excess of the demand, for the pur- pose of providing work and homes for these unemployed able-bodied mon in the South? We would call the attention of all concerned to this important subject. Awurioan Sairpuitpina.—The select com- ( mittee of Congress on American navigation seems at last to have arrived at the conclusion that it would do well to encourage American | shipbuilding, and for the purposo it pro- poses to allow drawbacks on certain shipbuilding materials and subsidies to vessels in the carrying trade, It also pro- poses to abolish State taxes on vessels coming into port. This is good enough for the present, as an oarnest of something better in the future, and in critical contemplation of their equally humble neighbors. Everywhere, in church, State, or family gatherings, the strong point of human nature, which consists in criti- cism on adjoining humanity, asserts its presence. In the pulpit, while Christ and Him crucified is the tenor of the preacher's words, his remarks are generally adapted to some prevailing mode, fashion, event or human foible that catera in a certain sense to this failing of human nature. Mr, Frothingham descants on the deformity of In- diana divorces; Mr. Tyng, Jr., on the falli- bility of bishops In Church decisions; Mr. Bel- lows on his travelsin Europe, and Mr. Beecher on his New Year's visits, or any other subject that shakes the average humanity of Brooklyn Heights to its centre. Everyday affairs point heavenly morals or adorn Scriptural teachings, and the little vanities d# the assembled congre- gations are wielded and moulded by the plastis hand of the preacher to serve some purpose german to the great subject of Christ and Him crucified. With this view, and as a greater preacher than any mentioned above—a preacher to & larger congregation—the Heravp intends to continue the good work of fully and faithfully reporting the fashions, music and sermons of our churches to-day in to-mor- row’s paper. It will point the preacher's moral by putting about it all the acces- sories of place and people to whom it will be to-day laid down. It will adorn the tale of the pulpits to-day by the grand dramatic aids of scenery, music and personation, with- out which the moral and the tale would be but the hard, unscanned lesson of religion set down by the Puritans or the meagre drama evacted without scenery before the Eliza- bethan age. Even if we do not achieve our full purpose in this, if we shall induce one sinner to attend the preaching of God's word to-day through motives of curiosity, we shall have done some good, Brother Beecher ad- mits that many come to his church through curiosity first who come gladly from love aftor- wards, and who are taken fally through oon- viction into the foldof God finally; and if we manage to save one such sinner, besides giv- ing the immense congregation of the Hezatp the full benefit of the combined sermons of all our metropolitan preachers, we will reat contented with a labor of love well done. The “Brass Coat and Blue Butten’? Epidemic. Woman has been described by a bilious, dyspeptic cynic as a oreature who delights in ever changing finery, but we doubt if she ox- hibits more whim and caprice in the decora- tion of her form divine than man does in that of his rather undivine substance. The present seems with both an age of revivals. The modern belle, for instance, discarding the ex- quisitely natural and graceful headdross of a few years since, when trailing lilies, waving grasses and blushing poppies nestled lovingly in the ‘‘tangles of Neara’s hair,” puffs and rolls and powders her silken locks into a mere imi- tation of a period when taste was at its very lowest ebb. At one of the recent balls, eithor the oharity or firemen’s, it was noticed, to the utter con- fusion of all clearly defined ideas of art, that the head of Marie Antoinette was crowning the form of a Récamier, and the powdered hair of the marquise of the old régime was waving above the Grecian bend of the first ompire, when our venerable great grand- mammas adopted the famous (oilettes dia- phanes, and, terrible to relate, were in the habit of damping their scanty muslins to make them cling more closely to the figure. But inthe path of retrogression our dandies threaten even to exceed our belles in whimsical taste as much as they yield to them in grace and charm of ap- pearance. If Venus nowadays conceals her delicious contour {In the stiff and tasteless, yet gaudy and meretricious attire of Dubarry, Apollo is striving to pervert himself into the counterfeit presentmont of the traditional old stupid brass buttoned John Bull of the days when the third George was King. Within the past few months an epidemic of a dangerous and hideous character has broken out among the would-be Brummells of New York. The primary symptoms became appa- rent in a vivid bluish discoloration of the upper part of the person, accompanied by @ violent and repulsive eruption of brass buttons around that ill used organ which the sufferer might in a moment of vanity designate his mind, The disease, which we commend to the attention of our distinguished Health Officer, Dr. Carnochan, is of foreign importation, and rages with the greatest virulence among those unfortunate patients who have but recently returned from England, where the contagion was at one time rather widely spread. The pulse of the tailoring trade in London last season, it seems, was dull, The great master, Poole, leaned idly on his shears. These are the hours to bring out great minds. It was in a moment of inspiration like this that Brummell conceived the grand idea of starch and Genio Scott his patent scissors, The mind of Poole was equal to the oocca- sion, Like Gladstone and Disraeli, ho felt a great measure was called for. The Prince of Wales was sent for, and was induced to adopt the blue swallow tail of his grandfather and attempt to revo- lutionize the gentlemanly style, and make the John Bull of a thousand caricatures “tho glass of fashion and the mould of form.” The attempt failed signally in England, as the imitation has failed here, There wae nothing gay or graceful in that dull old dress which waved with the wind in front of overy public house in England, Mon remembered that Byron made it a condition of his marriage, which seems to have esoaped the attention of Mrs. Stowe, that ho should not be asked to wear on his wedding day this valgyr livery; and the late Count d'Orsay said tha. a man in blue coat and brass buttons, to proserve the nities of art, should dine continuously on