The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. sat 9 lama JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the tear, Four cents per Copy: Annual sudseription Trice $12. ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yors ‘Henman. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume ° XXXIxX AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING + BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—DUNALD MCKAY, at §P. di. , closes at LIP, M. Oliver Doud Byron. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. OVER THE PLAINS, and VARTETY ENTER- VAINMENT. Begins at 8 P. M. ; closes at Ul P. M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, roadway.—VARIETY ENIERIAINMENT, at P.M. ; closes at 10-30 PM No. 7b NIBLO'S GARDEN, Proadway. between Prince and Houston streeta DAVY EROCKETT, at FM; closes at 10:40 8. M. Mr. Frank ayo LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street. near Sixth avenue.—French Opera Boufle—LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT, at 8 PL M.; Closes at 10:15’. M. Mile, Marie Aimee. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thartictn street NIMBLE JIM, at2 M.: closes ut 4:20.10. M. BERTHA, THE SEWING BaGiINE Gilt, ats P. Bi.; closes at ll P.M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-cichih sircet and Broadway closes at 10:20 P.M. M M Tronpe— Fourteenth, str LN M. Mme. Ko HUG Nilsson, hill. Maceal and’ Miss ‘Cary; “Opera a MP ‘Cumpanin! snd — ee a little over 67,000 to the square mile. GRAND OPERA HOUSF, i PR PM ar RET | vinci peak Ga oee Hton eat | DUMPTY. AT. SCHO: RIE 4 Pifty-ni MENT. Begins at 745 BML; closes ut 10:48 P.M. Fifty-ninth street and One Hundred and | G. L, Fox. Twenty-fifth street, with a surface area of THEATRE COMIQL No. 514 Broadway. 7 VARIBTY EN P.M j closes at 10 30 P. ERTAINWENT, at 8 ROOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth avenue and Tw street.-MACBETH, at yeloses at Panny Janauschek BROOKLYN THEATRE, Washington street. OL FEMME ‘DE FEU, at 8P. M.; closes atti P.M. Mrs. J. B, Booth. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—HETR-AT-LAW, at SP. M.; closes at UP. M. Mr. John Gilbert, Miss Jeffreys Lewis. OLYMP}C THEATRE, Br ‘oad way, siger Houston and Bleecker streets.— VAUDEVILLE und, NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT at 7:45 P.M. ; closes at GEBMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place.—FORTUNIO'S LIED; FLOTTE BUBSCHE, begins at 8 P. M.; closes atl eM TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Fé Xo. 201 Bowery VARIETY BNTERTAL AM. ; closes at 1 BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MIN- | SY, &c., ats P.M; closes at l 5 NT, at SP. | Twent; STRE! MORY, | onoert by Git closes at 10 Toatientn te mores Regimental Band, at P Arbuckle and Letebre, soloists. rty-fith Street. PARTS BY loses at 51°. M.; same at7 P. cc Broadway, corner ot MOONLI JHT, atl P. ; Closes at lo P.M. TRIPLE =a New York, = Monday, March 9, “sz From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather will be clear, with lower temperature. Aswanrer.—It will be welcome news to | Americans as well as to Englishmen that Sir | Garnet Wolseley has begun to send his victo- | The sickly season rapidly | rious army home. approaches on the Gold Coast, and the soldiers will be speedily withdrawn from its influence. England will, we presume, make a treaty of alliance with the Ashantees, now that she has burned Coomassie and shown her power. We are glad to think the war is over, no matter what the policy of England may be. It was | of the whole. Above One Hundred and in the three divisions we have specified south | city, under the last census about 11,000, and 1 ai oan naan NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Legislatare. representatives and the Edmund Yates om Charles Dichens. (has attended the efforts of the temperance | nances and sacraments? True religion should |] Bepia Transit from = Practical Peint of WView=—The Necessity of Steam Railroads in New York. We publish to-day a map of the city and surrounding suburbs, which shows at a glance, and ina very striking manner, the evils re- sulting from the lack of rapid transit, and the necessity to the future growth of the motro- Polis of steam railroads from the Battery to the Yonkers line. On this map we have divided | the city into four compartments, giving the surface area in square feet of each, and the population according to the figures of the last census. The first of these compartments is | from the Battery to Fourteenth street; the second frdm Fourteenth strect to Fifty-ninth street; the third from Fifty-ninth street to One Hundred and | | Twenty-fifth street; the fourth from the latter street, embracing the new wards, to the pres- ent Westchester: boundary. It will be seen how the weight of our great want has pressed down and huddled together the people in the lower wards of the city, driving out health, morality and comfort, and causing the popula- tion to burst its natural boundaries and over- flow the suburbs. Within the first compart- ment we have a surface area of 115,290,000 square feet, or about 4} square miles, and a population of 497,332 souls, being nominally 231$ square feet to each inhabitant. If every inch of the | territory between the Battery and Fourteenth street were covered with dwelling houses we should have within this area nearly 100,000 inhabitants to the square mile. But ata moderate calculation one-fourth of the space is taken up with business houses and open places like the Battery and City Hall Park ; hence we have the startling fact that the popu- lation of this part of the city averages over 130,000 to the square mile. The second com- | partment, as laid out on the map, between Fourteenth street and Fifty-ninth street, con- tains a surface area of 130,183,376 square feet, or about 4 2-3 square miles, and a population of 315,152. This gives a ratio of | 409 1-6 square feet of surface area to each in- habitant, and makes the population average | 193,680,140 square feet, or nearly seven square j miles, we have a population under the last | census of 116,252, being a ratio of sur- | | face area to each inhabitant of 1,658 1-5 | | square feet and an average of about 17,000 population per square mile. But | | out of this space comes the area embraced in the Central Park, which is about one-fourth | Twenty-fifth street, including the new wards, the suriace area is about double that embraced |, of that street, and over this large area is spread the balance of the population of the the 45,000 added by the annexation of the towns of Morrisania, West Farms and Kings- bridge. The crowding of over one hundred and thirty thousand human beings into a square mile of | territory in any city is destructive of health, | morality and self-respect. Yet in some local- | ities in our lower wards, where the poorer class of tenement houses may be found, this average is probably nearly doubled, the people | being huddled together more closely than in the poorest neighborhoods of London, Paris | orany other great metropolis. He who runs | | may read the reason of this on our map. From the City Hall to Fourteenth street the distance is under two miles, yet the time consumed in | making the trip by two of the most direct horse car lines in the city is twenty-five minutes by one line and twenty-six minutes by the other. This is about the extent | of time workingmen can spare at the outside | in going to and from their places of employ- | ment, without great, sacrifices, inconvenience | and absolute injury to health; hence we find | the densest population crowded into the un- | wholesome and demoralizing tenement houses | | with which that portion of the city abounds, | The running time of the two horse car lines | The Aobby at Albany regard rapid transit in New “York as a rich placer, and they are not willing that it should be worked unless they can secure a share, direetly or indirectly, in the profite, It has been said that if steam rail- roads in New York could be shown to be s remunerative investment plenty of private capital would be ready to construct them, without the work being done or aided by the city. But private capital, honestly desirous of building the roads in an honest, business- like manner, would find no encourage- ment at Albany. gin for picking and stealing, stock given “away, ‘‘dummies’’ let in ag corporators, loans | made to satisfy those who will take nothing but money down and all the other leakages | which are certain to be made in any rich measure that seeks a passage in the Stato Legislature. With an entirely upright and independent Senate and Assembly the question of rapid transit would be disposed of with speed and certainty. The creation of a com- mission, to be nominated by the Governor, with authority to issue bonds and build tho road or roads, on the people's credit, for the people’s benefit, would give us steam communication through the city without fur- ther delay. So far from increasing the public | burdens, the construction of the roads would raise the valuation of property so largely as to materially decrease the percentage of taxa- tion, while property owners would no longer be compelled to carry the dead weight of un- salable and unavailable property which is now eating itself up in taxation. Some weeks ago we hoped that the present Legislature would take this all-important sub- ject honestly in hand and dispose of it in the interests of the people of New York alone. The prospect does not now look so en- couraging. Every wild scheme of rapid transit seems to be helped forward from some quarter or another, other purpose than to muddle and embarrass the question and prevent any action at all. Bills that at first appeared to be disinterested and effective become so altered and haggled as to be worthless. In all matters relating to New York improvements this same carping, | dishonest spirit makes itself manifest. A proposition is placed before the Legislature to prosecute a great public improvement, the Riverside Park, and immediately a squabble takes place among the departments and the pol- iticians as to who shall have the doing of the | work, anda political organization “‘instructs’’ its members to vote the power to the Common Council, or, failing in that, to give it to some department the democracy is likely to control. The same disgraceful and dishonest influence | prevails in the consideration of the vital ques- | tion of rapid transit. The interests of the f city, the necessities, health, morality and comfort of the people, are nothing. The point is, Who shall have the job and who shall pocket its profits? We commend to our legislators the study of our rapid transit map, and we urge upon them once more to give us an honest, straightforward law creating a rail- road commission, to be appointed by the Gov- ernor of the State, and fully empowered to construct steam railroads on the people’s credit and in the people’s interests. Millard #ilmore. As we go to press we receive news of the death of Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth President of the United States, who expired last evening at Buffalo. Elsewhere we print a sketch of his life and services. It is a noteworthy fact that Millard Fill- more became a prominent figure in politics with the advent of the whig party as a political power in 1840, and that the party expired with his Presidency in 1852. The first year of John Tyler's administration was in many respects like the first year of General Grant’s second term. Twelve years of one party rule then, as now, had left many abuses to be corrected and greatly needed reforms to be instituted. It was, indeed, a time when the very words which de- scribe the present situation were employed as | descriptive of the condition of the country. Business was prostrate. Public confidence not pleasant to think of white men dying in | between the City Hall and Fifty-ninth street was almost destroyed. The Treasury was African jungles or falling before the bullets of | merciless savages. Spary.—Marshal Serrano evidently does not feel comfortable about affairs in the North. | Don Carlos may propose to be crowned in Bilbao, but not if the soldier President can | prevent it. war in the time of Amadeus. Serrano stamped out the Carlist But the fires of rebellion have burned in these Basque | mountains for a generation, and they will smoulder and burn for another, no matter who reigns at Madrid. The adventurous, re. | bellious spirit will be no more crushed by the victory of Serrano than it was by the vic- tory of Espartero. The only remedy for Carl- ism is education and republican institutions. Repucep Imports anp Incrzasep Ex- ports.—We have imported since the Ist of January merchandise to the amount of $70,686,652. In the corresponding period of last year the amount was $82,471,621. The difference is nearly twelve millions. The exports this year have amounted to $47,412,304. Last year upto the same date they were $44,299,975. The difference is $3,112,329. Thus the trade in our favor this year over that of last year amounts to upwards of fifteen millions. If we can go on in this way, and improve upon it, there will | be less demand abroad for our gold, premium | is respectively forty-three and forty-six min- | utes, the distance being four miles; and we | find the space between Fourteenth street and Fifty-ninth street also crowded, but not so densely as that south of Fourteeenth street. When we get above Fifty-ninth | street, between that and One Hundred | and Twenty-fifth street, the population thins | out, for few can afford to spare the one hour | and twenty minutes or the one hour and ‘a half consumed in the passage of the horse | | cars between the City Hall and the latter street. Above One Hundred and Twenty-fifth | street the territory is practically lost to the active business portion of the community, and | will remain so until we secure some means of | rapid transit. Passing from the city to the | suburbs reached by steam railroads we find | that the eighth mile circle, the circumference | of which, with the City Hall for the centre, | reaches about three quarters of a mile above | One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, passes | through Newark, N. J. To reach One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth street by horse | | bankrupt. Mr. Fillmore as leader of the Twenty-seventh Congress was in much the same position as Mr. Dawes, the leader of the Forty-third. It is trite there was then no legal tender and national bank currency to distract the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, nor committees on Appro- priations and Banking and Currency _to neutralize his efforts. All the old United States Bank questions had gone out with Jackson’s administration, and the only thing that remained in theoretic politics was the American system in its prac- tical application to the revenue and protec- tion. Mr. Fillmore grappled with this sub- ject as well as most men would have done, and settled everything pertaining to financial legislation as satisfactorily as any man could upon the economic principles enunciated by Henry Clay. But, even upon these questions, where Clay was most radical Fillmore was conservative. He was essentially a man of compromises. Had he been a strong man, as Chase was, for instance, he would have seized There must be mar- | for no | | including the crossing of the North River. | great anti-slavery leader of the country. car, within the city, takes, as we have seen, from | upon the opportunity to make the whig party one hour and twenty minutes to one hour and | an anti-slavery party. As the leader of the a half; while to reach Newark by steam cars, | House in the Twenty-seveuth Congress Mr. outside the city, takes only thirty-five minutes, | Fillmore had the opportunity of becoming the In If we extend the journey by horse cars to | failing to grasp this distinction he attained | One Hundred and Fiftieth street the time con- the highest dignity in the Republic ; but | may decline, and we may approximate to a | sumed is two hours and eighteen minutes and | that other distinction bronght him no marked specie basis. The problem of specie payments isto be solved by the balance of trade. Tse Easr ( Cotorapo Drsent.—We have a | report from Washington of a scientific ex- ploration of the East Colorado Desert at the expense of Senator Jones, of Nevada. This | report must be a document of rare interest, and Senator Jones deserves much credit for his enterprise. The conclusions are that the desert was formerly a sea, and that the Aztec civilization of Arizona came to an end from | the distance travelled between eight and nine | | miles. In the same time that we can reach | One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street by city | lines we can reach New Brunswick by steam railroad, including the river crossing, a dis- tance of thirty-one miles. Andall the inter- yening space of country, with its towns and villages tapped by the railroads, lies open to — our citizens as residences at a quarter the rents paid in New York and accessible in | about one-fourth of the time. climatic changes caused by the evaporation of the vast Jakes in Southern California, | Senator Joues thinks these lands could be reclaimed by irrigation, and intimates that | the government alone has resources sufficient to redeem them. We are atraid of this last | suggestion. The government has enough to | do with its money; and, as to the desert lands, | it will take a thousand years for us to settle our fertile lands. In 2874 A. D., let Senator | Jones bring in his irrigation bill, and the Hanaco will support it; but, we are afraid, not | It must be clear to every person that these evils cannot be remedied, and that the upper part of New York cannot be made available for cheap, healthfal and pleasant homes for | its citizens until we secure steam railroads | from the Battery to the Yonkers line. The | fact is so plain that one can only marvel why | | there should be any hesitation about the | matter, especially as it has been demonstrated | by the actual returns of the horse car lines that there is even at the present moment sufficient | travel to insure good profits to two lines of | rapid transit, The difficulty lies with the | honors. He was the Congressional leader of compromises immediately after 1840, as he was the President of compromises in 1850, In fail- ing to precipitate the slavery question in the Twenty-seventh Congress he a ment for ten years, and then sig d his own administration by a settlement which was the | He aimed at | conciliation and gained for himself only a | real beginning of the agitation. mediocrity that wrecked him as a statesman | in spite of his fine capabilities, and left | him in retirement in the stirring era when he should have been foremost in action. John Quincy Adams, if he had lived under like circumstances, would have made the latter years of his life the most | brilliant in the history of American statesman- #uip; but Mr. Fillmore sacrificed everything to ennciliation except his rivalry with Seward, and even that fell with the general failure of his ambition. Mr. Fillmore was a noticeable man, and lacked only comprehensiveness of action to have given his country permanent impressions of his genius. ed its settle- | Mr. Yates writes us a most interesting letter, which we print elsewhere, giving bis views on the life of Dickens, by John Forster. Although we have reviewed this work at length in our columns the intimate relations existing between Mr. Yates and the famous author, not to speak of the rank which Mr. Yates has himself attained in the world of lettars, give any statement he may make unusnal interest in a controversy like that now pertaining to the life and character of | Dickens, which bids fairto have a literature of itsown. Mr. Yates imitates the reserve and delicacy shown by Mr. Forster in speaking of Dickens, He was his literary pupil, follower and cherished personal friend, and in dealing with that sad event in the life of Dickens which shattered his influence while living, and will forever darken his fame, these two gentlemen resemble those virtuous sons of the patriarch who walked backward with averted eyes to hide his shame. While there is no positive evidence from Mr. Yates throwing new light on the causes of Dickens’ treatment of his wife, we learn that after the separation the novelist himself felt the dreadful blunder he had made. Many of those who loved Dickens and gloried in his fame resented his extraordinary conduct, and among them his very dear friend and patron, to whom he dedicated one of his novels, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. We learn also that his friends divided into two parties, some sympathizing with his wife, others excusing Dickens, or, rather, preferring not to deal harshly with him, for no one seems to have approved of his conduct, No one was closer to him than Mr. Forster and Mr. Yates, and the utmost that these gentlemen say, Mr. Forster in his book and Mr. Yates in his letter, is that there may have been reasons of temperament on the part of Dickens into which we should not inquire too curiously. They look upon the act with sorrow, some- thing to be mourned as true friends mourn over the misfortunes of other friends—some- thing to be pardoned, perhaps, to that supreme and noble intellect which did so much to strengthen the spirit of love and charity and duty among men. This is something of our own fecling. There is no censure that we can pass that will do away with the abiding influence of the genius of Dickens. It will live in our litera- | ture as something spiritual, apart from the | acts of the mere body. We cherish the soul | of this master in his booksand teachings as we cherish the soul of Byron and Shakespeare, who behaved no better to their wives, we fear. | But the painful thought is that the selfish and impulsive behavior of Dickens, which not even the friends who loved him like John Forster and Edmund Yates defend, brings dis- credit upon the literary character. The world | will say, ‘Who are these strangely gifted men? Do they mean what they write? Are they artificers of words and phrases, who use words as the gunner uses shot, merely to produce a business and artistic effect; or are they teachers with a message from the Most High, in the form of genius, commis- sioned to teach virtue and faith and duty?” If Dickens, who taught this generation new truths in domestic love and created a world of felicity and beauty for the comfort of all men and women—if Dickens, the master, did not believe what he taught, what teacher can we believe? And are we not driven upon the rocks of scepticism, fearing that there is no trath after all in these men who claim to be its apostles ? We could have wished that Mr. Yates had told us something that would lead us to other conclusions. He speaks of his master and friend lovingly, tenderly, with warm appreci- ation of the beauty that was in his character, but evidently accepts the judgment of the world, that it would have been better for his fame had he only been true in his elder years to the vows he gave so proudly in his youth. The Temperance Movement in New York. The agitation against the use of intoxicating liquors, inaugurated in Obio, has at last broken out in this city. The opening scene of the temperance war took place last night in the saloon of the notorious Harry Hill, a spot well known as the resort of pugilists, rowdies and the fancy. The wide-awake proprietor invited the temperance ladies and gentlemen to make use of his saloon for singing and praying, and | was gratified by the acceptance of his offer. A graphic account of the proceedings is pub- lished in another column, and it is easy to | estimate the value of such scenes in | reclaiming the dissolute from the evil path. The mixed crowd of rowdies, loafers and curiosity-seckers, while avoiding any direct interterence with the proceedings of the temperance advocates, were certainly not induced to abandon their course of life by the hymning or the preaching in the barroom. It is not wise to expose a movement good in its aims to the shafts of ridicule, and whatever may be the earnestness and enthusiasm of the ladies and _ gentle- men engaged in the new crusade against intemperance therg:can be no doubt that their very zeal places them’in a position which approaches closely to the‘ ridiculous without at all touching the sublime. Preach- ing in barrooms is not likely to effect any per- manent good, and the very readiness with | which shrewd rumsellers like Mr. Hill invite the attention of the praying bands ought to warn the advocates of temperance of the | danger that lies in familiarizing re- spectable men and women with haunts | that men who respect themselves, though they | | may not advocate temperance, carefully avoid. | The atmosphere of a barroom filled with gib- ing roughs is decidedly detrimental to that delicacy of fecling which forms the chief at- traction of woman in her higher spheres of duty; and that influence which a pure woman never fails to exercise over the most | degraded of mankind is more likely to be weakened than strengthened by the itiner- ant crusading in barrooms which has lately come into fashion. In small country villages such demonstrations might be made with the minimum damage to true womanly influence; | | but in large cities, where men and | women live under other conditions, | they are calculated to lower, rather than raise, the influence of woman. At the | same time itis evident that the temperance movement is but the expression of a feeling | which permeates the community and seeks to check the drinking habits which are the bane of modern society. So far much success | “their masculine nature,’’ | catholic time in our pulpits yesterday. advocates, over King Alcohol would be more secure were it based on the solid grounds of conviction rather than temporary enthusiasm. Women could.certainly do much to discourage drink- ing habits among their gentlemen friends in the home circle and in society. And if the good is tq be permanent it is in the homes rather than in the barrooms that the temperance lectures must be preached, If frightful examples were an efficient cure for the evil of drunkenness the colamns of the daily papers would furnish lessons enough in the follies and crimes com- mitted by men and women under the influence of intoxicating liquors. A curious feature in connection with the temperance crusade is the indifference, if not hostility, shown by the churches. One of the crusaders an- nounced that they were compelled to preach temperance in the barrooms because the churches were closed against them. We hope there is some exaggeration in this statement. The school houses attached to the various churches might be placed st the dis- posal of the temperance advocates, so that the questionable habit of hymn singing in bar- rooms and saloons might be avoided. It is certain that the Ohio system cannot safely be adopted in a great city like New York. Itis more apt to bring tempérance and hymn sing- ing into contempt than to effect any reforma- tion among the class of men likely to be attracted by sensational efforts in the cause of virtue. The Spirit of the Pulpit. The pulpit yesterday, whose spirit finds ex- pression in the full and picturesque reports we print elsewhere, covered many themes. The most expressive sermon seems to have been delivered by the Rev. Mr. Fulton, of the Bap- tist denomination, in Brooklyn. We give an extended report of this discourse as a fervid presentation of the doctrines of one of the most powerful among American churches It seems impossible for those who look at these denominational efforts from an outside view to understand why there should be so much fecling among religious sects as to whether the act of bap- tism should be by immersion or sprinkling. To us it is a symbol of faith, a sacrament or an ordinance, as may be, and we should think that modern erudition would be able to discern the exact meaning of the Scrip- tural words ordaining it. But Mr. Fulton sees more in his faith than ao symbol that may be explained by any translation of the Scriptures. He shows, with much eloquence and erudition, that the Roman Catholic Church rests upon the doctrine of baptism by sprinkling, and that could we once destroy that doctrine the power of the Papacy would fall; that after all there are but two real religious bodies in the world—the Roman Catholic and the Baptist, As a statement of the case Mr. Fulton’s sermon is a valuable contribution to our theological literature. The Rev. Mr. Northrop delivered a most ef- fective sermon ontemperance. He considered this new crusade against spirituous liquors as an evidence of the greatness and majesty of woman's power. From this he showed woman what she could really do in the world, if she exercised her influence, if she made ‘herself a true missionary and dressed plainly’’—among other things, that her power might even control legislation in Albany and Washington. If much that we hear is true women have had something to say in the lobbies of our revered council chambers ; but Mr. Northrop leads us to suppose that under proper discipline she could reform legislation altogether. We also note an interesting sermon from Rev. Mr. Adams on the advance of religion. Sin, as this reverend orator aptly remarks, is one of the costliest of habits—and he points us to the army, the navy, the prisons and the police as so many manifestations and consequences of sin. Weare afraid that the perfect fulfilment of Mr. Adams’ theology would make sad havoo with many of our cherished institutions, and that there is an_ irreconcilable antagonism between effective government and true religion. Napoleon thought as much when he said that his revenue from brandy, which was a vice, paid him bet- ter than all the virtues in France. It is pleas- ant to note that Mr. Adams takes a cheerful view of the missionary field, especially among the Mussulmans and Arabians, who, with are beginning slowly to embrace Christianity. Rey. Mr. Beecher made an eloquent plea for a higher life, for strength to war upon our baser instincts. He pictured the ideal Chris- tianity, which, as ho truly says, should wel- come wit, humor, imagination and poetry. Rev. Mr. Hepworth illustrated the duties and temptations of rich men, while Father Turner made an eloquent appeal for temperance. Rey. Mr. Talmage made a vigorous and some- what evident comparison between the value of the human soul as compared with property, the moral being that the true Christian must think of more lasting things than bonds and | mortgages. Rev. Mr. Storrs dwelt upon the efficacy of the sacrificial offering, and made a grotesque comparison between Ruskin and Byron, which makes us fear that he has read neither of these authors closely. Father Garesché continues his mission work, while the Rev. Mr. Giles gave quite a rhapsody upon the transfiguring and transforming power of love—God’s love. Rev. Dr. Dewey showed the eternal conflict between truth and falsehood, while Rev. Mr. Frothingham seems to have drifted into a dreamy consideration of material and spir- itual interests in human affairs. Rev. Mr. Atterbury dwelt upon the necessity of cherish- ing the Sabbath as a day of rest and devotion, while Dr. Chapin admonished his congrega- tion that God held every man responsible for the wise use of his faculties, Altogether there was a healthy,. charitable, Mr. Falton’s sermon no doubt will serve a wise purpose in the interest of the Baptist faith; but we think he would have made his doc- trines none the less effective if he had not narrowed his subject ; for, after all, are not mercy and love among God's attributes? And may we not believe that mercy and love will find that o man may be a lowly Christian and at the same time baye his own views about certain ordi- be as embracing and pure as the blue bending skies and as free from all taint of bigotry as the highest atmosphere is free from the malaria and poisons of the earth, & Feast of Music. The fast and abstinence typical of the peni- tential season of Lent cannot be applied to music in this city, At no period of the year have we had a more bounteous feast of lyric art, and the attractions are so varied and nu merous as to perplex one desirous of enjoying all Nilsson at the Acadamy of Music, Di Murska at the Lyceum and Lucca at the Stadt Theatre, with a Philharmonic rehearsal and a Thomas matinée during the same week, present a combination of musical features not to be found in any other city in the world, It is an incontrovertible orgument in favor of what we have repeatedly asserted, that New York is a thoroughly musi- cal city, and that here talent and managerial enterprise will always receive due acknowl- edgment from the public. The enormous houses drawn by Mme. Lucca in German opera have had no effect upon the attractive powers of Mme. Nilsson on the Italian stage, while Mlle. Di Murska managed to secure a fair audience at each of her performances, As if the present attractions were not sufficient, we are to have an addition this week in the shape of opéra bouffe by Mlle. Aimée and her company. It is singular that all these companies should manage to come to this city at the same time. There is, occa- sionally, a blank in the musical season, for the reason that managers will insist upon coming in a body, instead of making arrange- ments for ono attraction to follow another. Whether this is good policy it is not for any one to say as long as the public supports suck enterprises. It might not be advisable, how- ever, to make any further demands on the liberality of New York opera-goers, Three opera companies will suffice for one season, As a fitting acknowledgment of the favors they have received from our public Mmes. Nilsson and Lucca and Mile. Di Murska should, before their departure from America, give at least one grand charity performance. The noble examples furnished them by the dramatic pro- feasion should be sufficient to draw their atten- tion to the suffering poor of a city which haa been so liberal to them. It would be s grace- ful tribute of gratitude and would be well ap- preciated. Genmany.—The Prussian government has divided among the States of the German Em- pire forty-two million thalers. This isanother part of the French indemnity. Somehow Germany does not seem to have had much good out of that money; for we hear con- stantly of financial embarrassments and threat- ened panics, while France seems to be un~ usually easy and prosperous. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Governor Henry Howard, of Rhode Island, is at the Windsor Hotel. Judge O. A. Lochrane, of Georgia, has arrived at the Sturtevant House. Ex-Congressman Hiram Price, of Iowa, is stay- ing at the Metropolitan Hotel. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix's stag, has quarters at the Windsor Hotel. Colonel George A. Kensel, United States Rated quartered at the Windsor Hotel. Ex-Congressman F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. Hegermann Lindencrone, Danish Chargé d’Af- faires at Washington, has apartments at the Bre- voort House. Mr. Joseph Langworth, of Cincinnati, has donated $50,000 government bonds as an endowment for the art department of the Cincinnati University. General Butler has been called everything, but the Hartford 7imes has discovered that he is a “cainmoufet,” which, freely translated, means a “dog fly.”” Senator Dorsey's wife’s eyes, according to correspondent, “rest upon you and go with you,’? The feeble conundrum of an over-literal fellow is, “How does she do without them orbs?!” Mr. P, A. Blake is an English inventor who advo-' cates the use of fuses and maroons as fire alarma in private houses, Remembrances of freaks of mischievous boys on Guy Fawkes’ Day mak@ householders scout Mr. Blake’s idea, however. The Pope recently received a company of ap-~ prentices. Happening to be told by one of the, young men that be was learning to make trunka and travelling portmanteaux, His Holiness ob- served, “You may geta few ready, then, for my enemies wish to force me to leave Rome; but I am! quite as obstinate as they are, and shall only leave, when violence is used, as lam at home here. In any case, get your trunks ready; they will be wanted for other people.”’ Mr. Richardson-Gardner, member of Parliament for Windsor, England, is a tory, yet the liberals: credit him with greater political astuteness aud foresight than any of their own partisans. They imply that in some queer way he learned las, winter of the coming of the election which has returned him to Parliament, and 80 distribe uted gifts of coal to his tenants, most of whom were voters, on New Year's Day. His op-' ponents consider this bribery, and will claim his, seat for their candidate, The tories say that Mr.y Gardner simply dia a charity to which he has been accustomed. Looking at the matter impartially the tories seem the nearer right. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES, Madame Janauschek appears to-night for the last time as Laay Macbeth. The Bowery boys willbe treated toa ran “Over the Plains” to-night, The bill at the Olympic is a ‘Jubilee of funs. frolic and fascination.” Oliver Doud Byron appears to-night as Donal® McKay at the New Park Theatre, Brooklyn. Mile. Aimée commences a season atthe Lyceumm | Theatre this evening in “La Fille de Madame -Angot.”” Mme. Pauline Lucca sings the 7dle of Zerlina im “Fra Diavolo” at the Stadt Theatre on Tuesday! evening. “Humpty Dumpty” 1s still at school at the! Grand Opera House. Some say he 18 studying management. M. Victor Maurel’s farewell benefit occurs at ther Academy to-morrow evening. A very attractive, bill is announced, Ernest Byne, “the Wonder of the World,” is ans nounced at the Theatre Comique, This is some, thing like an attraction, “Les Huguenots” will be the feature at tha Academy of Music this evening, with Mme, Nilssom in her best réle, Valentine. “fhe Heir at Law” will be produced at Wal- Jack's to-night. John Gilbert as Lord Duberly, and John Brougham as Dr. Pangloss. “pavid Crockett” {s @ romantic love story, am, American backwoods drama with the Redskins) left out. It will be produced at Niblo’s to-night. Three thousand people attended the concert at’ the Grand Opera House last night. Gilmore's cele~ brated Twenty-second Regiment Band played se~ lections from Weber, Handel and Bach, and Mr. Arbuckle gave Mercadante’s “Tantum Ergo” as @ cornet solo. M, Wientawski, the distinguished violinist, Was encored vociferously in Ernst’s fan tasia on “fl Pirata” and Paganini’s “Carnival off Venice.” The vocalists were Mile, Ostava oor | and M. Victor Capoul, who were in excellent ¥ | and recaivad abyndant applause,