The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1875, Page 5

THE MORMON BABYLON. The Gentiles Disgusted with Their New Governor. His Affiliation with the Polygamists. BRIGHAM’S PENANCE the City Council of 81 & Rescue Meditated, but Aban- doned. CORRUPTION CHARGED Sart Lage, Utah, Maron 18, 1875. Political matters in this sacred kingdom have deen quite lively of late, and a brief report of the floings among the elect should not be wanting from your ‘daily photograph of the world.” The ection of our newly-appointed Governor, Hon. 8. B. Axtell, has aroused quite a commotion in Zion, and his extraoraimary course has created such \ntense dissatisfaction im the minds of the anti- Mormons that it is doubtful whether he will have any further usefulness as a government officer. fotimation of his coming to Utan was sent to Hon. W. H. Hooper, ex-Delegate to Congress, and a Mtanch supporter of the kingdom. As a conse- quence of this indiscretion or perversity, His Ex- cellency was me‘ on his arrival by a number of Brigham’s chiet priests and former Nauvoo legton- aries, who, alter gushing over the official Pagan with nauseating effusion, carried him a willing victim toa Mormon hotel, kept by an un- reconstructed polygamist, for abode, This sealed Ur. Axtell’s fate without further process. The Sec- retary of the Territory and Acting Governor was insultingly ignored, and many Jormer friends of Mr. Axtell, who had long known him in Calliornia, were all siighted that he might show his prefer- ence for a leading Mormon and a deflant champion of polygamy. DELEGATE CANNON’S RECORD, ‘Tus serious error was followed up by an oficial act yet more unfortunate. Two days after his arrival Governor Axtell issued and mailed to Dele- gate Cannon, in Washington, a certificate of his election to the Forty-third Congress, Tne election was held in August Jast, and ex-Goyernor Woods (Mr. Axtell’s predecessor in office) and Acting Governor Black had withheld tnis docu- ment on the advice of the best lawyers in Salt Lake, tor tne following weighty reasons:—A search into the records of the federal cou! ts in Utah shows that Mr. Cannon 4s an unnaturalized alien. Two indictments for felony have been found by the Grand Jury against this adulterous apostle, and at the time Mr. Axtell issued tne certificate a resolution to expel Cannon Was pending in the House of Representatives. Fur- ther, the velegate’s nomination was made by three unknown men at @ secret meeting without the people being consuited, and his election was a Wholesale fraud, two-thirds of the men, women and children voting for him being, like himself, subjects of a foreign Power, Such indecent haste on the part of a high government official to sur- render an important position to a disloyal hier- archy 1s very severely commented upon by the Gentile population, the more especially that Dele- gate Cannon is an appointee of his master, Brig- bam, sent to Congress lor the avowed purpose of compelling a national recognition of the Mormon god, polygamy. A CORRUPT BANGAIN. The Gentile o1gan in Salt Lake does not hesitate to assert that the Issuayce of Cannon's credentials Was one ©! the coudflions of a corrupt bargain to which Senator Sargent (who 1s attorney for the Central Pacific Rairvad, and may have favors to ask of the Gioveraur of Utsh), Delegate Cannon and Mr. Axtell were, tis alleged, parties. Another grave charge against the new Execu- tive 18 the act commissioning to office one of tne most opprobrious members of the entire Mormon beiraicby, one Wiliam Clayton. ‘This man 1s usurping the office of Yerritoriail Auditor, in defl- ance ol ab appointment made vy ex-Governor Woods, and is so intolerant a zealot that, wneu one Of his daughters married a respectable Gentile, it is | aliegea he drove the poor girl irom bis house ana subsequently reused to visit her when she lay upon aaying bed. Loyal citizens in Utan say if such meu are to be rewarded with position and official favor the influence of government orticials ®mong them does more harm than good. GOVERNOR AXTELL’S SOCIAL AUDACITY, The Mormon practice of polygamy lorms a broad and Well defined line of demarcation between Gen- tiie and satntly society. But Mr. Axtell has over- Btepped Ciis bound; he @ppears on puvlic occa- bious in tue Company Of polygamous dames, and | he was so indiscreet as to admit to some of nis Visitors that he had found “the best society”? Mong the members of the Mormon Cuurch. Such an exposition of “my policy” nas fixed Governor | AxXtell’s position, and now the business men and mine owners in this ‘territory are using all taeir infiuence with ther friends im Washington to ‘dave so utterly unfit a man removed. THE PROPHEI’S PENANCE. An interesting incident 1m toe Ann Eliza divorce pase developed itsell a day or two ago, Appiica- hon for alimony, pendente lite, and costs ol suit was wade in the Third District Court in July, | 1873, and on the 23tn of last month Chie Justice McKean decided in favor of tne applicant, allow- g the reveliious lady $3,000 to pay her lawyers $600 a mouth Jor her maimtenance, Ten days lowed lor the paymeut of the counsel fees aud twenty days for the accrued alimony —$9.500, The ten days baving expired and no response made by the much-married Prophet, a process was | issued for his proauction in court to show cause | Why he should “not be adjudged as in con- tempt. On the lith the Prophet was prougnt into court by the United States Marshal, aud a long and learned argument was heid ween counsel to decide the matter. The contempt was proved, and the penalty imposed upon the Prophet, seer and revelator of tue Church of Jesus Curist of Latter Day Saints through ail tho World, Was # muict of $25 and one day’s imprison- | Executive, to meet this clerical policy of passive Ment. Such an ipaiguity visited upon tne Lord’s chosen servant, a3 may Well be supposed, caused tense excitement among the Prophet's toliow- * aud some of tae more impetuous talked | Openly of resisting the \wavdate of the Court. | The distinguished prisoner was allowed to arive | bome, where te ate dinner, took tarewell v1 his | Muliitnainons amily, aud ‘then, providing him. | fell With bedding aud other comiorts, he entered | bis cirriage, accompanied by his second coun- scilor, his plysician and a court servant, and was drivea by a deputy marshal vo the piace of incar- eeration. A MEDITATED RESCUE ABANDONED. The following account ot what took place at that penal abode is clipped from the Sait Lake Iribune:— The Ith of March, 1875, adds one more tothe list of | Jost opportanities. On that fey tne faithiul might have | 5 n their devotion to tacir Prophet, might haveshed | their blood 1 ear apiece ; but a martyrs crown | when the decisive | hour came, though there was much’ of martial prepara- tion and warlike array, the courage to strike a telling | diow was wanting. When darkues Penitentiary on the ph Yon a squad ot armed then, trusty braves who lad se usa service in the Nauvoo Legion, took possession of iron the paper mill to Brig kept up @ patrol thronghout | members of the Legion, all Jed the outer wall of the ail night, taking good t arespecttul distance and do gto draw the fire of the guards. At the paper quarter of a mile west or the Penitentiary, 150 nen were assembled, and at the tac ter ofa mile east. a like number we: spicuous among the crowd were several «, revolvers and the. road hain’s factory, night, Bor ‘med io thi leading aud dure. however, to keep a von 1 sricham’s 3, threal lomians. Besides t ; vat from town to rescue their Prophet all the men om sugar’ House Ward were calied out and equipped for the tra Just atter’ dark covered wawon, filled | with guns anda ammunition, was driven ‘past tne | ory, Where the inhabitants ot the | od themselves. All teams and or on foot were halved on ary and turned back. Mean avn. all was peace inside t hh ho: Fenitenuary to the niten ies, liad been pe r u's’ quarters, and Warden Paddock ero over his Toyal Prisoner. AS the | the Warden going to the front door to + body of men drawn up in line directly | ig their rifles as though | Jour or not. the order given out to | py a | room in the kept guard in f NNYLTE, s re th ny Was the response, and in five minutes which the Pemientiary could boast the decks cleared tor i position awaiung an atta t aunot learn tuat a single | ‘Was wider a though cue unti) morn Blot was fi The Saints had tago in point of numbers | abouta hundred to whether they teared that in the airay a stray shot might strike the Prophet, wheth rouht the sound oF firing would bring & Babylonian reiniorcement. wey evidently made up their ininds | nin their case would be the beter parte ding their ground tor a y a order time during tt fai che Sed ira chashndt ara BRIGUAM'S FEMALE RIVAL, A suitis now being tried in the Third District Court which afords much malicious tun to the irreverent “outsiders’’ in Zion, Some years ago | | given in Taminany Hail on & | after the march between Viguaux and Dion. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. Lake ordered the demoll- tion of an improper house occupied by a leader of the demi-monde named Kate Fiint. The command was carried out by the police with Vandal-like ferocity. Elegant furniture was reduced to kind- ling Wood, carpets were ripped to shreds and feather beds emptied into the streets. A chromo ol the Madonna, trom Muriilo, mutilated by a policeman’s hatchet, was seized by the terrified Aspasia, and is now _ preserved 8 the sole relic of the municipal raid, Kate sues for the vaiue of ber property destroyed ($9,000), and the evidence adduced on trial gives her a strong case. The Genilles set this woman up as a rival to Brigham Young in loose and erratic rela- | tions, and raise the Prophet and the courtesan to | the bad eminence of leaders of diverse polyzamic systems, tis thought the irafi tair one will win | the case, Ricks, @ former Danite assassin, will be tried for murder on Rodsercae ne=t, George Q. Cannon's torn willcome next. He is inaicted for lewd and lascivious cohabitation. The trai of Lee and Dame ‘or participation in the Mountain Meadows massacre is dejerred ull the July term of the Sec- ond District Court, BRAZIL PUBLIC AGITATION AGAINST THE TERRITORIAL PROJECTS OF THE ARGENTINES—IS THE ISLAND OF MARTIN GARCIA NEUTRAL GROUND ?—FOREIGN INTERESTS IN THE AF- FAIRS OF THE EMPIRE—THE MINISTRY PROSECUTING BECUSANT CLERICS. RIO JANEIRO, Feb. 23, 1875. The River Plate correspondents and the Rio press are sounding the alarm against supposed hostile intents of the government of the Argentine Cowledecration, whose zeal in the accumulation of military means has long been evident and has caused in Brazil @ counter activity which is shows Ing its costly nature in the heavy extraordinary credits decreed of late for the Ministers of Marine and War, And vow the news comes that the Ar- gentiue Minister of War, accompanied by military engineers, had been to the island of Martin Garcia and that they were urgently pushing on the works which are to render taoat granite rock another Gibraltar and enable its guns to command the channel to the Uruguay and the Parana, which circles by the island. FOREIGN INTEREST IN THE TERRITORIAL QUESTION. An old treaty of 1855, to which the United States, England, France, the Argentine Confederation, Uruguay and Brazil were parties, exists, declar- ing that tne island shall not be fortified; but the Confederation repudiates the treaty on the plea that it had not been ratified by Brazil, and hav- | ing, although belonging geographically to Uru- gaay, taken possession of the island some years, ago, has ever since bankered alter Its fortification, And now, having 40,000 men still under military organization aud well armed, the Argentine government appears to think itself strong enougu (Oo disregard tne representations of Brazil aud fortiiy it, But the Brazilian govern- ment bas determined thatif fight it must Jor the neutrality of the Parana, Paraguay and Uruguay, 1 will fight pelore the tortiying of Martin Garcia will render its leet practically useless, THE FREE NAVIGATION OF THE PLATE RIVER, it must be remembered that the stake Brazil has 1n the !ree navigation aud neutraity of the aMuents of the River Plate is at least as great as that of the Argentine Confederation, for, in addi- tion to parts of the province of Rio Grande do Sul aod Parana, lying on the Uruguay and Upper Parana, turee-lourths of the enormous province of Nato Grosso are naturally, and now wholly, de- pendent on the navigations of the rivers forming the Paraguay and Uruguay. Boiivia and Paraguay are also River Plate riverine Powers, and are therefore deeply inter- ested in the neutrality of the La Piata amu. ents; but Brazil is the only one of toem anle to oppose the Argentine yearning to cominate those waters, and, as | have said, Brazil has determined to fight a new war, if it must be, to se- cure their neutrality. Dr. ‘ejedor, the Argentine Envoy, 18 looked tor _ every day to negotiate here the settlement of the Paraguayan and the packet Cuyaba aitticul- ties; but the choice of this gentiemap, who, 48 Minister of Foreign Affairs, distinguished himselt by bis bitter and aggressive tone and hy his exac- tions in previous negotiations, does not aueur well for the good result o/ these oft-lailed negotia- tions. If this political complication does not create dificuities tne Emperor has resolved on a visit to Europe, and, alter two weeks or a month there, on atrpto the United States, If this programme fails this year he will Le certain to Visit we United states in 1876, The General Assembly Is to Meet upoa the 15th of March, when, it 18 under- stood, the very first work will be the authorization required jor tne Emperor to leave tae Empire. FAILURE OF THE BRLANGER-RAPHAEL FINANCIAL NEGOTIATIONS. A hot debate is exvected in the Senate, as soon as the Chambers open, upon che failure of the ne- gotiation with Erlanger & Raphael for the issue Of the £5,00),000 loun of five per cent at 98, which obliged tne government to accept the 964, offered by Rothseniid & sons. Tae contract fell turougn Ob one polut. ‘Tue contractors bad agreed to take half the loan themseives, and as the contract stipulated that ten per cent Was to be paia op issue of the Joan the Loudon Minister coustrued tnls to mean tat the contractors should pay | down £500,000, while they understood that they were to pay £250,000—ten per cent on what they took—and that the other £250,000 wus to be pald by the subscribers to the otber hal! of the loan as first instalment. Ere the divergence could be ar- Tanged the bauk crisis arose. THE DANGEROUS QUESTION —CHURCH AND STATZ. ‘Vhe ecclesiastical question remains as before— the two first guvernors of the vishoprics of Para and Pernambuco have been committed to prison tor trial for refusing to raise the interdicts, alleg- Ing the non possumus, aNd an attempt to relieve Unem by habeas corpus bas resutied 1p nothing. The deputy governors have assumed tue gov- eroorship Of those Sees, abd douviiess will de in- | Umidated and Wiil reuse to raise the interdicts. | tis, however, current taat the government im- tends to propose a law to authorize expulsion woen parties refuse to ovey the legal orders ot the Tesistance, BILLIARD NOTES. Vignaux’s friends are anxious to see him play Garnier, but the latter does not appear to be anxious to play Vignaux, or else why not toss for choice of tables ? The arrangements for the Brooklyn tournament, | to commence on Aprill, under the management | of A. K. Samuelis, are completed. Vignaux, Garnier, Rudolphe, Cyrille Dion, Joe Dion, Maurice Daly and Ubvassy will measure cues on that oc- casion and con.pete for the $1,500 in prizes. The next game for the championship of America, the Delaney emblem and $1,000, will be played on Thursday evening next, at Tammany Hall. ‘The | contestants are the present Incumpent, Vignaux, and his chaileuger, Cyrille Dion, Tne latter has been attending closely to business and has made | @ big average in his practice games. fie feels very confident and has backed bimself (or considerabie | money, and ts still willing to bet $50 ‘against $100 ten times over, The match will probably be pretty ciose and Cyrille stands as good a show ot beating the champion as any pityer in the United State: | Mr. Vighaux has (aken his passage and intends to sau for urope on May l. Mr. Garuter vas al- ready sent in a challenge to play tue winner oi the Deianey emvlem, and it ts reported i Vignaux should prove toe successiui one Garnier will insist upon playing alter May 1, so as to obtain | the empiem vy forfeit. Suc a report is most lixely untrue, as although the rues allow, until May 14, to play the game, it hardly likely what Garnier Would piay such ‘a tricky rdle, especiaily when they are to piay on the very table he has | been beguiog ‘or. Py | ‘Toe great event Of the week will be the benefit | to the family of the Jate M abled which will be day next, the aay | ‘This billiard rater. | their services to is an Occasion on Wich the entre nity will be present and lead aasist in its success. Lvery patron of the game of Dillards will probably be there as a compliment to the memory v! A man Who gave nearly nis en- tire jife to tne advancement oi the game. A gentleman, Well known in bullard circles, has offered to bet $500 even that Ubassy cau beat Garnier a game Of 600 potnts at the taree-nail game, and loss lor the choice of tabies. He aiso is wilt ing to bet $100 to $60 on Vignaux against Garmer for as many games of 100 points as he chooses 10 play, With the same proviso as to tables, Some o| these jarties that are hunting jor Garnier wili fiud himt some day and get all they want. A WIDOWS AND ORPHANS’ FAIR. THE WASHINGION LIGHT INFANTRY CHARLESTON, & ©, A grand fair, for the purpose of raising funds in aid of the widows and orphans of the Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, 8. C., will be opened in that city on the evening of Kaster Tuesday, March 80. The committee charged with the arrangements announce that satisiuctory prog- ress, so lar, bas been made. Frienas im aiscer States promise encouragement and heip, and there is every reason to believe that the sar Will result in providing adequate aia for the Wiiows and orphans, Georgia, the two Caro- linas, Massachusetts, Balumore, hiladeipnia | and New York wilk come jorward liberally | In support of this good work, which cemands tue sympathy 1 every humane heart, Among the gentiemen in this city Wuo lave promised cu-oper= ation are Geoige W. Quintard, William RK Garrt | son, Wiiltam HH, Appletun, Joun KR. Braay, Wiliam Py. Olyde and P. ©. Cainoun. Mr. Quintard nas kindly consented to act as treasurer, and contri | or | can save them, without it I would be powerless. butions may be sent directly to him at No. 177 West street. One of the principal features of the fair will be the tabie in memory of the late Bishop England, who bad been chaplain of the Washington Light Infantry of Charieston, and was regarded by that military organization with the most affectionate respect and veneration. Our fellow citizen, Mr. Jono W. Rice, who 1s connected with Charieston in business affairs, has taken an active parc in promoting tie interests of the jair, His accom. plished daughter, Miss Mary L. Kice, nas just ainted a copy of Hill's well known picture, “The Lost Pet,’ which wul be jorwarded to Charleston on Saturday next, and placed on the England memorial table, as tue young lady’s contribuuon to the Jair, SUNDAY AMONG THE POOR, ee gee JOHN'S GUILD AND ITS WORE—THE SICK AND STARVING, The churcn bells were tolling for the morning service yesterday, when the writer, in company with a well known physician, crossed Canal street and entered the poorest portion of the Elgbth ward, Crowds of besotted wiites and lazy-looking blacks Were gathered upon the street corners and disposed in knots about the door- ways. ‘The buildings seemed more grim and gloomy and the dirt upon their wails forced itself more into notice than seemed to be the case on week days. All about upon the snow-covered pavement and the frozen gutters were gathered little heaps of garbage and cinders that nad been, ume and again, picked over. In a wooden bulld- tug in Grand street, in an attic approached by several flights of rickety and unclean stairs, & sick woman and child were sought, THS STORY OF THEIR TERRIBLE CONDITION had been carried to St. John’s Guild, and an effort was being made to afford them reliel. “An Eng- lishman is the husband,” said the lady who had found them, “and the wile is of irish birth; she came from Dublin.” They nad been discovered lit- erally clothed inrags. The husband, with wounced imbs—mangied while engaged in blasting—was stretched on two chairs near the fireless stove. The mother, 1m a corner, was found with a tat- tered covering to shield her from the cold, and the merest mite of an infant was whining feebiy | ather breast. No food, not even a crust of bread, | was found in the house, and no member of the | family had eaten auytiing for hours. They were | not, however, the only sufferers in the attic. A widow With two littie girls, her children, had crept imto the piace for sneiter. At rare intervals this latter Woman found something to do in the offices @ few blocks away. THIS WAS WHAT THE LADY HAD SEEN AND HEARD. When the writer and the pbysician entered the narrow doorway of the attic thelr eyes at once en- countered a spectacle of misery. Close against the opposite wall, in the light of the dormer win- dow that pierced the roof, with ead bent over an infant she held in her arms, was crouched an elderly woman. She barely looked up at the guests who had entered ar ber invitation aad then foil again to kissing the babe, crontng over it and rocking 1t in her arms to still its low, whining cry. A few broken and unclean dishes were gathered in a pile upon @ dilapidated table, four suattered chairs were ranged ubout the bare and discolored walis, irom which the plaster was broken in great seams, and the hearth o1 the stove was piled nigh With ashes, while the flre wasout. No {ue! or foud | Was auywhere visible. In a dark garret adjoining, a place Where one could not stand erect, there were visiole, through the open doorway, three figures. ‘They were each and ailimpersonations of WRETCHEDNESS AND POVERTY. A man was standing at the iurchest end of tnis garret, in the track of a ray of light which pierced the gléom and darkness and teli upon the floor. He was hall clothed and wounded. His pantaloons were hanging avout him in tatters, and the sleeve of his shirt was torn open from the shoulder down, He had no coat or bat, and his unkempt hair and beard, descending im:shagay masses upon his cuest, gave him a wild and formidable aspect. His (oot was crippled, and every movement caused him intense pain. Deeper in tie shadow a bed was Visible. it was almost level witn the floor, and ut its jurthest extremity, upon a background of rags, one could discern tae pale face Of # Womun, | lying, and the figure of a child standing erect and clinging to the framework ot the bed. THAT VALE FACH WOULD HAUNT ONE for many a diy. A helpless, dying creature lay stricken there upou the pullet, anit was her ine faut unnursed aud pining away that was held in the arms of the croucaing figure crouing and rocking backward and torward in the room without. Dr. Brush, the pnysician of St. John’s Guild, who accompanied the writer, advanced to examine the motner ana inlant, and the writer approached the latter and gazed upon its ema- ciated 1ace and skeieton figure. Its little head was almost wedge-shaped, und its eyes were red and swolien. It did not seem thatit could tive many hours, suifering, as it did, the most intense pain. A cup Of milk Was irom time to time placed | to its lips, and it would sip eageriy ior a Moment and then sicken, ‘the Doctor came to its side says | lng the motber was very low, but might recover on alight but nutritious diel, and taat she must not attempt to give nourishment to the infant jrom her breast or it would die, “HAVE YOU EATEN ANYTHING TO-DAY f” said the Doctor to the woman who keld the cnild. “No, sir,”’ sald she; “we have had nothing in tne | heuse in the way ot food since the day beiore ye: teraay. save a iittie milk in the cup beyond that we begged Jor the child.” ‘The physician gave the womun # lengthy prescription and then orderea the man to accompany aim With a vasket from the house. ‘The man caught up tne bhsket eagerly and lollowed down the narrow staircase. First & visit Was made to the butcaer’s next door, where nearly a dollar's worth of beet was quickly trans- | lerred {vom the stall to the basket; next to tne | greengrocer’s in the cellar, a few doors distant, where a good supply ol the various kings of vege- tubies to be found there was secured. Then the man was helped to the door of his home, “THERE,” SALD THE DOCTOR “that 18 what that family needed, With food I ST. Some kind heart sent a few doilars to the Guild Jor ths poor lamily, and oy expending it for proper 100d L can prop them up and bring them back to health and life.’ ‘This is the veginning of the new dispensation in meaicine. A lew biocks away in another garret a» litle | cripple Was ound, Upon knocking at the door a | leebie piping Voice called ‘come iu,’ and the vis- | itor entered without delay, A poor, sutfering | mite of humanity Jay couled up ona piece of rag carpet lookiug up trough the dirty window panes to the sky. His pallid iace lignted up with a smile and he eatended ws hand feevly to tne doctor, “aiother has gone | out to see If Woon sue washes she wou't ge over his face, “What would you ike ¥) sa “On, 1 wanted a littie prec au orange,” said the voy, Wistiuily. “We'll try and get that lor you,’ said the Doctor, paring tie erippic’s head, “and we'll be back soou.” So oul again ran the physician, aud at the nearest fruit stand be purchased half a dozen oranges, On the Way back Ne bought some teu, sugir, bread and butter, and at the butener’s @ nice steak, and he carried them in bis arms to lonely child in the garret. ly 1ood is betcer than physte for these faint, weary bodies, aud the medical practice of the | Guild physicians is worthy of imitation in treating the poor. i HOME \GED HEBREWS. The annual Purim reception of the lady man- agers of tne Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, at No, $22 Lexington aveuue, was largely attended yesterday. The lower rooms had been tastetully decorated, and the ladies dispensed thetr hospi+ tality with lavish hands, Mis, P. J. Joachimsen, the President of the liome, was lard at work ob- taining funds for the institution, and many very handsome subscriptions were recorded on tne donation book. A8 an instance of the energy of this lady in this respect it may be remarked that during the past year she has obtained 295 female | subscribers ab $5 eacu, eighty-uine male sub- an get flity cents trom a lady tor | 1 the ciipple, sand T think | added, a cioud sweeping | Pen “ONE 67? j 1 ot scribers at $10 each and four itfe members at glu) each. Mrs. Joachimsen states that she hat entered ‘1nto negotiations wiin the managers of ta Seventy-seventia str if they wili lease onc sw Orpuan Asylum at niru avenue to ses re lots oO; the land bes | longing to said Orphan un, in the rear on | Lexington avenue, lor th ion of the pro- | Jected new Home, as the lease of tue present Home | termumates in May, i876. e Mrs, L. BaInvLrger. . ph Loth, Mrs, M. Tuska, Mrs, $. Welsh, Direct- Simon Herrmann, Mrs. Re Wyman, Mrs. L. Friediander itosenwald, Mr, He Koenler and Mrs, J. Stem, of the General Com: | mittee. ‘Yoo mstitation, whicn ts one of the model ones of Lie city, 1S superintendea by Mr. and Mrs. Jacob | Hart, and the piace iv us clean as soap and water cun muke it. During the past year thirty-two women and twelve men have been supported in the mestitution and 215 women have heen assisted veir hour of pain at the sidences. amount Of donations during his time Amounied to $10,208 and the expenses $9,58L AG the present moment the Home contains torty- eight people, tweive men ana thirty-six women, Along tie men the oldest is Mr. Strauss, aged | eignty-live, and among the women Mrs, Krager, aged eighty. ‘Ihe inmates had an extra good dint ner yesterday, and several of the old boys were to be seen wandering about the corridors eating pieces of succulent tarts with all the enthusiasm of tetyear-olds, A feng oid ielow ol some seventy-five summers, Who enjoys tue sobriquel of “the Kiepnant,”” became excited and pad to be putin his jie bed, fhe lady managers contuue | President; M their reception to-duy irom eleven o'clock A. M. to seven O'Clock | throw that volume into the fire; tt wiil do more | Co.) CHATS ABOUT BOOKS. “Sports that Kill’---Alice Brand’- Foggy Night”---“Victor La Tourette” and Some French Stories. “SPORTS THAT KILL." “Draw the centre table up nearer the fire, Fred,” said the Doctor. “I declare it is cold enough for January tiis evening.” Frep—Ag I know to my sorrow, It was 80 pleasant and warm this morning that I went | down town without my overcoat, which ioliy I | sincerely repented before J got home again. ! The Docror—It ts very !oolish to do anything of | that kind, myson. Yuu had better have halfa dozen overcoats made to suit the various temper- atures of this curious climate than ever to be without one—uatil June, at any rate. What noise is that [ hear in tue hall? FreD—Haven’t you got used to that sound yet, sir? Itis the Professor taking off his galoches, Here he is to speak for himself, The DoctroR—Good evening, Professor. Come right up to the fire; you look cola ag an iceberg. ‘The PROFEssOR—Then my looks do not belie me. The wind is as sharp as a razor; do waat you wil! j you cannot keep it irom cutting through to your | marrow bones. What luckless author have ms | good friends up for dissection tnis evening ? The Docror—Une who will not find mucn sym- pathy at this freside. De Witt Talmage’s “sports that Kill”? (Harper & Brothers) 18 the list book we have been reading. The PRorsssoR—I wonld have more respect for Mr. Talmage if I thought he believed what he said, even though I knew 1t to be false, The DocroR—It is all well enough for him to talk | ignorantly of the things of the next world, for no | one can prove the falsity of his assertions, but it | 1s very ridiculous for him to talk so ignorantly of | the stage, a subject upon which he can readily in- form bimself. }rep—Toat is not what he wants; if he told the truth about it that would be to weaken his point at once. FeLica—Wiih @ run and a summersault anda “Here | am again!” De Witt Talmage enters the ring. I was never at his church—circus | shoula Say—but once, anda nothing would ever take me there again, It only wanted the snapof the whip and the roar of the caged animals to complete the illusion. People walked around and talked, laughed and appeared as they might nave done at the Hippodrome. Miss RACHEL—It amuses me to near him rail at the stage when he 18 so very theatrical himself and at best but alow comedian. What could be more stagey than this:—‘The day comes when the men who have exerted evil influencesupon their fellows will be brought to judgment. Scene—The Last Day. Stage—The rocking earth. Enter dukes, lords, kings, beggars, clowns; no sword, no tinsel, no crown. For footlights, the kindling flames of a world; for orchestra, the trumpets that wake the dead; for gallery, the clouds filled with angel spectitors; for applause, the clapping flooos of the sea; for curtain, the heavens roliea together as a scroll; lor trageay, the doom of the destroyed ; tor farce, the effort to serve the world and God at the same time: for the last scene of the fifth act, the tramp of nations across the stage—some to the right, others to the leit,” FreD—For clown, Rey. T. De Witt Talmage, Tne MoTHgR—As A Boston writer saysi—“In reading these sermons the image of the stump speaker of the variety show is brought constantly tomind. We expect to hear the dilapidated um. | brella banged upon the pulpit at nearly every pause by way of emphatic punctuation.” Yer there are people who enjoy these tirades, as the size of his audiences proves, FreD-*What the audiences of the Tabernacle lack in quality they make up in quantity. I can. not imagine people of great, or even average, culture listening witn pleasure to this preacher's commonplaces and frenzy. He is to the pulpit what a strolling variety show 1s to legitimate drama. The PROFESsoR—I have heard ministers of high standing in Brooklyn say that if Mr. Taimage and his church should be swept from off the face of the earth 1s wonid not add one member to any of their congregations. His admirers are not church-going people; they would not enjoy anything less vulgar or less abusive than the Rev. Dr. Talmage. Tne DocToR—I am utterly surprised that meno capable of thinking can take down the doses thrust between their teeth by Mr. Talmage. His reasoning 1s shallow, and his attacks upon the stage are rendered absurd by their sweeping abuse of every person and thing connected with the | profession, The PRorgssorn—He tells how shocking it is to | parents to have their children want to become | actors, That may nave been true in the early his- tory of the stage. In those days poets were littie better thought of than actors, The father of Dr- Watts used to beat his son for making verses, FreD—This 1s the class of people of whom Mr. Tal- mage cays our theatre audiences are composed :— «Husbands who have lost all love for home go there; horse jockeys go there; thieves go there; the lech- erous go there; spendthrifts go there; drunkards go there; lost women go there; the off-scourmgs | of society go there by scores and hunareds,” & Suppose they ao, how is Mr. Talmage or any other person to find it out any more than if he was sitting next to these very people in the street cars or at @ hotel table? He further says that this audience greets with applause any passage that caricatures reilgion or sneers at virtue as prudery or hints at indecencies. The Docror—1hat just shows how much Mr. Tal- mage knows or wants to know. I never wasina | theatre in my life, jrom Wallack’s to the Bowery, where tne bighly moral passages were not the ones applauded. Ihave seen Bowery audiences clap and cheer when the drunkard retorms or an actor’s lines pay @ tribute to honor or virtue, Tne PROFESSOR—I think this 1s a great waste of time. De Witt Talmage and his scurrilous ser- mons (Heaven save the mark!) are not worthy of 80 Much serious consideration, I advise you to i} | | i | | good there than anywhere else, | “ALICE BRAND," | Miss RACHEL—Don't taik to me about tneatres | being bad places. If this book is to be believed | there 18 more sin and wickedness in Washington than in all the theatres in the country. FELICIA—Waat is the book ? Miss RacnEL—‘Alice Brand” (0. Appleton & | It professes to be a fair picture ot life at the | national capital, at the period immediately follow. ing the war. If it is then we had better not ac- cept your father’s invitation to go cown there while Congress is in session, FuLICIA—Does It let the light tnto darkness and expose the sores and sorrows of a corrupt sovial system ? Miss RACHEL—That 18 about the idea. Accord- ing to this author there are more knaves ana knavish tricks in Washington than tie mind can conceive, There is not a natural character in tne book. The women are either idiots or bad, and the men are about the same, FELICIA— A good idiot ts not such an uninterest. | * ing study, after all. Miss RACHEL—But these are the drivelling kind, The heroine herseif takes the lead of the 1dtotic band, which is Aanked by her lover, Frank War- bel. In one of the first chapters Alice Biand gets locked up ina room in the Treasury Department by the chiel of the department, who has been fag. cinatea by her beauty. she 1s rescued by Warbel, | Who tows her home in trimmph under his um- breila, From that hour they love, but tt ts not until the last chapter or so that they have ahappy | . understanding, | ‘To make the story seem more real some well | Known characters figure in its pages—some of them in @ way that does not add to their glory. A | very notorious lobbyist and pardon broker is rece | ognized as Mrs, Croly, and another questionable character as Mrs. Harbeck, Their doubtful doings | are freely discussed, a8 the hero of the story talis | easily into the clutches of the Croly. St. Arnaud Personates a notorious foreign adventurer wio | made a sensation in political circles as a lobbyist and scoemer, | FELICIQ—I should thik the book would be in- | \own. V | revivais | friends would say taat | opinion of the | drag in teresting to any one acquainted with Washington Ife atthattime. It ts always interesting to me to Tead about persons and things I bave lived among. Mrs. RACHEL—Perhaps so; but to the outsider it 18 pretty poor reading. I could stand tne knaves very well if they did not shine so in com- parison with the good people wao are such imbe- | ciles. Their high-fown talx is simply ridiculous, but when the author tries to draw an amusing character itis positively painful. is people are always trying to make puns aud say smart things, which, however they very Oat to the reader, There is a dreadiul Minutiw in describing localities; almost every chapter begins by telling you exactly where the Scene is laid, lor instance:—“On the corner of E and Tweuty-first Commodore Vane mansion,” &c. Then, again:— “tn the third circle from the rear, and tbe second desk irom the broad aisle, on the Speaker's lett» sat Charles Mason,” &ec, FeLicta—I suppose that ts to give an air of trutn to the story. Miss RacHeL—The literary style of the book {s Greadiul. Describing @ boy's ride after a friend, the writer says:—‘He hoped here to catch sight ofthe carriage on the hill beyond the beautiiul valley before him, and was disappointed, Lora! how that valley fled trom under the mare’s pur- suing feet.” Ifithad been one of the charactera who made use Of that exclamation it would not have been so bad; but in the author itis unpar- donavie, This is the way the dialogue is writte: “Who is killed?’ steadily, “Colonel who?’ firmly, with the pallor growing about her lips, “I don’t rightly remember his name, Miss,” abashed and hesitating. That way of te/ling what thecon- versationists are doing gets tiresome when spread over several iundred pages, Fexicta—I should say that you did not enjoy ‘Alice Brand.’? Weil, I Jon’t blame you if 1t is hike your description. Come, We have been in the house long enough to-day; let’s go out fora con- stitutional. A FOGGY NIGHT AT OFFORD, Fericia—You treated me to a description of “Alice Brapd’’ before our walk, and now that we are recuperated I shail give you the benefito: a Short story | read this morning. Miss RacneEL—Just wait till £ get my knitting, for 1 must finish this “cloud” to-day. Now I am ready for it, FELICIA—To begin with. Of all tne stuff and nonsense I have read In many a iong day this exceeds, It 13 called “A Foggy Night at Offord” (Tt, B, Peterson & Bro.), and is by Mrs. Henry Wood. It 1s not even up to this writer’s question- able level, She is usually exciting and emotional, but is neither in this book, To tell what happened on a foggy night at Offord she begins a generation back and works up the story to the proper time. She introauces characters and incidents that have no possible bearing on the story. Alter you be» come reconciled to the fact that Raby Raby (mawkish name) Is to be the hero sho kills bim Off as easily as she would drown a kitten. Miss RAcHEL—Perhaps Mrs, Wood ground out the story under severe pressure. FELICIA—That is the way it reads, Maria Saxon- bury is the heroine, She is a great flirt, and men are ruined or die trom the effects of her cruelty. 1t would scem as though she loved Edward Jan- son, but she soon puts anend to his aspirations by telling him that ne is not rich enough for her tomary. Atlast sve marries one Harry Yorke, whom youare at tirstled to believe is a bad, Jealous man, but who proves a pretty good sort of a fellow in the end, though rather eccentric. He is jealous of his wife’s regard for Janson and treats her like a brute, all because he loves her—so he says, Ske bears his insults and abuse like a lamb, and when she does rouse her anger it is like a child's. One night—tne foggy niznt—Janson is murdered at mis garcen gate. Maria believes that | her husband ts the murderer and drives him trom her door. It is now his turn to play lamb, and ne goes without a murmur. ‘Tne sequel proves that, instead of having inurdered Janson, he had | Getended him boidly against the real murderer, who at last confessed nis crime. The conscience- stricken Maria sends tor her Harry and he returns, and they live happy ever alter. Miss RACHEL—Rather a sim plot, that. FeLicia—The plot is not so shm as 11 out. orking “VICTOR LA TOURETTE.” FrED—Projessor, | Want to get your opinion of «Victor La Tourette” (Roberts Bros.) Isaw that you had walked off with that advance copy Mr. Niles sent me, and if it affects you as it did me you have read every word of it. The lRoresson—1 don’t know how it affected you, but I have not been so charmed with a book in # long time. FeLictA—There is too much religious discussion in tt for me. I should never have dreamed that 1t Was @ novel had 1t not been so called on the title page. MH Miss RacHEL—I grant you that there Is more rellzious discussion in the book than one usually Huds in novels, but that does not nurc it in my estimation, Feiictsa—Of course it does not. You would | rather discuss religivus topics any time than go to the theatre, Miss RACHEL (rather severely) —I should think there was enough of @ story about the book tu satis(y your taste for lignt literature. FELICIA— Don’t take me up like that, fair cousin, for L liked the book exceeaingly, thoagh I thougut the sermonizing was rather tiresome. Frrp—When you ladies get through perhaps the Proiessor wiil tetl us what he thoughy of the book. The PROFESSOR--1 Go not want to fnterrapt the young ladles, Miss RacucL—We are anxtous to get your views on the subject, Proiessor. The PRoresson—Weil, then, as a novel, I cannot say much sor this volume, but tt is well written and very clever, The author bas taken the most effectual means ot ovtaiming a hearing tor his the- ories and has so woven the religious talk with the Lory that one is torced to read it irom cover to cover. I could not skip a page. Miss Racuet—lne characters are wonderfully well drawn, [ think, They seem like reai people tome. Isympatnized with Victorin his search for the Catuolic Courch, as he interpreted that term. ‘rhe Moraer (entering the room, work basket tn Nand)—Whatis uns book that nas so interested | you ail? . FRep—Lt 1s called “Victor La Tourette,’ mamma, and ts the history of @ young man who was ed- ucated man Catholic Church aud taally becair stant, and had such a bard ume to find a Chureh which te considered thorougnly Carholic, tie at last Was ordained a minister of the kpiscopal Church, but never supseriped io the thirty-nine arnicies. He was at heart a + Broad churchmay nd founded alittle Church oi his as Violently prejudiced against ently opposed tne idea that change of ature was brou culous agency. By % describe ai scene in @ very amusing man- ner. Altogether it is one of the most natural booxs Lever read the Morugr— n already tor and Vveu uglit avout am quite interested in the young Inust lend me the book, Victor was unorthodox, It strikes me, though, that he had @ good deat vt resson on fh Feticia—fu eXciliny. The lle among the Indians, the figats | and other adveutures, Fr —The vutoor evidently has @ pretty good {ndians, AS he describes tuem, 1 think, however, that the Lndian girl died before young Vie ted her. Indians are very Uresqae in their native wilds, but a squaw in #® parlor wouid be very much out of piace. This Uuknown author promises us another hook, ce- more dectuedly to the Indians than this, 1 that he will receive suMfcient encouragement promis ATCH OF F n hop to make goo CH STORTES. A | “1 do not woader that all good motaers hold up | their bands iu holy horror at the very name of a nc novel, (or the more Wicked they are the Inore fascinatiug,” said Felicta, a8 she and her cousin sal by toe open Wool fire m thet boudow betore retirmg for the might. “Ihave just de- Voured this collection o: Octave Feuillet’s stories, vo. , aud Was completely carried -The story of “The Sphinx; or, Julia De Tree ba 1s the most terribly Jascinaiing one in the vole . Miss KACHEL—It 18 not in the least like the play. The character of Juha 13 somewhat like, but it is her scepiatier she loves in this version; in the play 1¢ 18 ber ftiend's husband. Retieta <1 bh the dramatist had made the ending like the original That poisoning scene is one of the mos! disgusting things Lever read of, Woile in the book she did the much more tragic thing by backing her Norse over a precipice. There is wonderful power in that story. Such ac Julia couid not have been crea: ve existed, outside of Fran let 1 do not commend tuese stories for your Sunday school ity, Rachel, wi98 RACH#L—I should never dream of giving them to a child to read; they are bad envugh jor persous of our age. PrLicta—Wnho but @ Frenchman would dare to piety, as these stories have it—‘Led Astray” and “Bellah.’ An unsophisticated per- son would think that vhese beautiuul wiexed women were the salt of the earth, only peraaps carried away by (heir feelings at umes. 1 should Hee to nx’ as played in Paris. Th musi rdiing. stoves for the art in them. pur is & psychological study, and a8 such She Interests me. FriterA—Lam honest enough to acknowledge that wiiie Laamire the artl dote on the story, may strike the writer, are | streets, west, stands the old | that some of our reverend | ther part of the story 1s quite | hy | read the book when Fred first | 5 | though I shou nou choose French novels for Steady beverage. Must coniess that “Led Astray’? is almost too uasavory iy *Bellah,” on the other band, i3 quite healthy im tone by comparison, LITERATURE IN FRANCE. L'AMOUR EN Ce TeMPs La, By Arstae Houssaye, Paris: Dentu. This book 1s a witty medley of historical disqut- sitions on the society under the Regency and the Teign of Louis XV, M, Arsene Houssaye is a writer well acquainted with the seamy side of history— that which relates to intrigues of court boudoirt and dining rooms, He would have us believe that this is the only true history, aud may be he isright. More State matters have certainly be | planned over diuner tables than in Cabinet Coun- cils, and, a8 to ladies, po one will care to question the important part they have always piayed in the game of politics, The first portion of the book treats of the loves of Phillp, of Orleans, and Mme, de Parabtre. Then follows along account of the lite and writings of the Abbé Prévost, author o “Manon Lescaut,” This famous writer, who may be described as the Arstue Houssaye of the eigiteenth century, appears to have been in his youth as great a rip as Mirabeau Orebillon, the younger, or Pigault Lebron turn by turn seminarist, soldier, deserter, the seminarist again, then once more soldier and card-suarper, he was within an ace of being hauged, but was rescued from the consequence: of his youthful follies by an indulgent father, and eventually settled down to a literary career as successful as tt was brilliant, His taking orders was Luts proceeding common to writers of the time who wished to have a footing in good society, for Prévost never oMciatet. M. Houssaye quotes several letters of his which prove him te have lived im the intimacy of the great and to hi freely enjoyed, despite his ecclesiastical cloth, the sortof company that is to be got out of opera dancers. These letters are extraordinarily gay and entertaiving, but a yet greater curiosity te afforded us by the epitome of a sequel which Pré- vost would seem to have written to “Manon Lem caut.” Everybody knowsj that in this remarkable book which relates the adventures o1 a femmu galante, the autnor kills his heroine in the las chapter, but yielding to the temptation which has often beset the writers o & paying novel, Prévost was induced to resuscitate Manon and to continue her adven tures through three volumes more. Not only that but in his sequel he deflowered the bioom of love and triendstip which lends such interest and charm to the characters of Manon, Des Grieux and Siberge; lor ne made Des Grieux Orst marry Manon, then tire of her, and finally, probs pudor, he descrived Siberge, the model of tried frienas, as seducing Manon. This untoward sequel fatled with the public, as tt deserved to do. The last part of “L’Amour en Ce Témps La” reprints forgotten novelette by Jean Jacques Ronaseat who, judging by this sample, was more at home in philosophy and autobiography than in fiction. Altogether, M. Arstne Houssaye’s new book may be commended to readers who like to spend ap evening in the society of a well-read and not straight-laced Frenchman. Le MusEF; Reproductions des Chefs d’cuvres de Peinture. Le Chevalier, Parts, M. Le Chevalier has published one of those ab bums in whicn the French excel. It is @ colleo tion, engraved on wood, of masterworgs of the modern French School, Corot, Courbet, Daubigny, Gerome, Hamon, Galimard, and others ate repre sented, and care has been taken to select suct works as best convey an Idea of the characteristic merits of the different artisis. Thus we have M Galimara’s “Leda,” @ conception of wonderfui grace and freshness, and pretty well Known even to those who have never seen the original, by Teason of the storm of criticism it evoked when first exbibited. M. Marchal contributes his “Sta- tute Fair," or hiring of servant giris in a market place; and it would be dificult to find a greater variety and skill in the grouping of female figures than are displayed in this little picture. A little gem, by Carl Schloesser, is entitled “lhe Singing Lesson,” and shows & sweep urchin leaning against a door and whistling to @ blackbird a dusky as himscif, whom be holds on his fluger. From M. Henri Monnier’s humorous pencil we have “An Artist's Head,” one of those extraordinary studies from the life—half portrait, half carica ture—which lead you to reflect at once that you “have seen that face somewhere,” Intentionally, no doubt, tne album has been go assorted as te contain pictures on every sort of subject—land- Scape, historical, character and home. The em gravings are careiully executed, and the modesi price of the album puts it within reacn of every purse. One can recommend it as an admiraole course of lessons for the novice in painting and as @ pleasant volume to while away tue leisure hour of any person of artistic taste. FROMONT JEUNE ET RISLER AIME. By Alphonse Daeudet, Cnarpentier. This is one of the most carefully written novels we have read in this pertoa of humid and slovenly compositions. The story is that of an honest, seli-maade manufacturer who marries @ pretty working-zirl, and is digraced and finally driven te Suicide by her misconduct. The character ot Sidoaie Risler is typicalof numerous Parisiaa women of the present day—heartless, extrava- gant, dissolute little minXes, who seom born only to be the plague and 1uin of worthy men. George Fromont, the weak, good-hearted, but unprineb pled man of pleasure, who repays the services @ his partner Risler by seducing the latter’s wife, ia also very true to French nature. Tne boob abounds with graphic sketches ot Parisian I11e; but it points the comfortiess moral that the hono; and existence, nay the very soul, of @ good mas are at the mercy oi jades not worta hangiag. This may be true tn fact, but a novelist shouid leave w with a mure hopelul philosophy. LES MURAILLES POLITIQUES FRANCAISES, pub lished py M. Le Chevaiier, is @ collection of play cards, oficial notices, and, generaily speaking, al) mural literature which adorned the walls @ French towns during the great war of 1870-71, and the subseguent insurrection of the Communists ‘The fac-similes are in all cases given in thelr origh nalcolors, ‘hey form a lively and picturesque history of France during the most eventiul year in her annals. Some of these documents prove that M. Sardou hardly caricaturea his country: men in “Rabagas."’ Thus an advertisement of the Club de la Solidarité announces that the terms of membership are freedom from all religious obitga. tions and the payment of ten cents monthly, The general orders of Prussian generals are alse characteristic, being limited, for the most part, te assurances that different Frenchmen will be snot for various offences, What would not Macaulay have given for a similar collection, illustrating the events of the year 1688-39? LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. | Mr. Lawrence Hutton has a book in press giving | the history of the stage in New York. Mr. Hutton Was at one time the musical and dramatic critic of the Evening Mail, and 18 well posted on tne subject upon which he has written, Harper & Brothers have published Gladstone's Teplies t) the attacks upon bis Vatican decrees, Owing toa fire at the binders’ the poems by Stuart Sterne are out of print, Mr. Patterson Will, however, Soon Nave another and better edt- lion prepared. It is said, that Bayard Taylog Speaks very highly of these poems, ‘The Harvard College lorary will soon be the richest in the world in coptes of cotlections of | Manuscript ballads, Mr. Kinloch, of Edinburgh, | has aliowed a copy of his-old baliad manuscript | tobe made tor tuis library, A copy is now being made of William Chappeli’s digested index of | the Roxburghe, Pepys, Bayford, Wood, Rawlinsog and other coliecttons also for the same library. Dodd & Meade will publish during this month @ record of the revival labors of Met Moody and Sankey, io Scotiana, edited by Dr. John Hall and Goorge H. Stuart. | Wordsworth’s prose works are to be published | soon for the first time. The London Zimes laments that Gladstone's pamphiets and articles are poured forte with rough and uneven workmanship and partial and laise views, doing no credit to the late Premier ot to literature, Under the title of “The Cross and the eple; [icra and Significance,” Mr. Hudson Tue tle, of Toledo, Ohio, Will print alittle book on him torical symbolism,