The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1875, Page 8

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This gentleman came to America to doa work like that performed by our fellow citizens, Moody and Sankey, in England. From bis suc- cess in New York, the multitudes who waited upon his ministry and the interest taken in religion by those who came under his influ- ence, we presumed that he would continue his work. It is therefore a surprise that he should have so suddenly abandoned a vineyard that promised so rich and ripe a harvest. We confess that the spectacle of- two Ameri- | stitute religion. for Christ, for something more nourishing than rhapsodies about gardens and horticul- tural rhetoric; for, however much Cbristian souls may delight in the graces and gifts of oratory, eloquence and rhetoric do not con- In the fall of Mr. Beecher— and we donot speak of him as one who, what- ever the result of this trial, has survived his reputation, and never again can preach a sweet and pure gospel, but one tainted with acrid memories of the scandal trial—in the fall of Mr. Beecher we have an incentive to the revival which we see around us and which gave Mr. Varley so much encouragement and success. There is a crying out in the hearts of the people for the bread of life. We can- not agree with Mr. Frothingham, for instance, that this revival is only a series of waves, and can divines striving to convert England, while an English divine was aiming at the same result in America, was novel and suggestive, and showed a drawing together of the bonds that unite the two na- tions. Inno respect havg America and the mother nation so many ties of harmony as in religion. Ninety-nine per cent of our people profess some faith that has its roots in the older lands. Our theology is in nearly all of its aspects a tradition “that rans back to Rome and Geneva and Worms. With the exception of the monstrous dogmas of the Mormons there is no creed professed by any number of Americans that is not based upon the decrees of some council of foreign priests or the teaching of some foreign divine. The impressions which move the souls of men and women abroad are sure to make an impres- sion upon our Christian people at home. There have been several artificial and ab- normal influences at work upon the minds of ourreligious people for the past few months. Ths elevation of an American citizen to the rank of a Cardinal in the Roman Church is an unusual event. Whether as a pageant, rich with the pomp and splendor and cere- mony of Rome, or as an ecclesiastical act bringing the Catholic Church in America more directly under the Holy See, or as a political measure, showing the regard entertained for America by the Pope, the event has a special We see in the United States the growth of a new and sincere spirit in the Pope as the head of the Church | and the creed he teaches in spite of all | the efforts on the part of the Germans to destroy them. Our esteemed correspond- ent, ‘‘Prudentius,” calls attention to the spirit of liberty animating the Catholic prelates from the time of Carroll to that of Hughes, dent by reflecting on the pride which Lincoln and Seward would have taken in being ‘‘cen- tral figures’’ in the ceremony of “imposing The services of the late Arch- Fron of our is eaprs this morning the probabiti @re that the weather to-day will be colder and | doudy, clearing up later Wart Srerer Yesrrnpar-—Stocks were | dnl, and prices barely steady. Gold declined | from 115} to 115}. Money on-call 2} and 3 per cent Goverxoz Truprx has not had time to de- cide whether Delafield Smith should orshould | not be Corporation Counsel. The Governor must be a very busy man. Axp Now oda M. Twrzp, in imitation of Beecher, wants a “bill of particulars.” The Attorney General should send him the minutes of the Board of § Supervisors. Tre Avrnorrrizs seem to have discovered a new batch of counterfeiters. We presume there will be no end of this nefarious trade antil we have gold again as a currency. Taz Fovrta Avuxve Improvesrent states- | wen view with alarm the increasing tendency ot our Mayor to appoint mento o who do not know whether Muilingar is in “the north or the south of Ireland. Nor So ia as Resmsanna.-Iiie acci- dent on the Atlantic and Great Western Rail- | toad on Thursday last was not so serious as | Yeported. The telegraphic account was greatly exaggerated. The ladies’ car only was thrown over into the ditch and but three ladies were injared, fortunately none of them seriously. The train resumed iis journey after three | hours’ delay. Tse Fresca axp Excusn Fishermen are | @aid to be quarrelling - in the Newfoundland Fegions, and the Freuch and English govern- | ments propose to send war vessels to keep thte | peace. It would seem that there are fish enough in the sea tor French and English slike and that there is no reason for bloodshed inthe matter. — We Havz a rumor from the coal regions in Pennsylvania that the quarrels between the eos) dealers and miners are about to be com- | promised. There was never any reason for these disputes. They affect trade, burt the best interests of the workten, injure society and generate feelings of hatred that will @ome again to distress and wound us. It | would bea blessing if we could have these | Gifficulties compromised forever. They are unworthy of our institutions. Tae Brun waking the Brook iva Bridge a public work of the two cities has been passed to a third reading. We do not know much about this particular act, but any measure that tends to complete the bridge will be an | advantage to the city. Give us the tunnel to | Jersey, the bridge and asteam railway from the Bxttery to Harlem. These are the three Points in the chart of onr metropolitan great ness. By tae Terus pf the bill p assed by the Ger- wan Parliament in re tion of the ecclesias all Church property i monastic orders and s with the exception of invalids. Th erence to the sequestra- | properties in Prussia are ot those who 1 toust be closed w ith n four years, the Prussion mind evidently feel- ing that in that time the inmates should all die or recover. Those inmates of the monas- teries who are too old to work will hav sions, In other words, we presume Bismarck will give them a place in some almsbouse. pen- This is the policy of “thorough” with a ven- | geance, But how long will it continus? | believe that the representatives of our Church | churches are under the control very fre- | | an Established Church floating above them, | blessed light of true religion. | into a criminal courtas a perj bishop Hughes in behalf of the Union were | | entitled to the gratitude of the government which he served. We have no doubt Cardi- nal McCloskey would do as much for his country, which he loves with no less a patri- otic fervor because he is a Prince of the Holy See. But we are glad to think that the President and no one representing him took any partintheceremony. We donot and State can keep too far apart. However | | does not want an opera or a hymn, but the that when they recede they leave darker deposits of mud. No harm ever came from these movements any more than harm would come from the turbulence and agitation of the sea. Some weak bark will go down in the waves, some poor soul will be swept ashore among the breakers, we shall see wrecks and inundations, but in the end the result will bea blessing. There will be a purer atmos- phere, brighter skies and a general Aresheniig: and awakening of nature. Inthe same way we see in this revival a freshening and awakening of soul. Is it not time? Atterso muck lethargy can we not have life? Afterso much sorrow is there no peace? After so much shame is there no purer, higher, nobler duty? After all those miasmatic vapors that have polluted the atmosphere may not the Christian soul cry out for the air and sunshine of Gospel truth? It isa good thing to find our people coming back to the Ten Commandments, and what- ever odd customs the revivalists preach, what- ever their exaggerations and homeliness of thought, they are generally true to the solemn laws which the Israelites read on the tablets of stone. A religion of geometry and the classies, tempered by backwoods dramas and the negro minstrels, such as Mr. Froth- ingham would preach, will not in the long run be of much more benefit than the floriculture and osculation of Brook- lyn Heights. There is something, after all, in these old commandments, and so furas the revival feeling brings them to the hearts of the people so far it isa blessing to our civil- ization. We are not afraid of the ‘‘mud de- posits” which annoy Mr. Frothingham, nor of the cases of dementia which have attended the labors of Moody and Sankey in England. For one poor, rapt, uncertain soul which finds its way into an insane asylum to fret and gibber over effectual calling and eternal pun- ishment there are thousands who fall into the prisons and workhouses and pauper asylums because of theirsin and shame. There are moro hearts tainted this morning be- cause of what we have heard and read of Brooklyn theology; more fresh, virgin minds polluted because of the revelations of this pernicious trial ; more real, irreparable injury to society and good morals than would result from a thousand years of j the revival efforts of Moody and Sunkey and Varley. Let our clergymen, therefore, who mock at the work of plain, humble men, rise up and preach Christ crucified. Religion gratifying it might have been to Catholics to have seen the President first in the congrega- tion which witnessed the conferrmg of the verretta, the precedent would have been barren | and uofortunate. Neither the Catholje Church | nor any other denomination has ever in the ! long run gained by an alliance with the State. | Religion in gland suffers because of the Established Church. The prominent thought | in this revival movement is that the Church has become enervated and dormant; that the | priests care more for the honors of the episco- | pate than for the good cf the people ; that | | quently of ambitious and careless peers, who nominate curates upon the same principle which leads General Grant to name post- | | masters—that it is all under the control | lof a corrupt patronage. The people see | with which they have no friendship, no com- munication and no sympathy. It is a dark, cloud between them and the | They see a| ‘ourch which, so far from bringing Christ to | their homes and hearts, buries Him in the cold vaults of a damp cathedral or under the bishops’ benches of the House of Lords. Therefore the revival movement in England is as much as anything else a crying out of the people for bread, for manna, for any- thing that will give them life. It was this same crying out for the substance of true ree ligion that gave Luther the opportunity of | the Reformation. His revival was a protest | | against the Papacy of a dazzling age, when | the Church was allied to the State, when the honors of the Holy See were dispensed even as the English livings are distributed now, and when the religion of the Catholic faith | was forgotten in the splendid temptations of the Established system. The spirit of revival in America, which now attracts so much attention, has not de- veloped itself so fully as to enable us to com- pletely understand it. The influence of the Beecher case upon religion cannot but be marked, and in the Henaxp of yesterday we gave a few impressions on that subject as communicated to our reporters by some of our clergymen. One minister fancied that he bed scen a falling off in the attendance at the churches because of the developments of this extraordinary case ; that Christians lost heart depressing | when they saw a man of venerable years, rare genius and unnsual eloquence dragged rer and an adulterer. We can weil understand how the lambs of the flock would go astray or faint and fall in the pastures before these sad sights. Bat, as Mr. Frothingham aptly said, even if Mr. Beecher were convicted, the effect wonld be to establish a higher and severer standardot morals. The cardinal error in the theology which Mr. Beecher represents is that his people have been apt to forget their adoration of the Crucified in their adoration of Mr. Beecher. Whenever a church bases itself upon anything else but high religious principles and the attributes o of a mere man are allowed to supplant Christ, we invite a fall, and we must not be surprised at any revelation or any catastrophe. We can well imagine how there would be a revival upon the Gospel the quirements or personal graces creeds— whenever personal | Feligion as taught by Mr. Beecher, a yearning | | ringing of tocsin, the alarm bell in the night, | the summoning of every agency of truth to | so bleak a May Day. | glories, we have only the gray skies and cold, | come toan end, | forever, and Grant has yet to be elected to a | murderer should escape the gallows the we should ask Spain to violate her own inde- | pendence by granting to America what we | the city. among our people, a protest against the | combat vice and to revive a disheartened and dying faith. May Day. Many years have passed since we have had We have been hoping against hope all this time for spring, and now, when all nature should be awake and radiant, and showering the earth with beauty and life—when there should be sunshine and greenness and the opening of the year’s forbidding rains. We have never had a drearier winter ner a more disheartening spring. The trees are afraid to bud and,the birds refuse to sing, and is it any wonder that devout people should accept it all as a chastenment and pray for their sins? It may be Bismarck or the Beecher trial or Cesarism, or the corruptions of the administration or the Canal Ring—certainly it comes from some extraordinary cause. But let us not repine nor look at our damp, misty skies, as those who have no hope. The Beecher trial will | and Bismarck cannot rule third term, and the administration has the disinfecting influence of Pierrepont in the Cabinet, and Tilden will finish the Canal Ring before he is through with it. So that, after all, May will not go without its blessing, and | spring will leave us with waving fields and ripening grain. Sharkey in Spain. We learn from Havana that the question of returning Sharkey, the murderer, to the cus- tody of the American authorities has been referred to the Captain General of Cuba and the Cabinet of Madrid. This will bea disap- | pointment to our District Attorney and to the | detectives; but we do not see how it could well be otherwise. We have no extradition treaty | with Spain and no claim upon Cuba for the return of Sharkey or any otber crimival who seeks refuge from our laws. Although Eng- | land made a request for the return of the forger Bidwell—a request which was granted—it must be remembered that we have not made any request for the surrender of Sharkey. Mr. Fish has | steadily declined to ask this from the Spanish | government, upon the ground that it would | only give the Madrid Cabinet a pretext for de- | manding the return of the many Cuban refu- | gees now in this country and under sentence of death in Cuba. is rightin his fears, and he is certainly in- spired by the best motives. been sentenced, but it is far better that even a have no right to expect under the law. The best thing for our Minister in Spain to do It may be that Mr. Fish | We should be | giad to have Sharkey returned to New York | and suffer the punishment to which he has | that | The Law of Nations. There will be held at Tho Hague in the mouth of September next a conference of the “Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations." We are glad to know that a movement is on foot to enable America to have representation in the de- liberations of this body. The United States have probably less interest in international law than any other country in the world, ex- cept, perhaps, China, We are removed so far from the intricacies and resentments of the European Powers, both by our geographical position and by the traditions of our government, that we have only a limited interest in international law. At the same time any movement that tends to bring the nations fogether in com- merce, social intercourse, the unification of weights and measures, the cheapening of post- age and the harmonizing of law, is a step in the progress of civilization. While, therefore, the United States may have less materially to gain by such action, in the ifterest of human- ity they have as much at stake as any other Christian people. A meeting was held on Thursday evening for the purpose of arranging a programme for the representation of America at the Hague Conference. This meeting was attended by some of our most distinguished and gifted citizens, and Mr. David Dudley Field presented a series of proposi- tions for discussion which will be read with deep interest, The first branch of these questions is in reference to the propor- tionate reduction of the armed armaments of European nations, The second embraces the formalities and delays that should be re- quired of nations before engaging in offensive war. The third is about arbitrations for in- ternational disputes. The fourth discusses the progress made during the last year to- ward the reform and codification of the law of nations, while the fifth refers to collisions at sea. Any conference that will exhaust these branches of thought, particularly if it is attended by men of the eminence and character of those who assembled at the Gramercy Park Hotel on Thurs- day evening, must have a beneficent result upon civilization. It would be difficult, wo think, in the present temper of such countries as Germany and France and Austria, to effect any reduction in armaments or to impose any delay before engaging in offensive war. The elements of success in modern campaigns are:—First, the possession of preponderating force; and, second, swiftness in using it. We have little to hope m any conference inducing France and Germany to reduce their armies, or in imposing upon the generals of their armies and movements delay. after the time has come to march. Generally speaking we welcome these conferences as indications of healthy progress, and we trust that much good will result from the deliberations at The Hague. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The revival interest seems not to flag, though moving time is here and the anniver- saries and camp meetings and other religious excitements, together with the ‘‘dog days,”’ will be here by and by. So great, indeed, is the desire to hear about it that Dr. Macloskie, of Princeton College, will tell what he knows from personal obser- vation in Great Britain and Ireland under Messrs. Moody and Sankey’s preaching. The Rev. Mr. Bonham, who beiongs to a new order of preachers very little known in the church until lately—Evangelists—will im- part his knowledge of it from personal obe servation in the Church of England. It will be understood revivals in the sense in which these gentlemen will speak of them refer al- most, if not altogether, to different phases and workings of religious life. Mr. Hepworth, who, with the junior Dr. Tyng, has been for some weeks working in and for a revival will to-day offer some suggestions about the Atonement and remove doubts from the minds of some who would believe but canno:. Mr. Hawthorne will show his people how they may and should forsake all for Christ, and will present some features ot ritu- alism for their consideration; and Dr. Thomp- son will make prominent the political features of the English Reformation, while Mr. New- ton will discuss the conflict that appears to | exist between religion and science, with special reference to the bearings of the latter upon the Bible. Dr. Osgood will show the relation of music to Christianity, and Dr. Ewer will analyze the worship of the Episco- pal Church, exhibiting internal structure and external phases. The hurried life of which every one of us knows something by experi- ence will employ Mr. Thomas’ thought and tongue this evening ; and the precious blood of Christ will divide with Naaman, the leper, the attention of Mr. Lightbourn. The work and greatness of man ere the night of life closes on him will be considered by the Rev. Mn Alger, and the advent at Peniel will receive the attention of the Rev. Mr. McCaffrey. The gain of loss—referring to spiritual gain by temporal losses—will be illustrated by the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, who will also analyze and | review Balaam's prayer. The Rev. Oscar Hugo, the Hungarian exile, will blaze away atthe Roman Catholic attitude toward our public schools. He is willing, according to his announcement, to give millions of dollars for public schools, but not one cent for priestly ones. Dr. Fulton, of Brooklyn, has laid out for himself a threefold task this morn- ing—to describe the Pope's Church, its source and the certainty of its doom, winding up with general remarks on the peril of evil | doing this evening. add a few words on the danger of evil speak- ing. This is the programme of the pulpit ot New York end Brooklyn to-day. Rarm Traxstr has been again postponed in the Legislature. The railroad ring are doing their work well, and it now looks as if the combined power of Tilden, Wickham and Keliy would not be able to give us a measure of rapid transit that would be a blessing to | Nothing can postpone rapid transit | this session but corruption or imbecility. If the measure should be lost it will be an irre- | | of the streets clean, at their own expense, will be to induce her to enter into a sensible | vocable blow to the prestige of the democracy. treaty of extradition. Now Comes the note of sorrow from Mont- pelier, Vt., telling how twenty stores and dwellings have been burned down. We pre- sume we shall have this dreary story until our people East and West learn that the way to avoid fires is to build houses that will stand. The country will say, and with truth, of what use is a party which, with all of its power in city and State, cannot give the metropolis of New York the one thing necessary to put an end to the present paralysis of growth ond enterprise? We want a party that can act, and not simply talk. We have bad too much talk and too little action in Albany this session, And to this he might | SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEWY. Echoes of the Religious Press. , The religious press this week divides its in- terest between the Cardinal and the Centen- niaL The Freeman's Journal, in its wild joy, thinks the investiture has set the new Cardinal “asa hinge of the door that opens heaven to the faithiul and shuts it against prevaricators and the profane.’ The Tablet, more rational in its expressions, hopes “that tne ceremonies of last Tuesday will in- augurate an era vf good feeling among all classes, and that the sectarian bitterness and animosity which have, at some epochs in our history, disgraced our country have been laid at rest forever.” The Zublet utterly dis- cards the idea that this elevation of Cardinal McCloskey is a blow aimed at republican institutions, and says it has been amused at the efforts of some of its Protestant contemporaries to make out such a case. The Jewish Times eloquently traces the spirit of the settlers of this Continent back through the ages and shows that it defied the Roman power throngh Martin Luther, and that to- day it defies that power through Bismarck. A soil like this, therefore, the Times con- cludes, is not congenial to a Church which has claimed superiority over all other creeds, and wherever 1t could made its claim good by whatever means the object could be gained. The Times bas no fear of this new move in creating an American cardinal. It has faith in the spirit of progress, but it admonishes its readers that they should be watchful and con- stantly on guard. Church and State likens the, ceremony of last week to a big show, and says the Patriarch of the Greek Church in Russia can beat the new Cardinal altogether in the style of his dress, which is pure gold and no tinselry whatever. And it asks the question, ‘‘Why should simple-mmded repub- licans jump at a big show just as mackerel do at a red rag?’ and says that it does not know any reason why, as citi- zens or Christians, we should be caught with a spectacle, especially when we are supposed to have left all such things to kings and courtiers. The Philadelphia Catholic Standard treate the ceremony as a great honor not only to Catholics but to all classes of people on this Continent, and says that intel- ligent non-Catholics admit this proposition. The Golden Age recognizes the goodness and piety of Cardinal McCloskey, and looks upon his elevation to the red-hat dignity as an act of Papal naturalization of America, which has been up to this time a foreign country to the Roman Ses. If the present Catholic leaders could have their way here the Age thinks they would revolutionize our education, our re- ligion and our government; and so too, it adds, would the Presbyterians. The real strength of the Catholic Church is yet to be tested, and it is a question how she will stand the steady disintegrations of modern thought for the noxt fiity years. The Observer pokes a little fun at the Tablet for its splurge about the arrival of the Cardinal’s robes. The other religious papers have either given their voice on this subject in advance or are reserving their fire for a future occasion. They are silent this week. The Centennial celebration has a greater charm for the Christian Union than the Car- dinal’s berretia, But itis the change in the style of oratory usual on such occasions that receives its hearty approval. The oratory of Lexington and Concord was simply a state- ments of facts, and yet it evoked the deepest patriotism. The Union therefore hopes that this fashion of centennial oratory will never fade or fail. The Jewish Messenger is atraid that by July 4, 1876, our patriotic enthusiasm will so boil over and we shall have so much to say about our great country and our great | selves that we shall convey a false impression toour European cousins. It therefore advises that we keep sober and not go into the spread- engle business too much on that occasion. The Evangelist questions the taste that invited Mr. Gladstone to Lexington and Concord, but heartily ‘approves of his courteous and gentlemanly reply. The Independent rejoices in the signs of reviving patriotism when South Carolina unites with Massachusetts in colebrating the Centennial. It urges the States, North and South, to turn back to the records in which we have a common pride and join hands there rather than over the bloody chasm of rebellion and revolt. We Have a Street Reform? The street cleaning question in the Legisla- Shall Cleaning ture is confused by the introduction of a num- } ber of independent propositions affecting to | be reforms. They aro mainly designed to de- stroy each other and to prevent the passage of any bill that will disturb the present abom- inable system. This is an old trick of the lobby. It is the plan resorted to year after year to defeat all propositions for rapid transit, and is an easy method of proceeding, | The sneaks of legislation, who fear to put themselves on record as against a desirable law, plausibly support some counter proposi- tion of a similar character in order to defeat the original bill and earn their pay without damaging their characters. The passage of the Street Cleaning bill in the Assembly was followed by the introduction of a number of these decoy ducks of legislation in the Senate, The object is to kill the Assembly bill without | compelling the killers to record themselves as | the upholders of a notorious abuse. Probably these tactics, learned in the lobby, may prevail. But we should like to see some active Senator or Assemblyman make an earn- est effort before the adjournment takes place | to secure the passage of a law striking at the root of the street cleaning evil by a complete fore in force in the city. Hithere the city has been at a heavy expense for this work, and neither contractors, superin- tendents nor cormmissioners have succeeded in giving us clean streets. We are now in a worse condition than ever before, with the summerapproaching and the danger of discase from the reeking filth of tho streets staring us in the face. Why not now take a now de- parture and try the experiment of a law com- pelling the property owners and householders | to do the work of keeping their own share under heavy penalt.es for neglect? Even in tho matter of snow, each householder no # is com- pelled to clear his sidewalk, and it would bo | no great hardship, at least in ordinary falls, to require him toclear the small piece of road | opposite his residence as well. ,Such a sys- tem would necessarily require railroads to | questionable whether this plan of compelling the people to be their own street cleanert would not be less expensive to each property owner than the tax they aro now called upon to pay for the support of an army of political bummers. It would certainly insure cleener strects, for the money expended on the work would all be used for the purpose of cleaning and not to support the adherents of ward politicians and country legislators. At all events the plan is worth trying, Should if fail we should be no worse off than we now are as to the condition of the streets, and ws should save the million dollars a year squap dered by the Street Cleaning Bureau. Justice rw Tenxnessez.—A Nashville negre shot a policeman dead. The negro was ar- rested and imprisoned. The people assem bled and in their anger broke open the jail and took the negro to the bridge to hang him. A rope was put around his neck and the poor wretch suspended from the bridge. But the rope broke, the negro fell over ninety feet upon the rocks beneath and rolled into the waters. Two shots were fired at him, and his body sank. We do not remember to have read for a long time of an act more cowardly and brutal than this killing. The negro was in custody. There was no chance, no pre text that he would escape. The laws of Ten nessee are clear and supreme, and in a city like Nashville—a Southern city controlled by the whites—there was no fear that an indul- gent public opinion would arrest the opera tion of the law. But the man was a negro, and the old brutal fecling of the whites to- ward the negro was allowed to bring dis honor upon justice in Tennessee and upon the American name. We are all taking to the water like descend» ants of the Pilgrim Fathers, who would never have reached here if they had been afraid of © water. We have an interesting report else. where of what our boating clubs are doing— the houses they are building and the feats they propose to achieve on the smooth waters of our lakes and streams. Weare told of great contests that are to be decided, and our trust is that the young men who are preparing for the strife will remember the acerbity of many regattas last season, and keep their tempers even as they stiffen their sinews and develop their muscles. He that ruleth his temper is better than even he who can pull first around the stakeboat on Saratoga Lake. Governor Ken1ioce, or Lovistana, in the interests of peace, it is reported, has removed some illegally elected republican office-holders in that State and appointed democrats. This, the despatch says, he does in the interest of peace. Rather, let us say, in the interest of justice, and pray that hences forward in Louisiana peace and justice may go hand and hand. Tue Centrns11t.—Governor Bigler reporte that the Centennial work goes on with alac rity and wisdom. There is to be an interest. ing display from Tunis and an observas tory in the fair grounds, which will be a marvel of taste and ingenuity. This Centene nial Exbibition is rapidly becominga national event and something in which every American feels the highest pride. We Have the pleasant news that during April the government debt was reduced more than two millions of dollars. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Duke of Argyle has a new book on ‘Law and Theology” io press. General Ducrot has visited the American frigate Franklinin the harbor of Nice. Prince Leopold, of England, has shown his zeal for Freemasonry by joining a London loge. Cardinal Manning is receiving as many cone gratulatory addresses as Cardinal McCloskey. They are so care/ui o! their opera houses in Lone dou that they will not allow Moody and Sankey to pray tn them. The Boston Post calls Senator Boutwell “Bouty,” and, speaking of his successor, saya “Bouty is shelved.” The English Court of Arches has granted a letter of request requiring an organist to desist playing when asked by the vicar. Kenealey, of Tichborne fame, calls the English Premier “that attorney’s clerk, Disraell,” and himself the “heroic Ductor.”” Concord colds and Lexington sore throats are very prevalen: in Boston, and the only remedy ie said to be a Bunker Hlil sweat. “Baldy” Smith tuld General Lee he “never sur- rendered.” But then Baldy and Lee were a long distance apart when he said it. In Liverpool, the other day, an old fellow of seventy accused a young girl of seventeen of theft because she refused to marry him, Hood, Longstreet and other revel leaders are farming, while the ‘Union generals” have adopted | office-holding in New York as a profession. A music teacher up town apologized for her bad spelling by adding @ postscript to her letter as (ol lows:—“You must exkews this letter, as I pla bt noat butt spel by ear.” Benjamin J. Lossing is writing ‘“Vvhe American Centenary: A History of the Progress of the United States During One Handred Years,” which Porter & Coates, of Pluladeipbia, will publish. And now they say It was Drayton and not Sbake- speare whom Spenser meant when he sung:— And there, though last not least, Is Etion; A gentler shepherd may nownere be found. At an amateur periormauce of a piece called *“Joceoh and His Brethren’ in London recently, Po:iphar wore a black irock coat, white vest, black trousers and hat, carried a walking cane and smoked cigars, ‘The extreme shabbiness of German home life fs ascribed iu Fraser's Magazine to the fact that tne literary, professional and official class in Germany as very mach larger and very mach poorer than those holding similar positions m Engiand or America. br. H. Willis Baxley, an American phssfcian in search of healt:, has written the latest b okgon Spain, which Longman & Co., of London, have published, The Academy says that while the book is an admirable guide to Spanish art end arch) ‘ ‘ | pounds (oo much in religion change in the system of street cleaning hereto- | beaconrin lhc — cussion. Walt Whitman's letters are as peculiar as his poetry. He recently sent toa friend in Londor the tollowing scrap: tll vowell ana paralyzed, but up and arouna, Post oMice address at Cam aen, N.d., U. 8, As; Shall probably remain there, Design to bring out a voinme, nilcnge of prose and verse, partly iresh matier, this summer.” Ky the cable felegram, dated in Constantinople yesterday, We are informed that on the istinsr. the Sultan gave a fere well audience to George H. Boker, who has recently been transferred from the office of United States Ministe’ Turkey to the same office at the Court of St. Petersburg. Mr Boker witi leave the Tarsish capital for Russia during the course of the ensuing week, The Hollandisce, of Br poration, instituted in th Vventeenth eentary, jor the purpose of collecting and publishing tha ives of all the saints of the Catholte Chareh. Sixty soll volumes have been printed of thts Bole lavaist Church history, which was interrupted by the French Revolution, but the work has been fe sumed, and the month of October ia nearly com- pleted, though the livos of 4,079 saints yet remain’ are a literary cor- bear their full share of the burdem It is | junwritten. S