The New York Herald Newspaper, November 10, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR 4 —— =— Volume XXXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— oNorny Dann. i PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City HalL— 5 Byanrsovr's Faixnp—Foury Wines. HARLEM THEATRE, 3d av., between 129th and 130th ¥ ot. —New Macpaen. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. Sit Broadway.—Vanrerr Enermpraiyaxnt. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—ir Van Wivxie. GERMANIA THEATRE, 14th street and 34 avenue.— Eix Souuirr Vou Wrox. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.— ‘Tux New Macparen. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Bighth av. and Twenty-third \Ot—A Fase or Licutnine. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Houston sta—Tax Buack Cnoox. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth t.—OuRs. | ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th street and Irving place.— Miraciaw Orena—Lxs Huguenots, » _UNION equane THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Tux Geneva Cross, corner Thirtleth st— evening. and Twenty-third st.— WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, wack Hanxaway, Atte: nd BOOTH'S THEATRE, Ricuxuiev. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Varrerr MB wrenrainuent. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax Giant's Cavsa- ‘War—Dantez Booxs, 4_ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vauiery Extegtainment. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner av.—Negro Minstaxisr, kc. P. T. BARNUM’S WORLD'S FAIR, 27th street and 4th wa@venue. Afternoon and evening. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Sd av., between 63d nd 64th sts. Afternoon and evening. oa . NEW_YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 613 Broad- ‘Way.—Scrence amp Arn “TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, November 10, 1873. — \THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. !Io-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “BUSINESS PROSPECTS OF THE FUTURE! THE LESSONS OF THE PRESENT AS FOUND IN THE EXPERIENCES OF THE PAST —LEAD- ING ARTICLE—Srxre Pace. “PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC” TO BE Mac- MAHON’S TITLE, WITH FIVE YEARS AS THE OFFICIAL TERM! THE RIGHT IN THE ASCENDANT IN COMMITTEE—SEVENTE Page. JAMERICAN SHIPPING CHANGES AT EURO- . PEAN PORTS AS REPORTED BY CABLE— SEVENTH Pace. CUBAN PATRIOT OUTPOURING IN AID OF IN- SULAR LIBERTY AND FOR THE AVENGE- MENT OF THE DEATH OF THEIR COM. RADES OF THE VIRGINIUS! SANTIAGO TO BE STORMED! MORE EXPEDITIONS—Szy- ENTH PaGE. i BHAKESPEARE’S “COUNTERFEIT PRESENT- MENT!” THE VON KESSELSTADT MASK! ; ASENSATIUN FOK THE LOVERS OF PAS- SION'S GREAT DELINEATOR—TuIRD Pace. EFFECTS OF THE PRES ENT VADUE SHRINKAGE UPON THE FINANCES AND COMMERCE OF AMERICA AND THE EUROPEAN NA- TIONS! WHEREIN LIES OUR STRENGTH! Ninta Pace. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE MONEY MARKET! REMEDIES FOR EXISTING EVILS ! THE UUTLOOK IN REAL PROPERTY! GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA— FourTa Pace. NEITHER WORK NOR WAGES ! STATUS OF THE VARIOUS TRADES IN THIS STATE AND PENNSYLVANIA AND AT OTHER IMPOR- TANT POINTS IN THE EAST AND WEST— Fourtn Pace. WHAT 1S DOING ON THE VARIOUS PUBLIC WORKS UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL—THE BUILDERS GIVING THEIR MEN THE OLD WAGES, BUT IDLENESS MUCH PREVALENT IN OTHER TRADES—Frrra PacR. ‘ART GENIUS NO LONGER AT A DISCOUNT! A FLOOD OF WINTER SUPPLIES BEING POURED INTO THE LAP OF THE DESTI- TUTE BLACK BOARDER—TENTH PGs. CAPTAIN HALL'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH AS KNOWN TO CAPTAIN TYSON! HIS Rk&- PORT UPON BUDDINGTON! THE SEARCH STEAMER TIGRESS AT THIS PORT—Turrp Par, THE THOUGHTS OF THE DIVINES UPON THE FINANCIAL CALAMITY AND THE LESSONS WRITTEN UPON WALL STREET! HOW BUSINESS SHOULD BE OONDUCTED— Eienta Paces. Tue Rerogn or Tee Ticress brings with it & very strange story from Mr. Tyson, the wommander of the party on the ice-floe. He disbelieves the poison story about the death of Captain Hall, but alleges a shocking course of conduct against Captain Buddington. As the statement of the latter has not been made public, it would be unfair to comment on the probability of what Tyson advances on hhearsay. It is curious that Morton condemns Dr. Bessel and Tyson Captain Buddington. The Danish Inspector of Greenland, Mr. Krarup Smith, believed Buddington to be the tool of Bessel, and now Buddington appears through Tyson ag the denouncer of the Ger- man scientist. It would, indeed, be well that the whole truth was laid before the public to reconcile, as far as possible, the statements regarding the sad death of Captain Hall, or, at least, to let the animus on each side of the question be separated from the facts as they occurred, Avnovensany or THE Boston Conriacna- ®1on.—Boston celebrates to-day the anniver- sary of her terrible conflagration (November 10, 1872). There is to be an official visita- tion to the burned district—a visit of observa- tion only, hopes one of the papers, freo from any element of display or festivity. Another paper, celebrated for its use of irony and metaphor, thinks this will undoubtedly be the case. It must be acknowledged, however, that Boston officials, like other municipal ‘Wignitaries, when on junketing expeditions, re not likely to clothe themselves in sack- cloth and ashes, Sack of another kind is oftenor in demand. Trr ron Tar.—It seems that General Burriel mes the Spanish commander who ordered the mmary execution of the Ouban patriots tured on board the Virginius. It ‘would not be surprising if there should be a ‘general burial” of another sort on the Spanish side ulations, Business Prospects of the Future—The Lessons of the Present as Found in the Experiences of the Past. There never was a time in the history of this country when a commercial crisis was less to be expected from a monetary panic than at the present moment. Previous to the crash in Wall street in September we eaw everywhere only evidences of prosperity. The crops were abundant and the demand from abroad more than usually active. In this respect the contrast with previous panics is remarkable. In 1836 Chicago was compelled to import flour from England, and in 1857 men were trying to meet liabilities incurred when wheat was at two dollars with wheat only at seventy-five cents per bushel. In the latter year, also, the Central America went down with her shipload of treasure, which was ex- pected sensibly to relieve the market, while now the mines are more than usually active, and the transshipment of gold from abroad since the crisis began has been eleven millions of dollars, with the exports of specie since the Ist of January twenty millions less than in the same time last year, There has been, besides, a great in- crease in our exports in other respects, and American shipbuilding has been growing enormously. The gross earnings of the leading railroads have ‘suffered no remark- able diminution end the manufacturing in- terests, notwithstanding many of the mills are running on half time or closing down alto- gether, complain of no unusual dulness in the market. Business conditions are healthy ex- cept as they are affected by extraneous cir- cumstances, and if public confidence remained money would be abundaut. A crisis in the midst of such prosperity is not easily accounted for, and not to be accounted for at all by the usual chatter about currency and contraction, and not to be overcome either by specie pay- ments or the special panaceas of financial quacks. It is a proposition worthy of particular con- sideration at this time that the currency has nothing whatever to do with the crisis. This is simply the crisis of speculation and of speculation’s twin sister, credit, extended far beyond the limitations of capital Every banker, every merchant and every manufac- turer who has failed or who is in fear of disaster traces his misfortunes back to the failure of the banking house with which the panic begun. These dishonored bankers can only find the traces of their misfortune in wild and reckless speculations and fierce gambling in “fancy’’ stocks, It is but natural that other bankers and brokers who followed in the way their footsteps led should in the end reach the same goal. It was to be expected that insuch a panic as ensued from the almost criminal acts of these men public confidence would be in some degree impaired, and that a strin- gency should follow which is only another name for caution. The storm blows over, but the calm which follows is worse than the storm. Currency has retreated into secure hiding places; the national banks have vio- lated their charters in failing to pay green- backs, and men who before were accustomed to pay one and one and a half per cent for money cannot obtain money at any price. Inconvertible assets are worthless against pressing liabilities. Pay or break is the ery of the moment—failure the result in the end. The unfortunate merchant or manufacturer has been doing business on a false basis; his debts have become a millstone round his neck; he has been paying more for money than money is worth, and when he fails he suffers less than those who depended upon him for bread. He can look forward to the end of the bankruptcy process for a livelihood in what is gathered from the wreck; but in the cases of his em- ployés, whether they be a score, or a hundred, or a thousand, or ten thousand, there is nothing for them except intense suffering, even if they are saved from immediate beggary. It is the monetary credit enjoyed by the rich which thus becomes the destroying angel of the poor. Every manufacturer who is on the verge of ruin to-day finds himself in his pres- ent position as the result of unlimited credit, which Jed him to incur liabilities he would not be able to meet if payment should be suddenly demanded. We may talk about the insufficiency of circulation; but a thousand millions of currency would not benefit the Spragues and people in a like position, except as it would inflate values and injure everybody except the debtor class, But we are not of those who see only dark clouds in the heavens. However much the skies may be overcast, there is always a bright sun struggling to pierce through the mists, and we all know that the earth must become serene and fair again. However dark the out- look may seem just now, however much we may suffer, and the poorer classes particularly, we see fair weather beyond. The men who are in debt will be swept away, but the indus- tries which their borrowed capital created will remain, unfettered by the liabilities which now press them down. If the Spragues are able to dispose of their outlying property so as to pay their debts and save the print works at Crans- ton and the cotton mills on the line of the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad, taught by the leasons of the past, they may begin a new career unexampled in the pros- perity of the past. The same is true of many other manufacturers. The effort now is to shake off the accumulated indebtedness of the last few years—to square the books and begin anew. In this effort toclear the decks the oper- atives will be compelled to suffer as well as the capitalists; officers and men must share almost equal burdens. But when the effort shall have been accomplished everything will be in @ stronger, more healthy and more promising situation. Business will bound forward again, but not to recoil. We have experienced financial gale and a labor crisis with all the natural conditions of pros- perity unimpaired. The gale has already passed and the crisis, though it may require a longer time to spend its force, gives promise of soon being over. When business shall bound forward again it will be to keep rolling onward and onward, because there will really be strength behind—nn impelling power based on solid business principles, and not on }: notions of buchu expansion and extension, Only two conditions are to bring about renewed activity—mutual confidence end mutual We aro in every way better off than in either 1837 or 1857. has not been more rife than from 1826 to 1896. Considering the great incroase im temptations and oovortanities, defalcations ph have not been so frequent. The banks have not suspended so as to make the currency of uncertain value, if not altogether worthless. Tho national credit is unimpaired. Nobody expects repudiation either as a necessity of the past or a corollary of the future. At the Stock Exchange securities are not quoted 6° low that only the most reckless of speculators will buy them. The crisis of 1857 differed very little from that which occurred twenty years before. Tho five years preceding it were years of enormous speculation. Nothing was too mean or too insignificant for the speculators. There were even “hen brokers’’ in Boston and New Orleans, and a pair of Cochin China fowls was valued at $700. Stocks rose and fell and values were un- certain. Congress fanned the speculative flame, and the State legislatures fol- lowed the example of Congress. The lobby was a power in the land. Charters were sold for money and franchises could be had almost for the asking. The collapse was only a natural consequence. The crisis of 1837 had nearly ruined the country—had left it a legacy of disgrace in the subsequent re- pudiations—yet in a few years business was active as ever. Tho war found the country no longer suffering from the crash of 1857. A single year will now suffice to restore every- thing to its normal condition. The times are not bad compared with the cases we have cited. There are more money and greater re- sources, more abundance and prosperity, in the country to-day than at any previous time in its history. The crisis is an accident, born of the folly of afew mon who bought more than they can pay for. It is impossible that the disturbance should be more than tem- porary. It would be an anomaly if it were not capable of so simple an explanation. We are strong, we are prosperous and we are at peace, and if so many of our basiness men had not stepped beyond the limits of credit allowed by their capital, and, like an over-trained pu- gilist stripped for the fight, broken down in the arena, we never should have heard of the panic of 1873. The Situation in France. The members of the Right in the French Assembly have, according to a statement made bya Paris paper which is favorable to the monarchists, agreed to limit MacMahon’s term of Presidential tenure to five years, and accepted the proposition that he shall be officially designated by the title of the Presi- dent of the Republic. These concessions have gained over one republican member to the party of the Right, so that it has nowa majority in the Parliamentary Committee on Prolongation of the President's Powers. Immediately previous to the accomplish- ment of this unitary tactic by the Right an unexpected complication had given a new interest to the political game now in prog- ress in the French Assembly. It is not ap- parent whether it was a mere’ chance or a stroke of political dexterity which gave to the republicans a majority of one in the commit- mittee on the proposition to prolong MacMa- hon’s term of office; but the fact that they had such a majority was hastily accepted by the Right as a defeat of their project, and de- moralized the whole force for a time, so that the Ministry. was only held together by the more resolute Marshal. At least that is the aspect in which the public is permitted to view the event; but it may very likely prove that the Cabinet resignations, of the tender of which we were told by telegram, were proffered after a previous understanding with the Mar- shal that he would not accept them, for the Right and Right Centre are unlikely to deprive themselves in the present crisis, upon any punctilio of constitutional usage, of the prestige that office gives, if they could avoid the necessity by an easy mancuvre. Whether the royalist party regarded itself as really routed by one vote in a committee and was honestly willing to go out of office defying the republicans to venture upon the formation of a Ministry in the presence of a hostile ma- jority; or whether it was only shamming defeat, as Thiers used to threaten to resign, in order to excite the country and rally to its assistance the moral support of public sentiment and the conservative fear that if it should really go out there would be a political cataclysm; upon whichever horn of the dilemma we go, it necessarily follows that the compact force lately mustered for the formation of the new monarchy has lost that complete confidence that might have given it success and the cohe- sion of a common purpose. Chambord’s defection has evidently shat- tered his party by opening again the many differences that were healed when he seemed temporarily amenable to human reason and the possibilities of politics, It was forgotten for the moment how much had been done to strengthen the royalist party by the fusion, and it was thought that they could make the monarchy and leave the personality of the monarch still in doubt; but it is evident that without Chambord there is no real unity among the royalists. The supporters of the pretender are, like him, in the possession of an unreasoning obstinacy that is only prevented from being sublime by its absurdity. It was the Orleanists that gave way in making the fusion, of course; and now we see that the others did not yield a step. The supporters of constitutional monarchy might go over to the supporters of divine right and welcome, but there could be no movement in the other direction. Unity is very well if the friends of the Count de Paris the Count de Chambord; but for the friends of Chambord to support the Count de Paris would be to purchase unity at too high a price. So when the chances of Chambord are seen to fail the unity of the roy- alist party is seen to fail with them, for no other candidate is possible in the eyes of his supporters. They go with him into the high regions of political and moral contemplation in which the supporters of divine right have their being, leaving the more mundane believ- ers in royalty to bite their thumbs like Sam- son in the play, and leaving political philoso- phers to wonder if there can bes compact royalist party in France while Chambord lives. Upon no other hypothesis but that of their consciousness of want of unity can wo under- stand the readiness of the Ministry to give way in the case reported. It is true they had staked their chances very boldly on the prop- osition to prolong MacMahon’s tenure for ten years, and this was in the hands of a commit- tee in which there was # majority of one thom. Doubtless therefor tha at NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, N' VEMBER 10, mittee would have presented a, hostile report, but this report had to come before the Cham- ber, and in the Chamber they had a clear ma- jority if they could keep together. They could, therefore, have laid the report on the table or have rejected it and brought their project forward in some other form and with wiser discretion as to the hands into which it should fall. The game was, therofore, far from lost if the players’ hearts had not failed them. In the circumstances a Ministry could only be formed from the Left Centre—for the Right and the Right Centre go one—and MacMahon could, of course, have no possible affiliation with tho Left. France will likely, therefore, if the Cabinet is changed, obtain a Minis- try formed from the best and most patriotic party in the House—the party of conscien- tious, thoughtful, moderate and enlightened republicans, equally removed from the bigotry and political dotage of the Right, and from the fanaticism and extravagance of the social- ists and demagogues of the Left. With such a Ministry the chances for the permanent organization of the Republic will be far better than they have been any day since it has ex- isted, and if France obtains such a Ministry out of the present complication she will have good reason to rejoice over the fortunate obstinacy of a Bourbon. P a The Virginius Outrage—What Should Be Done. Itis no doubt decorous and proper that our State Department should refuse “to sacri- fice its own dignity in hastily espousing the cause of the Virginius, to find hereafter that, according to international law and treaty obligation, it had no justification for such zeal’? The government cannot suffer itself to be carried away by sentiment, but must pick its steps cautiously and advance only on per- fectly safe ground. The American people, who sympathize with the Cubans and are projudiced against the Spaniards, may indulge in indignant denunciation of the swift murder of some of the persons found on board the Virginius, and may express their opinions of the insult offered to the flag of the United States in emphatic language, but our State Department is bound to aot courteously toward a nation with which we have friendly relations, and to take it for granted that her action has been justifiable until our own peo- ple are enabled to show something to the con- trary. To be sure the British government has a somewhat more abrupt way of dealing with cases in which the lives and liberties of its subjects, or of those who have the right to claim the protection of her flag, are jeopardized. As in the case of Mason and Slidell during our own war, and in the more recent affair of the Deerhound. England is apt to take it for granted that her flag is sacred and that those who sail under it are entitled to her protection, from the mere fact that the old colors wave over them. But with us the more cautious, if less patriotic, custom prevails, of requiring those who fly the Stars. and Stripes to prove that they are legitimately entitled to its privileges before the arm of the nation is stretched forth to shield them from outrage. The unfortunate men who have been ‘‘shot on sight and tried afterwards,” in Santiago de Cuba, cannot be restored to life. Their friends, who met last night at Masonic Hall and set on foot a subscription designed to aid in avenging their murder, may or may not accomplish their object, but so far as our gov- ernment is concerned we are offigially notified that no remedy exists, and that we must fain be satisfied with such explanation or apology as the Spanish government, if convinced of the unjustifiable character of their action, may be willing to concede. At the same time, while recognizing the duty of our government to be contented with an apology for the assassination of a handful of men who were, after all, only ‘notorious Cubans, like Cespedes and Varona, or fili- busters, like Ryan,” may we not suggest to Secretary Fish the wisdom and humanity of clearly defining in future the status of Ameri- can vessels and of people sailing under the American flag in relation to the Spanish au- thorities in Cuba? When the proclamation of De Rodas was issued, declaring the inten- tion of the Spanish government to treat ves- sels landing recruits and supplies in Cuba for the aid of the insurgents as pirates, and to execute all persons found on_ board, Mr. Fish distinctly defined the posi- tion of the United States. He claimed the right of American citizens and vessels to carry to the enemies of Spain, whether subjects or foreigners, all merchandise not contraband of war, subject only to the requirements of a legal blockade. He further took the ground that no restriction over our intercourse with Cuba could be made until a state of war was declared to exist, or until the United States might find it necessary to recognize a state of belligerency as prevailing in Cuba. According to our despatches to-day the seizure of the Virginius was made in accordance with the De Rodas proclamation, despite the old protest of our Secretary of State. Under these circumstances it is clear that there can be no safety for American vessels or American citizens in the vicinity of Cuba until their privileges and duties are exactly defined; and this can only be done through the recognition of the belligerent rights of the Cubans by our gov- ernment, It is, therefore, the duty of Presi- dent Grant to declare at once the existence of a state of war in Cuba. We may cast the mantle of diplomatic apology over the graves of poor Ryan and his companions; we may be compelled by courtesy to forego the do mand for the execution of their murderers; but at least we can insist that the lives and property of American citizens shall be no longer left at the caprice or mercy of Spanish bravos, It is a duty incumbent upon our government at once to reeognize the belliger- ent rights of the Cubans, and it isa duty which Secretary Fish cannot any longer safely postpone. Taz Carer Justicrsntp—Ove State Leats- LATURE AND SznaToR CONELING.—-From present appearances our State Legislature, just elected, will hardly warrant. the experiment of tho nomination of-Mr. Roscoe Conkling as Chief Justice, under the presumption that he can name his successor in the United States Senate. The President, looking to the in- terests of the country, will probably hit upon some appointment for the Supreme Court that will be satisfactory to the country while leav- ing Mr. Conkling whore he is in consideration or ie =] 1873—TRIPLE 2.4 Sil ° Sage Sayings of the Pulpits, In times of weakness, depression and danger how good it is, and how cheering to know, that there is a place of refuge and sal- vation for the weak and weary, the down- trodden and the pursued. Such a refuge Dr. Talmage finds in Jesus, whom he presented yesterday to his large congregation as the only refuge. While forts built by human hands have been captured again and again not all the battering rams of hell can smite down the walls of this refuge, into which the righteous ran and are safe. No storming party can leap on its towers, for the weapons with which it is defended areomnipotent. And Christ is a near refuge and easily accessible to all who desire to flee from the wrath tocome. We have not to kneel in long pen- ance in the vestibule of God’s meroy, nor need we stand to be riddled and shelled in the bombardment of perdition. One moment's faith can place us in this fortress, in which the whole race may find refuge if they will. The salvation of Christ is a democratic salvation. And there sre candidates for imperial splendor in Elm street and by the peat fire of the Irish shanty. Christ has awung the door of heaven open so wide that all the gentle and refined and educated may go in if they repent, and all the scoundrels, too, if they repent. This sal- vation is certainly as liberal, as free and as easily conditioned as salvation could possibly be. And yet there are some who think the conditions too strict and pressing, and they will not enter into this refuge and be saved. Mr. Beocher delivered an elaborately worded, finely pointed metaphysical essay on “The Double Action of Man," or, in other words, the development of the intellectual and moral faculties from the physical. There was in ita good deal of the truth of nature, but oompara- tively little of the truth of revelation. It was @ sermon to please rather than to save, and we infer that it answered its purpose fully. Mr. Sheshesdri, the Bramin, preached in Plymouth church, in the evening, a sermon which contained the elements that the morn- ing one lacked. Mr. Dowell made some statements yesterday concerning the freedmen which we hardly think would bear the test of fact. Appealing to the Christian Church to educate the mill- ions of colored people in the South he gave as reasons why the Church should do this— the blacks are helpless, ignorant, poor, im- moral. So far we have no doubt that the same reasons would apply with equal if not greater force to more than five millions of white people, North and South. But then Mr. Dowell adds that these helpless, ignorant, poor and immoral creatures have a religion which is a contradiction of Christianity, and is, indeed, nothing more than their own heathenism, which their ancestors brought from Africa. This is a bad showing for our religious and political missionaries who have been laboring so zealously in the South for the last ten years. And it also speaks badly for the future progress of the race. But we hardly know how to characterize the illustra- tions of this ignorance and heathenism with which Mr. Dowell favored his audience, For- tunately, however, he had a bright side to this dark picture, and we hope his congrega- tion were moved to see the importance of giv-. ing Christian education to the freedmen of the South. This is the season devoted by the Catholic Church, as we learn from Father McCready’s sermon, to prayer for ‘‘the shortening of the period of separation for those departed souls who are yet detained from the society of their brethren in glory.” He leaves the place and manner of their detention to be inferred by his hearers. He presents a practical contrast between the results of setting our affections on things in this life and placing them on things above, and recommends as a profitable employment the contemplation of the invisible things of the life above. 4 If some of our wealthy men and women, who may or may not have been affected by the panic, will read Mr. Frothingham’s discourse they may gain some valuable hints for the future therefrom. Mr. Frothingham handles the ladies’ waterfalls and bustles so roughly that we can account for it only on the sup- position that he has neither wife nor daughter. If he has any lady friends at all we pity him for what may be in store for him when they read the Henarp to-day. The women of the upper classes, he says, have hearts, but nothing to do with them; they have heads, butnothing in them, But this last is balanced by the capillary mass they have on them. Mr. Powers has arraigned the money kings, the monopolists, the speculators, as the Dick Turpins and the Robin Hoods of the present day. And it is the battle with these robbers and outlaws of Wall’street, he thinks, that has filled the land with the present distress and with the killed and wounded financially. But the practical thought which he brought out of this indictment is that those who have made money, and those who have saved it out of this panic, should not forget the poor in the hard winter that is almost upon us. Dr. Steel preached a “panicky” sermon also, putling his text very appropriately as a query to the masses, ‘Have you any meat?” and their answer, “No.” It was a labor sermon, containing some statistics of the numbers out of employment. The first lesson taught by the panic, he thinks, is economy—retrenchment. Less extrava- gance in dress, less expensive wines, fewer fast‘men and women and more fasting before the Lord are among the suggestions made by this preacher. And then he urged more trust in God, who will not fail to succor us in our afflictions if we confide in him. It will be seen that our sermon budget takes in a very reasonable range of thought to-day, and some that are practical and important for this time and season. Our readers, of course, will meditate upon these things and adopt the suggestions of our pulpit sages. Soxpay Torsutencs.—There was an un- usual amount of street turbulence yesterday in some of the uptown wards. Street fights were not uncommon, andthe spectacle of boys, only ten or twelve years old, in a state of crazy intoxication was among the least pleasant scenes of the day. Several of these exhibi- tions occurred as respectable, law-nbiding people were going to and from church, and the “ittle villains” seemed to select such hours for the exercise of their lawless pranks. ‘The police were, unfortunately, not at hand at such times, or there would probably have been a little more regard paid for law and order om the Soblath dar Tn_.on9. Baht! . Fey between youths on Eighth avonue, a crowd of about a hundred persons gathered to enjoy seeing these young aspirants for the honor of the prize ring pommel each other. Various cries were indulged in by tho spectators, especially among the more youthful, to wit— “Go in!" “Give it to him!" ‘Only man- slaughter in the third degree!""—an evidence that the recent laxity in the execution of our criminal laws has not been without its effect upon the rising generation. The Help for the Poor. It is conceded on every side that if the laboring classes, whom the present money stringency have thrown out of their usual em- ployments, are to be assisted through the winter the help should come in the shape of work rathor than the demoralizing agency of mere charity. There are numbers, of course, whom such a plan could not reach, and for them large-hearted charity must exer- cise its best and worthiest effort. The public works which our city so urgen! needs should provide for the remainder. There are several such, and if a spirit of bilious parsimony is tho only stumbling-blook in the way of providing for our poor, our citi- zens will desire to know exactly who is re- sponsible. Our ungraded streets would give employment to thousands who would be glad even so to earn their bread. It has been ob- jected that the Commissioners of Docks could not give employment to numbers im the winter on account of the impoasi- bility of the divers descending when the water was at the freezing point This is a very poor reason. If the work of giving new stone piers to the water front of New York could be commenced by laying the stones in their bed the freezing point idea would be a good one, but it need hardly be said this is not the case. There is preparatory work for thousands which could be prosecuted for over two moni time out of the next three, and which would not need the assistance of these warm-blooded divers at all. We want a thoroughgofhg earnestness on this head in the departments where work can be given out, and, above all, we do not wish te see officials commence their oxcuses at the freezing point of sympathy. A Worrny Man Missma—A Menancnow# Drsarpearance.—In the many vicissitudes, mysteries and misfortunes to which humam lives are subject in great cities, cases are con- stantly occurring the simple facts of which cast into the shade the most ingenious inven- tions of the romancer. We have one of these cases before us, and a very sad case it is, the case of Mr. Thomas Armstrong, a merchant of this city, whose mysterious disappearance om election day (Tuesday last) is the subject of an advertisement which we publish this mora- ing, offering five hundred dollars reward for any information that will lead to his recovery. A prosperous man of business, a man highly esteemed by a large circle of friends, the brightest prospects of life lay before him. He was to have been married to an estimable lady on Wednesday, the day after the election; he had invited a large number of friends and acquaintances to be present on the happy occasion; but for several days immediately preceding ‘his disappearance he had betrayed’ some aberrations of mind which caused his friends much uneasiness, He has not been! seen or heard of by them since he left his home in Brooklyn at about ten in the morn- ing of election day. Whether in a fit of insanity, like the unhappy Preston King, he plunged into the river, or from the evi- dences of wealth which he carried upon hia person he was spirited away for the purpose of robbery; or whether, in his unsettled state of mind, he wandered off to some place where he is unknown, are the questions now to be aettled. While there is doubt there is hopess ~ to what may have befallen him. We refer the reader to the advertisement on the subjeot for the information that may lead to tho recogni- tion and recovery of the missing man. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. | , a ad Miss Anna E. Dickinson is staying at the St James Hotel. Signor Tamberlik, the tenor, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Chancellor John V. L, Pruyn, of Albany, has sr- rived at the Brevoort House, The Mayor of Nashville has wedded a belle, the daughter of Judge M..M, Brien. Commander Greer (U.8.N.), of the Tigress, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colone! Alexander Moore, United States army, is quartered at the Sturtevant House. Alexander R. Shepherd, Governor of the District of Columbia, is at the Mctropolitan Hotel. J. ©. Bancroft Davis, Assistant Secretary of State, has apartments at the Brevoort House, Frederick F. Low, United States Minister te China, is among the late arrivals at the Albemarie Hotel. Collector James F. Casey, of New Orleans, arrived at the Fiith Avenue Hotel from Washington yes- cerday. Postmaster General Creswell has received @ fifty thousand dollar plum irom ap Eastern Shore relative. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, with her two daughters, will reside at Sheibyvilie, Ky., during the absence of her husband in Europe. Congressman George W. Hendee and Horace Fairbanks, of Vermont, are among the New Eng- landers at the Fifth Avende Hotel. ‘A correspondent of the Boston Post thinks the regular republicans will, in view of the situation, renew proffers of consideration to the liberals— Sumner, Schurz and others. Everything is again serene between Judge W.W, Howe, late of the Louisiana Supreme Bench, an@ the New Orleans fines, and there has been ae bleody chasm to shake hands over. ‘The late James Buchanan was a bachelor becauss of his rejection by a young lady; amd that lady, we are told, now lives in Moulton, Jowa, the wife of a good man and the mother of a grown up family of children. Itis proporcd to abolish the office of Raliros@ Commissioner tn Vermont. If some of the rait- roads jn that State were abolished or run ine better manner than they now are it would bes good thing. , Genoral Albert J. Myer (‘Old Probabilities) arm rived at the Windsor Rotel yesterday and wilt probably Jeave for Chicago during the coming twenty-fourhours He has ordered feir weather for the trip. It seems that paying for the arrest of murderers 1s “played out” in some parts of this State, if hanging ts not, The reward for the apprekcaston. of the murderer Rulo#, in Binghamton, ts June, 1871, hos not yet veen paid. A Sottioment of French woodchoppers, number- ing forty-four persons, istely moved into one oid farmhouse near Bufleld, N. H. There are nine families, and more are expected to come slong soon to fill ap the uneccupied rooms, Viscount Vilain XIV., Secretary of the Belgian at