The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1873, Page 5

> — Or AMONG THE SHOPS. Dry Goods, Watches, Jewelry, Books, Meerschaum, Billiards, Pianos, Or- gans, Pictures and Miscellancous. Santa Claus the Createst Spendthrift Going. ‘Yesterday was one of those wild and reckless oc- casions when pater and mater faroilias, giving full swing to the inborn human propensity to spend money, opened wide their pockets and pocket- books and allowed the greenbacks full flow. It seems a pity that such days cannot come oftener. But they cannot. They occur just often enough to make us feel how we are tiea down by humdrum duties during the rest of the year. Only once or ‘twice ip ali the 365 days may the average man spend his money freely without sorely regretting i¢ alter. The beauty of Christmas extravagance 1s that it ts not apt to bring regrets. We do not sit down and lament the money we laid out in grati- fying the longings of our little or our big friends, If we gave too much for a thing we are not haunted teo much by the ignominous consciousness of having been duped. If we find that we have ex- oeeded the bounds which prudence would have set ‘We are apt to console ourselves that the extrava- gance only happens once a year and that a little pinching for a week or two will amply rectify it. ‘These are the consolations of the era—consolations which no other festival 1s go likely to be prolific in, Well, the thoroughfares were thronged yester- @ay, and ifit were not for the apparition of an oc- easional beggar one mght have thought that no one in all the world was poor. On Broadway, along the Bowery, in Canal and Grand streets, in all the avenues, there was the turmoil of barter and sale. There were to be seen the ubiquitous ‘woman and the universal child. The dollar stores ‘were as closely packed as though they were the wide gate and the broad way that leaa to destruc- tion. Setting aside books and toys it would be @iMcult to say which articles were most exten- sively purchased, From millinery to meerschaum, from pianos to pictures, there was an incessant stream of custom and chaffer, The word panic was unheard. Nobody knew what it meant. Money was plenty and it came Moerally forth. Perhaps the only ones who did not enjoy themselves, who do not, indeed, know what enjoyment is at this season of the year, save as they see it reflected in the counte- Bances of contented purchasers—the only ones, ‘we say, who did not enjoy themselves were the ‘Weary clerks and saleswomen who for the last ‘week have been on their feet from eight in the morning until nine, ten, eleven and twelve at night, and whose only impression of Christmas is ot time when double the ordinary amount of ‘work is to be done for the same amount of money. This is one of the injustices of the season that is Worth taking into account. We are sure that one- half the purchasers, and those who “just come to Jook around,” would cultivate a smoother civility ef tone and manner if they realized the fact that they are being eerved by salesmen and saleswomen who during this holiday season never know what an hour of true comfort is, DRY Goons, The single department of dry goods is sucha wory extensive affair that we have no intention of treating it thoroughly. The public are doing that. All that we profess to dois to mention a few of the principal places and to dwell upon such gen- eral features as seem best adapted to popular at- tention. He who wishes to make a thorough tour im this department will find it necessary to walk from one end of Broadway and of Sixth avenue to the other, to say nothing of Eighth avenue and Grand street, Lord & Taylor’s, No. 901 Broadway, faa very good starting point. Then McCreery’s, No. 801 Broadway, might be taken in. Then come Kinzey’s, No. 767 Broadway; Daniell & Son, No. 160 Broadway; Ziebman, No. 737 Broadway; A. T. Stewart’s, Tenth street and Broadway; Bhayne & Co., just opposite; Union Adams, No. 637 Broadway. In making this progress the shopper will not forget to have deviated from his course in the neighborhood of Union square, and to have stopped at Jonnson, Burns & Co., Nos, 4 and 36 East Fourteenth street, and Reiman & Co., No. 25 Union square. Upon Sixth avenue a similar promenade, only beginning south and ascending Rorth, will bring him successively to Knapp’s, No. 183 Sixth avenue; Meares’, Nos. 307 and 309; @’Neill’s, 327; Altman’s, 831, and Stern’s, 367. The principal resorts on Eighth avenue are McNaugh- ‘ton’s, No. 531 Eighth avenue, and Ehrich’s, No, 287. On Grand street are to be found Ridley’s, Nos. 309 and 311 Grand street, and Walter & McSorley’s, No. 245. Finatly we come to Bloom, No. 338 Bowery, which, thougi the course of our wanderings has brought us to it last, deserves prominent mention. It ft one of the most popular and valuably stocked stores of the kind on the east side of the town. At this establishment, and at Kinzey’s, Reiman’s, Stern’s, crowds of customers are always to be found ata season like the present. Time and space would fail in attempting anything like an elaborate specialization of the articles to be found atthe stores we have here enumerated. Never ave We seen a greater profusion of things in the Gry goods line more attractively displayed. Chil- @ren’s suits, waterproof cloaks, wrappers, Mar- Seilles quilts, gros grain ribbons, sashes, feathers and flowers, millinery, laces, veils, velvets and vel- veteens, satins and trimming silks, gimps and pas- gementeries, dress linings, embroideries, nosiery, under garments, skirts, toilet sacques, French per- cale and hnen underwear, infants’ slips, coats and capes, gloves, handkerchie(s, canvas, worsteé goods, Berlin zephyr worsteds, made up lace goods, fans, silk ties, tarlatans, perfumes, real hair goods, pocket combs, soaps, and everything which women and children can ‘wear, were found in profuse varieties. Two ideas recurred to us during the time spent in making this round. One was, Where can these throngs of Pople find enough to buy? And the other was, ere are there enough people to buy all this won- deriul merchandise? But the crowd of people out- side and the crowd of arficles inside were the Corelatives of each other, and the contemplation of them was an interesting study in political economy. Such an opportunity to consider the laws of supply and demand does not occur more than once a year—tor instance, during Christmas week. But when the question is presented under those conditions it takes picturesque form and gesumes a tenacity which prevents its being quickly rooted out. PICTURES. ‘The three principal picture emporiums in the city—Goupil’s, Schaus’ and Snedecor’s—are doing ® good business. To the novelties they have on hand we bave too recently adverted to render More than a reference necessary here. The large pieture by Schreyer, at Schaus’, has attracted a j Aygd ile te teanes a but the exquisite engrav- ig, after Le Jeune, called “Great Expectations,” has seized the fancy of those desiring to buy. Only the privileged few can afford to give $5,000 for a ture, of us would not sensibly feel the of $40 for an engraving. Mr. Snedecor has fot this season seen the utility of mak- ing any great additions to his stock, The princi- pal attractions at Goupil’s only recentiy received Attention at our hands. There are quite a large num- tof new works in the gallery, lately imported, &nd shown there for the first time. Meanwhile Mr. Ochme has in reserve a large and very inter- esting and excellent picture, by Boughton, entitled “The Heir Presumptive.” It will probably make ite appearance in tne gallery after the holidays are over. Messre, Somerville, Leavitt and Schenck, the auctioneers, have lately effected sales of pic- tures and are not this week doing anything iu that especial line. To whatever other attractions they may have on hand reference is made to an- other department. The photographers are doing cir ave! Christmas — business. Fredricks, at his old and popular piace, opposite the Metropolitan Rotel, has a new French enamelling process, whicn gives to photographs an extremely neat and suave appear- ance. The process has never before been used in ‘this country, and is @ great success, as practised grapher. Sarony has just compleved Bn exquisite crayon Libs od of Wilkie Collins, which that popular novelist himself geen and expressed himself highly pleased with. It would answer admirably as a Christmas gift to any young lady who is an ardent admirer of “The Woman in White,” “The Moonstone,” “Poor Miss Finch” and “The New Magdalen.”” We advise, too, all who are fond of first class water color drawings to examine Barony’s new gallery of water colors in Paillard’s rooms, just below his own, BOOKS. Last Friday we devoted considerable space to an e@xamination of such books a8 were snitable for holiday presentation, We omitted, however, to men- ‘couple of extremely valuable publications jor by Mr. JW. Bouton. No, 706 ‘Broad Vv. One Li of “ese oonsists of original lists of emigrants. re- y eaften, political Febela, for of years, app! ‘ rent J ot eet Slt Wty th Ke ‘lan tat $600 "to tons Their aged” the Yoealiues- where lived in the mother coun- they forme! ra the, aaa of the ships in which they embarked’ and other interesting particulars are given, and the volume is compiled from manuscript preserved in the State paper Gepart- ment of Her Majesty’s Public Record Office, Eng- land. The editor ia John Camden Hotten, The ‘work is ip one volume, quarto, handsomely printed on superior paper, made expressly for the purpose. The comptiation is exceedingly curious, and would make an invaluable present to any one tinged with ap antiquarian taste. Another work, which will make a stronger and more general . peal, 18 & vol- ume of The Portfolio, edited by Phitip Gilbert Hamerton, illustrated with etcnings, autotypes, photographs, wood cuts, fac-similes and pops ings. It 1s in one volume, blue cloth, gilt edges, and sells for $14. The volume is tor the year how drawing to its close. The volumes for 1870, 1871 and 1872 are also on hand. The projector and editor of this work, as well ag its leading author, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, is favorably known to the American reading public y his volumes entitled “Etching and Ktchers,” The Painter's Camp,” “The Intellectual Life,” &c,, a8 an artist, an art'critic and a philosophical es- sayist on life and manners. His strength in each of these departments is amply illustrated in the Portfolio, This. publication was commenced in January, 1870, and has since been continued monthly. At the outset the work was introduced to the public with the following simple announce- ment :—‘The chief intention of The Porvolio is to supply to its subscribers, at a lower cost than would be possible without the certain sale of a regular periodical circulation, works of art.of vari- ous kinds, but always such as are likely to interest & cultivated public; and to accom! them with literature by writers of proved ability, superior to mere letter press, and more readable than pure criticism or cataloguing.’ The promise of that prospectus has been amply sustained. The art illustrations and literary pers have roved alike of permanent value. e former em- Brace several extraordinary series of etchings from the masters in this department, English and foreign, the editor, from his residence on the Con- tinent and familiarity with its productions, having at command its best artistic resources, Among the artists who have furnished original etchings are Bracquemond, Lalanne, Rajon, Legros and Leopold Flameng, who has given some noble specimens of his skill, espectally in the reproduction of “The Laughing Portrait of Rembrandt,” in his par- ticular province as a reviver of the works of that artist. ‘The ‘Woodbury’? and other permanent photographic processes have been employed to great advantage in the production of numerous exquisite drawings of the great painters, The subjects in all cases are chosen for their worth and rarity, and in these respects the Poryolio fairly rivals its great contemporary, one of the noblest fine art periodicals ever issued, the Pa- risian Gazette des Beaug-Arts, it has the same finish in execution in the minutest details of paper and print, and is in every way a thoroughly ar- tistic production, far ahead in this way Of any- thing of the class heretofore issued in England, ‘The literature of the work is also of the highest character, the editor’s contributions including, besides, a number of miscellaneous papers of rare spirit. and interest ; several distinct. series, as those on contemporary etchers, “Chapters on Animals,” “The Unknown River, an Etcher’s Voyage of Discovery,” and the sketchy de- scriptive papers now_in course of publica- tion, “The Sylvan Year.” The work has also. @ most able leading contributor in Mr. Sidney Colvin, the successor of Ruskin in the Slade professorship of tine artat Oxford. He is the writer, besides other papers, of the articles on “Children in Itahan and English Design,” of the extensive series entitled, “From Rigaud to Rey- nolds: Characteristics of French and EnglishPaint- ing in the Eighteenth Century,” illustrated by the choicest reproductions of their works, Other con- tributors are the well known writers on art, G. A. Simcox, William B. Scott, Tom Taylor, Francis Turner Palgrave, &c. Two very valuable books, not unsuitable for gift books, but artistic in inter- est, have also been issued by Hurd & Houghton, Astor place. One of these is a ‘Handbook of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers,” ‘compiled by Clara Erskine Clement, author of “A Handbook of Legendary and Mythologic Art.” The illustrations and monograms are excellent. The other volume is a “Grammar of Painting and En- graving,” translated by Kate Newell Doggett from the French of “Blanc’s Grammaire des Arts du Dessin.”. These volumes are much too important to be dismissed with this mere notice, and we shall return to them again. A batch of books, most of them republications, just issued by T. B. Peterson & Brothers, No. 306 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, deserves attention. ‘They consist of those two perennial volumes of Watson's, “Beautiful Snow” and “The Outcast; “The Beautiful Fiend,” a new work of fiction (the thirty ere by Mrs. Southworth; ‘Aunt Polly’s Scrap-! ag,” by Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz; “Hans Breitman’s Ballads” and ‘Meister Karl's Sketoh-Book,” by C. G. Leland; “A Woman's, Thoughts About Women,” by Miss Mulock; Miss Lambert's “Ladies? Complete Guide to. Needie- work and Embroidery,” apd T. 8. Arthur’s “six Nights with the Wash! nians.”’? The most handsomely bound of these books is the one last mentioned; the least valuable one the one on ueediework and the novel by Mrs. South- worth, which might be called literary needlework of a fierce and sensational description; the most respectable,,as pieces of conscientious work, are Meister Karl’s “Sketch-Book” and “Six Nights ‘with the Washingtonians.” Nothing new can be said of any of these works. All of them are nicely and one or two of them handsomely bound, and each is suitable for &@ gift, provided tne taste of the giftee be satisfied. One of the most deeply acceptable and appro priate of all the gift books we have seen 1s a holl- day edition of Mr. F. G. de Fontaine’s “Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charlies Dickens,” co! piled and alphabetically arranged. It is brought out by E. J. Hale & Son, No. 17 Murray street. It is a book that cannot but be Vig by every appre- ciator of the great humorist, Mr. de Fontaine spent several years in its compilation, and the re- sult isa vor, valuable representative volume, The present edition is bound in a style at once rich, plain and enduring. WATCHES AND JEWELRY. t The name of ‘Tiffany has long been tae faa tab with everything that is rich, Faro, elegans and tasteful in jewelry and kindred objects of art. Here everything in the way of exquisite bijouterie is to be obtained. Our article would read like a catalogue were we to specify one-tenth of the rich and beautiful things on hand. The clocks and can- delabras are very various, Those of the time of Louis XUIL, Henri Il. and the renaissance are in copper and crystal. The collection of bronze groups and figures is extremely large. The ceromic art finds several superb representatives. Tiffany’s is not only a place where magnificent jewelry can be procured, but where first class works of art can be acquired as well. To wander around among the extensive floors 1s almost like visiting a museum of art. At ever, turn you find your- self confronted with some yeritable work of genius. Some of the sculptures left here by Marshal Wood—noticeably ‘The Song of the Shirt’—are attracting a vast deal of attention. Formerly they occupied a nook on the southern side of the building, second floor, but are now dis- tributed at various intervals, and form bright and pleasant resting places for the eye when sstigned with the ofbronze. Another place where jewelry of a first class description is to be pro- cured is Frankfleld’s, at the northeast corper of Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street. The excel- lent location of the store has attracted a host of shoppers during the past fortnight. Jeweiry is one of the luxuries which people find they cannot do without. If men are not as extensively afflicted with, this hankering alter gold and bijouterte, they have at least a milder jorm of the same diseuse and are quite as excusable. PIANOS AND ORGANS. No musician will complain that we have not a sumMicient ros of manufacturers and sellers of Pianos and urgans. With Weber, at the southwest corner of sixteenth street and Fifth avenue ; Stein- way, on Fourteenth street, just east of Fourth ave- nue; Mason & Hanlin, at No. 26 Union square; Haines Bros., at No. 27 Union square; Decker & Bro,, No. 33 Union square, and William Knabe & Co., No. 112 Fifth avenue, the only embarrassment Jelt in buying a piano is that experienced in the difmiculty of making a choice. It is not our place to indicate individuel preferences or to explain why Weber is perferred by this person or Knabe by that. If all the planos and organs manufactured by all the establishments in New York which de- vote themselves to that kind of work were left open to the choice of the obscure writer who pens these lines he would find it impossible to make a selection without hesitating long. Happliy popular. prime donne and musicians are saved from so lamentable a dilemma, A piano is sent by some enterprising firm, and a complimentary note arrives in due season from the recipient of that in- strument, We dare say there 1s not a plano manu- facturer in town who cannot show a dozen such notes, and very graceful and appropriate compli. ments they are, 100, Bnt try to imagine a hall a dozen pianos from as many manufacturers arriving atonce; pieture to yourself Knabe and Decker and Haines and Mason & Hamiin and Steinway and Weber all glorwarding their chess-d’cuvres simultaneously. Here, mdeed, we grant that the favored prima donna’s choice would be embarass- ing, and a look of sameness would have to char- acterize her congratulatory notes, BILLIARD TABLES, Billiard tables and the accompanying parapher- nalia are oftencr given for Christmas and holiday gilts than those who know nothing about the Inatter are apt to imagine. There are several places in the city where first Class ones are to be procured, One of these is at H. W, Collender’s (successor to Phelan & Collender), No. 738 Broad- way; another is Grimith’s, No. 40 Vesey street, and @ third is Kavanagi’s, No, 164 Centre street. We shall not weary our readers with all the many technical terms included in a description of rival inventions in this line, It will be quite to the point to remark that at each of these well-known establishments @ first rate article is turned out, Happily tor the increase of home comforts even some of the most prudish of puritanic wives and mothers are beginning to see that the billiard table does not necessarily imply perdition, Hence we see billiard tabies not only in billiard saloons but in private houses, and not only in the mansions of the Wealthy but in many a residence the occupant of which has to work bard for his money, and has learned the full value of it before he parts witn it. There is scarcely @ prettier sight, according to our view of the matter, than that of a samuly enjoying & domestic game o! biliiards— er, taother, daughter and son. It is by all odds amuch more ver eS Rp ag Bc id on Who desires to ‘on¢ at a. sum within bounds cannot do better than inspect the establishments we have named. MEERSCHAUMS, 40, ‘This is one of the subjects upon which a column Might be as ee ee as @ paragraph. It is a subject with which ladies, we know, have ve! little sympathy, for our ladies have not yet learp to amoke the cigarette and consequently cannot be expected to have much partiality for the tobacco perfumes of fatners, husbands, brothers and sons. Stern duty, however, compels ua to do Justice to the sterner as well as to the gentie sex, and therefore we have no hesitation in saying (an need we add that we say it boldly?) that at Kaldenberg’s, at the intersection of Nassau and John streets, and at Pollak’s, No. 27 John street and 1,109 Broadway, are to be found a wonderful assortment of imported ana domestic Havana cigars: fine smoking tobacco, iatporyea Turkish, ‘aisiana Perique, Cavendish to! sh every week gay nothing of pipes ad libitum. There are Hun- Lp pier wind 4 oar. skull and zouave bowls, ndon bend and London straight pipes, plain and jancy Belgian and French shaped pipes, yacht and globe pipes, claw and marine shel! bow! pipes, horse joot, leg and hand pipes In short, the two firms we have mentioned pipe for everybody, and the public dances attendance, There are Weichesel stems and amber mouth pieces, and, in fact, every- thing which the reason or imagination of the con- firmed smoker can desire. . Ladies will not thank us for giving this injormation ;’ but considerations Of strict impartiality are paramount. SOCIAL * CHIT-CHAT. ‘What the Diplomatists at Washington Are Doing—The Official Receptions and Feminine Squabbles. WasuInGrTon, Dec. 21, 1873. Cold, cheery weather at last, to the evident de- light of the old Baron d’Offenburg, the Minister Plen- ipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias. The Baron has wilted during the warm futumn and unnaturally genial winter, but now that the north winds come sweeping down over the mountains he enjoys bis constitutional prom- enades in a tur lined pelisse anda sable cap. The old glories of the Russian Legation in the days of Bodisco and the more recent escapades of the charm- ing Catacazy are not revived by the courtly old Baron who has now the interests of the double+ headed eagle under his charge, THE BRITISH LION, more fortunate, is to have 8 magnificent new men- agerie, nuw being built in massive British style on Vermont avenue. Her Majesty’s diplomatic repre- sentative, Sir Edward Thornton, was born in the service, fed on macerated biue books, and isa thoroughly trained and efficient representative of his sovereign. He, too, indulges in a long walk every afternoon when the weather 18 cool enough, but when Congress is in session he has to avoid the avenue, as the intimate friends of Judge Poland, a Vermont Representative, will slap the Plenipoten- tiary on the back and accost him in the most fa- miliar way. The likeness between the Briton and the Judge 1s as striking as was that between Gen- eral Cags and Landlord Guy, of the National, which gave rise to so many @musing biunders. Just now Sir Edward has A WEDDING ON HAND, as young Chariton, his pet attaché, is to marry Miss Campbell, and his sister has come over to at- tend the ceremony. The Second Secretary of the British Legation now is a Mr. Gastrelj, one of those useful men who delight the British Grad- grinds by accumulating “facts” on trade, com- Merce and navigation, which appear in blue books. The new Legation building will hardly be completed belore next winter, and until then there will not be much festivity at Sir Edward’s, THE FRENCH MINISTER, who had two houses knocked into one that he might entertain as became a De Noailles, sas re- ceived his marching orders, and will only be abie to give one ball, as a pour prendcongé. itis whispered that he has been too much under the influence of his kinsman, the Marquis De Cham- brun to be acceptable to Secretary Fish, and that he is not equal to urging THE FRENCH WAR CLAIMS, due French subjects who were “away down South in Dixie” during the little unpleasantness, and whose cotton, sugar and rice were gobbled by Union generals. Bartholdt, who is on nis way here to supersede De Noailles, will be the very man to urge the payment of these small accounts, He is of Jewish origin, but a Protestant humself, and he has boxed the compass of Parisian politics, from socialism to impertalisin, and around to repubi- canism, When Marshal Bagaine was in Mexico he was sent to teil him that France would do ye | more for Maximilian, and he is regarded as one @! the brightest ornaments of the Corps Dipio- matic Socially—1 don’s mean as 4 socialist—ne cannot take the place of M. De Noailles and his charming Wife, irom whom the young people ex- pected many balls during the coming season. As S rr THE PRUSSIAN MINISTER, or, a8 he calis himself, the Envoy Extraordinary of the German Empire, he does little beyond eat whatever good dinners he is invited to, and he is great on terrapin, Admiral Polo, of Spain, is too usy about the Virginius to think about entertain- ments, and neither Aristarchi Bey, of the Ottoman Empire, nor M. de Borges, of Brazil, is great in hospitality, And lastly, as for GIRO Gavs, who runs the Japanese Legation in the absence of Mori (who i still the accredited minister),he is @ quiet little almond-eyed chap, who has the good sense to keep his Japanese wile out of ‘Vanity Fair’ until she can speak English and get used to wearing @ pannier. Of course society Clamors for a appearance, but society must watch and wait. utside THE: DIPLOMATIC RING everything is very quiet. Those families of sena- tors, secretaries and bureau chiefs which furnish the satellites revolving about the noted foreign- ers are entertaming liberally, and Mme. Fish has her receptions, where only ta créme de ta creme can come, It is said that Mrs. Williams, wife of the newly nominated but still unconfirmed Chief Justice, is not asked to the receptions of Mme. Fish, and does not attend them. The official petticoat government is not partial to Mine. Chief Justice—why, 1 do not attempt to say, ART MATTERS. The Somerville Sale Last Night. One of the most successful little sales in art ma- terials that have taken place during the present season was that accomplished at the Somerville Art Gallery last evening. There were a lew pic- tures by the late Mr. Fagnani; but a large propor- tion of the articles consisted of vases, cabinets and all sorts of nameless and curious little nick- nacks, mostly of Japanese invention and work- manship. It was a gaia auction in miniature, Mr. Somerville’s colloquial wit and good humor doing their share toward recommendin, 1 Choice little selection of desirabilities on hand, The Leavitt Sale To-Night. The principal features of the sale to occur at the Art Rooms, No. 817 Broadway, this evening, are the Gobelin tapestries covering a set of antique furniture. The love ofGobelin tapestries in this country, like the love of virtu everywhere, is limited to afew. But, where Bactis do appreciate them, they accept to appreciate them yoy thor- oughly. All that need be said at present is that the display to which we have alluded is extremely valuable, and is in @state of perfect preservation. It is @ handsome and brilliant relic o1 the antique time forming the outer border of the Middle Ages, when the tapestry worker wove his very vitality into the warp and woof over which he tolied tor years, OITY FINANCES, The Chamberiain makes the following report of the condition of the city treasury for the week end- ing last Saturday per the different accounts:— City treasury balance December 18. City treasury receipts during week A treasury payments during week. ala nes December 20.. Sinking rund redemption balan Sinking fund receipts during week Sinking fand jon ep during we Sinking tund balance December 2. Sinking fund interest balance December i3... Sinking fund interest receipts during week... Sinking fund interest balance December 20. County treasury receipts during week County treasury payments during we 3,540,109 County treasury ince December seaes 488,875 Balance in treasury, all accounts, December 13.. 7,001,487 Total receipts during week. 3,714,408 Total Jon} ae J during week. 920,504 Total balance in treasury Decem| + 6,386,391 ‘Of which there is in— German-American Bank. 800,000 Irving KK... 500,000 Gallatin Nawonal Bank ‘50.000 Phenix Bank. 50, 000 CITY AND OOUNTY TREASURY, Comptroller Green reports the following dis- bursements and receipts of the Treasury yester- day :— CLA Number of warrants, 5, ai Pay rolls G4, amounting to Total. ...s0. RRCKIPTS. From taxes of 1878 ana mverest.. Par, ting t from sales, City Recor wee. fees and fines, Police Courts....... TOAD. ..sseeeeeee NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. THE POPE. Se Ee ae Encyclical Letter of His Holiness to the ‘ Universal Church, ‘The document is addressed to “all patriarchs, primates, archbishops, bishops and other ordina- ries in the grace end communion of the Apostolic See” :— « VENERABLE BRETHREN—Health and tne Apostolic Benediction—Aithough many grievous and bitter sufferings from the beginning of our long Pontifi- cate have fallen to oar lot, through various causes, which we bave unfolded in our ychical letters from time to time, yet in the last years the num- ber of our sorrows has #0 imereased that, were we not upheld by the mercy of God, we should be almost overwhelmed by indeed, matters have reached such a that death itself seems better than life amid such storms, and with eyes lifted up to heaven we are jam to cry—‘“It is bet- ter for us to die than to see the evils of the saints.” Ever since our city of Rome, by the will of God, has been taken away by force of arm and has passed under the sway of men who despise law—who are enemies of religion, who coniound all things, both human and divine—hardly a day haa passed without inflicting some Dew wound on our heart, already suffering from repeated in- juries and wrongs. There ring still in our ears the cries of religious men and women who have been driven from their homes in poverty, and scattered hither and thither by hostile hands, as is done where revolution triumphs—jusv as, according to Athanasius, the great Anthony used Wo say, “The devil hates all Christians, but he can- Ped cedure good monks and virgins dedicated to We have now seen what we thought could never come vo pass—viz., the suppression and abolition ofthe Roman University, which had been estab- lished (according to the words of an ancient author writing on the Anglo-Saxon school in Rome) that young Church students from distant parts might be educated in the Catholic faith and doctrine, lest in their own lands they should be wrong): taught, or in @ way contrary to jatholic unity, and that they might go back strong and steadfast in the faith. ‘Thus, while by foul means we are by de- grees deprived o1 ail waya of ruling and governing the Universal Church, it is clearly manifest how very far from the trath is that which: has been as- serted, viz. :—“That the tiberty of the Roman Pon- tiff in the exercise of his spiritual ministry and in his relations with the Catholic world has been in nowise diminished by the loss of our city.” Nay, it_ becomes clear every day how truly we have 60 often insisted that the sacrilegious usurpation of our territory has had for its especial object the subversion Of the Pontifical authority and the de- struction, if possible, of the Catholic religion itsel/. It is not, however, the object of our letter to write to you uf the woes of our city and of the whole of Italy. We would rather pass in silence over our own sorrows if, by the mercy ol God, we could assuage the bister grieis which so many of our venerable brethren, their sietey and people are undergoing in other lands. ou are well aware, venerable brethren, that certain of the cantons of the Swiss Federation—not at the sug- stion of non-Catholics, some of whom have con- mned the act, but at the bidding of those busy sectarians who have now everywhere pos- sessed themselves of power—have overturned the order and undermined the ioundations of the Church of Christ, contrary to every role of justice, and in spite of their publicly pledged word; for, according to solemn covenants, passed by the laws and authority of the Federation, the religious Oe of the Catholics ought to be maintained in- violate. ‘That government has claimed the right of reform- ing the constitution of the Catholic Church in the canton, according to the democratic pattern, and ol subjecting the Bishop to the civil power in the exercise of his proper jurisdiction, and the ad- ministration and § delegation of his authority to otaers, forbidding him to dwell in the canton, limiting the number and boundaries of the par- ishes, laying down the forms and conditions of the election of parish priests and their assistants, and the manner of their resignation or suspension, assigning to laymen the right of nomination, an the temporal administration and inspection of ecclesiastical affairs generally. Moreover, parish priests and their Ltn without permission, Withdrawn at pleasure ol the government, were forbidden to exercise their functions, to accept any dignities higher than that conferred upon them by the election of the people, and were also forced to take an oath in terms involving actual apostasy. It is clear that laws of this kind are not only null and void, by reason of waut of power in the Jawmakers, as being laymen and non-Catholics, but also, as regards their provisions, that they are so contrary to the doctrines of the Catholic faith and to the ecclesiastical discipline enjoined by Pontifical Constitutions and the @icumenical Coun- cil of Trent, that they ought to be altogether re- jected by us We, ttierefore, as required by our office. do, by our Apostolic authority, solemnly reject and con- demn them, declaring the required oath to be un- lawful and sacrilegious, and that all those who, in the canton of Geneva or elsewhere, having been elected according to the tenor of the same laws, or others like them, by the votes of the people and contirmation of the civil power, should venture to take upon them ecciesiastical functions, do, ipso 7acta, meur the greater excommunication specially resérved to the Holy See and other canonical pen- alues, and that they are to be avoided by the faith- ful, according to the Divine command, ‘‘as stran- rs and robbers, who come but to steal and to il and to destroy.” The noble constancy of the taithful in Switzer- land is imitated in a manner worthy of all praise by the clergy and taithiul people of Germany, tol- lowing the bright examples of their bishops. They have been made @ spectacle to the world, to an- gels and to men, who from every side look up to them, clad with the breastplate of Catholic truth, and, wearing the helmet of salvation, valiantly fighting the battle of God. Their courage and in- vineibie iortitude are the more admired and praised, as, day by day, the persecution raised against them in Germany, and especially in Prus- sia, rages more and more bitterly. Besides many grave wrongs inflicted last year upon the Cathouc Church, the Prussian government has sub- {ecres. to the civil power, by cruel and unjust legislation, altogether alien from ite former conduct, the entire instruction and education of the clergy in such manner that it pelongs to the said power to inquire into and to decide in what manner Church students are to be taught and trained to the sacerdotal and pastoral lile; and, proceeding further, it gives to the same power the right of examining and judging in respect to collating to all ecclesiastical oMices and benetices, and even o! depriving sacred pastors of office and benefice. Moreover, in order to subvert more speedily and compietely the ecclesiastical govern- ment of the Church and the order of hierarchical Obedience instituted by Christ our Lord Himself, many obstacles are interposed by the same laws to hinder the bishops in providing with timely measures, by canonical censures and pains, jor the salvation of souls, for the soundness of ‘aoc- trine in Catholic schools, or for the obedience due to them from their clergy, for, according to the tenor of those laws, the bishops are not permitted to exercise these junctions save only at the pieasure of the civil authority, and according to the rules laid down by the same. Finally, that nothing should be wanting to.the entire suppres- sion of the Catholic Church, a royal tribunal ior ecclegiastical affairs has been instituted, before which bisbops and sacred pastors ae be cited, both py private men, who are their subjects, and by pudlic magistrates, there to receive judgment, a3 Cri, ‘Inals, and to be coerced in the exercise of theirsiritual office. Thus, the Holy Church of Christ, "to which the full hberty of religion had been guaranteed by the solemn and reiterated promises Ol princes and, by public pacts and conventions, is now in mourning in those regions, stripped of 1t8 every right and exposed to hostile powers, which threaten it with final destruction, for this new legisiation reaches to the point of rendering the life of the Church impossible. No wonder, theretore, that in that Empire the former religious peace should be broken up by laws of this Kind, and by the other counsels and acts of the Prussian gov- ernment, full of hostility to the Church, Where- tore, if any one would throw the biame of these perturbations on the Catholics of the German Em- pire, it would be altogether without warrant; jor if it be imputed to. them as an offence that they do not acquiesce in those laws, in which, with a safe conscience, they cannot acquiesce, for a like rea- son, and in a like manuer, the aposties and martyrs of Jesus Christ are to be accused, who chose rather to undergo most cruel punishment, and death isself, than betray their proper office and violate the laws of their most holy religion in obedience to the impious commands of per- secuting princes. Of @ truth, venerable brother if no other jaws than the laws ot a civi empire existed, and laws, indeed, 01 a higher order, which it is aduty to obey and ‘sin to violate; 11, moreover, these same civil laws constitute a supreme rule of conscience, as some impiously and absurdly contend, the primitive martyrs, and they wno siterwards followed them in shedding their blood jor the saith of Christ and the liberty of the Church, would be rather worthy of blame than of honor and praise; nay, it would not even have been possible, in the teeth ot laws and against the will of princes, to preach and propagate the Christian religion and to iyvund the Church, The Jaith, however, teaches, and human reason demon- strates, that there is @ twolold order of things; and, at the same time, two powers are to be dis- tinguished on the earth—the one natural, which provides for the tranquility of haman societ: and secular affairs; the other, the origin of whici ig above nature, supreme over the City of God—that is, the Church of Christ, divinely instituted ior the peace and the eterna salvation of souls; and the offices of two Jold power are in wisdom ordained that the things of God should be rendered to God, and that, fh obedience to God, the things of Owsar should be rendered to Owsar, who is “therelore great Ve- cause he is less than” heaven, for he himself be- longs to Him to whom belong the heavens ana every creature. From this divine command the Church assuredly has never turned aside, for it has avers and everywhere labored to impress on the minds of the faithful the obedience which they ought inviolably to maintain—the words, sovereign pr inces and their iaws in ular things—and it jas taught, with the Apostie, that “princes” are not a terror to good works, but to evil, command. ine the faithful to be subject not only tor wrath’ sake, because the prince bears the sword a8 an avenger in wrath for him who does evil, but aiso for conscience sake, because in hie office he is the minister of God. This fear @f smgces the Church iteell resirains to ¢ “ Sesto and. cxttndes tt expoesnty from the ‘ance of the divine law, yn Fem indtul of ‘the blessed Peter it to fait! of you suffer as a murderer or as & Christian, let him not be ashame glory God in nis name.’ Since the Moa you will easily understand, yeneral with what sorrow of mind we must have bee: affected When we read, in a letter lately sent to us by she Emperor of Germany in person, an accusa- mn not less crue! than unlookea for against a part, as he himself says, of his Cathole subjects, and especially against the Catholic cle apd bishops of Germany, of which accusation this is the cause that they, feariess of bonds and tribula- uons, and not counting their life more precious than themse: ‘have refused to obey the aforesaid laws,’ with thesame consistency with which, before they were passed, they had protested, py denouncing their injustice, woich Was uaiolded in grave, lumi- nous, and golid expostulatons, amid the applause of the whole Catholic world, and of not a few even of non-Oatholics, before the Sovereign, his Minis. ters and the Supreme Legislature of tue kingdom. Ror that cause they ure BOW accused as ol the crime of treason, a8 of consorting and conspirin: with these who are endeavoring to overthrow all order in human society, without regard to innu- merable and notable proofs which evidently bear witness to their ynshaken faith and allegiance to their Sovereign, and their fervent patriotism towards their country; yea, and we ourselves are asked to exhort those Catholics and sacred pastors to observe the aforesaid laws, which is to ask that we also ourselves should lend our help in oppressing and scatiering the flock of Christ. But, trusting in God, we are confident that the Most Serene Emperor, when he better as- certained and weighed these things, will reject a suspicion so empty and incredible agamst bis faithiul servants, and will no longer endure that their honor should be assailed by so foul a calumny, and that so unmerited @ prosecution ‘should be continued against them. We should, indeed, have gladly have passed over in this place the letter of the Emperor i it had not been made public by the official journal im Berlin, altogether without our knowledge and in a mon- her certainly unusual, together with another letter, written by our hand, in which we appealed for the Cavholic Church in Prussia to the justice of the Most Serene Emperor. The things which we have thus Jar recounted are before the eyes of all, Wherefore, while religious and virgins dedicated to God are deprived o! the common liberty of citi- zens and are exiled with cruel harshness; while pubiic schools in which Catholic youth are educated are day by day further withdrawn from the wholesome teaching and vigilance of the Church; while societies founded for the nur- turing ef piety and even the seminaries of the clergy are dissolved; while the liberty of preaching the Gospel is hinaered; while it is prohibited in certamm parts of the kingdom to teach the ele- ments of religious education in the mother tongu while the priests are forcibly taken away trom the parishes over which they were set by the bighops, and the bishops themselves are deprived of thejr revenues, coerced by fines and menaced by threats of imprisonment; while Catholics are disturbed by vexations of evey kind, is it possible that we should receive into our mind that which is laid be- fore us, viz.:—That neither the religion of Jesus Christ nor the truth 1s called in question? Nor is this the end of the wrongs which are in- flicted upon the Catholic Church, for to this must be also added the patronage which has been openly taken vp by the Prussian and the other govern- ments of the Germanic Empire in behali of those new beretics who call themselves “Old Catholics,’ by an abuse of the name which would be truly ridiculous if it were not that so many monstrous errors of that sect against the chiei principles of the Catholic faith—so many sacrileges in Divine wor- ship and in the administration of sacraments—so Many gravest scandals—so great a havoc of souls redeemed in the blood of Christ—did not rather draw abundant tears from our eyes. The attempts, indeed, and the aims of these unhappy souls of perdition appear plainly, both from other writings of theirs, and most of all from that impious and most impudent of documents which has lately been published by him whom they have set up for them- selves as their so culled Bishop—for they deny and peyer the true authority of jurisdiction which is the Roman Pontif, and the bishops, the succes- sors. of the blessed Peter ties, and transier it to the populace, or, as ent say, to the community—they stubborniy reject and assail the iniallible teaching authority of the Roman Pontiff and of the whole Church, and, contrary to the Holy Spirit, who has been promised by Christ to abide in His Church for ever, ined audaciously affirm that the Roman Pon. tiff and the whole of the bishops, priests and pe ple, who are united with him in one faith and com- munion, have fallen into hergsy by sanctioning and professing the definitions of the Ecumenical Vati can Councii—therefore, they deny even the intalli- bility of the Church, blasphemously saying that it has perished throughout the world, and that its Vis- inle Head and its bishops have fallen away, and that for this reason it has been necessary for them to restore the lawiul episcopate in their pseudo- bishop—a man who, entering not by the gate, but coming up another way, has drawn upon his heaa the condemnation of Christ. Nevertheless, those unhappy men, who would undermine the foundations of the Catholic religion, and destroy its character and endowments— who have invented such shameful and manifold errors, or rather have collected them together trom the old store of heretics—are not ashamed to call themselves Catholics and “Oid Catholics,” while, by their doctrine, their novelty and fewness, they give up all mark of antiquity and Catholicity. To conclude, venerable brethren, since we have falien on times, not only of suffering, but of merit- ing much, let us take especial care, as good soldiers of Christ, not to despair, as, in the midst of the storm, we have a sure hope of fature calm and a glorious peace for the Church, aud, trusting m the assistance of God, let us cheer ourselves, our one and our people with the noble words 0! Chrysostom. Many waves and storms threaten us, but we are not airaid of being overwhelmed, for we stand upon the Rock. Though the sea rage, it cannot melt the Rock; thougn the waves arise they yet cannot sink the bark of Jesus. There is nothing mightier than the Church. The Church is stronger than heaven itself, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away,”’ What words are these? “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.’ Disturbed, therefore, by no danger and no fear, let us continue steadfast in prayer, and with one mind let us endeavor to appease the anger of Heaven, provoked by the sons of men, so that at last, in His mercy, the Almighty may arise and command the winds that they be still. Meanwhile, in witness of our especial affection, we lovingly im- part to you all, venerable brothers, to the clergy, and the Apos- { and all the people committed to your care, our Apostolic blessing. Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, on the 21st day of November, in the year of our Lord 1573, in the twenty-eighth year ol our Pontificate. PIUS Ix. DRINKING AMONG WOMEN. A Conference of Friends of Temperance— Dr. Stephen Smith on Drinking Usages of Society Among Women. .Aconierence of iriends of temperance was neld yesterday, under the auspices of the National Tem- perance Society, in the parlor of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Mr. WILLIAM E. DopGE presided, and stated that ‘@ bill had been introduced in Congress to appoint @ commission who shall investigate the subject of intemperance, with a view to legislation. Dr. STEPHEN SMITH, of the Board of Health, read &@ paper on “The Effects of the Drinking Usages of Society Among Women.” This subject was creating great deal of attention in London, and the first cry of alarm came from the fashionable circles of society. Drunkenness was no longer unknown, according to the Saturday Review, in the most charming circles’of society, The waiting rooms of the Tombs in this city would show to any visitor every morning the terribly degrading influences of intemperance among the lower classes of women. in the higher classes they also found many conditions predisposing to the use of alchoholic drinks. The frequent use of wine in society was particularly reprehensible with re- gard to girls at the age of puberty. The truly fashionable lady lived with no reference to the Yaws of health. Many fashionable physicians were always willing to prescribe the use of brandy, whis! ey champagne, &c., when it might well be avoided. The habit of secret drinking among women was also reprehensible. The beer and wine prescrip- tions generatly created the appetite in fashiona- ble women, and it was noteworthy that both beverages were so adulterated nowadays that only vhe worst results could possibly.ensue. Intemper- ance, according to statistics, made much stronger inroads upon the health ofwomen than of men, and it was proven that it shortened the lives of women more than those of the stronger sex. In- temperance among married women was likely to be inherited by their children. It rapidly de- stroyed all purity and virtue and love of truth in women; it made them coarse in manners and thoughts. Alchohol denaturalized Women and undermined their innate sense of modesty and virtue. Courtesans always used intoxicating drinks. They had admitted that they could not keep down the iniamous memories that rose beiore their minds unless they drank, The reform must begin in home circles, and young ladies must not be tanght to drink wine and other stimulants, Mr. PowELL moved the following resolutions, which were adopted :— Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Conference that the use of alcoholic beverages, taken even in moderate quantities, is physically to) morally injurious, occasions paintul and dangerous maladies, diminishes mentat power, entails diseased appetites upon offspring. and is oa primary Cause of a large percentage ot pauperism an Rerol That we earnestly appeal to all to conscien- tiously abstain from the use of all alcoholic beverages, and from proffering them asa symbol of hospitality to others, especially ‘during the holiday season and on all festive occasions. esolved, That itis the duty of the governme and national, to seek to confie the trafic in Haquors to the legitimate purposes of medica) selences, art and mechathisen ‘The meeting then adjourned acs A DUKE .MARRIED, i Marriage of the Famous Duke off Hamilton to Lady Montagu. THE CEREMONY AT KIMBOLTON. {From the London Daily News, Dec, 11.) KMBo.ton, Dee, 10, 1873. Happy 1s the bride upon whom the sun shines; and if this saying be as true as it is old there cam be little doubt that the lady who is now Duchess: of Hamilton will enjoy no common share of felicity.’ Emerging from the gloom of London yesterday afternoon, those travellers who were bound for Kimbolton soon snook off the dispiriting influences” of prematuce midnight, and dwelt with satisiac- ton upon the cheerful augury of the brightening Skies, It was at Baden, where his mother as @ member of the reigning family in the Grand Duchy principally resides, that the Duke of Hamilton first met Laly Mary Montagu, who is the eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester; and the acquaintance soon deepened into affece tion. Although this is not the fashionable season for weddings, THE CEREMONY > was arranged to take place in December, and, by mutual agreement, at Kimboiton instead of in London. This announcement was a very welcome one tothe Huntingdonshire people, for they do not: olten have the pleasure of looking forward to such festivities as are now drawing toaclose, Kim- bolton Castle bas been full of company for several weeks past, but the actual fétes in connection with the marriage did not commence until Mon- day, when the white hall of the Castle was thrown open for an inspection of the bride’s wedding presents, which were so costly and so numerous that an enumeration of them would fill columns of this journal. Her Majesty the Queen, the Emperor and Empress of Germany, who are CONNECTIONS OF THE BRIDEGROOM, * ¢ the Prince and Princess of Wales and Prince Edward, of Saxe Weimar, all sent some valuable gift, which will become heirlooms in the Hamilton family. Several additions have been made to the list of company which assembled at the Castle last Saturday, and there was a goodly gathering upon the lawao yesterday morning, where the Oakley hounds met by special appointment, Lady Mary Montagu, who 18 @ great equestrian, took part in the hunt, and one of her bridesmaids elect. Lady Blanche Somerset, also showed that proweas across country which she has inherited from the best sportsmen of whom England can boast, THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER, as colonel of the mounted volunteers, is In the habit of giving an annual ball to his Soene and it was arranged that this should take p! last night, so tbat the gallant horsemen who &re to do their share in hurling back the coming invasion Might have an extra treat. The ball was very brilliant, and the dancing was kept up till nearly four inthe morning. The guests, indeed, must be almost glad that the festivities are at anend, for the work o! the last two days has been very heavy. The wedding was fixed jor eleven A, M., 80 the time devoted to sleep was almost nominal. It seemed as if the whoje country had determined to be present at Kimbolton this morning, and by ten o'clock the streets of this queer little’ town—ior, with a market, I suppose one must call 1t a town— were crammed itive order, THE CASTLE stands at one end of the street which leads down to the church, 80 all the inhabitants were enabled to witness the procession, even if they had been unable to procure admission into the church itself, ‘This was a more dificult matter, for the building is small, and the applications were numerous, Those who had been favored with tickets took up: their position@n good time, and when the cheer- ing outside announced the arrival of the wedding party there waa scarcely a vacant place. The shone brightly, and, glancing athwart one of the stained glass windows, it hghted up a very taste- fully decorated chancel, devoid, however, of those ritualistic ornaments which turn a “communion table” into an “altar.” THE DUKE OF HAMILTON, accompanied by the Baron de Tuyil, Who acted ag best man, was the first to arrive, and the gentle- men among the Castle guests were not far behind, While the bridegroom was kneeling in peareee louder shout told us of the bride’s coming, entered the church leaning upon her father’s ‘The Duchess of Hamiiton (Dowager we must now add), wno had travelled over from Baden-Badel entered the church with her daughter, Duchesse de Vaientinois. The ceremony, always impressive through its very simplicity, was all the more so to-day, because there was no adventitious aid in the shape of MUSIC AND CHORISTERS; merely the grand old service of the Church of England, read by the Rev. KF. C. Hope-Grant, vicar: of Kimbolton, ussisted by Dr. Young, the rector of Tillbrook, The bride was in white, with a veil of Brussels lace and a profusion of orange flower— cela va desoi. Her tour bridesmaids were Ladies _ Louisa and Alice Montagu, who are her sisters; Lady Florence Montagu, sang of os Earl of Sandwich, and Lady Blanch So} ‘ daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, F LOUD WERE THE HUZZAS as the newly nrarried pair, after the usual lormalities had been got through, and walked down the aisle man and wife, ent carriage on their way back to the Castile, whil they were speedily followed by all the guests many oi the neighboring genre, who had vited to the ceremony. The Duke of Man wishing that everybody should have a share festivities, gave orders that the grounds of Castle should be thrown open, and a . crowd gathered 4 iat UPON THE | AND Walia uae A dijetner was provided for 200 gues’ ° the tent which had been used as a selene io previous night, and here, in addition to the party staying in the house, most of the principal tenants and their wives assembled to drink the us ding toasts. The joy-bells were and the sun shone bright and clear, to three P. M. a special train was timed t Kimbolton for the Duke of Hamtiton’s seat in Su folk, and though getting into a train imm 7 atter one’s wedding ma; Supe to in satisfaction with one’s lot bere on earth continues to be run, About two o’clock- A SQUADRON OF THE MOUNTED VOLUNTEEI looking remarkably well in their scarlet tur drew up in front of the Castle gate, ready to cort the bridegroom and bride to the station, wi is distant tull ‘two miles trom the town. An open barouche with four horses and postillions was ready to receive them, and so, with many wishes from a loving famtly and the. not | formal plaudits of the assembied crows Duchess of Hamilton, as we must now ¢ took her place with the Duke by her side, more cheer, and , THE ESCORT a rattles down the street and the cai dls |e out of sight. The primitive stati oiton was also a centre of attraction, and Duke and Duchess of Hamilton had been’ ciently stared at for the last few hour ae pane ye a a ene hide ven, ani e “sper spe towards Cambridge and Wickham iarke first fortnight of their honeymoon is to 1 Easton Park, which has undergone tions, and it is their present intention to pi Christmas week at bolton, Alterwi 6 proceed in THE DUKE’S STEAM YACHT the Thistle, to Egypt; ana Lord Mai eldest son of the Duke ot Manchester, gret to say, is in somewhat ini probably accompany them. Kimi is mined to enjoy itself very tl » for every house will illuminate to-night, and it scarcely subside into its wonted quiet before ti sinall hours of the morning. ‘The wedding has also been celebrated on THE DUKE’S SCOTTISH ESTATES with great éclat. Aball was given in the bly Rooms at Hamilton last night to 60 and this afternoon the tenantry on the Hai and Kinniel estates were to be entertained grand banquet in the riding school of palace, The bo py will be bright’ with bo and that the Jeeling of affection for the mig no mere lip-service may be gathered trom that among the wedding presents . more worthy of acceptance, merely trom point of view, than those sent from CALIFORNIA, The Senatorial Contest for the Term. SAN Francisco, Dee, At Sacramento to-day the Joint © voted for Senator for the shert term as Hager, 44; Shafter, 22; Cole, 8; Phelps, 7. There were seven absent likely there will be an election until @! , to Which time the Convention adjourn. ARREST OF YOUNG INCENDI ABany, N. Y., D Five or six boys, ranging from 16" age, have been arrested in Schen of incendiarism. Some five or occurring ure attributed to them, was made last night. nn LAKE MAHOPAO FROREN, LAKE Manopa4, N, Y, 1 Lake Mahopac is trogen. pegs ve ng Sa ea with vehicles, mostly of the prim-