The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1875, Page 6

+; + the first matters in the report which he had paid THE CEN TEN N IA L,. | attention 10, owing to his visit to america, was | the prospect of an exhibition at the great gather- ing at Philadelphia next year. When he was at Philadelphia several most influential gentlemen ; had mentioned this matter to him, which, of | course, lay Very near to their interest, and he had said that he could not speak for the people of England or of his own town, as he imagined that they had baa enough of THE WORK IN PROGRESS | exniviuons; vut certamiy 1 they cook an interest io an exhibition anywhere it would be in | America, although he was one of those who thought they had been “exhibited” enough, and bad had exhibitions enough, generally speaking, | he would be very sorry if they did not take @ bearty aud carneat part in this assembly of indus | try 10 Americ& next year. There were several reasons why they should do a0, even if they were | rather tired of exbibitions—.he Americans were | very great customers; and we wished them to be | much greater customers, They were very friendly Since the agitation began for a national celebra- | to us, and, speaking Irom his own experience, he tion of the hundredth natalday of the United Staces Kepublic many good and patriotic men have appeaieu tothe people from the platform and through vne press for ald in making the enter- prise what it ought to be—@ world’s tair, where wo or turee special reasons which he wished to pecs apa of American brains “alleen | State; one was with reierence to the pet may be ranged tn comparison bes! patent laws, The Americans were Known to Of all owner civilized nations, Tis admirable | the most inventive people in the worla, and it Conception met in many quarters with uneX- | was exceedingly desirable that we should pected and cynical criticism, Ir was called ® | come to am agreement with them Philadelphia speculation, for the sole venefit vt | puch a gucation 3 he, n Patent lawe ‘ae Philadelphia, wo people Philadelphia hotels ani | tJully agreed With a very deaghtiul sen on eed boarding: houses and hit the Quaker City trom the | era ehie eet Staatond trary aera sneering tradition of ite village character. Obsta- oni be sesdily aaentae in amar OLB 6 cles were thrown im the way of the under- | thought that that m la o taking/at Washington, In Congress the appro- feparu tothe paveat fam, le oda ee owes 4 this opposition spread to many of the State legis- / ir ie t ueerar the tures. At Albany last winter a small sum to pay | to born uations tt There was exactly the same law | the expenses of tue State Centeunial Commission- | tor both. He could not bla LER Fon La are wes denied. Altogether the Drgepects for the | eee nctaion oe thie Garton, winen might celebration looked anything but encouraging. But | resyit in botn countries being convinced that they @ great Change has taken place; and what looked | could have that co-operation and anion, There like @ failure promises to be an immense success, | aS auotuer reason Why be Was anxious that we Stirring Up the Patriotic Heart and Spirit. Machinery, Agricultural and Horticultural Halls. SKETCH OF THE STRUCTURES that he would find hospitality and pleasure in the reception he will receive which would compensate bim for apy trouble he might incur. There were should be well represenied im America. The absurd jealousy of Phitadeipnia has worn | Gur ‘iriends “out ‘there wore’ Dot yet a9 away. It was fitting to ofer thecelebrationom | convinced of iree trade as they ought to be, The only thing that would she ground made sscred and memorable by the | convince them was the feeling that it would be a | Declaration of Independence, Not this considera- | good thing ior themselves, and he thought that tion glone, but the fact that Philadeipbia con- | seeiug our goods and knowlug the prices at which tributed jar more than her share, bought the | We could sell them would probavly have more 7 effect than any amount ol argument ia showing | stock of the Exhibition ireely and gaye 460 acres of | that it was ay advantage Rat the Exiubition ; land in her best park for the buildings, showed | should ne eet pcnoere mets point a | 5 | view, it Philadelphia, which was the centre ot the that, however desirable the project appeared to | Oe cionist aistrict’ and the procectiouist iter. | the Philadelpluans, they were not disposed to | est of America. ‘fhe mention of protection and | throw the burden of the celebration on the rest of | iree trade reminded bim of the paragraph ta the the country. ‘In report with regard to the treaty with Canada. He | iu not know exactly the position im which that THE LATE CIRCULAR, | treaty was at this moment. He saw it stated in >earing Somme of the foremost names of this city, | the newspapers of tat day that it nad come to sailing on ‘the people of New York to come for- #2 04, but he had seen no actual announce. (ment that America had disallowea the ward and heip the undertaking, it was observed, | treaty. He imagined that what had happened | after @ (statement of the work already accom- | had been that the Committee of the Senute nad re- | — ported agaist it. should have been glad if | plshed:-—‘To our minds certain concwusions ow | Ey orraugement that had deen wished lor by Wiih irresistibie force from the ioregoing Jacts. | Vanada tor an increase Oi trade nad been carried One is; that the people and government of the | mio Cirsh; Das oe ie. OK Cw Rerpertrestin a | land or Canada need greatly 10 lame: ae result. | United States must accomplish this thing which | What had happened had been that the high duties, | they told all the world they intend todo ona | ypon Canadian produce especially, bad done the | Beale befitting a great country, or bring upon | Ganacians. very te maser ayy, oorenaiy prea | emse| jone Inuch More harm in e! JaD- | themselves the Just reproach of the peoples and | 44," {; nad been necessary lor them to get Caua- | governments of other countries, besides awaken- Gian Umber, Canadian tish aud Canadian grain, pate. the minds of our own people a deep sense | abd the result bad been that t.c consumer in | DC humiliation and shame because of its laiiure. America had had to pay more for them, ‘Ihere- | Yhis work is before them as one of hovoredie | Jore he did not imagine that Canada would great! puccess or lasing reprosch. With sucu al- | suiler irom this treaty being brought to an end. ternative we cannot doubt for a moment , Wit they wished to see produced—namely, the could assure any gentleman who went to America | upon | | UNderatand me, only not offensive—that it gives | Scotch scholar before I had done. Macdonala’s NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. CHATS ABOUT BOOKS. “Old Myddleton’s Money”—Katerfelto and Poetry Discussed. CHOICE EXTRACTS. “Itis like coming across that much talked of | spring in the desert for the reviewer to find one | of Macdonaid’s works lying upon his desk. He does not let it wait its turn, but takes bold of the enchanting volume as soon as he scats bimself to work,” said Fred, throwmmg himself at his | mother’s feet upon the rug, before the open wood | fire that crackled upon the bedroom hearth. And | such @ delightful room it is—a real mother’s room—where all the children love to gather o! a dismal day, There 18 no room in the house like it, It ts @ safe harbor from every storm; or, to use another Agure, the oak about which the young vines cling. The MOTHER—I suppose you have been reading “Malcolm” (J. B. Lippincott & Co.), to judge from your preface, Frep—Yes, and I bave just finished it, I have revelled in every page, from cover to cover. Macdonald‘’s heroes are like Kellogg’s Mignon, | @new revelation; each shows usa poetry anda | pathos we bad not dreamed of. I look at the world with aifferent eyes alter reading one of his novels, The MorHeR—They affect mein very much the same manner. 1am anxious to read “Malcolm.” How does it compare with his other books? _ Prep—Very favorably. I think it one of his beat, It abounds in the same exquisite sentiment, manliness and grace for which ‘Robert Falconer’? is conspicuous. Macdonald is aiwa: preacher, put him where you will, but this does not affect his novels disagreeably. Usually I dislike preacn- ing in novels, but his 1s 80 very mild—not weak, flavor to the whole, Malcolm is a splendia fellow, and Iam glad to know that nis story will be con- tinued in another volume, The scene of the story is a little village on the Scotch coast. The plotis quiet, and the characters are simple, grand people. Tne Highland piper is @ deligntiul crea- tion, The MotneR—I believe the Scotch dialect is un- usually conspicuous in “Malcolm,” 1s 1t not ? FRED—It is pretiy thickly scattered through the book, bat Lenjoy it hugely. I got to be quite a Scotch is so beautiful thatit adds to the fascina- ton of the book in my eyes, and seems to give character to the most trifling remark. The MorugR—There is no getting around the fact that you admire Macdonald, my dear boy. Well, 1 am glad you do, for I admite the man as much asI do the novelist; his is, indeed, a novle life, . Frep—I think that “Malcolm” shows the infla- ence of his recent visit to America. His enemies call Macdonald effeminate. 1 do not understand | what they mean, unleas it be that the periect | purity of nis writings gives them that character. The MoTHER—Mr, Macdonald’s religiousness is, Of course, distasteful to many; but his religious writing partakes not only of the pootic quality, where you will be found. Another conclusion | spread of free trade—was, periaps, more likely to is Ubac this undertaking having been initiated by | lake place between those Lwo countries ana our- Congress, and Managed under its laws and under | Feives by thew finding that 1 was for their | the auspices oi the government, in which manage- | OWn interests to levy a ‘ower duty than | ment every State of the Union may berepresented, by any attempt to get at tbe result by | must be aud 1s peculiarly natonai initscharacter, treaties. (Hear, hear.”) His culef reason tor Md Our State and her great metropolis shoud be | aiuding to ts subject was that on the | Broused to their responsibiliues in this connec- | one land he thought we shouil ao very wrong | tion.”” and be tuking a Very false position if we were to | itis not too late for appeals like this. Ag the | witempt to use any influence that we had as Eng- | time draws near and the news goes abroad of tne | Ustmen, of Lo attempt to get our fovernment to | gsand scaie on which the celebration will be mage, | USe any power Which it bad as the mother country | and the rapid progress already won in the erec- | to put any obstacle between the trade of Canada | ton oi the Various buildings, together with the | aud that of the United Sia:es, We should never | earnest purpose that seems tO animate the Mana- | assent io any differential duty levied vy Canada gers, mterest 1s already aroused over the country, | 10 /avor of any Couutry as agaist Soaen prod- And the people, ii properly stirred up, will seethat uce, but he must say that when he was in no failure happens, | Canada ne saw several gentlemen of ail parties, ‘The prospects in this city, according toex-Goy- , aud he did not find one of them who did not en- ernor Bigier, are bright, and during the coming | week he hopes to make @ substantial record for | did Not tuke it as an acknowledged lact, and who the Empire City. | @id not suppose that is was hardly posable that in yesterday’s HERALD appeared @ full descrip. | anything else could happen. (Cheers). He mignt tion O1 the main structure ana the art gallery. | express the great pleasure with which he travelled To-day is given o sketch of the machmery hall, | through Canada, because he found there was ouly Sgricuitaral hall and the conservatory. | one opiniun tuere—namely, a desire that the con- MACHINERY HALL, | nection now subsisting should continue. It 18 expected the display of macbinery will be | of uncommon interest and extent. The machin- ery Dail is designed on o magniticent scale. 1t | Cvosists ol 4 Main Moor, 360 by 1,402 feet sod an | peg seth reteset Sood 210 teet. The prin- | cipal portion oi the structure 18 one story in | bewbt. Projections have becn introduced in each | YOFK, Was vo far dominated, 1t would seem, by the Of the four sides and the main eatrances iurpished | spirit of the soil that he was rapt away into an ‘with facades seventy-elgnt leet in height inorder to | tmaginative cloudland among bigh humanitarian break the monotony of the jong iine in the exterior. | jaeals of impracticable excellence; but to such Boller vouses wail be placed siong the soutn side | Of the buliding for the display of special kinds of | paths his fect have been very li:tle accustomed, machinery. The ground plan shows two main | and at Bradford, among the sorewd Yorksnire- avenues, 90 feet wide and 1,300 ieet long, with a | men or tne West Riding, ne trod tne solid earth centre aisie between and aisies on eitoer side, ach of which is 60 feet in width. At the centre of | ouce more. Here, at least, bis footing was steady, the baflding these are crossed by @ transept 90 | and we can tollow him with comfort as well asin leet Wide, which Sona tan dub ce aoe tot ices Se safety. The practical advice which Mr. Forster gnnex above mentioned. ‘Ibis is designed to ac- | had to give to the manafactarera of nis constitu- Pie nage pant peg om sete mrt wilt Bona ency had special reference to the approaching a ey coe toot and 10 fees deep. at che | Centennia! Exwibition at Philadelphia, and the feet hign and 40 eet. wide, supplied’ by | Manner in which this commemoration of Amer. the pumps on exhibition. ‘rhe stem of | ican independence might be utilized to draw suaiting will be more complete than that | 0Ut new und stronger bonds of trading inter- Provided at any previous exnibition, there being | COUrs¢ between us aud our transatlantic Kinsmen, eight matn lines running almost the cntire length | 1D iessous o: guod sense Which Mr. Forster en- or the oullding, while counter shatts may be intro- | Fed 1n tus particular connection ure suscepti. duced into the sisies at any puint. Theentire | bie, ol course, ui @ much wider application, out Walls of the machinery ball are of masoury to a beignt of five leet, above which they consist of columns and glazed sasb, portions oi witch are Wovabie for ventilation. uvre ventilators are | \utroduced m continuous lengths over each of the | gisies and avenues. The lighting is entirely rom | the sides. WHAT THE LONDON TIMES THINKS. [From the London Times, Jan. 19.] Mr. Forster himseif, while still a visitor at New profit. The great International Exnibition with Waich the people of tne Umited States pro; beid in 1876 at Philadelphia, where on a memora- bie 4th of July @ hundred years before were | issued, in the Lame oO! a new people, and ciaim- | Ing @ new birtbrignt among nations, “those glit- | terimg and sounding generaiities of natural Tigot’’ which have graven themselves deeply Upop the American character. The success of (be commemorative enterprise does not appear Lo be 80 entirely assured as 1olgnt be imagined Irom the AGRICULTURAL BALL. This structare will stand north of the conserva- ‘ory and on the eastern side of Belmont avenu: At will illusteace @ novel combination of materi and is capable of erection im & lew months. It eae ais “4 beng ney giass. It consists of along , ve crossed by three transepts, both nave and . 4 pride that Americans take in their political pis- ot asap meat aaaesipil age tiagh corpied | tory aud in te achievements ol their industrial | and Comercial enterprise. ‘1s 18 due partly, it Thus the ground plan of the building will be @ | is neleved, to tne jealousy with which over parts paraiielogrum o1 540 by 820 feet, covering a space ; Of the Union regard the supremacy of Pennsylva- of uver ten acres. In its immediate vicinity will | iia aya cenire 01 production; out in part, also, at be ihe stock yard lorahe exhibition of horses, €®-- | 1. due to tue simple jact thal (he World 1n geueral Ue, seep, swine, poultry, &c. | has growu very weary of these international ais- THE CONSERVATORY | piays, and that wuile a6 mere iairs they have Piullremain in permenance as an ornament of | Cea.eu io attract they have not yet been organ Fairmount Park. | it is iocated on the Landsowne | jyod ag clearing houses of {uaustrial progress and lirely and absolutely agree to that principle, wo | even iM toc more limited range ibey abound in | to | to one of these odious men. As it was, every but of tne quality which comes from extraordinary insight. He is a seer as well as a poet. “OLD MYDDLETON’S MONRY,’? Miss RacuEL—‘‘Old Mydadleton’s Money” (Har- per & Brothers), for a novel that apparently makes no pretensions, is really quite clever. It is not often that one comes across such @ mystilying plot, I tbought balfa dozen times that I saw how 1t was going to end, but 1 was not,right once. Up to the very last momeat I did not suspect who | Lady Lawrence was. FeLicia—I made up my mind to one thing early in the story, and that was that Gabriel Myddieton | did not murder his uncle, but I aid not guess the real criminal until the confession was read, | Cousin Lov, who 1s spending the day at the | Doctor’s—I could have swora that Royden Keith was Gabriel Myddleton, The author does every- thing but say so. One cannot blame that odious | | Lawrence Haughton for suspecting him, too; he | did so many things likely to lead one off the track. Feticia—Honor Craven is not a very romantic | | pame for a neroine, aud particalarly suca a goud | little heroine. She is@ delightiul creature; very | mach like an everyday girl of an interesting | order. If she hud known just how the land lay she could not have planned better. I think that | One Of the morals of the book may be said to be | that ond does not lose anything by being kind to | triendless old ladies. | Miss RachEL—Mrs. Payte isa first rate char- acter; alittle toosevere at times, perhaps, but | then tne best of us might nave been the seme had | We seen things through her spectacles. | Cousin Lou—It any one thing above another | does disgust me, it is to see people waiting ior dead men’s (or dead women’s) shoes. Luckily I not anybody’s heir. Ii such were my misfor- tune I suppose that I would be as disagreeable as the rest of them. Miss KACHEL—Mra. Payto played a smart game ands wise one. If she had not done as she did she would provably have leit her brother’s fortune | reader of the book will be satisfied. She knew. | what she was about. I like such eccentric charac- | ters, both in books and in real lile, Cousin Lou—Honor Craven is one of the few novel heroines who has a mind of her own and speaks up when harsbiy spoken to, That was ‘the very quality about her which her fastidious cousins despised and which Royden Keith admired to such excellent effect. | Feuicta (picking up a dropped stite:) —Tne find- | ing of that mysterious wiite Jady in Keitn’s house | was enough to upset a stronger faith than Honor’s, | Yet, if 1 bad been in her place, I would (that is, if | Tcared enough Jor him) have asked Keith what it meant. Was bea Rochester, with a crazy wile in the garret, or what did ttall mean? Honor cer- | furious jealousy when she found that he loveda | seribed, terrace, a short distance north of the main build- ing and art gallery, and has a commanding View of the Schuylkill River. fhe design ts Moresque; the | principal Materials iron and giass, The lengta of the building is 283 feeet, width 193 feet and heimot to the top o/ the jantern 72 1eet. ‘ine main floor is occupied oy the central conservatory, 230 by 80 Jeet and 56 feet high, surmounted oy @ lantern 170 Jeet long, 20 feet wide and 14 feet Digh. Running around tois conservatory, at a neight of a tew feet irom the flour. is a gallery five leet wide. On the north and south sides of this principal room are tour forcing houses jor the propagation | oi young plants, each of them 100 vy 80 Jeet, cov- | ered witi curved roois of tron and giass. Dividing Ube Two jorcing houses in each Of Loese sides ia & vestibule 30 feet square, At the centre of the east and west ends are similar vestibules, either side oi wnica are the dining rooms, restau- ts, reception room, offices, &c, From tue vestibule ornamental stairways lead to the inter- | bel galleries of tue conservatory, as Well ag to the four external galleries, eaca 100 Jeet long by 10 leet | wide, he external galleries are connected with | a grand promenade, formed by tne rovfs of the | rooms on the ground floor, whieh hi super- Qeiai area of,1,200 square yards, The east and West entrances are approached by fights of blue marvie steps from terraces 80 by 20 feet, in tne ceutre of each of which stands an open kiosk 20 jeet in diameter. The angies of the main conservatory are adorned with eight ornameutai Jountains. " ‘The corriaors which connect the conservatory with the surrounding rooms open fine vistas im every direction. To the basement, whicn ts of freproof construc- tion, are the kitchen, storerooms, coal houses, ast pits, heating arrangements, &c. ‘there weil be required, 10 aduition to these bulidings, a num- ber Oi emailer structures jor the administration Exhibition, ali of which are now being de- signed with a view to their early erection. rhe preparation of the grounds allotted to the com mission in Fairmount, and the v 8 bUlidings, are far vigorousiy urged forward. o. the ba@lidings ana the graving of tue Park were not commenced till Juiy, 1874, the progress made 18 Gate insures theyr timely comp.etion. Le- the Exhibition bullaings proper numerous Bppilcations bave veen mage bY manwa Bnd by the commussioners of foreign governm lor permission to erect pavili various or. bameotal and useful stractur tive objects are in preparation under the oiticers of local organizations, SPEECH OF MR. FORSTER AND RESPONSE OF THE LONDON TIMES—ENGLAND URGED TO TAKE | PART. “dpe annual meeting of the Bradford Chamber of Domimerce was heid in the rooms of the Chamber, \ ‘ ‘Exchatige Buiicings, in Bradiord, Engiand, on Jan- | Pt! “que, Righh, oe. W. Me Vorster said tues ose of | | speaking,” yet be was able to adduce at Bradiord | yery dull out of it, How Mrs. Payte must have | try ang Engish trade, or else they hedge them- and swiltly’ ruined. Of tis latter classy Mr, | Phoebe Owen would make any girl attractive by Forster ee ae free vn gl Rica | contrast. i" us wo! net convince a, and | | toe only way to satisily them sat free trade | P=t!cts--Thas scene in London, where Mra | America opens 1 | Fect en ity itenment mercantile activity aud the advance im knowi- | tainly was no Jane Eyre, edge teat is at the bottom of boin. | Miss RacHEL—There is not mach stress Isid Mr. Forster, then, Was solicited while he was in | } the United states té give the Centennis Exuiby- | 00" the discovery of the woman. Honor only tion at Philadeipma a helping hand, and thougn | felt hersel! growing slightly cold, that was all. he seid is petitioners very pisinly of the diitl- | Well, her mystery was soon cleured up. culties to Which we Lave referred, thougii -” sald Feticta—That plotting Trent family, although iy in his judgment, “We nad been exfidited | enough and liud had exhibitions enough, generaiy , highly entertaining in the story, would have been Mauy exceieut reasons why Engush manutac- | * turers shoula pay some attention to the great | Jaughed tn her sieeve as she pursced the @ show at a eee wag Fe ear, and to point out | tenor of her way, and how the tables would have | some of tl vantages tliat may be gained by peen turned had the greedy relatives knew who doing so. The first aud most consideravie of toouk aavantuges is, of course, the opportunity she was. To be sure, they heard eventually, but | = aegeee ene ool be thus obtain of | then tue mischief had been done, ringing the beneits of iree trade directly 0 | Siiss RACMEL—Mrs, Payte piayed the rove of tue kuowledge of tue Americans, ltis of wo or next to Tone, to preach the doctrines pene Fairy Godmother to Honvr's Ciaderella with tell- ing effect. “If a bombshell,” &c., &c., the rela tives couid not have been more surprised, ical economy to ears that will not near. Tue greater number of Americans are eltner #0 oon | Vinced of the malignaat guile of England as reauy | (, ‘4 to believe tn some Vague way that the truths ‘dr Cousin Lov—Although I iiked Honor exeved- economic science have beea invented by English | ingly, 140 motsee wnat it was about her that writers to secure the supremacy of Engiish indus- caused three men so utterly unlike to fall in love | selves in with the hotion that free trace issome- With ber. ltmay have been because the otner thing which may os eee! 4 one community and | women by whom they were surrounded were so evil or another, and thai ie the British piaimly : by it, the United Staves would be simply | thorougoly unlovable, Theodora and that silly a good thing was to show our goous and let Payte declares herself, is very amusing. The them know the price at which we could seli tem. | biank amazement of the would-be heirs, their That woud have more eflecs upon the Americ&M congicting emotions and the sad conviction that wiod than any amount of argument, ana it was one aqvantage that the Exniofion snduld be heid | 1t Was then too late to do anytoing to right them- at Piijadeipiia that toat city Was the centre oO. @ | geives in the eyes Of the eccentric jittie woman, protectionist district and inierest.’’ There can be ho douvt that the esormous burden which a pro. | #F@ described with @ good avpreciation of the tective system jays apon the backs of cousumers | humorous. Tne way Honor took the news, too, is | would be more Clearly realized by the mass oi the very natural. instead of triumphing she was American people when they see bere toem the ‘ pecal Thost flushed productions of Englisn inaustry aud | Te#ay tO cry; not jase she regretted the learn at what Moderate prices they could be sold , Weaith that bad fallen into her lap, but because tt | wath tieuien Stat a a og — Suck was #0 totally unexpected. Theodora's spiteful | b ang 13 @ great deal more likely to cou- Vince te” Améficans ol the universuty | ‘FUst did not touch her, thougn Lady Lawrence | fenced it of rather decidedly. Miss RacHEL—Ali's well that ends well, and this | story certainly ends well for the nero aad heroine, | and for Guinet Myddleton, and oid Myddieton’s | of tne iree trade pri ments with which pie than the forcea argd- dejunct draft of a rec | brocity treaty ressed Gpon the government | at W Shington by English aod colonial state-men, Whar iittle it is ia the power of man to do with- Rachel, turning down the hem of a cap string for the mother. ‘He is so thoroughly romantic, with just enough of the historical to give the spice of truth to what he writes. Have you been reading ‘Katerfelto? (Scribner, Weiford and Armstrong). I thought I saw acupy im red and gold lying on Frea’s writing table.’ FeLicla—Yes, you did, and! brought it down this morning and have been reading it all day, and, big volume that it is, have read every word. It is & fascinating story, exceedingly picturesque, yet very life-like, The scenes only cover a few weeks and the time tg 1768. 1 have olten read of more wonderful adventures, but have not often been more highly entertained bya book. There are adventures enough, to be sure; but they seem to be so a part of the story that it does not appear as though we author was straining aiter effect. The duelin the dark, the old fortune teller's house in Deadman’s alley, the ride across Mal- borough Downs, the attack un the coach, and the stag hunt, when strung together have a wild sort of sound, and were wild scenes, put in the book tney are only incidents. Miss RacHEL—I must confess that does seem like wild romance, FELICcia—The hero of the story, “plain” John Garnet, is a dashing, lovable fellow, upon whose | head laya price for highway robbery. He was | hardly a robber, though, merely 4 patriot—traitor, | they calied him, trying to get possession of cer- tain State papers ior the dethroned King, and he succeeded, too, To be sure he killed his man in @ | duel without witnesses, but it was a perfectly fair fignt; the man would have killed him if he could. He did come very near dying as it was, and was only saved by the skill of the charlatan Kater- felts Miss RAcHEL—Is he the one the book is named after? ‘ FBLICIA~No; the book ig named in honor of & horse cailed Katerfelto. A most mysterious and beautiful animal, he could go like the wind day and night and never tire, No one knew bis his- tory, yet every one knew of him, and he disap- peared as suddenly and mysteriously as he ap- peared. Frep (entering the library, his cheeks aglow, after a vigorous walk up Broadway from Printing House square)—What a day this has been. | never knew such wind even in March, I could hardly make any headway with this long-tatled Ulster t was like carrying a full head of sail, Idon’t see how you ladies manage with your skirts in such weather. This coat was almost too much for me. So you have been reading “Katerielto;” & mighty entertaining book—don’t you think so? Fe.icia—I have just been telling Rachel about it. Ivis not only interesting as a story, but there are a great many clever things in 1t which show | that the author has not gore through the world | With bis eyes shut. People arajust as credulous to-day as they were then in regard to fortune tell- ing. Let a wild looking old man or woman, sitting in a dimly lighted room furnished in @ fantastic manner, mutter a lot of nonsense over a pack of greasy cards, and you wili be surprised to see how many people will become their dupes. If the parents or friencs of these same people should warn them of the same things they would pay no heed. We like to be humbugged—a truth whichthe Katie King expiolts in Philadeiphia prove, _ FreD—The gypsy girl wall is a consistent char- acter. Her wild, uncontrollable love for John Gar- net was what might have been expected; then her girl {rom among his own kind; her betrayal of him to bis enemy; her remorse and finally giving her life tosave his was thoroughly in keeping | with such a character. Fe.icta—Neily Carew 18 @ much stronger and more interesting character. than the girls who usually play her part. As a general thing I prefer | the outlaw, the proper young ladies being most olten too goodish; bat Nelly Carew was a tramp. Frep—What a fellow Parson Gale was. Luckily, the race of cock-fighting, wrestling, drunken, Sporting parsous has died out, or, at least, none of the cloth dare snow such propensities if they do have them. FELIcCIA—Odious wretch; his death was in keep- ing with his lile, Frep—That stag hunt is most graphically de- ‘That sort of thing is waat I cali sport; «to chase the deer with hound and horn.” The illustrations in this book are remarkably good. ‘They appear to be photographs of some kind— those tnat are not lithographs altogether. It is a bandsomely go.ten up volume. A VOLUME OF POEMS, Frep—Girls, did you look over that volume of poems, by Stuart Stecne (F. B, Patterson) tnat I left here the other day, and what do you think of | them? Feticta—That they are singularly crude and painiully amateurish. Of course Stuart Sterne is merely a nom de plume, tor the author is unmis- takably@ woman. As literary productiona they have very little merit. She is undoubtediy a Ger- man and has an excellent knowledge of English, bat not sufficient to write English poetry. [ think her friends make a great mistake if they encourage ber in this thing. Frep—And what is your opinion, cousin Rachel? Miss RacHEeEL—I think that Felicia is pernaps a Uttle too severe, for there is certainly some poetic material in the volume, although the author ts not | @ poet. She has an abandon, almost recklessnes: with her words, but the thought won’t bear | analysis. She writes, to me, more like a person who only knows of love from what she imagines it, ot irom experience. This, lor example, iv not the real thing:— I saw thee in my dreams, O friend! On weary deatn-ved lying, And couid not bear to think tt then, ‘that thou, O friend, wert dying! T woke. 0 friend, and know that thon In lonely grave art lying; How can | bear the woiaht of life, Remembering (riend, thy dying’! One finds no passion there—it is thoroughly cool and collected. | Fa.icra—It is very evident that if she has loved 1% has been to no purpose, for she sings:— My love, my love must perish, For it is sin to cherish, Now that thou lov'st another, A fairer one than [1 I bless thee, love, forever, 1 can forget thee, never And. since thou lov'st anot! I must lie down to die! Throughout the entire book the same disap. pointment is expressed, almost every poem con- tains an allusion to a lost love, eitner ideal or real. Miss RACHEL—It is @ pity that ‘Some English literary friend could not have edited the poems. The language and construction are often both very incongruous, Isee by the title page that the book is publisned for the author, who, I am airaid, bas thrown away her money, though I believe tnat the publisher ts about to bring out anotner | edition, | Frep—If this is the same Stuart Sterne who wrote for the Boston Commonwealth (1 think that Was the paper) during the war she is more suc- | Cessfui in prose than in verse, for those were quite | clever articles and not without a certain aaah. I | hate to “pitch in” to @ buok, but I think that | | ir, praise of this volume would do more harm than blame. _ “GOVINDA SAMANTA.”” Feuicia—Aithough Macmilian & Co. publish | “Govinda Samanta” in their popular novel serie it has few of the elements of popularity. Itis the history ofa Bengal rdigat, or tarmer, and, as a faithiul picture of lie im a Bengal village, it is not Without value and interest; but, from @ iterary | point of view, it will not bear criticism. RACHEL—I do not like the author's preface. There 1s no sense in telling tne reader what not to expect in a book, Tue Rev, Lal Behari Day telis us that we are not to expect anything marvellous br wonderiul, any thriling incidents, any love bcenes, Mor any grandijoquent puraseology and. orgeons metaphors. Then he telis ns that we are jo expect a piain armished taie of a plain peas- pnt, living tu this plain country of bengal, FeLicia—! think it would have veen more toter esting naa he left t¢ 10 us to find out what the book Qid or did not contain as we progres-ed in our | feading. Spite of these little unpieasantnesses, there 18 4 grea: deai that ts instructive as well as entertaining in the book. One iearns more of tne out exciting a Of Monoponsts aod brovected inte ig such | occasions as that of the Potiadelphia Exninivou to show the Americans not only what tree trade | brings Us, but what by ite means we can offer Every work undertaken in unison with p new opportunities jur such indi , and there several ener orster noticed, otpers, the | money fell imto good hands after all. KATERPELTO: A STORY OF EXMOOR. “When I feel at peace with the world. Indolent to practise or go out of the hous to curl up on the library sofa and spend the day with a volume of White-Meiville,” said Felicia, banging over the back of tne cuair in which Miss | ises—Mr, among adoption of 4 uniform Internationa Patent Law— | thag, Desizes this Incidental adventage, are in | Rachel sat witn ber sewing. | themecives wortay of tue labor of mee “4 @e not wonder St your taste,” said Miss | atr ng inner ile of the Bengalese than is con- tained in reports or histories. rove to be am interesting people, vhough very uifereot from Americans or kuropeans; but that only heightens the charm. Miss RacHEL—The only troupdie fs the names, but then the glossary at the end of tle volume ex- plains away that aueBcutty. ‘The chapcers relaung Ww births, Marriages and deaths svow mure than any others the peculiar ca: sof the country. | ‘fhe descriptions are so minute aud o g@raphic | that | feel by as though 1 bad oe ending some time ia far of | | succeeded and | Of bis department any further to bitod “invet | exposing bis flagrant violations of iaw In ¢inpioy- | that Mr. Green Wilt piay Chamberlain as well 4s THE POLITICAL CALDROY, The “General Sweep” in the Depart- ments Near at Hand. A PARTY QUESTION. The Hauschel Patronage Resolution and the Developments Expected. GREEN IN A FIX. Although during the past week no important changes have taken place in the city govern- ment, directly or indirectly, by order of the new Powers that be, the beginning of the end, itis | now sale to say, is not far distant. Tne local leaders, as it hag already been pointed out, de- cided some time ago to reyort to Albany legisla- tion to get rid of what they chose to call “domestic diMiculties” in the way of a general change in the departments—or rather in the way of those lead- ers who are anxious that changes should be made. But unfortunately for the policy decided upon the Albany part of the business does not look so promising now as it did, and the result will prob- ably be that before the close of another fortnight the managers at this end of the line will have to refuse any longer to be . BOUND BAND AND FOOT by promises made io a higher power than them- selves—aud which 1s not a part of the city govern- ment—to ‘wait until late in the session” for the accomplishment of purposes that, so far as Al- bapy is concerned, seem now to be hopeless of attainment. Since the republicans in the Senate at Albany have decided to make any Dili looking to the amendment of the city charter a party question itis easy to see that the Vostigan bi!l will be defeated. But the knowledge of this fact willin ho way deter the leaders here trom having the bill pushed. Whether the declaring ofthe billa strict party one by the repubilcans ‘was strengtnened by the indirect influence of a prominent democrat at Albany, as it is rumored, ana the lobby interest of Comptroller Greeo, headed by Rhodes, Swan and Morrizon, now mat- ters little witn them. They believe that when the bill is deleated they can then go to work Tigbt and left in the cutting off of republican heads of departments in this city, In other words, they will, alter the defeat of the bill by republican votes, be justified in retaliating by exercising ‘whatever power they possess to GET RID OF REPUBLICAN OFFICE-HOLDERS under the city government. Mr, Kelly and Mr. Wickham are tn full accord on this pian, and so the long-threatened general sweep is certain to come, just as sure as the bill that is now before the Legislature, and which gives the Mayor the abso- lute power of removal and the Aldermen the von- firmatory power tn the matter of appointments, is deieated by the republicans in the Senate. Once the Mayor takes up the axe it will then de- pend solely upon Governor Tilden whether tae heads of the republican officials are to fall— whether, in fact, the republicans having made a | party question of a measure intended to let New York city be governed by her own local outiciais, he wili, as a Gemocrat, stand by his party. It is said by some that the Governor does not relish the prospect of all the responsibility being thrown upon him; but whether he relishes it or not it is now a forezone conclusion that he will have to bear it, Though not strictly a republican in the true sense o/ the word, although he is represented numerously in every city department which he hasbeen able to terrify into doing his bidding by repubiican office-holdera piaced there to secure his hold on the republican Senate, Comptroller Greea, in @ party sense, will be treated by the local lead- ers as @ republican—as one who 1s not in harmony with bis party and whose presence in the city gov- ernment tends to CLOG THE GENERAL -MAOHINERY. The resolution of Mr. Hauschel of itself will anyhow, il properly carried out, lay bare 80 much of Green’s underband work at Albany that the Mayor will have very strong cause for removing Dim, even if he had no other cause. Some people | think thatit will be impossible to get at the in- formation to be sougut fur by the Committee on Cities, but any one of the members of the commit. tee who is at all famiilar with the fignt Green had Jor his official life 1n 1873, when his special looby in inducing @ certain Senator io change his vote aud thereby saved him, can easily get atthe facts. He can aiso look up certain transactions of Green in 1872, wnen he had a | strong lobby at the Delavan oil the winter, and | then find out the reason why there have been since ten 80 Many protégés irom the country Sen- a@vorial districts ho!aing sat clerkships in this city. Mr. Green will bein 4 tight place i the commit. tee do their work iaithfaliy, ‘Taey have the power | to make a thorough investigation, and:should be stimulated to extra exertion in their work by the knowledge Of the lact tuat aa 9 1m the Tepublican Senate in 187: ® democratic Seua- tor to oring avout just such an investigation ay the committee are now empowered to carry on was deleated oy a clique of republican Senutors, of which there is yct a remuaut in the present Senace. Mr. Hauschel’s resolution, it will he borne in mind, tusiructs the committee to flad Out what appointments, &c., were made under the city government through . THE INFLUENCB OF SENATORS other than the New York Senators since 1870. A’ this will carry the investigation into the days of the “King,” some spicy aevelopments may be ex- pected, and an explanation may be arrived at prob- ably 01 the secret o1 the hold Mr. Green has upon certain gentlemen in the republican party, in aud ous of the Legislature, woose toflueace he can always count upon in an emergency; also as to the exact number 0} gentlemen irom the country who bave been placed in various offices of this city by Mr. Green on the recommendation of Sena- vora VD. P. Wood and Lowery, republicans; how many appointments Mr. Woodin has influenced in the past ior the benefit of the city, and how it is | that Mr, Swan, of Syracuse. was appointed to | Jat piace in the Cumptroiler’aglit at a time when Mr. Green was complaining that the Board of Ap- | Bere had cut nis appropriation go low that je would have to reauce his jorce and the salaries, and why itis that Mr. Swan spends most of his ume at Albany, where Mr, Morrison, Mr. Pelton | and Dr. steveus are said to o¢ “temporarily resid- ing” lor Green's benefit, t may be of interest to the general public to know that in reraliation for Green's act in cutting -down the saiaries of the Tammany men in his de- | ead Ul aod the bureaus under it, ail tae repub- ican officials appointed through Green’s induence | in the department of buildings have been re- moved. This 1s ouly the beginning of the WARFARE FOR THE SPOILS betore the heads of the departments themselves are taken 10 hand, and, as it 18 rumored that Green Will, on Monday, make a clean sweep of every Tammany man Whose piace ue controls, the Iveul flight promises to be w very lively one. The appointmens, too, of Mr. Tappan as Oity Chamber- Jain 19 & terrible biow to Green, 4 places in power @ man whose financtal experience and knowl. edge will not permit o; Green’ Jantastic trickeries with the vouks docu ts = tors” to his peculiar way of doing business. 4 ‘Tappan’s presence in the Chawberlatn’s office will Strengihen the Mayor's admiaistration. His tigh character a8 & business man and his well kaown | determiaation to have the business of Ms office carried On strictly tn accordance with the jaw aud | Dot according to the dictation of Comptroller Green wil rid the office of Green’s spies and flunkies and at tne same time ve the means of ing 8)ecial paymasters tu disburse the public moneys and other littie vagaries of tis not yet made pubite, To show how terribly enraged Mr. Green must be over Mr, Tappan’s appointment tt is only neces- Sary \o state that tree years ago Mr. Gieen, at Mr. Wickoam's request, promised to appoint Mr. Tappan {0 the positivn now Heid oY Mr. McMahon, Coliector of Taxes, indeed, Green went su lar as to send jor Mr. Wickham one day and tell him that the appointment was all ready and the vail bond Made out and that ali that was wanting to put Mr. Tappan in the viace was to get lus sureties, Mr, Wickham and Mr. Tappan went tu Wail street and got the necessary sureties, and the next thing they heard was that Mr. Green fad appolated Mr. McMahon. ‘rhe whirligig of the time, &c., and now Mr. foppan is Chamoeriain. it is not very likely Comptroiier trom this oat, THE COSTIGAN BILL, The members of Asse. bly from this city, Who Were aii in town yesterday, seem to feel consid- eraviy chagrined over the egregious blunder com: mitted oy lhe luex;ertenced Costigan 10 moving his Dili in Committee of the Whole When &:epud- | lican was in the clair and there were more republi- cans On the floor of the House than there Were dem- ocravs. AS they have ali been heartily iaughed at | for their stupidity they endeavor to make all sorts of excuses about their dixcomftnre, and the answer cuch one gives to a query about the thing is, “I am not the jeader; the repubiicans are Gli well held in hand, ond we have no organization, #0 10 speak." It is ueediess to comment on tow coniession O' the utter weakness ol | major | in the Assembly. Owe os tue weesavers rou she | | to get rid of tnem in some way. etty states that he had 3 conversation with Gover~ or Tilden about the Costigan bill, and be says the Goverhor expressed timsell as opposed to It. yon What ground?” tne Assemblyman wae asked, “Well,” was the reply, “he seems to think Green ought to be let vlove, and his chiel argue ment was confined tn this remark. Said he:— ‘Green ought to be ieit where he is to serve 2: a ligntning-rod to draw away irom the party all the abuse at might otherwise get from its opponents.’ In other words, he believes ihat it will do 1ae party good to let him be abused, because If he was not Where be 18 abuse might be scattered about elsewhere, to the party’s damage.” “Now {i the Costigan bitl suvuld be defeated by republican votes, avd Mayor Wicklam should re- move Green us weil as other heads of departmeats in retaliation sor the republicans making the bill @ ty question, do you think that Governor ‘ilden reluse fis approval to Green’s removal f”” le would not ware. When Green is removed in that way Pidea Will pot dare, in che face of hit ‘home rule’ cr} @ UDAD {mous deman y. Besides, he has his eve on the cy, anu there are @ ood many vemocratic voters in this city whom It ill Bot-dd to Oppose on this Green quewion.” ’ THE CITY MARSBALS. So many grievous complaints have peen made during the past year or so against the city mar. shalg that itis said Che Mayur and all the leadera Of the party in this city will exert their iofluence Thelr extortion and general wuy of doing business were illustrated some time ago by the acts ol two of them, one ol whom soid property under an executiva worth nearly $2,000 10r sometning like $800, the ostenal ble buyer of the property being, it is alleged, 4 dummy for the Marshal; the victim was reduced to poverty by the job. The case of the other, whe seized a lager beer ealoon, ran itior two days on iy own account and then pocketed the proceecs irom the sales of lager, ia yet fresh in the public recollection. The Mayor, jit 1s believed, is anxiuus to get rid of them, but aa they were appointed for turee years & year ago most of them recommended by tue Asuistant Aldermen, he cannot, unless they are d against for some of their old prank jore 10 favor of handing their busine: over to the Sberii!—a bill for the accomplishment of which ign 18 now before the Legisiature. This. business taken away, their power for mis chief would be also taken away; 10 fact, they, would soun resign when they found thet money-making atanend, Itis true that if the Sheriff had the business his fees would be in- creaged; but as the marshals only give $1,000 surety (which is never avaliable When wanted), and a deputy sherift has to give $10,000 and the Sherif $20,000 1a addition, it 1s believeu the unlor. tunates against whom executions are issued ‘would be less apt to be made the victims of high- hauded robbery and extortion, as many have been by city marshals in the past. MUNICIPAL NOTES. J. Nelson Tappan was sworn in by the Mayor yesterday as City Chamberlain, and shortly aster: ward hia bond was filed with the Vomptroiler for his approval of the sureties, which are as followa:— Jordan L. Mott, $200,000; William L, Andrews, $200,000; Julius Wadsworth, $200,000; EMngnar HL Nichols, $200,000; Jonn W. Masury, $200,000; Luther Redfield, $200,000; William C, Barrett, $200,000; William Moser, $50,000; Loumis L, White, $220,000; John Britton, $100,000; Edward Z. Law- rence, $100,000; Obarles Bard, $200,000. fotal, 609. Sate Comptroller, {tis said, Intends to appoint lis pet, Whittemore, to the sinecure deputy tax collectorahip, Which was created im 1870 lor the benefit of @ relative of one of the old Ring Tae piace {s absolutely a sinecure, there being no work assigned lor tue position, aud, besides, it 18 believed the appointment would ve iliegal. But Whittemore must ve provided ior in sume way, law or no law. Jadge Bediord, Senators Ledwith and Moore, EB, O. Perrin, of the Court of Appeais; Jackson S, Schultg, Assemblymep Daly, T. C, Campbell, Kirk and Siiel were among the visitors at the Mayor’s olice yesterday. One of the few thousands of warrants the Mayor signed yesterday was jor $1 5%, ana it had youe Ubrough the formula of getting sigued by no lesa than ten different persous, The Mayor will hero atver write with @ cast iron pen and bave his rignt arm in a leather sling huug from the ceiling if tis warrant system for twenty cents and upward @om tinues, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. REDUCTION IN THE SALARIES OF THE ENGI- NEERS. The Fire Commissioners are beginning to curtail expenses as fast as possible. Yesterday they rev uced the salary of Assistant Engineer Shea from $3,000 to $2,700 and that of the district engineers from $2,600 to $2,200, a reduction in salaries in the heads of the several battalions ot $3,620. They also rerroved eight men (rom the Telezraph Bu- © eau, including the Suyerintenuent of Voies, Sam uel F, Pease. Bernard Brady, of the combuatinie building, Was dismissed and Henry Lippincots om jointed in his place, ‘thomas J. Rielly, Ji ester, William Y. Tat aud Jacob Mang were transferred to new companies and 38, Pease made a freman and detailed to Chemical Engine Company No.1, Tne new buildings just finisned to aay street will be occupied avout the 1st \0! ¢ COLUMBIA COLLEGE, The semi-annual examination of the classes tn Columbia College, which began last Monday and progressed through the week, was concluded yea- terday by questioning the Seniors in Latin and sics and the Juniors in chemistry. On the 15th he students’ semi-annual reunion will take aS. when all anticl- id that the attendauce tlon this nall year nae been exceedingly meayre in comparison with ior mer periods. ay LITERARY RECEPTION. The semi-annual reception of the Literary Soct- ety of the Young Men’s Christian Association took piace last evening at Association Hall. Toe bal was crowded by an intelligent and appreciative andience, aud the speakers were frequently inter- rupted wit applause. The exercises were inter- spersed with choice selections on the organ, which were rendered in @ masterly manner. The enters tainment opened with music—‘‘dlisa @ Claudio,” followed by reading trom the Bibie. Mr. UG. Albert Pinkney then delivered an oration on social re forms, in which he attacked in unmeasured terns the lack of moral courage evidenced by Americans to sobmitting to all surts o1 evils and abuses with. out ever thinking O1 ta) toes decided scand against them, Amony tuese evils were monopoly, our educational systems, which sadly needed re.uod eillug; extiavagance, whica Was a nauoual vice; and in couclasion the speaker Land:ed, wituoal loves, fashionable soilies, such as extravagance fh dress and lace hours, Whev Mr, Pinkuey had concluded the “Marche du Prophéte” was given on the organ by Professor Elaer. ‘Ine aunounce | ment was made that Jadgo Barrett, who had Promised tobe present and decide the debate, which was the leature of toe evening, was unadle to be present on account of illness, out that Wiltam &. Douge, Jr., Would act in his place. 1@ subdject Of the debate, as anuounced by toe cou mittee, was “Is the Civil Rights Bill & Desirabie Measure ?” and was taken part in vy Mr. Lugene S. Miller and Henry S, Uarr jor the afirmative, and Freaevick W. Haha and N. La &, Bachman lor the negatuve. ‘Ihe time occupied by the devate Was early an hour, gad while the sup. ject was wandied wWita consideravie ability by the young gentlemen 4 sigh as of rellel went up irom all over the house when it Was concluded, A lew airs from Strauss, however, enlivened the audience a little aud prepare the people for an address by the President, Mr. William M. Sage, Which Was congratulatory im its character to the members on the Nourishing cou. dition Of tue goviety. Mr, Wiliam Ek. Docye, Jt, then made a lew remarks and announced the de- cision of the Committee on Debate to be in the afirms tive. A 1antasia on college airs concluded the enter. talument, und the company dispersed, feeling greatly 1ndevted’to toe Literary Society fora Pleasant evening, THE OLD TWELFTH STREET SCHOOL REUNION OF GRADUATES. ‘The graduates of the Senior department of the Twelfth street school held their snoual reunion yesterday afternoon in the schoo! building, about two hundrea and fiity oeing present, The room in which the ladies and their iriends assembled Was tastefully decorated, and above the platform Was the motto, in evergreens, ‘J1aeo olim memi- nisse juvabit.”” Tue revgion was of uraduates from 1869 to 1870, inclusive, their number being according to the sta ca, l_ by tle accom plished secretary, 302, DOC all of whom, however, + Were present. Those Who came came in the plenitude of their beauty and adoruments, aud were evidently bent On having 4 reunion indeed, one could i ‘judge abytniug by tae hearty handshaking, the ge hogging aod kissing that was, as ntlemen visitors tnougat, selfishly inauiged 1D, An excellent programme, conslating of songs, Chorases, addr of w come and ‘in memoriam” reuding » ica an Jetiers from auseut iriends was Well carrie. out, Some of the letters, one im particular, irom @ laie teacner, now sojourning iu Westmoreland county, Fa@., created consideravie merriment by the juce- nuer oO its Compusition, The statisiica jact that oi 402 gradai oniy 126 ar now mafried, Some of tie classes seem to have been especially unfortunate, that of 1840, tor toe stance, uaving Captured but Ove husbanus while there were twenty-Luree granuay 8, Ye tistics read, a red aud @ goud Lim: erally indui liv ir r} ry we agald exchanged “vus ial giacnede: oti iT